Australia

This course examines the main areas, processes, actors and structures involved in contemporary international relations. It covers three main areas: international security, international organizations, and international political economy. 

This course examines the evolution of money from the gold standard to the present; and, the institutions, instruments, and markets of modern finance, with a special focus on financial innovation and its challenges.

This course examines key social challenges the world is grappling with such as power and inequality, human security, human mobility, human rights, and globalization. It explores the lived experience of people and cultures around the world and how they make meaning.

This course examines the cultural and institutional languages within which contemporary law is communicated, expressed and understood. Official and unofficial texts of law are situated in relation with literature, music and podcasts, photography and other visual arts, as well as architecture and urban design. Our examples are selected to provide a representative sample of the main areas of legal study, such as criminal law, contract and torts, equity, administrative and constitutional law, jurisprudence, treaty and native title. Throughout, the justice of the case will be evaluated.

This course examines the development, management and control of marketing communications, both locally and internationally. Topics include advertising, sales promotion, public relations, and other elements of the communications mix. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of integrating promotional efforts, and on the marketing manager's role in planning, implementing and evaluating marketing communications. Students develop an understanding of the operational and creative elements involved in developing promotional campaigns and the strategies used to communicate with target audiences as well as the underlying principles behind these approaches. Students engage with alternative persuasion techniques and potential problems with their adoption, and the proper selection, interpretation, and use of alternative measures of promotional effectiveness. On completion of the subject, students have developed a strong practical and critical grasp of the different forms and strategies employed in marketing communications.

This course examines a range of standard electrical and electronic devices, basic circuit construction methods and electrical measurement techniques. It covers operation and selection of electrical and electronic devices used in various electronic circuits; common electronic circuit realizations to meet the most commonly required signal processing and conditioning applications; programmable digital circuits and microprocessor programming; circuit design and simulation tools; printed circuit board layout, circuit assembly, and soldering techniques; test and Measurement equipment and methods; and managing design issues and requirements.

This course examines and teaches how to play popular guitar styles that have had widespread impact over the past century, including blues, rock and global folk styles.