University of Sydney

This course examines the processes, methods, techniques and tools that organizations use to determine how they should conduct their business, with a particular focus on how web-based technologies can most effectively contribute to the way business is organized. It covers a systematic methodology for analyzing a business problem or opportunity, determining what role, if any, web-based technologies can play in addressing the business need, articulating business requirements for the technology solution, specifying alternative approaches to acquiring the technology capabilities needed to address the business requirements, and specifying the requirements for the information systems solution in particular, in-house development, development from third-party providers, or purchased commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) packages.

This course examines key features and processes of criminal justice institutions, crime justice policy and practice, and addresses contemporary debates about crime in relation to substantive areas, such as gender, race, ethnicity, and youth offending.

This course examines the fundamental concepts of data analytics and AI, and their practical applications in healthcare. It covers key concepts in data analytics and AI techniques, ethical considerations in health data analytics and AI, and how their use impacts society: from the patient, to the doctor, to the broader community. 

How we eat, sleep, talk, love, shop, work, play, learn and die are all shaped by digital media. Everyday digital media focuses on the transformation of self and society through the digital mediation of everyday practices. How do we organize our social lives and engage creatively in online realms? What are the opportunities and risks of sharing and self-presentation in networked publics? How are communities reconfigured in a digital context? This unit introduces theories of digital culture and identity and applies them to our everyday experiences and interactions with social media, participatory culture, locative media, computer games, virtual reality, smart homes and connected cities.

This course examines the most recent and topical issues of crime and justice in Australia and elsewhere. It examines these in historical perspective and critically assesses them in the context of both contemporary and longstanding debates over criminal justice in politics, policy and criminological research.

This course examines advanced concepts including software validation and verification, the theory of testing, and advanced design patterns. The course has a strong focus on the theoretical underpinning of software design. In the labs the theory is applied with contemporary tools with concrete examples.

This course examines China's major traditions of philosophy and practice through English translations of key texts as well as authoritative secondary studies. It covers diversity and polemics in early Chinese thought, developments in Daoism, Buddhist thought and influence, and Neo-Confucian (Daoxue) thought.