Australia

This course examines probability, the concept of random variables, special distributions including the Binomial, Hypergeometric, Poisson, Normal, Geometric and Gamma and statistical estimation. This course will investigate univariate techniques in data analysis and for the most common statistical distributions that are used to model patterns of variability. Students will learn the method of moments and maximum likelihood techniques for fitting statistical distributions to data.

This course examines episodes of crises and instability in order to understand how their key dynamics are embedded within historical, institutional and social contexts. It examines why some crises have a cyclical character while others do not, and how crisis contains elements to unlock the secrets of present-day and future sources of instability.

This course examines how law frames the human relationship to the environment and non-human world, including issues of democracy, environmental justice, the treatment of animals and global inequality. It will draw on case studies in Australian, comparative and international law. It will invite students to explore the way that various areas of law are implicated in environmental problems and injustice, and to consider how law can be reformed to perform a protective function. 

Solving problems in areas such as business, biology, physics, chemistry, engineering, humanities, and social sciences often requires manipulating, analysing, and visualising data through computer programming. This course teaches students with little or no background in computer programming how to design and write small programs using a high-level procedural programming language, and to solve simple problems using these skills. On completion of this subject the student is expected to: 1.Use the fundamental programming constructs (sequence, alternation, selection) 2.Use the fundamental data structures (arrays, records, lists, associative arrays) 3.Use abstraction constructs such as functions 4.Understand and employ some basic program structures 5.Understand and employ some basic algorithmic problem solving techniques 6.Read, write, and debug simple, small programs

This course examines the representation and practices of intimate relations focusing on the intersection between intimacy and the constructions of gender. Topics include theories of love and friendship, contemporary cultural representations of love, desire and friendship (especially in film and literature), and the ethics and politics of erotica.

This course examines ductile & brittle deformation; stress, strain & fracture theory; geometry & dynamics of faulting, folding & related structures; interpretation of geological maps & subsurface structures.

This course covers the basic principles of research and theory in social psychology, with a special emphasis on understanding how people relate to each other. Issues such as the nature of human sociability, the perception and interpretation of social behavior, ambiguities of interpretation of interpersonal behavior, verbal and nonverbal communication processes, impression formation and impression management, and related topics will be covered. The course also covers developmental psychology, including the age at which certain abilities or dispositions develop or are learned, and the processes by which developmental changes occur. Issues such as nature and nurture, continuity vs discontinuity, nomothetic vs ideographic approaches, and the methods and ethics of developmental research will be covered from various perspectives— psychodynamic, biological/ethological, environmental/learning, and cognitive-developmental.