The ANU School of Art & Design (SOA&D) prepares students for professional careers in visual arts, curatorship or design. It has built a reputation as a leading arts educator offering specialist training across a range of visual arts and crafts disciplines, design, art history and curatorship, and art theory.

Tours of the School of Art & Design can visit all or a selection of the following areas: Animation and Video, Ceramics, Furniture, Glass, Gold & Silversmithing, Painting Photography, Printmedia & Drawing, Sculpture and Textiles and the School’s galleries.

Delivered by our leading criminologists, this session is designed to provide students with the tools to understand safety on the internet. Information in the session can include phishing attempts, security of personal information, and social media. 

Monkeys and apes are the closest living relatives to humans, yet due to habitat destruction they are disappearing at an alarming rate. This tutorial style workshop will explore some of these endangered species and various conservation strategies being used to save them and their habitats.

Demography is fundamental for understanding the world around us – from our society and economy to the environment we live in. Discover this fascinating discipline with leading experts at ANU. Sessions in the School of Demography can cover the following topics:

• The drivers and consequences of demographic change
• Our life course and the importance of family, health and society
• Canberra’s past, present and future – is it growing the way we expected?

The ANU is ranked first in Australia and 12^th in the world for history. Areas of interest in at the ANU School of History include Australia, the United States and Europe. Sessions in the School of History can cover the following topics:

• The Hidden History of Canberra – Professor Nicholas Brown
• The Eighties – the decade that changed Australia – Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno

As Manning Clark, who founded History at the ANU, would say: come and join the great conversation. 

Arabic is the mother language of over 250 million people in the Middle East (West Asia and North Africa), and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. It was the language of an ancient civilization, which contributed greatly to human knowledge. Arabic is also the living medium of a contemporary dynamic literature and culture. Its rich and magnificent poetry, classical and modern, is especially captivating.

Persian (otherwise known as Farsi) is spoken today primarily in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan and was once widely understood from the Mediterranean to India, and has a rich historical and cultural legacy.

In this interactive calligraphy workshop, students will learn to write their name in Persian or Arabic.

Ideals of masculinity have undergone quite dramatic changes over the past couple of decades, with researchers developing new concepts to understand the different ways of being a man in the 21st century. This workshop begins with a brief presentation on masculinity studies, followed by an interactive activity focused on analysing men’s lifestyle magazines such as Men’s Health and Smith Journal.

Have you dreamed about being a songwriter, producer or audio engineer? Ever wanted to mix and play with sounds and music? We will introduce you to Logic Pro X, an industry standard piece of software, allowing you to compose, record, edit, and mix high-quality music or sound. No previous musical experience necessary!

The MEP offers training to teachers and students using its innovative Music Outreach Principle, which encourages the sharing of music, especially through singing, within and beyond the school. Many schools in Canberra use the MEP approach already. The MEP is offering sessions for existing school partners and those wishing to learn more about the approach. Workshops are tailored for each environment and there are a range of activities to suit age groups from pre-school to Year 10. Specific provision can also be made for interested College groups.

Have you dreamed about being a songwriter, producer or audio engineer? Ever wanted to sit in front of a giant mixing console and record music? Come play and learn in our multi-million dollar recording studio.

No previous musical experience necessary!

Politics and International Relations at ANU is ranked 1 in Australia and 8th in the world. Hear from key experts in the field of Politics and International Relations about a key topic of global concern. Classes can be delivered on a case-by-case basis and tailored for the needs of the group. 

The Centre for Classical Studies offers students a chance to explore the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome from a variety of perspectives. Classics is the original interdisciplinary discipline. We use textual, historical, archaeological and theoretical tools to discover how people lived, what they thought about, and what they left behind. Antiquity continues to hold a fascination for us today. Staff are available to give talks on the ANU campus or in schools on the following broad themes:

• Classical epic and tragedy
• Greek and Roman history
• Greek myth and storytelling
• Introduction to ancient Greek and Latin
• The objects of everyday life in Greece and Rome

These talks can be tailored to suit the interests of the class or to fit with your curriculum. In addition, we offer guided tours of our extensive museum collection.

Social Anthropology is the comparative study of the ways in which people live in different cultural settings across the world, including here in Australia. It uses very practical, empirical methods to investigate human experience and looks at the different ways that people do and understand things – like education, politics, sports, gender, violence, marriage, art, science, death, birth, romance, money, clothes, family, medicine, beauty, music, food, poverty, racism, animals, human migration and asylum seeking.

This 4-day workshop will provide a practical set of methods to a culture that students should explore before they arrive as a student: the culture of the university. Just as if an anthropologist was studying a particular cultural group in Africa, he or she could look at the specific culture of the ANU. If you were to go to Africa, you might ask: How does this culture work? What are its unspoken rules? Do I understand the language people use? What are its cultural norms and values? You could ask all these questions about the culture of the university, too. It will offer an orientation to the university using anthropological approaches and methods.

Anthropology is the highest ranked discipline at ANU. It’s ranked 7th in the world and number 1 in Australia.

This workshop will no longer be proceeding this year. It will now be hosted in early 2018, with the dates to be decided later in 2017.