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For biomedical engineers, the basic concept of organic chemistry including bonding/isomerism, alkane/cycloalkane, and various chemical reactions will be discussed in this class 

The course covers the following topics: 

• Organic Chemistry and Cover Story 

• Bonding and Isomerism 

• Alkane and Cycloalkane 

• Alkenes and Alkynes  

• Aromatic Compounds  

• Stereoisomerism 

• Organic Halogen Compounds 

• Alcohols, Phenols, and Thiols  

• Ethers and Epoxides 

• Aldehydes and Ketones I 

• Carboxylic Acid and Their Derivatives 

The goal of this course is to enable students to apply the main instruments of impact assessment and mitigation in practical planning situations based on fundamental knowledge provided in the bachelor's degree program; to gain expertise about the contents and planning processes of instruments such as the German Impact Mitigation Regulation, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), EU Habitat Regulations Assessment (HRA) and Protected Species Assessment, as well as U.S.-American Wetland Mitigation and Endangered Species Mitigation; to recognize environmental and social needs and plan accordingly, and to identify interfaces with natural and social sciences; to apply planning instruments both in domestic as well international arenas; to judge the different instruments in their effectiveness and know how to generate appropriate research when needed and to identify and formulate research approaches for the further development of planning instruments, and; to identify and analyze aspects of gender mainstreaming in planning processes.

This course offers a comparative and connected history of the British and French imperial experiences, from the mid-eighteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. The British and French empires are usually considered as arch-rivals. By contrast, the course emphasizes Anglo-French collaboration as a key mechanism of Western expansion overseas, and examines how the two empires often influenced each other. Special attention is paid to ideas about race and cultural difference and how they shaped British and French colonial societies. The traditional view that the British favored indirect rule and the French assimilation is tested and its limits highlighted. The course provides the opportunity to engage with recent scholarship on European colonialism, key contemporary texts about imperial expansion, and visual sources.

Our increased longevity is one of the major achievements of modern humans, however this increase in lifespan does not necessarily mean an increase in health span – healthy, disease-free years. Students will explore some of the key challenges and opportunities associated with the expanding ageing population. They will use a multi-disciplinary approach (biological, clinical, societal) to explore several key questions such as: what happens the body during ageing that leaves us more susceptible to developing diseases such as cardiovascular disease, neurocognitive decline and cancer in later life? Why do some people age faster than others? How do we manage this challenge clinically? Can new models of care and novel technologies facilitate independent living in later life? What is it like for someone to get older in Ireland today? How can we ensure that everyone has the opportunity to age successfully in our society? What are the legal, ethical and economical challenges that we will face?

This course introduces genetically informed social science, with a focus on how genetic factors and environments that siblings do not share influence social inequality. It discusses how to think critically and creatively about the complex interplay between genetics, randomness/luck, and social structures in modern societies. The course covers the theoretical framework of gene-environment interplay, which acknowledges that both genetic and environmental influences depend on one another. It also covers a breadth of readings from various fields in the social sciences, which allow sociology to be viewed with a new lens. This course presents a research field that is moving at break-neck speed following the sequencing of the human genome, leaving more questions than answers regarding how we as societies should interpret this newfound knowledge.

This course focuses on understanding how photojournalism contributes to the news landscape and how images shape our comprehension of current affairs and history. The course looks at images from contemporary events as well as studying the history of photojournalism and its different fields of engagement in order to give context for its role today. The course also focuses on how Artificial Intelligence is changing the game for the viewers as well as the professional photographers. It discusses questions such as what makes us an ethical photojournalist? Are there ways we should act while covering stories worldwide? Is it always appropriate to make an image or are there times when a conversation needs to happen first? What messages are we trying to convey through our photographs? How do we remain transparent and inclusive as photographers while working in the field?

This course provides the theory and practice of knowledge graph construction, reasoning, and question answering technologies. The students analyze case studies to construct knowledge graphs and apply reasoning services on them. The course covers the following topics: knowledge graph foundation and standards; RDF (Resource Description Framework); OWL (Web Ontology Language); SPARQL (Query Language for RDF and OWL); knowledge graph construction, embeddings, and completion
knowledge graph reasoning and querying; tableaux algorithm; tractable schema reasoning in EL; tractable query answering in DL-Lite; and semantic parsing.

Drawing on a combination of philosophical, sociological, political, and legal scholarship, and taking a comparative and transnational approach, this course examines the role of law in the protection of individual liberty through the provision of civil and political rights. The course critically examines the nature and historical emergence of key civil and political rights, such as the rights to life, to liberty and security, to freedom from torture, to family life, and to hold an opinion, and the requirement for states to legislate against incitement to discrimination and torture. It explores how ideas about civil and political rights have been taken up and transformed at different historical moments and in a variety of geographical contexts. These issues are considered within a broader political framework which assumes that democracy is a necessary context for the fulfilment of civil and political rights. Case studies from recent international events are used to illuminate some of the key issues addressed in the course. 

This course is about the role played by the public sector in the economy. Students learn how the government should design tax and transfer policies given that agents will likely change their behavior in response. For example, if the government wants to tax workers with high labor incomes to redistribute resources to poorer workers, they should anticipate that workers will reduce hours of work to avoid taxation. So, the more resources are redistributed to pursue an equitable allocation of resources, the lower is the incentive for productive workers to produce resources for redistribution! Students also learn about policies that aim at fixing market failures, such as those preventing markets for health insurance to work efficiently.