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ATS2281Aboriginal languages

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

Around 490 Indigenous languages were spoken in Australia 200 years ago. While only a dozen or so of these languages are still being learned by children as their first language, Indigenous communities all around Australia have strong...

Semester 1Clayton

ATS3381Aboriginal languages

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

Around 490 Indigenous languages were spoken in Australia 200 years ago. While only a dozen or so of these languages are still being learned by children as their first language, Indigenous communities all around Australia have strong...

Semester 1Clayton

APG5966Academic and professional presentation skills

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Arts

In this unit, you participate in learning practices and activities directly concerned with presentation skills as practiced in academic and professional environments. You are introduced to key performance presentation concepts and given...

Semester 2Clayton

ATS1297Academic writing

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Arts

This unit introduces you to academic writing and the attitudes, values and practices of academic culture. The unit will help you to write effective essays at a tertiary level. There is a particular focus on how academic writing presents...

Semester 1CaulfieldClayton

ATS2883Acting across stages

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

In this unit you will rethink the value and purpose of ‘acting’ in a general sense. You will consider and practise how you ‘act’ in all areas of your life and you will learn strategies for performing on (i) theatrical stages; (ii)...

Semester 1Clayton

ATS3950Activism for academic freedom: Applied workshop in research advocacy

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

All over the world, academics face human rights abuses including unjust restrictions, prosecution or imprisonment for pursuing knowledge in their area of expertise and exerting their freedom of speech as public intellectuals. This unit...

Semester 2Clayton

APG5127Advanced methodologies in the humanities and social sciences

UnitLevel 5|12 credit points|Arts

In this unit you will undertake advanced training in identifying, understanding and selecting appropriate research designs and methods to meet the needs of your research project in the humanities and social sciences, and as a student...

Semester 1Semester 2Clayton

APG5969Advanced simulation

UnitLevel 5|12 credit points|Arts

This unit examines a number of interrelated themes dealing with the resolution of various types of complex policy problems. You will be assigned specific roles and participate in extended problem-based simulations. These theoretically...

Summer AClayton

ATS2284Agency, advocacy and activism in performance

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

In this unit you explore performance as a method of advocacy, mediation, and social/cultural transformation across the performing arts. Through a student-led, project-based, Community of Practice learning approach, you will learn key...

Semester 1Clayton

ATS3611A history of God

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

Yahweh, Jesus, Allah. Where did God get started? How has the idea changed over time? What is the meaning of the famous statement “God is dead”? This unit explores the way God has been imagined in a variety of religious and mystical...

Semester 1Clayton

ATS3908American empire: The United States from colonies to superpower

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

In this unit you will examine the rise of the United States to global dominance across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and to a superpower in the 21st century. You will investigate key events, from the dispossession of indigenous...

Semester 2CaulfieldClayton

ATS3888American literature

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

In this unit, you will examine a range of novels, short stories, and poems which illuminate major themes in United States literature from the nineteenth century through to today. Topics explored may include: what it means to be 'American'...

Semester 2Clayton

APG5154Analysing global politics

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Arts

In this unit, you will explore how global affairs professionals construct, contest, and communicate knowledge. You will examine the intellectual scaffolding of International Relations: its main philosophical debates, conceptual tools,...

Semester 2Clayton

ATS2868Anarchy, property, and the state

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

The unit will discuss the normative foundations of the state and of the institution of private property. What is the proper role of government? Why should we obey the law? What is the relation between property and liberty? When, if ever,...

Semester 2Clayton

ATS2084Ancient mythologies

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

This unit examines mythic patterns and their relation to ritual enactments in ancient times and across a variety of cultures including Indigenous Australia, the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. We explore creation stories, tales of...

Semester 1Clayton

ATS2106An environmental history of the world: People and our planet

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

In this unit, you will explore the history of the world through the lens of the environment. How have environmental factors shaped the histories of human societies? How have human activities affected and transformed the environment over...

Semester 2CaulfieldClayton

ATS3376Anthropology of human rights

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

The unit introduces you to cross-cultural notions of human rights. Anthropology places human rights in broader analyses of power, politics and social inequality. Political leaders in various countries dismiss human rights as a Western...

Semester 2Clayton

ATS2277Artefacts, objects and remains: Making sense of archaeological sites

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

Archaeologists understand archaeological sites by the artefacts they contain. In this unit you will examine how archaeologists analyse collections of different kinds of artefacts excavated or collected from archaeological sites, and how...

Semester 2Clayton

ATS3187Artificial Intelligence and algorithmic decision-making in the criminal justice system

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

In this unit, you will critically examine how artificial intelligence and advanced technologies are transforming criminal justice systems in Australia and internationally. You will explore key applications including predictive policing,...

Semester 2Clayton

ATS4231Arts honours thesis A

UnitLevel 4|12 credit points|Arts

Under the supervision of an academic staff member, you will develop, and commence the implementation and reporting of, a research project on an approved topic of your own devising. This unit is followed by Arts honours thesis B (ATS4232),...

Semester 1Semester 2Clayton