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This course examines the roles of logistics in supply chain management. It covers business of production; business environment; transport fundamentals and transport decisions; storage and handling systems and decisions; inventory policies; forecasting logistics requirements; facility location analysis; network planning process; purchasing scope and objectives; purchasing structure and organization; purchasing variables – price, time and quality; buying commodities; buying capital goods; buying services; purchasing systems. 

This course begins with a look at the meaning of "peace" in theory and practice. Then, discussing real examples of breaches of peace, the course examines the causes and conditions that allow such breaches, as well as how they might be avoided. Finally, the course looks at cases of peace settlements and how justice and reconciliation can be achieved for lasting peace. Each week the course will consist of a variety of formats, including student presentations, lectures from the instructor, and group discussions.

This course examines critical and creative texts that engage with narrative ethics as they appear in different cultural and linguistic traditions. This focus on ethics will simultaneously redirect us back to narrativity and the constructedness of texts.

This course examines Big Data computing systems and programming models. It covers the architecture and components of Hadoop and Spark, data processing with Spark, and advanced topics such as Spark Streaming, graph processing, and machine learning. Students will learn to develop operational and programming tools for data collection, serialization, migration, and workflow coordination in Big Data pipelines. 

This course examines the essential areas in biomedical engineering, including technologies and applications in life sciences and medicine. The course is broadly divided into 4 areas: biomechanics and biomaterial; cell and tissue engineering; biomedical instrumentations and signals, and medical imaging. The global development and other issues, such as safety, ethics and industry will also be addressed.

In this course, students gain a fundamental understanding of the functioning of international energy markets and perform sound analyses on energy markets. Students learn about the national and international transport and consumption of the main energy sources. Topics also include external costs and steering instruments, insights into newest developments, and how to do cost accounting and capital budgeting with respect to energy economics. 

The course covers contemporary monetary economics and its application to the conduct of monetary policy. As well as reviewing the relevant academic literature, the course deals with the experience of the main central banks, with a particular focus on the European Central Bank. The course first analyses the nature of money and the long-run relation between money and prices and economic activity. It then examines a number of key issues in regard to contemporary monetary policy: monetary policy rules, the role of expectations and the transmission mechanism. For this purpose, the course presents the New Keynesian model which is now widely used for the purpose of analyzing monetary policies. The course then looks at the monetary policy strategies of the major central banks as well as the operational frameworks by which they steer interest rates. The course concludes by looking at the conduct of monetary policy during the financial crisis, covering issues such as non-standard measures, the implications of the zero bound on nominal interest rates and the role of monetary policy in contributing to financial stability.

This course is an introduction to political philosophy with a special focus on modern society. Students look at how various political theories of democracy have emerged since the 17th century, and how they are now modified and/or challenged by some contemporary authors. 

This course examines various environmental challenges in contemporary societies from a sociological perspective. Recognizing that environmental problems are often intricately connected with the conditions of societies that they are situated in, it explores the processes underlying social and environmental changes as well as the consequences that those processes may entail at national, regional, and global levels. Substantive topics to be covered include limits of growth and development, sustainable production and consumption, climate change and global governance, and environmental movement.