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New Master of Health Security at the University of Sydney

New for 2016, the Master of Health Security at the University of Sydney offers an intellectually rigorous and flexible multidisciplinary program of study and research in the field of health security.

Based in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, students can tailor their tertiary experience by drawing upon the expertise of a number of schools and faculties at the university:

Sydney Faculty of Veterinary Science

Sydney Faculty of Health Sciences

Sydney Faculty of Agriculture and Environment

Sydney School of Social and Political Sciences

Sydney Medical School

Sydney Nursing School

Sydney School of Public Health

Sydney Law School

University of Sydney Business School

“This new degree programme is a bold new multidisciplinary initiative from the University of Sydney to train an entirely new generation of professionals that can deal effectively with the multifaceted physical, social, and economic consequences that inevitably arise from adverse health events in the human, plant and animal world,” said Program Director Dr Adam Kamradt-Scott.

“We’ve seen how the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa has become not only a global public health hazard, but how it is having global trade implications in key commodities while also exacerbating poverty, ill-health and food shortages in the affected countries.

“Here in Australia we’ve also recently seen how contaminated food imports can have major consequences for human health, not to mention strain relations between trading partners.”

The Master of Health Security will prepare you for careers in human, animal and plant national health security.

The program is designed to train a new generation of professionals, policy-makers, government officials and security sector personnel to respond effectively to complex health events and the wider social and economic consequences, through coverage of

emerging diseases (animal, plant and human);

laboratory safety and regulation (biosafety);

biodefence;

quarantine and border control; and

agriculture and synthetic biology.

“This new degree program will give people the skills and knowledge to deal with these complex events in a globalised world, and open up a wide range of career options for individuals with health, allied health, health sciences, nursing, veterinary health, agricultural specialist, policy-making, security services, customs and border control, intelligence, and defence backgrounds,” Dr Kamradt-Scott said.

The program also provides you with an opportunity to gain advanced training to support career advancement as well as research options that provide a pathway to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program in fields such as security studies, international relations, public health, veterinary health, and agriculture.

Program: Master of Health Security Location: Sydney, New South Wales Duration: 3 years Semester intakes: March and July Application deadline: It is recommended that students apply a minimum of three months prior to the program’s start date.

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FROZEN creator to visit the University of Newcastle

Chris Buck, the Academy Award winning animator, screenwriter and director of Frozen will make an exclusive appearance at the University of Newcastle at the end of April to share the secrets of innovative creativity.

UON Director of Creative Innovation, Jeff Julian says that Buck’s visit is another major step in restructuring the entire creative industry locally. Newcastle is redefining itself: moving from a coal and industrial city to a university and cultural hub.

About Chris Buck

Watching Disney’s Pinocchio as a child, Buck was inspired to explore animation. In 1978, Buck joined Disney as a character animator. Working on classics such as Tarzan and Pocahontas, Buck’s work stretched from animator, to screenwriter to director.

In 2008 Buck returned to Disney after a stint at Sony, and as part of his pitch, Buck suggested an animated musical feature based on “The Snow Queen”—and thus Frozen was born.

Chris Buck will be speaking at an innovative session at University of Newcastle in late April, inspiring our students, staff and the community. As this event is exclusive to university’s Newcastle campus, they will be live-streaming the event to ensure the broadest possible audience for the talk.

With the news that Frozen 2 is set for release in 2018, Buck’s Newcastle talk will be hotly anticipated.

The Faculty of Education and Arts at the University of Newcastle is newly constituted in 2002 and brings together a broad range of academic expertise, comprising Aboriginal studies, music and drama, education, fine art, humanities, language and media, liberal arts and social sciences.

University of Newcastle School of Creative Arts

The University of Newcastle School of Creative Arts has earned a reputation for delivering quality programs in the creative and performing arts, music and fine art. The School has more than 1300 undergraduate and postgraduate students studying courses in creative and performing arts.

Staff in the school have national and international reputations in performance, creative work, scholarly research and teaching. They are living and breathing creative artists, researchers and/or performers—and sometimes a combination of the three.

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Sydney Department of Archaeology use airborne lasers to solve mystery

A team of University of Sydney archaeologists, led by Dr Damian Evans, have used groundbreaking laser imaging to map central Angkor and to help identify how unstable climate change damaged the city’s water system and contributed to its demise. Their groundbreaking work is the subject of a new SBS documentary.

Professor Roland Fletcher leads the Greater Angkor Project in Cambodia, a major international effort to map the great pre-industrial, dispersed, low-density city, covering an area of about 1,000 sq km.

The team’s discovery of roads, canals and urban landscape, which rewrites the story of Angkor, will be detailed in a two-part SBS One documentary, Angkor Wat’s Hidden Megacity.

“The main discoveries of the Greater Angkor Project have been to identify the huge extent of Angkor and its character as a giant low-density city, to show how its water management network functioned and to show that the demise of Angkor was related to extremely unstable climate change causing severe damage to the water network,” said Professor Fletcher, of the Sydney Department of Archaeology.

“The LiDAR survey has now also shown that central Angkor was arranged around a road grid and that the Kulen Hills to the north of Angkor were the location of an extensive low-density urban area in the early ninth century, just as Angkor was beginning to expand,” he said.

LiDAR, or light detection and ranging, is a remote sensing technology carried in a plane or helicopter. A light beam is aimed at the ground and maps everything in 3D from the tops of the trees to the ground, revealing the form of the ground surface under dense forest cover. This has been crucial for mapping central Angkor and the Kulen Hills which are still densely forested.

“The University of Sydney is a leader in urban archaeology,” says Professor Fletcher. “The particular significance of the Greater Angkor Project is that the university supports highly specialized and diverse research disciplines, producing results of global relevance, which relate to contemporary issues such as low-density urbanism and the risks of climate change.”

The 15-year project, supported by major Australian Research Council funding, demonstrates the value of international collaboration with institutions from Australia, Cambodia and France.

University of Sydney Department of Archaeology

Archaeology provides a vivid understanding of how the past informs our present through its focus on the material remains of the human past.

The Sydney Department of Archaeology is one of Australia’s leading and most dynamic departments of archaeology. The univeristy’s nine full-time staff offer a highly diverse programme of undergraduate teaching, postgraduate coursework and postgraduate research opportunities spanning many areas of archaeological inquiry and practice. The research funding success of staff projects and global connections are reflected in the broad scope of the department’s international fieldwork programmes across Australasia, Asia and Europe. An active community of professionals and interested members of the public in Sydney, along with frequent visitors from overseas, contribute to a lively programme of activities.

Archaeology has been taught at the University of Sydney in various forms since the early 1930s. The Sydney Department of Archaeology is part of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

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Monash Faculty of Arts study grants for 2015

Monash Faculty of Arts study grants available

There are currently five $8,000 AUD study grants available for full offer holders of a Monash Faculty of Arts master’s degree.

Study arts at Monash University

These grants are a one-off tuition discount applied to the first/second semester’s fee.

Monash University Admissions will automatically assess and issue the study grant with full offers that meet the noted requirements.

Monash University Faculty of Arts

As one of the largest Arts faculties in Australia, the Monash Faculty of Arts offers students an exciting selection of units from close to 60 areas of study. Innovative programs, leading academics and a strong international presence are just some of the reasons students choose to study arts at Monash University.

Over the past 50 years, the Monash Faculty of Arts has positioned itself as a faculty without borders. There are no limits on the faculty’s thinking and no boundaries on their knowledge. The faculty thrives on exploring new ways to see the world. This, combined with their extensive international connections and many areas of study, makes Monash Arts one of the most popular arts faculties in the world.

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Global youth reshape the boundaries says Monash sociologist

Cultural diversity is the norm for young people today: this may not always translate into easy living but neither does research support the common view of big ethnic groups clashing with each other.

Monash University sociologist Associate Professor Anita Harris, who is studying how young people deal with cultural diversity and manage conflict and change, said those in culturally diverse communities were shrugging off efforts to categorise them.

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Her research is part of a four-year international project that includes Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, as well as Johannesburg in South Africa, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Prato in Italy. All are rapidly changing areas of high cultural diversity.

“Typically young people in those environments are seen as a problem. There is a lot of worry about ethnic youth gangs, young people fighting, or failing to understand each other’s backgrounds or needs,” Associate Professor Harris said.

Many young people’s sense of identity and their affiliations were in flux, she said: a mash-up of social and political networks that stretch from the local to the global, and incorporate ethnicity, religion, gender and individual interests.

The Australian component of her research has drawn on interviews with more than 100 people aged 15 to 25, from a wide range of backgrounds including Indigenous and Anglo Australians and young people with Afghan, African, Asian, European, Maori, Middle Eastern and Pacific Islander heritage.

“For this generation it is normal to be surrounded by diversity and to interact with people of different backgrounds in a way that it is not for older people. That doesn’t mean that young people in these diverse communities always get along well, or that they embrace diversity, but they accept it as normal,” the  Monash University Associate Professor said.

She found that when there was conflict it was most commonly the result of sexual jealousy, male posturing, or access to limited shared resources. Combatants might “play the race card” in the heat of conflict, but race was rarely the cause of the conflict.

“Young people weren’t saying that they didn’t fight, but talked about conflict that had been resolved, things that were in the past, but which local media or politicians would not let go of,” she says. “And the people they fought with were also, at other times, friends. The popular notion that there are big ethnic groupings clashing with each other just didn’t bear out.”

Associate Professor Harris said that when it came to the question of national identity, or “being Australian.” many young people resisted a single allegiance. Hybrid cultural identities allowed them to feel part of many different groups simultaneously, a feeling enhanced by their ability to join the flow of global youth culture, via the internet.

Monash University Faculty of Arts

Innovative programs, leading academics and a strong international presence are just some of the reasons students choose to study arts at Monash University. They will also tell you that from day one their learning journey has challenged, surprised and ultimately inspired them.

Over the past 50 years, Monash Arts has positioned itself as a faculty without borders. There are no limits on the faculty’s thinking and no boundaries on their knowledge. The faculty thrives on exploring new ways to see the world. This, combined with their extensive international connections and close to 60 areas of study, makes Monash Arts one of the most popular arts faculties in the world.

The Monash Sociology program is one of the largest sociology programs in Australia and there are more than 80 sociologists working throughout Monash. Monash is currently ranked among the world’s best sociology departments for our research.

The focus of sociology is the study of human society. It involves the investigation of human groups, communities, institutions and organisations, and the networks of meaning and association which link individuals and groups to the broader social structure of society. Sociologists are also concerned with the analysis of policy, for example public health policy, and its impact on society and individuals. Sociologists have developed a range of research methods and techniques, and theoretical approaches, that can be applied to diverse issues and problems in social life. Coursework studies in sociology at Monash aim to provide the student with a broad range of relevant and widely applicable research skills and equip them for careers in social research, government, industry and the public service.

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OzTREKK Funny Friday

Three men—an editor, a photographer, and a journalist—were covering a political convention in Miami.

They decided to walk up and down the beach during their lunch hour. Halfway up the beach, they stumbled upon a lamp.

As they rubbed the lamp a genie appeared and said, “Normally, I would grant you three wishes, but since there are three of you, I will grant you each one wish.”

Find out more about Australian Journalism Degrees

The photographer went first. “I would like to spend the rest of my life living in a huge house in Saint Thomas with no money worries.” The genie granted him his wish and sent him on off to Saint Thomas.

The journalist went next. “I would like to spend the rest of my life living on a huge yacht cruising the Mediterranean with no money worries.” The genie granted him his wish and sent him off to the Mediterranean.

Last, but not least, it was the editor’s turn. “And what would your wish be?” asked the genie.

“I want them both back after lunch,” snapped the editor. “The deadline for tomorrow’s newspaper is in about ten hours.”

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There are many arts, journalism, and media programs available at Australian universities. Contact OzTREKK Admissions Officer Rachel Brady for more information about Australian journalism programs and other Australian arts degrees!

Email [email protected] or call 1-866-698-7355 (toll free in Canada). Learn how OzTREKK can help you to study in Australia!

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Read all about it: Australian journalism programs

With newspapers and magazines falling by the wayside, many people are wondering what’s to become of the future of media. Is traditional journalism dead? Are reporters going the way of the dinosaur? On the contrary. News still happens, and the medium is still the message. The internet age is changing daily, with world news being zinged across the globe in mere seconds. No profession is changing faster than journalism. Besides writing and reporting, there are a host of other career opportunities in the field of journalism:

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photography

radio

mobile journalism

television

law

teaching

advertising

public relations

foreign affairs…

According to Service Canada, the introduction of specialty channels, the development of specialized media, new methods of distributing information and the ever-growing demand for information has created numerous journalist, researcher and newscaster positions. In order for candidates to stand out, they must have excellent general knowledge, must perfect the language they write, and have a command of investigation, interviewing and writing techniques. In addition, journalists must be able to use major writing software, research on the Internet and use email; have great ability for analysis and synthesis; work effectively on a team; be independent and resourceful; be curious and thorough; demonstrate superior skills in communication and have a critical mind with intellectual honesty. In Canada, bilingualism is most often obligatory and knowledge of a third language is an asset. For radio and television positions, candidates have to be able to speak clearly and easily. Having a pleasing and interesting voice is a major asset.

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Here is a brief outline of OzTREKK’s Australian universities that offer postgraduate journalism programs:

University of Melbourne

Master of Journalism – 1.5 years

The University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism program is designed for students who are dedicated to pursuing careers in journalism and journalism-related fields, and for journalists and other professional practitioners working in the contemporary media industry who wish to update their skills, develop additional advanced skills and expand their education.

The program teaches the full range of journalism skills and critically engages with the professional conventions of journalism, with ethical and legal issues that impact on journalism, and with contemporary questions such as how new media technologies influence journalism practices.

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James Cook University

Master of Arts (Journalism) – 1.5 years

JCU’s Master of Arts in journalism program is aimed at journalism and non-journalism graduates who wish to gain practical journalism skills or gain an advanced level of professional skills such as those necessary for investigative journalism. The School of Arts and Social Sciences, Humanities Department, teaches this course. This school boasts award-winning teachers and a range of journalism-related research interests.

Monash University

Master of Journalism – 1.5 years

The Master of Journalism course at Monash University is both an entry-level qualification for a professional journalism career and a mid-career course for working journalists seeking to extend their expertise and refresh the intellectual basis of their practice. It has a national and international orientation designed to optimize the contribution graduates will make to their profession using a full range of media technologies.

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University of Queensland

Master of Journalism – 1.5 years

UQ’s Master of Journalism program is a professional, career-oriented program that caters to existing journalists who wish to upgrade or broaden their qualifications, and for graduates from other disciplines who wish to develop skills in news gathering, news writing and investigative reporting. On completion of the program, students can expect to have a deep understanding of journalistic theories and principles, and advanced skills in news investigating, writing, and reporting. In addition to practical instruction in journalism, students study theoretical and reflective courses and have the opportunity to apply academic research methods. Journalism graduates will find career opportunities in a wide range of print and broadcast media organizations, in Australia and overseas.

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There are many arts and media programs available at Australian universities. Contact OzTREKK Admissions Officer Rachel Brady for more information about Australian journalism programs and other Australian arts degrees!

Email [email protected] or call 1-866-698-7355 (toll free in Canada). Learn how OzTREKK can help you to study in Australia!