Australia

This course examines the diversity of Indigenous culture, epistemologies, practices and engagements with the contemporary world. It will also looks at traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies, cultures, languages, history and prehistory in curricula, research and knowledge exchange.

This course examines the changing structure and behavior of work and occupations in modern society. It will engage with the theoretical debates and empirical research that focus on the organizational development and work and occupations in society more generally. The class will focus on how work and occupations are structured, evolve over time and replicate and reinforce existing inequalities. 

This course examines transmission, pathogenicity and the immune response to microbes. It explores the characteristics of viral, bacterial, fungal and protist pathogens and their virulence mechanisms for establishment and progression of disease; host immune response and characteristic pathological changes to tissues; mechanisms for colonization, invasion and damage to host tissue; the ways in which the immune system recognizes and destroys invading microbes; how the T cell response is activated and antibodies function; antibiotic resistance; and control and vaccination strategies. 

This course examines major concepts in gender studies, including: biological determinism, cultural essentialism, social constructionism, power and inequalities, sexuality, and queering categories of difference. Using a variety of case studies from social media, politics, sport, fashion, film, and music, the course will analyze how sex, gender, age, ethnicity, race, class, politics and social movements intersect to influence our understanding of sex, gender, and culture.

This course examines basic communication skills in understanding and speaking Japanese. Students will also learn to write the two Japanese syllabaries and approximately 60 kanji characters and to recognize at least 100 kanji characters in context. Relevant socio-cultural information is integrated with the language learning.

This is a small chamber choir of 12–20 members that performs music of the middle ages, renaissance and baroque. The ensemble performs both acappella and also in conjunction with other early music ensembles.

This course examines the cultural dimensions of emotion in everyday life. It will focus on how emotions are experienced, represented and understood in individual and social contexts. Drawing on different media and cultural sites, this course will examine a range of emotional states such as (but not limited to) love, happiness, fear, hate, terror and ideas of hope, trust, belief and faith in the (re)making of individual and social life. It will also consider how emotions are deployed in current social and political debates.

This course examines musical genres worldwide within their respective social and cultural contexts. It explores some of the most important ideas that have informed the thinking of researchers working in this field - such as the connections between music and gender, social structures, forms of capital, politics, identity, health and the environment. The course also interrogates notions of the nature and experience of music, why musical genres differ and why music has such important but diverse significance worldwide.