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This is an introductory course in international relations. It introduces the core concepts and theories of international relations. It covers the most pressing political problems and challenges of the current international system and various topics in international relations, such as wars and other conflicts, globalization and economic crisis, humanitarian interventions, and climate change. The course is organized under the four broad themes: theoretical foundations, international security, international political economy, and politics of global commons. Under each theme, most lectures focus on a substantially important question in international relations, such as why wars occur, what the effects of international trade and finances are on the welfare of citizens, and why it is hard to achieve cooperation in solving global environmental problems. 

This course offers a practical study of spreadsheet tools for the automation of tasks and data lifecycle management. Topics include: data import and references; formulas and functions; tables and pivot tables; data analysis; forms, mail merge, printing, and document generation.

This course is the same as BUS A 15E but it has fewer units.

This course introduces methods to analyze international and internal migration. The focus in on economic migrants, including trafficked people, and refugees. The causes of people movement and its consequences for the migrants and refugees and the destination countries are drawn up. Government policies on immigrants are examined from the viewpoint of advancing the economy, national security, satisfying public sentiment and obligations to international treaties. Comparisons between policies on immigrants in Southeast Asia and in Europe and North America are also discussed

The course gives a basic understanding of concepts within the field of semantics and pragmatics using problem oriented exercises to highlight different traditions, including structural-typological semantics, logical semantics, cognitive semantics, and pragmatic theories of meaning. The course addresses philosophical issues such as: What is meaning? What is the relationship between meaning, world, and mind? Emphasis is placed on more linguistic issues such as: Do different languages have different systems of meaning? What is the relationship between the meaning and structure of language? Is meaning dependent on context?