Australia

This course examines modern electric power systems with particular emphasis on generation and transmission. The following topics are covered: the use of three phase systems and their analysis under balanced conditions; transmission lines: calculation of parameters, modelling, analysis; transformers: construction, equivalent circuits; generators: construction, modelling for steady state operation; the use of per unit system; the analysis of systems with a number of voltage levels; the load flow problem: bus and impedance matrices, solution methods; power system transient stability; the control of active and reactive power; electricity markets, market structures and economic dispatch; types of electricity grids, radial, mesh, networks; and distribution systems and smart grids.

This course examines a general introduction to six of the world’s major religions with a special focus on the way in which their specific laws and customs impact upon the behavior of their adherents. The religions studied are Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Each week a specific practical theme will be traced across the six religions. The themes include sacred images; scriptural texts; ethics; the three life-cycle rituals of birth, death and marriage; food and clothing customs; the calendar; religious architecture and popular places of pilgrimage.

This course examines the glass vessel in everyday life and its application as a conceptual agent in contemporary art. By nature, the glassblowing process creates a vessel or container from a mass of molten glass. Through research projects students investigate the psychology of the glass vessel through its function and physical properties. Students develop fundamental hand skills and glassblowing techniques through structured weekly workshops, and combine practical skills with contextual knowledge in the development of conceptually themed projects. Students may work exclusively with glass or in conjunction with other media and processes.

This course examines the conceptual frameworks and technologies that shape the making of screen-based media and contemporary art practices. Through a series of lectures, seminars, tutorials, and screenings, students explore the evolution of experimental film, video art, and independent filmmaking from the 1960s to the present. Students engage in the production of a self-directed digital film that may be realized in any style or genre. They learn the applied skills and competencies needed to use of studio facilities and equipment.

This course examines the world's most powerful film industry. It produces a historical and conceptual map of the institution that dominated the global film industry in the twentieth century, and which continues to do so today. In focusing on cinema as a socio-cultural and economic force, both in the United States and across the globe, it examines how Hollywood has historically produced and distributed a powerful cultural imaginary and devised methods to encourage audiences to consume it. The course considers Hollywood as an early example of a genuinely global industry that initially sustained itself through the implementation of a range of industrial, economic, cultural, legal, quasi-legal, and indeed illegal conventions and practices, i.e., the star system, the production code, the studio system, the genre system, monopolistic practices like vertical integration, and the Classical Hollywood style of film-making.