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  • Wonders Of The WeatherATOC10001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    The weather controls the quality of the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. The atmosphere and oceans influence decisions about what we wear, how we travel, where we live and how we spend our weekends and holidays. This subject explores how the atmosphere and oceans determine ...

  • Word as Image in Space and TimeGDES30006

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Word as Image in Space and Time introduces students to the fundamental principles and skills of visual communication using bespoke letterforms and experimental layout and design. Through a programme of lectures, workshops, speculative project work and class discussion, students will develop an u...

  • Work and Conflict in the Global EconomyIBUS30003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This subject introduces students to the diverse ways in which the competing needs and interests of organisations, employees, communities and other stakeholders are managed in the 21st century workplace. The globalisation of production, technological change, and new business models have created ne...

  • Working EthicallyPADM90009

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

    This subject provides students with an advanced understanding of ethics as they apply to the individual in their managerial role, but also in the design and implementation of public outcomes more broadly. This subject situates these challenges in their social, theoretical, historical and discipli...

  • Working in Human Service OrganisationsSCWK90070

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:September Year:2024

    This subject aims to give students an appreciation of the nature of human service organisations as a context, vehicle and target of social work interventions. Several theoretical perspectives on human service organisations will be explored and students will be introduced to a number of specific d...

  • Working in Indigenous Cultural ContextsINDG90001

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

    This subject will examine the diversity of protocols and management practices that arts and cultural managers need to be cognisant of when working in Australian Indigenous cultural contexts. Examining management concerns and practices across a range of art forms in both urban and remote settings,...

  • Working with GroupsEDUC90227

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    A general review of systems theory and practice is presented, with the particular focus of assisting participants to understand the social system and to develop interventions in that context. The sessions cover: communication in groups (selective perception and culture, perception and communicati...

  • Working with Groups and CommunitiesSCWK90057

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:February Year:2024

    This subject is designed to introduce students to social work practice through the interventions of group work and community work. Several theoretical frameworks for group and community work will be explored and this will be contextualised in the current policy and political climate. Using case s...

  • Working with Indigenous Arts & ArtistsCREA20001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This subject introduces issues, methods, principles, and protocols to guide you in your arts industry, practice, teaching and/or research when working with Indigenous arts, artists and cultural heritage. The subject encompasses music, dance, story, language, and visual arts, and other forms of cu...

  • Work, Labour and SocietySOCI30015

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject will undertake a critical analysis of the changing structure and behaviour of work and occupations in modern society. It will engage with the theoretical debates and empirical research that focus on the organizational development and work and occupations in society more generally. Th...

  • Work Law in Unionised SectorsLAWS90280

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:October Year:2024Quotas apply

    This subject addresses the law of work in highly unionised sectors. It examines the key legislation that regulates highly unionised workplaces and the rights and responsibilities of employers, employees and registered organisations. The subject considers in detail the interactions between workpla...

  • Workplace Health and SafetyLAWS70053

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:September Year:2024Quotas apply

    Work Health and Safety Law has grown in scope over the past decade, particularly since 2010 when most Australian governments implemented nationally-uniform laws about work health and safety. Victoria has, however, continued, with a similar but different model, and has a particularly active regula...

  • World Economic HistoryECON90056

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject provides an introduction to the development of economic activity and material well-being in the world since the year 1000 A.D. The main objectives are to present an overview of the main phases and episodes in the evolution of the world economy, and to develop an understanding of the ...

  • World Music ChoirMUSI20143

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term, Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject introduces students to unaccompanied vocal traditions from around the world. Through weekly lectures, students learn to recognise the musical, social, and political significance of traditional and contemporary vocal styles of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas. In weekly rehears...

  • World Trade Organisation LawLAWS50109

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024Quotas apply

    The regulation of international trade is both a driver and a result of economic globalization. Under the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO), governments agree to liberalise trade, refrain from discriminating between like products from foreign countries, harmonise certain regulatory framewo...

  • Writing About Art and the Moving ImageAHIS90008

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject will introduce students to the theory and practice of writing on contemporary art and the moving image. The distinct professional genres in which art writing is practised will be analysed as will the recent history of art theory. The subject will survey innovations and developments t...

  • Writing a Literature ReviewEDUC90867

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject teaches Doctor of Education candidates how to identify, analyse and synthesise published research findings that are of a high quality and relevant to their own research. Building upon this, it teaches Doctor of Education candidates how to locate their own proposed research projects a...

  • Writing and Editing for Digital MediaPUBL90006

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

    This introductory subject is designed to induct graduate students into the major issues and current thinking in web-based communication; to familiarise students with the major channels and platforms in use in this field; to develop an understanding of online genres, and teach essential writing an...

  • Writing and Editing for MagazinesPUBL90013

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject provides an overview of magazine writing, editing and publishing, with special emphasis on the skills needed to successfully produce magazines today. We examine how magazine editors conceive of audiences, and how they create print and digital magazines that serve the needs and desire...

  • Writing and Publishing ReportsMGMT90134

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

    This subject will help students to become better and more skilled readers and writers of research in the fields of business and commerce. Students will build competencies in academic literacy that will be directed toward reading, writing, and publishing in both corporate and academic contexts. Th...