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- World Economic HistoryECON90056
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020
This subject provides an introduction to the development of economic activity and material well-being in the world since the year 1000 A.D. The main objectives are to present an overview of the main phases and episodes in the evolution of the world economy, and to develop an understanding of the ...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Laura Panza Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 3 hours of lectures/seminars per 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
- World Music Choir 1MUSI20143
Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term, Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2020
This subject introduces students to unaccompanied vocal traditions from around the world. Through weekly lectures, students learn to recognise the musical, social, and political significance of traditional and contemporary vocal styles of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas. In weekly rehearsal...
- Summer Term
Principal coordinator Nicholas Tochka Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours, comprising one 2-hour lecture and two 2-hour tutorials per week. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 6 January 2020 to 14 February 2020 Last self-enrol date 14 January 2020 Census date 17 January 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 February 2020 Assessment period ends 21 February 2020 Summer Term contact information
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Nicholas Tochka
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Nicholas Tochka Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours, comprising one 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour rehearsal each week during semester. 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
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Nicholas Tochka
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Nicholas Tochka Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours, comprising one 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour rehearsal each week during semester. 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
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Nicholas Tochka
- World Trade Organisation LawLAWS50109
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020Quotas apply
The regulation of international trade is both a driver and a result of economic globalization. Under the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO), governments agree to liberalise trade, refrain from discriminating between like products from foreign countries, harmonise certain regulatory framewo...
Not available in 2020
View details - Writing About Art and the Moving ImageAHIS90008
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020
This subject will introduce students to the theory and practice of writing on contemporary art and the moving image. The distinct professional genres in which art writing is practised will be analysed as will the recent history of art theory. The subject will survey innovations and developments t...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Charles Green Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 24 hours: 12 x 2 hour seminar per week throughout semester. 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
- Writing a Literature ReviewEDUC90867
Graduate coursework subject Offered:March Year:2020
This subject teaches doctoral students how to identify, analyse and synthesise published research findings that are of a high quality and relevant to their own research. Building upon this, it teaches students how to locate their own proposed research projects and questions within the broader res...
- March
Coordinator Peter Woelert Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 4 March 2020 to 29 April 2020 Last self-enrol date 16 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 8 May 2020 Assessment period ends 24 May 2020 March contact information
- Writing and Editing for Digital MediaPUBL90006
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2020
This introductory subject is designed to induct graduate students into the major issues and current thinking in web-based communication; to familiarize students with the major channels and platforms in use in this field; to develop an understanding of online genres, and teach essential writing an...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Claire Parnell Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: 1x1-hour lecture and 1x1.5-hour tutorial, taught weekly. 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
- Semester 2
Coordinator Alexandra Dane Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: 1x1-hour lecture and 1x1.5-hour tutorial, taught weekly. 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
- Writing and Editing for MagazinesPUBL90013
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
This subject provides an overview of magazine writing, editing and publishing, with special emphasis on the skills needed to successfully produce magazines today. We examine how magazine editors conceive of audiences, and how they create print and digital magazines that serve the needs and desire...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Matt Holden Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 24 hours: 1x two hour workshop, taught weekly 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
- Writing and Publishing ReportsMGMT90134
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020
This subject will help students to become better and more skilled readers and writers of research in the fields of business and commerce. Students will build competencies in academic literacy that will be directed toward reading, writing, and publishing in both corporate and academic contexts. Th...
Not available in 2020
View details - Writing and RewritingFLTV70044
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
Following on from ‘Major Script Project’ the previous semester, students undertake to write subsequent drafts of their script. Students are expected to submit as a minimum a completed second draft long form script; (most likely a feature film script) plus accompanying short documents, or televis...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Ben Michael Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 48 Total time commitment 320 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
- Writing Animation 1FLTV10018
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
An introduction to storytelling, narrative and non-narrative structures, characters and worlds. There is an emphasis on understanding the writing in an historical context in writing for an animation production. Students attend 12 lectures that include screenings and discussions. Additional unsupe...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Paul Fletcher Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 12 weeks x 3.5 hour lecture Total time commitment 120 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
- Writing Animation 2FLTV20019
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
WRITING ANIMATION 2 Advanced investigating and writing animation building on objectives accomplished in Writing Animation 1. In addition to further studies in fictional story and non-narrative writing, students will engage in writing from other perspectives and sources using adaptation and respon...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Paul Fletcher Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 42 hours Total time commitment 120 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
- Writing as Women: Critical ReadingsENGL90002
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020
This subject is designed to introduce graduate students to a sequence of key women's texts across major historical periods. The set readings, which are all considered ‘seminal’ in feminist literary studies, span a number of different genres: polemic, memoir, epistolary non-fiction, the essay and ...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Deirdre Coleman Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 12 hours: 6 x 2 hour seminars, delivered fortnightly. Total time commitment 85 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
- Writing AustraliaCWRI40014
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020
In this subject students study a number of recent Australian literary works selected from a range of genres. The emphasis is on contemporary work. The approach will include discussion of ways of reading, and production of creative responses to the selected texts. Students will read one significan...
Not available in 2020
View details - Writing for Performance 1 (Solo)THTR70008
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
In this practice-based subject the student writer undertakes a range of writing classes and exercises with the aim of developing techniques for the generation and structuring of original material for live performance; in working to a brief in diverse professional circumstances; and in evolving an...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Raimondo Cortese Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 72 Total time commitment 120 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
Faculty of the VCA and Music Student Centre
Ground Floor, Elisabeth Murdoch Building (Bldg 860)
Southbank Campus
234 St Kilda Road, Southbank, 3006
Enquiries
Phone: 13 MELB (13 6352)
Email: 13MELB@unimelb.edu.au
- Writing for Performance 2 (Collab)THTR70009
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
In this practice-based subject the student writer undertakes a range of writing classes and exercises with the aim of developing techniques for the generation and structuring of original material for live performance within a collaborative context; in working to a brief in diverse professional ci...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Raimondo Cortese Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 48 Total time commitment 120 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
Raimondo Cortese
- Writing for Performance 3 (Portfolio)THTR70010
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020
In this subject students work to develop both solo and group work seeded in semester one. A portfolio of writing projects is created, including one major, full-length work and one minor, shorter work, in different forms. Students have the option to write in different forms (plays, postdramatic te...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Raimondo Cortese Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 48 Total time commitment 360 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
Faculty of the VCA and Music Student Centre
Ground Floor, Elisabeth Murdoch Building (Bldg 860)
Southbank Campus
234 St Kilda Road, Southbank, 3006
Enquiries
Phone: 13 MELB (13 6352)
Email: 13MELB@unimelb.edu.au
- Writing for ScreenCWRI20009
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020
In this subject students will be introduced to the history of screenwriting and the principles of the craft of writing scripts for screen. Students will read and respond to a variety of scripts written for screen. Students will also be required to write a short original screenplay. This subject i...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Radha O'Meara Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 36 hours: A 2 hour lecture weekly, for first six weeks of semester only and a 2.5 hour workshop per week (max 15 students per workshop), across the semester. 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
- Writing for TelevisionFLTV70043
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
Students will be introduced to the imperatives and practices of writing for longer form television series. Students will be made familiar with contemporary TV program development practices and gain an understanding of essential development documents such as the TV series ‘Bible’. Students will ...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Ben Michael Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 50 Total time commitment 140 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
- Writing for the MediaMECM40011
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
This subject provides students with the skills to write at an advanced journalistic level. Lectures will present students with techniques that will enhance skills in interviewing, news judgement, narrative technique, researching, framing ideas, developing contacts and using off the record informa...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Sonja Molnar Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 36 hours: a 1-hr lecture and a 2-hr 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
- Writing for the Youth Screen MarketFLTV20018
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020
This subject introduces students to the world of writing screen product for children, tweens and young teenagers with a focus on youth television. Through a series of workshops, presentations and screenings, students will gain insight into what makes successful kid’s programming and will develop ...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Annabelle Murphy Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 41 hours Total time commitment 120 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
Annabelle Murphy almurphy@unimelb.edu.au