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    UNSW Sydney
    Sydney, Australia

    UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales) is one of Australia’s leading research and teaching universities. Established in 1949, it is ranked among the top 60 universities in the world, renowned for the quality of its graduates and its world class research.

    UNSW is a founding member of the Group of Eight, a coalition of Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, and of the prestigious international network Universitas 21. With more than 50,000 students from over 120 countries, it is one of Australia’s most cosmopolitan universities.

    The main UNSW campus is located on a 38-hectare site at Kensington, seven kilometres from the centre of Sydney. Other major campuses are the College of Fine Arts in the Sydney suburb of Paddington and UNSW Canberra at the Australia Defence Force Academy.

    In addition to UNSW Canberra at ADFA, UNSW has eight Faculties – Arts and Social Sciences; Built Environment; Engineering; Law; Medicine; Science; the Australian School of Business; and the College of Fine Arts – which offer an extensive range of undergraduate, postgraduate and research programs.

    Website: www.unsw.edu.au

    VSE Season 2, 2021-22: Courses offered by UNSW Sydney


    Application Deadline

    APPLICATION CLOSED
    Students must submit an application to the VSE Central Office before:
    Oct 30, 2021; 12:00 noon Hong Kong Time (UTC+8)



    Academic Requirements

    Before applying, please make sure you have fulfilled the course offering university's academic requirements listed below:

    All courses are open to undergraduate students from any major. These courses do not have any prerequisites.

    For more details, please contact the VSE coordinator at UNSW Sydney.



    English Language Proficiency Requirements

    Before applying, please make sure you have fulfilled the course offering university's English language proficiency requirements listed below:

    If English is not your first language, you will need to provide proof of your English proficiency at time of application. You can do this by providing evidence that you meet one of UNSW’s approved criteria. This is currently 6.5 IELTS or 90 TOEFL (iBT) for Exchange students. You are only required to meet the overall score for IELTS and TOEFL, you do not need to meet each of the subtests. For prior study conditions and other acceptable criteria please see https://www.international.unsw.edu.au/english-language-requirements.

    For more details, please contact the VSE coordinator at UNSW Sydney.


    Course Information

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    Number of Credits6
    Offering DepartmentUNSW Business School
    Course TeacherMr AM Hingston
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassFeb 14, 2021
    Last Day of ClassMay 12, 2021
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingAsynchronous
    Time ZoneUTC+11
    RestrictionsThis course is open to undergraduate students with any major.
    Course DescriptionThe course introduces students from a non-financial background to the principles of accumulating, managing and protecting wealth. The course covers the topics of tracking expenses and preparing budgets, savings, buying on credit, securing a good job, buying a home, paying off mortgages faster, protecting yourself through using insurance, building wealth using superannuation, paying appropriate levels of tax and avoiding investment mistakes.
    Points to Note for Students2022 course outline is not available yet. Term 1 2022 Teaching Period dates: 14 February 2022 - 22 April 2022 Term 1 2022 Exam Period: 29 April 2022 - 12 May 2022 (TBC)
    Course OutlineLink
    Number of Credits6
    Offering DepartmentFaculty of Science
    Course TeacherA/Prof KH Tran
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassFeb 14, 2021
    Last Day of ClassMay 12, 2021
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingAsynchronous
    Time ZoneUTC+11
    RestrictionsThis course is open to undergraduate students with any major.
    Course DescriptionIntroduction to Astronomy and the search for life elsewhere.This course provides a broad overview of Astronomy and our place in the Cosmos. It covers the solar system and its exploration, stars, galaxies and cosmology, the Earth as a habitable planet and the search for life elsewhere in the universe. The course is delivered wholly on the internet through Moodle. The course is suitable as an introductory course for science students or as a general education course for non-scientists.
    Points to Note for Students2022 course outline is not available yet. Term 1 2022 Teaching Period dates: 14 February 2022 - 22 April 2022 Term 1 2022 Exam Period: 29 April 2022 - 12 May 2022 (TBC)
    Course OutlineLink
    Number of Credits6
    Offering DepartmentFaculty of Engineering
    Course TeacherTBC
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassFeb 14, 2021
    Last Day of ClassMay 12, 2021
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingAsynchronous
    Time ZoneUTC+11
    RestrictionsThis course is open to undergraduate students with any major.
    Course DescriptionWhat is creativity? What is entrepreneurship? Why do they matter? In this course, you will identify, analyse and propose a solution to a meaningful unsolved problem in the world for an identified market segment. The course runs in an experiential mode, and you will form multidisciplinary teams to tackle their chosen problem, guided by entrepreneurship mentors and UNSW alumni who are running their own startup. Practical tools and protocols will be introduced for critically developing solution concepts, performing competitive analyses, building mindsets, skills, creativity and problem-solving, motivating and developing others, networking, building effective cross-disciplinary teams, designing experiments to validate concepts and rapid prototyping. You will then learn pitching and visual and graphic design skills, learning how to communicate influentially.

    After this course, you will have (i) a changed mindset, so that you can experience the world and your entire study program from an entrepreneur’s perspective; (ii) sharpened skills in finding problems worth solving, mobilising people and resources to solve them, selling your ideas and skills and creating value; and (iii) a smaller step to creating your own first start-up, with mentors, support structures and fellow UNSW students to bring your ideas and companies to life.

    This course can be taken by Faculty of Engineering students as a General Education course.
    Points to Note for Students2022 course outline is not available yet. Term 1 2022 Teaching Period dates: 14 February 2022 - 22 April 2022 Term 1 2022 Exam Period: 29 April 2022 - 12 May 2022 (TBC)
    Course OutlineLink
    Number of Credits6
    Offering DepartmentFaculty of Law and Justice
    Course TeacherTBC
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassFeb 14, 2021
    Last Day of ClassMay 12, 2021
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingAsynchronous
    Time ZoneUTC+11
    RestrictionsThis course is open to undergraduate students with any major.
    Course DescriptionThis course will give students an overview of the operation of new media and communications services under Australian law, examining both the legal requirements and the policy reasoning behind the way in which media, data, telecommunications and communications are regulated.

    Main Topics

    how laws are made, changed, interpreted and enforced, with cybercrime among the examples laws governing licensing, ownership and control of telecommunications, radiocommunications and broadcasting enterprises, and whether these laws are appropriate and effective to deal with new technologies and services; electronic commerce and what it means for business, consumers and the community; restrictions on media and online content, including classification and censorship, and regulation of content; and protecting intellectual property and reputation, covering copyright, trademarks, and defamation how legal enforcement and regulatory modes change under the impact of the mass personalisation, ubiquitous publishing, Social Networking and User Generated Content features of Web 2.0 impact of the online giants' cult of "Disruption"/"Forgiveness not Permission" on the rule of law online. digital surveillance and tracking law Issues around "Open data", Big data, and their use in artificial intelligence and machine learning online new modes of legal services which arise in response to these challenges
    Points to Note for Students2022 course outline is not available yet. Term 1 2022 Teaching Period dates: 14 February 2022 - 22 April 2022 Term 1 2022 Exam Period: 29 April 2022 - 12 May 2022 (TBC).
    Course OutlineLink
    Number of Credits6
    Offering DepartmentFaculty of Science
    Course TeacherDr BN Wijenayake Gamachchige
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassFeb 14, 2021
    Last Day of ClassMay 12, 2021
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingTBA
    Time ZoneUTC+11
    RestrictionsThis course is open to undergraduate students with any major.
    Course DescriptionWeight loss fads in the form of diets and exercise regimes (with mostly unrealistic claims) are ubiquitous in modern day life; however, there is surprising ignorance and confusion about how we lose weight, with most people unable to answer the simplest question: when you lose weight, where does the fat go? Popular (incorrect) answers include energy, heat, faeces and sweat. Surprisingly, this question has also baffled health professionals including general practitioners, dietitians and professional trainers.

    This course will lift the veil on weight loss by tracing every atom you eat into and out of your body, and you will learn the fate of fat during weight loss, that is, it is converted to carbon dioxide and water and exits your body mainly through your lungs. Along the way, you will also learn how humans convert foods into useful energy, what exactly is happening in your bodies during weight loss and weight gain, and by the end you will be able to critically examine popular weight loss claims as well as your own diet and lifestyle. Diet myths and wellness nonsense topple like dominoes along the way.

    No prior scientific knowledge is assumed as we aim to provide you with the knowledge to answer this big, fat myth.
    Points to Note for Students2022 course outline is not available yet. Term 1 2022 Teaching Period dates: 14 February 2022 - 22 April 2022 Term 1 2022 Exam Period: 29 April 2022 - 12 May 2022 (TBC)
    Course OutlineLink
    Number of Credits6
    Offering DepartmentUNSW Business School
    Course TeacherTBC
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassFeb 14, 2021
    Last Day of ClassMay 12, 2021
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingAsynchronous
    Time ZoneUTC+11
    RestrictionsThis course is open to undergraduate students with any major.
    Course DescriptionDo you want to lead change and implement social innovations? Would you like to find ways to address complex social problems? This course is for aspiring change agents across all sectors, including business, not-for-profit and government. Whether your career lies in business, law, art and design, arts and social sciences, the built environment, science, engineering or medicine, you will develop practical skills to lead complex systems for create better social outcomes. We explore the issues that policy makers, industry leaders and social service providers grapple with every day, such as inequality, place-based disadvantage, mental health, homelessness, and human rights. We will introduce models for systems change, social innovation, and cross-sectoral collaboration. You will complete the course with a broad understanding of social systems and the keys to initiating and sustaining positive social change. The course introduces local and global trends through a range of case studies, and you will have the opportunity to hear directly from experts in business, government and social purpose organisations who have successfully initiated social change.
    Points to Note for Students2022 course outline is not available yet. Term 1 2022 Teaching Period dates: 14 February 2022 - 22 April 2022 Term 1 2022 Exam Period: 29 April 2022 - 12 May 2022 (TBC)
    Course OutlineLink
    Number of Credits6
    Offering DepartmentFaculty of Science
    Course TeacherDr S Morris
    Language of InstructionEnglish
    First Day of ClassFeb 14, 2021
    Last Day of ClassMay 12, 2021
    Course ComponentLecture
    Mode of TeachingAsynchronous
    Time ZoneUTC+11
    RestrictionsThis course is open to undergraduate students with any major.
    Course DescriptionThe subject matter of this course covers theories and research regarding the science of self-optimisation (e.g. time management, study skills, emotional regulation), and provides students with opportunities to improve self-management capacity that could help them survive, and thrive, in university and beyond. Self-management is the capacity to work effectively toward meaning goals, and to be flexible in the face of setbacks. The course is open to all students as a general education offering, and its online delivery mode will allow for some time/place flexibility while learning.
    Points to Note for Students2022 course outline is not available yet. Term 1 2022 Teaching Period dates: 14 February 2022 - 22 April 2022 Term 1 2022 Exam Period: 29 April 2022 - 12 May 2022 (TBC)
    Course OutlineLink


    The number of credits is shown as provided by the course offering university. The credit structure at the course offering university may be different from the one at your home university. Please contact the VSE Coordinator of your home university for credit transfer information.

    Course enrollment is subject to final approval from your home university and the course offering university.