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This course examines selected network protocols relevant to the World Wide Web (e.g., HTTP, DNS, IP); World Wide Web; technologies for programming the Web (e.g, HTML, XML, style sheets, PHP, JavaScript, Node.js.; other topics of current interest (AJAX, HTML5, web services, cloud computing).

This course is about travel and cultural encounters, the ways in which these experiences are recorded, and the exploration of the significance of such records through a journey around Trinity Library collections and students' own personal memories. The course introduces students to the methodologies applied to the analysis of travel writing in its various forms (e.g. historical narratives, autobiographical memoirs, travel fiction) and to the analysis of visual and material objects. Primary material are drawn, where possible, from the Library’s collections of remarkable texts and objects from around the world. Students engage with appropriately selected items available for viewing in person or in digital form on the Trinity Digital Collections website.  

The course is part of the Laurea Triennale degree program.. The course explores some of the main concepts and topics of intercultural education including multiculturalism and interculturality, migratory flows and models of integration and coexistence, stereotypes and prejudices, racism, second generations of immigrants, migrant literature, multicultural classes, ethnic-cultural conflict and its management, and sectarianism and religious pluralism.

This course introduces students to the study of Scottish history in the period from 1560 to the present. The program of lectures and tutorials emphasizes key themes of political, religious, economic, social, and cultural change. The course encourages students to think about the multiple transitions between early modern and modern Scotland, and to consider the forces shaping contemporary politics and culture. It analyses the main political developments, social transitions, and cultural shifts in Scotland since 1560. Beginning with the Reformation and the union of crowns of 1603, the course tracks the enormous political and religious changes in early modern Scotland. It then examines the Anglo-Scottish union of 1707 and post-union Scotland, including such themes as Jacobitism, the Scottish Enlightenment and imperial expansion. The course encompasses 19th-century industrialization, political reform and social change, before turning to the radical political and cultural upheavals of the 20th century. It culminates in the present day, addressing such topics as gender, the arts and the debate about devolution, and independence.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the law and practice of international dispute settlement. The course begins with an introduction to the obligation to settle international disputes peacefully and an overview of the fundamental principles of dispute settlement. The course then explores the non-judicial means of dispute settlement: negotiation, mediation, good offices, inquiry, and conciliation. Thereafter, the course focuses on the judicial settlement of disputes by international courts and tribunals, in particular the International Court of Justice, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea dispute settlement mechanisms, the dispute settlement procedures and mechanisms of the World Trade Organization, and arbitral tribunals in both inter-State and investor-State disputes. The course concludes by addressing select issues related to international dispute settlement, namely provisional measures, landmark cases (such as the South China Sea arbitration), and contemporary issues such as compliance with judicial and arbitral decisions, and the politics of international investment law. Throughout the course, not only the “law,” but also the “politics” of dispute settlement are addressed.

This course examines the political lessons children’s books encode about what childhood is, and about which children matter and why. Students read children’s texts ranging genres and forms—including fantasy, school stories, picturebooks, and domestic fiction—written between the late eighteenth century and the present day. Key focuses include agency, gender, race, class, and the environment.  The course considers the role of illustration, classic film adaptations, and seminal works by authors which may include Lewis Carroll, Neil Gaiman, C. S. Lewis, Beatrix Potter, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and J. K. Rowling. These works are illuminated in discussions in small group seminars. 

This course introduces students to international questions of security and policing. In light of an interdisciplinary approach, the course thus focuses on the way in which current topics of interest are politically and operationally addressed, from criminal and political violence to illicit finance and global infectious diseases. In this regard, it fosters a capacity of analysis and independent judgement on the politics and everyday practices of transnational policing, border and migration control, surveillance, and security intelligence in the digital age.