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In this course, students engage with the major metaphysical systems of Western philosophy, examining how each coordinates subjective experience with objective reality. Philosophers include Plato, Kant, and Mill. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course focuses on different ways of writing about politics through critical analysis. Topics include: the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns; power in suspense and the vertigo of democracy; the literary genres of political thought; philosophy of history and political philosophy; philosophy, politics, and religion in contemporary Spain; totalitarianism and democracy.

This course examines how magmatism has shaped Earth, how magma forms and evolves physically and chemically to make igneous rocks, and what controls its subterranean emplacement or volcanic eruption.

This course will introduce fundamental concepts and techniques in the content of remote sensing and image processing for Earth observation from space. The course starts by introducing core concepts in remote sensing (describing the processes by which images are captured by sensors mounted on satellite and airborne platforms and key characteristics of the acquired images). Then, fundamental methodologies for processing, analyzing, and visualizing remotely sensed imagery are introduced. Topics include representation of high-dimensional remote sensing images, time domain representations, filtering and enhancement. Practical applications will be provided throughout the course. Participants of this course will gain theoretical and practical knowledge on fundamental concepts and techniques for processing and analysis of remote sensing images acquired by Earth observation satellite and airborne systems.

This course (1) enhances students’ theoretical understanding of consumers and their decision-making processes and (2) provides students with the basic skills necessary to conduct experiments that allow them to get insights into these processes in a marketing context. The course is structured into three components: (1) the course discusses theories from pertinent literature in behavioral economics, psychology, and marketing that provide an understanding of how consumers make judgments and decisions and the factors influencing them; (2) the course examines how to use experimental research to inform and improve marketing decisions; that is, how to pose relevant research questions, design experiments and interpret the results and (3) students apply the acquired theoretical knowledge and methodological skills hands-on to solve a real-world marketing problems. 

This course will investigate the ways in which the policing of gender and sexuality intersected with the policing of (ethno) national boundaries in Central-Eastern Europe, with a focus on the state-socialist period (1945-1990) but including the interwar period and the post socialist period as contextual bookends. At the same time, it will explore the ways in which the socialist ideologies of gender equality and internationalism were actually (and selectively) implemented in these countries, the effect this had on women and men from both ethnic majority and minority populations in these countries. Finally, it takes a transnational approach, looking at the role of gender and sexuality in positioning Central Eastern Europe within the (white) West, and in the West’s perception and ‘othering’ of the region.

This course explores the normative dynamics of distributive justice. First, it explores the question of how much government ought to redistribute; then, it examines the currency and limits of distributive justice. Third, the course explores the question, "What does distributive justice look like across borders, and does tension exist between domestic and global distributive justice?"

This course introduces eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, leading to diagonalization of matrices. Furthermore, vector spaces with inner product are treated and applications of linear algebra to various specialized topics are discussed.

Upon completion of the class, students are expected to:

• Compute eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, and diagonalize real symmetric matrices; 
• Understand inner products, orthogonality, and to be able to find orthogonal bases; and,
• Learn applications of linear algebra and perform computations to solve explicit problems.

Around the globe, right-wing populist and extremist movements and parties are on the rise. In some democracies, they have marginalized or even replaced mainstream conservative parties, in others – like in the US – they have radicalized them. In light of their typically ultranationalist (“America first”) and frequently isolationist and protectionist policy positions, it is somewhat counterintuitive that these actors would form cross-border alliances. And yet, the transnational networking of radicalized conservatives, right-wing populists and even extremists has increased in recent years. Gatherings such as the US-based Conservative Political Action Conferences (CPAC) have featured more and more international participants and high-level speakers. Common themes such as the “anti-woke agenda” can be observed across many different countries. In the seminar, we will explore the extent and relevance of these transnational networks, focusing on ideological exchanges and cross-border learning of strategies and tactics, including political communication.

The course focuses on various land use and system dynamic topics to guide class discussions in the weekly seminar meetings. Lectures are watched outside of scheduled meeting times to maximize time for discussion and expansion of ideas in class. The topic focuses include the following: global urbanization dynamics, global land use and change, urbanization, global land take of urbanization, urban expansion, urbanization in regards to climate change, urban climate change economics (including subtopics of buildings emissions and urban heat), as well as urban transport.