Australia

This course examines the development of thought, language and personality as well as issues in clinical psychology. It also covers social issues including communication, aggression, and altruism.

This course explores the history of screenwriting and the principles of the craft of writing scripts for screen. Students read and respond to a variety of scripts written for screen and write a short script with accompanying storyboard.

This course focuses on understanding and communicating visual information. Students are trained using clear and concise methods to become visually literate using creative information skills and techniques. Students learn how to create and read flow charts, landscape diagrams, schematics, and technical illustration to make information easier to understand. The course demonstrates functions and depicts sequences of hierarchies, associations, relationships, interconnections, and links with many diverse approaches suitable for application in diverse disciplines. Students develop graphic skills through lectures and practice during tutorials to encourage personal expression, visual interpretation of materials, and understanding of the world.

This course introduces students to the many layers of Aboriginal heritage which continue to occupy the Sydney region. Starting from within the literature and developing knowledge of the continuing presence of Aboriginal peoples, knowledge, voices, and perspectives, students engage with a deeper understanding and significance of "place." From rock art sites, place names and keeping places to traditional ecological knowledge, land management practices, and various forms of cultural expression, students learn about the presence of an ancient knowledge system in the local Sydney area as well as the importance this holds for Aboriginal people today. Students have the unique opportunity to visit specific places and sites of significance across Sydney throughout the course.