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• +Sex, Gender and Culture: An IntroductionGEND10001

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  The world is gendered - but what is gender? We know gender is fundamental to the way in which we see ourselves and others, and how our communities and institutions are organised, but why? Why do gender norms and stereotypes emerge? What effects do they have on our lives? Drawing on feminist and q...

• +Textual RevelationsAIND40005

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject is premised on the idea that certain key texts provide the means to gain insights and understanding of Aboriginal social realities and individual selves, in a manner qualitatively different to more empirically focused studies. Through deep and intensive readings, informed by appropri...

• +Indigenous Art and Changing the NationAIND20011

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject brings together a vast range of different arts practices to give an holistic view of Indigenous arts and their role in facilitating voice and its use as a tool for social change. Presented over 12 weeks, students will be given access to a broad range of Indigenous guest lecturers who...

• +Law in SocietySOLS10001

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  Law in Society introduces students to theories, concepts, forms and practices of law in contemporary Australian society. It will provide a foundation both for socio-legal studies subjects in later years and for subjects in disciplines such as politics, criminology and law. In preparing students t...

• +Law, Justice and Social ChangeSOLS20001

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  Law, Justice and Social Change examines the ways in which law can be seen and used as both an instrument of positive social change and yet also as a means of confirming existing social arrangements and resisting social change. Through a series of case studies, it critically reflects on the key go...

• +Researching Society and CultureARTS90010

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject aims to enable students to deepen and broaden their understanding of core and, whether perennial, resurgent or cutting-edge, contemporary concepts in the social sciences. The emphasis is on relating this to students' development of their own and their peers' doctoral theses.

• +Visiting Scholar: Advanced Seminar AARTS90020

  Offered:May, SeptemberYear:2019

  This subject will be taught by a Visiting Scholar in an area of their expertise. It will provide a graduate-level introduction to an important area of scholarship, including discussion of the visitor’s own work and the scholarly field to which it contributes. The subject will appeal both to stude...

• +Researching ImagesARTS90011

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject will introduce students to methodologies of researching images and to current issues in the research of images. The subject will be taught through active discussion and joint class readings of extracts from recent significant publications within or cognate to disciplines that work wi...

• +Changing Labour Markets and InequalitiesSOCI90019

  Offered:MarchYear:2019

  Labour markets have undergone substantial changes over the past decades. Trends of globalization, de-industrialization, increasing (youth) unemployment, changing gender roles and demographic ageing have transformed substantially the nature of employment relationships and work in advanced economie...

• +Comparative Social PolicySOCI90003

  Offered:NovemberYear:2019

  This subject, which is taught in Indonesia, uses a comparative approach to analyse key areas of contemporary social policy, with a focus on the reform strategies that emerged over the 1990s. The subject examines the different social policy responses that have characterised these strategies, and c...

• +Australian Indigenous Studies Thesis Pt1AIND40007

  Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2Year:2019

  Topic selected in consultation with coordinator and supervisor. Enrolment in the thesis is across two consecutive semesters and students must enrol in the subject in each semester to ensure they are meeting the full 50 point requirement for the year-long subject.

• +Ancient and Contemporary Indigenous ArtsAIND10003

  Offered:Summer Term, Winter TermYear:2019Quotas apply

  The student will experience Indigenous Culture, Identity and Arts Practice first hand as they visit remote and urban Victorian Aboriginal communities, art galleries and artists. Fieldwork will comprise a four-night stay at Lake Condah Mission on Gunditjmara country (Heywood and Portland) where st...

• +Art and Indigenous VoiceAIND10004

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject is designed to give students a solid basis from which to start engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and cultural practice. Utilising both existing and new cultural frameworks, through lectures in cultural safety, traditional beliefs and culture, contemporary histo...

• +Key Thinkers and ConceptsAIND20007

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject will introduce students to key thinkers and concepts in Aboriginal governance, community and cultural activism, Aboriginal advancement, self-determination and social justice. Key Thinkers and Concepts will allow students who have completed the first year MULT10001 Aboriginalities sub...

• +Rethinking Rights and Global DevelopmentGEND90007

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject explores the theoretical and political issues surrounding ideas of rights and human rights, with special reference to the development process within the contemporary globalising order. It draws on recent critical feminist and other (re)theorising within a range of disciplines, includ...

• +Gender, Globalisation and DevelopmentGEND90006

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject examines the relationships between gender, globalisation and development, illustrated principally through case studies, policy documents, and ethnographic texts. It also draws theoretical perspectives and insights from a number of social science and humanities disciplines as well. On...

• +Gender Studies Reading CourseGEND40002

  Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject is for Gender Studies Honours students only, but is only available in special circumstances and must be organised in advance with the Honours convenor. This subject involves a supervised study of an area of scholarship chosen by the student in consultation with an appointed supervi...

• +Gender Diversity in the WorkplaceGEND30005

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject will examine the following questions: what exactly do we mean by gender diversity, who do current ideas include or exclude, why and when is it important, and how should we try to achieve it? The what, why and how of gender diversity are fundamental questions relating to organization...

• +Researching Politics and PolicyARTS90014

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  Those students electing to take the Researching Politics and Policy workshop will become familiar with the latest developments – the 'cutting edge' – in major branches of political science and policy theory. The underlying objective is for each student to be better prepared to select the most app...

• +Visiting Scholar: Advanced Seminar BARTS90021

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject will be taught by a Visiting Scholar in an area of their expertise. It will provide a graduate-level introduction to an important area of scholarship, including discussion of the visitor’s own work and the scholarly field to which it contributes. The subject will appeal both to stude...