Leader(s): Colin Hope

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

As part of the Masters Qualifying in Archaeology with a research component, students undertake a research project in the area of archaeology and ancient history on a topic decided in consultation with the course coordinator. Students will carry out their research and write a research paper under the supervision of a member of academic staff.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. The ability to plan, implement and complete a research program under the supervision of academic staff.

2. An awareness of the major methodological, theoretical and thematic issues raised by their project.

3. An ability to present sound conclusions and interpretations based upon the critical analysis of a range of evidence.

4. High-level skills in the written communication of research findings and relevant theoretical and conceptual conclusions.

Assessment

Written work: 100% (9000 words)

Leader(s): Colin Hope

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

It is recognised that the genesis of the Pharaonic state lay within the traditions which emerged within Egypt during the Predynastic Period and that the ensuing Early Dynastic Period was a transitional phase. This subject analyses the development of Egyptian culture and documents the processes which culminated in Unification. It examines Egypt's links with Nubia, the Sahara and the Levant to determine spheres of influence and impact. Modern theories of the emergence of complex society as they relate to Egypt, the impact of environmental change on this development and the techniques used to explore non-literate societies are examined.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will have:

1. Developed a knowledge of the archaeological record of the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods.
2. Understood the complex cultural processes which led to the emergence of the unified Egyptian state.
3. Examined the impact of environmental change upon north-east Africa.
4. Developed skills in interpreting archaeological data in the light of cultural tradition reflected in later literary material from Egypt.
5. Explored current theories of the emergence of complex society in the Near East and how the Egyptian evidence might be interpreted in light of them.
6. Developed the ability to present a sustained argument drawing upon a variety of data.

Assessment

Written work: 85% (7500 words)
seminar presentation: 15%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Dr Gillian E. Bowen

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit examines a variety of methodological approaches to studying the ancient classical world: Greece, the Hellenistic kingdoms and Rome. Categories of data studied include: historiography, numismatic, epigraphic, papyrological, and material remains. The unit is organised around a series of case studies; these include aspects of Athens under Peisistratos and Perikles, the Hellenistic world in the reign of Ptolemy II, and Rome under Gaius Caligula.

Objectives

On completion of this unit students will be expected to:

1. Have an understanding of the variety of data available for accessing the ancient classical world;
2. Have developed a sound approach to a using a wide range of methodologies in researching the ancient past;
3. Have an understanding of the different historiographic approaches of the authors of the three cultures studied;
4. Have well-developed textual analysis skills for each of the cultures studied;
5. Demonstrate an ability to use coins, inscriptions, papyri and objects to reconstruct aspects of, or events in, the past;
6. Have developed good presentation skills; and
7. Demonstrate an ability to use a variety of source material to produce a sustained piece of written work.

Assessment

Written work: 70%
Oral and written presentation: 20%
Seminar/workshop participation: 10%

Contact hours

One one-hour lecture and one one-hour seminar/workshop per week for 13 weeks.

Prerequisites

A major sequence in Archaeology and Ancient History

Co-requisites

AAM4740

Prohibitions

AAH4100

Leader(s): Colin Hope and Gillian Bowen

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The unit focuses upon the technicalities involved in the interpretation and assessment of archaeological and textual data. Through the detailed examination of specific problems relating to Egypt, it will study the types of material which are available for use, and their relative reliability in respect of the question posed. The unit will also consider changing theories relating to the interpretation of cultural data.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. An ability to use various types of data, such as textual, archaeological and pictorial, in relation to specific problems.

2. An ability to appraise critically the reliability of the source material.

3. The ability to identify and appraise the various interpretations which have been placed upon data by scholars at different times.

4. An awareness of the impact of contemporary ideology and religious beliefs upon the interpretation of the ancient past from the nineteenth century to the present day.

5. A breadth of understanding of how aspects of the ancient past may be studied and the limitations of the available data.

6. The ability to present a detailed analytical discussion which draws upon a wide variety of source material.

Assessment

Written work: 80% (7000 words)
Seminar presentation: 20% (2000 words)

Contact hours

3 hours (1 x 3 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Colin Hope

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit explores the current state of our knowledge of the 18th-20th Dynasties with a focus upon those factors which characterise the period and distinguish it from preceding phases of Egyptian history. It examines documentary and archaeological sources relating to specific topics in an attempt to account for the changes, exploring internal and external influences. Textual data is analysed to ensure a thorough understanding of the primary sources. Similar emphasis is placed upon aspects of the material culture. Recurrent themes throughout the unit include the role of the individual in relation to society as a whole, and sex and gender definition and role assignment.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. A thorough knowledge of the relevant historical and documentary sources.

2. An ability to understand Egyptian texts within their cultural context in light of peculiarities of the language.

3. A detailed understanding of the problems inherent in the surviving documentation.

4. The facility to explore complex cultural issues combining a variety of data which need detailed and careful analysis.

5. Sophisticated research skills in the examination of a series of related but distinct topics.

6. A thorough knowledge of secondary and tertiary source material, displaying finely-tuned critical faculties.

Assessment

Bibliographic review essay (3000 words): 35%
Research essay (6000 words): 65%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Gillian Bowen

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit explores the current state of knowledge of aspects of Egypt's history in the wake of Alexander the Great's conquest. Themes include the response of the Egyptians to the introduction of hellenism and their interaction with the Macedonian and subsequent Roman overlords. It focuses upon the continuation of ancient cult practices within a multi-cultural environment and the subtle change in the nature of Egyptian society. Aspects of sex, gender definition and role assignment are explored in relation to the roles of the Ptolemaic queens. Literary, documentary and archaeological sources are analysed to identify and account for the changes, exploring internal and external influences.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. A thorough knowledge of the available historical and documentary sources.

2. A critical appraisal of primary, secondary and tertiary source material.

3. An understanding of how to read and appraise papyrological evidence.

4. The facility to explore complex cultural issues combining a variety of data which need detailed and careful analysis.

5. Sophisticated research skills in the examination of a series of related but distinct topics.

Assessment

Written work: 100% (9000 words)

Leader(s): Colin Hope

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

It is recognised that the genesis of the Pharaonic state lay within the traditions which emerged within Egypt during the Predynastic Period and that the ensuing Early Dynastic Period was a transitional phase. This subject analyses the development of Egyptian culture and documents the processes which culminated in Unification. It examines Egypt's links with Nubia, the Sahara and the Levant to determine spheres of influence and impact. Modern theories of the emergence of complex society as they relate to Egypt, the impact of environmental change on this development and the techniques used to explore non-literate societies are examined.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will have:

1. Developed a knowledge of the archaeological record of the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods.

2. Understood the complex cultural processes which led to the emergence of the unified Egyptian state.

3. Examined the impact of environmental change upon north-east Africa.

4. Developed skills in interpreting archaeological data in the light of cultural tradition reflected in later literary material from Egypt.

5. Explored current theories of the emergence of complex society in the Near East and how the Egyptian evidence might be interpreted in light of them.

6. Developed the ability to present a sustained argument drawing upon a variety of data.

7. A sophisticated grasp of the relationship between Egypt and other Near Eastern societies and the role of archaeological analysis and data in building more complete theoretical models concerning the emergence of complex societies.

Assessment

Written work: 85% (7500 words)
seminar presentation: 15%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Colin Hope and Gillian Bowen

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The unit focuses upon the technicalities involved in the interpretation and assessment of archaeological and textual data. Through the detailed examination of specific problems relating to Egypt, it will study the types of material which are available for use, and their relative reliability in respect of the question posed. The unit will also consider changing theories relating to the interpretation of cultural data.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. An ability to use various types of data, such as textual, archaeological and pictorial, in relation to specific problems.

2. An ability to appraise critically the reliability of the source material.

3. The ability to identify and appraise the various interpretations which have been placed upon data by scholars at different times.

4. An awareness of the impact of contemporary ideology and religious beliefs upon the interpretation of the ancient past from the nineteenth century to the present day.

5. A breadth of understanding of how aspects of the ancient past may be studied and the limitations of the available data.

6. The ability to present a detailed analytical discussion which draws upon a wide variety of source material.

7. A comprehensive understanding of the variety of source materials available and a greater degree of source-critical ability.

Assessment

Written work: 80% (7000 words)
Seminar presentation: 20% (2000 words)

Contact hours

3 hours (1 x 3 hour seminar) per week

Offered

Overseas First semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Second semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Summer semester A 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

Offered

Overseas First semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Second semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Summer semester A 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

Offered

Overseas First semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Second semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Summer semester A 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

Offered

Overseas First semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Second semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Summer semester A 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

Offered

Overseas First semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Second semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Summer semester A 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

Offered

Overseas First semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Second semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Summer semester A 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

Offered

Overseas First semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Second semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Summer semester A 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

Offered

Overseas First semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Second semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

Offered

Overseas First semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Second semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

Offered

Overseas First semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Second semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is used by the faculty to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students undertaking an outbound exchange program to ensure fees and credit are processed accurately.

Leader(s): Professor Lynette Russell

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Students enrolled in this unit will have the opportunity to conduct independent research into a topic of their choice related to Australian Indigenous Studies under staff supervision, through preparing a 9000 word project.

Objectives

Upon successfully completing this unit students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate skills to initiate and conduct independent research.
2. Demonstrate an appreciation of and commitment to ethical research.
3. Demonstrate advanced critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills.
4. Demonstrate advanced written skills through the presentation of a 9000 word project.

Assessment

Written work: Research project 100% (9000 words)

Contact hours

Fortnightly supervisory consultations

Prerequisites

Students must have completed 48 points of the Master of Australian Studies (or other relevant Master degree)

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Leader(s): Dr Keith Allan

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

Introduction to the fundamental concepts and tools of analysis used in linguistics and applied linguistics; The representation of sound in language (phonetics); the organisation of sounds in languages (phonology); the structure of words (morphology); the organisation of words in sentences (syntax); meaning, meaning relations and meaning change (semantics and pragmatics); the analysis of discourse and conversation; writing systems and historical linguistics; digital tools for linguistics.

Objectives

Upon completion of this unit students should have knowledge of the fundamental concepts and tools of analysis used in linguistics and applied linguistics; be equipped with basic skills in linguistic analysis; have been introduced to a number of research areas in linguistics; and have developed a critical perspective on language issues and problems relevant to society (language policy and planning, language in education, language in the professions, language in business and the media, bilingualism, language learning, etc.).

Assessment

Three assignments (9000 words in total): 25%+25%+50%

Leader(s): Dr Julie Bradshaw

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

Three contexts for the application of linguistics are highlighted: education, the media and the professions. Language issues and problems including literacy and oracy; second language acquisition; language and ideology; language and discrimination; language and power; language policy and planning; intercultural and cross-cultural communication

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Leader(s): Dr Anna Margetts

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

The forms, functions and uses of language in societies around the world. Areas of study include variation in language (eg social, regional, local, gender-based, age-based), language varieties (eg standard languages, registers, pidgins, creoles), notions such as that of a speech community, language change, language and culture, the statuses of languages and varieties, language attitudes, the uses and functions of language(s). The course also discusses a range of methods and approaches to the study of language in society, eg sociolinguistics, sociology of language, ethnography.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Leader(s): Dr Keith Allan

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

An opportunity for students on-campus to undertake a program of directed readings on a topic of relevance to their professional interests, subject to departmental approval.

Objectives

To maximize opportunities for graduate students to exploit the resources available in the Linguistics and allied programs.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Leader(s): Dr Simon Musgrave

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The 'what, how and why' of doing research in applied linguistics. Approaches to doing research in applied linguistics and to types and methods of research eg qualitative, quantitative, grounded research etc. Ways of data collection (eg interviewing, participant observation, questionnaires) and issues in data description, analysis and interpretation. Ethical concerns relating to research in applied linguistics.

Objectives

Upon the successful completion of this unit students will be able to:

1. demonstrate knowledge of quantitative and qualitative approaches to research in applied study of language (with a particular focus on English);
2. articulate research questions for the purpose of developing a thesis or project;
3. plan the elements of a thesis or research project, including literature review, methodology and data analysis;
4. identify major types of data collection, and issues associated with analysis and interpretation of data;
5. address ethical concerns in relation to language research.

Assessment

Written work: 90%
Oral presentation: 10% (on campus students only)
Participation: 10% (off campus students only)

Contact hours

Off-campus: N/A On-campus: 2 hours lecture/seminar per week

Leader(s): Dr Julie Bradshaw and Dr Keith Allan

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Specialisation in a relevant topic selected by the student in consultation with the likely supervisor and the coordinator.

Assessment

Research report (9000-10,000 words): 100%

Leader(s): Dr Anna Margetts

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit introduces students to the study of second language acquisition and attrition. The relation between first and second language acquisition; learning/acquisition contexts; foreign language learning vs second language acquisition; contrastive and error analysis; interlanguage; learner variability - age, aptitude, cognitive styles, attitude and motivation; theories of second language acquisition; learning strategies; classroom interaction analysis; implications for curriculum content; and attrition as the inverse of acquisition. Students work on problems in a language of interest to them.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Leader(s): Prof Kate Burridge

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

Structural properties of varieties of English around the world; descriptive surveys (covering both phonology and grammar) of the main national standard Englishes, as well as a selection of the distinctive regional, ethnic and social varieties and also major contact and ESL varieties; historical and cultural background and current sociolinguistic situation of the respective regions; special focus on the non-standard varieties of Australasia and Pacific; global tendencies in phonological and grammatical variation (i.e. what are the least/most frequent features); notion of Standard English; attitudes to local varieties of English and the problem of standards.

Objectives

On completion of this unit students should know the main distinguishing features, at the key linguistic levels, of the more important varieties of English around the world (native-speaker and 'new'; standard and non-standard) and also the origins and development of these features, and be able to explain the relevant facts using the terminology of linguistics; understand the main facts and issues associated with the statuses and functions of these varieties in the various societies in which they are used, the attitudes which users of English have adopted with respect to these varieties, and the connections between all these issues; be in a position to analyse new situations involving language varieties (English or other) in these terms; be in a position to develop critical and well-informed positions on the practical upshots of these considerations (educational, language planning, etc.)

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Prohibitions

Either ALM4350 or ALM5350, but not both.

Leader(s): Dr Keith Allan

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A program of directed readings on a topic of relevance to the student's thesis.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Leader(s): Dr Anna Margetts

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

The forms, functions and uses of language in societies around the world. Areas of study include variation in language (eg social, regional, local, gender-based, age-based), language varieties (eg standard languages, registers, pidgins, creoles), notions such as that of a speech community, language change, language and culture, the statuses of languages and varieties, language attitudes, the uses and functions of language(s). The course also discusses a range of methods and approaches to the study of language in society, eg sociolinguistics, sociology of language, ethnography.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Leader(s): Dr Simon Musgrave

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The 'what, how and why' of doing research in applied linguistics. Approaches to doing research in applied linguistics and to types and methods of research eg qualitative, quantitative, grounded research etc. Ways of data collection (eg interviewing, participant observation, questionnaires) and issues in data description, analysis and interpretation. Ethical concerns relating to research in applied linguistics.

Objectives

Upon the successful completion of this unit students will be able to:

1. demonstrate knowledge of quantitative and qualitative approaches to research in applied study of language (with a particular focus on English);
2. articulate research questions for the purpose of developing a thesis or project;
3. plan the elements of a thesis or research project, including literature review, methodology and data analysis;
4. .identify major types of data collection, and issues associated with analysis and interpretation of data;
5. address ethical concerns in relation to language research.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Contact hours

Off-campus: N/A On-campus: 2 hours lecture/seminar per week

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

The role of language in learning. Conceptions of language (and linguistics analysis) and conceptions of learning (and the study of learning) which best enable us to establish useful connections between language and learning. The systemic-functional grammar and discourse analysis of M A K Halliday and its application to texts produced by learners. Issues including learning theory, cognitive science and the theory of knowledge.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Leader(s): Dr Anna Margetts

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

Language contact theory and its application in Australia; transference and code-switching; definitions of bilingualism; advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism; types and goals of bilingual education; the distribution and use of community languages in Australia; language maintenance and shift; language policy, including school language policy; field work.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Leader(s): Dr Anna Margetts

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit introduces students to the study of second language acquisition and attrition. The relation between first and second language acquisition; learning/acquisition contexts; foreign language learning vs second language acquisition; contrastive and error analysis; interlanguage; learner variability - age, aptitude, cognitive styles, attitude and motivation; theories of second language acquisition; learning strategies; classroom interaction analysis; implications for curriculum content; and attrition as the inverse of acquisition. Students work on problems in a language of interest to them.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Leader(s): Dr Julie Bradshaw

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

Issues of mother-tongue and second language literacy. The socio-cultural context of literacy, especially cross-cultural and gender issues. The development of literacy in the pre-school years and in the classroom context. Approaches to the teaching of reading and writing. Genre theory and the contribution of a systemic-function approach to the development of writing.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Leader(s): Dr Heather Bowe

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

Children's acquisition of their first language, from infant pre-speech to adolescence. Different views of language acquisition and learning. The acquisition of phonological, morphological and syntactic systems, the development of word meaning and the acquisition of communicative competence. Students specialise in one of the above areas in the preparation of a research project.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Leader(s): Prof Kate Burridge

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

Structural properties of varieties of English around the world; descriptive surveys (covering both phonology and grammar) of the main national standard Englishes, as well as a selection of the distinctive regional, ethnic and social varieties and also major contact and ESL varieties; historical and cultural background and current sociolinguistic situation of the respective regions; special focus on the non-standard varieties of Australasia and Pacific; global tendencies in phonological and grammatical variation (i.e. what are the least/most frequent features); notion of Standard English; attitudes to local varieties of English and the problem of standards.

Objectives

On completion of this unit students should know the main distinguishing features, at the key linguistic levels, of the more important varieties of English around the world (native-speaker and 'new'; standard and non-standard) and also the origins and development of these features, and be able to explain the relevant facts using the terminology of linguistics; understand the main facts and issues associated with the statuses and functions of these varieties in the various societies in which they are used, the attitudes which users of English have adopted with respect to these varieties, and the connections between all these issues; be in a position to analyse new situations involving language varieties (English or other) in these terms; be in a position to develop critical and well-informed positions on the practical upshots of these considerations (educational, language planning, etc.)

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Prohibitions

Either ALM4350 or ALM5350, but not both.

Leader(s): Dr Keith Allan

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

Theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of discourses and texts. Analysis of written texts and conversation, especially cohesive factors in texts and stylistic and varietal differences in discourse structure. Conversational structure; narrative structures in different languages; indicators of semantic cohesion; how topics are introduced and terminated; how they are recognised and maintained; the distribution of information in a text (givenness, focus, etc.); the place of knowledge and context in language and understanding and the construction of texts in social contexts.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Leader(s): Dr Julie Bradshaw

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

The unit examines the role of language in the construction of identity or identities, with a particular focus on gender identity. It examines the relationship between language, gender and the representation of masculinities and femininities, particularly in spoken texts. Topics covered include speech styles of women and men speaking in same sex and mixed sex groups, the issue of power and gender, sexuality, and women and men in their speech communities. In addition, language and identity construction will be examined in relation to nationality, ethnicity, religion, youth culture and second language learning.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, a student will be able to:

• Summarize key theoretical debates in relation to identity and language;
• Compare the approaches of theorists from different discipline backgrounds;
• Reflect on gender differences across languages in the light of theoretical and empirical studies;
• Evaluate major methodological approaches to the study of identity and language;
• Work in teams to apply at least one methodology to a selected context;
• Use data thus collected to support an argument in relation to theoretical debates;
• Present a coherent oral and written account of research thus conducted.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Contact hours

2 hour lecture/seminar (Day students only)

Leader(s): Dr Julie Bradshaw and Dr Keith Allan

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A research project allowing specialisation in a relevant topic, supervised by one or more members of the Department of Linguistics who are expert in the selected field of study.

Assessment

Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%

Leader(s): Dr Julie Bradshaw and Dr Keith Allan

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

Guided reading in an area of applied linguistics of participants' choice. Guided reading involves the location and critical examination of the relevant literature in the chosen topic. The examination of the reading and its discussion with the supervisor will form the basis of the assessment for the subject.

Assessment

Written work and Literature review: 95%
Oral presentation: 5%

Leader(s): Dr Margaret Florey

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit provides students with an opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge and understanding of the issues involved in language endangerment. Students will develop and implement a research project with outcomes of practical benefit in strengthening or supporting language maintenance practice within a community or organisation. Possible topics include developing curriculum for a school or community language program, documenting aspects of a previously undescribed language, preparing a sketch grammar drawing upon existing documentation or archival materials, developing language teaching and literacy materials, preparing topical wordlists in the endangered language.

Objectives

Aims
On completion of this unit students should have:

• applied their knowledge of language maintenance strategies;
• developed an ability to implement language maintenance programs appropriate to particular language endangerment settings internationally

• On completion of this unit students should be able to:
• draw on in-depth and critical knowledge of the literature in this field to write a literature review;
• formulate a detailed proposal to develop a language maintenance project;
• plan the stages in carrying out research in an endangered language community or an organisational setting;
• apply appropriate methodologies to implement research questions;
• undertake independent research;
• analyse primary data;
• write a thesis based on original research.

Assessment

Minor thesis (16000 words): 100%.

Contact hours

(Supervised)

Prerequisites

ALM4110, LIN4040, LIN4050

Leader(s): Dr Margaret Florey

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides students with an opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge and understanding of the issues involved in language endangerment. Students will develop and implement a research project with outcomes of practical benefit in strengthening or supporting language maintenance practice within a community or organisation. Possible topics include developing curriculum for a school or community language program, documenting aspects of a previously undescribed language, preparing a sketch grammar drawing upon existing documentation or archival materials, developing language teaching and literacy materials, preparing topical wordlists in the endangered language.

Objectives

Aims
On completion of this unit students should have:

• applied their knowledge of language maintenance strategies;
• developed an ability to implement language maintenance programs appropriate to particular language endangerment settings internationally

• On completion of this unit students should be able to:
• draw on in-depth and critical knowledge of the literature in this field to write a literature review;
• formulate a detailed proposal to develop a language maintenance project;
• plan the stages in carrying out research in an endangered language community or an organisational setting;
• apply appropriate methodologies to implement research questions;
• undertake independent research;
• analyse primary data;
• write a thesis based on original research.

Assessment

Minor thesis (16000 words): 100%.

Contact hours

(Supervised)

Prerequisites

ALM4110, LIN4040, LIN4050

Leader(s): Dr Margaret Florey

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides students with an opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge and understanding of the issues involved in language endangerment. Students will develop and implement a research project with outcomes of practical benefit in strengthening or supporting language maintenance practice within a community or organisation. Possible topics include developing curriculum for a school or community language program, documenting aspects of a previously undescribed language, preparing a sketch grammar drawing upon existing documentation or archival materials, developing language teaching and literacy materials, preparing topical wordlists in the endangered language.

Objectives

Aims
On completion of this unit students should have:

• applied their knowledge of language maintenance strategies;
• developed an ability to implement language maintenance programs appropriate to particular language endangerment settings internationally

• On completion of this unit students should be able to:
• draw on in-depth and critical knowledge of the literature in this field to write a literature review;
• formulate a detailed proposal to develop a language maintenance project;
• plan the stages in carrying out research in an endangered language community or an organisational setting;
• apply appropriate methodologies to implement research questions;
• undertake independent research;
• analyse primary data;
• write a thesis based on original research.

Assessment

Minor thesis (16000 words): 100%.

Contact hours

(Supervised)

Prerequisites

ALM4110, LIN4040, LIN4050

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)
Sunway First semester 2009 (Day)
Sunway Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Students conduct a pilot study as preparation for a larger study to be undertaken for a masters degree or a PhD. In workshops and through individual supervision, students learn research skills in terms of formulating a research topic in a specialised area, designing an empirical study, piloting the study, and writing a research report on the preliminary findings.

Assessment

Research report (9000 words): 100%

Leader(s): Brett Hough

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

Processes of class formation and conflict in the context of the political economy of structural change in Indonesia. The cultural mediation of conflict, the cultural reproduction of group identity, and the dynamics of social movements engendered by modernisation - mass movements which draw on the symbols of Islam, ethnicity, nationalism, and various political ideologies.

Assessment

Written work: 95% (9,000 words)
Seminar Participation: 5%

Contact hours

3 hours (1 x 1 hour film screening and 2 x 1 hour seminars) per week

Leader(s): John Bradley

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Theoretical foundations for researching and analyzing cultural and social aspects of specific societies. Discussion will centre on theories associated with French structuralism and post-structuralism and British Social theory cultural studies. Each of these will be examined for its respective treatment of the relationship between individual creativity, culture and society and for their impact on the theory of ethnographic research.

Assessment

Seminar paper (3000 words): 40%
Essay (6000 words): 60%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

ANY4399,ASM5290

Leader(s): Jan van Bommel

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

A socio-historical analysis of the institutionalisation of madness and the current practice of de-institutionalisation. Critical assessment of sociological, medical and feminist theories of femininity, psychiatry and madness. Examine interpretations of psychoanalysis and female subjectivity (Freudian, Lacanian, French feminist).

Assessment

Two essays (4500 words each): 100%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

SCY3380

Leader(s): Trudy Jacobsen

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The social consequences of economic development. The emergence of industrial capitalism and how through colonialism the seeds of capitalism and underdevelopment were sown in the Third World. The response of the Third World to these transformations. Debates about famine, debt-crisis, ecology, gender, and their connections with development processes.

Assessment

Written work: 70%
Test: 20%
Class participation: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

ANY3430

Leader(s): Penny Graham

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit considers how categories like Asia and the West are constituted in the scholarly and popular imagination. Using film and written materials, the unit examines specific representations of Asian regions, cultures and societies with regard to issues of knowledge, power and subject position. Topics range from the problematic relationship between ecology and culture to a comparative analysis of how ancestral cosmologies, world religions, forms of modernity and the nation-state all work to shape local identities in Asia. Themes explored include how cross-cultural knowledge is constituted, how the workings of power are conceptualised and how status hierarchies are enacted and challenged.

Objectives

On completion of this unit, students should be able to

1. identify and critique key features of dichotomising accounts of Asia and the West (assessed in tasks 1 and 2);
2. critically analyse a variety of tropes informing anthropological accounts of regions within Asia vis-a-vis the West (assessed in tasks 2 and 3);
3. demonstrate a grasp of conceptual problems in the anthropological analysis of societies in Asia (assessed in tasks 2, 3 and 4);
4. evaluate selected theoretical and ethnographic approaches to understanding the historical and sociological complexity of cultural and social formations in Asia (assessed in tasks 2, 3 and 4).

Assessment

Written work: 70%
Seminar participation: 10%
Oral presentation: 20%

Contact hours

33 hours: 3-hour workshops x 11 weeks during semester

Prohibitions

ASM5440,ANY5440

Leader(s): Jo Lindsay and John Bradley

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

In special circumstances, students may be permitted to enrol in other approved twelve-point fourth-year level units offered by the discipline. They must have the approval of the school graduate coordinator and enrol in the unit under this special code. This code does not apply to units outside the discipline.

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

The unit prepares students for research work and alerts them to the ethical issues in human subject research. It allows students to see how research is done and enables them to judge the value of specific research projects.

Assessment

Written (9000 words): 100%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Dr Brett Hough

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit explores violences as a complex set of practices, from a range of disciplinary perspectives although with an overall emphasis on the social sciences. Topic areas covered in any year may include state-sanctioned violences like institutionalised torture and capital punishment; interpersonal violences such as rape and child abuse; and intellectual and political debates over ethics, research methodologies and epistemologies, and issues of representation. This unit will also entail examining violences via cross-cultural perspectives in order to highlight differences and similarities throughout the world.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this subject students should be able to:

1. Appreciate the plural character of the phenomenon 'violences'.

2. Show a critical awareness of the diversity of understandings of and proffered solutions to violences.

3. Present a debate or issue central to the project of trying to eliminate violence from social life.

4. Demonstrate some understanding of the methodological, epistemological, ethical and political issues in researching a form of violence.

5. Appreciate the relationship of work on violences to the 'crisis in representation' in the social sciences.

Assessment

Written work: 80% (9000 words)
Seminar work: 20%

Contact hours

3 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar and 1 x 1 hour film screening) per week

Prohibitions

ANY4100, ASM4100

Leader(s): John Bradley

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Theoretical foundations for researching and analyzing cultural and social aspects of specific societies. Discussion will centre on theories associated with French structuralism and post-structuralism and British Social theory cultural studies. Each of these will be examined for its respective treatment of the relationship between individual creativity, culture and society and for their impact on the theory of ethnographic research.

Assessment

One seminar paper (3000 words): 40%
Essay (6000 words): 60%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Jan van Bommel

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

In special circumstances, students may be permitted to enrol in other approved twelve-point fifth-year level units offered by the discipline. They must have the approval of the school graduate coordinator and enrol in the unit under this special code. This code does not apply to units outside the discipline.

Assessment

Written work: 45%
Exam: 45%
Participation: 10%

Leader(s): Professor Ross Mouer

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Sunway First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit explores political, economic, and social issues confronting societies in contemporary Asia. Students are encouraged to develop expertise on a particular country or issue, but they are also expected to become informed about Asia as a region.

Assessment

Written work: 75%
exam: 25%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to carry out a wide range of small-scale CALL activities, which can be developed further to larger scale CALL projects. Students are required to work with lecturers of a Monash Language course of their choice to produce some integrated CALL activities.

Assessment

Written work: 90%
Oral presentation: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Professor Ross Mouer

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Students should collect 'Guidelines for students undertaking a research project' from The Program Coordinator.

Assessment

Essay (9000 words): 100%

Prerequisites

Approval of a research topic and supervisor

Leader(s): Professor Ross Mouer and Marika Vicziany

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit addresses the challenges of research work in the Asian region and seeks to equip students with some of the skills needed for it. In a series of modules, students will be introduced to a range of potential source materials for the study of Asia, such as documents, census reports, fictional texts, and films, and to a range of research methodologies applicable to the study of Asia including fieldwork in villages, archival work, data collection and interviews. Students will be encouraged to think about issues of ethical obligations in relation to fieldwork, such as those raised by non-Asian scholars making judgments about Asia, cultural bias, and the "ownership" of knowledge.

Objectives

Students successfully completing AST4220 will:

1. Be able to converse intelligently about issues of cultural bias and the ownership of knowledge.

2. Have a firm grasp of a range of sources and methodologies applicable to research in Asia and a firm understanding of the scholarly principles that underpin them.

3. Have a firm understanding of the link between scholarship, public debate and nationalistic political agendas in Asia.

4. Be able to put together a sophisticated Asia-related research or consultancy proposal.

Assessment

Written work: 50% (6000 words)
2 hour exam: 30%
Class participation: 20%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prerequisites

Enrolment in a postgraduate program

Co-requisites

At least one other unit in a postgraduate program

Leader(s): Helen Marriott

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A research project on a topic in Asian studies based on the student's collection of data. The topic must be selected before enrolment in the unit. The paper will be written in English.

Assessment

Written work: up to 10,000 words: 100%

Prerequisites

JAL4610 or permission

Leader(s): Helen Marriott

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A research project on a topic in Asian studies based on the student's collection of data. The topic must be selected before enrolment in the subject. The paper will be written in English.

Assessment

Written work: up to 10,000 words: 100%

Prerequisites

AST4680

Leader(s): Professor Ross Mouer

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Sunway First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit explores political, economic, and social issues confronting societies in contemporary Asia. Students are encouraged to develop expertise on a particular country or issue, but they are also expected to
become informed about Asia as a region.

Assessment

Written work: 100%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit examine various debates about World War II legacies in the Asian region, affecting particularly Japan's relationship with Korea, with China and with various other peoples and nations that suffered from Japan's invasion up to 1945. As well as examining the parameters of these debates, the unit encourages reflection on the politicised and consumable nature of the past, and on the processes of remembering and forgetting upon which the identity of nations and communities are built.

Objectives

Upon completion of the unit, the students should have 1) acquired a solid foundation of knowledge about the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific 2)become familiar with a number of specific issues related to war legacies and war memory 3)developed critical insights into the contested and fluid nature of representations of the past, and become familiar with the major writers in the area 4)developed research and interpretation skills through preparation for and participation in the weekly seminars, and through preparation for their written assignments 5) practised devising a feasible research project 6) practised presenting and debating ideas and interpretations effectively and in an informed manner, both orally and in writing

Assessment

Written work: 100% (9000 words)

Contact hours

1 one-hour lecture per week for 13 weeks and 1 two-hour seminar per week for 12 weeks

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to carry out a wide range of small-scale CALL activities, which can be developed further to larger scale CALL projects. Students are required to work with lecturers of a Monash language course of their choice to produce some integrated CALL activities.

Assessment

Written work: 90%
Oral presentation: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Professor Ross Mouer

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Leader(s): Professor Ross Mouer and Marika Vicziany

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit addresses the challenges of research work in the Asian region and seeks to equip students with some of the skills needed for it. In a series of modules, students will be introduced to a range of potential source materials for the study of Asia, such as documents, census reports, fictional texts, and films, and to a range of research methodologies applicable to the study of Asia including fieldwork in villages, archival work, data collection and interviews. Students will be encouraged to think about issues of ethical obligations in relation to fieldwork, such as those raised by non-Asian scholars making judgments about Asia, cultural bias, and the "ownership" of knowledge.

Objectives

Students successfully completing AST5220 will:

1. Be able to converse intelligently about issues of cultural bias and the ownership of knowledge.

2. Have a firm grasp of a range of sources and methodologies applicable to research in Asia and a firm understanding of the scholarly principles that underpin them.

3. Have a firm understanding of the link between scholarship, public debate and nationalistic political agendas in Asia.

4. Be able to put together a sophisticated Asia-related research or consultancy proposal.

5. Be able to discuss in detail and to justify the significance of research on a particular aspect of Asia or Australia's relationship to Asia.

6. Have a clear idea as to how to research and write a policy document.

7. Have considerable sophistication in terms of the ways they represent Asia.

Assessment

Written work: 50% (6000 words)
2 hour exam: 30%
Class participation: 20%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prerequisites

Enrolment in a postgraduate program

Co-requisites

At least one other unit in a postgraduate program

Leader(s): Marika Vicziany

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Leader(s): Helen Marriott

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A research project on a topic in Asian studies based on the student's collection of data. The topic must be selected before enrolment in the unit. The paper will be written in English.

Assessment

Written work: up to 10,000 words: 100%

Prerequisites

JAL4610 or permission

Leader(s): Helen Marriott

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A research project on a topic in Asian studies based on the student's collection of data. The topic must be selected before enrolment in the subject. The paper will be written in English. Fifth-year students use more sophisticated analysis and written presentation skills.

Assessment

Written work up to 10,000 words: 100%

Prerequisites

AST4680

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A substantial research project under the direction of a supervisor in the School, and a dissertation of 15,000 to 18,000 words. Students at fifth-year level demonstrate a deeper acquaintance with the research topic.

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A substantial research project under the direction of a supervisor in the School, and a dissertation of 15,000 to 18,000 words. Students at fifth-year level demonstrate a deeper acquaintance with the research topic.

Leader(s): Dr Jeff Jarvis

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Evening)

Synopsis

This unit introduces students to the structure of the tourism industry from a global perspective. The key questions of: what types of tourists exist, who are the key players driving development and what are the basic economic principles of demand, supply and yield management that underpin its existence are addressed. Students are then presented with an overview of basic international service marketing concepts within a marketing planning framework. Topics include marketing research and analysis, the marketing mix, segmentation, target marketing, marketing strategy, communication methods, advertising, public relations and publicity.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will have:

1. An understanding of the structure and operation of the tourism industry globally, and within Australia.
2. The ability to undertake a critical analysis of tourism marketing strategies employed by countries, regions and individual firms.
3. An understanding the basic economic concepts associated with the tourism industry.
4. An understanding of the concepts and theories of marketing as applied to the tourism industry.
5. An understanding of the basic techniques and tools of marketing management as applied to the tourism industry.
6. Developed their research and presentation skills on tourism related subjects.

Assessment

Examination (3 hrs) : 30%
Research Paper (2500) : 25%
Major Assignment (3500) : 35%
Participation : 10%

Contact hours

2 hour seminar

Prohibitions

ATD4010

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

City (Melbourne) Second semester 2009 (Evening)

Synopsis

Key issues surrounding the economics and marketing of the environment as a tourism product are introduced within the wider context of debates on environmental sustainability in both International and Australian contexts. Specific focus is placed on the funding and management of national parks, nature-based attractions and adventure tourism operations as well as on how both public sector and private enterprise operators develop sustainable environmentally based products. Techniques for quantifying negative and positive impacts of this kind of tourism are reviewed as are the social, political and economic impacts on regional communities. A compulsory program of fieldwork is undertaken in the Gippsland region and students will be expected to attend classes at both the city and Gippsland campuses.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. A comprehensive understanding of direct and indirect physical, social and economic implications of nature-based tourism development on communities
2. Knowledge and skills in measuring and quantifying the impacts of ecotourism product development on the environment and local economies
3. Understanding of ecotourism product development, marketing and management strategies as undertaken by both government and private agencies
4. The ability to apply relevant theoretical concepts to practical fieldwork and engagement with industry practitioners in both Melbourne and the Gippsland region
5. Development of written and oral communication skills

Assessment

Exam (3hrs) : 30%
Group Research Project (4000) : 40%
Thematic Essay (2000) : 20%
Research Presentation : 10%

Contact hours

One 3 hour seminar at the City campus and 3 x 2 day seminars in block mode at Gippsland Campus including fieldwork.

Prohibitions

ATM5020

Leader(s): Dr Jeff Jarvis and Dr Vicki Peel

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Evening)

Synopsis

This contemporary unit is designed to focus on key issues arising in the global tourism industry such as poverty alleviation through tourism and the growth of independent travel. The unit is presented via a number of key industry seminars and a proposed field work study tour to a destination such as Fiji or North Queensland. (The selected study tour destination will be nominated at the start of semester and may vary from year to year)

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will have gained:

1. an understanding of key problems and issues in the current and future development of the global tourism industry;
2. a developed capacity to undertake original research on an area of their particular interest;
3. enhanced written and oral communication skills suitable for progress in the tourism profession;
4. an understanding of key issues facing the future development of the industry;
5. an understanding of the principles and practices of e-tourism.

Assessment

Written work: 70%
2 hour exam: 20%
Participation: 10%

Contact hours

6 x 2 hour lectures, 1 x 3 hour student presentation seminars and a 7 day intensive study tour with industry seminars and field work

Prohibitions

ATD4060; ATM5060

Leader(s): Dr Vicki Peel

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Evening)

Synopsis

Patterns of sustainable tourism product development and management and the contemporary role of planning for tourism. Key study areas comprise the future of global tourism, government policy and industry practice, the impacts of the tourism industry on the economy, communities and the environment and the design and implementation of tourism planning.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:

1. encourage critical analysis of sustainable tourism development in terms of potential positive and negative impacts on cultures and the environment;
2. familiarise students with the historical origins of tourism so that they may apply their understanding to contemporary tourism patterns and dilemmas;
3. acquaint students with the planning and policy making role of Governments, private operators and communities in tourism development;
4. enable students to 'read' changes in tourism landscapes from which they can draw conclusions and raise questions about future tourism development;
5. familiarise students with planning procedures for tourism purposes;
6. develop students' research and presentation skills on tourism related subjects.

Assessment

Written work: 60% (6000 words)
3 Hour exam: 30%
Participation: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

ATD4120

Leader(s): Dr Vicki Peel

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Evening)

Synopsis

Trends, theories and practices in cultural tourism and special events, especially the role of social/environmental impacts and related policy issues in modifying the future of cultural tourism internationally. Unit explores the interpretation of cultural phenomena, institutions, places and landscapes as tourism attractions and identifies cultural product and marketing practices which bridge the gap between tourism and cultural resource management.

Objectives

On successful completion of this units students will be able to:

1. Provide a foundation knowledge of the role of cultural tourism in Australian and international contexts.
2. Provide understanding of the theory and practice of cultural tourism product development, including major cultural institutions such as museums, theatres and galleries and of cultural precincts.
3. Equip with skills in analyzing the interaction of tourism with built and natural cultural heritage and Aboriginal culture and history.
4. Develop research, writing and oral presentation skills

Assessment

Written work: 50% (5000 words)
Oral presentation: 10% (1000 words)
3 Hour exam 30%
Participation: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Prohibitions

ATD4140, ATM5140

Leader(s): Dr Jeff Jarvis

Offered

Overseas First semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)
Overseas Second semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is designed to help facilitate graduate students gaining an international tourism perspective by spending a full semester on exchange at a specific exchange partner university. Students must complete the equivalent of 24 points of level 5 Monash units whilst on exchange. Students must seek approval from the course coordinator to take a substitute unit to ATM5090 at the exchange partner institution.

Objectives

On completion of this unit students will have gained in depth knowledge about, and an appreciation of international tourism through immersion in an overseas learning environment.

Assessment

Exchange studies : 100
Students will undertake full time exchange studies for one semester at a partner institution and must seek approval from the course coordinator to take a substitute unit to ATM5090.

Contact hours

Exchange Studies

Prerequisites

Distinction average in ATD4010 or ATM4010 and ATD4120 or ATM4120

Prohibitions

ATD4000

Leader(s): Jeff Jarvis

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Evening)

Synopsis

As for ATM4010

Assessment

Group assignment (9000 words): 45%
Class participation: 10%
Examination (2 hours): 45%

Contact hours

3 hour seminar per week

Prohibitions

ATD4010, ATM4010

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

City (Melbourne) Second semester 2009 (Evening)

Synopsis

Key issues surrounding the economics and marketing of the environment as a tourism product are introduced within the wider context of debates on environmental sustainability in both International and Australian contexts. Specific focus is placed on the funding and management of national parks, nature-based attractions, and outdoor adventure tourism operations as well as on how both public sector and private enterprise operators develop sustainable environmentally based products. Techniques for quantifying negative and positive impacts of this kind of tourism are reviewed as are the social, political and economic impacts on regional communities. A compulsory program of fieldwork is undertaken in the Gippsland region and students will be expected to attend classes at both the city and Gippsland campuses.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. A comprehensive understanding of direct and indirect physical, social and economic implications of nature-based tourism development on communities
2. Knowledge and skills in measuring and quantifying the impacts of ecotourism product development on the environment and local economies
3. Understanding of ecotourism product development, marketing and management strategies as undertaken by both government and private agencies
4. The ability to apply relevant theoretical concepts to practical fieldwork and engagement with industry practitioners in both Melbourne and the Gippsland region
5. Development of written and oral communication skills
6. A capacity to undertake original applied research in an area of their interest through liaison with an industry partner.

Assessment

Exam (3hrs) : 30%
Industry Research Project (6000) : 60%
Research Presentation : 10%

Contact hours

One 3 hour seminar at the City campus and 3 x 2 day seminars in block mode at Gippsland Campus including fieldwork.

Prohibitions

ATM4020

Leader(s): Dr Jeff Jarvis and Dr Vicki Peel

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Evening)

Synopsis

This contemporary unit is designed to focus on key issues arising in the global tourism industry such as poverty alleviation through tourism and the growth of independent travel. The unit is presented via a number of key industry seminars and a proposed field work study tour to a destination such as Fiji or North Queensland. (The selected study tour destination will be nominated at the start of semester and may vary from year to year)

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will have:

1. an understanding of key problems and issues in the current and future development of the global tourism industry;
2. an understanding of the principles and practices of e-tourism;
3. enhanced research and writing skills through the application of appropriate theory to real-life problem solving;
4. enhanced oral communication skills suitable for professional progression in management of the tourism profession;
5. experience in working with tourism professionals in response to industry needs.

Assessment

Written work: 90% (9000 words)
Participation: 10%

Contact hours

6 x 2 hour lectures, 1 x 3 hour student presentation seminars and a 7 day intensive study tour with industry seminars and field work

Prohibitions

ATD4060, ATM4060

Leader(s): Dr Jeff Jarvis

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

An overview of international tourism from a cost/benefit approach. Principles of international marketing. Australia's international marketing strategies, especially regarding Japan, Europe, UK and Ireland, North America, New Zealand and Asia.

Assessment

Assignment (7000 words): 45%
Class participation: 15%
Examination (2 hours): 40%

Contact hours

3 hours (1 x 3 hour seminar) per week

Prerequisites

ATM5010

Prohibitions

ATD4070, ATM4070

Leader(s): Dr Jeff Jarvis

Offered

City (Melbourne) First semester 2009 (Evening)
City (Melbourne) Second semester 2009 (Evening)

Synopsis

Reviews the strategic role research plays in the tourism industry both globally and in Australia. Topics include, defining the research problem and objectives, analyzing secondary data sources, qualitative and quantitative methodology selection, questionnaire design, fieldwork preparation, data analysis and presentation.

Objectives

1. To provide students with an understanding of the availability of secondary research data and an overview of tourism trends and research directions from both an Australian and Global perspective.

2. To develop students' capacity to understand the basics principles of research design for both qualitative and quantitative studies and the role played by research in tourism strategic planning.

3. To develop students' capacity to undertake an analysis of secondary tourism data.

4. To develop students' written and oral communication skills.

5. To provide students with an understanding of how to conduct a primary quantitative research study including questionnaire design, data entry, analysis and presentation.

6. To provide students with an understanding of the applicability of the SPSS computer program to research in the tourism industry.

Assessment

Analytical assignment/take-home exam (2000 words): 30%
Group research report (6000 words): 50%
Research presentation: 10%
Class participation: 10%

Contact hours

3 hour seminar

Prohibitions

ATD4090

Leader(s): Dr Jeff Jarvis and Dr Vicki Peel

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The special industry based research project offers students an opportunity to undertake an extended supervised research project in tourism associated with an industry partner. Prior to the start of semester students are responsible for identifying and contacting a suitable industry partner and arranging the placement as well as seeking approval from the course co-ordinator. Students then formulate their research topic in consultation with their appointed supervisor and the industry partner. Students should work with the industry partner over a four to five week period. Students are not permitted to undertake the project in their usual place of work.

Objectives

1. To develop students' skills to undertake a critical analysis of a project or firm associated with the tourism industry.

2. To develop students' capacity to underdertake an independent research project.

3. To develop practical work skills in an industry environment.

4. To develop an understanding of the key concepts of management and how it applies to the tourism industry.

Assessment

Written work: 100% (9000 words)

Prerequisites

High Credit average in ATM4010, ATM4120, ATM4141 and permission from course co-ordinator

Leader(s): Dr Vicki Peel

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Evening)

Synopsis

As for ATD5140

Assessment

Written work: 70% (7000 words)
3 hour exam: 30%

Leader(s): Dr Vicki Peel

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit requires the completion of a minor thesis (18,000 words) on an approved tourism related topic, usually one with an industry focus. With guidance from the supervisor (s), it allows the student to undertake advanced level research and produce a substantial piece of writing which advances knowledge in the selected area of research.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding and engaging in advanced research;
2. An ability to design, write and edit a research thesis;
3. An ability at an advanced level to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches relating to the tourism industry and tourism related issues;
4. The capacity to contribute advanced knowledge in the chosen area of research;
5. An enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity.

Assessment

Thesis (18,000 words): 100%

Contact hours

Regular meeting with allocated supervisor(s).

Prerequisites

Completion of 48 points with a distinction average at fourth year level of subjects offered in the Master of Tourism program.

Leader(s): Dr Vicki Peel

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)

Leader(s): Dr Vicki Peel

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)

Leader(s): John Arnold

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Exploring Australia investigates diverse local communities and the networks of places, activities and loyalties that collectively form Australian society. Through guided project work and excursions to key cultural sites in the city and the bush, students will be introduced to a rich and complex Indigenous culture and many of the other communities that have shaped contemporary Australia. This interdisciplinary unit informed by film, literature and history, will enable students to reflect on their own cultural values and critically engage with differing perspectives on the diversity of Australian society.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:

1. Identify, represent and critically engage with differing views relating to the diversity of social and cultural experience within Australia.
2. Recognise, represent and critically reflect upon ideas and concepts from diverse cultures, and develop the ability to reflect on one's own cultural values.
3. Reflect on personal learning and respond productively to constructive feedback from one's peers.
4. Utilise proficiently a range of IT resources such as word processing and email, search databases and text files, and locate, employ and evaluate internet sites.
5. Communicate ideas to an international audience with clarity, coherence and persuasiveness.
6. Employ effective essay and report writing skills showing ability to integrate and critically assess material from a variety of sources relating to the diversity of social and cultural experience within Australia.
7. Develop collaborative skills in working within international groups, and contribute creatively, flexibly and adaptively to the achievement of shared goals.
8. Work independently and to deadlines within a guided framework, with a capacity to define problems/questions and to know how to set about finding answers.

Assessment

Participation (on-campus) Learning journal (off-campus) (1000) : 10%
Short assignment (2 x 1500 words) (3000) : 40%
Project proposal and literature review (1000) : 10%
Research project (4000) : 40%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2-hour seminar) per week (on-campus students only)

Prohibitions

AUS5010

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

Contemporary Australia is experiencing global challenges, such as the movement of refugees, threats to the environment and international terrorism. This troubled engagement with the outside world has been a recurrent theme in Australia's history and shaped the nature of our society. Australia Unlimited looks at Australia through the context of the region and the world. An interdisciplinary unit, it explores the origins of key Australian institutions and examines the issues and debates dividing modern Australia. Topics include the attempted dispossession of Australia's Indigenous communities, immigration and asylum seekers, class and gender inequality and the impact of globalization.

Objectives

Upon completing this unit students will be able to:

1. identify, represent and critically engage with differing views relating to transnational issues as they impact on Australia, especially the concept of 'glocalisation';
2. recognise and account for the effects of globalisation in Australia, including the changing role of government and changing patterns of work and consumption;
3. recognise, represent and critically reflect upon ideas and concepts from diverse cultures, and develop the ability to reflect on one's own cultural values;
4. reflect on personal learning and respond productively to constructive feedback from one's peers;
5. utilise proficiently a range of IT resources such as word processing and email, search databases and text files, and locate, employ and evaluate internet sites;
6. communicate ideas to an international audience with clarity, coherence and persuasiveness;
7. employ effective essay and report writing skills showing ability to integrate and critically assess material from a variety of sources relating to Australia in a global context;
8. work collaboratively within international groups, and contribute creatively, flexibly and adaptively to the achievement of shared goals;
9. work independently and to deadlines within a guided framework, with a capacity to define problems/questions and to know how to set about finding answers.

Assessment

Participation (on-campus) Learning journal (off-campus) (1000) : 10%
Short assignment (2 x 1500 words) (3000) : 30%
Project proposal and literature review (1000) : 15%
Research project (4000) : 45%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2-hour seminar) per week (on-campus students only)

Prohibitions

AUS5025

Leader(s): Professor Bruce Scates

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The study of a particular topic in Australian culture or society or, in exceptional circumstances, a unit taken in a cognate discipline. Students should consult with the unit coordinator.

Objectives

To maximize opportunities for graduate students to exploit the resources available in the Australian Studies and allied programs

Assessment

Work equivalent to 9,000-10,000 words: 100%

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prohibitions

AUS5220

Leader(s): Dr Vicki Peel and Dr Jeff Jarvis

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The special research project offers students an opportunity to undertake an extended supervised research project. Prior to the start of semester students are responsible for devising their topic as well as seeking approval from the course co-ordinator. The project is normally undertaken over the course of 13 weeks during a semester unit and is assessed by a suitably qualified staff member. Students are responsible to formulate their research topic in consultation with their supervisor.

Objectives

1. To provide students with an opportunity to undertake an extended research project focusing on a topic of their particular interest.

2. To develop students' capacity to draw on a range of research methodologies suitable to their topic.

3. To develop students' capacity to undertake an analysis of suitable secondary data.

4. To develop students' written communication skills.

5. To develop students' capacity to tackle a particular issue, project or problem in depth.

Assessment

Major Research Essay or the equivalent of two articles (9000 - 10,000 words total): 9000 - 10,000 words 100%

Prerequisites

Special permission from the course co-ordinator.

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

The special research project offers students an opportunity to undertake an extended supervised research project in Australian Studies. The project is normally undertaken over the course of 13 weeks during a semester unit and is assessed by a suitably qualified staff member or university associate other than the supervisor. Students formulate their research topics in consultation with their supervisor.

Objectives

Upon the completion of the special research project students will have demonstrated a capacity:

1. To plan and undertake an extended research project in Australian Studies.

2. To undertake original research of a scholarly nature of an extended kind.

3. To research and successfully interpret a body of documentary source material in conjunction with a range of suitable secondary sources.

4. To complete a work of research that satisfies the highest standards of scholarly argument, research, documentation and referencing.

Assessment

Essay or research project of 9000-10,000 words or the equivalent of two publishable articles (9000-10,000 words total): 100%

Prerequisites

An approved complement of 4th years subjects totaling 48 pts with a credit average or better

Leader(s): John Arnold

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

Exploring Australia investigates diverse local communities and the networks of places, activities and loyalties that collectively form Australian society. Through guided project work and excursions to key cultural sites in the city and the bush, students will be introduced to a rich and complex Indigenous culture and many of the other communities that have shaped contemporary Australia. This interdisciplinary unit informed by film, literature and history, will enable students to reflect on their own cultural values and critically engage with differing perspectives on the diversity of Australian society.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:

1. Identify, represent and critically engage with differing views relating to the diversity of social and cultural experience within Australia.
2. Recognise, represent and critically reflect upon ideas and concepts from diverse cultures, and develop the ability to reflect on one's own cultural values.
3. Reflect on personal learning and respond productively to constructive feedback from one's peers.
4. Utilise proficiently a range of IT resources such as word processing and email, search databases and text files, and locate, employ and evaluate internet sites.
5. Communicate ideas to an international audience with clarity, coherence and persuasiveness.
6. Employ effective essay and report writing skills showing ability to integrate and critically assess material from a variety of sources relating to the diversity of social and cultural experience within Australia.
7. Develop collaborative skills in working within international groups, and contribute creatively, flexibly and adaptively to the achievement of shared goals.
8. Work independently and to deadlines within a guided framework, with a capacity to define problems/questions and to know how to set about finding answers.
9. Undertake social science research using interviews or questionnaires.

Assessment

Participation (on-campus) Learning journal (off-campus) (1000) : 10%
Short assignment (2 x 1500 words) (3000) : 40%
Project proposal and literature review (1000) : 10%
Research project (4000) : 40%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2-hour seminar) per week (on-campus students only)

Prohibitions

AUS4010

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

Contemporary Australia is experiencing global challenges, such as the movement of refugees, threats to the environment and international terrorism. This troubled engagement with the outside world has been a recurrent theme in Australia's history and shaped the nature of our society. Australia Unlimited looks at Australia through the context of the region and the world. An interdisciplinary unit, it explores the origins of key Australian institutions and examines the issues and debates dividing modern Australia. Topics include the attempted dispossession of Australia's Indigenous communities, immigration and asylum seekers, class and gender inequality and the impact of globalization.

Objectives

Upon completing this unit students will be able to:

1. identify, represent and critically engage with differing views relating to transnational issues as they impact on Australia, especially the concept of 'glocalisation';
2. recognise and account for the effects of globalisation in Australia, including the changing role of government and changing patterns of work and consumption;
3. recognise, represent and critically reflect upon ideas and concepts from diverse cultures, and develop the ability to reflect on one's own cultural values;
4. reflect on personal learning and respond productively to constructive feedback from one's peers;
5. utilise proficiently a range of IT resources such as word processing and email, search databases and text files, and locate, employ and evaluate internet sites;
6. communicate ideas to an international audience with clarity, coherence and persuasiveness;
7. employ effective essay and report writing skills showing ability to integrate and critically assess material from a variety of sources relating to Australia in a global context;
8. work collaboratively within international groups, and contribute creatively, flexibly and adaptively to the achievement of shared goals;
9. work independently and to deadlines within a guided framework, with a capacity to define problems/questions and to know how to set about finding answers;
10. Undertake social science research using interviews or questionnaires.

Assessment

Participation (on-campus) Learning journal (off-campus) (1000) : 10%
Short assignment (2 x 1500 words) (3000) : 30%
Project proposal and literature review (1000) : 15%
Research project (4000) : 45%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2-hour seminar) per week (on-campus students only)

Prohibitions

AUS4025

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

Students devise a research project on a topic of their choosing in consultation with the unit coordinator and a potential supervisor. Students develop skills of independent learning and critical thinking through carrying out their research under the supervision of a member of the academic staff. The completion of an 18,000-word dissertation assesses the student's ability to complete a work of research that satisfies the highest standards of scholarly argument, research, documentation and referencing.

Objectives

Upon completing AUS5035 students should be able to demonstrate:

1. skills of independent learning and research;
2. the ability to reflect on personal learning and respond productively to constructive feedback;
3. the ability to utilise proficiently a range of IT resources such as word processing and email, search databases and text files, and to locate, employ and evaluate internet sites;
4. knowledge of a specific body of research in the field of Australian Studies;
5. critical thinking, analytical and problem solving skills;
6. the ability to recognise, represent and critically reflect upon ideas and concepts from diverse cultures, and the ability to reflect on their own cultural values;
7. a critical awareness of conceptual and empirical issues pertaining to Australian Studies;
8. effective written communication skills across an 18,000-word project;
9. the ability to complete a work of research that satisfies the highest standards of scholarly argument, research, documentation and referencing.

Assessment

Dissertation proposal synopsis and outline (1500 words): 10%;

Literature review (1500 words): 10%;

Dissertation (15,000 words): 80

Contact hours

Average contact 1 hour fortnightly with 24 hours of private study per week

Prohibitions

AUS5003 Research Project in Australian Studies

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

As for AUS5035A

Objectives

As for AUS5035A

Assessment

AS for AUS5035A

Contact hours

As for AUS5035A

Prohibitions

As for AUS5035A

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Leader(s): Justin Oakley

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit aims to provide students with a basic understanding of ethical theory as a foundation for their studies in bioethics. It deals with developments in meta-ethics since Hume, and with the three main traditional perspectives in normative ethics: utilitarianism, Kantianism, and virtue ethics.
For further information, please see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb4101.php

Assessment

Written work: 60% (6000 words)
Take home exam: 40%

Contact hours

3 hours (1 x 3 hour seminar) per week

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb4101.php

Leader(s): Linda Barclay

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit examines a variety of ethical issues concerning the beginning and end of life, such as the morality of abortion, infanticide, and causing death. The unit also deals with the ethical problems raised by new reproductive research and biomedical technologies, such as embryo experimentation, cloning, genetic counselling, genetic therapy and genetic engineering. There will be discussion of a range of philosophical problems central to these issues, including the sanctity of life doctrine, notions of potentiality, the nature of personhood, the acts/omissions distinction, and the definition of death.
For further information, please see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb4102.php

Assessment

Essay (5000 words): 50%
Take-home exam: 50% (For DE students required to keep a journal)

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prerequisites

CHB4101 or equivalent

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb4102.php

Leader(s): Rob Sparrow

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit aims to develop students' critical and analytical understanding of certain key ethical issues in patient care. The unit focuses initially on four main ethical principles commonly appealed to in this context: autonomy, privacy, beneficence and justice. These principles and the relations and conflicts between them will be examined in terms of a variety of broad ethical issues which arise in patient care, such as paternalism, confidentiality, informed consent, surrogacy, resource allocation, and euthanasia. There will also be some discussion of competing models of health professional-patient relationships, and issues of professional autonomy.
For further information, please see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb4203.php

Assessment

Written work: 60% (5000 words)
Take home exam: 40%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prerequisites

CHB4101 or equivalent

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb4203.php

Leader(s): Justin Oakley

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit provides a framework for understanding the role and impact of law in areas of concern in bioethics, and considers how ethical and social debate can affect the process of law reform. It initially examines what values the state ought to be committed to, and the justifiable limits on legislative intervention. This is followed by an examination of the current law and legal approach to areas of bioethical concern, such as abortion, prenatal diagnosis, IVF, embryo experimentation, informed consent, confidentiality, and euthanasia. The process of legal change and development and its relationship to scientific advances and ethical debate will also be discussed.
For further information, please see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb4204.php

Assessment

Written work: 50% (5000 words)
Take home exam: 50% ; DE students required to keep a journal.

Contact hours

2 hour (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prerequisites

CHB4101 and CHB4203, or equivalent

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb4204.php

Leader(s): Justin Oakley

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit requires students to complete an original supervised research paper on a bioethical topic of their own choice. In the paper, students are required to articulate and defend a line of ethical reasoning or argument on their chosen topic. While not a general requirement, some topics may allow scope for a limited amount of original empirical research. Students will be allocated a supervisor on the basis of their research proposal, and should meet with their supervisor on a regular basis throughout the semester.
For further information, please see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb4215.php

Assessment

Research paper (9000 words): 100%

Prerequisites

CHB4101, CHB4102, and CHB4203, or equivalents

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb4215.php

Leader(s): Justin Oakley

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit aims to provide students with a basic understanding of ethical theory, as a foundation for their studies in bioethics. The unit outlines three main perspectives in normative ethics - Kantianism, Utilitarianism, and Virtue Ethics - and examines several key problems for each of these approaches. The unit also considers certain issues in meta-ethics, such as the question of whether moral judgements must be relative to individuals or cultures, or whether they can be objective.
For further information, see the unit's website at:
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5101.php

Assessment

Written work: 60% (6000 words)
Take home exam: 40%

Contact hours

3 hours (1 x 3 hour seminar) per week

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5101.php

Leader(s): Linda Barclay

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit examines a variety of ethical issues concerning the beginning and end of life, such as the morality of abortion, infanticide, and causing death. The unit also deals with the ethical problems raised by new reproductive research and biomedical technologies, such as embryo experimentation, cloning, genetic counselling, genetic therapy and genetic engineering. There will be discussion of a range of philosophical problems central to these issues, including the sanctity of life doctrine, notions of potentiality, the nature of personhood, the acts/omissions distinction, and the definition of death.
For further information, please see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5102.php

Assessment

Essay (5000 words): 50%
Take-home exam: 50% (For DE students required to keep a journal)

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prerequisites

CHB5101 or equivalent

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5102.php

Leader(s): Rob Sparrow

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit focuses initially on four ethical principles used to justify decisions in patient care: autonomy, privacy, beneficence, and justice. These principles are then applied to a variety of ethical issues in health care practice, such as the allocation of health care resources, the justifiability of paternalistic interventions, breaches of confidentiality, assisted reproductive technologies, surrogate motherhood, and euthanasia. The role of health professionals is also considered, in relation to issues in family caregiving, and conscientious refusals to treat patients, and the unit also examines some key ethical issues in biomedical research involving human subjects.
For further information, please see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5203.php

Objectives

On successful completion of CHB5203, students should have acquired the skills to:

• bring a rigorous framework of principles of health care ethics to the analysis and evaluation of certain ethical issues in patient care;
• think critically about the key concepts involved in those principles; and
• make informed judgements about the ethics of certain ways of acting in ethically sensitive areas of patient care, and be able to defend those judgements on the basis of argument.

Assessment

Written work: 60% (6000 words)
Take home exam: 40%

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Prerequisites

CHB5101 or equivalent

Prohibitions

CHB5203 and CHB5233; CHB5203 and CHB4203

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5203.php

Leader(s): Justin Oakley

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit provides a framework for analysing and evaluating public policy and law in areas of concern in bioethics. The unit focuses initially on what values the state ought to promote, and the formulation of public policy in democratic pluralist societies. These political moralities are then used to examine current law and public policy in areas of bioethical concern, such as abortion, prenatal diagnosis, embryonic stem cell research, reproductive cloning, surrogate motherhood, voluntary euthanasia, and the treatment of severely handicapped newborn infants. The unit also considers law and public policy in relation to informed consent, and the regulation of research on humans.
For further information, please see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5204.php

Objectives

On successful completion of CHB5204 students should have acquired the skills to:

• uncover the political values underlying views about State regulation of various reproductive and health care practices
• think critically about those political values
• understand some of the practical problems in State regulation of various reproductive and health care practices
• develop sufficient understanding of the ethics of regulating various reproductive and health care practices to provide a basis for forming your own views on these matters.

Assessment

Written work: 60% (6000 words)
Take home exam: 40%

Contact hours

two hours/week

Prerequisites

CHB5101 or equivalent

Prohibitions

CHB5204 and CHB5255; CHB5204 and CHB4204

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5204.php

Leader(s): Justin Oakley

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This is an individual supervised reading course. Students will be assigned a supervisor, and will formulate a topic of their choosing in collaboration with their supervisor. The supervisor will then recommend reading relevant to that topic, and will provide guidance in structuring the written assignment. As a part of this process students will write an initial research proposal and a critical commentary on a relevant article or book chapter.
For further information, please see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5206.php

Assessment

Research outline 1000 words 10%
Research paper 8000 words 90%

Co-requisites

CHB5101 or equivalent

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5206.php

Leader(s): Justin Oakley

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit examines some fundamental ethical issues in professional life, and the moral foundations of professional obligations. The unit begins by introducing the three main ethical theories - Kantianism, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics - and explains how each theory characteristically approaches issues in professional ethics. It moves on to examine euthanasia and the medical and nursing professions; zealous advocacy and the legal profession; and social justice and business professionals. It also deals with whistle-blowing and some issues in the moral psychology of professional roles.
For further information, please see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5207.php

Assessment

Written work: 60% (6000 words)
Take home exam: 40%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5207.php

Leader(s): Rob Sparrow

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit aims to develop students' critical and analytical understanding of key ethical issues in patient care. The unit focuses initially on four main ethical principles, embodying the concepts of autonomy, privacy, beneficence, and justice. These principles are used to analyse and discuss a variety of broad ethical issues which arise in patient care, such as the allocation of health care resources, the justifiability of paternalism, breaches of patient confidentiality, in vitro fertilisation, research involving humans, and euthanasia. There is also some discussion of the role of health professionals, in relation to conscientious refusals to treat patients, and issues in family caregiving.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students should have acquired the skills to:

1. Use a rigorous framework of principles of health care ethics to analyse and evaluate ethical issues in patient care.

2. Think critically about the key concepts involved in those principles.

3. Make informed judgements about the ethics of certain patient care practices, and use argument to defend those judgements.

Assessment

Essay (3000 words): 60%
Take-home exam (2000 words): 40%

Contact hours

1 two-hour seminar per week

Prohibitions

CHB5233 and CHB5203

Leader(s): Justin Oakley

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides a framework for understanding the role and impact of law in areas of concern in bioethics. The unit focuses initially on views about what values the state ought to promote, the justifiable limits of legislative intervention, and approaches to public policy formulation in a democratic pluralist society. We then examine the current law and legal approach (particularly in Australia) to areas of bioethical concern, such as abortion, voluntary euthanasia, selective treatment of severely handicapped newborn infants, prenatal diagnosis, surrogate motherhood, and the health professional-patient relationship, particularly with regard to informed consent and confidentiality.

Assessment

Essay (3000 words): 60%
Take-home exam (2000 words): 40%

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Leader(s): Justin Oakley

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit examines some fundamental ethical issues in professional life generally, and considers how debates about specific ethical issues familiar to those in certain professions can be advanced by comparisons with discussions about parallel ethical issues arising in other professions. We investigate what sorts of moral considerations might allow professional roles to license behaviour which departs significantly from what ordinary morality would permit. The unit then examines euthanasia and the medical and nursing professions; zealous advocacy and the legal profession; social justice and business professionals, along with whistleblowing, and the moral psychology of professional roles.
For further information, please see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5288.php

Assessment

Essay (3000 words): 60%
Take-home exam (2000 words): 40%

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/pgrad/units/chb5288.php

Leader(s): Scott Grant

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides an introduction to spoken and written modern standard Chinese to students with no prior knowledge of Mandarin. An overview of the important sentence structures of modern standard Chinese is begun with equal emphasis on the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Read around 250 Chinese characters and identify important associated radicals.

2. Write around 250 Chinese characters in simple composition.

3. Use oral/aural skills necessary for communication in a small number of everyday practical situations.

4. Use the pinyin romanisation system.

Assessment

Written work and tests: 60%
Exam: 25%
Oral exam: 15%

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 1 hour lectures and 2 x 1 hour tutorials) per week

Prohibitions

CHI1010, CHI1901, CHI2010, CHI2901, CHI5010

Leader(s): Scott Grant

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit continues the overview of the important sentence structures of modern standard Chinese begun in Chinese 1. Equal emphasis is placed on the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Read around an additional 250 Chinese characters (500 in total) and identify important associated radicals.

2. Write around an additional 250 Chinese characters in simple composition (around 500 in total).

3. Use oral/aural skills necessary for communication in a range of everyday practical situations (approximates to International Second Language Proficiency level 1-: minimum creative proficiency).

Assessment

Written work & tests: 60%
Exam: 25%
Oral exam: 15%

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 1 hour lectures and 2 x 1 hour tutorials) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 1 or equivalent/permission

Prohibitions

CHI1020, CHI1902, CHI2020, CHI2902, CHI5020

Leader(s): Robert Irving

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Chinese 3 continues the overview of the important sentence structures of modern standard Chinese begun in Chinese 1 and 2. Equal emphasis is placed on the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. Speaking classes cover practical, everyday situations, to develop interactive competence at a basic level in a range of situations likely to be encountered in daily life in contemporary China. In addition to regular classroom activities, listening and reading skills will be further developed through the use of audio/visual, Web-based and computer-assisted language learning materials.

Objectives

Building on the skills acquired in Beginning Chinese, upon successful completion of this unit students will have acquired:

1. The ability to read and write an additional 200 Chinese characters (700 in total).

2. A preliminary understanding of the basic syntax of Modern Standard Chinese and of the similarities and differences between it and English.

3. Knowledge of a grammatical framework with which to analyse and describe the vernacular Chinese under study.

4. Oral/aural skills necessary to communicate quantitatively and qualitatively in a range of everyday, practical situations.

5. Cultural (socio-political) knowledge to enhance understanding of the texts under study and the cultural sensitivity to communicate using appropriate levels of formality with Chinese from mainland China, Taiwan and various parts of the Chinese Diaspora.

Assessment

Written work: 20%
Exam and tests: 50%
Oral test and class performance: 30%

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 1 hour lectures and 2 x 1 hour tutorials) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 2 or equivalent/permission

Prohibitions

CHI1030, CHI1903, CHI2030, CHI2903, CHI3903, CHI5030

Leader(s): Lijun Bi

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will introduce students to advanced intermediate spoken and written standard Chinese. In addition to regular classroom activities, listening and speaking skills will be further developed through project work with a focus on Chinese culturE.

Objectives

This unit is available to students who have a Chinese language ability equivalent to Chinese 4; Upon successful completion of this subject students will develop:

1. An understanding of some current issues in China and the ability to express personal views on such issues in Chinese.
2. The ability to discuss topics related to their own fields of interest in Chinese.
3. Knowledge of a grammatical framework and vocabulary that enables them to write in a relatively sophisticated manner.
4. The ability to write different kinds of prose and poetry in Chinese.
5. The ability to present their project work in Chinese in a small group.

Assessment

Tests and class assessments: 50%
Exam: 35%
Oral exam: 15%

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 1 hour lectures and 2 x 1 hour tutorials) per week

Prerequisites

CHI3040 or equivalent/permission

Prohibitions

CHI1050, CHI1905, CHI2050, CHI2905, CHI3050, CHI3095, CHI5050

Leader(s): Lijun Bi

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will introduce students to advanced intermediate spoken and written standard Chinese. In addition to regular classroom activities, listening and speaking skills will be further developed through project work with a focus on Chinese culture.

Objectives

This unit is available to students who have passed Chinese 5, or who have equivalent language ability. Upon successful completion of this unit students will develop:

1. An understanding of some current issues in China and the ability to express personal views on such issues in Chinese.
2. The ability to discuss topics related to their own fields of interest in Chinese.
3. Knowledge of a grammatical framework and vocabulary that enables them to write in a relatively sophisticated manner.
4. The ability to write different kinds of prose and poetry in Chinese.
5. The ability to present their project work in Chinese in a small group.

Assessment

Tests and class assessments: 50%
Exam: 35%
Oral exam: 15%

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 1 hour lectures and 2 x 1 hour tutorials) per week

Prerequisites

CHI4050 or equivalent/permission

Prohibitions

CHI1060, CHI1906, CHI2060, CHI2906, CHI3060, CHI3906, CHI5060

Leader(s): Warren Sun

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will introduce students to a range of primarily literary texts in contemporary Chinese. Students' ability to understand contemporary China and their skills in speaking, listening and writing will be further developed through various classroom activities of reading, translations and discussions and through essay-writing.

Objectives

The subject aims to provide students with:

1. General knowledge that will enhance their understanding of contemporary Chinese culture and society.

2. The ability to comprehend and express complex ideas in both spoken and written forms, consolidating skills already acquired at the Advanced Intermediate level.

3. Strategies of cross-cultural conceptualisation, incorporating translation skills, crucial to critical thinking on a range of cultural and social topics concerning contemporary China. Translation and reading exercises developed for this part of the course are based primarily on texts in standard Chinese from the People's Republic of China.

Assessment

Class participation (450 words equivalent): 10%; Seminar paper and associated oral presentation (1350 words equivalent): 20%
10%;Two written assignments (1350 words in total): 30%; Written examination (1350 words equivalent): 30%;

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 2 hour seminars) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 6 (CHI1060) or permission

Prohibitions

CHI1070, CHI1079, CHI2070, CHI2079, CHI3070, CHI3079, CHI4079, CHI4907, CHI5070

Leader(s): Warren Sun

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will introduce students to a range of primarily literary texts in contemporary Chinese. Students' ability to understand contemporary China and their skills in speaking, listening and writing will be further developed through various classroom activities of reading, translations and discussions and through essay-writing.

Objectives

The subject aims to provide students with:

1. General knowledge that will enhance their understanding of contemporary Chinese culture and society.

2. The ability to comprehend and express complex ideas in both spoken and written forms, consolidating skills already acquired at the Advanced Intermediate level.

3. Strategies of cross-cultural conceptualisation, incorporating translation skills, crucial to critical thinking on a range of cultural and social topics concerning contemporary China. Translation and reading exercises developed for this part of the course are based primarily on texts in standard Chinese from the People's Republic of China.

Assessment

Class participation (450 words equivalent): 10%; Seminar paper and associated oral presentation(1350 words equivalent): 20%
10%; Two written assignments (1350 words in total): 30%; Written examination (1350 words equivalent): 30%

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 2 hour seminars) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 7 or permission

Prohibitions

CHI1080, CHI1098, CHI2080, CHI2098, CHI3080, CHI3098, CHI4089, CHI4908, CHI5080

Leader(s): Hui Xu

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Building on and consolidating work completed in previous Chinese studies, this unit will introduce students to a range of literary writings by master writers of modern China (1920s - 1940s). Through critical analysis students are expected to improve their understanding of the tremendous social, political, and cultural changes in modern China resulting from the 1911 Revolution.

Objectives

1. To further develop students' ability to comprehend and express complex ideas in both spoken and written forms.
2. To provide students with social and cultural knowledge which will enhance their understanding of modern China and its great transition, from cultural and linguistic, to social, economic and political changes since the beginning of the 20th century. Compared with previous Chinese studies, the course content is much more sophisticated and the students are encouraged to exercise greater critical thought toward the texts under investigation.
3. On completion of the unit, in addition to their improved modern Chinese language skills, students should have a better understanding of what constitutes Chinese ethos formulated by the Chinese people, as part of the world community, in their use of language, in their faith, beliefs, and philosophical inquiry, in the various forms of expression, as well as through their own reflections of the merits and faults of Chinese culture.

Assessment

Written work: 45%
Oral presentaion: 15%
Exam: 30%
Class participation/perfomance: 10%

Contact hours

3 hours (3 x 1 hour seminars) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 8 language level proficiency as determined by placement test.

Prohibitions

CHI1090, CHI1909, CHI2090, CHI2909, CHI3090, CHI3909, CHI4099, CHI4909, CHI5090

Leader(s): Hui Xu

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Building on and consolidating
Building on and consolidating work completed in previous Chinese studies, this unit will introduce students to a range of literary writings by master writers of modern China (1920s TO 1940s). Through critical analysis students are expected to improve their understanding of the tremendous social, political, and cultural change of modern China as a result of the 1911 Revolution.

Objectives

1. To further develop students linguistic ability to comprehend and express complex ideas in both spoke and written forms.
2. To provide students with social and cultural knowledge which will enhance their understanding of modern China and its great transition, from cultural and linguistic, to social, economic and political changes since the beginning of the 20th century. Compared with previous Chinese studies, the course content is much more sophisticated and the students are encouraged to exercise greater critical thought toward the texts under investigation.
3. On completion of the unit, in addition to their improved modern Chinese language skills, students should have a better understanding of what constitutes Chinese ethos formulated by the Chinese people, as part of the world community, in their use of language, in their faith, beliefs, and philosophical inquiry, in the various forms of expression, as well as through their own reflections of the merits and faults of Chinese culture.

Assessment

Written work: 45%
Oral presentation: 15%
Exam: 30%
Class participation/performance: 10%

Contact hours

3 hours (3 x 1 hour seminars) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 9 or equivalent/permission

Prohibitions

CHI1100, CHI1910, CHI2100, CHI2190, CHI3100, CHI3910, CHI4109, CHI4910, CHI5100

Leader(s): Hui Xu

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Through an investigation into the key intellectual issues of a multi-disciplinary nature in post-Mao China, this unit will introduce students to a range of literary writings by a young generation of contemporary Chinese writers. Through various research projects students will explore a range of different representations of Chinese culture and society.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be expected to have acquired

1. a general knowledge of the social, political and cultural development that has characterised post-Mao China, Chinese society, its people and its culture (through examination of the historical contexts of a number of literary texts published in China after the 1980s).
2. an in-depth knowledge of changes that post-Mao reform has brought to intellectual trends in general and to literature in particular (through critical analysis of a range of literary works by a younger and unorthodox generation of Chinese writers who challenge traditional Chinese literary norms through their exploration of fundamental issues of humanism).
3. the ability to write and speak effectively in standard modern Chinese on a range of intellectual and literary issues, and basic analytical and critical skills required for academic research in Chinese Studies.

Assessment

Written work: 75%
Oral presentaion: 15%
Class participation/perfomance: 10%

Contact hours

Three x 1 hr seminars/week

Prerequisites

Chinese 10 language level proficiency or by permission.

Prohibitions

CHI1110, CHI1911, CHI2110, CHI2911, CHI3110, CHI3911, CHI4119, CHI4911, CHI5110

Leader(s): Hui Xu

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Through investigation into literature writings in Chinese language, this unit will help students to understand Chinese language as it used to express complex ideas of contemporary Chinese writers about social, political and cultural changes in post-Mao China. Through various research projects, this unit will also help students to write critical essays in Chinese language for academic purposes.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be expected to have acquired an ability to write and speak effectively in standard Chinese on a range of intellectual issues in post-Mao China. More specifically, students are expected to improve:

1. their understanding of key issues in contemporary Chinese literature and cultural issues;
2. their knowledge of recent developments in Chinese literature and Chinese cinema;
3. their understanding of Chinese language as it used to express complex social, cultural, political and economic change in contemporary China;
4. their basic analytical and language skills necessary for research in Chinese studies.

Assessment

Written work: 75%
Oral presentaion: 15%
Class participation/perfomance: 10%

Contact hours

Three x 1 hr seminars/week

Prerequisites

Chinese 10 or equivalent

Prohibitions

CHI1110, CHI1911, CHI2110, CHI2911, CHI 3110, CHI3911, CHI4110, CHI4911, CHI5110

Leader(s): Hui Xu

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Through an investigation into the key intellectual issues of a multi-disciplinary nature in post-Mao China, this unit will introduce students to a range of literary writings by a young generation of contemporary Chinese writers. Through various research projects students will explore a range of different representations of Chinese culture and society.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be expected to have acquired

1. a general knowledge of the social, political and cultural development that has characterised post-Mao China, Chinese society, its people and its culture (through examination of the historical contexts of a number of literary texts published in China after the 1980s)
2. an in-depth knowledge of changes that post-Mao reform has brought to intellectual trends in general and to literature in particular (through critical analysis of a range of literary works by a younger and unorthodox generation of Chinese writers who challenge traditional Chinese literary norms through their exploration of fundamental issues of humanism).
3. the ability to write and speak effectively in standard modern Chinese on a range of intellectual and literary issues, and basic analytical and critical skills required for academic research in Chinese Studies.

Assessment

Written work: 75%
Oral presentation: 15%
Class participation/performance: 10%

Contact hours

Three x 1 hr seminars/week

Prerequisites

Chinese 11 or by permission

Prohibitions

CHI1120, CHI1912, CHI2120, CHI2912, CHI3120, CHI3912, CHI4129, CHI4912, CHI5120

Leader(s): Gloria Davies

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will introduce students to the Chinese language as it is used in academic writing within the Chinese humanities. It will cover a range of key topics in the disciplines of literature, politics, history and cultural studies, as these are discussed and written about in English and Chinese. It will also examine and compare Chinese and Western styles of academic writing and research methods. Questions of translation, both linguistic and cultural, will be central to this unit.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be expected to have acquired:

1. A basic understanding of key features of modern Chinese intellectual history with reference to: East-West perspectives on Chinese Studies; May Fourth concepts of enlightenment, democracy, science and nationalism; the Cultural Revolution and the renewal of humanist values in post-Mao China.
2. Library and web-based research skills relevant to modern Chinese studies.
3. Translation skills (appropriate to the Chinese language ability of individual students) and an understanding of aspects of translation theory relevant to modern Chinese studies.
4. A good knowledge of the socio-political contexts of the evolution of modern Chinese thought in the twentieth century.
5. Skills of analysis and interpretation in the study of China through exposure to the textual sources used in this unit.

Assessment

Written work and translation:(3000 words): 75%
Oral presentation: 15%
Literature review (750 words): 10%

Contact hours

3 hours (3 x 1 hour seminars) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 2 or equivalent

Prohibitions

CHI2430/3430/4439

Leader(s): Gloria Davies

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will extend on the work completed in "Understanding Modern China" by introducing students to further aspects of the Chinese language as it is used in academic writing within the Chinese humanities. It will cover a range of key topics in the disciplines of literature, politics, history and cultural studies, as these are discussed and written about in English and Chinese. It will also examine and compare Chinese and Western styles of academic writing and research methods. Questions of translation, both linguistic and cultural, will be central to this unit.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be expected to have acquired:

1. A basic understanding of issues and themes in contemporary Chinese critical inquiry with reference to intellectual debates on: inter-cultural dialogue; the public sphere; socialist principles vs. globalisation; new theoretical developments in the Chinese humanities and social sciences;
2. Library and web-based research skills relevant to modern Chinese studies;
3. Translation skills (in accordance with the Chinese language ability of individual students) and an understanding of aspects of translation theory relevant to modern Chinese studies;
4. A good knowledge of the socio-political context of contemporary Chinese critical inquiry;
5. Skills of analysis and interpretation in the study of China through exposure to the textual sources used in this unit.

Assessment

Written work and translation project: 67%
Oral presentation and written summary (750 words): 16%; Film review (750 words): 17%

Contact hours

3 hours (3 x 1 hour seminars) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 2 or equivalent.

Prohibitions

CHI2440/3440/4449

Leader(s): Lijian Hong

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The usage of Chinese for professional purposes through participation in the production of an online Chinese language student journal, which will be published on the School's web site. Entry is limited to twelve places per semester.

Assessment

Class contribution: 10%
Written work: 60%
Presentations: 30%

Contact hours

3 hours (3 x 1 hour seminars) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese level equivalent to Chinese 7

Prohibitions

CHI2550, CHI2955, CHI3550, CHI3955, CHI4559

Leader(s): Lijian Hong

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The usage of Chinese for professional purposes through participation in the production of an online Chinese language student journal, which will be published on the School's web site. Entry is limited to twelve places per semester.

Assessment

Class contribution: 10%
Written work: 60%
Presentations: 30%

Contact hours

3 hours (3 x 1 hour seminars) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese level equivalent to Chinese 7

Prohibitions

CHI2560, CHI2960, CHI3560, CHI3960, CHI4569

Leader(s): Lijian Hong

Offered

Overseas Summer semester A 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is offered in China as part of the Chinese Incountry Program. Building on and consolidating work completed in previous Chinese studies, this unit will introduce students to a range of literary writings by master writers of modern China (1920s - 1940s). Through critical analysis students are expected to improve their understanding of the tremendous social, political, and cultural changes in modern China resulting from the 1911 Revolution.

Objectives

1. To further develop students' ability to comprehend and express complex ideas in both spoken and written forms.
2. To provide students with social and cultural knowledge which will enhance their understanding of modern China and its great transition, from cultural and linguistic, to social, economic and political changes since the beginning of the 20th century. Compared with previous Chinese studies, the course content is much more sophisticated and the students are encouraged to exercise greater critical thought toward the texts under investigation.
3. On completion of the unit, in addition to their improved modern Chinese language skills, students should have a better understanding of what constitutes Chinese ethos formulated by the Chinese people, as part of the world community, in their use of language, in their faith, beliefs, and philosophical inquiry, in the various forms of expression, as well as through their own reflections of the merits and faults of Chinese culture.

Assessment

Written work: 45%
Oral presentation: 15%
Exam: 30%
Class participation/performance: 10%

Off-campus attendance requirements

60 hours over three weeks

Prerequisites

Chinese 8 language level proficiency or by permission

Prohibitions

CHI1090, CHI1909,CHI2090, CHI2909, CHI3090, CHI3909, CHI4090, CHI 4099, CHI5090, CHI5909

Leader(s): Lijian Hong

Offered

Overseas Summer semester A 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is offered in China as part of the Chinese Incountry Program. Building on and consolidating work completed in previous Chinese studies, this unit will introduce students to a range of literary writings by master writers of modern China (1920s to 1940s). Through critical analysis students are expected to improve their understanding of the tremendous social, political, and cultural change of modern China as a result of the 1911 Revolution.

Objectives

1. To further develop students' linguistic ability to comprehend and express complex ideas in both spoken and written forms.
2. To provide students with social and cultural knowledge which will enhance their understanding of modern China and its great transition, from cultural and linguistic, to social, economic and political changes since the beginning of the 20th century. Compared with previous Chinese studies, the course content is much more sophisticated and the students are encouraged to exercise greater critical thought toward the texts under investigation.
3. On completion of the unit, in addition to their improved modern Chinese language skills, students should have a better understanding of what constitutes Chinese ethos formulated by the Chinese people, as part of the world community, in their use of language, in their faith, beliefs, and philosophical inquiry, in the various forms of expression, as well as through their own reflections of the merits and faults of Chinese culture.

Assessment

Written work: 45%
Oral presentation: 15%
Exam: 30%
Class participation/performance: 10%

Off-campus attendance requirements

60 hours of three weeks

Prerequisites

Chinese 9 language level proficiency or by permission

Prohibitions

CHI1100, CHI2100, CHI2910, CHI3100, CHI3910, CHI4100, CHI4109, CHI4910, CHI5100

Leader(s): Scott Grant

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides an introduction to spoken and written modern standard Chinese to students with no prior knowledge of Mandarin. An overview of the important sentence structures of modern standard Chinese is begun with equal emphasis on the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Read around 250 Chinese characters and identify important associated radicals.

2. Write around 250 Chinese characters in simple composition.

3. Use oral/aural skills necessary for communication in a small number of everyday practical situations.

4. Use the pinyin romanisation system.

Assessment

Written work and tests: 60%
Exam: 25%
Oral exam: 15%

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 1 hour lectures and 2 x 1 hour tutorials) per week

Prohibitions

CHI1010, CHI1901, CHI2010, CHI2901, CHI4010

Leader(s): Scott Grant

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit continues the overview of the important sentence structures of modern standard Chinese begun in Chinese 1. Equal emphasis is placed on the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Read around an additional 250 Chinese characters (500 in total) and identify important associated radicals.

2. Write around an additional 250 Chinese characters in simple composition (around 500 in total).

3. Use oral/aural skills necessary for communication in a range of everyday practical situations (approximates to International Second Language Proficiency level 1-: minimum creative proficiency).

Assessment

Written work & tests: 60%
Exam: 25%
Oral exam: 15%

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 1 hour lectures and 2 x 1 hour tutorials) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 1 or equivalent/permission

Prohibitions

CHI1020, CHI1902, CHI2020, CHI2902, CHI4020

Leader(s): Robert Irving

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Chinese 3 continues the overview of the important sentence structures of modern standard Chinese begun in Chinese 1 and 2. Equal emphasis is placed on the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. Speaking classes cover practical, everyday situations, to develop interactive competence at a basic level in a range of situations likely to be encountered in daily life in contemporary China. In addition to regular classroom activities, listening and reading skills will be further developed through the use of audio/visual, Web-based and computer-assisted language learning materials.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will have acquired:

1. The ability to read and write an additional 200 Chinese characters (700 in total).

2. A preliminary understanding of the basic syntax of Modern Standard Chinese and of the similarities and differences between it and English.

3. Knowledge of a grammatical framework with which to analyse and describe the vernacular Chinese under study.

4. Oral/aural skills necessary to communicate quantitatively and qualitatively in a range of everyday, practical situations.

5. Cultural (socio-political) knowledge to enhance understanding of the texts under study and the cultural sensitivity to communicate using appropriate levels of formality with Chinese from mainland China, Taiwan and various parts of the Chinese Diaspora.

Assessment

Written work: 20%
Exam and tests: 50%
Oral test and class performance: 30%

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 1 hour lectures and 2 x 1 hour tutorials) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 2 or equivalent/permission

Prohibitions

CHI1030, CHI1903, CHI2030, CHI2903, CHI3903, CHI4030

Leader(s): Robert Irving

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Chinese 4 completes an overview of the important sentence structures of modern standard Chinese. Equal emphasis is placed on the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. Speaking classes cover practical, everyday situations to develop interactive competence at a basic level in a range of situations likely to be encountered in daily life in contemporary China. In addition to regular classroom activities, listening and reading skills will be further developed through the use of audio/visual, Web-based and computer assisted learning materials.

Objectives

Building on the language skills acquired in Chinese 3, on successful completion of Chinese 4 students will have developed:

1. The ability to read and write around an additional 200 Chinese characters (900) total.
2. An understanding of the basic syntax system of Modern Standard Chinese and of the similarities and differences between it and English.
3. Knowledge of a grammatical framework with which to analyse and describe the vernacular Chinese under study facilitating progression to later study of formal written Chinese (in Chinese Media Studies and

Assessment

Written work: 20%
Exam and tests: 50%
Oral test and class performance: 30%

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 1 hour lectures and 2 x 1 hour tutorials) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 3 or equivalent/permission

Prohibitions

CHI1040, CHI1904, CHI2040, CHI2904, CHI3904, CHI4040

Leader(s): Lijun Bi

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will introduce students to advanced intermediate spoken and written standard Chinese. In addition to regular classroom activities, listening and speaking skills will be further developed through project work with a focus on Chinese culturE.

Objectives

This unit is available to students who have a Chinese language ability equivalent to Chinese 4; Upon successful completion of this subject students will develop:

1. An understanding of some current issues in China and the ability to express personal views on such issues in Chinese.
2. The ability to discuss topics related to their own fields of interest in Chinese.
3. Knowledge of a grammatical framework and vocabulary that enables them to write in a relatively sophisticated manner.
4. The ability to write different kinds of prose and poetry in Chinese.
5. The ability to present their project work in Chinese in a small group.

Assessment

Tests and class assessments: 50%
Exam: 35%
Oral exam: 15%

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 1 hour lectures and 2 x 1 hour tutorials) per week

Prerequisites

CHI4040 or equivalent/permission

Prohibitions

CHI1050, CHI1905, CHI2050, CHI2905, CHI3050, CHI3905, CHI4050

Leader(s): Lijun Bi

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will introduce students to advanced intermediate spoken and written standard Chinese. In addition to regular classroom activities, listening and speaking skills will be further developed through project work with a focus on Chinese culture.

Objectives

This unit is available to students who have passed Chinese 5, or who have equivalent language ability. Upon successful completion of this unit students will develop:

1. An understanding of some current issues in China and the ability to express personal views on such issues in Chinese.
2. The ability to discuss topics related to their own fields of interest in Chinese.
3. Knowledge of a grammatical framework and vocabulary that enables them to write in a relatively sophisticated manner.
4. The ability to write different kinds of prose and poetry in Chinese.
5. The ability to present their project work in Chinese in a small group.

Assessment

Tests and class assessments: 50%
Exam: 35%
Oral exam: 15%

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 1 hour lectures and 2 x 1 hour tutorials) per week

Prerequisites

CHI5050 or equivalent/permission

Prohibitions

CHI1060, CHI1906, CHI2060, CHI2906, CHI3060, CHI3906, CHI4060

Leader(s): Warren Sun

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will introduce students to a range of primarily literary texts in contemporary Chinese. Students' ability to understand contemporary China and their skills in speaking, listening and writing will be further developed through various classroom activities of reading, translations and discussions and through essay-writing.

Objectives

The subject aims to provide students with:

1. General knowledge that will enhance their understanding of contemporary Chinese culture and society.

2. The ability to comprehend and express complex ideas in both spoken and written forms, consolidating skills already acquired at the Advanced Intermediate level.

3. Strategies of cross-cultural conceptualisation, incorporating translation skills, crucial to critical thinking on a range of cultural and social topics concerning contemporary China. Translation and reading exercises developed for this part of the course are based primarily on texts in standard Chinese from the People's Republic of China.

Assessment

Class participation (450 words equivalent): 10%; Seminar paper and associated oral presentation (1350 words equivalent): 20%
10%;Two written assignments (1350 words in total): 30%; Written examination (1350 words equivalent): 30%;

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 2 hour seminars) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 6 (CHI1060) or permission

Prohibitions

CHI1070, CHI1907, CHI2070, CHI2907, CHI3070, CHI3907, CHI4070, CHI4097, CHI4907

Leader(s): Warren Sun

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will introduce students to a range of primarily literary texts in contemporary Chinese. Students' ability to understand contemporary China and their skills in speaking, listening and writing will be further developed through various classroom activities of reading, translations and discussions and through essay-writing.

Objectives

The subject aims to provide students with:

1. General knowledge that will enhance their understanding of contemporary Chinese culture and society.

2. The ability to comprehend and express complex ideas in both spoken and written forms, consolidating skills already acquired at the Advanced Intermediate level.

3. Strategies of cross-cultural conceptualisation, incorporating translation skills, crucial to critical thinking on a range of cultural and social topics concerning contemporary China. Translation and reading exercises developed for this part of the course are based primarily on texts in standard Chinese from the People's Republic of China.

Assessment

Class participation (450 words equivalent): 10%; Seminar paper and associated oral presentation(1350 words equivalent): 20%
10%; Two written assignments (1350 words in total): 30%; Written examination (1350 words equivalent): 30%

Contact hours

4 hours (2 x 2 hour seminars) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 7 or permission

Prohibitions

CHI1080, CHI1908, CHI2080, CHI2908, CHI3080, CHI3908, CHI4080, CHI4089, CHI4908

Leader(s): Hui Xu

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Building on and consolidating the work completed in previous Chinese studies, this unit will introduce students to a range of literary writings in Chinese extracted from significant works by modern authors.

Objectives

1. To further develop students' ability to comprehend and express complex ideas in both spoken and written forms.
2. To provide students with social and cultural knowledge which will enhance their understanding of modern China and its great transition, from cultural and linguistic, to social, economic and political changes since the beginning of the 20th century. Compared with previous Chinese studies, the course content is much more sophisticated and the students are encouraged to exercise greater critical thought toward the texts under investigation.
3. On completion of the unit, in addition to their improved modern Chinese language skills, students should have a better understanding of what constitutes Chinese ethos formulated by the Chinese people, as part of the world community, in their use of language, in their faith, beliefs, and philosophical inquiry, in the various forms of expression, as well as through their own reflections of the merits and faults of Chinese culture.

Assessment

Written work: 45%
Oral presentaion: 15%
Exam: 30%
Class participation/perfomance: 10%

Contact hours

3 hours (3 x 1 hour seminars) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 8 language level proficiency as determined by placement test.

Prohibitions

CHI1090, CHI1909, CHI2090, CHI2909, CHI3090, CHI3909, CHI4090, CHI4099, CHI4909

Leader(s): Hui Xu

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Building on and consolidating work completed in previous Chinese studies, this unit will introduce students to a range of literary writings by master writers of modern China (1920s TO 1940s). Through critical analysis students are expected to improve their understanding of the tremendous social, political, and cultural change of modern China as a result of the 1911 Revolution.

Objectives

1. To further develop students linguistic ability to comprehend and express complex ideas in both spoke and written forms.
2. To provide students with social and cultural knowledge which will enhance their understanding of modern China and its great transition, from cultural and linguistic, to social, economic and political changes since the beginning of the 20th century. Compared with previous Chinese studies, the course content is much more sophisticated and the students are encouraged to exercise greater critical thought toward the texts under investigation.
3. On completion of the unit, in addition to their improved modern Chinese language skills, students should have a better understanding of what constitutes Chinese ethos formulated by the Chinese people, as part of the world community, in their use of language, in their faith, beliefs, and philosophical inquiry, in the various forms of expression, as well as through their own reflections of the merits and faults of Chinese culture.

Assessment

Written work: 45%
Oral presentaion: 15%
Exam: 30%
Class participation/perfomance: 10%

Contact hours

3 hours (3 x 1 hour seminars) per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 9 or equivalent/permission

Prohibitions

CHI1100, CHI1910, CHI2100, CHI2910, CHI3100, CHI3910, CHI4100, CHI4109, CHI4910

Leader(s): Hui Xu

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Through an investigation into the key intellectual issues of a multi-disciplinary nature in post-Mao China, this unit will introduce students to a range of literary writings by a young generation of contemporary Chinese writers. Through various research projects students will explore a range of different representations of Chinese culture and society.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be expected to have acquired

1. a general knowledge of the social, political and cultural development that has characterised post-Mao China, Chinese society, its people and its culture (through examination of the historical contexts of a number of literary texts published in China after the 1980s).
2. an in-depth knowledge of changes that post-Mao reform has brought to intellectual trends in general and to literature in particular (through critical analysis of a range of literary works by a younger and unorthodox generation of Chinese writers who challenge traditional Chinese literary norms through their exploration of fundamental issues of humanism).
3. the ability to write and speak effectively in standard modern Chinese on a range of intellectual and literary issues, and basic analytical and critical skills required for academic research in Chinese Studies.

Assessment

Written work: 75%
Oral presentaion: 15%
Class participation/perfomance: 10%

Contact hours

Three x 1 hr seminars/week

Prerequisites

Chinese 10 language level proficiency or by permission.

Prohibitions

CHI1110, CHI1911, CHI2110, CHI2911, CHI3110, CHI3911, CHI4110, CHI4119, CHI4911

Leader(s): Hui Xu

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Through an investigation into the key intellectual issues of a multi-disciplinary nature in post-Mao China, this unit will introduce students to a range of literary writings by a young generation of contemporary Chinese writers. Through various research projects students will explore a range of different representations of Chinese culture and society.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be expected to have acquired

1. a general knowledge of the social, political and cultural development that has characterised post-Mao China, Chinese society, its people and its culture (through examination of the historical contexts of a number of literary texts published in China after the 1980s)
2. an in-depth knowledge of changes that post-Mao reform has brought to intellectual trends in general and to literature in particular (through critical analysis of a range of literary works by a younger and unorthodox generation of Chinese writers who challenge traditional Chinese literary norms through their exploration of fundamental issues of humanism).
3. the ability to write and speak effectively in standard modern Chinese on a range of intellectual and literary issues, and basic analytical and critical skills required for academic research in Chinese Studies.

Assessment

Written work: 75%
Oral presentation: 15%
Class participation/performance: 10%

Contact hours

Three x 1 hr seminars/week

Prerequisites

Chinese 11 or by permission

Prohibitions

CHI1120, CHI1912, CHI2120, CHI2912, CHI3120, CHI3912, CHI4120, CHI4129, CHI4912

Leader(s): Candy Wang

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides students with Chinese language training in a business and commerce context. By exposing students to a specialised business text style, students who wish to further improve their Chinese language proficiency can have an opportunity to grasp the language features of business texts and practice writing and translating related texts, thus developing their current bilingual language proficiency as well as broadening their career opportunities.

Objectives

Students are expected to achieve the following goals upon successful completion of the unit:

1. to acquire familiarity with the basic linguistic features of Chinese business text through discourse analysis;
2. to acquire basic Chinese business writing skills;
3. to foster basic translation skills in translating business texts;
4. to further improve their knowledge of the Chinese language in the specific business context.

Assessment

Written work & class test: 90%
Class participation and performance: 10%

Contact hours

One 2-hour seminar and one 2-hour lecture per week

Prerequisites

Chinese 8 or equivalent/permission

Prohibitions

CHI1450, CHI1945, CHI2450, CHI2945, CHI3450, CHI3945, CHI4450, CHI4459

Leader(s): Candy Wang

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides students with further Chinese language training in a business and commerce context. Having been exposed to texts in a specialised business style, students will further improve their Chinese language proficiency, and will be introduced to an increased range of language features common to Chinese business texts. Students will continue to practise writing and translating related texts and will be required to display a greater level of sophistication and understanding in both their translation and original writing than in Chinese for Business Communication part 1; This will further promote students' bilingual language proficiency and broaden their career opportunities.

Objectives

Students are expected to achieve the following goals upon successful completion of the unit:

1. to familiarise with an expanded range of features of business text through discourse analysis;
2. to extend basic Chinese business writing skills acquired in Chinese for Business Communication Part 1;
3. to extend translation skills in translating business text;
4. to further improve their knowledge of the Chinese language in the specific business context.

Assessment

Written work & class test: 90%
Class participation and performance: 10%

Contact hours

One 2-hour seminar and one 2-hour lecture per week

Prerequisites

Chinese for Business Communication, Part 1 or permission

Prohibitions

CHI1460, CHI1946, CHI2460, CHI2946, CHI3460, CHI3946, CHI4460, CHI4469

Leader(s): Lijian Hong

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit is offered in China as part of the Chinese Incountry Program. It introduces students to a range of primarily literary texts in contemporary Chinese. Students' ability to understand contemporary China and their skills in speaking, listening and writing will be further developed through various classroom activities of reading, translations and discussions and through essay-writing.

Objectives

The unit aims to provide students with:

1. General knowledge that will enhance their understanding of contemporary Chinese culture and society.
2. The ability to comprehend and express complex ideas in both spoken and written forms, consolidating skills already acquired at the Advanced Intermediate level.
3. Strategies of cross-cultural conceptualisation, incorporating translation skills, crucial to critical thinking on a range of cultural and social topics concerning contemporary China. Translation and reading exercises developed for this part of the course are based primarily on texts in standard Chinese from the People's Republic of China.

Assessment

Seminar participation, presentation and paper: 40%
Written work: 30%
Exam: 30%

Off-campus attendance requirements

60 hours over three weeks

Prerequisites

Chinese 6 language level proficiency or by permission

Prohibitions

CHI1070, CHI1907, CHI2070, CHI2907, CHI3070, CHI3907, CHI4070, CHI4079, CHI5070, CHI5907

Leader(s): Lijian Hong

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit is offered in China as part of the Chinese Incountry Program. Building on and consolidating work completed in previous Chinese studies, this unit will introduce students to a range of literary writings by master writers of modern China (1920s - 1940s). Through critical analysis students are expected to improve their understanding of the tremendous social, political, and cultural changes in modern China resulting from the 1911 Revolution.

Objectives

1. To further develop students' ability to comprehend and express complex ideas in both spoken and written forms.
2. To provide students with social and cultural knowledge which will enhance their understanding of modern China and its great transition, from cultural and linguistic, to social, economic and political changes since the beginning of the 20th century. Compared with previous Chinese studies, the course content is much more sophisticated and the students are encouraged to exercise greater critical thought toward the texts under investigation.
3. On completion of the unit, in addition to their improved modern Chinese language skills, students should have a better understanding of what constitutes Chinese ethos formulated by the Chinese people, as part of the world community, in their use of language, in their faith, beliefs, and philosophical inquiry, in the various forms of expression, as well as through their own reflections of the merits and faults of Chinese culture.

Assessment

Written work: 45%
Oral presentation: 15%
Exam: 30%
Class participation/performance: 10%

Off-campus attendance requirements

60 hours over three weeks

Prerequisites

Chinese 8 language level proficiency or by permission

Prohibitions

CHI1090, CHI1909,CHI2090, CHI2909, CHI3090, CHI3909, CHI4090, CHI 4099, CHI4909, CHI5090

Leader(s): Hui Xu

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit is offered in China through the Chinese Incountry Program. Through an investigation into the key intellectual issues of a multi-disciplinary nature in post-Mao China, it will introduce students to a range of literary writings by a young generation of contemporary Chinese writers. Through various research projects students will explore a range of different representations of Chinese culture and society.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be expected to have acquired:

1. A general knowledge of the social, political and cultural development that has characterised post-Mao China, Chinese society, its people and its culture (through examination of the historical contexts of a number of literary texts published in China after the 1980s).
2. An in-depth knowledge of changes that post-Mao reform has brought to intellectual trends in general and to literature in particular (through critical analysis of a range of literary works by a younger and unorthodox generation of Chinese writers who challenge traditional Chinese literary norms through their exploration of fundamental issues of humanism).
3. The ability to write and speak effectively in standard modern Chinese on a range of intellectual and literary issues, and basic analytical and critical skills required for academic research in Chinese Studies.

Assessment

Written work: 75%
Oral presentation: 15%
Class participation/performance: 10%

Contact hours

60 hours over 3 weeks

Prerequisites

Chinese 10 language level proficiency or by permission

Prohibitions

CHI1110, CHI1911, CHI2110, CHI2911, CHI3110, CHI3911, CHI4110, CHI4119, CHI4911, CHI5110

Leader(s): Gloria Davies

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Leader(s): Gloria Davies

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

An essay of 9,000 words (maximum) on an approved Chinese Studies topic of the student's choice. A supervisor will be assigned according to the topic chosen. Three copies of the essay to be submitted for assessment at the end of the semester

Objectives

This unit is intended to provide students with:

1. a broader and deeper understanding of one chosen aspect of Chinese Studies;
2. advanced research methods and skills relevant to the chosen aspect of Chinese Studies.

Assessment

Essay (9,000 words) : 100%

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Leader(s): Lijian Hong

Offered

Overseas Summer semester A 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

This unit is offered in China through the Chinese Incountry program and provides students with Chinese language training in a business and commerce context. Having been exposed to texts in a specialised business style, students improve their Chinese language proficiency, and are introduced to an increased range of language features common to business texts. Students will continue to practise writing and translating related texts and will be required to display a greater level of sophistication and understanding in their translation and writing than in Chinese for Business Communication part 1. This will promote students' bilingual language proficiency and broaden their career opportunities.

Objectives

Students are expected to achieve the following goals upon successful completion of the unit:
1/ to acquire familiarity with an expanded range of features of business text through discourse analysis
2/ to extend their basic Chinese business writing skills acquired in Chinese for Business Communication Part 1
3/ to extend their translation skills in translating business text, and
4/ to further improve their knowledge of the Chinese language in the specific business context.

Assessment

Written work & Class Test: 90%
Class participation and performance: 10%

Off-campus attendance requirements

60 hours over 3 weeks

Prerequisites

Chinese 8 language level proficiency or by permission

Prohibitions

CHI1460, CHI1946, CHI2460, CHI2946, CHI3460, CHI3946, CHI4460, CHI4469, CHI4946, CHI5460

Leader(s): Gloria Davies

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit equips students to critically analyse and evaluate perennial issues in criminal justice practice and reform. Topics examined include: catalysts for reform and changing practice; domestic practice and reform; international practice and reform; and key sector involvement in informing policy change, for example, race and the criminal justice system. The unit examines these and other fields of inquiry across a range of jurisdictions. In doing so it assists the reflective practitioner to analyse key issues in changing criminal justice practice at the local, regional and international levels.

Objectives

Upon completion of this subject students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of catalysts for criminal justice reform and changing practice including miscarriages of justice, commissions of inquiry, non government bodies, the parliament and political process and changing technology.

2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of domestic criminal justice practice and reform including introduction of the Koori court, drugs policy, crime prevention and the administration of justice.

3. Demonstrate a critical understanding of international criminal justice practice and reform including issues relating to privatisation, punishment and sentencing and conflicting jurisdictional issues at the local, state, federal and international levels.

4. Demonstrate a critical understanding of key sectors in criminal justice practice and reform including national and international trends in crime and punishment, the professionalisation of criminal justice practitioners, accountability processes and community involvement in controlling crime.

5. Undertake integrated analyses of criminal justice practice and reform across local, national and international arenas.

Assessment

Seminar Presentation (2000 words): 25%
Criminal Justice Reform Evaluation (3000 words): 35%
Policy Analysis Report (4,000 words): 40%

Contact hours

One two hour seminar per week

Leader(s): Dean Wilson

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

Managing Criminal Justice Issues engages students in the critical study of the concepts, initiatives and directions currently reshaping criminal justice agencies. Issues covered include: managing criminal justice agencies; the intra and inter agency environment; alternative dispute resolution and new directions and frameworks in criminal justice management.

Objectives

Upon completion of Managing Criminal Justice Issues students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of key management issues in the criminal justice context including inter and intra agency team building; effective communications strategies across the sector and the oversight of criminal justice project change.

2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of inter agency criminal justice management including working with the media; working with community organisations and pressure groups and working with diverse populations.

3. Demonstrate a critical understanding of alternative dispute resolution including negotiation and mediation; working with bodies of inquiry and organisational problem solving.

4. Demonstrate critical understanding of new directions and frameworks in criminal justice management including ethical considerations; accountability; and best practice and benchmarking.

Assessment

Development of a benchmarking manual (3000 words): 35%

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Leader(s): Jude McCulloch

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit requires students to complete a 9,000 word research project on a topic of their choosing in consultation with their assigned supervisor who is a member of academic staff.

Objectives

Upon completion of this subject students will be able to:

1. Review a specific body of research in the field of Criminal Justice and Criminology and demonstrate a command of that literature.

2. Identify and develop key research questions.

3. Critically investigate a key issue in Criminal Justice and Criminology.

4. Critically write up research findings.

5. Construct a critical argument.

6. Construct a cumulative argument across an 9,000 word research project.

Assessment

9,000 word research project: 100%

Contact hours

Regular supervisory meetings

Prerequisites

CJC4020

Leader(s): David Baker

Offered

Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Gippsland Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

The internship will allow students to integrate theory and practice while gaining first-hand practical experience working in the criminal justice area. Students will extend the knowledge gained in other Masters units through experiential learning. It will also provide students with the opportunity to develop work-based networks which could lead to employment opportunities in the future. Each student will have a separate internship program designed to enhance their work-place experience.

Objectives

Upon completion of the unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. The ability to apply theory in a practical workplace environment
2. enhanced skills appropriate for working in a criminal justice environment
3. enhanced oral and written communication skills
4. experience in applying ethical principles in a value laden work environment
5. the capacity to critically apply and integrate theoretical and professional knowledge.

Assessment

For on-campus students - Internship proposal(1500 words): 15%
Internship report(5000 words): 65%
Oral presentation(20 minutes): 20%

For off-campus students - Internship proposal(1500 words): 15%
Internship report(5000 words): 65%
Journal(weekly): 20%

Prerequisites

CRJ4001, CRJ4002 and at least 1 of the following units(CRJ4004, AUS4025, HPL4503, HPL4521, HSM4301, HSM4302)

Co-requisites

None

Prohibitions

None

Leader(s): Jude McCulloch

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit requires students to engage in a significant piece of reading and research and write a dissertation of 18,000 words on a topic of their choosing in consultation with their assigned supervisor who is a member of academic staff.

Objectives

Upon completion of this subject students will be able to:

1. Review a specific body of research in the field of Criminal Justice and Criminology and demonstrate a command of that literature.

2. Identify and develop key research questions.

3. Develop and implement an empirical research project in the field of Criminal Justice and Criminology.

4. Critically investigate a key issue in Criminal Justice and Criminology.

5. Critically write up research findings.

6. Construct a critical argument that is sustained by empirical data.

7. Construct a cumulative argument across an 18,000 word research project.

8. Undertake independent research with supervisory consultation.

Assessment

Written work 100%

Contact hours

regular supervisory meetings

Prerequisites

High credit average in 48 points at 4th level taken as part of the Master of Criminal Justice program

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit requires students to engage in a significant piece of reading and research and write a dissertation of 18,000 words on a topic of their choosing in consultation with their assigned supervisor who is a member of academic staff.

Objectives

Upon completion of this subject students will be able to:

1. Review a specific body of research in the field of Criminal Justice and Criminology and demonstrate a command of that literature.
2. Identify and develop key research questions.
3. Develop and implement an empirical research project in the field of Criminal Justice and Criminology.
4. Critically investigate a key issue in Criminal Justice and Criminology.
5. Critically write up research findings.
6. Construct a critical argument that is sustained by empirical data.
7. Construct a cumulative argument across an 18,000 word research project.
8. Undertake independent research with supervisory consultation.

Assessment

Written work 70%
Seminar presentation 30%

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit requires students to engage in a significant piece of reading and research and write a dissertation of 18,000 words on a topic of their choosing in consultation with their assigned supervisor who is a member of academic staff.

Objectives

Upon completion of this subject students will be able to:

1. Review a specific body of research in the field of Criminal Justice and Criminology and demonstrate a command of that literature.
2. Identify and develop key research questions.
3. Develop and implement an empirical research project in the field of Criminal Justice and Criminology.
4. Critically investigate a key issue in Criminal Justice and Criminology.
5. Critically write up research findings.
6. Construct a critical argument that is sustained by empirical data.
7. Construct a cumulative argument across an 18,000 word research project.
8. Undertake independent research with supervisory consultation.

Assessment

18,000 word dissertation: 100%

Prerequisites

High credit average in 48 points at 4th level taken as part of the Master of Criminal Justice program

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit involves focused, independent reading and the presentation of the findings in a scholarly manner, under the supervision of a member of the teaching staff of the department. On completion of the subject students should: demonstrate a thorough understanding of the criminal justice or criminology topic chosen for the subject; understand the nature and scope of scholarly writing on the topic; appreciate the theoretical, methodological and practical dimensions of the topic, be able to present orally and in writing critical thinking and analysis of the criminal justice/criminology topic.

Objectives

Upon completion of this subject students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an in-depth and focused critical understanding of a topic in criminal justice or criminology

2. Demonstrate an in-depth familiarity with the literature on a topic in criminal justice and criminology

3. Demonstrate the ability to synthesise a broad range of literature on a topic

4. Be familiar with the process of researching and writing a comprehensive literature review of a criminal justice or criminology topic

5. Demonstrate the ability to understand and critically assess the various historical, theoretical and methodological issues and debates around a chosen criminal justice, criminology topic.

Assessment

Oral presentation (2000 words): 25%
Written report (7,000 words): 75%

Contact hours

Two hour per fortnight meeting with supervisor

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Objectives

1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the issues which must be addressed when regulating criminal justice systems in democratic societies.

2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of domestic criminal justice regulation issues.

3. Demonstrate a critical understanding of international criminal justice regulation issues.

4. Demonstrate a critical understanding of key sectors and key actors in criminal justice regulation, including in national and international arena.

5. Undertake integrated analyses and evaluation of issues central to the regulation of criminal justice issues across local, national and international arenas.

Assessment

Essay (3000 words): 35%;

Essay (5000 words): 55%

Oral Presentation (write up) (1000 words): 10%

Contact hours

Two-hour seminar per week

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

City (Melbourne) First semester 2009 (Day)
City (Melbourne) Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The ability to be able to find, use, assess and present information is crucial to those working in the communications industry. This unit focuses on research methods, sources and materials for the study and analysis of Australian society, both past and present. The range of sources studied includes biographical and bibliographical references, newspaper archives, ABS statistics and pictorial images, in both electronic and printed forms.

Objectives

1. To be able to locate and make use of regular and archival holdings of major research libraries.

2. To be familiar with other relevant source materials.

3. To be familiar with electronic, printed and audio-visual sources.

4. To be able to make appropriate and efficient use of Australian sources within the Communications field.

5. To be able to discuss and write critically about independent research undertaken.

Assessment

2 x papers (2000 words): 40%
Research essay (5000 words): 50%
Class participation/Seminar presentation: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

COM5001

Leader(s): Dr Tony Moore

Offered

City (Melbourne) First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

In this subject we journey through the history of communications and media form the genesis of the mass circulation press development to the new media of the 21st century. The subject will provide students with an appreciation of how technological advances, decisions by policy-makers, and broader forces have influenced that evolution. In turn, the subject also provides students with a chance to consider how the media's coverage of important public debates and controversies has helped shape society. In the major research essay students will have the opportunity to investigate media coverage of a major issue or event in Australian history.

Objectives

Upon completion of this subject students should:

1. Have a broad overview of communications and media history.
2. Have an understanding of how technological advances, decisions by policy-makers, and broader forces have shaped that history.
3. Have an appreciation of how media coverage of watershed events and issues has influenced society.
4. Be able to conduct independent research.
5. Be able to write lucidly and with analytical depth.

Assessment

Class participation and attendance (1000 words equivalent): 10%; Seminar introduction (1000 words equivalent): 10%; 2 x Short essays (2000 words each): 40%; Major research essay (4000 words): 40%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

COM5002

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

City (Melbourne) First semester 2009 (Day)
City (Melbourne) Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

New technologies in publishing and the enduring role of text in forms of electronic publishing. The pay-TV debate and developments in digital broadcasting analysed. Web page development is also studied in laboratory sessions.

Assessment

Research essay (4500 words): 50%
Two papers (2250 words each): 40%
Seminar presentation and participation: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

COM5006

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

City (Melbourne) Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit introduces students to professional ethics and the media. Students will evaluate the media's fourth-estate role and its political agency in a commercial environment. Legislation, industry codes of practice and journalistic ethics will be analysed. Investigative reporting will be examined with reference to Watergate and investigative reporting's mythical 'golden age'. The interrelationship between PR, media liaison units and journalism will be explored. Tabloid journalism will be analysed with reference to economic and ethical concerns. The tension between the media's idealistic fourth-estate image and its professional, commercial and public interests is the unit's unifying theme.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of the unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. A critical understanding of the history and continuing evolution of the media's role as the fourth estate.
2. A critical understanding of the complex interplay between ethical, regulatory, political and economic factors in media reporting.
3. An advanced knowledge of the key communications industry codes of conduct and the differing approaches to their enforcement including professional codes of ethics and industry codes of practice.
4. A critical understanding of the nature of investigative reporting and the impact and legacy of Watergate on journalism, reporting and public figures.
5. A critical understanding of the interrelationship between public relations, institutional media liaison units and journalism.
6. An enhanced ability to critically evaluate topical debates about media ethics.

Assessment

Research essay (5,000 words): 50%; Short essay 1 (2,000 words): 20%; Short essay 2 (2,000 words): 20%; Seminar participation: 10%

Contact hours

1 x 2 hour seminar per week

Leader(s): Dr Mark Gibson

Offered

City (Melbourne) First semester 2009 (Day)
City (Melbourne) Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit explores key issues arising from the rapid change in the international communications environment by examining the cultural, political and social impacts of transformations in communications technologies - from text-based media to the borderless reaches of satellite and the internet. Students will examine e-governance; the impact of cable and satellite television; the use of the internet as a space for dissent during conflicts; computer hacking and cyber-crime, the internationalisation of news coverage and dissemination of information during times of global and local crisis, with particular reference to reporting terrorism and the 'embedded' journalism of war-time.

Objectives

Upon completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate: 1) A critical understanding of the historical context and critical transformations of communications technologies, and their cultural,political and social effects; 2) A critical understanding of the relationship between the changing nature of communications technologies and the rise of alternative international media; 3) An enhanced ability to recognise the political, social, geographical and cultural factors which impact upon access to and the uses of communication technologies; 4) A critical understanding of the nature and effects of cyber-crime; 5) A critical understanding of the relationship between the development of new communications technologies, in particular the internet, and the changing nature of democratic practice, political participation and dissent; 6) An understanding of the internationalisation of news coverage and the dissemination of information during times of global and local crisis

Assessment

Short essay 1 (2000 words): 20%
Short essay 2 (2000 words): 20%
Major Essay (5000 words): 50%
Seminar participation: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours (one x 2 hour seminar per week)

Prohibitions

COM5009

Offered

Sunway First semester 2009 (Day)
South Africa First semester 2009 (Day)

Offered

Sunway Second semester 2009 (Day)
South Africa First semester 2009 (Day)

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

City (Melbourne) First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The unit analyses the convergence media in terms of its effects on government policy, the shift from cultural to creative industries policy, the structure of the public sphere, the aesthetics of media production and commercial organisation structure. Case studies are drawn upon from Australia, South and East Asian and European countries in order to illustrate these developments.

Objectives

Upon completion of this unit students are expected to demonstrate an ability to:

1. assess national policy responses to issues arising from media convergence;
2. engage in discussion informed by current media research in communications convergence;
3. assess quantitive (statistical) and qualitative (ethnographic) research methods in establishing commercial and domestic use of convergent media.

Assessment

First Essay (3,500 words): 40%; Second essay (3,500 words): 40%; Seminar presentation (2,000 words): 20%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

COM4010(H), COM5010

Leader(s): Dr Allison Craven and Dr Patricia Goon

Offered

Sunway Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides students with advanced skills in seminar presentation and industry liaison. Students will identify a particular area of specialisation within the communication industry and develop networks and links with practitioners. Students will complete and present two papers in seminar format, and will participate in the organisation of guest lecturers and visits to industry.

Objectives

The objective of this unit is to study a significant issue in a defined industry sector, and to develop a network of contacts, and limited expertise related to that issue.

Assessment

Initial Position Paper (4000 words): 35%
Final Outcomes paper (5000 words): 40%
Guest Lecture: 15%
Industry Visit: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit examines the relationship between the media and forms of 'political violence', with an emphasis on acts constructed as 'terrorism'. In particular, this unit locates practices of political violence in relation to the historical, social, cultural, economic and political contexts in which media formations are embedded to assess the extent to which both traditional media and new media constitute a condition of possibility for the practices of political violence. This unit takes a critical approach to the study of media representations of political violence in order to analyse both the practices and representation of political violence have transformed in the shift to postmodernity.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of COM3090/4090 students will be able to:

1. Critique debates about what constitutes political violence.

2. Locate practices of political violence in relation to the historical, social, cultural, economic and political contexts in which media formations are embedded in order to assess the extent to which both traditional media and new media constitute a condition of possibility for the practices of political violence.

3. Apply current media and communications theory to critically analyse the representation of 'political violence' in both the national and global media of contemporary cultures.

4. Critically assess the strengths and limitations of both traditional and current analyses of media violence. In particular, students will be able to explain how contemporary theory contributes to a more sophisticated understanding of media violence than traditional media effects research allows.

5. Analyse the ways that media representations of political violence have transformed, and be able to locate these transformations in their historical contexts.

6. Explain the importance of spectacle in contemporary global cultures.

7. Explain the connections between the media, political agency, and processes of globalisation in order to comment upon new conceptualisations of the public sphere.

8. Critically evaluate the media's role in relation to counter-terrorist policy and practice.

9. Demonstrate advanced skills in research, writing and critical analysis.

Assessment

Participation in two Group Debates (held in tutorials): 10%
Two 500 word Summaries (1000 words total): 20%
Research Essay (3000 words): 60%
Tutorial Attendance and Participation: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 1 hour lecture and 1 x 1 hour tutorial) per week

Prerequisites

For BComm (Berwick) and BA students (Caulfield and Clayton), COM1010 and COM1020

Leader(s): David Holmes

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Sunway First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The unit introduces key concepts and ideas in contemporary communications. The subject reviews the work of key theorists in communication and media studies, and outlines primary pathways in communication research such as representation theory, medium theory and network society studies. These modules provide resources for students to situate their own research and to contextualise contemporary communication practices. Students will also obtain skills to locate contemporary communications in an historical perspective.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of the unit students will be able to:

1. Contextualise contemporary communication practices in relation to recent perspectives in communication theory
2. Utilise methodological resources in order to situate their own research in relation to communications and media theory
3. Interpret the dynamic changes in contemporary communications and media from a historical standpoint
4. Understand the media's changing role as an agent of representation in contemporary society
5. Locate introductory approaches to the growth of new media within the context of critical and contemporary theory
6. Examine the importance and implication of an image-dominated culture
7. Engage with the crucial and key theorists that have shaped and influenced the discussions of new media, with emphasis on debated topics such as intertextuality, virtuality
8. Individually assess the importance, significance and contribution of new media theory in relation to their research interests.

Assessment

Assignment 1 - Research Essay (4000 words): 40% +

Assignment 2 - Research Essay (5000 words): 60%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Leader(s): Dr Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Evening)
Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

The unit examines the development of communication and information organisations and technologies, the social forces driving their expansion, their social and economic impact, and the role of technological systems and practices in social development. The nature of organizational communication and the role of technology in communication are discussed as well as their implications for communication arts, economies, and society.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for the participation in and management of complex organizational and technology-driven processes;

2. Increased understanding of and competency at dealing with the convergence between organizational and social-technological knowledge sets;

3. Increased understanding of the large-scale and long-term social, political, institutional and economic context in which organizational communications systems and communication technologies systems occur;

4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research; enhanced capacity to formulate and research technology and organizational communication issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, develop a case study, and understand critical approaches to technology and organization-focussed communications;

5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity especially related to organizational and technology dilemmas and issues;

6. Significantly greater understanding of the nature, role and limits of communication technologies in the workplace and the key forms of organizational communication.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Case Study (4000 words): 40%
Assignment 2 Research Essay (5000 words): 60%

Contact hours

Two hours (1 x 2 hour seminar)per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM5201

Leader(s): Andy Ruddock

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

The unit addresses central policy issues in the communications field, and the role communication in policy development and leadership. It analyses current communication policy directions in key areas such as regulation, intellectual property, licensing, standards, and ownership. Secondly, it addresses the role of communication styles and processes in policy formation and policy leadership both at the social level and in the management of organizations and institutions. The unit will discuss both substantive policy questions and the persuasive styles and rhetoric of policy development and analysis.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for the participation in and management of policy processes;

2. Increased understanding of and competencies in policy making, rhetoric and leadership style;

3. Increased understanding of the large-scale and long-term social, political, institutional and economic context in which communications policy, policy rhetoric, and policy leadership style develops;

4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research policy and policy leadership issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to policy development and leadership;

5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity especially related to the demands and dilemmas of policy creation, advocacy, and implementation.

6. Significantly increased capacity to make, manage, and lead organizational or social policy.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Research Essay (4000 words): 40%
Assignment 2 Evaluation Study (5000 words): 60%

Contact hours

Two hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussions.

Leader(s): Peter Murphy

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

The unit discusses the multiple communication systems that operate in modern societies. These include political and governmental, business and economic, artistic and scientific systems. The unit will consider different system-specific forms of communication and ways in which they interact. The unit will use the case examples, such as the ecology of the city, to explore the functioning of open systems, self-organizing systems, network systems, aesthetic systems, and other ways in which communication-rich societies manage their own complexity.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding large-scale communication systems and their convergence;

2. Increased understanding of and competency at dealing with specific communication systems and their multiple environments;

3. Increased understanding of the large-scale and long-term manner in which communications systems develop, and the social and institutional solutions aimed at integrating these systems;

4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication systems issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to communication network and system integration;

5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity especially in matters concerning the management of sensitive communication system nodes and boundaries;

6. Significantly greater capacity to identify and manage between organizational system and environment, and to negotiate conflicts at the intersection of communications systems.

Assessment

Written work: 100% (9000 words)

Contact hours

Two hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM4203, COM4203(H), COM5203

Leader(s): Peter Murphy

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

The unit examines the development of communication and information economies, the social forces driving their expansion, their social and economic impact, and the role of communication systems and practices in social development. The unit looks at how communication networks, organizations, arts, and processes impact on and are in turn shaped by regional, national and global patterns of economic and social development. The relationship between communication, creativity, and knowledge economies will be addressed.

Objectives

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for the understanding of communication economies, the development of institutions and organizations in these economies, and their impact on society;
2. Increased understanding of and competency at dealing with the convergence between communications, economy, and society
3. Increased understanding of the large-scale and long-term context in which communications, economies, and societies interact;
4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication economy issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to the social-economic dimension of communications;
5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity;
6. Significantly increased strategic understanding of the medium and long-term economic and social patterns affecting, and affected by, modern information/ knowledge/ ICT-based organizations and processes;
7. Significantly increased strategic understanding of the emergence of communication-driven knowledge and creative economies.

Assessment

Written work: 90% (9000 words)
Seminar overview (oral presentation): 10%

Contact hours

Two hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM5204, COM4204(H)

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

The unit examines the development of communication arts and literacies, their aesthetic foundations, their economic and organisational function, and their role in social innovation and development. The unit explores common artistic and rhetorical forms, design arts, and the aesthetic techniques, strategies and systems employed in high-level communication and creativity. The unit will discuss how aesthetic principles and styles are used in organizational and social practice and in creative economies.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding the convergence of visual, haptic, aural, written, verbal, and bodily communication, and the generic principles of good communication;

2. Increased understanding of the various communication arts, their general principles, and their interrelationship;

3. Increased understanding of the contribution of communication arts to communication processes, to large-scale and long-term social development, and to creative and knowledge economies;

4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication arts issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to communication arts;

5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity;

6. Significantly increased capacity to understand, lead, and manage the personnel and processes of emergent communication-arts intensive knowledge and creative industries.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Research Essay (5000 words): 60%;
Assignment 2 Research Essay (4000 words): 40%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM5206

Leader(s): Dr James Gomez

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Evening)
Gippsland Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

The unit addresses the fundamentals of political advocacy, professional writing for publics, public sector communication, and public relations. Students gain experience and understanding of writing techniques, oral rhetoric, and visual imaging suited to different channels of public communication and to diverse public spheres including governmental, organizational, and associational.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for the understanding and utilising the ethics, techniques, channels and limits of public advocacy and influence;

2. Increased understanding of and competency in formulating and making, public statements, images, and gestures;

3. Increased understanding of the large-scale and long-term context in which public communications has developed;

4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research public communications, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to the conduct of public communications;

5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity especially regarding the effective and ethical formulation and delivery of public communication;

6. Significantly increased ability to engage in public communication.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Rhetoric Exercise (3000 words): 33.3%;

Assignment 2 Writing Exercise (3000 words): 33.3%;

Assignment 3 Visual Exercise (3000 words): 33.3%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM5207

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

The unit explores the rhetoric, imagery and gestures of persuasive communication. Students become acquainted with an array of communication styles that are effective with different audiences. The unit discusses key ideas from the traditions of rhetoric, public communications, advocacy, debating, design, fine arts, narratives, advertising, marketing and public relations.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding and engaging in persuasive communication.

2. Increased understanding of the convergence of the convergence of traditions of rhetoric, public communications, advocacy, debating, design, fine arts, narratives, advertising, marketing and public relations in the art of persuasive communication.

3. Increased understanding of the role of persuasive communication in political, social, and organizational processes;

4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research persuasion and advocacy issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to then ethics and pragmatics of persuasive communication;

5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity;

6. Significantly increased ability to engage in persuasive communication in organizational and social contexts.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Case Study (4000 words) 40%;

Assignment 2 Research Essay (5000 words): 60%

Contact hours

On-Campus: 2 hours (1x2 hour seminar) per week. Off-campus: Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion

Prohibitions

COM5208

Leader(s): Dr Sue Yell (Caulfield), Paul Atkinson (Gippsland)

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)
Gippsland Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

The unit introduces students to the fundamentals of communication research methodologies, research project design, the planning, writing and editing of research, and the formulation of a research proposal.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding and engaging in advanced research; 2. Increased understanding of the methods of communication research;
2. Increased understanding of approaches to planning and designing research, and to writing and editing research; 4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to the planning, writing and editing of research; 5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in academic and professional research activity; 6. Significantly increased capacity to design, manage, and carry out research projects.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Literature Review (3000 words): 30%;

Assignment 2 Research Plan (6000 words): 70%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM5209

Leader(s): Dr Susan Yell

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit examines media audiences in relation to globalisation and new media and communication technologies. It examines local, national and transnational audiences and their formation in relation to a globalised media industry. Students will be introduced to a range of techniques of audience research, including the use of new communication technologies to conduct research.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. an understanding of the relations between audiences, communication and media technologies, media industries and governments;
2. an awareness of the political, social, economic and cultural functions of audience formation;
3. the capacity to analyse trends in the development of ICTS and their impact on audiences and their formation;
4. the capacity to critically evaluate the importance of audiences in relation to various institutions and communities (the market, the public sphere, the nation, transnational communities);
5. the capacity to identify and evaluate a range of audience research theories, approaches and techniques;
6. highly developed skills in designing an audience research project, utilising the knowledge gained in Objective 5.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Research Essay (4000 words) : 40%
Assignment 2 Audience Research Design (5000 words) : 60%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM5211

Leader(s): Dan Black

Offered

Sunway First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will address the increasingly dynamic and complex flows of media products between cultural and geographic regions, investigating the complex processes of transmutation and hybridisation which media texts undergo as they move between cultural settings. Regional media flows based around key producers such as Hong Kong, Brazil, India, Egypt and Japan will be discussed, as well as the impact of their media products outside their region. The flow of media products within diasporic communities will also be discussed as an important factor in both the maintenance of cultural identity and initiation of cultural exchange.

Objectives

Upon completion of this unit, students will:

1. be familiar with key terms, debates and models relating to the international flow of media texts
2. have an understanding of the complexity and unpredictability of global media flows
3. be capable of detailed research into specific examples of the international movement of media texts, and
4. have developed skills necessary for independent research and sophisticated debate on the topic of cross-cultural exchange and media analysis.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Research Essay (4000 words) : 40%
Assignment 2 Research Essay (5000 words) : 60%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM5302, COM4302(H)

Leader(s): Kevin Foster

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit offers a critical historical analysis of so-called factual documentary representations of war in words and images, examining how and by whom conflicts have been represented since the mid-C19; how the physical and technical constraints within which reporters and photographers operate affect the nature of their reports and images; how their reports are censored, by whom, in accordance with whose guidelines and with what ends. It examines how these reports and images are transmitted from the battlefield and how the mediating technologies through which these accounts are disseminated influence the nature and inflect the form of the reports and pictures which constitute the war report.

Objectives

By the conclusion of the unit students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a clear understanding of the historical development of nominally factual, documentary forms of war reporting and their key technological developments and innovations.
2. Identify, explain and offer a sophisticated critique of the processes forms, effects and purposes of the major forms of censorship, which have determined the representations of war from the mid C19th to the present day.
3. Present a sophisticated reading of individual reports and images from specific conflicts drawing on appropriate theoretical resources, accounting for the influences of physical and technical constraints, mode of transmission, information management regimes and intended deployment in the shaping of the final report/image.
4. Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of how the differing media which have been employed to disseminate accounts of war - newspapers, photography, newsreel, radio, television, video, internet streaming - have influenced, inflected and structured content at differing historical junctures.
5. Drawing on appropriate theoretical and critical sources, account for and explain the processes by which Governments, military and the media inflect the reception of images and reports of war in order to achieve specific political or cultural effects.
6. Identify and offer an informed critique of the processes by which the preferred readings promoted by Government, the military and the media have been challenged, subverted or questioned in contrary readings of key media texts.
7. Demonstrate how war reporters/photographers have featured in fiction and film and to explain how these representations offer an array of alternative opinions on how and why specific conflicts have been represented in particular ways.

Assessment

Textual analysis (3500 words): 40%
Research project (4500 words): 50%
Seminar participation: 10%

Contact hours

One two hour seminar per week for 12 weeks

Prerequisites

An approved First Year sequence

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

City (Melbourne) First semester 2009 (Day)
City (Melbourne) Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The ability to be able to find, use, assess and present information is crucial to those working in the communications industry. This unit focuses on research methods, sources and materials for the study and analysis of Australian society, both past and present. The range of sources studied includes biographical and bibliographical references, newspaper archives, ABS statistics and pictorial images, in both electronic and printed forms.

Objectives

1. To be able to locate and make use of regular and archival holdings of major research libraries.

2. To be familiar with other relevant source materials.

3. To be familiar with electronic, printed and audio-visual sources.

4. To be able to make appropriate and efficient use of Australian sources within the Communications field.

5. To be able to discuss and write critically about independent research undertaken.

Assessment

2 x papers (2000 words): 40%
Research essay (5000 words): 50%
Class participation/Seminar presentation: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

COM4001

Leader(s): Dr Tony Moore

Offered

City (Melbourne) First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

In this subject we journey through the history of communications and media form the genesis of the mass circulation press development to the new media of the 21st century. The subject will provide students with an appreciation of how technological advances, decisions by policy-makers, and broader forces have influenced that evolution. In turn, the subject also provides students with a chance to consider how the media's coverage of important public debates and controversies has helped shape society. In the major research essay students will have the opportunity to investigate media coverage of a major issue or event in Australian history.

Objectives

Upon completion of this subject students should:

1. Have a broad overview of communications and media history.
2. Have an understanding of how technological advances, decisions by policy-makers, and broader forces have shaped that history.
3. Have an appreciation of how media coverage of watershed events and issues has influenced society.
4. Be able to conduct independent research.
5. Be able to write lucidly and with analytical depth.

Assessment

Class participation and attendance (1000 words equivalent): 10%; Seminar introduction (1000 words equivalent): 10% ; 2 x Short essays (2000 words each): 40%; Major research essay (4000 words): 40%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

COM4002

Leader(s): Dr Mark Gibson

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

An industry project to be undertaken in the final semester during the MA of Communications and Media studies. It offers students the opportunity to reflect on their work (or other) experience from within the perspectives on 'communication' explored in the course. A project supervisor is appointed. Industry internship or placements are not required, but students are welcome to organise these.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research,
2. An enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication issues,
3. An enhanced capacity to analyze and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to the planning, writing and editing of a research topic
4. A capacity to design, manage, and carry out a research project

Assessment

9000 words: 100%

Prohibitions

COM5011

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

City (Melbourne) First semester 2009 (Day)
City (Melbourne) Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

New technologies in publishing and the enduring role of text in forms of electronic publishing. The pay-TV debate and developments in digital broadcasting analysed. Web page development is also studied in laboratory sessions.

Assessment

Research essay (4500 words): 50%
Two papers (2250 words each): 40%
Seminar presentation and participation: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

COM5011

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

City (Melbourne) Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit introduces students to professional ethics and the media. Students will evaluate the media's fourth-estate role and its political agency in a commercial environment. Legislation, industry codes of practice and journalistic ethics will be analysed. Investigative reporting will be examined with reference to Watergate and investigative reporting's mythical 'golden age'. The interrelationship between PR, media liaison units and journalism will be explored. Tabloid journalism will be analysed with reference to economic and ethical concerns. The tension between the media's idealistic fourth-estate image and its professional, commercial and public interests is the unit's unifying theme.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of the unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. A critical understanding of the history and continuing evolution of the media's role as the fourth estate.
2. A critical understanding of the complex interplay between ethical, regulatory, political and economic factors in media reporting.
3. An advanced knowledge of the key communications industry codes of conduct and the differing approaches to their enforcement including professional codes of ethics and industry codes of practice.
4. A critical understanding of the nature of investigative reporting and the impact and legacy of Watergate on journalism, reporting and public figures.
5. A critical understanding of the interrelationship between public relations, institutional media liaison units and journalism.
6. An enhanced ability to critically evaluate topical debates about media ethics.
7. Abilty to conduct research at advanced level.

Assessment

Research essay (5000 words): 50%
Short essay 1 (2000 words): 20%
Short essay 2 (2000 words): 20%
Seminar participation: 10%

Contact hours

1 x 2 hour seminar per week

Prohibitions

COM4008

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

City (Melbourne) First semester 2009 (Day)
City (Melbourne) Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit explores issues arising from the emerging international communications environment. It examines the cultural, political and social impacts of communication technology transformations. Students will examine technology's impact on democratic activity; cable / satellite television's impact; computer hacking and cyber-crime. The case study of the Tamil Tigers' use of the Internet will help to illustrate the transformative possibilities of new communications technologies. Students will explore the internationalisation of news coverage and dissemination of information during times of global and local crisis, with particular reference to reporting terrorism and current wartime journalism.

Objectives

On successful completion of the subject students will be able to demonstrate:

1. A critical understanding of the historical context and critical transformations of communications technologies, and their cultural, political and social effects.

2. A critical understanding of the relationship between the changing nature of communications technologies and the rise of alternative international media.

3. An enhanced ability to recognise the political, social, geographical and cultural factors which impact upon access to and the uses of communication technologies.

4. A critical understanding of the nature and effects of cyber-crime.

5. A critical understanding of the relationship between the development of new communications technologies, in particular the Internet, and the changing nature of democratic practice, political participation and dissent.

6. An advanced knowledge of the internationalisation of news coverage and the dissemination of information during times of global and local crisis.

7. An ability to critically evaluate topical debates about international communications.

8. An enhanced ability to conduct independent research.

Assessment

Major essay (5,000 words): 50%
Short essay 1 (2,000 words): 20%
Short essay 2 (2,000 words): 20%
Seminar participation: 10%

Contact hours

2 hour seminar per week

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

City (Melbourne) First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The unit analyses the convergence media in terms of its effects on government policy, the shift from cultural to creative industries policy, the structure of the public sphere, the aesthetics of media production and commercial organisation structure. Case studies are drawn upon from Australia, South and East Asian and European countries in order to illustrate these developments.

Objectives

Upon completion of this unit students are expected to demonstrate an ability to:

1. assess national policy responses to issues arising from media convergence;
2. engage in discussion informed by current media research in communications convergence;
3. assess quantitive (statistical) and qualitative (ethnographic) research methods in establishing commercial and domestic use of convergent media.
4. An enhanced ability to conduct independent research

Assessment

First Essay (3,500 words): 40%; Second essay (3,500 words): 40%; Seminar presentation (2,000 words): 20%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

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Leader(s): Dr Mark Gibson

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit requires the completion of a minor thesis (18,000 words) on an approved communications related topic, usually one with an industry focus. With guidance from the supervisor (s), it allow the student to undertake advanced level research and produce a substantial piece of writing which advances knowledge in the selected area of research.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding and engaging in advanced research:
2. An ability to design, write and edit a research thesis;
3. An ability at advanced level to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches relating to the communication industries and communication issues;
4. The capacity to contribute advanced knowledge in the chosen area of research;
5. An enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity

Assessment

Thesis (18,000) : 100%

Contact hours

Regular meeting with allocated supervisor(s)

Prerequisites

Completion of 48 points with a distinction average at fourth year level of subjects offered in the Master of Communications and Media Studies program

Prohibitions

COM5004

Leader(s): John Arnold and Dr Mark Gibson

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)

Leader(s): John Arnold and Dr Mark Gibson

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)

Leader(s): Dr Allison Craven and Dr Patricia Goon

Offered

Sunway Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides students with advanced skills in seminar presentation and industry liaison. Students will identify a particular area of specialisation within the communication industry and develop networks and links with practitioners. Students will complete and present two papers in seminar format, and will participate in the organisation of guest lecturers and visits to industry.

Objectives

The objective of this unit is to study a significant issue in a defined industry sector, and to develop a network of contacts, and limited expertise related to that issue.

Assessment

Initial Position Paper (4000 words): 35%
Final Outcomes paper (5000 words): 40%
Guest Lecture: 15%
Industry Visit: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Prerequisites

First degree with a major in communication, writing, international studies or equivalent.

Leader(s): Robin Gerster

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit examines the centrality of war to modern cultural history, as revealed in a range of literary and non-literary sources. Covering literary, visual and historical responses to World War I, though World War II (including the Holocaust and the atomic bombings), the Vietnam War, the Rwandan genocide, to the 'War on Terror', the unit analyses how mass violence poses a range of representational challenges, and been influential in disseminating the practices and intellectual trends of modernity and postmodernity. Issues covered include the redefinition of traditional concepts of 'the hero' and assumptions about national identity.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit students will have:

1. a strong critical sense of the major representational elements of war writing and film since World War I
2. a theoretical understanding of the relationship of war writing to the ideas and some of the important practices of modernity and postmodernity
3. a demonstrated understanding of the role of the media in disseminating public knowledge of war and conflict
4. demonstrated a sophisticated grasp of cultural concepts of heroism and racial virtue, as they have been invoked and revised
5. an informed reading of the importance of gender to perspectives on war and conflict.

Assessment

Research essay (4000 words): 50% +Textual analysis (3000 words): 40%
Seminar presentation: 10%

Contact hours

One 2-hour seminar per week

Prerequisites

A major sequence in Communication, or any other related major approved by co-ordinator

Prohibitions

ENH2225/ENH3225 (Heroes Twilight), COM4110

Leader(s): Kevin Foster

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will examine how the Spanish Civil War has been represented and remembered in literature, the visual arts, photography, film, ceremonies and in the form of physical memorials by the victors and the defeated. It will consider how cultural memory of the war has been shaped and expressed during and after the dictatorship. It will examine the forces responsible for this shaping, and explore how, subsequently, these memories of the conflict have been challenged and re-interpreted and the forces responsible for this process of revision.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit students will:

1. have a solid grasp of the principal causes and events of the Spanish Civil War
2. have a detailed knowledge of the major cultural responses to the war and the political and social forces that brought them into being
3. be able to provide a sophisticated interpretation of individual texts from/about the war, detailing the political and cultural forces that shaped them
4. recognise how cultural memory of the war was shaped, re-shaped and re-interpreted over time
5. be able to explain and apply a variety of theoretical approaches concerning cultural memory.

Assessment

Textual analysis (3000 words): 40%
Seminar presentation (1000 words): 10%
Research assay (4000 words): 50%

Contact hours

One 2-hour seminar per week

Prerequisites

Major sequence in Communication and Media Studies, any European language, European and European Union Studies, or other discipline approved by the unit coordinator

Prohibitions

COM4120

Leader(s): Andy Ruddock

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Off-campus Day)

Synopsis

The unit will survey the history, concepts and methods of critical media audience research. It will consider both the mass communications and cultural studies disciplines, and will develop students' ability to critique scholarly work on both conceptual and methodological grounds. Audiences & the Social Influence of Media will enhance students' ability to develop and present original research projects, based on empirical explorations of how people interact with media in a variety of social places. The academic skills it cultivates will be directly applicable to thesis work.

Objectives

On successfully completing this unit a student will be able to demonstrate:

1. an appreciation of the political, cultural and institutional factors that influence the questions scholars ask and the methods they use to analyze media influence
2. a broad understanding of key questions in the field of media influence, and knowledge of how and why these questions have emerged
3. an ability to critique scholarship on both conceptual and methodological bases
4. the ability to perform scholarly literature reviews in a manner leading to original research questions
5. the ability to select appropriate data gathering methods for exploring questions of particular relevance to the student
6. Postgraduate students will be asked to format Assessment 3 in line with a grant proposal of their choosing Assessment 3.

Assessment

Literature review (3500 words): 40%
Class presentation: 10%
Project proposal (4500 words): 50%

Contact hours

One 2-hour seminar per week

Off-campus attendance requirements

Two 6-hour weekend seminars and 2 hours per week MUSO participation

Prerequisites

Communication and Media Studies major or other major approved by coordinator

Prohibitions

COM4130

Offered

Berwick First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will examine the role of the human body in representation, understanding, and communication. From phenomenological and neurological accounts of the role of the human body in expression and understanding, to debates surrounding the body/machine interface in new communications technologies, the body's often-overlooked role as organiser and facilitator of human action will be explored.

Objectives

Upon completion of this unit, students will:

1. have a broad understanding of the various theoretical frameworks used to discuss the human body
2. have a broad historical overview of the development, evolution, and increasing convergence of these frameworks
3. be capable of providing sophisticating critiques of and comparisons between various accounts of the role of the human body in understanding and expression
4. be able to provide a sophisticated reading of the role played by the human body in communications based on detailed research.

Assessment

Literature review and research plan (3000 words): 15%
Seminar presentation (1000 words): 15%
Research essay (5000 words): 70%

Contact hours

One 2-hour seminar per week

Prerequisites

Major in Communication and Media Studies or other approved discipline

Prohibitions

COM4140

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Evening)
Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

The unit examines the development of communication and information organisations and technologies, the social forces driving their expansion, their social and economic impact, and the role of technological systems and practices in social development. The nature of organizational communication and the role of technology in communication are discussed as well as their implications for communication arts, economies, and society.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Highly developed knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for the participation in and management of complex organizational and technology-driven processes;
2. A high level understanding of and competency at dealing with the convergence between organizational and social-technological knowledge sets;
3. A complex understanding of the large-scale and long-term social, political, institutional and economic context in which organizational communications systems and communication technologies systems occur;
4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research; enhanced capacity to formulate and research technology and organizational communication issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, develop a case study, and understand critical approaches to technology and organization-focussed communications;
5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity especially related to organizational and technology dilemmas and issues;
6. In addition, students studying this unit at Level 5 will demonstrate the capacity to make an informed critique of the nature, role and limits of communication technologies in the workplace and the key forms of organizational communication.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Case Study (4000 words): 40%
Assignment 2 Research Essay (5000 words): 60%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM4201

Leader(s): Peter Murphy

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

The unit discusses the operation of communication systems in modern complex, impersonal, urban, high technology societies. The unit will use the case examples, such as the ecology of the city, to explore the functioning of open systems, self-organizing systems, network systems, aesthetic systems, and other ways in which contemporary communication-rich societies function.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding large-scale communication systems and their convergence;
2. Increased understanding of and competency at dealing with specific communication systems and their multiple environments;
3. Increased understanding of the large-scale and long-term manner in which communications systems develop, and the social and institutional solutions aimed at integrating these systems;
4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication systems issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to communication network and system integration;
5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity especially in matters concerning the management of sensitive communication system nodes and boundaries;
6. Significantly greater capacity to identify and manage between organizational system and environment, and to negotiate conflicts at the intersection of communications systems.
7. In comparison with Level 4 students, greater fluency in use rhetorical, written, and visual forms.

Assessment

Written work: 100% (9000 words)

Contact hours

Two hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

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Leader(s): Peter Murphy

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

The unit examines the development of communication and information economies, the social forces driving their expansion, their social and economic impact, and the role of communication systems and practices in social development. The unit looks at how communication networks, organizations, arts, and processes impact on and are in turn shaped by regional, national and global patterns of economic and social development. The relationship between communication, creativity, and knowledge economies will be addressed.

Objectives

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for the understanding of communication economies, the development of institutions and organizations in these economies, and their impact on society;
2. Increased understanding of and competency at dealing with the convergence between communications, economy, and society;
3. Increased understanding of the large-scale and long-term context in which communications, economies, and societies interact;
4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication economy issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to the social-economic dimension of communications;
5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity;
6. Significantly increased strategic understanding of the medium and long-term economic and social patterns affecting, and affected by, modern information/ knowledge/ ICT-based organizations and processes;
7. Significantly increased strategic understanding of the emergence of communication-driven knowledge and creative economies;
8. In comparison with Level 4 students, greater fluency in the use of rhetorical, written, and visual forms.

Assessment

Written work: 90% (9000 words)
Seminar overview (oral presentation): 10%

Contact hours

Two hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Co-requisites

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Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

As for COM4206

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding the convergence of visual, haptic, aural, written, verbal, and bodily communication, and the generic principles of good communication;

2. Increased understanding of the various communication arts, their general principles, and their interrelationship;

3. Increased understanding of the contribution of communication arts to communication processes, to large-scale and long-term social development, and to creative and knowledge economies;

4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication arts issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to communication arts;

5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity;

6. Significantly increased capacity to understand, lead, and manage the personnel and processes of emergent communication-arts intensive knowledge and creative industries;

7. In comparison with Level 4 students, greater depth and wider understanding of communicative forms and media, and greater ease of use and familiarity with digital tools and communication art techniques.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Research Essay (5000 words): 60%;
Assignment 2 Research Essay (4000 words): 40%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM4206

Leader(s): David Wolstencroft

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Evening)
Gippsland Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

As for COM4207

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for the understanding and utilising the ethics, techniques, channels and limits of public advocacy and influence;

2. Increased understanding of and competency in formulating and making, public statements, images, and gestures;

3. Increased understanding of the large-scale and long-term context in which public communications has developed;

4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research public communications, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to the conduct of public communications;

5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity especially regarding the effective and ethical formulation and delivery of public communication;

6. Significantly increased ability to engage in public communication;

7. In comparison with Level 4 students, greater fluency in use rhetorical, written, and visual forms.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Rhetoric Exercise (3000 words): 33.3%;

Assignment 2 Writing Exercise (3000 words): 33.3%;

Assignment 3 Visual Exercise (3000 words): 33.3%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM4207

Leader(s): Chris Galloway

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

As for COM4208

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding and engaging in persuasive communication.

2. Increased understanding of the convergence of the convergence of traditions of rhetoric, public communications, advocacy, debating, design, fine arts, narratives, advertising, marketing and public relations in the art of persuasive communication.

3. Increased understanding of the role of persuasive communication in political, social, and organizational processes;

4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research persuasion and advocacy issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to then ethics and pragmatics of persuasive communication;

5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity;

6. Significantly increased ability to engage in persuasive communication in organizational and social contexts;

7. In comparison with Level 4 students, more sophisticated understanding of strategic dynamics in communications and a greater facility with the forms and techniques of persuasion and understanding of ethical nuance.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Case Study (4000 words): 40%;

Assignment 2 Research Essay (5000 words) 60%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM4208

Leader(s): Paul Atkinson

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Evening)
Gippsland Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

The unit introduces students to the fundamentals of communication research methodologies, research project design, the planning, writing and editing of research, and the formulation of a research proposal.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding and engaging in advanced research;

2. Increased understanding of the methods of communication research;

3. Increased understanding of approaches to planning and designing research, and to writing and editing research;

4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to the planning, writing and editing of research;

5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in academic and professional research activity;

6. Significantly increased capacity to design, manage, and carry out research projects;

7. In comparison with a Level 4 student, a more nuanced and greater understanding of research editing, writing, planning, and methods.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Literature Review (3000 words): 30%;

Assignment 2 Research Plan (6000 words): 70%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM4209

Leader(s): Gil-Soo Han

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Gippsland Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

The unit requires the completion of a minor dissertation. It is a supervised piece of research on an approved topic. Through supervised practice, it extends student knowledge of a substantive research area, as well as knowledge of relevant methodologies, research design and planning, and the writing and editing of an extended piece of research.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding and engaging in advanced research;

2. Increased understanding of the practice and methods of communication research;

3. Increased understanding of the planning, design, writing and editing research; and the capacity to advance knowledge in the chosen area of research;

4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to communications issues;

5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity.

Assessment

Assignment 1 (20,000 words): 100%

Contact hours

On campus: regular meetings with supervisors. Off campus: regular contact with supervisors.

Prerequisites

COM4209 or COM5209

Leader(s): Gil-Soo Han

Offered

Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

The unit requires the completion of a minor dissertation. It is a supervised piece of research on an approved topic. Through supervised practice, it extends student knowledge of a substantive research area, as well as knowledge of relevant methodologies, research design and planning, and the writing and editing of an extended piece of research.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding and engaging in advanced research;

2. Increased understanding of the practice and methods of communication research;

3. Increased understanding of the planning, design, writing and editing research; and the capacity to advance knowledge in the chosen area of research;

4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to communications issues;

5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity.

Assessment

Assignment 1 (20,000 words): 100%

Contact hours

On campus: regular meetings with supervisors. Off campus: regular contact with supervisors.

Leader(s): Gil-Soo Han

Offered

Gippsland Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

As for COM5210(A)

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding and engaging in advanced research;

2. Increased understanding of the practice and methods of communication research;

3. Increased understanding of the planning, design, writing and editing research; and the capacity to advance knowledge in the chosen area of research;

4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to communications issues;

5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity.

Assessment

Assignment 1 (20,000 words): 100%

Contact hours

On campus: regular meetings with supervisors. Off campus: regular contact with supervisors.

Leader(s): Dr Susan Yell

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

As for COM4211

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. an understanding of the relations between audiences, communication and media technologies, media industries and governments;
2. an awareness of the political, social, economic and cultural functions of audience formation;
3. the capacity to analyse trends in the development of ICTS and their impact on audiences and their formation;
4. the capacity to critically evaluate the importance of audiences in relation to various institutions and communities (the market, the public sphere, the nation, transnational communities);
5. the capacity to identify and evaluate a range of audience research theories, approaches and techniques;
6. highly developed skills in designing an audience research project, utilising the knowledge gained in Objective 5;
7. Students studying this unit at Level 5 will be expected to demonstrate a more highly developed understanding of the relations between audiences and a range of institutions, a more complex awareness of audience formation, and more sophisticated research skills.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Research Essay (4000 words) : 40%
Assignment 2 Audience Research Design (5000 words) : 60%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

COM4211

Offered

Sunway First semester 2009 (Day)
Sunway Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The unit requires the completion of a minor dissertation. It is a supervised piece of research on an approved topic. Through supervised practice, it extends student knowledge of a substantive research area, as well as knowledge of relevant methodologies, research design and planning, and the writing and editing of an extended piece of research.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for understanding and engaging in advanced research;
2. Increased understanding of the practice and methods of communication and cultural research;
3. Increased understanding of the planning, design, writing and editing research; and the capacity to advance knowledge in the chosen area of research;
4. Increased knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for independent research, enhanced capacity to formulate and research communication and cultural studies issues, to analyse and evaluate arguments, and to understand critical approaches to communications issues;
5. Enhanced intellectual independence, and greater self-reliance and critical distance in intellectual and professional activity.

Assessment

Assignment (20,000 words): 100%

Contact hours

Regular meetings with supervisors.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Regular contact with supervisors.

Leader(s): Daniel Black

Offered

Sunway First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will address the increasingly dynamic and complex flows of media products between cultural and geographic regions, investigating the complex processes of transmutation and hybridisation which media texts undergo as they move between cultural settings. Regional media flows based around key producers such as Hong Kong, Brazil, India, Egypt and Japan will be discussed, as well as the impact of their media products outside their region. The flow of media products within diasporic communities will also be discussed as an important factor in both the maintenance of cultural identity and initiation of cultural exchange.

Objectives

Upon completion of this unit, students will:

1. be familiar with key terms, debates and models relating to the international flow of media texts
2. have an understanding of the complexity and unpredictability of global media flows
3. be capable of detailed research into specific examples of the international movement of media texts, and
4. have developed skills necessary for independent research and sophisticated debate on the topic of cross-cultural exchange and media analysis.
5. in comparison with Level 4 students, greater fluency in the use of rhetorical, written, and visual forms.

Assessment

Assignment 1 Research Essay (4000 words) : 40%
Assignment 2 Research Essay (5000 words) : 60%

Contact hours

2 hours (one 2-hour seminar) per week.

Off-campus attendance requirements

Students will be expected to participate for a minimum of one hour per fortnight in on-line discussion.

Prohibitions

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Leader(s): Dr Mark Gibson

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

The unit will involve a study tour of major international media organizations, with some attention also to alternative media. The destination will vary from year to year, being either New York or London. Students will draw on background knowledge and skills in analysis gained from their first year of study, gaining the opportunity to test them against real world examples. The unit will have a strong element of experiential learning, through seeing the insides of media organizations and having direct contact with those who work in them. At the same time, it will mobilise scholarly inputs.

Objectives

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. demonstrate an understanding of the internal organization and culture of media organisations with a significant presence in international communication;
2. demonstrate an appreciation of the complex 'ecology' of a major international media centre, gaining the ability to see lateral connections between different organisations;
3. demonstrate skills in direct observation of media industries, as a complement to reading and scholarship in the area; demonstrate an awareness of international contexts in communications and media studies;
4. have substantial confidence in approaching and working with individuals and organisations at the cutting edge of international communications and media.

Assessment

Site brief (2000 words): 20%
Site log (3000 words): 30%
Major essay (4000 words): 50%

Prerequisites

Completion of first year sequence of Master of Communications and Media Studies (24 credit points)

Leader(s): Kevin Foster

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit offers a critical historical analysis of so-called factual documentary representations of war in words and images, examining how and by whom conflicts have been represented since the mid-C19; how the physical and technical constraints within which reporters and photographers operate affect the nature of their reports and images; how their reports are censored, by whom, in accordance with whose guidelines and with what ends. It examines how these reports and images are transmitted from the battlefield and how the mediating technologies through which these accounts are disseminated influence the nature and inflect the form of the reports and pictures which constitute the war report.

Objectives

By the conclusion of the unit students will be able to1

1. Demonstrate a clear understanding of the historical development of nominally factual, documentary forms of war reporting and their key technological developments and innovations.
2. Identify, explain and offer a sophisticated critique of the processes forms, effects and purposes of the major forms of censorship, which have determined the representations of war from the mid C19th to the present day.
3. Present a sophisticated reading of individual reports and images from specific conflicts drawing on appropriate theoretical resources accounting for the influences of physical and technical constraints, mode of transmission, information management regimes and intended deployment in the shaping of the final report/image.
4. Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of how the differing media which have been employed to disseminate accounts of war - newspapers, photography, newsreel, radio, television, video, internet streaming - have influenced, inflected and structured content at differing historical junctures.
5. Drawing on appropriate theoretical and critical sources, account for and explain the processes by which Governments, military and the media inflect the reception of images and reports of war in order to achieve specific political or cultural effects.
6. Identify and offer an informed critique of the processes by which the preferred readings promoted by Government, the military and the media have been challenged, subverted or questioned in contrary readings of key media texts.
7. Demonstrate how war reporters/photographers have featured in fiction and film and to explain how these representations offer an array of alternative opinions on how and why specific conflicts have been represented in particular ways.

Assessment

Textual analysis (3500 words): 40%
Research project (4500 words): 50%
Seminar participation: 10%

Contact hours

One two hour seminar per week for 12 weeks

Prerequisites

An approved First Year sequence

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit examines crime prevention and crime reduction initiatives, programs and strategies that attempt to alleviate the problem of criminal activities. This unit surveys crime prevention from the local community to that of global perspectives. Theories and arguments of crime prevention policy and practice are examined. Students learn various research methodologies used in conducting and evaluating crime prevention initiatives. Specific topics to be explored include threats to national security, international and transnational crime, people smuggling, theft of body parts, money laundering, drugs, commercial and organised crime, white-collar crime, public disorder and street crimes.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit, students are expected to have developed:

1. a critical understanding of various theories and strategies of crime prevention;
2. the ability to critically examine changes in international and transnational offending via appropriate legal, political and justice perspectives;
3. a critical understanding of the governance and administration of collaborative international crime prevention efforts;
4. the ability to evaluate the effectiveness and importance of crime prevention initiatives by identifying limitations and assumptions that underpin such programs;
5. an awareness of global justice attempts to curb global crime problems;
6. the ability to formulate crime prevention policy and practice;
7. the ability to research and complete a substantial research project of the student's own choice;
8. the ability to hypothesise about likely future global crime problems.

Assessment

Evaluation Paper (2500 words): 25%
Crime Prevention Policy Analysis (2500 words): 25%
Crime Prevention Research Project (4000 words): 50%

Leader(s): TBA

Offered

Gippsland Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit explores policing in its generic sense. A broad range of investigative and control mechanisms, both in the public and private sectors, is examined in terms of curbing crime, criminal tendencies and threats. This unit appraises recent expansionary changes in state-sponsored policing and security organisations. It explores the recent shift from law enforcement to preventative risk management strategies and technologies. Issues such as the emergence of the 'risk society', the privatisation of policing, tensions between surveillance and personal privacy, and estimations of the risk of dangerousness characterising particular offender groups are examined and critiqued.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit, students are expected to have developed:

1. a critical understanding of contemporary practice and research relating to policing and security;
2. a capacity to examine and critique contemporary control practices employed in policing, security and risk management;
3. an understanding of contemporary surveillance, control and management strategies employed to curb crime and violence in various situations;
4. a critical understanding of both the function of security and theoretical and practical approaches to risk assessment;
5. enhanced problem-solving skills;
6. the ability to evaluate information and research critically;
7. the ability to design and communicate policy concepts clearly and logically about policing, security and risk management.

Assessment

Briefing Paper on policing/security issue (2500 words): 30%
Policy Report (2500 words): 30%
Essay (4000 words): 40%

Leader(s): David Baker

Offered

Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit examines the complexity of criminal behaviours and the range of criminological theories espoused in order to explain such diverse behaviours. Humans are rule-making and rule-enforcing beings, but not all of us conform to these rules. Many violate the rules and are subject to sanctions and punishment. Individual, group and organisational criminal behaviours and enterprises are examined in this unit. A sophisticated analysis of criminal behaviours includes exploration of biological, psychological and social explanations of crime and the interactionist tradition including differential association theory. Crowd disorders and street gang behaviours will be examined. Organisational and institutional criminal behaviours extend from white-collar and corporate criminal activity to the dynamics of political crimes of violence, corruption and human rights violations that can be committed by the state and against the state. The unit involves study of definitional and conceptual issues, causes, methods of control and the effects of such organisational criminal behaviour. The unit examines the legal controls and responses by governments and other agencies in order to curb and prevent criminal behaviours of individuals, groups and organisations.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit, students are expected to have developed:
(1) an understanding of definitions of criminal behaviour, including an awareness that the law is not static and changes over time; (2) the ability to identify the key characteristics of criminal behaviours and criminal enterprises; (3) knowledge about the core theoretical debates and issues of criminal behaviours that focus on individuals, groups and organisations; (4) the ability to identify traits about the nature of individuals, groups and organisations that engage in criminal activity; (5) an appreciation of the various models available for explaining the relationship between criminality, the individual and society; (6) an awareness of the contribution of the criminal behaviour theories to criminal justice policy and practice; (7) an understanding of what it means to be a victim of criminal behaviour instigated by individual, group or organisation; (8) the ability to design and communicate policy concepts clearly and logically about individual, group and organisational criminal behaviours.

Assessment

Policy report (2500 words): 30%
Evaluation paper (2500 words): 30%
Essay (4000 words): 40%

Prerequisites

CRJ4001 and CRJ4002

Prohibitions

CRJ4004

Leader(s): Rose Lucas

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

A study of the work of four twentieth-century American poets: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery. Topics include genres, poetic forms, metre and rhetoric; discourse theory and narratology; modern theorisations of genre, poetic form and rhetoric, especially essays by contemporary critics including Harold Bloom, John Hollander and Paul de Man.

Assessment

Two essays (4500 words each): 100%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Alison Ross

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

An introductory reading of the difficult psychoanalytic texts of the French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan. His accounts of the ego, subjectivity and otherness; the unconscious and desire 'structured like a language'; the phallus and sexual difference. The unit shows his relevance to philosophical accounts of subjectivity, theories of literary and visual representation, and feminist theory.

Assessment

Seminar paper (3000 words): 20%
Essay (6000 words) OR two essays (3000 words): 80%

Prerequisites

CRT2050/3050 or PHL3050; or CRT2060/3060 or PHL3060

Leader(s): Alison Ross

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A long essay of 18,000 words on an approved topic of the candidate's own choice. Two copies of the research project must be submitted in typescript and suitably presented not later than 30 October. Comparative Literature students are normally required to read literary texts in the original language.

Leader(s): Alison Ross

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

As for CRT4080(A)

Assessment

Written (18,000 words): 100%

Leader(s): Alison Ross

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A reading of selected texts of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. The unit has three parts.

1. The common cultural and theoretical background of French philosophy in the twentieth century.
2. The last writings of Foucault, those he describes as 'genealogy', his writings on prisons and disciplinary power, and his writings on the history of sexuality.
3. Deleuze's 'rhizomatic writings', concentrating on Nietzsche, Sacher von Masoch and A Thousand Plateaus.

Assessment

Essay (9000 words) OR Two essays (4500 words each): 100%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Millicent Vladiv-Glover

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

How to turn literary structuralist theory into a workable tool of critical analysis. Origins of structuralism and semiotics as critical systems - the Russian formalist school, C S Peirce and F de Saussure. The critique of structuralism through poststructuralism and deconstruction, especially the work of Deleuze and Guattari.

Assessment

Three essays (3000 words each): 90%
Seminar participation: 10%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Professor Andrew Benjamin

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

The development of hermeneutics from a theory of textual interpretation to a theory of understanding in the work of Heidegger, Gadamer and Habermas. Its application in the study of literature and history in the work of Hirsch, Betti, Ricoeur and Jauss. Issues include the conflict between subjectivity and objectivity, the dialectics of the foreign and the familiar, the recognition of the new, the role of language and the function of tradition in understanding, the universality of hermeneutics as a theory of cognition and its impact on the social sciences.

Assessment

Two seminar papers (1000-1500 words each): 40%
Research essay (6000 words): 60%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Rachel Fensham

Offered

Sunway Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Unit introduces the theoretical debates which construct and inform relations between the concepts of gender, bodies and performance. It investigates how different discourses including visual/literary criticism and psychoanalysis have produced meanings about the body and gender. It considers the way these discursive constructions of the body have been represented in performance, focusing on how particular technologies of representation contribute to the meanings of the body in

performance. A broad definition of performance will be applied, from those events or representations involving the live body and those involving a mediated body.

Assessment

First essay (2000 words): 25%
Second essay/presentation (2000-2500 words): 25%
Long essay (3500 words): 50%

Prerequisites

Permission

Leader(s): Millicent Vladiv-Glover

Offered

Sunway Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The course will model ethics through an investigation of M Bakhtin's version of structuralism, in particular his work on the philosophy of the act, in the context of poststructural critical theory. The concept of alterity will be investigated through additional theoretical and literary texts, notably E Levinas' Ethique et infinite, J-L Nancy's theory of community, G Deleuze's philosophy of action and A Badiou's 'objectless subject.' These theoretical materials will be used to construct a model of ethics through which to analyse and critique literary, visual and popular culture texts as well as theoretical approaches to the 'culture industry.'

Objectives

On successful completion of the course, students should be familiar with a model of ethics derived from M M Bakhtin's Philosophy of the Act, in the context of supplementary theoretical texts of poststructuralism (Levinas, Nancy, Badiou). With this model of ethics as a tool, students will be able to critique a variety of popular culture texts as well as Modernist and postmodern theoretical approaches to popular culture.

Assessment

Written work (7 000 words): 70%; Test (Two hours): 20%; Class Participation (continuous): 10%.

Contact hours

Two hour seminar per week

Prohibitions

CLS4835 and CRT5830

Leader(s): Rose Lucas

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

A study of the work of four twentieth-century American poets: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery. Topics include genres, poetic forms, metre and rhetoric; discourse theory and narratology; modern theorisations of genre, poetic form and rhetoric, especially essays by contemporary critics including Harold Bloom, John Hollander and Paul de Man.

Assessment

Two essays (4500 words each): 100%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Alison Ross

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

An introductory reading of the difficult psychoanalytic texts of the French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan. His accounts of the ego, subjectivity and otherness; the unconscious and desire 'structured like a language'; the phallus and sexual difference. The unit shows his relevance to philosophical accounts of subjectivity, theories of literary and visual representation, and feminist theory.

Assessment

Seminar paper (3000 words): 30%
Essay (6000 words): 70%

Prerequisites

CRT2050/3050 or PHL3050; or CRT2060/3060 or PHL3060

Leader(s): Alison Ross

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A reading of selected texts of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. The unit has three parts.

1. The common cultural and theoretical background of French philosophy in the twentieth century.
2. The last writings of Foucault, those he describes as 'genealogy', his writings on prisons and disciplinary power, and his writings on the history of sexuality.
3. Deleuze's 'rhizomatic writings', concentrating on Nietzsche, Sacher von Masoch and A Thousand Plateaus.

Assessment

Essay (9000 words) OR Two essays (4500 words each): 100%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Millicent Vladiv-Glover

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

How to turn literary structuralist theory into a workable tool of critical analysis. Origins of structuralism and semiotics as critical systems - the Russian formalist school, C S Peirce and F de Saussure. The critique of structuralism through poststructuralism and deconstruction, especially the work of Deleuze and Guattari.

Assessment

One essay (9000 words): 100%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Professor Andrew Benjamin

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

The development of hermeneutics from a theory of textual interpretation to a theory of understanding in the work of Heidegger, Gadamer and Habermas. Its application in the study of literature and history in the work of Hirsch, Betti, Ricoeur and Jauss. Issues include the conflict between subjectivity and objectivity, the dialectics of the foreign and the familiar, the recognition of the new, the role of language and the function of tradition in understanding, the universality of hermeneutics as a theory of cognition and its impact on the social sciences.

Assessment

Three seminar papers (1500 words each): 45%
Research essay (4500 words): 55%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Rachel Fensham

Offered

Sunway Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Unit introduces the theoretical debates which construct and inform relations between the concepts of gender, bodies and performance. It investigates how different discourses including visual/literary criticism and psychoanalysis have produced meanings about the body and gender. It considers the way these discursive constructions of the body have been represented in performance, focusing on how particular technologies of representation contribute to the meanings of the body in performance. A broad definition of performance will be applied, from those events or representations involving the live body and those involving a mediate body.

Assessment

First essay (2500 words): 25%
Second essay/presentation (2500-3000 words): 25%
Long essay (3500 words): 50%
In addition to an increased assessment load, students at fifth year level will be expected to demonstrate an advanced theoretical understanding of the unit.

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prerequisites

Enrolment in Masters level coursework degree.

Leader(s): Millicent Vladiv-Glover

Offered

Sunway Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The course will model ethics through an investigation of M Bakhtin's version of structuralism, in particular his work on the philosophy of the act, in the context of poststructural critical theory. The concept of alterity will be investigated through additional theoretical and literary texts, notably E Levinas' Ethique et infinite, J-L Nancy's theory of community, G Deleuze's philosophy of action and A Badiou's 'objectless subject.' These theoretical materials will be used to construct a model of ethics through which to analyse and critique literary, visual and popular culture texts as well as theoretical approaches to the 'culture industry.'

Objectives

As for CRT4830, with the added objective that fifth year students will draw on the Modernist manifestoes of art (Tolstoy, Benjamin, Heidegger, Adorno) to construct a model of popular culture ethics.

Assessment

Class paper (1,500 words): 20%;

Research paper (prepares for publication) (8,000 words): 80%;

or Two Essays (4,000 words each): 80%

Contact hours

One two-hour seminar

Prohibitions

CLS4835 and CRT4830

Leader(s): Professor Andrew Milner

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit aims to establish the theoretical and methodological foundations for the analysis of literature and culture. These will be examined from a range of competing theoretical perspectives. Discussion will centre on: hermeneutics and reception theory, cultural materialism and the new historicism, semiology and semiotics, ideology critique and the sociology of culture, post-structuralist theories of difference. Each of these will be examined for their respective accounts of critical theory and method. Candidates will be required to consider the possible relevance of each of these approaches to their proposed research.

Objectives

1. To provide students with an advanced-level survey of various influential attempts to establish theoretical and methodological foundations for the analysis of literature and culture. Discussion will centre on: hermeneutics and reception theory; cultural materialism and the new historicism; semiology and semiotics; ideology critique and the sociology of culture; post-structuralist theories of difference. Each of these will be examined for their respective accounts of critical theory and method.

2. To enable students to articulate the analytical skills, theoretical vocabularies and conceptual apparatuses studied in the subject.

3. To provide students with the critical and expressive resources necessary to write clear, concise, accurate and independent essays on topics related to the reading.

4. To encourage students to consider the possible relevance to their own proposed research of each of the theoretical approaches discussed in the subject.

Assessment

Two essays (4500 words each): 100%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Andrew Benjamin

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will provide a detailed exploration of the internal logic of a particular approach or a set of related problems in contemporary critical theory. Negativity has been a durable theme of modern thought and writing, and in recent years it has become of considerable structural interest. The notion is variously defined, ususally with reference to one or more of philosophy, psychoanalysis and theology. This seminar seeks to analyse 'negativity' in the work of Franz Kafka and Maurice Blanchot, and it will do so with the help of critical theorists.

Objectives

1. To gain a close and full knowledge of two central writers of prose fiction in the twentieth century, Franz Kafka and Maurice Blanchot.

2. To gain an awareness of the main lines of critical debate surrounding these works.

3. To master the basic arguments pertaining to the problematic of negativity (roughly: Hegel, Kojeve, Adorno, Bataille).

4. To develop skills in evaluating different readings of these writers, especially Blanchot's account of Kafka.

5. To write coherently, economically and rigorously on both the literary and critical texts.

Assessment

Two essays (4500 words each): 100%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Alison Ross

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit aims to introduce students to some of the major works of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as well as some of the central texts in recent European philosophy that engage with his thought. The assessment tasks will assist students to locate the place of Nietzsche's thought in their own research projects. Starting with a brief examination of his immediate precursors in German philosophy, our focus will fall on Nietzsche's treatment of the themes of art, history, truth and critique. Texts to be considered on Nietzsche will include selections from Heidegger, Deleuze, Derrida and Irigaray.

Objectives

1. To introduce students to the writings of a major critical theorist.

2. To provide the conceptual, historical and logical tools necessary for a close reading of this major critical theorist's work.

3. To provide the resources by which this theorist's contributions can be assessed in relation to other critical theorists.

Assessment

Essay (6000 words): 80%
Seminar paper (3000 words): 20%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Brian Nelson

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A program of directed reading in French language texts especially relevant to the thesis topic. CRT6030 provides doctoral candidates researching in comparative literature or critical theory with the appropriate language skills to read texts in the original French. Students usually participate in an appropriate French language class (normally FRN1050 - see the Arts undergraduate handbook) for practical language acquisition.

Objectives

1. To enable students to improve their level of fluency in French language to a level where they are able to read French literary or critical texts in the original language.

2. To complete a programme of directed reading in French language texts especially relevant to the student's thesis topic.

3. Other objectives as specified for the appropriate French language class.

Assessment

Two Essays (3000 words each): 50%
Other assessment as specified for the appropriate French language subject: 50%

Contact hours

5 or 6 hours per week

Leader(s): Dr Kate Rigby

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A program of directed reading in German language texts especially relevant to the thesis topic. CRT6040 provides doctoral candidates researching in comparative literature or critical theory with the appropriate language skills to read texts in the original German. Students usually participate in an appropriate German language class (normally GRN1050 - see the Arts undergraduate handbook) for practical language acquisition.

Objectives

1. To enable students to improve their level of fluency in German language to a level where they are able to read German literary or critical texts in the original language.

2. To complete a programme of directed reading in German language texts especially relevant to the student's thesis topic.

3. Other objectives as specified for the appropriate German language class.

Assessment

Two essays (3000 words each): 50%
Other assessment as specified for the appropriate German language unit: 50%

Contact hours

7 hours per week

Leader(s): Judy McNicoll

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Evening)
Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit examines similarities and differences in rituals relating to birth, marriage and the handling of death in traditional and modern societies which have contributed to present day Australia, including aboriginal and immigrant cultures. Topics include the role of the 'celebrant' in creating a valid marriage in Western society, the universality of ritual and current attitudes to it. The unit enables practitioners to advise clients about planning their own lifecycle celebrations.

Assessment

Two essays (2500 words each): 50%
Video presentation: 15%
Supporting documentation (4000 words): 35%

Contact hours

3 hours (1 x 3 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Judy McNicoll

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Evening)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

Major musical and literary works associated with rites of passage, mainly from the Western tradition, will be examined in terms of their uses for various occasions, along with basic skills of research, story writing and story telling. The unit enables practitioners to advise clients about planning their own lifecycle celebrations.

Assessment

Essay on music topic (3500 words): 35%
Life stories assignment (2000 words): 20%
Video presentation: 10% Two literature essays (2000 words, 1500 words): 25%
Video presentation: 10%

Contact hours

3 hours (1 x 3 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Judy McNicoll

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Evening)
Clayton First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit examines the nature of a profession and the professional status of civil celebrants. Issues include legislation and precedent, registration of births, marriages and deaths, engagement, premarital and marital formalities, immigration, divorce, children's issues and death certificates. Also discussed are principles of ethics, ethical dilemmas, decisions about referral, consultation, confidentiality, listening skills and interacting with people at times of emotional stress.

Assessment

Essays on legal issues (3200 words): 35%
Essay on ethical issues (2600 words): 30%
Essay on personal issues (3200 words): 35%

Contact hours

3 hours (1 x 3 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Judy McNicoll

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Evening)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit examines the nature of ceremony and ceremony as marking points of passage in life, especially weddings and funerals. The significance of ceremony for secular people is also raised. The unit is primarily practical, and covers interviewing clients and preparing the ceremony; choice of venue; constructing a eulogy or a talk for a wedding ceremony; incorporating musical and literary elements into the ceremony; dress, and the general notion of ceremonial theatre. There will also be an introduction to public speaking.

Assessment

Eulogy or obituary (1500 words): 15%
Video presentation: 10%
Critique of ceremonies observed (1600 words): 15%
Draft wedding ceremony (2000 words): 10%
Video presentation: 10%
Relationship assigment (2000 words): 15%
Composition and video presentation of ceremony other than wedding or funeral (2500 words): 10%
Video presentation: 15%

Contact hours

3 hours (1 x 3 hour seminar) per week

Leader(s): Judy McNicoll

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

A period of work experience in the field of civil ceremonies, involving about eighty hours of work placement, which may be taken in a range of community groups (schools, churches, ethnic/indigenous groups, professional groups, hospitals, funeral homes, cemeteries, Registry Offices, reception houses etc). Students pursue a practical project during the placement resulting in a substantial report, documenting and commenting on civil ceremonies performed as part of the placement.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be expected:

1. to have developed a network of professional contacts in civil ceremonies and negotiated (in consultation with the unit co-ordinator) a period of work experience
2. to have developed a higher level understanding of the practical and ethical challenges of working as a civil celebrant
3. to have developed high level written and verbal presentation and communication skills.

Assessment

Placement project (6000 words) 75%
Reflective essay (2000 words) 15%
Oral presentation (10%)

Contact hours

Three 3-hour seminars, during the semester

Off-campus attendance requirements

Participation in one all-day seminar, to be held at Monash University

Prerequisites

CVL4010, CVL4020, CVL4030, CVL4040

Leader(s): Rob Baum

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

As for DTS4000

Objectives

1. Understanding and integration of major concepts within dramatic theory, history and literature

2. Appreciation of the qualitative and critical significance of key thinkers within the discipline of theatre and performance studies

3. Critical tools to interpret and engage with complex ideas about theatre criticism, theory and performance-making

4. Awareness of diverse research methods and methodology appropriate to arts research, and experience in their practical application

5. Development of research and writing skills

Assessment

Methods research (1500 words): 20%; Investigation and presentation on an issue (2500 words): 30%; Subjective exercise (1000 words): 15%; Long research paper (4000 words): 35%

Contact hours

2.5 hours per week

Leader(s): Sue Tweg

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit investigates a range of avant-garde theories, practices and practitioners, in order to stimulate imaginative and investigative possibilities for performance. The emphasis will be on work that challenges conventional boundaries, both between genres and between theatre and other models of performance. An important element in the program will be the practice of performance-makers in Australia who represent significant initiatives of this kind.

Objectives

Students who complete this unit successfully should have developed:

1. A familiarity with some key early avant-garde texts and practitioners.

2. Some awareness of contemporary avant-garde performance texts and stylistics around the world.

3. Understanding of some foundation theories of the European avant-garde.

4. A broad appreciation of the directions of experimental theatre practice, both in Australia and overseas.

5. Confidence to articulate and theorise responses, both written and verbal, to a range of scripts and performance events.

6. The capacity for observation, documentation and critique of non-mainstream performance events.

7. Skills in written analysis and argument to support independent scholarly research for short papers.

Assessment

Two seminar presentations (1,500 words each): 30%
Short investigative performance work or 2500 word essay on the work of an innovative contemporary practitioner: 30%
An argumentative essay on selected issues in the development and/or analysis of non-conventional models of performance (3,500 words): 40%

Contact hours

2.5 hours per week

Co-requisites

DTH4000

Leader(s): Maryrose Casey

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will explore the processes of rethinking theatre history in a number of ways: the challenges to received critical thinking and methodology, and to canonical assumptions; the implications for theatre history of parallel texts reflecting 'translations' into new media; the responses of analytical and critical approaches in Drama and Theatre Studies to the influence of thinking in other disciplines; the reframing of canonical texts in the light of contemporary theoretical and cultural perspectives, and its implications for historicised interpretation.

It will examine a range of plays in relation to traditional scholarly interpretations and to specific recent re-readings.

Objectives

Students completing 'Rethinking Theatre History' should have acquired:

1. A working awareness of contemporary theoretical perspectives.

2. The capacity to apply specific theoretical approaches to a diverse range of theatrical texts.

3. An ongoing sensitivity, openness and scepticism to shifts in the climate of disciplinary debate.

4. A developed sense of the continuing volatility and contingency of intellectual debate in the field.

5. A sophisticated understanding of the issues underlying those debates at a level appropriate to graduate study.

6. Enhanced confidence in articulating informed arguments and interpretations, in both oral and written form.

Assessment

An exegetical essay (3000 words): 30%
An oral class presentation (equivalent 2000 words): 20%
A long essay (4000 words): 50%

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Co-requisites

DTH4000

Leader(s): Michael Coe

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will examine the process of creating a design approach to theatrical production through an understanding of applied aesthetics. It will consider issues of lighting, sound, line, mass and colour, and the ways in which they craft theatre scenography. It will focus on the ways in which specific texts might be interpreted as well as the histories and potentials of specific theatre buildings and structures. Both the 'craft' and 'art' of design will be explored in a practical project reflecting the theoretical and historical understandings developed in this unit. At fifth-year level students are expected to demonstrate a deeper knowledge and integration of the material.

Objectives

Students who complete this unit successfully should have developed:

1. greater understanding of the craft elements of design,
2. contextual understanding of the art of design through a range of critical theories
3. a working design for a production representing a coherent aesthetic
4. the ability to critique theatrical design in sustained oral and written form
5. at fifth-year level, folio and seminar paper will critically compare design theories in arts practice

Assessment

Practical folio of design for implementation (4,000 words): 40%;

Seminar paper (2,000 words) 25%;

Contribution to class discussion (2,000 words) 25%;

Practical class work (1,000 words) 10%

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Co-requisites

DTS 4000

Prohibitions

DTH 4001

Leader(s): Sue Tweg

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit investigates a range of avant-garde theories, practices and practitioners, in order to stimulate imaginative and investigative possibilities for performance. The emphasis will be on work that challenges conventional boundaries, both between genres and between theatre and other models of performance. An important element in the program will be the practice of performance-makers in Australia who represent significant initiatives of this kind.

Objectives

Students who complete this unit successfully should have developed:

1. A familiarity with some key early avant-garde texts and practitioners.

2. Some awareness of contemporary avant-garde performance texts and stylistics around the world.

3. Understanding of some foundation theories of the European avant-garde.

4. A broad appreciation of the directions of experimental theatre practice, both in Australia and overseas.

5. Confidence to articulate and theorise responses, both written and verbal, to a range of scripts and performance events.

6. The capacity for observation, documentation and critique of non-mainstream performance events.

7. Skills in written analysis and argument to support independent scholarly research for short papers.

8. Skills in the gathering and transcription of first-hand interview material, and its integration into scholarly argument.

Assessment

Two seminar presentations (1,500 words each): 30% +

Short investigative performance work or 2,500-word essay on the work of an innovative contemporary practitioner: 30%
An argumentative essay on selected issues in the development and/or analysis of non-conventional models of performance (3,500 words): 40%

Contact hours

2.5 hours per week

Co-requisites

DTS4000

Leader(s): Will Peterson

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will investigate performance practice in two modules: one relating to the preparation of performance and one concerning both performance itself and the critique of performance. Students will be expected to initiate and carry out their own performance project, to discover appropriate background material, and to sustain a discussion with the class on issues arising from the development of their project. After the presentation of the performances, students will prepare a written or oral critique of their project. At fifth-year level students are expected to demonstrate a deeper knowledge and integration of the material.

Objectives

1. To make a new performance work which draws on contemporary ideas and practices.
2. To critique the making of this work in the light of contemporary performance theory.
3. To participate in class investigations and help facilitate discoveries in methodologies of performance making.
4. To make presentations on the processes of creating performance.
5. To articulate in oral and written form the specific elements and objectives of an original piece of performance making.
6. At the fifth-year level students will be expected to transparently embed a critical approach or theory in the performance project.

Assessment

Workshop classes and presentations (2,000 words): 25%:

Performance project, with journal support (5,000 words): 50%;

Performance critiques (2,000 words) 25%

Contact hours

3 hours a week

Co-requisites

DTH 4000

Leader(s): Maryrose Casey

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit explores ways of rethinking theatre history, including: challenges to received critical thinking and methodology, and canonical assumptions; implications for theatre history of parallel texts reflecting 'translations' into new media; responses of analytical and critical approaches in Drama and Theatre Studies to other disciplines; reframing canonical texts in light of contemporary theoretical and cultural perspectives, and the implications for historicised interpretation. It examines plays in relation to traditional scholarly interpretations and specific recent re-readings. At fifth-year level students are expected to demonstrate a deeper knowledge and integration of the material.

Objectives

1. A working awareness of contemporary theoretical perspectives.
2. The capacity to apply specific theoretical approaches to a diverse range of theatrical texts.
3. An ongoing sensitivity, openness and scepticism to shifts in the climate of disciplinary debate.
4. A developed sense of the continuing volatility and contingency of intellectual debate in the field.
5. A sophisticated understanding of the issues underlying those debates at a level appropriate to graduate study.
6. Enhanced confidence in articulating informed arguments and interpretations, in both oral and written form.
7. At fifth-year level students will be required to pay specific attention to a theoretical area, such as gender, race or identity politics, in their final essay.

Assessment

exegetical essay (3,000 words): 30%;

oral class presentation (2,000 words): 20%;

long essay (4,000 words) 50%

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Prerequisites

DTS/H 4000 is a compulsory class in the programme

Leader(s): Will Peterson

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit raises significant issues that might be located in four overlapping domains: anthropology, materialism, phenomenology and geography. We will engage with the ideas and events that have impacted upon our notions of theatre in the last two decades, creating new disciplines and theories, in particular Performance Theory. We will consider the influence of feminist and post-colonial discourses, Australia's global context, gender performance and the diverse means of interpreting artistic form, theatre and its audiences.

Objectives

Students who complete this unit successfully should have developed:

1. An understanding of new critical frameworks and their significance to theatre in a changing world.

2. The capacity to negotiate and respond to confronting subjects and issues in performance.

3. A responsible engagement with theatre as artistic and social practice.

4. The capacity to articulate both personal and theoretical ideas about theatre in spoken and written form.

Assessment

Researched and referenced paper on a particular question: 40%
Research paper on a relevant subject: 25%
Development and demonstration of an individual or collective performance: 25%
Regular contribution to class discussions: 10%

Contact hours

2.5 hours per week

Prerequisites

Completion of 4th year core unit (DTH4000) and normally at least two other 4th or 5th year units in the program

Leader(s): Michael Coe

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will provide students with an opportunity to develop a research project in relation to specific industry needs. It may be an audience survey, a dramaturgical study, an investigation of performing arts policy, theatre as cultural action in a community context or a work placement in a selected aspect of the performing arts industry. The research project will involve negotiated outcomes between the student, the university and any particular professional organisation involved. Initial attention would be directed towards developing a suitable research methodology to undertake fieldwork, bearing in mind ethical issues affecting human research.

Objectives

Students who complete this unit successfully should have developed:

1. The ability to design a research project relevant to the needs of a specific aspect of the professional performing arts industry.

2. An understanding of the frameworks that produce high quality theatre research.

3. An enhanced knowledge of the ways in which artists, administrators, critics and audiences interact in the performing arts industry.

4. The capacity to produce a qualitative research report and to demonstrate excellent written communication skills.

Assessment

Initial research proposal (2000 words): 30%
A research report (7000 words): 70%

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Prerequisites

Dramatic Criticism, Theory, Methods and at least three other level 4/5 units in the program

Leader(s): Will Peterson

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit involves the research and writing of a long essay on an approved topic in theatre or performance studies of the student's choice. It should be able to demonstrate knowledge of relevant theoretical, comparative and practical approaches to the topic. It will require independent research and high level application to scholarly communication of the outcomes.

Objectives

Students who complete this unit successfully should have developed:

1. The capacity to undertake advanced research in the discipline of theatre, drama and performance studies.

2. An understanding of theoretical and comparative frameworks pertinent to their chosen topic.

3. The ability to write an extended and persuasive scholarly essay on a selected topic.

Assessment

A research essay (9,000 words): 100%

Prerequisites

Dramatic Theory, Criticism, Theory and Methods, and at least three other level 4/5 units in the program

Leader(s): Maryrose Casey

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Leader(s): Peter Snow

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Leader(s): Dr Farzad Sharifian

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

The increasing use of English in international professional contexts, partly due to the increased globalization of trade, has resulted in complexities that merit a close and scholarly attention. Issues such as cultural differences in negotiation style and management as well as expectations of professional meetings have had an impact on how English is used and interpreted by professionals in international contexts. This unit provides an opportunity for students to explore these issues in the light of intercultural communication in English-based professional contexts.

Objectives

Upon the successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. advanced knowledge of the issues that surround the use of English as a lingua franca in international professional contexts,
2. advanced knowledge and understanding of methods of data analysis relevant to patterns of communication,
3. advanced knowledge of the relationship between general cultural values and communicative performance in specific contexts,
4. a critical understanding of the role of English in supra-national processes such as globalization.

Assessment

Written work: 50%
Test: 30%
Oral presentation: 10%
Class participation: 10%

Contact hours

1 x 2 hour seminar per week.

Leader(s): Dr Farzad Sharifian

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will provide students with the opportunity to explore the processes that have been involved in renationalisation of English throughout the world. Through a critical analysis of the published literature in the area, students will examine how hegemonic forces and power asymmetries that were originally associated with the spread of English, as an imperialistic language, have eventually been replaced by the reassignment of the "ownership" of English to many other speech communities around the world. This process of renationalisation of English has involved cultural, conceptual, ideological, and communicative restructurings, which are examined in detail in this unit.

Objectives

Upon the successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. knowledge of the literature regarding the spread of English around the globe,
2. advanced knowledge and understanding of how the process of renationalisation of English provides clues about the relationship between language, culture, conceptualisation, and communication,
3. critical appreciation of the relationship between language, power, and identity.

Assessment

Written work: 50%
Test: 30%
Oral presentation: 10%
Class Participation: 10%

Contact hours

1 x 2 hour seminar per week

Leader(s): Dr Farzad Sharifian

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will provide students with the opportunity to explore issues that surround the teaching of English as International Language. Through an examination of prescribed texts the unit offers an analysis of the socio-cultural, ideological, and linguistic issues that arise from the teaching of English for the purpose of international and intercultural communication. Students will be introduced to a range of views and positions regarding the nature of EIL including how it should be taught and evaluated.

Objectives

Upon the successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:

1. knowledge of views and positions that have been developed in the literature regarding the teaching of English of as an International Language,
2. advanced knowledge and understanding of the linguistic, ideological, and socio-cultural issues that surround the use of English for the purpose of international and intercultural communication,
3. knowledge of the available views and positions on issues such as the 'ownership' of English and 'proficiency' in EIL.

Assessment

Written work: 50%
Test: 30%
Oral presentation: 10%
Class participation: 10%

Contact hours

1 x 2 hour seminar per week

Leader(s): Dr Farzad Sharifian

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

In this unit, student will have an opportunity to embark on a research project (15,000 - 18,000 words) that will address an issue relevant to the role of English as an International Language. The topic should be selected before enrolment in the unit.

Objectives

On completion of the project, students will have completed an original piece of research which demonstrates a contribution to the discipline.

Assessment

Thesis (15000 to 18000 words): 100%

Prerequisites

EIL4401, EIL4402 and two of the following: EIL4403, EIL4404, ALM4250/ALM5250

Leader(s): Alan Dilnot

Offered

Clayton First semester 2009 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

A dissertation on an approved topic of the candidate's own choice. The topic should be approved well in advance so that a supervisor may be appointed and much of the work done during the long vacation and first semester. There is a short subject in methodology during some weeks of the first semester and a series of seminars to discuss work in progress.

Assessment