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This course offers an l introduction to public and environmental health practices in Botswana. The course covers local issues with a focus on the Primary Health Care (PHC) approaches. The PHC aspects include infectious diseases, health promotion, safe drinking water supply, food safety, and basic environmental sanitation. These topics focus on the different health challenges facing Botswana, its population, and the root social and biological causes of these challenges. Historical examples of important health challenges are used to illustrate the nature, role, and organization of public and environmental health. The course also covers aspects of sustainable development regarding health issues/concerns in Botswana.

Full course description

Cognitive neuroscience is an entirely new research field that originally emerged from a combination of traditional sciences such as philosophy, psychology, medicine and biology that all investigate the principles of perception, behaviour and cognition from different perspectives.

As technical developments of different methods and tools in the field of cognitive neuroscience came forth, and as theoretical application of different mathematical and computer science-based models were used to explain neuronal functioning, additional disciplines, such as physics, mathematics, bioengineering and computer science materialized as an important part of this research field.

Subsequently, an effective research project in cognitive neuroscience requires an interdisciplinary cooperation, in which each scientific discipline contributes its respective genuine theories, models, techniques and tools for the mutual investigation of the neuronal principles of perception, attention, and cognition.

But can we really watch the brain at work? Are there ways to identify where exactly, and when exactly activation in the brain is necessary to perform a specific mental process? This course will help to give some answers on the basic principles of brain research and it will show relevant applications of these techniques in different areas of cognitive psychology.

Course objectives

• To give an introduction into the new field of cognitive neuroscience.
• To learn which methods a brain researcher can use to investigate the neuronal bases of different mental processes.

Prerequisites

SCI2034 Brain and Action and elementary knowledge of electricity and magnetism as stated under SCI-P(p. vi-viii). 

Recommended 
SCI1009 Introduction to Biology or SCI2038 Physics (or SCI1030 Physics I) or SSC1005 Introduction to Psychology or SSC2025 Memory. 

This course examines how people mobilize certain values to think and act while at the same time disagreeing over their definition, ranking, and translation into norms that organize the legal, social, and political world. The course uses political theory to provide concepts, principles, categories, and arguments to navigate through these conflicting normative aspirations. The course addresses questions of how to be coherent while having different values, beliefs, and practices; where to bridge the gap between ideal political principle and current institutions; whether there are acceptable trade-offs between conflicting values or conflicting interpretations of values; and why and how some values are politicized and weaponized.

This course addresses exploratory data analysis and graphs such as histograms, stem plots, measures of center and spread of a distribution, normal distribution, scatter plots, least squares regression (correlation), producing data (design of experiments, sampling design), probability (probability rules, random variables, probability distributions), and statistical inference (confidence intervals, tests of significance, nonparametric methods, categorical or count data). 

This course examines Maori and Indigenous development. It covers both historical and contemporary developments and the factors which have affected Maori and Indigenous engagement with globalization, including economic development and education and health.

Images are as important as ideas in defining and transmitting cultural patterns, and neither can be understood without exploring the other. This course looks into the core of Japanese culture to understand the ideas that have been used to define Japanese culture and the connections these ideas have with images. Topics include Japanese aesthetic ideals, ethical paradigms, festivals, and visual arts.