Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Thu
This seminar addresses global media developments in the context of key theoretical frameworks. Topics include: the disruption of information flows; challenges to democracy; distrust in journalism; the rise of social platforms; gender and diversity biases; ethics and regulation; fake news and deep fakes; the erosion of privacy; citizen journalism; cancel culture; hacktivism and digital activism; #metoo and #blacklivesmatter; the metaverse and VR/AR; Web 3.0 and blockchain; and generative AI. The focus is international, with an emphasis on Australia.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates:
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Provides the background necessary to make decisions about computer-based information systems and to be an “end-user”. Two major parts of the course are hands-on experience with personal computers and information systems management. Group and individual computer assignments expose students to electronic spreadsheet analysis and database management on a personal computer. Management aspects focus on understanding computer technology, systems analysis and design, and control of information processing by managers.
Computing and Data Science (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon
This course offers an introduction to some of the classical and current issues in the anthropology of Indigenous Australia. The role of anthropology in the representation and governance of Indigenous life is itself an important subject for anthropological inquiry, considering that Indigenous people of Australia have long been the objects of interest and imagination by outsiders for their cultural formulations of kinship, ritual, art, gender, and politics. These representations—in feature films about them (such as Rabbit-Proof Fence and Australia), New Age Literature (such as Mutant Message Down Under), or museum exhibitions (such as in the Museum of Sydney or the Australian Museum)—are now also in dialogue with Indigenous forms of cultural production, in genres as diverse as film, television, drama, dance, art and writing. The course will explore how Aboriginal people have struggled to reproduce themselves and their traditions on their own terms, asserting their right to forms of cultural autonomy and self-determination. Through the examination of ethnographic and historical texts, films, archives and Indigenous life-writing accounts, we will consider the ways in which Aboriginalities are being challenged and constructed in contemporary Australia. The course will consist of lectures interspersed with discussions, student presentations, and films/other media; we may also have guest presenters.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed,Tue,Thu
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed,Tue,Thu
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed,Tue,Thu
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed,Tue,Thu
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed,Tue,Thu
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed,Tue,Thu
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed,Tue,Thu
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed,Tue,Thu
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed,Tue,Thu,Tue
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed,Tue,Thu,Tue,Wed
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed,Tue,Thu,Tue,Wed,Mon
College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Mon
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Mon
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Mon,Tue
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Mon,Tue
The course description for this CORE class varies on the location where taught. Please view the course description in the course notes below.
College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks