University of Auckland

This course examines various concepts related to software, system and network security. It covers a range of topics including attacks on privacy and attack surface, static and dynamic analysis of malware, hardware security (trusted computing base, secure boot, and attestation), network security and some hot topics in cryptography including elliptic curve, blockchain and bitcoin.

This course examines environmental change from a historical geography perspective. Approaches to investigating and understanding the transformation of environments are explored, and processes driving creation of different types of landscapes including heritage places are considered. 

This course is an introduction to the principles of physical exercise, with a focus on understanding how the body moves and responds to exercise, how performance can be measured, and how fitness can be developed and maintained to optimize health. Particular emphasis will be placed on the debunking of common myths about exercise, and offering evidence-based advice on the benefits of appropriate physical activity.

This course examines modern predictive modelling techniques, with application to realistically large data sets. Case studies will be drawn from business, industrial, and government applications.

This course examines the various ways in which we can study the dead. It covers three areas: the interpretation of mortuary practices, the interpretation of past lives from skeletal remains, and the practice of burial archaeology in the southern hemisphere.

This course examines the central principles and concepts of marketing strategy and management. It highlights the challenges that marketing managers face in planning and implementing effective marketing mix strategies.

This course examines remote sensing tools and techniques and their application within the earth, environmental and urban environments. It focuses on the processing, analysis and interpretation of data collected by government and commercial satellites, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and aerial photography. The course introduces image interpretation, multispectral images, supervised and unsupervised image classification and change detection. 

This course examines the fundamentals and principles of dramatic writing for screen, providing an immersive experience in the principles of screenplay writing with particular attention paid to visual language, narrative structure, characterization and dialogue, script critiques and the process of rewriting.