Australia

This course provides an introduction to 20th and 21st century physics, and its place as the basis of much of modern technology. The content includes electromagnetism from which photonic and RF/microwave communications were developed; relativity required for GPS navigation; and quantum physics critical for lasers and semiconductors, and hence computers and many other technologies.

This course provides understanding of the theory of negotiation as it is practiced in a variety of strategic settings. The course is relevant to the broad spectrum of negotiation problems that are faced by managers and specific examples from international strategy such as M and A and joint ventures are used. The course provides an opportunity to develop skills experientially and to understand negotiation in useful analytic frameworks. Considerable emphasis is placed on role-playing exercises and case studies. This course requires participation in a number of negotiations. Preparation for these negotiations, which are a large part of the final grade, requires time-pressured reading of material in class.

This course examines socities' understanding of violence and how representations of violence may be both compelling and confronting. It focuses on the interconnections between categories of sex and violence within culture.

This course provides an overview of the most significant evolutionary transitions in relation to the environmental changes associated with them; details the processes that contributed to these changes; and thus develops an understanding of the principles of evolutionary biology. Human evolution is explored in relation to this background and in relation to the evolution of language and disease. This course covers the fundamentals of evolutionary biology, both in terms of recognizing and interpreting evolutionary patterns and understanding the processes that are thought to drive evolutionary change. The course examines evolutionary theory and explores evolutionary processes, on both micro and macro scales, using a range of organisms from bacteria through to metazoans (plants and animals).

Latin American music has become a powerful force in today's music industry, but its rich diversity and cultural contexts are not always known or acknowledged. This course surveys a number of Latin American popular, folk, and indigenous musical traditions in terms of their cultural milieu and historical development. These include Afro-Cuban traditions, samba, salsa, tango, and Andean music. Various musical, historical, and cultural concerns are examined alongside a practical and creative involvement with the compositional characteristics and the repertoire pertinent to these traditions.

This course studies a variety of American literary and visual texts to consider what it means to read "nationally". We first examine the rise of literary nationalism to look then at the ways in which exigencies of empire, race and ethnicity, and gender and sexuality, for example, have exerted pressure on the fantasy of a cohesive national culture. We also consider the transnational turn of recent decades to understand the nation's function in a global context.

This course provides an introduction to human services in Australia. It provides insights into the historical and contemporary characteristics of the human service sector, including the challenges posed by marketization, professionalization and neoliberalism for addressing human needs in different fields of practice.

This course introduces design and development practices for multimedia content, focusing particularly on web sites. Modern design practices for the web are taught, framed by an introduction to human-centered design techniques, particularly heuristic based interface design guidelines for web interfaces and web accessibility from a global perspective. Today's web sites need to be both well designed and dynamic, thus the course also introduces some basic scripting techniques for going beyond static content. The focus of learning is activity based and incorporates both individual and team based exercises.