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This course focuses on the strategic and managerial implications of adopting and deploying information communication technology (ICT) and digital technologies (DT) in business organizations. It provides an understanding of how various digital technologies can create strategic impacts for businesses.

This course introduces major organ systems that contribute to the "constancy of the internal environment" of an organism. Physiologically, homeostasis is the body's attempt to maintain a constant and balanced internal environment for living processes to take place, which requires persistent monitoring and adjustments, as external and internal conditions change. The major organ systems covered include the cardiovascular system, the respiratory system, the gastrointestinal system, and the urinary system.

This course studies Europe both as a collection of countries that exhibit varying political, economic, and policy patterns but face very similar problems at the turn of the millennium and as a political and economic unit that binds those European countries together and determines their collective responses to the challenges they face. It provides an understanding of capitalist diversity within Europe and the challenges faced by European integration in the past decade and a half.

This course introduces students to the range and scope of social policy analysis by showing how the subject has developed over time. It covers the history and development of Irish social policy and examines how social change has influenced and has been influenced by social policy developments since the nineteenth century.

Using direct engagement with Late Antiquity and medieval artworks housed in Berlin’s Staatliche Museen, this seminar introduces students to a solid method of interrogating images and objects. It focuses on the particularities of the Christian image, namely its capacity of figuring the invisible and its relationship with the Hebrew Scriptures. The way the Hebrew Scriptures were transformed into the “Old Testament” in images serves as the seminar’s guiding thread. By examining specific distinct objects, students trace the emergence of Christian imagery, explore the contradictions it struggled with, and consider the dynamics of artistic creation in the Middle Ages. The first sessions offer a brief introduction to the central themes. In the following sessions, students visit the Bode Museum and other state museums. During these sessions, each student presents an assigned object, followed by an open group discussion. The class also addresses questions regarding the ways of exhibiting medieval objects in museums.

This course covers the transformation of politics in the era of the internet, digital technologies and changes of methodological and conceptual terrain in the studies of politics, and relationship between politics and digital technologies. It helps students understand the role of communications media and mediation in public affairs and the manner in which digital technologies have reworked the political domain. 

This course surveys Korean history from antiquity to the present, tracing the evolution of politics, society, and culture on the peninsula. The course begins with Old Joseon and the Three Kingdoms, examining early state formation, before turning to the Goryo dynasty and the establishment of Joseon. We highlight the structures of Joseon society, cultural achievements, and Korea’s place within the East Asian world, including encounters with Ming China and Japan during the Imjin War. In the modern era, we explore the Daehan Empire, the colonial period under Japanese rule, and the profound transformations that followed liberation and the Korean War. The course then examines the divergent paths of North and South Korea, with particular focus on South Korea’s rapid industrialization, the rise of chaebol, and the movement toward democratization. 

This course examines entrepreneurial and private equity finance.  It covers financial issues encountered by entrepreneurs and those active on the investing side of entrepreneurship, such as working for banks, venture capital firms, or corporate venture organizations, or anyone interacting with entrepreneurs and private equity investors.

This course covers comparative studies of social policy components and administration in ASEAN member countries and Western states, covering topics including social expenditures, theories and approaches to welfare provision and management, effectiveness of the welfare states, education, public health, housing, employment, taxation, social capital, civil society, social security, and social or welfare rights as well as social, economic, and political considerations that shape the welfare state.