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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...
Not available in 2017
View details - 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Theo Mantamadiotis Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 3.5 hours of practicals per week (Total 35 hours) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 5 February 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
Subject Coordinators
Dr Theo Mantamadiotis
Administrative Coordinator
- 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Odilia Wijburg Coordinator Karena Waller Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1 x 1hr tutorial per week plus up to 3hr practical per week (ie. up to 36hr practical per semester) plus 1hr lecture per week during semester Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 2 July 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
Administrative Coordination
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Odilia Wijburg Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1 x 1-hr tutorial per week plus up to 3 hrs practical per week (i.e. up to 36 hrs practical per semester) plus 1 hr lecture per week during semester Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 5 February 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
Academic Coordinators
Dr Karena Waller
Dr Odilia Wijburg
Administrative Coordinator
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Amber Willems-Jones Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 5 hours per week: 1 x lecture (online), 1 x tutorial, 1 x practical class (3 hours) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 5 February 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
Subject Coordinator
Dr Amber Willems-Jones
Administrative Coordinator
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Amber Willems-Jones Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 5 hours per week: 1 x lecture (online), 1 x tutorial, 1 x practical class (3 hours) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 2 July 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
Administrative Coordination
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Alysson Machado Costa Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 3 x one hour lectures per week, 1 x one hour practice class 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
Email: alysson.costa@unimelb.edu.au
- 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,...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Michael Arnold Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 29 hours - A 1 hour lecture for 12 weeks and 1.5 hour tutorial for 11 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
Email: mvarnold@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Brendan Duffy Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1 x two hour lecture per week; 1 x two hour of practical class per week for six weeks; and five days of fieldwork Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 15 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 24 February 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: brendan.duffy@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Chris Healy Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: a 1.5-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
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Tom Newman-Morris Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 contact hours per semester. 2 x one hour lectures and 1 x one 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
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator James Burgmann-Milner Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 24 hours: a 2 hour seminar per week throughout 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
- 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...
- Winter Term
Principal coordinator Jennifer Innes Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours - five day studio workshop Total time commitment 120 hours Teaching period 3 July 2017 to 7 July 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 July 2017 Census date 6 July 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 15 July 2017 Assessment period ends 21 July 2017 Winter Term contact information
- 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Gijs Tol 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
Email: gijs.tol@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Miya Tokumitsu Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: 12 x 1-hour lecture and a 1.5-hour tutorial per week throughout 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
- 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...
Not available in 2017
View details - 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...
- Summer Term
Principal coordinator Mark Postlethwaite Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 120 hours Pre teaching start date 30 January 2017 Teaching period 13 February 2017 to 17 February 2017 Last self-enrol date 1 February 2017 Census date 13 February 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 February 2017 Assessment period ends 10 March 2017 Summer Term contact information
- July
Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 120 hours Pre teaching start date 3 July 2017 Teaching period 17 July 2017 to 21 July 2017 Last self-enrol date 5 July 2017 Census date 17 July 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 28 July 2017 Assessment period ends 11 August 2017 July contact information
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Mark Pollard Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 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
- 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Ken Gelder Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: a 1.5-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
- 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...
- Year Long
Principal coordinator Amanda Fosang Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 May 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Year Long contact information
Subject Coordinator:
Assoc Prof Amanda Fosang
amanda.fosang@mcri.edu.auAdministrative Coordinator:
Ms Helen D'Cruz
helen.dcruz@rch.org.au
- 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Bernard Muir Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 24 hours: a 2-hour seminar per week, taught in Allan Myers Tutorial Room, The Academic Centre, Newman College. 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