Student for a Semester subject selection
As a Student for a Semester, youโll complete one full university subject when youโre still in high school. This is a unique opportunity to learn more about Bond, get used to the structure of university classes and assessment, and to test drive a study area before you commit to a degree.
The subject you choose should reflect your interests and future career or study aspirations. Remember that Student for a Semester subjects can be credited towards your full degree at Bond University if they align with that particular study area and program.
View all subjects and class times available in the September 2025 semester below, or download our full timetable. Please note that class times and subjects change each semester, and we cannot guarantee you will be placed in your requested timeslot. If a subject is offered during school hours, you will need to seek approval from your school to attend your classes, as all classes must be attended in person.
Applications for the September 2025 semester open from Friday, 25 July and close Friday, 29 August, 2025.
Transformation CoLab
Bondโs innovative Transformation CoLab degrees prepare students for the future of work, with focuses on digital technology, entrepreneurship, health, and law. Get a head start on your head start with one of these fast-paced subjects.
Subject available in September 2025 semester:
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Global Citizenship
This course encourages participants to identify and overcome the primary barriers to effective global citizenship found in epistemological, political, and historical modes of thinking. Students will also explore how an absence in institutions and civil society of robust concepts of global citizenship can institute dehumanising social and political practices. Through investigating such practices, participants will explore how a notion of global citizenship can inform critical thinking on issues such as climate change, international justice, and human rights.
Seminar One Monday 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Seminar Two Wednesday 8:00 - 10:00 AM
Business, commerce and entrepreneurship
Kickstart an incredible career in business during your Student for a Semester experience. The following subjects are designed to suit students who are interested in areas like accounting, actuarial science, big data, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, sport management and more.
Subjects available in September 2025 semester:
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Accounting Principles
This subject provides a thorough grounding in accounting with an emphasis on financial reporting and no prior knowledge of accounting is required. It covers the basic financial statements used in financial reporting, the accounting cycles, some contentious reporting issues, reporting analysis and the interpretation of financial statements.
Computer Lab 1 Tuesday 5:00-7:00 PM
Computer Lab 2 Thursday 5:00-7:00 PM
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Elementary Maths
This subject provides students with the chance to bring their quantitative maths skills up to a standard that is required for future business subjects at Bond University. It also provides new material that is essential to the understanding of business-related problems.
Forum Monday 3:00-5:00 PM
Tutorial Friday 3:00-5:00 PM
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Marketing Fundamentals
This subject is designed to teach students how to manage the relationship between businesses and their customers. It covers the nature of customers, marketing tools and the broader environment within which the marketer operates.
Seminar 1 Monday 9:00-11:00 AM
Seminar 2 Wednesday 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
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Principles of Economics
This introductory subject will equip students with the tools of economics and how these are applied in real-life situations. Participants will gain an understanding of how to address economic problems in their own lives as well as in industry, politics, society, and the wider environment.
Forum Monday 5:00-7:00 PM
Tutorial Tuesday 5:00-7:00 PM
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Quantitative Methods
Designed to foster the development of foundational mathematical and statistical skills necessary for subsequent quantitative subjects in the Bond Business School. This includes applications of calculus, probability, discrete and continuous random variables, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, and application of the central limit theorem to large sample inference and data analytics.
Forum Thursday 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Tutorial Friday 9:00 - 11:00 AM
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Business Analytics Coding
This subject is an introduction to programming. There is a focus on writing computer code to solve problems in business, which promotes the development of problem-solving skills. The necessary foundation concepts are covered, including expressions, variables, data structures, control structures, functions, commenting and debugging.
Forum Tuesday 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Tutorial Thursday 5:00 - 7:00 PM
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Cyber Fraud Threats in Organisations
All organisations today face cyber and fraud threats: small and large businesses, non-profits, health organisations, government and more. Valuable corporate data is highly sought after in the criminal and business communities. Emerging intellectual property and organisational data provides an insight into competitors as well as being valuable commodities to sell on the criminal markets. In this subject, you will be introduced to cybercriminals, learn their motivations and methodologies, and identify potential vulnerabilities and proactive strategies to protect the organisational network, its employees and its data.
Workshop 1 Monday 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Workshop 2 Thursday 3:00 - 5:00 PM
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Everyday Entrepreneurship
Everyday Entrepreneurship refers to a perspective that embraces the diverse forms of entrepreneurship beyond the traditional focus on business startups and rapid growth to include self-sufficient individuals who create their own ventures using resourcefulness and talent to address economic, social and environmental opportunities. Thus, everyday entrepreneurs contribute to their communities in myriad ways. This subject aims to provide students from all academic backgrounds with a broad introduction to entrepreneurship.
Seminar 1 Tuesday 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Seminar 2 Thursday 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Communication, film and creative media
Discover areas like advertising, film and television, computer game development, communication, media, journalism, marketing and public relations by pursuing one of the below subjects as a Student for a Semester.
Subjects available in September 2025 semester:
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Directing Actors
This subject explores the actor/director relationship. It introduces students to the approaches and practices of working with actors to rehearse and achieve powerful screen performances. Furthermore, it demystifies how actors approach their work, the language they use to discuss their work, and the theoretical models developed over the past century, such as Stanislavski, Brecht, and Method, upon which most actors build their performance techniques.
Forum Wednesday 3:00-5:00 PM
Practical Wednesday 6:00-9:00 PM
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Foundations of Content Creation
In this subject, you will learn essential and foundational creative and technical skills necessary for successful careers in the creative and communications industries. You will learn the theoretical and practical fundamentals of visual, textual, and audio design and narrative across multiple digital and online platforms. Across the semester, you will build a portfolio of creative communication pieces.
Computer Lab Wednesday 2:00-5:00 PM
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Introduction to Advertising
This subject introduces you to advertising as a professional practice. You will learn about the different roles in advertising agencies and the skills required for working in these positions. Through exploring successful advertising campaigns and practical, hands-on exercises, this subject will provide you with an overview of essential ideas, concepts and theories used by practitioners for creating impactful promotional communication across various media channels.
Forum Wednesday 8:00 - 10:00 AM
Tutorial Wednesday 10:00 - 11:00 AM
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Graphic Design and Content Creation
Graphic Design and Content Creation provides students with an introduction to visual communication principles and graphic design elements such as colour, type, line, shape and form as foundations for understanding the aesthetic, functional and social applications of design. Students will apply these principles practically, using industry standard digital creation tools including, Adobe Creative Suite.
Forum Wednesday 8:00 - 10:00 AM
Computer Lab Wednesday 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Construction, property and planning
Explore the multifaceted concepts of urban design, sustainability, construction, property development, quantity surveying, city planning and more, and learn what it takes to commence a successful career in these industries.
There are no construction, property and planning subjects available in the September 2025 semester.
Health, biomedical and sports sciences
Explore the wide world of science with our Student for a Semester-eligible classes, each of which includes hands-on opportunities like labs and workshops.
Subjects available in the September 2025 semester:
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Australiaโs Health Issues and Priorities
This subject introduces students to Australia's priority health issues, as determined by analysis of key indicators such as burden of disease, risk factor prevalence, determinants of health and opportunities for interventions across the health system, now and into the future. This subject will introduce students to thinking about major health issues across the spectrum of the health system (prevention through to treatment), by analysing the biological, psychological, social and environmental determinants of health, and using this analysis to identify opportunities to improve health.
Forum Wednesday 2:00 - 4:00 PM Workshop Friday 1:00 - 2:00 PM
International relations, politics and arts
Explore a broad range of topics in international relations and humanities, including linguistics, language and culture, international affairs and relations, history, politics and philosophy, with a related Student for a Semester subject.
Subjects available in the September 2025 semester:
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World Languages
Languages provides you with an insight into a fascinating world of human languages. The innovative subject prepares you for the challenges of language learning and gives you the opportunity to โtasteโ languages which you can study at Bond University. The subject explores how languages are interconnected with communities and their cultures, why we all sound different and how languages we speak condition our world view. You will also learn why learning languages can be difficult and why the advantages of you learning an additional language are monumental.
Forum Tuesday 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Tutorial Wednesday 8:00โ9:00 PM
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Climate Change and the Future World
Understanding how the planet works has never been more crucial in tertiary education. A practical understanding of this and its impact on humanity is vital. This knowledge is essential across all career structures to combat climate change. Understanding climate change is now as important as understanding the economy, the legal system, and our national and international societies, as it will affect all these areas in the future. This subject introduces you to climate change through Earth and Global Systems, climate mechanisms, ocean and atmospheric interactions, and future world changes.
Forum Wednesday 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Tutorial Wednesday 4:00 - 5:00 PM
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Introduction to International Relations
This subject provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental concepts and theoretical approaches in International Relations, forming the essential foundation for studies in the field. This course gives you a robust framework for analysing contemporary international affairs. You will explore critical theoretical foundations that will, in turn, enable you to investigate and critically analyse issues in international relations, including war and peace, state and nationalism, sovereignty and intervention, non-state actors, and human security.
Forum Thursday 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Tutorial Friday 9:00 - 10:00 AM
Law
An amazing career in the legal profession could begin with Bondโs Student for a Semester program! Take on a subject to get prepped for your law studies and learn more about an area such as traditional law, dispute resolution, business law, criminology, corporate and commercial law, and forensics.
Subject available in the September 2025 semester:
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Contemporary Issues in Law & Society
Contemporary Issues in Law and Society is an undergraduate elective subject offered by the Faculty of Law. This subject is not a technical law subject. It explores some of the social and contemporary controversies which surround law. The goal is to create cross-disciplinary debate on how to solve contemporary problems such as: the role of law as a social system; the impact of science in an era of human cloning and designer babies; freedom of expression, media regulation and hate speech; government regulation of social media; criminal sanctions and punishment; and gender issues.
Forum Wednesday 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Tutorial Wednesday 3:00 - 4:00 PM OR
Wednesday 4:00 - 5:00 PM -
Enterprise Law
This subject is an introductory level examination of the law regulating enterprises in Australia today. Students will develop a foundational understanding of the Australian legal system and the laws associated with starting, financing, managing, and closing an enterprise. They will also cultivate the skills and knowledge to recognise and respond appropriately to legal problems, including those involving causing harm, making and enforcing deals, dealing with consumers and competitors, and protecting IP.
Forum Thursday 5:00 - 7:00 PM Tutorial Tuesday 5:00 - 6:00 PM
Psychology, criminology and social sciences
Get set to pursue a career in criminology, counselling, behaviour management or psychology by taking a related subject as part of the Student for a Semester program.
Subject available in the September 2025 semester:
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Foundations of Psychology: Biology and Personality
This subject introduces students to the science and profession of psychology. The subject overviews theory and research across a number of domains within the discipline (e.g., Biological Psychology and Personality) and describes how research in these domains contributes to our understanding of human behaviour. This subject also aims to develop a critical thinking perspective on issues and findings in psychological research.
Forum Thursday 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Tutorial Friday 1:00 - 2:00 PM