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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...
Not available in 2017
View details - 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Muhammad Kamal Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A total of 30 hours: A 1.5-hour lecture and a 1-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
- 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator John Quay Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1 1-hour lecture and 1 2-hour seminar each 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
- 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...
- July
Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 60 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 26 June 2017 Teaching period 3 July 2017 to 21 July 2017 Last self-enrol date 27 June 2017 Census date 14 July 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 4 August 2017 Assessment period ends 24 August 2017 July contact information
- 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Anne-Marie Tosolini Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 3 x one hour lectures per week for eight weeks; 1 x three hour practical class per week for eight weeks; 4 days of field excursion during the mid-semester recess 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: a.tosolini@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
- September
Principal coordinator Lawrie Drysdale Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 25 August 2017 Teaching period 15 September 2017 to 21 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 29 August 2017 Census date 15 September 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 6 October 2017 Assessment period ends 1 November 2017 September contact information
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Barbara Barbosa Neves Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 35 Contact Hours: 2 x one hour lectures and 1 x one hour tutorial per week for 12 weeks. No tutorials in Week 1. 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
- 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...
Not available in 2017
View details - 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Robert Crawford Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 2 X 1 hour lectures and 1X 1 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
Email: rhcr@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Liz Dean Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 contact hours: A 2-hour seminar per week for 12 weeks. 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
- 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.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Ruonan Zeng Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A total of 36 hours: A 1-hour lecture and a 2-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
- 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.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Ruonan Zeng Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A total of 36 hours: A 1-hour lecture and a 2-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
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Parshia Lee-Stecum Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 29 hours: A 1.5-hour lecture per week for 12 weeks and eleven 1-hour tutorials scheduled across the 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: ppls@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
- Term 2 - Online
Principal coordinator Rhonda Smith Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 80 hours Total time commitment 150 hours Pre teaching start date 3 April 2017 Teaching period 10 April 2017 to 4 June 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 April 2017 Census date 28 April 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 19 May 2017 Assessment period ends 9 June 2017 Term 2 contact information
Dr Rhonda Smith (Coordinator), former Commissioner, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- Term 3 - Online
Principal coordinator Rhonda Smith Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 80 hours Total time commitment 150 hours Pre teaching start date 10 July 2017 Teaching period 17 July 2017 to 10 September 2017 Last self-enrol date 11 July 2017 Census date 4 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 25 August 2017 Assessment period ends 15 September 2017 Term 3 contact information
Dr Rhonda Smith (Coordinator), former Commissioner, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- 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...
Not available in 2017
View details - 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. ...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Stephen Grant Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising one 2-hour rehearsal each week during semester. Total time commitment 85 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
- 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Stephen Grant Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours One 2-hour rehearsal each week during semester. Total time commitment 85 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
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Tonie Field Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Between one and three 2-hour rehearsals weekly during semester and intensive rehearsal periods prior to concerts. Total time commitment 136 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
For orchestral-related enquiries, please contact the head of area:
- Strings: Dr Curt Thompson w.thompson@unimelb.edu.au
- Woodwind: Derek Jones drjones@unimelb.edu.au
- Brass: Don Immel don.immel@unimelb.edu.au
- Persussion: Peter Neville pneville@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Tonie Field Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Between one and three 2-hour rehearsals weekly during semester and intensive rehearsal periods prior to concerts. Total time commitment 136 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
For orchestral-related enquiries, please contact the head of area:
- Strings: Dr Curt Thompson w.thompson@unimelb.edu.au
- Woodwind: Derek Jones drjones@unimelb.edu.au
- Brass: Don Immel don.immel@unimelb.edu.au
- Persussion: Peter Neville pneville@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Alan Pert Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 6 hours per week Total time commitment 340 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:
Catherine Duggan
duggan.c@unimelb.edu.auMichael Roper
mr@archarch.com.au