English

This course introduces the key concepts, issues, challenges and trends essential to understand the cross-border multidirectional flows of information. More specifically, this course provides an overview of the changing paradigm of global communication by studying the interrelation between cultural, economic, political, social, and technical dimensions of media and communication in the contemporary world, as well examining the changing nature of power and the process of power diffusion in the information age. This is a three-part interdisciplinary course, which covers the essential theories and concepts ranging from media and communication studies, political science, international relations, economics and psychology. The first part, Week 2 and 3, introduces key concepts related to the study of global communication, including media economics, world-systems theory, electronic colonialism, soft power, constructivism, and cultural change. The second part, Week 4 to 8, studies major global communication actors – multinational media conglomerates (MMCs), social media platforms, news agencies, advertisers and marketers. It applies the tools from Part 1 to study how each of them as a system (structure and flow) works, as well as some of the contemporary debates in each sector. The third part, Week 9 to 13, looks at major issues of global communication in the digital age, such as misinformation and artificial intelligence, identity politics and polarization, inequality and global conflicts.

The course covers the fundamentals of mechanical behaviors of engineering materials and structures, and applies engineering principles in solving practical problems. Topics include bending, shear, plane stress/strain, buckling, and failure.

This introductory seminar gives a survey of historical change in phonology, morphology/syntax, and the lexicon across the Old, Middle, and (Early/Late) Modern English periods to the present day as well as of current geographical and socio-functional variation in the English language. It thus emphasizes the close relationship between language change and variation. It introduces the concept of the sociolinguistic situation with its various parameters and presents language change and variation as complex processes determined by the interaction of language-internal forces and extralinguistic factors.

Criminal justice refers to the agencies of the government charged with enforcing law, adjudicating crime, and correcting criminal conduct. The major components of the criminal justice system are the police, courts and correctional agencies. Although society maintains other forms of social control such as the family, school, and church, only the criminal justice system has the power to control crime and punish criminals. However, can the police arrest all criminals? Does crime pay? Does punishment deter? This course is specially designed to critically examine whether the criminal justice system is an effective way to deal with crime.m.

This course examines media film and anime (animation) in regards to Japanese social and cultural life. It focuses on the relationship of the media with contemporary Japanese culture, society, and politics, particularly the Pacific War (WW II) and Japanese society afterwards. The course explores various genres and representative films together with critical writings on the works with the objective of training students to relate visual texts with the written texts and to relate features of the films to the specific social, cultural, and political issues under discussion. Students consider the relationship between the films and their audiences, the impact of the dominance of films and anime in contemporary Japan and world wide, and various social and cultural issues that are closely related to the movie industry, such as violence and globalization. 

The course explores different aspects of Danish culture such as literature, mythology, history, film, music, architecture, painting, the welfare state, and national identity. The course is a unique combination of lectures and excursions, which includes trips to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Frederiksborg Castle. This version of the course (50 Q) is worth 12 quarter units and requires a 15-20 page individual research paper.

Many people believe that citizens, and especially citizens in democratic states, have a duty to accept the authority of the law and to support and comply with the institutions of their state. In this course students examine this assumption in depth, and from various perspectives. They engage with recent philosophical discussions on the nature of political authority, on the legitimacy of democracy and on the duty to resist state injustices.