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This course offers a study of supply chain management-- how products get from raw materials into the hands of customers. It discusses concepts of procurement, logistics, inventory control, and distribution strategies from a practical standpoint.

This course examines theoretical concepts, debates and worldviews relevant to envisaging ‘just’ urban sustainability, based on comparative critical analyses of city transformations led by Indigenous, environmental and/or equity imperatives.

This course introduces regression analysis, one of the most widely used statistical techniques. Topics include simple and multiple linear regression, nonlinear regression, analysis of residuals and model selection, one-way and two-way factorial experiments, random and fixed effects models.

This course focuses on addressing events and challenges that arise when living in a foreign cultural environment. By examining the differences between living in one's home country and living a foreign culture, the course explores effective strategies to adapt to intercultural settings. The class will provide an opportunity for students to introduce their culture; analyze the differences between their culture and Japanese culture, and present their findings. The course aims to provide the skills to live respectfully in any intercultural context, while valuing and respecting the cultures of others.

This course focuses on rural landscape management with emphasis on ends, means, and solutions in management and planning projects. The course consists of two parts: an introduction and a problem-based project. The introductory part of the course includes lectures, exercises, and seminars on landscape processes and functions as well as methods for analyzing landscapes and collecting data relevant to planning and management of rural landscapes. Topics include: analyses of cultural landscapes and their current changes and implication for landscape policy, planning, and management; farmers' and other stakeholders' values and practices in relation to land use, cultural heritage, nature conservation, and aesthetic values; spatial planning and the design and implementation of spatial plans in relation to conflict management and place-making; case study approach and relevant research methods. Students are expected to contribute substantially to the seminars in the introductory part by presenting relevant methods and literature as well as preliminary ideas for projects. The project part of the course is the main part of the course and starts with a visit to a Danish municipality to show practical landscape management and planning tasks and challenges that are found in the municipality. Students then form project groups and propose a project problem to be approved.

This course introduces the basic principles of game design, animation, and motion design. It covers fundamental game design concepts such as mechanics and loops, enabling participants to conceptualize and develop playable games. In addition to game design, the course introduces core motion principles, visual design for motion, storyboarding, sequential imagery, and graphic animation.

This course offers a study of the multifaceted aspects of conducting business across borders and within diverse cultural, economic, and geopolitical environments. Topics include: global business environments; international market entry strategies; cross-cultural management; global trade; multinational business strategies; international trade and regulatory compliance.

This course provides the basic tools required for understanding linear systems, and the effect that such systems have on deterministic signals. The course covers linear time-invariant systems in terms of input-output relationships, using both time and frequency domain methods and includes concepts related to signal representation, linear convolution, Fourier analysis, sampling of continuous-time signals, and Laplace transforms.

The course explores key theories that inform film and media studies and the discourses that define these disciplines. It offers an overview of theoretical approaches to moving images and visual cultures, interrogating theories of and through images alongside the politics of visibility, invisibility, and hypervisibility. The course covers topics such as third cinema, media spectacles, and video activism.

This course focuses on political parties and major policy debates in New Zealand. Topics include the ideologies and action principles of major parties, shifts in inequality and the welfare state, state funding of political parties, relations between central and local government, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and environmental policy.