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This course discusses sensory and cognitive processes. The course consists of an introductory methodological part which covers the main psychophysical methods for the measurement of the absolute and differential threshold and psychometric function, psychophysical laws, and the SDT. The second part of the course examines the way of action of the main mechanisms and visual processes including static spatial vision and central and peripheral dynamic, grouping and segmentation, recognition of faces and objects, visual research, visual attention, eye movements and reading, and learning and memory. This course requires students to have taken previous courses on the anatomy and physiology of sensory systems, and statistics as a prerequisite for the course.

This course introduces the Danish welfare model and policy, including knowledge of this model's distinctive features in comparison with other models, and the challenges of increased globalization and individualization. Emphasis is placed on the distribution of welfare in relation to income, education, labor market attachment, health, and consumption. The course examines welfare at the individual level, across generations (social and economic mobility), and at the macro level (social cohesion). It focuses on welfare distribution in relation to class, gender, age, and ethnicity, as it deals with the consequences of failure welfare in different parts of the population. The course discusses relations between welfare and labor market models in Denmark and in other countries. It analyzes conditions and living conditions of both the so-called standard population and for vulnerable groups such as the poor, long-term unemployed, and socially marginalized families and individuals. The teaching focuses on understanding how social factors affect communities and individuals' welfare, and how individual circumstances and choices can affect the situation of each person or group is in. The course offers insights into how specific welfare policies affect people's living conditions, and how the "system" meets public/users in various forms of welfare provision. 

This course covers a range of issues and activity associated with mechanical engineering practice. These include legal issues and knowledge of real world activity through engineering applications, guest lectures, and study of engineering companies.

This course focuses on several of the ecological environments on the island of Barbados. Topics include: geology and climate, terrestrial and aquatic environments and their flora, and vertebrates and invertebrates of the Caribbean. In addition to lectures, this course includes six fields trips throughout the term. Assessment is based on a midterm, final, and field notebook.

Contemporary political debate remains indebted to concepts and arguments developed in the history of political thought. This course explores this history by examining a select number of signal figures and movements in the history of modern Western political thought. Students engage in close, critical reading of canonical texts. Students learn how to accurately interpret and critically evaluate the arguments in those texts, and thereby learn how to deal with the legacy those arguments have left for contemporary debates.
Thinkers to be studied might range from the well-known and canonical to the lesser-known and unjustly neglected. Possible figures might include: Thomas Hobbes, Montesquieu, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Catharine Macaulay, Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, G. W. F. Hegel, Flora Tristan, J. S. Mill, Frederick Douglass, and Karl Marx. Possible movements to be examined include: social contract theory; natural rights theory; republicanism and civic virtue; feminism and the rights of women; socialism and the emancipation of workers; and abolitionism and the emancipation of slaves. 

This course provides fundamental knowledge of the issues, insights and methods of psycholinguistics. It also trains basic methods for data collection, data processing, statistical analysis, academic argumentation and presentation. The course includes various cognitive models which form a bridge between language as a communicative phenomenon and language as part of human biology. The course provides insight into and experience of using basic tools connected to the planning, implementation, and statistical analysis of a scientific experiment. The course also provides insight into some of the psychological and neurobiological processes which are the foundation of language. Students also acquire skills in quantitative research which can be used in independent work. The course is closely linked to analytical courses in phonetics/phonology, grammar, semantics and pragmatics, and to courses in conversation analysis, language development, and sociolinguistics.