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As one of the oldest and most perplexing phenomena in human society, political corruption exists in almost every country in the contemporary world. Social scientists and policy makers have long been baffled by the relationship between corruption and political and economic development and the question of how to successfully contain corruption. Conventional wisdom is that corruption harms rule of law, demoralizes the society, and inhibits economic growth. But it is more often assumed than tested and proven. Much has been written about political corruption. Yet many questions still remain. This course addresses five sets of broad questions that are most common in the discourse on corruption and governance: definition of corruption; causes of corruption; patterns of corruption; consequences of corruption; and control of corruption. This intensive short course—conducted in four-day lectures and discussions—introduces students to theories and key social science debates on the causes and effects of political corruption. Through discussions about whether corruption hurts economic development and political stability, this course provides a better understanding of the impact of corruption on bureaucracy, the economy, and society at large. At the end of the course, students make an assessment for mapping out strategies and codes of conduct to control corruption.

This course introduces the principles, mechanisms and implementation of cyber security and information protection. Topics include cyber-attacks and defense; notion and terms of cyber security; introduction to cryptography; symmetric key cryptography and public key cryptography; authentication techniques; access control methods; network and Internet security and protection (e.g. firewall and IDS); application and web security; analysis and models of secure systems; cyber threat assessment and penetration testing; mobile code security.

This course studies language as a cognitive system which interfaces with other subsystems of the mind. It examines the biological foundations of language and the nature of language competence from an evolutionary and developmental perspective. The ways in which language, thought, and culture interact are explored. Emphasis is placed on the principles and mechanisms that underlie speech perception, sentence processing, and discourse comprehension, as well as structural factors in language production.

This is a specialist seminar focusing on some of the African continent's major thinkers. The aim is not only to study the seminal thoughts forming the wider context of the business of making literature in Africa but also to discuss the intellectual and cultural agenda posed by such thought.

This course offers a study of artificial intelligence. The course focuses on topics including whether machines can think, and the metaphor of an “intelligent agent.” These topics are explored through an examination of a number of state-of-the-art concepts, algorithms, and methods which enable computers, such as software and robots, to solve problems in a way which deserves to be called intelligent. Topics covered in this part are chosen from AI areas such as intelligent search and constraint satisfaction, architectures for intelligent agents, and coordination among intelligent agents. The course as a whole conveys basic aspects and facets of engineering (analyzing and designing) AI systems. The course requires that students have completed high school level mathematics as a prerequisite.

This course covers fundamental and applied knowledge of the laws that determine fluid motion and their application to problems of interest in engineering including conservation laws for mass, momentum and energy (integral and differential form), dimensional analysis, and simplifications of general equations.

Pre-requisites: Calculus I & II, Linear Algebra, Physics I & II

This subject brings together two synergetic disciplines: improvisation and duo. Duo aims to develop contemporary duo skills with an emphasis on weight taking and sharing based on principles of contact improvisation and efficient kinaesthetic function in movement. Strength, coordination, awareness and sensitivity in partnering work are developed. Emphasis is placed on the practice of safe dance techniques as they apply to the duet form. Improvisation is explored as a means to tap into creative impulse, as a choreographic tool and as a performance modality in its own right. Through the use of improvisation structures of ‘scores’, students define the conditions required to enter fully into the present moment, deepening their confidence in and connection to creative impulse. Personal movement vocabularies are expanded, while acute responsiveness to external stimuli is developed.

This introductory course offers an overview of the basic principles of human nutrition including essential nutrients, their properties, requirements, interrelatedness, and metabolism. It discusses energy balance and the role of nutrition in the prevention and management of specific diseases (obesity and diabetes).