New Zealand

This course examines marine system quantitative ecology including soft shores, rocky and coral reefs. It emphasizes quantitative methods including design, statistical analysis and interpretation of field experiments and observational studies.

This course examines conflictual sustainability problems. It considers how to listen across significant differences of life experience and professional training and how to build network supports, identify stakeholders, develop resources and policies for implementation and evaluation to create or co-create a sustainability action plans for an applied field problem. 

This course examines genetics in the widest sense from the molecular and cellular to the applied and evolutionary. Both prokaryote and eukaryote genetics are discussed with respect to DNA replication, hereditary, gene expression and control, and the role of mutations at both the DNA and chromosomal levels. The course provides a pathway from basic research in molecular genetics to clinical applications in health and disease.

This course examines Maori and indigenous peoples’ knowledge in such fields as astronomy, physics, conservation biology, aquaculture, resource management and health sciences. It provides unique perspectives in indigenous knowledge, western science and their overlap, as well as an essential background in cultural awareness and its relationship with today’s New Zealand scientific community.

Informed by experiential education approaches, students will complete a weekend backpacking trip with instructors as part of the overall course and use reflections from these experiences, in conjunction with coursework on human-nature relationships, to critically analyze and develop a personal land ethic. The field trip explores the concept of wilderness in land ethics through a direct experience of actual wilderness. The course has a focus on bi-culturally competent and globally connected understandings of the relationships between humans and nature.

The course focuses on creativity in the context of marketing communication including mobile and multi-media contexts, and the design of creative marketing content. The course is project-driven for students interested in creative marketing strategies, and content production with a particular focus on filmmaking. It has a special focus on how to use creative marketing for good to foster sustainable development, environmental conservation and social change. 

This course examines institutional change in non-democratic and emergent and established democratic states. Students develop an understanding of democratic transition and consolidation (or a lack of them), and the breadth of institutional types in global politics.