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This course explores issues of crime and detection in a variety of literary texts from different historical contexts and from a variety of European and, depending on staff availability, also Latin American countries. This is done in relation to the main tropes of the genre and a range of theoretical approaches. It considers the contexts in which the texts appear and how crime fiction addresses ideological and social issues.
 

The course introduces the rapid growing field of health psychology, which could be defined as an interdisciplinary field concerned with the application of psychological knowledge and techniques to health, illness and health care. The primary purpose of health psychology is to understand and improve the well-being of individuals and communities. A better understanding of psychosocial factors and behaviors associated with health outcomes would inform strategies or policies aimed to promote health, prevent illness, and enhance the quality of health care by facilitating changes in beliefs and behaviors about health.  

This course seeks to answer several fundamental questions: Which factors control life in the ocean? How do we know what we know about the ocean? What's at the bottom of the ocean? How does the water in the ocean move? How are human activities and climate change altering the ocean?  

The goal of this course is to give students an introduction to econometrics with applications to empirical problems in economics and policy research. While some mathematical derivations will be presented, the emphasis will be on gaining an intuitive understanding of the principles of econometrics analysis.

The course covers a total of 10 sections, which are 

1) Introduction; 

2) Simple regression model; 

3) Multiple regression model – Estimation; 

4) Multiple regression model – Inference; 

5) Asymptotic properties; 

6) Heteroskedasticity; 

7)Further specification issues; 

8) Limited dependent variable models; 

9) Panel data analysis; 

10) IV and 2SLS estimation.

How do governments support families in reconciling work and life choices? What choices do women take in terms of working life, reproduction, and political preferences? What are the consequences in terms of welfare institutions and gender inequality? This course aims to combine the three strands of literature on political economy, welfare state studies, and gender issues to instruct students about the importance of a gender-based perspective in learning how different institutions, interest groups, and ideas contribute to gender equality. The course provides students with a series of topics discussed in PE, welfare, and gender literature. Students will become familiar with concepts such as bargaining power, discrimination practices in hiring, and motherhood penalty. The second part of the course focuses on specific examples from East Asia and Europe based on the three “I”s of PE studies: interest groups, institutions, and ideas, and how they improve chances for gender equality in different political economies. The third part of the course facilitates students’ direct involvement in specific cases by having them exercise their critical skills through discussions and presentations aimed at identifying policy solutions to problems of gender inequality 

This course introduces the basics of Perl scripting as well as handling of bioinformatic data. Upon completion of the course, students should be familiar with basic usage of LINUX systems and experienced with Perl scripting. Students should be able to code basic scripts, handle external files, design data structure, execute regular expression tests, hash and array usage, use modules, create Perl subroutines and much more. The course features lectures and hands-on exercises every week.  

This course introduces students to the basic knowledge and understanding of the 19th and 20th century sub-Saharan African history.  This course will offer:

1. A basic narrative of sub-Saharan African history from 19th century to the present;

2. Detailed knowledge of the histories of selected African countries after assignment;

3. An understanding of the framework in which sub-Saharan Africa has interacted with the rest of the world throughout the last century;

4. A way to approach contemporary issues in African politics, society and culture through a historical lens;

5. Experience in interpreting sources, engaging in historical debates, delivering analytical arguments both orally and in written form.

The course allows students the opportunity to explore through embodied engagement a range of methods of movement practices in order to performatively understand place, movement, and cultures. Students study, through practice and seminar, some of the key writings and practices of movement and place in contemporary culture. This can include a range of contemporary and historical approaches to dance, choreography, physical theatre, somatic practice, and contemplative practices.