Australia

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.

This course examines the main factors that determine the overall levels of production and employment in the economy, including the influence of government policy and international trade, and addresses the level of employment and economic activity in the economy as a whole. It covers money, interest rates, financial markets, inflation, unemployment, and economic policy. Students taking this course should have a prior knowledge of mathematics.