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ATS3294European languages project
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArts
The unit allows you to build on the critical, analytical and linguistic skills acquired throughout the European Languages major by developing a research or translation project tailored to their disciplinary and linguistic interests.
Semester 2Clayton
ATS2922Everyday improvisation
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How do you stay open and engaged when stakes are high? How do you respond to what's unfolding in the moment? How do you create something together that none of us could do alone? In this unit, you will use improvisation techniques from...
Semester 2Clayton
ATS1069 Exploring theatre and performance studies
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In this unit you will investigate the questions: What does theatre and performance do and how does theatre and performance help us understand and creatively engage our world? We will ask and answer these questions by exploring how theatre...
Semester 1Clayton
ATS2287Exploring theatre and performance studies
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArts
In this unit you will investigate the questions: What does theatre and performance do and how does theatre and performance help us understand and creatively engage our world? We will ask and answer these questions by exploring how theatre...
ATS3139Extended major research unit
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This unit allows you to build on the critical and analytical skills developed through the major by having the opportunity to develop a research project tailored to your disciplinary interests. Special permission to undertake this unit must...
ATS1310Extreme earth! The geography of disasters
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The world today is increasingly shaped by extreme events – bushfires, floods, earthquakes, droughts, hurricanes and tsunamis – that cost lives, damage infrastructure and ecosystems, and disrupt livelihoods and economies. In a changing...
Semester 1Clayton
ATS3496Fairy-tale traditions
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The unit focuses upon the historical development of literary fairy tales for both adults and children from the seventeenth century to contemporary adaptations across media forms. You will learn theoretical approaches through which to...
ATS3962Feasts for the eyes: French and francophone taste, style and fashion
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This elective unit provides you with the opportunity to develop your French language speaking, listening, reading and writing competencies and your knowledge of French and Francophone societies through the central theme of fashion. You...
AMU3248Field methods in anthropology and international development
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The unit involves a field trip within Malaysia that provides you with formal and applied training in qualitative and ethnographic field research methods. The unit consists of a two-week travel that includes a field site visit, in which you...
Malaysia
ATS3248Field methods in anthropology and international development
No reviews yetUnitLevel 312 credit pointsArts
The unit involves an international field trip to Monash Malaysia and provides you with formal and applied training in qualitative and ethnographic field research methods. The unit consists of a two week (16 day) stay in Malaysia. This...
Overseas
ATS3480Field studies in climate governance
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In this unit, you'll take a deep-dive into climate governance, engaging with a variety of industry professionals through a field trip and stakeholder workshop. By applying a political economy lens, you'll examine governance challenges in...
Semester 2Clayton
FSST-MAJFilm and screen studies
No reviews yetArea of studyMajorUndergraduate48 credit pointsArts
The Film and Screen Studies program focuses on critical approaches to the study of film, television, and digital screen cultures, including streaming platforms. The major emphasises a range of critical, theoretical, and practical methods...
FSST-MINFilm and screen studies
No reviews yetArea of studyMinorUndergraduate24 credit pointsArts
The Film and Screen Studies program focuses on critical approaches to the study of film, television, and digital screen cultures, including streaming platforms. The program emphasises a range of critical, theoretical, and practical methods...
ATS2964Film and screen theory and criticism
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In this unit you will learn about vital thinkers and theoretical traditions that have shaped the study of film and television in the 20th and 21st centuries. You will consider how each have interpreted the power of different styles of...
Semester 1CaulfieldClayton
ATS2530Film and television genres
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The concept of genre is a useful way of looking at how media texts are organised, categorised and consumed, and can be applied to both film and television. This unit describes genre as a complex situation that is at once enabled and...
Semester 1CaulfieldClayton
ATS2538Film and television industries and technologies: Key contexts
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The meaning of a film or television series comes not just from what is represented on screen but from the contexts in which this representation takes place. This unit examines some of the key industrial and technological contexts that...
Semester 2CaulfieldClayton
AMU2448Film genres
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This unit introduces learners to a wide variety of film genres. They include traditional genres such as the western, melodrama, noir, the musical and horror, as well as newer ones like the biopic and the martial arts film. Learners will...
Semester 1Malaysia
AMU2449Film histories: From 1895 to the present
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The unit introduces you to key moments in film history from the earliest days of cinema up to the present day. It covers aesthetic, technological and industrial developments, while also exploring the relationship between the cinema and the...
Semester 2Malaysia
ATS3828Film music
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This unit examines the historical development of film music from the silent era through to the present. By investigating the relationship between music and moving image, the unit also explores the different techniques and aesthetics of...
Summer AClayton
FTVS-MAJFilm, television and screen studies
No reviews yetArea of studyMajorUndergraduate48 credit pointsArts
Film, television, and screen studies involves historical, textual and critical approaches to film and television, and related new screen technologies. The major covers Asian and European national cinemas, a range of directors and genres,...