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- Writing a Literature ReviewEDUC90867
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
This subject teaches doctoral students how to identify, analyse and synthesise published research findings that are of a high quality and relevant to their own research. Building upon this, it teaches students how to locate their own proposed research projects and questions within the broader res...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Peter Woelert Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 340 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 and Editing for Digital MediaPUBL90006
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2017
This introductory subject is designed to induct graduate students into the major issues and current thinking in web-based communication; to familiarize students with the major channels and platforms in use in this field; to develop an understanding of online genres, and teach essential writing an...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Sybil Nolan Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: 1x1-hour lecture and 1x1.5-hour tutorial, taught weekly. 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: sybil.nolan@unimelb.edu.au
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Sybil Nolan Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 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: sybil.nolan@unimelb.edu.au
- Writing and Publishing ReportsMGMT90134
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017
This subject will help students to become better and more skilled readers and writers of research in the fields of business and commerce. Students will build competencies in academic literacy that will be directed toward reading, writing, and publishing in both corporate and academic contexts. Th...
Not available in 2017
View details - Writing and RewritingFLTV70044
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
Following on from ‘Major Script Project’ the previous semester, students undertake to write subsequent drafts of their script. Students are expected to submit as a minimum a completed second draft long form script; (most likely a feature film script) plus accompanying short documents, or televis...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Ben Michael Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 48 Total time commitment 320 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 Animation 1FLTV10018
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
An introduction to storytelling, narrative and non-narrative structures, characters and worlds. There is an emphasis on understanding the writing in an historical context in writing for an animation production. Students attend 12 lectures that include screenings and discussions. Additional unsupe...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Paul Fletcher Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 12 weeks x 3.5 hour lecture Total time commitment 120 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 Animation 2FLTV20019
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
WRITING ANIMATION 2 Advanced investigating and writing animation building on objectives accomplished in Writing Animation 1. In addition to further studies in fictional story and non-narrative writing, students will engage in writing from other perspectives and sources using adaptation and respon...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Paul Fletcher Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 42 hours Total time commitment 120 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 AustraliaCWRI40014
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
In this subject students study a number of recent Australian literary works selected from a range of genres. The emphasis is on contemporary work. The approach will include discussion of ways of reading, and production of creative responses to the selected texts. Students will read one significan...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Grant Caldwell Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 24 hours: a 2-hour seminar 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
- Writing for ChildrenCWRI90010
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017
This subject introduces the creative writing student to contemporary literary and cultural theories pertinent to reading and analysing texts produced for children, as well as stimulating a creative engagement with children’s literature. Through the study and production of picture books, novels, s...
Not available in 2017
View details - Writing for Marketing CommunicationMECM90024
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
This subject will enable students to develop copywriting skills, including skills in persuasive writing, and the different generic requirements involved in writing for a range of media contexts and platforms. Case studies will be drawn from print, broadcast and online media and exercises will cov...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Jennifer Beckett Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 24 hours: 1x1-hour lecture and 1x1-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
- Writing for Performance 1 (Solo)THTR70008
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
In this practice-based subject the student writer undertakes a range of writing classes and exercises with the aim of developing techniques for the generation and structuring of original material for live performance; in working to a brief in diverse professional circumstances; and in evolving an...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Raimondo Cortese Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 72 Total time commitment 120 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
Faculty of the VCA and Music 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 for Performance 2 (Collab)THTR70009
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
In this practice-based subject the student writer undertakes a range of writing classes and exercises with the aim of developing techniques for the generation and structuring of original material for live performance within a collaborative context; in working to a brief in diverse professional ci...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Raimondo Cortese Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 48 Total time commitment 120 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
Raimondo Cortese
- Writing for Performance 3 (Portfolio)THTR70010
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
In this subject students work to develop both solo and group work seeded in semester one. A portfolio of writing projects is created, including one major, full-length work and one minor, shorter work, in different forms. Students have the option to write in different forms (plays, postdramatic te...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Raimondo Cortese Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 48 Total time commitment 360 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 and Music 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 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 TelevisionFLTV70043
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
Students will be introduced to the imperatives and practices of writing for longer form television series. Students will be made familiar with contemporary TV program development practices and gain an understanding of essential development documents such as the TV series ‘Bible’. Students will ...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Ben Michael Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 50 Total time commitment 140 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 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 from PerformanceTHTR70011
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
This subject focuses the student on the task of writing from/after performance. Like all art, live performance is constituted in part by some elements and enigmas that are not easily expressed by means of language. The subject familiarises the student/artist with established conventions and tradi...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Raimondo Cortese Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 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 and Music 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: Inside and Outside the TextCWRI70001
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017
The subject focuses on the writing of texts for performance and exhibition. This includes scripts for theatre, film or TV, libretti for opera and musical theatre, texts for performance art, film and TV treatments and short stories, as well as visual texts for exhibition and text based installatio...
Not available in 2017
View details - 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