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The aim of the course is to treat some basic parts of discrete mathematics, of importance in computer science, information theory, signal processing, physics and many other subjects in technology and science. The aim is also to develop the students' ability to solve problems and to assimilate mathematical text. The course should also provide general mathematical education.

This course is suitable for professionals and activists working in journalism or media-related fields as well as students from all backgrounds. It is a unique opportunity to benefit from the LSE’s outstanding research into modern journalism combined with talks by pioneering media professionals. Daily lectures and guest talks give students insights into contemporary cutting edge news media. Seminars encourage students to think and act like journalists facing all the dramatic ethical and technological challenges of reporting the complex and dangerous world we live in. Participants in this course emerge with a better understanding of the shifts taking place in the practices, forms, and processes within the news media and their consequences for the role of journalism in contemporary society.

This course integrates economic principles and planning tools to develop management skills applied in agricultural and relevant sectors. Major topics including: fundamental of management, strategic management, marketing strategy and financial management (capital budgeting). Students are requested to prepare and present a business plan, providing a great opportunity to practice concepts learned in the classroom. 

Chemistry describes the composition of matter and its transformations. This introductory course presents an overview of chemistry and lays a foundation by considering its central concepts. The course begins with the quantum world in which the structure of atoms and elements and the role of electrons in chemical bonding are described. Then the energetics associated with chemical processes and chemical equilibria are studied, a discipline called thermodynamics. The course ends with the treatment of some basic organic (i.e., carbon-based) chemical reactions. When possible, attention is paid to the connection of the subject matter with materials science and/or the biochemical relevance.

This course examines the meaning and value of happiness, and the role it plays in making our lives go well for us. It covers a wide range of theories and arguments about what makes lives go well for the people living them including hedonism, desire satisfaction, eudaimonic, and objective list theories.

This course provides a solid overview of the law of international security, a set of rules regulating the maintenance and restoration of international peace and security, within which States and other actors exercise their policies, adopt decisions, and form mutual relations on the international scene. It covers international legal norms and to applies them to concrete cases in the world politics. The course sheds light both on the centralized international and decentralized regional levels of collective security mechanisms. In addition to the prerogatives of the United Nations, the role of the NATO, European Union, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, African Union, Economic Community of West African States, and Organization of American States is covered. It focuses on diverse measures aimed at the protection of international security, both involving and not involving the use of force (economic embargoes, targeted sanctions, interruption of diplomatic relations and, finally, the recourse to military force).

There are important differences in terms of economic dynamics between cities and regions. The question of why some areas tend to be wealthier than others, and how these differences in wealth change over time, is crucial. This course analyzes the economic success and failure of cities and regions according to the main economic theories of regional growth. Building on theories and concepts from previous courses, students start with agglomeration theories. Then traditional growth theories of convergence and divergence, the basic concepts of evolutionary theory and its application to the spatial dynamics of industries, economic growth, and the spatial dynamics of innovation networks are considered. Special attention is devoted to the spatial-economic and industrial and innovation policy in the Netherlands and the European Union. Students organize a seminar with people from the academic, policy, and business world.