University of Sydney

This course examines web technologies needed to design and prototype web-based user interfaces. In this course, students will prototype screen-based designs using scripting and markup languages such as HTML, CSS.

This course examines conventional and alternative perspectives on leadership and provides a range of leadership case studies. 

This course examines the formal methods of decision making. These methods include measuring risk by subjective probabilities; growing decision trees; performing sensitivity analysis; using theoretical probability distributions; simulation of uncertain events; modeling risk attitudes; estimating the value of information; and combining quantitative and qualitative considerations. 

This course examines histories and continuing legacies of colonialism and racialization and their interaction with legal systems and criminalization. Topics covered could include dispossession and theft of sovereignty in settler colonial nations, structural racism and its relation to law, racialized policing and profiling, mass incarceration policies and movements by Indigenous peoples and people of color to achieve social and legal justice.

This course examines computation and data handling, integrating sophisticated use of existing productivity software, e.g. spreadsheets, with the development of custom software using the general-purpose Python language. Students will see examples from many domains, and be able to write code to automate the common processes of data science, such as data ingestion, format conversion, cleaning, summarization, creation and application of a predictive model.

This course examines skills in chemistry for application to life and medical sciences, engineering, and further study in chemistry. It covers nuclear and radiation chemistry, wave theory, atomic orbitals, spectroscopy, bonding, enthalpy and entropy, equilibrium, processes occurring in solutions, and the functional groups in carbon chemistry. Students develop experimental design, conduct and analysis skills in chemistry through experiments that ask and answer questions like how do dyes work, how do we desalinate water, how do we measure the acid content in foods, how do we get the blue in a blueprint, and how do we extract natural products from plants? 

This course consolidates and expands both receptive and productive skills through a variety of learning tasks, to be carried out individually and/or in group. It aims at fluency and accuracy and it fosters independent learning.

This course examines digital cultures, the critical interdisciplinary field of research into the cultural and social dimensions of digital technologies. It explores the histories, imaginaries, ideas, platforms and thinkers that inform the study of digital cultures. Students will examine tools and theories that explain the interrelated processes of digital media and communications development and social change. 

This course examines management methods. It covers management as a process of planning, organizing, leading and controlling the efforts of organizational members and discusses how recent trends such as globalization, economic change and the effects of new technology have led to profound changes in how organizations are managed. The course explores these issues with respect to both large and small, public and private, and domestic and foreign organizations.