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This course introduces Bayesian data analysis using the WinBUGS software package and R. Topics include the Bayesian paradigm, hypothesis testing, point and interval estimates, graphical models, simulation and Bayesian inference, diagnosing MCMC, model checking and selection, ANOVA, regression, GLMs, hierarchical models and time series. Classical and Bayesian methods and interpretations are compared.

This course explores Italian cinema and the evolution of Italy’s film industry through the critical analysis of key genre categories and filmmaking modes (neorealism, auteur cinema, comedy, spaghetti western, the thriller, political film, migration cinema). These genre categories are represented by a series of films that span from the post-war period to today. Students are introduced to the critical concepts that underpin film analysis, while also developing a strong understanding of genre theory. Through close readings of individual films the course explores how genre categories and conventions can be used to discuss issues of social change and progress throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. In particular, it examines questions of national identity, gender representation and the reception of popular genres.

This interdisciplinary course examines the biological, psychological, social, and cultural dimensions of sleep and circadian rhythms. We will investigate the science behind sleep: its functions, regulation, and role in health, cognition, and emotion.  

In parallel, the course will explore how sleep has been represented in literature, visual art, music, and film. We will consider how artists and thinkers have interpreted dreams, memory, insomnia, and altered states of consciousness, and how these portrayals reflect and inform our evolving understanding of the sleeping mind. 

Topics include What Is Sleep, and Why Does It Matter; The Physiology of Sleep; Circadian Rhythms and Biological Timekeeping; Sleep and the Brain; Dreams: Science and Symbolism; Sleep and Society; Sleep Disorders; Sleep in Art, Music, and Film 

There is no prerequisite for this course; however, a basic understanding of neuroscience, biology, and physiology concepts will be beneficial for students. 

This course covers advanced theories of International Relations. The course explores central questions of international politics by examining the different traditions of thought about the character and nature of "the international." The course goes beyond realist and liberal theories to explore a counter-history of the theory on international politics and covers topics such as Marxism, feminism, post-colonialism, international political sociology, migration, environmental studies, and critical approaches to the international order and its institutional structures. The course examines how "the international" was constructed as a field of study throughout capitalist modernity, and how these theories are connected to the practice of international relations. It ends by relating international theory to contemporary events, such as the global war on terror and the rise of the far-right.

This course examines the cultural reality of being human, as well as the distinct evolutionary journey (within the Order Primates) to become human.

This course examines theories, concepts, forms and practices of law in contemporary Australian society. It looks at the ways that "harm" is constructed as a legal category and encourages students to ask who is able to name something as either harmful, or not worthy of state intervention, and how this capacity to name effects socio-political relations. To develop this analysis, the course discusses the norms that underpin the capacity to name particular practices as harmful, and engages critically with certain historical and current harms. Examples of such harms might include treachery, riot and disorder, terrorism, payback, the Northern Territory Emergency Response, torture, sadomasochistic sex acts, or female circumcision.

This course discusses political philosophy in general and the conception of justice in particular. The most prominent issues in political philosophy are ethical and political controversies as there are various theories proposed throughout history to solve them. In ethical and political theories, nothing is more important than the explication of justice. The conception of Justice is extremely complicated that it has become a subject of philosophy since its beginning in the world of ancient Greece.  

This course addresses justice as a virtue due to the following three characteristics:  

1. It is the only virtue that needs others to admit is validity; there is no concept of justice to be defined by any person alone. 
2. It is a perennial issue in political philosophy. The debates about justice have lasted more than 2500 years. 

3. It has been an issue in philosophy without a definite solution or even improvement. 

This course examines the main issues of the economic development in Chile, highlighting its strengths and challenges. Topics include historical social development, the Chilean Pension system, labor markets and informality, privatization, regulation and competition policy, trade policy, and relation of fiscal policy and economic development.

This course examines information technology infrastructure and security in the business environment. It covers the different components of IT infrastructure and security, as well as the best practices for designing, implementing, and managing secure systems.