Australia

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.

This course examines psychological theory and its research applications to the real world. In particular, this course focuses on health psychology, forensic psychology, and organizational psychology. The health psychology component investigates why individuals engage in risky health behaviors, including smoking, overeating, and alcohol use; inequalities in health, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island health; and dealing with chronic illness, including death, dying, and survivorship. The forensic psychology section explores lie detection, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and eyewitness memory. The organizational psychology component focuses on personnel selection, training in organizations, performance measurement, workplace motivation, and leadership.