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This course examines mechanisms underlying real economic integration, including growth convergence, trade, factor mobility and fiscal transfers. It also analyzes theoretical and policy dimensions of the economic integration of Europe, the recent history of European monetary and financial integration, and the rationale for European Monetary Union, the theory of optimal currency areas, the European Central Bank, fiscal and monetary policy in a currency union, and the impact of banking and sovereign debt crises on the financial stability of the Eurozone.

This course builds an understanding of environmental issues as social issues by focusing on environmental justice. It explores the causes of environmental problems, how problems are understood and experienced by different populations, and how communities work towards fairer environmental futures.

This course examines entomology including insect evolution, ecology, anatomy and physiology. 

This course introduces moral philosophy. Questions may include: What makes an action right? Is morality relative (to one's own views or to one's culture) or is it objective? What is the relationship between religion and ethics? What is it to be a good person? DP requirements: Regular attendance at lectures and tutorials; completion of all tests, submission of all essays and assignments by due dates, and an average mark of at least 35% for the coursework. Assessment: Coursework counts 40%; one 3-hour examination in October/November counts 60%.

This course explores screenwriting as a tool for cultural storytelling.

This course introduces health economics as an applied field that uses microeconomic theory and empirical methods to study health, healthcare markets, and policy. 

The course is organized across the academic year: The fall semester examines demand-side behavior through formal economic models of individual decision-making, while this course analyzes supply-side behavior. It studies how healthcare providers, insurers, and firms operate under production constraints, strategic incentives, and regulatory frameworks.

This course discusses the basic theories and analysis methods for electromagnetic fields in vacuum and dielectric/magnetic media: Maxwell's equations, plane wave and its reflection/transmission, dielectric/magnetic media and their boundary conditions, etc. It also explores the basic principles and analysis methods for electromagnetic induction and radiation: Faraday's law, radiation from electric dipole, etc. 

Several environmental, personal, and biological factors appear to be important for healthy socio-emotional development, but occasionally these influences can lead to problem behavior. The course focuses on the development of problem behavior during childhood and adolescence, how it originates, and how it can be treated as it poses a risk for further healthy development. Topics addressed are the influence of genes/neurobiology, personality, the child’s environment (peer interaction, parent attachment/parenting style) on socio-emotional, and moral development and the development of psychopathology such as anxiety, depression, suicide, and narcissism. The final assessment for this course is a numerical grade between 0,0 and 10,0.

This advanced course investigates the Christian claim that Jesus’ crucifixion brings salvation. Although this claim is central to the Christian faith, it has been understood in surprisingly diverse ways over the centuries. These diverse interpretations of the cross often reveal divergent understandings of other key theological topics, such as: the nature of sin; the relationship between Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and ascension; the relationship between Christ’s saving work and the work of the Holy Spirit; what it means to say that Jesus is both divine and human; and even the nature of God as Trinity. Moreover, feminist theologians and others have offered important critiques of some interpretations of Christ’s crucifixion. This theme is also the subject of one of the most well-known contributions to systematic theology by a Japanese theologian, Kazoh Kitamori’s Theology of the Pain of God. As a result, investigating Christian understandings of Christ’s crucifixion provides a focal point for navigating Christian systematic theology as a whole.

This seminar prepares students for the field trip to Hiroshima and Nagasaki (KCSEM 209), which involves spending a week traveling together to Hiroshima and Nagasaki while earning credit. The latter involves experiencing the enduring impact and evolving memories of the atomic bombings of these two cities more than 80 years later. This seminar culminates in attending and studying the Memorial Services held in Hiroshima on August 6th and Nagasaki on August 9th. Both courses aim to reflect on how memories and commemoration of the atomic bombings have changed over time and their impact in the current international environment.