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- Acting Skills 4MUST30002
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
In Acting Skills 4, students will develop skills for acting for camera. Working with a range of film and television scripts, students will continue to apply acting processes developed in previous years whilst responding to the particular demands of the medium. Classes will develop the student’s u...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Jayde Kirchert Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 Total time commitment 85 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
- Active PedagogiesEDUC90972
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Summer Term Year:2020
This elective explores active, participatory and critical approaches to the teaching and learning of literary texts for varying purposes and across a variety of educational environments. Students will learn how to plan and implement lessons and units of work that incorporate active-pedagogical te...
- Summer Term
Principal coordinator Richard Sallis Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 14 January 2020 to 22 January 2020 Last self-enrol date 15 January 2020 Census date 31 January 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 21 February 2020 Assessment period ends 11 March 2020
- Activism and Social Change in ChinaCHIN20030
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
The emergence of civil society and nongovernmental organizations in China reflects the rise of new social and political issues that have proven challenging for the Chinese state to address effectively. This subject examines the conditions under which certain ideas, organizational forms, and assoc...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Anthony Spires Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total of 24 hours: One 2-hour seminar 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
- Activism, Selves and HistoriesAIND40003
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020
This subject will investigate social and political processes intended to lead to the achievement of emancipatory goals. Specific Australian social movements and histories related to Aboriginal empowerment and social amelioration will be contextualised within theoretical frameworks including postc...
Not available in 2020
View details - Actuarial Analytics and Data IACTL30008
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
This subject aims to provide students with basic training on modern data analytics methods, which include linear regression, classification, resampling methods, spline-based methods, generalised additive models and tree-based methods. This subject focuses on applying the above methods to modellin...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Xueyuan Wu Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour computer lab 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
- Actuarial Analytics and Data IIACTL40012
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020
This subject aims to further develop students’ knowledge of modern analytical tools and techniques, including GLM, shrinkage techniques (e.g., LASSO and ridge regression), tree-based methods (e.g., random forests and GBM) and neural networks. It also teaches students to connect data analytics wor...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Rui Zhou Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of tutorial 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
- Actuarial Modelling IACTL30001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
This subject aims to provide students with a grounding in mathematical and statistical modelling techniques that are of particular relevance to actuarial work, covering survival models concepts, estimation procedures for lifetime distributions, multiple state models, binomial and Poisson models o...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Shuanming Li Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour 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
Prof. Shuanming Li shli@unimelb.edu.au
- Actuarial Modelling IIACTL30002
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
The aim of this subject is to provide students with grounding in mathematical and statistical modelling techniques that are of particular relevance to actuarial work, including methods of estimating mortality rates and assessing their adherence to data and smoothness, as well as techniques for mo...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Kevin Fergusson Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two x 1-hour lecture during semester; 1x1 hour tutorial per week commencing in second week of 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
- Actuarial Modelling IIIACTL30007
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
This subject aims to provide a grounding in stochastic modelling techniques that are of particular relevance to actuarial work in general insurance, covering loss distribution with and without risk sharing, calculation of moments and moment generating function of aggregate claims, recursion for...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Benjamin Avanzi Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour 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
Prof. Benjamin Avanzi: b.avanzi@unimelb.edu.au
- Actuarial Practice and Control IACTL40006
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
Topics include insurance markets and products; underwriting and risk assessment; policy design; actuarial modelling; actuarial assumptions and feedback; reserving methods.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator David Heath Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Four hours of lectures and/or tutorials 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
- Actuarial Practice And Control IACTL90010
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
Topics include insurance markets and products; underwriting and risk assessment; policy design; actuarial modelling; actuarial assumptions and feedback; reserving methods.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator David Heath Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Four hours of lectures and/or tutorials 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
- Actuarial Practice and Control IIACTL40007
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020
Topics include assessment of solvency; analysis of experience; analysis of surplus; actuarial techniques in the wider fields; and an introduction to professionalism.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator David Heath Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Four hours of lectures and/or tutorials 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
- Actuarial Practice and Control IIACTL90011
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020
Topics include assessment of solvency; analysis of experience; analysis of surplus; actuarial techniques in the wider fields; and an introduction to professionalism.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator David Heath Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 4 hours of lectures and/or tutorials 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
Email: dnheath@unimelb.edu.au
- Actuarial Practice and Control IIIACTL40009
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020
This subject covers analysis of investment portfolios and asset classes from the perspective of an appointed actuary, with a view to identifying assets that suit the requirements of a variety of general insurance, life insurance, superannuation and other defined benefit liabilities.
Not available in 2020
View details - Actuarial Practice and Control IIIACTL90009
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2020 Year:2020
Analysis of investment portfolios and asset classes from the perspective of an appointed actuary, with a view to identifying assets that suit the requirements of a variety of general insurance, life insurance, superannuation and other defined benefit liabilities.
Not available in 2020
View details - Actuarial Science Research Report Part 1ACTL90016
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2020
A research essay not exceeding 10,000 words on a topic approved by the Head of Department. The word count includes bibliography, footnotes, appendices and the number of words which would take up space used for tables, formulae and charts.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Zhuo Jin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours [overall total for enrolment in ACTL90016 and ACTL90017 over two consecutive semesters]. Total time commitment 340 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
Principal coordinator Zhuo Jin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours [overall total for enrolment in ACTL90016 and ACTL90017 over two consecutive semesters]. Total time commitment 340 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
- Actuarial Science Research Report Part 2ACTL90017
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2020
Refer to ACTL90016 Actuarial Science Research Report Part 1 for details
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Zhuo Jin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Refer to ACTL90016 Actuarial Science Research Report Part 1 for details 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
Principal coordinator Zhuo Jin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Refer to ACTL90016 Actuarial Science Research Report Part 1 for details 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
- Actuarial StatisticsACTL30004
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2020
This subject aims to provide students with grounding in advanced linear regression analysis which includes multiple linear regression, Spearman's and Kendall's measures of correlation, principal component analysis and generalised linear models. This subject also focuses on explaining the fundamen...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Enrique Calderin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial 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
- Actuarial Studies ProjectsACTL90013
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2020
This subject provides students with the experience of carrying out research independently on each of three topics chosen by the subject’s lecturers. It involves a two-semester program of study, (students must enrol in the subjects in two consecutive semesters). For each topic, the student is requ...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Rui Zhou Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A maximum of five 1-hour meetings per 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
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Rui Zhou Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A maximum of five 1-hour meetings per 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
- Actuarial Studies Projects Part 1ACTL40010
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2020
Students will be required to submit three assignments of between 3,000 and 3,500 words each, on dates specified at the start of the academic year. The word count includes bibliography, footnotes, appendices and the number of words which would take up space used for tables, formulae and charts.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Rui Zhou Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A series of, at most, five 1-hour meetings per 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