Subjects

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

This subject teaches students to conceptualise and undertake an ethnographic research project on music-making in the contemporary world. Through in-class activities, students learn to make fieldnotes, engage in participant-observation, conduct interviews, and use performance as a research tool. T...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:July Year:2020

This subject focuses on current debates on the European Union (EU) as an International Actor in foreign policy, diplomacy and trade. It introduces students to conceptual and analytical debates and public discourses on the EU's political development and external role. It examines the context of it...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

This subject will train students in a diverse range of core research methods utilised in the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences. Each of our laboratory heads will deliver a special seminar explaining the operation of a particular research method, and demonstrating how it is applied to so...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

The figure is one of the elements available to be manipulated by the designer in the development of a design for performance. An audience reads (either consciously or unconsciously) that figure through its relationship to its environment, and how it presents itself to the viewer. The human figure...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

This subject examines the growth of Islamic civilisation in the period between the revelation of the Quran and the Spanish Christian reconquest of Granada in 1492. The study focuses on the Arabic speaking areas of western Asia, North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, and its aim is to understand ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

We naturally try to make sense of what other people write, say, and think. But what are the principles governing this activity of interpretation? Is the correct interpretation of an article from the New York Times, of a fictional text like Madame Bovary, or of Shakespeare’s sonnets determined by ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

In 1789 huge numbers of French peasants, urban workers and middle-class people successfully rebelled against absolute monarchy and the privileges of the nobility. But the struggle over what social and political system should replace the 'Old Regime' was to divide French people and finally the who...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020

New advanced technologies are transforming and disrupting traditional healthcare and biomedical research, driven by data of unprecedented volume, variety and velocity. The discipline of Health and Biomedical informatics provides insights, tools and methods to shape this increasingly complex scena...

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

The Future of Leadership is a practical, two-day course that examines and begins to develop the skills and knowledge required to position participants to be effective today and tomorrow. The subject has an intervention design with a full-day facilitated workshop, a four-week intervention period, ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term Year:2020Quotas apply

The way we work is changing. The forces of globalisation, technological advancement and population pressures are reshaping the nature and meaning of ‘work’. Graduates entering the new world of work face a revolution in working practices and organisational culture. There are greater opportunities ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

This subject is an introduction to Geology, Geography, Climate and Environmental Science. It provides an overview of the processes controlling the formation and evolution of our global environment. We begin by exploring the origin of the Earth as a planet within the solar system, its layered stru...

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

This subject is a systematic examination of the major elements of English grammar using principles of linguistic analysis. The subject is delivered through a ‘blended learning’ approach, with a mixture of online and intensive on-campus teaching modes, and extensive resources, including video inte...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

The Great War, the ‘seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century’, now lies more than a century behind us, but its aftershocks continue to reverberate down to the present. This subject aims to globalise the history of the war, as well as paying special attention to Australia’s war experience. Stu...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020

Young people have been influential forces of transformation, innovation and even revolution across the centuries and around the globe. Yet their crucial role in driving historical change has been ignored until relatively recently. Although we were all children once, scholars are increasingly reco...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

James Dean, Marlene Dietrich, James Brown, Frida Kahlo, Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, and David Bowie. What do these people have in common? They were cool. Cool is an elusive essence recognised in artists, musicians, actors and other icons that generations have attempted to capture. This subject...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

The twentieth century has been labelled the “Age of Genocide”. This subject will provide a detailed examination of the Holocaust, the archetype of modern genocide, as part of a broader global history of genocide and mass violence. The subject includes case studies from Europe, Africa and the Asia...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

This subject examines domestic realist fiction as a genre and cultural institution, from Jane Austen’s early nineteenth century country-house novel to the contemporary graphic novel. It provides an introduction to narratology, the critical framework for the study of narrative fiction. Considering...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

There are more connections in a human brain than there are stars in the universe. This subject focuses on the brain as an integrated system and looks at how its many connected networks achieve coordinated effects, linking the mind to the brain and the body. In exploring integration across the ne...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2020

This subject introduces the basics of sound recording on a laptop computer. Aspects of sound recording including microphone use, recording set up, editing and production will be examined. The Laptop Recording Studio is delivered in two parts: lecture and workshop. Lecture is taught in a large gro...

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

This subject provides a critical examination of the development and current scope of sports bodies’ duty of care to participants, as relevant to athlete welfare, wellbeing and safety. It will focus on the federal and Victorian jurisdictions but will also be informed by international and comparati...