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In this research course, students chose from a range of research topics in various academic fields and receive one-on-one training from an experienced mentor who helps them refine research ideas, formulate questions, define methods of data collection, execute a plan, and present findings. Students review background information for their project, summarize its key outcomes, write a clear and concise research paper or report, and present results orally.

This course is concerned with building of the guarantee system about firm’s long-term survival. It aims at training the students’ capabilities to grasp the overall nature of business, to analyse environment, mission, and competence of a firm, to craft and to execute strategy of uniqueness, trade-offs, and synergy. The ways of thinking, analytical skills and practice of art, discussed in this course can be widely applicable to all types of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. As a result of this course, students will be able to: 1) enhance ability to think the corporate strategy as a whole 2) learn the framework of strategic thinking 3) understand the essence of successful strategy crafting, implementing and executing in practice.

This course is concerned with the fundamental objective, "to live, to live well, and to live longer," of the (for profit or not-for-profit) business organization. It deals with identifying and analyzing past and current strategies, with formulating new ones and with implementing them through the organization evolving and operating in the global economic environment. It focuses on business unit strategy, corporate strategy (including choice of business evolution path and pace), co-opetition interactive strategy to solve the problems about "how" to get "what" done through "whom" and by what the firms can set-up, survive and die.

This course examines the way people know, interact with, and care about their environment. This includes interactions with, and the meanings of, (urban) wildlife, climate change studies, biodiversity conservation, and the challenges of natural resource management. In addition, students will develop skills in ethnographic fieldwork.

This course introduces students to the principles of health professions education and its application to practice. It guides students through learning about key theories in health professions education and they gain key skills needed to effectively teach in formal and informal environments. The course explores the use of feedback in teaching and learning and peer-assisted learning. It focuses on reviewing educational research and how this can inform clinical practice as well as explore the design and delivery of assessment. The course focuses on putting the knowledge and skills learned into practice through teaching peers, colleagues, patients, and future generations.

This course examines music-making in the European art music tradition during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in its social, cultural and historical contexts. By examining musical works, historical documents, and modern scholarship, students explore both the development of new musical styles as well as the reimagination of older styles. It examines how post-WWI institutions, discourses and technologies have reshaped the lives of musicians and listeners, with a particular focus on the overlapping political-economic contexts of capitalism, liberalism and globalization.  

The prevalence of information technologies (IT) has rapidly reshaped individual behaviors, business environments, and our society. In business environments, IT play a critical role in supporting managerial decisions, designing business processes, and enhancing organizational performance. IT also enable new products, services, and business models today. As IT provide new opportunities for businesses, they also present new challenges such as securing systems and protecting the privacy of customers. Thus, it is
important for today’s managers to have a good understanding of modern IT, the strategic role of IT as well as how IT can be used in organizations from a management perspective. This course aims to introduce IT that are critical to modern business, study IT applications in various aspects of business operations, and discuss future opportunities and challenges in taking advantage of IT in business. One of the most important goals of this course is to understand IT-based innovations and related issues in the
real business world! Why are information systems so important in today’s business? How can information systems help businesses become more competitive? What are the technical foundation for understanding information systems? What are the emerging technological innovations that can potentially help businesses? What are the core information systems applications that businesses are using today to improve operational excellence and decision making? How can enterprise-wide applications improve
business performance and decision making?

This course examines the relationship between crime and the media. It encourages students to develop an understanding of how the media help to influence the public views of crime and criminalization. It will do this by focusing on media portrayals of crime and criminal behavior, media effects and theories of media and communication.

This course examines the interaction between forests and people, linking forest types and locations to their products and services. It covers sustainable forest management, the role of forestry tackling climate change, and Treaty of Waitangi obligations.