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This course introduces and investigates two interdisciplinary approaches that connect the arts and sciences. In the first part, we explore how scientific knowledge deepens our understanding and interpretation of the arts. Beginning with the formation of artistic conventions, we examine the fundamental cognitive mechanisms that shape perception and aesthetic appreciation. The second part of the course explores how the arts can serve as a lens for interpreting scientific concepts. By engaging with contemporary arts inspired by biotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, etc., students explore how the arts critique and complement scientific endeavors. The course provides students with a solid foundation for conducting further research at the intersection of arts and sciences, fostering a deeper engagement with interdisciplinary studies.

Topics include vision and its relation to artistic conventions, key factors about light and color, various artistic techniques (perspective, shading, etc.), perceiving motion in artwork, emotional responses to art, empirical methods and approaches in science, neuroscientific approaches, art through changes in science and technology, robotics and digital media in art, AI-generated art, and more. 

This course covers modern spectroscopic techniques used for structure elucidation of organic compounds and spectral data analysis techniques. 

Lectures on natural products biosynthesis and structure determination will be given at the end of the course.  

This course is specifically designed for students who will be practicing the structure determination of organic molecules for their research project. 

Topics include Basic Principles of NMR I, Basic Principles of NMR II; NMR Chemical Shift, Proton NMR (Mosher Ester Analysis + CASA reagent); Coupling Constants, Murata J-Based Method; Nonclassical Coupling + NMR Calculations, 2D NMR I (COSY, HSQC, HMBC); 2D NMR II (Other NMR Techniques), 2D NMR Peak Assignment Practice; 2D NMR Unknown Determination; Mass Spec Ionization; Mass Spec Application + Analyzer, Mass Spec Fragmentation analysis I; Mass Spec Fragment Analysis II, IR Group Frequency; Practical X-ray microED (Video Lecture), Biosynthesis I Introduction; Biosynthesis II NRPS, Biosynthesis III PKS; Biosynthesis IV Terpenes + Alkaloids, Biosynthesis V Review. 

This course examines authoritarian politics from a global comparative perspective. It explores what autocracy involves, how autocrats come to and lose office, and how they attempt to hold on to power. This involves studying both blunt and sophisticated tactics ranging from indiscriminate physical repression to digital surveillance, as autocrats seek to mitigate threats to their position from foreign powers, elites within their regimes, and their own people. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. The main purpose of the course is to provide students with a thorough knowledge of the core concepts of tort law in the automotive industry issues not only from a national perspective but also from the perspective of the harmonization of European Union Law and the US legal system. The course provides the student with a general knowledge of basic principles and concepts of European Union and US tort law and consumer protection law focused on the automotive industry issues. It also focuses on corporate social responsibility and environmental and technological innovation issues that the automotive industry faces. Using the method of the economic analysis of law, the current EU and US legal systems are evaluated in the light of a pragmatic proposal to check that the basic liability law can still function properly in the light of rapid changes to some of the products that it covers. The attention focuses on the new issues arising from highly automated vehicles and the role of the precautionary principle governing the EU consumer protection law, and the risks development doctrine which can be seen as a limit to the manufacturer liability. The automotive litigation prospective also leads to focus the attention on class action and punitive damages which play a crucial role in the American legal system and are not still implemented in EU legal system. At the end of the course the student is expected to become familiar with the legal notions of producer, consumer, tort law, damage, product liability law, and product safety law governing the automotive industry, in order to observe the problem of the automotive litigation in a globalized prospective. 

The course is divided into five parts: Introduction to private law; Product safety and product liability in the EU legal system; Product safety and product liability in the US legal system; Automotive and private law; Highly automated vehicles, connected vehicles and autonomous driving cars

This course gives students the tools to analyze, research and respond to real world issues such as globalization, crime, social justice, community breakdown, and racial, sexual and indigenous inequality.

The course deals with time discrete signals and systems. Items such as the Fourier Transform, the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and the z-transformed are treated in the course as well as some basic structures for implementation of digital filters. Also, system function and frequency functions are introduced as well as digital filters. Digital processing of analogue signals using A/D and D/A conversion is studied. In the laboratory work, practical applications of digital signal processing such as speech signals processing and biomedical signals processing are treated. Also, the course includes basic filter design using Matlab and digital signal processors (DSP).

This course offers a brief survey of the neural mechanisms that underlie health behaviors such as eating, drug use, and stress. Besides learning about neural mechanisms important across diverse health domains, students learn to examine a particular health behavior in detail, not only understanding its underlying neural mechanisms, but using this understanding to develop future research. 

This course covers concepts in community health, primary health care, and the health system. It discusses the development of health manpower and identification and visualization of health disparities that exist in the community. Practical sessions in local hospitals and field trips as well as independent research and a group project are included.

Today's climate and ecological issues require a great transformation in the perception of human life and the relationship of humans to nature as a whole. Ecological and environmental history is a perspective and method of history to respond to the great transformation.  

This course covers major research achievements and methods of ecological and environmental history from a global perspective and from a standpoint that history is no longer the history of humans, but the history of interactions between humans and other living things and materials. As a result, we expand our perception of history by considering the achievements and limitations of modern civilization. 

Topics include Environmental history – what is it, Imjin War, Colonial environment, Forestry/Heat, Imperial weather/Imperial Japan/Republican China, Korean War and environmental history, North Korea and environment, South Korea/post Korean War rebuilding, Park Chung-Hee era, Environment and Developmental dictatorship, legacy. 

This graduate course examines how and why global development and international inequality can be shaped by the mega trends of science and technology innovations. Recent examples include the advent of artificial intelligence and smart cities utilizing big data. Understanding science and technology innovations affecting the fundamental modes of human life provides us with a radar for the uncertain direction of the future development of human society. This course examines the nature and causes of co-evolution between the innovations of science and technology and the socio-economic development and their consequences on global as well as national development. 

This class consists of ten sessions of lectures and five sessions of group presentation. After learning core materials of empirics and theories regarding the co-evolution of science, technology, and socio-economic development from the lecture sessions, students present a research project applying the learnings to the contemporary global or national development issues with specific policy suggestions. The scope of research projects is wide open from the traditional development agendas of urbanization or structural transformation to cutting-edge agendas of smart city design or socio-economic impacts from AI. Each presentation group is required to write a policy report which puts their presentation in a dialogue with ideas and topics from the course readings and lectures.