Construction Business Strategy & Entrepreneurship covers an introduction to contemporary business and entrepreneurship management, and corporate social responsibility. This is of high relevance in today's business environment considering the degrees of volatility and rivalry in Australia's economy and its construction industry. To be successful, managerial staff and entrepreneurs must be aware of the marketplace changes and in turn, reconfigure and adopt different strategies in response to business opportunities and threats. You will be introduced to the germane business management concepts and competitive strategy models, and factors affecting a firm's business operation. You will learn different techniques, issues and procedures for developing business plans and assessing the health of a business.

Construction Estimating aims to develop your understanding of the fundamentals of estimating building costs and competitive bidding practices. You will engage with the key concepts that underpin the estimating and bidding practices in the construction industry. The course addresses different methods of cost estimating, cost planning, cost analysis, first principles estimating, competitive bidding practices in the industry, contractors’ bidding strategies, and competitor analysis in construction bidding.

The need for marketers to understand why consumers act as they do in the marketplace is the crux of this subject. You are equipped with theoretical and conceptual knowledge of consumer behaviour, drawing heavily on both psychological and sociological viewpoints. This includes the psychology of individual decision-making and choice, patterns of behaviour exhibited by aggregate groups of consumers, and also the sociological and cultural influences on consumer attitudes and behaviour. This prepares you for making informed decisions about how to manage and respond to the needs and wants of consumers.

Innovation is critical for organisational growth, and adding value to the firm and its stakeholders. This course aims to introduce you to the topic of innovation. It will discuss the intricacies of innovation, and the challenges faced by managers in this area for the purpose of understanding how innovation can be fostered. Active participation in this course will provide the opportunity to gain practical, real world experience in the application of related Design Thinking tools and approaches. In addition, this course will help you to further develop skills in communicating ideas, making recommendations, or delivering solutions. The course encourages you to think differently, so that you can become active leaders in generating positive change through innovation.

Since its beginnings around a century ago, jazz has consistently enthused listeners with the inventiveness, expressiveness and virtuosity of its performers, and the variety of its styles. Beginning with African American chants, field hollers, early blues and urban dance forms, this course traces a history of the music, outlining the development and details of various styles of jazz, both in the United States and abroad. You will trace the changing locations in which the music has developed, and examine the roles of individual artists and musical collectivities in the innovation of styles. You will investigate the dissemination of jazz through emerging media technologies, and the influence of other music on jazz musicians: popular music, rhythm and blues, soul, rock, classical music and world music, such as Latin American music, French gypsy music, South African kwela and mbqanga. As jazz has become the scintillating soundtrack to many lives, the course examines both the practical use of jazz as sound and image in film, literature and the visual arts, and some of the many meanings listeners have ascribed to it. You will be introduced to critical debates surrounding jazz: debates of race, authenticity, ownership, gender and commercialization.

This course introduces students to some of the key debates in contemporary film theory from the 1970s to the present. It enables students to view and study a variety of filmmaking practices - including political cinemas, cult film, experimental film and video, as well as mainstream cinemas - and looks at some of the diverse ways that film has been understood and debated by both filmmakers and film theorists. Provides a foundation for upper level study in Film Studies.