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  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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? ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 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 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 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 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...

  • The Law and Economics of GlobalisationLAWS90251

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:April Year:2024Quotas apply

    This subject examines the law and economics of globalisation. Economic globalisation is at the centre of ongoing debates in areas as diverse as sustainability and climate change, national security, fair and balanced economic growth, and the very restructuring of international relations that seems...

  • The Law of Public ContractingLAWS90151

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024Quotas apply

    Contemporary governments use contracts as a key tool of governance. Outsourcing of public services is commonplace. But should we regulate the use of such tools by means of public administrative law, or through private law, or a mixture of both?  Is there an accountability deficit? What are the ad...