Subjects

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

In this practice-based subject the student writer undertakes a range of writing classes and exercises with the aim of developing techniques for the generation and structuring of original material for live performance; in working to a brief in diverse professional circumstances; and in evolving an...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

In this practice-based subject the student writer undertakes a range of writing classes and exercises with the aim of developing techniques for the generation and structuring of original material for live performance within a collaborative context; in working to a brief in diverse professional ci...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

In this subject students work to develop both solo and group work seeded in semester one. A portfolio of writing projects is created, including one major, full-length work and one minor, shorter work, in different forms. Students have the option to write in different forms (plays, postdramatic t...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

In this subject, students will be introduced to the history of screenwriting and the principles of the craft of writing scripts for screen. Students will develop an understanding of contemporary industrial screenwriting practices. Students will read and respond to a variety of scripts written for...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

Students will be introduced to the imperatives and practices of writing for longer form television series. Students will be made familiar with contemporary TV program development practices and gain an understanding of essential development documents such as the TV series ‘Bible’. Students will ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject provides students with the skills to critically evaluate and produce advanced journalistic texts. Students will familiarise themselves with techniques in news selection, researching, interviewing, writing and editing. Students will also reflect on issues of fairness and objectivity, ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject introduces students to the world of writing screen product for children, tweens and young teenagers with a focus on youth television. Through a series of workshops, presentations and screenings, students will gain insight into what makes successful kid’s programming and will develop...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject explores how creative writing practice encounters identity and alterity. Students will engage with the politics of representation through critical theory, intertextual reflexivity and deconstruction of inherited categories of self and other. It addresses the authority of writing and ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:June Year:2024

Writing is a practice which assists with developing ideas and arguments, and enhances learning. Writing is also a central academic, employment and life skill. This subject will support students writing practice.  The Writing Sociology subject assists students with learning the craft of writing cl...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject engages with the theoretical, practical and technical aspects of creative writing for video games and live performance. Through a rigorous examination of the work of key artists and writing from the 1980s onwards, students will devise concepts for games, performance and enhance their...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:September Year:2024Quotas apply

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is at the centre of ongoing debates concerning sovereignty and development. Its dispute settlement system has been active in resolving a wide range of international disputes, with jurisdiction over some of the largest and most significant matters arising today. ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term Year:2024Quotas apply

This subject is a multidisciplinary introduction to key concepts in the social sciences and cultural studies and their application in the study of modern Indonesia, covering the historical, political, cultural, social, and linguistic factors that have helped shape the contemporary nation-state of...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject enables students to explore contemporary substance use (alcohol and other drug use) among young people. This will include building an understanding of current frameworks/policies for responding to the complex issue of substance use among young people. Current trends in substance use ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject charts the experiences that young people have as subjects and resistors of social control, victims of crime and young offenders. These experiences are contextualised by an appreciation of youth crime and justice as products of historical, theoretical and political junctures which hav...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject explores health and social issues for young people experiencing vulnerability. Specific groups of young people to be studied will be chosen from the areas: disability, indigeneity, homelessness, justice-system involvement, ethnic diversity, and sexual and gender diversity. The subjec...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject introduces and critiques the concepts ‘adolescence’ and ‘health’, and examines various frameworks for understanding the phenomenon of adolescent development. The diversity of adolescent experience is explored, and the impact of various socio-environmental contexts of adolescence on y...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject explores how children and young people construct and reconstruct their sense of selves against the backdrop of pervasive contemporary popular cultures. It examines contrasting approaches to identity (e.g. developmental, sociological, feminist, post-structuralist) and contemporary deb...

Undergraduate subject Offered:June Year:2024

How does your identity shape the art and media you consume and create, and the cultures and subcultures you’re a part of? This subject will explore how young people engage with the arts (including visual arts, music and drama), and how this helps to form their cultural and social identities and d...

Undergraduate subject Offered:July Year:2024

This subject explores young people as change-makers and problem-solvers against a backdrop of social transformation in Australia and globally. It provides students with thinking tools for addressing local and global problems in everyday life and skills for leadership. The subject focuses particul...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 (Extended) Year:2024

This subject introduces students in the third year of the Master of Youth Mental Health to the essential elements of the research process. The subject commences with learning content on the principles of practice-based research, as well as the ethical and legal issues of working with young people...