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This is a research-oriented course for cybersecurity, a broad, fast, evolving discipline. The course covers important concepts but it not meant to be comprehensive. The following topics will be covered:

• The applied aspects of cryptographic primitives (randomness, hash, MAC, encryption, digital signatures)
• Cryptographic protocols (key exchange, authentication, anonymous communication, privacy-enhancing technologies)
• Network security (TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, TLS, DDoS, wireless, email, MLS)
• Advanced topics: _ security (IoT, SDN, blockchain, web, software, systems,...)

Course prerequisites: Basic knowledge in discrete mathematics, programming, and networking is strongly recommended. Class participants are also expected to comprehend research papers and conduct a research project. 

This course surveys the history of Europe and the Mediterranean world from the 12th to the 15th centuries. The course takes thematic cross-sections which enable students to understand not just the crucial events that shaped the period (such as the Crusades, the fall of Constantinople, the Black Death, the threat of Mongol invasions and popular rebellions), but also the mentalities of the people who experienced them. The thematic structure of tutorials allows comparison within each theme, covering not just Europe but also the Byzantine and Islamic worlds. Possible themes may include political structures, popular devotion, religious dissent, transmission of intellectual thought, violence and warfare, marriage, childhood, the persecution of minorities, assimilation and co-existence, and travel and exploration.

This course examines gender and sexuality in a Scottish context. As binary understandings of gender and sexuality are increasingly shown to be outdated and outmoded, developments in our understanding of gender and sexuality are making headlines and becoming a regular part of our daily discourse in both our social and working lives. This course enables students to apply their knowledge of identity politics to a dynamic range of relevant texts. The texts examine the decline of traditional, industrialist, "hard man" masculinities in Scotland. Through an exploration of dynamic, contemporary and highly acclaimed texts, this course examines broken masculinities, resistant femininities, and resurgent Scottish LGBT+ fictions. A select range of relevant secondary sources accompany this exploration of primary literature, introducing students to iconic theorists, as well as relevant contemporary critics examining Scottish literature from a gendered perspective.

Designed for sophmore students and above, this course requires no previous knowledge of literary criticism. Introducing textual analysis through hands-on exercises, the course exposes students to various perspectives for reading literature and culture through lenses of class, gender, power, knowledge production, economics, health, globalization, etc. The course covers important debates in literary and cultural studies, developing skills for analyzing texts to help them succeed in literature courses. Over two semesters, six professors introduce a variety of critical lenses for viewing literature and society. Students engage with a range of literary and cultural objects to gain new perspectives on our world and better prepare them for future courses in DFLL. Students may take one or both semesters. 

This is the second semester of the course. 

How do states cooperate with each other? How do they engage in conflict? Do these strategies of engagement change over time? These are some of the most important questions in the field of International Relations (IR) and they lie at the center of this course. Researchers and practitioners have asked those questions throughout human history – the increasingly competitive landscape of international security in the last decade makes such questions all the more potent. Starting with the onset of World War I and ending in the near future, this course explores the nature of conflict and cooperation over approximately the past 100 years. It introduces students to the different actors, processes, and technologies that shape these dynamics. This involves themes and topics such as why and when states start wars, how they may be prevented, how powerful states build international orders and for what reasons, whether international institutions are autonomous from states or subservient to them, the consequences of the rise of populism on interstate politics, and the nature of the current conflict between Russia and the West.

This course provides students with a foundation in geographical data, mapping, spatial analysis, and writing skills. It explores the organization and manipulation of geospatial data, cognitive mapping, and basic statistics, and addresses locational considerations (e.g. coordinates and space), map projections, and map design. It also introduces technological tools and methods available to map, analyze and disseminate geographical information. The course is mainly tutorial-based but includes lectures and local fieldwork, providing an interactive and applied learning environment to explore technical and technological geospatial methods and approaches. In doing so, it enhances students’ geospatial awareness and provide them with skills to examine relationships, interactions, and interdependencies between human and physical components of the environment. 

This course is an introduction to how anthropological analysis can contribute to an understanding of climate change, environmental justice, and human perceptions of nature. Although anthropology primarily focuses on social relations, environmental anthropology has historically been preoccupied with the interaction between natural and social processes. Through a mix of theory and ethnographic examples from around the globe, the course introduces newer perspectives on climate change and nature and cosmology, environmental justice, multispecies relations, care, conflict, and climate activism. The course includes a one-day collective fieldwork near Copenhagen and presentation of findings, collective reading and presentations of the work of a key author, and joint of essay writing based on fieldwork and theory.

Narratives about antiquity have reverberated through history. The stories the Greeks and Romans told about themselves and their past shaped the complex societies in which they lived. Today, narratives about the origins and fall of classical societies continue to be used to make claims about where modern societies came from, how they should be run, and how far we have come from our origins. This course examines influential narratives from the ancient world and their reinterpretations in later periods, from the 19th century to the present day. Possible topics include the origins of Greece and Rome and their entanglement in ancient and modern ideas of nationhood, culture and race, and the fall of the Roman empire and the lessons that have been drawn from it. This course shows that narratives of antiquity have always been embedded in contemporary culture, society, and politics, and that they continue to shape the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.

This elementary Chinese course is for beginners with no previous knowledge of the language. It aims to introduce Chinese language and culture through practical use of the language to students. The learning activities develop students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and gradually build up students’ confidence in using Putonghua for daily communication. In order to establish a solid foundation for long-term study, the learning of Chinese characters is an essential part of this course.

This course aims to develop a basic level of spatial planning literacy among urban studies students. It's divided into three modules: contemporary issues in spatial planning, the history and evolution of spatial planning and spatial planning as a process; and contemporary issues in spatial planning. Through various case studies, the course sensitizes students to various pertinent spatial planning issues in the specific institutional and legal context of Hong Kong.