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This course examines the institutions and practices of the criminal justice system. As well as considering the operation of various components of the criminal justice system - including the police, courts, and corrections - it will also address new and emerging developments in criminal justice practice, crime prevention, and responses to crime. 

This course provides an overview of the American political system and its electoral processes. It examines institutions and rules that structure electoral processes and discusses recent issues in U.S. elections. Topics include American political system, voting rights, congressional elections, presidency and presidential elections, political parties, campaign finance and interest groups, race and ethnicity in American elections, media and elections, and representation and accountability. 

This course is designed for non-Chinese language background students who have learned Chinese for up to 150 tuition hours. It prepares students for an intermediate-level understanding of spoken Chinese and equip them with a strong communicative competence in using Chinese in social and professional situations. 

This course examines e city of Melbourne, exploring the natural, cultural and constructed development of this thriving city. A range of disciplinary perspectives will provide students with an awareness of how this city, and the university within it, have evolved to the present day, and what plans there are to sustain them both into the future

This course examines the theory and practice of organizations, focusing particularly on internal systems and processes of organizing people, as well as strategies and consequences of an organization's engagement with its external context.

This course is an introduction to labor economics. The course objective is to understand how labor markets operate and how they are affected by institutions and labor market policies. Both empirical evidence and standard theory are covered. The course highlights the effects on efficiency and the redistributive properties of institutions operating in imperfect labor markets, subject to market failures. This provides three reasons for the existence of institutions: i) remedying market failures, ii) achieving some redistribution, and iii) remedying potential negative side effects of other institutions. The course consists of 14 key lectures. The first lecture set up the stage by introducing workers’ labor supply, firms' labor demand, the labor market equilibrium and the institutional wedges. Lecture 2 through 14 deal with specific institutions and have the same setup: a description of the institution, some cross-country comparisons, theory in perfect and imperfect labor markets, empirical evidence on the effects of this institution, interactions with other institutions, and policy issues. The four lecture topics are: overview; minimum wages; unions and collective bargaining; antidiscrimination legislation; regulation of working hours; early retirement plans; family policies; education and training; migration policies; employment protection legislation; regulations on self-employment; unemployment benefits and active labor market policies; health related labor policies; and payroll taxes.

This course focuses on data about connections, forming structures known as networks. Networks and network data describe an increasingly vast part of the modern world, through connections on social media, communications, financial transactions, and other ties. The course covers the fundamentals of network structures, network data structures, and the analysis and presentation of network data. Students work directly with network data and structure, and analyze these data using R.

This course examines topics on kinematic analysis of mechanisms (position, velocity, and acceleration analysis of solid bodies and mechanisms) and design/synthesis of mechanisms (how to determine the geometry of a mechanism to achieve kinematic
goals). 

Decentralized blockchain-based systems, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, are successful beyond all expectations. Although still in their infancy, they promise to revolutionize how we think of financial, information, and other infrastructures. This course covers the technical aspects of public distributed ledgers, blockchain systems, cryptocurrencies, and smart contracts. It covers how these systems are built, how to interact with them, and how to design and build secure distributed applications.

This course examines international financial economics using a mixture of modern economic theory and empirical analysis. The inter-temporal model of the current account is examined to enable the analysis of the effects of economic policies on international trade and global financial markets. Theory and evidence for international asset positions will also be examined. Models of exchange rate and interest rate determination will be introduced and their empirical performance will be assessed. Topics covered will include sovereign debt, currency crises and the home bias portfolio puzzle.