Humanities and culture courses
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Exploring the depths of culture, philosophy and history has never been so accessible. Learn from experts in the field and create an everlasting bond with some of the world’s most impactful reading material. Our comprehensive humanities and culture courses offered at the University of Sydney provide students with unending knowledge that touches our roots while building towards the future.
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Craig Barker
Dr Craig Barker is an archaeologist and the Head of Public Engagement and Education for the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney. This includes the Nicholson Collection which houses...
Brian Brennan
Brian Brennan hold a Master’s degree with honours in Classical Studies and a Ph.D in Ancient History. He has specialised in the religious and cultural history of the Later Roman World,...
Robert Gay
After gaining a BA, Dip. Ed. from the University of Sydney, Robert trained as a lyric baritone in London and Munich before turning to the field of music education. He has taught music history...
John Merchant
Dr. John Merchant graduated from the University of Sydney with Honours in Zoology and Psychology. He also holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Western Sydney. His career has...
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Film. Focus on cinema. This unique and popular movie appreciation course is like having your own private movie club. In it's 20th year, Movies Now offers you ‘private movie premieres’ prior to their commercial release with each featured movie specially selected by the presenter and popular film critic, Andrew L Urban. The selected movies remain a secret until their screening to ensure that you approach each film on its own merits, uncompromised by outside opinions. Following each... View Movies Now Course: Your Movie Club.
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Creative writing. Express yourself with the written word. This writing course offers you a rich immersion in creative nonfiction, practical tuition and instruction in composition and style, along with plenty of opportunities to write and be inspired. You’ll learn how to approach nonfiction with imagination, discipline and lyricism. The course explores the distinctions between fiction and nonfiction and the meanings of real and truthful. It encourages writers to understand... View Writing the Real Course.Writing the Real Course
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Philosophy. Study the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence. Plato’s (429–347 B.C.E.) contributions to Western philosophy covers areas in ethics, politics, metaphysics, epistemology, art, music and ancient science. This course employs recent scholarship on this influential thinker to understand his essential ideas and their relevance to today’s issues and problems. Plato's profound questions, and his richly suggestive and provocative strategies for tackling them,... View Philosophy Course: Introduction to Plato.Philosophy Course: Introduction to Plato
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History. See the future. It’s in the past. This archaeology course will explore the history of human activity on the island of Cyprus, from the Neolithic to the modern world by focusing on 100 key objects from the Cyprus Museum and museums around the world. The Mediterranean island of Cyprus lies at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa and is the third largest Mediterranean island. During the ten millennia of human occupation, it has developed a unique history and distinctive... View Archaeology Course: Ancient Cyprus in 100 Objects.Archaeology Course: Ancient Cyprus in 100 Objects
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<p>This archaeology course will explore the history of human activity on the island of Cyprus, from the Neolithic to the modern world by focusing on 100
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Philosophy. Study the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence. Film fulfils many functions in contemporary society. They can represent our ideas on morality, politics, ethics, friendship, and what we believe to be a worthwhile life. But they can also be iconoclastic and irreverent of the status quo. This course will argue that film has a ‘mythological’ structure; that it creates narratives out of our beliefs about the world and our place in it. Film can also... View Philosophy of Film Course: Myths for Our Time.Philosophy of Film Course: Myths for Our Time
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Philosophy. Study the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence. For Heidegger “we ourselves are the entities to be analyzed” and this is both a rational, objective task and a subjective introspection on ourselves. His phenomenology of ‘lived experience’ is a corrective to the enlightenment idea of reason: “Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought”. This course will approach... View Philosophy Course: Heidegger.Philosophy Course: Heidegger
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Music. Learn, enjoy, appreciate. During Part III of this series of four courses on Music in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, we move into the new century, where political tensions remain high between the major powers, but for the moment everything continues much as it was before. This is certainly true of the music of the period, where, although we encounter a spate of exciting new works, they are all recognisably related to what had come before. Here,... View Music of the Fin de Siècle Course: 1894-1905.Music of the Fin de Siècle Course: 1894-1905
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Creative writing. Express yourself with the written word. Designed to give you the practical skills to approach your creative writing projects with confidence, this creative writing course is built around particular topics integral to the writing process such as: voice, place evocation, characterisation, structure, sentence-craft and editing. Using exercises to get started, we will look at the basic elements of creative writing (fiction, nonfiction and poetry) and at ways to... View Creative Writing Course.Creative Writing Course
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<p>Designed to give you the practical skills to approach your creative writing projects with confidence, this creative writing course is built
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Psychology. Explore the human mind. Counselling is being increasingly sought as the pressures of work and personal life continue to increase. This reflects the rapidly changing world we live in and the increasing choices we face as individuals. This counselling course introduces you to the concepts that underpin counselling so that you can offer this assistance to your work colleagues, employees, family members and network of friends when needed. This course is designed for a work... View Counselling Course: An Introduction.Counselling Course: An Introduction
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Creative writing. Express yourself with the written word. Description: What a Poem Is; What a Poem is For; and How You Make One A poem is a sculpture of voice. It’s what a poet’s heart says to her mind, and her voice finds a body for. Each good poem is shapely god; keeping its own secrets, it tells us our own. Poetry, in a sense, is what happens—to the writer and the reader—when we insist on more from language than we do in daily life and prose. A poem, says Marie Howe, is a small... View The Poetry Workshop.The Poetry Workshop
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<p>A poem is a sculpture of voice. It’s what a poet’s
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<p><em>Description: What a Poem Is; What a Poem is For; and How You Make One</em></p>
<p>A poem is a sculpture of voice. It’s what a poet’s
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<p><em>Description: What a Poem Is; What a Poem is For; and How You Make One</em></p>
<p>A poem is a sculpture of voice. It’s what a poet’s
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this message$340 Limited inc GST