Subjects

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

It is a commonplace that we live in globalised world. But what does this mean in theory and in practice? How did we get to this point? And how do we interpret the processes that underpin our global world? This subject examines the origins of the interconnected global paradigm from its origins in ...

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

Melbourne is often described as one of the ‘world’s most liveable cities’. What makes Melbourne such a vibrant city and how did it get there? Did you know that the siting of the Melbourne CBD is actually related to ancient volcanic eruptions? The geology and natural environment around Melbourne p...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

People drawn to metaphysics can sometimes have the view that ethics is messy, imprecise, and not sufficiently rule-governed. People drawn to ethics can sometimes have the view that metaphysics is abstract, technical, and insufficiently attentive to real-world issues and concerns. But metaphysics ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

The subject explores a range of Spanish musical styles from the middle ages to the present day, and their interaction with European and American musical traditions. Topics include aspects of early music, opera and music theatre, concert music, film music, contemporary popular music, flamenco and ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

The subject explores a range of Spanish musical styles from the middle ages to the present day, and their interaction with European and American musical traditions. Topics include aspects of early music, opera and music theatre, concert music, film music, contemporary popular music, flamenco and ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

This subject examines music production and the role of the music producer. It surveys the development of music production from early multi-track techniques to contemporary use of beats, loops and samples. Aspects of the function and crafting of sound elements will be examined in the context of e...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

Our central question in this subject will be the extent to which our everyday experiences are determined by the nature of the world itself versus the extent to which they're determined by the structure of our own minds. Our approach to this question will be multi-faceted, drawing on philosophical...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

Fourier series and Fourier transforms are introduced as a means of representing and analysing functions of physical significance. The mathematical principles of Fourier theory are developed within the physical context of Fourier optics, diffraction theory, quantum mechanics and signal processing....

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject will introduce topics in Theoretical Physics, including: Classical Field Theory: Action Principles and Noether’s Theorem. Electrodynamics and wave equations from action principle. Applications selected from: waves in media, dispersion relations, solitons, Kramers-Kronig relations, t...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This capstone subject examines the theory and practice of art history. Through a survey of the different approaches to the study of art which have emerged since the early modern period the subject will provide students with a fundamental grounding in the methodologies of the discipline. Students ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

Neuroscience, cognitive science, and computer science are making huge strides in modelling the human brain’s information processing systems, from visual discrimination of faces to the neural circuitry and hormones that control our emotional reactions. But can these disciplines fully explain all a...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject examines the nature of philosophy itself.  Students will read what many great philosophers have said about the methods, aims, and ambitions of philosophy.  They will examine how these views have been applied in thinking about various areas of philosophy, e.g. metaphysics, philosophy ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

This subject introduces ideas developed in feminist theory about the social and political construction of areas of experience relating to the body, gender and sexuality. Issues analysed in the subject include reproduction, eating disorders, pornography, sex work, sexual violence, sexual orientati...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject deals with the power and limits of logic. We will cover some of the great conceptual advances in logic in the 20th Century, which have revolutionised our understanding of logic and language, of models and meaning, and of concepts and computation. We will examine the conceptual founda...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject covers phenomena such as hallucinations and delusions, anxiety, somatisation, depression, dissociation, and changes in memory and cognition, and places them in the context of everyday experiences. It discusses the various factors, processes and mechanisms thought to lead some people ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:February Year:2024

This subject is an introduction, in English translation, to the most important text of Islam, the Qur'an, which Muslims regard as the primary source of Islam. Students will study: the origins of the Qur'an, its overall structure and content, major themes, approaches to its interpretation, and its...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

This subject seeks to engage and excite students in an interactive series of ‘lectorials' which examine the social, political, and cultural history of the many central and northern Italian cities which participated in the culture known as the Renaissance. With special case studies of Florence and...

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

This subject provides students with the tools and skills necessary to devise and conduct professional research in music at graduate level. Through group discussions and peer review sessions students will engage with the key principles of research and academic writing and apply them to a context r...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

The turbulent and exciting history of the Roman Republic roughly spanned some five centuries: from its humble beginnings around 500 BCE to the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March 44 BCE. The first part of this subject celebrating this formative period in world history discusses ea...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

In this subject students will read a selection of novels in French (from the Middle Ages to nowadays) in order to understand the evolution of the French novel. They will have to analyse the narrative structures and demonstrate critical awareness of the social, political and ideological context of...