Welcome Chris! Oh, and commiserations on your imminent Ashes series loss...
Same thing happened to me at UTS - we had to complete 4 of 8 tasks (we got to choose which ones to do) and the 8th was a LabVIEW task. I asked the lecturer about it, and he said that it hadn't be written yet, and was just in there as a placeholder for the next semester - I asked if I could write a task and then complete it - and, you guessed it, he agreed. My task is now part of the ciriculum (or, at least, it was last time I looked...)