Units
The individual subjects inside each degree: what’s taught, how it’s assessed, and when it runs.
4,303 units
| Code | Unit | Faculty | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATS3309 | Producing and consuming Japan: A study tour through local geographies and consumption practices This intensive study program enables you to recognise and assess the nature of consumption practices in Japan. Japan is famous internationally for its production of consumer goods. This unit addresses more specifically the diversity of scal… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3311 | Text and community in Medieval and Renaissance Italy 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 Renaissa… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3314 | Seeking justice: South Africa and Rwanda This unit will bring together students from Australia and South Africa to study the contemporary histories of post-genocide and post-conflict societies, through two specific cases: the South African approach after apartheid and local and gl… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3324 | Lifestyle journalism This unit explores the research and reporting practices of Lifestyle Journalism, which fall into the category of popular journalism. Lifestyle Journalism is associated with travel, entertainment, leisure/fashion, lifestyle, food, music, art… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3325 | Body talk: Gesture, gaze and sign language How does the body fit into communication? What do eye gaze and gestures contribute to spoken or signed interactions? Do we gesture differently when we are speaking with friends than with our boss or clients in a professional situation? Do s… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3326 | Living a meaningful life: Wisdom traditions and their contemplative practices 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 impo… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3327 | True happiness: The art, practice and science of human flourishing 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… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3328 | The archaeology of world rock art 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, yo… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3329 | Language, culture and power This unit explores the relationship between language and culture, and how this relationship impacts one’s place and social mobility in society. You will learn how one’s language and language use may be linked to social, regional and ethnic… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3331 | Music in culture study tour In this unit you will explore the study of music in different cultural contexts. You will investigate culturally-specific approaches to performance, composition, music technology and ethnomusicology/musicology in their environments. You wil… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3332 | Music - Overseas study program In this unit you will study music as artistic citizenship and public pedagogy. You will investigate place-based, embodied participatory approaches to music-making. We will take a reflective approach to the exploration of diverse co-creative… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3336 | Performance lab: Production investigation In this unit you will create and test new key knowledge in theatre and performance production through practice. You will explore core concepts and methods of theatre and performance design, representation and engagement. Focusing on the emb… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3337 | Media professions lab This unit offers you the opportunity to develop your interpersonal skills, reflective abilities, and professional vision, which are together crucial to a successful and worthwhile career as a media worker. You’ll do so through a team-based… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3338 | Environmental archaeology: Understanding cultural landscapes In this unit, you will be introduced to methods used by archaeologists and ancient historians to study cultural landscapes, reconstruct past environments and investigate the ways that landscapes were inhabited, perceived and changed by soci… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3340 | International security studies This unit introduces you to key approaches, institutions, and contemporary issues in international security. It engages both traditional and non-traditional forms of security, examining global responses and options to address conflict, buil… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3344 | Study tour in Italy: Etruscan and Roman archaeology This overseas study tour is an intensive introduction to the cultures of ancient Italy, focussing on the Etruscan and Roman civilisations. We will visit archaeological sites and view museum collections in Rome and Tuscany to familiarise our… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3350 | From Alexander to Kleopatra: The rise and fall of the Hellenistic world Alexander the Great expanded Macedonia from a small north Aegean kingdom to a huge territory stretching from the Danube to the Himalayas. After Alexander's death, that empire disintegrated into a series of warring kingdoms, initially ruled… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3354 | Interrogating racism: Indigenous Australians and the state The unit focuses on theories of race and issues of ethnicity, prejudice and racism, with particular emphasis on the continuities and discontinuities of discourses on 'race' in Australia; language use in a multicultural context; the uses of… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3359 | Hearing the country: Studies in Indigenous Australian ethnoecology Australia is the site of a remarkable diversity of systems of knowledge. Indigenous knowledge systems and systems based on western scientific tradition have often been seen as the most distant poles on a continuum that ranges from myth to s… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3376 | Anthropology of human rights The unit introduces you to cross-cultural notions of human rights. Anthropology places human rights in broader analyses of power, politics and social inequality. Political leaders in various countries dismiss human rights as a Western conce… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3380 | Right-wing terrorism, extremism and fringe politics 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 extremi… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3381 | Aboriginal languages 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… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3391 | Worlds of sport: Business, politics, media and geographies In this unit, you will examine sport within wider global, economic, political and geographic contexts. You will investigate how rudimentary community games morphed into global sport and sport businesses fuelled by industrialization, capital… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3399 | The politics of identity In this unit you will examine the politics of identity: how identities are formed, perceived and politicised, and how identity-related claims shape power, belonging and conflict in modern politics. It traces the historical emergence of iden… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3415 | Innovation and social change: The history of technology In this unit, you will be introduced to humanistic and social scientific concepts that can help you evaluate the role that technological objects, systems, and processes play in social change as well as in shaping politics and the experience… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3421 | Literature and modernism In this unit you will examine some of the major writers and texts of modernist literature from the Anglophone world from 1900 to 1940. You will discuss the famous works of 'High' modernism (e.g. Mrs Dalloway, The Waste Land), the literature… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3438 | The body: A human history 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, sexuality… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3466 | Sex, gender and crime Gender is a key social dimension in our society but it was originally largely ignored by criminologists. In this unit you will critically examine how gender is constructed, how it shapes crime and the role gender stereotypes play in the ope… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3475 | Secrets and lies: Espionage and diplomacy in the medieval world 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. T… | Arts | 3 |
| ATS3476 | The Vietnam War The Vietnam War was a major conflict in 20th century global history. Understanding this conflict will allow you to challenge common myths and misconceptions about the war. In this unit, you will study the context of the Vietnam War, the lea… | Arts | 3 |