Australia

This course examines the effectiveness of the law and justice system from a psychological perspective. By experiencing a fictional case first hand, students will learn about the psychology of law and some of the misconceptions commonly held about criminal justice. 

This course examines how to decide where to invest, and how much risk to take on. It covers optimal portfolio construction (Markowitz portfolio theory and Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), how to measure and price risk and exploit mispriced securities, investment strategies, performance evaluation, and bonds and their investment characteristics (such as duration, yield, and term structure). 

This course examines the formal methods of decision making. These methods include measuring risk by subjective probabilities; growing decision trees; performing sensitivity analysis; using theoretical probability distributions; simulation of uncertain events; modeling risk attitudes; estimating the value of information; and combining quantitative and qualitative considerations. 

This course uses logic and discrete mathematics to model the science of computing. It provides a grounding in the theories of logic, sets, relations, functions, automata, formal languages, and computability, providing concepts that underpin virtually all the practical tools contributed by the discipline, for automated storage, retrieval, manipulation and communication of data.

This course examines video games, including the great games, the history, the techniques, and the future of this developing medium and industry. To understand the full picture of video games it is impossible to separate the commercial elements from the artistic and the technological from the social and mental. A wide range of disciplines need to be explored and the connections between them as well as looking at the game industry itself and how it is transforming. Each week will combine the issues that surround games and an overview of the best and most complex games from multi million dollar blockbusters to the new ‘art games’ and independent games that re-invent the concept of a game. 

This course examines histories and continuing legacies of colonialism and racialization and their interaction with legal systems and criminalization. Topics covered could include dispossession and theft of sovereignty in settler colonial nations, structural racism and its relation to law, racialized policing and profiling, mass incarceration policies and movements by Indigenous peoples and people of color to achieve social and legal justice.

This course examines computation and data handling, integrating sophisticated use of existing productivity software, e.g. spreadsheets, with the development of custom software using the general-purpose Python language. Students will see examples from many domains, and be able to write code to automate the common processes of data science, such as data ingestion, format conversion, cleaning, summarization, creation and application of a predictive model.

This course examines skills in chemistry for application to life and medical sciences, engineering, and further study in chemistry. It covers nuclear and radiation chemistry, wave theory, atomic orbitals, spectroscopy, bonding, enthalpy and entropy, equilibrium, processes occurring in solutions, and the functional groups in carbon chemistry. Students develop experimental design, conduct and analysis skills in chemistry through experiments that ask and answer questions like how do dyes work, how do we desalinate water, how do we measure the acid content in foods, how do we get the blue in a blueprint, and how do we extract natural products from plants? 

This course examines political dynamics of development and resistance. It covers contemporary struggles over development as well as some of the historical trajectories underpinning those. It introduces the ﾠpolitical dynamics of development and resistance at local, national, regional, and global levels, and the relevance of decolonial thought. It explores how different political development objectives inter-relate, and how they are institutionalized, experienced, and acted upon, not least through resistance struggles, contestations, and calls for reform or change. 

This course consolidates and expands both receptive and productive skills through a variety of learning tasks, to be carried out individually and/or in group. It aims at fluency and accuracy and it fosters independent learning.