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This course interrogates issues from the perspective of Political Theory and examines the extent to which we are moving to a post-liberal world. Primarily, the course explores whether the claim that we are moving towards a post-liberal world is true. Encompassed within this interrogation, the course looks at real-world political problems and trends that make this trajectory possible, as well as what form a post-liberal world might take, and whether this is desirable. Students are encouraged to argue critically as to whether a post-liberal world is desirable or not and explore the ways through which this might be prevented. This culminates in a critical analysis of how liberal theory could be re-imagined or justified to respond to modern world issues.

The course introduces students to different types and sources of pollution and their distribution and control methods, and students explore risk assessment strategies and the source-pathway-receptor framework to assess their risks to human and environmental health.

This course examines core concepts and principles that are applied to the various organ systems. It includes laboratory activities that involve experiments on humans as well as isolated tissues, with an emphasis on hypothesis generation and data analysis. 

The course offers an historical overview of the development of post-classical sociological theory such as functionalism, interactionism, and postmodernism, via an exploration of the work of a selection of key sociological theorists such as Talcott Parsons, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Ulrich Beck, and Manuel Castells. Key concepts developed by these thinkers are explored in relation to the themes of structure and agency, culture/ideology, and sociological understanding.

This course is designed for those who are studying healthy aging and/or geriatric rehabilitation. It includes an overview of the physical and psycho-behavioral aspects of aging in adulthood. This course focuses on normal and pathological changes with aging and provides an overview of geriatric care (treatment issues relevant to the types of older clients), delivering a framework for understanding individuals who have movement dysfunction secondary to age-related disease. Current motor control and motor learning theories are applied to intervention strategies for the geriatric population and students are strongly encouraged to develop themselves to serve the needs of the elderly population.

This interdisciplinary course provides students with the opportunity to address complex problems identified by industry, community, and government organizations, and gain valuable experience in working across disciplinary boundaries. In collaboration with a
major industry partner and an academic lead, students integrate their academic skills and knowledge by working in teams with students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. This experience allows students to research, analyze and present solutions to a real-world problem, and to build on their interpersonal and transferable skills by engaging with and learning from industry experts and presenting their ideas and solutions to the industry partner.

This course walks the students through the complex set of concepts and projects that form the Big Data stack. Students learn how to set up Big Data environments, how to use efficient data management operations and how to run algorithms - to the scale and speed required by Big Data datasets. At the end of the course, students design and implement their own solutions to address Big Data problems.

Mechanics of materials is a branch of applied mechanics that deals with the basic behavior of solid bodies subjected to various types of loading. The knowledge of the stress and strain set up within the bodies and resulting deflection is a prerequisite for the structural design of industrial products and infrastructures such as buildings, roads, bridges, and various equipment. In this course, the basic idea of structural design is provided based on the quantitative evaluation of mechanical stress and strain fields in various structures.

This course examines the concepts of ethics and equity, in a broad range of applications, including power, privilege and positionality; exploration of foundations of ethics as they apply to population and global health practice; and concepts of human rights, anti-racism, ethics and equity, informed by an understanding of the legacy of colonization, as they pertain to a wide array of global health issues.

This course provides an overview of the four research fields of computer science that bridge fundamental theories of computer science with the cutting-edge research in the Computer Science department at Tohoku University. The course consists of four parts, taught by four professors: algorithm theory, bioinformatics, communication network, and computability theory. 

The course provides a broad overview of the research areas in computer science.