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- Writing for ScreenCWRI20009
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
In this subject students will be introduced to the history of screenwriting and the principles of the craft of writing scripts for screen. Students will read and respond to a variety of scripts written for screen. Students will also be required to write a short original screenplay. This subject i...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Radha O'Meara Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 34 hours: A 2 hour lecture weekly, for first five weeks of semester only and a 2 hour workshop per week (max 15 students per workshop), 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
- Writing for the MediaMECM40011
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
This subject provides students with the skills to write at an advanced journalistic level. Lectures will present students with techniques that will enhance skills in interviewing, news judgement, narrative technique, researching, framing ideas, developing contacts and using off the record informa...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Jay Thompson Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 36 hours: a 1-hr lecture and a 2-hr tutorial per week 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
- Writing for the Youth Screen MarketFLTV20018
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
This subject introduces students to the world of writing screen product for children, tweens and young teenagers with a focus on youth television. Through a series of workshops, presentations and screenings, students will gain insight into what makes successful kid’s programming and will develop ...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Annabelle Murphy Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 41 hours 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
Faculty of the VCA & MCM Student Centre
Ground Floor, Elisabeth Murdoch Building (Bldg 860)
Southbank Campus
234 St Kilda Road, Southbank, 3006
Enquiries
Phone: 13 MELB (13 6352)
Email: 13MELB@unimelb.edu.au
- Writing JournalismMECM30010
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
This subject teaches the craft of writing hard and soft news stories for a range of digital and print mass media news publications. With an emphasis on news writing, students learn what news is and how (and why) news priorities and story treatment may differ between print, broadcast and online. T...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Louisa Lim Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: a 1-hour lecture and a 1.5-hour tutorial per week. 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
- Writing Radical PerformanceCWRI30015
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
This subject engages with the theoretical, practical and technical aspects of script writing for performance. Through a rigorous examination of the work of key artists and writing from the 1960s onwards, students will devise concepts for radical performance and enhance their scriptwriting practic...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Eddie Paterson Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: a 1-hour lecture and a 1 hour tutorial for weeks 1-6 and a 2.5 hour workshop for weeks 7-12. 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
- Young People, Crime and JusticeCRIM30011
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
This subject charts the experiences that young people have as subjects and resistors of social control, victims of crime and young offenders. These experiences are contextualised by an appreciation of youth crime and justice as products of historical, theoretical and political junctures which hav...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Diana Johns Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 contact hours: 1 x 1.5 hour lecture and 1 x 1 hour tutorial per week for 12 weeks. 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
- Youth and Popular CultureEDUC30067
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
This subject explores how children and young people construct and reconstruct their sense of selves against the backdrop of pervasive contemporary popular cultures. It examines contrasting approaches to identity (e.g. developmental, sociological, feminist, post-structuralist) and contemporary deb...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Hernan Cuervo Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 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
- Youth Arts: Expressing Cultural IdentityEDUC20062
Undergraduate subject Offered:July Year:2017
This subject will explore how young people create their social and personal identities through the arts (including visual and performing arts), and use these processes to relate to peers and society. This subject is taught in intensive mode with a combination of tutorials and cultural site visits...
- July
Principal coordinator Peter Anstee Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 10 July 2017 Teaching period 18 July 2017 to 21 July 2017 Last self-enrol date 11 July 2017 Census date 4 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 15 September 2017 Assessment period ends 20 October 2017 July contact information
- Youth Leading ChangeEDUC20075
Undergraduate subject Offered:July Year:2017
This subject explores young people as change-makers and problem-solvers against a backdrop of social transformation in Australia and globally. It provides students with thinking tools for addressing local and global problems in everyday life and skills for leadership. The subject focuses particul...
- July
Principal coordinator Hernan Cuervo Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 32 (4 days 9 to 5 during winter break) Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 26 June 2017 Teaching period 17 July 2017 to 21 July 2017 Last self-enrol date 30 June 2017 Census date 17 July 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 4 August 2017 Assessment period ends 21 August 2017 July contact information