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Through the teaching of this course, students can understand and master the process of replication, transcription and translation of genetic information molecules in living organisms, understand and master the characteristics and mechanisms of gene expression regulation, and understand genetic engineering and its application.

This course introduces basic corporate finance principles and applies an analytical framework to examine important financial decisions faced by financial managers. We analyze how well-crafted decisions can generate lasting values impact. Course topics include: net present value and capital budgeting; valuing bonds; valuing stocks; financing investment; company valuation; mergers and acquisitions; Initial public offerings; options and dynamic hedging; and corporate governance. 

This is a two-semester course on the classical interactions of light and matter (electromagnetism), and the relationship between space and time (special relativity). The focus of the course is similarly twofold; there is emphasis on developing skills to solve physical problems, and on the close interplay between mathematical results and physical laws.

The course provides students with an understanding of qualitative and quantitative approaches to research, and the key characteristics of common research designs applicable to nursing and healthcare, (qualitative, quantitative, and participatory approaches) linked to the theories that underpin them. Sampling and data collection methods are introduced. An understanding of research governance, ethics, and user involvement are developed.
 

The course is a practical programming class focused on artificial intelligence (AI) examples. The course discusses introductory Python language at the beginning; engages in hands-on programming in class and implements AI examples in the final month of the course. The course covers basic to advanced concepts of the Python programming language. The examples and exercises provided in the course primarily emphasize AI applications. Finally, students will utilize Python to implement the final project, which involves programming tasks and a final presentation.  

This course examines the fundamental aspects of the history of art criticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, with a strong focus on the contextualisation of the different methodological approaches related to the analysis of works of art. By analyzing art criticism as its own distinctive genre, it will focus specifically on the advantages and dangers of close description, as well as the discussion of the broader questions: What is the nature of criticism and critique? Are critics judges, historians, participants or creative agents in their own right? A wide range of figures that characterized art criticism and defined the practice will be discussed, ranging from Denis Diderot to Susan Sontag and, more recently, Hilton Als. Through a selection of significant examples of their work, the course discusses how the functions and audiences of art criticism have changed, and how its writing has not only helped to criticize, but also simultaneously shape the practice of art.

This course explores a selection of topics in Buddhist ethics, using a range of sources from historical contexts and contemporary debate. Themes include ecology and animal rights, human rights (including abortion, euthanasia, and issues of equality), war and peace, and economic ethics. The course begins with an introductory discussion of the foundations of Buddhist ethics, including ideas such as karma and rebirth, and key Buddhist virtues and ideals. Ethical topics are then explored in turn, using a range of sources from a variety of Buddhist contexts, historical and contemporary.

This course introduces students to the methodology and major concepts and theories in the Political Science field of comparative politics. Students learn how to analyze and assess similarities and differences among political systems. Students study and compare the domestic politics, political institutions and conflicts of various countries and through time within single countries. Students learn how to identify and explain political similarities and differences among countries, in the process gaining a critical perspective on politics in the U.S.

This course examines the dynamic between music and politics from the Haitian and French Revolution until Black Lives Matter, or, alternately, from Beethoven to Beyoncé. Large thematic topics will include the Enlightenment, liberalism, nationalism, fascism, the Cold War and globalization. Musical case studies will include opera, symphonic tone poems, ballet, film scores, folk and pop songs, hip hop and punk, as well as global genres such as Afrobeat and Tropicalia.