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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...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Andrew King Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Weeks 1-5 (Core): 5 x 1-hour on-campus lectures and 5 x 1hr- pre-recorded lecture (2 lectures total per week for five weeks). 4 x 2-hour weekly workshops. Weeks 6-8 (Investigation 1): 3 x 1-hour on-campus lectures and 3 x 1hr- pre-recorded lecture (2 lectures total per week for three weeks). 3 x 2-hour weekly workshops. Weeks 9-11 (Investigation 2):3 x 1-hour on-campus lectures and 3 x 1hr- pre-recorded lecture (2 lectures total per week for three weeks). 3 x 2-hour weekly workshops. 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
- Semester 2
Coordinator Yi Huang Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Weeks 1-5 (Core): 5 x 1-hour on-campus lectures and 5 x 1hr- pre-recorded lecture (2 lectures total per week for five weeks). 4 x 2-hour weekly workshops. Weeks 6-8 (Investigation 1): 3 x 1-hour on-campus lectures and 3 x 1hr- pre-recorded lecture (2 lectures total per week for three weeks). 3 x 2-hour weekly workshops. Weeks 9-11 (Investigation 2):3 x 1-hour on-campus lectures and 3 x 1hr- pre-recorded lecture (2 lectures total per week for three weeks). 3 x 2-hour weekly workshops. 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
- 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 (...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Elisabetta Ferrari Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours: 1 x 1 hour lecture and 1 x 1.5 hour seminar 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
- 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.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinators Benjamin Avanzi and Yuyu Chen Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial 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
- 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...
Not available in 2024
View details - 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...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Rachel Woodlock Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Fortnightly meetings with the coordinator. 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
- Semester 2
Coordinator Rachel Woodlock Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Fortnightly meetings with the coordinator. 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
- 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...
Not available in 2024
View details - 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 ...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Howard Sankey Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours - 1 x 2 hour seminar each 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
Email: chs@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
Not available in 2024
View details - 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...
Not available in 2024
View details - 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Edwin Jurriens Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A total of 24 hours: A 2 hour seminar 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
- Semester 2
Coordinator Justin Wejak Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A total of 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
- 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...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Akihiro Ogawa Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total of 24 hours: One 2 hour seminar per week or fortnightly meetings with the coordinator 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
- 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.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Dana Goswick Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours - 1 x 2 hour seminar each week for 12 weeks 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
- 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Karen Jones Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours - 1 x 2 hour seminar each week for 12 weeks 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
- 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...
Not available in 2024
View details - 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...
- July
Principal coordinator Daniel Halliday Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 2 x 120 minutes seminar per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 1 September 2024 Last self-enrol date 30 July 2024 Census date 9 August 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 13 September 2024 Assessment period ends 6 October 2024 July contact information
- 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 ...
Not available in 2024
View details - 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Oleg Beyda Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 29 hours – 1 x 1.5 hour lecture every week for 12 weeks and 1 x 1 hour tutorials every week for 11 weeks 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
Email: oleg.beyda@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Lewis Mayo Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours: a 1.5 hour lecture and a 1 hour tutorial 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
- 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 ...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator John Stone Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 3 hours per week ( 1X 1hour Lecture and 1X2 hour tutorial) 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
- 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...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Monika Winarnita Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A total of 36 hours: Two 1.5-hour seminars 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