Undergraduate unit of study descriptions

The information in this chapter relates to the 2012 unit of study offerings description information.

This information shows descriptions for the following undergraduate units:

All undergraduate units of study offered by the University of Sydney Business School (ACCT, BUSS, CLAW, FINC, IBUS, INFS, MKTG, QBUS and WORK)
All undergraduate units of study from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences subject areas of Econometrics (ECMT), Economics (ECON/ECOS), Government and International Relations (GOVT) and Political Economy (ECOP).
All undergraduate units of study from the Faculty of Science subject areas of Computer Science (COMP, ELEC and INFO), Financial Mathematics and Mathematics (MATH and STAT).
All undergraduate units of study from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Agricultural Economics subject area (AGEC).
All Sydney Law School units completed in the combined Law degree in the first three years (LAWS)
All Medicine units completed in the combined Medicine degree in the first three years (SMTP).

For descriptions of all other units from the Faculties of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Arts and Social Sciences or Science, students should refer to these faculty's own handbook (sydney.edu.au/handbooks).

The units are listed alphabetically by subject area e.g. ACCT, BUSS, CLAW etc.

General information relating to unit of study offerings

The Business School website (sydney.edu.au/business/ugunits) contains the most up to date information on unit of study availability and other requirements. Timetabling information for 2012 is also available on this website (sydney.edu.au/business/timetable). Students can also refer to the University of Sydney's unit of study handbook (https://ssa.usyd.edu.au/ssa/handbook/uossearch.jsp) for the latest information regarding unit of study descriptions, assessment or other requirements.

Most units of study will be offered in standard semesters (either Semester 1 or Semester 2). Some units are also offered in intensive mode. The intensive sessions are explained in the following table.

Key to intensive unit of study offering sessions

Session code	Description of how the unit will be offered
1a (7)	the unit of study will run intensively in the first half of Semester 1
1b (8)	the unit of study will run intensively in the second half of Semester 1
2a (9)	the unit of study will run intensively in the first half of Semester 2
2b (10)	the unit of study will run intensively in the second half of Semester 2
Int January (101), Int February (102), Int March (103), Int April (104), Int May (105), Int June (106), Int July (107), Int August, Int Sept (109), Int October (110), Int November (111) and Int December (112).	the unit of study will run intensively in the month indicated.
Summer School: Summer Early (42), Summer Main (43), and Summer Late (44)	the unit of study will be offered intensively in the Summer School session
Winter School: Winter Main (11)	the unit of study will be offered intensively in the Winter School session

Intensive sessions were introduced to cater for units of study that are delivered in non-standard ways.

ACCT - Accounting

ACCT1006 Accounting and Financial Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x 1.5hr lecture and 1x 1.5hr tutorial per week Assessment: Tutorial work (5%); Group assignment (10%); Practice set (10%); Mid-semester exam (20%); Final exam (55%)

Accounting and Financial Management is an introduction to financial reporting, and the gateway unit to further study in accounting and to a major in accounting. This unit builds upon the accounting context, presented in BUSS1030 Accounting, Business and Society, with the aim of developing the technical skills of recording basic business transactions through accounting systems. In addition to this technical focus, specific attention will be given to the way in which the accounting information can be used to undertake financial management and analysis, to give students the ability to produce and interpret financial reports.

ACCT2011 Financial Accounting A

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture and 1x1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Mid-semester examination (40%); Final examination (60%)

This unit examines the accounting and reporting practices of reporting entities, particularly listed public companies. Emphasis is placed on developing an understanding of, and the ability to critically evaluate, the various regulatory requirements (professional and statutory) governing financial reporting. The unit commences with an overview of the financial reporting environment and theories that seek to explain the accounting policy choices of management. This framework provides a basis for examining a range of specific issues in financial accounting. Emphasis throughout the unit is on both the application of specific accounting techniques/rules and the conceptual/theoretical issues associated with alternative accounting methods.

ACCT2012 Management Accounting A

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Computer Assignments (10%) Quizzes (20%); case study assignment (10%); final examination (60%)

This course provides students with an introduction to the basics of management/cost accounting. Areas specifically covered include: cost terms and purposes, cost behaviour, cost-volume-profit analysis, cost estimation, basic and alternative product costing methods (including activity-based costing), detailed study of the mechanics of the budgeting process (master budgets, flexible budgets, standard costing and variance analysis), decision making using relevant costs/revenues and cost allocation.

ACCT3011 Financial Accounting B

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture and 1x1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Mid-semester examination (35%); group tutorial presentations (10%); written group reflective exercise (5%); final examination (50%)

This unit introduces students to accounting for investments in entities that are controlled or significantly influenced by the investor. The first part of the unit focuses on assessing whether an investment should be consolidated, the process of consolidation, the preparation of consolidated financial statements for corporate groups, including the treatment of goodwill, intra-group transactions and non controlling interests. Other aspects of group accounting, such as segment disclosures and related party disclosures, are investigated. The first part of the unit concludes with a critical analysis of the consolidation process, including the outcomes of the consolidation process and the impact of this upon the user of the consolidated financial statements. The second part of the unit focuses on critically evaluating current issues in accounting regulation and practice, such as the politics of the standard-setting process, using accounting for financial instruments as a special case. Finally, voluntary disclosures for social and environmental reporting are considered. This unit aims to further develop students' written communication skills and critical and analytic skills within the context of corporate group activities.

ACCT3012 Management Accounting B

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture and 1x1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Mid-semester examination (30%); Tutorial work/participation and Presentation (20%); Final examination (50%)

Note: Discipline Permission required for students who haven't passed ACCT2012 (or ACCT2002)

Management Accounting B deals with the theory and practice of a selection of contemporary management accounting issues. The course begins by examining the influences that impact upon the design of an organisation and its management accounting system. Behavioural factors, rather than technical factors, are highlighted and a range of organisational settings and management levels are reviewed. The unit then examines advanced issues relevant to operational management accounting. While this section of the course builds on the foundations laid in Management Accounting A, the focus remains on the behavioural implications of accounting techniques for making decisions in organisations.

ACCT3013 Financial Statement Analysis

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Tutorial participation (10%); Mid-semester examination (20%); Group case studies (15%); Final examination (55%)

Although the appropriate 'form' of financial analysis depends largely on the specific context (e.g. equity investment, credit extension, analysis of supplier/customer health, competitor analysis, regulatory overview or intervention, valuation for takeover/restructuring), many of the techniques of financial analysis are common to each. A primary purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of these techniques, as well as the inherent difficulties in their application. Specific issues addressed include the analysis of business performance and disclosure, the analysis of earnings quality, cash flow assessment, credit worthiness and accounting-based valuation methods.

ACCT3014 Auditing and Assurance

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture and 1x1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Individual/Group assignments (20%); Mid-semester examination (25%); Final examination (55%).

This unit of study examines the process of auditing and the concepts which underlay the practice. Although the focus of attention is on audits of financial reports undertaken in compliance with the Corporation Act 2001, reference is also made to other forms of audit and assurance. The course is intended to provide an overview of the audit process within the context of Australian Auditing Standards. The course is both practical and theoretical, with students required to apply their knowledge to case studies developed from practice.

ACCT3031 International Corporate Governance

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Group and/or individual assignments (50%); Mid-semester quiz (20%); Final examination (30%)

This unit examines the evolving view of corporate governance from an international perspective, with reference to Australian principles. Corporate governance from a narrow view is concerned with how a corporation is controlled, to the establishment of sets of arrangements affecting the conduct of an organisation and it's relationship with stakeholders. Specific issues examined in this unit include the legal framework; control and culture of the modern corporation; operations of a Board; role of board sub-committees; Boards and the development or endorsement of strategies; measuring and rewarding performance; corporate governance, financial reporting and disclosure; corporate governance and the audit process; governance within the global financial crisis.

ACCT3032 Current Issues in Management Accounting

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: In-class tests (20%); Research Presentation (20%); Tutorial contribution (10%); Final examination (50%)

This unit builds on the fundamentals of management accounting practice (ACCT2012) by introducing a series of advanced management accounting topics such as strategic management accounting, accounting innovation, human resource management, social and environmental accounting and designing management accounting systems. In addition, this unit relaxes the hitherto held assumption that management accounting works in a world characterised by certainty and rationality and instead shows that management accounting more often operates in a world characterised by fuzziness and ambiguity. This real-world view requires students to develop their judgemental skills and to adopt a more critical and reflective approach that challenges their beliefs about how management accounting works in practice.

ACCT3098 Accounting Honours Preparation A

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 x 1.5 hr seminar per week Assessment: Seminar participation (10%); Paper summaries (10%); Paper presentation (20%); Essay (30%); Research Proposal (30%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Entry to this unit of study is at the discretion of the Discipline. Students will require a credit average in previous ACCT units attempted.

The purpose of this unit of study is to prepare students for entry to the fourth year honours program in accounting. As such, this unit of study has been designed to: first, extend the substantive knowledge of students in relation to financial accounting by examining emerging/advanced issues in relation to theory and practice; second, introduce students to different ways of conducting accounting research, considering extant research mobilising a variety of epistemologies and research methods; and, third, assist students to identify potential topic areas for research and appropriate research questions. The course will be based on a series of readings drawn from the accounting research literature.

ACCT3099 Accounting Honours Preparation B

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 1.5 hr seminar per week Assessment: Class participation (10%); Individual essay 1 (45%); Individual essay 2 (45%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Entry to this unit of study is at the discretion of the Discipline. Students will require a credit average in previous ACCT units attempted.

The purpose of this unit of study is to prepare students for entry to the fourth year honours program in accounting. As such, this unit of study has been designed to: first, extend the substantive knowledge of students in relation to management accounting by examining emerging/advanced issues in relation to theory and practice; second, introduce students to different ways of conducting accounting research, considering extant research mobilising a variety of epistemologies and research methods; and, third, assist students to identify potential topic areas for research and appropriate research questions. The course will be based on a series of readings drawn from the accounting research literature.

ACCT4101 Accounting Honours A

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Assessment: Course work; Thesis

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Requirements for the pass degree must be completed before entry to level 4000 honours units of study.

Honours study within the Discipline is directed at: (i) increasing students' analytic and constructive skills beyond the level acquired in undergraduate Pass level units; (ii) providing a foundation for the conduct of applied research in accounting; and (iii) conducting research in the form of a research report. These skills are developed through the completion of an additional year of study that may be either a full- or a part-time basis, though the former is more common.

ACCT4102 Accounting Honours B

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Assessment: Course work; Thesis

See ACCT4101

ACCT4103 Accounting Honours C

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Assessment: Course work; Thesis

See ACCT4101

ACCT4104 Accounting Honours D

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Assessment: Course work; Thesis

See ACCT4101

AGEC - Agricultural Economics

AGEC units are administered by the Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Natural Resources.

AGEC1101 Agricultural and Resource Systems

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: A/Prof Greg Hertzler Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1hr lecture plus 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x2hr tutorial/week, commecing week 2 Assessment: 2 x assignments (60%) and 1x2hr Final Examination (40%)

A second unit which builds upon the principles in earlier units to identify and solve problems in agricultural and resource systems. During the semester, students investigate two problems. Students use library, primary and secondary information to create a portfolio of sources and a summary literature review. Then they develop a research proposal. Finally, they offer preliminary results and recommendation. Problems will be chosen from agricultural and resource industries in the Australian and world economies; changing place of agriculture in world economies; place of agriculture in economic development; economic and physical factors determining the location of agricultural and resources industries; the changing structure of the Australian agricultural and resource sectors; the physical and biological environment in which farm firms operate; issues in natural resources.

AGEC1102 Agricultural Economics 1

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Shauna Phillips Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1hr exam (25%), 1xassignment (15%) and 1x2hr exam (60%)

The unit applies principles studied in introductory microeconomics to the agricultural sector. The first part of the unit is focused on basic concepts of supply, demand, equilibrium in agricultural markets, and how markets can be modelled mathematically. Market dynamics are considered. The second part of the unit is focused on agricultural business decision making. Concepts of income, cost and profit, their measurement and documentation in farm business accounts, ownership structures and taxation issues are covered. Sources of risk in agriculture, alternative management strategies, and basic techniques of decision making in the face of risk are explored.

AGEC2101 Market and Price Analysis

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr. Shyamal Chowdhury Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1hr in-class mid-term exam (20%), 1x3000wd assignment (20%), 1x2hr final exam (60%)

This unit focuses on the nature of agricultural and resource commodity markets, market demand relationships, market supply relationships, price determination under alternative market structures, marketing margin relationships, derived demand for inputs, spatially and temporally related markets, market dynamics, price expectations, commodity futures markets and other pertinent topics. Applied examples from the agricultural and resource industries and the overall economy will be used throughout the semester as illustrations of the principles involved.
N.B. Available to 2nd year students in Faculty of Economics and Business.
Advised prerequisite: AGEC2105 or ECMT2110

AGEC2103 Production Economics

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: A/Prof Greg Hertzler Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 2 x assignments (40%) and 1x2hr exam (60%)

This unit builds on microeconomic principles studied in first year and applies them to the analysis of firms' decisions. Emphasis is put on the formalization of the firm's problem and in the use of duality. The topics include: production functions (single and multi-output); distance functions and their use in the measurement of productivity; the decomposition of productivity and productivity changes; production under risk; cost and profit functions.
N.B. Available to 2nd year students in the Faculty of Economics and Business

Textbooks

Collection of readings

AGEC3102 Agricultural and Resource Policy

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Alan Randall Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture + 1x1-hr lectures/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2.5hr exam (70%) and 3x1 problem sets (30%)

This unit covers the theoretical framework for economic analysis of policy interventions (welfare economics and public choice theory). Emphasis is put on building the skills needed to analyze the incidence of economic policy and on the design of policies under asymmetric information. An understanding of the institutional structure of agricultural and resource policy in Australia is promoted through the direct contact with policy makers, public agencies and lobbying groups.
N.B. Available to 3rd year students in the Faculty of Economics and Business

Textbooks

To be advised

AGEC3103 Applied Optimisation

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: A/Prof Ross Drynan Session: Semester 1 Classes: (2x1hr lec & 1x2hr tut/lab session)/wk, commencing week 1 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (70%) and 2 assignments (better done one (18%), other (12%))

This unit of study deals with constrained optimization problems in which one or more constraints are inequalities. Such problems are explored/solved by "mathematical programming" techniques. The main focus of the unit is on linear programming (LP) problems, viz. problems in which the objective function and the constraint functions are all linear, and the application of LP in agricultural and other planning contexts. Topics include graphical and mathematical representation of LP problems, solution methods, solution information, stability of optimal solutions, primal and dual formulations and parametric programming. After covering the essentials of LP and its extension to integer LP, the focus shifts to modelling real world scenarios as optimization problems. Students are streamed: one group deals with specialized LP formulations (e.g. transportation model, stochastic programming). The other examines dynamic optimization for problems that involve inter-temporal resource allocation. Students develop experience and confidence in the use of spreadsheet-based optimizer routines, and with specialised optimization packages (e.g. LINDO).

AGEC4101 Agricultural Marketing Analysis

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mrs Elizabeth Nolan Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, commencing week 1 Assessment: 1x1hr exam (20%), 1x2hr exam (50%), 1x2000wd essay (30%).

Performance of the agricultural and resource marketing systems, marketing margins, transportation, storage, and risk. The structure, conduct and performance of marketing firms, and government and public interest in the food system will also be addressed. Extensive reading will be required.

Textbooks

To be advised

AGEC4102 Agricultural Development Economics

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr. Shyamal Chowdhury Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2000 wd problem set (20%), 1x1000 wd review (10%), 1x15min presentation (5%), 1x1page evaluation of a peer (5%), and 1x2hr final exam (60%)

This unit focuses on the microeconomic analysis of development, with a special emphasis on the importance of market failures in financial markets as origin of persistent poverty. The unit also addresses policy interventions to overcome such failures and the challenges in their evaluation. A special emphasis is put in the discussion of the role of agriculture in development, and the evidence supporting its importance in poverty reduction.

Textbooks

Debraj Ray, Development Economics, Princeton University Press.

AGEC4104 Industrial Organization of Agribusiness

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr. Shyamal Chowdhury Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2000 wd assignment (20%), 1x1000 wd review (10%), 1x15min presentation (5%), 1x1page evaluation of a peer (5%), and 1x2hr final exam (60%)

This unit focuses on applications of economic theory and methods in agribusiness decision making. It provides advanced treatment of the industrial organisation of agribusiness firms. Case studies will be used to examine the economic complexities of global agribusiness systems. Extensive readings make up the central component of the unit.

Textbooks

Collections of readings.

AGEC4107 Special Topics

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Alan Randall Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Individual research and consultation Assessment: Research paper (100%).

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit deals with the specialised areas of agricultural and resource economics of particular interest to approved students. The student will read under the guidance of a member of staff and complete designated learning tasks.

Textbooks

Individual reading.

AGEC4108 Quantitative Planning Methods

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: A/Prof Ross Drynan Session: Semester 2 Classes: (2x1hr lec & 1x2 tut/lab session)/wk, commencing week 1 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (70%) and 2 assignments (better done one (18%), other (12%))

This unit examines the use of mathematical methods and models in planning at both the individual firm level and the sector level. While the principal focus is on formal optimization, simulation and Monte Carlo methods are also discussed. Topics include non-linear programming, stochastic programming, elements of input-output analysis, computable general equilibrium analysis, dynamic problems and methods (e.g. dynamic programming and optimal control). Sectoral level planning applications considered include transportation and plant location studies; spatial equilibrium; and resource utilization across time. Firm level applications may include multi-period planning, queuing problems, inventory analysis, and replacement problems. Extensive use is made of computer-based optimization.

AGEC4109 Agricultural Finance and Risk

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: A/Prof Ross Drynan Session: Semester 2 Classes: (2x1hr lec & 1x2hr tut/lab session)/wk, commencing week 1. Assessment: 1x2hr exam (70%) and 2 assignments (better done one 18%, other 12%)

This unit has two related components. One component concerns risk and risk management in agriculture; the other deals with issues of agricultural producer finance. Risk topics include: risk measurement, subjective probability, adjusting beliefs as a result of new information; risk attitudes; decision making under risk; expected utility theory; valuing information; generalizations of expected utility theory; E-V analysis; stochastic dominance; internal measures to cope with risk including diversification and flexibility; insurance, futures, options and other market instruments for managing risk. Finance topics include the implications of capital market imperfections and consequential differences between corporate and small business finance; financial relationships between debt/equity levels and risk, optimal debt levels; cost of capital; short term working capital management; and longer term capital (investment) budgeting. Techniques of valuation of projects in risk-free and risk situations are examined. Financial and risk management practices in Australian agriculture are reviewed.

BUSS - Business School

BUSS1001 Understanding Business

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Leanne Piggott Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Late Classes: 1x 1.5hr lecture and 1x 1.5hr tutorial per week Assessment: Learning journal (30%); case studies (10%); participation (10%); exam (50%)

This unit of study is the first of two junior core units aimed at introducing students to the internal and external contexts in which business operates in the twenty-first century. It also aims to lay the foundations for effective communication (written and oral), critical analysis, problem solving, and team work skills, which are essential to achieving program learning goals. In this unit, students will build an understanding of the dynamics of business through the lens of the firm and its stakeholders. Business ethics is also introduced as key learning goal.

BUSS1002 The Business Environment

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Leanne Piggott Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2 lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Team presentation (15%); Media summary & analysis (15%);Tutorial participation (10%); Company report (30%); exam (30%)

This unit of study is the second of two junior core units aimed at introducing students to the external and internal contexts in which business operates in the twenty-first century while developing effective problem solving, critical analysis and communication skills. In this unit, students will build an understanding of the economic, political and regulatory, socio-cultural, and technological factors that impact on the external context of the commercial landscape while developing an awareness of potential of risk and change. An awareness of corporate social responsibility is also introduced as a key learning goal.

BUSS1020 Quantitative Business Analysis

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Daniel Oren Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1 x 2hr tutorial per week Assessment: Homework (15%); Quizzes (30%); Group Presentation (5%); Assignment (10%); Final Exam (40%)

All graduates from the BCom need to be able to use quantitative techniques to analyse business problems. This ability is important in all business disciplines, since all disciplines deal with increasing amounts of data, and there are increasing expectations of quantitative skills. This unit shows how to interpret data involving uncertainty and variability; how to model and analyse the relationships within business data; and how to make correct inferences from the data (and recognise incorrect inferences). The unit will include instruction in the use of software tools (primarily spreadsheets) to analyse and present quantitative data.

BUSS1030 Accounting, Business and Society

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Tutorial work (15%); Written assessment (15%); Mid-semester examination (20%); Final examination (50%)

This unit investigates the fundamentals of accounting and aims to provide a broad understanding of the role of accounting in the context of business and society. The format of the unit is designed to show that there are many uses of accounting data. The focus moves from accountability to decision making; both functions are explained through examples such as the 'double entry equation', and from an output (financial statements) perspective. Some more technical aspects of accounting are outlined, including the elements of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses within simple, familiar scenarios. Besides developing an understanding of the role of accounting via conventional financial reports, recent developments including the discharge of accountability by companies through the release of corporate social and environmental reports and the global financial crisis, are explored with an accounting lens.

BUSS1040 Economics for Business Decision Making

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrew Wait Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Written assignment (15%), on-line quizzes (10%), mid-semester exam (20%), final exam (55%)

Note: This unit of study is a compulsory part of the Bachelor of Commerce and combined Commerce degrees.

Economics underlies all business decisions, from pricing, to product development, to negotiations, to understanding the general economic environment. This unit provides an introduction to economic analysis with a particular focus on concepts and applications relevant to business. This unit addresses how individual consumers and firms make decisions and how they interact in markets. It also introduces a framework for understanding and analysing the broader economic and public policy environment in which a business competes. This unit provides a rigorous platform for further study and a major in economics as well as providing valuable tools of analysis that complement a student's general business training, regardless of their area of specialisation.

BUSS1900 Managing Business Communication

Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 6 hours of workshops per week Assessment: Workshop attendence and participation and poster presentation (100%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

The primary aim of this unit is to support students manage their business communication skills more effectively. This unit is only available to students identified as needing additional support.

BUSS2100 Business Placement A (Internship)

Credit points: 6 Session: Int December,Int February,Int January,Int March,Int November,Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Wks 1-4: 1x 3hrs class per week; Wks 5-12: 3 ½ days a week internship; Wk 13: 1 x 3hr class Assessment: Learning journal (40%), Placement presentation (20%), Internship report (40%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit is designed to consolidate students' knowledge and skills in business while conducting an industry placement. The unit is structured around three assessed tasks which are designed to allow students to demonstrate their ability to apply and synthesise business concepts in a real world setting. During the placement students may be involved in a variety of different industry and client-based projects, which will afford the opportunity to apply business skills and theories from prior learning. This will provide firsthand experience of how these skills and theories can support the solving of business problems in a real business context, identifying opportunities, developing strategies and designing processes, procedures and management practices in order to enable an organisation to fully realise its competitive potential.

BUSS2200 Business Placement B (Internship)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

BUSS3100 Business Placement C (Internship)

Credit points: 6 Session: Int December,Int February,Int January,Int March,Int November,Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Wks 1-4: 1x 3hrs class per week; Wks 5-12: 3 ½ days a week internship; Wk 13: 1 x 3hr class Assessment: Learning journal (20%), Internship presentation (15%), Internship report (65%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit is designed to consolidate students' knowledge and skills in business while conducting an internship in industry. The unit is structured around three assessed tasks which are designed to allow students to demonstrate their ability to apply and synthesise business concepts in a real world setting. During the internship students may be involved in a variety of different industry and client-based projects, which will afford the opportunity to apply business skills and theories from prior learning. This will provide first hand experience of how these skills and theories can support the solving of business problems in a real business context, identifying opportunities, developing strategies and designing processes, procedures and management practices in order to enable an organisation to fully realise its competitive potential.

BUSS2210 Taxation in the Community

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Wks 1-4: 1x 3hrs class per week; Wks 5-12: 3 ½ days a week internship; Wk 13: 1 x 3hr class Assessment: Work learning journal (20%), Placement report (65%) and Presentation (15%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit is designed to develop student skills in integrating real world taxation assistance in community areas of need such as low socioeconomic communities, less able persons etc., and those on low incomes. The unit is run in association and with the endorsement of the Australian Taxation Office. The unit is structured around three assessed tasks which are designed to allow students to demonstrate their ability to apply and synthesise taxation concepts in a real world setting. During the internship students may be involved in a variety of different and client-based interactions, which will afford the opportunity to apply skills and theories from prior learning. This will provide first hand experience of how these skills and theories can support the communities in a real context.

BUSS2220 Taxation for Small Business

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 3hr seminar per week. Assessment: Taxation portfolio (50%); Presentation (20%); Exam (30%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Many graduates will be faced with the opportunity of running a business in their chosen field and will need to have the business acumen and skills to make informed business decisions. Understanding and meeting taxation and superannuation obligations is an important component of operating a successful and effective business. This unit of study aims to provide prospective business operators with the tools, knowledge and information that will help them meet their taxation and superannuation obligations throughout the lifecycle of their business. The subject begins with an introduction to the Australian taxation system. It is followed by the various tax issues that need to be considered when starting a business such as selecting the right business structure that suits the individual's needs and focuses on key registration requirements. Other topics include income tax and deductions; the goods and services tax; special rules and concessions that apply to small business; employer obligations; record keeping; completing activity statements and common tips and traps those business operators should be aware of.

BUSS2500 Washington D.C. Placement Program

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Leanne Piggott Session: Int February,Semester 2 Classes: 1 day pre-departure seminar (Sydney), 5x 2hr lectures (Washington DC), 4 day a week internship placement (Washington DC) Assessment: Learning journal (30%); research essay (55%); oral presentation (15%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit will be taken by students accepted into the University of California Washington DC (UCDC) Winter Program while they undertake a professional placement with a business, government, non-government or media organisation. It will include preparatory coursework in reflective, professional practice and concurrent coursework on research methods, report and other professional writing skills. Assessment will include a learning journal, research essay, and oral presentations all based on the internship placement and study abroad experience. A Pass/Fail 'Learning Contract' will be developed in the first two weeks of your internship in order to provide clear guidelines for your internship learning goals/objectives (knowledge, skills and values); strategies for achieving these goals; intended output; self and supervisor assessment criteria.

BUSS2501 LA Placement Program

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Leanne Piggott Session: Int February,Semester 2 Classes: 1 day pre-departure seminar (Sydney), 5x 2hr lectures (Los Angeles), 4 day a week internship placement (Los Angeles) Assessment: Refective journal (20%); Research essay (65%); Oral presentation (15%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit will be taken by students accepted into the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Winter Program while they undertake a professional placement with a business, government, non-government or media organisation. It will include preparatory coursework in reflective, professional practice and concurrent coursework on research methods, report and other professional writing skills. Assessment will include a reflective journal, research essay, and oral presentations all based on the placement and study abroad experience.

BUSS3500 Integrated Business Applications

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Late Classes: 1x 2hr of lectures and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Interim business reports (30%); Final business presentation (30%); Final business report (40%)

This unit provides a capstone for students undertaking the Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Commerce combined programs. It aims to provide students with the practical application of identifying, analysing, and solving contemporary business problems that might involve planning, implementing and evaluating organisational changes which provide solutions to such problems. Students will be introduced to a range of methodologies at each stage of the process of solving business problems, executing solutions, and implementing organisational change. In doing so, the unit will allow students to: apply theories and concepts of business problem solving and change implementation in the context of a specific business case; provide a process framework of business problem solving and team-based learning within which they can integrate functional disciplinary knowledge they have been exposed to in their disciplinary majors; and develop a range of generic skills in problem solving, critical analysis, team-working, research and communication skills.

BUSS9106 International Exchange Program

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit is recognition for student participation in the International Exchange program.

BUSS9206 International Exchange Program

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit is recognition for student participation in the International Exchange program.

BUSS9112 International Exchange Program

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit is recognition for student participation in the International Exchange program.

BUSS9118 International Exchange Program

Credit points: 18 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit is recognition for student participation in the International Exchange program.

BUSS9124 International Exchange Program

Credit points: 24 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit is recognition for student participation in the International Exchange program.

BUSS9224 International Exchange Program

Credit points: 24 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit is recognition for student participation in the International Exchange program.

CLAW - Business Law

CLAW1001 Foundations of Business Law

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2hrs of lectures and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Mid-Semester exam (20%), Case Analysis Assignment (20%), Final exam (60%)

The entire fabric of commerce is woven from a complex legal regime, judicial and statutory, which regulates all commercial activity. Every decision in business, and every transaction and relationship, is made in the context of this legal regime. The aim of Foundations of Business Law is to introduce the students to the legal framework and regulatory systems which underlie all business activity and to expose them to the legal implications of commercial conduct. This unit of study introduces the Australian legal system and key areas of substantive business law including contracts, torts (in particular negligence and privacy), property and securities, white collar crime, intellectual property, competition and consumer law (in particular advertising, product liability and unfair contracts), business structures and operations, misleading and unconscionable conduct and dispute resolution.

CLAW2201 Corporations Law

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2hrs of lectures and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Class Test (35%), Tutorial work and participation (15%), Final Exam (50%)

Companies are an integral part of our business environment. All participants in the world of business have dealings with companies - whether as employees, clients, customers, directors, shareholders, creditors, debtors, suppliers, vendors, consultants or professional advisers. This makes it essential to have an understanding of the legal nature and characteristics of companies and the manner in which their activities and management are regulated. In this unit, the legal "life cycle" of a company is examined along with a comparison of companies to other business entities. The ways in which important activities undertaken by companies are regulated are explored including: entering contracts, raising funds, issuing shares, paying dividends. Consideration is given to the duties and obligations the law places upon those who manage companies, and the consequences which may result from any breach of those duties and obligations. The position of companies in financial difficulty and the final stages in the life cycle of an insolvent company are also addressed.

CLAW2202 Business Failure and Restructuring

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three hours of classes per week which may include one or more of the following: lectures; seminars; tutorials or workshops Assessment: Class Test 1 (20%); Class Test 2 (25%), Seminar work and participation (15%), Final Exam (40%)

Financial difficulty is an ever present reality for individuals and businesses. This unit addresses corporate insolvency and the bankruptcy of individuals and their consequences, and legal and commercial strategies for financial rehabilitation. The focus of the unit is corporate insolvency and the forms of external administration (receivership, voluntary administration, deeds of company arrangement, schemes of arrangements and winding up) designed to either rescue the corporation or, if this is not possible, to provide a fair and orderly process for dealing with its property. Particular emphasis is given to rescue and deconstruction under voluntary administration. Director's duties in the insolvency context, and corporate group and cross border insolvency, are also discussed.

CLAW2203 Regulation of Capital Markets

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three hours of classes per week which may include one or more of the following: lectures; seminars; tutorials or workshops Assessment: Mid-semester class test (20%), Take home case study or Research paper (30%), Final examination (50%)

As capital markets for debt and equity become increasingly sophisticated understanding their regulation is essential. This unit examines the regulation of capital markets and the legal and industry controls governing their operation. Detailed consideration is given to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's powers and responsibilities, including the areas of: financial service providers, short selling, insider trading and other market misconduct, market integrity, corporate governance, disclosure and proposals to reform the regulatory environment. The roles of other institutions such as the Australian Securities Exchange and the status and enforcement of its listing rules are also explored.

CLAW2204 Banking and Finance Law

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three hours of classes per week which may include one or more of the following: lectures; seminars; tutorials or workshops Assessment: Case analysis (20%), Hypothetical problem (20%), Final exam (60%)

Banks and financial institutions are central to the stability, efficiency and wealth of modern economies and businesses. This unit focuses on the impact of national and international financial regulation on banking contracts, bank secrecy, money laundering and fraud. Students will become familiar with legal risks in commercial and investment banking, by examining the complex relationships and legal duties of the various parties engaged in modern finance. Topics covered will include electronic banking, international trade finance and securitisation. The unit will assist students in understanding how the law is applied in practice by using case studies. Special emphasis will be placed on how banking disputes may be resolved.

CLAW2205 Competition and Consumer Law

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three hours of classes per week which may include one or more of the following: lectures; seminars; tutorials or workshops Assessment: Participation and engagement (15%), Individual research assignment (30%), Team research assignment (30%), In-class tests (25%)

Competition and consumer law impacts on everyone and on every business. This unit examines provisions in the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cwth) that regulate a range of business activities, including, dealings between businesses and with consumers, pricing, advertising and unfair practices. The focus will be on current enforcement priorities of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and topics covered will include: cartel conduct, misuse of market power, vertical restraints on competition, anti-competitive acquisitions and key aspects of Australian consumer law including: product safety, consumer guarantees, unfair contract terms, unconscionable conduct and misleading or deceptive conduct. Students will analyse legal and business issues involving competition and consumer law arising from given fact situations and real-world contexts to increase awareness of legal risk situations in business and understanding of how these risks may be managed.

CLAW2207 Business, Ethics and the Law

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three hours of classes per week which may include one or more of the following: lectures; seminars; tutorials or workshops Assessment: Mid-semester class test (20%), Take home case study or Research paper (30%), Final examination (50%)

Australian businesses operate in a complex regulatory environment that imposes legal obligations on business conduct. Society is increasingly demanding ethical and social responsibility from business, its managers and their professional advisers. This unit analyses the relationship between business, ethics and the law. This unit applies ethical philosophies to case studies in order to explore the types of decisions made by professionals and business managers. The unit examines the professional and legal obligations of accountants, auditors and lawyers and the interaction of these professionals with company officers. The unit aims to assist students to understand and apply ethics to their professional life and to governance in business.

CLAW2208 Business Regulation, Risk and Compliance

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three hours of classes per week which may include one or more of the following: lectures; seminars; tutorials or workshops Assessment: Engagement & Participation (10%), In class test (20%), Individual assessment & presentation (30%) and Group assessment & presentation (40%)

Over recent years there has been a dramatic rise in the volume and reach of regulation in response to a variety of social, environmental and economic issues. Much of this regulation impacts on business, and its management who are, increasingly, personally liable. This unit has been designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the overall regulatory infrastructure which impacts on all faculty disciplines. Business Regulation, Risk and Compliance addresses self regulation as an alternative to regulation by law; the regulatory process and the scope for business to influence regulatory initiatives; the alternative regulatory instruments ; the executive arm of government - the bureaucracy - and the avenues for challenging administrative decisions; the investigative and enforcement powers of the major regulatory agencies - ACCC, ATO and ASIC; personal and corporate liability for regulatory breach; indemnification; whistleblowing and whistleblower protection: regulatory compliance with special reference to Australian Standard AS3806-2006 on Compliance Standards and the strategies which facilitate legal action including class actions and litigation funding as well as the major alternatives to litigation including arbitration and alternative dispute resolution with particular emphasis on mediation.

CLAW2209 Intellectual Property for Business

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three hours of classes per week which may include one or more of the following: lectures; seminars; tutorials or workshops Assessment: Essay (40%), Group case study (25%), Final 2hr exam (35%)

Innovation is a key driver of business. This unit addresses the intellectual property regime - the statutory and common law mechanisms that recognise and protect creative effort and proprietary knowledge and reward innovation. The intellectual property rights available under the law are discussed but the focus is on the commercial implications of the IP regime. This unit covers not only the protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights [IPRs] but also their commercialisation and the management. The unit outlines the key IPRs granted by the statutory IP regimes - trade marks, copyright, designs and patents-as well as the common law protection of confidential information and trade secrets. The protection of trade designations, branding and character merchandising through the statutory misleading or deceptive conduct action is also covered as is the protection of business goodwill through restraint of trade covenants. The ownership of IP, its protection internationally and its commercialisation through licensing and technology transfers are also discussed.

CLAW2211 Commercial Practice in China

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three hours of classes per week which may include one or more of the following: lectures; seminars; tutorials or workshops. Assessment: Take home Mid-term exam (25%), Proposal and presentation (20%), Research paper (45%), Class particiapation (10%)

China is currently the second biggest economy in the world and is Australia's most important trading partner. Australian businesses are increasingly engaging with China. This Unit of Study addresses the frequently asked questions of what underpins commercial practice in China and how to do business with China. It explores China's unique business environment which has resulted from its culture, history and demography, and examines the business regulations, tax system, and the administrative and compliance issues businesses will face when carrying on business with China.
The Unit first outlines the Chinese business environment in terms of culture, history, economics, demography, and government administration. It then provides students with an understanding of the legal environment that businesses will face in China. Through a hypothetical case study, different aspects of commercial practice in China such as contract, entity structure, mergers and acquisition, property and intellectual property rights, the tax system, different tax types and associated international issues, and social insurance are analysed.

CLAW2212 Franchising

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three hours of classes per week which may include one or more of the following: lectures; seminars; tutorials or workshops Assessment: Engagement & Participation (10%), In class test (20%), Individual assessment & presentation (30%) and Group assessment & presentation (40%)

Franchising is an increasingly popular business model in Australia and internationally which offers an effective strategy for expanding an existing business or entering an industry. It is rapidly becoming the dominating force in the distribution of goods and services.
This unit examines the nature, development and operation of franchising and its growing influence in Australia and overseas. It addresses key legal and commercial issues in establishing, structuring and managing franchise systems as well as legal and commercial issues arising in the course of the continuing business relationship. Particular emphasis is placed on franchising development in the ASEAN countries.

CLAW3201 Australian Taxation System

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Tutorial assessment (10%); Tutorial participation (10%), Mid semester test (15%); Case Analysis (15%); Final exam (50%)

This unit is an introduction to Australia's taxation law. It commences with an overview of the Australian tax system, discusses contemporary tax issues and then deals with specific topics, including: the basis of liability to Australian income tax, concepts of residence and source of income, concepts of ordinary and statutory income (including capital gains tax), tax accounting, taxation of fringe benefits, and allowable deductions. It concludes with a study of the general anti-avoidance sections. The taxation of companies, partnerships and trusts, and international taxation are studied in depth in CLAW3202 which, together with this unit, is a solid basis to prepare students for an important aspect of professional accounting practice.

CLAW3202 Tax Strategies for Business

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three hours of classes per week which may include one or more of the following: lectures; seminars; tutorials or workshops Assessment: Tutorial assessments (30%), group essay and presentation (30%), and final examination (40%)

This unit builds on CLAW3201 and deals with taxation issues in a business environment, including taxation of companies and corporate groups, taxation of partnerships and trusts, taxation of shareholders including dividend imputation tax, capital gains tax application to shares and other interests in companies, capital allowance and treatment of intellectual property. This unit also covers taxation issues of international business and investment, including taxation of cross-border transactions of both residents and non-residents, taxation of multinational corporations, tax treaties, transfer pricing and international tax avoidance. The unit emphasises the practical applications of the tax law on businesses and investment. Together with CLAW3201 this unit is a solid basis to prepare students for an important aspect of professional accounting practice.

CLAW3204 Capital Raising and Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three hours of classes per week which may include one or more of the following: lectures; seminars; tutorials or workshops Assessment: Assignment (30%), Group Presentation (20%) Seminar work and participation (10%) Final Exam (40%)

The raising of equity and debt capital from the public is central to the operation of Australia's economic development. This unit is focussed on the legal nature of common forms of capital raising, both equity and debt, and their legal and non-legal (through ASX listing rules) regulation as well as the redemption of capital. It deals with capital raising, management and redemption from a commercial risk perspective as well as from a legal and regulatory perspective and considers Australian and international reform initiatives which have been given new emphasis as a result of the Global Financial Crisis. Topics covered include forms of equity capital raising (including IPOs, rights issues and placements) and their regulation; forms of debt capital raising (including securitisation, syndicated lending, structured and project finance, debentures, company charges, corporate bonds and security techniques) and their regulation; and strategies for redemption of debt and equity capital.

CLAW3206 Regulation of Mergers and Acquisitions

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three hours of classes per week which may include one or more of the following: lectures; seminars; tutorials or workshops Assessment: Essay (25%), Group case study (25%), Final exam (40%), and Participation (10%)

Mergers, acquisitions and takeovers are increasingly important strategies for Australian companies which raise significant legal issues. This unit aims to give students a sound understanding of the legal issues involved in mergers and acquisitions from both corporate and competition law perspectives and their impact on commercial strategies. Competition issues under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 as well as corporate governance issues under the Corporations Act are explored. Bid planning (including tactics involved in initiating a takeover bid and defensive strategies and tactics), directors duties, prohibited market conduct and the role of ASIC and the Takeovers Panel are also covered. This unit also considers mergers using schemes of arrangement.

CLAW3207 Employment Regulation for Business

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three hours of classes per week which may include one or more of the following: lectures; seminars; tutorials or workshops Assessment: Participation & engagement (10%), Presentation (10%), Research Paper (30%), Final Exam (50%)

The regulation of employment affects every business enterprise. Compliance with the laws impacting on employment is a vital component of business management. The aim of this unit is to introduce students to the legal and regulatory frameworks that underlie all employment practices (employee management, treatment and performance, as well as hiring and dismissals). The unit is designed to develop students' awareness of regulatory compliance issues that arise from employment practices and is taught in the context of the challenges faced by modern businesses in managing employees. The unit focuses on key areas of substantive employment regulation including Anti-Discrimination Law, termination of employment, freedom of association, and employment privacy. Discussion topics include: indirect discrimination, workplace harassment (including sexual harassment), bullying, and unfair dismissal; as well as various sports and entertainment case-studies. International employment law standards, public sector employment, and employment ethics, are also addressed.

CLAW4101 Commercial Law Honours A

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: By seminar as arranged Assessment: May include seminar participation; seminar paper; case analysis; research paper; take home examination

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Requirements for the Pass degree must be completed before entry to level 4000 honours units of study.

Honours study is directed at: (i) increasing students' analytical/research skills beyond the level acquired in undergraduate pass level units; (ii) providing a foundation for the conduct of applied research in business law; and (iii) conducting research in the form of a thesis. These skills are developed through the completion of an additional (fourth) year of study.
The Business Law Honours Program consists of two components: the course work component and the writing of a thesis. The course work component is conducted in the form of a reading seminar series covering common key issues in commercial, corporations and taxation law, supported by an intensive training program in legal research and important skills in managing a large research project. The course work component will provide a good foundation for students to undertake independent research on their thesis.

CLAW4102 Commercial Law Honours B

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Assessment: see CLAW4101

This unit of study is part of the Honours program in Business Law. The unit covers commercial law issues and forms part of the course work component as described in CLAW4101 above.

CLAW4103 Commercial Law Honours C

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Assessment: see CLAW4101

This unit of study is part of the Business Law Honours program. The unit covers corporations law issues and forms part of the course work component as described in CLAW4101 above.

CLAW4104 Commercial Law Honours D

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Assessment: see CLAW4101

This unit of study is part of the Business Law Honours program. The unit covers taxation law issues and forms part of the course work component as described in CLAW4101 above.

COMP - Computer Science

All ELEC, INFO, and COMP (Computer Science) units are administered by the School of Information Technology in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies.

COMP2007 Algorithms and Complexity

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 2hrs) per week Assessment: Assignments (20%), mid-sem exam (20%), quiz (10%) and final exam (50%).

This unit provides an introduction to the design and analysis of algorithms. The main aims are (i) to learn how to develop algorithmic solutions to computational problem and (ii) to develop understanding of algorithm efficiency and the notion of computational hardness.

COMP2121 Distributed Systems & Network Principles

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Lecture 2 hrs per week, Tutorial 2 hrs per week. Assessment: Assignment (30%), Mid-Sem Exam (20%), Final Exam (50%)

The unit will provide a broad introduction to the principles of distributed systems and their design; provide students the fundamental knowledge required to analyse and construct various types of distributed systems; explain the common architectural principles and approaches used in the design of networks at different scales (e.g. shared medium access and routing); introduce the programming skills required for developing distributed applications, and will cover the use of Java class libraries and APIs; cover common approaches and techniques in distributed resource management (e.g. task scheduling).

COMP2129 Operating Systems and Machine Principles

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Lecture 2 hours per week, Laboratory 2 hours per week. Assessment: Quizzes (30%), assignments (30%) and final written exam (40%).

In this unit of study elementary methods for developing robust, efficient and re-usable software will be covered. The unit is taught in C, in a Unix environment. Specific coding topics include memory management, the pragmatic aspects of implementing data structures such as lists and hash tables and managing concurrent threads. Debugging tools and techniques are discussed and common programming errors are considered along with defensive programming techniques to avoid such errors. Emphasis is placed on using common Unix tools to manage aspects of the software construction process, such as version control and regression testing. The subject is taught from a practical viewpoint and it includes a considerable amount of programming practice, using existing tools as building blocks to complete a large-scale task.

COMP2907 Algorithms and Complexity (Advanced)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 2hrs) per week Assessment: In-course involvement, assignments(20%), quizzes(20%) and written exam (60%)

An advanced alternative to COMP2007; covers material at an advanced and challenging level. This unit provides an introduction to the design and analysis of algorithms. The main aims are (i) to learn how to develop algorithmic solutions to computational problem and (ii) to develop understanding of algorithm efficiency and the notion of computational hardness.

COMP3109 Programming Languages and Paradigms

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Tutorial 1hrs) per week Assessment: In-course involvement, assignments(20%), quizzes(20%) and written exam(60%).

This unit provides an introduction to the foundations of programming languages and their implementation. The main aims are to teach what are: grammars, parsers, semantics, programming paradigms and implementation of programming languages.

COMP3308 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Tut 1hr) per week Assessment: Assignment (50%), Final Exam (50%)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all about programming computers to perform tasks normally associated with intelligent behaviour. Classical AI programs have played games, proved theorems, discovered patterns in data, planned complex assembly sequences and so on. This unit of study will introduce representations, techniques and architectures used to build intelligent systems. It will explore selected topics such as heuristic search, game playing, machine learning, and knowledge representation. Students who complete it will have an understanding of some of the fundamental methods and algortihms of AI, and an appreciation of how they can be applied to interesting problems. The unit will involve a practical component in which some simple problems are solved using AI techniques.

COMP3608 Intro. to Artificial Intelligence (Adv)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 1hrs) per week. Assessment: Assignment (50%), Final Exam (50%)

An advanced alternative to COMP3308; covers material at an advanced and challenging level.

COMP3419 Graphics and Multimedia

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 2hrs) per week Assessment: In-course involvement(10%), assignments(20%), quiz(5%) and written exam(65%).

This unit provides a broad introduction to the field of graphics and multimedia to meet the diverse requirements of application areas such as entertainment, industrial design, virtual reality, intelligent media management, medical imaging and remote sensing. It covers both the underpinning theories and the practices of computing and manipulating digital media including graphics / image, audio, animation, and video. Emphasis is placed on principles and cutting-edge techniques for multimedia data processing, content analysis, media retouching, media coding and compression.

COMP3456 Computational Methods for Life Sciences

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 2hrs) per week Assessment: In-course involvement, assignments(20%), quizzes(10%) and written exam(70%).

This unit introduces the algorithmic principles driving advances in the life sciences. It discusses biological and algorithmic ideas together, linking issues in computer science and biology and thus is suitable for students in both disciplines. Students will learn algorithm design and analysis techniques to solve practical problems in biology.

COMP3520 Operating Systems Internals

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 2hrs) per week Assessment: Lab reports (10%), assignments(30%) and written exam (60%).

This unit will provide a comprehensive dicsussion of relevant OS issues and principles and describe how those principles are put into practice in real operating systems. The contents include internal structure of OS; several ways each major aspect (process scheduling, inter-process communication, memory management, device management, file systems) can be implemented; the performance impact of design choices; case studies of common OS (Linux, MS Windows NT, etc.).

COMP3615 Software Development Project

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: (Meeting with academic supervisor 1hr & Class meeting 1hr) per week Assessment: Presentation/Seminar (20%), Report (70%), Progress Report (10%)

This unit will provide students an opportunity to apply the knowledge and practise the skills acquired in the prerequisite and qualifying units, in the context of designing and building a substantial software development system in diverse application domains including life sciences. Working in groups for an external client combined with academic supervision, students will need to carry out the full range of activities including requirements capture, analysis and design, coding, testing and documentation. Students will use the XP methodology and make use of professional tools for the management of their project.

ECMT - Econometrics

These units are administered by the School of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

ECMT1010 Business and Economic Statistics A

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x2-hr workshop/week Assessment: homework (15%), quizzes (30%), assignment (15%) and 1x2hr final exam (40%)

This unit provides an introduction to basic statistics and its applications in economics and business disciplines. Topics include: Methods for data management; analysis and interpretation of data; probability; the normal distribution; an introduction to sampling theory and hypothesis testing; and the concepts of regression analysis. A key component is the provision of instruction and experience in the use of computers and statistical software as an aid in the analysis of data. Students are expected to use data resources on the World Wide Web, retrieve data and analyse this data using Excel.

ECMT1020 Business and Economic Statistics B

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x2-hr workshop/week Assessment: 3x quizzes (25%), workshop questions/homework (10%), assignment (15%) and 1x2hr final exam (50%)

Note: Other than in exceptional circumstances, it is strongly recommended that students do not undertake Business and Economic Statistics B before attempting Business and Economic Statistics A.

This unit broadens the knowledge gained in the unit ECMT1010 Business and Economic Statistics A by introducing further tools (and their applications) for use in economics, finance, marketing and accounting. This unit features practical applications. Possible topics include: further aspects of hypothesis testing including goodness-of-fit models; regression analysis including a brief introduction to logit models, time series and its applications to economics and finance; input-output analysis; index numbers and mathematics of finance. The material is further complemented by mathematical topics including matrices and partial differentiation. In addition, students are expected to use data resources on the World Wide Web, retrieve data and analyse this data using Excel.

ECMT2110 Regression Modelling

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: group project (20%), 3x assignments (15%), mid-semester test (25%) and 1x2.5hr final exam (40%)

Students undertaking this unit have some background in basic statistics including an introduction to regression analysis. Using this knowledge as a base, an extensive discussion of basic regression theory and some of its extensions is provided. The unit covers how linear regression models can be applied to data to estimate relationships, to forecast, and to test hypotheses that arise in economics and business. Guidelines for using econometric techniques effectively are discussed and students are introduced to the process of model building. It is essential that the discussion of regression modelling be complemented with practice in analysing data. An important task is the computing component using econometric software.

ECMT2130 Financial Econometrics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 2x assignments (2x20%) and 1x2hr final exam (60%)

Over the last decade econometric modelling of financial data has become an important part of the operations of merchant banks and major trading houses and a vibrant area of employment for econometricians. This unit provides an introduction to some of the widely used econometric models for financial data and the procedures used to estimate them. Special emphasis is placed upon empirical work and applied analysis of real market data. Topics covered may include the statistical characteristics of financial data, the specification, estimation and testing of asset pricing models, the analysis of high frequency financial data, and the modelling of volatility in financial returns.

ECMT3110 Econometric Models and Methods

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: assignments (20%), mid-semester test (20%), 2hr final exam (60%)

This unit extends methods of estimation and testing developed in association with regression analysis to cover econometric models involving special aspects of behaviour and of data. In particular, motivating examples are drawn from dynamic models, panel data and simultaneous equation models. In order to provide the statistical tools to be able to compare alternative methods of estimation and testing, both small sample and asymptotic properties are developed and discussed.

ECMT3120 Applied Econometrics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: group project (25%), mid-semester test (25%), 2hr final exam (50%)

Econometric theory provides techniques to quantify the strength and form of relationships between variables. Applied Econometrics is concerned with the appropriate use of these techniques in practical applications in economics and business. General principles for undertaking applied work are discussed and necessary research skills developed. In particular, the links between econometric models and the underlying substantive knowledge or theory for the application are stressed. Topics will include error correction models, unit roots and cointegration and models for cross section data, including limited dependent variables. Research papers involving empirical research are studied and the unit features all students participating in a group project involving econometric modelling.

ECMT3130 Forecasting for Economics and Business

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr lab/week Assessment: assignment (20%), group assignment (25%), mid-semester test (20%) and 2.5hr final exam (35%)

The need to forecast or predict future values of economic time series arises frequently in many branches of applied economic and commercial work. It is, moreover, a topic which lends itself naturally to econometric and statistical treatment. The specific feature which distinguishes time series from other data is that the order in which the sample is recorded is of relevance. As a result of this, a substantial body of statistical methodology has developed. This unit provides an introduction to methods of time series analysis and forecasting. The material covered is primarily time domain methods designed for a single series and includes the building of linear time series models, the theory and practice of univariate forecasting and the use of regression methods for forecasting. Throughout the unit a balance between theory and practical application is maintained.

ECMT3150 The Econometrics of Financial Markets

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr lab/week Assessment: assignment (20%), group assignment (30%), mid-semester test (15%) and 2.5hr final exam (35%)

This unit studies and develops the econometric models and methods employed for the analysis of data arising in financial markets. It extends and complements the material covered in ECMT2130. The unit will cover econometric models that have proven useful for the analysis of both synchronous and non-synchronous financial time series data over the last two decades. Modern Statistical methodology will be introduced for the estimation of such models. The econometric models and associated methods of estimation will be applied to the analysis of a number of financial datasets. Students will be encouraged to undertake hands-on analysis using an appropriate computing package. Topics covered include: Discrete time financial time series models for asset returns; modelling and forecasting conditional volatility; Value at Risk and modern market risk measurement and management; modelling of high frequency and/or non-synchronous financial data and the econometrics of market microstructure issues. The focus of the unit will be in the econometric models and methods that have been developed recently in the area of financial econometrics and their application to modelling and forecasting market risk measures.

ECON/ECOS - Economics

These units are administered by the School of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

ECON1001 Introductory Microeconomics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: online quizzes (10%), 1x mid-semester test (30%), 1x essay (10%) and 1x2hr final exam (50%)

Introductory Microeconomics addresses the economic decisions of individual firms and households and how these interact in markets. It is a compulsory core unit for the Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Commerce and an alternative core unit for the Bachelor of Economic and Social Science. Economic issues are pervasive in contemporary Australian society. Introductory Microeconomics introduces students to the language and analytical framework adopted in Economics for the examination of social phenomena and public policy issues. Whatever one's career intentions, coming to grips with economic ideas is essential for understanding society, business and government. Students are given a comprehensive introduction to these ideas and are prepared for the advanced study of microeconomics in subsequent years.

ECON1002 Introductory Macroeconomics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: tutorial participation (5%), 5x online quizzes (10%), mid-semester test (25%), essay (10%) and 2hr final exam (50%)

Introductory Macroeconomics addresses the analysis of the level of employment and economic activity in the economy as a whole. It is a compulsory core unit for the Bachelor of Economics and an alternative core unit for the Bachelor of Economic and Social Sciences. Introductory Macroeconomics examines the main factors that determine the overall levels of production and employment in the economy, including the influence of government policy and international trade. This analysis enables an exploration of money, interest rates and financial markets, and a deeper examination of inflation, unemployment and economic policy.

ECOS2001 Intermediate Microeconomics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: tutorials (10%), 2x in-class tests (40%) and 2hr final exam (50%)

Note: Certain combinations of Maths/Stats may substitute for Econometrics. Consult the School of Economics Undergraduate Coordinator.

The aim of Intermediate Microeconomics is the development of theoretical and applied skills in economics. It covers applications and extensions of the theory of consumer choice, firm behaviour and market structure. Emphasis is given to the economics of information and choice under uncertainty; industry structures other than monopoly and perfect competition; markets for factors of production; general equilibrium and economic efficiency; market failure and the role of government. This unit provides a basis for the more specialised options that comprise third year economics.

ECOS2901 Intermediate Microeconomics Honours

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 2x mid-semester tests (50%) and 2.5hr final exam (50%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit is comprised of lectures based upon the curriculum for ECOS2001 Intermediate Microeconomics, supported by a seminar for one hour a week. The content of lectures reflect a more analytical and critical treatment of the topics than ECOS2001. The topics, which build on the theory of consumer and firm behaviour and market structure, include game theory, oligopoly, general equilibrium and welfare, externalities and public goods and the economics of information.

ECOS2002 Intermediate Macroeconomics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: mid-semester test (30%), assignments (20%) and 2hr final exam (50%)

Note: Certain combinations of Maths/Stats may substitute for Econometrics. Consult the School of Economics Undergraduate Coordinator.

This unit of study develops models of the goods, money and labour markets, examines issues in macroeconomic policy. Macroeconomic relationships, covering consumption, investment, money and employment, are explored in detail. Macro-dynamic relationships, especially those linking inflation and unemployment, are also considered. Exchange rates and open economy macroeconomics are also addressed. In the last part of the unit, topics include the determinants and theories of economic growth, productivity and technology, the dynamics of the business cycle, counter-cyclical policy and the relationship between micro and macro policy in the context of recent Australian experience.

ECOS2902 Intermediate Macroeconomics Honours

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: essay (20%), mid-semester test (30%) and 2hr final exam (50%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit is comprised of lectures based upon the curriculum for ECOS2002 Intermediate Macroeconomics, supported by a seminar for one hour a week. The content of lectures reflects a more intensive treatment of the topics than ECOS2002. Topics covered include: models of the goods, money and labour markets; macro-economic relationships such as consumption, investment, demand for money and labour demand and supply; macro-dynamic relationships, especially those linking inflation and unemployment; exchange rates and open economy macroeconomics; theories of economic growth; productivity and technological change; the dynamics of the business cycle; and the relationship between micro- and macro-economic policy.

ECOS2201 Economics of Competition and Strategy

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 2x mid-semester tests (40%) and 2hr final exam (60%)

This unit introduces new and comprehensive methods for the analysis and formation of business strategy. The unit analyses strategies for developing competitive advantages, including product differentiation, cost advantages and product life cycles; implementing incentives, control, firm boundaries, and internal firm decision-making mechanisms; implementing pricing, auction and signalling practices; assessing industry attractiveness and the regulatory/trade practices environment; and managing industry cooperation and conflict. Students are taught a set of tools that they can bring to bear on new problems. Understanding competitive dynamics and strategic thinking are emphasised. Case studies and problem-solving form an important part of the teaching method.

ECOS2903 Mathematical Economics A

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: problem sets/quizzes (30%), mid-semester test (20%) and 2hr final exam (50%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Students intending to proceed to the third year economics honours program must take this unit or MATH2070

This unit provides an introduction to mathematical techniques commonly employed by economists. Students who wish to proceed to final year Economics Honours must complete either ECOS2903 or MATH2070. Topics include: limits, continuity, differentiation of single- and multi-variable functions, unconstrained and constrained optimisation.

ECOS3002 Development Economics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: 2x in-class tests (30%) and 2.5hr final exam (70%)

This unit examines the role of the state, rationale for planning and market mechanisms in developing economies, and also the sociocultural preconditions and economic requirements for a market economy. It focuses on a wide range of developmental problems and issues from both microeconomic and macroeconomic points of view. It closely studies the integration process of the traditional segment of a developing society into its modern counterpart in countries selected from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific regions.

ECOS3003 Hierarchies, Incentives & Firm Structure

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: group assignment (25%), mid-semester test (20%) and 2hr final exam (55%)

This unit deals with the coordination and motivation problems faced by firms. More specifically this unit examines: whether firms use price or command mechanisms to allocate resources within firms; the problems associated with designing incentive contracts; the principles of efficient contract design and; the real world applications of those principles. The final section deals with the manner in which the coordination and motivation problems faced by firms determines their financial, vertical and horizontal structure.

ECOS3004 History of Economic Thought

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: essay (20%), mid-semester test (30%) and 70min final exam (50%)

Where do the current beliefs - theories, doctrines, postulates and attitudes - of modern economics come from? If current theories and doctrines have a definite historical beginning, what schools of thought did they supplant? Are there alternative or dissident views which subsisted alongside mainstream economics in the twentieth century - and if so, what are they and where did they originate from? This unit seeks to answer these questions, as well as others. It provides an overview of the development of economic ideas from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, combined with a more intensive focus on the thought of certain key figures in that history. The particular topics covered include: the formation of economics to 1776; Adam Smith; classical economics from Smith to J.S. Mill; the rise of marginalist economics; John Maynard Keynes; and orthodox and heterodox currents in twentieth century economics.

ECOS3005 Industrial Organisation

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: mid-semester test (35%), problem sets (5%) and 2hr final exam (60%)

This unit of study examines the nature of inter-firm rivalry in industries with market power. It explores the various ways in which firms can increase their market power by: extracting more surplus from consumers, by colluding with rivals or by excluding entrants. The unit also analyses the international competitiveness of industries in the context of industry assistance and the prevalence of foreign multinationals. Competition policy is also discussed.

ECOS3006 International Trade

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: problem sets (5%), mid-semester test (35%) and 2hr final exam (60%)

This unit of study provides a systematic analysis of the theory of international trade and trade policy. Initially differences between countries are emphasised as the source of trade and the gains from trade. Models that are examined include the Classical-Ricardian model, the Heckscher-Ohlin model and the Specific-Factors model. Next economics of scale and imperfect competition are introduced as sources of trade and gains from trade. The unit concludes with an examination of empirical studies aimed at testing trade theories. The analysis of trade policy begins with a discussion of the instruments of trade policy, in particular, tariffs and quotas and their effect on welfare. This discussion is then extended to the case of imperfect competition and strategic trade policy.

ECOS3007 International Macroeconomics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: assignments (20%) and mid-semester test (20%) and 1x2hr final exam (60%)

This unit studies macroeconomic theory and policy in a global trading world. The microfoundations of the various sectors are examined in the context of an open economy. The evolution of international money and capital markets is described, the operation of the foreign exchange market is examined, showing how its microstructure affects its macro performance. Theories and tests of the efficiency of international capital markets are surveyed, as well as core theories and tests of exchange rate and asset price determination. The unit develops the macroeconomic implications of monetary and fiscal policies for small and large open economies for different regimes.

ECOS3008 Labour Economics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: essay (25%), mid-semester test (25%) and 2hr final exam (50%)

This unit aims to provide an understanding of labour markets and related issues such as work conditions, pay and employment levels. Labour supply and demand, theories of wage determination, labour mobility and discrimination are examined. It also analyses the role of trade unions and labour market contracts. These topics are applied to current issues in Australian labour markets such as enterprise bargaining, the role of centralised wage fixing systems, training and other labour market programs. Policies designed to improve the functioning of the labour market are examined and particular attention is given to the problem of persistent unemployment.

ECOS3010 Monetary Economics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: multiple choice test (30%) and written paper (20%) and 70min final exam (50%)

This unit provides an overview of the main elements of monetary economics, with emphasis upon macroeconomic issues - analysis of economic processes in which money enters the picture in an essential manner. The content primarily concerns economic principles and theory, but there is also considerable focus on the Australian monetary system and monetary policy in particular. The particular topics covered include: functions of money; the concept of 'liquidity'; money demand; determinants of money supply changes; financial crises and the 'lender of last resort' function of central banking; the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority; term and risk structures of interest rates; alternative theories of the level of the rate of interest; the monetary policy transmission mechanism; monetary policy instrument choice; central bank credibility; policy reaction functions; the global monetary system; and Reserve Bank market operations.

ECOS3012 Strategic Behaviour

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: mid-semester test (35%), online quizzes (20%) and 2hr final exam (45%)

To think and act strategically, one needs to evaluate the effect of one's actions on the actions of others. As most economic decisions are strategic, such as the decision to lower a price or introduce a new tax, economics, if it is to avoid simplistic models, requires a theoretical framework capable of illuminating strategic behaviour. This unit offers a comprehensive, critical introduction to the theory which purports, not only to satisfy this theoretical need, but also potentially to unify the social sciences: game theory. After examining important concepts of game theory, the unit investigates the repercussions for the theory of bargaining and for the evolution of social institutions.

ECOS3015 Law and Economics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial fortnight Assessment: assignments (20%), mid-semester test (30%) and 2hr final exam (50%)

Law and economics examines the economic role of law and legal institutions on the actions of economic agents. The economic analysis of law is founded on models of human behaviour and examines how decision making is affected by different legal regimes. The behavioral approach gives rise to a set of principles that can be applied widely across disparate areas of the law, and is becoming increasingly important world-wide, as such analysis is often utilized in courts and public policy forums. The unit begins with a revision of relevant tools of economic analysis. Subsequently, it studies the economics of various branches of law such as: property; contract; nuisance; accident and liability law; and, criminal law

ECOS3016 Experimental and Behavioural Economics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: 2x take home assignments (50%) and 2hr final exam (50%)

Experimental economics uses experimental methods to evaluate the performance of economic models, institutions and policies. Behavioural economics combines experimental and field evidence with insights from neighbouring disciplines such as psychology, to develop richer economic models of decision-making. This unit will develop the key research methods and major findings of each of these fields, and explore both theoretical and practical implications. Students will read a number of seminal research papers in both experimental and behavioural economics, and will have opportunities to participate in classroom experiments, to analyse experimental data, and to design and program their own research projects.

ECOS3017 Health Economics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: 2x in-class tests (30%) and 2hr final exam (70%)

The purpose of this unit is to introduce the student to the methods of health economics and demonstrate how these methods can be applied to analyse issues in health policy and management. This unit will teach the student to use economic analysis to understand critical issues in health care and health policy. Topics covered include the institutions of the Australian system of health care and health statistics, evaluation techniques, production of health, demand for health care and technology, moral hazard and adverse selection in health insurance markets, health labour markets, including physician-patient interactions, managed care, regulation and payment systems for providers, comparative health systems, the pharmaceutical industry, health policy and social insurance.

ECOS3018 Economics of Growth

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: 2x in-class tests (40%) and 1.5hr final exam (60%)

At the heart of an understanding of the dynamics of market or capitalist economies is an understanding of economic growth. This unit is an introduction to the analysis of economic growth including a comparison of competing explanations within formal growth theory. It considers the connection between growth and distribution, growth and technical progress, the role of economic policies and economic institutions in promoting growth as well as the limitations on growth associated with exhaustible natural resources. Lectures also provide some consideration of the empirical evidence on different explanations of growth.

ECOS3019 Capital and Dynamics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: 2x in-class tests (40%) and 2hr final exam (60%)

Fundamental to the theory of value, income distribution and output is a coherent treatment of the concept of capital. The definition and measurement of 'capital' is essential to the explanation of relative prices, and hence integral to any explanation of distributive shares in national income. It is also indispensable to a proper understanding of debates over the theory of output. The aim of the unit is to provide a comprehensive account of the different approaches to capital theory (e.g. in traditional aggregative neoclassical theory, general equilibrium theory and classical/Sraffian inspired models) and to highlight their significance for different views about value, distribution and output. This account necessarily involves some focus on the intersection of capital theory and the theory of dynamics as it applies to multi-sectoral/multi-commodity models, including growth theory, the dynamics of inter-industry competition, the analysis of technological progress and the intertemporal dynamics of production in the context of exhaustible natural resources.

ECOS3020 Special Topic in Economics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: assessment dependent on topic

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Students must seek written permission from the School of Economics Undergraduate Coordinator to enrol in this unit.

Study of a special topic in Economics. Topics will vary from semester to semester according to staff availablity and the presence of visitors. If taught in both semesters, the topic in Semester 2 will be different to that of Semester 1.

ECOS3021 Business Cycles and Asset Markets

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: class participation (5%), mid-semester test (20%), project report (25%) and 2hr final exam (50%)

The unit of study provides theoretical and empirical training in analysing macroeconomic fluctuations and the interactions between the real economy and asset markets. The unit of study will introduce theoretical models of the business cycle to identify sources of economic fluctuations. It then provides a theoretical framework in which the asset market-the real economy can be analysed. In addition to theoretical analysis, the unit will develop empirical tools for analysing economic and financial indicators as well as evaluating the performance of theoretical models. The role of government policy will also be discussed by taking both Australian and global episodes.

ECOS3022 The Economics of Financial Markets

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: problem sets (20%), mid-semester test (25%) and 2hr final exam (55%)

Financial assets play a vital role coordinating the actions of savers and investors; consequently, they play a crucial role in creating wealth and facilitating economic activity. The aim of this unit is to explore the economic principles underlying: the pricing and development of financial assets; the trade-off between risk and return and the how investors construct portfolios in response to this trade-off. The focus is on the economics of financial markets: the factors of demand and supply; risk and uncertainty; incomplete contracts and renegotiation; and asymmetric information and its implications. We will emphasize the key aspects of markets for financial assets and the main differences to markets for consumption goods. The unit also examines the development of financial institutions and current issues in financial markets.

ECOS3023 Personnel Economics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: mid-semester test (25%), assignment (25%) and 2hr final exam (50%)

Personnel economics deals with the analysis of human resource issues within organisations. Throughout the unit of study, students will be introduced to economic concepts and analytical tools that provide a rigorous framework with which to analyse these relationships. Topics covered include recruitment and hiring decisions; turnover of staff; remuneration and motivation schemes designed to enhance productivity; and, the analysis of team production within the modern business organisation. Empirical studies that test theoretical predictions will also be considered throughout the unit.

ECOS3901 Advanced Microeconomics Honours

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: mid-semester test (30%), problem sets (10%) and 2.5hr final exam (60%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Students intending to proceed to fourth year economics honours must also complete at least one unit of study from (ECOS3001 or ECON3001) to (ECOS3015 or ECON3015) inclusive, in either semester of their third year

ECOS3901 Advanced Microeconomics is the second unit of study in the microeconomics sequence in the Economics Honours program. The goal of the unit is to provide a working knowledge and understanding of the most powerful methods of analysis and discourse in modern microeconomic theory. We build on the foundations of ECOS2901 and ECOS2903 to continue progress toward the frontier of microeconomics.

ECOS3902 Advanced Macroeconomics Honours

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: mid-semester test (30%), take home assignments (10%) and 2hr final exam (60%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

ECOS3902 Advanced Macroeconomics is a third year honours unit of study in macroeconomics. Its main objective is to develop a framework for thinking about macroeconomic questions. This unit is designed for the students enrolled in the Economics Honours stream. ECOS2901, ECOS2902, ECOS2903 and ECOS3901 are prerequisites and the corequisite is ECOS3903,or ECMT3110 plus one of ECMT2120, ECMT3120, ECMT3130, ECMT3160 or ECMT3170.

ECOS3903 Applied Microeconomics Honours

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: assignments (10%), referee report (15%), mid-semester test (25%) and 2hr final examination (50%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Students intending to proceed to fourth year economics honours must take this unit or (ECMT3110 plus one of ECMT2120, ECMT3120, ECMT3130, ECMT3160 or ECMT3170).

This unit is designed to provide students with estimation techniques frequently used in applied microeconomics. It will mainly cover cross section and panel data methods. Various empirical topics in labour economics, international trade, etc., will be discussed.

ECOS3904 Applied Macroeconomics Honours

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/fortnight Assessment: 1x1hr mid-semester test (20%), computer assignments (30%) and 1x2hr final exam (50%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit provides an introduction to econometric methods that are useful for understanding applied macroeconomic and financial economic models and research. It also aims to provide students with the necessary analytical tools for undertaking applied research using time series data. It discusses how time series techniques can be applied to other areas of economics such as international trade, energy economics, economics of terrorism, etc. This unit of study can be both complementary or a substitute Applied Microeconomics Honours.

ECOP - Political Economy

All ECOP units of study are administered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

ECOP1001 Economics as a Social Science

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Lynne Chester Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 2x1000wd essays (30%), 1x400wd tutorial paper (5%), 1x1.5hr exam (50%) and tutorial participation (15%)

Economic concerns are central to modern society and politics. Yet economists are deeply divided in their views about how the economy works and how it could be made to work better. This unit of study explores the principal competing currents of economic thought - classical, neo-classical, institutional, Marxian and Keynesian. It looks at how these rival economic theories influence views about economic policy and the future of capitalism. This provides a solid foundation for subsequent study of economics and political economy.

Textbooks

F. Stilwell, Political Economy: the Contest of Economic Ideas (Oxford U.P.)

ECOP1003 International Economy and Finance

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Bill Dunn Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (20%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and tutorial participation (10%)

The world economy has changed dramatically since World War 2, especially with the renewed 'globalisation' from the 1980s. This unit traces the historical patterns of globalisation. It analyses the debates about whether globalisation has been for the better or worse overall, and who would have been the winners and the losers in this process. The unit explores the changing theories that have been used to explain and evaluate global economic integration. The unit concurrently explores the forms of, and debates about, the regulation of economic activity on a global scale, addressing the development and changing roles of states and international agencies and evaluates their capacity to generate global equity and economic stability.

ECOP1004 Economy and Society

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Damien Cahill Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (20%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and turorial participation (10%)

This unit examines the processes by which economic activity is embedded within a broader social structure. Attention is given to the key institutions that channel economic activity, the processes by which capitalist markets are regulated, and the distinctive features of capitalist economies. The subject is organised around a range of conceptual tools which elaborate these themes, followed by analysis of particular case studies that illustrate the social constitution, dynamics and regulation of particular markets.

ECOP2011 Economics of Modern Capitalism

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Joseph Halevi Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (40%), 1x2hr exam (40%), tutorial participation and presentation (20%)

This unit of study examines the economic theory that emerged with the formation and development of capitalism. It explores the key theoretical focuses of political economy, classical, neo-classical and general equilibrium theories, before proceeding to analyze the economics of Keynes and post-Keynesian theory, and reflecting on contemporary macroeconomic debates, including production, the distribution of income and economic growth.

ECOP2012 Social Foundations of Modern Capitalism

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Joy Paton Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2000wd research essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (40%), seminar presentation (10%) and seminar participation (10%)

Economic activity is 'embedded' within a broader social structure, making the study of institutional and social forces a crucial element in understanding the historical fabric and functioning of the economy. This unit looks at the institutions, such as of capital, labour, the family and the state that channel economic activity and also at the importance of class and other social struggles in the historical transformations of those institutions. It examines how governments respond to the imperatives for economic and social order, including how the state acts to regulate institutions, and socio-economic relations, to establish stability and maintain capital accumulation. Several illustrative case studies and policy areas are studied.

ECOP2601 Analysis of Business Cycles

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Susan Schroeder Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1000wd essay (2x25%), 1x1.5hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)

This unit examines the various political economic aspects of business cycles. It surveys the predominant strands of thought, historical and contemporary, as to what causes cycles. The unit provides students with an overview of the ways that the upper turning point of a cycle has been, and is being, detected. Finally, it critically reviews how fiscal and monetary policies have been used to thwart the onset or soften the impact of crisis, drawing the implications for today's economic challenges.

ECOP2612 Economic Policy in Global Context

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Susan Schroeder Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1000wd essays (2x25%), 1x1.5hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)

Some of the most contentious issues in political economy concern the role of the state in relation to contemporary economic problems. This unit of study examines particular economic policies, how they are shaped by competing theories, interests and ideologies, and how they operate in practice. Emphasis is placed on the Australian experience. Attention is also given to how economic policy is shaped by international economic conditions.

ECOP2911 Political Economy Honours II

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Joy Paton Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1.5-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x1200wd seminar paper (15%) and seminar presentation (10%), 1x1500wd essay (20%), 1x2500wd research paper (40%) and seminar participation (15%)

This unit of study introduces students to some of the big debates in the social sciences, through an exploration of the meaning and limits of class concepts in social theory. Structure and agency, fact and interpretation, the politics of theory, and the nature of the Good Society are all considered. The unit is both an enrichment program adding breadth to the range of issues you study in Pass units of study, and an advanced program adding depth to your analytical and writing skills in Political Economy, in preparation for a third year studies and for a final honours year.

ECOP3012 Global Political Economy

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Bill Dunn Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (20%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and 1x10 minute group presentation (10%)

This unit of study presents a historical and institutional perspective on the development of the capitalist world economy since 1945. The analysis starts with a historical and theoretical introduction covering the determinants of profits and accumulation and the role of external markets in economic growth. It then addresses key issues in this development including: the formation of the international monetary system and its crisis following the end of the long boom; and the global role of the United States and the formation of growth poles in Europe and in Asia.

ECOP3014 Political Economy of Development

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Elizabeth Hill Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (20%), 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and tutorial presentation (10%)

This unit of study investigates the idea, theory and practice of economic development in low income countries. Students are introduced to particular theories explaining economic growth and the obstacles to development. These theories are applied to a range of contemporary issues in developing countries, such as industrialisation, structural adjustment and poverty, human rights, gender, the role of NGOs, development assistance and credit and debt drawing on case studies from different countries.

ECOP3015 Political Economy of the Environment

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Lynne Chester Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (35%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%), 1x3000wd group case study (25%) and 1x group presentation (10%)

This unit of study critically examines the environmental foundations of the political economy. Two dimensions are explored: how economists and political economists theorise economic interactions with the environment; and how environmental problems emerge and are managed within the capitalist political economy. Attention is given to developing theories of environmental economics, ecological economics and range of radical critiques of human interactions with ecological systems. Individual environmental concerns are explored through a series of workshops that focus on the nature of the problems, policy prescriptions and the forces shaping particular environmental management strategies.

ECOP3017 Human Rights in Development

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Tim Anderson Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (20%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and participation (10%)

This unit studies human rights in development. International debates about human rights and democratic legitimacy are linked to structural economic arguments and to cultural and structural debates over the process of socioeconomic change. This introduces the competing arguments over rights, the distinction between formal and effective rights and the social struggles that have created them. The approach of economic liberalism, emphasising property rights and the role of competition as an arbiter of equal opportunities in society, is discussed. The unit also includes international studies of indigenous rights and labour rights, the globalisation of capital and citizenship, and structural and cultural arguments over the nature of socio-economic change.

ECOP3019 Finance: Volatility and Regulation

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Dick Bryan Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x1200wd essay (20%), 1x2000wd essay (35%), 1x1.5hr exam (35%) and tutorial presentation/participation (10%)

Foreign exchange, international bond and derivative markets have expanded dramatically over the past 20 years. This unit of study examines reasons for the growth of these markets and their vulnerability to some form of volatility and crisis. Case studies of individual corporate financial crises and national financial crises are considered. The unit also addresses the regulation of financial markets, both on a national and international scale. It looks at the history of regulation, key regulatory and monitoring agencies, and arguments for a new international financial architecture.

ECOP3620 Distribution of Income and Wealth

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Martijn Konings Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1500wd essays (2x30%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and tutorial participation (10%)

The distribution of income and wealth is unequal in all nations, but the extent of inequality varies. What determines the size of these disparities? How have they changed over time? How do governments influence the distribution of income and wealth? Are alternative economic policies feasible? This unit explores how political economic analysis can be applied to the study of these issues of economic inequality.

ECOP3911 Theories in Political Economy

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Martijn Konings Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Assessment: 2x1500wd essays (50%), seminar presentation/write up (25%) and class participation (25%)

Note: Third year students who have not completed the prerequisites should consult the Department of Political Economy about alternative requirements.

This unit of study looks at the various theoretical frameworks within which political economic analysis is constructed. It compares the methodologies of the principal schools of economic thought with particular emphasis on the non-neoclassical approaches to the study of economic issues. The unit is required preparation for intending honours students but is also available to pass students with a credit average in previous units.

ECOP3912 Research in Political Economy

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Mike Beggs Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Assessment: 2x1200wd papers (60%), 1x1200wd research proposal (30%) and participation (10%)

Note: Third year students who have not completed the prerequisites should consult the Department of Political Economy about alternative requirements.

This unit considers the variety of research methods that can be used in Political Economy. Discussion of methodology is a principal focus. Practical consideration is also given to research materials, bibliographical access, quantitative methods, surveys and fieldwork. This is important preparation for students intending to do an honours dissertation, but the unit is also available to pass students with a credit average in previous units.

ELEC - Computer Science

All ELEC, INFO, and COMP (Computer Science) units are administered by the School of Information Technology in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies.

ELEC1601 Foundations of Computer Systems

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hours of lectures, 1 hour of tutorial, 1 hour project work and 2 hours of laboratory per week. Assessment: Report (10%), Quiz (8%), Project (5%), Assignment (5%), Final Exam (60%), Lab Skills (12%)

This unit of study introduces the fundamental digital concepts upon which the design and operation of modern digital computers are based. A prime aim of the unit is to develop a professional view of, and a capacity for inquiry into, the field of computing.
The unit covers the fundamental digital concepts upon which the design and operation of modern digital computers are based. Topics covered include: data representation, basic computer organisation, the CPU, elementary gates and logic, peripheral devices, software organisation, machine language, assembly language, operating systems, data communications and computer networks.

ELEC3506 Data Communications and the Internet

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hours of lectures and 2 hours tutorials per week. 2 hours of laboratory per fortnight. Assessment: Mid-Sem Exam (20%), Final Exam (60%), Log Book (4%), Lab Report (16%)

Students undertaking this unit should be familiar with fundamental digital technologies and representations such as bit complement and internal word representation. Students should also have a basic understanding of the physical properties of communication channels, techniques and limitations. Furthermore, students should be able to apply fundamental mathematical skills.
The unit will cover the following specific material: Communication reference models (TCP/IP, ATM and OSI). Circuit switched and packet switched communication. Network node functions and building blocks. LAN, MAN and WAN technologies. ATM systems. Protocols fundamental mechanisms. The TCP/IP core protocols (IP, ICMP, DHCP, ARP, TCP, UDP etc.). Applications and protocols (FTP, Telnet, SMTP, HTTP etc.).

ELEC3609 Internet Software Platforms

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hours lecture and 2 hours tutorials per week Assessment: Final Exam (60%), Project (40%)

This unit of study will focus on the design, the architecture and the development of web applications using technologies currently popular in the marketplace including Java and .NET environments. There are three key themes examined in the unit: Presentation layer, Persistence layer, and Interoperability. The unit will examine practical technologies such as JSP and Servlets, the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, database programming with ADO.NET and JDBC, advanced persistence using ORM, XML for interoperability, and XML-based SOAP services and Ajax, in support of the theoretical themes identified.
On completion the students should be able to:
- Compare Java/J2EE web application development with Microsoft .NET web application development.
- Exposure to relevant developer tools (e.g. Eclipse and VS.NET)
- Be able to develop a real application on one of those environments.
- Use XML to implement simple web services and AJAX applications.

ELEC3610 E-Business Analysis and Design

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hours project work in class and 1 hr tutorials per week. Assessment: Proposal (25%), Assignment (5%), Lab Skills (30%), Presentation (10%), Final Exam (30%)

This unit examines the essential pre-production stages of designing successful internet websites and services. It focuses on the aspects of analysis, project specification, design, and prototype that lead up to the actual build of a website or application. Topics include, B2C, B2B and B2E systems, business models, methodologies, modeling with use cases / UML and WebML, the Project Proposal and Project Specification Document, Information Architecture and User-Centred Design, legal issues, and standards-based web development. Students build a simple use-case based e-business website prototype with web standards. A final presentation of the analysis, design and prototype are presented in a role play environment where students try to win funding from a venture capitalist. An understanding of these pre-production fundamentals is critical for future IT and Software Engineering Consultants, Project Managers, Analysts and CTOs.

FINC - Finance

FINC2011 Corporate Finance I

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Late,Summer Main Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1 x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: tutorial participation (10%), early semester quiz (20%), assignment (20%), final 2hr exam (50%)

Note: Study in Finance commences in second year. BUSS1020 (or ECMT1010) and BUSS1040 (or ECON1001 and ECON1002) are recommended for all students wanting to study Finance.

This unit provides an introduction to basic concepts in corporate finance and their application to (1) valuation of risky assets including stocks, bonds and entire corporations, (2) pricing of equity securities, and (3) corporate financial policy decisions including dividend, capital structure and risk management policies. An emphasis is placed on the application of ideas and current practices in each of these areas.

FINC2012 Corporate Finance II

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: mid-semester exam (15%), essay (20%), final exam (65%)

This unit builds on FINC2011 Corporate Finance I, by extending basic concepts in corporate financing, investing and risk management. The first half of the unit is devoted to current theories of corporate financing and their practical application in corporate investment and capital budgeting. The second half of the unit examines securities and securities markets with an emphasis on pricing, investment characteristics and, importantly, their use by corporations to manage risk. The securities examined include: bonds and related fixed income products; futures; options; and securities denominated in foreign currencies. The goal of the unit is to broaden students' knowledge of corporate finance in preparation for further study in finance in third year.

FINC3011 International Financial Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Mid-Semester Exam (25%), Tutorial Participation (10%), Project (20%), Final Exam (45%)

Markets are increasingly globalised. There are very few businesses or industries that are not required to deal with issues such as foreign currency, foreign competition and direct investment. This unit is designed to allow students to extend their understanding of basic principles in finance to an international environment. Globalisation of markets introduces risks but also opens up profitable opportunities. Topics covered include: foreign currency valuation and markets; international parity conditions; measuring and managing foreign exposure; international portfolio management; capital budgeting and foreign direct investment; international tax management and international financing strategy.

FINC3012 Derivative Securities

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: 1x 1.5hr mid-semester exam (20%), 1x group assignment (20%), 1x final 3hr exam (60%)

Options, futures and swaps are derivatives of underlying securities such as commodities, equities and bonds. These types of securities are increasingly used to manage risk exposure and as a relatively low-cost-way of taking a position in a security or portfolio. They are also being used as part of senior management compensation as a way of attempting to align the interests of shareholders with that of management. This unit is designed to provide an introduction to this important area of finance without requiring a high level of mathematical sophistication. However, a strong quantitative base is an advantage.

FINC3013 Mergers and Acquisitions

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week; Additional workshops as required. Assessment: Mid-Semester Exam (25%), Group Case Study Written (20%), Group Case Study Presentation (5%), Final Exam (50%)

This unit will provide: an understanding of the economic and strategic drivers of corporate restructuring activity and their use in the design and analysis of restructuring transactions. Understanding of the evaluation of outcomes from restructuring transactions, both the theory based explanations and the empirical tests of the theories. It will develop the ability to identify synergies in a restructuring transaction and use Discounted Cash Flow methods to assign a value to these benefits. A detailed understanding of the design and economic impacts of deal structures used to effect corporate restructuring transactions. A detailed awareness of the process of merger arbitrage and its contribution to outcome of restructuring transactions. An appreciation of the regulatory environment for restructuring transactions and the impact of these regulations on the process and outcomes of restructuring transactions.

FINC3014 Trading and Dealing in Security Markets

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Oral Presentation and Tutorial Participation (10%), Mid-Semester Exam (15%), TradeLab Assignment (10%), Major Assignment (20%), Final Exam (45%)

This unit is concerned with the processes which turn orders into trades in securities markets, and the forces which mould and affect both order flow and order execution. The unit is an introduction to some fundamental market design and structure ideas. At the end of the unit, students should be able to understand (1) how the international markets for foreign exchange, swaps, bonds and equities are organised, (2) how trading is conducted in these markets and how these transactions are cleared, (3) how the markets are regulated, if they are supervised and what risks different counterparties face in these markets. The unit aims to equip students to independently analyse international investment and financing alternatives and to estimate expected returns and costs taking into account liquidity risk, price volatility and credit risk.

FINC3015 Financial Valuation: Case Study Approach

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture per week; 1x1hr workshop session per week Assessment: Case studies (35%), Group project (25%), Exam (40%)

This unit applies all aspects of finance theory to the general problem of valuing companies and other financial assets. This requires a synthesis of the concepts of present value, cost of capital, security valuation, asset pricing models, optimal capital structures and some related accounting concepts. The subject aims to reach a level of practical application that allows students to understand both the theoretical frameworks and institutional conventions of real world corporate valuations.

FINC3017 Investments and Portfolio Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2h lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Mid-Semester Exam (15%); Assignment (35%); Final Examination (50%)

This unit is designed to provide a comprehensive analytical approach to the modern theory of investments. Topics covered include: the valuation of bonds and stocks; mean-variance analysis; Markowitz type portfolio analysis; duration and convexity analysis; term structure of interest rates; option pricing; portfolio insurance; performance evaluation; and forecasting. Basic statistics and probability concepts are reviewed at the beginning to ensure that all students have adequate understanding. Although analytical aspects of investments theory are stressed, there is also an equal amount of emphasis on the intuitive as well as practical aspects of the subject.

FINC3018 Bank Financial Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Mid-Semester Exam (25%); Assignment (25%); Final Examination (50%)

The central objective of this unit is to expose students to the basic principles of commercial bank management. The topics that are covered include: the theory and practice of banking from a financial management perspective; banks and the financial services industry; regulatory restrictions and financial management; performance analysis and strategic planning; asset management and liquidity; investment and loan management; liability and deposit management; capital structure and dividend decisions; and financial management implications of electronic banking, international banking, and other developments.

FINC3019 Fixed Income Securities

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2 hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Tutorial participation (10%) ; mid-semester exam (20%); group project (20%); final exam (50%)

This unit is designed to provide a thorough grounding of the concepts and issues in fixed income securities, bond portfolio analysis and closely related financial instruments in risk management. The unit begins with the basic analytical framework necessary to understand the pricing of bonds and their investment characteristics (introducing fundamental concepts such as duration, yield and term structure). This will serve as the building block of more complicated corporate and derivative securities. Sectors of the debt market, including treasury securities, corporate bonds, mortgage-backed securities, and convertible bonds are analysed. The use of derivatives and a selection of special topics in Fixed Incomes are also discussed.

FINC3020 Financial Risk Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: mid-semester exam (20%), group project (30%), final 3hr exam (50%)

Risk is an integral part of financial decisions. Following the rapid evolution of the discipline of financial risk management, analysts must be prepared to assess the level of risk in the marketplace. This course explores the basic concepts of modelling, measuring and managing financial risks within the regulatory framework. Topics covered include market risk (value-at-risk and expected loss), credit risk (single name, portfolio, ratings and market based models, credit derivatives), liquidity risk and operational risk. To overcome the rather quantitative nature of the topics, the course relies heavily on practical based lab exercises with emphasis on simulations, real life examples and case studies.

FINC3021 Mathematical Finance

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week; Additional workshops as required. Assessment: Major Assignments (20%), Mid-Semester Exam (20%), Group Presentation (10%), Final Examination (50%)

The principle objective of this unit is to introduce students to the basic elements of mathematical finance. Students are exposed to key areas in the modern theory of finance and corporate financial policy with specific emphasis on their development and treatment from mathematical and statistical foundations. The unit provides necessary mathematical background. Topics that are introduced from a more mathematical perspective include: principles of modern financial valuation and analysis; asset pricing theory and market efficiency; theory of portfolio selection and management; and measurement and management of financial risk.

FINC3022 Alternative Investments

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Cases (individual homework assessment) (5%), Cases (in-class group assessment) (5%), Group Assignment: Investment Proposal (30%), Presentation of report, Deal Negotiation and Peer Review Report (10%), Mid-session 1.5 hr exam (20%), Final 2hr exam (30%)

This unit examines the motivations and strategies behind investing in alternative assets, which are non-traditional investments beyond stocks, bonds, and cash. The unit's main emphasis is on private equity and venture capital investments, which are the predominant types of alternative assets, but the syllabus also covers hedge funds and structured debt investments. The key topics include fund raising for alternative investments, the private equity investment cycle, structures of alternative-asset investment vehicles, issues behind selecting and financing private firms, valuation of high-growth, illiquid investments, and how to exit from such investments. The unit seeks to consolidate previously acquired knowledge in portfolio management, agency theory, project selection, and financing strategies with real-life cases and practical assessment tasks.

FINC4101 Finance Honours A

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Requirements for the Pass degree must be completed before entry to level 4000 honours units of study.

The honours program in Finance is directed at producing extremely high quality graduates who are capable of undertaking research in finance, either via an advanced research degree at the Master's or PhD level or in the financial community in technical/research-related positions requiring both a high level of analytical skills and an ability to work independently. Graduates are highly sought by investment banking, stockbroking, funds management and management consulting firms. Actual offerings in any year depend on staff availability. With approval, the equivalent of a semester unit can be taken from other disciplines or faculties. Students are required to write a research report in the style of an academic article but with a more extensive literature review. Candidates are encouraged to undertake research of an original nature and of publishable quality. Typically the subject areas relate to securities market micro-structure, investments and corporate finance, as these are the areas in which the Discipline has expertise and supervisory skills.
Students who have completed majors in both Finance and Accounting, Finance and Econometrics, Finance and Economics or Finance and Marketing, and who are eligible to undertake fourth year honours programs in at least one discipline area of their two majors, may be eligible to undertake joint honours programs, subject to the approval of the Honours Coordinator in both disciplines. Candidates must enrol in FINC4102, FINC4103 and FINC4104 to complete the honours year.

FINC4102 Finance Honours B

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

See FINC4101

FINC4103 Finance Honours C

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

See FINC4101

FINC4104 Finance Honours D

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

See FINC4101

GOVT - Government and International Relations

All GOVT units of study are administered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

GOVT1101 Australian Politics

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Rodney Smith Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1000wd critical research exercise (10%), 1x 2hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)

This unit introduces students to debates about the nature and limits of Australian democracy, to the major institutions of Australian politics, and to the distribution of power in Australian society. Major institutions and forces such as parliament, executive government, the federal system, political parties and the media are examined as arenas of power, conflict and consensus. Who rules? How? Which groups are excluded?

Textbooks

Texts to be advised.

GOVT1104 Introduction to Political Science

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Anna Boucher Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x750wd reading assignment (20%), 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x2hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)

This unit provides an introduction to the study of politics through a focus on the key organising principle of power. Different ways in which power is theorised and structured are considered. This includes power between individuals, groups, classes and genders as well as different power-sharing arrangements within and across political institutions. In critically assessing these different approaches, students will be exposed to a range of political science theories and methods, which will equip them for future study in Government and International Relations. The empirical focus of this unit is on Australia, with reference to other developed countries.

GOVT1105 Geopolitics

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ryan Griffiths (S1), Dr John Brookfield (S2) Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x1hr mid-term exam (20%), 1x2hr final exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)

This unit will examine how the contemporary international political order has emerged by focusing upon the interplay of diplomatic and strategic issues in the post-war world. It will begin with an analysis of the Cold War and its origins, tracing the development of Soviet-American rivalry, its manifestations in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, and the different ways in which that rivalry was played out. The collapse of the Soviet Union as both a superpower and a state and the disappearance of the communist bloc will be analysed, before surveying the post-Cold War international scene. Among the issues reviewed in the post-Cold War era will be the question of US hegemony and unilateralism vs. multilateralism, nuclear proliferation, the continuing tension between the first and the third worlds, questions of civilisational conflict, non-state actors and terrorism, democratisation, and regional conflict.

GOVT1202 World Politics

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Gil Merom (S1), Prof Colin Wight (S2) Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x500wd essay (10%), 1x2300wd essay (35%), 1x2hr in-class test (40%) and tutorial participation (15%)

Note: In Summer School this unit is available to current HSC students only.

This unit introduces the core content of the field of international relations. The first part of the unit presents the realist, liberal, Marxist and constructivist paradigms of international relations. The second part of the unit discusses the key actors and processes political scientists define in the field, including the state, decision makers, bureaucratic organisations, and classes. The final part of the unit focuses on international security, international political economy, and global problems.

GOVT2111 Human Rights and Australian Politics

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Mauro di Nicola Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2500wd briefing paper (30%), 1x2hr exam (50%) and tutorial participation (20%)

Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.

This unit introduces students to the notion of human rights, outlines international human rights enforcement mechanisms and the application of human rights standards in Australia. Throughout the course we consider the evolution of human rights in Australia and raise questions about the adequacy of Australia's existing human rights machinery, and examine the reasons for Australia's reluctance to adopt a Bill of Rights. We examine government policies toward the indigenous Australians, women and refugees. We also consider current legislative changes to combat terrorism and consider the implications of these changes on Australian's civil rights.

GOVT2114 The Australian Political Party System

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Anika Gauja Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x1500wd website review (20%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and tutorial participation (10%)

The unit examines the Australian party system, including colonial-era pre-party politics, the development of major parties (Labor, Liberal and National) and minor parties (Democrats, Greens, One Nation etc), parties and ideology, parties and social movements, internal party politics, parties and the law, parties and elections, parties and parliamentary politics, and parties and public policy. Emphasis is placed on how theoretical and comparative models of political parties help to explain Australian party politics.

GOVT2116 Australian Foreign and Defence Policy

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Bob Howard Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture-seminar/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x500wd policy brief (10%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x2hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)

This unit examines Australia's external relations through its foreign and defence policies since Federation. It will begin with an overview of the theoretical tools for studying foreign policy, policy making and the institutions of Australia's external relations, followed by an historical overview of 'Continuity and Change' in Australia's foreign and defence policies over the relevant period. Key regional and international relationships will be analysed, as will Australia's policy response to contemporary global issues such as human rights; the War on Terror; the environment; energy security and nuclear affairs. The unit will conclude with a discussion on identity and Australia's place in the world today.

GOVT2119 Southeast Asia: Dilemmas of Development

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Lily Rahim Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (25%), 1x1hr mid-semester exam (20%), 1x1hr final exam (25%) and 1x2000wd tutorial presentation and participation (30%)

Until the 1997 East Asian economic/financial crisis, Southeast Asia was acclaimed as one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing regional economies in the Asia-Pacific sphere. Not surprisingly, the region has attracted enormous interest from social scientists and the wider business community in Australia. However, there is limited consensus about the causes for the region's economic performance and socio-political trajectory during the 'boom' and 'post-boom' years. This course aims to place the region's economic experiences and socio-political changes within a broader historical and comparative context. Such an approach allows us to better appreciate the economic continuities, understand the major socio-political dilemmas and changing patterns of development.

GOVT2221 Politics of International Economic Rels

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr John Mikler Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x2hr exam (30%), 1x1000wd tutorial presentation (20%) and participation (10%)

This unit provides an overview of four major theoretical approaches to international political economy and how these apply to understanding the practice of international economic relations. These theories are: economic nationalism, liberalism, neo-Marxism and poststructuralism. The unit analyses the theory and practice of economic relations by and between states, by focussing in particular on relations between the developed and developing world. It applies each of the four main theories to developing country regions. In this way students also become acquainted with the theory and practice of economic development.

GOVT2225 International Security in 21st Century

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Gil Merom Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x2hr in-class exam (40%) and tutorial participation (20%)

This unit introduces the theoretical foundations, essential concepts and central issues in the field of international security. It provides students with analytical tools to understand and participate in current debates concerning security and threats. The first part of the unit provides an introduction to the theoretical interpretations of international security. The second part discusses security phenomena, problems and strategies, including the coercive use of force, deterrence, guerrilla and counterinsurgency, nuclear stability, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, crisis management, arms races and disarmament, security cooperation and security regimes. The discussion in this part includes a critical review of the dilemmas, strategies, and solutions in each of the issue areas.

GOVT2228 Environmental Politics

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Schlosberg Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (20%), 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x2hr exam (30%) and tutorial participation (20%)

Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.

Environmental issues pose increasingly difficult challenges to our societies. What is the nature of these challenges? Where have they come from? How have political institutions adapted to them, at the national and international levels? What further changes might be necessary to better meet them? How might these changes come about? What effects might they have on the future of politics? This unit of study will engage these kinds of questions as an introduction to some theoretical and practical dimensions of environmental politics.

GOVT2424 Politics of China

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr James Reilly Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (40%), 1x2000wd essay (40%) and tutorial participation (20%)

Introduction to government and politics of modern China. Brief examination of traditional background and modern revolution from 19th century to 1949. Primary focus on ideology, leadership, institutions and political processes of the People's Republic. Covers politics of social groups, major issue areas, the Cultural Revolution and the politics of reform.

GOVT2444 Europe in World Affairs

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Diarmuid Maguire Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1hr mid-semester exam (20%), 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x2hr final exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)

Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.

This unit examines the problems of transition in European politics in three key areas: the shift towards advanced capitalist democracy in the southern Mediterranean; the steps towards transnational unity (through the EC) by northern European nations; and the slow process of economic and political reform in eastern Europe. Different theoretical approaches are used to examine these phenomena and these include perspectives that stress the role of the world economy, political institutions and social movements.

GOVT2445 American Politics and Foreign Policy

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ben Goldsmith Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 10x30wd tutorial quizzes (10%), 1x2hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)

This unit will be an overview of the American political system and the formulation of foreign policy. It will cover the major Federal political institutions: the Presidency, the Congress, and the Supreme Court. The unit will consider how foreign policy is made through the interaction of these institutions and with other elements of civil society. Finally, it will examine the outcome of this process - US foreign policy itself - with special emphasis on the post-Cold War period. We will seek to answer two key questions: (a) what is the influence of domestic politics on US foreign policy; and (b) how does the US system cope with the apparent contradictions between its ideals and the imperatives of global power?

GOVT2446 Reform, Revolution and Post Communism

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Professor Graeme Gill Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x500wd tutorial assignment (10%), 1x2hr exam (50%) and tutorial participation (10%)

Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.

At the end of the 1980s the communist regimes of Europe collapsed, leading to the emergence of a number of newly-independent states. This development was unexpected, because the communist regimes had seemed to be so powerful and solidly established. This unit analyses why such regimes fell, and in particular why the attempts at reform of them failed. It then looks at the attempt to build a new post-communist future characterised by political democracy and a market economy. Specific attention is given to issues like the attempt to develop a post-communist identity, efforts to construct a new political system, economic reform and its consequences, organised crime and corruption, nationalism and legitimacy. The focus is principally upon Russia, but some attention is also given to other former communist states.

GOVT2552 Policy Analysis

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Allan McConnell Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2500wd eval case study (40%), 1x2hr exam (50%) and tutorial participation (10%)

Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.

This unit examines the nature of public policy and the processes which shape its content. Most of these processes apply across nation states, although they typically manifest themselves in nation-specific ways. First, the unit outlines the nature of public policy - dealing with such matters as definitions of policy and approaches to analysing public policy. These include the traditional 'policy cycle' approach, as well as alternative models based on rational choice, the roles of groups and networks, the nature of institutions and the power of socio-economic interests. Second, it examines the main building blocks of the policy process: actors, institutions, and policy instruments. Third, it examines key stages of the public policy process: notably problem definition, agenda setting, policy formation, decision making, implementation and evaluation. Examples are drawn from Australia and a range of countries throughout the world. Fourth, it examines policy-making in extreme, 'crisis' situations. Fifth, it turns its attention to Australian policy processes, focusing specifically on the areas of economic policy and indigenous affairs. Finally, it takes an overview of public policy processes in a global world, focusing on national policy-making autonomy in the context of globalisation, as well as challenges for the future. The unit is sufficiently flexible in terms of assessment, allowing students to concentrate on areas of interest.

GOVT2557 Public Sector Management and Governance

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Paul Fawcett Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2250wd essay (45%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%), 1x750wd tutorial presentation (15%) and tutorial participation (10%)

Factors such as global warming, the internet and consumerism are transforming the way in which the public sector is organised in Australia and other democracies. This unit develops a framework for understanding these changes and then uses this framework to study some of the key challenges that public sector managers face today in areas such as: coordination and partnership working; accountability and blame shifting; and how to engage stakeholders in decisions that affect them.

GOVT2603 Media Politics

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Peter Chen Session: Semester 2a Classes: Intensive: 3x3-hr lecture/tutorials weeks 2-5; 3x5-hr lecture/tutorials and 3x4-hr lecture/tutorials weekends weeks 2-5. Assessment: 2000wd essays (2x45%) and 1x in-class quiz (10%)

This unit is primarily about news, its production, contents and impacts. It will examine the special demands of different news organisations and of reporting different news areas; the news media as an arena in political conflicts and the consequent interests and strategies of various groups in affecting news content; and the impacts of news on political processes and relationships. Our primary focus is on Australia, but there is some comparison with other affluent liberal democracies. The substantive areas the course will focus on include election reporting, scandals and the reporting of war and terrorism.

GOVT2611 Capitalism and Democracy in East Asia

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr James Reilly Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 3x reading quizzes (20%), 1x1hr mid-term exam (20%), tutorial debates (10%) and participation (10%)

This unit will shed light on the springs of change in politics and economics and their intersections in East Asia, which includes South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The unit examines the political and economic transformation in the region. Among the major issues considered are: Are East Asia's political institutions distinctive? How does economic change affect political power and the state? Will democratisation and globalisation undermine the distinctive traditions of the region?

GOVT2991 Political Analysis

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ariadne Vromen Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (35%), 1x1500wd group project (30%), mid-semester test (25%) and tutorial participation (10%)

Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.

This unit assists students enrolled in the honours program to develop the conceptual and practical skills they need to excel in any area of substantial political inquiry. An overview of political inquiry is presented through an examination of the diversity in theoretical and methodological approaches used by those who carry out political research. This includes looking at, for example, institutional, behavioural, discourse and feminist approaches in political inquiry, and the usage of quantitative and qualitative methods. The assessment is based around constructing research projects that can be utilised to answer current political questions.

Textbooks

David Marsh and Gerry Stoker 'Theory and Methods in Political Science', 3rd edition

GOVT3993 Power

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Rodney Smith Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture-seminar/week, 1x1-hr lecture-seminar/week Assessment: 1000wd essay (2x15%), 1x2500wd essay (50%), in-class and online participation (20%)

Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.

Power is the essential concept of political science, which is the systematic study of politics. Bertrand Russell, perhaps the greatest mind of the 20th Century, said power is the central concept of all the social sciences. Students explore this concept in different parts of political science and survey some debates on power, assessing the advantages and disadvantages of concepts of power. There are three themes in this unit. The first is the distribution of power in society. The second is power in comparative politics and the third is power in international relations. The emphasis is on the nature, sources and use of power.

Textbooks

Unit Reader will be available at the University Copy Centre

GOVT3994 Research Preparation

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Diarmuid Maguire Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Assessment: 1x1500wd thesis review (20%), 1x1500wd thesis comparison (20%), 1x3000wd thesis prospectus (60%)

Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.

This unit assists students to build towards a better fourth year honours dissertation. It considers the construction of a dissertation topic, planning the research, bibliographic searches, and writing the dissertation. The unit devotes a considerable amount of time to exercises designed to help students envisage their honours dissertation and plan fruitful lines of inquiry.

IBUS - International Business

IBUS2101 International Business Strategy

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Late Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr workshop per week. Assessment: consulting project (30%), tutorial participation (20%), mid-term exam (15%), final exam (35%)

This unit of study aim to understand how multinational enterprises strategize and operate in global competition. Major topics include the International Business Environment (e.g. the differences in economic, political, legal, and cultural environments); International Business Strategy (e.g. International expansion strategy, entry mode choices, cross-border strategic alliances, and mergers & acquisitions); and International Business Management (e.g. design, structure and control of international operations; and foreign subsidiary management). The emphasis of the unit is on the application of contextual knowledge about international business and strategic management theories as tailored to the Asia Pacific, to analyse and make decisions faced by companies operating in the Asia Pacific region.

IBUS2102 Cross-Cultural Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1 x 1hr workshop per week Assessment: Participation (10%); Individual Paper (30%); Presentation (20%); In-Class quizzes (10%); Final exam (30%)

Critical to effective management in international and multi-cultural business environments is an understanding of cultural differences and how to manage such differences. The aim of this unit of study is to provide conceptual frameworks and evidence from practice that will develop an understanding of the ways in which cultures differ, how these differences can impact management, and how cultural issues can limit organisational effectiveness. Strategies for managing and harnessing cultural differences are also evaluated. The subject is explored from an internal perspective as well as from an external perspective, looking at issues within the company as well as issues between the multinational company and its host environment. Major topics include the significance of culture in international management; the meaning and dimensions of culture; comparative international management styles; managing communication across cultures; global business ethics; cross-cultural negotiations; cross-cultural leadership and motivation; culture and consumer behaviour; and cultural views of intellectual property around the world.

IBUS3101 International Business Alliances

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1 x 1hr workshop per week Assessment: Business Strategy Game (10%), Alliance proposal (10%), Presentation (10%), Alliance case (10%), Participation (15%); Mid term exam (20%); Final exam (25%)

The formation and implementation of successful global business strategies involves alliances with a range of stakeholders including international customers and suppliers, overseas agents, international franchisors and franchisees, international joint venture partners, and international merger relationships. The aim of this unit of study is to provide conceptual frameworks and evidence from practice that will develop an understanding of the motivations underlying international alliances, the alternative approaches to alliance formulation and development, and the problems involved in promoting effective alliance management. Major topics include the motivations for international business alliances, analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of different types of alliances, factors influencing the choice of alliance arrangements, alliance structure issues, partners selection and relationship management, the reasons why alliances succeed or fail, and the management of alliance processes.

IBUS3102 International Risk Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1 x 1hr workshop per week Assessment: Group workshops and case studies (40%); Individual learning modules (60%)

This unit is designed to introduce students to the nature of risk management, particularly the identification of risk, its analysis and consequences for international business actors. Emphasis is placed on surveying some of the environments that can potentially generate risk, how these risks can impact various aspects of market composition and market participation, the integrity of business actors and their profitability and viability. The business environments surveyed include the international financial system, government and regulation of business activity, compliance risk, corporate social responsibility and activism, as well as issues associated with country and political risk.

IBUS3103 Global Entrepreneurship and Enterprise

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1 x 1hr tutorial/lab class per week. Assessment: Individual assignments (50%); Group presentation (15%); Group assignments (35%)

Note: Students enrolled in the combined Law degrees are able to complete this unit in their third year of enrolment (full-time).

Developing entrepreneurial and innovative businesses is very different to managing large established businesses in a global context. In addition to exploring the special problems (and advantages) associated with entrepreneurial small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the unit will also be relevant for future managers of corporate ventures. Topics will include opportunity identification, harnessing and leveraging resources and capabilities, funding new ventures, and the global aspects of venturing and innovation. The unit will bring together the skills you have acquired across many disciplines, and will require your active participation as you work with businesses in their search for growth options and appropriate funding. You will also gain insight from the processes vital for successful entrepreneurial activity, including strategy formulation, design thinking, decision-making, and pitching.

IBUS3104 Ethical International Business Decisions

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 3 hour seminar per week Assessment: Group Project (30%); Final exam (30%) Individual participation (10%); In class case-studies (15%); Reflective Journals (15%)

In order to succeed in international business, both corporations and individuals need broad decision-making abilities. Business decision-making tools yield more coherent and justifiable results when used with an understanding of the ethical, social and environmental aspects of the process. This applies to various situations in the international business setting including business relations with government, customers, employees, and NGOs. This unit is designed to look at these non-financial elements in the decisions made within the international business context. Following the completion of this unit, students will have enhanced skills and knowledge relevant to the understanding of ethical issues and ethical decisions making in international business organizations.

IBUS3107 Business Negotiations

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 1.5hr lecture and 1x 1.5hr tutorial per week Assessment: In-class exercises (25%); Exam (25%); Writing a ten page negotiator's handbook (25%); Written assignment (25%)

Note: This unit will require student's participation in a number of negotiations. Preparation for these negotiations, which are a large part of your grade, will require time-pressured reading of material in class.

The purpose of this course is to help you understand the theory of negotiation as it is practiced in a variety of strategic settings. The aim is to help you feel more comfortable and confident with the negotiation process. The course is designed to be relevant to the broad spectrum of negotiation problems that are faced by managers but we use specific examples from international strategy such as M&A and joint ventures. The course will provide participants with an opportunity to develop skills experientially and to understand negotiation in useful analytic frameworks. Considerable emphasis will be placed on role-playing exercises and case studies.
Note: this unit will require your participation in a number of negotiations. Preparation for these negotiations, which are a large part of your grade, will require time-pressured reading of material in class.

IBUS4101 Special Topics in International Business

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hr seminars per week. Assessment: Student participation in in-class discussion; short essay assignments.

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

IBUS4101 studies the recent theoretical and applied literature in international business and management strategy. Topics are organised around four key research themes:
(i) the boundaries of the multinational enterprise;
(ii) internal organizational design and structure;
(iii) location decisions;
(iv) and competitive dynamics.
Specific topics include the critique of theoretical models in international business, including new institutional economics, internalization, transaction cost, resource, path dependency, contracting and dynamic capability-learning approaches; the relationship between the new trade theory, increasing return models and theories of the MNE, including location tournament and clustering; the organizational design of non-equity and equity strategic alliances, including the nature of headquarters-subsidiary relations; investment incentives and country impact of foreign direct investment; and competitive and strategic interaction of multinational enterprises. Candidates must enrol in IBUS4101, IBUS4102, IBUS4103, and IBUS4104 to complete the Honours year.

IBUS4102 International Business Research Methods

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hr seminars per week. Assessment: Assessment of research proposal.

Honours study in International Business is directed at the development of the analytical and conceptual skills required to conduct independent research in the field. The focus of this unit is on understanding research methodologies, the design of a research project and preparation of a research proposal. In addition students undertake Special Topics in International Business (IBUS4101) and the Seminar in International Business (IBUS4103). Candidates must enrol in IBUS4101, IBUS4102, IBUS4103, and IBUS4104 to complete the Honours year.

IBUS4103 International Business Seminar

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hr seminars per week. Assessment: Student participation in in-class discussion; short-essay assignments.

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

IBUS4103 is a seminar required of students undertaking their Honours year in International Business. The seminar builds on the work in IBUS4101 and considers selected issues of current importance in the field, including work related to the research of members of the discipline and recently published cases. In addition topics may be adjusted to reflect student interests and needs. Because of the focus on current issues, the research of members of the discipline, and the interests of current students, topics covered will vary from year to year. We would normally expect to deal with current issues in the following areas: (i)The link between firm structure and international strategy; (ii) Analysis of changes in the international operating environment; (iii) Current studies of entry modes and alliances; (iv) Issues in international risk management; (v) Issues in cross cultural management; (vi) Ethical issues in international management. In addition to in-class discussion, the seminar will require a series of short papers analysing works of particular interest to individual students. Candidates must enrol in IBUS4101, IBUS4102, IBUS4103, and IBUS4104 to complete the Honours year.

IBUS4104 International Business Thesis

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hr seminars per week. Assessment: Assessment of the thesis.

Honours study in International Business is directed at the development of the analytical and conceptual skills required to conduct independent research in the field. The primary focus of this unit is the conduct of research and the writing of a thesis of some 15 to 20,000 words. In addition students undertake Special Topics in International Business (IBUS4101) and the Seminar in International Business (IBUS4103). Candidates must enrol in IBUS4101, IBUS4102, IBUS4103, and IBUS4104 to complete the Honours year.

INFO - Computer Science

All ELEC, INFO, and COMP (Computer Science) units are administered by the School of Information Technology in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies.

INFO1003 Foundations of Information Technology

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: (Lec 2 hrs & Prac 2hrs) per week Assessment: Quiz (20%), Assignments (25%), Lab Skills (5%), and written exam (50%).

Information technologies (IT) and systems have emerged as the primary platform to support communication, collaboration, research, decision making, and problem solving in contemporary organisations. The essential necessity for all university students to acquire the fundamental knowledge and skills for applying IT effectively for a wide range of tasks is widely recognised. Foundations of Information Technology (INFO1003) is an introductory unit of study which prepares students from any academic discipline to develop the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to be competent in the use of information technology for solving a variety of problems. The main focus of this unit is on modelling and problem solving through the effective use of using IT. Students will learn how to navigate independently to solve their problems on their own, and to be capable of fully applying the power of IT tools in the service of their goals in their own domains while not losing sight of the fundamental concepts of computing. Students are taught core skills related to general purpose computing involving a range of software tools such as spreadsheets, database management systems, internet search engine, HTML, and JavaScript. Students will undertake practical tasks including authoring an interactive website using HTML, JavaScript and AJAX and building a small scale application for managing information. In addition, the course will address the many social, ethical, and intellectual property issues arising from the wide-spread use of information technology in our society.

INFO1103 Introduction to Programming

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: (Lec 1hr & Lab 2hrs) per week Assessment: Assignment (20.00%), Lab Skills (30.00%), Final Exam (50.00%)

Programming in a legible, maintainable, reusable way is essential to solve complex problems in the pervasive computing environments. This unit will equip students with foundation of programming concepts that are common to widely used programming languages. The "fundamentals-first & objects-later" strategy is used to progressively guide this introductory unit from necessary and important building blocks of programming to the object-oriented approach. Java, one of the most popular programming languages, is used in this unit. It provides interdisciplinary approaches, applications and examples to support students from broad backgrounds such as science, engineering, and mathematics.

INFO1105 Data Structures

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 2hrs) per week Assessment: Quiz (5%), Assignment (35%), Final Exam (60%)

The unit will teach some powerful ideas that are central to quality software: data abstraction and recursion. It will also show how one can analyse the scalability of algorithms using mathematical tools of asymptotic notation. Contents include: both external "interface" view, and internal "implementation" details, for commonly used data structures, including lists, stacks, queues, priority queues, search trees, hash tables, and graphs; asymptotic analysis of algorithm scalability, including use of recurrence relations to analyse recursive code. This unit covers the way information is represented in each structure, algorithms for manipulating the structure, and analysis of asymptotic complexity of the operations. Outcomes include: ability to write code that recursively performs an operation on a data structure; experience designing an algorithmic solution to a problem using appropriate data structures, coding the solution, and analysing its complexity.

INFO1903 Informatics (Advanced)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: (Lec 3hrs & Prac 3hrs) per week Assessment: Assignments (30%), mid-sem exam (5%), report (15%) and written exam (50%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit covers advanced data processing and management, integrating the use of existing productivity software, e.g. spreadsheets and databases, with the development of custom software using the powerful general-purpose Python scripting language. It will focus on skills directly applicable to research in any quantitative domain. The unit will also cover presentation of data through written publications and dynamically generated web pages, visual representations and oral presentation skills. The assessment, a long project, involves the demonstration of these skills and techniques for processing and presenting data in a choice of domains.

INFO1905 Data Structures (Advanced)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 2hrs) per week Assessment: Assignments (40%), Final Exam (60%)

An advanced alternative to INFO1105; covers material at an advanced and challenging level. See the description of INFO1105 for more information.

INFO2110 Systems Analysis and Modelling

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 2hrs) per week Assessment: Assignment (30%), Quiz (10%), Final Exam (60%)

This unit provides a comprehensive introduction to the analysis of complex systems. Key topics are the determination and expression of system requirements (both functional and non-functional), and the representation of structural and behavioural models of the system in UML notations. Students will be expected to evaluate requirements documents and models as well as producing them. This unit covers essential topics from the ACM/IEEE SE2004 curriculum, especially from MAA Software Modelling and Analysis.

INFO2315 Introduction to IT Security

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 1hr) per week Assessment: Assignment (35%), Attendance (5%) and written exam (60%).

This unit provides a broad introduction to the field of IT security. We examine secure and insecure programs, secure and insecure information, secure and insecure computers, and secure and insecure network infrastructure. Key content includes the main threats to security; how to analyse risks; the role in reducing risk that can be played by technical tools (such as encryption, signatures, access control, firewalls, etc); the limitations of technical defences; and the simple process and behavioural changes that can reduce risk.

INFO2820 Database Systems 1 (Advanced)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: (Lec 3hrs & Prac 2hrs) per week Assessment: Participation (10%), Lab Skills (10%), Project (20%), Final Exam (60%)

The proper management of data is essential for all data-centric applications and for effective decision making within organizations. This unit of study is an advanced alternative to INFO2120 that will introduce the basic concepts of database designs at the conceptual, logical and physical levels. Particular emphasis will be placed on introducing integrity constraints and the concept of data normalization which prevents data from being corrupted or duplicated in different parts of the database. This in turn helps in the data remaining consistent during its lifetime. Once a database design is in place, the emphasis shifts towards querying the data in order to extract useful information. The unit will introduce different query languages with a particular emphasis on SQL and, in INFO2820, deductive databases and DATALOG, which are all industry standard. Other topics covered will include the important concept of transaction management, application development with a backend database, an overview of data warehousing and OLAP, and the use of XML as a data integration language.

INFO3220 Object Oriented Design

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 2 hrs) per week Assessment: Final Exam (50%), Assignments (30%), Quiz (10%), Lab Skills (10%)

This unit covers essential design methods and language mechanisms for successful object-oriented design and programming. C++ is used as the implementation language and a special emphasis is placed on those features of C++ that are important for solving real-world problems. Advanced software engineering features, including exceptions and name spaces are thoroughly covered.

INFO3315 Human-Computer Interaction

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 1hr) per week Assessment: Lab skills(10%), assignment(20%), quiz(10%) and written exam (60%).

This unit will introduce techniques to evaluate software user interfaces using heuristic evaluation and user observation techniques. Students will (i) learn how to design formal experiments to evaluate usability hypothesis and (ii) apply user centered design and usability engineering principles to design software user interfaces. A brief introduction to the psychological aspects of human-computer interaction will be provided.

INFO3402 Management of IT Projects and Systems

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 1hr) per week. Assessment: Project (10%), Quiz (20%), Participation (20%), Final Exam (50%)

This course introduces the basic processes and techniques for managing IT projects, systems and services, throughout the IT lifecycle. It addresses both the technical and behavioural aspects of IT management at the enterprise level. Major topics include: organisational strategy and IT alignment, IT planning, project planning, tracking, resource estimation, team management, software testing, delivery and support of IT services, service level agreements, change and problem management, cost effectiveness and quality assurance.

INFO3404 Database Systems 2

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 2hrs) per week Assessment: Quiz (30%), Assignment (20%), Final Exam (50%)

This unit of study builds upon INFO2120 Database Systems 1 and provides a comprehensive overview of the internal mechanisms of Database Management Systems (DBMS) and other systems that manage large data collections. These skills are needed for successful performance tuning and to understand the scalability challenges faced by the information age. The first part of this subject focuses on mechanisms for large-scale data management. It provides a deep understanding of the internal components of a database engine. Topics include: physical data organization and disk-based index structures, query processing and optimisation, locking and logging, and database tuning. The second part focuses on the large-scale management of textual data such as by an information retrieval system or with web search engines. Topics include: distributed and replicated databases, information retrieval, document management, text index structures, web retrieval and page rank algorithms. The unit will be of interest to students seeking an introduction to database tuning, disk-based data structures and algorithms, and information retrieval. It will be valuable to those pursuing such careers as Software Engineers, Database Experts, Database Administrators, and e-Business Consultants.

INFO3504 Database Systems 2 (Adv)

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: - Session: Semester 2 Classes: (Lec 2hrs & Prac 2hrs) per week Assessment: Quiz (30%), Assignment (20%), Final Exam (50%)

This unit of study builds upon INFO2820 Database Systems 1 (Adv) and provides a comprehensive overview of the internal mechanisms of Database Management Systems (DBMS) and other systems that manage large data collections. These skills are needed for successful performance tuning and to understand the scalability challenges faced by the information age. The first part of this subject focuses on mechanisms for large-scale data management. It provides a deep understanding of the internal components of a database engine. Topics include: physical data organization and disk-based index structures, query processing and optimisation, locking and logging, and database tuning. The second part focuses on the large-scale management of textual data such as by an information retrieval system or with web search engines. Topics include: distributed and replicated databases, information retrieval, document management, text index structures, web retrieval and page rank algorithms. This is an advanced alternative to INFO3404; it covers material at an advanced and challenging level. In particular, students in this advanced stream will study an actual DBMS implementation on the source code level, and also gain practical experience in extending the DBMS code base.

INFO3600 Major Development Project (Advanced)

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Project Work - in class 2 hours per week, Site Visit 1 hour per week, Meeting 1 hour per week. Assessment: Presentation/Seminar (20%), Progress Report (10%) , Final Report (70%).

Note: Only available to students in BIT, BCST(Adv) or BSc(Adv)

This unit will provide students an opportunity to carry out substantial aspects of a significant software development project. The project will be directed towards assisting a client group (from industry or with strong industry links). The student's contribution could cover one or more aspects such as requirements capture, system design, implementation, change management, upgrades, operation, and/or tuning. Assessment will be based on the quality of the delivered outputs, the effectiveness of the process followed, and the understanding of the way the work fits into the client's goals, as shown in a written report.

INFS - Business Information Systems

INFS1000 Digital Business Innovation

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr lab workshop per week Assessment: Groupwork (10%); Group project (25%); Mid-semester test (25%); Final exam (40%)

The Digital Age, with its focus on information as a key business resource, has changed the way Business Information Systems (BIS) are viewed in organisations. They are now seen as enablers of innovation where people supported by powerful technology are considered to be their most important component. This is because creativity, innovation and critical thinking cannot be outsourced or easily acquired by competitors.
This unit is designed to develop your understanding of how businesses operate and shows how information systems support all aspects of business operations and management through integration of people, business processes and systems. You will be provided with an introduction to the state-of-the art theories, frameworks and models to assist in understanding the nature and contribution of BIS in a range of organisational contexts including private, public and not for profit as well as virtual communities and social networks. With its emphasis on business rather than IT, this unit is suitable for all business and non business majors and does not require prior IT-related experience. If you want to learn how to use technology to become a more innovative and creative business professional and a global technology-savvy citizen this unit is for you!

INFS2001 IS for Performance Improvement

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Early Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: In class Group Assignments (20%); In class individual tests (20%); Group project (20%); Final examination (40%)

This unit is designed to help you understand how information systems (IS) can improve business performance relating to the conduct of accounting based transactions. It will provide you with the skills necessary to identify and assess opportunities and understand the varied ways in which IS can assist in realising them. From an end-to-end systems perspective you will gain knowledge of approaches and methodologies related to the design, implementation, operation and control of IS applications. You will learn the importance of an integrated approach to managing business functions including accounting, sales and marketing, logistics and procurement where multiple competing requirements often need to be balanced. You will develop expertise in structured design, including data modelling and process mapping, and specific skills in Microsoft Access and Microsoft Project.

INFS2010 Digital Information Design & Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 3hr seminar per week Assessment: Class activities (10%); Individual research project (20%); Group assignment (30%); Final examination (40%)

Organisations and individuals are often overwhelmed by the amount and diversity of digital information they need (or are required by law) to manage, maintain and share. INFS2010 focuses on organizational information, content and knowledge management. You will be introduced to the concepts and tools of information design and the systems that enable the acquisition, storage, access and distribution of business information. You will gain knowledge and skills for Internet publishing and information organization that includes the design of taxonomies for managing the business record and the application of enterprise content management solutions. Adopting a design thinking approach, you will also gain hands-on experience of methodologies and tools for user-centred information design, including user-modelling and paper-based prototyping.

INFS2020 Business Process Modelling & Improvement

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 3 hr seminar per week Assessment: Individual Assignment (30%); Group activities/ presentations (25%); Final examination (45%)

This unit provides you with an in depth understanding of the role of business process management in business environment. You will gain essential skills of business process management concepts such as process architecture, process modelling, process analysis, process improvement, and process integration that are required to achieve high performing business processes in a service oriented business environment. Building on the basic knowledge of business information systems and transactional processing cycles developed from other units, in this unit you will attain considerable hands-on skills with process management software tools.

INFS2030 e-Commerce Business Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 3hr seminar per week Assessment: Case Study Analysis (30%), Group Project (30%), Final Exam (40%)

This unit will provide you with a detailed overview of the concepts and processes used in doing business electronically in the new digital economy and e-business era. These concepts and tools will enable you to analyse, evaluate, synthesise and implement e-commerce business models. Importantly, this unit will provide the critical link between technologies and the firm's performance and takes a business management perspective in teaching and learning. The emphasis is on the way technologies enable the business and its effective management, rather than the technologies.

INFS3030 Information Protection and Assurance

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 3hr seminar per week Assessment: Individual Research Project (35%), Group Project (25%), Open Book Exam (40%)

This unit will introduce you to concepts, tools and techniques relating to the protection and assurance of information and IT enabled information systems. Information and information related systems are valuable organisational assets and of critical importance in meeting compliance obligations. This unit takes an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach that examines standards, frameworks and methodologies for identifying, analysing and evaluating potential risk areas, critical control needs and assurance processes throughout the information system lifecycle. In examining different stages of the lifecycle, you will also learn about legal, professional and ethical responsibilities, corporate governance of information and communication technologies and key stakeholders. The theoretical and conceptual material covered in seminars is reinforced through problem based learning.

INFS3040 Enterprise Systems & Integrated Business

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 3hr seminar per week Assessment: Midsemester test (35%); Individual Enterprise System portfolio (35%); Group report (30%)

This unit provides you with an in depth understanding of the way in which implementation and use of large scale integrated Enterprise Systems change the nature of organisational capabilities, processes, and roles. You will understand the strategic role of Enterprise Systems in providing a platform for improved business operations and productivity. You will gain considerable hands on experience with an enterprise wide system, such as SAP, concentrating on the way in which such systems support integrated business processes. Through a combination of discussion and practical work, you will gain strong knowledge in both the organisational and technical aspects of Enterprise Systems and the implementation process. You will also understand the relationships between business process change and standard processes embedded in Enterprise Systems.

INFS3050 Business Intelligence for Managers

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 3hr seminar per week Assessment: Tutorial work (10%), Midsession exam (30%), Practical assignment (20%), Final exam (40%)

To gain or maintain their competitive edge, more than ever before, organisations need to rely on high-quality information to support decision making processes at all organizational levels. Business Intelligence (BI) is now being recognized as one of the top business priorities world-wide. While in the past, the term BI was used to describe a very broad range of software applications, the latest thinking in this field emphasises IS support for human intelligence, in the context of business decision making. In this unit you will learn how to model, integrate and analyse multidimensional data and will gain hands-on experience in using a commercial BI platform. These practical skills, combined with in-depth analytical skills will enable you to help any organization (regardless of its size and industry domain) to derive more intelligence from its data, improve its performance and ultimately, compete on analytics. Issues are explored from the business rather than the technology perspective. This unit does not require prior programming experience.

INFS3060 Managing Digital Innovation Projects

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x 3hr seminar per week Assessment: Group Project (40%); Individual Project (60%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Students must seek permission from the Discipline of Business Information Systems to enrol in this unit.

The unit serves as a capstone for the extended (8 unit) Business Information Systems (BIS) major and is structured around a semester long business innovation project. This project will consolidate and extend your knowledge and skills for the critical analysis of business problems in an organisation and for the creative design of practical, technology-enabled business innovations to address these problems. The project will allow you to demonstrate your ability to critically apply and synthesise BIS tools, methods, models and frameworks with business analysis, communication and research skills. On successful completion of the unit the project deliverables will represent a portfolio of each student's capabilities to contribute to business innovation projects in their future employment. The assessment activities in this unit assume you have successfully completed BIS units describing and utilising the following formal methods, knowledge and skills. BIS tools and methods include a system approach to problem solving, systems analysis, business process modelling, data modelling and information audits. Models and frameworks include professional codes of conduct, industry standards (project management, change management and governance) and best practices (e.g. COBIT). Business skills include capabilities for: investigation and analysis; gathering information from physical, electronic and inter-personal (e.g. interviewing) sources; contributing to innovation projects as an individual and in a team; and cross-cultural business communications in written, verbal and visual forms.

INFS3080 Business Information Systems Project

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Weekly meetings with supervisor Assessment: Project reports (100%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Students must seek permission from the Discipline of Business Information Systems to enrol in this unit.

Students complete a project in Business Information Systems.

INFS4101 Business Information Systems Honours A

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Requirements for the Pass degree must be completed before entry to 4000 level honours units of study.

This unit is part of the Honours in Business Information Systems. The unit is intended to ensure that students have a sound grounding in research philosophy as is relevant to Business Information Systems. The unit is designed to develop a foundation for developing your knowledge and skills as researchers throughout the Honours year. While the core will remain constant the focus of this unit may vary given the research requirements and interests of the students taking the unit.

INFS4102 Business Information Systems Honours B

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

This unit will ensure that you have a solid understanding of contemporary issues in BIS. You will analyse critical industry issues and evaluate the theoretical contributions that are available to address these issues. You will have the opportunity to explore your own research interests and issues of concern to theory and practice.

INFS4103 Business Information Systems Honours C

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

This unit will ensure that you have a solid grounding in research methods of particular concern to BIS. You will develop skills required for data collection, analysis and presentation as well as for the preparation and presentation of a BIS thesis. The knowledge you will acquire complements the Research Philosophy knowledge and skills acquired in BIS Honours A. You will have the opportunity to explore your own research interests.

INFS4104 Business Information Systems Honours D

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

This unit will ensure that you have a solid grounding in the management of BIS at a strategic level. It will help you develop an understanding of strategic BIS planning, implementation and evaluation at organisational and inter-organisational levels. You will explore the potential impact of BIS in industry transformation. The unit provides you with opportunities to explore your own research interests.

LAWS - Law

All Law units are offered by the Sydney Law School. These units are available only to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws.

LAWS1006 Foundations of Law

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Micah Burch Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 x 1-hr lecture and 1 x 2-hr tutorial/week Assessment: class participation (20%) and case analysis (30%) and essay (50%)

This unit of study provides a foundation core for the study of law. The aim is to provide a practical overview of the Australian legal system, an introduction to the skills of legal reasoning and analysis which are necessary to complete your law degree, and an opportunity for critical engagement in debate about the role of law in our lives. The course will introduce students to issues such as: (i) the development of judge made and statute law, with a particular focus on English and Australian legal history; (ii) the relationship between courts and parliament; (iii) the role and function of courts, tribunals and other forms of dispute resolution; (iv) understanding and interrogating principles of judicial reasoning and statutory interpretation; (v) the relationship between law, government and politics; (vi) what are rights in Australian law, where do they come from and where are they going; (vii) the development and relevance of international law. The course focus may be subject to change.

LAWS1012 Torts

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof David Rolph Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2-hr lecture and 1 x 1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: Assignment (30%) and tutorial participation (10%) and 2hr exam (60%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolmentin the following sessions:Semester 1

This is a general introductory unit of study concerned with liability for civil wrongs. The unit seeks to examine and evaluate, through a critical and analytical study of primary and secondary materials, the function and scope of modern tort law and the rationale and utility of its governing principles. Particular topics on which the unit will focus include:
(a) The relationship between torts and other branches of the common law including contract and criminal law;
(b) The role of fault as the principal basis of liability in the modern law;
(c) Historical development of trespass and the action on the case and the contemporary relevance of this development;
(d) Trespass to the person (battery, assault, and false imprisonment);
(e) Trespass to land and private nuisance;
(f) The action on the case for intentional injury;
(g) Defences to intentional torts;
(h) Development and scope of the modern tort of negligence, including detailed consideration of duty of care and breach of duty and causation and remoteness of damage with particular reference to personal and psychiatric injury;
(i) Compensation for personal injuries, including special and alternative compensation schemes;
(j) Injuries to relational interests, including compensation to relatives of victims of fatal accidents;
(k) Defences to negligence.

LAWS1013 Legal Research I

Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Graeme Coss Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 6 x 1-hr seminars Assessment: Satisfactory attendance, eLearning quizzes and in-class exam.

Note: Semester 1 classes are for Combined Law candidates in the faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Engineering and Science. Semester 2 classes are for Combined Law candidates in the Business School.

This is a compulsory unit taught on a pass/fail basis. The aim of the unit is to introduce you to finding and citing primary and secondary legal materials and introduce you to legal research techniques. These are skills which are essential for a law student and which you will be required to apply in other units.

LAWS1014 Civil and Criminal Procedure

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof David Hamer Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: 1 x 2-hr lecture and 1 x 2-hr tutorial/week for 10 weeks Assessment: 2000wd take-home exam on first half of course (40%) and tutorial participation (10%) and 2hr final exam on second half of course (50%)

This unit of study aims to introduce students to civil and criminal procedure. It is concerned with the procedures relating to civil dispute resolution and criminal justice which are separate to the substantive hearing. The unit will consider the features of an adversarial system of justice and its impact on process. Recent reforms to the adversarial system of litigation will be explored. The civil dispute resolution part of the unit will cover alternative dispute resolution, the procedures for commencing a civil action, case management, gathering evidence and the rules of privilege. Criminal process will be explored by reference to police powers, bail and sentencing. The course focuses on practical examples with consideration of the applicable legislation, ethics, and contextual and theoretical perspectives.

LAWS1015 Contracts

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Wayne Courtney Session: Semester 1,Summer Early Classes: 2 x 2-hr lectures or tutorials/week Assessment: Class participation (10%) and take-home assignment (30%) and 2hr final exam (60%)

Contract law provides the legal background for transactions involving the supply of goods and services and is, arguably the most significant means by which the ownership of property is transferred from one person to another. It vitally affects all members of the community and a thorough knowledge of contract law is essential to all practising lawyers. In the context of the law curriculum as a whole, Contracts provides background which is assumed knowledge in many other units. The aims of the course are composite in nature. The course examines the rules that regulate the creation, terms, performance, breach and discharge of a contract. Remedies and factors that may vitiate a contract such as misrepresentation are dealt with in Torts and Contracts II. The central aim of the course is to provide an understanding of the basic principles of contract law and how those principles are applied in practice to solve problems. Students will develop the skills of rules based reasoning and case law analysis. A second aim is to provide students an opportunity to critically evaluate and make normative judgments about the operation of the law. Successful completion of this unit of study is a prerequisite to the elective unit Advanced Contracts.

LAWS1016 Criminal Law

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Graeme Coss Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 x 2-hr seminar/week for 10 weeks. Assessment: Class participation (10%) and research essay (30%) and 2hr open book exam (60%)

This unit of study is designed to introduce the general principles of criminal law in NSW, and to critically analyse these in their contemporary social and political context. In order to achieve this, the unit will consider a range of theoretical literature as well as critical commentary, and will focus on particular substantive legal topics in problem-centred contexts. Although the topic structure is necessarily selective, it is intended that students will gain a broad understanding of crime and justice issues, as well as of the applications of the criminal law. Students will encounter problem-based learning and will be encouraged to challenge a range of conventional wisdom concerning the operation of criminal justice. This unit of study is designed to assist students in developing: (1) A critical appreciation of certain key concepts which recur throughout the substantive criminal law. (2) knowledge of the legal rules in certain specified areas of criminal law and their application. (3) preliminary knowledge of how the criminal law operates in its broader societal context. (4) An understanding of how criminal liability is determined. The course has a critical focus and will draw on procedural, substantive, theoretical and empirical sources. The contradictions presented by the application of legal principle to complex social problems will be investigated.

LAWS1017 Torts and Contracts II

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Wayne Courtney Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2-hr lecture and 1 x 1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 2000wd assignment (30%) and tutorial participation (10%) and 2hr exam (60%).

The laws of tort and contract frequently overlap in practice and are increasingly regulated by statute. This unit aims to develop the integrated study of the law of obligations and remedies. It builds on the introduction to tort and contract law which students acquired in Torts and Contracts respectively. It will include the study of more advanced topics in both areas and consider the impact of related statutes. Core topics are:
(a) Concurrent, proportionate and vicarious liability;
(b) Liability (and remedies) for misrepresentation in tort and contract and for misleading conduct under statute (in particular, under s 18 of the Australian Consumer Law);
(c) Liability for negligently inflicted economic loss in tort, including some comparative study;
(d) Damages for breach of contract; and
(e) Vitiating factors and other factors affecting contracts, including: unfair or unconscionable dealing; unfair terms in contracts; mistake; duress; and undue influence. This topic includes a study of equitable principles and statutory rights and remedies (such as those under the Australian Consumer Law).
Other topics will be studied to the extent class time allows. These topics may include: tort remedies for interference with goods; breach of statutory duty; public nuisance; and illegality in contract.

LAWS1019 Legal Research II

Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Graeme Coss Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 4 x 2-hr seminars Assessment: Satisfactory attendance and in-class exam

This is a compulsory unit taught on a pass/fail basis. It is a continuation of Legal Research I and covers advanced searching techniques and the use of Lexis.com, Westlaw and other complex commercial databases. The purpose of this unit is to further develop the skills you will need as a law student and to introduce you to the legal research skills you will need after graduation.

LAWS1021 Public Law

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Reg Graycar Session: Semester 2,Summer Late Classes: 2 x 2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Assessment: 2,500wd assignment (35%) and 2hr exam (65%)

This unit is designed to introduce students to the principles and structures that underpin constitutional and administrative law in Australia. It is broader than either of these subjects because its focus is on generic issues of governance and accountability. The unit begins with a study of representative and responsible government under the Australian constitutional system. Also considered is the potential role of the judiciary in applying a bill or charter of rights to both the executive and the legislature. The unit then examines the nature of judicial power and the extent to which the separation of judicial power provides protections for individuals. The focus then moves to the executive: the composition of the executive, its powers and how the executive is made accountable through Parliament, judicial review, merits review and investigative tribunals, and open government.

LAWS1023 Public International Law

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Tim Stephens Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 x 2-hr lecture/week and 1 x 1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 2,500wd optional, non-redeemable, problem assignment (30%) and 2hr 30min final exam (70%)

The compulsory unit of study is an introduction to the general problems, sources and techniques of public international law. The unit surveys the fundamental rules and principles public international law through an examination of the following topics (1) the nature, function and scope of public international law, (2) the sources of public international law, (3) the law of treaties including principles of treaty interpretation, (4) the relationship between public international law and municipal law, (5) the extent of civil and criminal state jurisdiction, (6) immunities from state jurisdiction including diplomatic privileges and immunities (7) state responsibility, including diplomatic protection, nationality of claims and exhaustion of local remedies, (8) regulation of the use of force in international relations, and (9) dispute settlement.

MATH - Mathematics and Statistics

MATH units are administered by the School of Mathematics in the Faculty of Science

MATH1001 Differential Calculus

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%)

MATH1001 is designed to provide a thorough preparation for further study in mathematics and statistics. It is a core unit of study providing three of the twelve credit points required by the Faculty of Science as well as a Junior level requirement in the Faculty of Engineering.
This unit of study looks at complex numbers, functions of a single variable, limits and continuity, vector functions and functions of two variables. Differential calculus is extended to functions of two variables. Taylor's theorem as a higher order mean value theorem.

Textbooks

As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook.

MATH1002 Linear Algebra

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%)

MATH1002 is designed to provide a thorough preparation for further study in mathematics and statistics. It is a core unit of study providing three of the twelve credit points required by the Faculty of Science as well as a Junior level requirement in the Faculty of Engineering.
This unit of study introduces vectors and vector algebra, linear algebra including solutions of linear systems, matrices, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

Textbooks

As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook

MATH1003 Integral Calculus and Modelling

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%)

MATH1003 is designed to provide a thorough preparation for further study in mathematics and statistics. It is a core unit of study providing three of the twelve credit points required by the Faculty of Science as well as a Junior level requirement in the Faculty of Engineering.This unit of study first develops the idea of the definite integral from Riemann sums, leading to the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Various techniques of integration are considered, such as integration by parts.The second part is an introduction to the use of first and second order differential equations to model a variety of scientific phenomena.

Textbooks

As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook

MATH1004 Discrete Mathematics

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%)

MATH1004 is designed to provide a thorough preparation for further study in Mathematics. It is a core unit of study providing three of the twelve credit points required by the Faculty of Science.
This unit provides an introduction to fundamental aspects of discrete mathematics, which deals with 'things that come in chunks that can be counted'. It focuses on the enumeration of a set of numbers, viz. Catalan numbers. Topics include sets and functions, counting principles, Boolean expressions, mathematical induction, generating functions and linear recurrence relations, graphs and trees.

Textbooks

As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook

MATH1005 Statistics

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%)

MATH1005 is designed to provide a thorough preparation for further study in mathematics and statistics. It is a core unit of study providing three of the twelve credit points required by the Faculty of Science as well as a Junior level requirement in the Faculty of Engineering.
This unit offers a comprehensive introduction to data analysis, probability, sampling, and inference including t-tests, confidence intervals and chi-squared goodness of fit tests.

Textbooks

As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook

MATH1011 Applications of Calculus

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%)

This unit is designed for science students who do not intend to undertake higher year mathematics and statistics. It includes the fitting of data to various functions and demonstrates the use of calculus in optimisation problems. It extends differential calculus to functions of two variables and develops integral calculus, including the definite integral and multiple integrals.

Textbooks

As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook

MATH1013 Mathematical Modelling

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%)

MATH1013 is designed for science students who do not intend to undertake higher year mathematics and statistics.
In this unit of study students learn how to construct, interpret and solve simple differential equations and recurrence relations. Specific techniques include separation of variables, partial fractions and first and second order linear equations with constant coefficients. Students are also shown how to iteratively improve approximate numerical solutions to equations.

Textbooks

As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook

MATH1014 Introduction to Linear Algebra

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

This unit is an introduction to Linear Algebra. Topics covered include vectors, systems of linear equations, matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Applications in life and technological sciences are emphasised.

Textbooks

As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook.

MATH1111 Introduction to Calculus

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1-hour lectures and two 1-hour tutorials per week. Assessment: One 2-hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Students who have previously studied calculus at any level are prohibited from enrolling in this unit. In particular, students with HSC Mathematics/Extension 1/Extension 2 (or equivalent) are prohibited.

This unit is an introduction to the calculus of one variable. Topics covered include elementary functions, differentiation, basic integration techniques and coordinate geometry in three dimensions. Applications in science and engineering are emphasised.

Textbooks

As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook

MATH1901 Differential Calculus (Advanced)

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%)

This unit is designed to provide a thorough preparation for further study in mathematics and statistics. It is a core unit of study providing three of the twelve credit points required by the Faculty of Science as well as a Junior level requirement in the Faculty of Engineering. It parallels the normal unit MATH1001 but goes more deeply into the subject matter and requires more mathematical sophistication.

Textbooks

As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook

MATH1902 Linear Algebra (Advanced)

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%)

This unit is designed to provide a thorough preparation for further study in mathematics and statistics. It is a core unit of study providing three of the twelve credit points required by the Faculty of Science as well as a Junior level requirement in the Faculty of Engineering. It parallels the normal unit MATH1002 but goes more deeply into the subject matter and requires more mathematical sophistication.

Textbooks

As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook

MATH1903 Integral Calculus and Modelling Advanced

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%)

MATH1903 is designed to provide a thorough preparation for further study in mathematics and statistics. It is a core unit of study providing three of the twelve credit points required by the Faculty of Science as well as a Junior level requirement in the Faculty of Engineering.
This unit of study parallels the normal unit MATH1003 but goes more deeply into the subject matter and requires more mathematical sophisticaton.

Textbooks

As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook

MATH1905 Statistics (Advanced)

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%)

This unit is designed to provide a thorough preparation for further study in mathematics and statistics. It is a core unit of study providing three of the twelve credit points required by the Faculty of Science as well as a Junior level requirement in the Faculty of Engineering. This Advanced level unit of study parallels the normal unit MATH1005 but goes more deeply into the subject matter and requires more mathematical sophistication.

Textbooks

As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook

MATH1906 Mathematics (Special Studies Program) A

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour seminar and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour exam, assignments, classwork (100%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Enrolment is by invitation only.

This is an Advanced unit of study. Entry to Mathematics (Special Studies Program) A is restricted to students with a UAI of 98.5 and an excellent school record in Mathematics. Students will cover the material in MATH1901 Differential Calculus (Advanced). In addition there will be a selection of special topics, which are not available elsewhere in the Mathematics and Statistics program.

MATH1907 Mathematics (Special Studies Program) B

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour seminar and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 1.5 hour exam, assignments, classwork (100%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Enrolment is by invitation only.

This is an Advanced unit of study. Entry to Mathematics (Special Studies Program) B is normally restricted to students with a Distinction in MATH1906. Students will cover the material in MATH1903 Integral Calculus and Modelling (Advanced). In addition there will be a selection of special topics, which are not available elsewhere in the Mathematics and Statistics program.

MATH2061 Linear Mathematics and Vector Calculus

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour practice class per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

This unit starts with an investigation of linearity: linear functions, general principles relating to the solution sets of homogeneous and inhomogeneous linear equations (including differential equations), linear independence and the dimension of a linear space. The study of eigenvalues and eigenvectors, begun in junior level linear algebra, is extended and developed. The unit then moves on to topics from vector calculus, including vector-valued functions (parametrised curves and surfaces; vector fields; div, grad and curl; gradient fields and potential functions), line integrals (arc length; work; path-independent integrals and conservative fields; flux across a curve), iterated integrals (double and triple integrals; polar, cylindrical and spherical coordinates; areas, volumes and mass; Green's Theorem), flux integrals (flow through a surface; flux integrals through a surface defined by a function of two variables, though cylinders, spheres and parametrised surfaces), Gauss' Divergence Theorem and Stokes' Theorem.

MATH2063 Math Computing and Nonlinear Systems

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour computer laboratory per week (lectures in common with MATH2963). Assessment: 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

This unit will introduce students to techniques of mathematical computation as applied to nonlinear systems, using the numerical programming language MATLAB and, where appropriate, computer algebra. This knowledge will be applied to a number of modelling problems, particularly those involving nonlinear mappings and nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Throughout the unit of study the essential nonlinear theory will be developed, and the resulting ideas will be explored computationally. This will allow us to explore the modern concepts of chaos using a variety of examples, including the logistic map, the Henon map and the Lorenz equations. No prior knowledge of programming or of the MATLAB language or computer algebra is required.

MATH2065 Partial Differential Equations (Intro)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial, one 1 hour example class per week. Assessment: 2 hour exam, mid-semester test, assignments (100%)

This is an introductory course in the analytical solutions of PDEs (partial differential equations) and boundary value problems. The techniques covered include separation of variables, Fourier series, Fourier transforms and Laplace transforms.

MATH2068 Number Theory and Cryptography

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour computer laboratory per week. Assessment: 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

Cryptography is the branch of mathematics that provides the techniques for confidential exchange of information sent via possibly insecure channels. This unit introduces the tools from elementary number theory that are needed to understand the mathematics underlying the most commonly used modern public key cryptosystems. Topics include the Euclidean Algorithm, Fermat's Little Theorem, the Chinese Remainder Theorem, Möbius Inversion, the RSA Cryptosystem, the Elgamal Cryptosystem and the Diffie-Hellman Protocol. Issues of computational complexity are also discussed.

MATH2069 Discrete Mathematics and Graph Theory

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour practice class per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

This unit introduces students to several related areas of discrete mathematics, which serve their interests for further study in pure and applied mathematics, computer science and engineering. Topics to be covered in the first part of the unit include recursion and induction, generating functions and recurrences, combinatorics, asymptotics and analysis of algorithms. Topics covered in the second part of the unit include Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs, the theory of trees (used in the study of data structures), planar graphs, the study of chromatic polynomials (important in scheduling problems), maximal flows in networks, matching theory.

MATH2070 Optimisation and Financial Mathematics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour computer laboratory per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments, quiz, project (100%)

Note: Students may enrol in both MATH2070 and MATH3075 in the same semester

Problems in industry and commerce often involve maximising profits or minimising costs subject to constraints arising from resource limitations. The first part of this unit looks at programming problems and their solution using the simplex algorithm; nonlinear optimisation & the Kuhn Tucker conditions.
The second part of the unit deals with utility theory and modern portfolio theory. Topics covered include: pricing under the principles of expected return and expected utility; mean-variance Markowitz portfolio theory, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, log-optimal portfolios and the Kelly criterion; dynamical programming. Some understanding of probability theory including distributions and expectations is required in this part.
Theory developed in lectures will be complemented by computer laboratory sessions using MATLAB. Minimal computing experience will be required.

MATH2917 Working Seminar B (SSP)

Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 1 hour seminar per week. Assessment: One 1 hour presentation, 15-20 page essay (100%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

The main aim of this unit is to develop the students' written and oral presentation skills. The material will consist of a series of connected topics relevant to modern mathematics and statistics. The topics are chosen to suit the students' background and interests, and are not covered by other mathematics or statistics units. The first session will be an introduction on the principles of written and oral presentation of mathematics. Under the supervision and advice of the lecturer(s) in charge, the students present the topics to the other students and the lecturer in a seminar series and a written essay in a manner that reflects the practice of research in mathematics and statistics.

MATH2961 Linear Mathematics & Vector Calculus Adv

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Four 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: 2 hour exam, assignments (100%)

This unit is an advanced version of MATH2061, with more emphasis on the underlying concepts and on mathematical rigour. Topics from linear algebra focus on the theory of vector spaces and linear transformations.
The connection between matrices and linear transformations is studied in detail. Determinants, introduced in first year, are revised and investigated further, as are eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The calculus component of the unit includes local maxima and minima, Lagrange multipliers, the inverse function theorem and Jacobians.
There is an informal treatment of multiple integrals: double integrals, change of variables, triple integrals, line and surface integrals, Green's theorem and Stokes' theorem.

MATH2962 Real and Complex Analysis (Advanced)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour practice class per week. Assessment: 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

Analysis is one of the fundamental topics underlying much of mathematics including differential equations, dynamical systems, differential geometry, topology and Fourier analysis. Starting off with an axiomatic description of the real number system, this first course in analysis concentrates on the limiting behaviour of infinite sequences and series on the real line and the complex plane. These concepts are then applied to sequences and series of functions, looking at point-wise and uniform convergence. Particular attention is given to power series leading into the theory of analytic functions and complex analysis. Topics in complex analysis include elementary functions on the complex plane, the Cauchy integral theorem, Cauchy integral formula, residues and related topics with applications to real integrals.

MATH2963 Math Computing & Nonlinear Systems (Adv)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour computer laboratory per week (lectures in common with MATH2063). Assessment: 2 hour exam, assignments/quizzes (100%)

The content of this unit of study parallels that of MATH2063, but both computational and theory components will place more emphasis on Advanced topics, including Lyapunov exponents, stability, 2- and 3- cycles for mappings and concepts such as strange attractors. No prior knowledge of programming or of the MATLAB language or computer algebra is required.

MATH2965 Partial Differential Equations Intro Adv

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour computer laboratory per week (lectures in common with MATH2065). Assessment: 2 hour exam, assignments (100%)

This unit of study is essentially an Advanced version of MATH2065, the emphasis being on solutions of differential equations in applied mathematics. The theory of ordinary differential equations is developed for second order linear equations, including series solutions, special functions and Laplace transforms, and boundary-value problems including separation of variables, Fourier series and Fourier transforms.

MATH2968 Algebra (Advanced)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour practice class per week. Assessment: 2 hour exam, assignments (100%)

This unit provides an introduction to modern abstract algebra, via linear algebra and group theory. It extends the linear algebra covered in Junior Mathematics and in MATH2961, and proceeds to a classification of linear operators on finite dimensional spaces. Permutation groups are used to introduce and motivate the study of abstract goup theory. Topics covered include actions of groups on sets, subgroups, homomorphisms, quotient groups and the classification of finite abelian groups.

MATH2970 Optimisation & Financial Mathematics Adv

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour computer laboratory per week (lectures given in common with MATH2070). Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

Note: Students may enrol in both MATH2970 and MATH3975 in the same semester

The content of this unit of study parallels that of MATH2070, but students enrolled at Advanced level will undertake more advanced problem solving and assessment tasks, and some additional topics may be included.

MATH2069 Discrete Mathematics and Graph Theory

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour practice class per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

MATH3061 Geometry and Topology

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, tutorial tests, assignments (100%)

The aim of the unit is to expand visual/geometric ways of thinking. The geometry section is concerned mainly with transformations of the Euclidean plane (that is, bijections from the plane to itself), with a focus on the study of isometries (proving the classification theorem for transformations which preserve distances between points), symmetries (including the classification of frieze groups) and affine transformations (transformations which map lines to lines). The basic approach is via vectors and matrices, emphasising the interplay between geometry and linear algebra. The study of affine transformations is then extended to the study of collineations in the real projective plane, including collineations which map conics to conics. The topology section considers graphs, surfaces and knots from a combinatorial point of view. Key ideas such as homeomorphism, subdivision, cutting and pasting and the Euler invariant are introduced first for graphs (1-dimensional objects) and then for triangulated surfaces (2-dimensional objects). Topics include the classification of surfaces, map colouring, decomposition of knots and knot invariants.

MATH3062 Algebra and Number Theory

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, quizzes and assignments (100%)

Note: Students are advised to take MATH(2068 or 2968) before attempting this unit.

The first half of the unit continues the study of elementary number theory, with an emphasis on the solution of Diophantine equations (for example, representing integers as sums of squares). Topics include the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity, representing an integer as the sum of two squares, and continued fractions. The second half of the unit introduces the abstract algebraic concepts which arise naturally in this context: rings, fields, irreducibles and unique factorisation. Polynomial rings, algebraic numbers and constructible numbers are also discussed.

MATH3063 Differential Equations and Biomaths

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

This unit of study is an introduction to the theory of systems of ordinary differential equations. Such systems model many types of phenomena in engineering, biology and the physical sciences. The emphasis will not be on finding explicit solutions, but instead on the qualitative features of these systems, such as stability, instability and oscillatory behaviour. The aim is to develop a good geometrical intuition into the behaviour of solutions to such systems. Some background in linear algebra, and familiarity with concepts such as limits and continuity, will be assumed. The applications in this unit will be drawn from predator-prey systems, transmission of diseases, chemical reactions, beating of the heart and other equations and systems from mathematical biology.

MATH3065 Logic and Foundations

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, tutorial tests, assignments (100%)

This unit is in two halves. The first half provides a working knowledge of the propositional and predicate calculi, discussing techniques of proof, consistency, models and completeness. The second half discusses notions of computability by means of Turing machines (simple abstract computers). (No knowledge of computer programming is assumed.) It is shown that there are some mathematical tasks (such as the halting problem) that cannot be carried out by any Turing machine. Results are applied to first-order Peano arithmetic, culminating in Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem: any statement that includes first-order Peano arithmetic contains true statements that cannot be proved in the system. A brief discussion is given of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (a candidate for the foundations of mathematics), which still succumbs to Gödel's Theorem.

MATH3067 Information and Coding Theory

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, tutorial tests, assignments (100%)

Note: This unit of study is offered only in even numbered years.

The related theories of information and coding provide the basis for reliable and efficient storage and transmission of digital data, including techniques for data compression, digital broadcasting and broadband internet connectivity. The first part of this unit is a general introduction to the ideas and applications of information theory, where the basic concept is that of entropy. This gives a theoretical measure of how much data can be compressed for storage or transmission. Information theory also addresses the important practical problem of making data immune to partial loss caused by transmission noise or physical damage to storage media. This leads to the second part of the unit, which deals with the theory of error-correcting codes. We develop the algebra behind the theory of linear and cyclic codes used in modern digital communication systems such as compact disk players and digital television.

MATH3068 Analysis

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, tutorial tests, assignments (100%)

Note: This unit of study is offered only in odd numbered years.

Analysis grew out of calculus, which leads to the study of limits of functions, sequences and series. The aim of the unit is to present enduring beautiful and practical results that continue to justify and inspire the study of analysis. The unit starts with the foundations of calculus and the real number system. It goes on to study the limiting behaviour of sequences and series of real and complex numbers. This leads naturally to the study of functions defined as limits and to the notion of uniform convergence. Returning to the beginnings of calculus and power series expansions leads to complex variable theory: analytic functions, Taylor expansions and the Cauchy Integral Theorem.
Power series are not adequate to solve the problem of representing periodic phenomena such as wave motion. This requires Fourier theory, the expansion of functions as sums of sines and cosines. This unit deals with this theory, Parseval's identity, pointwise convergence theorems and applications.
The unit goes on to introduce Bernoulli numbers, Bernoulli polynomials, the Euler MacLaurin formula and applications, the gamma function and the Riemann zeta function. Lastly we return to the foundations of analysis, and study limits from the point of view of topology.

MATH3075 Financial Mathematics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: Two class quizzes and one 2 hour exam (100%)

This unit is an introduction to the mathematical theory of modern finance. Topics include: notion of arbitrage, pricing riskless securities, risky securities, utility theory, fundamental theorems of asset pricing, complete markets, introduction to options, binomial option pricing model, discrete random walks, Brownian motion, derivation of the Black-Scholes option pricing model, extensions and introduction to pricing exotic options, credit derivatives. A strong background in mathematical statistics and partial differential equations is an advantage, but is not essential. Students completing this unit have been highly sought by the finance industry, which continues to need graduates with quantitative skills. The lectures in the Normal unit are held concurrently with those of the corresponding Advanced unit.

MATH3076 Mathematical Computing

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour laboratory per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

This unit of study provides an introduction to Fortran 95 programming and numerical methods. Topics covered include computer arithmetic and computational errors, systems of linear equations, interpolation and approximation, solution of nonlinear equations, quadrature, initial value problems for ordinary differential equations and boundary value problems.

MATH3078 PDEs and Waves

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

This unit of study introduces Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problems and their role in finding solutions to boundary value problems. Analytical solutions of linear PDEs are found using separation of variables and integral transform methods. Three of the most important equations of mathematical physics - the wave equation, the diffusion (heat) equation and Laplace's equation - are treated, together with a range of applications. There is particular emphasis on wave phenomena, with an introduction to the theory of sound waves and water waves.

Textbooks

Powers, DL. Boundary Value Problems. Harcourt-Brace 4th Edition. 1999.

MATH3961 Metric Spaces (Advanced)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

Topology, developed at the end of the 19th Century to investigate the subtle interaction of analysis and geometry, is now one of the basic disciplines of mathematics. A working knowledge of the language and concepts of topology is essential in fields as diverse as algebraic number theory and non-linear analysis. This unit develops the basic ideas of topology using the example of metric spaces to illustrate and motivate the general theory. Topics covered include: Metric spaces, convergence, completeness and the contraction mapping theorem; Metric topology, open and closed subsets; Topological spaces, subspaces, product spaces; Continuous mappings and homeomorphisms; Compact spaces; Connected spaces; Hausdorff spaces and normal spaces, Applications include the implicit function theorem, chaotic dynamical systems and an introduction to Hilbert spaces and abstract Fourier series.

MATH3962 Rings, Fields and Galois Theory (Adv)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, homework assignments (100%)

Note: Students are advised to take MATH2968 before attempting this unit.

This unit of study investigates the modern mathematical theory that was originally developed for the purpose of studying polynomial equations. The philosophy is that it should be possible to factorize any polynomial into a product of linear factors by working over a "large enough" field (such as the field of all complex numbers). Viewed like this, the problem of solving polynomial equations leads naturally to the problem of understanding extensions of fields. This in turn leads into the area of mathematics known as Galois theory.
The basic theoretical tool needed for this program is the concept of a ring, which generalizes the concept of a field. The course begins with examples of rings, and associated concepts such as subrings, ring homomorphisms, ideals and quotient rings. These tools are then applied to study quotient rings of polynomial rings. The final part of the course deals with the basics of Galois theory, which gives a way of understanding field extensions.

MATH3963 Differential Equations & Biomaths (Adv)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

The theory of ordinary differential equations is a classical topic going back to Newton and Leibniz. It comprises a vast number of ideas and methods of different nature. The theory has many applications and stimulates new developments in almost all areas of mathematics. The applications in this unit will be drawn from predator-prey systems, transmission of diseases, chemical reactions, beating of the heart and other equations and systems from mathematical biology. The emphasis is on qualitative analysis including phase-plane methods, bifurcation theory and the study of limit cycles. The more theoretical part includes existence and uniqueness theorems, stability analysis, linearisation, and hyperbolic critical points, and omega limit sets.

MATH3964 Complex Analysis with Applications (Adv)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments and quizzes

Note: This unit of study is offered only in even numbered years

This unit continues the study of functions of a complex variable and their applications introduced in the second year unit Real and Complex Analysis (MATH2962). It is aimed at highlighting certain topics from analytic function theory and the analytic theory of differential equations that have intrinsic beauty and wide applications. This part of the analysis of functions of a complex variable will form a very important background for students in applied and pure mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering.
The course will begin with a revision of properties of holomorphic functions and Cauchy theorem with added topics not covered in the second year course. This will be followed by meromorphic functions, entire functions, harmonic functions, elliptic functions, elliptic integrals, analytic differential equations, hypergeometric functions. The rest of the course will consist of selected topics from Greens functions, complex differential forms and Riemann surfaces.

MATH3966 Modules and Group Representations (Adv)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments and quizzes (100%)

This unit deals first with generalized linear algebra, in which the field of scalars is replaced by an integral domain. In particular we investigate the structure of modules, which are the analogues of vector spaces in this setting, and which are of fundamental importance in modern pure mathematics. Applications of the theory include the solution over the integers of simultaneous equations with integer coefficients and analysis of the structure of finite abelian groups.
In the second half of this unit we focus on linear representations of groups. A group occurs naturally in many contexts as a symmetry group of a set or space. Representation theory provides techniques for analysing these symmetries. The component will deals with the decomposition of representation into simple constituents, the remarkable theory of characters, and orthogonality relations which these characters satisfy.

MATH3968 Differential Geometry (Advanced)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam and 2 assignments (100%)

This unit is an introduction to Differential Geometry, using ideas from calculus of several variables to develop the mathematical theory of geometrical objects such as curves, surfaces and their higher-dimensional analogues. Differential geometry also plays an important part in both classical and modern theoretical physics. The initial aim is to develop geometrical ideas such as curvature in the context of curves and surfaces in space, leading to the famous Gauss-Bonnet formula relating the curvature and topology of a surface. A second aim is to present the calculus of differential forms as the natural setting for the key ideas of vector calculus, along with some applications.

MATH3969 Measure Theory & Fourier Analysis (Adv)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorials per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

Measure theory is the study of such fundamental ideas as length, area, volume, arc length and surface area. It is the basis for the integration theory used in advanced mathematics since it was developed by Henri Lebesgue in about 1900. Moreover, it is the basis for modern probability theory. The course starts by setting up measure theory and integration, establishing important results such as Fubini's Theorem and the Dominated Convergence Theorem which allow us to manipulate integrals. This is then applied to Fourier Analysis, and results such as the Inversion Formula and Plancherel's Theorem are derived. Probability Theory is then discussed, with topics including independence, conditional probabilities, and the Law of Large Numbers.

MATH3974 Fluid Dynamics (Advanced)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam (100%)

This unit of study provides an introduction to fluid dynamics, starting with a description of the governing equations and the simplifications gained by using stream functions or potentials. It develops elementary theorems and tools, including Bernoulli's equation, the role of vorticity, the vorticity equation, Kelvin's circulation theorem, Helmholtz's theorem, and an introduction to the use of tensors. Topics covered include viscous flows, lubrication theory, boundary layers, potential theory, and complex variable methods for 2-D airfoils. The unit concludes with an introduction to hydrodynamic stability theory and the transition to turbulent flow.

MATH3975 Financial Mathematics (Advanced)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: Two class quizzes and one 2 hour exam (100%)

This unit is an introduction to the mathematical theory of modern finance. Topics include: notion of arbitrage, pricing riskless securities, risky securities, utility theory, fundamental theorems of asset pricing, complete markets, introduction to options, binomial option pricing model, discrete random walks, Brownian motion, derivation of the Black-Scholes option pricing model, extensions and introduction to pricing exotic options, credit derivatives. A strong background in mathematical statistics and partial differential equations is an advantage, but is not essential. Students completing this unit have been highly sought by the finance industry, which continues to need graduates with quantitative skills. Students enrolled in this unit at the Advanced level will be expected to undertake more challenging assessment tasks. The lectures in the Advanced unit are held concurrently with those of the corresponding Normal unit.

MATH3976 Mathematical Computing (Advanced)

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr D J Ivers Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

See entry for MATH3076 Mathematical Computing.

MATH3977 Lagrangian & Hamiltonian Dynamics (Adv)

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr. Leon Poladian Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam and assignments and/or quizzes (100%)

This unit provides a comprehensive treatment of dynamical systems using the mathematically sophisticated framework of Lagrange and Hamilton. This formulation of classical mechanics generalizes elegantly to modern theories of relativity and quantum mechanics. The unit develops dynamical theory from the Principle of Least Action using the calculus of variations. Emphasis is placed on the relation between the symmetry and invariance properties of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian functions and conservation laws. Coordinate and canonical transformations are introduced to make apparently complicated dynamical problems appear very simple. The unit will also explore connections between geometry and different physical theories beyond classical mechanics.
Students will be expected to solve fully dynamical systems of some complexity including planetary motion and to investigate stability using perturbation analysis. Hamilton-Jacobi theory will be used to elegantly solve problems ranging from geodesics (shortest path between two points) on curved surfaces to relativistic motion in the vicinity of black holes.
This unit is a useful preparation for units in dynamical systems and chaos, and complements units in differential equations, quantum theory and general relativity.

MATH3978 PDEs and Waves (Advanced)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments, quizzes (100%)

As for MATH3078 PDEs & Waves but with more advanced problem solving and assessment tasks. Some additional topics may be included.

Textbooks

Powers, DL. Boundary Value Problems. Harcourt-Brace 4th Edition. 1999.

MKTG - Marketing

MKTG1001 Marketing Principles

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Group case study (20%), Mid-semester exam (20%), Group presentation (20%), Tutorial participation (10%), Research component (2%), Final exam (28%)

This unit examines the relationships among marketing organisations and final consumers in terms of production-distribution channels or value chains. It focuses on consumer responses to various marketing decisions (product mixes, price levels, distribution channels, promotions, etc.) made by private and public organisations to create, develop, defend, and sometimes eliminate, product markets. Emphasis is placed on identifying new ways of satisfying the needs and wants, and creating value for consumers. While this unit is heavily based on theory, practical application of the concepts to "real world" situations is also essential. Specific topics of study include: market segmentation strategies; market planning; product decisions; new product development; branding strategies; channels of distribution; promotion and advertising; pricing strategies; and customer database management.

MKTG2112 Consumer Behaviour

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Ongoing work portfolio (15%), Class participation (15%), Project interview transcripts (Individual component) (15%), Final project group presentation (10%), Final project group report (20%), Midterm exam (25%)

This unit examines the psychological, social, and cultural aspects of consumer behaviour on the marketing decisions of public and private organisations. Concepts and principles are drawn from disciplines such as cognitive psychology, social psychology, sociology, anthropology, and demography to discover and understand various aspects of consumer behaviour. Specific topics of study include: cultural, demographic and psychographic influences; reference group influences; household decision processes and consumption behaviour; consumer perception and learning; motivation, personality and emotion; consumer attitudes; and purchase decision processes.

MKTG2113 Marketing Research

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Group project (planning and executing market research (18%); and analysing quantitative data (18%)), Tutorial participation (10%); Research participation (6%); Exams (mid-semester (20%) and final (28%))

Fundamental to marketing is a requirement to understand who your customers are and what they want. Marketing research is the essential activity of discovering information and presenting it in a useful format to marketing decision makers. This unit introduces the skills and knowledge necessary to allow students to accurately formulate research questions and then discover answers ensuring that these are accurate, reliable and timely. Particular focus is given to different approaches to and aspects of data collection, including: qualitative research; secondary data collection; questionnaire design; sampling; experimental design; validity and basic data analysis.

MKTG3112 Marketing Communications

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Week 1 quiz (3%), Group presentation (35%), 5min presentation topic overview & workplan (5%), TV Buy case (20%), Research participation (2%), Final 2hr exam (35%)

This unit of study offers an introduction to and overview of current theory and practice in marketing communications. It will include aspects of advertising in the main media (television, radio, print, outdoor, cinema), sales promotion, personal selling and new media, such as the Internet. It will provide students with a sound theoretical/conceptual foundation as well as the strategic/practical perspectives of Marketing Communications planning and implementation.

MKTG3114 New Products Marketing

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: group project (40%), mid-semester exam (20%), tutorial participation (10%), research component (2%), final exam (28%)

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.

MKTG3116 International Marketing

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Participation (18%), Case study presentation (15%), International marketing plan (written (20%) and presentation (15%)), Examination (30%), Research component (2%)

This unit introduces students to international marketing using the marketing concept. It firstly considers environmental factors and then studies how marketing strategies are affected by those environmental factors. It gives students an awareness and understanding of international marketing concepts and highlights their importance in a rapidly changing global economy. Additionally the unit develops students' skills in designing and implementing marketing strategies in diverse international contexts.

MKTG3117 Services Marketing

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Group project (assignment (25%) re-submission of group assignment (20%)); Participation (15%); Exam (38%), Research component (2%)

This unit provides an understanding of the concepts and processes specifically applicable to services marketing. Services are by nature different from products, and therefore lead to a set of different marketing challenges faced by service-based organisations such as those in tourism, hospitality, health care, aviation, banking, financial, accounting, medical and legal services industries. The unit focuses on those aspects of services that require differential understanding and execution than in a product-marketing environment. Customer care, relationship marketing, and how to use service as a competitive advantage are the other primary areas of interest covered by the unit

MKTG3118 Marketing Strategy and Planning

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: consultant group presentation (20%), rationale for strategies - consultant group (10%), reflective journal entries (18%), participation (10%), final exam (40%), research component (2%)

This course will focus on strategic and managerial aspects of marketing. It will cover the development of innovative, business models; segmentation, positioning and lifecycle strategies; and key aspects of managing and organising marketing activities, and measuring performance. The central theme is how marketing strategy and its management can create superior and sustainable value for both customers and shareholders. Assessment will reflect the Unit's strategic decision-making approach, requiring students to take on the roles of marketing advisors and managers.

MKTG3119 Public Relations Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week. Assessment: group public relations proposal (5%), group public relations plan (35%), team marketing plan presentation (15%), online media assessment task (20%), final exam (25%)

Every organisation in the public and private sector makes use of public relations in some form or another. Indeed, for many organisations and marketing professionals, the marketing function is dominated by a mix of advertising, integrated marketing communications and public relations. This subject develops the theoretical and applied knowledge for students to better understand and use public relations. This subject provides a detailed inspection of communication processes necessary for the management of organizational relationships with publics by public relations practitioners. The subject addresses topics such as issues management, event management, media relations, ethics and public relations in commercial and not for profit entities to explore the foundations of contemporary public relations management.

MKTG3120 Building and Managing Brands

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Tutorial work/participation; Mid-semester examination (20%); Group project - progress report (5%), presentation (15%) and report (30%); Final examination (30%)

The most important intangible asset of any organisation is its brand or portfolio of brands. Marketers use an array of internal and external communications approaches to deliver the brand's overall value proposition and experience to its key stakeholders and target customers, and thereby build brand equity. Names, symbols, and slogans along with their underlying associations, perceived quality, brand awareness, customer base and related proprietary resources form the basis for brand equity. Most brands fail because of the lack of proper market research and analysis that enables the brand's core values to be articulated, accurate positioning strategies to be developed, and complete alignment to be achieved between internal and external brand building communications. This unit helps students understand the concept of brand equity and the management of brand assets by learning how to strategically create, position, develop and sustain brand equity.

MKTG3121 Advertising: Creative Principles

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Group creative project (35%), Assignment (20%), Final 2hr exam (30%), Participation (13%), Research component (2%)

Most organisations use advertising to introduce themselves, their products and services to their existing and potential customers. Advertising is their public face and together with integrated marketing communications and public relations is one of the three pillars of commercial communication. This subject explores the creative material that is developed and produced to contact, inform, educate and influence consumer decisions. Advertising is the point where communication theory is put into practice. Through understanding the creative principles and practices of advertising personnel involved in marketing will be able to commission, evaluate and produce creative material to professional industry standards. The subject addresses topics such as the importance of creativity; messaging issues, determining consumer insights; the creative potential and purpose of different media; developing creative concepts; determining the advertising idea; producing the final creative material and taking it to the marketplace.

MKTG4101 Marketing Honours A

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Assessment: Coursework and research.

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

The honours program in Marketing provides specialist training for postgraduate research in marketing, and provides graduates with the analytical skills for solving problems in marketing practice. The program consists of one coursework unit and a two-semester dissertation, written under the supervision of one or more academic staff members. Marketing Honours A and B involve an expert led series of research seminars which prepares students with the requisite skills to complete their dissertation. In addition, these seminars provide students with research skills that can be applied in either an academic or commercial context.

MKTG4102 Marketing Honours B

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Assessment: Coursework and research

Marketing Honours B represents the second part of the semester 1 seminar series. It will guide students as they find and narrow down a thesis topic and will help them prepare for the thesis proposal presentation.

MKTG4103 Marketing Honours C

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Assessment: Coursework and research

Marketing Honours C and D provide students with the opportunity to plan, conduct and report on their chosen dissertation topics. Students work closely under their supervisor's) to complete this exciting challenging research project. The honours dissertation is expected to be a high quality piece of research, of sufficient standard to be published independently in either marketing journals or conference proceedings.

MKTG4104 Marketing Honours D

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Assessment: Coursework and research.

QBUS - Quantitative Business Analysis

QBUS1030 Business Modelling with Spreadsheets

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week. Assessment: Assignments (20%); Individual Business Case (40%); Group Business Case (40%)

A starting point for the analysis of any business problem is the setting up of a model, in which the various inputs and decision variables are represented, as well as the outcomes of interest. The most basic tool to achieve this is a spreadsheet. This unit will show how to use spreadsheets to model a wide array of business problems drawn from business areas such as marketing, accounting and finance. Students taking this unit will learn the skills required for effective modelling using spreadsheets and will become familiar with a full range of spreadsheet capabilities.

QBUS2310 Management Science

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Assignments (35%); Mid-Semester exam (20%); Final exam (45%)

The ability to understand and mathematically formulate decision problems is a fundamental skill for managers in any organisation. This unit focuses on basic management science modelling techniques used in capacity planning, production management, and resource allocation. Students will learn to approach complex real life problems, formulate appropriate models and offer solution procedures to ensure an optimal use of resources. Methods include linear programming, integer programming, quadratic programming, and dynamic programming.

QBUS2320 Methods of Decision Analysis

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Assignments (20%); Mid-semester test (20%); Final exam (60%)

This introductory unit on decision analysis addresses 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; modelling risk attitudes; estimating the value of information; and combining quantitative and qualitative considerations. The main goal of the course is to show how to build models of real business situations that allow the decision maker to better understand the structure of decisions and to automate the decision process by using computer decision tools.

QBUS2330 Operations Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Assignments (35%); Mid-Semester exam (20%); Final exam (45%)

This unit is about the fundamentals of operations management, an exciting area that has a profound effect on the productivity of both manufacturing and services. The techniques of operations management apply throughout the world to virtually all productive enterprises. It doesn't matter if the application is in an office, a hospital, a restaurant, a department store, or a factory - the production of goods and services requires operations management. As a graduate working in the business sector you will certainly be exposed to operations issues - this unit will equip you to approach these issues intelligently, whether or not your role is within the operations function. The efficient production of goods and services requires effective application of the concepts, tools, and techniques that we introduce in this unit. These include: quality management, capacity planning, location and layout strategies, supply chain management and inventory control.

QBUS2810 Statistical Modelling for Business

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Group Assignment (20%); Individual Assignments (20%); Mid-Semester exam (20%); Final Exam (40%)

Statistical analysis of quantitative data is a fundamental aspect of modern business. The pervasiveness of information technology in all aspects of business means that managers are able to use very large and rich data sets. This unit covers a range of methods to model and analyse the relationships in such data, extending the introductory methods in BUSS1020. The methods are useful for detecting, analysing and making inferences about patterns and relationships within the data so as to support business decisions. This unit offers an insight into the main statistical methodologies for modelling the relationships in both discrete and continuous business data. This provides the information requirements for a range of specific tasks that are required, e.g. in financial asset valuation and risk measurement, market research, demand and sales forecasting and financial analysis, among others. Emphasis will be given to real empirical applications in business, finance, accounting and marketing, using modern software tools.

QBUS3310 Advanced Management Science

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1 x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Two assignments (20%); Test (20%); Final exam (60%)

This unit gives guidelines for the formulation of management science models to provide practical assistance for managerial decision making. Optimisation methods are developed, and the complexity and limitations of different types of optimisation model are discussed, so that they can be accounted for in model selection and in the interpretation of results. Linear programming methods are developed and extended to cover variations in the management context to logistics, networks, and strategic planning. Other topics may include decision analysis, stochastic modelling and game theory. The unit covers a variety of case studies incorporating the decision problems faced by managers in business.

QBUS3320 Supply Chain Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1 x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Group project (15%); Assignments (20%); Mid-semester exam (20%); Final exam (45%)

The supply chain is the network of companies or organisational components that together deliver a product or service to the final customer. The objective of supply chain management is to effectively coordinate the flows of materials, information and capital in supply chains. This unit will introduce the important concepts and tools used in Supply Chain management. The topics covered may include: Inventory management and risk pooling; supply chain dynamics; network planning; supply chain integration; and global logistics. In addition the unit will discuss the design of contracts within the supply chain to achieve good outcomes.

QBUS3810 Business Risk Analysis

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Group project (15%); Assignments (20%); Mid-semester exam (20%); Final exam (45%)

Everyone working in business needs to understand and manage risk. This unit will provide the basic knowledge and tools needed to do this. It includes material on the risk management strategies that every business needs, as well as specific quantitative and statistical techniques for evaluating risk. By taking this unit students will learn how different aspects of risk management fit together (like Value-at-Risk (VaR) and tail-VaR calculations, Monte-Carlo simulation, extreme value theory, individual and collective risk models, credibility theory and credit scoring).

QBUS3820 Data Mining and Data Analysis

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1 x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Group project (20%); Assignments (15%); Mid-semester exam (20%); Final exam (45%)

The advances in information technology have made available very rich information data sets, often generated automatically as a by-product of the main institutional activity of a firm or business unit. Data Mining deals with inferring and validating patterns, structures and relationships in data, as a tool to support decisions in the business environment. The course offers an insight into the main statistical methodologies for the visualisation and the analysis of business and market data, providing the information requirements for specific tasks such as credit scoring, prediction and classification, market segmentation and product positioning. Emphasis will be given to empirical applications using modern software tools.

SMTP - Medicine

Theses units are offered through the Sydney Medical School. They are only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.

SMTP3007 SMTP Elective I

Session: Semester 1,Semester 1a,Semester 1b,Semester 2,Semester 2a,Semester 2b Classes: project work Assessment: Report describing the elective topic or activities

The unit will enable the students to develop the skills that will prepare them for the medical program. Students must obtain approval for their project work from the coordinator of the combined medical degree program.

STAT - Mathematics and Statistics

STAT units are administered by the School of Mathematics in the Faculty of Science.

STAT2011 Statistical Models

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour computer laboratory week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments and/or quizzes, and computer practical reports (100%)

This unit provides an introduction to univariate techniques in data analysis and the most common statistical distributions that are used to model patterns of variability. Common discrete random models like the binomial, Poisson and geometric and continuous models including the normal and exponential will be studied. The method of moments and maximum likelihood techniques for fitting statistical distributions to data will be explored. The unit will have weekly computer classes where candidates will learn to use a statistical computing package to perform simulations and carry out computer intensive estimation techniques like the bootstrap method.

STAT2012 Statistical Tests

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour computer laboratory per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments and/or quizzes, and computer practical reports (100%)

This unit provides an introduction to the standard methods of statistical analysis of data: Tests of hypotheses and confidence intervals, including t-tests, analysis of variance, regression - least squares and robust methods, power of tests, non-parametric tests, non-parametric smoothing, tests for count data, goodness of fit, contingency tables. Graphical methods and diagnostic methods are used throughout with all analyses discussed in the context of computation with real data using an interactive statistical package.

STAT2911 Probability and Statistical Models (Adv)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour computer laboratory per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments and/or quizzes, and computer practical reports (100%)

This unit is essentially an advanced version of STAT2011, with an emphasis being on the mathematical techniques used to manipulate random variables and probability models. Common random variables including the Poisson, normal, beta and gamma families are introduced. Probability generating functions and convolution methods are used to understand the behaviour of sums of random variables. The method of moments and maximum likelihood techniques for fitting statistical distributions to data will be explored. The unit will have weekly computer classes where candidates will learn to use a statistical computing package to perform simulations and carry out computer intensive estimation techniques like the bootstrap method.

STAT2912 Statistical Tests (Advanced)

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour computer laboratory per week. Assessment: One 2-hour exam, assignments and/or quizzes, computer practical reports and one computer practical exam (100%)

This unit is essentially an advanced version of STAT2012 with an emphasis on both methods and the mathematical derivation of these methods: Tests of hypotheses and confidence intervals, including t-tests, analysis of variance, regression - least squares and robust methods, power of tests, non-parametric methods, non-parametric smoothing, tests for count data, goodness of fit, contingency tables. Graphical methods and diagnostic methods are used throughout with all analyses discussed in the context of computation with real data using an interactive statistical package.

STAT3011 Stochastic Processes and Time Series

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week; ten 1 hour computer laboratories per semester. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments and/or quizzes, and computer practical reports (100%)

Section I of this course will introduce the fundamental concepts of applied stochastic processes and Markov chains used in financial mathematics, mathematical statistics, applied mathematics and physics. Section II of the course establishes some methods of modeling and analysing situations which depend on time. Fitting ARMA models for certain time series are considered from both theoretical and practical points of view. Throughout the course we will use the S-PLUS (or R) statistical packages to give analyses and graphical displays.

STAT3012 Applied Linear Models

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures, one 1 hour tutorial and one 1 hour computer laboratories per week. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments and/or quizzes, and computer practical reports (100%)

This course will introduce the fundamental concepts of analysis of data from both observational studies and experimental designs using classical linear methods, together with concepts of collection of data and design of experiments. First we will consider linear models and regression methods with diagnostics for checking appropriateness of models. We will look briefly at robust regression methods here. Then we will consider the design and analysis of experiments considering notions of replication, randomization and ideas of factorial designs. Throughout the course we will use the R statistical package to give analyses and graphical displays.

STAT3013 Statistical Inference

In this course we will study basic topics in modern statistical inference. This will include traditional concepts of mathematical statistics: likelihood estimation, method of moments, properties of estimators, exponential families, decision-theory approach to hypothesis testing, likelihood ratio test as well as more recent approaches such as Bayes estimation, Empirical Bayes and nonparametric estimation. During the computer classes (using R software package) we will illustrate the various estimation techniques and give an introduction to computationally intensive methods like Monte Carlo, Gibbs sampling and EM-algorithm.

STAT3014 Applied Statistics

This unit has three distinct but related components: Multivariate analysis; sampling and surveys; and generalised linear models. The first component deals with multivariate data covering simple data reduction techniques like principal components analysis and core multivariate tests including Hotelling's T^2, Mahalanobis' distance and Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA). The sampling section includes sampling without replacement, stratified sampling, ratio estimation, and cluster sampling. The final section looks at the analysis of categorical data via generalized linear models. Logistic regression and log-linear models will be looked at in some detail along with special techniques for analyzing discrete data with special structure.

STAT3911 Stochastic Processes and Time Series Adv

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: Three 1 hour lecture, one 1 hour tutorial per week, plus an extra 1 hour lecture per week on advanced material in the first half of the semester. Seven 1 hour computer laboratories (on time series) in the second half of the semester (one 1 hour class per week). Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments and/or quizzes, and computer practical reports (100%)

This is an Advanced version of STAT3011. There will be 3 lectures in common with STAT3011. In addition to STAT3011 material, theory on branching processes and birth and death processes will be covered. There will be more advanced tutorial and assessment work associated with this unit.

STAT3912 Applied Linear Models (Advanced)

This unit is essentially an Advanced version of STAT3012, with emphasis on the mathematical techniques underlying applied linear models together with proofs of distribution theory based on vector space methods. There will be 3 lectures per week in common with STAT3012 and some advanced material given in a separate advanced tutorial together with more advanced assessment work.

STAT3913 Statistical Inference Advanced

Note: It is advisable to have also completed STAT2912

This unit is essentially an Advanced version of STAT3013, with emphasis on the mathematical techniques underlying statistical inference together with proofs based on distribution theory. There will be 3 lectures per week in common with some material required only in this advanced course and some advanced material given in a separate advanced tutorial together with more advanced assessment work.

STAT3914 Applied Statistics Advanced

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour computer laboratory per week plus an extra hour each week which will alternate between lectures and tutorials. Assessment: One 2 hour exam, assignments and/or quizzes, and computer practical reports (100%)

This unit is an Advanced version of STAT3014. There will be 3 lectures per week in common with STAT3014. The unit will have extra lectures focusing on multivariate distribution theory developing results for the multivariate normal, partial correlation, the Wishart distribution and Hotelling's T^2. There will also be more advanced tutorial and assessment work associated with this unit.

WORK - Work and Organisational Studies

WORK1003 Foundations of Work and Employment

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2 hour lecture and 1x 1 hour tutorial hour per week Assessment: Participation (10%), short essay (20%), major essay (40%), exam (30%)

Note: This is the compulsory unit of study for the Industrial Relations/Human Resource Management major.

This unit draws on concepts from industrial relations and human resource management to examine the interests and strategies of workers, unions, managers, employers and the state. It explores the relationships between these parties as they seek to manage their environments and workplaces and to exercise control over each other. The unit enables students to understand how and why the organisation, regulation and management of work are changing in Australia and globally. As well as providing an introduction to all aspects of the study of the employment relationship, this is the foundation unit for a major in industrial relations and human resource management.

WORK2201 Foundations of Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2 hour lecture and 1x 1 hour tutorial hour per week Assessment: Tutorial participation (10%), Tutorial quizzes (10%), Essay (40%), Exam (40%)

Note: This a compulsory unit of study for the Management major.

This unit serves both as a stand-alone unit for students who wish to obtain an overview of management methods and approaches and as the basis of study for advanced and specialised undergraduate units listed in the Management major. It examines management as a process of planning, organising, leading and controlling the efforts of organisational members and discusses how recent trends such as globalisation, economic change and the effects of new technology have led to profound changes in how organisations are managed. It explores these issues with respect to both large and small, public and private, and domestic and foreign organisations.

WORK2203 Industrial Relations Policy

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2 hour lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial hour per week Assessment: Academic Honesty Module (0%); Short essay (20%); Mid Semester Exam (30%); Major essay (40%); Class participation (10%)

Note: This is the compulsory unit of study for the Industrial Relations/Human Resource Management major.

The aim of this unit of study is to provide an understanding of the institutions and processes engaged in the regulation of work and labour markets. At times of intense change and debate such as today, it becomes all the more important to develop understandings of industrial relations policy which are intellectually rigorous; that is, which are evidence-based, theoretically-explicit and historically-informed. This unit is framed by these considerations. Particular topics may include: the development of policy; the nature of regulation; state and federal government policies; arguments for change; the influence of lobby groups; employer and union strategy; work-family debates and policies; the working of tribunals and courts; dispute settling procedures; the development of wage determination; the outcomes and implications of policy change.

WORK2205 Human Resource Processes

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2 hour lecture and 1x 1hour tutorial per week Assessment: Academic Honesty Module (0%); In-class lecture content quiz (10%); In-class team debate (10%); Team debate paper (20%); Major assignment (30%); Final exam (30%)

Note: This is the compulsory unit of study for the Industrial Relations/Human Resource Management major.

Building on the foundational coverage of Human Resource Management (HRM) issues and concepts provided in WORK1003, this unit provides an advanced understanding of key HRM concepts, processes and practices, including the employee psychological contract; engagement, motivation and satisfaction; recruitment and selection; learning and development; career planning and development; mentoring and coaching, performance management; reward management; high involvement management, employee wellbeing; HRM and ethics; international HRM; and HRM system evaluation and change. The unit's 'micro'/psychological focus is designed to complement and support the 'macro'/strategic focus taken in the advanced elective unit WORK2211 Human Resource Strategies.

WORK2209 Organisational Analysis and Behaviour

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2 hour lecture and 1x 1 hour tutorial hour per week Assessment: Participation (10%), essay (40%) and exam (50%)

The aim of this unit is to provide an understanding of the actual processes and structures that influence the way people behave in organisations. It examines different approaches beginning with the individual (micro) level through to the organisational (macro) level. It takes students through a range of topics including attitudes, perceptions, organisational citizenship, workaholism, humour at work, rumour/gossip, romance/sex in organisations, bullying and violence, group dynamics, organisational power and politics and organisational culture. At the end of the unit students have developed the ability to reason, debate and critically examine a range of topical organisational issues.

WORK2210 Strategic Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2 hour lecture and 1x 1hour tutorial hour per week Assessment: Test (10%), tutorial presentation (30%), case study (30%), exam (30%)

Note: This is the compulsory unit of study for the Management major.

The aim of this unit is to critically examine the concept of strategy in the management of organisations. It examines different approaches to strategy and strategic management and traces the development of strategic management as an academic discipline. It takes students though the classical strategic management process as it is presented in most textbooks and it also introduces students to a range of current debates in strategic management. This unit can be taken as a stand alone introduction to strategy or as part of a broader program of study in management.

WORK2215 IR and HRM Practice

Credit points: 6 Session: Int June Classes: 35-40 hours work experience and 5/6 days, 9am-5pm Assessment: Role play (45%); Essay (45%); Participation (10%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Note: Entry to the unit is by application to the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies Office and is on a merit basis. The application can be downloaded at: http://sydney.edu.au/business/wos/documents/work2215_application_form

This unit is intended to go some way towards bridging the gap between theory and professional life. The unit examines the theoretical basis of labour negotiation. It goes on to examine the process of bargaining drawing upon both literature and experience of industrial relations and human resource management practitioners. The process of advocacy and role of advocacy in Australian industrial relations is also examined. Much of the unit is devoted to role-play negotiation exercises where students apply the techniques that have been taught. Students also undertake a period of work experience. Entry to the unit is by application to the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies Office and is on a merit basis. The application can be downloaded at: http://sydney.edu.au/business/wos/documents/work2215_application_form

WORK2217 International Human Resource Management

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2 hour lecture and 1x 1 hour tutorial hour per week Assessment: Major Assignment (50%); Exam (40%); Tutorial Attendance (10%); Academic Honesty Module (0%)

This unit considers the opportunities and challenges associated with managing employees in international and cross-cultural contexts, with specific emphasis on international recruitment, selection, preparation, placement, management development, performance management, reward and remuneration in the international, multi-national and trans-national corporation. Within the context of global labour markets, the unit considers the implications of internationalisation and globalisation for human resource management (HRM), the difference between domestic and international HRM, and the challenges of cross-cultural management. This unit will provide students with a theoretical understanding of IHRM and cross-cultural management, as well as a practical understanding of the issues and challenges associated with managing employees in international, global and cross-cultural contexts.

WORK2218 People and Organisations

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2 hour lecture and 1x 1 hour tutorial hour per week Assessment: Case Study Assignment (30%); Group Presentation (10%); Group Feedback (5%); Major Group Assignment (25%); Exam (30%); Academic Honesty Module (0%)

Note: This is the compulsory unit of study for the Management major.

Contemporary organisations are characterised by a high degree of change. One of the most pervasive, and widely debated, changes in organisations has been the growing use of various forms of teamwork. Contemporary forms of teamwork include project based teams, virtual teams, and self managing teams and are found across a broad spectrum of organisational types- from manufacturing to professional service organisations. This unit of study introduces students to theories about the impact of individual, group and organisational factors on people and organisations and uses these concepts and theories to examine the factors that can make working in and managing teams more effective. As such, People and Organisations is designed to provide students majoring in Business insight into a set of critical issues that will impact their professional and business careers. Because of the increasing significance of teamwork, this unit of study also provides an important foundation for further study in Management and Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management.

WORK2219 Management and Organisational Ethics

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2 hour lecture and 1x 1 hour tutorial hour per week Assessment: Individual reflection (15%); Individual Essay (30%); Poster (25%); exam (30%); Tutorial attendance and preparation (0%); Academic Honesty Module (0%)

Ethical issues are occupying an increasingly prominent place in work, organisation and management studies. This unit of study focuses on ethical aspects of management and organisational practice. By applying relevant ethical frameworks, students will be encouraged to enhance their understanding of the role and responsibilities of management, the impact of organisations on employees and the ethical implications of contemporary trends in employment. This unit builds on foundational units of study in Management, Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management.

WORK2221 Organisational Communication

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Case study (20%), Persuasive message and analysis (30%), Final 2hr exam (40%), Participation (10%)

Communication is integral to many organisational processes; for instance, effective planning, decision-making, negotiation, conflict management, change management and leadership all rely upon effective communication by organisational actors. At the same time, organisational communication has become more complex due to increasing levels of diversity in the workplace and an increasing reliance on emergent and rapidly changing communication technologies. Drawing on communication research models, theories and case studies, the unit will provide students with insight into how to manage the complexities of contemporary organisational communication. The unit will focus primarily on internal organisational communication and will examine communication processes at various levels: interpersonal (dyadic), group and organisation.

WORK2222 Leadership in Organisations

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2 hour lecture and 1x 1 hour tutorial hour per week Assessment: Reflective journal (30%); Group film analysis (20%); Tutorial attendance and participation (10%); Final exam (40%); SPARK self and peer assessment (Failure to complete SPARK on time results in a 2% penalty on your final mark)

Leadership is increasingly seen to be a key factor affecting the performance of contemporary organisations and is an important area of study in the fields of management and organisational behaviour. While leadership principles are often associated with the work of senior management, they also have potential application to all members of organisations. This unit explores conventional and alternative perspectives on leadership and also examines the practice of leadership in diverse organisational contexts. Practitioner perspectives, experiences and case studies of business leaders are also presented. The unit builds on foundational units of study in Management, IR and HRM and International Business.

WORK2224 Globalisation, Work and Employment

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2 hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Participation (10%), short essay (20%), major essay (30%), exam (40%)

This unit of study examines the way in which the internationalisation of economic activities impacts on the nature of employment, jobs and regulation across different countries and regions. It considers how economic development in different countries has contributed to the growth of particular employment arrangements. It focuses in particular on the country specific interplay between economics, politics, and society which has contributed to the development of particular employment regulatory regimes. Further, it maps economic changes on a global scale identifying international economic forces, agents and political arrangements and seeks to highlight pressures and tensions on employment arrangements that result from these global interactions.

WORK2226 Institutions at Work

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2 hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: Participation (10%), short essay (20%), major essay (30%), exam (40%)

This unit of study examines the development and operation of institutions formed to represent the different interests of individuals and groups in the arena of work and employment. It describes the historical development of organisations representing the interests of labour, both across and within the workforce. It identifies the manner in which business groups have represented their interest around issues of work and labour regulation. Finally it examines how these representative institutions have formed and dissolved coalitions of support around particular labour market issues such as wages, labour market participation and employee representation.

WORK3921 Theories of Work and Organisations

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 3 hour seminar per week Assessment: Short essay (25%), Long essay (40%), Take-home exam (25%), Class exercises and postings (10%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit forms part of the Work and Organisational Studies honours program. It introduces students to the roles of theory in science, particularly social sciences and examines the development of different models of theory development in the social sciences. The unit also examines a selection of different theoretical approaches to explaining work and organisations. This is done so by identifying several different issues or themes that have emerged in work and organisational studies and discussing the manner in which these themes have been studied and the consequent explanations that have emerged.

WORK3922 Researching Work and Organisations

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 3 hour seminar per week Assessment: Pair Seminar Presentation (20%); Applied Research Report (30%); Thesis Proposal (50%)

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

This unit seeks to develop the skills, practices and understandings necessary to undertake a research-based thesis in work and organisational studies. Students gain an understanding of the theoretical basis and design requirements of the main qualitative and quantitative approaches to research, as well as the techniques of questionnaire design, interviewing, observation and documentary analysis. There is an emphasis on the development of methodological expertise relevant to the students anticipated dissertation topic and the preparation of a viable research proposal.

WORK4101 Industrial Relations & HRM Honours A

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Assessment: Coursework; Dissertation

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

The primary focus is on an original dissertation of approximately 20,000 words to be submitted at the end of Part B. In addition, students must undertake coursework as specified. Candidates must enrol in WORK4102, WORK4103 and WORK4104 to complete the honours year.

WORK4102 Industrial Relations & HRM Honours B

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

See WORK4101

WORK4103 Industrial Relations & HRM Honours C

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

See WORK4101

WORK4104 Industrial Relations & HRM Honours D

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2

See WORK4101

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ACCT - Accounting

AGEC - Agricultural Economics

BUSS - Business School

CLAW - Business Law

COMP - Computer Science

ECMT - Econometrics

ECON/ECOS - Economics

ECOP - Political Economy

ELEC - Computer Science

FINC - Finance

GOVT - Government and International Relations

IBUS - International Business

INFO - Computer Science

INFS - Business Information Systems

LAWS - Law

MATH - Mathematics and Statistics

MKTG - Marketing

QBUS - Quantitative Business Analysis

SMTP - Medicine

STAT - Mathematics and Statistics

WORK - Work and Organisational Studies