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This course examines concepts of intercultural communication where consideration is given to individual and cross cultural values and practice. Communication will be considered through a range of themes including Treaty partnership in Aotearoa, cultural understanding and influences, perceptions and personality, motivation, decision making, groups and teams, diversity, inclusion and belonging, cultural approaches to leadership. 

This course introduces the academic study of South African politics. It explores the country’s recent political history, the political legacies of segregation and apartheid, and the relationships between politics and broader social life. It goes on to explore the character and significance of the country’s ‘democratic transition’. The course also investigates the country’s constitution, electoral systems, political parties, party system, and associational politics. Students learn key academic approaches to the study of domestic politics and apply these to the study of South Africa.

This course examines behaviors of firms in imperfectly competitive markets. It covers the structure conduct performance (SCP) paradigm, which examines the relationship among market structure, firms conduct, and their performance. It also covers firms decisions on operation, resource allocation, as well as firms strategic actions. Price theory and game theory are used to analyze issues such as pricing, research and development, advertising, and decisions under imperfect information. The course also covers competition in multi-sided markets and the importance of platforms as well as the role of competition policy in competition regulation.

This course examines the world of international business including economic foundations of international trade and investment; the international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks; relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses; and effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises.

This course focuses on the fundamentals of modern numerical techniques for a wide range of linear and nonlinear elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations and integral equations central to a wide variety of applications in science, engineering, and other fields. Topics include Mathematical Formulations; Finite Difference Method, Finite Volume Method, Collocation Method, Finite Element Discretization.

This course has been specifically designed for students in the Department of Korean Language and Literature AND the University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP). It surveys modern Korean history through close readings of selected major literary works. Rather than offering a mere narrative of the peninsula’s history, it focuses on particular episodes, events, influences, and historical ruptures that have shaped how Korean writers have interpreted and understood their past. The course looks at the use of a form of writing (“the novel”) as a historical source. It examines the development of the long story form, the formalistic aspects of narrative, and its cultural impact. Major themes include the country’s opening to the West, its colonial experience and subsequent fratricidal war, and the divergent post-colonial paths of the two separate Koreas. Throughout, we address the tensions of Korean nationalism, authoritarianism, and industrialization in conjunction with the politics of gender and class. The latter half of the semester will focus primarily on the diaspora and migrant workers in South Korea.

This course examines the data science process. It covers orientation to the use and configuration of core data science toolkits, data collection and annotation fundamentals, principles of responsible data science, the use of quantitative tools in data science, and presentation of data science findings.