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The course links share prices or returns to accounting items from the income statement and the balance sheet and in doing so effectively advises standard setters and regulators regarding the value-relevance of accounting information, especially bottom-line earnings and book value of equity. It also advises about the value-relevance of management (performance related) narratives, which often complement the disclosure of the audited income statement and balance sheet. Unlike classical financial statement analysis this course does not attempt to value individual companies. Instead, it analyses large sample evidence generated from regression analysis. It is important to note from the very beginning that this course is based to a large extent on journal articles. The main journals of interest in this course are Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, European Accounting Review (EAR), and Accounting & Business Research (ABR). This course is unusual in the sense that it is based on journal articles not a textbook.

This course is designed to provide a thorough overview of Critical Security Studies. It introduces and discusses theoretical perspectives and research objects at the heart of this burgeoning academic field. In doing so, the course supports a reflexive approach to the transformation of security, its related concepts and their empirical applications in close connection with key issues such as development, environment, migration, citizenship, and finance. It is organized in two main sections: the first section looks at the variety of theoretical perspectives in critical security studies; the second section introduces students to ongoing critical security research objects.

The course covers major aspects of the physiology of the human body using an integrated approach. The course covers fundamental principles of how the body works. Topics include: the physiological systems and homeostasis; neural and hormonal communication; nervous system physiology; digestive system; cardiac physiology, blood vessels and blood pressure; respiratory system; urinary system; skeletal and muscular system; sensory mechanisms; biological rhythms; central-peripheral communication in energy homeostasis. 

This course introduces the basic concepts and techniques of planning, design and operations within a facility. Topics include forecasting techniques, aggregate planning, inventory management, material requirements planning, process planning, production systems and operations scheduling. Students examine the intuitions behind many manufacturing logistics concepts and demonstrate the application of operations research techniques to this area. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course examines Shakespeare’s plays alongside their film adaptations, exploring the relationship between literature and visual media. Through readings and film screenings, the course analyzes how Shakespeare’s works were influenced by the cultural and social contexts of his time, and how modern adaptations reflect the contexts of their own production and reception. Each week focuses on a Shakespearean play and its significant film adaptations, discussing the nuanced and often innovative ways in which Shakespeare’s timeless texts have been read by scholars, readers, theater practitioners and filmmakers and reimagined through adaptation.

This course explores a nuanced understanding of The Pensées of Blaise Pascal while deepening one's knowledge of French Thought and Religion. The course also covers its Reception History, exploring various themes related to Life, Humanity, and Religion, while encouraging students to express their own existential reflections.

This course extends understanding of historical and contemporary theories in social psychology and challenge students to use their knowledge to engage with real-world issues. For example, what brings people together, and what keeps them apart? The emphasis is on fostering ethically minded and socially responsible psychology graduates, through critical reflection of our personal place in a social system. Students consider one’s potential to help others in need, and to be critically and responsively aware of known biases in social perception and judgement. The course equips students with enhanced employability skills through a focus on the ability to understand and articulate complex arguments, and to support claims by making sense of and explaining empirical evidence. Students are encouraged to engage with compelling experimental paradigms and debates in social psychology to move beyond directed textbook material and to become independent, active, and self-directed learners.  

The Spanish Civil War is one of the iconic events of the 1930s, capturing the attention of the world from its outbreak in July 1936. But the conflict was also deeply embedded in the broader history of its era, not just as a prelude to the Second World War but also as a reflection of deeper patterns of imperialism and anti-colonialism, internationalism, social conflict, religious belief and political violence. This course explores the uniquely Spanish features and origins of the conflict, but also asks how the Spanish Civil War can help us to understand the global interwar crisis in all its dimensions. 

This course provides a systematic introduction of concepts, theories and practices, with a focus on handling conflict and negotiation. The course content is composed of two intimately related parts. The beginning introduces the nature and types of conflict, mechanism of conflict escalation and de-escalation, and conflict resolution styles. The rest of the class sessions discuss the characteristics of interest-based negotiation and negotiation strategies. Specifically, the course teaches strategies to avoid various cognitive biases in conflict situations and negotiation, the building blocks of negotiation, the difference of distributive versus value-creating negotiation approaches, the strategies of achieving integrative outcomes, building trust and controlling emotions, utilizing power and persuasion, the importance of non-verbal communication in gaining information and ethics. Some topics are also covered in the context of cross-cultural negotiation and computer-mediated negotiation to cater to the need of today’s international business environment. 

Health communication is becoming increasingly important in a world faced with new health challenges from obesity to Ebola, anxiety to diabetes. This course considers the role of language in our experience of and beliefs about health and illness. Students learn how health communication differs among various communities, both monolingual and multilingual, from the grassroots level, such as in families, to broader groups, for example, between health professionals and patients. It also considers the effects of social diversity, such as the age, gender, and ethnicity of patients and healthcare professionals. Students become proficient in analyzing a range of relevant uses of language, including narratives about health and illness, the representation of health and illness in the media, computer-mediated communication about illness, and public health information, persuasion and campaigns.