University of Auckland

The course further develops basic proficiency in everyday French through extensive practice in grammar, vocabulary, listening, speaking, reading, and writing, with a focus on contemporary cultural topics related to France and the Francophone world. It uses a range of activities to strengthen language skills and support strategies for autonomous learning.

This course examines the ways in which Pacific peoples frame their contemporary world in the context of globalization. It also examines factors which shape contemporary Pacific life and popular culture as well as some of the challenges emanating from how Pacific peoples construct and make sense of their own and others’ historical, political, socio-cultural, economic and religious worlds.

This course examines the interconnectedness of environment and society. It 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. 

This course examines modern literature on exchange rate markets, exchange rate determination and the implications of exchange rate movements for various economic issues. Students will gain an understanding of why exchange rates change, of financial market arrangements, and of the reasons for, and implications of, recent events in international financial markets.

This course examines the relationship between business and industrial applications and their associated operations research models. Software packages will be used to solve practical problems. Topics include: linear programming, transportation and assignment models, network algorithms, queues, inventory models, simulation, analytics and visualization.

This course examines design as strategy, demonstrating how contemporary design practices have evolved, responded to, and influenced change. By developing a design project that responds to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, students will learn how design thinking complements current practice and expands career prospects.

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.