Australia

This course examines the major conservation issues facing threatened marine wildlife globally with a particular focus on Australia. It covers how marine wildlife research, management and conservation is conducted using ecological, population and life history data, and how threats may be managed. 

This course examines urbanism transnationally with a focus on the Global South cities to expose students to the accelerating rate of urbanization in fundamentally different urban settings. It unpacks complexities of urbanism specific to the Global South including but not limited to enormous rate of urban transformation, massive infrastructure gaps, ubiquitous informality, confronting inequalities, and exponatial rate of climate change. In doing so, the course sheds light on the historic, socio-economic, and geo-political setting behind the complexity of urban challenges and opportunities in unfamiliar geographies. This will provide students with provocative and productive urban frameworks for all cities, informed by an ability to transfer learnings from the Global South to the local context and unpack some of the growing concerns about widening inequities, infrastructure lags and others.

This course examines the physics of the Universe from scales ranging from our Solar System and extrasolar planets to the origin and fate of the Universe. It covers astronomical techniques, history of astronomy across cultures, beginnings of the Universe, formation and evolution of galaxies, origin of life on Earth and search for life elsewhere, stellar structure and evolution, planet formation, black holes, and compact objects.

This course examines normal cognition and the cognitive neuropsychological approach to brain-behavior relationships and cognitive processes and the cognitive and behavioral consequences of brain damage and models of cognitive rehabilitation.

This course examines the historical, social and cultural implications of the wastes generated by human society. Dimensions and topics you study include: life cycles of materials, how we make knowledge about waste, the social implications of waste management technologies, 'legacy' issues and the 'colonization of the future' by wastes. Our waste stream examples include plastics, water and sewage, nuclear materials, industrial sea dumping, international trade in toxic wastes, domestic landfill, and the creation of 'wastelands' and contaminated sites. Students explore solutions to the generation of wastes by studying the precautionary principle, environmental justice, international waste conventions and treaties, and regulatory and community responses to waste. 

This course examines how infectious agents interact with human hosts at the molecular, cellular, individual patient and community levels to cause diseases and how the hosts attempt to combat these infections. 

This course examines various quantitative modelling techniques relevant for choice modeling through business cases in marketing transport research strategy economics and other relevant business fields. It also explores models that pool observations on a crosssection of households countries firms etc over several time periods.  

This course examines the history and theory of photography from the 19th century to the present. It considers several key critical debates on the role of photography as both an art form and a social medium of visual communication. It explores central figures and key episodes in photography's history giving particular emphasis to critics, photographers, scientists, media and art historians' writings on the medium. Students will consider seminal controversial debates about the ways in which photography has been historicized and conceptualized. Is photography an art or is it media? Is it evidence or fiction? Is photography an empowering medium? How can photography create change? The course includes an examination of the development of Australian photography in the 19th and 20th centuries and considers the new phenomenon of Instagram photography and its implications.

This course is an introduction to Differential Geometry, one of the core pillars of modern mathematics. Using ideas from calculus of several variables, it develops the mathematical theory of geometrical objects such as curves, surfaces and their higher-dimensional analogues.