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This course focuses on corporate entrepreneurship with a special emphasis on the role of venture capital and spin-offs, including managerial efforts aimed at the identification, development and exploitation of technical and organizational innovations and on effective new venture management in the context of large corporations. Students evaluate business models and appropriateness for development in a corporate setting. As an advanced course, students improve analytical, creative and communication skills. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course provides an overview of multilateralism and international organizations after World War II, examining collaboration between countries in areas such as peace and security, human rights, and monetary policy and economics. Students are introduced to the concept of world order and global governance through multilateralism and will examine the history, structures, and functions of international organizations including the role of major powers and other countries in the international arena.

This course uses general equilibrium models to study international trade, industrial structures, and structural change. The models are used to discuss and analyze the role of comparative advantage, trade, and productivity differences for industrial structures, resource allocation, and welfare. The course also provides a thorough introduction to game theory to analyze competition in markets with imperfect competition and strategic behavior between firms. It analyzes the impact of trade in markets with imperfect competition and how the gains from trade depend on market structures.

This course offers an exploration of diverse family models, emphasizing equality, inclusivity, and the roles of gender in parenting. It delves in the complexities of surrogacy, reproductive technologies and the legal frameworks surrounding parenthood, focusing on international issues and comparative perspectives, through a blend of lectures, interactive discussions, case studies and research projects.

This course introduces the basic tools to understand how to analyze economic phenomena and presents the main topics in macroeconomics and international economics. It focuses on applications and policy implications rather than formal demonstrations to provide a critical perspective on economic models and apply them to many different situations. Critical thinking and knowledge of the basic formal mechanisms of macroeconomic and international trade models is essential. The first module on modern macroeconomics analyzes the determinants of economic well-being in the short and long run and key macroeconomic terms (for example, defining and measuring economic growth, inflation, and unemployment). It examines how the economy grows in the short and long run, the role of productivity, and the impact of the business cycle, as well as the role of monetary and fiscal policies. The second module on policy in the open economy analyzes the financial linkages between different countries, especially regarding the Balance of Payments and its effects on national economies. It also surveys the role of money and finance in the world today and the role of government policies toward the foreign exchange market, including the choice between fixed and floating exchange rates, strategies to keep currencies under or overvalued, and the use of exchange controls to create impediments to currency flows. Finally, it incorporates climate change and income inequality in regular macroeconomic models and examines development problems and the role firms can play in fostering growth.

This course studies basic concepts of applied animal and dairy science, covering the following topics: comparative physiology, anatomy, nutrition, genetics, reproduction, animal product, immunology, microbiology, environment biology, and animal behavior. 

The course covers several current and advanced topics in optimization, with an emphasis on efficient algorithms for solving large scale data-driven inference problems. Topics include first and second order methods, stochastic gradient type approaches and duality principles. Many relevant examples in statistical learning and machine learning are covered in detail. The algorithms uses the Python programming language. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This data science course introduces essential techniques and tools used in Data Science. Each week the course covers a unique topic, starting from the very basics of the Data Science pipeline to advanced topics like Neural Networks and Time-Series Analysis, all explained using a sophisticated slides and easy-to-understand Python codes.
 

For this semester, the course will use a single comprehensive dataset that could cover all of the topics, to make it easier for students to understand the concepts of data science, without spending too much time understanding the dataset.
 

By the end of this course, students are expected to:

1.  Understand the Data Science Pipeline.
2. Apply various machine learning techniques.
3. Evaluate model performance and fine-tune hyperparameters.
4. Understand and apply Neural Networks, Text Mining, and Time-Series Analysis.
5. Translate theory into practice using Python.

Digital Business is rapidly evolving and today it should be regarded being a central resource in the pursuit of business objectives and strategies. As a result, the role of Digital Business in organizations needs to be re-evaluated to develop a sophisticated understanding of how it supports today’s organization to gain and sustain competitive advantage in the marketplace. Incorporating a generic Digital Business Framework, this applied course evaluates and discusses components of a comprehensive Digital Business strategy and investigates its impact on different industry sectors.

This course will provide a high-level introduction to Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism by focusing on the doctrines of four pivotal philosophers in that era, namely, the Cheng brothers (Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi), Zhu Xi, and Wang Yangming. Apart from discourses on their theories of metaphysics, moral cultivation, and human nature, their viewpoints will also be constantly put into comparative perspective in order to further examine the uniqueness of their philosophical reasoning.