Australia

This course examines plants and plant communities through a focus on medium to large scale planting design and green infrastructure that supports healthy urban environments. It covers planting design strategies and structures as integral components of urban and suburban landscape systems, as well as planting design strategies that have been implemented or proposed in the Sydney Region. 

This course provides a comprehensive overview of emotions research, how this produces feelings of stress and how these concepts relate to some of the most common mental disorders - depression and anxiety disorders. Students will learn about psychology as a science and how psychological research is performed (including animal and human studies). Throughout the course we will examine how the findings from this research informs the clinical description of disorders and the treatment of anxiety, stress and low mood.

Where does power lie in politics? Whose explanations about how the world works are valued and why? This course examines the answers to these questions. It also examines the formation of the modern state system and interrogate the conceptualisation of the state that informs much contemporary theory and practice in politics at the national and international level. A substantial part of this course is devoted to the introduction of the main theoretical traditions that animate the study of politics and international relations. 

This course examines the making of the modern world to 1900. It covers the following questions: How did the modern world happen? How did a few small countries in Europe (and later the United States) come to dominate so much of the world’s wealth and power by 1900? How did they displace the great empires of the Middle East, South Asia and China?

This course provides an introduction to ecology, sustainability and environmental science, introducing a range of biological topics and how scientists approach these topics to solve problems. 

The understanding we have of our nature as reasoning beings is a fascinating topic which has captivated thinkers for thousands of years. In this course we will chart its history and focus on the developments in the recent past.

Each of us has a self and an identity by virtue of being human. But do other living beings have a self? Do other living beings have society in the same way humans do? In this course, students will consider some traditional assumptions of selfhood (e.g., the capacity for reason, speech, and memory) from different sociological perspectives.

This course examines how cultural, social, political and economic dynamics shape landscapes, these being rural, urban, in transitions or ‘natural. You will garner a theoretical expertise for interpreting and making sense of different places, and how there are shaped by multiple dynamics across scales (from the local to the global). 

This course develops students skills and knowledge in 'expanded' sculptural practice through a focus on the iterative and process-based potentials of the medium. Through studio-based learning, students will develop skills in mold making and casting. Key themes and processes such as material transformation, translation, mirroring, inversion, and mimicry will be investigated in relation to broader strategies of installation art and considerations of embodied experience. 

This course examines concepts and methods of Building Information Modelling (BIM), its standards, and its application in design analysis. It covers BIM-based analysis of low carbon building design to achieve optimal design solutions and BIM to evaluate building performance.