Australia

This course covers the Australian wine industry and its role in world wine production. Content includes the evolution of the grapevine; viticulture and winemaking; main grape varieties of the world and their distribution; chemistry of winemaking; wine tasting; world wine regions; Australian wine regions and production; the global wine trade; and Australia's export markets.

This course provides a series of specialized modules in the areas of organic, inorganic and physical chemistry

This course examines how documentary films have both represented and revised the past. From the earliest radical Bolshevik pioneers to the home movies of the forties, to the current use of the phone camera to record emergency and war, and even to the wildlife documentary, this course explores how documentary films interpret history, make history and in some cases, have even changed history.

This course combines formal classes with exploratory field trips. Traditional lectures are used as a space for conveying important concepts and information to students. Formal lectures are also supported by smaller tutorial classes where collaboration, discussion, and group work are employed to facilitate social learning and increase student knowledge and understanding of key ideas. The traditional lectures and tutorials are then enhanced by two unique expeditions into significant coastal and mountainous regions of New South Wales. These bushwalking field trips into The Royal National Park and Blue Mountains give students a chance to experience and be immersed in two distinctive Australian ecosystems.

In this course students explore the principles of the craft and theory of writing short narrative fiction. Students read a variety of fiction texts from the beginning of the modernist era to contemporary fiction, ranging from Gogol to Chekov, Hemingway, Faulkner, Munro, Garner, and others. Upon completion of the course students are able to demonstrate a broad understanding of recent developments and changes in published short fiction, make use of elements of the poetics of fiction-writing in producing their own pieces of short fiction, and are able to reflect on the influences, aims, and aesthetic decision underlying their own creative work.

This course examines a broad overview of the major topics of physics. It covers mechanics, thermal physics, and oscillations and waves.