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This course examines field techniques across a range of topics, including: geology, geomorphology, soil science, climate science, coastal and freshwater science. Students will collect and examine a range of data types from our Port Waikato field area and explore the cross disciplinary applications of the data to answering some of society's most relevant questions.

The module includes a literature review but can also consist of a short empirical-oriented project. This course is part of PSYCHOLOGY: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE (30 ECTS).

The course provides a background on the fundamentals of cryptography for those interested in carrying out cryptographic research or employing cryptographic security. Course topics include classical cryptography, Shannon's theory of secrecy, shift register theory and stream ciphers, public key cryptography, authentication codes, and secret sharing. Students must also complete a course project.

This course examines the foundational principles of contemporary media production. It focuses on three areas of media production; graphic design, animation and interaction design. It also studies the applied theories and techniques involved in creating contemporary media productions and current tools and strategies for a range of media contexts.

This course examines contemporary South Korea through cultural production and political change, from a historical perspective. The first half of the course explores the vicissitudes of Korean history and social change with a focus on the critical junctures that laid the groundwork for Korea’s national identity. The second half of the course considers the relationships of power at work between communities around the world that create the new cultural forms and affective identities that constitute global Korean culture and examine the mechanisms that drive popular culture in the 21st century through literature, film, and television. Through this dual approach, students will gain a deeper understanding of contemporary Korean culture and society through global cultural exchange and local political transformations.

Take a cursory glance at recent critical work on Asian American Studies, and you'll notice immediately how often the term “Asian America” appears, as if such a formation actually exists. Less a claim to take actual territory from the United States than a broad appeal to grant Asians a place at the American table of citizenship and national belonging, the literature of Asian Americans can be productively read alongside persistent yet often divergent, even contested, visions of Asian America. This course is designed to trace one such trajectory in the creation and recreation of Asian America through literature. Paying special attention to the political, economic, and social constraints during the time of their production and reception, we will examine how Asian American literary work both reflected and transformed the social protocols of their day, and in doing so helped to reimagine what it means to be “Asian,” or “American,” and everything else in between. 

This course explores communication across cultures and languages. It examines concepts of culture, focusing on non-essentialist perspectives and its role in the construction of (self) identity and others' identities. Focusing on both face-to-face and non-face-to-face, including digital communication, the course explores how people with different cultural backgrounds communicate and the issues that are likely to arise in cross-cultural communication.