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This course introduces the biology of fungi, which play important roles in most ecosystems, as decomposers, parasites or symbionts. It covers the immense diversity in the fungal kingdom, their ecology and nutritional modes, as well as their life cycles and genetics. As fungi play important roles in society and in circular economy, the course also considers applied aspects of fungi. The course has a practical component where students work experimentally with fungi in the lab and learn to recognize characteristic species in their natural habitat during a one-week field course.

This course offers a study of the comics medium which includes graphic narratives, comics, graphic novels, and manga. It discusses the medium through different time periods, formats, materials, styles, aesthetics, genres, and themes with a focus on long-form works.

This course examines the structure, diversity and development of trees and other plants, with emphasis on the angiosperms.

Widely used in corporate employee training, the Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EQ), which has been developed since 1990, seeks to understand and improve emotional abilities for leadership in organizations and enhances the effectiveness of career design. This course is designed to deepen students' understanding of how to develop their careers in a diversified society and organizations through lectures with guest speakers who have worked different careers. The program is structured as a practical education program for students to internalize through reality-based learning and exercises a series of employment-related events such as recruitment, training, evaluation, compensation, retirement, and post-employment career, which occur in companies and various social organizations.

 

The course examines plant and fungal diversity with an emphasis on New Zealand species, the processes that drive species diversification, and methods for exploring and describing evolutionary relationships among species.

This course teaches the basics of major literary theories. Each lecture focuses on a specific theoretical approach to texts and cultural phenomena, such as psychoanalytic criticism, feminist criticism, gender and queer criticism, new historicism, and postcolonial criticism. By engaging with diverse critical frameworks, the course aims to deepen our appreciation for the richness and complexity of literature and other cultural forms.

This course is designed to provide students with the tools necessary to design and implement surveys and survey experiments. The course discusses issues of questionnaire design; sampling; respondent recruitment, and data collection. The course also explores causal inference and experiment designs to conduct social science research.

This course explores translation theories and their practical applications. Each session focuses on a specific theory or approach to translation, followed by an analysis of a translated text. The course aims to understand the crucial role of translation as a cultural and social practice and to become familiar with the major issues in translation theory and comparative literature.

This course is structured as a research project in which samples are collected, investigated using various analytical methods, processed using statistical methods, and compared to other studies. The focus lies on abrupt climate changes and the role of ocean circulation during the last ~50 thousand years in the North Atlantic region. The course takes a hands-on approach, using marine sedimentary archives as the basis for reconstructing past climate and environmental conditions. Through weekly theoretical lectures accompanied by extensive practical work in groups (field excursion, laboratory analyses, presentations and data processing), the subject progresses and culminates in an individual written report as course exam.