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This course teaches microeconomic analysis to let you explore important contemporary questions and special emphasis is given to the question how public policy can change (economic) outcomes.  Students will learn how to understand economic problems by focusing on their key characteristics, choosing the relevant microeconomic mechanisms and developing a solid intuition. The use of mathematics is minimal (in particular, with no calculus) and the emphasis of instruction is on graphical analysis and economic intuition. Precise topics and readings will be announced and are selected to be of current interest, such as the impact of the pandemic and environmental concerns.

This course offers an introduction to international macroeconomic theory and develops the main tools for macroeconomic policy analysis. Students study the balance of payments and the causes and consequences of global imbalances, followed by an in-depth study of the determination of exchange rates, money, and prices in open economies. They discuss the costs and benefits of different nominal exchange rate regimes and their sustainability, as well as examine the causes and consequences of debt and default, speculative attacks, and financial crises.

This course acquires knowledge and skills about the principles, methods, and tools used in industry in the development of complex product systems. The course develops beyond one's own engineering discipline, to understand holistically a product development project, including the system-technical and economic perspectives over the product's entire life cycle, the project risks and technical risks, as well as a basic understanding of socio-technical systems – for example a product and its users, or a technical development organization.

The course provides basic knowledge of modern and contemporary psychoanalysis as a model of human mind, as tool for understanding psychopathological processes, and as a psychotherapeutic treatment. At the end of the course, students: a) know major psychodynamic theories of mental functioning and development; b) handle basic psychoanalytic assumptions concerning the nature of psychopathology and its treatment; c) understand current evolutions of psychodynamic psychology (e.g., single case tradition vs. empirical research; relationship between psychoanalysis and neuroscience; process and outcome research on evidence-based psychodynamic psychotherapies).

In this course, students develop the skills required to identify hazards, to estimate the magnitude of the consequences (typically fires, explosions and toxic releases) and the probability of such an event occurring. Additionally, a fundamental approach for the systematic assessment and reduction of risk is established. Such an approach is essential to minimize harm, the resulting loss of money and reputation, and to meet national regulatory requirements.

This course is an introductory survey of the art and nature of philosophy, i.e., the ability and activity of articulating one’s views about a philosophical problem and defending them with good arguments. The course examines problems representative of and fundamental to both Western and Asian philosophical traditions and provides perspectives related to current philosophical issues. The main readings are selected from classics in both traditions.   

The course is an introduction to the geometry of the image formation process and how visual data is represented and manipulated in a computer. Students learn projective geometry, which helps model the perspective projection, and digital image processing. Topics include how to model the perspective operation that happens when a picture is taken (projective geometry, image formation process), how pictures (visual data) are represented and processed in a computer (digital image processing), how to find out the internal geometric parameters of a camera (camera calibration), and what applications camera technology has in robotics (stereopsis, visual odometry, AR/VR, etc.).

The course is an introduction to manufacturing processes, ranging from machining operations to production quality control and production cost analysis, according to requirements of the Smart Manufacturing. The course provides an overview of systems and methods to monitor the machining operations and control the production quality by in- and post-process measurements. Part of the course is focused on introduction to the development of data acquisition and monitoring systems based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques and their implementation in manufacturing processes in academy and industry environments. The course is given as lectures with computer exercises and laboratory sessions and a task to train the student to elaborate on the material presented in the lectures. A project gives the student an opportunity to independently solve a problem for automatized process monitoring and production control. Assumed prior knowledge: MMT012/MMTF20 Production and Manufacturing Methods or MMTA05 Production Systems or MMTF01 Production and FKM015/FKMA01 Materials Engineering, Basic Course.
 

This course introduces contemporary media and popular culture in South Korea along with relevant issues. A primary emphasis will be placed on the ways in which the media express and mediate Korean popular culture. Students learn theoretical concepts and ideas that enable them to understand Korean media and “read” Korean popular culture from academic perspectives. The topics include ownership, diversity, economics, policy, globalization, multiculturalism, Korean Wave, K-pop, film, journalism, broadcasting, among others. Students undertake group research projects and discuss their work in class. 

This course provides an introduction to Social Anthropology as the comparative study of human societies and cultures. Students are introduced to key themes and debates in the history of the discipline. Ethnographic case studies are drawn from work on a variety of societies, including hunter-gatherers, farmers, industrial laborers, and urban city-dwellers. Drawing on both classical and contemporary work, the course starts by posing the question: What is Social Anthropology? After exploring the ethnographic method and considering some historical background, the rest of the course is organized around core themes in the discipline, including (in the fall term) relatedness, exchange, and power. Through comparing different ethnographic examples, students consider key questions through anthropological perspectives. How do we become people and become related to others? What is love, and is it natural? Why do we think of some people as different and others as the same? Why are gifts and exchange so central to human societies? Does work empower or enslave us? What is power, and why do some people have it and others don’t?