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This course examines intelligence through a progressive structure—classic foundations → frontier intersections → societal applications. While preserving core psychometric frameworks (e.g., g and hierarchical models, reliability/validity, standardisation), the course strengthens three frontier strands: cognitive neuroscience, cross-cultural comparison and measurement fairness, and AI in relation to human intelligence. Students will learn to evaluate claims about intelligence using rigourous measurement reasoning and to translate theory into practice across applied settings (education and selection, health/ageing and special populations, and assessment governance in the AI era).

This course examines philosophical questions relating to the scientific study of the mind. It will focus in particular on mental representation, for example on the nature of the mental representations postulated by scientific psychology and neuroscience, the role of these representations in psychological and neuroscientific explanation, and their relationship with a person’s experiences and attitudes. 

The course examines Spanish and Catalan politics, focusing on democratic institutions, political parties, elections, territorial organization, nationalism, and Spain’s relationship with the European Union.

This course provides students with the theoretical, contextual and strategic knowledge and skills that will equip them to advocate for the early childhood profession, young children and diverse families and communities. Students critique community, national and international levels of policy, frameworks and practices relevant to advocacy with and for children, families, communities, non-governmental organizations and professions. Te Tiriti o Waitangi provides an underpinning framework for the advocacy models to be developed in the course.

This course aims to teach the fundamentals of planetary science, including an introduction to research subjects, key phenomena and observational facts, basic theoretical frameworks and ways of thinking, as well as fundamental research and detection methods.

The firm plays a central role in contemporary capitalist societies. Firms not only shape economic outcomes, but also concentrate power and produce conflict within society. Understanding the firm, therefore, requires moving beyond a purely economic perspective to examine how firms organize power and authority within broader social and political contexts. The course uses case studies and empirical examples from the United States to assess the applicability of theoretical perspectives. The first block introduces foundational theories of the firm, emphasizing the centrality of the means of production in capitalist societies. The second block focuses on the role of workers and the organization of labor within the firm. This section covers workers’ relations with capital and output, as well as the division of labor and changes in bargaining power. The last block explores multinational corporations as central actors in globalization in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and examines how the expansion of global value chains and accelerating technological change have increased their power and transformed their role in society.

This architecture studio explores how plants and vegetation can become integral parameters of architectural design. It investigates their potentially mutually beneficial relationships with buildings across programmatic, systemic, and structural dimensions. The studio begins by establishing a collective knowledge base on plant species, their specific habitats - from soil conditions to vegetation systems - and their climatic, cultural, and aesthetic qualities. This research is accompanied by an investigation of architectural references. In parallel, students develop small-scale prototypes that test specific strategies for the interweaving of plants and vegetation with spatial structures. In the second phase, these strategies are applied to transform exemplary building types in Berlin into green housing infrastructures.

This course examines a theoretical and practical understanding of game theory. Students will learn to build and solve models of strategic behavior, covering static and dynamic games under both complete and incomplete information. 

This course examines indigenous musical instruments in Australia. Case studies introduce the cultural and spiritual significance of particular instruments, trace their creation (from sourcing of materials, to design, to methods of crafting), and demonstrate their uses in music and dance.

This course explores the role of standards and standardization in shaping global technological, economic, and governance systems. It discusses how standards are created, who holds power in standard-setting organizations (SSOs), and how they influence markets, law, and innovation. This course focuses on real-world standardization processes and outcomes. Through case studies in transport, telecommunications, and digital technologies, it analyzes the political, legal, and technical dynamics of global standards, including emerging challenges related to AI, interoperability, and data governance.