University of Sydney

This course considers key themes in modern and contemporary political thought. It uses primary texts to address topics such as sovereignty, democracy, fascism, liberalism, human rights, politics and religion, violence, and political identity. Authors may include Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Kant, Nietzsche, Marx, J.S. Mill, Tocqueville, Rawls, Arendt, Schmitt, and Foucault.

This course offers an introduction to lighting and its effects in photography. Considering the lighting studio as a site for experimentation and critical exploration, the course presents the fundamentals of lighting while exploring both how it has been historically used and how contemporary artists use it today both in and out of the studio. Through the nexus of photographic portraiture and still life, lighting is explored as a mechanism for both documenting and transforming its subjects/objects. Students are encouraged to work in groups to create original photographic work for two major photo assignments.

This course covers topics in economic history from the advent of European modernity in the 17th century to the late 20th century. A major focus is identifying the main social, institutional and economic forces that explain the unprecedented development of the world economy over the past 300 years. Topics include the first industrial revolution in Britain, the industrialization of Western Europe and the United States, the 1930s Great Depression and recovery, post-World War II reconstruction and 'golden era' of growth, and East Asia's meteoric growth performance.

The course uses an anthropological lens to examine how Indigenous Australians have long engaged with a diversity of non-Indigenous practices, ideas and values as they continue to articulate distinct Indigenous lives. It investigates ethnographically changing Indigenous life worlds since colonization with a focus on state policy and rights politics.

This course introduces students to the planning and management of projects by focusing on a variety of practical topics including project network, PERT, resource scheduling, learning curves, cost and time management in projects, and the use of project management support systems. It also discusses the organisational, leadership, cultural, and technological challenges that project managers face.

This course is an introduction to the anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology of the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems. The basic concepts of pharmacology are introduced, enabling students to understand the action of drugs on each of the body systems. The course includes laboratory classes in which human cadavers are studied.

This course provides an overview of the functional and phylogenetic diversity of invertebrate and vertebrate animals. The material is presented within the conceptual framework of evolution, the foundation of biology. The course explores the diversity of major functional systems and behavior in the context of environmental challenges and the ecological roles of different animal groups. Laboratory classes include dissections and demonstrations of the functional anatomy of invertebrates and vertebrates, as well as experiments.

This course explores key features of criminal justice processes and practices, with a critical examination of policing, sentencing, punishment and prison in their historical, social, political and cultural contexts. It considers a range of related concepts and issues, including the expansion of punishment in society and post-release life.

This course studies contemporary and historical artists in relation to today's environmental crisis. The course examines how art objects and art making relate to issues pertaining to nature, ecology, and the environment. Through visual and textual analysis, the course provides interdisciplinary perspectives on art's place within contemporary post humanist theories, the significance of ecological thinking to contemporary aesthetics, art's historical response to the impact of science and technology, and art's recognition of the importance of Indigenous knowledge to planetary ethics.