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This course provides theoretical foundations and empirical methods to evaluate healthcare interventions from an economics perspective (also known as economic evaluation in health and medicine). It covers the principles and methods of economic evaluation, including how to define and measure costs and effectiveness and how to design an economic evaluation study.

This course provides an introduction to the management accounting and financial control concepts that are used in strategic decision-making, in order to effectively perform in a competitive business environment. Covering issues such as technology and digitalization, corporate strategy, marketing, and modern cost management tools, students critically analyze how these tools can be used to increase performance.

This course works through the stages of critical thinking and provides a study of the basic principles of ‘clarity’, ‘precision’ and ‘reasoning’; culminating in a debate of complex, current issues affecting the workplace. It also covers management theory and contemporary management practices in a “VUCA” (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment.

Recognizing that forced migration represents one of the key societal challenges of our times, with an average of one person being displaced every two seconds, this course uses a multidisciplinary approach to provide a theoretical, practical, and experiential understanding of the different causes and impacts of forced migration globally and a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of historical and contemporary issues in the field.  

This course examines the Treaty of Waitangi to frame examinations of contemporary New Zealand society. In addition, the course looks at the importance of this document in the maintenance of Crown and Maori relations. Topics covered range from the signing of the Treaty, and historical developments, to the protest movements and activism of the continuing Maori renaissance period, race relations and one law-for-all.

This course examines the design, the architecture and the development of web applications using technologies currently popular in the marketplace including Java and . NET environments. There are three key themes examined in the unit: Presentation layer, Persistence layer, and Interoperability. The course will examine practical technologies such as JSP and Servlets, the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, database programming with ADO. NET and JDBC, advanced persistence using ORM, XML for interoperability, and XML-based SOAP services and Ajax, in support of the theoretical themes identified. 

This course explores the Roman world through the material culture of this vast and varied empire. It covers the full geographical extent of the Roman Empire examining subjects such as transport, technology and communication, urbanization and rural settlement, the economy and resources, religion and ritual. Regional case studies of Ostia and Portus, the Eastern Empire, and North Africa will all be included and allow an examination of how local communities were able to express their own regional identities.

This course covers the basic theories and techniques for matrix computations and linear algebra with a focus on topics including systems of equations, vector spaces, determinants, eigenvalues, QR decomposition, and least squares.

This course examines theories and principles from across psychology to explain the causes of environmentally destructive behavior, and generate solutions for a sustainable future. It examines principles of behavior change, and how students can apply them in their home, workplace, and community.