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This practical course encompasses both specialist skills and techniques from the jewelry and silversmithing industry in casting and modelling. The course also integrates design research and thinking alongside experience of working to professional competition briefs set by external organizations, agencies, and companies. During this project students learn carving and modelling techniques. Students are also introduced to different methods of casting metal from small-scale studios to larger foundries.

This course provides an in-depth treatment of fundamental topics of network design based on the Internet protocol stack model. It introduces how networks work through understanding of the underlying principles of sound network design. This course covers topics including network requirements, architecture, protocol stack models, Ethernet Token Ring, Wireless, and FDDI networks, bridges, switching and routing in IP and ATM networks, and internetworking. Apart from learning the concepts in networks, the students gain expertise in analyzing and designing networking protocols through mini-projects. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course examines the philosophy and basic concepts of operations management. The course defines the major activities associated with defining, organizing, planning, monitoring, and controlling projects; discusses the four major process decisions; presents systematic ways to analyze processes; explains and constructs control charts; identifies systematic approaches to capacity planning; presents the theory of constraints; presents key factors that determine the appropriate choice of an inventory system; and explores how to design an effective supply chain, and how to measure its performance.

This course explores how anthropologists have evaluated, criticized, and contributed to development. Focusing on both "Big D" development (schemes of improvement or projects) and "little d" development (change which occurs as the result of economic growth or modernization) the course shows how anthropological insights have been used to change practices from within as well as critique development from the outside. From anthropological work which seeks pragmatic engagement to that which deconstructs development as an oppressive and power laden discourse, the course gives students a broad background to the field. Topics covered include the role of the state, participation and farmer first approaches; gender and development; development as discourse and "aidnography"; neo liberalism and global capital; corporate social responsibility; markets and micro credit; and the relationship between "tradition" and modernity.