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This course offers a study of basic demographic concepts, collection and use of demographic data, and tools for demographic analysis. It discusses population dynamics from a historical and global comparative perspective including current trends and future forecasts. This course examines determinants of demographic change, socioeconomic and environmental consequences of demographic change, and population policies.

This course teaches basic knowledge of the structure and functions of computers. Starting with the history of computers, the course explains the mechanisms of how they work and their future.  The course covers the representation of numbers; Boolean algerbra; combinatorial circuits; sequential circuits; computer architecutre; arithmetic, control, and memory systems; high performance computing; compilers; I/O and operating systems, and computer networks. 

The course covers cities, towns, villages, and farming communities in a world of globalization. It will emphasize the mobility of people, money, products, and information which has transformed the logic, delimitation, and relations between urban and rural communities in different countries. Major theories on the interplay between culture and structure are covered as well as the societal and technological changes which have reconstructed urban-rural distinctions and interconnections. Special attention is given to patterns of migration within and between countries and their effects on the development of different settlements.

This course examines the celebrated Chinese novel Journey to the West - the story about the dispossessed, marginalized, and demonized, Journey to the West exemplifies a sort of plurilingual, multicultural cosmopolitanism that is deeply resonate with the world today. Drawing on recent movements in literary studies—ecocriticism, gender and sexuality, food studies, animal-human interspecies interaction, the bureaucratic turn—students explore in the text English translation and study its global reception and why the novel continues to be popular.

This course examines issues related to gender, sexuality, and the body, including health, media representations, gender-based violence, and forms of resistance.

This course covers foundational topics in cognitive science from the perspectives of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, and computation. Topics may include how minds are defined, how they represent the world, how they communicate, and how they support adaptive behavior.

This course introduces students to the world of poetry, which includes both composition: inspiration, methods, forms and reception: reviewing poetry, statements of poetics, writing for poetry outlets, and public readings. Students examine shifting conventions, evaluation, and how poets write about poetry. Coursework involves a combination of written assignments, peer workshops, and public readings.

This course explores the effects of globalization and development on education and societies in Asia. It discusses the roles and activities of agencies such as the UN, the World Bank, JICA, and grassroots NGOs and their impact on education in the developed and developing countries of East and Southeast Asia.

This course aims to trace certain aspects of postwar Japan. It focuses on the quest for urban policy to tackle urban problems after World War II, particularly in the 1960s, an aspect of the underside of rapid economic growth.

This course examines a range of medical genetic disorders that illustrate principles of disease mechanisms, diagnosis and management. These will include: haemophilia, familial cancer, late-onset neurological disorders and mitochondrial disease.