Subjects

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

The regulation of international trade is both a driver and a result of economic globalization. Under the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO), governments agree to liberalise trade, refrain from discriminating between like products from foreign countries, harmonise certain regulatory framewo...

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

This subject will introduce students to the theory and practice of writing on contemporary art and the moving image. The distinct professional genres in which art writing is practised will be analysed as will the recent history of art theory. The subject will survey innovations and developments t...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

This subject teaches doctoral students how to identify, analyse and synthesise published research findings that are of a high quality and relevant to their own research. Building upon this, it teaches students how to locate their own proposed research projects and questions within the broader res...

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

This introductory subject is designed to induct graduate students into the major issues and current thinking in web-based communication; to familiarize students with the major channels and platforms in use in this field; to develop an understanding of online genres, and teach essential writing an...

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

This subject will help students to become better and more skilled readers and writers of research in the fields of business and commerce. Students will build competencies in academic literacy that will be directed toward reading, writing, and publishing in both corporate and academic contexts. Th...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

Following on from ‘Major Script Project’ the previous semester, students undertake to write subsequent drafts of their script. Students are expected to submit as a minimum a completed second draft long form script; (most likely a feature film script) plus accompanying short documents, or televis...

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

This subject introduces the creative writing student to contemporary literary and cultural theories pertinent to reading and analysing texts produced for children, as well as stimulating a creative engagement with children’s literature. Through the study and production of picture books, novels, s...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

This subject will enable students to develop copywriting skills, including skills in persuasive writing, and the different generic requirements involved in writing for a range of media contexts and platforms. Case studies will be drawn from print, broadcast and online media and exercises will cov...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

In this practice-based subject the student writer undertakes a range of writing classes and exercises with the aim of developing techniques for the generation and structuring of original material for live performance; in working to a brief in diverse professional circumstances; and in evolving an...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

In this practice-based subject the student writer undertakes a range of writing classes and exercises with the aim of developing techniques for the generation and structuring of original material for live performance within a collaborative context; in working to a brief in diverse professional ci...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

In this subject students work to develop both solo and group work seeded in semester one. A portfolio of writing projects is created, including one major, full-length work and one minor, shorter work, in different forms. Students have the option to write in different forms (plays, postdramatic te...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

Students will be introduced to the imperatives and practices of writing for longer form television series. Students will be made familiar with contemporary TV program development practices and gain an understanding of essential development documents such as the TV series ‘Bible’. Students will ...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

This subject focuses the student on the task of writing from/after performance. Like all art, live performance is constituted in part by some elements and enigmas that are not easily expressed by means of language. The subject familiarises the student/artist with established conventions and tradi...

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

The subject focuses on the writing of texts for performance and exhibition. This includes scripts for theatre, film or TV, libretti for opera and musical theatre, texts for performance art, film and TV treatments and short stories, as well as visual texts for exhibition and text based installatio...

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

Increasingly and at all levels of the judicial hierarchy, written submissions are expected of, and are becoming an important tool for, advocates. Written advocacy also plays a role in a range of other legal documents, such as advices, affidavits and statements of facts. This subject aims to criti...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:August Year:2017Quotas apply

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is at the centre of ongoing debates concerning both fragmentation of public international law and persistent inequities between developed and developing countries. It also provides one of the most active systems in the world for resolving international disputes,...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

This subject will explore the transitory space occupied by the young adult, and the literature that is produced for teenagers. Students will critically engage with texts from this relatively new literary genre, and creatively navigate the space between childhood and adulthood. Exploring the histo...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:March Year:2017

This subject enables students to gain an understanding of the diversity of young people's cultural expressions. It explores engagement with popular and traditional culture, but focuses especially on the diverse ways in which different groups of young people appropriate, invent and re-invent cultu...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

This subject introduces and critiques the concepts ‘adolescence’ and ‘health’, and examines various frameworks for understanding the phenomenon of adolescent development. The diversity of adolescent experience is explored, and the impact of various socio-environmental contexts of adolescence on y...

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

This subject will provide a theoretical framework for understanding young people’s development and their health needs, health risk screening and assessment and brief intervention strategies for mild health risk behaviour. The linkage role of the practice nurse will also be covered including multi...