University of Sydney

This course develops models of the goods, money, and labor markets, and examines issues in macroeconomic policy. Topics discussed include macroeconomic relationships, consumption, investment, money and employment. Macro-dynamic relationships, especially those linking inflation and unemployment, are also considered. Exchange rates and open economy macroeconomics are also addressed. In the last part of the course, topics include the determinants and theories of economic growth, productivity and technology, the dynamics of the business cycle, counter-cyclical policy, and the relationship between micro and macro policy in the context of recent Australian experience.

This course explores the study and practice of business. Topics include business stakeholders, business challenges, and the ways business leaders approach these challenges. Key stakeholders within and external to organizations are identified and their interests are analyzed. Critical business challenges such as climate change and sustainability, the future of work, and workforce diversity are investigated.

This unit focuses on the interplay between gender, culture and politics in the Arab world. Representations of gender and sexuality, and their politicization, are studied through feminist, literary, and historiographical criticism, permitting a deep historical understanding of current debates.

This course introduces students to a range of diversity issues informed by race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and disability, and the importance of cultivating respect for difference. Diversity has become one of the most important issues in contemporary society. This course appeals to students with an interest in social, economic, and cultural marginalization.

This course provides understanding of the theory of negotiation as it is practiced in a variety of strategic settings. The course is relevant to the broad spectrum of negotiation problems that are faced by managers and specific examples from international strategy such as M and A and joint ventures are used. The course provides an opportunity to develop skills experientially and to understand negotiation in useful analytic frameworks. Considerable emphasis is placed on role-playing exercises and case studies. This course requires participation in a number of negotiations. Preparation for these negotiations, which are a large part of the final grade, requires time-pressured reading of material in class.

This course examines socities' understanding of violence and how representations of violence may be both compelling and confronting. It focuses on the interconnections between categories of sex and violence within culture.

Latin American music has become a powerful force in today's music industry, but its rich diversity and cultural contexts are not always known or acknowledged. This course surveys a number of Latin American popular, folk, and indigenous musical traditions in terms of their cultural milieu and historical development. These include Afro-Cuban traditions, samba, salsa, tango, and Andean music. Various musical, historical, and cultural concerns are examined alongside a practical and creative involvement with the compositional characteristics and the repertoire pertinent to these traditions.

This course studies a variety of American literary and visual texts to consider what it means to read "nationally". We first examine the rise of literary nationalism to look then at the ways in which exigencies of empire, race and ethnicity, and gender and sexuality, for example, have exerted pressure on the fantasy of a cohesive national culture. We also consider the transnational turn of recent decades to understand the nation's function in a global context.

This course provides an introduction to human services in Australia. It provides insights into the historical and contemporary characteristics of the human service sector, including the challenges posed by marketization, professionalization and neoliberalism for addressing human needs in different fields of practice.