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- Techniques in Operations ResearchMAST30013
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
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 Joyce Zhang 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 4 March 2019 to 2 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2019 Census date 31 March 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2019 Assessment period ends 28 June 2019 Semester 1 contact information
Email: lele.zhang@unimelb.edu.au
- Technology & Contemporary LifeHPSC20009
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
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 4 March 2019 to 2 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2019 Census date 31 March 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2019 Assessment period ends 28 June 2019 Semester 1 contact information
- Tectonics & GeodynamicsGEOL30002
Undergraduate subject Offered:February Year:2019
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...
- February
Principal coordinator Sandra Mclaren 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 17 February 2019 to 2 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 11 March 2019 Census date 15 March 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2019 Assessment period ends 28 June 2019 February contact information
Email: mclarens@unimelb.edu.au
- Television, Lifestyle & Consumer CultureCULS20014
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
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 Lachlan MacDowall 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 29 July 2019 to 27 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 9 August 2019 Census date 31 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 September 2019 Assessment period ends 22 November 2019
- Terrorism: Shifting ParadigmsCRIM20008
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
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 2
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 29 July 2019 to 27 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 9 August 2019 Census date 31 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 September 2019 Assessment period ends 22 November 2019 Semester 2 contact information
- Text and Audio JournalismMECM20013
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
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. ...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Jay Thompson 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 4 March 2019 to 2 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2019 Census date 31 March 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2019 Assessment period ends 28 June 2019 Semester 1 contact information
- Textual RevelationsAIND40005
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
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
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 4 March 2019 to 2 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2019 Census date 31 March 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2019 Assessment period ends 28 June 2019 Semester 1 contact information
Prof. Paul Tapsell
- The Actors ProcessTHTR10007
Undergraduate subject Offered:Winter Term Year:2019Quotas 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
Coordinator Christopher Nolan Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours - five day studio workshop Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 8 July 2019 to 12 July 2019 Last self-enrol date 9 July 2019 Census date 11 July 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 July 2019 Assessment period ends 26 July 2019 Winter Term contact information
- The Age of Alexander the GreatANCW30016
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
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 1
Coordinator Gijs Tol Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 4 March 2019 to 2 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2019 Census date 31 March 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2019 Assessment period ends 28 June 2019 Semester 1 contact information
- The Age of Golden Ages: Art in EuropeAHIS30003
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2019 Year:2019
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...
Not available in 2019
View details - The Artist's BodyAHIS40007
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2019 Year:2019
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 2019
View details - The Artist's ToolboxTHTR20023
Undergraduate subject Offered:February, July Year:2019
Having a “great idea” you want to get off the ground is one thing, being able to effectively describe, promote and manage it, is entirely another. “The Artist's Toolbox” provides aspiring artists, entrepreneurs, and project visionaries of all disciplines, with the management skills required to co...
- February
Coordinator Amanda Hitten Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 hours, comprising of 5 day intensive with facilitated workshops, tutor support and pitch delivery. Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 30 January 2019 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period there may be some preparatory tasks, reading and/or a student questionnaire. Teaching period 14 February 2019 to 22 February 2019 Last self-enrol date 1 February 2019 Census date 15 February 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 1 March 2019 Assessment period ends 19 March 2019 February contact information
- July
Coordinator Amanda Hitten Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 hours, comprising of 5 day intensive with facilitated workshops, tutor support and pitch delivery. Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 26 June 2019 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period there may be some preparatory tasks, reading and/or a student questionnaire. Teaching period 11 July 2019 to 19 July 2019 Last self-enrol date 28 June 2019 Census date 12 July 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 July 2019 Assessment period ends 13 August 2019 July contact information
- The Art of Game MusicMUSI20173
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
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 4 March 2019 to 2 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2019 Census date 31 March 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2019 Assessment period ends 28 June 2019
- Theatre Lab 1DRAM20026
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
This subject introduces students to writing, directing, dramaturgy and performance making processes via scene work and contemporary rehearsal techniques. Working within an ensemble, Theatre students will explore historical, emerging, collaborative and mediated theatrical paradigms through practic...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Steph Kehoe Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 96 hours Taught Class Time 96 Hours Independent Preparation/Warm Up Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 4 March 2019 to 2 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2019 Census date 31 March 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2019 Assessment period ends 28 June 2019 Semester 1 contact information
- Theatre Lab 2DRAM20027
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
This subject extends students awareness of writing, directing, dramaturgy and performance making processes via contemporary generative work and responses to classical material. Working within an ensemble, Theatre students will explore working processes for stage and screen and be involved in the ...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Rinske Ginsberg Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours Total time commitment 540 hours Teaching period 29 July 2019 to 27 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 9 August 2019 Census date 31 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 September 2019 Assessment period ends 22 November 2019 Semester 2 contact information
- Theatre Lab 3DRAM30025
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
This subject extends the Theatre maker in writing, directing, dramaturgy and performance techniques via the ongoing development of generative and interpretative projects and on overseas making experience. Students adapt and reframe the skills they have acquired, integrating them in contemporary g...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Rinske Ginsberg Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 288 hours - 144 hours Taught Class Time. 144 Hours Independent Preparation/Warm Up. Total time commitment 540 hours Teaching period 4 March 2019 to 2 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2019 Census date 31 March 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2019 Assessment period ends 28 June 2019 Semester 1 contact information
- Theatre Lab 4DRAM30026
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
This subject is the final extension of the Theatre maker in generative and interpretative projects. Students adapt and reframe the skills they have acquired, integrating them into projects to be presented in a capstone project as part of a VCA Theatre Festival. Theatre makers refine their capacit...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Steph Kehoe Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours Total time commitment 510 hours Teaching period 29 July 2019 to 27 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 9 August 2019 Census date 31 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 September 2019 Assessment period ends 22 November 2019 Semester 2 contact information
- The Australian ImaginaryENGL20009
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
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 29 July 2019 to 27 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 9 August 2019 Census date 31 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 September 2019 Assessment period ends 22 November 2019 Semester 2 contact information
- The Biology of Human Health and DiseasePAED40002
Undergraduate subject Offered:Year Long Year:2019
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 Belinda McClaren Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 4 March 2019 to 27 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2019 Census date 31 May 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 September 2019 Assessment period ends 22 November 2019 Year Long contact information
Subject Coordinator:
Dr Belinda McClaren
belinda.mcclaren@unimelb.edu.auAdministrative Coordinator:
Ms Helen D'Cruz
helen.dcruz@rch.org.au
- The Book: Late Antiquity to RenaissanceAHIS40019
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
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 29 July 2019 to 27 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 9 August 2019 Census date 31 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 September 2019 Assessment period ends 22 November 2019 Semester 2 contact information