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- UB: Global Educ: Issues & OpportunitiesEDUC20079
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020
The module explores global issues in education and the different contexts in which children and young people learn and educators teach – in formal, non-formal and informal settings. It begins by introducing key concepts used in international education policy and practice. It presents information ...
Not available in 2020
View details - UK International TaxLAWS90054
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020Quotas apply
The aim is to overview the current UK international tax system, and its historical development. Focus will be on corporate taxation, but with some background on individuals (trust, partnerships etc will be mentioned only briefly). This will cover issues such as: residence and source definitions; ...
Not available in 2020
View details - Ultrasound Guided ProceduresMEDI90054
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2020
This subject will outline the technique of using ultrasound to guide percutaneous procedures. Procedures will include vessel access, nerve blocks, and trauma related procedures. There will be an elective of either "Nerve Blocks" or "Critical Care Procedures". Topics include: Ultrasound Guided V...
- Semester 1 - Online
Principal coordinator Colin Royse Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Off-campus (online) delivery Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 2 March 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020 Semester 1 contact information
Melbourne School of Professional and Continuing Education
Further Information: https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/courses/graduate/graduate-certificate-in-clinical-ultrasound/
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.auPhone: + 61 3 8344 0149Monday to Friday 8am to 9pm AEST/AEDT. Weekends and University of Melbourne observed Public Holidays 10am to 5pm AEST/AEDT. - Semester 2 - Online
Principal coordinator Colin Royse Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Off-campus (online) delivery Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 3 August 2020 to 1 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 14 August 2020 Census date 21 September 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 16 October 2020 Assessment period ends 27 November 2020 Semester 2 contact information
Melbourne School of Professional and Continuing Education
Further Information: https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/courses/graduate/graduate-certificate-in-clinical-ultrasound/
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.auPhone: + 61 3 8344 0149Monday to Friday 8am to 9pm AEST/AEDT. Weekends and University of Melbourne observed Public Holidays 10am to 5pm AEST/AEDT.
- Uncertainty, Vagueness and DisagreementPHIL40013
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
This subject tackles issues around information and when it is hard to deal with, because it is uncertain, imprecise or contested. We are often confronted by situations where we are uncertain, when our ideas are imprecise or ambiguous, and when we otherwise disagree and cannot seem to resolve this...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Greg Restall Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1 x 2 hour seminar each week for 12 weeks Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 2 March 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020 Semester 1 contact information
- Under Camera AnimationFINA20036
Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term, February, Winter Term, July Year:2020Quotas apply
In this subject each student will make a film using the “under camera animation” technique. This animation technique involves the creation of an animation through frame-by-frame imagery, photographing each frame with a tablet and then combining these photographs into an animated film. The potenti...
- Summer Term
Principal coordinator Celeste Chandler Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours Intensive Mode: 7hrs per day for 6 days (42 hours) Total time commitment 136 hours Teaching period 28 January 2020 to 4 February 2020 Last self-enrol date 29 January 2020 Census date 7 February 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 February 2020 Assessment period ends 17 February 2020 Summer Term contact information
Coordinator
Celeste Chandler
Breadth Coordinator for Visual Arts, Faculty of the Fine Arts and MusicContact
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment (including quota), class registration, special consideration enquiries:
For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, attendance or subject matter enquiries:
Celeste Chandler
- February
Principal coordinator Celeste Chandler Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours Intensive Mode: 7hrs per day for 6 days (42 hours) Total time commitment 136 hours Teaching period 5 February 2020 to 12 February 2020 Last self-enrol date 6 February 2020 Census date 14 February 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 18 February 2020 Assessment period ends 25 February 2020 February contact information
Coordinator
Celeste Chandler
Breadth Coordinator for Visual Arts, Faculty of the Fine Arts and MusicContact
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment (including quota), class registration, special consideration enquiries:
For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, attendance or subject matter enquiries:
Celeste Chandler
- Winter Term
Coordinator Colleen Ahern Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours Intensive Mode: 7hrs per day for 6 days (42 hours) Total time commitment 136 hours Teaching period 6 July 2020 to 13 July 2020 Last self-enrol date 7 July 2020 Census date 10 July 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 17 July 2020 Assessment period ends 27 July 2020 - July
Coordinator Colleen Ahern Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours Intensive Mode: 7hrs per day for 6 days (42 hours) Total time commitment 136 hours Teaching period 14 July 2020 to 21 July 2020 Last self-enrol date 15 July 2020 Census date 24 July 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 July 2020 Assessment period ends 3 August 2020
- Understanding Australian MediaMECM20006
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
This subject examines Australian media with an emphasis on its political nature and issues of media convergence, citizenship, policy, regulation, ownership, governance and local content. Students are encouraged to actively, and critically, examine their own media use. Drawing on this, and a range...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Alexandra Dane Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: 1 hour lecture and 1.5 hour tutorial/lab session per week. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 2 March 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020 Semester 1 contact information
- Understanding Big Data for Public PolicyPPMN90055
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020
Policy makers need to under what big data is, how it is used, and what ethical and practical issues using big data to make decisions will raise in the 21st Century. They do not need to be programmers. They need to understand, at a high level, the issues involved in using big data for public polic...
Not available in 2020
View details - Understanding Education in ContextEDUC90929
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
This subject examines education policy and practice in social and historical context. The subject will provide students with an opportunity to examine key national and international debates in education policy and practice in relation to shifting social, political, economic and political relation...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Mary Leahy Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 2 March 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020 Semester 1 contact information
- Understanding Education PolicyEDUC90951
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
This subject examines education policy in an international context. Students will examine the nature and role of education policy, the intersection with other social and economic policies, and the key conceptual ideas underpinning contemporary policy. Through this subject, students will analyse t...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Mary Leahy Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 2 March 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020 Semester 1 contact information
- Understanding Knowing and LearningEDUC10050
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020
This subject will lead students to increase their understanding of various ways of knowing and learning while developing personal theories of learning and its enhancement. This will be achieved through exploration of a range of theoretical perspectives combined with practical application. Theoret...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Chris McCaw Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours (1 x 1-hour lecture and 1 x 2-hour seminar each week) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 3 August 2020 to 1 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 14 August 2020 Census date 21 September 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 16 October 2020 Assessment period ends 27 November 2020 Semester 2 contact information
- Understanding MasksTHTR30039
Undergraduate subject Offered:Winter Term Year:2020Quotas apply
What is a “mask”? Students will endeavour to answer this question by exploring the history, cultural and performative function of mask in a wide variety of social contexts. This research will be supplemented with practical studio sessions in mask design and making, processes and materials. Stude...
- Winter Term
Coordinator Justin Green Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 60 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 6 July 2020 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period there may be some preparatory tasks, reading and/or a student questionnaire. Teaching period 13 July 2020 to 24 July 2020 Last self-enrol date 7 July 2020 Census date 17 July 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 July 2020 Assessment period ends 7 August 2020 Winter Term contact information
- Understanding Media & CommunicationsMECM90039
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2020
This subject provides students with foundational case studies and conceptual frameworks for understanding the history of media technologies, institutions, practices, and products. Students will develop a critical understanding of the issues and debates surrounding the complex transformation of me...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Lauren Bliss Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1 x 1 hour Lecture and 1 x 2 hour seminar, taught weekly Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 2 March 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020 Semester 1 contact information
- Semester 2
Coordinator Lauren Bliss Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1 x 1 hour Lecture and 1 x 2 hour seminar, taught weekly Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 3 August 2020 to 1 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 14 August 2020 Census date 21 September 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 16 October 2020 Assessment period ends 27 November 2020 Semester 2 contact information
- Understanding Planet EarthERTH10002
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020
This subject will allow students to gain a deeper understanding of the processes governing the geological evolution of the Earth. This will be achieved via the lecture series, practical sessions and a three-day field trip, providing hands-on and theoretical investigations employing Victoria’s geo...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Anne-Marie Tosolini Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 2 x one hour lectures per week for eleven weeks; 1 x three hour practical class per week for twelve weeks; 3 days of field excursion during the mid-semester recess Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 3 August 2020 to 1 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 14 August 2020 Census date 21 September 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 16 October 2020 Assessment period ends 27 November 2020 Semester 2 contact information
Email: a.tosolini@unimelb.edu.au
- Understanding PovertyDEVT20004
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020
The literature on poverty identifies its causes as both economic and cultural. This subject aims to develop students understanding on the local and international economic factors producing poverty, as well as, its culture-bound causes and manifestations. Using poverty concepts in Development Stud...
Not available in 2020
View details - Understanding SchoolsEDUC90751
Graduate coursework subject Offered:September Year:2020
The structure, organisation and culture of schools are critically explored through the conceptual tool of framing. Several frames are used to understand the typical forms schools take, and how people are organized in these forms. Re-framing, organizational behaviour, and successful school leaders...
- September
Principal coordinator Lawrie Drysdale Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 5 August 2020 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period, students will be required to complete reading that will be provided via LMS. Teaching period 11 September 2020 to 17 October 2020 Last self-enrol date 12 August 2020 Census date 11 September 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 2 October 2020 Assessment period ends 1 November 2020 September contact information
- Understanding SocietySOCI10001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
This subject explores our contemporary society through sociological perspectives. Students will be encouraged to develop what C Wright-Mills describes as a 'sociological imagination', which seeks to understand the ways in which our identities are formed by social structures and historical pattern...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Dan Woodman Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 35 Contact Hours: 2 x one hour lectures and 1 x one hour tutorial per week for 12 weeks. No tutorials in Week 1. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 2 March 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020 Semester 1 contact information
- Understanding the Built EnvironmentABPL10005
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
This subject provides a broad introduction to the processes and skills associated with the construction of buildings and introduces some of the techniques used in managing the construction process. The characteristics and nature of the construction industry are presented as well as an overview of...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Robert Crawford Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 2 X 1 hour lectures and 90 minutes tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 2 March 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020 Semester 1 contact information
Email: rhcr@unimelb.edu.au
- Understanding the Gulf StatesISLM90015
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020
This dynamic and interdisciplinary subject adopts an industry and policy-orientated approach to analysing the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states that will be of considerable benefit to students keen to internationalise their learning. ‘Understanding the Gulf States’ combines the academic exper...
Not available in 2020
View details - Understanding The Life CourseSOCI40003
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020
This subject introduces a life course approach to social issues. Life course research is a relatively new and innovative approach in the social sciences which has developed in recent decades. It brings back in a time dimension into social research and systematically links social changes on the ma...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Liz Dean Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 contact hours: A 2-hour seminar per week for 12 weeks. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 3 August 2020 to 1 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 14 August 2020 Census date 21 September 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 16 October 2020 Assessment period ends 27 November 2020 Semester 2 contact information
- Understanding the New Media in ChinaCHIN30024
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
This subject engages with the new form of language used in the modern media in China, including its written, audio and visual forms. It explores its roots and meanings and the factors which led to its emergence.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Ruonan Zeng Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A total of 36 hours: A 1-hour lecture and a 2-hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 2 March 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020 Semester 1 contact information