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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...
Mark Tredinnick
Mark Tredinnick, winner of the Montreal Poetry Prize (2011) and the Cardiff Poetry Prize (2012), is the author of The Blue Plateau, Fire Diary, and nine other acclaimed works of poetry and prose....
Andrew Urban
Creator & interviewer, Front Up (SBS TV) Channel Host, World Movies Channel Presenter, Movies This Week, Ovation & World Movies Channels Founder and editor A career journalist, Hungarian born...
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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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<p>Plato’s (429–347 B.C.E.) contributions to Western philosophy covers areas in ethics, politics, metaphysics, epistemology, art, music and ancient
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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. This introductory philosophy course provides an understanding of the history of philosophy and the major contribution it has made to areas of thought such as political theory, ethics, aesthetics and the sciences. It encourages the development of critical thinking and the use of informal logic techniques as you explore some of history’s great thinkers and philosophers including the Greek pre-Socratics,... View Introduction to Philosophy Course.Introduction to Philosophy Course
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<p>This introductory philosophy course provides an understanding of the history of philosophy and the major contribution it has made to areas of
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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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<p>Film fulfils many functions in contemporary society. They can represent our ideas on morality, politics, ethics, friendship, and what we believe to
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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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<p>For Heidegger <em>“we ourselves are the entities to be analyzed”</em> and this is both a rational, objective task and a subjective introspection on
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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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<p>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,
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<p>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,
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this message$320 Limited inc GST