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The course deals with some basic themes, concepts, and thinkers in international relations. The purpose is to provide students with essential conceptual and linguistic tools for understanding the underlying structure and fundamental features of international politics, as well as its material and immaterial changing aspects. The objective is to explain the dynamics through which men and women understand international politics as well as on achieving a coherent capacity of thinking international life, both in its theoretical and practical dimension. The course examines the most important theories of international politics and foreign policy, with a particular focus on constructivism, liberalism, and realism. Students also study some key concepts of international relations such as the balance of power, hegemony, war, and cooperation.

This course examines the psychological science and practice of well being. It will draw on psychological theory, research evidence, and practical techniques to help students understand the factors that create flourishing individuals, communities, and societies.

Historicizing the Cold War in Southeast Asia, this course examines the regional conflict in its entirety while analyzing the pivotal events and developments that altered its course.

This course demonstrates the dynamic earth, and how ideas from marine magnetics were utilized to revolutionize our understanding of the structure and dynamics of the Earth’s outer surface. Later, it explains fundamentals of marine magnetic anomalies, including measurements and modelling, and how it is used to explore fine-scale structures of oceanic crust. The second part of this course deals with marine sediments and marine environmental change. Firstly, the physical and chemical properties of marine sediments are presented, followed by illustrations of complex physical, chemical and biogeochemical processes in marine sedimentary environments. Later, it presents the establishment of geomagnetic polarity timescales, and principles and applications of magnetic stratigraphy and environmental magnetism for quantitatively reconstructing environmental and climatic changes. Development of various stages of the exciting international ocean drilling programs will be briefly presented. 

The course enables students with no prior knowledge of Afrikaans to develop a basic competency in the language, which is required for basic daily interactions. Afrikaans grammar is taught within context, appropriate vocabulary is systematically expanded, and a variety of relevant written and oral activities are provided to facilitate comprehension. DP requirements: At least 75% attendance at lectures; completion of all assignments and tests. Assessment: One two-hour examination in June or October/November counts for 40% of the final mark; an oral examination counts for 20%; the semester coursework counts for the remaining 40%.

The course provides a group of undergraduate students across the university with the opportunity to work in a small cross-disciplinary team setting and solve a business problem presented by a live business client. The academic component of the course is comprised of a series of master classes delivered by academic experts and industry professionals. Under the supervision of the course convenor and the support of designated industry mentors, students will apply their theoretical knowledge in practice by working on innovative solutions that address the specified business issue from the live business client that is located in Australia or overseas. 

This course provides an overview of marine charismatic megafauna and ecosystem processes including food webs, biogeochemical cycling, trophic cascades, and adaptations of organisms to their environment.

This course examines the key aspects of production and manufacturing systems. It covers manufacturing processes, production time and costs, measurement and quality control, and manufacturing design. This course discusses the environmental aspects of production processes and the definition of manufacturing processes. Additionally, it focuses on automated production systems, including CNC machines, robots, and integrated CAD-CAM-CAE systems.

This course examines musical improvisation techniques by exploring the unique art of improvisation. 

This course introduces students to the basic skills and techniques of planographic print processes (either screenprinting or lithography).