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This course explores the literary tradition of German women writers, focusing on primary texts by contemporary women writers from the 20th and 21st centuries, with an additional focus on Berlin. The course examines modern German culture, society and the gender politics that create the frame of reference for understanding literary texts.

People eat in order to survive. Eating patterns also tell a story of personal preferences, socio-economic status, and cultural or ethnic background. In this class, students will gain insight into the historical background of several culinary traditions in Germany, their role in modern-day multi-ethnic German society, and contemporary issues related to food consumption and sustainability in food supply. Topics such as obesity, eating disorders, food allergies, food regulation, and the rise of the "gluten-free" trend place the themes in a public health framework.

This course examines how infectious agents interact with human hosts at the molecular, cellular, individual patient and community levels to cause diseases and how the hosts attempt to combat these infections. 

This course examines various quantitative modelling techniques relevant for choice modeling through business cases in marketing transport research strategy economics and other relevant business fields. It also explores models that pool observations on a crosssection of households countries firms etc over several time periods.  

This course examines the history and theory of photography from the 19th century to the present. It considers several key critical debates on the role of photography as both an art form and a social medium of visual communication. It explores central figures and key episodes in photography's history giving particular emphasis to critics, photographers, scientists, media and art historians' writings on the medium. Students will consider seminal controversial debates about the ways in which photography has been historicized and conceptualized. Is photography an art or is it media? Is it evidence or fiction? Is photography an empowering medium? How can photography create change? The course includes an examination of the development of Australian photography in the 19th and 20th centuries and considers the new phenomenon of Instagram photography and its implications.

This course introduces the basic energetic principles governing metabolism and concepts of bioenegetics including discussions on enzymes and regulatory mechanisms in catabolic and anabolic pathways.   

As the second part of Biochemistry 1, Biochemistry 2 covers chemical reactions in biology on the basis of the molecular system. The course examines metabolism of lipids, amino acids, and carbohydrates; the anabolism of lipids, amino acids, and carbohydrates. Topics include gene expression, regulation of prokaryotes and ehkaryotes, protein targeting, protein synthesis, RNA processing, and DNA rearrangement. 

This course is an introduction to Differential Geometry, one of the core pillars of modern mathematics. Using ideas from calculus of several variables, it develops the mathematical theory of geometrical objects such as curves, surfaces and their higher-dimensional analogues. 

This course explores Germany’s rich diversity of culinary traditions from an anthropological context. Students gain insights into the cultural, historical, political, and ecological factors leading to the diverse landscape of regional dishes in contemporary German society. By analyzing the complex relationships between food, culture, and society, students analyze how food consumption and production changed historically, including in Germany's turbulent twentieth century, and evaluate Germany’s role in global efforts to develop sustainable and climate-friendly agricultural practices and food production. By exploring Berlin’s food scene and how it reflects the multiethnic traditions of its diverse population, students explore why food is such a powerful symbol of social and cultural identity in today’s contexts of migration and globalization.

This course is a first introduction to algebraic topology, the area of mathematics in which algebra is used to study topological spaces. It defines the fundamental group and singular homology and studies their basic properties and applications. The course introduces foundational competencies in algebraic topology. Important concepts include homotopy, homotopy equivalence, fundamental group, covering space, chain complex, and homology. Prerequisites include knowledge about general topology and abelian groups, as obtained through courses such as Topology and Algebra 2, and Advanced Vector Spaces.
 

Thie course builds upon Physics 1, continuing to introduce basic concepts in Physics to students majoring in natural science or engineering. The course begins with topics in electromagnetics such as Coulomb's Law, electric fields and potentials. Later topics include circuits, magnetic fields, electromagnetic waves. Finally, optics, relativity and basic concepts of modern physics will be introduced.