SOCIAL SCIENCEAND
COMMUNICATION
UQ CODE COURSE NAME
ANTH1008
Introduction to Anthropology:
People, Cultures and Societies
ANTH1030
Anthropology of Current World
Issues: An Introduction
ARCA1000 Discovering Archaeology
COMU1002
Crossing Bridges: Communicating
Between Cultures
COMU1030
Communication Skills: Spoken
Language and Interpersonal
COMU1052 Introduction to Public Relations
EDUC1029 Introduction to Education
JOUR1111
Introduction to Journalism and
Communication
JOUR2221
International Journalism and
Mass Communication
POLS1101
Introduction to Australian Political
Institutions
POLS2111 Politics and the Media
POLS2201 Australian Foreign Policy
POLS2207
Terrorism and Insurgency in
World Politics
PSYC2030 Developmental Psychology
PSYC3082 Psychotherapies and Counselling
PSYC3102 Psychopathology
SOCY1050 Introduction to Sociology
SOCY2169 Media, Culture and Society
FEATUREDCOURSES
Forensics: The Archaeology of
Death and Crime Scenes
ARCS2003
This course explores practices involving the
systematic location and recovery of human
remains and other crime scene materials. You
will gain experience in search techniques,
excavation and the recovery, analysis and
conservation of material evidence that are
vital in criminal investigations, all while utilising
the new purpose-built, state-of-the-art
Archaeology Teaching and Research Centre.
The Science of Everyday Thinking
PSYC2371
This course explores the nature of everyday
thinking: why people believe weird things,
how to deal with opinion change, and
why expectations and emotions skew our
judgments. You will examine and debate
topics such as subliminal persuasion,
paranormal phenomena, alternative
medicine, placebos and miracles. You will
learn how to evaluate claims, understand
why we consistently make the same kinds
of “irrational” mistakes, and how to make
better decisions.
Introduction to Visual
Communication
COMU1999
This course focuses on an exploration
of issues relating to visual culture, visual
research methodologies and the ethical
practice of visual representation. It will
emphasis practical and refective experience
in visual “storyboard” editing and narrative
construction.
Introduction to Education
EDUC1029
This course aims to stimulate students’
thinking about key educational questions
of why, what and how we educate,
with a particular focus on social justice.
You will consider these questions as an
introduction to some of the foundations
of the applied discipline of education. The
course examines selected themes as these
apply in the Australian context, in order to
challenge preconceived notions of schooling
and education. The subject matter provides
you with a framework on which to build an
understanding of education as a discipline
during your undergraduate years.
Global Security
POLS2209
This course examines security in
international relations. You will examine
debates about the meaning of security in
international relations, and about the role,
origins and changing nature of warfare in the
international system. You then explore key
global security dynamics ranging from the
arms trade to nuclear proliferation, ethnic
confict and terrorism, and the contours of
a new global security agenda in which the
relationship between security and poverty,
disease and environmental change is
explored.
Introduction to Social Work
SWSP1033
This course introduces you to various
elements of social work – purpose, values,
ethics, knowledge and theory for practice
– and provides the opportunity for you
to develop analytical skills for outcome-
directed and critical refective practice.
OTHERCOURSES
The table below lists other popular courses
in this area available to Study Abroad and
Incoming Exchange students. A full list of
courses can be found on UQ’s Courses and
Programs website at www.uq.edu.au/study
NOTES:
– Course information is correct as at April 2013 and may change in 2014
. Please refer to www.uq.edu.au/study for current information.
– While all listed courses are available to Study Abroad and Incoming Exchange students, some will require Faculty/
School approval as relevant previous study may be required.
GAÉTANHY (FRANCE)
Incoming Exchange Student
“My favourite course at UQ is
POLS2310
Politics in Literature and Film.
The main
reason for that is its reading program
is really amazing. It includes only
masterpieces that you must read, from
Voltaire’s
Candide
to Ellis’s
American
Psycho
. But more than that, it gives
you the opportunity to watch and study
many of the greatest movies such as
A
Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now
…
That is why this course is awesome.”
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UQ Guide 2014
Study Abroad and Incoming Exchange