Warwick Virtual Exchange

Bringing the UK to you

The world has changed. And we’ve learned how important technology is in bringing people together.

We understand though - you still want global exposure and experiences, so that you can become part of a wider international community.

As a leading global university, we’re in the unique position to be able to deliver international opportunities and experiences with our UK partner, the University of Warwick, through this new virtual exchange program.

We’ve designed an innovative virtual study program with an inspiring curriculum taught by highly regarded academics from the University of Warwick.

These new online modules (units) will be delivered in short intensive blocks during May, June and July 2021, and will challenge you to examine your work from an international perspective.

As part of the wider Alliance Intensive Study Program, you will enhance your global network by developing new international connections.

This program has been designed to bring the UK to you, and will give you the confidence to learn from an international university where, one day, you might like to experience a student exchange when international travel resumes.

The student experience

You can still participate in international learning experiences by taking part in new online study programs.

Working with academics from the University of Warwick, you’ll gain access to new global perspectives and learn to look beyond your own experience to understand the interconnectedness of the wider world.

Learn collaboratively with students from across Monash and the University of Warwick through innovative, active learning, and gain new employability skills relevant for today’s globalised world.

You’ll consider new ideas, apply theory to real world issues working in teams and individually, and develop new networks, connections and friendships.

This program will challenge your thinking, develop your confidence and open up a world of new opportunities.

Sean Mulcahy, Monash Alumnus

“I engaged in a number of activities with the University of Warwick during my time at Monash. As a result of my experience, I was able to explore my research from an international perspective through connecting with leading academics and fellow researchers across continents, developing friendships with fellow students throughout the globe, and opening up employment opportunities abroad within my field of research. Engaging with the University of Warwick compelled me to challenge myself, look beyond my own experience, and develop my personal confidence and intercultural understanding. I now have a network of global connections - friends, researchers and potential employers.”

Yu Yu Marip, Juris Doctor

"I've been fortunate enough to engage in various activities with students from the University of Warwick. These experiences have been very personal and valuable to me as I joined to initially challenge myself and to step outside my comfort zone. The program I participated in enabled me to work alongside different individuals with great minds from different cultural backgrounds and academics. Despite our difference and experiences, we all came together to create a common project of our passion. The experience made me more confident in myself, to put myself in more uncomfortable situations and helped me with my personal growth."

Program overview

Capturing the best the University of Warwick has to offer, this virtual exchange introduces a new curriculum of innovative online study options.

Study modules are taught in short intensive online blocks during May, June and July 2021.

You’ll learn from highly regarded academics and upon completion, depending on your faculty, the modules will be identified as specified credit toward major requirements or as a general elective.

This program has been carefully designed to make the most of your time and modules will run early evening Melbourne time.

Applied Linguistics and Warwick Writing Programme

Chemistry

Classics and Ancient History

English and Comparative Literature

History

Contemporary Britain in Historical Perspective

Module duration: 2 weeks (21 June – 2 July, 2021)

This module explores how history can inform out understanding of contemporary Britain. It focuses on three main issues: Brexit, the 'break-up' of Britain, and the place of the NHS in national identity. Students work together to design and run a conference on these themes and each present a paper based on original research.

Farewell to Arms? War in Modern European History

Module duration: 2 weeks (21 June – 2 July, 2021)

This module will explore the interaction of war and society in Europe from 1815 to the present. This residential module will use the history of wars and conflicts to introduce students to key themes and issues in modern European history. It will consider how war, its conduct and experience, shaped states and societies in Europe. It will also investigate how the transformations of warfare reflected the evolutions of European societies since the late eighteenth century.

Indigenous North America

Module duration: 2 weeks (3 May - 14 May, 2021)

This module will explore the experience of indigenous North Americans from c.1600 to the present. The module will focus on key themes such as initial encounters with Europeans (in a variety of locations); involvement in proxy wars (particularly concentrating on the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War); responses to land appropriation (including the ‘Trail of Tears’ and the conflicts of the later 19thC);
the fight for civil rights in the 20thC (e.g. the American Indian Movement) and modern-day issues facing indigenous communities (such as continued economic and political marginalisation, alcoholism, and lack of representation).

Venice in the Renaissance

Module duration: 2 weeks (21 June – 2 July, 2021)

This module analyses the cultural, economic, political, social, and religious history of Venice and its empire from the late fourteenth to the late sixteenth century, within the broader context of the Italian Renaissance. Whilst focusing on northern Italy, the option also considers issues with a wider resonance in Renaissance and Early Modern History, including migration, disease, charity, gender, violence and communication.

Liberal Arts and Global Sustainable Development

School of Modern Languages and Culture

Nature and Modernity in Latin America

Module duration: 3 weeks, comprising 1 week of self-study and preparation, and 2 weeks of teaching activities (7-25 June 2021)

Climate breakdown and the prospect of a post-nature world where human beings have irreversibly transformed their environment are correlated to the cultural and economic model of western modernity. So, while we think of progress, development and growth as incremental global processes that continue to expand to other regions and continents, we are called to question their significance: is modernity as we know it reconcilable with the future of the earth? Latin America stands in a unique place in relation to this question: as a region colonised by European powers, its natural resources were exploited to produce the wealth that made Europe the centre of the modern world. After gaining independence, its own modernity has continued to be hindered by the history of exploitation of its nature and people. What does it mean to be modern in Latin America, where development, democracy and social justice are undermined by continued exploitation in the name of global modernity? What can we learn about modernity and its contradictions from Latin America? And how have Latin Americans made sense of and responded to the notion that modernity is based on the domination of nature in the name of progress? This module explores these questions in relation to four main themes: 1) representations of new colonialism and extractivism in contemporary Latin American film; 2) visual reconstructions in twentieth-century visual arts of ideas of gender and race in relation to Latin American nature and its peoples; 3) recent recuperations of indigenous understandings of nature-human relations especially through storytelling in the Amazon; 4) current Latin American alternatives to the idea of modernity as endless development such as the notion of buen vivir, or what it means to live well. Students will be encouraged to use a variety of primary materials: film, visual arts and photography, short story and the essay of ideas. Countries include Cuba, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia and Brazil. The module will be most suitable to students with an interest in one or more of the following areas: the literature and culture of the Hispanic world, twentieth-century and contemporary Latin America, ecology, post-colonialism and neo-colonialism, environmental history, environmental movements and ideas, global modernity, the politics of nature. All primary texts are also available in English.

Warwick Business School

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You can submit your application for this program now at the link below.

Anyone who has previously expressed interest or applies will be invited to a virtual event at 7pm AEDT on Tuesday, 9 February 2021, where you can learn more about the program first-hand and hear from a range of students that have already engaged in learning opportunities with the University of Warwick. You can also register for this event at the link below. The event will cover the study program in detail and will also include a Q&A session.

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Applications will close 1 March, 2021

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Warwick Virtual Exchange

Bringing the UK to you

The student experience

Sean Mulcahy, Monash Alumnus

Yu Yu Marip, Juris Doctor

Program overview

Applied Linguistics and Warwick Writing Programme

Multilingualism and Diversity

Chemistry

Computational Physical Chemistry

Classics and Ancient History

Stories of Objects

English and Comparative Literature

Shakespeare at Warwick

History

Contemporary Britain in Historical Perspective

Farewell to Arms? War in Modern European History

Indigenous North America

Venice in the Renaissance

Liberal Arts and Global Sustainable Development

Achieving Sustainability: Potentials and Barriers

A Sustainable Serenissima: Water, Fire and the Future of Venice

School of Modern Languages and Culture

Nature and Modernity in Latin America

Warwick Business School

Global Environment of Business

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