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AMU4720Research issues and methodology

UnitLevel 4|12 credit points|Arts

This unit provides training in research methodologies and theoretical frameworks, including approaches to ethics and intellectual property management. Study is developed around a research project based on identified industry needs. The...

Semester 1Malaysia

AMU2453Research methods in the arts and social sciences

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

Research skills are important across a range of academic and industry contexts. The unit introduces critical and practical approaches to research in the social sciences. The unit will focus on equipping you with specific skills in...

Semester 1Malaysia

APG5856Research project

UnitLevel 5|12 credit points|Arts

Under the supervision of suitable academic staff, you will conduct independent research on an appropriate topic.

Summer ASemester 1Semester 2Clayton

APG5554Resource evaluation and management

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Arts

Management of the environment and natural resources involves deep human-environment interactions. Looking beyond the biophysical science of soils, minerals, water and plants, this unit reveals the human factors that shape the need for and...

Semester 2Clayton

ATS3554Resource evaluation and management

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

Management of the environment and natural resources involves deep human-environment interactions. Looking beyond the biophysical science of soils, minerals, water and plants, this unit reveals the human factors that shape the need for and...

Semester 2Clayton

ATS3380Right-wing terrorism, extremism and fringe politics

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

You will examine international cases of neo-Nazis, white supremacists and white separatists, conspiracy communities, fringe subcultures and individual actors, and violent events to develop an understanding of contemporary right-wing...

Semester 2Clayton

ATS2422Romanticism and reason in the long eighteenth century

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

In this unit you will explore the revolution in thought that commenced in the eighteenth century and developed in the early nineteenth century, a movement that changed the course of literature. Texts both inform and are shaped by the...

Semester 2Clayton

ATS2995Science, society and culture in European history

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

Held in Prato, the unit aims to introduce you to the history of science, medicine, and technology in Europe. Far from value-free, knowledge and practice is everywhere and always embedded in a social, political, economic, and cultural...

Semester 1Prato

ATS3995Science, society and culture in European history

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

Held in Prato, the unit aims to introduce you to the history of science, medicine, and technology in Europe. Far from value-free, knowledge and practice is everywhere and always embedded in a social, political, economic, and cultural...

Semester 1Prato

ATS3239Science, technology, and futures

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

More than ever, science and technology are transforming our futures, but not always in ways that are desirable, ethical or just. Artificial intelligence, digital platforms, reproductive technologies, climate science, energy technologies,...

Semester 2Clayton

SCRN-USPECScreen

Area of studySpecialisation|Undergraduate|36 credit points|Arts

Screen industries, technologies and cultures are changing faster than ever before. This specialisation provides you with the knowledge to understand these transformations, navigating how film, television and newer screen formats have led...

ATS3299Screen and the body

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

This unit focuses on the relationships between the screen and the body and mind. It shows how vision, hearing and touch, as well as other affective and embodied responses, contribute to our engagement with the moving image. The unit...

Semester 2CaulfieldClayton

ATS2220Screening Europe: Transnational histories, narratives and identities

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

This unit will trace the development of European-language cinema, focusing on key films, historical moments and movements, to consider larger questions of nationhood, identity, history and globalisation

Semester 1Clayton

ATS3985Screening Europe: Transnational histories, narratives and identities

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

Europe is the birthplace of cinema, and from the silent era through to Italian neorealism and the new waves of the 1960s and 1970s, European cinema changed the way we see and know the world. European cinema reflects diverse cultures and...

Semester 1Clayton

ATS3983Screen project: From film theory to media production

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

This practice-based unit provides you with an opportunity to test and explore theoretical and critical concepts introduced in other Film and Screen Studies units by taking part in the production of a short video group project. The unit is...

Semester 1Caulfield

ATS2535Screen storytelling: From classical narrative to multi-media world building

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

This unit analyses the many ways that stories can be told on screen. It aims is to explore how screen-based media utilise different narrative structures and models, as well as various aesthetic techniques to offer possibilities to creators...

Semester 1CaulfieldClayton

ATS3969Screen studies in the digital era

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

This unit will provide an opportunity for you to critically reflect on the key critical approaches and concepts in film and television studies in the 2000s. It will look at the theoretical and critical issues arising from changes to the...

Semester 1CaulfieldClayton

ATS2845Screenwriting for media production

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

Successful screen-based media productions start with an engaging story that has been skilfully envisaged. In this unit you will draw upon practical theories of screenwriting to transform real-world research into industry standard scripts...

Semester 2Caulfield

ATS3475Secrets and lies: Espionage and diplomacy in the medieval world

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

In the period c. 1200–c. 1400, the arts of identifying and sharing reliable information, and conducting negotiations to secure personal, political or commercial interests, relied on a complex ecosystem of formal and informal participants....

ATS2327Seeing ourselves on screen Diversity and representation in film and television

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

In this unit, you will explore how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability are represented on screen and behind the camera in film, television, and streaming platforms. You will examine how the screen industries have contributed...