University of Queensland

This course explores the relationship between landscape-scale spatial patterns and the ecological, physical, and social process that drive environmental change. It then applies this to real-world problems to achieve sustainable landscapes in the context of biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and social-ecological outcomes.

This course examines a pertinent challenge of humankind: how to feed 12 billion people while maintaining the integrity and function of our planet. It challenges participants with contrasting viewpoints for a nuanced understanding of the multidimensional aspects of food production and consumption. Course participants explore the food debate as consumers and scholars, with focus on the science behind innovation of food and food systems, locally and globally. Course participants map the future of food and agriculture with view of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

This course examines how art functions as collective expression of cultures, nations, and communities across history, and develops skills in visual literacy and analysis; image-based communication; and the psychology of visual perception.

This course examines group theory and ring theory, with a view towards commutative algebra, algebraic number theory and representation theory.

This course examines the way people know, interact with, and care about their environment. This includes interactions with, and the meanings of, (urban) wildlife, climate change studies, biodiversity conservation, and the challenges of natural resource management. In addition, students will develop skills in ethnographic fieldwork.

This course examines the ways in which music contributes to well being and health. Students will learn about connections between music, well being and health through exploration of a range of practices across different cultural contexts and considering individual through to population perspectives. The well being and health affordances of music will be examined through integrated theory and research from interdisciplinary music and psychology perspectives. 

This course examines the nature of crime in Australia and the different approaches to understanding criminal behavior. The course seeks to ground students with an understanding of the causes of crime, the major methods for measuring crime, as well as the dominant theoretical perspectives in the field of Criminology.

This course examines analytical functions; cauchy-riemann equations; complex mappings; cauchy's integral formulas; morera's, liouville's & rouche's theorems; taylor & laurent series; analytic continuation, residues & applications to integration; and boundary-value problems.

This course examines the political relationship between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous peoples of Australia as an instance of wider global relations among indigenous societies, colonial powers and contemporary national and international regimes and institutions. Students will gain an understanding of government policies and the responses to these practices by Indigenous peoples by critically evaluating the political frameworks and policy responses used to deal with Indigenous-settler relations. The course will consider - among other topics - land, citizenship and identity, self-determination, constitutional recognition, and the governance of Indigenous organizations.