University of Auckland

This course introduces the eco-system concept to examine ways that innovating firms interact with various actors to build and sustain viable global enterprises. Actors include: suppliers, competitors, investors, users/customers, governments and universities. 

This course examines the popular R language in the statistical analysis of data and the interpretation and communication of statistical findings. It covers exploratory data analysis, analysis of linear models including multiple regression and analysis of variance, generalized linear models including logistic regression and analysis of counts and time series analysis.

This course examines findings from economics, psychology and neuroscience to discuss decision making at the level of individuals, within small groups and in more anonymous and impersonal market settings with an emphasis on the role of social norms and cognitive biases.

This course explores the basic skills of performing and expressing the meaning of songs through actions, as well as the settings in which they are performed. Students perform a complete bracket of kapa haka items in front of an audience consisting of a haka powhiri, waiata, action song, poi, and haka. Furthermore, students introduce each item; name the composer(s) and history of the item; and demonstrate the individual compositions, appropriateness in powhiri (ritual encounter of welcome), and knowledge of Maori protocols. The course also examines the Maori creation story, significant Polynesian ancestors, and constituent parts of the marae and wharenui.