Sydney Study Abroad Curriculum

Major focus on Australia’s global and national development as a multicultural nation with European roots, traditional western alliances and an imagined future in the Asia-Pacific region. The themes of continuity and change in relation to the Aboriginal population are explored in some detail.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • Research and Information Literacy

Australia owns the world’s oldest continuing art tradition (indigenous Australian art) and the youngest tradition. This course focuses on key artists, in an historical and an international context, against themes of landscape, urbanism, abstraction, realism, the noble savage, and modernism.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Aesthetic Exploration
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy

Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASCS112, CASCS131, and CASCS132; or CASCS235 or CASCS237

Examines the basic principles of algorithm design and analysis; graph algorithms; greedy algorithms; dynamic programming; network flows; polynomial- time reductions; NP-hard and NP-complete problems; approximation algorithms; randomized algorithms.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Quantitative Reasoning II
  • Critical Thinking

Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASCS112

Introduction to the construction of reliable software. Topics may include software tools, software testing methodologies, retrofitting, regression testing, structured design and structured programming, software characteristics and quality, complexity, entropy, deadlock, fault tolerance, formal proofs of program correctness, chief program teams, and structured walk-throughs.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Teamwork/Collaboration

The course focuses on the origins and dynamics of the ‘miracle’ Asia/Pacific economic growth, emphasising its impact on Australia. This region was the crucible for a global shift in political, economic and strategic power from the ‘developed’ western economies to Asia/Pacific.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Critical Thinking

This course is designed to introduce students to the literature of Australia through an eclectic collection of texts, and diverse forms and genres of writing, including the adaptation from page to screen. A major focus is “What is Australian Identity?”.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Aesthetic Exploration
  • Writing Intensive Course
  • Creativity/Innovation

This course explores the cultural, economic, diplomatic, and legal developments in sport in the region as a background to building management skills. While the course has a focus on understanding these elements with a view to informing sport management, it will also interest those who want to understand the interplay of the myriad nations of the region through cultural, diplomatic, legal, political, and other areas using the sport industry as a lens.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy

This course examines the new era of regional security in the Asia-Pacific region to understand the public policy implications for Australia and the United States. Students will be able to identify and understand how the region could evolve.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy

An introduction to the study of Australian politics and government, focusing on basic institutions such as Federation, the Constitution, pressure groups, political parties, Parliament, and Cabinet; and the major political institutions and processes in Australia; approaches used in the study of politics; and experience and expertise in oral and written analysis. Suter.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy

This is an interdisciplinary introduction to concepts and issues entailed in critically evaluating Australian social policy as a field of academic study and a site of contemporary action, including policies for health, human rights, women and work, and Indigenous Australians.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Social Inquiry II
  • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
  • Critical Thinking

This intensive course adopts a ‘theory-into-practice’ stance to the strategic planning of brand advertising & promotional campaigns. While cognizant of the diverse aspirations and experience of Study Abroad students the course features universally applicable brand campaign planning approaches and methodologies.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Oral and/or Signed Communication

Contemporary issues associated with Australian mass media and film. Key areas of film, television, print, advertising, and radio, plus media ownership and government legislation in Australia. The emphasis of the course will be on current Australian media and film production.

• Units: 4

Australia produced The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), the world’s first full-length feature film. This course follows the local industry from a national to international identity, highlighting distinctly Australian characters alongside themes of city, bush and the outback.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Philosophical Inquiry & Life’s Meaning
  • Aesthetic Exploration

Spring only.

This course introduces students to the Australian Wine Industry. The focus will be on the history, location, culture and development of the Australian Wine Industry, the process involved in the production of wine, the business of the Australian Wine Industry, and the basic skills of wine tasting.

• Units: 4
• BU Hub areas:
  • Scientific Inquiry I
  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Critical Thinking

Fall only.

Prerequisite: QST MK 323 Marketing Management.

Covers topics relating to customer service management and focuses on the role of marketing in managing services. Also covered are human resource, information management, operational, and financial overlaps with marketing throughout the course.

• Units: 4

Prerequisite: QST MK 323 Marketing Management.

Develops a critical appreciation of both the opportunities and challenges associated with the increasing globalization of markets. Students learn about the key environmental forces shaping the needs and preferences of the global consumer and the impact of foreign, political, and economic factors on the marketing mix.

• Units: 4