Australia

This course explores the techniques involved in music creation and production using digital audio workstations and mobile and online applications. Students investigate how computers, tablets, and mobile technologies can be used as tools for creative music making. The course provides a practical understanding of the capabilities and limits of computer-based music technology. Students also gain a basic theoretical background to the nature of music and organized sound through experimentation with technologies which enable sound to be recorded, sampled, and programmed. Topics covered include music studio setups and workflows, audio recording, multi-track mixing, MIDI sequencing, virtual instruments, and sound design. This course employs a "flipped" course model consisting of weekly laboratory sessions and online content in place of traditional lectures.

This course presents an overview of the archaeology and ancient history of the Ancient World, introducing the great civilizations of Mesopotamia, Iran, and Egypt. It also explores the prehistoric and historic cultures of Greece and Italy, ending with the height of the Roman Empire.

This course examines how advancement in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can lead to social and political change, particularly in developing nations. It will compare and contrast how ICT expansion affects different types of political regimes.

This course examines key body systems and physiological concepts. It focuses on integrating concepts and synthesizing ideas to tackle challenging Physiological questions related to various clinical and functional scenarios. 

This course examines American history since 1945. It charts key developments: from McCarthyism to the Patriot Act; from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Black Lives Matter; from liberalism’s apogee to the rise of conservatism. It examines the legacies of and controversies surrounding presidencies from Truman to Trump. With an emphasis on domestic rather than foreign affairs, the subject covers the Cold War, the Sixties – New Left and counterculture, the civil rights movement, social activism in the 1970s, the role of religion in American public life, the rise of the New Right, debates about immigration, and other key topics.

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.