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Students learn to express knowledge, understanding and critical appreciation of the practice of film writing. Students describe the different approaches to writing about film and the respective purpose, audiences, and outlets for them shows the development of original thought. They demonstrate independence of thought and creative expression in the synthesis of research and ideas in seminar debates and through assessments. The course teaches students how to use critical thinking to produce a piece of film writing that investigates or reflects contemporary culture. 

Drawing principally on Marxist anthropology, post-structuralism and post-colonialism, this course looks cross-culturally to explore the interrelationships between diverse forms and sources of power, the roles of colonialism and corporate globalization in configuring and sustaining local relations of inequality, and the rise of resistance movements that explicitly challenge exclusions based on class, gender, and ethnicity. Special attention will be paid to the effects of multinational corporations on local power relations and patterns of inequality throughout the world via brand marketing, legal reform, and corporate social responsibility. Case studies will be drawn from Latin America, North America, Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia.

The course focuses on the ethical issues involved with innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and critically examines the role played by social, political, cultural, and human factors when designing, introducing, and using technologies.  This course therefore contributes to the broader program outcomes related to ethics, reasoning, and moral inquiry. The course links most strongly with the SDGs which can be addressed by new, disruptive, and innovative approaches and technologies.  This course focuses on the SDGs which can be addressed by smaller, community-level and citizen-led technology-based initiatives.  Examples of this include designing innovative ways of leveraging the ubiquity of mobile phones in the Global South for healthcare and education, and the design, evaluation, and implementation of innovative techniques which are designed to be ethically, socially, and culturally appropriate for their particular context. The course content includes relevant, authentic, situated cases from the Global South and Europe that have been developed specifically for the course.  These multimedia-enhanced cases focus on projects from Ireland, India, Uganda, and Ethiopia. 

In this course, students will undertake a studio art project that responds to the challenges of the Anthropocene and climate change. The course explores related art and ideas from Aotearoa and overseas.

This course examines important conceptual frameworks and theory within social psychology and the social sciences generally. Māori perspectives and exemplars will be a significant emphasis within the course. 

Topics covered in this course include HTML syntax, composition, and validation; cascading style sheets (CSS); basic dynamic scripting examples; site planning, visual information management, and responsive design; digital image formats; and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Students provide markup for various HTML elements, attributes, and values associated with the representation of web page content. They use CSS to effectively control the presentation of websites and understand the usefulness of incorporating dynamic scripting into web sites. This course teaches students how to differentiate between alternate image formats that are appropriate for web use, make responsive design layouts using CSS Grid and Flexbox, and understand the importance of consistency, structure, and aesthetics of design and how to achieve these. Students learn current W3C standards and recommendations when planning, designing, and publishing a website.

This course examines representative texts, problems, and concepts central to the study of colonialism and postcolonialism. Topics include: definitions of colonialism, imperialism and the post-colonial condition; orientalism and occidentalism; colonial discourse and sexuality and gender; race; the nation and nationalism as imagined community; identities and mentalities of the colonized and colonizer.  Representative areas might include the mainland and greater China, but will certainly include some texts from and places within South and South East Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. 

This course provides an intermediate-level study of international financial markets and open economy macroeconomics. Topics include the foreign exchange market, theory of exchange rate determination, open economy macroeconomics, and international macroeconomic policy. Theory, empirical analysis and policy frameworks are studied to analyze current issues and topical problems of international financial economics. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. The course is designed to provide advanced knowledge of fundamental issues of the human experience, such as the origins and persistence of old and new forms of social prejudice and their link with stereotyping and discriminative behaviors. A comprehensive summary and critical analysis of the state of theory and research on the causes and consequences of intergroup prejudice is illustrated. Moreover, similarities and differences among distinct types of prejudice are addressed. The Social Prejudice course involves 2 modules; Social Prejudice I: Basic processes and differences among prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination; Social Prejudice II: General theoretical perspectives, specific domains, methodology and tools, and effects and reactions to social discrimination. By the end of the course students know the theoretical models, the fundamental methods of investigation, and the practical course of actions leading to social discrimination, stereotypes, and social prejudice.