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This highly interactive course explores the fundamentals and nuances of negotiation across a variety of business and intercultural contexts. Students will learn to negotiate effectively through a combination of theory, experiential learning, and real-world cases. The course combines classical models with modern perspectives on behavioral science, cross-cultural dynamics, and power asymmetries. Special emphasis will be placed on negotiation ethics, emotional intelligence, persuasion, and gender in negotiation.

Students will actively participate in role-plays, simulations, and negotiation challenges, with regular reflection and peer feedback. We will also examine high-profile negotiation cases from Spain, the US, and international business (e.g., labor disputes, sports contracts, peace processes). By the end of the course, students will have a toolbox of strategies and a greater self-awareness of their negotiation style.

Arithmetic is the branch of mathematics which studies the natural numbers — i.e. the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, and so on — and operations on the numbers — like addition and multiplication. This course explores the features that make arithmetic distinctive, and pose unique philosophical challenges. 

This course offers a multidimensional introduction to the global poverty challenge, examining how poverty is defined, measured, and addressed within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Students explore poverty's intersection with global risks such as education disparities, gender inequality, migration, climate change and skills development among others. The course encourages students to investigate real-world poverty reduction projects by international organizations and features projects by the World Bank, UNESCO, etc. to address poverty in the areas of education and skills development.  

Students should expect to form groups and lead a session at a hypothetical international conference titled: “Global Conference on Poverty Solutions: Linking Practice and Evidence.” Each group will be responsible for organizing a panel discussion session to highlight a project implemented by international organizations to address global poverty among other goals.  Students will also write a policy brief based on international organizations’ projects or research related to poverty reduction. 

This course examines the socio-cultural and political impact of New Zealand films foregrounding Māori, both in front of and especially, behind the camera. It looks primarily at how Māori filmmakers have used cinema as a means to reassert cultural identity and tino rangatiratanga, from its activist beginnings during the Māori Cultural Renaissance in the 1980s, to the present.

This course presents the issues associated with tax fraud from both a budgetary and financial point of view and from a political and democratic point of view. By using and abusing legal loopholes, tax fraud threatens the rule of law. Governments must find ways of ensuring that the rule of law prevails over the lure. After a brief introduction and presentation of the main actors in this field, the course is divided into three parts: tax fraud as a breach to fiscal justice; tax fraud as a threat to public order; foreseeable solutions. The European Union is the main area of analysis, although extra-European comparisons may be made during this seminar.

This course focuses on the novels of Jane Austen, four published in her lifetime (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma), two published posthumously (Persuasion, Northanger Abbey), and one unfinished fragment (Sanditon). It examines key themes in Austen’s novels, such as the roles of family and femininity, of class, manners, status and authority, and teaches about Austen’s pioneering and distinctive narrative techniques, including her use of free indirect discourse, epistolary narration, and natural dialogue. This course provides a thorough introduction to the life, works, and influence of Jane Austen, and is perfect for students seeking to develop their knowledge of this popular author and their skills of literary analysis.

This course examines the risks to which information systems are exposed and explores preventive measures and corrective actions to address them. Based on the principle that security is everyone’s responsibility, the course takes a managerial rather than a technical approach, as risks to information system security are not limited to the technological risks of IT platforms or networks. They encompass risks related to the company’s organizational structure, work methods, legal and regulatory constraints, personnel, partners, and so on. The course provides the necessary knowledge of methods and tools to actively contribute to various aspects of information system security. Real-world business cases supplement and concretely illustrate the concepts studied. Mastering the terminology specific to information system security is a key objective of the course.

The modern history of Iran has been tumultuous, full of revolts, revolutions and reversals. Key political developments in the nineteenth century included the impact of European political philosophies and Western educational systems, the Tobacco Revolt (1891), the Constitutional Revolution (1906-1911) and its aftermath, the rise of feminist movements and its effects in the revolutionary uprising in 2022. Pivotal events in the twentieth century included the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and the modernization project, the nationalization of oil production, the CIA-staged coup that removed the democratically-chosen Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq (1882-1967), the White Revolution and urbanization, the repression of intellectuals and the 1979 Revolution, the hostage crisis, the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), and the consolidation of the Islamic Republic of Iran. These events have been followed in recent decades by reforms and most recently, the revolutionary uprising with the powerful slogan “Women, Life, and Freedom” (zan, zendegi, azadi). The year 1979 marked the start of several weighty political developments in the Middle East, which have considerably changed the region and international relations. The rivalry between Iran and Saudi-Arabia, the Shiite-Sunnite divide, the role of Iran in Afghanistan, the ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and Hizballah in Lebanon are among topics which are going to be treated in this course. The course surveys this period from the perspectives of Iranians, seeing how they view their own history and use religious tenets, poetry, art and material culture to contribute to the modernization of their country. The course address how they positioned Iran in the regional and international political settings? While secondary sources are used to examine Iran’s modern history, key primary sources are introduced in translation, to show how Iranians look at their own history in relation to their neighbors and Western powers.

How does archaeology affect society? Why is archaeology important in the modern world? This course discusses the theory, practice, and responsibilities of archaeology. In exploring these themes, the course considers the role of governments, the general public, the popular media, museums, the antiquities trade, and archaeologists. This course also explores how archaeology is practiced and presented to the public, and the implications this has for the ways in which archaeology has been used as a tool for creating communities, identities, and legitimacy.

This is an introductory course on scientific research methods for social welfare research. The course covers the process of formulating appropriate research questions and hypotheses; issues on conceptualization and measurement; components of research designs; basic techniques for testing hypotheses and relationships among variables; and ethical issues associated with conducting social welfare research. Topics include Human inquiry and science, the research process, problem formation, searching and reviewing literature, conceptualization and measurement and scales, assessing quality of measurement instruments, sampling, research designs, evaluation research.

Students will be required to prepare research plans according to a social research framework.