Student for a Semester subject selection
As a Student for a Semester, you’ll complete one full university subject when you’re 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.
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.
Applications for the January 2025 semester are now open and close on Friday, 6 December, 2024.
Transformation CoLab
Bond’s 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 January 2025 semester:
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Global Citizenship
The 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 dehumanizing social and political practices.
Seminar One Monday 1:00-3:00 PM
Seminar Two Wednesday 2:00-4:00 PM
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Design: Process, Methods and Mindsets
This subject challenges students to understand and use processes and models at the core of design thinking. Students are given problems that challenge even the greatest organisations and minds both in and out of business, often referred to as wicked problems. Students will demonstrate design thinking processes by framing a problem and choosing from a set of transdisciplinary tools and strategies.
Seminar One Monday 3:00-4:00 PM
Seminar Two Thursday 11:00AM-1:00 PM
Architecture
If you’re interested in making a mark on your city or town, through architecture, urban design and planning, sustainable development, construction management and more, an Architecture and Built Environment subject will build that necessary foundation.
There are no architecture subjects available in the January 2025 semester.
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 January 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 Monday 5:00-7:00 PM
Computer Lab 2 Wednesday 4:00-6:00 PM
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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.
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 1:00-3:00 PM
Tutorial Thursday1:00-3:00 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 3:00-5:00 PM
Seminar 2 Wednesday 2:00-4:00 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 Tuesday 5:00-7:00 PM
Tutorial Wednesday 4:00-6:00 PM
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Thursday 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.
Seminar 1 Tuesday 1:00-3:00 PM
Seminar 2 Thursday 3:00-5:00 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 January 2025 semester:
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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 10:00AM-12:00 PM
Tutorial Friday 12:00-1:00 PM
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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.
Forum Wednesday 8:00-10:00 AM
Practical Wednesday 2:00-4:00 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 January 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.
There are no health, biomedical or sports sciences subjects available in the January 2025 semester.
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 January 2025 semester:
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Climate Change and the Future World
Understanding how the planet works has never been more important as a topic in tertiary education. A practical understanding of that and how it can affect humanity is vital. This subject is an introduction to climate change through Earth and Global Systems, climate mechanisms, ocean and atmospheric interactions and changes in the future world. In this subject, the climate change complexity is explained within the realm of general undergraduate knowledge.
Forum Thursday 3:00-5:00 PM
Tutorial Thursday 5:00-6:00 PM
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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 ‘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.
Forum Wednesday 9:00-11:00 AM
Tutorial Thursday 10:00–11:00 PM
Law
An amazing career in the legal profession could begin with Bond’s 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 January 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 Monday 9:00-11:00 AM
Tutorial Wednesday 2:00-3:00 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 January 2025 semester:
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Foundations of Psychology: Development, Learning and Social
This subject introduces students to the science and profession of psychology and reviews theory and research across a number of domains within the discipline. It describes how research in these domains contributes to our understanding of human behaviour, and aims to develop a critical thinking perspective on these issues
Forum Monday 9:00-11:00 AM
Tutorial Wednesday 2:00-3:00 PM