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This course involves completion of an 80-100 hour work placement integrating academic learning, employability skills and attributes and an improved knowledge of organizations, workplace culture and career pathways. The placement is supplemented by pre- and post-placement classes, including a compulsory placement induction in Week 1 and compulsory pre-placement sessions in Weeks 2 &3, designed to introduce workplace culture and strategies for developing, identifying and articulating employability skills and attributes and linking them to employer requirements. The placement should draw on specific discipline skills associated with the course of enrolment. Pre-placement seminars will also include career development and planning, self-assessment, reflexivity and professional skills. Students are responsible for identifying a suitable work placement, by Week 1 of semester, with support from Student Programs staff.

This course offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the politics, economics, and foreign policy of major nations in East Asia. It explores how their prewar historical legacies continue to affect East Asian foreign relations. The course also analyzes the ways in which China, Japan, the two Koreas and Russia have attempted to meet the challenges of a globalized world economy and politics as well as the challenges of past history and security threats. The course also attaches great importance to the study of U.S. relations with these major countries in East Asia.

Linear Algebra is one of the most widely used topics in the mathematical sciences. At lower levels students are taught standard techniques for basic linear algebra tasks including the solution of linear systems, finding eigenvalues/eigenvectors, and orthogonalization of bases. However, these techniques are usually computationally too intensive to be used for the large matrices encountered in practical applications. This course introduces students to these practical issues, and presents, analyzes, and applies algorithms for these tasks which are reliable and computationally efficient. The course includes significant lab work using an advanced programming language. The course studies three main topics: the solution of linear systems of equations, the solution of least squares problems and finding the eigenvectors and/or eigenvalues of a matrix.

This introductory course combines practical guidance and academic theory to provide students with a thorough grounding in the use of financial statements for investment analysis and banking. It addresses the key aspects of accounting relevant to equity analysts, mergers & acquisition (M&A) bankers, asset managers, and other capital market participants. The delivery of the course is based around short technical sessions reinforced with numerical exercises, practical case studies, press articles, and video extracts.  Additionally, the course involves guest speakers (in person or pre-recorded), such as a sell-side analyst and an investment banker, to help students understand the various financial services roles as well as the relevance of accounting information.

This course takes students on a journey of discovery and wider understanding, when thinking about complex sustainable development challenges. The focus is on the global problems of climate change and social inequalities, as well as the societal responses to these, particularly from an economics lens. Contrary to the conventional way of teaching economics, the course pursues a tour-de-force of diverse and rich economic perspectives, rather than following standard textbooks and their typical insistence on a particular strand of economic thinking. The course is problem-oriented with special attention given to critical thinking, differing views, and practical and policy implications. The emphasis is first on observed empirics and factual trends concerning the respective sustainability provocations, before diving into the explanatory body of pluralist economics and wide range of policy actions. Moreover, the course boosts students’ creativity and imagination, engages participants, and allows for plenty of interaction. It also proposes a novel, experimental element to the teaching method by connecting economic thinking with the world of arts and culture to illustrate a point more vividly,