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  • 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...

  • Understanding The Life CourseSOCI40003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject introduces a life course approach to social issues. Life course research is a relatively new and innovative approach in the social sciences which has developed in recent decades. It brings back in a time dimension into social research and systematically links social changes on the ma...

  • Understanding the Student as LearnerEDUC91029

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject focuses on the theoretical frameworks and evidence bases that educators use in understanding the development of their learners and in planning suitable instructional sequences that are responsive to the inherent variability of learners. It covers foundational concepts related to lear...

  • Underworld and AfterlifeANCW30011

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    The journey to the underworld, the existence of an afterlife, the survival of the bereaved, the mummification of the dead, human sacrifice, communicating with ghosts - the ancient world blossomed with myths and rituals associated with all these things. This subject focuses on these topics in the ...

  • Unilateral ConductLAWS90066

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:January Year:2024

    One of the means by which firms may behave anti-competitively is by engaging in unilateral conduct that damages the competitive process and consumer welfare. Such conduct may be described in various ways in different jurisdictions, including as monopolisation, abuse of dominance or misuse of mark...

  • UN Law and PracticeLAWS90249

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:March Year:2024Quotas apply

    The United Nations (UN) is probably the boldest experiment in international relations in the modern era. It is a body of critical importance in the international political and legal arena, particularly with respect to its primary purposes of maintaining international peace and security; maintaini...

  • Unliveable Berlin StudioABPL90297

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024Quotas apply

    Unliveable Berlin is a University of Melbourne design studio, organised and run by Michael Roper (Director, Architecture Architecture). This studio will take a group of masters students from architecture, landscape and urban design to the ANCB Metropolitan Laboratory in Berlin where they will exp...

  • Urban and Cultural Heritage InternshipABPL90381

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    Students enrolled in this subject will complete an internship of a minimum of two weeks full-time placement with an external organisation in the architectural, urban and cultural heritage field. Students will be supervised by the Subject Coordinator in collaboration with a designated party at the...

  • Urban and Cultural Heritage Minor ThesisABPL90382

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject is designed to produce a 10,000 word ordered, critical exposition of knowledge gained through the student's own efforts which demonstrates a sound understanding of a topic of their choice relating to urban and cultural heritage. Regular meetings will be held with a supervisor to allo...

  • Urban and Landscape HeritageABPL90075

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:September Year:2024

    The development of landscape design in Australia. The influence and work of Australian landscape designers. Concepts of natural and cultural heritage. Types of landscape heritage: Australian indigenous landscapes, public and private parks and gardens, institutional and industrial landscapes, symb...

  • Urban Coding and DesignABPL90132

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Urban design is concerned with the shaping of public space at multiple spatial scales from lanes, streets and squares to the neighbourhoods and districts of the larger metropolis. Urban codes are the institutionalised principles governing the formation of public space, including morphology and fo...

  • Urban & Cultural Heritage Research ProjABPL90383

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This subject is designed to produce a 5,000-word critical exposition of knowledge gained through the student's own efforts which demonstrates a sound understanding of a topic of their choice relating to urban and cultural heritage. Regular meetings with a supervisor allow the student to obtain ad...

  • Urban Demography and StatisticsPLAN90001

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject provides an introduction to quantitative data analysis for the social sciences, focusing on the data and techniques commonly used in analysis of cities. It develops understanding and skill in the use of the collection, interpretation, analysis, and representation of information. The...

  • Urban Design for People and PlacesPLAN20002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Urban Design introduces the visual, spatial, social and design dimensions in planning for public spaces. Urban Design for People and Places examines how a city’s built form, function and structure is shaped by its interaction with multidimensional forces – including the physical, technological, c...

  • Urban Design Studio AABPL90061

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    Students will undertake introductory abstract design exercises in the first half of semester providing the foundation for a major urban design proposition and the development of that proposition for end of semester assessment. This subject covers an introduction to a broad range of urban design i...

  • Urban Design Studio BABPL90273

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    Students will undertake a series of in depth, critical and propositional studio-based design esquisses or exercises leading to a major exploratory urban design proposition. Their design proposition will investigate one or more key urban design issues or approaches in depth. This subject touches ...

  • Urban Design Studio CABPL90389

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    Students will undertake a series of in depth, critical and propositional studio-based design esquisses or exercises leading to a major exploratory urban design proposition scheme. Their design proposition will investigate one or more key urban design issues or approaches in depth, whilst demonstr...

  • Urban Design TheoryABPL90017

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject explores contemporary theories and modes of critique relating to the design of the urban public realm. Emphasis is on how urban physical form responds to the economic, cultural, political, social, aesthetic and natural forces of an urbanised area. Assignments and class papers require...

  • Urban Design ThesisABPL90376

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject is the culmination of each student's studies in Master of Urban Design. It will consist of a number of autonomous studio groups offering a range of opportunities for students to demonstrate an original approach to design synthesis in urban design, which is based on research and criti...

  • Urban Eco Acupuncture StudioABPL90111

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024Quotas apply

    Students will take part in an international studio in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, in collaboration with students and academics from the Technical University of Delft and the Alto Design Factory in Leeuwarden. This studio will address the strategic objectives laid out by the City of Leeuwarden f...