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This course provides students with insight into the origins of modern celebrity within the literary and theatrical marketplaces of the long 18th century. The course also provides a grounding in the burgeoning field of celebrity studies and encourages reflection on continuities between the 18th century’s public spheres and our own. It traces the rise of different kinds of celebrity within 18th-century Britain’s literary and theatrical marketplaces. Students examine the fame of authors, performers, criminals, politicians, and numerous, notorious others. 

This course introduces the fundamental concept of data structures and the importance of data structures in developing and implementing efficient algorithms. The topics include various data structures such as arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, strings, graphs, trees, and hash tables. Relevant algorithms will be analyzed to assess the strengths and weaknesses of data structures. The lectures and assignments will primarily be done in Python.

Prerequisite: CSI2102 or an equivalent level of fluency in an objected-oriented programming language.

This course begins with exploring how digital technologies have proliferated every aspect of our daily lives, around work, travel, leisure, consumption, production, and reproduction, in ways that are simultaneously virtual and material. This focuses on how digital technologies, infrastructures, devices, logics, and methods are blurring the divides across analog and digital spaces. It then looks at how digital technologies can simultaneously break down and reinforce inequalities along class, race, gender, sexuality through new "digital divides." Finally, it examines the implications this has for producing new forms of digital citizenships and claims to social and spatial justice.

This course introduces students to the history, development, and institutions of the American political system. It provides a deeper understanding of contemporary US politics by exploring the historical origins of American political and economic development. The course examines the operation of the main branches of the US government (Congress, Presidency, Supreme Court), and the nature of political ideology and the rise of modern political parties. It also analyzes the development of the federal government, bureaucracy and regulation, and explains the importance of voting and elections in shaping the scope and breadth of public policy in the US today. 

Course Description

The module aims to provide students with a new perspective in understanding the making of the People’s Republic of China’s foreign policy. The “third world” and “internationalism” will be the key concepts of discussion for this course. It will address key issues such as the Afro-Asian national independence movement in the mid-20th century, Chinese revolution, the Korean War, the Bandung conference, the Sino-Arab relations, and the P.R. China’s admission into the UN. In addition to the linear historical narrative of major events in P. R. China during the Cold War period, this course will also allow students to understand from an analytical perspective the relations between Chinese foreign policy and its domestic nation building concern, between the aim of national salvation and the ideal of international solidarity. The primary materials discussed in this course will include political documents/writings, historical archives, posters, music, literature, and films.

Course Objective

1. Delineate a broader historical and socio-political landscape in which the Chinese foreign policy in the Cold War period was formed;
2. Enable students to engage with multidisciplinary primary and secondary sources in both English and Chinese languages for studying IR.
3. Familiarize key discussions and debates on the issue of internationalism, modernization, national independence, nation-building, and international cooperation in the 20th century in China, and other Third World countries.
4. Develop transferable skills in data collection, synthesizing information, critical thinking, and English academic writing.

The course familiarizes students with the issues involved in designing, implementing, and applying parallel programming systems. Initial motivation is provided by consideration of a number of typical high performance applications and parallel architectures. This highlights the role of parallel software systems as a means of bridging the gap between these and allows abstraction of the issues which must be addressed by any such system (partitioning, communication, agglomeration, scheduling). It explores the ways in which these challenges have been addressed by a range of systems, including both de facto standards and more adventurous research projects.

This course takes students on the path to understanding of how religious ideas, movements, and institutions shape and are shaped by individuals, groups, and societies. Students engage with ideas and theories of classical thinkers, such as Durkheim, Marx, and Weber, and with innovative and often provocative views and concepts of contemporary sociologists. Among the questions for discussion are whether religion serves as "social cement" or causes conflict; why and how it can reinforce the existing social order or encourage change; and how we can explain why people stay in conventional faiths or choose new, even exotic, religions – or maybe they are brainwashed into them? Students discuss methods and approaches that sociologists use to study religion – and why their methodology often leads them to discoveries that challenge common assumptions about certain religious beliefs, practices, and groups.

Private and public sector firms increasingly use marketing strategies to engage their customers and stakeholders around social impact. To do so, managers need to understand how best to engage and influence customers to behave in ways that have positive social effects. This course focuses on social marketing strategies for changing the behavior of a target segment of consumers on key issues in the public interest (e.g., health behaviors, energy efficiency, poverty reduction, fundraising for social causes). In addition, it examines the growing role of social enterprises and benefit corporation (B corp) play in today’s marketplace. This class also offers students an opportunity to work on a real business problem that are tied to social initiatives.

This is an introduction to quantum computer science, intended primarily for computer scientists, physicists, electrical engineers, and mathematicians. It introduces a large number of ideas with an emphasis on building familiarity with the main concepts, and some general knowledge of terminology and methods. Mathematical methods are employed in a practical way, on a "need-to-know" basis.