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About this course
Contact
For currently enrolled students:
- General information about enrolment:
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/graduate-studies/research - Email: arts-research@unimelb.edu.au
- Location: Room 120, Old Arts (Building 149)
Hours: 10-12am and 2-4pm
For future students:
Coordinator email:
arts-graduateenquiries@unimelb.edu.au
Coordinator
Kate MacNeill
Course structure
PhD thesis of 80,000 words. The award of the PhD is based solely on external examination of the PhD research thesis.
Four subjects (25 points in total) undertaken in the first year of probationary candidature:
- One compulsory subject: Arts PhD Research Intensive, taught intensively over 2 days in semester one (6.25 points)
- One core subject from a list of Arts PhD Research Workshops, held fortnightly in semester one (6.25 points)
- Two Arts PhD Electives (2 x 6.25 = 12.5 points)
Please note the following:
- All students are required to complete the Arts PhD Research Intensive (6.25 points total)
- All students are required to complete one PhD Research Workshop from the list below (6.25 points total)
- All students are required to complete two PhD Electives (12.5 points total) from the list below with the approval of the student’s supervisor.
- In some cases, supervisory panels, disciplines or Schools will require their students to take particular Electives or Workshops.
- Some subjects may be restricted to students with cognate disciplinary expertise in that area of study.
- Language subjects that are essential to the student's research thesis, or to improve a student’s English language proficiency, may be substituted for one PhD Elective (6.25 points) with approval from the student's supervisor and require the endorsement of the subject coordinator and Faculty.
Subject options
Arts PhD Research Intensive Workshop
This subject is taught intensively over two days in April (6.25 points).
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ARTS90005 | Intensive Research Workshop | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
Arts PhD Research Workshop Subject
One PhD Research Workshop subject, taught fortnightly in semester one (6.25 points).
Please note the following:
All students are required to select one Arts PhD Research Workshop with approval from their supervisor.
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ARTS90008 | Researching the Past | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
ARTS90009 | Researching Texts | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
ARTS90010 | Researching Society and Culture | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
ARTS90011 | Researching Images | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
ARTS90012 | Researching Ideas | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
ARTS90013 | Researching Media and Culture | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
ARTS90014 | Researching Politics and Policy | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
ARTS90015 | Researching Language | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
Arts PhD Elective Subjects
All students are required to select two Arts PhD elective subjects (2 x 6.25 points = 12.5 points total)
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
AHIS90009 | Theories of Art | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
AHIS90010 | British Art and Sensibility at the NGV | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
ANCW90003 | Visiting Scholar: Classics and Arch A | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
ANTH90005 | Structure and Agency in Everyday Life | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
ARTS90001 | Melancholy and the Sweetness of Sorrow | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
ARTS90002 | Social Research and Reflexive Writing | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
ARTS90003 | Introduction to Action Research | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
ARTS90007 | A Western Canon? Cervantes & Shakespeare | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
ARTS90019 | Working in First Nations Contexts | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
ARTS90020 | Visiting Scholar: Advanced Seminar A |
May (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
6.25 |
ARTS90021 | Visiting Scholar: Advanced Seminar B | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
ARTS90022 | Research Ethics in & beyond the Academy | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
CULS90008 | Contemporary Cultural Theory & Research | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
CULS90009 | Affective Publics | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
CULS90010 | Doing Media Ethnography | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
ENGL90002 | Writing as Women: Critical Readings | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
EURO90001 | Food, Culture and Identity | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
GEND90010 | Sex, Gender and the Case Study | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
GEND90013 | Research in Gender | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
GEOG90023 | Geographic Information Systems | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
HIST90032 | Historical Themes in Australian Politics | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
HIST90033 | Visiting Scholar Subject: History | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
HIST90036 | Global Environmental History | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
LANG90002 | Tools & Methods for Documenting Language | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
LING90029 | Current Topics in Applied Linguistics | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
LING90030 | Current Topics in Linguistics | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
LING90031 | Advanced Linguistics Analysis A |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
6.25 |
LING90032 | Advanced Linguistics Analysis B |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
6.25 |
MECM90028 | Digital Methods | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
MULT90041 | Translation in Research | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
MULT90044 | The Art & Practice of the Personal Essay | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
MULT90052 | Greco-Roman Governance and Public Policy | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
MULT90056 | Digital Humanities:Working with Archives | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
PHIL90034 | Philosophical Methodology | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
PHIL90035 | Visiting Scholar Subject: Philosophy | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
PHIL90040 | New Research in Practical Ethics | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
PHIL90042 | Time | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
POLS90052 | Critical Approaches to Social Policy | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
POLS90061 | Normative Approaches on Welfare-to-Work | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
SCRN90009 | Screen Theory | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
SOTH90007 | Classical Social Theory | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
MULT90054 | Quantitative Methods | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
MULT90055 | Advanced Qualitative Methods | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
Last updated: 31 October 2023