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This course provides an introduction to economic history, exploring the intersection of economics and historical events. It emphasizes the importance of historical events in shaping economic growth and development while illustrating how economic theories and logic can offer deeper insights into these events. The availability of historical data allows students to apply state-of-the-art quantitative methods to analyze past events and draw connections to present-day economic issues.

The course deepens the understanding of how genetic factors and experience with the physical and social environment, acquired throughout development, interact in shaping the brain's neural circuits, as well as the mind and behavior. This course covers, the main theories of the development of the human mind and brain, behavioral and neuroimaging techniques and methods for developmental research, recent empirical findings on the development of perception, learning, social cognition, and other aspects of development, artificial intelligence models such as Large Language Models as models of learning (similarities and differences with human learning), and relevance of scientific findings for policy and decision-making in families and schools. Students should be familiar with General Psychology, Cognitive Developmental Psychology and the basics of Cognitive Neuroscience. 

This is an elective course on entomology. This course exposes students to general concepts of entomology and the biology of insects. It covers insect biology, anatomy, physiology, classification, behavior, ecology, plant-insect interactions, insect and human society, and methods in entomology. This course's teaching and learning activities include lectures, discussions, group projects, and a field visit. The course activities emphasize critical thinking skills, communication, and applying knowledge to real-world situations.

This course focuses on the finance and macroeconomics of international financial flows. It covers the history of post-War financial arrangements, from Bretton Woods to the modern globalized financial system. Other topics covered include the determinants of the balance of payments, relationships between currency arrangements and capital flows and between trade and financial flows, the role played by capital inflows and outflows in financial crisis, the determinants and financing of foreign direct investment, the role of the IMF in the global economy and the case for a global tax on financial transactions.

This course examines Sydney’s fascinating people and places, from the city’s Indigenous people and cultures, to its iconic natural landscapes and buildings, its diverse and dynamic neighborhoods, its hidden surprises, and its contested futures. As well as attending seminars, students will participate in field trips to different locations in Sydney conducted by leading experts from a range of disciplines and communities. 

This course covers principles and methods in treatment and utilization of water and wastes, basic concepts of water and wastewater treatment, and treatment of wastes from food and beverage industries. Prerequisites: ICBI 121 Biology I.

This course introduces basic metabolic knowledge at the cellular level to understand the organic metabolic physiology of the human body and focuses on changes in metabolic pathways in various physiological situations. In addition, the course introduces the latest research trends and related analysis techniques for various pathological metabolic pathway imbalances that are pointed out as the core pathogenesis of modern chronic diseases. 

Topics include Introduction to metabolism, Glycolysis, Mitochondria, NADPH-The forgotten reducing equivalent, Carbohydrates, Lipids, Amino acids, Nucleotides, Signaling and metabolism, Metabolism of proliferating cells, Future pathways of metabolism research, Analyzing metabolism in biological systems.  

The focus of this course is on the practical dimension of foreign policy: foreign policy in action. It examines how states actually formulate, negotiate, and implement their external decisions, and this is developed primarily through comparative case studies. The theoretical component is treated only briefly. Unlike courses dedicated to foreign policy theory that engage deeply with conceptual debates and require specialization in political science, this course emphasizes applied analysis rather than abstract theory. Within this practical orientation, the course explores how major powers approach the Middle East and how key Middle Eastern states craft their own foreign policies. Through interactive lectures and applied exercises, students develop the capacity to assess foreign policy behavior using multiple levels of analysis and a range of analytical tools.

Because Ulysses rewards careful attention to detail, the main focus of this class is a slow, patient, and close reading of Joyce’s novel. It begins with Ulysses and ends with a few classes that present an introduction to Finnegans Wake. The general theme for the class is the evolution of Joyce’s artistic sensibility contrasted with Joyce’s representation of that evolution. But that is not an exclusive focus, it also approaches the texts from a variety of perspectives: Joyce as an “Irish writer”; Joyce as an “English writer”; Joyce as a “European writer”; the poetics of style and form; the politics of style and form; style as humor/humor as style; modes of ideology (race, religion, gender, and nation); framing a literary tradition; the production and reception of Modernism; etc. It also discusses the composition of Ulysses as is indicated on the NLI Ulysses drafts.