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This course covers the underlying principles and wide-ranging industrial, environmental, pharmaceutical, and biomedical applications of microbiology. The objectives are (a) to gain an understanding of the role of microorganisms for biotechnology applications in the fields of medicine, agriculture, organic chemistry, synthetic biology, public health, biomass conversion, bioremediation, and biomining; and (b) to review advances in genetics and molecular biology of industrial microorganisms, enzyme engineering, environmental microbiology, food microbiology, and molecular biotechnology. A particular focus will be on the meaning and impact of microbiology on human health and the development of new therapeutic approaches. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course explores a number of education policies and projects globally and in Asia which have enacted real societal and global change. It provides an opportunity for students to plan and implement their own education projects to initiate social change in communities and countries in Asia. 

In this course, students focus on how children learn to communicate in the real world, with a particular emphasis on the communicative skills needed for survival and success in educational settings. In the first half of the course, students consider how children learn to use the kinds of complex language needed in the classroom; to what extent language learning is impacted in atypical populations (e.g. autism, DLD); how language interventions can support children’s learning; how cross-linguistic differences might impact children’s use of the language of the classroom. In the second half of this course, students consider the challenges and benefits of bilingual language development; how children engage in mind-reading for successful communication; and how children reason with one another, collaboratively think and solve problems with other individuals such as peers.

This course explores Europe and Asia's mutual fascination with, and appropriation of, each other's visual and material cultures. From the Buddhist art of Central Asia to KL Petronas Towers through medieval textiles, chinoiseries, Orientalist paintings, colonial architecture, museums, modernist avant-gardes and postmodernism, the course surveys chronologically some fifteen centuries of East/West artistic interactions while introducing students to the disciplines (art and cultural history, post-colonial and cultural studies) concerned with visual culture. 

This course introduces students to a systematic treatment of marketing on an international and global scale, describing concepts relevant to international marketers. The course is developed along two basic dimensions—the cultural environment of international/global marketing and the management of international/global marketing operations. The emphasis is on the strategic implications of marketing in different cultures.　
 

The Medieval Universe was considered vast, but its structure of perfect spheres was ordered, limited and intelligible. Within the harmony of this system, many questions remained. How can human free will exist alongside an omnipotent God? What of the competing forces of celestial influences – whether good and bad spirits, or the "science" of astrology? Despite these tensions, a cosmological model of nested spheres with the earth at its center captivated medieval thinkers for nearly half a millennium. The first half of this course explores how medieval people engaged with the invisible and sacred forces of the heavens, and how this worldview gave meaning to human experience. Students study the pious and illicit rituals medieval people used to try to influence sacred beings and explore medieval concepts of time, imagination, and geography.

This course helps students enhance their understanding of the contemporary global economy, where Russia has been striving to reshape the formats and frameworks of its interaction with the world despite international sanctions. The course may interest students aiming to deepen their knowledge of Russian Studies. Ideally, it can be taken as a follow-up to the Introductory Course to Russian Studies, although this is not a prerequisite.

The course is for complete beginners and equips students with a basic grounding in written and spoken Spanish. Students reach approximately level A1/1+ on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

This course introduces computer programming in Python. Students learn modern programming concepts, problem solving and creation of computer applications using the Python programming language. Topics include basic Python language syntax, control flow, functions, lambda expressions, Python's common data structures, list comprehensions, file I/O and operating system interface, object-oriented programming, functional programming, and basic usage of common data science packages such as NumPy and Pandas.

This is course provides a broad context of the history of Mexico from the Revolution to the present day, highlighting the conformation of Mexican national identity from these events.  The course analyzes and evaluates the social, economic, political, and cultural processes of Mexico since the Revolution, fostering an appreciation for the historical importance of modern and contemporary Mexico.