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- Journalism TodayUNIB30011
Offered:Semester 2Year:2019
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 ...
- Semester 2
Mode of delivery On Campus — Parkville Contact hours 3 hours per week – 1 x 1 hour lecture + 1 x 2 hour seminar throughout semester Teaching period 29 July 2019 to 27 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 9 August 2019 Census date 31 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 September 2019 Assessment period ends 22 November 2019
- Water for Sustainable FuturesUNIB20012
Offered:Semester 1Year:2019
In recent decades the importance of regulating water and its wider implications have been the subject of great debate. Water is no longer viewed solely in hydrological terms, where its supply and allocation are considered to be the only determinants important in understanding how it is regulated....
- Semester 1
Mode of delivery On Campus — Parkville Contact hours Contact Hours: 36 hours: Lectures (1hr) 2 x weekly; Tutorials (1hr) 1 x weekly Teaching period 4 March 2019 to 2 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2019 Census date 31 March 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2019 Assessment period ends 28 June 2019
- Catastrophes as Turning PointsUNIB10013
Offered:Semester 2Year:2019
There is much to be learned from failure, and in recent history there has been no shortage of examples of human-made catastrophes - the Bhopal Chemical spill, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, the Challenger explosion, the Thalidomide disaster, the release of Cane Toads, the Chernobyl nuclear mel...
- Semester 2
Mode of delivery On Campus — Parkville Contact hours 35 hours - 2 x 1 hour lecture per week and 11 x 1 hour tutorials scheduled across the semester Teaching period 29 July 2019 to 27 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 9 August 2019 Census date 31 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 September 2019 Assessment period ends 22 November 2019
- Generating the Wealth of NationsUNIB10010
Offered:Semester 2Year:2019
This subject provides an introduction to the development of economic activity in the world in the past 300 years. The main objectives are to present an overview of the main phases and episodes in the evolution of the world economy in the past 300 years, and to develop an understanding of the role...
- Semester 2
Mode of delivery On Campus — Parkville Contact hours Teaching period 29 July 2019 to 27 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 9 August 2019 Census date 31 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 September 2019 Assessment period ends 22 November 2019
- Drugs That Shape SocietyUNIB20008
Offered:Semester 2Year:2019
Drugs that Shape Society is a compelling story of drugs that provides insight to us as individuals and as a society. Drugs impact our lives in many different ways. Social responses to their use have shaped our laws, the health system, commerce – even foreign policies.In Australia the use of thera...
- Semester 2
Mode of delivery On Campus — Parkville Contact hours 2 x 1hr lectures per week, 1 x 1hr tutorial per week Teaching period 29 July 2019 to 27 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 9 August 2019 Census date 31 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 September 2019 Assessment period ends 22 November 2019
- Food for a Healthy PlanetUNIB10009
Offered:Semester 1Year:2019
Food is a basic human need. But what should we eat? Not all food is good for us, and a balance between diet and exercise is required for a healthy life. Likewise, not all food production methods are good for the environment. Again, a balance between human needs and the health of our environment i...
- Semester 1
Mode of delivery On Campus — Parkville Contact hours 48 hours including two one-hour lectures and a one-hour tutorial per week Teaching period 4 March 2019 to 2 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 15 March 2019 Census date 31 March 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2019 Assessment period ends 28 June 2019
- Body, Mind and Medicine: A DissectionUNIB20013
Offered:Not offered inYear:2019
This interdisciplinary subject will explore the dynamic and shifting relationship between body and mind in medical theory and practice. We will look at the triumphs and tragedies of medicine – the spectacular therapeutic breakthroughs of vaccines and antibiotics, and the disturbing ethical low po...
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View details - Human Rights and Global JusticeUNIB20009
Offered:Not offered inYear:2019
This subject introduces students to the history, theory, goals and practice of international human rights. It will explore the way in which various disciplines intersect and contribute to an understanding of the extent to which human rights can contribute to global justice. Teachers and practitio...
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View details - Seeing: The Whole PictureUNIB10004
Offered:Not offered inYear:2019
Eighty percent of the information that humans use to interpret the world and navigate their way through life arrives through our sense of vision. The broad concept of seeing and how seeing impacts upon our lives acts as a hub to bring together key ideas from scientific, artistic, historical, cult...
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View details - Sex, Race, Species and Social JusticeUNIB30007
Offered:Not offered inYear:2019
This subject will investigate how gender, sex and race influence the operation of social justice in everyday life. It will also introduce the new area of justice for other species alongside the human. We begin by examining the origins of the concept of social justice in classical texts such as Pl...
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View details - Change-makers: Ecology, Design, CapitalUNIB10016
Offered:Not offered inYear:2019
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View details - Living Longer: A Global DiagnosisUNIB30005
Offered:Not offered inYear:2019
Since 1800, human life expectancy at birth has doubled globally and tripled in the most favoured nations. This has been a biological and social achievement of great complexity, and no single factor—public health, income, material resources, medical knowledge, technology, individual behaviour, soc...
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