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Students will develop the knowledge, competencies and skills necessary for music performance. Areas to be covered include advanced study of instrumental or vocal technique, and specialization in all related aspects of music performance. Formative feedback in individual and group settings will be provided across the semester. The course involves participation in individual lessons, instrument/voice classes, performance class and/or assigned ensemble activities. 

This course introduces a range of issues surrounding the dynamics of disputes and the advanced models of negotiation and mediation designed to aid in their resolution. The focus of the course, which draws on insights from a range of disciplines including law, anthropology, psychology, and economics, is on looking at contemporary dispute resolution theories across a range of settings. An important feature of the course is the way in which it examines the interface between theory and practice. Academic staff is joined by leading practitioners in exposing students to the everyday dynamics of negotiation and mediation.

This course offers a thematic approach to selected literary, cultural, and socio-political processes from across the Spanish and Portuguese speaking-worlds we call Global Iberias. Encompassing Spain and Portugal, Latin America, and Lusophone Africa and Asia, lectures and seminars explore questions of power and creativity, and introduce students to the key concepts for the discussion of social movements, urban regeneration, colonialism and postcolonialism, and literary and cultural movements and ideas, from Modernism and Futurism to Magical Realism. Overall, the course provides students with core conceptual, interpretative, methodological, and presentation skills for the study of the cultures and societies of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds.

This course aims to explore the current state of artificial intelligence (AI)/machine translation, and related issues and debates. The first few weeks are devoted to examining major theories and concepts in translation studies. In this process, students are expected to think about what it means to translate and how we translate. Students engage in readings and discussions, focusing on what frameworks and methods have been adopted for translation analysis. The second half of the term involves undertaking a large quantity of translations of various texts, including literary and non-literary texts. Most importantly, students run AI/machine translation themselves and explain in what aspects they are similar and different. Students also, if possible, compare their AI/machine translations with human translations, talking about what AI/machine translation can and cannot do. Finally, we discuss the impact of AI/machine translation on translators, writers, and users in the age of AI.

Topics include Traditional Theories, The basic concepts of early translation theory, Equivalence and equivalent effect, Skopos theory, and AI-based translation.

In the last few decades, the number of film festivals in the world has boomed. Even more recently, film studies researchers have begun to pay attention to this phenomenon, and the sub-field of film festival studies has grown rapidly. This course combines practice and theory. Students form small groups and curate their own evenings in a week-long campus film festival to be held in the final week of the semester. Students also read a wide range of research in film festival studies. 

The goal of this course is to introduce the classical theories in the field of digital and behavioral economics, combined with real cases. By taking the course, students can have a certain understanding of the basic knowledge, current development and research frontiers in the field of digital and behavioral economics.

This course will take digital economics as the main line and basis. Firstly, it introduces the composition and development of digital economics from the macro-perspective. Besides, it mainly focuses on the platform economics, which is a new organizational form spawned by the digital economics. The lecture will cover topics including the development of platform, the main characteristics, the core problem, special issues and the regulation. Some relevant behavioral studies will also be introduced in order to help better understand the platform and its participants ’strategic behavior and intention.

This class discusses the basic concepts and methods of information resource management, including capturing, representing, organizing, storing, processing and exploiting information. In particular, the introductory session will provide an overview of the definition and general types of information, the new forms of information in the era of social media, and the definition of information source. Web search engines, as one of the most important channels to obtain information in our daily life, will be discussed. Then, the class will cover the process of capturing, encoding, and initial processing of different information in digital media, followed by the essence of information management and extraction technologies, such as data warehouse, XML, and the Semantic Web. However, while more and more available information accelerates the development of new knowledge, issues pertaining to information security become evident too. Hence, this module also briefly explains the concepts of confidentiality, integrity and availability, as well as the mechanisms that provide security in various information systems and applications. Next, this module focuses on the applications of information resource management technologies in enterprises and in Web 2.0-baed e-commerce. First, the information architecture, strategies and services in enterprises w1 be introduced. Several cases on how information can be a strategic resource for companies will be studied. Second, several applications in Web 2.0-based e-commerce will be discussed in detail. Last but not least, in view of the abundance of information nowadays, this module will encourage student discussions on the problem of finding the relevant “needle in the haystack" and the problem of information overload.

How do infants extract conceptual/abstract representations from sensory/perceptual information? How can studying development help us understand how the impressive cognitive abilities of humans are structured in the mind? This course teaches students about the development of human cognition; how to design and analyze developmental studies to answer outstanding questions in developmental psychology; and how to present material succinctly in written and oral form.

This course introduces students to a structured approach to the clinical assessment of a patient, and develops skills important to becoming a doctor, and other allied health professionals involved in patient care. It guides students through a methodical approach to history taking, examinations and choosing and interpreting common investigations, as well as developing leadership and problem-solving skills. The ethical and legal frameworks governing medical practice is explored and allows students to understand its importance in their daily work. The course also focuses on understanding the principles of professionalism, patient safety, and effective communication - applying this to patients, relatives, and colleagues. The course features interactive teaching, practical skills group problem-solving, and simulated role play sessions.

This course examines North Korean cinema, following its historical trajectory. Through the examination we learn about images of North Koreans, their state and culture and also how these images have changed. We also expect that our understanding of North Korea and its people that will be gained through the course can hopefully lead to perspectives on the unification of the two Koreas. Topics include The Liberation and the Formation of North Korean Cinema, Establishment of Juche Ideology, Shin Sang-ok on the Scene of North Korean Cinema, Action/War Genre of North Korean Cinema, Motif of a Hidden Hero, Changing Scenes of the early 1990s, The Arduous March Era, Image of North Korea on International Screen, and North Korea’s International Film Co-productions.