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From his emergence on the international stage with the Italian and Egyptian campaigns of the late 1790s to his death in 1821 and beyond, Napoleon Bonaparte’s career, first as all-conquering general, then as Emperor and finally as exile inspired an unprecedented explosion of visual imagery throughout Europe. From epic canvases of the enlightened hero on horseback and caustic caricatures of a demented ‘little Boney’ to physical mementos of the Emperor and booty plundered during the wars he waged, these images and objects offer important insights into how contemporaries understood and expressed their experience of revolution and regime change, of conquest and colonisation, of victory and defeat. Surveying the history of the Napoleonic period and its aftermath through its visual and material culture, this course draws upon local and international research collections to explore the interaction between image-making and empire-building in the early 19th century and to interrogate the relationship between art and politics in the making of modernity. In so doing, it also asks how historians can bring visual culture to bear upon their study of the past.

This course explores five principal plays by William Shakespeare—Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, King Lear, and The Tempest. It introduces students to Shakespeare’s language, poetic form (particularly the sonnet), and dramatic genres—including comedy, tragedy, history, and romance. Reading the plays in roughly chronological order, we situate them within the historical and social contexts of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. We also examine the enduring appeal of Shakespeare, considering him not only as a poet and dramatist, but also as a man of the theatre and a cultural icon whose influence has shaped literature, performance, and global imagination for centuries.

This course brings teachers and students from different disciplines together to understand and combine the roles different disciplines to support a healthy society through public health. The overall objective of this program is to develop a comprehensive understanding of public health, and to acquire specific skills to apply this knowledge. This course includes practical examples, and this includes field visits within the Dutch setting. For example, the course investigates public health services like newborn, child and youth services, vaccinations, screening, and how these services provide support to vulnerable populations that are usually underrepresented in health dialogues. These examples are used to reflect on other global public health practices to understand a broad range of community health issues in the socio-political and cultural contexts in which they occur. Students participating in this course act as “experts” in their field and work in an interdisciplinary team to understand health systems in place. Students much be upper division standing in a related major.

This course examines the dynamics, roles and politics of culture, art and creative agency in the reproduction and transformation of society. It focuses on the ways art and artists respond to, dismantle and reimagine beyond the discursive and institutional formations that construct difference as ‘problematic’, and the injustices they give rise to. This is an empirically and practice-based course that interrogates the relationships and tensions between knowledge, aesthetics and pedagogy through examination of ground-breaking works of art and scholarship across a range of pressing social justice issues and national contexts. It is interdisciplinary, convening readings from sociology, anthropology, art history and social movement studies. Course materials are gathered across theoretical traditions of feminism, Black, indigenous and queer studies, as well as post-colonial and decolonial studies. There is no ‘textbook’ or singular approach to this area of study. Coursework requires equal measures of weekly scholarly and weekly arts-based work: it involves a variety of exercises using a range of visual art techniques, and students are welcome to experiment with sonic and performative practices for the final project. Completing work on a weekly basis is essential.

For much of its recent history, the development speculative fiction has been driven - sometimes quietly, sometimes less so - by the pages of magazines. This course is about two interconnected things: the place of the short story in the history of science fiction and fantasy, and the place of science fiction and fantasy in magazine print culture of the last 140 years. Students read some of the most iconic short stories in the genre, and also the magazines in which they appeared, tracing the evolution of both genre and medium across the long twentieth century.

This course enables students to develop their skills and confidence in data analysis in Excel, and in presenting this analysis in clear and accessible written reports. Students explore data sources and applications that are relevant for the study of current topics in economics and social sciences. Students practice their skills in interactive weekly workshops, exploring data sourcing, analysis, and visualization on a variety of relevant topics. They have the chance to develop and deploy their critical thinking skills in relation to data analysis practices in economics and social sciences, and how data is used in public debate. Students also develop important employability skills like communication skills, report writing, and clearly explaining complex findings. The course does not cover regression or other causal methods.

This is a general nutrition course that addresses the relation between nutrition and human health and is primarily aimed at food technology students. The course addresses study design process, nutrient metabolism, micronutrients, and targeted nutrition. Basic knowledge on Nutrition (FCH11306 Nutritional Aspects of Foods) required.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. By the end of the course students show acquaintance with the main trends of archaeological thought, from the earliest days to recent times. They are familiar with important theoretical areas of contemporary archaeology, including processual and post-processual archaeology, the archaeology of identity and gender, and the relationships between archaeology, history, and politics. They know about central themes such as the evolution of strategies and methods of field research (excavation and survey), the representation and communication of archaeological data. The skills acquired enable students to study different types of archaeological contexts starting from solid theoretical and methodological bases, equipping them to address the planning of field research and interpretation of collected data. Students are also be able to conceive different forms of presentation and communication of archaeological data, based on an in-depth knowledge of the many options existing in this field.

This course explores the main practical and theoretical issues in the field of archaeology. The course starts with a brief history of the discipline, followed by the analysis of some of the most relevant fieldwork case studies (i.e. excavations, surveys and other kinds of archaeological investigations). By the end of the course, students are able to tackle archaeological data from a critical point of view, as much as to understand the theoretical bases which lay behind other scholars' fieldwork.

This course will focus on the complicated role that law has played in the economic reform. It will analyze such a role from five perspectives, namely, constitution, government, property, regulation, and globalization. Together, these perspectives will help the students to build a multi-dimensional understanding of the political economy of law in modern China.