Subjects

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020

This three-week study abroad subject is taught intensively on location primarily in Paris and in Angers at the Centre National De Danse Contemporaine. Students will immerse themselves in the rich culture and history of Paris, drawing on architecture, museums, galleries and performances to inform ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020

This three-week study abroad subject is taught intensively on location primarily in Paris at the Centre National De Danse Contemporaine. Students will immerse themselves in the rich culture and history of Paris, drawing on architecture, museums, galleries and performances to inform and inspire th...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term Year:2020Quotas apply

In this travelling studio students will engage in a two-week immersive experience in a country of the Asia- Pacific region involving workshops in traditional theatre making where design plays a key role. The designed components may include puppetry, costume, masks, properties and/or scenic elemen...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:September Year:2020Quotas apply

Travelling studios are working laboratories for design thought and production and involve the exploration of complex, real-life issues. They expose students to unfamiliar cultures, places and people, and stimulate their ability to think creatively and solve problems. These studios aim to bring t...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020Quotas apply

Travelling studios are working laboratories for design thought and production and involve the exploration of complex, real-life practical issues. They expose students to unfamiliar cultures, places and people, and stimulate their ability to think creatively and solve problems. At the same time, i...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Summer Term Year:2020Quotas apply

Travelling studios are working laboratories for design thought and production, and involve the exploration of complex, real-life issues. They expose students to unfamiliar cultures, places and people, and stimulate their ability to think creatively and solve problems. These studios aim to bring t...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:January Year:2020Quotas apply

Travelling studios are working laboratories for design thought and production, and involve the exploration of complex, real-life issues. They expose students to unfamiliar cultures, places and people, and stimulate their ability to think creatively and solve problems. These studios aim to bring t...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2020

This subject consists of a structured reading program and assignments and a series of seminars presented by practitioners on various aspects of Treasury Management and related themes. Topics covered include issues such as treasury functions, international borrowings, corporate ratings, foreign ex...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

This subject aims to familiarize students with the tools commonly used for identifying and estimating tretment effects and evaluating programs and policies. Topics to be covered include the use and interpretation of Difference in Difference, Instrumental Variables, and Regression Discontinuity De...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020Quotas apply

Treaties are negotiated agreements between nations and peoples. In this subject we address treaty-making as a practice of comparative law and agreement-making between Indigenous nations and settler institutions. We will interrogate the comparative law, policy, theory and history of agreement-maki...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:February Year:2020

Environmental stresses such as drought, extreme heat and severe wind events are increasing in their severity in urban environments. This subject aims to help students understand how and why urban trees are vulnerable to such stresses. Urban tree biology and function is constantly compromised thro...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:September Year:2020

This subject aims to provide students with a thorough understanding of the tree selection and tree identification principles. Students should be able to recognise trees commonly used in landscape horticulture and correctly write their botanical, common and family names and describe tree form and ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

This subject has two components. Personality: discusses major contemporary issues in the study of personality, and selected areas of contemporary research. Topics will be selected from the neuroscience of personality; personality processes; the emotional and motivational correlates of personalit...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

Students will acquire knowledge of the recent and important developments in biotechnology related to agriculture and food and develop an understanding of local and global issues in biotechnology in relation to environment health and sustainable crop and animal production. This subject will provid...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020Quotas apply

This field work subject takes place in the Daintree Rainforest Observatory in Northern Queensland, and provides an overall perspective on the biology of Australian terrestrial animals, including both vertebrates and invertebrates. A key aim is for students to gain experience in designing and cond...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

Questions of trust, effective communication, and judging credibility, are integral to the assessment of knowledge claims both within science and in the context of public debate. Questions about trust and legitimate communication consequently arise every day in a range of professional contexts, fo...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020

This subject is an advanced seminar which examines specific moments in twentieth-century Italian art. Exploring a broad range of visual culture in modern Italy, the syllabus will cover artistic developments and critical debates in painting, sculpture, film, architecture and industrial design. Thi...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

This subject offers a broad introduction to contemporary theories and methods used in the production and critique of architecture in the context of current practice. Architectural concepts such as program, diagram, transparency, tectonics, materiality, and ornament will be explored along with the...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

The subject covers both South and North Koreas’ international relations since the establishment of the governments in 1948 until today. It deals with two Koreas’ political and ideological divergence since the end of WWII and how two Koreas have formed two totally different diplomatic, economic an...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:February Year:2020

This subject involves a study of an approved topic in global public policy and international relations. Details of the program being offered will be available from the School. Students who complete this subject successfully should have demonstrated a specialist understanding of the topic, contrib...