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This course explores macroeconomic principles and their implications for the European Union and individual member states. Topics include: GDP; inflation; unemployment; fiscal policy; monetary policy; international trade; economic evolution of the EU; role of the Eurozone; the European Central Bank; challenges and opportunities posed by a common currency.

This course covers theories of infectious disease control policy and management of the processes of prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery for public health crises related to infectious diseases. 

Via examination of infectious disease control policies and biological knowledge, the course offers an interpretation of infectious diseases and public health crises through the lens of political economy.  

This course examines the complex relationships between media and multiple varieties of communities, including national, local, ethnic, and subcultural groups. Through readings from multiple academic fields, the course addresses the media’s potential to change one’s understanding of cultures and how one relates to cultures they see as ‘other,’ as well complicating the divisions between the two. 　 
　 
The first half of the course discusses the role of nations and national cultures in the production, transmission, and consumption of media texts. Then, the course examines the complexities of community in the digital age, focusing on the spread of ideas across national and cultural borders through online participation. 

This course explores the impact that the complex relationship between humans and nature has on climate and biodiversity. It discusses the historical evolution of humanity's approach to nature and those representations in Latin American literature. It focuses on the cultural/environmental implications of extractivism, histories of land use, the social impact of economy on bodies and the biosphere, the political use of nature, non-human/human relations, the emergence of Latin American environmental thinking, ecocriticism, modern Latin American literature, and some of the most important political and cultural debates of the continent in recent history. 

This course examines questions about the relationship between equality and justice, such as is it unjust for a society to be unequal? Unequal in what way? How do political systems reproduce relations of equality or inequality? Does society have a responsibility to compensate for some inequalities, and which ones? Readings include contributions from the contemporary debate on egalitarianism from John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Michael Walzer and others, as well as consider the application of theories of in/equality to current affairs in Singapore and elsewhere.

This course examines enlightenment and oppression, colonization and decolonization, the making and unmaking of nation states and the forging and unraveling of global relationships. It looks at social, cultural, political, environmental and economic histories in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australia. 

This course examines the geophysical imaging of the subsurface, including contrasting rock and fluid properties. Applications include environmental, engineering, resource, hazard, and tectonic studies. 

This course examines how and why volcanoes erupt from magma processes in the mantle to eruption at the surface.

This course covers the basic theories of behavioral economics and discusses papers published in major journals in recent years in a group-reading style. Utilizing behavioral economics, it analyzes recent trends in development econmics research.

Course prerequisites: Advanced undergraduate or graduate-level microeconomics and econometrics.

This course examines leadership effectiveness from a psychological perspective, covering a range of theories developed and utilized by psychologists. Topics include job characteristc theory, self-determination theory, expectancy theory, and equity theory. Students participate in group discussions and projects, analyzing real-world leadership issues and propose intervention plans to resolve issues.