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This course provides a broad and balanced picture of China's even growing presence and influence in the developing world, before and since the launch of its Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013. It examines readings about China in the developing world from Chinese and international sources and perspectives that shed light on the diversity and complexity of this topic. A closely related objective of the course is to encourage students to think critically about the strengths and lessons of China's development model and experience that other developing countries should assess and learn in pursuing their own development paths.

This course is part of the LM degree program and so is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. This course discusses fundamentals of the most important multivariate techniques that help to make intelligent use of large data base by recognizing patterns for predicting or estimating an output based on one or more inputs. At the end of the course the student is able; to represent and organize knowledge about big data collections; to turn data into actionable knowledge; and to choose the best suited methodology for the problem at hand to critically interpret the results. The course discusses topics including an introduction to supervised statistical learning; resampling methods: Cross-Validation, and Bootstrap; classification: Naive Bayes, k-Nearest Neighbors, Logistic Regression, and Linear Discriminant Analysis; Dimension Reduction and Regularization; Tree-based methods: Regression and Classification trees, Bagging, Random Forests, and Boosting; and an overview of the main machine learning methods: Support Vector Machines, and Neural Networks.

This course examines the determinants, patterns and effects of international trade within a general equilibrium framework, where the interrelationships amongst product and factor markets in an economy are explicitly taken into consideration. It deals with how trade is affected by government policies and international trading agreements. It introduces basic analytical tools for evaluating the welfare and income distributional consequences of trade policies from both an industry and national perspective. The theories are related to current issues in international economics, such as globalization, regional trading blocs and trade policies generally in Australia and the rest of the world.

This course explores human memory and attention. Topics include theories of attention, short- and long-term memory, and processes involved in memory encoding, maintenance, and retrieval. The course emphasizes the development of the skill of critical evaluation of evidence and theory. Lectures are accompanied by practical classes, in which students gain experience in experimental methods used in cognitive research, and seminars in which research papers are critically evaluated.