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  • The Rise of the NovelFREN30012

    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...

  • Thermodynamics and Fluid MechanicsMCEN30018

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

    AIMS This course is an introduction to basic principles of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. These two subjects are introduced together in a single course, reflecting the large degree of cross-over in applications and basic first principles between the two subjects. Fluid mechanics is a very ...

  • The Roman CountrysideANCW40018

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This subject provides a wide-ranging overview of both overall trends and regional differences in Roman rural occupation and economy between the Archaic period and Late Antiquity. Primarily based on archaeological data, students will be introduced to the key topics in the field, including differen...

  • The Romantic PianoMUSI30256

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    Reportedly in 1698 Cristofori built a harpsichord on which one could play “piano” and “forte”: keyboard music would never be the same. In 1823 Ignaz Moscheles staged a competition between an English and a Viennese piano: these two distinct schools of piano building would, through the following de...

  • The Romantic PianoMUSI40098

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    Reportedly in 1698 Cristofori built a harpsichord on which one could play “piano” and “forte”: keyboard music would never be the same. In 1823 Ignaz Moscheles staged a competition between an English and a Viennese piano: these two distinct schools of piano building would, through the following de...

  • The Roman Way of LifeANCW40012

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    The Monty Python team pondered many big questions, among them the rather tantalizing one: 'What did the Romans ever do for us?' This research seminar rises to the challenge as it involves discussions of revealing source material on the big issues in Roman social, cultural, political and religious...

  • The Secret Life of LanguageLING10001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Have you ever wondered how language actually works? Or how it can be that a 6 year-old child can know more about their native language than the most sophisticated computers? This subject is a practical introduction to the nature of human language which gives a conceptual framework for discussing ...

  • The Secret Life of the Body 1UNIB10011

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Ever thought about how we actually see, hear, taste, smell and touch? How do musicians, dancers, artists, athletes, martial artists and yoga practitioners do what they do? And how does this relate to findings and hidden secrets in scientific research about the body and the brain? In an increasin...

  • Thesis Part 1MUSI40101

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 (Extended), Semester 2 (Extended) Year:2024

    Students will conceive, plan and execute a substantial research project. This subject is the first part of a two-subject sequence, taught over two consecutive study periods. Students are required to enrol in MUSI40101 Thesis Part 1 (12.5 points) and MUSI40102 Thesis Part 2 (12.5 points), consecu...

  • Thesis Part 2MUSI40102

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 (Early-Start), Semester 2 (Early-Start) Year:2024

    This subject is the second part of a two-subject sequence. Students will conceive, plan and execute a substantial research project. This subject is the second part of a two-subject sequence, taught over two consecutive study periods. Students are required to enrol in MUSI40101 Thesis Part 1 (12...

  • The Theatre ExperienceENGL20034

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject is for students across the university interested in understanding and appreciating theatre, an ancient art form that enjoys continuing popularity in many modern societies, including Australia. Drawing on a range of local and international examples from mainstream and experimental per...

  • The Wellbeing OrchestraMUSI10222

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    The Wellbeing Orchestra utilises an assortment of instruments (including household objects) to facilitate mindfulness and meditation. Through sound, breathing, mindfulness, meditation techniques and self-reflection, the student will learn to harmonise an unfocused mind, release from self-judgeme...

  • The World in Twenty Art WorksAHIS10003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    In examining a number of exceptional artworks of many different types and drawn from many cultures and periods, this subject explores how art can be a window into different times, peoples and places across the world, as well as into our own beliefs and the contemporary world. Each lecture will fo...

  • The World Since World War IIHIST10012

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    The subject examines social, economic and political change in the world from the aftermath of World War II to the present using case studies to explore topics and themes such as the Cold War, civil rights, decolonisation, migration and the rise of political extremism. Key concepts developed durin...

  • Thinking ScientificallySCIE20001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    In this subject, students will learn the fundamentals of the methods used in science practice, how to construct and evaluate a scientific argument, and how processes of scientific investigation are applied across the diverse range of scientific disciplines. Students will also learn to communica...

  • Thinking SexCULS30004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    How do we come to experience ourselves as having a gender and a sexual orientation? How do social constructions of gender relate to understandings of sexuality? How have categories like masculinity and femininity; heterosexuality, homosexuality and bisexuality transformed over time? This subject ...

  • Thinking through DancingDNCE10032

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject addresses contemporary political perspectives on the body and the role of the dancer as public artist. It provides a foundation for key theoretical and socio-political approaches to dance including feminist, ecological, queer and decolonising. Through seminar presentations, students...

  • Thinking Tools for Wicked ProblemsUNIB10019

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Responding critically and ethically to contemporary issues, whether they be of local, national or global significance, requires one to go beyond the mere discovering of ‘facts’ and determining of ‘truths’. What one does with these ‘facts’ and ‘truths’ is equally important. What we claim to know m...

  • Thinking Writing: Theory and CreativityCWRI40004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject explores the relationship between critical theory and creative writing. We read critical, philosophical and theoretical texts relating to issues of creativity and the creative process by seminal theorists such as Kristeva, Foucault, Cixous, and Derrida. We also read a selection of te...

  • Time Series Analysis and ForecastingECOM30004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Normally topics will include current techniques used in forecasting in finance, accounting and economics such as regression models, Box-Jenkins, ARIMA models, vector autoregression, causality analysis, cointegration and forecast evaluation, and ARCH models.