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1. Develop an understanding of the basic concepts in financial markets and analyze the key functions of the various financial institutions; 

2. Understand the principle of major financial markets, including stocks, treasury bonds, corporate bonds, etc.; 

3. Understand the key role that central banks play in the financial system and how they conduct monetary policy; 

4. Understand the role of banks and financial crises; 

5. Understand the connection between finance and real economy. 

6. Analyze current domestic or global financial market news, and be able to conduct analysis and draw conclusions.

This course is primarily for horticulture students and students from relevant fields. It studies fundamental principles of plant propagation, including the biological basis of propagation, seed propagation, vegetative propagation, and tissue culture propagation.  The course also provides an introduction to techniques and selected case studies. Lab section is required; the lab work is designed to reinforce the lecture material by providing an opportunity to observe horticultural applications and their parts firsthand as well as to do experiments.

How are words used to change people’s minds? What makes us pay attention to someone’s words, sung, spoken, or written? Does the spoken (or sung) word have more impact than the written one? What makes someone click on the headline of an online publication? Is an image more powerful with or without a linguistic frame? Can language be more persuasive than an image? Is persuasion, like humor, culture-specific? These are questions that will be explored in this course about how rhetoric, the art of verbal persuasion, operates in contemporary society. 
 

The course aims to: 

(1) To develop an awareness of how language is used to persuade and manipulate by looking at rhetoric, the art of verbal persuasion, and recognizing how a range of rhetorical devices, including repetition and metaphor, are employed in popular songs, and memorable advertisements, headlines and tweets, political speeches, and film titles; and 

(2) To practice the use of rhetorical devices in making language more persuasive.

This course provides a study of the process of technical design and the role of the technical designers during the apparel commercialization process. Topics include the process of apparel commercialization in the global market; the production process that changes according to the methods of apparels production; the professional terms and information related to production process; and quality control of apparel products. 

This course takes students through a process of identifying, planning, managing, analyzing and reporting on a project relating to a problem or issue in either urban or forested ecosystem. Selection of the problem or issue is led by students and is structured to explore ecological, environmental, social, spatial, temporal and economic related topics.

This course examines democratic theory. It covers topics as justifications of democracy, different types of democracy, democracy in different cultural communities, democracy’s relationship to social justice, populism, capitalism, and globalization.

This course covers the principles for developing intellectual, emotional, and social skills to achieve their goals and live a meaningful life. It analyzes different self-development philosophies and provides opportunities for self-reflection. The course helps students identify their personal and professional goals and provides tools to achieve those goals. It also focuses on improving public speaking skills.

This course examines dance practice and theory, providing practical experience of different dances of Aotearoa, the Pacific region and beyond. Embodied learning in dance is integrated with critical examination of how dance is influenced by social and cultural issues, and an introduction to choreographic processes.

This course introduces the basics of power electronics. It takes a flipped-learning approach that involves pre-class, in-class and post-class activities. Problem sets and online simulation problems are used to solidify the concepts covered in the course and exams are utilized to evaluate students' understanding.  The primary goal of the course is to finish the semester with a clear understanding of how various power converters operate and how they relate to real applications. 

This course examines how problems are effectively framed and how ideas and evidence can be practically applied to policy solutions.