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  • Technical Art History and FraudUNIB20004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017

    Art fraud is a serious problem for Australia's art market; it involves organized crime, damage to artists' reputations and the insertion of false documents into the historical record. This subject introduces the cross-disciplinary research methodologies involved in investigating works of art with...

  • Techniques for Investigation of DiseasePATH30002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017Quotas apply

      Techniques for Investigation of Disease aims to develop a sound practical and theoretical understanding of the scientific investigation of disease by the examination of key experimental techniques in the context of particular diseases. Students will undertake macroscopic and microscopic examin...

  • Techniques in ImmunologyMIIM30015

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017Quotas apply

    This subject provides an overview of: (i) methods used to dissect and characterise the complex immune defences against microbial infections (ii) methods used to analyse the development and function of the immune system in health and disease (ii) strategies used to construct and present scienti...

  • Techniques in MicrobiologyMIIM30016

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017Quotas apply

    This subject provides an overview of: (i) methods used to identify and characterise infectious microbial agents; (ii) methods for studying the replication, gene function and evolution of pathogenic microbes and the interactions between infectious agents and their mammalian hosts; (iii) strateg...

  • Techniques in Molecular ScienceBCMB20005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2017Quotas apply

    This is a subject suitable for students taking life science and biomedical subjects. It offers an introduction to the techniques used in many areas of molecular science. Students taking the course will develop practical skills in the laboratory and an understanding of the techniques used in bioc...

  • Techniques in Operations ResearchMAST30013

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    This subject introduces some major techniques and algorithms for solving nonlinear optimisation problems. Unconstrained and constrained systems will be considered, for both convex and non-convex problems. The methods covered include: interval search techniques, Newton and quasi-Newton methods, pe...

  • Technology & Contemporary LifeHPSC20009

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    In this subject students will study a variety of contemporary and future technologies, and will examine the implications of these technologies for society, and for daily life. Topics covered include techno-utopian and dystopian visions; ethics and biomedical technologies; cybernetics, cyberspace,...

  • Tectonics & GeodynamicsGEOL30002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    This subject covers geological processes involved in large-scale tectonics and introduces advanced topics in structural and metamorphic geology. The subject will begin with a one-week pre-semester field trip to East Gippsland, where students will develop their geological mapping and structural an...

  • Television, Lifestyle & Consumer CultureCULS20014

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    What is lifestyle? When and how did the concept develop, and what functions does it serve in consumer culture today? How is it represented and constructed through television? How does it relate to parallel concepts like taste, style and identity? This subject frames lifestyle as the site where co...

  • Terrorism: Shifting ParadigmsSOCI20007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    This subject examines the various dimensions of terrorism and its manifestations. This includes the nation state's capacity to authorise and to create the conditions for the practices known as terrorism. In this subject we interrogate the role of the nation state and the rhetoric/s of anti-terror...

  • Textual RevelationsAIND40005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    This subject is premised on the idea that certain key texts provide the means to gain insights and understanding of Aboriginal social realities and individual selves, in a manner qualitatively different to more empirically focused studies. Through deep and intensive readings, informed by appropri...

  • The Actors ProcessTHTR10007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Winter Term Year:2017Quotas apply

    The focus of this subject is on the actor’s process. Areas covered will include text analysis and the revelation of its interior world through action and improvisation. Students will learn to work spontaneously and to use this spontaneity in the theatrical context. The interface between acting sk...

  • The Age of Alexander the GreatANCW30016

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    The aim of this subject is to introduce students to the archaeology and ancient history of the Mediterranean from the end of the Peloponnesian Wars between Athens and Sparta in 404 BC to the incorporation of Egypt in the Roman Empire after the death of Cleopatra (30 BC). From an overview of how P...

  • The Age of Golden Ages: Art in EuropeAHIS30003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    This subject interrogates painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy, France, Spain and the Netherlands in the 17th century. It will cover the art of Caravaggio, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Diego Velàzquez, and Nicolas Poussin, among many others. This subject a...

  • The Artist's BodyAHIS40007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017

    This subject focuses on contemporary artists' redefinitions of the body and work and, by extension, redefinitions of the artist and the artwork. Students will be introduced to contemporary theories of the body, artistic identity, and artistic authorship through an analysis of changing uses of the...

  • The Artist's ToolboxTHTR20023

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term, July Year:2017

    This subject introduces the ‘nuts and bolts’ of Arts Management: a practical exploration into the key disciplines required to make a creative idea into a reality. It aims to ‘lift the veil’ of the industry to reveal the core systems common in the plans of implementation and to de mystify the proc...

  • The Art of Game MusicMUSI20173

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    This subject introduces the basics of creating music for video games. Aspects of the function and crafting of music for game use including, sound and visual interactivity, indeterminacy and the music dramatic narrative will be examined. The Art of Game Music is delivered as a lecture and workshop...

  • The Australian ImaginaryENGL20009

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    The sense of national literature formed quite soon in colonial Australia, which saw a remarkable level of literary activity across a range of genres. This subject looks at what a national literature means, and how it makes itself significant to the nation and beyond. It will think about coloniali...

  • The Biology of Human Health and DiseasePAED40002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Year Long Year:2017

    This subject provides students with an introduction to biomedical research via lectures, workshops and tutorials. It comprises a range of coursework to complement the accompanying research subjects (PAED40001 and PAED40005). This subject is designed to enhance students’ understanding of the broad...

  • The Book: Late Antiquity to RenaissanceAHIS40019

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    This subject examines the art of the illuminated manuscript and its importance in medieval and Renaissance culture. It introduces students to the basic elements of codicology - the study of the physical structure of the book - and it focuses on the relationship between text and decoration. Studen...