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  • The History of Cool: Fashion & AttitudeDPSS10007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    James Dean, Marlene Dietrich, James Brown, Frida Kahlo, Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, and David Bowie. What do these people have in common? They were cool. Cool is an elusive essence recognised in artists, musicians, actors and other icons that generations have attempted to capture. This subject...

  • The Holocaust & GenocideHIST20013

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019

    The twentieth century has been labelled the "Age of Genocide". This subject will provide a detailed examination of the Holocaust, the archetype of modern genocide, and seek to place it within the broader comparative history of genocide and mass violence with case studies from Africa and the Asia ...

  • The Integrated BrainPSYC30020

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    There are more connections in a human brain than there are stars in the universe. This subject focuses on the brain as an integrated system and looks at how its many connected networks achieve coordinated effects, linking the mind to the brain and the body. In exploring integration across the ne...

  • The Laptop Recording StudioMUSI20174

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2019

    This subject introduces the basics of sound recording on a laptop computer. Aspects of sound recording including microphone use, recording set up, editing and production will be examined. The Laptop Recording Studio is delivered in two parts: lecture and workshop. Lecture is taught in a large gro...

  • The Long History of GlobalisationHIST40037

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    It is a commonplace that we live in globalised world. But what does this mean in theory and in practice? How did we get to this point? And how do we interpret the processes that underpin our global world? This subject examines the origins of the interconnected global paradigm from its origins in ...

  • The Medieval Image: Art and CultureAHIS30021

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2019 Year:2019

    Taking the so-called ‘late Middle Ages’ (approximately 1300–1520) as its focus, this subject confronts a set of seemingly simple questions: what is an image, who makes images, and how do they circulate in the world? It examines the roles images played during this period from a variety of perspect...

  • The Metaphysics of EthicsPHIL30054

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    Our central question in this subject will be the extent to which our ethical views and theories are related to, or underpinned by, our metaphysical views and theories.  In Topic 1, Objects, Events, Persistence & The Ethical Views Influenced by Them, we'll discuss what metaphysics tells us abo...

  • The Modern Middle EastHIST30015

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019

    This subject is a historical survey of the major events, movements and relationships underlying the making of the modern Islamic and Arab Middle East since the end of the First World War. The subject enables students to understand: the interplay of religion and foreign rule and intervention in sh...

  • The Music of SpainMUSI40095

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    The subject explores a range of Spanish musical styles from the middle ages to the present day, and their interaction with European and American musical traditions. Topics include aspects of early music, opera and music theatre, concert music, film music, contemporary popular music, flamenco and ...

  • The Music Of SpainMUSI30030

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    The subject explores a range of Spanish musical styles from the middle ages to the present day, and their interaction with European and American musical traditions. Topics include aspects of early music, opera and music theatre, concert music, film music, contemporary popular music, flamenco and ...

  • The Music Producer: From Brass to BeatsMUSI30236

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019

    This subject examines music production and the role of the music producer. It surveys the development of music production from early multi-track techniques to contemporary use of beats, loops and samples. Aspects of the function and crafting of sound elements will be examined in the context of en...

  • The Nature of RealityPHIL20039

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019

    Our central question in this subject will be the extent to which our everyday experiences are determined by the nature of the world itself versus the extent to which they're determined by the structure of our own minds. Our approach to this question will be multi-faceted, drawing on philosophical...

  • Theoretical Physics 3PHYC30022

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    This subject will introduce topics in Theoretical Physics, including: Classical Field Theory: Action Principles and Noether’s Theorem. Electrodynamics and wave equations from action principle. Applications selected from: waves in media, dispersion relations, solitons, Kramers-Kronig relations, t...

  • The Origins of the NovelFREN20010

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2019 Year:2019

    In this subject students will read a selection of novels in French (from the Middle Ages to 18th century) in order to understand the evolution of the French novel. They will have to analyse the narrative structures and demonstrate critical awareness of the social, political and ideological contex...

  • The Origins of the NovelFREN30012

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2019 Year:2019

    In this subject students will read a selection of novels in French (from the Middle Ages to 18th century) in order to understand the evolution of the French novel. They will have to analyse the narrative structures and demonstrate critical awareness of the social, political and ideological contex...

  • Theory and Practice of Art HistoryAHIS30019

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    This capstone subject examines the theory and practice of art history. Through a survey of the different approaches to the study of art which have emerged since the early modern period the subject will provide students with a fundamental grounding in the methodologies of the discipline. Students ...

  • Theory & the Anthropological ImaginationANTH30013

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    This is the Capstone subject for students majoring in Anthropology. Focusing on contemporary issues (such as relatedness, identity, personhood, value, modernity and embodiment) that have been encountered through the course of the Anthropology major, the subject is designed to enable students to r...

  • The Philosophy of MindPHIL20033

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019

    Neuroscience, cognitive science, and computer science are making huge strides in modeling the human brain’s information processing systems, from visual discrimination of faces to the neural circuitry and hormones that control our emotional reactions. But can these disciplines fully explain all as...

  • The Philosophy of PhilosophyPHIL30007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    This subject examines the nature of philosophy itself. Students will read what many great philosophers have said about the methods, aims, and ambitions of philosophy. And they will examine how these views are grounded in, or intertwined with commitments about metaphysics, epistemology, or ethics....

  • The Politics of SexPOLS20011

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019

    This subject introduces ideas developed in feminist theory about the social and political construction of areas of experience relating to the body, gender and sexuality. Issues analysed in the subject include transsexualism, reproduction, eating disorders, pornography, sex work, sexual violence a...