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  • Understanding & Identifying Gifted LrngEDUC90192

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

    This subject examines definitions and models of giftedness and talent, the learning and socio-emotional characteristics of gifted children and their educational needs. The implications of these for programs, provisions, means of identification and school curriculum are outlined issues both in Aus...

  • Understanding Islam and Muslim SocietiesISLM10001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    This is an introductory subject that exposes students to the basic and fundamental beliefs and practices that constitute the fabric of the Islamic world. Students will be able to explore relationships and differences between the key teachings of Islam and the customary practices of Muslims. In do...

  • Understanding Knowing and LearningEDUC10050

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    This subject will lead students to increase their understanding of various ways of knowing and learning while developing personal theories of learning and its enhancement. This will be achieved through exploration of a range of theoretical perspectives combined with practical application. Theoret...

  • Understanding MasksTHTR30039

    Undergraduate subject Offered:July Year:2017Quotas apply

    What is a “mask”? Students will endeavour to answer this question by exploring the history, cultural and performative function of mask in a wide variety of social contexts. This research will be supplemented with practical studio sessions in mask design and making, processes and materials. Stude...

  • Understanding Planet EarthERTH10002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    This subject will allow students to gain a deeper understanding of the processes governing the geological evolution of the Earth. This will be achieved via the lecture series, practical sessions and a four-day field trip, providing hands-on and theoretical investigations employing Victoria’s geol...

  • Understanding SchoolsEDUC90751

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:September Year:2017

    The structure, organisation and culture of schools are critically explored through the conceptual tool of framing. Several frames are used to understand the typical forms schools take, and how people are organized in these forms. Re-framing, organizational behaviour, and successful school leaders...

  • Understanding SocietySOCI10001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    This subject explores our contemporary society through sociological perspectives. Students will be encouraged to develop what C Wright-Mills describes as a 'sociological imagination', which seeks to understand the ways in which our identities are formed by social structures and historical pattern...

  • Understanding & Teaching for CreativityEDUC90267

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

    This subject examines the process of creativity and its implications for teaching and curriculum. Topics covered include: Models of creativity (componential and stage models); the psychological characteristics that promote creative productive achievement; the relationship between creativity and t...

  • Understanding the Built EnvironmentABPL10005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    This subject was formerly known as The World of Building This subject provides a broad introduction to the processes and skills embedded in the construction of buildings, to the nature of the industry developed around it, and to the material traditions societies have relied and rely on to produce...

  • Understanding The Life CourseSOCI40003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    This subject introduces a life course approach to social issues. Life course research is a relatively new and innovative approach in the social sciences which has developed in recent decades. It brings back in a time dimension into social research and systematically links social changes on the ma...

  • Understanding the New Media in ChinaCHIN30024

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    This subject engages with the new form of language used in the modern media in China, including its written, audio and visual forms. It explores its roots and meanings and the factors which led to its emergence.

  • Understanding the New Media in ChinaCHIN20029

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    This subject engages with the new form of language used in the modern media in China, including its written, audio and visual forms .It explores its roots and meanings and the factors which led to its emergence.

  • Underworld and AfterlifeANCW30011

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    The journey to the underworld, the existence of an afterlife, the survival of the bereaved, the mummification of the dead, the sacrifice of virgins, communicating with ghosts - the ancient world blossomed with myths and rituals associated with all these things. This subject focuses on these topic...

  • Unilateral ConductLAWS90066

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Term 2, Term 3 Year:2017

    One of the means by which firms may behave anti-competitively is by engaging in unilateral conduct that damages the competitive process and consumer welfare. Such conduct may be described in various ways in different jurisdictions, including as monopolisation, abuse of dominance or misuse of mark...

  • United States Sports LawLAWS70165

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

    This subject is for those interested in how United States (US) intercollegiate, Olympic and professional sports are internally structured and governed and externally regulated by a wide variety of federal and state laws. Those who have taken this subject say it provides ‘great insights into the U...

  • University of Melbourne Chamber Choir 1MUSI30244

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    Students explore all aspects of choral and ensemble singing, from the purely technical (intonation, breathing, listening, pronunciation, vocal attacks, legato) to the subtleties of developing internal choral relationships and relationships with conductors and where appropriate, instrumentalists. ...

  • University of Melbourne Chamber Choir 2MUSI30258

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    Students will further explore all aspects of choral and ensemble singing, building on awareness of style, historical context and connections across the breadth of choral repertoire, sacred and secular, from the 13 th to the 21 st century. Singers will continue to develop technical aspects of chor...

  • University Orchestral Ensembles 1MUSI20124

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

    The Orchestral Ensembles (including large instrumental bands and orchestras) play an important role in the educational and performance activities of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Students participating in Orchestral Ensembles gain invaluable experience through rehearsing and performing a...

  • University Orchestral Ensembles 2MUSI20123

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

    The Orchestral Ensembles (including large instrumental bands and orchestras) play an important role in the educational and performance activities of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Students participating in Orchestral Ensembles gain invaluable experience through rehearsing and performing a...

  • Unliveable Berlin StudioABPL90297

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017Quotas apply

    Unliveable Berlin is a University of Melbourne design studio, organised and run by Melbourne-based architects, Michael Roper (Director, Architecture Architecture) & Catherine Duggan (Senior Associate, Peter Elliott Architects). This studio proposes taking a group of architecture, landscape an...