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- The Business of MusicMUSI20206
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
This subject introduces the business practices of the music industry. Aspects of copyright, marketing, law, management, contracts, sales, distribution, ownership, and merchandising will be examined in relation to areas such as touring, recording deals, digital streaming, live performance, music p...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Kenny McAlpine Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising 2-hours per week Total time commitment 156 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 Corporation and the Gig-EconomyANTH30021
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
In the age of automation, working means either getting endless, short terms, and precarious “gigs,” or becoming part of massive international corporations. This subject explores the relations and tensions between these two worlds, focusing on recent ethnographic work on the gig-economy and large ...
- Semester 2
Coordinators Erin Fitz-Henry and Fabio Mattioli Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours: 1 x 1.5 hour lecture and 1 x 1 hour tutorial per week for 12 weeks. 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 Critical ImaginationSOTH40003
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2019 Year:2019
This subject explores the three currents that social and critical theorising grows out of: the Enlightenment, revolutionary tradition and romanticism. It critically assesses these currents through an examination of the works of key classical critical and social theorists. Students completing this...
Not available in 2019
View details - The Dancer as ArtistDNCE10028
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
This subject will introduce students to ways of seeing, understanding, articulating and researching Dance and other art forms. Through 12 x 1 hour lectures and 12 x 2 hr tutorials, historical, political and social issues relating to dance and the arts in the 20th and 21st centuries will be discus...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Nina Veretennikova Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 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 Developing WorldDEVT10001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
This subject is an introduction to the developing world and development studies from the perspectives of Anthropology, Political Science, Economics, Sociology and Geography. Beginning with a critical examination of the legacies of colonialism, we will ask to what extent they can be argued to have...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Bina Fernandez Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 35 Contact Hours:1 x two hour lecture and 1 x one hour tutorial per week for 12 weeks. No tutorials in Week 1. 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 Digital ScreenscapeSCRN30005
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
This subject explores the impact that digital technologies have had in the world of screen media and in mediating the world around us. Film and television has, over the last century, become an integral part of our reality but, since the advent of the digital era, screen media have become even mor...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Djoymi Baker Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 60 hours: a1.5-hour lecture, a 1-hour tutorial and a 2.5-hour screening 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
- The Disaster Resilient CityGEOG30021
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
This subject examines the impacts of disasters in cities. It will explore why some groups are more vulnerable to particular hazards than others, while considering the role of social capital and adaptation for increasing the resilience of urban communities to disasters.This is important because th...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Ilan Wiesel Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1 x 2-hour lecture and 1 x 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 Economics of TaxationECON30016
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2019 Year:2019
Topics include review of the economic framework for analysing decision making; background to the Australian and other relevant taxation systems; issues and controversies in relation to the tax system and taxpayer decisions; objectives of tax collectors and taxpayers; why taxes exist; options and ...
Not available in 2019
View details - The Electronic Arts: Vision and SoundCCDP10002
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2019
This course explores creative work in many fields that use technology as the core of its work. The use of electronics in The Visual Arts, Video, Experimental Film, Music and Sound Art, Theatre, Installations, Advertising, Multimedia and Design are covered from different perspectives and examined ...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator David Shea Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1-hour weekly lecture 2-hour weekly tutorial 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 2
Principal coordinator David Shea Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1-hour weekly lecture 2-hour weekly tutorial 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
- The Ethics of CapitalismPHIL20044
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
Like most people in today's world, you live in a capitalist system: You participate in the labour market, you exercise economic freedoms like property and contract, and you respect other peoples freedoms. Capitalist systems have proven good at producing goods and services. But do they give us jus...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Daniel Halliday Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 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 Ethnography of MusicMUSI30053
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
This subject teaches students to conceptualise and undertake an ethnographic research project on music-making in the contemporary world. Through in-class activities, students learn to make fieldnotes, engage in participant-observation, conduct interviews, and use performance as a research tool. T...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Nicholas Tochka Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising one 2-hour seminar 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
- The Ethnography of Music (Honours)MUSI40079
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
This subject teaches students to conceptualise and undertake an ethnographic research project on music-making in the contemporary world. Through in-class activities, students learn to make fieldnotes, engage in participant-observation, conduct interviews, and use performance as a research tool. T...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Nicholas Tochka Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising 2 hours 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
- The Figure in PerformanceFINA20041
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
The figure is one of the elements available to be manipulated by the designer in the development of a design for performance. An audience reads (either consciously or unconsciously) that figure through its relationship to its environment, and how it presents itself to the viewer. The human figure...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Christina Smith Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 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 First Centuries of IslamHIST20010
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
This subject examines the growth of Islamic civilisation in the period between the revelation of the Quran and the Spanish Christian reconquest of Granada in 1492. The study focuses on the Arabic speaking areas of western Asia, North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, and its aim is to understand ...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Richard Pennell Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 29 hours - 12 x 90 minute lectures and 11 x 60 minute tutorials 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
- The Foundations of InterpretationPHIL30024
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
We naturally try to make sense of what other people write, say, and think. But what are the principles governing this activity of interpretation? Is the correct interpretation of an article from the New York Times, of a fictional text like Madame Bovary, or of Shakespeare’s sonnets determined by ...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Francois Schroeter Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours - 1 x 2 hour seminar each week. Students will also be expected to access a 1.5 hour online lecture each 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: fschro@unimelb.edu.au
- The French RevolutionHIST20068
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019
In 1789 huge numbers of French peasants, urban workers and middle-class people successfully rebelled against absolute monarchy and the privileges of the nobility. But the struggle over what social and political system should replace the 'Old Regime' was to divide French people and finally the who...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Peter McPhee Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 29 hours - 12 x 1.5 hour lectures and 11 x 1 hour 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
Email: p.mcphee@unimelb.edu.au
- The Future of Health in a Data StormBINF20001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2019 Year:2019
New advanced technologies are transforming and disrupting traditional healthcare and biomedical research, driven by data of unprecedented volume, variety and velocity. The discipline of Health and Biomedical informatics provides insights, tools and methods to shape this increasingly complex scena...
Not available in 2019
View details - The Future of WorkMGMT30019
Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term Year:2019Quotas apply
The way we work is changing. The forces of globalisation, technological advancement and population pressures are reshaping the nature and meaning of ‘work’. Graduates entering the new world of work face a revolution in working practices and organisational culture. There are greater opportunities ...
- Summer Term
Principal coordinator Josh Healy Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1.5 hour lecture and 1.5 hour tutorial daily for 10 days Teaching dates 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31 January, 1, 4 February 2019 Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 21 January 2019 to 4 February 2019 Last self-enrol date 14 January 2019 Census date 1 February 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 8 February 2019 Assessment period ends 17 February 2019 Summer Term contact information
Dr Josh Healy joshua.healy@unimelb.edu.au
- The Global EnvironmentEVSC10001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019
This subject is an introduction to Geology, Geography, Climate and Environmental Science. It provides an overview of the processes controlling the formation and evolution of our global environment. We begin by exploring the origin of the Earth as a planet within the solar system, its layered stru...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Anne-Marie Tosolini Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 3 x one hour lectures per week, 1 x two hour practical 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: a.tosolini@unimelb.edu.au
- The Great War 1914 to 1918HIST20082
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2019 Year:2019
The Great War, the ‘seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century’, now lies more than a century behind us, but its aftershocks continue to reverberate down to the present. This subject aims to globalise the history of the war, as well as paying special attention to Australia’s war experience. Stu...
Not available in 2019
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