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This course introduces some basic logical methods used in symbolic artificial intelligence and their philosophical foundations. It looks at some of the techniques that have been used to represent and reason about knowledge, belief, time, and agency.  The course also analyzes some of the ways logical tools can be used to study games, strategies, and planning, as well as the basics of formalizing concepts and commonsense reasoning.  

This course features different guest lecturers speaking on various topics in genome and systems biology.

This course surveys the development and outcome of social movements in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong during the postwar era. It focuses on the common themes that connect these five countries/regions, such as democratization, environmental protect, labor, student and youth activism, and gender and LGBT issues.   

This course introduces students to basic ideas and knowledge in formal logic and equips students with a sufficient background for understanding technical arguments containing logical symbols in philosophy literature.  

The course consists of three main parts: (1) Propositional logic, its language, semantics and syntax; (2) Predicate Logic, its language, semantics and syntax; and (3) Some relevant background in basic (non-axiomatic) set theory (including some ideas about classes, functions, and relations) and basic three-valued logic. Together with these lectures on formal logic, some basic topics in the philosophy of logic are also introduced, such as propositions, logical connectives, reference and definite descriptions, etc.  

This course teaches students the fundamental principles and methods of modern macroeconomic theory, and to illustrate the usefulness of these principles and methods for studying economic problems in practice. The objective is to help the students develop their own ways of thinking about real life economic issues. For that, both economic intuitions and scientific treatments will be emphasized.

This course examines key issues and debates in western feminist art movements between the 1960s and 1980s. The inclusion of case studies on the works of women artists, including Mona Hatoum, Nikki S. Lee, Yin Xiuzhen, Shen Yuan, and Megumi Akiyoshi. It also covers new artistic contents, and alternative cultural formats and theoretical paradigms to the on-going construction of a feminist history of art within the increasingly interconnected, yet unevenly developed globalizing contemporary society.

This course consists of ethnographic studies on Japanese popular culture, focusing on an academic understanding of Japanese popular culture through weekly meetings but also extracurricular team investigations of sociocultural phenomena that signify Japanese popular culture. 

This course provides an introduction to archaeology for students who may or may not have studied the subject before. The course outlines what archaeology is, and how it is practiced. Topics include principles and methods of archaeological investigation, analysis, and reconstruction; human evolution and the hunter-gatherers of the Paleolithic; and early agricultural societies, which charts the crucial shift from hunting and gathering to farming in the Near East and Europe.

 

This course examines general relativity. Topics include: The principle of equivalence; inertial observers in a curved space-time; vectors and tensors; parallel transport and covariant differentiation; the Riemann tensor; the stress-energy tensor; the Einstein gravitational field equations; the Schwarzschild solution; black holes; gravitational waves detected by LIGO, and Freidmann equation.

This one-unit elective course is designed for junior students in the Department of Chemistry who are interested in contemporary research in chemistry-related fields. The prerequisites for this course are General Chemistry (I)(II), Organic Chemistry (I)(II), and Analytical Chemistry (I)(II).
Students are expected to attend a weekly group seminar, and give one to two 30-minute oral presentations of literature review or their research progress. Students are not required to enroll in this course concurrently with Chem 3041: Research Training for Junior (I).