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- Terrorism and InsurgencyPOLS90050
Graduate coursework subject Offered:February Year:2024
The study of political violence by non-state actors has assumed a renewed importance because of the growing threat of terrorism in Australia and because of Australian participation in armed groups overseas. This subject provides an overview of why and how these actors use violence and the threat ...
- February
Coordinator Bec Devitt Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total of 24 hours: A 3-hour seminar per week for eight weeks from the teaching start date. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 April 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 22 March 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 17 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 February contact information
- Terror, Law and WarCRIM90015
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This subject considers and compares responses to ‘terrorism’ in selected global contexts. Of particular interest are legal responses, instigations of war, and the aftermath of war, practices of rendition, arbitrary detention and torture, together with the emergence of nationalist counter-terror n...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Claire Loughnan Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours Total of 24 contact hours: A 1 hour online lecture and a 1 hour interactive seminar per week for 12 weeks. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information
- Terror Medicine Principles & ResponsesMEDI90108
Graduate coursework subject Offered:April Year:2024
This subject will provide essential skills and knowledge for recognising and responding to specific terror events and their corresponding clinical and health service management. Students will learn to apply relevant frameworks for evaluating terror events. They will practise planning and applyin...
- April
Coordinator George Braitberg Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours All learning is conducted online, with two face-to-face workshops (Saturday 22 June and Sunday 23 June 2024). It is highly recommended students attend campus for these workshops, but they may attend virtually. Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 22 April 2024 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period, students should read through the information in Week 0 which provides information about the structure of the subject, subject readings and resources, assessments, and the teaching staff. Teaching period 29 April 2024 to 23 June 2024 Last self-enrol date 23 April 2024 Census date 17 May 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 21 June 2024 Assessment period ends 21 July 2024 April contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
- Tertiary Education Policy EnvironmentsMGMT90241
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024
In this subject, participants will engage in a series of webinars, online discussion groups, online multiple choice tests and an essay to develop their understanding of two main themes. Comparative Tertiary Education Policy Studies: How have different tertiary education systems and institutions ...
Not available in 2024
View details - Text Analytics for BusinessBUSA90543
Graduate coursework subject Offered:May Year:2024
This component helps students develop an understanding of the key algorithms used in natural language processing and text retrieval, for use in a diverse range of applications including search engines, cross-language information retrieval, machine translation, text mining, question answering, sum...
- May
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 May 2024 to 19 July 2024 Last self-enrol date 6 June 2024 Census date 14 June 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 July 2024 Assessment period ends 26 July 2024
- Text Analytics for HealthCOMP90090
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024
AIMS Text analytics (also known as natural language processing) is becoming increasingly important in clinical and public health given the near-ubiquitous adoption of text-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in clinical care, and the widespread use of social media and online communiti...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Mike Conway Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours, comprising two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 200 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
- The Anthropology of DevelopmentDEVT90056
Graduate coursework subject Offered:July Year:2024
This subject offers an advanced introduction to the Anthropology of Development, covering key issues, theories and debates. The subject will focus on ways in which anthropological approaches can contribute to understandings of Development and to improved Development practices and outcomes. Starti...
- July
Coordinator Anne Decobert Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total of 24 contact hours: A 3 hour seminar per week for eight weeks from the teaching start date. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 13 September 2024 Last self-enrol date 1 August 2024 Census date 9 August 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 30 August 2024 Assessment period ends 27 September 2024 July contact information
- The Architecture of Wishful ThinkingABPL90124
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024
This subject will explore utopian architecture and planning projects based on political idealism, wishful thinking and the prospects of technology. What does technology contribute to the creation of a modern utopia? Is technology the key to a democratic society without poverty and class warfare? ...
Not available in 2024
View details - The Art of Narrative PracticeSCWK90062
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 (Extended) Year:2024
In this subject, students acquire a working knowledge of the diversity of ways in which narrative practices are being engaged with children young people and adults; with individuals, groups, organisations and communities; and in a range of different cultural contexts across the globe. Students ar...
- Semester 2 (Extended) - Online
Principal coordinator David Denborough Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 15 November 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 (Extended) contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
- The Art of Scientific ComputationCOMP90072
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024
The physical, social and engineering sciences make widespread use of numerical simulations and graphical representations that link underlying their theoretical foundations with experimental or empirical data. These approaches are routinely designed and conducted by researchers with little or no f...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Roger Rassool Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 - Semester 2
Principal coordinator Roger Rassool Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024
- The Art & Practice of the Personal EssayARTS90044
Graduate coursework subject Offered:April Year:2024
In this 16-hour seminar series students will read and discuss writing that explores complex ideas and issues in personal, engaging, and creative ways. These seminars will examine the rhetorical, narrative, and poetic strategies of the personal essay as a contribution to public intellectual discou...
- April
Coordinator Maria Tumarkin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 16 hours – 4 x 4 hour seminars, delivered intensively over four weeks. Total time commitment 85 hours Teaching period 29 April 2024 to 24 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 3 May 2024 Census date 10 May 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 31 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 April contact information
- The Arts and Creative PedagogiesEDUC91025
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Term 2 Year:2024
This subject examines learning in and through the arts, including music, drama, dance, and the visual arts, with a focus on aesthetics, symbolic communication and creative pedagogies. Students will investigate how children make meaning through creative inquiry as part of sustainable communities. ...
- Term 2 - Online
Coordinator Jayson Cooper Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours (may include virtual office hours through chat/zoom, video mail bag, discussion boards, flip grids, and interactive readings) Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 22 April 2024 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period, students should familiarise themselves with the online platform and may like to take the opportunity to read through preliminary information about the subject and the services and support that is available to them. Students are encouraged to use this time to also introduce themselves to peers and teaching staff and to learn about those they will be studying with throughout the term. Time commitment for pre‐teaching activities is approximately 3 hours. Teaching period 29 April 2024 to 23 June 2024 Last self-enrol date 23 April 2024 Census date 17 May 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 June 2024 Assessment period ends 30 June 2024 Term 2 contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
- The Arts, Play and Young ChildrenEDUC91054
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This subject introduces and develops Teacher Candidates’ practical and theoretical understandings of learning in and through the arts and creative pedagogies in early childhood education. This subject references the Australian/Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Frameworks and Curric...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Sarah Young Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours of on-campus classes Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information
Dr Sarah Young: sry@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Fiannuala Morgan Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: 1x1-hour lecture and 1x2-hour seminar, taught weekly Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
- 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...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Nikos Papastergiadis Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 12 Hours: 6 x 2 hour seminars, taught fortnightly Total time commitment 85 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
- 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...
- Semester 2 - Online
Coordinator Guy Morrow Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information
- 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...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Jennifer Day Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1 x 2 hour lectures and 1 x 2 hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Simon Coghlan Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours, comprising one 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 200 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
Simon Coghlan
- 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...
- Semester 1
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024
- The International Publishing IndustryPUBL90027
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This subject provides an overview of the global publishing industry, examining global book production, translation, the international rights market, multi-media adaptation of books, conglomerate publishing companies, and global practices of reception. Students will gain a critical understanding...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Matt Holden Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: 12 x 1-hour lecture and a 1.5-hour seminar per week throughout semester. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information