English

This course is a study of key issues in development, with a focus on early and middle childhood. Topics include family, peer, cultural, and media influences on typical and atypical development.

This course examines Roman history, literature, and culture. It explore Rome from multiple perspectives, from politicians and poets to pilgrims and pirates, paying attention to the voices of the enslaved, dispossessed, and exploited and acknowledging the rich cultural diversity of the territories ruled by Rome. It will not only study ancient texts and monuments but also literary and artistic interpretations of the Roman world.

This course examines the main concepts relating to the international trading system and its institutions and reviews both traditional perspectives and important recent developments in international trade theory. Emphasis is placed on using theory to interpret trade data and to analyze the motivations behind existing trade policies and institutions. In particular, we aim to understand the welfare gains from trade, what accounts for observed patterns of trade and who benefits from various trade policies. Special attention is also given to protectionist trade policies and the political economy of protection, as well as the merits and drawbacks of bilateral trade negotiations.

This course examines the underlying concepts in indigenous education and the theories that inform current research practice. Particular emphasis is given to theories of ethnicity, culture, indigeneity and colonization and their application to the New Zealand context.

This course examines the history of modern and contemporary art across the world, as it is shaped by and shapes society, politics and environment. It shows current concerns in art , with materials, landscape, self-image, politics, and the body are grounded in a century of global experiment

This course examines the rights and responsibilities of businesses in the globalized economy. It analyzes the power dynamics between businesses, states, and civil society and critically evaluates corporate regulation strategies, both public and private. This course also offers a study of the ethical and legal implications of global supply chains and promote greater corporate responsibility and sustainability. 

This course focuses on the business development under China’s digital economy. With the fast development of technology infrastructure in China, emerging and disruptive digital technologies have profoundly reshaped the business and the economy. Plus, unique consumer behavior, organizational management, and market competition have made China’s market innovative and dynamic. As a result, new businesses keep coming and the business management has been digitally transformed. We will analyze these new Chinese management in this course. Specifically, this course will cover topics such as China’s digital economy and growth, platform and ecosystem, digital platforms including e-commerce and social media, sharing economy and business model innovation, practices regarding recruitment, performance management, training and development, turnover, as well as management phenomena that are indigenously Chinese. 

This course addresses the chemical thermodynamics of the aqueous solution using the first and second laws of thermodynamics while. It focuses on the use of thermodynamics related to chemical equilibrium and the calculation of the equilibrium constant based on thermodynamic data.

This course also presents the basis for the application of chemical thermodynamics to the mechanical engineering of the environment, energy, and biological systems.

In this course, students explore a double and interrelated focus: connecting theories of place with readings of poems in which place is more than just a setting and instead gains poetological significance. From the more accessible approaches of poets like Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Alice Oswald or, in the postcolonial context, Arun Kolatkar, to the more experimental poetics of Allen and Roy Fisher or Wendy Mulford and Geraldine Monk, the course analyzes a variety of place-based poetics from the 1960s to the beginning of the 21st century. Topics include how to think of place in the context of a globalizing world, phenomenological approaches of place and how globalization has disrupted it, identities of places, geological materialities and the social and communal process. Students examine how poets have not only recognized the multidimensional complexity of places and the culturally as well as politically critical ways of determining the boundaries and identities of places, but have used explorations into how to represent places in their various material and semiological layers also for reflecting on, and experimenting with, poetic forms and the materiality, historicity as well as performativity of poetic signification. 

The course covers fundamental concepts and analytical tools used in corporate financial decision-making. Students learn to interpret financial statements, evaluate company performance, and apply financial techniques to investment and financing decisions. Topics include accounting fundamentals, time value of money, capital budgeting, cost of capital, risk and return, working capital management, financial forecasting, cash flow analysis, and company valuation.