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  • The Modern AthleteMEDI90092

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Term 1, Term 3 Year:2024

    This subject introduces sports medicine theory and practice, and explores the multi-faceted approach to managing the Modern Athlete. Relevant professional and sports medicine governance frameworks are consulted in a student-led evaluation of their own professional role and responsibilities in the...

  • The MultinationalIBUS90003

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    The multinational enterprise (MNE) is the most distinctive aspect of international business. This subject explores: how and why MNEs exist as vehicles for leveraging and building competitive advantages across borders; how host economies impact the design of MNE operations; and the relationship an...

  • The Music of SpainMUSI40095

    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 ...

  • The Music Of SpainMUSI30030

    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 ...

  • The Music Producer: From Brass to BeatsMUSI30236

    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...

  • The Nature of GoverningPADM90005

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    The Nature of Governing is one of the core subjects in the Melbourne Master of Public Administration. The Melbourne MPA is an interdisciplinary, globally-focused degree program for managers that work within or with government. This subject sets out the foundations of governing for public outcomes...

  • The Nature of RealityPHIL20039

    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...

  • Theoretical Physics 2PHYC20014

    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....

  • Theoretical Physics 3PHYC30022

    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...

  • Theories of ArtARTS90036

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:August Year:2024

    This subject introduces PhD candidates to a range of art theories and art historical methodologies that remain available and relevant from the past, but that have been updated and critiqued in more recent times. It is also concerned with newer perspectives and trends. The subject will also introd...

  • Theories of Inclusive Music TeachingMUSI90241

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This subject will explore contemporary educational and disability theories relevant to supporting music learners with diverse needs. Students will gain evidence‐based and applied knowledge of ways to support the inclusion of people with neurodevelopmental conditions and learning differences in mu...

  • Theory and Practice of Art HistoryAHIS30019

    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 ...

  • The Pelvic Floor:Function&DysfunctionPHTY90002

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:April Year:2024

    This subject covers anatomy, functional anatomy and neurophysiology of the pelvis and its contents, with particular emphasis on the pelvic floor muscles and fascia, micturition and the urinary tract. Types of incontinence and diagnostic procedures are discussed and physiotherapy assessment and ma...

  • The Philosophy of MindPHIL20033

    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...

  • The Philosophy of PhilosophyPHIL30007

    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 ...

  • The Political Ecology of DevelopmentDEVT90003

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    The subject will help students understand human-environment relationships and key development issues using a political ecology perspective, with cases from developing and developed countries. Political ecologists use a variety of approaches to understand complex human-environment problems, and th...

  • The Politics of FoodFOOD90041

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Formerly FOOD90026 This subject examines the politics of the global food system, and will focus on the policies, structures, power relations and political debates surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of food. The impacts of food production and consumption on food security, he...

  • The Politics of SexPOLS20011

    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...

  • The Power and Limits of LogicPHIL30043

    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...

  • The Power of Ideas: Ten Great BooksARTS90004

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Great books teach us how to describe experience, how to evaluate it, and how to imagine its liberating transformation. They deepen our engagement with critical traditions of thought that extend back through time and, by doing this, they enable us to better understand and address key issues facing...