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ATS2060The art of teaching music practice
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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
TPMS-MINTheatre and performance studies
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The Theatre and performance studies minor focuses on developing knowledge, skills, and practices that help us understand, creatively engage, and transform the world around us. If you complete the Theatre and performance studies minor you...
ATS2811Theatre and performance: Theory and practice 1
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
ATS3275The European Union: Challenges, crises and opportunities
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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
ATS3235The French Pacific: Immersion into (post)colonial francophone cultures
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This study tour offers a unique opportunity to experience francophone cultures of the South Pacific. You will undertake a two-week intensive program in New Caledonia or French Polynesia where you will stay with a host family/in a...
ATS1309The geography of global challenges
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How can we understand and address the interlinked global challenges of environmental degradation, economic inequality, and population growth? ‘The geography of global challenges’ is an introductory unit in Human Geography that grapples...
Semester 2Clayton
ATS1420The global crime problem
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The unit presents contemporary global challenges for those tasked with responding to crime and criminality. You will be presented with several topical issues that are key challenges for contemporary governments and non-state actors. The...
Semester 1Clayton
ATS3186The global south in international relations
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In this unit, you are introduced to the agency, role, perspectives, and lived experiences of the Global South in shaping contemporary international relations and global order. You will explore how historical and contemporary events and...
Semester 1Clayton
ATS2349The golden age of Athens
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This unit focuses on the city-state of Athens during the 5th century BCE: the period when, in a burst of creativity, her citizens produced their greatest achievements. The unit offers a historical and archaeological framework within which...
ATS2110The history of slavery: From antiquity to the present
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Slavery has existed since ancient times and has been used in societies as diverse as Ancient Rome and modern India, medieval Europe and nineteenth-century America. It still exists, in various forms, today. The unit investigates the meaning...
ATS2600The Holocaust
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This unit examines the Holocaust and its place in the broader phenomenon of genocide and mass killing in history. Major topics covered include antisemitism, the Nazi state, ghettos and death camps, responses of victims, and the role of...
Semester 2Clayton
ATS3584The Indigenous history of modern Australia
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In this unit, you will consider relations between Indigenous and non-Aboriginal people in Australia since 1770. The main topics will include the legal basis of British sovereignty; the nature of frontier contact; violence and the...
Semester 2CaulfieldClayton
ATS2199The inhuman body in the human world: Corporations and contemporary culture
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In this unit, you will explore the relationship between humans, cultures and the corporation. Drawing on social science and humanities-based analysis of corporate activity in western and non-western settings, you will critically examines...
Semester 2Clayton
ATS3947The making of a modern Korea: History and development
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This unit aims to provide you with a deeper understanding of the essential historical developments and philosophical constructs that have impacted the Korean Peninsula. It focuses on some of the most contentious areas of premodern and...
Semester 1Semester 2Clayton