Subjects

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

This subject introduces students to key social, political and environmental issues which are shaping contemporary Australia. It is ideal for international students, for students whose main area of study lies outside the humanities, and for students who wish to gain a broad understanding of the co...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

Australia is one of the world’s oldest liberal democracies. This subject is an introduction to Australian politics with an emphasis on what makes Australia unique and how its democratic institutions have developed over time. The subject concentrates on formal political institutions, including the...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

This subject is an opportunity to study Australian politics over historical time, by examining points of crisis and conflict in our history, as well as by assessing the apparent resilience of our political structures. Wars and economic crises send shudders through political systems, but ours has ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject is a study of the Australian performing arts from 1960 to the present with a special focus on the shift from national drama to diversity, and from the sole-authored play to devised and collaborative theatre. The study is framed by the changing landscape of Australian culture and the ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject will introduce students to the biology of Australia's vertebrate fauna with an emphasis on ecology and behaviour of frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals. There will be particular focus on the adaptations of the fauna to the unique and uncertain nature of the Australian terrestrial envi...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject examines avant-garde and postmodern art and film during the 20th century. A variety of artistic theories, movements and artists from Europe and North America will be considered. The social, historical and theoretical context in which diverse avant-garde and postmodernist aesthetics w...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

Students undertaking this subject will complete a thesis on a topic approved by the program coordinator. The thesis subject is taken across two semesters, and will consist of independent research undertaken under the supervision of a thesis supervisor. Note: The Bachelor of Design Thesis require...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

Students undertaking this subject will complete a thesis on a topic approved by the program coordinator. The thesis subject is taken across two semesters. It will consist of independent research undertaken under the supervision of a thesis supervisor. Note: The Bachelor of Design Thesis requires...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

The world is awash with misinformation, much of which has the appearance of being 'scientific': from striking graphs shared widely on social media, to algorithms used for decision-making by governments and self-serving claims made by companies. This makes the ability to detect various forms of 'b...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject aims to give integrity, intention and direction to Historical Performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music to enable students to build confidence, knowledge and expertise on their instruments and to expand their horizons with practical experience on period instruments, and in...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject aims to give integrity, intention and direction to Historical Performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music to enable students to build confidence, knowledge and expertise on their instruments and to expand their horizons with practical experience on period instruments, and in...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject aims to give integrity, intention and direction to Historical Performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music to enable students to build confidence, knowledge and expertise on their instruments and to expand their horizons with practical experience on period instruments, and in...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject aims to give integrity, intention and direction to Historical Performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music to enable students to build confidence, knowledge and expertise on their instruments and to expand their horizons with practical experience on period instruments, and in...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject aims to give integrity, intention and direction to Historical Performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music to enable students to build confidence, knowledge and expertise on their instruments and to expand their horizons with practical experience on period instruments, and in...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject aims to give integrity, intention and direction to Historical Performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music to enable students to build confidence, knowledge and expertise on their instruments and to expand their horizons with practical experience on period instruments, and in...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject examines multiple regression analysis and its use in economics, management, finance, accounting and marketing. Topics will include the properties of estimators, hypothesis testing, specification error, multicollinearity, dummy variables, heteroskedasticity, serial correlation, panel ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

The overall aim of this subject is to introduce students to the essential concepts and techniques/tools used in Bayesian inference and to apply Bayesian inference to a number of econometric models. Basic concepts and tools introduced include joint, conditional and marginal probability distributio...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024Quotas apply

The subject will introduce students to the economic, technological, historical and social aspects that have led to the development of distinctive styles of beer. Students will gain an understanding of what contributes to each style and how sensory assessment of beer is conducted. In addition stud...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Winter Term Year:2024

This subject examines research relating to how accounting affects, and is affected by, people. Investigations of accounting related judgments, decision making and organisational behaviours will be studied. Conceptually the subject will be founded on contrasting analyses from three perspectives: n...

Undergraduate subject Offered:July Year:2024

Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience brings together the experimental and modelling techniques of cognitive psychology with the measurement and imaging methods of neuroscience to explain how mental processes such as perceptions, memories, and thoughts are implemented in the living, functioning ...