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This course examines key stylistic, technological and industrial developments in contemporary popular music that have occurred since the late 1970s beginning with post-punk/hip-hop/MTV-driven genres. It's an objective assessment of the complex nature of both contemporary music and the music industry.

This course examines key concepts and debates in the discipline of anthropology, ranging from ritual, totems, kinship, and personhood to the nature/culture distinction and postcolonial critique. It takes a multi-modal approach, familiarizing students with some of the discipline's classic texts, films and sites of ethnographic engagement. We’ll seek to understand these foundational works within their historical contexts, as well as critically reappraising their position in 21st century anthropology. 

This course examines the reshaping of contemporary media industries by new technologies, and innovative business models. It explores media usage, distribution, and production, informed by scholarly perspectives on technological advances. It confronts industry challenges, assessing their impact on traditional media. 

This course explores the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying perception and attention. Students examine how the brain processes sensory information, interprets the environment, and selectively focuses on relevant stimuli through cognitive theories, behavioral research, and neuroscience.

This course is an introduction to the statistical learning techniques commonly used to analyze high-dimensional (or multivariate) data. It covers penalized regression, classification trees, clustering, dimension-reduction, bagging, stacking, boosting, random forests and ensemble learning.

This course examines the foundations and development of digital literacy (DL) in academic and professional contexts. It discusses the evolution of the web, multiliteracies, digital competencies, and the role of DL in education, Industry 4.0, data literacy, and AI literacy. This course analyzes global standards, practical initiatives, and methods for evaluating digital content and competencies in educational and professional environments. 

This course introduces the fundamental theories and basic content of international commercial arbitration, including an overview of international commercial arbitration, arbitration agreements, the composition of arbitral tribunals and jurisdiction, arbitration procedures, and arbitral awards. The aim of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the core concepts of international commercial arbitration, master the theories, principles, systems, and rules of international commercial arbitration, understand the latest legislation and practices in the field, and cultivate students' case analysis and written argumentation skills. 

The course examines the market research process and its role in organizational decision-making. Students learn to define research problems, design qualitative and quantitative studies, collect and analyze data, and apply market research and consumer behavior insights to marketing decisions. 

This course examines strategic communication within the professional sphere, focusing on its role in public discourse. It explores how strategic communication, public relations, and advertising function across not-for-profit, commercial, and government sectors. The curriculum emphasizes ethics, persuasion, and understanding diverse audiences and their communication preferences. It covers the impact of media on public perception and societal outcomes, with a particular focus on responsible engagement with Indigenous Australian communities.

The course discusses the global economy since 1500, from a European perspective. The focus is placed on the development of material living standards, political participation, and their interaction over time. Students understand the long-term perspective and the role of historical case studies for economic decision making. They gain new insights into long-term development and apply their knowledge of economic theory and basic empirical methods, together with a critical perspective on historical sources.