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This course provides students with a basic understanding of the key economic issues involved in the emerging market economies. Students learn to analyze the interaction between economic factors and institutional, political, and social factors in the formulation and implementation of economic policies in emerging economies, including transition economies.

The course offers a comprehensive exploration to some of the main areas of music study that students encounter during subsequent years of their study. These include an exploration in music and music history from the Middle Ages to ca. 1780; music and music history from ca. 1780 to the present day; jazz and popular music (broadly defined); ethno-musicological issues, and to music cognition. This course covers ethnomusicology and film music. All students must be able to read music fluently.

This course focuses on the basic concepts of numerical analysis, including the solution of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and partial differential equations (PDEs), interpolation, optimization, parallel computing, and an overview of applied computing in science and engineering. The course includes lectures and homework (programming), and practical exercises in programming are the focus of this course. The course content includes three main parts: The first part mainly introduces the overview of scientific computing, including its methods, existing problems, and its application in the field of energy engineering. The second part (the largest part) provides the theoretical foundation of numerical analysis, interpolation, solution of differential equations (ODEs and PDES), and optimization. Examples include simple solvers for corresponding problems. The last part focuses on the components of parallel computing technology (Message Passing Interface, MPI).

This course provides an overview of excise taxes and custom taxes, personal income tax, and corporate income tax. Topics include value-added taxes, specific business taxes revenue stamp, land and building tax, and other related taxes collected by government agencies. The course discusses the societal responsibility of individuals and businesses in relation to taxation, and emphasis is placed upon taxation in relation to doing business in Thailand. 

The course introduces students to selected topics in the legal application of medical scientific expertise. Students learn about the historical development and application of forensic investigation techniques such as toxicology, psychiatry, crime scene investigation, and DNA profiling, and how they were presented to the public in various media (e.g. detective fiction, newspaper reports, forensic television dramas). Students consider who make claims to forensic truth and what tools and techniques they use to arrive at that conclusion.

This course introduces cases and techniques of managing marketing programs in Mainland China. Students analyze cases, identify marketing strategies, propose corrections to elements of the marketing mix, and demonstrate problem solving and decision-making abilities through group work and projects. The course starts with an introduction to marketing management in China, and then discusses such topics as marketing strategy, creating value, choosing customers, communicating value, going to market, capturing value, brands and branding, managing customers, and sustaining value. 

In 1370 the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur (Tamerlane) founded his empire and made Samarqand his capital. This course introduces a culture Timur and his successors created and its transition during the long 15th century. Students explore the art and architecture under their patronage in the eastern Islamic world, including present-day Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Emphasis is placed on the impacts of their nomadic tradition, politics, and ideology on the artistic production and urban landscape. The latter part of the course centers around the late Timurid court in Herat.

This course examines multiple interactions/connections/confrontations between popular culture products and acts of political and social protest/resistance in the historical and contemporary English-speaking world. It demonstrates how the political and cultural worlds collide/intersect as they study the uses, meanings, symbolic language, motives, and activations of popular culture works in the context of collective acts of protest. The course not only looks at the obvious tension between popular culture and protest, when the former is defined solely along the lines of the "mainstream," but the overlooked and fertile infusion of the two, as in the connections between the abolitionist movement and slave narratives, between the Harlem Renaissance, Jazz, Civil Rights and the Black Arts Movement, between working class activism and realist writing, between modernist experimentation and feminism, between carnivalization and the LGBT movement, between the Windrush Generation, Reggae, Black British poetry, etc. It also explores the activation and sometimes adaptation of popular culture within contexts of collective acts of protest for greater rights/influence/power for marginalized groups organized around gender, sexuality, ethnicity/race, class, generation/age, etc. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this course draws on concepts and theories from history, literary studies, political communication (among potentially other options), applied to the study of the connections between popular culture actors and their works and sites of collective action. The course firsts gives a general introduction to the core concepts and theories of the course, followed by modules organized around various genres of cultural production, including (but not exclusively) music (e.g. slave songs, Jazz, Reggae, Hip Hop), theatre (e.g. musical theatre, Vaudeville, literature (e.g. slave narratives, Harlem Renaissance, performance poetry, post-colonial texts, graphic novels), visual arts (e.g. Black Arts Movement, protest graffiti), physical monuments (e.g. Confederate statues, imperial figures). The course thus examines the ways that popular culture is mobilized to advance the collective causes of marginalized and disadvantaged groups in their historical and contemporary struggle for liberation and equality, and how "high" as well as "popular" literature play a role in this.

This courses uses ten topics to explore how the global economy emerged in the past and how global trade and global empires changed the world. The first part of the course traces the connection between European colonial empires and the making of the global economy until the Industrial Revolution, and how the rise of the West impacted other world regions. The second part of the course discusses globalization and deglobalization and the shifts of global economic power in the modern age. This is modern economic history in a global context and focuses mainly on non-European regions.

This course explores how labor markets work and analyzes a wide range of labor issues within Japanese and US economies. Each class begins with the theoretical background of labor economics, then students analyze a related research article to understand how and whether the standard, neo-classical model is applied to real economic life. 

The regular version of this course is worth 3.0 UC quarter units. The Q version of this course is worth 4.5 UC quarter units. Students must submit a special study project form which outlines the requirements for the additional units. This is typically an additional paper graded by the instructor of the course.