University of Melbourne

This course examines the study of Australian film and television. Beginning with post-war Australian film and television, it will trace the emergence of the modern entertainment industry in Australia locating it within national and international frameworks and examining the growing debates around what constitutes a national cinema and television industry. The focus will be upon examining specific films and a range of media in television locating products within local and global contexts, analyzing cosmopolitan and nationalist impulses that drive the industry forward. It covers a range of indigenous and non-indigenous products and genres including feature films, video, documentaries, television series, sitcoms and news programs. Road movies, comedy, history films, animation, romance and melodrama are among the genres studied.

This course covers the Australian wine industry and its role in world wine production. Content includes the evolution of the grapevine; viticulture and winemaking; main grape varieties of the world and their distribution; chemistry of winemaking; wine tasting; world wine regions; Australian wine regions and production; the global wine trade; and Australia's export markets.

This course provides a series of specialized modules in the areas of organic, inorganic and physical chemistry

In this course students explore the principles of the craft and theory of writing short narrative fiction. Students read a variety of fiction texts from the beginning of the modernist era to contemporary fiction, ranging from Gogol to Chekov, Hemingway, Faulkner, Munro, Garner, and others. Upon completion of the course students are able to demonstrate a broad understanding of recent developments and changes in published short fiction, make use of elements of the poetics of fiction-writing in producing their own pieces of short fiction, and are able to reflect on the influences, aims, and aesthetic decision underlying their own creative work.

This course examines the history of cool from its roots to its continuing influence through the lens of one of its most visible products – fashion. Through study of the icons of cool in mainstream Western consciousness, you will examine the history of what we have found cool, the fashions that retain the aura of cool today, and how these elements in turn reflect what we have found desirable.

This course offers an initial exploration of music psychology research. Selected researchers within the field, including music therapists, behavioral neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, and experimental psychologists outline recent and current practical research involving music across the lifespan. Information is provided on the relationship between music and the brain, as well as music and the body. The development of musical skills at different life stages is outlined from birth to old age.

This course examines some of the most important concepts and ideas in political thinking, with particular attention to the major traditions of Western political thought from Machiavelli to 20th century political theory. Emphasis will be on such core concepts as sovereignty, power, liberty, democracy and equality, and how these concepts have framed political debates within the Western tradition. While some of the focus will be on the original form and contestation of these ideas in their historical context, there will be a strong emphasis on how these initial debates led into more recent, 20th century political thinking and problems. Attention will also be paid to how these concepts have been taken up in ideological formations, which include (but are not necessarily limited to) liberalism, Marxism, and conservatism.