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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 By examining musical works, historical documents, and modern scholarship, students explore both the development of new musical styles as well as the reimagination of older styles.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.

This course examines the way that foods have been exchanged across the world, and the tensions between local and globalizing forces in shaping the way we eat over the last 500 years. Over the semester, we will move from the medieval spice trade to sugar and slavery in the Atlantic world, and from colonial New Zealand's role as Britain's farm to the global influence of McDonald's and fast food in the 20th century. Through the examination of important food staples, this course introduces students to food, commodities, and material culture as approaches to studying local, regional and global history from the early modern period until the twentieth century. During the course, we will reflect on why we each eat the way we do, and why food is such a powerful tool to understand and communicate cultural and economic change across time. 

This course explores selected topics in European politics and international relations, including the rise of modern states, revolutions, international orders, alliance politics, geopolitics, military strategies, strategic competition, political reforms, regional integrations, democratization, foreign policy, and sovereignty. Students are expected to actively participate in class discussions. Through their oral and written presentations, they are expected to be able to understand broad themes in European politics/international relations.

The course looks at developing models that are motivated by empirical evidence of individual behavior rather than assumptions about rationality. Students look at leading academic papers in the area to assess the empirical evidence (field and experimental) and the implications for standard assumptions on rationality and to look at how the theory has been developed in the light of this evidence. Topics covered include decision making under certainty, decision making under uncertainty including prospect theory, experimental economics and/or neuroeconomics, intertemporal choice, self-control, behavioral game theory, case studies on saving and obesity, and the economics of happiness.