University of Sydney

This course explores what the comedies of Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, and Terence say about the societies they entertained, why the rumbustious popular form of comedy developed into the more thoughtful and reflective New Comedy of Menander, and how comic themes, preoccupations, and conventions had such an enormous influence on subsequent European drama.

This is a general introduction to the main topics and methods of psychology, and it is the basis for advanced work as well as being of use to those not proceeding with the subject. Topics: neuroscience; human mental abilities; learning and motivation; visual perception; cognitive processes; abnormal psychology.

This course critically examines the role that ethnic conflict plays in national and international politics. The course provides advanced knowledge of nationalism, and close familiarity with current thinking around the role of the ethnic nationalism in particular. The course analyzes the most influential theories, historical and contemporary, about the role of ethnic nationalism (as opposed to civic nationalism), regionally and internationally. A range of competing theoretical approaches are considered, concentrating on the theory of a "divided society".

This course builds on the language skills acquired in SPAN3001. By the end of this unit students should be competent and independent users of spoken and written Spanish in most general situations. Activities used in the classroom are designed to allow students to further explore the culture and history of the Spanish-speaking world as well as improving their Spanish. All activities, in which students are expected to participate actively, are designed to improve their analytical and critical abilities, written and oral communication skills, awareness of cross-cultural issues and teamwork skills.

This course provides a studio based approach to translating design drawings from analogue and digital sources into componentry through industrialized machine processes found in the technology of laser cutting, vinyl cutting, plasma cutting, etc. These digitally mediated processes open up possibilities for reproducing or translating graphic ideas and drawings in a variety of different ways and would be applicable to all artists interested in working with the digital and the new forms of modular fabrication technology. Students work through the processes necessary for making graphic artwork ready to work with these technologies that allow for mechanical reproduction of, for example, a large quantity of smaller elements that make up a large scale work, the cutting of intricate patterns, working with materials that are difficult to cut, or using the process to distort shape or manipulate the scale of the final work. Focus is on translating digital drawing into materials. The software is a combination of commercial and open source software and we outsource the actual cutting process and working with the relevant companies that provide this service.

This course explores how new products and services are crucial to successful growth and increased profits in many industries. The goal is to help students learn how to develop and market new products and services in both the private and public sectors. A product development assignment is carried out to reinforce the material covered and to provide realistic examples of how new products are designed, tested, and launched.

This course introduces students to issues relating to the rehabilitation of public offenders including adults (males and females) and youth offenders. Students study the major theories of criminality and community attitudes impacting government approaches to rehabilitation and incarceration policy. This course examines the different approaches and policies to incarceration and the goals of these approaches. Students analyze the roles and functions of personnel employed within the prison system and the various health issues associated with public offender rehabilitation, including drug addiction, mental illness, and HIV/AIDS. Students are also introduced to the probation and parole system and the various alternatives to full-time incarceration, including community service, day release, work release, and weekend detention.

This course covers contemporary and historical art made in response to the ebb and flow of daily life and the material conditions of the street, the city, and the home. It explores texts of the art and politics of the everyday and topics related to the 19th through 21st-century theory and practice. Students focus on artists who heighten awareness of the banal and mundane, of the detritus of life, of gendered distinctions between home and city, and the paradoxical revelation of the marvelous in the everyday.