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ATI5067Sustainable cultural development

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Arts

This unit seeks to equip you with knowledge, skills and intercultural competences to explore the relationship between cultural production and consumption and new agendas for sustainable economic and social development at an international...

APG5609Sustainable tourism development and planning

UnitLevel 5|12 credit points|Arts

This unit explores the theory and application of sustainable tourism practice in diverse national contexts. Key areas of focus comprise the impacts of tourism on the economic, social and environmental well-being of communities and the...

Semester 2Caulfield

ATS3268 Sustainable Tuscany: Critical perspectives and culture

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

Sustainability plays a key role in shaping today’s Italy and its global appeal. This unit enables you to foster a critical perspective on sustainability issues through engagement with a range of cultural and creative industries, engagement...

ATS2265Sustainable Tuscany: Critical perspectives and culture

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

Sustainability plays a key role in shaping Italy and its global appeal. This unit enables you to foster a critical perspective on sustainability issues through engagement with a range of cultural and creative industries, engagement with...

ATS2866Symbolic logic

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

Symbolic logic is a study of information and its representation in a range of forms. Because information and representation are so widespread, logic is a rich and rewarding field with strong connections to philosophy, mathematics, computer...

Semester 1Clayton

AMU3575Task force: Responding to global challenges

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

This multidisciplinary capstone unit is designed to be a culminating experience for students in the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Students from Communications, Writing, Global Studies, and Gender Studies majors will work in groups on...

Semester 1Malaysia

APG5666Terrorism, counter-terrorism and technology

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Arts

This unit aims to provide a critical understanding of terrorism, counter-terrorism and the role of technology in both the application and prevention of political violence. In particular, it examines the phenomenon of terrorism by...

Semester 2Clayton

ATS3311Text and community in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

UnitLevel 3|12 credit points|Arts

This intensive field work course of one week's duration is taught out of the Monash Prato Centre in mid-December in the year of offering, and utilises the intellectual capital of the members of the Prato Consortium for Medieval and...

ATS4311Text and community in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

UnitLevel 4|12 credit points|Arts

This intensive field work course of one week's duration is taught out of the Monash Prato Centre in mid-December in the year of offering, and utilises the intellectual capital of the members of the Prato Consortium for Medieval and...

ATS2351The archaeology of death in ancient Egypt

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

In this unit you will chart the developments in Egyptian culture from 3050 BCE to 1650 BCE (the Old and Middle Kingdoms), using a wide range of material evidence and exploring modern theories to understand the processes involved. You will...

ATS2283The archaeology of empires

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

Towards the beginning of the first millennium BCE the Assyrian state in northern Mesopotamia started to expand its borders. The military and economic ideology of conquest that motivated this expansion created a new kind of political entity...

Semester 1Clayton

ATS3328The archaeology of world rock art

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

A major way that archaeologists make sense of the past is through the images that people depicted on rocks and on cave walls: rock art is one of the most common, and most visually impressive kind of archaeological evidence. In this unit,...

ATS2060The art of teaching music practice

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

This unit introduces you to the art of teaching music performance. Focusing on instrumental teaching, the unit examines and analyses various approaches to teaching instrumental music in one on one lessons, and in group scenarios in the...

Semester 2Clayton

ATS2811Theatre and performance: Theory and practice 1

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

This practical, performance-based unit investigates the processes of making and theorising performance as intertwined and mutually influencing processes. The unit asks the question: How do theory and practice work together when we create...

ATS2105Theatre and performance: Theory and practice 2

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

This practical, performance-based unit develops your abilities to make and theorise performance. The unit asks the question: How do the intertwined activities of theory and practice work together to advance both theatre theory and...

ATS3438The body: A human history

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Arts

In this unit, you will develop your own understanding of key primary and secondary sources dealing with the history of the body. The unit draws on work from different fields of historical enquiry including the history of medicine,...

Semester 1Clayton

ATS2848The economic history of the modern world

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

This unit introduces you to the economic history of the modern world. Employing recent insights from both history and economics, it examines major turning points, trends, and events in the development of the modern world. Upon completing...

Semester 2Clayton

ATS2292The ethics of artificial intelligence

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

Advances in artificial intelligence are poised to transform almost every aspect of modern society – ranging from how we work to how we create art, how we practice medicine to how we fight wars, and how we sentence criminals. This unit...

Semester 1CaulfieldClayton

ATS2640The ethics of global conflict

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

When, if ever, is warfare justified? What about humanitarian intervention? What about violent revolution and terrorism? Why should civilians be protected in conflict? This unit will introduce you to theoretical approaches to the ethics of...

Semester 1Clayton

ATS2275The European Union: Challenges, crises and opportunities

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Arts

The European Union is a unique historic and political achievement. It helped turn Europe from a zone of war into a zone of peace, and it contributed to the consolidation of democracy in the post-fascist and post-communist eras. Yet it is...

WinterPrato