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  • The Economics of TaxationECON30016

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    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 ...

  • The Electronic Arts: Vision and SoundCCDP10002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject 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...

  • The Environmental ScreenscapeSCRN30005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject explores the ecological implications of media technologies and the ways they mediate the world around us. We will investigate the materials and energy used in screen media today, and the ecological consequences of work practices and design choices. Far from dematerialising culture, t...

  • The Ethics of CapitalismPHIL20044

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Just about any problem in the world is frequently blamed on capitalism: inequality, wage stagnation, consumerism, climate change, precarious work, unemployment, high rent and latte prices – you name it! Capitalism has a clear image problem, but is it really the root of all evil? And what is capit...

  • The Ethnography of MusicMUSI30053

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    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 field notes, engage in participant-observation, conduct interviews, and use performance as a research tool....

  • The Ethnography of Music (Honours)MUSI40079

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    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. ...

  • The Figure in PerformanceFINA20041

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    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 figur...

  • The Foundations of InterpretationPHIL30024

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    We read all the time: graffiti, text messages, articles in The New York Times, fiction like Harry Potter or Shakespeare’s sonnets, scientific reports, or even philosophy articles. But what exactly is involved in understanding these texts? “The goal of interpretation is to reconstruct the author’...

  • The French Media: From Ink to LinkFREN30025

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject will consider the French news media landscape from a historical point of view where the French nation-state played a central role as a regulatory body, to new forms of ownership and deregulation in global contexts of news production and consumption. Students will examine the historic...

  • The French Media: From Ink to LinkFREN20024

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject will consider the French news media landscape from a historical point of view where the French nation-state played a central role as a regulatory body, to new forms of ownership and deregulation in global contexts of news production and consumption. Students will examine the historic...

  • The French Pacific in a Global ContextFREN20021

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Winter Term Year:2024Quotas apply

    This subject, which includes an intensive in-country component, will explore the history, politics and socio-cultural contexts of the French-speaking Pacific. The selected destination will vary. Typically, the in-country component will take place in New Caledonia or French Polynesia. Please conta...

  • The French Pacific in a Global ContextFREN30019

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Winter Term Year:2024Quotas apply

    This subject, which includes an intensive in-country component, will explore the history, politics and socio-cultural contexts of the French-speaking Pacific. The selected destination will vary. Typically, the in-country component will take place in New Caledonia or French Polynesia. Please conta...

  • The French RevolutionHIST20068

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    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...

  • The Future of WorkMGMT30019

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term Year:2024

    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 ...

  • The Global EnvironmentEVSC10001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject is an introduction to Geoscience, 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 layered structure of the Earth, both solid and fluid constituent prope...

  • The History of Cool: Fashion & AttitudeDPSS10007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject has been designed and developed for online delivery and assessment only. 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, musi...

  • The Holocaust & GenocideHIST20013

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    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...

  • The House of Fiction: Literary RealismENGL20025

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject introduces students to the multifaceted, dynamic and changing genre of domestic realist fiction, from the early nineteenth-century country-house novel to recent forms such as the graphic novel and the contemporary global novel of immigrant and cosmopolitan life. Reading eight novels ...

  • The Integrated BrainPSYC30020

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    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...

  • The Laptop Recording StudioMUSI20174

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject has been designed and developed for online delivery and assessment only. 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 ...