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This course provides an introduction to Scotland's long history as an independent kingdom between the 10th and the early 18th century. It examines the land and people as a way of considering broad themes in a specific and immediate setting. The central theme is Scotland's development as a European state and society through the medieval and early modern periods and the parallel processes which witnessed the development of a sense of Scottish nationhood. Issues of cultural expression and change, and of religious reform and conflict provide strands for discussion which stress the experience of this land in its wider context. The course places particular emphasis on the use of museum collections and built heritage as evidence for the unique history of this land.

Avant-garde cinema also goes by other names: underground cinema, experimental cinema, and artists’ moving image. It describes, in short, films made by artists. This course examines a wide variety of films made by American and European artists from the 1920s to the 2010s. Students engage with a diverse range of avant-garde films by engaging closely with their formal strategies and techniques. Topics include (but are not limited to): abstract film and music, Dada and surrealist film, city films, psychedelic films, the London Filmmakers’ Cooperative, women’s filmmaking, black/queer histories, found footage remakes, and experimental ethnography.

This course examines what governments do or choose not to do. It explores how public policy is formulated, implemented and evaluated, and what governance processes are typically followed. It also covers circumstances under which governments may choose to abstain from taking policy action. It approaches the study of public policy in both theory and practice and in the context of national and international politics, with both an Australian and comparative focus.

Processes of globalization, migration, marketization, and socioeconomic change have transformed the landscape of children’s educational and occupational trajectories across the world. This course explores how such broader macro-level changes have influenced micro-level experiences, interactions, and individual beliefs influencing learning and schooling. This course covers various topics from the home environment to structural and cultural factors shaping learning experiences through lectures and a discussion of readings. Students also have the unique opportunity throughout this course to pursue a project of their own interest relevant to the topics covered in the course. This course aims to familiarize students with key contextual factors shaping education and develop students’ ability to think in a cross-cultural and international perspective by introducing case studies across the world. This course aims to provide theoretical background to structural and cultural factors shaping learning experiences. This course aims to expose students to research by providing them with an opportunity to formulate their own projects. 

This module provides an introduction to central figures, works and ideas of the period of the European Enlightenment (roughly 1700-1800), beginning with an account of its historical background and ending with a review of its legacy. It approaches issues both thematically and through the writings of major thinkers, considering for example various contrasts: experience and reason, belief and scepticism, individual and society, nature and convention, equality and inequality, and representation and revolution; and looking at the ideas of such figures as Locke, Hume, Kant, Smith, and Rousseau.

The major objective of this course is to teach you how to solve problems using algorithmic thinking with the concept of the "object-oriented" programming. We express our algorithms in English, then translate them into the programming language. We cover Python, C++ in this class. During the course, you learn how to use loops, conditionals, functions, arrays, and most importantly "classes." These are the building blocks of programs, which we use to create increasingly complex programs. This course is to understand the fundamentals of object-oriented programming; to understand how to use basic data structures and classes to create complex programs; and to develop problems solving skills by learning algorithmic thinking.

Prerequisite: CSI2100- Computer Programming

In this course, students explore the German-speaking world through a range of cultural materials drawn from the Medieval period to the contemporary. Work in the course is rooted in an understanding of race as a culturally constructed category whose meanings shift in different historical and cultural contexts. From year to year the course’s primary texts might include films, short literary texts, performances, objects, visual artefacts, music and other forms. These are allocated to thematic blocks that focus on key concepts including borders, language, and the body. Weekly exercises in close analysis, alongside key short readings in theory and method, equip students with the critical skills to analyze how cultural materials both construct and challenge ideas about race and ethnicity. 

This course is designed to introduce the fundamental concepts and implementations of modern database management systems. This is not a course that teaches you how to use a database to build applications (e.g., schema design, SQL programming). It is designed as a systems course with an emphasis on database internals. Prior experience with databases is NOT expected. Upon successful completion of this course, the student should feel confident taking a job as a database developer or conducting database-related research in graduate school.

This course offers students an introduction to the relationship between the media, technology platforms, and politics, and an exploration of how that relationship is changing in the digital age. The course introduces students to general theories of media power and effects, outline the economics of media, shows how the media impacts political campaigning, illustrates how the media can affect public policy, and assesses the negative externalities associated with the new political economy of the media (including monopoly, surveillance and information disorder).

Neuroendocrinology is the discipline concerned with how the nervous system controls hormonal secretion and how hormones control the brain. It is pivotal in understanding both general physiology and medicine. This course provides up-to-date and research-orientated information delivered as a series of lectures and group exercises. The lectures are presented by experts in the particular area of research, and the group exercises are based on current research literature and/or results, and are designed to develop students' ability to read, understand, and appraise the current research literature.