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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 ...

  • 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; ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.