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ATS2281Aboriginal languages
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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
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArts
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
AMU1017Academic literacies
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This unit is designed to introduce you to the literacies required for academic study in their degree courses. Language use at university differs from 'generic' language. These differences will be explored through discussion and practice....
Semester 2Malaysia
ATS1297Academic writing
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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
ATS1190Acting 2: Theory and practice
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The unit builds on the learning begun in ATS1189. Students continue their study of 20th Century actor training, and develop their learning of vocal and physical techniques for character building and theatrical embodiment.
ATS2883Acting across stages
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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
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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
ATS3555Advanced media portfolio
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In Advanced media portfolio, you will draw upon practical media skills acquired throughout the BMC degree to create a major, self-directed media project that will form a centrepiece of your graduating portfolio. Working individually, or in...
Semester 2Caulfield
ATS4171Advanced readings in media and communications studies
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The unit provides you with an opportunity to engage with a key work in the area of media and communications in a detailed and sustained way. Over the semester, you will read the entirety of one important book, meeting weekly to analyse and...
AMU4727Advanced readings in social, political and media theory
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The unit is a reading course that grounds you in contemporary debates on a range of social, political and media theory at an advanced level through a mixture of lecture inputs and seminars. You will acquire interdisciplinary skills in...
Semester 2Malaysia
ATS2284Agency, advocacy and activism in performance
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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
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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
AMU2014AI-powered public relations: Social media, digital PR and emerging technologies
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In this unit, you will explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on public relations. You will learn how AI is reshaping PR practices by automating tasks, enhancing media monitoring, improving audience targeting, and...
Semester 2Malaysia
ATS3908American empire: The United States from colonies to superpower
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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
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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
ATS2868Anarchy, property, and the state
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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
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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
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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
ANTH-MAJAnthropology
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Anthropology is the comparative study of different ways of life. It seeks an 'insider' perspective on alternative ways of being in the world. To interpret human behaviour, anthropologists ask questions not just about what people do, but...
ANTH-MINAnthropology
No reviews yetArea of studyMinorUndergraduate24 credit pointsArts
Anthropology is the comparative study of different ways of life. It seeks an 'insider' perspective on alternative ways of being in the world. To interpret human behaviour, anthropologists ask questions not just about what people do, but...