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This course equips students with a various set of analytical skills, computational tools, and research methodologies essential for producing high-quality research in Finance, Management, and Economics. It emphasizes the principles and practices required to conduct rigorous and impactful research, focusing on methods and real-world applications. Unlike traditional courses that provide a broad overview of knowledge, this course dives deeper into selected advanced topics, prioritizing research design and practical implementation. The curriculum introduces cutting-edge methodologies, including but not limited to: Macroeconomics, Continuous-time dynamic contracting problems, Computational methods in economics, Game theory applications in Finance, Causal machine learning, and Regression discontinuity and kink design. A key focus of the course is on the practical application of these methodologies and the development of skills necessary for writing academic research papers. Students receive guidance on crafting a high-quality term paper and are required to use LaTeX for their submissions. By the end of the course, students have the tools and knowledge to conduct empirical research independently and the ability to write and present a scientific paper to a professional standard.

This intermediate business course links the elements of strategic management with value creation by adapting an organizational structure to respond rapidly to changes in the relevant environment of any organization. The class will analyze organizational design components and the impact technology can have on them, using work optimization tools and orientation towards process quality and continuous improvement. 

No prior knowledge is required for this course.

This course is a practical and theoretical introduction to performing cultures of the Pacific with emphasis on Polynesian cultures. Basic music and dance skills are taught in practical instruction. Consideration of commonalities and differences among Pacific cultures. Academic discussion of styles, instruments, performer categories and the place of the performing arts in Pacific cultures.

This course examines the ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people draw on a range of personal, social and cultural resources to compensate for adversities brought about by colonization. It explores agency, successes and joys as well as the ways that people live with the challenges and traumas of history. 

The course offers a rigorous, varied, and exciting introduction to the scholarly field of book history, engaging the University of Oxford’s world-famous manuscript and archival collections. Students will take part in hands-on bookcraft workshops and learn from academics undertaking cutting-edge book-historical research. Each week of the program focuses on a particular period of book history, starting with a focus on the medieval period (500-1500), proceeding to the early modern period (1500-1800), and concluding with the modern and contemporary period (1800-present day), while also reflecting on conceptual, textual, and material connections between them.

The course provides an introduction to the theory of Special Relativity and some basic concepts of General Relativity. Topics include the need for Special Relativity (light propagation and key historical experiments); Einstein's principle of relativity, time dilation and length contraction; the geometry of spacetime (Minkowski space); the Lorentz transformation and causality; kinematics, dynamics and electromagnetism in Special Relativity; and a brief introduction to General Relativity.

This course provides English-speaking students with various kinds of knowledge about the Korean language including structural characteristics of modern Korean, the information on the writing system (i.e. Hangeul), socio-cultural effects on the Korean language, etc. The course is offered from a linguistic point of view, but does not require a specific linguistic knowledge. It is not a language training course, but will help gain a deeper understanding of Korean, which is very useful in acquiring a better command of Korean.

This course is an introduction to econometrics, that is, to the statistical methods used to give empirical content to economic relationships. This course has two goals. The first is to provide students with the tools to evaluate econometric analyses critically and logically. The second is to enable them to analyze datasets methodically and comprehensively using econometric methods. The course includes lectures and problem sets, part of which will be conducted using R, a free, open-source software environment for statistical computing and data analysis. Familiarity with R is not expected. Written midterm and final exam (90%), class asignment/group presentation (10%). Prerequisites: familiarity with calculus, introductory statistics and elementary matrix algebra.

The course traces a history of the fantasy genre's formation and crystallization, from its medieval beginnings to the present. It looks at the story-telling and world-building literary devices used by Geoffrey of Monmouth, who wrote his medieval bestseller about King Arthur in Oxford Castle, and the authors of Renaissance Romance fantasies. It also explores Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, a forerunner of science fiction, and 18th-century Gothic fantasies which paved the way for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The course follows Oxford's own Lewis Carroll, Scottish fantasy author George Macdonald, and the pre-Raphaelite William Morris through to Tolkien and Lewis and beyond. It also considers recent critical approaches to the fantasy genre as well as discusses whether these pre-21st century texts lend themselves with ease to the modern media of cinema, TV serialization, or computer games, and which adjustments have been made or are still to be made to make them relevant to our own times.

This course explores the complex relationships between economic development, poverty, and the environment. Over five, inter-related themes, the course covers a range of critical natural resource and environmental issues in low-and middle-income countries, that is, issues at the interface of environment and development. Using concepts and analytical tools grounded in applied economics, primarily environmental and development economics, the course begins with an examination of the relationship between poverty and environmental change related to resource use, and the role of population growth in this relationship (theme I). It then moves to a discussion of the design and implementation of policies to effect change in conservation and/or development outcomes, in weak institutional settings (theme II). A key institution is that of property rights, with common property playing an important role in resource management and conservation (theme III). Some key conservation and poverty alleviation efforts attempt to address market failures associated with the demand for, and supply of, food and energy (theme IV). While food and energy are typically supplied in rural settings, changes in the extent and compositiion of demand are associated with rapid urbanization, trade, and sectoral shifts in the economy (theme V).