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The course presents an application-focused and hands-on approach to learning neural networks and reinforcement learning. It is an introduction to deep learning methods, presenting a wide range of connectionist models that represent the current state-of-the-art. Topics include the fundamentals of machine learning and the mathematical and computational prerequisites for deep learning; feed-forward neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and the recurrent connections to a feed-forward neural network; a brief history of artificial intelligence and neural networks, and reviews open research problems in deep learning and connectionism.  Entry requirements include 90 credits in statistics and a course in linear algebra.

In this course, students learn how to use a range of marketing analytics techniques to analyze, visualize, and interpret data from various sources such as surveys, transaction data, and data from social media platforms. To effectively analyze these data, students learn how to use typical software packages to develop practical solutions to specific marketing problems. In contrast to other marketing courses, particular emphasis is placed in guiding students step-by-step on how to conduct specific data analyses using suitable software. Students learn how various marketing analytical techniques, tools, metrics, and data sources can be used to address fundamental challenges marketing managers face today in the age of Big Data. 

Today’s businesses need to continuously develop their ways of organizing and leading, as well as understand how to manage innovation to secure the development and growth of the companies. This course develops a theoretical knowledge base and practical ability in innovation management. The objective is also to increase the knowledge of how considering the conditions and processes of innovation management can contribute to long-lasting advantages and an increase in company competitiveness.

This course examines to marketing in the international marketplace. Topics covered include the cultural, economic, political and ethical environments within which global marketing occurs; drivers toward globalization; foreign market assessment, selection and analysis; international product policy; international advertising and promotion; channel management; and coordinating global marketing.

Students examine the legal standards that govern the state’s power to control, coerce, and punish those suspected (or proven) to have committed crimes. Students also explore how these laws are exercised by legal actors, including police, prosecutors and judges in their routine decisions and practices. The course speaks directly to the real-world issues and controversies encountered by criminal justice systems in many developed democracies today – racial injustices, abuses of police power, mass incarceration, penal populism, law’s potential to reform organizations, to name but a few.

The course educates students in the main features of the art form, how to achieve them on the page, and how to recognize and appreciate the literary contexts out of which they emerge. Students work through their notebooks and workshops to recognize their own poetic impulses and render them with greater precision in what they write. Students are encouraged to write poems in the workshops, to be discussed by the group. 

This course offers anyone new to creative writing a chance to learn about different types of writing and to try them out with encouragement, support, and guidance. Students read and discuss inspiring examples of writing (such as poetry, short story, novel, non-fiction and drama) to find literary techniques, craft, and skills that they can apply to their own work. Writing exercises allow students to practice these skills and share their work for feedback. Students also discuss habits and ideas that help them write. Overall, this course offers a welcoming first step to the art of writing creatively.

This course is directed advanced Bachelor students as a way of learning about the role of the state economic policies (especially fiscal policies) in the economy in a manner that combines theoretical and empirical learning with practical experiences, case studies, debates and most of all much student engagement. It conveys a sound economic and policy understanding regarding the role of the state and public expenditure, including at the multilateral level. This includes theoretical and empirical concepts and extensive applications and policy discussion on the history of public spending, government “performance” and reform, fiscal sustainability and fiscal risks, financing constraints for government, and the role of fiscal rules from a comparative international perspective. It would also include three sessions on international public goods, their financing and the role of multilateral development banks (MDBs).

This course focuses on comic writing for the English stage during one of its most exuberantly creative periods. Beginning with the romantic comedy of Shakespeare and concluding with some of the most daringly sceptical drama of the Restoration period, the course explores the varieties of comic theatre developed over the 17th century, including festive comedy, the carnivalesque, fable, city comedy, and different modes of satire. In doing so, it examines the comic engagement with a range of moral, social and political debates and conflicts, both of the early modern period and in our own time. It also reads the plays in the light of theories of the purposes and workings of comedy, as well as in the context of the very different social and staging conditions obtaining at either end of the century.

This course explores this question in the context of the languages and peoples of the Danube region, focusing on German, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian and Croatian, and Yiddish. These languages belong to two genealogically different groups (Indo-European and Uralic) and one (Yiddish) bears traces of a third group (Semitic); within Indo-European, three different sub-groups are represented (Germanic, Romance, Slavonic). The course uses data from these languages (texts in the original, idioms, proverbs, jokes, etc.) to explore language and cultural contact from both a purely linguistic perspective (language relatedness v. typological features of languages, script v. sounds, areal connections, borrowing of words, idioms, and figures of speech) and a sociolinguistic point of view (intercultural exchange, multilingualism, standardization, purism, and the relation between language and identity). It explores how Danubian languages both converge and differ, how Danubian culture is both intercultural friction and intercultural flow.