Australia

This course examines a range of legal skills that are crucial for successful legal studies and for professional practice. Students learn the essential skills that enable them to engage with and use our principal sources of law - case law and legislation. In addition to teaching students how to analyze case law and legislation and to formulate legal arguments, the course also covers the key legal principles of statutory interpretation and the role of the courts in interpreting statutes.

This course examines ecology & conservation of marine and estuarine plants and animals. It covers the dynamics & interactions of populations; assemblages & communities in marine environments, including an examination of theory, methods & approaches used to study these systems (including field activities); threats that impact marine ecosystems and how this can affect people; the degree to which evolutionary adaptation can build resilience to the effects of climate change; and cutting-edge conservation issues and practices including marine reserve design and the importance of blue carbon.

We all prepare food, play cooperative games, romance each other etc. But how we do so depends on our cultural background–we are, by far, the world’s most ‘cultural animal’. So what was the “X-factor”, the magic ingredient of culture that took humans out of the general run of mammals and other highly social organisms? By emphasizing research in developmental psychology and integrating perspectives from comparative, social and evolutionary psychology this course explores contemporary answers to this question. We will be focusing on how an understanding of social and observational learning is critical to any answer, and to do so we will study the following populations: (a) typically developing infants and children; (b) children with autism; (c) adults; (d) non-human primates; and (e) other animals.

This course examines America's 'dream factory' as profit-oriented industry, mass entertainment, and cinematic art form. It covers key historical developments including the star system, Production Code censorship, New Hollywood, and the franchise film.

This course introduces the theoretical and practical aspects of sport and exercise coaching. Through active participation in lectures and movement laboratories, students develop a basic understanding of training and performance, with reference to a variety of groups. Students also learn how to evaluate and improve their own coaching performance by applying reflective and analytical skills. Topics examined in this course include coaching pedagogy, training principles, session planning, basic concepts of sports science, and ethical issues. 

This course examines various aspects of data processing including database management, representation and analysis of data, information retrieval, visualization and reporting, and cloud computing. 

In many projects, it is important for programmers to have fine control over low-level details of program execution, and to be able to assess the cost of a design decision on likely overall program performance. This course introduces students to a system programming language that gives programmers this kind of control, explores a range of standard data structures and algorithmic techniques, and shows how to apply them to frequently encountered problems.

This course examines the role and purpose of music for individuals and communities, and the ways people engage with music to regulate their mood and emotions in ways that reinforce their overall wellbeing.