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  • Terror, Law and WarCRIM90015

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

    This subject considers and compares responses to terrorism. Of particular interest are legal responses, instigations of war, and the implementation of practices of rendition, arbitrary detention and torture. These practices have been argued to contravene due process and the presumption of innocen...

  • Tertiary Education Policy EnvironmentsMGMT90241

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Term 1 Year:2020

    In this subject, participants will engage in a series of webinars, online discussion groups, online multiple choice tests and an essay to develop their understanding of two main themes. Comparative Tertiary Education Policy Studies: How have different tertiary education systems and institutions ...

  • Text AnalyticsCOMP90075

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Term 2 Year:2020

    Text data is a primary form of data and its analysis can provide important insights into the behaviours and needs of individuals and organisations. This subject will introduce students to methods for analyzing text and unstructured data. The following topics will be covered: introduction to text...

  • Text and Audio JournalismMECM20013

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

    This subject teaches the craft of writing hard and soft news stories for a range of digital and print mass media news publications. With an emphasis on news writing, students learn what news is and how (and why) news priorities and story treatment may differ between print, broadcast and online.  ...

  • Textual RevelationsINDG40002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

    This subject is premised on the idea that certain key texts provide the means to gain insights and understanding of Aboriginal social realities and individual selves, in a manner qualitatively different to more empirically focused studies. Through deep and intensive readings, informed by appropri...

  • The Actors ProcessTHTR10007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Winter Term Year:2020Quotas apply

    The focus of this subject is on the actor’s process. Areas covered will include text analysis and the revelation of its interior world through action and improvisation. Students will learn to work spontaneously and to use this spontaneity in the theatrical context. The interface between acting sk...

  • The Age of Alexander the GreatANCW30016

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

    The aim of this subject is to introduce students to the archaeology and ancient history of the Mediterranean from the end of the Peloponnesian Wars between Athens and Sparta in 404 BC to the incorporation of Egypt in the Roman Empire after the death of Cleopatra (30 BC). From an overview of how P...

  • The Anthropological ImaginationANTH30013

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

    This is the Capstone subject for students majoring in Anthropology. Focusing on contemporary issues (such as relatedness, identity, personhood, value, modernity and embodiment) that have been encountered through the course of the Anthropology major, the subject is designed to enable students to r...

  • The Anthropology of DevelopmentDEVT90056

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:July Year:2020

    This subject offers an advanced introduction to the Anthropology of Development, covering key issues, theories and debates. The subject will focus on ways in which anthropological approaches can contribute to understandings of Development and to improved Development practices and outcomes. Starti...

  • The Architecture of Wishful ThinkingABPL90124

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

    This subject will explore utopian architecture and planning projects based on political idealism, wishful thinking and the prospects of technology. What does technology contribute to the creation of a modern utopia? Is technology the key to a democratic society without poverty and class warfare? ...

  • The Artist's BodyAHIS40007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020

    This subject focuses on contemporary artists' redefinitions of the body and work and, by extension, redefinitions of the artist and the artwork. Students will be introduced to contemporary theories of the body, artistic identity, and artistic authorship through an analysis of changing uses of the...

  • The Artist's ToolboxTHTR20023

    Undergraduate subject Offered:February, July Year:2020

    Having a “great idea” you want to get off the ground is one thing, being able to effectively describe, promote and manage it, is entirely another. “The Artist's Toolbox” provides aspiring artists, entrepreneurs, and project visionaries of all disciplines, with the management skills required to co...

  • The Art of Game MusicMUSI20173

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

    This subject introduces the basics of creating music for video games. Aspects of the function and crafting of music for game use including, sound and visual interactivity, indeterminacy and the music dramatic narrative will be examined. The Art of Game Music is delivered as a lecture and workshop...

  • The Art of Narrative PracticeSCWK90062

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 (Extended) Year:2020

    In this subject, students acquire a working knowledge of the diversity of ways in which narrative practices are being engaged with children young people and adults; with individuals, groups, organisations and communities; and in a range of different cultural contexts across the globe. Students ar...

  • The Art of Scientific ComputationCOMP90072

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2020

    The physical, social and engineering sciences make widespread use of numerical simulations and graphical representations that link underlying their theoretical foundations with experimental or empirical data. These approaches are routinely designed and conducted by researchers with little or no f...

  • The Art & Practice of the Personal EssayMULT90044

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:July Year:2020

    In this 12-hour seminar series students will read and discuss writing that explores complex ideas and issues in personal, engaging, and creative ways. These seminars will examine the rhetorical, narrative, and poetic strategies of the personal essay as a contribution to public intellectual discou...

  • Theatre Lab 1DRAM20026

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

    This subject introduces students to writing, directing, dramaturgy and performance making processes via scene work and contemporary rehearsal techniques. Working within an ensemble, Theatre students will explore historical, emerging, collaborative and mediated theatrical paradigms through practic...

  • Theatre Lab 2DRAM20027

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

    This subject extends students awareness of writing, directing, dramaturgy and performance making processes via contemporary generative work and responses to classical material. Working within an ensemble, Theatre students will explore working processes for stage and screen and be involved in the ...

  • Theatre Lab 3DRAM30025

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020

    This subject extends the Theatre maker in writing, directing, dramaturgy and performance techniques via the ongoing development of generative and interpretative projects and on overseas making experience. Students adapt and reframe the skills they have acquired, integrating them in contemporary g...

  • Theatre Lab 4DRAM30026

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020

    This subject is the final extension of the Theatre maker in generative and interpretative projects. Students adapt and reframe the skills they have acquired, integrating them into projects to be presented in a capstone project as part of a VCA Theatre Festival. Theatre makers refine their capacit...