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This course offers a global perspective while contextualizing health issues within China's unique national circumstances. The course systematically introduces essential concepts, policy practices, and cutting-edge developments across key global health domains, including health governance, health financing, infectious disease prevention and control, and maternal and child health

This course is structured into four hands-on modules. Three modules are dedicated to using and developing different types of models typically used by Earth Scientists. Many models rely on solving Partial Differential Equations (PDE). They either represent an efficient simplification thereof, e.g., in the form of box modelling (module 2 or directly write and solve (un)coupled sets of PDE’s (module 3). A new branch of modelling constitutes data-driven modelling, which exploits artificial intelligence to build models based on observations (module 2). These first three modules integrate the learning of more advanced programming with acquiring the basics of different methods used for modelling. The last module focuses on the process of modelling itself, such that you can translate Earth Science problems into effective modelling strategies. Together these modules complete the programming, modelling and data skill learning lines. Participants develop and write their own box model with a complete numerical model, which quantifies to what depth the water level would fall if the Mediterranean Sea was disconnected from the Atlantic Ocean. The course teaches the development and uses data-driven models. Learn the basics of different machine learning models, including how neural networks, random forests, and long short-term memory algorithms work. Train models using hydrological data and optimize their performance on different data sets. Finally, you build a machine learning model from scratch to simulate a new hydrological data set. Participants also develop or program various codes from scratch, starting from physical conservation laws to writing codes to simulate 1D and 2D flow; heat, chemical and pressure diffusion; and coupled momentum and continuity equations with variable viscosity. Developments are based on a staggered grid, finite difference formulation, which facilitates understanding of numerical mathematics for Earth Science students. Through gradually increasing code complexity students are introduced to spatial and temporal discretization, initial and boundary conditions, and basic numerical solvers. Finally, learnings is applied to perform a numerical modelling research project. The thermomechanical code used for this module is an extension of the building blocks you have programmed yourself in the PDE-module. You can choose to apply this code to simulate subduction over millions of years to understand earthquake sizes, flow of a mountain glacier, or tsunami propagation over a lake. Students are tasked to formulate a research question in one of these Earth Science domains based on literature and develop and execute a modelling strategy to answer it. Execute your research project step-by-step accumulating into a poster presentation. Assumed previous knowledge includes GEO1-1135, GEO2-1230 and GEO2-1301. 

This course offers an introduction to the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It covers the Court's role within the broader framework of international justice, its history, legal structure, and organs, the sources of law it applies, and the procedures governing contentious cases and advisory opinions. The course also introduces incidental proceedings, enforcement, and requests for revision of judgments. It involves an analysis of the Court's current docket and of its jurisprudence through the study of landmark cases that have shaped its history and the history of international law more broadly.

This course introduces the science of strategic decision-making. Students learn to identify the key elements of any strategic situation: who the players are, what actions they can take, what information they have, and how they value different outcomes. Building on these foundations, students explore core concepts such as Nash equilibrium, the power of commitment, and the principles of effective mechanism design, all with minimal mathematical prerequisites but strong emphasis on conceptual insight.

The course moves from basic models to more sophisticated scenarios, each grounded in real-world applications. It examines how telecoms spectrum auctions raised billions, why Brexit negotiations unfolded as they did, how matching algorithms assign doctors to hospitals and support kidney exchanges, and how AI agents learn to interact strategically. Course outcomes include thinking more clearly and systematically about strategic situations in any context: equipping students with frameworks that are valuable across economics, business, politics, and technology.

In this course, students examine how institutions, including structures of governance, bureaucracies and political parties, adapt to changing circumstances. Students explore how they respond to demands from interest groups while dealing with the ongoing pressures of social and economic development in India. The course is divided into two main parts. Part one covers India’s political history and independence, with a focus on analyzing the institutional mechanisms of governance. Students investigate the design of the Indian constitution, including its key features such as federalism, secularism, and political and electoral system. Part two explores the main instruments of governance in India: legislatures, bureaucracy, judiciary, army, and election commission. The course considers how these institutions operate in a complex political and social environment, focusing on relationships between politics and economy, politics and society, and politics and conflict. 

This is a Public International law and European Union law course for political science students. It focuses on the legal structures underpinning international relations, covering selected topics to provide the basic concepts for understanding the nature and function of International Law and EU Law. Students will deepen their understanding of the complex legal framework governing international and European affairs, shaping contemporary international politics and global governance. The course covers: the making and sources of International Law; subjects of International Law; responsibility in International Law; settlement of disputes and enforcement of International law: the return of sovereignism and use of force; the crisis of post-Second World War international law: the restoration of aggressive use of force in territorial disputes; the EU as a supranational organisation; the EU as an autonomous legal order; the impact of EU law and International Law in domestic systems; the law of the internal market: the fundamental freedoms; the crisis of the rule of law and supranational cooperation in Europe. Written midterm, final exam, group project.

This course examines the place and significance of sport in Australia as a form of social education. It looks at both historical and contemporary issues related to the growing tensions between sport’s traditional role as a form of moral education and the emergence of sport as a commercial commodity. It explores the changing definitions of sport and the purpose sport serves in contemporary society. This analysis of sport education and community sport is informed by an investigation of the growing role and responsibilities of the media in shaping sports. It will include topics such as elite sport versus sport for all, health and participation rates, social welfare, gender, violence, race and ethnicity. It will focus on current events in sport and how these issues impact on teaching and learning.

This course provides an in-depth introduction to some core topics in modern development economics. The course is divided into two halves. The first half, taught by Dr. Liang Bai, covers more of the macro literature, discussing the roles of institutions, history, international trade, as well as religion and culture in shaping the economic outcomes of different countries. The second half, taught by Dr. Dimitrios Minos, focuses more on the micro literature, discussing the roles of health, education, gender, as well as migration and remittances in shaping the economic outcomes of different individuals/households. 

The course is an intermediate finance course that builds upon students' existing knowledge to explore fundamental financial theories underpinning crucial corporate finance decisions. Students address pivotal financial questions such as: How should your business raise capital, and for what purpose? Should capital be sourced through debt or equity investors, and how much debt is optimal? What returns must you generate for your shareholders, and should dividends be distributed? Is it preferable to purchase assets or lease them? What are your business’s short-term cash flow requirements, and how will these needs be financed? These essential questions regularly confront business leaders worldwide. Throughout this ten-week course, students will discover that while some solutions emerge clearly from established financial theories, others rely heavily on strategic judgment due to inherent business uncertainties. 

How has prose fiction from approximately the mid 1990s onward (roughly the era after the decline of postmodernism and the rise of online media) held our fears, loathing's, and compulsions up to the light and changed our ways of thinking about them? This period of unprecedented online access has resuscitated the author, so this course reads essays, interviews, opinion pieces, and life writing by the fictionalists concerned, alongside the journalism and scholarship of others. The novels (including excerpts from very long works) and short fiction have been published, some in experimental online formats, across anglophone literary cultures. Assumed previous knowledge includes deep and wide reading of English-language literature, in particular contemporary fiction, and literary theory. Previous knowledge can be gained by The Writers' Lab; A New Dawn: Renaissance Literature 1400-1700; The Making of Modernity: Literature in English 1660-1850; Brave New Worlds: Literature in English 1850-1950; Race, Empire, and Gothic in the Literature of the Athropocene; Life, Love and Politics in Medieval Literature; Shakespeare's Work and Worlds; Literary Toolbox.