Subjects

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

The sense of national literature formed quite soon in colonial Australia, which saw a remarkable level of literary activity across a range of genres. This subject looks at what a national literature means, and how it makes itself significant to the nation and beyond. It will think about coloniali...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Year Long Year:2020

This subject provides students with an introduction to biomedical research via lectures, workshops and tutorials. It comprises a range of coursework to complement the accompanying research subjects (PAED40001 and PAED40005). This subject is designed to enhance students’ understanding of the broad...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

This subject examines the art of the illuminated manuscript and its importance in medieval and Renaissance culture. It introduces students to the basic elements of codicology - the study of the physical structure of the book - and it focuses on the relationship between text and decoration. Studen...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

This subject introduces the business practices of the music industry. Aspects of copyright, marketing, law, management, contracts, sales, distribution, ownership, and merchandising will be examined in relation to areas such as touring, recording deals, digital streaming, live performance, music p...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

This subject provides an overview of the major factors affecting the local and global production, marketing and distribution of books, magazines and electronic publications. It considers the impact of political, social and economic conditions, technological changes, and changing industry practice...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020

In the age of automation, working means either getting endless, short terms, and precarious “gigs,” or becoming part of massive international corporations. This subject explores the relations and tensions between these two worlds, focusing on recent ethnographic work on the gig-economy and large ...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:July Year:2020

Cosmopolitanism is an ideal that has persisted in different forms throughout many civilizations. It has been influential in anthropology, art history, political theory and cultural studies. More recently, there has been an attempt to relate this concept to non-Western theories of universalism, be...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020

This subject explores the three currents that social and critical theorising grows out of: the Enlightenment, revolutionary tradition and romanticism. It critically assesses these currents through an examination of the works of key classical critical and social theorists. Students completing this...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

This subject will introduce students to ways of seeing, understanding, articulating and researching dance and other art forms. Through 12 x 1 hour lectures and 12 x 2 hr tutorials, historical, political and social issues relating to dance and the arts in the 20th and 21st centuries will be discus...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

This subject is an introduction to the developing world and development studies from the perspectives of Anthropology, Political Science, Economics, Sociology and Geography. Beginning with a critical examination of the legacies of colonialism, we will ask to what extent they can be argued to have...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

This subject explores the impact that digital technologies have had in the world of screen media and in mediating the world around us. Film and television had, over the last century, become an integral part of reality. Since the advent of the digital era, screen media have become even more integr...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

This subject examines the impacts of disasters in cities. It will explore why some groups are more vulnerable to particular hazards than others, while considering the role of social capital and adaptation for increasing the resilience of urban communities to disasters.This is important because th...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

The question of what drives scientific change has been central to the history and philosophy of science ever since Thomas Kuhn’s landmark work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962. In this subject, we examine recent work by historians, philosophers and sociologists of science on the dy...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

This subject examines the arts and culture as part of an economic system. Students are introduced to diverse approaches to the economic characterisation of arts and cultural production including culture as a public good, the creative industries paradigms and the role of taxation policies and priv...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020

Topics include review of the economic framework for analysing decision making; background to the Australian and other relevant taxation systems; issues and controversies in relation to the tax system and taxpayer decisions; objectives of tax collectors and taxpayers; why taxes exist; options and ...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

This subject explores planning and policy making for productive and competitive urban settlements by investigating the economic drivers, activities, and interrelationships of cities and regions. You will examine how making and moving of goods, services, and jobs shapes the vitality, structure and...

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

This course explores creative work in many fields that use technology as the core of its work. The use of electronics in The Visual Arts, Video, Experimental Film, Music and Sound Art, Theatre, Installations, Advertising, Multimedia and Design are covered from different perspectives and examined ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

Like most people in today's world, you live in a capitalist system: You participate in the labour market, you exercise economic freedoms like property and contract, and you respect other peoples freedoms. Capitalist systems have proven good at producing goods and services. But do they give us jus...

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

Within the context of video games, is it appropriate to judge a legitimate action or even a more sustained gaming strategy as morally good or bad? Should virtual enactments within video games be something to warrant moral interest? If so, should there be a limit to what can be enacted or represen...

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...