Units

Philosophy has been practised across traditions for millennia. However, studies about philosophy often limit themselves to Euro-centric philosophical discourse. This unit begins by investigating the formation and consequences of such “canon…

The unit aims to equip you with global leadership skills which will enable you to effectively engage in global networks. Introducing you to Cultural Intelligence, the unit will provide critical tools for intercultural management, a key comp…

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 loc…

This unit will be informative, experiential and reflective. You will use teachings and texts from a number of the world's great wisdom traditions and their contemplative practices to help you reflect on and discuss some of life's most impor…

This elective will explore the art, practice and science of contemplative practices and how they can contribute to authentic and sustainable happiness and human flourishing, even in the face of adversity. Important questions will be introdu…

This unit will explore the archaeology of four of the most famous cities of the ancient world: Babylon, Amarna, Troy and Pompeii. These cities not only had a profound impact on the cultures that produced them, but their rediscovery in the 1…

Contemporary Australia and its Cultures: Peoples, Places, Identities introduces students to Australian society, politics and its diverse cultures. You will explore the historical forces that have shaped modern Australia. Drawing on experts…

In this unit, you will explore concepts and technologies fundamental to popular music practice through the application of recording and music production knowledge and skills. You will continue to use audio-visual recordings to further devel…

In this unit, you will extend your exploration of concepts in popular music practice by creating a performance showcase with accompanying promotional material, and undertaking collaborative projects in which you will apply music production…

The unit brings four major Asian languages (Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean) together in one classroom to explore and understand them through comparative perspectives. This unit provides an introduction to the diversity of Asian la…

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 al…

Archaeologists understand archaeological sites by the artefacts they contain. In this unit you will examine how archaeologists analyse collections of different kinds of artefacts excavated or collected from archaeological sites, and how his…

Video games have become a major media industry, generating large revenues and exerting an ongoing impact on older media forms. From game consoles to social media platforms to mobile devices, they account for an increasing share of media exp…

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 connect…

In this unit students will learn the skills and knowledge necessary to fulfil the fundamental journalistic task of reporting the key forums of civil society. Students will discover how these key forums function, and develop the practical sk…

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…

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 concep…

The unit engages with the rich history of visual cultures in Germany, especially text-image relations in art, literature, film, and digital media: from the invention of print in Germany by Johannes Gutenberg in 1452 to today. The unit will…

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 a…

The unit examines aspects of Roman political, social, and cultural history from the crucial period of transition from Republic to Empire (ca. 59 BCE to 69 CE). It focuses on a number of powerful individuals, especially Julius Caesar and the…

The ability to develop innovative research projects, and to collaborate in interdisciplinary teams, are skills highly sought after by policy makers, public administration, and industry. The Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration program i…

In this unit, you will investigate how performances of identities, cultures and places help us understand relationships across intercultural contexts. In this unit, we will explore dynamics central to intercultural theatre and performance i…

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 draws…

Mao’s China (1949–1976) is the most influential period of Chinese history as this era heralded the unprecedented socio-political transformation from the imperial agrarian state to the modern party-state. From the end of the World War II, Ma…

In the process of dying, we face the limits of modern biomedicine’s curative potential and come face to face with the fragility of human life. How does our understanding of life, death and illness challenge our understanding of biomedicine’…

This unit will provide you with an overview of contemporary types of political violence, including terrorism, guerrilla warfare, insurgency, revolution, and related forms of violence. You will examine the different ways in which political v…

This unit introduces students with little or no previous knowledge to classical Latin. You will steadily acquire a good grammatical overview of Latin, reinforced by the reading of adapted Latin texts, weekly grammar exercises and vocabulary…

This unit investigates ethical issues raised by current and likely future developments in biotechnology and genetics. The unit examines ethical and social controversies surrounding the following topics: genetic engineering and 'enhancement'…

You will explore improvisation as a central practice in contemporary music-making. Improvisation has been at the heart of the development of music of many genres, and this unit provides an environment in which students of varied musical int…

This unit examines the modern history of France as a global nation. Moving from the French Revolution to the contemporary era, you will investigate the many ways in which the French nation has been deeply connected to people, places and eve…