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This course examines the fundamentals of engineering project management. It covers project environment; project evaluation; risk management process; project selection and proposal preparation; project scheduling and contingency setting and control; control of variation and claims; project management methodologies and techniques, change management; multi-criteria decision making process; analytic hierarchy process; PERT/GANTT techniques for project control and resources allocation; simulation of critical paths; case studies.

This course looks at the idea of "wildness" in children’s literature. The first half of the course examines landscape wilderness as it appears in a range of different children’s texts, from Ingalls Wilder’s canonical American text Little House in the Big Woods to Nicki Singer’s environmentally/themed Island. The second half of the course focuses on depictions of wildness associated with childhood, from Emily Hughes’ picture book Wild, to David Almond’s The Savage. Throughout the course students problematize the idea of wilderness, both in connection to the landscape and to the child. Students consider the long-standing connection between the child and nature, and how this might impact on the broader understanding of childhood. 

This course studies literary texts from the Victorian period alongside popular culture, images, and journalism. Students are exposed to key social issues of the era, including urbanization, class and gender division, and questions of Nation and colonialism.

This course examines option pricing and hedging. It will concentrate on the theory and idea of derivatives pricing and risk management. Topics include option market; European and American options; conditional expectation and discrete-time martingale, discrete-time option pricing theory; true probabilities vs. risk-neutral probabilities; estimating volatility; the Black-Scholes formula; implied volatility; option Greeks; market-making and hedging; and exotic options.

The emergence of technology requires the study of how history, science, economics, sociological effects, materials, sources of power, climate, and human ingenuity, all play a part in the development and adoption of new technologies. This program of study gives students an introduction to a wide range of technologies and exposes them to new concepts and helps them to question established “truths” regarding the linkages between basic science, research, and the mechanisms involved in the emergence of new technologies. The course is invaluable for students who want to become entrepreneurs because it familiarizes them with new technologies and makes them aware of the many factors that underpin the successful development and adoption of new technologies.

This course examines postcolonial literature.

To what extent does our study of Irish small presses and little magazines enable us to "take the pulse of a particular period," as Frank Shovlin puts it? How much credence should we give to the claim, leveraged by Robert Kiely, that Irish "small-press publishers provide some inkling of the real dissent" within cultural discourse? In this course, students engage with the full operational remits of a diverse range of presses and publications blending archival research with close textual analysis in search of answers to these kinds of questions. Given this mixed methodological approach, the course focus alternates from week to week: between book-historical sessions on individual presses and publications operating across various periods since 1950, and sessions centered on close reading the literary products of this small-press labor against the many social, political, and economic issues to which they respond in each case. Students look at an array of archival documents, manifestos, written editorials, paratextual materials, and other ephemera pertaining to each of the presses and publications under scrutiny, in order to understand their diverse material and aesthetic circumstances. 

This course examines contemporary Korean popular culture, and more specifically the 21st century South Korean cultural phenomenon called Hallyu (Korean wave) – its promises and limitations as well as its popularity and backlash against it. By taking an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, we will study food, film, television, music, fashion and sports and ask how they participate in the transnational production, distribution and circulation of culture, identity, modernity, tradition, ideology and politics both regionally and globally. One of the major questions this course will explore is the curious ways in which these popular media continuously re-stage and re-define Korea’s historical past in order to comment on its present.