Flinders University Courses

Develop your skills and knowledge in a specialist degree that offers unique global insights and prepares you for employment in a diverse and rapidly evolving industry. This degree covers contemporary issues in tourism and event development and planning, and investigates the approaches required to best respond to the opportunities and challenges of the global tourism and events industries, such as climate change and the implications of rapid tourism growth both domestically and internationally.

Gain a broad foundation in geography, in a degree offering a powerful mix of interdisciplinary skills to solve a range of real-world problems. Investigate the dynamic relationships between humans, their cultures and environments, and cover a range of contemporary issues including social and environmental justice, and the efficient, equitable and sustainable use of resources.

Offered in collaboration with TAFE SA*, this industry-focused degree combines practical skills with theoretical knowledge for an excellent outcome. You will learn about garment construction, patternmaking, drawing and design as well as academic and professional communication and marketing.

Qualify to practise as an environmental health officer and develop the knowledge required to promote community understanding of environmental health issues. The degree prepares you to integrate the many disciplines that make up environmental health, including public health, to improve the health of communities.

Examine how natural processes and their changes impact human society, and how human activities interact with and modify environments. This multidisciplinary degree focuses on understanding, monitoring and improving the environment. Expand your knowledge, obtain skills, and learn critical thinking about environmental issues and problems.

Combine studies across all areas of business practice, including planning, decision-making, e-business, marketing, and HR and strategic management. As business managers face new challenges every day, the practical approach embedded in this degree will prepare you well for your career as a business professional who can build and support high-performing teams. A Bachelor of Business (Management) (Online) is also available.

Delve into the science of water movement in the atmosphere, surface systems and aquifers. The degree includes cross-disciplinary aspects such as water quality, ecological water requirements, field and computer-based methods of investigation, and management practices. Solve hydrological problems and real-world issues associated with people and the environment.

Get prepared to work with older people and to develop new opportunities within ageing societies across the globe. The degree provides you with foundation skills in ageing studies and covers a broad spectrum of knowledge such as experience of ageing, psychological wellbeing and physical activity, along with areas such as elder abuse and neglect, popular culture and ageing, and dementia.

Focused on uncovering long-buried secrets that deepen our understanding of how life on Earth evolved, this degree provides you with in-depth knowledge and appreciation of the Australian fossil record in addition to a broad-based foundation in palaeontology and allied disciplines. You will also will develop a range of transferable research, analytical and communication skills.

Gain a strong foundation in social policy and how public policy is developed, implemented, reviewed and reformed. The degree teaches you the concepts central to the structure and functioning of a just society, and helps you develop the skills to research and analyse social issues and assess proposals for social change.

Gain a broad-based foundation in chemistry and acquire extensive knowledge in the area. You will learn to understand and apply chemical principles to solve problems, master lab techniques and equipment, undertake chemistry research, communicate your findings, and develop an understanding of the multidisciplinary nature of chemistry and its role in society.

Get a strong foundation in the systematic development of electrical systems, such as renewable power generation and motors. The degree looks to the future with an emphasis on renewable energy systems and electrical drive systems.