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This course examines stars, celebrities, and fandom practices, as they are found in the media and popular culture (film, television, pop music, advertising, branding, news and magazines, the Internet and society media). Stars and celebrities also arise from beyond the mediasphere, with the possibility to consider literary stars, famous artists, royalties, and personalities from the fields of politics and sports. Academic approaches to fan cultures also critically engage with subcultural groups and participatory practices.

This course provides sound understanding of fundamental concepts and emerging problems in networking and provides training in network programming.  Students will learn how to explain in detail how a piece of information travels through the Internet and reaches the other side of the world. 

Topics include emerging issues around the Internet, basic network programming for sockets, TCP, and routing. Prerequisite: basic programming skills in C/C++. 

This course provides a study of the principles of civil and commercial law relating to torts, management of affairs without mandate, and undue enrichment under the Civil and Commercial Code. Other relevant topics encompassed in this course are product liability law, environmental protection law, and contemporary problems regarding the application of these laws.  

This course introduces students, especially those beginning the study of ancient history, to the politics, society, and economy of the Greek world and its relations with neighboring peoples in the archaic period (800-478 BC). The principal themes of the course are the emergence and character of the leading Greek city-states and their geographical spread throughout the Mediterranean world; the rise of powerful non-Greek neighbors, especially Persia, during the sixth century; and the interaction between them, culminating in the Persian Wars. Particular attention is paid to the nature of our evidence for the period: students study the first work of western historiography, THE HISTORIES of Herodotus; and the potential and problems of using other sorts of archaeological, documentary, and literary evidence to write the history of this period.

This course examines the disciplinary foundations for architectural design. Through small scale and experimental design projects, students will explore the main concepts and activities of architectural design. There is a focus on making and thinking about human inhabitation including space, form, order, structure, material, scale and proportion. It covers manual and digital representational techniques as primary design communication tools, and explore the relationship between plan, section, elevation and three-dimensional forms.

This course is for private lessons of the qanun instrument. It involves twelve one-hour lessons in the semester. Students are expected to practice a minimum of one hour every day. Students perform before a jury of teachers for the final examination. Students may register for more than one section of MUSC 1800 in the same semester. 

This course explores contemporary Korean popular culture with an emphasis on drama and film, following the trajectory of the Korean wave (hallyu) with the framework of cultural translation. The course is designed to enable students to understand contested terrains in which the Korean new wave has been shaped: transnational cultural reception and national history, socio-historical, and political context of the Korean wave. Throughout the course students will learn how to analyze both of the Korean wave and their own reception of it as cultural translators.

This course fulfils the dual function of introducing students to various canonical French texts and films and of introducing students to the study of narrative poetics, or "narratology" an important mode of literary analysis which was largely developed in France. Beginning with a comparative analysis of the narrative techniques of a 19th-century short story by Guy de Maupassant and its film adaptation by the great director Jean Renoir, the course then turns to the medieval and early modern versions of the popular tale LA CHESTELAINE DE VERGI. Afterward, students read the crucial 18th-century novel MANON LESCAUT, the source for Puccini's opera of the same name; they shall then turn to Emile Zola's 19th-century novel THÉRÈSE RAQUIN, studying both this text and its film adaptation. Finally, students examine a contemporary text remarkable for its narrative technique: Annie Ernaux's LA PLACE. 

This course reads against the grain of those dominant narratives of colonialism as world-making by focusing on the pirate as an interruptive force, who derails the movement of peoples, goods, ideas, and laws across the maritime routes linking the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. Important tools in the course are the reading practices of postcolonial theory, which will teach us to extract and assess this alternative history of the post/colonial pirate. The course also teaches students to nuance standard maritime historiographies through literary reading practices, as well as evaluate the metaphoric application of piracy to contemporary, interruptive, economic practices.

This course aims to develop an in-depth understanding of what public policy is and why government involvement in solving collective problems is accepted. The course reviews definitions and practical examples of public policy and of the policy process (agenda setting, formulation, implementation, and evaluation), making use of several examples from China, East Asia, and Europe.  

This course is divided into two parts. The first part consists of lectures, discussions, and a policy data workshop to gain theoretical and data knowledge on public policies. The second part of the course is more interactive and consists of lectures, students’ presentations, a field trip, and a video projection. This part focuses on specific policies at the center of current public debates, such as economy, labor market and migration, environment, education, health care, housing, and welfare.