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ATS2848The economic history of the modern world
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This unit introduces you to the economic history of the modern world. Employing recent insights from both history and economics, it examines major turning points, trends, and events in the development of the modern world. Upon completing...
Semester 2Clayton
ECX2144The economic history of the modern world
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsBusiness and Economics
This unit introduces you to the economic history of the modern world. Employing recent insights from both history and economics, it examines major turning points, trends, and events in the development of the modern world. Upon completing...
Semester 2Clayton
ATS2292The ethics of artificial intelligence
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Advances in artificial intelligence are poised to transform almost every aspect of modern society – ranging from how we work to how we create art, how we practice medicine to how we fight wars, and how we sentence criminals. This unit...
Semester 1CaulfieldClayton
ATS2640The ethics of global conflict
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When, if ever, is warfare justified? What about humanitarian intervention? What about violent revolution and terrorism? Why should civilians be protected in conflict? This unit will introduce you to theoretical approaches to the ethics of...
Semester 1Clayton
ATS2275The European Union: Challenges, crises and opportunities
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The European Union is a unique historic and political achievement. It helped turn Europe from a zone of war into a zone of peace, and it contributed to the consolidation of democracy in the post-fascist and post-communist eras. Yet it is...
WinterPrato
ATS3275The European Union: Challenges, crises and opportunities
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The European Union is a unique historic and political achievement. It helped turn Europe from a zone of war into a zone of peace, and it contributed to the consolidation of democracy in the post-fascist and post-communist eras. Yet it is...
WinterPrato
ATS3235The French Pacific: Immersion into (post)colonial francophone cultures
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This study tour offers a unique opportunity to experience francophone cultures of the South Pacific. You will undertake a two-week intensive program in New Caledonia or French Polynesia where you will stay with a host family/in a...
ATS1309The geography of global challenges
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How can we understand and address the interlinked global challenges of environmental degradation, economic inequality, and population growth? ‘The geography of global challenges’ is an introductory unit in Human Geography that grapples...
Semester 2Clayton
ATS1420The global crime problem
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The unit presents contemporary global challenges for those tasked with responding to crime and criminality. You will be presented with several topical issues that are key challenges for contemporary governments and non-state actors. The...
Semester 1Clayton
BTF5160The globalisation of law and development in Asia
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The unit introduces you to the interaction between global regulation and business practices in Asia. Using a series of cases studies, it examines how global business regulations are adopted and reinterpreted by key Asian regulators and...
ATS3186The global south in international relations
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In this unit, you are introduced to the agency, role, perspectives, and lived experiences of the Global South in shaping contemporary international relations and global order. You will explore how historical and contemporary events and...
Semester 1Clayton
ATS2349The golden age of Athens
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This unit focuses on the city-state of Athens during the 5th century BCE: the period when, in a burst of creativity, her citizens produced their greatest achievements. The unit offers a historical and archaeological framework within which...
MGZ5750The governance of international trade
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The unit will provide you with key insights regarding how trade policy is formulated, negotiated and implemented; the economic, social and cultural implications of international trade rules; the pattern of relationships that exists between...
Semester 1Suzhou (SEU)
PSY3252The history of psychological disorders and disability
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsMedicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Psychology and psychiatry have long shaped how psychological disorders and disability are defined, studied, and managed. This unit traces the historical development of these concepts, examining their evolving place within psychology,...
Semester 1Clayton
ATS2110The history of slavery: From antiquity to the present
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Slavery has existed since ancient times and has been used in societies as diverse as Ancient Rome and modern India, medieval Europe and nineteenth-century America. It still exists, in various forms, today. The unit investigates the meaning...
ATS2600The Holocaust
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This unit examines the Holocaust and its place in the broader phenomenon of genocide and mass killing in history. Major topics covered include antisemitism, the Nazi state, ghettos and death camps, responses of victims, and the role of...
Semester 2Clayton
ECX5641The Indian economy
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The rise of India on the world economic stage has been heralded for some time now. India’s economy is currently the fifth largest globally and poised to be the third largest by 2027. It is already the third largest in terms of purchasing...
ECX2641The Indian economy
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The rise of India on the world economic stage has been heralded for some time now. India’s economy is currently the fifth largest globally and poised to be the third largest by 2027. It is already the third largest in terms of purchasing...
ATS3584The Indigenous history of modern Australia
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In this unit, you will consider relations between Indigenous and non-Aboriginal people in Australia since 1770. The main topics will include the legal basis of British sovereignty; the nature of frontier contact; violence and the...
Semester 2CaulfieldClayton
ATS2199The inhuman body in the human world: Corporations and contemporary culture
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In this unit, you will explore the relationship between humans, cultures and the corporation. Drawing on social science and humanities-based analysis of corporate activity in western and non-western settings, you will critically examines...
Semester 2Clayton