Australia

This course examines how people make predictable and repeatable mistakes in financial decision-making. It looks at the nature of these mistakes and their origin, using insights from psychology, neurosciences and experimental economics on how the human mind works. It considers how understanding the functioning of the human mind allows us to design a better world—in particular, better stock markets, retirement and healthcare systems. 

How do musicians achieve and maintain their health? This course explores the science of music, health, and wellbeing through the study of health promotion, a range of health issues (including mental health), and practical strategies for incorporating healthy lifestyles into everyday life. It examines longstanding debates in both scholarly and practice-based fields of music and health. Topics include mindfulness, music psychology, Alexander Technique, yoga, tai chi, performance science, growth mindset programs, music therapy, mental health, workplace safety, and physiotherapy.

This course examines theories, concepts, forms and practices of law in contemporary Australian society. It looks at the ways that "harm" is constructed as a legal category and encourages students to ask who is able to name something as either harmful, or not worthy of state intervention, and how this capacity to name effects socio-political relations. To develop this analysis, the course discusses the norms that underpin the capacity to name particular practices as harmful, and engages critically with certain historical and current harms. Examples of such harms might include treachery, riot and disorder, terrorism, payback, the Northern Territory Emergency Response, torture, sadomasochistic sex acts, or female circumcision.

This course examines information technology infrastructure and security in the business environment. It covers the different components of IT infrastructure and security, as well as the best practices for designing, implementing, and managing secure systems.

This course explores how creative advertising can be engaging, exhilarating, and even world changing. Combining conceptual thinking with practical approaches, students will focus on developing the creative dimensions for advertising campaigns related to contemporary problems ranging from low product awareness through to public social issues. Students will engage imaginatively with client briefs and develop advertising concepts all the while exploring the history of creative theory and practice, as well as the storytelling, art direction, copywriting, and pitching aspects of creative advertising.

This course provide a general knowledge of European politics, society, economy and culture between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It focuses on the most significant events and developments that shaped European history, including the rise of humanism, religious reform, state formation and centralization, overseas expansion, global capitalism, and the emergence of representative government. It looks at the consequences brought by these developments, most notably on European political and cultural practices; and study how they impacted traditional understandings of human nature to give rise to modern ideas of human rights.

This course examines the nature and scope of semantics and pragmatics and their place within linguistics. Topics in semantics include: the nature and analysis of lexical meanings, the relationship between meaning and cognition, the relationship between semantics and grammar, and semantic change. Topics in pragmatics include: speech act theory, politeness theory, implicature and presupposition. 

This course examines the tools of basic marketing research, along with how to apply them and provide a managerial interpretation of the findings. It covers key areas of marketing research including problem identification, defining project scope, developing a research approach, conducting fieldwork, engaging in analysis and reporting are featured heavily. In addition, issues such as sampling, quantitative research tools and marketing implications are covered. 

This course examines Australian archaeology. It covers topics such as community-based archaeology, decolonization and how the past informs contemporary issues, providing requisite knowledge for working in the archaeological sector in Australia. Following the stratigraphic sequence of an archaeological excavation, this course moves from the present through British invasion and into the deep past to reveal the layers of extraordinary capacity, diversity and complexity of Australia's First Peoples.

This course provides a thematic study of historical and contemporary book arts in the Islamic world, drawing on the art of painting and calligraphy as well as key texts to engage with the foundational interrelations between text, image, orality and other forms of sensory experience. Starting with early Qurans, it moves to pre-modern illustrated manuscripts, and modern and contemporary works of art inspired by manuscript cultures, exploring histories of authorship, portraiture, patronage, workshop practices, audience and perception, as well as the collecting and display of manuscripts in museums.