Winter 2008 Study Tours

IBUS6007 International Business Special Project
Managing Corporate Renewal in the French Wine Industry

29 June 2008 - 12 July 2008

This study program introduces the issues and challenges facing the consultant or manager charged with turning around a business in a stagnant or declining industry. The setting will be the wine industry in the Languedoc, South of France. Over the two-week intensive program you will develop a turnaround strategy for a wine related business in the region.

Summer 2008 Study Tours

IBUS6007 International Business Special Project
Growing Business Into India, the Entrepreneurial Challenge

7-21 January 2008

Designed for postgraduate students, this program introduces the issues and challenges facing the entrepreneur or manager who is growing a business into India. Over a two week intensive program in Bangalore you will develop a business entry strategy for the Indian market. The program incorporates cultural, social and environmental as well as business issues.

ANHS3611 Research Issues in Roman Studies

7-22 January 2008

This subjects offers an introduction to advanced research design and techniques in Roman history and culture, including library resources and technology. You will undertake a detailed study of a topic relevant to Roman studies selected by your teacher. Your research paper will treat an aspect of that topic chosen by you with advice from your teacher and your class.

During the 2008 Summer School, the specific Research topic for this unit will be the History and Topography of Rome in the period of the Emperors. Students will undertake a two week residential course in Rome (7-20 January) comprising lectures, museum and site visits and some day trips to important regional centres. The residential school will be followed by an optional extension tour of the Vesuvian region, ending 26 January. Students will have two further weeks to complete assessment
tasks on returning to Australia.

ANHS6901 Rome and the Politics of Space: Emperors

4-23 January 2008

Throughout the Republic and Empire the public spaces of Rome were political capital. First triumphant generals, then emperors used them for advertisement, persuasion and coercion of a heterogeneous and massive population. This course explores the politics of space in Classical Rome, how different individuals interpreted the needs of their times in different ways and how they responded to the city populations at different times. Can the history of the built environment show us new aspects of an individual's principate and relationship to the population of Rome? Particular (but not exclusive) attention will be paid to topographical and architectural developments in the time of Caesar's dictatorship, Augustus, Domitian, Trajan, Hadrian and Constantine.

MGRK3841 Modern Greek In-Country Study 1

7 January - 15 February 2008

GEOS2114 Volcanoes, Hot Rocks and Minerals

29 January - 14 February 2008

This advanced unit of study relates the plate tectonics of subduction zones to a) volcanoes and their hazards, b) geological processes in the deep crust, and c) the formation of precious metal and gemstone ores around the Pacific Rim. A problem solving approach is used to develop the skills required to understand the history of individual volcanoes and predict their future activity and hazards. The unit includes a two- to three-day field trip to study an extinct volcano in NSW. Practical work includes independent study of igneous systems, rocks, and minerals employing both microscope-based techniques and computer modeling. A field excursion to volcanic terranes of New Zealand (North Island) is optional. The unit provides relevant knowledge for GEOS 3006 and GEOS 3906, Mineral Deposits & Spatial Data Analysis.