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  • Chinese News AnalysisCHIN30003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject is an advanced unit introducing the techniques of Chinese newspaper analysis for fields such as politics, international affairs, intellectual debates etc. Students will use current reading materials to study a range of social and political affairs in the People's Republic of China. O...

  • Chinese Politics and SocietyPOLS30011

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This is a broad, historically-based survey course of Chinese politics. It is designed to offer an overview of and background to, contemporary Mainland Chinese politics and society. It is more historically oriented than many of the other survey courses offered in the Politics program. This emphasi...

  • Chinese Studies: Culture and EmpireCHIN20007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This introductory subject examines Chinese society and culture by looking at the relationship between cultural systems and imperial power. It addresses the long-term development of social and intellectual structures in China in relation to empire as a political order and a system of territorial d...

  • Chinese Thesis Part 1CHIN40006

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    Students will be required to write a thesis of 15,000 words on a topic approved by the supervisor. They will also be required to present a seminar paper on the results of their research.

  • Chinese Thesis Part 2CHIN40007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    Refer to CHIN40006 Chinese Thesis Part 1 for details.

  • Choir 1MUSI10159

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Choir 1 is a large choir open to all voice types, focusing on Western choral repertoire, both sacred and secular, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The subject encourages inexperienced and experienced singers to improve their singing skills, including learning to pronounce texts i...

  • Choir 2MUSI10162

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Choir 2 is a large choir open to all voice types, focusing on Western choral repertoire, both sacred and secular, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The subject encourages inexperienced and experienced singers to improve their singing skills, including learning to pronounce texts i...

  • Choreographic ProductionDNCE30028

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    In their final semester, students apply their embodied, professional and creative skills to a season of dance, and perform a Graduating Year Dance Event. Students expand their understanding and experience of dance production through collaborating with choreographers working within different genr...

  • Circuits and SystemsBMEN30006

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    AIMS This subject covers fundamental principles of electronic circuits, including how to design and analyse simple circuits, with example applications to biomedical problems. Also covered is biosignal analysis, in which students are taught the fundamentals of signal processing, including how to ...

  • Cities: From Local to GlobalABPL20035

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Cities remain the dominant form of civilization in the 21st century, and they are locations where humanity’s struggle for survival takes place. With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, they are the world’s engine of growth. As the economist Ed Glaeser puts it, “we are a...

  • Cities Past and FuturePLAN10001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Metropolitan areas have changed substantially through history. This subject examines the ideas, values and forces that influenced the physical growth and development of urban areas in the developed world. Using examples in Melbourne where possible and focusing on specific features and concepts of...

  • City Cultures, Urban EcologiesCULS30005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    How have cities been imagined, navigated, and represented? What are some of the cultural, social, political, and environmental challenges that cities face in the 21st century? This subject examines how the city has been theorized as a core concept of modernity and modernization or represented thr...

  • City Visions: Melbourne IntensiveHIST20087

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term Year:2024

    How are histories and identities expressed in the forms and cultures of cities? Adopting Melbourne as its exemplar, this subject offers an exciting look at the role of people, places, institutions and processes in the historical development of the modern city. It does so by placing Melbourne in a...

  • Classical MythologyANCW20015

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Winter Term Year:2024

    This subject will focus on mythical narratives from the ancient Greek and Roman traditions. Students will explore some of the central patterns and themes in classical mythology. These include narratives of birth and creation, war and the warrior, othering and inclusion, disaster, gods, and humans...

  • Classical Sociological TheorySOTH20002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject is primarily concerned with the ideas about society that have anchored the disciplines of sociology and social theory in the 19th and 20th centuries. It critically assesses these ideas through an examination of the works of key social theorists. Students completing this subject shoul...

  • Classics Thesis Part 1CLAS40036

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    An approved thesis topic selected in consultation with the fourth-year coordinator. The thesis is taken across two consecutive semesters, and is the result of the student’s own independent research.

  • Classics Thesis Part 2CLAS40037

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    Refer to CLAS40036 Classics Thesis Part 1 for details.

  • Clear Speech and CommunicationTHTR10019

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject concentrates on developing clear speech, fluency, and overall communication skills for students where English is an additional language. Students will work with voice and speech coaches to explore the pronunciation of vowels and consonants of English, with application of the Interna...

  • Climate Change and ImpactsENST10004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject introduces the major issues associated with climate change. It endeavours to explain the processes that impact on the Earth’s climate, including the greenhouse effect; the role of climate in the evolution of ecosystems and food production; the human induced changes that are occurring...

  • Climate Change: Why People DisagreePPMN20002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    Science says it’s real. Why is it that some people disagree? This subject explores why some people dispute climate change, despite high levels of scientific agreement about the physical processes leading to global warming. It will take seriously the widest possible range of perspectives on clima...