Australia

This course explores the boundary between artwork, publication, and portfolio. The unit acquaints students with the basics of InDesign, a software program that has become industry standard for designing digital and paper publications. Focusing on experimental magazines and other small scale artist's publications the unit explores the visual language of contemporary publishing from an artist's perspective. It examines the complex interplay of text, image, and sequence involved in producing multipage documents/artworks through the practical experience of creating work in InDesign.

This is a capstone course that introduces marketing decision making and planning frameworks in the global environment, e.g. exploring strategy options, opportunity analysis, and strategy setting and implementation. It also provides an opportunity to engage in a business simulation and to apply previous knowledge through case studies and projects. Students are expected to have knowledge in marketing prior to taking this course.

This course examines the fundamentals of ecology. It explores ecological theory and methodologies using historical and modern examples from studies of many organisms, including plants, animals, and microbes. Topics include interspecies interactions, species persistence in natural environments, population dynamics, species ranges and the movement of organisms through landscapes, species-area relationships, processes involved in defining communities in space and time, and hypothesis testing in the study of ecology.

A rapidly-changing media landscape is opening up new digital frontiers for academics to get their research out to key audiences, including policymakers. As the reach and impact of conventional and traditional media declines due to digital disruption, new media is rapidly evolving. In the academic space, reaching key audiences means engaging with them in the many places that they now get their news, views and analysis. ANU is a pioneer and leader in online academic blogs – which have become a key platform to achieve this. In this internship-based practicum course, students learn to be Editors on these online platforms. This highly practical course teaches how to edit other people's work, the business challenges of running an online platform, how to design and implement social media and audience engagement strategies, and how to measure impact and reach. It also provides skills to create a range of media for use on these platforms, including audio podcasts. The course is based around a series of workshops, combined with each student undertaking a placement at one of The Australian National University's leading blog sites. Students are expected to complete an internship of 70 hours (1 day each week across ten weeks), as well as attend the course's workshops and seminars and complete the assessment items. The internship conclude with a Podcast project that requires the intern to discuss a topical issue in the Asia-Pacific region regarding commerce, security, and/or diplomacy.

This advanced darkroom course challenges students to rediscover photography in the age of the jpeg. Through two projects, the course introduces the wet and wonderful world of alternative analogue processes to encourage students to produce experimental images that consider the conceptual, material and alchemical possibilities of the 'outmoded'. The course also encourages the development of hybrid practices that combine contemporary digital technology with analogue processes.

This course examines the principal issues associated with modern international terrorism and efforts to counter it. The course considers a wide range of questions in order to provide a deeper understanding of the threat of terrorism today. Among the questions it examined are: How has terrorism evolved over time as a mode of political violence? What are the defining features of modern terrorism, including ideological principles, political motivations and organizational structure? What are the challenges associated with modern counter-terrorism responses? Specifically, the course analyzes both terrorism's effectiveness as a means to achieve political change and the challenges faced by the liberal democratic state in responding to domestic and/or international terrorist campaigns.

This course is about designing media to achieve a social goal. It is a practice-led course in which theoretical concepts are appllied to real-world issues and multimedia artefacts are produced for specific audiences. Incorporating text, audio, visual, interactive and graphic design elements.

This course explores the archaeological techniques of search, recovery, and analysis in a forensic context. The course provides an introduction to human skeletal analysis, search and excavation, DNA and forensic testing, the criminal justice system, and the archaeology of human death. Students gain hands-on experience in the excavation, recovery, and analysis of human skeletal material and associated evidence at a simulated crime scene.