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• +Corruption in Southeast AsiaASIA30004

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2018

  Corruption is widely considered to be a major obstacle to sustainable economic and social development in Southeast Asia. This subject examines the notion of corruption and the analytical frameworks that scholars, policy-makers and activists have used to understand it. It also analyses the nature,...

• +Design and Property PrinciplesPROP20002

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2018

  This subject introduces students to the basic principles and business concepts of Property, through examination of the underlying drivers of commercial Property Development and Property Investment, the underlying systems and relationships – social, commercial, political, economic and environmenta...

• +The Electronic Arts: Vision and SoundCCDP10002

  Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2Year:2018

  This course 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 ...

• +Hacking Cities - Upgrading Urban LifeABPL20054

  Offered:Winter TermYear:2018

  Many aspects of city life could be improved, but change seems hard. Some interventions are ineffective, others have unintended side effects. Cities are complex systems, and complexity makes it a challenge to change them. Hacking means using your knowledge of a system to design an intervention – t...

• +Introduction to Indigenous EducationEDUC10060

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2018

  Focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education, this subject examines the place and significance of Australian Indigenous peoples in the educational landscape. The subject will explore the changing nature of Indigenous education in Australia through studying a range of contemporary an...

• +Understanding PovertyDEVT20004

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2018

  The literature on poverty identifies its causes as both economic and cultural. This subject aims to develop students understanding on the local and international economic factors producing poverty, as well as, its culture-bound causes and manifestations. Using poverty concepts in Development Stud...

• +Our Planet, Our HealthUNIB10017

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2018

  This interdisciplinary subject will introduce students to the core concepts of One Health in its broadest sense, as a concept that describes the interconnectedness of the health of humans, animals and the environment. Key themes that will be explored during the course, with reference to case stud...

• +Ancient Egyptian 3ANCW20023

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2018

  This subject is designed for students who have completed Ancient Egyptian 1 and 2 or the equivalent. In this subject, further work is undertaken on writing, grammar and syntax to revise, consolidate and extend students' knowledge of the language and its complex script, with the aim of enabling st...

• +Corporations and their CriticsANTH20013

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2018

  Corporations are among the most influential institutions of our time. Through close readings of ethnographies that focus primarily on single companies (Coca-Cola, Ford, Chrysler, Philip Morris, Dow Chemical, Chevron-Texaco), this subject considers the cultural dynamics internal to multinational c...

• +Creating Music For AdvertisingMUSI20167

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2018

  This subject introduces the basics of making music for advertising including, the jingle, sound as persuasion, working to a brief and in a collective, the function of music in advertising and creating music for mass media and multimedia. Creating music for advertising is delivered in two parts: l...

• +Italian 6ITAL30014

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2018

  Students in this subject intensively revise and further develop their knowledge of contemporary Italian language and culture. The subject combines analysis of language structures with a practical focus, all designed to extend students’ linguistic capacities in reading, writing, listening, speakin...

• +Variation in Japanese LanguageJAPN10010

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2018

  This subject aims to familiarise students with colloquial and dialectal expressions used in Japan. It introduces students to various styles of Japanese spoken by those differentiated by gender, age and region. It will also give students opportunities to examine different registers in various conv...

• +Agribusiness Marketing & Value ChainsAGRI30040

  Offered:JulyYear:2018

  This subject is about applying principles of agricultural economics, agribusiness marketing and agribusiness value chain analysis to analysing and understanding the process of creating value in agricultural products, from the perspectives of individual firms in the value chain and of the whole va...

• +Spanish 6SPAN10008

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2018

  The focus of this subject will be on the improvement of students’ oral and written language competence and the learning of textual study skills in Spanish, through the study of selected oral and written narratives. These particular texts are part of the long tradition of Spanish and Latin America...

• +Music Theatre: Singing Rock MusicalsMUSI30237

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2018Quotas apply

  In 1968 the first rock major musical Hair caused a sensation and spawned a new genre. A weekly 2-hour large ensemble singing class will explore the music of significant contemporary rock musicals, using music from a handful of the genre’s best examples to develop the capacity to identify and expe...

• +Introduction to Screenwriting PracticesFLTV10023

  Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2Year:2018

  This online Breadth subject is an introduction to the process of creating stories for screen media, focusing on concept creation, screenplay structures, story and character generation. Students will study and practice the essential groundwork undertaken by writers in creating works for screen, an...

• +Bollywood: a cross-disciplinary studyMUST20007

  Offered:July, Semester 2Year:2018

  Indian commercial cinema, affectionately if ignorantly called 'Bollywood' by the West, typically produces extraordinary spectacles of colour, music and dance, whether telling stories of comedy or drama. This subject explores Bollywood film and dance through a blended learning model, with contact ...

• +Art and the BotanicalFINA20044

  Offered:Winter Term, JulyYear:2018Quotas apply

  This practice-based drawing subject focuses on developing skills and techniques in botanical drawing, using drawing and watercolour media. Students will be introduced to specialist botanical drawing techniques, working from both live plants and botanical specimens from the University Cultural Col...

• +Introduction to ScreenprintingFINA20045

  Offered:Winter Term, JulyYear:2018Quotas apply

  This subject will introduce students to the unique possibilities inherent in printmaking techniques, with a technical focus on screenprinting processes. As well as focusing on the development and application of screenprinting skills and techniques, students will be introduced to historical and co...

• +Journalism TodayUNIB30011

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2018

  Journalism is an area of key social importance in the contemporary world, and a practical knowledge of journalistic processes is important not only to media practitioners, but in a range of fields where the quality of public communication is of vital significance. This University Breadth subject ...