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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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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 ‘taste’ 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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.