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The course offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate dynamics shaping healthcare systems. Topics include the fundamental principles underpinning the relationship between demand, supply, and disparities in health and healthcare. The course examines the impact of insurance mechanisms and payment incentives on healthcare markets, understanding how these factors influence access, utilization, and quality of care. Through the lens of behavioral economics, students uncover the cognitive biases shaping healthcare decision-making, equipping them with insights to design more effective interventions. Students acquire practical skills in designing and conducting economic evaluation studies tailored to specific populations or settings. Students learn to assess the costs and outcomes of public health interventions, enabling them to determine the economic efficiency and societal impact of healthcare initiatives.

This course examines Spanish and Latin American film studies while exploring the tensions, negotiations, and complex flows of influence from a transatlantic angle. Comprising history, theory and criticism through the exploration of 'national' cinema industries, it explores sites of production and circulation, by examining the role co-productions and film festivals play in the conceptualization and consumption of Latin American and Spanish cinema.

As one of fundamental courses of Interior Architecture Design majors, this course provides the theoretical background of fundamental CAD systems and digital design technologies in order that students can reach the next phase of advanced design computing studies and practices. This includes architectural planning, design, drafting procedures, practices, symbols and preparation of advanced working drawings for architectural and interior design. Moreover, this course tackles how digital design and design computing technologies interact with design per se using quantitative and scientific processes, so that students can comprehend the main features of digital design. 

This course builds self-confidence in English public speaking and communication and develops student's English writing skills, as well as the ability to deliver public speeches in English effectively. The course focuses on developing listening, research, and cooperation skills. Course topics include using language; analyzing the audience; selecting a topic and gathering materials; organizing the beginning, middle, and ending of a speech; delivering the speech; speaking to inform; speaking on special occasions; and speaking to persuade.

This course covers the basic concepts and principles of the methods and techniques used in social neuroscientific research, which include electroencephalography, structural and functional neuroimaging, non-invasive brain stimulation, hormone administration, eye scanning, and measurements from the autonomic nervous system. This course provides a basis for other courses including neuropsychology, biological psychology, clinical and health psychology, cognitive neuropsychiatry, and cognitive neuroscience. The following topics are reviewed: functional electroencephalography, structural and functional neuroimaging, psychophysiology, non-invasive brain stimulation, psychoneuroendocrinology, and integrative neuroscience.

The course covers the history of Europe from the late 18th century through to 1991 – from the French Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union. Attention is given to social, cultural, economic, and political history, and the way these components have interacted. Lectures and seminars approach European history from a variety of angles. In chronological terms, the course highlights key moments in European history (wars, revolutions) that had continent-side repercussions. In geographical terms, it explores the uses, as well as the limits, of dividing European history into histories of discrete nations and states. In thematic terms, it looks at the formation and evolution of various collective actors—religious communities, classes, sexes, professions, generations - and consider how these groups have shaped and been shaped by historical change.

The Enlightenment marks for many the birth of the Modern Age and evokes ideals of religious tolerance, political emancipation, and human betterment. But how were such ideals expressed and what were their limits? This is a course about European thought from the end of the seventeenth century up until the time of the French Revolution. The course reads a number of primary texts from different parts of eighteenth-century Europe, texts that articulate different conceptions of humanity, society, and the state, about religion and the church, commerce, and the economy. This course also discusses the impact history of the Enlightenment and its uses in contemporary debates.