University of New South Wales

This course examines weight loss by tracing every atom one eats into and out of the body while investigating the fate of fat during weight loss. There will be a focus on how humans convert food into useful energy, why energy is important, what exactly happens in the body during weight loss and weight gain, and how one can change their lifestyle in subtle ways to live a healthier life.

This course examines the history of sexuality from the Ancient world, through the 18th and 19th centuries, ending up in the twentieth century.

This foundation course provides a study of the psychopathology of high-profile offenders, including serial killers, psychopaths, violent criminals, and sexual offenders. Taking a lifecycle approach, it examines the antecedents of offending, genetic influences, and the detection, prosecution, treatment, and punishment of this group. Real case examples are used to illustrate offender groups such as Fred West, Jeffrey Dahmer, Peter Sutcliffe, Ted Bundy, Dr Harold Shipman, Ivan Milat, and Michael Bryant. This intensive course is taught by some of Australia’s leading forensic psychiatrists, clinicians, and researchers from the forensic mental health services, police, corrective services, law, and forensic medicine.

This course offers students an opportunity to examine how environmental politics are played out within society. Students examine the intersection of environmental concerns, power relations, advocacy, and activism. The study of advocacy and activism campaigns and case studies focus on mapping the evolution of a controversy, teasing out the distinctions between advocacy and activism, analysing the role of popular culture, managing social and traditional media, and identifying successful interventions that have an impact on environmental policy and decision making processes. Key questions explored during the course include: How do citizens make sense of and respond to initiatives that have potentially damaging consequences for society?; How do science, business and activists attempt to persuade?; How are power relations invoked, challenged and negated within environmental advocacy and activist campaigns?; and What role does popular culture play in creating and sustaining particular valuing systems and cultures?

This course examines the relationship between media, society and politics by examining the ways in which information is mediated between social, cultural and political institutions. It develops a conceptual framework from which to analyze the dynamic technological and regulatory environment in which the media operates and to investigate the consequences of changes in these areas for media practitioners, politicians and ordinary citizens. Topics covered include media ownership and regulation; the media and society; the media and politics; the media and social movements; the politics of spin; censorship, freedom of speech/press; new media and democracy; global media and global politics.

This course examines how documentary films have both represented and revised the past. From the earliest radical Bolshevik pioneers to the home movies of the forties, to the current use of the phone camera to record emergency and war, and even to the wildlife documentary, this course explores how documentary films interpret history, make history and in some cases, have even changed history.

This course provides a contemporary view of issues associated with human mental disorders and psychopathology; it introduces and discusses the notion of abnormality in behavior, diagnostic practice, stigma, prognosis, and treatment in human mental disorders. There is discussion of what is known of the nature and aetiology of major mental disorders such as schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression; psychological and biological theories that attempt to account for these disorders; and their prevalence, treatment, and prognosis. This course is taught online.

This course examines corporate finance, providing a holistic view of the principles of financial valuation and financial decision making in action. The course aims to broaden and deepen theoretical knowledge and practical experience in valuing complex debt and equity assets; to provide a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between financial risk and return and how this relationship in turn affects the cost of capital, capital structure, and asset values; and extend practical knowledge and skills in valuing cash flows and managing working capital.