Australia

This course examines the theatrical and performative modes of writing, including writing delivered live by a performer or performers in a theater, encountered by a seated or mobile audience, or experienced through media such as headphones or hypertext.

This course details how talk is managed in a range of professional settings, including education (e.g. teacher-student interactions), medicine (e.g. doctor-patient consultations), psychology (e.g. counseling), law (e.g. question design in courtrooms), and journalism (e.g. radio interviews). Students are exposed to interactional practices that are common to all workplaces: negotiation and resolving conflict, sources of misunderstanding, aligning with other speakers, managing topics, and different cultural practices in making sense of talk at work. Students learn how interaction is organized based on the fundamental tenets of conversation analysis: turn-taking, repair, and the sequential organization of talk.

This course examines sociological and anthropological perspectives on the nature of the social. It considers questions such as: what is the social; what is the relation between the individual and society; how is the social lived and experienced; and wow do we understand the everyday. It examines the social as idea, concept and experience through themes such as biography and selfhood, identity and difference, power and freedom, nature and culture, and state and nation.

This course examines the field of mathematical analysis both with a careful theoretical framework as well as selected applications. It shows the utility of abstract concepts and teaches an understanding and construction of proofs in mathematics. The course starts with the foundations of calculus and the real numbers system. It goes on to study the limiting behavior of sequences and series of real and complex numbers. This leads naturally to the study of functions defined as limits and to the notion of uniform convergence. Returning to the beginnings of calculus and power series expansions leads to complex variable theory: elementary functions of complex variable, the Cauchy integral theorem, Cauchy integral formula, residues and related topics with applications to real integrals.

This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical aspects of sport and exercise coaching. Through active participation in lectures, tutorials and practical workshops, students learn how to create a positive sporting environment by utilizing athlete-centered coaching strategies. Students also learn how to evaluate and improve their own coaching performance by applying reflective and evaluative skills. Topics covered include coaching, training and management principles, coaching pedagogy, planning, skill learning and sports psychology. Students also complete the beginning coaching general principles course. At the completion of this course, students are more confident and knowledgeable in their coaching practice.

This course examines the interplay of external and internal factors in inflaming conflict and tension in the Middle East. It covers the role of foreign powers in a number of case studies: the Arab/Israeli conflict, Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War of 1990-1991, the war on Terror, the Arab Uprisings, and the rise of the Islamic State. These case studies illustrate the difficulties in separating national from international politics and provide a nuanced appreciation of international relations in this vital region.