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  • 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 Insurance and FinanceACTL90021

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Topics include 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 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 ...

  • TortsLAWS50025

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject explores a core area of private law: the law of torts. It builds upon skills introduced in the foundational subject, Legal Method and Reasoning, with respect to the interpretation and application of both cases and statutes. The majority of the subject will focus on the tort of neglig...

  • 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...

  • Trade and Investment Law in ChinaLAWS90052

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:October Year:2024Quotas apply

    In recent decades, China has become an active participant in, and even a leader of, the international economic law system. It joined the World Trade Organization and has negotiated numerous trade agreements and investment treaties. In both trade and investment, China has been a party to many disp...

  • Trade, Investment, IP and HealthLAWS90092

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:August Year:2024Quotas apply

    Trade, investment, intellectual property and health laws and norms interact in multiple ways, both to the benefit of health and to its detriment. This subject explores the harmonies and tensions across these critical areas of policy and governance at legal, normative, operational and institutiona...

  • Trade Mark LawLAWS50075

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024Quotas apply

    This subject is about the legal protection of trade marks and elements of branding and reputation. It addresses three overlapping themes. The first involves a detailed treatment of Australian law – in particular the operation of the registered trade marks regime under the Trade Marks Act 1995 (Ct...

  • Trade Mark PracticeLAWS90035

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:October Year:2024Quotas apply

    This subject builds on the material covered in the Trade Marks and Unfair Competition subject. Trade Mark Practice focusses on the procedures and practices of the Australian Trade Marks Office in obtaining and maintaining registered trademarks. It covers the relevant aspects of New Zealand trade ...

  • Trade Marks and Unfair CompetitionLAWS70046

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:March, July Year:2024Quotas apply

    This subject is concerned with the laws in Australia and New Zealand that protect trade marks. Trade marks play a pivotal role in the marketing of goods and services, and generally are one of a trader‘s most valuable assets. The protection of trade marks is thus of critical importance to all trad...

  • Trade Policy Politics & GovernancePOLS90012

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:August Year:2024

    This subject examines the politics and governance of international trade. It explores the domestic and international dimensions of trade policy-making and the growing complexity of the "trade agenda" in national and international politics. It examines theories of trade and protection and theories...

  • 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...

  • Transcultural Communication at WorkLING90026

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    One outcome of the globalisation of the Australian job market is the increasing need for transcultural communication skills in both the private and public sectors. Transcultural communication typically entails interaction in which one or more of the communicators use a second or third language. S...

  • Transcultural Mental HealthPSYT90014

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:July Year:2024

    Transcultural psychiatry concerns itself with the: nature of mental illness;causes and distribution of mental illness in different populations;culture and clinical practice, including the clinician-patient relationship; and thedesign of mental health services in multicultural societies. Student...