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  • The Australian ImaginaryENGL20009

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Literature has always played a central role in the definition a nation’s self-image and the formation of a national imaginary. This subject offers a broad historical sweep of Australian literature over the last 150 years to examine the different faces and facets of Australian life. It introduces ...

  • The Book: Late Antiquity to RenaissanceAHIS40019

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject examines the art of the illuminated manuscript and its importance in medieval and Renaissance culture. It introduces students to the basic elements of codicology - the study of the physical structure of the book - and it focuses on the relationship between text and decoration. Studen...

  • The Buddhist Universe: An IntroductionMULT10021

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Buddhism began as one of many ascetic movements in India and over the course of two and a half millennia grew to become one of the world’s major religions, with followers in every corner of the world. This subject traces how Buddhism changed and adapted, how new doctrines and practices were woven...

  • The Business of MusicMUSI20206

    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 business practices of the music industry. Aspects of copyright, marketing, law, management, contracts, sales, distribution, ownership, and merchandising will be examined in relation...

  • The Contemporary Publishing IndustryPUBL90003

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject provides an overview of the major factors affecting the local and global production, marketing and distribution of books, magazines and electronic publications. It considers the impact of political, social and economic conditions, technological changes, and changing industry practice...

  • The Cosmopolitan ImaginaryARTS90037

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Cosmopolitanism is an ideal that has persisted in different forms throughout many civilizations. It has been influential in anthropology, art history, political theory and cultural studies. More recently, there has been an attempt to relate this concept to non-Western theories of universalism, be...

  • The Developing WorldDEVT10001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject is an introduction to the developing world and development studies from the perspectives of Anthropology, Political Science, Economics, Sociology and Geography. Beginning with a critical examination of the legacies of colonialism, we will ask to what extent they can be argued to have...

  • The Disaster Resilient CityGEOG30021

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject examines the impacts of disasters in cities. It will explore why some groups are more vulnerable to particular hazards than others, while considering the role of social capital and adaptation for increasing the resilience of urban communities to disasters.This is important because th...

  • The Dynamics of Scientific ChangeHPSC30035

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    The question of how scientific theories, concepts and practices change over time has long been at the heart of the history and philosophy of science. Ever since Thomas Kuhn’s landmark work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, was published in 1962, historians, philosophers and sociologists o...

  • The Economics of CultureAMGT90018

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This wholly online subject examines the arts and culture as part of an economic system. Students are introduced to diverse approaches to the economic characterisation of arts and cultural production including culture as a public good, the creative industries paradigms and the role of taxation pol...

  • 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 Economies of Cities and RegionsABPL90246

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject explores planning and policy making for productive and competitive urban settlements by investigating the economic drivers, activities, and interrelationships of cities and regions. You will examine how making and moving of goods, services, and jobs shapes the vitality, structure 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 Artificial IntelligenceCOMP90087

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject aims to provide students with the necessary tools to: identify social and ethical issues of digital technology particularly artificial intelligence and reason about these issues; communicate concerns, or discuss ideas, from differing points of view; and ultimately build technology wi...

  • 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 Eye and Vision: A Window to DiseaseOPTO90018

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject will train students in a diverse range of core research methods utilised in the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences. Each of our laboratory heads will deliver a special seminar explaining the operation of a particular research method, and demonstrating how it is applied to so...

  • 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...