English

This course examines the interplay between criminology and public policy. As well as providing an overview of factors shaping policy in Australia and other countries, it reviews challenges associated with making criminological, sociological, and philosophical theory relevant in practical contexts. It explores the implications, challenges and opportunities for policy change and considers the systems and processes that determine what is considered deserving of state intervention as either public policy or criminalization. Emphasis is placed on critically exploring contemporary public policy concerns such as those related to climate change, abolition, immigration, social security and policing.

This course examines critical contemporary issues for youth in the Pacific region with a particular emphasis on Aotearoa. Throughout this course, issues around health and well-being, identities (ethnic, spiritual, gender), education, climate change, artistic expressions, resilience, youth engagement and risk-taking behaviors will be examined, and the impacts these have upon Pacific young peoples, their families and their communities will be explored.

This course visualizes the future of business by analyzing various global megatrends, thus anticipating possible risks and identifying opportunities in the business world.

This course introduces the calculation methods and experience of manufacturing options used by engineers to design electromagnetic devices such as transformers, actuators, and electric machines. The aim of the design of an electromagnetic device is the desired function, integration, and rational manufacturing method, and thus this course develops the related and relevant skills and experience. The course provides theoretical knowledge though lectures, and the acquisition of modelling skills and experience through assignments and course projects. Assumed prior knowledge: EIEF15 Electrical Engineering (EE), ETE055, EITF85 Electromagnetic Field Theory (PhyE), MIE012, EIEF35 Electrical Engineering, basic course (ME), ETEF01 Electromagnetic Field Theory (MathE).

This course introduces students to the study of the novel in English. Focusing on a mixture of established and contemporary texts by a diverse range of authors, it melds critical exploration with skill-acquisition via a series of interactive workshops, alongside seminars and lectures. Students are encouraged to refine their appreciation of the novel as an art-form, and develop transferable skills in communication, critical reflection, and digital fluency.

This course provides a rigorous introduction to programming, abstraction, and the structure of programs. It is designed for students who wish to deepen their understanding of computer science concepts in the context of data science. The primary programming language used is Python; however, the course emphasizes foundational programming ideas, not just language-specific syntax.

It is recommended, but not strictly required, that students have taken a Foundations of Data Science course. There is no formal programming-related prerequisite for this course; students do not need to be familiar with any particular programming language before starting the course.

Venice today is a manifestation of Romanticism’s continuing influence on modern-day culture: Romantic-period literature transformed the city from an almost forgotten backwater into the iconic city of modern tourism. This course is focused on the international re-imagining of Venice by Romantic-period writers such as Goethe, Radcliffe, de Staël, Byron and P. B. Shelley, and the influence of this re-imagining across Europe and beyond. However, this international focus on "Romantic Venice" also enables students to re-think Romanticism in Britain, in terms of its inherently international nature and its international impact. It does this by foregrounding Romanticism’s interest in urban as well as natural worlds; its reinvention of literary genres to address new aesthetic, social, and political objectives; the importance of writers (especially women writers), and kinds of writing (especially travel writing), often marginalized in scholarly accounts of Romanticism; and the influence of "Romantic Venice" on writers such as Dickens, George Sand, and Henry James.

This course uses the framing concept of "metamorphosis" to explore the ways in which late medieval poets creatively reworked and re-imagined classical stories dealing with change, loss, and violence, while working out new modes of poetic representation and form. Many of these stories were taken from the works of that most popular of Roman poets in the Middle Ages, Ovid (predominantly from the Metamorphoses). Engaging with these narratives allowed medieval authors to confront and explore questions of transformation and change in language and forms that were themselves often innovative and experimental. It also required them to think about how to engage with the writings of a pagan poet within their own, Christian context. The course introduces students to selected stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and to reworkings of them by late medieval authors such as John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate and Robert Henryson.

This course explores the mutually interacting dynamics between the technical and political dimensions of nuclear technology — particularly nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and the nuclear fuel cycle — and how they have evolved within various national and international historical frameworks. Of particular interest is the question of how much the technical possibilities constrain political choices, and how political choices enable or disable various technical possibilities, and the degree to which the technical and political worlds are “co-produced” simultaneously. This course draws upon and features perspectives from the history of nuclear weapons, international relations, and science and technology studies. Each session features a mixture of discussion and lecture.

This course provides students with analytical frameworks to interpret and analyze food consumption behavior and characteristics from an economic perspective. The course is divided into two main parts. The first part covers fundamental economic theories related to consumer choice in the context of food and agricultural products. The second part focuses on analyzing key issues surrounding food consumption using both theoretical and empirical methodologies.  

The course focuses on the following topics and approaches: Demand theory; Characteristics of the global food market; Consumer choice theory from the perspective of utility maximization; Key issues in food consumption: information asymmetry, food safety, food labeling systems, and food assistance policies for low-income populations; Analytical methods in food consumption: household production functions and hedonic pricing models. 

Prerequisites: Students should have a basic understanding of microeconomic theories related to demand and market structure.