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Through weekly readings and class discussions, this course considers how individual bodies are gendered and how gender is constructed in individual bodies. The course explores how social norms strongly construct gendered bodies, thus generating problems, and delves into possibilities to change the norms related to bodies.  Lecture topics vary, but may include problem's created by women's beauty work; radical feminist perspectives from the 1960s through today; why do many women wear makeup; and how to resist gendered norms of body. 

This course provides an introduction to programming and numerical methods. Topics covered include computer arithmetic and computational errors, solution of nonlinear equations, systems of linear equations, numerical integration and differentiation, interpolation and approximation, initial value problems for ordinary differential equations. This course will cover basic concepts of numerical optimization and applications such as for instance numerical optimization in the rapidly evolving domain of machine learning.

This course explores archaeological cultural heritage in East and Southeast Asia and how material remains of past human behavior in this broad region play an active role in shaping human perceptions of self and others in the present day. Archaeological cultural heritage as an academic field and as a profession is rapidly evolving in East and Southeast Asia, with governmental policy making, political motivations such as nation-building and nationalistic agendas, globalization, economic expansion and development, and many other factors shaping choices for how and why archaeological sites, objects, architecture, and landscapes are preserved, protected, and presented. This course focuses on these political roles of archaeological cultural heritage and examines them in conceptual and theoretical terms using a necessarily anthropological, interdisciplinary approach with models and methods from archaeology, critical museology, material cultural theory, postcolonial theory, and memory studies, among others. Case studies from around East and Southeast Asia, including Taiwan, mainland China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, and Malaysia serve to provide insight into the relationship between archaeological heritage and nationalism to explore such related issues as the domination of Eurocentrism in heritage practice and theory (and see new alternatives arising); heritage's role in identity and ideology; contested ownership; commodification and value; memorialization and "dark heritage" (e.g., post-conflict or post-trauma sites); indigenous and minority rights and stakeholding; the impact of looting and the illicit antiquities trade; and heritage tourism.

This course is a general survey of the discipline of International Relations main theories and concepts, as well as a brief outline of the history of world politics since World War One. It proposes an intellectual history of the academic discipline as situated in the evolution of the world political context. The course provides the tools to form one's own rigorous analyses about how world politics works and why it works the way it works. It incites students to go beyond commonsense discourses and normatively biased or ideologically oriented assessments of world politics typical of politicians’ speeches, experts’ comments, and media coverage.

This course covers geometric basics of sensor orientation and object reconstruction, including homogeneous coordinates, projectivity and perspective, modelling of image formation, inner and outer orientation, orientation of uncalibrated and calibrated cameras, spatial resection, least-squares adjustment, orientation of the image pair, relative and absolute orientation, spatial triangulation, multi-view geometry, bundle block adjustment, image digitalization, and radiometric basics.