English

This course covers important algorithms and theories for data mining. Data mining refers to theories and techniques for finding useful patterns from massive amounts of data. Data mining has been used in high impact applications including web analysis, recommendation system, fraud detection, cyber security, etc. 

Main topics include finding similar items, mining frequent patterns, link analysis, link prediction, recommendation system, data stream mining, clustering, graph mining, time series prediction, and outlier detection. 

Prerequisite: Students should have an undergraduate-level knowledge on the following topics: Algorithms, Basic probability, Programming, Linear Algebra 

The course will provide some background but will be fast paced. 

This course provides an understanding of the key concepts underlying Geographical Information Systems (GIS), how Geographical Information (GI) may be defined, measured, structured and represented in a GIS, and the development of skills in the use and application of GIS through practical exercises. The course also covers the role of GI in society; the nature and construction of GI; measurement of location; principles and techniques of spatial data modelling; field-based and object-based conceptualizations of space, and their expression as spatial data structures; and concepts of spatial and non-spatial data retrieval, manipulation and analysis. Hands-on training in GIS will be provided in the laboratory sessions.

Rarely a day passes without the media reporting on violent uprisings, military coups, international interventions, suicide bombings, drone attacks, and civilian casualties all over the world. In conflict studies, these events are often discussed using a range of concepts such as ‘civil war’, ‘protracted social conflict’, ‘invasions’, and ’terrorism’. Despite this proliferation of terms, clarifying the complexity of violent conflict in the 21st century remains a challenging task. Rather than choosing one of these labels, this course presents a variety of theoretical approaches that aim to understand why and how different actors resort to violence in internationalized intrastate conflict. Each of these theories use different analytical categories to study different aspect of the phenomena under investigation. The course respectively focuses on the non-state, state, paramilitary, and international actor. This course teaches conflict analysis to help understand, and explain to others, the complex array of actors, interests, and dynamics involved in the violent conflicts we see around the world today. Throughout the course, address pressing issues in contemporary warfare like: How are terrorist and insurgency organizations able to mobilize people towards violent action? Why do states deploy starvation and sieges as a weapon of war in response?  Why do states outsource violence to paramilitaries? How and why do international actors forge transnational alliances to intervene in theatres of war? The course focuses on a broad range of contemporary case studies, such as Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Ethiopia, and Nagorno-Karabakh. Collectively, grappling with these different layers of analysis in isolation and in relation to one another and different case studies sharpen your conceptual and analytical capacities greatly. This course is essential for those who plan to participate in upcoming courses of the Conflict Studies minor. Entrance requirements include at least 45 EC for the category 1 (Bachelor Introductory).

This course provides an overview of some of the major developments in American culture since 1840. It introduces the basic methods of cultural history and teaches them how to place cultural developments within broader economic, political, and social contexts. Some of the themes discussed in the module include: the way culture has shaped racial, gender, and class conflicts and identities; the role of popular music in American life; the growth of advertising and consumer culture; the role of culture in debates over immigration and multiculturalism; and how the conquest of the American West was registered in American culture.

This course explores how poetry can address sustainability issues relevant to participants' professional, personal, and academic lives. Participants are encouraged to use poetry to deepen their connection with sustainability-related themes that are meaningful to them. It aims to use poetry's emotional impact to transform readers into active agents of change. The course extends poetry's potential beyond the literature classroom, encouraging participants to decenter human perspectives through the analysis of poems. The course provides a basic introduction to the tools required for analyzing poetry and facilitates the application of these to poems on various sustainability topics. Concepts from poetry analysis that are covered include the use of figurative language, diction, tone, as well as form and structure. Additionally, the course explores poetry and affective responses by exploring how poetry engages emotions. The course delves into both individual and collaborative responses to poetry and how such responses reshape perceptions of sustainability issues through an affective/reader-response lens. A creative-writing component is also integrated into the course. Participants use the writing of poetry to explore sustainability themes.

This course introduces students to an expanded canon of premodern art. Students consider traditional European material spanning from the Late Antique through the Renaissance and Baroque periods, whilst also looking in depth at simultaneous artistic developments in places such as East and South Asia, Africa, the Indigenous Americas and the Islamic world. Art historical touchstones by famous artists like Michelangelo, van Eyck, and Dürer are examined alongside works by artists of earlier and non-Western cultures whose names less well known or lost to us. The aim, in all cases, is to understand the diverse ways that artistic practices intersected with issues of, for example, identity, gender, sexuality, nationality, and religion. 

This course introduces students to the world economic dimension of the Korean economy, especially focusing on its trade, investment, and financial transactions with major partners. Students learn the basic theories of microeconomics and macroeconomics, and how these theories are applied to reality using Korean examples. The course also pays special attention to Korea’s involvement with diverse international economic institutions, such as the OECD, APEC, and the WTO, etc.  

Students gain basic knowledge of the process of Korea’s economic development, where the country’s interactions with the world economy have played a decisive role  The course is designed to be an interactive course, so that students must be prepared for class discussion by reading relevant materials and documents provided. Frequently documents from the WTO and OECD, as well as other international organizations will serve as basic readings. 

This course examines a range of issues, debates and understandings of human sexuality from a primarily social psychological perspective. 

This course introduces machine learning for Artificial Intelligence system design and implementation. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to explain the concepts of different machine learning models used in civil and environmental engineering areas; identify proper machine learning models and learning techniques for regression and classification tasks; apply machine learning models to generate useful information from raw data; evaluate outcomes of machine learning models based on evidence-based judgments; and create a machine learning model to generate useful information from raw data. 

Prerequisite: ENG1108 - ENGINEERING INFORMATION PROCESSING

This course examines the linguistic products of contact between English and other languages, in contexts of colonization and/or globalization. These different "Englishes" can include English creoles, substrate-influenced or "L" Englishes, or dense code-mixing with English. Sometimes these Englishes co-occur, and in addition there are L1 varieties of English which are retained in educational and or formal settings. Students explore the structure of these Englishes; the circumstances that have led to their formation, ideologies of the new varieties and attitudes towards them.