University of New South Wales

This course examines the core theories and concepts of managing human behavior in organizations. It covers a variety of theories and concepts to provide a foundational understanding of the attributes of individual behavior in organizations, including personality, motivation, decision-making, as well as interpersonal behaviors, including teamwork, power and influence, leadership, and communication. 

This course examines media through a social justice lens – revealing hidden costs and social, political, cultural implications of emerging media technologies and longstanding media practices. It covers key concepts and theories from media studies, journalism studies, cultural studies, sociology, and criminology, with an emphasis on First Nations knowledges and critical approaches to race and gender. 

This course examines the key concepts and current debates in criminology. It covers basic issues such as the definition, measurement and explanations of crime, societal reactions to crime, criminological theories, the role of research and the influence of criminology on public policy.

This course examines the internal organization of firms and other organizations. It provides a rigorous introduction to foundational theories, and then discusses applications to real-world managerial problems. It looks at the following questions: How should incentives be designed in organizations? How should conflict within an organization be resolved? When should organizations outsource and when should they produce internally? Why do organizations arise in market economies? 

This course examines some of the most significant issues facing the world today such as the recurrence of violence between and within countries; the difficulty of lifting large numbers of people out of poverty; what is to happen to people who do not have a home in any country; increasing environmental destruction; intensifying global financial instability; and whether the current structures and processes of governance are adequate to address these issues. 

This course introduces the fundamentals of regression modeling, providing essential knowledge for students pursuing advanced study in statistics or careers as professional statisticians. Topics include parameter estimation in linear models, hypothesis testing for model comparison, model selection techniques for predictive purposes, detection of assumption violations, and identification of influential observations.

This course examines the rise of human rights discourse and its relationship to other discourses on suffering and social justice. It focuses on the experience of victims of human rights abuse and the politics of meaning. Students will engage in critiques of law as a reductionist discourse on the social by exploring the relationships between human rights and cultural differences such as gender, ethnicity, religion and indigenous cultures. The embodied self, social interdependency and the architecture of social institutions are the backdrop through which the course explores the tensions between universal and relativist understandings of human rights and their realization. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of human rights, the global human rights machinery, and the ethics of humanitarian intervention, and will consider how sociologists have studied and written about human rights.

This course examines how the world's oldest liberal democracy has become such a vital and fraught force in the contemporary world. It focuses particularly on the peculiar 20th-century US histories of class, race, religion and global engagement. 

This course examines how people make predictable and repeatable mistakes in financial decision-making. It looks at the nature of these mistakes and their origin, using insights from psychology, neurosciences and experimental economics on how the human mind works. It considers how understanding the functioning of the human mind allows us to design a better world—in particular, better stock markets, retirement and healthcare systems. 

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.