UWA Extension

Mailing Lists/ Newsletters/ Mail Chimp

Mailing Lists/ Newsletters/ Mail Chimp Your small business, not-for-profit or community organisation probably needs an email list and a newsletter to really spread the word about the work you’re doing. This workshop will introduce you to using the Mailchimp platform (free for up to 2,000 subscribers) to create a mailing list database, learn the legalities of this and hear tips on how to encourage more people to sign up to your list. It will also cover the mechanics of sending email... [More]

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Plan Your 2019 Online Marketing

Plan Your 2019 Online Marketing For creatives, bloggers, small business owners and more: get a head start for your social media and blogging plans for 2019 with this half-day workshop. Whether you use Facebook, Instagram, blogging, other platforms or a combination, this workshop will help you analyse how you’ve been doing and make some awesome plans for the future. We will start with a review of 2018 and set some goals for 2019, then talk about how best to use a content calendar to... [More]

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Introduction to Australian Art

Week 1 Introduction: Australian Art and its various stories. Australian Colours and Tonal Highlights: while the Heidelberg School opened our eyes to the colours of Australia, other artists created masterpieces in strong tonal contrasts. Modernism and the Australian Response: artists such as Grace-Cossington Smith and Margaret Preston use modernism to their own artistic ends and in so doing challenged the older generation’s more heroic view of Australia Week 2 School Fights:... [More]

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The Gut Brain Connection: How Gut Health Affects Wellbeing

Did you know we are essentially more bacteria than human? – and the microbes in our guts are responsible for 90% of the messaging to our brain rather than brain to gut! Science is beginning to catch up to the crucial impact our gut microbes have on our digestion, overall health and mental well being. In the last few years huge advancements in technology used to measure and detect the microbes that live on and in us has allowed researchers to map and track the diversity and the... [More]

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Spanish II

Finally you’ve booked your Latino adventure and you’ve downloaded the Espanol app. How do you answer those beautiful brown eyes with a flat phone battery? Better sign up to improve your basic Spanish today. This course continues on from Beginners; however if you have basic spoken and written Spanish, this course may suit you. OBJECTIVES At the end of this course students will speak enough Spanish to: Talk about themselves, their likes and dislikes, their future hopes Make holiday... [More]

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Philosophy Feast Series - Abortion

This very popular series by Dr Nin Kirkham, UWA Chair of Philosophy, encourages healthy conversation and debate over delicious tasting platters and wine! This series is Abortion. Conflict over the legal and ethical status of abortion has been a divisive part of the American political landscape since well before Roe vs Wade, but recently debate over abortion has arisen again in Australia. In this session, we will discuss the ethical arguments for and against the permissibility of... [More]

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Start to Podcast

Podcasting is really coming of age: with well over half a million podcasts now in existence and an ever-growing audience of podcast listeners who love to listen while driving, commuting or exercising, there’s never been a better time to consider starting your own podcast! If you have been pondering the podcast idea – even if you’re really not sure yet what you would podcast about, but have the inkling that it might be useful and fun – then come along to flesh out an idea and learn... [More]

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Sleep your way to better health

Insufficient sleep is known to have detrimental impacts on overall health, yet the majority of the Australian population are depriving themselves of adequate sleep on a nightly basis. If you’d like to learn more about why we sleep and how it helps keep us healthy then you should attend this session with Dr Jen Walsh. You will learn about the science of sleep, why it is sometimes difficult to sleep and how inadequate quantity or quality sleep is bad for your health. Common sleep... [More]

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Creative Photography - learning how to see

There are numerous courses available that show people how to use a camera and that is a pre-requisite skill for all photographers. There are very few courses available that show people how to ‘see’ in the field and then realise their vision after the image is captured and yet, that is the most valuable skill a photographer needs to be creative and to develop their own unique style. Becoming ‘visually literate’, learning to see beyond what’s there and overcoming our visual biases... [More]

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Creative Photography - master image composition

Looking through your camera’s viewfinder and snapping what is in front of you is easy once you have mastered the technicalities of photography, but knowing how to effectively compose an image in the field is a skill that does not come naturally. The good news is that while photographic vision may not be an inherent ability, it is a skill that can be developed through studying visual principles and developing a visual vocabulary. Creative composition is one of the most important... [More]

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