The following units offered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences are now available as Table S electives:

WRIT1000 Introduction to Academic Writing
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 1x2hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x900wd sentence task (20%), 1x900wd research task (20%), 1x900wd paragraph task (20%), 1x900wd review task (20%), 1x900wd revision/reflection task (20%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit teaches the fundamentals of academic writing. Frequent, short writing assignments are designed to help students engage with the writing process at the sentence and paragraph levels and and to make appropriate style, grammar, punctuation, and syntax choices. Students will learn how to research a topic, document sources in keeping with academic honesty principles, and edit and revise their own writing, as well as the writing of others. This UoS is appropriate for both native and non-native English speakers and offers a solid foundation for academic writing in any discipline.

WRIT3000 Business and Workplace Communications
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1hr online lecture/week, 1x2hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 24 credit points at 2000 level Assessment: 1x1000wd business presentation slides (35%), 1x1000wd presentation (25%), 1x2500wd business document e-portfolio (40%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
To be persuasive and effective, communication in the modern workplace must be tailored to address the needs of differing audiences while sustaining a coherent corporate narrative. This unit teaches the concepts of rhetorical awareness to enable you to craft and disseminate a range of audience-focused documents speeches and visual texts.

The following units offered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences are now available as Table S electives:

PRFM2603 Between Improvisation and Text
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 1x2hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points from subject areas listed in Table A or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Theatre and Performance Studies Prohibitions: PRFM3005 or PRFM3014 or PRFM3016 Assessment: 1x500wd equivalent group performance (10%), 1x1500wd tutorial paper (40%), 1x500wd equiv group seminar (10%), 1x2000wd research essay (40%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
All performances exist at the interface of oral and literate culture, involving combinations of 'fixed' and 'free' elements. In this unit, you will explore, through practical workshops and group research, the flexibility of traditional genres like Commedia dell'Arte as well as contemporary forms of performance where improvisation can occur.

PRFM2605 Rehearsing Shakespeare
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 1x2hr workshop/week Prerequisites: 12 credit points at 1000 level in Theatre and Performance Studies Assessment: 1x1500wd Analytical Rehearsal Log (30%), 3x In Class Scene-work (equiv to 500wd) (20%), 1x2500wd Essay (50%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day How did actors in Shakespeare's time rehearse a play? In this unit students will explore rehearsal in the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre: from part playing, cueing and exploring the relationship between voice and gesture through to the general rehearsal. Students will have the opportunity to workshop selected scenes from plays by Shakespeare or his contemporaries in order to understand how a Renaissance English actor embodied his part.

Table S Electives - Arts and Social Sciences

Political Economy

Politics

Social Policy

Socio-legal Studies

Sociology

Theatre and Performance Studies

Writing Studies