English

This course introduces students to the study of child health and wellbeing through the presentation and critical examination of some contemporary topics in the field. These topics are based around two key themes: (i) risk and resilience and (ii) children’s perspectives on health & illness. Lectures provide a stimulating, interactive context in which to consider theoretical, research-based, and applied perspectives from psychology and related disciplines.

This course examines markets for shares, fixed income securities, options and futures; methods of valuing shares, fixed income securities, options, and futures; simple techniques of hedging risk; portfolio diversification; and portfolio evaluation.

Turbomachinery is an essential technology for delivering the power and propulsion needed for society, particularly in rapidly developing economies. This course integrates the fundamental principles of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics in order to analyze compressible flows and high speed turbomachinery. The course instills students with an awareness of different power and propulsion applications and the importance of high efficiency energy conversion devices to minimize environmental impact, both in a national and global context. The course provides an understanding of the unique issues associated with transonic flows and basic tools to analyze these. That understanding underpins a detailed treatment of design calculations for high speed turbomachinery, including aerodynamic performance, instability, losses, and structural limitations on performance.  The course covers the most important types of turbomachines; centrifugal compressors, radial turbines, axial compressors, and axial turbines. Students also gain an appreciation of the manufacturer and user perspectives, such as costs, safety, durability, flexibility, and noise.  

This course explores contemporary theatre and performance in English, staged primarily in western contexts, including, Ireland, the UK, the U.S., and Europe. The course connects performance practices with their contemporaneous and historical contexts: political, aesthetic, theoretical, social, and cultural. By doing so, it acquaints students with historical trends in theatre and performance, paying particular attention to the ways in which aesthetics and politics have been investigated through diverse practices of theatre-making. Watching live and mediated performances, students conduct analyses of theatrical works and develop arguments about their meanings.

This course argues for the importance of animals in the history of human society and culture. It examines the evolution of human and animal relationships, the role of animals in agriculture and society, animals in war, conquest, and empire, and the interconnected histories of human, animal, and environmental health. It analyzes the historical construction of the categories of "human" and "animal," and its implications for medicine, science, and animal rights. Themes examined include a history of domestication, animals as vectors of illness and plague in the Middle Ages, the Scientific Revolution and animal experimentation, the discovery of America and the Columbian Exchange, the emergence of animal rights in the 19th century, and animals, extinction, and climate change in the 20th and 21st centuries. 

This course explores and discusses the general principles and the key instruments of international intellectual property law. It also discusses the challenges of solving international intellectual property disputes before state courts or other dispute settlement bodies (including arbitration and alternative dispute resolution systems). It offers an opportunity to analyze substantive intellectual property law issues, procedural law and enforcement issues (including conflict of laws in intellectual property disputes) from a comparative perspective in the light of international legal instruments (specifically WIPO and WTO materials) and of case law coming from various legal systems (particularly North America, Europe, and Asia). The course is open to students who have basic knowledge of intellectual property law and is designed for advanced law students.

This course examines the way visual art and culture is used to express identity and its relation to changing notions of creativity and selfhood. The goal of the course is to think critically about the purpose of art: what is it, what does it do, who is it for, how is it made?

This course examines the historical legacies of systemic class oppression, racism, sexism, and homophobia by taking an in-depth look at key issues raised in 20th-century social movements in New Zealand and the United States and mapping those issues into the 21st century.

Coastal regions are some of the most dynamic on Earth, not least because human and natural processes act in tight connection to each other. This dynamism poses one of the great societal challenges of the 21st Century. Building upon a basic, foundational knowledge of ocean and coastal processes covered in relevant courses within the first and second year ("Spaceship Earth" and "Physical Geography: Dynamic Earth"), students gain wide ranging theoretical and practical skills required to address those challenges. The lectures and seminars take students on a journey that highlights how the natural processes operating within estuaries and on coasts are a function of external factors (past and present climate, geology, human influences) and feedbacks in which the landforms themselves affect the operation of processes that shape the landforms. Equipped with this knowledge, and several examples from around the world, students put their knowledge into practice. A day field trip and practical exercise challenges students to apply what they have learnt to real-world coastal management problems. 

This course examines an elegant unified theory that includes the estimation of model parameters, quadratic forms, hypothesis testing using analysis of variance, model selection, diagnostics on model assumptions, and prediction. Both full rank models and models that are not of full rank are considered. The theory is illustrated using common models and experimental designs.