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Stonehenge is the world's most famous stone circle, dating from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. An iconic symbol of mystery and counter-culture, it has attracted attention from enthusiasts around the world who have come up with myriad and often bizarre interpretations of who built it, how and why. This course explores Stonehenge and other monumental constructions within their social, cultural, and landscape context, allowing Stonehenge to be understood within the world of prehistoric Britain and Europe from the adoption of farming to the development of copper and bronze metallurgy. The course examines the history of archaeological research on Stonehenge, and the nature of social change from the Neolithic to the Bell Beaker period and the Early Bronze Age. With many recent investigations of Stonehenge and its wider context producing a wealth of new evidence, this course brings students up to date on our knowledge of this fascinating period in prehistory.

A wide range of phenomena from areas as diverse as physics, economics, and biology can be described by simple probabilistic models. Often, phenomena from different areas share a common mathematical structure. In this course a variety of mathematical structures of wide applicability is described and analyzed. The emphasis is on developing the tools which are useful to anyone modelling applications, rather than the applications themselves Students should have a good knowledge of first year probability and of basic material from first year analysis. As the course builds on Probability 1, it also deepens students' understanding of the basis of probability theory.

This course offers a global introduction to comparative politics, focusing on case studies of politics and religion around the world. The course introduces students to approaches to analyzing and critiquing the way in which secular and religious issues are negotiated in institutions such as government, religious hierarchies, and civil society. Moreover, the course develops students' broader understandings of how power, conflict, and identities are conceived in the modern, globalized world. Topics can include religion-state relations, identity politics, religion and violence, and various international case studies of political participation and mobilization.

This is intermediate course delves into the historical evolution of the international system. It covers the main trends and characteristics of the system in different eras of modern world history, identifying the main causes, consequences, and stakeholders of different international conflicts. 

How to make money in China? How to avoid to losing money within China? While the first issue suits business schools, the latter is a typical law school issue. However, this course stands up in between, in the belief that without the helmet and shield from the legal premise, a business pioneer would risk all the efforts of his innovations, products and business models in the long-term race, not to mention safeguarding his harvest from such business. A proper parachute is instantly and constantly necessary before the entrepreneurship soars high into blue sky. This course applies PEST and SWOT analyses, as well as case-study methods, in the POV of a start-up, to walk the students through the whole business-life, including but not limited to soft-landing phase, the formation of business, the transaction rules, the legal compliance of routine operations, and the dispute resolutions.

This course introduces students to Slovene literature and the culture and history of the Slovenes since 1800. It is focused on one of Europe’s smallest nations, but it asks big questions: How does a national tradition take shape by combining and integrating various cultural and linguistic influences? Does national unity depend on regional diversity? Can language be the sole basis of national identity? The course explores such questions through canonical works of Slovene poetry, prose, drama, visual art, film and architecture and address a number of key themes, including: romanticism and the national awakening; folk culture and Slovenian regions; search for a Slovene modernism; the birth of Yugoslavia; the Second World War and the partisan memory; the end of Yugoslavia and Yugostalgia; gender and feminism; Slovenia and contemporary Europe.

This course explores some of the central ideas and debates in politics today, including claims regarding the nature of freedom, democracy, power, and the state. 

This physical education course introduces the field of exercise science and explores it in relation to areas of health promotion. The course also provides a unique opportunity for students to test a career choice in fields related to health, exercise, and well-being through lectures from experts from different areas of science. This course is a foundational exploration of essential concepts and theories related to fostering holistic well-being, encompassing both physical and mental dimensions. Emphasizing a comprehensive approach to health, the curriculum delves into diverse strategies for enhancing and sustaining well-being, including exercise, lifestyle management encompassing aspects like sleep, nutrition, and stress. 

Topics include Foundations of health and exercise science; Anatomy and physiology for exercise science; Exercise prescription and programming; Yoga experience; Nutrition, hydration, and exercise: Fundamental of nutrition, Energy balance, Nutrient timing, Dietary supplements; Stress, the effects of stress, and stress reduction; Psychology of physical activity and exercise. 

Students should expect to create and group-lead a stress-reduction class, and produce and present a final project. 

What puts former criminals on the right track? How can we prevent heart disease? Can Twitter predict election outcomes? What does a violent brain look like? How many social classes does 21st century society have? Are hospitals spending too much on health care, or too little? Data analysis is the art and science of tackling questions like these by looking at data. Just as cartographers make maps to see what a country looks like, data analysts explore the hidden structures of data by creating informative pictures and summarizing relationships among variables. And just as doctors diagnose sick patients and advise healthy ones on how to stay healthy, data analysts predict important events and variables so we can act on this knowledge. Methods from statistics, machine learning, and data mining play an important part in this process, as well as visualizations that allow the analyst and other humans to better understand what we can conclude from the available facts. During this course, students actively learn how to apply the main statistical methods in data analysis and how to use machine learning algorithms and visualizing techniques. The course goes beyond linear and logistic regression and thus continue where “Fundamental techniques in data science with R” ended. The course has a strongly practical, hands-on focus: rather than focusing on the mathematics and background of the discussed techniques, student gain hands on experience in using them on real data during the course and interpreting the results. Entry requirements include at least followed an introductory statistics course of 7.5 EC, and familiarity with correlation and regression, comparing means and cross tabulations of categorical variables. It's also expected to have hands on experience in carrying out these analyses, with, for example, SPSS, Stata, R or SAS.