English

This course examines the genre and history of games. It covers basic game design, storytelling and narrative analysis, game engines, design of virtual worlds, real-time 2D graphics, game physics and physical simulation, pathfinding and game AI, content generation, 3D game concerns, multiplayer and distributed games, and social issues.

This course studies excerpts of literary texts from the late 19th century to the present day, that propose a variety of crucial different meaning-of-life insights and meaning-in-life potentialities, all of which resonate to some extent with ideas from meaning-providing wisdom traditions (e.g., Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Sufism) and philosophical movements (e.g., existentialism and perennialism). Each work is furthermore explored in conjunction with thought-provoking intertexts. For example, Etty Hillesum is read alongside Rainer Maria Rilke and Martin Buber. The course all engages with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in conjunction with interviews with Maya Angelou and speeches by James Baldwin. Previous coursework in LIterature and English writing are required.

The course gives an introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant between the second millennium BCE and the first century CE, which often is called "biblical archaeology", and its relationship to the biblical texts. Through an overview of the historical and cultural context in which the biblical narratives was written down, the course gives an in-depth critical review of a selection of controversial narratives described in the literary sources and how they relate to archaeological findings and relics. The course also covers the importance of biblical archaeology both for exegesis, and the understanding of ancient Israel's history and how this influences politics and religion today.

This course introduces students to the history of Hindu Mythology from 1000BCE to 1000 CE through Sanskrit sources in English translation. The course surveys the history of Hindu Mythology from its inception in the Vedic period (1000 BCE) to its height in epics and Purāṇas (1000 CE). Students explore how premodern Hindu writers used mythology to navigate key religious questions regarding the problem of evil; the ontology of God; gender and salvation; and the creation of the universe.

This course examines the structure and function of human body at a molecular level. Major topics include the understanding of protein structure and its important role as enzymes, structure-function relationship of biomolecules, cell metabolism and energy production, and the basics of cellular biochemistry. 

This course examines financial regulations and compliance relevant to intermediaries (company and individuals) licensed to engage in regulated activities. Embedded in regulations and compliance are ethics, professional standards and applicable laws.

The course includes international hybrid workshops by lecturers of all partner countries on technologies and background information necessary to develop sustainable community-based projects. Topics include intercultural communication, PV training, CO2compensation, household biogas plants, clean cooking, biogas, social business; international student hybrid working groups developing CO2compensation projects for climate and SDGs tackling the needs of the local partner communities together with the partner NGOs; practical Service elements contributing to the success of the project for the partner community and to the climate action (including, e.g., training sessions in schools, fundraising events, activities in waste management, organic gardening, tree planting); and research and innovation opportunities to deepen the development and application of sustainable technologies and methodologies.

In this course students will improve: (i) their mastery of the fundamentals of Spanish grammar and the development of student’s linguistic and socio-linguistic competence in the use of Spanish language. (ii) their comprehension of written and spoken Spanish from authentic sources (iii) their fluency in oral communication and competence in written expression.

The course focuses on W.B. Yeats as a playwright and as a theorist of the theatre, combining an intensive focus on Yeats’s own work in the first half of the course with a more expansive consideration of the ways in which Yeats provides us with a way of reading subsequent Irish theatre in relation to recent work in the second half. Hence, the course combines the study of Yeats’s theatre and dramaturgy with consideration of recent work in the Irish theatre, including productions of plays currently running at the time of the module. It considers both the work of Yeats, and of more recent dramatists, not only as literary texts, but as performance pieces.

This course explores modern Middle East and North Africa and the societies and cultures through regionally and historically focused investigations. It continues with an exploration of historical and contemporary European and Western interventions and perspectives on the Middle East, and how these have impacted the region.