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  • Understanding The Life CourseSOCI40003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject introduces a life course approach to social issues. Life course research is a relatively new and innovative approach in the social sciences which has developed in recent decades. It brings back in a time dimension into social research and systematically links social changes on the ma...

  • Underworld and AfterlifeANCW30011

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    The journey to the underworld, the existence of an afterlife, the survival of the bereaved, the mummification of the dead, human sacrifice, communicating with ghosts - the ancient world blossomed with myths and rituals associated with all these things. This subject focuses on these topics in the ...

  • Urban Design for People and PlacesPLAN20002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Urban Design introduces the visual, spatial, social and design dimensions in planning for public spaces. Urban Design for People and Places examines how a city’s built form, function and structure is shaped by its interaction with multidimensional forces – including the physical, technological, c...

  • Urban Forest EcosystemsFRST30003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject imparts detailed knowledge on the crucial role that urban forests are playing in the development and resilience of sustainable cities around the world, using both local and international case studies. It begins by exploring the unique composition of urban forests, and the multiple so...

  • Urban Indigenous HistoryHIST30078

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    The city is a dazzling and complex place. But who belongs in the city, and who has been excluded from its history? This subject explores how cities are sites for the production and consumption of Indigenous histories. It asks, first, what historical, political, cultural and Indigenous-led narrati...

  • Urban Morphological MappingABPL30051

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject will introduce the field of urban morphological analysis and a range of techniques for urban mapping. It will include techniques for mapping and analysis of various layers of urban data, for instance: figure/ground, grain size, building and public space typology, infrastructure, func...

  • Urban Precinct StudioPLAN30005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    The focus of this capstone studio is on planning the development and/or redevelopment of a precinct-scale urban site. Students will undertake site analysis, visioning, detailed concept planning and implementation considerations that together lead to the creation of a precinct structure plan or an...

  • Usability Evaluation MethodsINFO20004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    AIMS How do we know if our digital designs will be usable and useful when people take them up in their work or social lives? Poor designs lead to errors and frustration and result in a substantial waste of money and resources. It is crucial that digital designers carefully evaluate and iterate t...

  • US and the World: Rise of a SuperpowerHIST30065

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject examines the relationship between the United States and the world from the Spanish-American War in 1898 to September 11, 2001. It explores how the United States went from being a third-rate global power with a small military that was notionally wedded to non-interventionism and isola...

  • User Interface DevelopmentINFO20005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    A crucial skill in developing interactive systems is building clear and well-designed user interfaces across a range of technologies. In this subject, students will learn how to design and build user interfaces. The subject will introduce methods, techniques, and principles of visual communicatio...

  • Valuation of Land and BuildingsPROP30001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Property and property valuation matter, Residential and commercial properties form a substantial part of a nation’s wealth. The practice of quantifying the wealth of landed resources affects the stability of the local, the national and the global markets.This subject introduces students to the ma...

  • Values of ArtPHIL20048

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    For cultural critic bell hooks, art has the power to transform lives—but culture, class, gender and race conspire to ensure that only a select few benefit from art’s transformative power. But in what respects, exactly, can art transform lives? In other words, why is it so important that everyone ...

  • Variation in Japanese LanguageJAPN20012

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term, Semester 1 Year:2024Quotas apply

    The diversity of language within Japanese, be it phonetical, lexical, morphological, grammatical and strategical, exist according to the speaker’s gender, age, hometown and type of communication one is engaged in. To ensure successful communication in Japanese, one must learn not only the ‘standa...

  • Variation in Japanese LanguageJAPN30012

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term, Semester 1 Year:2024Quotas apply

    The diversity of language within Japanese, be it phonetical, lexical, morphological, grammatical and strategical, exist according to the speaker’s gender, age, hometown and type of communication one is engaged in. To ensure successful communication in Japanese, one must learn not only the ‘standa...

  • Variation in Japanese LanguageJAPN10010

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    The diversity of language within Japanese, be it phonetical, lexical, morphological, grammatical and strategical, exist according to the speaker’s gender, age, hometown and type of communication one is engaged in. To ensure successful communication in Japanese, one must learn not only the ‘standa...

  • Vector CalculusMAST20009

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

    This subject studies the fundamental concepts of functions of several variables and vector calculus. It develops the manipulation of partial derivatives and vector differential operators. The gradient vector is used to obtain constrained extrema of functions of several variables. Line, surface an...

  • Vector Calculus: AdvancedMAST20032

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject covers the material presented in MAST20009 Vector Calculus plus additional material designed to provide deeper insight into interesting areas of calculus and has a greater emphasis on mathematical rigour and proof. This subject studies the fundamental concepts of functions of severa...

  • Vegetation Management and ConservationBOTA30004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024Quotas apply

    This subject provides a detailed knowledge of vegetation structure and natural values of Victorian plant communities and their assessment, including environmental limiting factors, threats due to land use, development and fragmentation, and management issues related to environmental impact assess...

  • Venice and Cultures of ConsumptionHIST30051

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This intensive three-week study abroad subject is taught on location in Venice. The Renaissance in Italy is regarded by many as the locus of the first consumer society in the western world. Venice was at the centre of the new commercial revolution and the trade and production of the luxury goods ...

  • Venice and Cultures of ConsumptionHIST20052

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This intensive three-week study abroad subject is taught on location in Venice. The Renaissance in Italy is regarded by many as the locus of the first consumer society in the western world. Venice was at the centre of the new commercial revolution and the trade and production of the luxury goods ...