Australia

This beginning Chinese course is for students with no Chinese language backgound. The course develops the ability to communicate and understand in simple Chinese by engaging with key cultural situations in Chinese society such as situations relating to the use of names, family relationships, social exchanges which deploy different forms of address, and engaging with physical spaces and geography, and temporal systems. The course uses short Chinese texts addressing each of these cultural situations, acquitting the literacy associated with these situations. The study of Chinese texts is supported by additional materials introducing the cultural topics. The texts’ study is also supplemented by oral presentations, role plays, and group discussions, as well as written exercises.

This course analyes the economic experiences and policies of key East Asian countries with significant economic ties with Australia. The course first introduces how some of these countries achieved the miraculous post-war economic growth and analyzes their growth success using economic models. The course identifies the key issues and challenges facing these countries in both social and global contexts. Emphasis is placed on the bilateral and multilateral economic relations of East Asian countries with Australia.

This course provides a unique opportunity to develop core research skills relevant to a wide spectrum of chemical or biological research, including written and oral communication, skills in making scientific observations, and recording and analyzing data by participating in an individual or group research project associated with a discipline of interest.

This course explores what we mean by modernity and its relationship to technology and mass culture. It examines the history of the European and American avant-garde from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s by locating artistic production in the context of photography, mechanical reproduction, cinema, advertising, consumerism, and life in the modern metropolis. The coruse also investigates the ways in which artists drew on technologies, popular culture, and mass media to celebrate and critique modernity and problematize conventional approaches to artistic production, gender norms, and subjective experience. Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Dada, Pop and the Neo-Avant-Garde are some of the movements discussed. Students look at a range of modern and modernist visual artefacts, from paintings and sculpture to the photograph, the illustrated magazine, the silent movie, the avant-garde journal and the animated film.

This course explores the American political system and formulation of foreign policy. Students consider how foreign policy is made through the interaction of executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and with other elements of civil society. Special emphasis is placed on the post-Cold War period. This course examines the influence of domestic politics on US foreign policy, and how the US system copes with the apparent contradictions between its ideals and the imperatives of global power.

This course provides an advanced examination of environmental politics in Australia. It surveys the various issues, stakeholders, and movements at the forefront of key environmental debates, including analysis of the theory and discourses of the environment, and an examination of policy implementation.

This course explores how international businesses need broad decision-making abilities that take into account the ethical, social, and environmental aspects of the process. This applies to various situations in the international business setting including business relations with government, customers, employees, and NGOs. This course explores these non-financial elements within the international business context.

This course covers the major authors in the rationalist and empiricist traditions of the early modern period in Europe such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. These thinkers were the first to articulate problems in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and moral philosophy that continue to shape the nature of philosophical inquiry today.