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- Writing AustraliaCWRI40014
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
In this subject students study a number of recent Australian literary works selected from a range of genres. The emphasis is on contemporary work. The approach will include discussion of ways of reading, and production of creative responses to the selected texts. Students will read one significan...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Odette Kelada Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 24 hours: a 2-hour seminar per week 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
- Writing Ethical Indigenous HistoriesINDG40005
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This subject aims to support students undertaking research in Indigenous histories in their Honours year. It will provide students with a foundation of knowing how to be able to work safely and sensitively to produce Indigenous History. The aim of the subject is to support students to write histo...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Rachel Standfield Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 24 hours: a 2 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
- Writing for ScreenCWRI20009
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
In this subject, students will be introduced to the history of screenwriting and the principles of the craft of writing scripts for screen. Students will develop an understanding of contemporary industrial screenwriting practices. Students will read and respond to a variety of scripts written for...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Cath Moore Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 36 hours: A 2 hour lecture weekly, for first 6 weeks of semester only and a 2.5 hour workshop per week (max 15 students per workshop), across the 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
- Writing for the MediaMECM40011
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024
This subject provides students with the skills to critically evaluate and produce advanced journalistic texts. Students will familiarise themselves with techniques in news selection, researching, interviewing, writing and editing. Students will also reflect on issues of fairness and objectivity, ...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Tresa Le Clerc Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: a 1-hr lecture and a 1.5-hr 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 Semester 1 contact information
- Writing for the Youth Screen MarketFLTV20018
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024
This subject introduces students to the world of writing screen product for children, tweens and young teenagers with a focus on youth television. Through a series of workshops, presentations and screenings, students will gain insight into what makes successful kid’s programming and will develop...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Luke Devenish Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 40 hours, comprising 4 hours of seminars, workshops, and tutorials per week Total time commitment 204 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
Luke Devenish: luke.devenish@unimelb.edu.au
- Writing Identity and DifferenceCWRI20012
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024
This subject explores how creative writing practice encounters identity and alterity. Students will engage with the politics of representation through critical theory, intertextual reflexivity and deconstruction of inherited categories of self and other. It addresses the authority of writing and ...
Not available in 2024
View details - Writing SociologySOCI40009
Undergraduate subject Offered:June Year:2024
Writing is a practice which assists with developing ideas and arguments, and enhances learning. Writing is also a central academic, employment and life skill. This subject will support students writing practice. The Writing Sociology subject assists students with learning the craft of writing cl...
- June
Coordinator Liz Dean Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 24 hours. A 4 hour seminar over 6 days of intensive teaching. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 June 2024 to 2 July 2024 Last self-enrol date 25 June 2024 Census date 5 July 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 19 July 2024 Assessment period ends 9 August 2024 June contact information
Email: ldean@unimelb.edu.au
- Writing Videogames and Live PerformanceCWRI30015
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024
This subject engages with the theoretical, practical and technical aspects of creative writing for video games and live performance. Through a rigorous examination of the work of key artists and writing from the 1980s onwards, students will devise concepts for games, performance and enhance their...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Eddie Paterson Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: a 1-hour lecture and a 1 hour tutorial for weeks 1-6 and a 2.5 hour workshop for weeks 7-12. 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
- Yogyakarta Summer IntensiveINDO20001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term Year:2024Quotas apply
This subject is a multidisciplinary introduction to key concepts in the social sciences and cultural studies and their application in the study of modern Indonesia, covering the historical, political, cultural, social, and linguistic factors that have helped shape the contemporary nation-state of...
- Summer Term - Off Campus
Coordinator Ken Setiawan Mode of delivery Off Campus Contact hours 30 hours, consisting of lectures, tutorials and site visits/excursions Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 15 January 2024 to 26 January 2024 Last self-enrol date 1 November 2023 Census date 2 February 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 16 February 2024 Assessment period ends 23 February 2024 Summer Term contact information
- Young People, Crime and JusticeCRIM30011
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024
This subject charts the experiences that young people have as subjects and resistors of social control, victims of crime and young offenders. These experiences are contextualised by an appreciation of youth crime and justice as products of historical, theoretical and political junctures which hav...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Diana Johns Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total of 30 contact hours: A 1.5 hour lecture and a 1 hour tutorial per week for 12 weeks. 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
- Youth and Popular CultureEDUC30067
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This subject explores how children and young people construct and reconstruct their sense of selves against the backdrop of pervasive contemporary popular cultures. It examines contrasting approaches to identity (e.g. developmental, sociological, feminist, post-structuralist) and contemporary deb...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Hernan Cuervo Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 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
- Youth, Culture and the ArtsEDUC20062
Undergraduate subject Offered:June Year:2024
How does your identity shape the art and media you consume and create, and the cultures and subcultures you’re a part of? This subject will explore how young people engage with the arts (including visual arts, music and drama), and how this helps to form their cultural and social identities and d...
- June
Principal coordinator Chris Summers Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours (30 hours of on campus classes and 6 hours of asynchronous activities) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 June 2024 to 28 June 2024 Last self-enrol date 25 June 2024 Census date 5 July 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 July 2024 Assessment period ends 5 August 2024 June contact information
- Youth Leading ChangeEDUC20075
Undergraduate subject Offered:July Year:2024
This subject explores young people as change-makers and problem-solvers against a backdrop of social transformation in Australia and globally. It provides students with thinking tools for addressing local and global problems in everyday life and skills for leadership. The subject focuses particul...
- July
Principal coordinator Hernan Cuervo Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 8 July 2024 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period, students will be required to access readings on the LMS. Teaching period 15 July 2024 to 19 July 2024 Last self-enrol date 9 July 2024 Census date 16 July 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 July 2024 Assessment period ends 12 August 2024 July contact information