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The course is designed to prepare students for leadership in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse workforce. Throughout the course, students are challenged to question, think, and respond thoughtfully to the issues they observe and encounter in the internship setting, and the designated city in general. Students have the opportunity to cultivate the leadership skills of problem-solving, deliberation, negotiation, teamwork, intercultural communication, and systems thinking. In addition, the virtual nature of the course, with classmates attending from different regions of the world, offers a unique opportunity for cross-cultural comparative analysis. This is a hybrid course, with both online and in-person components. Online components include instructor led webinars, video lectures, discussion forums, assignments, and readings. Face-to-face elements of the course include local events, site visits, workshops, guest speakers, and participation in a prearranged internship, where students are required to work approximately 200-240 internship hours over the 8-week term.

This course offers an introduction to key thinkers, moments, and movements from Francophone Africa and the African diaspora (including the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and France). It provides a diachronic survey focusing on selective figures and their main texts which have been shaping the cultural, social, and political imagination of/on Africa and the African diaspora until today. Focal points include the Négritude movement; anti-colonialism, Pan-Africanism, and independence; and contemporary postcolonial critique as well as current emancipatory thinking, comprising notions such as "Postcolony", "Necropolitics", "Afropolitanism", "Afrotopia", "Afrodystopia", and "Universality". These mostly Africa-centered conceptualizations will be read alongside influential thought produced in the larger African diaspora and Afro-descendant context outside the Continent, addressing three geographical and cultural contexts: the Francophone Caribbean, with "Antillanité", "Créolité" and "Relation"; the Francophone Indian Ocean Islands with "Creolization" and "Liquid Africa"; and France with critical debates around "Francophonie", "Afropeanism", and "heritage restoration". DP requirements: At least 80% of attendance at lectures and tutorials; completion and timeous submission of all assignments. Assessment: Continuous assessment (essays, projects, tests, etc.) counts 100%.

The course explores the artistic qualities and techniques of dance in musical theater through integrated theory and practice.

The course introduces essential writing skills and techniques across fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. It explores storytelling, imagery, sentence craft, readability, and clarity of expression. The course examines ethical representation and cultural sensitivity through examples and exercises and explores the significance of Indigenous writing in Australian culture. It also introduces the basic principles of copyediting and proofreading and develops skills in applying these principles to written work by identifying grammatical errors, suggesting improvements, and implementing revisions.

This seminar examines the museum as a global institution that emerged through its entanglements with empire, colonial collecting practices, and systems of knowledge production. Divided into two parts, the course first traces the birth and colonial origins of the museum in Europe. It analyzes how collecting, classification, and display became intertwined with imperial ideologies and modes of governance. Finally, the seminar turns to museums in the colony, investigating how these institutions developed distinct trajectories as sites of both imperial control and local agency, as well as their roles in nationalist and postcolonial imaginaries. Through key readings in critical museology, postcolonial theory, and heritage studies, students engage with case studies from Asia and Africa. The seminar concludes by reflecting on what decolonial futures for museums might entail and how curatorial and collaborative practices can challenge established museological frameworks.

Course outline: This course equips students with crucial intellectual resources for facing the challenges presented by a globalised knowledge-dependent economy. Its focus is on developing critical reasoning skills, in particular competence at, and confidence in, assessing the quality of available evidence; distinguishing disinformation from misinformation, and understanding the influence of social media on shaping judgments and decision-making. Students will learn how to use evidence and sound argumentation to reach well-justified conclusions, and to then efficiently and persuasively communicate those conclusions to relevant stakeholders. Practically, the course uses case studies of contemporary debates on social and traditional media to emphasise the importance of understanding commercial activity as occurring within particular social and political environments, and on how those environments can affect our ability to make rational decisions. DP requirements: Submission of all coursework assignments. Participation in small group case study discussions as required. Achieving a weighted average of at least 40%. Assessment: Coursework 75%; Capstone assessment 25%. A sub-minimum of 45% must be achieved in the capstone assessment.

The seminar focuses on contemporary narratives of migration, border crossings, and cultural encounters in a variety of media (short stories, novels, comics, and films). Discussions include the stories told by the migrants themselves as well as narratives about migrants, about the relationship between home and host country, questions of identity and difference, and the relation between the individual and the community. In many cases, such narratives deal with suffering, loss, and trauma.

This course examines one of the most influential and still current imaginative traditions in English literature, gothic, which specializes in the macabre, the horrifying, the sensational, and the fantastical. It explores key works by (amongst others) Ann Radcliffe, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Bram Stoker.

This course examines the integration and application of IT technology within society, business, government, and community systems, highlighting trends like increased mobility, complexity, globalization, and networking in a data-centric world. It explores how IT technology enhances service delivery and competitiveness in a global, networked economy. It covers the role of information systems in business management and network formation, using real-world case studies to grasp how IS contributes to competitive advantage, as well as IS development, implementation, and maintenance, and ethical, privacy, and security considerations.