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This course examines supervised and unsupervised learning, with emphases on the theoretical underpinnings and on applications in the statistical programming environment R. Topics include linear methods for regression and classification, model selection, model averaging, basic expansions and regularization, kernel smoothing methods, additive models and tree-based methods. We will also provide an overview of neural networks and random forests.

The Celtic literatures contain a variety of strong and memorable female and male characters, some positively portrayed and others negatively. The idealized gender characteristics which may underpin these portrayals is explored in the lectures. In the case of the ultimate model of masculinity, the male hero, the myth of heroic prowess coupled with the underlying threat of unpredictability and violence is examined. In addition, the blurred lines of gender identity in poetry is a particular focus. Saints' Lives of the Middle Ages, often an expected source of gender role reversal and fluidity, is also covered. A range of representative texts are read in translation, and discussed and analyzed in lectures.

Labor economists study labor supply, labor demand, minimum wages, taxes and transfers, immigration, human capital, education production, inequality, discrimination, unions and strikes, and unemployment. We will focus on applying applied microeconomics theory to the empirical data analysis.

This course introduces some basic logical methods used in symbolic artificial intelligence and their philosophical foundations. It looks at some of the techniques that have been used to represent and reason about knowledge, belief, time, and agency.  The course also analyzes some of the ways logical tools can be used to study games, strategies, and planning, as well as the basics of formalizing concepts and commonsense reasoning.  

This course features different guest lecturers speaking on various topics in genome and systems biology.

This course surveys the development and outcome of social movements in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong during the postwar era. It focuses on the common themes that connect these five countries/regions, such as democratization, environmental protect, labor, student and youth activism, and gender and LGBT issues.   

This course introduces students to basic ideas and knowledge in formal logic and equips students with a sufficient background for understanding technical arguments containing logical symbols in philosophy literature.  

The course consists of three main parts: (1) Propositional logic, its language, semantics and syntax; (2) Predicate Logic, its language, semantics and syntax; and (3) Some relevant background in basic (non-axiomatic) set theory (including some ideas about classes, functions, and relations) and basic three-valued logic. Together with these lectures on formal logic, some basic topics in the philosophy of logic are also introduced, such as propositions, logical connectives, reference and definite descriptions, etc.  

This course teaches students the fundamental principles and methods of modern macroeconomic theory, and to illustrate the usefulness of these principles and methods for studying economic problems in practice. The objective is to help the students develop their own ways of thinking about real life economic issues. For that, both economic intuitions and scientific treatments will be emphasized.

This course examines key issues and debates in western feminist art movements between the 1960s and 1980s. The inclusion of case studies on the works of women artists, including Mona Hatoum, Nikki S. Lee, Yin Xiuzhen, Shen Yuan, and Megumi Akiyoshi. It also covers new artistic contents, and alternative cultural formats and theoretical paradigms to the on-going construction of a feminist history of art within the increasingly interconnected, yet unevenly developed globalizing contemporary society.

This course consists of ethnographic studies on Japanese popular culture, focusing on an academic understanding of Japanese popular culture through weekly meetings but also extracurricular team investigations of sociocultural phenomena that signify Japanese popular culture.