Faculty of Arts: Arts and Music Student Centre My Advisor

• Online resources- includes information on effective study, time management, writing skills - more information on the Academic Skills Unit website.
• Library resources – The University's libraries offer a range of services designed to help students develop their research skills. Please visit the Library website for more information.
• Individual Tutorials - Bookings are required - more information for students on the Academic Skills Unit website.
• Location - The Arts and Music Academic Skills Unit's Individual Tutorial room is located on the Ground Floor of the Old Arts Building in Room 115, opposite the Arts & Music Student Centre. To book an individual tutorial, please contact the Arts and Music Student Centre:

  Room 104, Ground Floor, Old Arts Building
  University of Melbourne (Campus & Local Area Maps)

  Office hours:
  8.45 am - 5.30 pm, Monday - Thursday.
  8.45 am - 5.00 pm, Friday.

  Online queries: arts-unimelb@custhelp.com
  T: +61 3 8344 6395/+61 3 8344 5235
  F: +61 3 9347 0424

Academic Interactive Resources portal (AIRport)

This online course has self-paced interactive activities to help you understand academic writing and enhance your own written work. Each student is assigned a moderator who gives feedback via email, to help you improve your writing skills.

Two streams of the course are offered, one for English as Second Langauge (ESL) students and one for students whose first language is English.

You have four weeks to complete the exercises. A certificate is available on completion of this course.

Date: You can start any time (you then have four weeks to complete the exercises)
Time: Any time of the day or night
Venue: Gate 2 of the Academic Interactive Resources portal (AIRport)

Arts Writing Tutors

The Peer Writing Tutors service offers individual drop-in consultations in the Baillieu Library for Arts undergraduate students.

• More information on the Peer Writing Tutor service (460kb pdf)

The Academic Skills Unit, in conjunction with the Arts & Music Student Centre, is offering a series of lunchtime Academic Skills seminars designed to support you in your studies. These seminars will run from Week 2 of the semester.

You can enrol for these seminars through the Academic Skills Unit Community on the LMS. Access the LMS through the Student Portal, or at www.lms.unimelb.edu.au/login/. Click on the Communities tab (if you haven't accessed the Academic Skills Unit before, you will need to click on the Enrol button first). Navigate to "Workshop and Short Course Enrolment" and then "Workshops for Arts Students," where you will find the full list of courses.

• Download the Arts and Music Academic Skills Seminar Program for Semester 2 2009 (660kb pdf)

• Registration is required - for more information go to the Academic Skills Unit website.

• CourseWorks is the online home for postgraduate coursework students.

• Thesis Writers' Circle: A joint initiative from the Academic Skills Unit and Faculty of Arts.
  This series of workshops and seminars aims to address some of the problems and challenges experienced by mid-candidature students as they write a thesis - students should have commenced 6 months prior to the workshop and not be in the last 6 months of the candidature. Facilitated by experienced lecturers and presenters, the program will include:
  • Evaluating and using sources in writing
  • Structuring a Literature Review
  • Demonstrating critical analysis in writing
  • Avoiding plagiarism
  • Structuring the thesis in terms of introduction, separate chapters and conclusion
  • Academic writing style and clarity
  • Editing and proof reading

  A number of Thesis Writers' Circle run throughout the year. Check the Academic Skills Unit workshop calendar to see when the next one starts.

• Postgraduate Essentials Postgraduate Essentials is a suite of courses jointly offered with School of Graduate Research for commencing and completing PhD candidates. Strategies for a Successful Start to your PhD takes candidates through everything they need in the first year, while Completion and Beyond assists them in preparing the thesis for examination in the planning for life beyond the PhD. More information on this and other programs on the Melbourne School of Graduate Research Developing Effective Researchers website.