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- Medical Microbiology: VirologyMIIM30014
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This subject describes how medically important viruses interact with their hosts to cause infection. The subject will cover the strategies that different groups of viruses employ to replicate in host cells, and their mechanisms for manipulating cellular biochemistry for their own ends. The diffe...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Damian Purcell Coordinators Jason Mackenzie and Sarah Londrigan Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 3 x one hour lectures per week (total contact hours: 36) 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
Subject Coordinators
Prof Damian Purcell
dfjp@unimelb.edu.auProf Jason Mackenzie
jason.mackenzie@unimelb.edu.auDr. Sarah Londrigan
sarahll@unimelb.edu.auAdministrative Coordination
- Medieval and Early Modern FrenchFREN40003
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024
This subject is an introduction to research, by setting up a methodology. It aims to show the modernity of the period into consideration (French Middle Ages and Renaissance), in a double perspective, both historical and anthropological. Critical readings and analysis will be practised. Visits to ...
Not available in 2024
View details - Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 1MUSI10207
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024
This is a mixed instrumental and vocal ensemble of 12–20 members that performs music of the Renaissance. Instruments for the players will be made available from the University's instrument collection. Delivery This subject is co-taught with MUSI20215 Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 1 and MUSI...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Donald Nicolson Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising two 1-hour rehearsals per week Total time commitment 85 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
Donald Nicolson: dnicolson@unimelb.edu.au
- Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 1MUSI20215
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024
This is a mixed instrumental and vocal ensemble of 12–20 members that performs music of the Renaissance. Instruments for the players will be made available from the University’s instrument collection. Delivery This subject is co-taught with MUSI10207 Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 1 and MUSI...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Donald Nicolson Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising two 1-hour rehearsals per week. Total time commitment 68 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
Donald Nicolson: dnicolson@unimelb.edu.au
- Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 1MUSI30260
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024
This is a mixed instrumental and vocal ensemble of 12–20 members that performs music of the Renaissance. Instruments for the players will be made available from the University’s instrument collection. Delivery This subject is co-taught with MUSI10207 Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 1 and MUSI...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Donald Nicolson Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising two 1-hour rehearsals per week Total time commitment 85 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
Donald Nicolson: dnicolson@unimelb.edu.au
- Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 2MUSI30261
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This is a mixed instrumental and vocal ensemble of 12–20 members that performs music of the Renaissance. Instruments for the players will be made available from the University’s instrument collection. Delivery This subject is co-taught with MUSI10206 Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 2, and MUS...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Donald Nicolson Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising two 1-hour rehearsals per week Total time commitment 68 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
Donald Nicolson: dnicolson@unimelb.edu.au
- Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 2MUSI10206
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This is a mixed instrumental and vocal ensemble of 12–20 members that performs music of the Renaissance. Instruments for the players will be made available from the University’s instrument collection. Delivery This subject is co-taught with MUSI20216 Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 2, and MUS...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Donald Nicolson Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising two 1-hour rehearsals per week Total time commitment 85 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
Donald Nicolson: dnicolson@unimelb.edu.au
- Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 2MUSI20216
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This is a mixed instrumental and vocal ensemble of 12–20 members that performs music of the Renaissance. Instruments for the players will be made available from the University’s instrument collection. Delivery This subject is co-taught with MUSI10206 Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 2, and MU...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Donald Nicolson Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising two 1-hour rehearsals per week Total time commitment 68 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
Donald Nicolson: dnicolson@unimelb.edu.au
- Medieval PassionsENGL40003
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024
How did medieval writers conceptualise emotions, passions, and feelings? This subject will introduce students to a selection of medieval English texts in a range of narrative and dramatic genres that privilege different forms of emotional practice: romance, lyric, allegory, confessional writing, ...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Stephanie Trigg Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 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
- Melbourne Film Festival StudioFLTV20021
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This subject is a cultural immersion through which students will gain a deeper and contextual understanding of contemporary screen practice and culture at the highest international level. Students will be challenged to think beyond the limitations of their current screen practice by visiting sign...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Anna Helme Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 37 hours, comprising tutorials, screenings, and talks Total time commitment 137 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
Anna Helme: helme.a@unimelb.edu.au
- Melbourne: Urban Anthropology in ActionANTH20015
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
What makes a city cool? Is Melbourne really one of the most liveable cities in the world—and for whom? How do different populations (artists, students, migrants from elsewhere in Australia, young and old, people of different genders) experience the city? And who has the capacity to shape the futu...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Debra McDougall Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total of 30 contact hours - A 1.5 hour lecture and a 1.5 hour tutorial per week for 10 weeks. The lecture and tutorial programs are staggered and cover 12 weeks of semester. 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
- Melodrama, Ideology and the CinemaSCRN40005
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This subject analyses the history, aesthetics and critical discourse of cinematic melodrama across global art cinema and Hollywood filmmaking traditions and contemporary practices. It addresses melodrama’s origins in, and continued engagement with, other visual and performing art forms, especiall...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Mark Nicholls Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 56 hours: a 2 hour seminar and 2.5 hour screening 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
- Memory & Memoirs of 20th Century EuropeEURO20003
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024
The eye-witness account and the personal memoir offer powerful ways of exploring the human legacy of overwhelming historical events on individual lives. But how do literary genres like the memoir and autobiography manage to speak about unspeakable topics, how do they represent the unrepresentable...
Not available in 2024
View details - Memory & Memoirs of 20th Century EuropeEURO30002
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024
The eye-witness account and the personal memoir offer powerful ways of exploring the human legacy of overwhelming historical events on individual lives. But how do literary genres like the memoir and autobiography manage to speak about unspeakable topics, how do they represent the unrepresentable...
Not available in 2024
View details - Methods in Agrifood BiotechnologyBTCH30001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024
The aim of this subject is to introduce students to the practical skills in the application of biotechnological techniques with particular emphasis on agri-food sector related investigations. The practical techniques to be introduced to the students include cell and tissue culture, plant genetic ...
Not available in 2024
View details - Methods in Sociolinguistic ResearchLING40013
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This course is an Honours level introduction to key concepts and approaches in field-based methodologies employed in sociocultural linguistics, with a particular focus on contemporary scholarship that takes a broad approach to language, culture, and society. It will examine current approaches to ...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Chloe Diskin-Holdaway Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 35 hours: 3.5 hours per week for 10 weeks. Total time commitment 340 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
- Methods of Mathematical PhysicsMAST30031
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This subject gives an example-oriented overview of various advanced topics that are important for mathematical physics and physics students, as well as being of interest to students of pure and applied mathematics. These topics include: Further differential equations: Bessel functions, Legendre ...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Thomas Quella Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 one-hour lectures (three per week); 12 one-hour practice classes (one 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
- Metric and Hilbert SpacesMAST30026
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This subject provides a basis for further studies in modern analysis, geometry, topology, differential equations and quantum mechanics.It introduces the idea of a metric space with a general distance function, and the resulting concepts of convergence, continuity, completeness, compactness and co...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Alexandru Ghitza Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 3 x one hour lectures per week, 1 x one hour practice class 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
- Microbes, Infections and ResponsesMIIM20002
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This subject describes how microbes are an essential part of our environmental ecology and participate in unique interactions within their environmental niche. This subject also describes how microbes (bacteria, viruses, parasites) cause infections in humans, and how our immune system responds. T...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Jessica Welch Coordinators Odilia Wijburg, Elizabeth Aitken, and Karena Waller Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours of lectures and 6 X 3 hour practical classes and 6 X 1 hour on-line computer aided learning associated with each practical class = 60 hours total. 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
Principal Coordinator
Dr Jessica Welch
Coordinators
A/Prof Odilia Wijburg
Prof Karena Waller
Dr Elizabeth Aitken
elizabeth.aitken@unimelb.edu.au
Administrative Coordination
Past Students, Future Students and General Enquiries
- Microbiology in AgricultureAGRI20044
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024
This subject introduces students to the diverse world of microbiology and the roles that microorganisms play in all aspects of agriculture, including animal, plant and soil science. The basic structure and biology of microorganisms will be covered, with a focus on bacteria, viruses and fungi. Asp...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Glenn Browning Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 54 hours. 33 hours of lectures and 21 hours of practicals or 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