English

The course examines a range of English prose and narrative forms. It examines issues including the rise of the novel and narrative history; distinctions between story and discourse; realism; narrators and narrative "frames"; free indirect style and other means of transcribing consciousness; irony and tone; temporality, structure and form; genre; fictionality and metafiction. The implications of such issues for primary critical analysis are demonstrated and explored.

This course examines materials science, construction materials, and mechanics of materials. The material science component examines basic concepts on inter-atomic bonding, microstructure of solids and generic material properties related to density, deformation, yield, ductility, fracture, toughness, susceptibility to corrosion and fatigue. The construction materials component examines the engineering applications of structural and light-gauge steel, concrete, masonry, timber, glass, fibre-glass and composites. The mechanics component examines the basic concepts of stress-strain compatibility, composite actions, the concept of shear stress flow, basic two-dimensional stress analysis, strength and ductility and arching actions.

This seminar aims to equip students with knowledge of institutional and politico-economic development of Asian regionalism and its role in world and regional politics. 
 

This course equips students with some of the knowledge and skills needed to work in international organizations. The first part of the course provides an overview of the core notions of International Law needed to understand the functioning of international organizations such as the sources of international law, the making of international treaties, or the areas of action of international law. The second part of the course examines the concrete functioning of international organizations by discussing the work of five global and regional organizations (with a focus on Europe and America), namely the Council of Europe, the European Union, the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The third part of the course provides a few practical tips for working in international organizations. The course includes guest lecturers with experience in working for/on international organizations.

This course takes an anthropological approach to the questions of why and how media matter. More specifically, the anthropology of media explores media as cultural practices and investigates how people navigate and create media worlds. It draws ethnographic attention to the socio-cultural contexts of media and poses questions about how media fit into societies at large.

This course introduces the major concerns, methods and ongoing debates of this new and vibrant field. Drawing on case studies from around the world (but mostly from East Asia), we explore how media practices are defined not only by available technologies but also by societal infrastructures and cultural needs; how the actual circulation of media escapes the desires and intentions of media producers; how media audiences appropriate mass media to their own ends; how old and new media are implicated in social and political change; how media shape national, ethnic and gender identities; and what challenges these complexities present to researchers of media.

This course develops a transdisciplinary theoretical framework and methodological toolbox to guide us in critically reflecting on our ‘ways of seeing’ (John Berger). Our analytical inquiry tackles questions about the politics of images and image-making (e.g. topics such as visual representation of class, race and gender; conditions for production and circulation of image-making; or decolonial film cooperatives). Learn how to use creative practice (photography for the visual anthropology assignment; and moving images for the video essay assignment) for research.

In this course basic principles of neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry are discussed to develop an understanding of how these biological factors underlie human brain function. Topics include biological basis of emotion, motivation, stress, sleep, autistic, ADHD, and substance abuse disorders. Students become familiar with multidisciplinary methods of investigation through use of behavioral, computational, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging tools.