New Zealand

This course examines the many different ways that we might think about fans and fan cultures, from what they think about, talk about and produce, to the way they are seen by themselves, other fans, media industries, the culture more broadly. This course encourages students to observe the media around them and to assess it critically, including understanding economic and power dynamics, as well as the role that is played by gender, race, ethnicity, language, sexuality, and cultural and social capital.

This course examines the changing public sphere over time, from its early-modern emergence to the challenges of tabloid news and online fragmentation in contemporary media culture.

This course examines stochastic modelling, with an emphasis on queues and models used in finance. Behavior of poisson processes, queues and continuous time markov chains will be investigated using theory and simulation.

This course examines the allocation of scarce resources among competing end uses. Although the focus is on perfectly competitive markets, attention is also given to other types of markets. Analysis also includes concepts of expected utility and uncertainty, and welfare economics.

This course examines data-driven decision-making. Students develop skills in using data analysis methods and tools for analyzing information. It also equips students to apply modeling skills in a variety of decision-making applications relevant to business.

This course examines the role of evaluation and epidemiology in health. It introduces key evaluation and epidemiology principles and explores the relevance of these across various health issues and settings. 

This course examines ancient myth in literature (poetry, drama, historiography, and other genres) and art. It explores different ways of interpreting myths and seek to understand the meaning of myths in their contexts. Prominent themes include creation, gods, heroes, sex/gender, violence, and civilization.

This course examines the role of media in cases of modern conflict, genocide, and peace processes. It covers media structure, content, framing and psychological responses during times of conflict and peace-making, and how media informs audiences and either foments or quells conflict.

This course examines roles and skills needed for the management of productions, companies and other organizations in the performing-arts, specifically drama, but also dance, music and other performance art. Skills discussed include planning and creating schedules and budgets, procuring and managing resources, arts organization infrastructure and liaison, donor and benefactor development, social marketing and networking, crowdfunding, and outcome reporting.

This course examines feature film and the main traditions of film criticism. A series of significant films, from 1915 to the present, are explored in detail. The aim is to develop a historical perspective, an awareness of film-making as an art and an interest in the relationship between films and society, including debates about race, gender, censorship.