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  • Affective PublicsCULS90009

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:July Year:2017

    What theoretical and conceptual frameworks emerge when we stage conversations between the scholarship on publics and public cultures and the so-called “affective turn” in the social sciences and humanities? How do affective publics implicate discourses of belonging, citizenship, and minoritarian ...

  • A First Course In Statistical LearningMAST90104

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    Supervised statistical learning is based on the widely used linear models that model a response as a linear combination of explanatory variables. Initially this subject develops an elegant unified theory for a quantitative response that includes the estimation of model parameters, hypothesis test...

  • Ageing Health & Human ServicesPOPH90267

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Term 1 Year:2017

    This course explores the interface of policy and practice in the delivery of aged care services. The responses to policy shifts in aged care over time will be explored. The course will then focus on the present day impact of health care, mental health, income security, housing, and employment, ed...

  • Ageing in Low & Middle Income CountriesPOPH90269

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017

    Low and middle-income nations generally are rapidly transitioning epidemiologically to longer life expectancies and greater proportions of elderly among populations. In these settings, within society and the family, the aged commonly hold high regard and status. At the same time, as people live l...

  • Ageing in SocietyPOPH90256

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Term 1 Year:2017

    This subject aims to offer students a critical examination of the ways in which ageing is socially constructed. Students will learn about ageing from a range of perspectives, including life course, bio-medical, gender, cross cultural, consumer, historical and self-reflection. The subject will foc...

  • Ageing, Society And Social PolicySOCI90006

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:March Year:2017

    This subject offers an opportunity to critically consider the place of older adults in contemporary societies and in social policy. We will examine together how adulthood, from midlife on into deep old age, is socially constructed and the ways in which particular aspects of adult ageing are empha...

  • Agribusiness Management EconomicsAGRI90012

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    An understanding of the applications of managerial economic theory to solving real world problems is integral to sound business decision-making. Through this subject students will gain an understanding of and ability to apply, key management economic concepts and principles. They will also experi...

  • Agricultural and Resource EconomicsAGRI90074

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    This subject covers the economic analysis of agricultural and natural resource use, and social benefit cost analysis of using and conserving natural resources.

  • Agronomy & Cropping SystemsAGRI90058

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    This subject will discuss material and energy balances under a range of modern Australian cropping systems as well as examples from Asian and European farming systems. The course will focus on the agronomic concepts essential to understand the impact of management on production and product qualit...

  • AI Planning for AutonomyCOMP90054

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    AIMS The key focus of this subject is the foundations of automated planning and reasoning and their real-world applications. Automated planning is the AI approach to developing agents that make their own decisions and is becoming increasingly popular. Autonomous agents are active entities that p...

  • Algebraic GeometryMAST90097

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017

    This course is an introduction to algebraic geometry. Algebraic geometry is the study of zero sets of polynomials. It exploits the interplay between rings of functions and the underlying geometric objects on which they are defined. It is a fundamental tool in may areas of mathematics, including n...

  • Algebraic TopologyMAST90023

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017

    This subject studies topological spaces and continuous maps between them. It demonstrates the power of topological methods in dealing with problems involving shape and position of objects and continuous mappings, and shows how topology can be applied to many areas, including geometry, analysis, g...

  • Algorithms and ComplexityCOMP90038

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2017

    AIMS The aim of this subject is for students to develop familiarity and competence in assessing and designing computer programs for computational efficiency. Although computers manipulate data very quickly, to solve large-scale problems, we must design strategies so that the calculations combine...

  • Algorithms for Functional GenomicsCOMP90014

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    AIMS Technological advances in obtaining high throughput data from functioning cells have stimulated the development of new computational approaches to functional genomics and systems biology. This subject covers the theory and practice of the computational techniques used in genomics analysis, w...

  • Alternative Dispute ResolutionLAWS70018

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:November Year:2017Quotas apply

    Dispute resolution and problem-solving lie at the core of modern professional life for lawyers, business people and anyone who works with more than one other person. This subject provides an overview of the range of dispute resolution techniques used internationally. This subject differentiates t...

  • American Constitutional History & RightsLAWS90061

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017Quotas apply

    This intensive course will introduce Australian students to the U.S. Constitution and constitutional rights from a historical perspective. The goal will be an understanding of constitution making and amending in the U.S. context, showing how American constitutional law both is impacted by and imp...

  • AMiLA Workshop: Urban ResilienceABPL90379

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017Quotas apply

    The City of Melbourne is developing a series of strategies to address the serious impacts of climate change and to provide tactics for adaptation and the fashioning of a resilient urban environment. In particular, the City has advanced three key actions or design initiatives that focus on: Vegeta...

  • AMSI Summer SchoolMAST90079

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Summer Term Year:2017

    The AMSI Summer School is a four-week program hosted at RMIT by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. This subject will give students the opportunity to attend subjects taught by eminent lecturers from around Australia, creating an opportunity to study areas of mathematical sciences and...

  • Analysing Energy SystemsENGR90029

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    AIMS This subject forms one of the core units in the Masters of Energy Systems and the overall aims are to introduce the students to the tools and skills needed to analyse energy systems. To accomplish this overall aim, the subject introduces material and energy balances used in energy system ca...

  • Analysing NetworksARTS90016

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:May Year:2017

    Networks come in many shapes and sizes, from social media linking friends together virtually, to transnational agreements between governments. Networks all consist of a set of nodes (people, organizations, governments) that are connected by a set of ties (formal and informal relationships of diff...