Humanities
Explore what it means to be human – what we think, what we write, what we believe and what we say. Our humanities cover the broad spectrum of the human condition through philosophy and religion, literature and writing, politics and society, and mathematics and science. I think, therefore I am!
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Writers Workshop - Pointers with Simone de Beauvoir
<p>Simone de Beauvoir was one of the ‘Big thinkers’ and major French authors for 40 years of the mid-20th century. Writing was her lifelong passion and vocation to her death in 1986. She wrote her
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Philosophy of Science
<p>The birth of Western Philosophy and the ‘scientific’ study of Nature begin together in the Pre-Socratic Greek world. In this course we will take a philosophical trip from the beginnings of Western
...Philosophy of Science
<p>The birth of Western Philosophy and the ‘scientific’ study of Nature begin together in the Pre-Socratic Greek world. In this course we will take a philosophical trip from the beginnings of Western
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Perception and Reality
<p>What is real? What role does perception play? How do we ascertain what is real in an age of global media, increased simulation (and simulacra), misinformation, disinformation, virality, spin, hype
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The Atomic Nucleus - A Journey to the Heart of Matter
<p>Nuclear Physics is a subject that brings shudders to many due, in part, to the enormous threat of nuclear weapons. It also has a reputation for being impenetrable subject matter. Whilst this course
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Wandering Through Oceania: Australian Travel-Adventure Authors of the 1930s
<p>With titles like <em>Try Anything Once</em>, <em>Rolling Down the Lachlan</em> and <em>To the Isles of Spice</em>, Frank Clune wrote books that appealed to Australian ‘armchair’ adventurers. In
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The Longest Journey: Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
<p>Dostoyevsky's <em>Crime and Punishment</em> is a compelling, totally unforgettable study of courage, freedom, consequentialism, justice, happiness, love and forgiveness. We examine its key ideas
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How Writings of the Ancient World survived to the Present Day
<p>In this course we examine the efforts of 15th century renaissance scholars to find and return to prominence key texts of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. These texts, which had been preserved
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Life After Death - What the Doctors Say
<p>This course is about the science of the after-life. It is based on the work of Dr Raymond A. Moody, the American psychiatrist and physician, as well as other doctors such as Eben Alexander the
...Life After Death - What the Doctors Say
<p>This course is about the science of the after-life. It is based on the work of Dr Raymond A. Moody, the American psychiatrist and physician, as well as other doctors such as Eben Alexander the
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This is Who We Are - Australian Novels 1940-1959
<p>Not surprisingly the novels written from the time of the Second World War were increasingly willing to grapple with the harsher realities of Australian life, and the writers themselves were more
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This is Who We Are - Australian Novels 1940-1959
<p>Not surprisingly the novels written from the time of the Second World War were increasingly willing to grapple with the harsher realities of Australian life, and the writers themselves were more
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Robodebt - five years of lies, mistakes & failures
<p>Robodebt was an unlawful debt-collection scheme that issued more than 400,000 false notices to welfare recipients from 2015 to 2019 and was a shocking attack on our democracy. A Royal Commission
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