English

This course examines irrotational flow, circulation, 2D airfoils, thin airfoil theory, 3D wings, lifting line theory, boundary layers, turbulence, supersonic flow, shock waves, expansion fans, transonic flow, and swept wings.

This is an introductory course in macroeconomics. Topics include wealth and money; how a nation's income is measured; growth of wealth and how some countries have successfully achieved prosperity, while other countries have failed in achieving economic growth; and theories related to the business cycle, including the main topic of macroeconomics since John Maynard Keynes. This course also discusses the problem of lack of jobs available in this economy and explores the various economic theories from opposing schools.

This course examines the impact of components of the hydrological cycle on the South West Pacific, particularly New Zealand, including evaporation and precipitation, terrestrial water movement and storage (surface and groundwater), and extreme events.

This course examines the ideas and approaches that scholars have used and developed to study Quebec, including some of the foremost issues that have shaped Quebec historically and continue to influence contemporary life. The changing notions about territory, identity, language, citizenship and belonging, the complexity and diversity of Quebec (11 Aboriginal nations, multilingual, multiethnic and religious communities, minority status within Canada) will also be explored from a comparative perspective to identify characteristics that Quebec shares with other nations and those that are different.

This course focuses on the methods and techniques for efficient management (modelling, manipulation, and retrieval) of data and information. It provides a foundation for later courses in database management and advanced information management. Students describe and use UML for information modeling; describe and use XML techniques for data modeling and querying; describe techniques for exposing and retrieving information on the web semantic web/linked data approaches; and understand the ongoing collaborative process of eliciting ethical implications which influence technology design.

• Basic English skills in the field of linguistics in general and Chinese language studies in specific.

• Topics
1. Introduction
2. The History of Chinese
3. The Chinese Script
4. The classical and literary languages
5. The rise and development of the written vernacular 6. The modern standard language I
7. The modern standard language II
8. Dialectal variation in North and Central China

9. The dialects of the Southeast 10. Languages and society

10. Languages and society

This course introduces the field of language acquisition, which involves the scientific study of human languages, and applied linguistics. It covers the different types of linguistic knowledge (words, sentence patterns, sound patterns), how linguistic knowledge is applied in different cultures, how people learn languages, and the different rates of acquisition and approaches (cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics) to second language acquisition.

This course analyzes the political and economic development in East Asia. It focuses on South Korea as the main case, while using Japan and China as comparative cases. After reviewing key theoretical approaches to the successful state-led development of East Asian economies since the 1950s, this course narrows its focus down on Korea. It explores how Korea has achieved dramatic economic and political development since the 1970s, faced a serious economic crisis in the late 1990s, and attempted to overcome new challenges since then. Utilizing the Korean case, this course analyzes the changing relationship between the state and market, the proper role of the state in economic development, and the political and economic paths that the East Asian economies (especially China) might take in the future.