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This course addresses Jewish migration as a part of Germany's past and present, explores integration issues from the perspective of Jewish immigrants and the non-Jewish majority, and makes relevant comparisons with the current population of refugees in Germany. Topics include the trend of Jewish migration from Eastern Europe to Germany as early as the late 19th century and with the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, how Jewish migration from the former Soviet Union fundamentally changed Jewish life in Germany. Students also examine the increase in migration from Israel.

This course covers conditional distributions based on densities, including conditioning in the Gaussian distribution; hierarchical/mixed-effects models (theoretical and practical aspects); Bayesian analyses and computations, such as prior and posterior distributions, credible intervals, MCMC sampling; and software for mixed-effects models and Bayesian computations. This is an advanced course in statistics; it is not an introductory course. Prerequisites include probability distributions with densities, linear normal models, logistic and Poisson regression, R usage. 

This course is a survey of the history of the Americas from the late 19th-early 21st centuries. While we will focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, we will also learn about U.S.-Latin American relations. Through weekly lectures and exploration of primary documents and bibliography, we will discuss four main themes: state formation; constructing national identity through popular culture; economics and commodities; and the intersection of race, class, and gender.

This course covers 600 years of Seoul history, the Chosun (1394-1897), Taehan Empire (1897-1919), and the Japanese Colonial Period (1910-1945). As of 2020, Seoul has a population of 9.97 million and is considered one of the top ten metropolitan economies in the world. By exploring the history of Seoul, students gain an understanding of the history of one of the oldest cities in the world and also the dynamic history of modern Korea.  By the end of the course students should be able to understand early modern Korean history and its significant events. In addition, students will understand how modern-day Seoul was established via its 600 year history.

This course offers an understanding of life-history adaptations, their ecological context, genetic variation, and evolution. It provides a detailed perception of biological adaptation through natural and sexual selection, the different levels of selection (genes, individuals, and social groups) and the strength of these forces in shaping life-history adaptations. The course integrates ecological and evolutionary approaches. Topics include mating systems and sexual selection; decision making and the evolution of communication; life histories in animals and microbes; life history traits: genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity; mutualistic interactions and their evolutionary stability; social evolution: cooperation and conflict; and parasite-host interactions.

This course fosters creative and critical thinking through the diversification of reading texts and modes of expression (writing, performance, artwork). Students practice various communication skills centered on a specific topic and cultivate creative thinking processes. The course explores various historical forms of communities and examines works related to these themes to reflect on what a truly just community and its leadership should be like. While engaging with the texts through discussions and writing, the course emphasizes creative thinking rather than purely academic understanding. 

Topics include: reading texts without relying on fixed interpretation; seeking answers actively rather than passively accepting traditional responses; how to independently gather materials on a given topic, reconstruct various types of texts (literature, film, art) from one’s perspective, and derive new interpretations; how to organize and express independently interpreted materials from a unique viewpoint; and how to develop a capacity to move beyond exclusive thinking that holds one's own ideas as the only truth. 

This course examines management methods. It covers management as a process of planning, organizing, leading and controlling the efforts of organizational members and discusses how recent trends such as globalization, economic change and the effects of new technology have led to profound changes in how organizations are managed. The course explores these issues with respect to both large and small, public and private, and domestic and foreign organizations.

This course examines the main social determinants of health and the meaning of health for different populations. Students will also consider how health is delivered and by whom. This includes the breadth of the health workforce (both paid and unpaid) and health consumers. Embedded in this course will be considerations of social justice, cultural awareness and interdisciplinarity for health professionals.

This course provides an overview of human anatomy. It covers human topographic and developmental anatomy; the principles relating to each type of anatomical structure (skin, fascia and skeletal muscle, bones and joints, vessels and nerves, visceral structures); the essential factual information regarding the specific anatomical structures forming the body's major organ systems (musculoskeletal, nervous, cardiorespiratory, digestive, genitourinary); the boundaries and contents of clinically important regions; and the appearance of normal anatomical structures via modern imaging techniques.