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  • Arabic in Context 1ARBC20001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019

    This subject aims to heighten general awareness of the Arabic language and to enhance the acquisition of Arabic, particularly in aural and oral communication skills as well as to enhance students' sociocultural awareness of the Arab World. Students will be introduced to characteristics of communi...

  • Arabic in Context 2ARBC30001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    This subject aims to cultivate understanding of Arabic language in use, and to equip students with sound communication skills. We will consider key features of Arabic discourse and regional and social peculiarities. Students will engage in activities to enhance their sociocultural and pragmatic c...

  • Arabic Studies Thesis Part 1ARBC40007

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

    Students will be required to write a thesis of 15,000 words on a topic approved by the supervisor.

  • Arabic Studies Thesis Part 2ARBC40008

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

    Refer to ARBC40007 Arabic Studies Thesis Part 1 for details.

  • Archaeology of Complex SocietiesANCW40003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    This seminar examines the concept of complexity from an archaeological perspective. It surveys various cultural traditions, focusing on issues associated with the emergence and development of social, economic and political complexity such as the advent of sedentism, early villages, the evolution ...

  • Archaeology of the Roman WorldANCW20025

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    This course concentrates on the development of Rome from a small village into the center of a vast Empire, through the lens of artworks and archaeology. It examines a wide variety of themes (urbanism, public and private architecture, religion, economy) and sources of material evidence (pottery, c...

  • Architecture as Political HistoryABPL30066

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2019 Year:2019

     This subject is not available except to enabling students in E-ABP (Enabling Course - Architecture, Building & Planning) This lecture and tutorial course will develop a basic understanding of how architecture acts as part of the political and cultural processes for all societies, particular...

  • Architecture Design Studio: AirABPL30048

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

    The core of the undergraduate design sequence is the development of both design thinking and dexterity with tools. Students will undertake a series of studio-based exercises in design demanding greater synthesis of diverse requirements and leading to increasingly resolved designs. Emphases inclu...

  • Architecture Design Studio: EarthABPL20027

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019

    This subject was formerly called Architecture Design Studio 1. The core of the undergraduate design sequence is the development of both design thinking and dexterity with tools. The focus of this design subject will be generating design ideas, translating them into architectural form/space/mater...

  • Architecture Design Studio: FireABPL30037

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

    The subject is the capstone subject for the Architecture major in the Bachelor of Environments. It is intended that the subject will integrate previous coursework in the major. The core of the undergraduate design sequence is the development of both design thinking and dexterity with tools. The f...

  • Architecture Design Studio: SparksABPL30058

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

    This subject is the 12.5 point capstone subject for the Architecture major students who commenced the Bachelor of Environments program prior to 2013. It is intended that the subject will integrate previous coursework in the major. The core of the undergraduate design sequence is the development o...

  • Architecture Design Studio: WaterABPL20028

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    This subject was formerly called Architecture Design Studio 2. The core of the undergraduate design sequence is the development of both design thinking and dexterity with tools. As an extension of 702-239 (ABPL20027) Architecture Design Studio 1: Earth, the focus of this second design subject wi...

  • Architecture in the Islamic WorldABPL30062

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2019 Year:2019

    This subject will offer an overview of the cosmopolitan origin and modern development of architecture in the Islamic world. Case studies from different regional contexts and historical periods will be examined to highlight the broad spectrum of political, cultural, social and environmental aspect...

  • Area Studies in EthnomusicologyMUSI20218

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2019 Year:2019

    This subject surveys traditional, art, and popular music-making in one major ethnographic region. Students learn how local musicians and listeners discuss, make, and assign value to different musical styles, while also exploring how these styles influence local society. Subject themes such as the...

  • Art and Indigenous VoiceAIND10004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019

    This subject is designed to give students a solid basis from which to start engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and cultural practice. Utilising both existing and new cultural frameworks, through lectures in cultural safety, traditional beliefs and culture, contemporary histo...

  • Art and RevolutionAHIS20016

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019

    What does the art of nineteenth-century Europe tell us about the society that made it? This period was marked by immense social and cultural change: political upheaval; rapid industrialisation; an expanding colonial empire; a society altered by shifting attitudes to class, race, gender, bodies, s...

  • Art and the BotanicalFINA20044

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term, February, June, Winter Term Year:2019Quotas apply

    This practice-based drawing subject focuses on developing skills and techniques in botanical drawing, using drawing and watercolour media. Students will be introduced to specialist botanical drawing techniques, working from both live plants and botanical specimens from the University Cultural Col...

  • Art Cinema and the Love StorySCRN30001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019

    This subject is a study of many manifestations of the love story represented in Australian, Italian, French, British and North American art cinema traditions. Through detailed close-analysis of a range of films, the subject explores topics such as romantic love, Surrealism and mad love, the marit...

  • Artefact and Performance 1THTR10022

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2019

    This subject will introduce students to significant objects, performance texts, ideas and artefacts in the history of world art, design and performance leading up to and including modernism. Each week in the lectures, a performance text and artefacts will be examined in detail both in their origi...

  • Artefact and Performance 2DPSS10005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2019

    Building on the material from Artefact and Performance 1, through a series of lectures and tutorials, this subject will introduce students to key performance texts and related artefacts, objects or artworks starting at the beginning of the twentieth century and leading to the present day.Each wee...