Australia

This course examines some of the best contemporary writing in English, from a range of cultures. It covers a range of genres including the novel, the graphic novel, short fiction, and poetry. In addition to providing a grounding in contemporary literature, this course focuses on what it means to read and write in the twenty-first century.

This course examines the institutions, practices and principles of representative democracy and justice, within a comparative context. It covers the Australian constitutional framework, the separation of powers and the judicial system, the "unwritten constitution" of governing conventions, and human rights. It also considers the role of political parties, the media, and questions of citizenship in regard to sex and gender, race, and class. These elements of Australian representative democracy, as well as the controversial issues that they cover, are compared to their counterparts in other countries. 

This course examines the experience of health and wellbeing over the lifespan. Developmental theory and perspectives on coping and resilience are used to illuminate individual and ecological factors that promote or inhibit the physical, psychological and social wellbeing of individuals over the lifecourse.

This course examines the rapidly expanding discipline of neuroscience as relevant to psychologists. Topics include neural changes during learning, cortical control of executive functions and language, control of movement and skilled actions as well as the biological bases of common mental disorders.