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This course examines principles of meetings, event and festival management. Topics include the significance of conventions and events, conventions and meetings design, management planning processes, methods and evaluation of conventions and events, infrastructural requirements, impacts, volunteers, sponsorship, programming, event planning and development.

This course examines New Zealand history in a global perspective. It covers the way forces of imperialism, colonization, capitalism and racial conflict have shaped modern New Zealand and its place in the world.

This course introduces both qualitative and quantitative research methods in sociological research. It covers the basics, such as the purpose and significance of social research; the history of social research; research ethics, and how to review sociological literature. Students will also learn about research design, research planning, constructing hypotheses, making questionnaires, sampling, and conducting fieldwork. In the second half of the course, students will write a research proposal, conduct social research, and summarize their findings in a report. By learning the basics of qualitative and quantitative social research methods in this course, students will be able to choose research topics that align with their academic interests and conduct empirical research.

The aim of the course is twofold. First, the course provides a toolkit to identify, model, and reason through strategic interactions (such as business strategies, negotiations, etc.) and discusses how to apply this toolkit when designing strategic environments (such as auctions, competitions, teamwork, etc.). Second, and in the interdisciplinary spirit of the program, the course illustrates the ability of mathematics in modeling, analyzing, and understanding real-world social as well as business interactions. Course topics include: what is Game Theory, static and multistage games of complete and incomplete information, signaling and repeated games, mechanism design, Bayesian and dominant-strategy incentive compatibility, efficient mechanisms, auctions, and applications of the theory. Prerequisites: Ability to complete rigorous mathematical proofs.

This course examines a specific problem area in the comparative politics of developing areas.

This is a project-centered course, in which students will choose and research a topic of their own choice (subject to approval), with the aim of producing a popularly-oriented non-fiction text which exhibits the fruits of sound scholarship. It examines the structures and strategies of a number of published texts, examining their structure and style, and the variety of sub-genres that can be deployed in writing creative non-fiction.

This course offers various perspectives on how to implement inclusive education in pre-school, school, and other relevant settings. Topics include: resource-based communication and mediation; strategies for early intervention; inclusion in pre-school and school; development of individual education plans; and structuring flexible curricula. The course develops skills in educational differentiation and in planning, implementing, assessing, and revising individual learning processes in group and class relations.