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This course applies economic concepts and techniques to analyze issues in health and health care. It explores the principles and techniques of economic evaluation of health interventions using the basic principles of epidemiology and examines health systems and health policy issues mainly in Japan. 

This course offers a broad, accessible introduction to generative AI and LLMs, with a focus on their transformative applications in language-related disciplines. Tailored for students from humanities backgrounds, it explores how LLMs can advance fields such as linguistics, translation, language learning, and academic writing. Combining foundational theory with hands-on practice, the course equips students to utilize LLMs for both research and practical tasks. Beginning with an overview of AI and LLMs, the course introduces basic Python programming in a beginner-friendly way. It then transitions to practical applications, including using LLMs for language research, teaching and learning, translation, and exploring aspects of human cognition. Topics such as multilingualism, feedback generation, error correction, and linguistic analysis are also covered.

This intermediate level course explores new health paradigms so future health professionals make decisions that transcend health systems and the societies they interact with. The course covers the following topics:

• Health and its history and types of medicine
• Biopsychosocial Model
• New tendencies in health designs
• Future of health designs

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of business ethics in modern work organizations. Students explore key concepts and theories, focusing on ethical and unethical behaviors within organizations. Students gain awareness of how organizations strive to manage their workforce and environments responsibly and sustainably. The course covers non-mainstream elements of organizational life, including organizational misbehavior and corporate crime. Students develop skills to analyze and solve organizational ethical problems using business ethics knowledge. Additionally, they understand the increasing importance of ethics, corporate responsibility, and sustainability for organizations today. 

In this course students learn about the sources and determinants of economic inequality. Students begin by thinking about how we should understand top income and wealth concentration: The fact that rich people are so much higher than the rest (the so-called "1%." New and old theories of income and wealth concentration are studied. Students then think about what generates overall inequality. Is it luck? Higher education? Having rich or better educated parents? Finally, the course discusses how income inequality manifests itself, specifically whether income differences are mostly driven by education level, industries, or occupations.

From Amazon.com to the Mall of America - some of the world's most sophisticated selling technologies emerged in the United States. In fact, some have called consumption America's true national pastime. But how did this culture of consumption take shape? And what does it mean for a global community today? Surveying the transformation of America's consumer culture, this course explores what power the consumer has commanded in American society. The course examines how critiques of consumption shaped the course of American politics, economics, and social order. 

The course develops students’ problem-solving skills, creativity, and commercial awareness. Acting as consultants, students identify and evaluate business opportunities using tools like SWOT, PEST, and Ansoff’s Matrix. This course bridges the gap between academic knowledge and real-world applications, making students’ expertise more relevant in business contexts. The course culminates in a consultancy project where students analyze a business and recommend innovative changes to that company’s business model. Students develop a consultancy mindset (i.e. commercializing focused both aware of other stakeholder interests and expectations), gain essential analytical skills, and further develop their abilities to innovate creating value in various contexts. 

.This course offers an overview of modern Japanese political history, focusing on Japan’s domestic and foreign challenges from the late 19th century to the postwar era. It examines key shifts between democratization and militarization, and between unilateralism and multilateralism, highlighting the interplay between domestic politics and diplomacy. Topics include nation-state building, the rise and fall of party politics, Japan’s imperial ambitions, and postwar political developments. The course aims to deepen students’ critical understanding of Japan’s historical trajectory and its impact on Asia.

This course explores key concepts in European political thought in the 17th century. Natural law, the state of nature, state sovereignty and the social contract are just some of the themes which are studied. The focus is on a close reading of the major works by Hobbes, Pufendorf, and Locke, as well as examining the relationship of these authors.

What impact does war have on changing societal norms, such as sexual behaviour and the roles and status of women? How have societies altered the conduct of war, through the mobilization of resources or the persecution of minorities, for example? This course addresses these questions, exploring the dynamic relationship between culture, conflict and change to fully explore people at war. Through both a thematic and case study approach, it draws on a wide range of historic and contemporary conflicts to investigate the destructive and transformative power of conflict on social, cultural, and political life, as well as the ways that societies shape the motives, methods, and constraints of conflict.