University of Sydney

This course examines how to manage the complexities of contemporary organizational communication. It focuses primarily on internal organizational communication and examines communication processes at various levels: interpersonal (dyadic), group and organization.

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This course examines the theories and methods of investigating memory and attentional processes to consider a number of domains of higher cognitive processing including memory, language, object and face recognition, categorization, and reasoning. An integrating theme of the course will be how such cognitive capacities contribute to skilled behavior and expertise across a range of domains of human behavior, and how they are implemented in artificial intelligence systems. The practical program will expose students to a variety of the research methods used to investigate higher cognitive processes, develop their understanding of how these methods can be used to investigate hypotheses about mental processes and consider applications of cognitive research to real-world problems and issues.

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This course examines a range of African American-authored texts, including films, from the 18th century to the present to consider the relationship of race and writing, and the ways African American cultural expression contributes to and interrogates American cultural history. Issues covered include enslavement and freedom, and segregation and Civil Rights.

Why are some books considered classics while others are hardly read at all? How is the idea of the classic linked to debates about history, representation, excellence, and taste? This course answers these questions through in-depth, guided readings of a small number of major texts that have, at one time or another, been celebrated for their classic status. It considers whether literary classics must be difficult, innovative, representative, or popular; how they shape our judgements about literary tradition and value; and why they remain implicated in debates about sexuality, race, national identity, and class.