University of Melbourne

This course introduces the basic principles of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. Fluid mechanics influences a diverse range of engineering systems (aircraft, ships, road vehicle design, air conditioning, energy conversion, wind turbines, and hydroelectric schemes) and also impacts many biological and meteorological studies. Thermodynamics could be defined as the science of energy. This subject can be broadly interpreted to include all aspects of energy and energy transformations. Like fluid mechanics, this is an important subject in engineering, underpinning many key engineering systems including power generation, engines, gas turbines, refrigeration, and heating. Real world engineering examples are used to illustrate and develop an intuitive understanding of these topics.

This course examines key body systems and physiological concepts. It focuses on integrating concepts and synthesizing ideas to tackle challenging Physiological questions related to various clinical and functional scenarios. 

This course examines American history since 1945. It charts key developments: from McCarthyism to the Patriot Act; from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Black Lives Matter; from liberalism’s apogee to the rise of conservatism. It examines the legacies of and controversies surrounding presidencies from Truman to Trump. With an emphasis on domestic rather than foreign affairs, the subject covers the Cold War, the Sixties – New Left and counterculture, the civil rights movement, social activism in the 1970s, the role of religion in American public life, the rise of the New Right, debates about immigration, and other key topics.

This course examines how law frames the human relationship to the environment and non-human world, including issues of democracy, environmental justice, the treatment of animals and global inequality. It will draw on case studies in Australian, comparative and international law. It will invite students to explore the way that various areas of law are implicated in environmental problems and injustice, and to consider how law can be reformed to perform a protective function. 

Solving problems in areas such as business, biology, physics, chemistry, engineering, humanities, and social sciences often requires manipulating, analysing, and visualising data through computer programming. This course teaches students with little or no background in computer programming how to design and write small programs using a high-level procedural programming language, and to solve simple problems using these skills. On completion of this subject the student is expected to: 1.Use the fundamental programming constructs (sequence, alternation, selection) 2.Use the fundamental data structures (arrays, records, lists, associative arrays) 3.Use abstraction constructs such as functions 4.Understand and employ some basic program structures 5.Understand and employ some basic algorithmic problem solving techniques 6.Read, write, and debug simple, small programs

This course examines lived experiences and life narratives - ours’ and others’ – to examine the relationship between the past and the present, individuals and different types of social life, the public and the private, the local and the (trans)national. Topics include identity and representation (including self-representation), power and ethics, the complexities of memory, as well as possibilities afforded by different forms of life writing, which encompass personal essays, memoirs, biographies, diaries, letters, oral histories, family histories and blogs.