University of New South Wales

This course examines the importance of health and human capital to individual well-being and economic growth. It evaluates how the natural, social, economic, and political environments affect the accumulation and stock of health and human capital and the ways in which health and human capital interact with one another. It documents the considerable inequality in health and human capital across society and considers ways in which policy may help reduce this inequality.

This course examines the essentials of understanding and managing climate risk, including how climate risk may manifest as a challenge in a wide range of sectors such as built environment, engineering, business, health, law, economics and policy.

This course examines the foundational principles of contemporary media production. It focuses on three areas of media production; graphic design, animation and interaction design. It also studies the applied theories and techniques involved in creating contemporary media productions and current tools and strategies for a range of media contexts.

In this course, students work with an industry client to develop a project to realization, identifying an area of specialization and consolidating the skills needed to work in the media industries. The main emphasis in this course is practical production, augmented by critical and creative thinking within a range of specializations including Animation, Video Production, Interaction Design or Sound.

This course covers aspects of both the physical and biological environments of the sea and their inter-relationships. It depicts marine science as a body of knowledge and a process of continual enquiry and testing of ideas. It considers human impacts on the marine environments and how the principles and methods of science in general are used to predict and solve the problems created by human activities. The course includes discussion of the marine environment; its physical, geological, chemical, and biological characteristics and their interactions; the sea as a source of human food; marine productivity, fisheries, and mariculture and how science can assist in management for a sustainable yield; and the effects of development, especially industrial development on the marine environment, and how science can contribute to providing solutions to these problems.

This course provides a set of generic concepts and skills for negotiation and resolving interpersonal and inter-group conflicts. Students work with theory, skills, and processes of negotiation relevant to a wide range of contexts (including commercial, organizational, political, legal, and industrial relations). This course provides an analytical understanding of negotiations including negotiation planning, strategy, and tactics, as well as develops practical skills necessary for implementation of this knowledge. Students gain these practical skills through negotiation role play exercises, which develop in complexity as the course progresses.

This course examines key social challenges the world is grappling with such as power and inequality, human security, human mobility, human rights, and globalization. It explores the lived experience of people and cultures around the world and how they make meaning.

The course introduces students to transdisciplinary ways of viewing and examining modern Australia's relationship with the broad Asian region. It examines the conflicting perceptions, images, and emotions that Australians have towards their region and the various themes and events that have impacted upon them. Materials examined include historical accounts, literature, art, blogs, documentaries, and movies. Topics covered include: Asia and the formation of Australian identities, the rise of Asia and Australia’s shifting strategic relationships, the impact of Asian migration and multiculturalism, the transformations of urban spaces, Asian Australians speaking out, educating about and for the Asian Century, military adventures into Asia, tourism to Asia, economic ties with Asia, and cultural integration with our region.

This course examines the theatrical and performative modes of writing, including writing delivered live by a performer or performers in a theater, encountered by a seated or mobile audience, or experienced through media such as headphones or hypertext.