English

In this course, the study of international economic relations is central. These relations involve the exchange of goods and services, factors of production, and financial flows across borders. International trade and financial flows are a strong force in international relations and politics. This course provides an introduction to trade flows, international specialization, and exchange. Neoclassical and modern trade theory are addressed before analyzing trade policy, international macroeconomics, and financial relations. Having established the link between financial and real economic variables, students turn to exchange rates, currency trading, and the global monetary system. The course pays special attention to the differences between developing and developed economies. Students build on their knowledge of macro- and microeconomics, narrowing in on the international aspects of both. Gains from trade and specialization are typically considered microeconomic topics, while international financial relations are macroeconomic in nature.

This course examines the rapidly emerging functional food/nutraceutical industry with an emphasis on the history, regulation, chemical basis and quality control of  healthy ingredients/products and their effects on human health. It covers concepts, history and global regulations of functional foods and nutraceuticals; classification of functional foods and nutraceuticals based on their chemical structures; unsaturated fatty acids, proteins, food pigments and dietary fibers as healthy food ingredients; health benefits of dietary phenolics, terpenes, phytosterols and sulphur-containing compounds; probiotics and prebiotics; small berries, spices, teas and herbs for health; and quality control and assurance of functional foods and nutraceuticals.

This is an introductory course to studying screen cultures in their medium specificity by looking at adaptations that make narrative borrowings explicit. Students learn how to diagnostically write about and think with films, which rework popular and literary tales.

The course selects controversial topics in education, economy, environment, science and technology, society, international politics, etc. and covers logical fallacies, effective English expression and communication skills, distinction of facts and opinions, analyzing and evaluating arguments, in order to improve English oral expression skills, speculative skills, academic research skills, and cross-cultural communication skills.

This course provides a foundational understanding of international relations and foreign policy analysis from both a theoretical and historical perspective. The first part of the course provides an overview of the origins and historical evolution of international systems in world history, shedding light on the emergence of a global international system. It then examines how historians and political scientists approach the study of international politics, seeking to identify differences, potential overlaps, and mutual synergies. The second part of the course explores the diverse set of theories that can be leveraged to make sense of international politics, namely realism, liberalism, constructivism, the “English School,” and critical approaches to international relations. The third part of the course investigates the wide range of domestic and international factors that influence foreign policy decision-making processes, including individual decision-makers, group dynamics among senior advisors, bureaucratic politics, domestic politics, and the role of societal actors in shaping foreign policy outcomes. The final part of the course zooms in on the sources and methods of inquiry in the study of foreign policy and international relations. It discusses the methodological issues related to empirical research on foreign policy and international relations, looking in particular at archival research and interviews with foreign policymakers. 

What shapes people’s everyday understandings of inequality? This course looks at how everyday views or framings of inequality emerge. The course examines how troubling social situations come to be regarded as inequalities, and how inequalities come to be seen as susceptible to intervention and change. The course explores people’s sense of inequality’ through their attitudes and perceptions, reflexive and self-conscious values and beliefs, expressions of injustice and indignity, struggles against inequality through organized protest, resistance and mundane non-compliance, but also through the more tacit, embodied, and affective ways in which people know and sense the world.