This course will foster your understanding of how food is prepared and how it can be modified so that it is consumable, nutritionally appropriate and appealing to a range of end users. You will review the properties of basic foods and how these properties can be modified to prescribe recipes and menus with a food-first focus in practical sessions, including recipes for a range of special diets and dietary patterns. Menu assessment skills and food quality and hygiene assessment processes are explored in a range of environments, particularly in aged care. You will develop basic skills in strategic food thinking, food waste management and food business planning and you will consider the logistical challenges of operating a food service and how this impacts food options, management of special diets and overall consumer experience.

This subject will explore the cultural dimensions of emotion in everyday life. It will focus on how emotions are experienced, represented and understood in individual and social contexts. Drawing on different media and cultural sites, this course will examine a range of emotional states such as (but not limited to) love, happiness, fear, hate, terror and ideas of hope, trust, belief and faith in the (re)making of individual and social life. The course will also consider how emotions are deployed in current social and political debates.

This course explores the rise of human rights discourse and its relationship to other discourses on suffering and social justice. It focuses on the experience of victims of human rights abuse and the politics of meaning. You will engage in critiques of law as a reductionist discourse on the social by exploring the relationships between human rights and cultural differences such as gender, ethnicity, religion and indigenous cultures. The embodied self, social interdependency and the architecture of social institutions are the backdrop through which the course explores the tensions between universal and relativist understandings of human rights and their realization. You will be introduced to the fundamentals of human rights, the global human rights machinery, and the ethics of humanitarian intervention, and will consider how sociologists have studied and written about human rights.

Do you want to understand cultural experience? This interdisciplinary social science gateway course equips you with foundational knowledge in sociology and development studies that will help you to understand some of the key social challenges the world is grappling with such as power and inequality, human security, human mobility, human rights, and globalisation. The course will help you develop the conceptual and analytical skills to situate these topics within their broader cultural contexts, and guide you to closely examine taken for granted assumptions and ideas about them.  In this course, you will explore the lived experience of people and cultures around the world and how they make meaning, sensitising you to intercultural understanding. On completion of the course, you will have a general understanding of the social forces that make us human, make us different and will help you to navigate complexity in an ever-changing world.  Themes, concepts, theoretical and analytical frameworks introduced this course will provide you with a solid foundation for studying in one of the many social sciences disciplines.

In this course, you will learn about core aspects of social work in a diverse society. You will examine biological, psychological, social, and cultural dimensions of human lives; study how identities are constructed and utilised in human interactions; and explore various ways in which social biases, power, and privilege operate in social work and in wider society. You will also study how diversity enriches and challenges social work goals and methods. Not least, you will be introduced to the practice and theory of “anti-oppressive” social work.

The aim of this course is to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of contemporary management accounting research, which emanates from different philosophical perspectives and employs different theories and research methods. Research is divided into two broad streams: work that seeks (a) to explain and design, and (b) to understand and interpret the practice of management accounting in organisation and societies.