Centre for Continuing Education

You probably already know a little of Facebook, Twitter and social bookmarking. In this one-day course you’ll get a real taste of the marketing power of the new Social Media campaigns: creating managing and distributing social content through online communities. We’ll look at case studies of customers engaging with companies on social media sites and evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of various social media tools. An interesting day spent exploring a dynamic and challenging area. ... [More]

Sydney is Australia’s premier city for exploring our colonial heritage. In this series of four sessions we will look at some aspects of Sydney’s colonial history and explore the same on foot. Colonial sites include, the Rocks, Macquarie St, the Royal Botanic Gardens and the Historic South Head Peninsula. We will conclude with a group luncheon at the Vaucluse Tea Rooms. The first meeting will take place at the University of Sydney, and the following two sessions will begin at the Tow... [More]

Driving is a complex task integrating physical, cognitive, visual and psychosocial skills in a rapidly changing environment. Any loss of function in these areas as a result of a medical condition, disability, accident or the ageing process may impact a person’s ability to drive safely. Identifying ‘at risk’ drivers is a public health and safety issue and presents a challenge for licensing authorities and medical practitioners. In Australia and many other countries occupational thera... [More]

Escalate your career by learning how to extract and change data in relational databases with SQL (Structured Query Language) that traverses multiple tables with Select, Insert, Update and Delete statements, functions and scripts. SQL is a current hot skill, valued by employers. Microsoft SQL Server is used for hands on exercises during this course. However, the content of the course is kept as close as possible to standard SQL. (Please note, there will be no instruction on how relat... [More]

This course is designed specifically for UPC students and provides an introduction to those critical skills required to learn more effectively and enhance performance in assessment activities. It complements and improves learning in each chosen area of study. All UPC students are required to enrol in this course. It is run over three consecutive weeks in three hour sessions. Each session begins with a lecture and then smaller breakout tutorials where students work with tutors to pra... [More]

Whether you’re introducing a new product or service, implementing the latest initiative or even managing a corporate event, this introductory course will provide you with the skills you need to plan and manage successfully. Using a realistic case study, you’ll learn how to balance time, cost, quality and scope, and work through the stages of project initiation, planning, scheduling and reporting. Course Content Day 1 Introduction Course approach, PM processes, stages, CSFs – typical... [More]

Learn how to use a combination of Excel and VBA to improve your productivity, adding power and flexibility to spreadsheets by creating user-defined functions. Basic knowledge of Excel is assumed but no programming knowledge is required. Course Content Recorded Macros: Understanding excel macros; Setting macro security; Saving a document as macro enabled; Recording a simple macro; Running a recorded macro; Relative cell references; Running a macro with relative references; Viewing a ... [More]

Experience the excitement of viewing six surprise films before their commercial release, followed by an active discussion led by Andrew L Urban, creator and host of the former SBS series Front Up and former host of World Movies. You will explore the background of each film, analysing the themes and cinematic elements, whenever possible with a special guest from the production or relevant to it. Course Content Participants will experience a range of cinematic styles and genres, explo... [More]

David Stratton’s History of World Cinema course explores in great detail the development and trends of world cinema in chronological order. These 12 sessions, each running for three hours and each containing the screening of a feature film in full, will explore the years 1940-1941 and will consider not only the films made in Hollywood during this period but also films made in wartime Britain and other parts of the world, and not only feature films but newsreels, documentaries and an... [More]

If you need to create product training materials; or would like to set up an online training for your professional service; or you are involved in teaching at any level then this workshop is ideal for you. This introduction course looks at ways of creating successful online training material as learning objects such as videos, podcasts, presentations then linking them to a platform such as an LMS, Blog or a CMS. The course will include hands on exercises using a pre-installed LMS ap... [More]