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  • Translation: Intercultural IndonesianINDO30019

    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...

  • Translation: Intercultural IndonesianINDO10013

    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...

  • Trans Studies: Cultures and CommunitiesGEND30007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject charts the emergence of transgender studies, situating gender and sex in conceptual frameworks that have contributed to the development of this dynamic academic field. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we will ask questions such as: What does the term ‘trans’ mean? Is it an ident...

  • Trauma, Memory, BodiesGEND30006

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    How is trauma felt, remembered, and narrated? What are the dynamics of gender, race, sexuality, class, and citizenship in relation to cultural politics of memory and trauma. What are the corporeal manifestations of trauma and memory? Whose memories are valued, believed and commemorated and whose ...

  • Travelling Design & Performance StudioDPSS20009

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024Quotas apply

    In this travelling studio students will engage in a two-week immersive experience in a country of the Asia- Pacific region involving workshops in traditional theatre making where design plays a key role. The designed components may include puppetry, costume, masks, properties and/or scenic elemen...

  • Travelling StudioDNCE20040

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    The Travelling Studio is a place-based 3 week intensive study experience, linking content to local land, environment and place. Students will travel within Australia to one or two city, town or community destinations where they will have first-hand experience with local historical and contemporar...

  • Travelling StudioFINA30027

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    The Travelling Studio is a place-based intensive learning experience, linking content to local land and place. Students are introduced to local Aboriginal systems in country and culture by engaging in ‘two ways of knowing’. Students will travel to a community destination where they will have fir...

  • Trends in Personality& Social PsychologyPSYC30022

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject has two components. Personality: discusses major contemporary issues in the study of personality, and selected areas of contemporary research. Topics will be selected from the neuroscience of personality; personality processes; the emotional and motivational correlates of personalit...

  • Trends & Issues in Agrifood BiotechBTCH30002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    Students will acquire knowledge of the recent and important developments in biotechnology related to agriculture and food and develop an understanding of local and global issues in biotechnology in relation to environment health and sustainable crop and animal production. This subject will provid...

  • Tropical Weather and Climate ExtremesATOC30003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject gives an overview of the weather and climate extreme phenomena in the tropical region, as driven by the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere on a wide range of time and space scales. Topics include tropical cyclones, ENSO theory, Monsoon depression and Monsoon lows, cloud...

  • Twentieth-Century Italian Art: 1909-1969AHIS40008

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject is an advanced seminar which examines specific moments in twentieth-century Italian art. Exploring a broad range of visual culture in modern Italy, the syllabus will cover artistic developments and critical debates in painting, sculpture, film, architecture and industrial design. Thi...

  • Two Koreas in the WorldKORE30002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    The subject covers both South and North Koreas’ international relations since the establishment of the governments in 1948 until today. It deals with two Koreas’ political and ideological divergence since the end of WWII and how two Koreas have formed two totally different diplomatic, economic an...

  • Typography in PracticeGDES30005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject develops specialised skills and craft of typography for professional practice. The subject investigates historical and contemporary typography with readings, talks and studio-based projects from Gutenburg to the digital, text setting, expressive and responsive type.  Students learn ...

  • Under Camera AnimationFINA20036

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term, February, Winter Term, July Year:2024Quotas apply

    In this subject each student will make a film using the “under camera animation” technique. This animation technique involves the creation of an animation through frame-by-frame imagery, photographing each frame with a tablet and then combining these photographs into an animated film. The potenti...

  • Understanding Australian MediaMECM20006

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject examines Australian media with an emphasis on its political nature and issues of media convergence, citizenship, policy, regulation, ownership, governance and local content. Students are encouraged to actively, and critically, examine their own media use. Drawing on this, and a range...

  • Understanding Global MediaMECM20010

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    While new communication technologies, satellite broadcasting, and the Internet have contributed to an increasing connectedness between different regions, a deeper understanding of the organizational structure of this ‘connectedness’, the national and transnational regulation and the ways in which...

  • Understanding Islam and Muslim SocietiesISLM10003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Today, approximately 24% of the world’s population is Muslim. What is Islam, and how does it shape our world: historically, culturally, economically, and politically? What binds nearly 2 billion Muslims together: how are Muslims ‘Muslim’, but differently? This subject introduces students to the r...

  • Understanding Knowing and LearningEDUC10050

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject will lead students to increase their understanding of various perspectives on knowing and learning while developing practical approaches to learning and its enhancement. This will be achieved through the exploration of a range of theoretical perspectives combined with practical appli...

  • Understanding SocietySOCI10001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject explores our contemporary society through sociological perspectives. Students will be encouraged to develop what C Wright-Mills describes as a 'sociological imagination', which seeks to understand the ways in which our identities are formed by social structures and historical pattern...

  • Understanding the Built EnvironmentABPL10005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject provides a broad introduction to the processes and skills associated with the construction of buildings and introduces some of the techniques used in managing the construction process. The characteristics and nature of the construction industry are presented as well as an overview of...