University of Sydney

This course provides an in-depth understanding of the way in which implementation and use of large scale integrated Enterprise Systems change the nature of organizational capabilities, processes, and roles. The course covers the strategic role of Enterprise Systems in providing a platform for improved business operations and designing information infrastructures. The course includes hands-on experience with an enterprise-wide system, such as SAP, concentrating on the way in which such systems support integrated business processes. Through a combination of discussion and practical work, both the organizational and technical aspects of Enterprise Systems are taught. The emergence and implications of cloud-based Enterprise Systems and the implementation process are also covered.

This course examines the diversity of Australian reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals (including all three mammalian lineages: monotremes, marsupials, and eutherian mammals). Students explore the unique anatomical, physiological, and behavioral adaptations that have enabled our wildlife to survive and thrive within varied Australian ecosystems. Students examine how the uniqueness of Australian wildlife becomes challenging when new threats are presented to the environment.

This course introduces the study of human development, including a critical overview of current theory, research and practice in human development, with particular emphasis on the development of early childhood through to adolescence. A core assumption of the unit is that the study of human development is inter-disciplinary, and that developmental theories, past and present, are open to question and debate. The content focuses on the processes and products of human development, related to neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, social, cultural, and language development. The classical theories are considered and examined in the light of contemporary theory and research. The seminar is concerned with the teaching of values in schools and early childhood education settings, including the creation of values-based learning environments, and with each participant's development as a human self, focusing in particular on the development of participants' professional skills and personal values.

This course develops the analytical skills to understand historical change. It examines political, economic, social and cultural trends in a range of regions across a large span of time, c. 1000-1750 AD. Topics covered include Christianity and Islam, varieties of states and empires, and political transformations. The course examines the significance of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment, and consider what these episodes look like in a global context.

This course covers the opportunities and challenges associated with managing employees in international and cross-cultural contexts, with specific emphasis on international recruitment, selection, preparation, placement, management development, performance management, reward, and remuneration in international, multi-national, and trans-national corporations. The course considers the implications of internationalization and globalization for human resource management (HRM), the difference between domestic and international HRM, and the challenges of cross-cultural management.

Digital Composition courses support the sustained development of compositional craft and creativity through the practical integration of music technology and digital music techniques in the preparation of sound based compositions to be submitted throughout the semester. Focus is on the approaches taken over the last century to record, transform and organize sound in a variety of creative contexts, ranging from early electroacoustic music experiments, through to contemporary electronic music production.

This course covers basic elements of stochastic processes such as time, state, increments, stationarity and Markovian property. Students develop properties and limit theorems of discrete-time Markov chain and branching processes and then establish key results for the Poisson process and continuous-time Markov chains, such as the memoryless property, super positioning, thinning, Kolmogorov's equations and limiting probabilities.

An introduction to basic music literacy skills, including learning to read and write music, and an understanding of fundamental aspects of its structure and composition. The material covered concentrates upon the basics of music theory and listening to ensure that participants have a solid grounding for a firm understanding of music notation and organization.

This course examines how multinational enterprises strategize and operate in global competition. Major topics include the International Business Environment (e.g., the differences in economic, political, legal, and cultural environments); International Business Strategy (e.g., international expansion strategy, entry mode choices, cross-border strategic alliances, and mergers & acquisitions); and International Business Management (e.g., design, structure and control of international operations; and foreign subsidiary management). The emphasis of the course is on the application of contextual knowledge about international business and strategic management theories as tailored to the Asia Pacific, to analyze and make decisions faced by companies operating in the Asia Pacific region.