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This course features a study of selected topics in Linear Algebra in continuation of Linear Algebra II: eigenvalues, eigenvectors, diagonalization and Jordan normal form. 

This course provides a solid theoretical base of specific issues related to international marketing, allied to a practical view, based on case discussions. The course permits students to develop knowledge of how to plan a marketing strategy for expansions into foreign markets based on such issues. This course covers the concepts and theories in international marketing, the challenges and opportunities in international markets, environment analysis of international markets, strategies to enter international markets, repositioning in international markets, country of origin image, pricing strategies in international markets, distribution tendencies in international markets, and non-traditional marketing communication in international markets.

This course consists of an introduction to the major authors and debates in the history of post-45 art. The seminar lays the basis for to further studies and is meant to familiarize students with a set of basic texts that have helped shape and transform our discipline since the mid-20th century. Students read classical and more recent texts by art historians, critics and theoreticians, such as, Claire Bishop, Benjamin Buchloh, T.J. Demos, and Rosalind Krauss, as well as discuss such central concepts as institutional critique, site-specificity, post-modernism, relational aesthetics, post-coloniality and the environmental turn.

If historians generally agree that Europe experienced far-reaching intellectual and cultural change during the 18th century, they rarely agree about the nature of that change or how to interpret it. This course introduces students to some of the major interpretations of, debates about, and approaches to the history of the Enlightenment in 18th-century Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. It asks students to engage with original sources (in English), alongside the historiography of the Enlightenment, and to come up with their own responses to that still troubling question.

This course provides students with knowledge of the fundamental concepts, principles, processes, and rules of public international law as well as a more in-depth knowledge of selected areas of the law. This course covers different aspects of general international law, including the sources of international law, statehood and international legal personality, the law of international responsibility, and dispute settlement. It also examines more specialized areas of public international law, with a focus on jurisdiction, immunities, the use of force, and human rights, land and sea, and the environment. The course addresses theoretical debates and uses practical examples of international law in action, many of them relating to contemporary events in international relations.

This course examines the comparative analysis of women's roles in politics and the challenges they encounter in attaining positions of power within the political arena. The seminar is split into two parts. The first part explores various aspects of women's involvement in politics, such as the historical struggle for women's suffrage, the gender gap in voting behavior, ideology, and political involvement, and their variation across countries and time. The second part focuses on various aspects of women's representation in political institutions, including the challenges they face when seeking public office, their portrayal in the media, their impact on political decision-making, and the relationship between their presence and corruption. Additional topics include the entry of women into politics and the degree of this transformation varying across different countries and regions. Questions covered include: what factors underlie these variations? Why have some political systems successfully integrated women into politics while others lag behind? Do men and women approach politics differently in terms of understanding and engagement? Is there a disparity in political involvement and aspirations between genders? Additionally, how has media coverage affected female candidates? Furthermore, once in power, do women govern differently from men? 

This course introduces students to various aspects of the socioeconomic, cultural, and political transformations that Japan has undergone since the end of the AsiaPacific War. It explores the historical trajectories of postwar Japan within the broader context of its transition from an imperial power to a post-imperial nation, as well as its involvement in the regional and global Cold War. Major topics to be discussed include: the Allied Occupation of Japan, political developments and social activism, “high-speed growth” and its shadows, national and transnational memory politics related to the Asia-Pacific War, and the impact and repercussions of “March 11.” While the primary focus of this course is on post-1945 Japan, we will examine how the remnants and aftermath of the Japanese Empire have influenced the complexities of the postwar period. In doing so, this course also considers the interactions between postwar Japan and other Asian countries, providing insights into Japan’s evolving role in East Asia. 

This course introduces the dramatic performance traditions of the ancient Greek world. Focusing on Athens, students study ancient plays as literary texts and performance scripts and explore elements of poetics, the production of drama such as performance venues (theatres, festivals, games) and the conventions and practicalities of staging, as well as drama’s civic and religious contexts, historical development, and value as source of cultural information. Students critically discuss the content, themes, and structure of the studied plays. Students analyze extracts from and aspects of the studied plays. Students situate the studied plays in their performance contexts and comment on the relevance of these contexts for their understanding. The course also explores the significance of ancient drama for the audiences of selected later restaging, translations, and adaptations, from antiquity to the present day.

This course introduces both computer game design and development. It includes important computer design concepts and fundamentals to create electronic games using C# and Unity. Students manage paper and digital prototyping, design iteration, and user testing. They also use game scripting and programming, including computer graphics and animation. The audience for this course includes current and aspiring game designers and those interested in all principles of the game creation process. Students from different locations share observations for a multinational/multicultural perspective.

This course investigates the process of the formation of the socialist system and the characteristics of the socialist system from historical, ideological, and political-social perspectives, and examines the possibility of its existence as an alternative ideology despite the collapse of real socialism.  

The course places communism as an ideology into dialog with reality as the system manifested in the Soviet Union and North Korea. Students will analyze communism as “theory” or “ideology” while using works of Karl Marx, investigate how the Bolsheviks tried to build the “first socialist country on earth” in the Soviet Union, and investigate the North Korean case, comparing it to the Soviet experience as well as the early ideals of Marxism.