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In this course, students engage with fundamental principles of sound creation and manipulation though exploration of sound design practices in a range of contexts including game sound, virtual reality and other interactive media, film, TV, radio, theater, and live sound applications. By examining the work of influential sound design practitioners, students explore sound design methodologies and techniques. This includes field recording, synthesis, multichannel spatialization, Foley, and the manipulation of sound recordings using DAWs and analog recording devices to achieve a desired aesthetic.

This course focuses on the rise of dictators between 1915-1945: Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler and the demise of old liberal governments during the interwar period in Europe. Topics include historical analysis of these events and the rise of Bolshevism and of various Fascist regimes. 

Trust is a central part of our daily lives as social and rational animals: we trust friends and partners, experts, and our devices; sometimes we even say that our devices trust other devices. But what is trust? What is it good for, and under what conditions? When is trust warranted? How is trusting agents different from trusting artifacts or institutions? Our readings and discussions will range widely, covering the significance of trust for our lives in general but especially for inquiry, drawing from psychological literature on trust, extending to applied questions, and comparing trust with similar things such as faith, reliance, and the ancient Greek concept of pistis (together with a discussion in Plato of misology as a disease of trust).

This course is a very practical introduction to quantitative analysis in International Relations. Students learn the elements of causal inference methods, computational skills for R statistical software, and examples in International Relations (ex. conflict studies, among others).

This course studies practical issues of international tax law through case studies to develop a general understanding for business, tax strategy and controversy. The course also discusses indirect tax matters such as customs duty and VATs given the recent high profile of such taxes. Lectures focus on learning how tax laws affect the daily operations of multinational companies and how such companies overcome the handling of complex tax laws around the world.

This course introduces analytical tools and recent topics in industrial organization related to the digital economy.

It provides students with theoretical tools for equilibrium analysis of oligopolistic competition, both useful for research in both empirical and theoretical industrial organization. These tools include discrete choice models, basic contract theory, and some theories of particular games such as aggregative games and supermodular games.  Additionally, it provides students with theoretical frameworks to analyze recent market phenomena in the digital economy such as platform’s business strategies and competition in online markets.

This is a project-based course where students work in a team to carry out the development and management of a relatively large scale software project, building a piece of software to fulfil the needs of a particular customer. Students put into practice state-of-the-art techniques used in industrial software development to ensure that their team produces software cooperatively, reliably, and on schedule. Each team works on a different project, and receives individual coaching to provide support and advice relevant to their particular project.

This course explores the role of the media in contemporary liberal democracies and the actors who intervene in the process of political communication: governments, political parties, journalists, interest groups, and social movements. It also focuses on the main theories on the social influence of the media and how to run an electoral campaign (interviews, debates, polls, ads, etc.)

The course examines the basic paradigms of modern financial investment theory, to provide a foundation for analyzing risks in financial markets and to study the pricing of financial securities. Topics include the pricing of forward and futures contracts, swaps, interest rate and currency derivatives, hedging of risk exposures using these instruments, option trading strategies and value-at-risk computation for core financial instruments. A programming project provides students with hands-on experience with real market instruments and data. This course is for students with an interest in quantitative finance. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course combines knowledge from different disciplines of food science to study the effect of processing on product quality, in relation to innovation of food products, taking both a technological and a consumer perspective. The product quality is described by technological properties (e.g. chemical and physical properties). Examples include consistency, color, flavor, and appearance of the food. An introduction to sensory analysis is given, explaining the use of statistical computer programs to handle data sets from sensory analyses. In addition, the process of product innovation is analyzed in its societal context, with an emphasis on ethical issues. Moreover, the theory on chemical analysis of foods with means of chromatography techniques is given and practiced in lab-simulation tutorials. The course includes classroom lectures, (lab) tutorials, and sensory experiments. In the laboratory classes, groups produce an innovative food product starting from raw materials and compare its properties with those of an existing food product. This part of the course is also known as DIPP: Discipline Integrating Product Practical. Students perform consumer interviews on their raw materials and innovative food products. A scientific report is written on the experiments and assignments performed on the innovative food product. For this course, it assumed that students know the different food science disciplines: food chemistry, food physics, food microbiology, and food process engineering, including laboratory experience in these disciplines.