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TM884 Chemistry in Everyday Life
3 hourspw week Hawthorn Prerequisites: Nil
A subject in the New Opportunities for Women course.
Content
This subject is made up of the following modules:
nature of matter
atomic structure and bonding
chemical reactions and equations
basic chemical calculations
TM885 Chemistry for Engineering and Science
5 hoursper week Hawthorn Prerequisites: Nil
A subject in the New Opportunities for Women course.
Content
This subject is made up of the following modules:
solutions and reactions in solutions
gases and their properties
oxidation and reduction reactions
carbon and carbon compounds
reaction rates and equilibrium
Students familiar with these principles could confidently
enrol in VCE Chemistry, TAFE certificate courses
involving further studies in Chemistry, nursing or health
science courses.
TM886 Understanding Physics
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisites: Nil
A subject in the New Opportunities for Women course.
Content
This subject is made up of the following modules:
introduction, units and measurement
working with graphs, vectors and scalars
energy and energy sources
matter, temperature and heat
forces and motion
waves - sound waves - light
m electrostatics and electricity
TM887 Physics for Engineering and Science
5 hourspw week Hawthorn Prerequisites: Nil
A subject in the New Opportunities for Women course.
Content
This subject is made up of the following modules:
forces about us
our energy resources
heating and cooling
waves, sound and light
electricity and electronics
TM888 lntroduction to Microcomputing
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisites: Nil
A subject in the New Opportunities for Women course.
Content
This subject is made up of the following modules:
introduction to computing systems
introduction to operating environments
introduction to word ~rocessing
introduction to database management systems
introduction to spreadsheets
TM890 Skills For Science
3 hoursper week Hawthorn Prerequisites: Nil
A subject in the New Opportunities for Women course.
Content
This subject is made up of the following modules:
the development of scientific thinking in western
culture
study skills
scientific methodology
careers in science
TQOOl Applied International Finance
and Insurance
Total hours 25.5 Hawthorn
A subject in the Associate Diploma of Business:
International Trade.
Content
This subject will provide training in all financial
components of international trade transactions on short,
medium or long payment terms. This subject examines
these payment methods and their financing and includes
methods of protection against foreign exchange
movements, non-payment, product loss, damage or liability
plus counter-trade and contract guarantees (bid
performance bonds).
TQ002 Customs Practice
Total hours 51 Hawthorn
A subject in the Associate Diploma of Business:
International Trade.
Content
Prospective international traders will be provided
with training in the nature, purpose and usage of
Australian and international customs practice, procedures
and regulations.
TQ003 lntroduction to Transport Systems
Total hours 34 Hawthorn
A subject in the Associate Diploma of Business:
International Trade.
Content
The student will be ~rovided with a sound introduction
to various and differing types of transport systems that
are used as part of the trading processes.
TQ004 International Data and
Documentation Production
Total hours 51 Hawthorn
A subject in the Associate Diploma of Business:
International Trade.
Content
The student will be provided with the training to
recognise the data needed for international trade, the
parties who require it, the purpose for which it is used,
plus the sources and methods for its production. It also
seeks to introduce students to the increasingly important
role of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).
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