University of Auckland

This course explores topics in linear algebra and multi-variable calculus, including linear transformations, quadratic forms, double and triple integrals, and constrained optimization. The course is a preparation for advanced courses in mathematics, statistics, physics, and other applied sciences.

This course provides a critical exploration of the interconnectedness of environment and society. The course highlights the importance of understanding how different views and attitudes influence people's interactions with the environment. Key themes include governance, management and development, which are addressed through issues such as conservation, climate change adaptation, disasters and resource use. Classes draw on a variety of case studies from New Zealand and overseas.

This course explores international and regional aspects of folktales and fairy tales. Are these stories products of culturally specific ways of knowing and feeling, or do they express universal human preoccupations present in the collective unconscious? What are the relations between folktales and other popular narrative forms, e.g. fairy tales, tall tales, ballads, and myths? Are folktales formal constructions which are given different meanings by the particular cultures that make, reuse, or preserve them? What are the relations between the rich oral traditions of tale telling and the literary or media narratives which sometimes rely on folktale motifs and forms, for example Superheroes? What do folktale narratives as cultural forms tell us about the making and uses of stories in general?

What is modernity and what makes a novel modern? This course provides answers to this question through the study of novels from a variety of cultures and decades from the early twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries. Including works from Europe, Asia, and America, it considers not only the stories novels tell about modernity but also the formal innovations of structure, style, and voice which novelists have made in their attempts to respond to a world undergoing rapid social, technological and political change. Important foci and themes include the immigrant experience, loneliness and intimacy and America as icon and agent of modernity.

By selecting the important properties of distance many different mathematical contexts are studied simultaneously in the framework of metric and normed spaces. Examines carefully the ways in which the derivative generalizes to higher dimensional situations. These concepts lead to precise studies of continuity, fixed points and the solution of differential equations. A recommended course for all students planning to advance in mathematics.

Businesses compete for ideas, customers, employees, and capital. Entrepreneurs and managers make choices about how to create value through innovation, differentiation of products and services, and utilization of resources. This course explores how these choices are shaped by markets, technology, government, and society. It develops the entrepreneurial thinking, management skills, and professional capabilities necessary to do business.

This course focuses on Maori arts from the arrival from the Pacific c800 to the present day. It examines how the artists reflected, recorded and made history through their work. How did they respond to new presences and influences in the community, such as Christianity, colonialism, new materials and ideas. The course focuses on a different form of art every week from personal adornment to photography.

Logic addresses the foundations of mathematical reasoning and models the process of mathematical proof by providing a setting and the rules of deduction. It builds a basic understanding of first order predicate logic, introduces model theory, and demonstrates how models of a first order system relate to mathematical structures. This course is recommended for anyone studying high-level computer science or mathematical logic.

This course examines factors influencing children's development and socialization within the culturally and linguistically diverse context of New Zealand. Research from developmental psychology, family, and parenting is utilized to explore physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and language development during childhood and adolescence.