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- International Corporate GovernanceIBUS30002
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017
Corporate governance study has grown rapidly over the last decade fuelled by high profile corporate collapses such as Enron, HIH and the Lehman Brothers. The knowledge of corporate governance has become central to companies, directors, shareholders, employees, other stakeholders, and the wider bu...
Not available in 2017
View details - International FinanceFNCE30003
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
Topics include concepts, operation and terminology of foreign exchange markets; international investment decision making; sources of and approaches to dealing with foreign exchange exposure; political risk; and international funding mechanisms and decision making in multinational business organis...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Qi Zeng Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours One 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- International Gender PoliticsPOLS30015
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
This subject will look at issues of gender and sexuality in an international context. It will cover war and militarism and their effect on women, the international division of labour, the effects of religious fundamentalisms, the politics of population and reproductive technologies, international...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Lauren Rosewarne Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 contact hours per semester. One x 2-hour lecture and one x 1-hour tutorial per week for 10 weeks. The lecture and tutorial programs are staggered and cover the 12 weeks of semester. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
- International Human Resource ManagementMGMT30004
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
Globalisation challenges managers and employees to grapple with complex issues as they seek to gain competitiveness. This subject will provide an examination of international human resource management (HRM), particularly firm-level human resource strategies in the international competitive enviro...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Sachiko Yamao Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- International PoliticsINTS10001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
This subject provides students with an introduction to the actors, institutions, dynamics and key debates that make up contemporary international politics. It equips students to 'go behind the news' of world affairs and understand the deeper structural and political changes and challenges confron...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinators Daniel McCarthy and Robyn Eckersley Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 35 Contact Hours: 2 x one hour lectures and 1 x one hour tutorial per week for 12 weeks. No tutorials in Week 1. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- International Relations: Key QuestionsPOLS20025
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
This subject explores key questions in international relations, beginning with the basic questions of why the world is comprised of states and why they enjoy a monopoly on legitimate violence, and then expanding through a range of questions such as whether cultural identities are responsible for ...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Evgeny Postnikov Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 contact hours:. 2 x one hour lectures and 1 x one hour tutorial per week. The lecture and tutorial programs are staggered and cover the 12 weeks of semester. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- International TradeECON40003
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
Topics include determinants of the patterns of trade and the gains from trade; the analytics of the instruments of trade policy under different market structures; the political economy of trade policy; the economics of preferential trade agreements; and the role of the World Trade Organisation.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Phillip McCalman Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Three hours of lectures per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- International Trade PolicyECON30001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
This subject will cover the determinants, patterns and effects of international trade within a general equilibrium framework, where the interrelationships amongst product and factor markets in an economy are explicitly taken into consideration. It deals with how trade is affected by government po...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Reshad Ahsan Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours An average of three hours per week of seminars/lectures/tutorials Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
- Internet CommunicationMECM20003
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
This subject introduces students to practical techniques underpinning effective communication for the internet. Students participate in lab-based workshops in researching, producing and evaluating various forms of digital communication, with the aim of realizing a specific online project during t...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Bjorn Nansen Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 24 hours: 1x1-hour lecture and 1x1.5-hour tutorial, taught weekly Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
Email: nansenb@unimelb.edu.au
- Internet Meets SocietyUNIB10005
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
The Internet is now a familiar part of everyday life. But what exactly is the Internet? What is it used for and how is it implicated in the transformation of society, culture, community and our daily lives? This subject examines these and other critical questions in exploring the complex interpla...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Michael Arnold Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 40 hours - 2 x 1 hour lectures per week and 1 x 1 hour tutorial per week. plus another 4 x 1 hour practical sessions per semester (OPTIONAL) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
Email: mvarnold@unimelb.edu.au
- Interpreting the Ancient WorldANCW30017
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
Ancient World Studies encourages a broad approach to the interpretation of the past, integrating both texts and material remains to understand past cultures, thinking, and behaviour. These remains consist of fragmentary archaeological remains, including the ordinary debris of daily life, luxury i...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator James Chong-Gossard Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 29 hours - 1 x 1.5-hour lecture per week for 12 weeks and 11 x 1 hour tutorials scheduled across the semester Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- In the Heart of the Loire ValleyFREN20020
Undergraduate subject Offered:Winter Term Year:2017Quotas apply
This intensive three week online subject will focus on one of the most creative times of French history, albeit one of the most turbulent, the Renaissance. With a series of lectures and detailed virtual site visits, this subject will examine some of the most striking examples of French Renaissanc...
- Winter Term - Off Campus
Mode of delivery Off Campus Contact hours 14 hours: 2 x 1-hour online lectures and 12-hours of online tutorials over three weeks. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 June 2017 to 14 July 2017 Last self-enrol date 29 June 2017 Census date 7 July 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 21 July 2017 Assessment period ends 31 July 2017 Winter Term contact information
- In the Heart of the Loire ValleyFREN30018
Undergraduate subject Offered:Winter Term Year:2017Quotas apply
This intensive three week online subject will focus on one of the most creative times of French history, albeit one of the most turbulent, the Renaissance. With a series of lectures and detailed virtual site visits, this subject will examine some of the most striking examples of French Renaissanc...
- Winter Term - Off Campus
Mode of delivery Off Campus Contact hours 14 hours: 2 x 1 hour online lectures and 12 hours of online tutorials over three weeks. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 June 2017 to 14 July 2017 Last self-enrol date 29 June 2017 Census date 7 July 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 21 July 2017 Assessment period ends 31 July 2017 Winter Term contact information
- Intimate Acts: Inside The 'Fourth Wall'MUSI20169
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
The Oxford Dictionary defines the fourth wall as ‘the space which separates a performer…from an audience …a conceptual barrier between any fictional work and its readers or viewers’. In this subject we examine and explore the creation of theatre in which the performer engages in a more intimate r...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Jayde Kirchert Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 (6 x I hr lecture + 2 hours tutorial; 6 x 3 hours workshops) Total time commitment 120 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
Jayde Kirchert
- Introduction to AccountingACCT10004
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
This subject provides students with an introduction to the nature of accounting and its role in providing information for business decision making. Students will gain an overview of key financial and managerial accounting concepts and processes including the recording of business transactions, an...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Karen Edwards Mode of delivery On Campus (Dookie) Contact hours 36 hours: 24 hours of lectures and 12 hours of tutorials Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- Introduction to Actuarial StudiesACTL10001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
This subject is an introduction to compound interest functions and operations; valuation of annuities, bonds and loans; demography, and factors affecting population growth and size; construction and use of the life table; applications of these in life insurance; types of insurance products; the r...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Shuanming Li Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- Introduction to Architectural DesignABPL30065
Undergraduate subject Offered:November Year:2017
This subject is not available except to enabling students in E-ABP (Enabling Course - Architecture, Building & Planning) This foundation studio offers an introduction to both architectural and spatial design and to the specific pedagogical and cognitive attributes of studio teaching. The s...
- November
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 140 hours Teaching period 8 November 2017 to 21 November 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 November 2017 Census date 13 November 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 19 November 2017 Assessment period ends 24 November 2017
- Introduction to BiomechanicsBMEN30005
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
AIMS The main aim of this course is to introduce students to the basic concepts of the kinematics and dynamics of human motion and the architectural features and mechanical properties of musculoskeletal tissue. Tissue function is then illustrated in the context of normal and pathological movement...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Marcus Pandy Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours of lectures; 12 hours of tutorials; 12 hours of workshops Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
Email: pandym@unimelb.edu.au
- Introduction To Biomedical ResearchBIOM40001
Undergraduate subject Offered:February Year:2017
This subject uses a structured approach to introduce students to processes and strategies at the core of modern biomedical research. In a series of 10 x 2hr tutorials, students are guided through the need for – and tools of – testable hypothesis formulation, data management and evaluation, data p...
- February
Principal coordinator Rene Koopman Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 13 February 2017 to 24 February 2017 Last self-enrol date 15 February 2017 Census date 17 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 12 May 2017 Assessment period ends 29 June 2017 February contact information
Subject Coordinator:
Dr Michael Lew
michaell@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Rene Koopman
rkoopman@unimelb.edu.auAdministrative Coordination:
- Introduction to Climate ChangeUNIB10007
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
This subject is an introduction to the major topics in climate change, including the scientific basis of the greenhouse effect, the history of Earth’s climate, energy options, economics and public policy, the effect of climate change on food, water and health, and the national and international l...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Rachel Webster Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 Lectures (two per week); 12 hours tutorials (one per week); additional enrichment activities including expert panel discussions, videos etc, up to a total of 8 hours. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
Email: r.webster@unimelb.edu.au