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This course analyzes the costs and benefits of division and unification, considering the security and economic perspectives of major players like the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Indo-Pacific region as a whole. The course explores the North Korean nuclear issue, examining potential contingencies and exploring economic sanctions and assistance within the global context. Finally, it offers a comprehensive review of international influences on South Korea's foreign policy from historical to contemporary times.

ThiThis is an introductory course to corporate finance and valuation, focusing on the internal cash flow of the firm (profit and loss statement), corporate financing, and corporate governance.

The course addresses the following topics:

• Introduction to Corporate Finance
• Accounting statements and cash flow
• Financial markets and net present value
• How to value bonds and stocks
• Some alternative investment rules
• Net present value and capital budgeting
• Strategy and analysis using net present value 
   

This course explores the many ways in which theater and film are distinct but closely inter-related mediums. The bulk of the course focuses on close analysis of texts that have been adapted from the stage to the screen, examining performativity within those texts and how the essential properties that define the stage and the screen contribute to and facilitate particular ways for performing such texts. Notions of theatricality and the cinema are interrogated, especially in relation to how cinema can be 'theatrical' and the theatre 'cinematic'. 

In this course, students state and prove some standard theorems in number theory, use standard theorems to solve problems in number theory including some classes of Diophantine equations, and learn to use the following: divisibility and factorization of integers: prime numbers, gcd and lcm, Euclidean algorithm, Bézout's theorem, multiplicative functions such as sums of divisors; arithmetic in the ring Z/nZ and the field Z/pZ, Euler's totient function, Chinese remainder theorem, multiplicative order and primitive roots; sums of squares, quadratic forms, discriminant, class number; and continued fractions, expansion of rationals and quadratic irrationals, Diophantine approximation, and Pell-Fermat equations.

The course covers the central metabolic reaction pathways as well as (hormonal) regulation of these reaction pathways. It illustrates how organisms generate energy for essential energy-consuming processes. The metabolic reaction pathways and the regulation of these are seen in physiological connection.

This course examines key ideas and concepts about the family, as well as looking at how issues like poverty and disability impact upon the family. This course will help students consider multiple perspectives on the family; engage in key debates about the family and its construction; and reflect on their own personal experiences and reactions to the family in all its forms in the broader structural contexts of Aotearoa/New Zealand society.

Learn about international negotiations and how countries, companies, and institutions plan and seek to achieve their goals in a multicultural and often multilateral setting. Students learn the negotiation and cultural skills necessary for completing a successful international negotiation: analytical, strategic, social, and bargaining. Students are trained to analyze complex negotiation situations and then apply theories to maximize their outcomes. After every simulation, students discuss their strategies/ negotiation skills and outcomes with their peers and the tutor. In the final EU simulation, students experience participating in an international negotiation.

This course examines the ways in which light interacts with surfaces, objects, and the human visual system. It covers some of the fundamental properties of light, mechanisms of human perception, and the ways that light interacts with surfaces.