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Students research a self-chosen topic and develop an extended research essay under the direct tutelage of an appointed mentor. Students engage in conversation with teachers who are experts in the subject being studied. These tutorials allow students to develop their own ideas under the direct supervision of a tutor.

This course studies the transmission mechanisms, effectiveness and limitations of monetary policies in coherent macroeconomics models. Course topics include: monetary policy in a basic macroeconomic model; aggregate supply and aggregate demand analysis; classical and Keynesian approach; transmission mechanism of monetary policies; implications of expectation on monetary policies; rational expectation; monetary policy: discretion vs rules; role of capital market imperfections; frictions in the capital market; implications of capital market imperfections on the transmission mechanism; asset prices, financial crisis and monetary policy; Japan and quantitative easing; sub-prime crisis and quantitative easing in the US; credit booms and asset bubbles. Text: Frederic Mishkin, THE ECONOMICS OF MONEY, BANKING AND FINANCIAL MARKETS. The textbook provides the basic materials of the course. The rigor of the course goes beyond that of the textbook. Additional references from journal articles are used.

This course explores the field of cultural geography. It draws on examples both historical and contemporary, in the UK and beyond, to demonstrate how spaces, places, and landscapes are laden with meaning. It shows that culture is not something that is fixed, but rather constructed through relations with different people, places, ideas, objects, and practices. The course therefore helps students understand and interpret matters of culture critically, with careful attention to plurality, complexity, and power. Students examine power and identity, cultural representations, more-than-representational geographies, geographies of embodiment and mobility, cultural geographies of food, emerging cultural landscapes and politics, and tensions and new directions in cultural geography. 

This course covers the influential factors that play a role in creating a successful marketing strategy. It focuses on the world of wine and the champagne industry in particular. It highlights the region, important players from the vine to the wine, and the production process. Finally, the course considers the marketing of luxury: what constitutes luxury, who it attracts, and how to sell it.

This course is designed to give students the critical thinking skills to assess these audiences and markets from both an economic and psychological perspective, giving students the tools to implement effective marketing strategies. Using real-world case studies, students understand how marketing intersects with other business functions to create customer and shareholder value. Through active discussion with faculty and peers students understand the key concepts and theories of marketing that enable effective market analysis - a critical element of managerial decision-making.

This is a foundation course in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. In this course, the general frameworks, basic concepts, and historical backgrounds of gender studies are examined. The course describes and discusses gender research and analyses in various disciplines in order for students to obtain the basic analytical power in dealing with gender analysis in interdisciplinary fields. The course enhances students' understanding of how GSS develops in a respective field, what the current issues are, and what the future development might be, and helps them grasp the importance of the perspectives of gender, which is interdisciplinary. The course gives students an important tool to think deeply about the way the new "knowledge" opened up by the GSS should be and encourages them to transform the "knowledge" into actions, or activism in a broad sense.