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In this course, students learn the process for how to design, build, test, deploy, maintain, and monitor scalable and robust data products using the Data Product Life Cycle (DPLC). Students gain hands-on experience working with datasets and use cases, collaborating in teams, and applying agile methodologies to deliver data products that meet the needs of real world stakeholders. The course covers the entire DPLC process, including experimentation and productization, with a focus on reliability, fault tolerance, scalability, deployment, and meeting regulatory requirements. The course prepares students for careers in data & digital technology, equipping them with the knowledge and skills required to work in cross-functional teams and navigate complex regulatory requirements.

This course explores a major topic in current music research, locates it in intellectual and disciplinary history, and gives students the opportunity to conduct independent research on or around the topic, which usually arises from a current project in the department. 

This course centralizes the use of feminist legal theory as a serious mode of inquiry into analyzing law, legal reasoning, and legal reform. It studies four dominant strands of contemporary feminist legal theory, including liberal feminism, Marxist feminism, critical race feminism, and postmodern feminism in queer theory. While this course focuses on common law-based perspectives of feminism, it uses these diverse terrains of feminist legal thought in order to analyze challenges and various areas in social and public discourse internationally. Thus, while the first part of the course is dedicated to acquiring the useful knowledge and background of strands of feminism, the second part of the course creatively applies these tools in practical areas of sex equality issues in employment, consent, abortion, transgender rights, prostitution, and pornography.

This course examines how people make predictable and repeatable mistakes in financial decision-making. It looks at the nature of these mistakes and their origin, using insights from psychology, neurosciences and experimental economics on how the human mind works. It considers how understanding the functioning of the human mind allows us to design a better world—in particular, better stock markets, retirement and healthcare systems. 

This course examines skill development for leading organizations while better managing for values. It covers recognizing organizational values, and developing concrete plans for better delivering on these values.

This seminar introduces feminist theories that aim to decentralize the predominantly English-speaking discourse on feminism. It includes texts written in languages other than English or French, with a focus on German-speaking and Latin American feminist works. Decentralization is understood broadly: The course examines feminist perspectives from the peripheries, such as rural areas in contrast to urban centers, and the global south in contrast to the global north. Through these diverse viewpoints, the seminar seeks to expand the understanding of feminism beyond dominant frameworks and critically explore intersections of gender, race, and class.

How do musicians achieve and maintain their health? This course explores the science of music, health, and wellbeing through the study of health promotion, a range of health issues (including mental health), and practical strategies for incorporating healthy lifestyles into everyday life. It examines longstanding debates in both scholarly and practice-based fields of music and health. Topics include mindfulness, music psychology, Alexander Technique, yoga, tai chi, performance science, growth mindset programs, music therapy, mental health, workplace safety, and physiotherapy.

China underwent dramatic changes through the course of the first half of the twentieth century in politics, society and culture. Colonial exploitation at the hands of many different foreign powers fired up a young revolutionary generation who expressed their desire for change in cultural movements and political action. Women and men, students and workers united to oppose imperialism and explore ways of transforming society. The development of a new form of urban capitalism was followed rapidly by the emergence of a Chinese communist movement, which grew from obscure beginnings to govern the country from 1949. Civil war and the Japanese invasion of China in China’s long Second World War accelerated some changes and stymied others.

This course enables students to explore these trends that shaped the world’s most populous country.

This course surveys the history and contemporary practice of public administration (or public bureaucracies) around the world. Some of the key questions that are answered include what is the proper place and role of public administration in a democracy? What are the benefits and potential risks of public administration in democratic government? What impact does public administration have on our lives as citizens? How can we construct effective working relationships between elected politicians and unelected administrators. And finally, what role can public administration play in responding to global policy crisis? Although this course adopts a comparative perspective, particular attention is paid to the role that public administration has played in democratic transitions in South and Southern Africa. Course entry requirements: POL1004F and POL1005S.

This course provides an introduction to the importance of life cycle systems perspectives in understanding major challenges and solutions to achieving more sustainable societies in this changing world. Students learn about the relationship between mankind and the environment in the context of energy and resource use, consumption and development, and environmental constraints. Furthermore, an examination of social conflict and change from the life–cycle perspective is used to develop an understanding of potential solution pathways for sustainable lifestyle modifications.