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  • Today's Science, Tomorrow's WorldSCIE10005

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

    THIS SUBJECT IS DESIGNED TO BE TAKEN IN THE FIRST SEMESTER OF ENROLMENT IN THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE. YOU MUST ENROL IN THE SEMESTER YOU COMMENCE THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE. The ambition to shape our habitat and to understand the universe in which we reside has occurred in all cultures and across al...

  • To Hell with DanteITAL30007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject will give students the opportunity to apply and build on skills and knowledge acquired in their study of Italian and to complete and exhibit a final group research project. The subject focuses on the study of the most important Italian literary work: Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy (...

  • Topics in Actuarial StudiesACTL20004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject aims to provide students with grounding in some topics in actuarial studies, covering distributions of accumulations and present values; stochastic interest rate models; time series models; an introduction to ruin theory; claim run-off triangles; stochastic simulation.

  • Topics in Animal HealthANSC20003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This subject explores major topics on animal health or relevance to the agricultural industries, domestic animal management and society in general. It focuses on the roles and perspectives of the personnel involved i.e. farmers, horse stud and stable workers, animal enterprise managers, laborator...

  • Topics in Arabic & Islamic StudiesISLM40001

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

    This subject involves a series of seminar presentations and discussions on a topic or topics of contemporary or special interest in Arabic and Islamic Studies. Topics will vary from year to year, depending on current events and the interests of the particular cohort of students. Where appropriate...

  • Topics in Asian Economic HistoryECON30030

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    Australia's largest trade partners are largely from Asia, and this subject provides an introduction to the economic history of various Asian economies, such as China and Japan. Using history and economic history textbooks for both countries and a neoclassical growth framework, the subject examine...

  • Topics in Contemporary EpistemologyPHIL40018

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject will explore selected topics in contemporary epistemology. We will focus on a specific topic or set of related topics in epistemology, and examine contemporary research on this topic. Sometimes a historical dimension may enter the subject where it is important to ground the topic in ...

  • Topics in EthnomusicologyMUSI20217

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This subject introduces students to one major research topic in the field of ethnomusicology. Considering a broad range of case studies from around the world, students learn how music researchers have approached, evaluated, and answered questions related to this topic across different cultural co...

  • Topics in Experimental EconomicsECON40020

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    The subject aims to provide a foundation for original research in the fields of behavioural and experimental economics. First, it explores how behavioural economics extends traditional economics by incorporating insights into human behaviour derived from other fields such as psychology and sociol...

  • Topics in Indonesian StudiesINDO40003

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

    This subject involves a series of seminar presentations and discussions on topics of contemporary or special interest to Indonesian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year, depending on current events and the interests of the particular cohort of students. Where appropriate, visiting scholars...

  • Topics in Japanese StudiesJAPN40003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject involves a series of seminar presentations and discussions on a topic or topics of contemporary or special interest. Topics will vary from year to year, depending on current events and the interests of the particular cohort of students. Where appropriate, visiting scholars will parti...

  • Topics in MetaphysicsPHIL40005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This unit covers selected issues in contemporary metaphysics. We will focus on a particular philosophical issue (e.g. ontology, possibility, necessity, the nature of objects), and look at contemporary work addressing this issue.  

  • Topics in Moral PsychologyPHIL40003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject explores various issues in the psychology of morals, paying particular attention to the relation between moral psychology and meta-ethics. Specific topics for discussion may include: autonomy and responsibility, recent feminist work on moral psychology, the role of emotion in moral p...

  • Topics in MusicologyMUSI30270

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This subject introduces students to a major research topic in the field of historical musicology. Considering a broad range of case studies, students learn how music researchers have approached, evaluated, and answered questions related to this topic in different geographical locations and time p...

  • Topics in Political PhilosophyPHIL40004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:July Year:2024

    This subject will involve an advanced study of problems and issues in contemporary value theory, normally concentrating on issues in ethics, metaethics, and political philosophy. In some years, the course may instead focus on issues in contemporary aesthetics. On completion of the subject, studen...

  • Topics in Popular Music StudiesMUSI30271

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This subject introduces students to one major research topic in the field of popular music studies. Considering a broad range of case studies, students learn how music researchers have approached, evaluated, and answered questions related to this topic across different cultural contexts and time ...

  • Total War: World War IIHIST20060

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject will focus on the second total war of the twentieth century and will explore questions about the causes of armed conflict, the nature of total war, and some of the consequences (social, economic, cultural and political) of total war for modern European and global history. Among the t...

  • Tradition in Modern ChinaCHIN30029

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject is the Capstone subject in the Chinese Studies major of the Bachelor of Arts. It explores the relationship between traditional culture and modern life in Chinese societies using original Chinese language materials, supplemented by academic writing in English on Chinese society and cu...

  • Transit Oriented DevelopmentPLAN30004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Transit Oriented Development is one of the two subjects that define the Transport Design Specilisation in the Bachelor Design. The subject will examine the relationship between transport planning and urban design in diverse urban, Australian and international contexts. Transport Oriented Design ...

  • Translation: Intercultural IndonesianINDO20016

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Students will examine problems of linguistic and cultural difference through the process of translation between Indonesian and English. Students will enhance their expertise in practical Indonesian-English and English-Indonesian translation and will also be introduced to key theoretical issues in...