University of Melbourne

This course involves completion of an 80-100 hour work placement integrating academic learning, employability skills and attributes and an improved knowledge of organizations, workplace culture and career pathways. The placement is supplemented by pre- and post-placement classes, including a compulsory placement induction in Week 1 and compulsory pre-placement sessions in Weeks 2 &3, designed to introduce workplace culture and strategies for developing, identifying and articulating employability skills and attributes and linking them to employer requirements. The placement should draw on specific discipline skills associated with the course of enrolment. Pre-placement seminars will also include career development and planning, self-assessment, reflexivity and professional skills. Students are responsible for identifying a suitable work placement, by Week 1 of semester, with support from Student Programs staff.

This course examines the natural history of Australia from the Cretaceous to the present and the influence of Australia's First Peoples and Europeans on Australia’s environments. It explores the major biomes and climatic zones that have existed across the continent in the past, and the influence of climate change on their present and future distributions. It covers the incredible diversity of Australian flora and fauna both on land and in aquatic environments, and considers the biological challenges, adaptations and evolutionary journeys that have led to our current species diversity. This will include Australia's familiar and our more elusive inhabitants - from eucalypts and kangaroos to velvet worms and orchids.  

This course examines the cultural and institutional languages within which contemporary law is communicated, expressed and understood. Official and unofficial texts of law are situated in relation with literature, music and podcasts, photography and other visual arts, as well as architecture and urban design. Our examples are selected to provide a representative sample of the main areas of legal study, such as criminal law, contract and torts, equity, administrative and constitutional law, jurisprudence, treaty and native title. Throughout, the justice of the case will be evaluated.

This course examines the development, management and control of marketing communications, both locally and internationally. Topics include advertising, sales promotion, public relations, and other elements of the communications mix. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of integrating promotional efforts, and on the marketing manager's role in planning, implementing and evaluating marketing communications. Students develop an understanding of the operational and creative elements involved in developing promotional campaigns and the strategies used to communicate with target audiences as well as the underlying principles behind these approaches. Students engage with alternative persuasion techniques and potential problems with their adoption, and the proper selection, interpretation, and use of alternative measures of promotional effectiveness. On completion of the subject, students have developed a strong practical and critical grasp of the different forms and strategies employed in marketing communications.