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Widely used in corporate employee training, the Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EQ), which has been developed since 1990, seeks to understand and improve emotional abilities for leadership in organizations and enhances the effectiveness of career design. This course is designed to deepen students' understanding of how to develop their careers in a diversified society and organizations through lectures with guest speakers who have worked different careers. The program is structured as a practical education program for students to internalize through reality-based learning and exercises a series of employment-related events such as recruitment, training, evaluation, compensation, retirement, and post-employment career, which occur in companies and various social organizations.

 

The course examines plant and fungal diversity with an emphasis on New Zealand species, the processes that drive species diversification, and methods for exploring and describing evolutionary relationships among species.

This course teaches the basics of major literary theories. Each lecture focuses on a specific theoretical approach to texts and cultural phenomena, such as psychoanalytic criticism, feminist criticism, gender and queer criticism, new historicism, and postcolonial criticism. By engaging with diverse critical frameworks, the course aims to deepen our appreciation for the richness and complexity of literature and other cultural forms.

This course is designed to provide students with the tools necessary to design and implement surveys and survey experiments. The course discusses issues of questionnaire design; sampling; respondent recruitment, and data collection. The course also explores causal inference and experiment designs to conduct social science research.

This course explores translation theories and their practical applications. Each session focuses on a specific theory or approach to translation, followed by an analysis of a translated text. The course aims to understand the crucial role of translation as a cultural and social practice and to become familiar with the major issues in translation theory and comparative literature.

This course is structured as a research project in which samples are collected, investigated using various analytical methods, processed using statistical methods, and compared to other studies. The focus lies on abrupt climate changes and the role of ocean circulation during the last ~50 thousand years in the North Atlantic region. The course takes a hands-on approach, using marine sedimentary archives as the basis for reconstructing past climate and environmental conditions. Through weekly theoretical lectures accompanied by extensive practical work in groups (field excursion, laboratory analyses, presentations and data processing), the subject progresses and culminates in an individual written report as course exam.

This course traces certain aspects of the postwar Japan, focusing on the planning and reconstruction of cities damaged during the Second World War in comparison with Great Britain. 

This course introduces students to the basic concepts of fluid mechanics. Starting with fluid properties and fluid statics, students’ progress to the conservation laws which allows them to analyze various fluid problems encountered in engineering practice. The second half of the course introduces students to basic fluid flow concepts. Students learn how to apply the prior concepts and laws to pipe flows, hydraulic machinery and pipe networks. At the end students should be able to estimate frictional losses for flows in pipelines, design pumping systems and apply the obtained knowledge to other engineering applications.

This practice-based course introduces students to the photographer’s workflow, emphasizing both technical proficiency and critical engagement with contemporary photographic practice. Students learn essential skills across the image-making process, including digital capture, basic editing techniques, and the production of archival-quality prints. Instruction combines demonstrations, tutorials, and research assignments designed to build technical fluency and conceptual awareness. Beyond technical training, the course situates photography within historical and theoretical frameworks. Students consider the ubiquity of the photographic image in an era of social media, examine how digital technologies have reshaped photography’s role as an artistic medium and as a mode of everyday expression. To inform their own practice, students research, analyze, and present findings on the work of established fine-art photographers, and artists who are leading the use of digital imaging. Through guided group crits of assignments, students learn to give structured feedback as they build a visual vocabulary and deepen their understanding of fine-art conceptual photography. Assignments include three creative projects of increasing difficulty, in-class technical assignments, an artist presentation and a written review. 

This course examines migration to New Zealand from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales between 1800 and 1945, situating it within the broader context of British and Irish migration and New Zealand’s role in the Age of Mass Migration. It covers factors in Britain and Ireland that encouraged emigration, conditions in New Zealand that attracted immigrants, and the migration and settler experiences of specific groups.