Murdoch University
Murdoch University's mission is to extend knowledge, stimulate learning, and promote understanding, for the benefit of the wider community. We have an outstanding reputation as an institution that provides students with a quality education and recognised academic standing within an engaging and caring environment. We are committed to excellence in teaching and research and Murdoch provides the ideal place to take the next step on a path of lifelong learning.
With a population of over 14,000 students Murdoch is a dynamic, modern university with a national reputation for excellence in teaching, research and student satisfaction.
Murdoch's South Street campus is the largest campus in Australia and is home to some of the most up-to-date technologies and teaching practices in the country.
Courses offered
Business and Finance
University Level
Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting
The Bachelor of Commerce is a highly flexible programme allowing students to combine their choice of majors, minors and electives. Graduates from this programme have a strong record of success in finding employment within the local and international business communities.
Accounting
Studying Accounting will teach you how business works, the real nuts and bolts of what makes a successful organisation. You will look at the efficiency and effectiveness of the operations of an enterprise as well as learning how to evaluate employee performance. You will also learn how to use accounts to assist you in making capital investment decisions for a variety of purposes, including the acquisition or sale of shares, lending of money, and provision of goods on credit.
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Bachelor of Commerce (Management)
Completion of the major will give you an understanding of the functions and development of organisations, interactions with local and international environments, management of people, marketing of goods and services, and strategic decisions that direct and harmonise all activities.
Management can be studied as a major in the Bachelor of Commerce. This includes combined courses which includes this degree
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Law - Law
Good lawyers possess proficient language skills, clear thought processes and the ability to resolve complex problems, which have both a legal and a human component.
Not a day passes without legal issues forming a significant part of the daily news. This illustrates that law does not exist in a vacuum but is an integral part of modern living and that legal issues raise social and, at times, political issues.
An understanding of the way in which the law deals with these complex issues allows more informed debate and criticism, both for cases decided by the courts and of proposed legislative changes. There are three options for studying a Bachelor of Laws degree.
Each of these options qualifies you for legal practice. You do not have to enter Law School straight from secondary school to gain the chance to study law.
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Computing and Information Technology
University Level
Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial Computer Systems Engineering)
The field of Computer Engineering encompasses a wide variety of areas.
These include:
- Computer Systems - hardware, software embedded, design, management
- Networks and Communications - local, global, wireless, concurrency, Internet
- Intelligent Information Systems - robotics, automation, manufacturing, vision, neural networks
- Signal Processing - adaptive systems, real-time, fuzzy logic
- Automotive Systems - motor management, brake systems, drive information, navigation.
The course covers:
- Computer Engineering: focuses in the areas of the design and development of hardware and sofware systems.
- Communication and Network Engineering: concentrates on different service needs, and developing and applying hardware and software to meet them.
- Software Engineering: focuses on the design and development of software.
- Intelligent Systems: concentrates on the development of expert systems or neural network components or devices.
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Exploration and Mining
University Level
Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental Engineering)
The course focuses on understanding the functioning of natural systems and enables Environmental Engineers to combine the need for sustainability with creative and practical problem solving skills. This often means finding a balance between economic development and protection and enhancement of the environment.
Challenges facing Environmental Engineers:
- Disposal of toxic wastes, remediation of contaminated sites and rehabilitiation of mine sites
- Water treatment and reuse
- Management of saline affected land
- Degradation of wetlands, estuaries and the coastal zone
- Management of of surface and groundwater resources
- Deelopment of environmental policies
- Minimising water and air pollution and environmental impact of new development
- Designing developments to preserve biodiversity and cultural diversity
This multidisciplinary degree trains you in engineering, scientific, technical, computer software, communication, economic, legal, social, cultural and political skills.
Throughout the degree you will have regular guest lecturers, site visits and work on applied projects in and with the community. There is a strong emphasis on project team work.
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Physics - Physcial Sciences
These most fundamental of sciences provide the basis for our understanding of the complex world around us, from the cosmological to the sub-nuclear scale, from the interplay of atoms and molecules to the collisions of continental plates and the life and death of galaxies.
By addressing fundamental questions about the natural processes in the Universe and on planet Earth, these sciences drive the development of new technologies.
In the BSc (Physical Science) program, you complete at least one of the following majors:
- Chemical Physics
- Chemistry
- Geology
- Materials Chemistry
- Mathematics
- Physics
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Health and Community Services
University Level
Bachelor of Commerce (Human Resource Management)
Human Resource Management explores the concepts, principles and systems associated with the management of employee performance in the workplace. It is now considered a key driver for modern organisations to achieve strategic competitive advantage making this course a strong complementary discipline to other Business studies.
Human Resource Management will provide you with a strong understanding of the areas of the professional human resource management including:
- The strategic role,
- employment policies,
- legal and environmental regulations,
- interviewing and hiring,
- rewards and recognition,
- pay and benefits,
- diversity,
- job assessment,
- health and safety,
- ethics,
- negotiating and bargaining,
- communications,
- motivation,
- organisational design,
- the future direction of human resources.
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Marketing Management - Business (Commerce)
The concept of marketing is about identifying customer needs and developing and selling products that satisfy those needs. An infinite variety of products can be marketed ranging from soft drink to government departments and instrumentalities such as the Defence Force or the Education Department, as well as tourist destinations, politicians, churches and charity groups. Consequently, marketing is a big asset to your job prospects and is useful whether you are a marketing manager, running your own business, a recruitment officer in the army or a dentist.
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Bachelor of Mass Communications (Public Relations)
People today, particularly young people, are incredibly media savvy. You probably already have your own personal PR profile out there in the public arena through Facebook; MySpace or your on-line avatars. Turn that basic understanding into an exciting and global career in Public Relations. With a Public Relations degree you'll learn the theory and practicalities behind campaign management, strategic planning, issues management and the relationship between public relations and other communication professions. Combined with writing and professional communication subjects you'll be ready to launch.
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Health and Environment - Health Science
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Nursing - Health Science
This course provides an integrated comprehensive curriculum from the physical, biological, psychological and social sciences. It is designed for school leavers and others intending to practice as a registered nurse. It is also available to registered mental health nurses intending to become eligible for registration as a comprehensive nurse.
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Processing (Science)
University Level
Bachelor of Engineering (Instrumentation and Control Engineering)
Communication Engineering deals with the transfer of information of diverse kinds by the modulation, transmission and subsequent demodulation or reception of electrical, electromagnetic or optical signals. These signals may be digital or analogue and may be transmitted over cable, radio or optical fibre media. National and international communication networks; television and telecommunication; cable, microwave, satellite and optical communication are among the topics included.
Control Engineering deals with automatic means by which the performance of a process or plant is controlled or regulated from measurements of its own response. Feedback control of this kind, and its fundamental concepts, has very wide applications and implications. Control engineers need wide knowledge and the ability to work with specialists in other fields. This branch of engineers involves the marriage of electrical and mechanical systems.
Power Systems Engineering is a very large field of professional engineering practice in Australia and throughout the world. Every modern economy depends increasingly on electricity supply. Expansion of electricity supply throughout most of the Asian countries is now on a massive scale. The major field of expertise in this department is in all aspects of power generation, transmission, distribution and supply and especially computer-aided design and control of large integrated power network systems.
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Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Power Engineering)
Communication Engineering deals with the transfer of information of diverse kinds by the modulation, transmission and subsequent demodulation or reception of electrical, electromagnetic or optical signals. These signals may be digital or analogue and may be transmitted over cable, radio or optical fibre media. National and international communication networks; television and telecommunication; cable, microwave, satellite and optical communication are among the topics included.
Control Engineering deals with automatic means by which the performance of a process or plant is controlled or regulated from measurements of its own response. Feedback control of this kind, and its fundamental concepts, has very wide applications and implications. Control engineers need wide knowledge and the ability to work with specialists in other fields. This branch of engineers involves the marriage of electrical and mechanical systems.
Power Systems Engineering is a very large field of professional engineering practice in Australia and throughout the world. Every modern economy depends increasingly on electricity supply. Expansion of electricity supply throughout most of the Asian countries is now on a massive scale. The major field of expertise in this department is in all aspects of power generation, transmission, distribution and supply and especially computer-aided design and control of large integrated power network systems.
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Bachelor of Engineering (Bioprocess Engineering)
Materials Engineering is a challenging profession which often forms the bridge between the scientific disciplines of physics and chemistry and the various branches of engineering.
It is concerned with investigating relationships between the structure and the properties of metals, polymers and ceramics (as well as composites of these) and with design, manufacturing and processing of materials with desired properties.
Bachelor of Science (Mineral Science)
Extractive metallurgists are expected to understand the fundamental science of mineral extraction processes, yet operate in an engineering environment, working with engineers in the design, commissioning and operation of metallurgical plants. The Bachelor of Science in Mineral Science provides training in the core areas of extractive metallurgy - mineral processing, pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy and process mineralogy. Units in process control and instrumentation, financial management and process economics, and environmental and operational management, bridge the science and engineering disciplines.
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Chemistry - Physical Sciences
Chemistry is about understanding the properties of the element - how they interact with each other to construct living organisms to produce power from the sun, produce minerals and fuel environmental processes.
Life has evolved systems that depend on carbon as a fundamental element, and several other elements are particularly important in biological systems. A true understanding of such systems must be based upon a full knowledge of the structures, properties and reactivity of the molecular components of life and this knowledge comes from the study of chemistry.
Chemistry plays a pivotal role in the natural sciences. It supplies essential knowledge for the applied sciences, such as astronomy, materials science, engineering, agriculture, medical sciences, pharmacology, and forensic science.
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Mineral Science - Physical Sciences
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