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- Acting for CameraDRAM30020
Undergraduate subject Offered:Winter Term Year:2019Quotas apply
This subject is an intensive introduction to art of screen acting that focuses on the processes actors use for creating effective performances for camera. A series of practical exercises are introduced that allow participants to focus on creating effective on-screen performances. Students experim...
- Winter Term
Coordinator Christopher Nolan Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 30 hours total. Delivered in a 5 day (Mon to Fri) intensive. Total time commitment 146 hours Pre teaching start date 8 July 2019 Pre teaching requirements Students will be required to complete pre-reading and/or viewing during the pre-teaching period. Study materials will be made available via the LMS. Teaching period 22 July 2019 to 26 July 2019 Last self-enrol date 10 July 2019 Census date 22 July 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 July 2019 Assessment period ends 9 August 2019 Winter Term contact information
- Acting for Singers 1MUSI30159
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
Acting for Singers introduces students to the fundamental principles of acting and script/libretto dramatic analysis. It prepares singers interested in performing in opera, musicals and recital situations for a career on the stage. No previous acting experience is required.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Stephen Grant Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising one 2-hour rehearsal per week Total time commitment 60 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
- Acting for Singers 2MUSI30160
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
Acting for Singers introduces students to the fundamental principles of acting and script/libretto dramatic analysis. It prepares singers interested in performing in opera, musicals and recital situations for a career on the stage. No previous acting experience is required.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Stephen Grant Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising one 2-hour rehearsal per week Total time commitment 60 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
- Acting Lab 1DRAM20022
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
This subject introduces students to the actor’s process via scene work and contemporary rehearsal techniques. Working within an ensemble, actors will explore historical, emerging, collaborative and mediated theatrical paradigms through practical exploration of extant text in a variety of studio c...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Budi Miller 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
- Acting Lab 2DRAM20024
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
This subject extends the actor in longer generative and interpretative performance projects. Students develop the skills they have acquired and apply them to performance in contemporary generative work and classical material. Actors will explore working within both stage and screen production pro...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Budi Miller 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
- Acting Lab 3DRAM30021
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
This subject extends the actor in generative and interpretative stage and screen projects. Students adapt and reframe the skills they have acquired, and integrate them to performance in contemporary generative and/or classical material led by external professional artists. Actors begin to refine ...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Budi Miller Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 288 hours comprising of 12 hours contact and 12 hours independent study per week. Total time commitment 510 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
- Acting Lab 4DRAM30023
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
This subject enables the final extension of the actor in generative and interpretative stage and screen projects. Students adapt and reframe the skills they have acquired, and integrate these to performance in contemporary generative and/or classical material led by professional external artists....
- Semester 2
Coordinator Budi Miller 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
- Acting Skills 1MUST10002
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
In first year of Acting Skills classes the creative and expressive potential of the actor is explored through the development of imagination, self-awareness, flexibility, connection and play, whilst analytical and craft-based skills are introduced to assist the performer’s development of a full p...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Rainer Pollard Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 72 Hours Total time commitment 120 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
- Acting Skills 2MUST10006
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
With the acquisition of new acting processes and language, Acting Skills 2 will afford students the opportunity to apply these new skills, with early exploration of text process, as well as in improvisation and movement classes. The focus continues to be on developing the actor’s individual intui...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Rainer Pollard Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 72 hours Total time commitment 120 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
- Acting Skills 3MUST20002
Undergraduate subject Offered:Year Long Year:2019
Acting 2 focuses on extension of skills attained in Acting 1, with the experience of working with challenging texts and extension work in physical performance. Classes in Shakespeare will provide deep technical understanding that will then be given practical application, allowing students to find...
- Year Long
Principal coordinator Donna Dunmire Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 136 Total time commitment 180 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
- Acting Skills 4MUST30002
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
In Acting Skills 4, students will develop skills for acting for camera. Working with a range of film and television scripts, students will continue to apply acting processes developed in previous years whilst responding to the particular demands of the medium. Classes will develop the student’s u...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Tyran Parke Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 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
- Activism, Selves and HistoriesAIND40003
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2019 Year:2019
This subject will investigate social and political processes intended to lead to the achievement of emancipatory goals. Specific Australian social movements and histories related to Aboriginal empowerment and social amelioration will be contextualised within theoretical frameworks including postc...
Not available in 2019
View details - Actuarial Modelling IACTL30001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
Topics include survival models concepts; estimation procedures for lifetime distributions; multiple state models; binomial model of mortality; actuarial applications of Markov processes.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator David Dickson Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Contact hours: One x 1-hour online lecture per week, one x 1-hour workshop per week, and one x 1-hour tutorial per week, commencing in the second week 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
- Actuarial Modelling IIACTL30002
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
Topics include exact and census methods for estimating transition intensities based on age; goodness of fit and smoothness of graduated estimates versus crude estimates; actuarial modelling; general principles of stochastic processes; Markov chains in actuarial work.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Xueyuan Wu Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two x 1-hour lecture during semester; 1x1 hour tutorial per week commencing in second week 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
- Actuarial Practice and Control IACTL40006
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
Topics include insurance markets and products; underwriting and risk assessment; policy design; actuarial modelling; actuarial assumptions and feedback; reserving methods.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator David Heath Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Four hours of lectures and/or tutorials 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
- Actuarial Practice and Control IIACTL40007
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
Topics include assessment of solvency; analysis of experience; analysis of surplus; actuarial techniques in the wider fields; and an introduction to professionalism.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator David Heath Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Four hours of lectures and/or tutorials 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
- Actuarial Practice and Control IIIACTL40009
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
This subject covers analysis of investment portfolios and asset classes from the perspective of an appointed actuary, with a view to identifying assets that suit the requirements of a variety of general insurance, life insurance, superannuation and other defined benefit liabilities.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Kevin Fergusson Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A total of three contact hours per week, consisting of lectures and/or tutorials 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
- Actuarial StatisticsACTL30004
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
Topics include experience rating; claim run-off triangles; generalised linear models; time series and their applications; simulation; decision theory.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Enrique Calderin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Three hours of lectures and/ or tutorials 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
- Actuarial Studies Projects Part 1ACTL40010
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
Students will be required to submit three assignments of between 3,000 and 3,500 words each, on dates specified at the start of the academic year. The word count includes bibliography, footnotes, appendices and the number of words which would take up space used for tables, formulae and charts.
- Semester 1
Coordinator Zhuo Jin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A series of, at most, five 1-hour meetings per 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
- Actuarial Studies Projects Part 2ACTL40011
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
Please refer to the handbook page for Part 1: ACTL40010.
- Semester 2
Coordinator Zhuo Jin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Please refer to the handbook page for Part 1: ACTL40010. 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