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This course incorporates the online component of Rothberg International School course number 11160 of the same title, with an added practice and hands on learning component. This course covers the fundamentals of innovation and entrepreneurship and how they can help students become more future proof in their careers. It focuses on how innovation can be developed and enhanced and then looks at the world of entrepreneurship and how it can be relevant for each and every one of the participants. Throughout, the course introduces and practices the Lean Startup Model, focusing on how to identify real problems for people and then finding solutions for those problems. As an online course, students watch short videos, use interactive applications, answer online quizzes, and develop an idea for a venture (business, social, or design). The course ends with a project that presents a model for a real world venture.

This course reviews and discusses the history of the notion of philosophy (as tetsugaku) within the history of modern Japan. In doing so, difficult questions relating to the very notion of philosophy itself will be asked. What is philosophy and what can make it “Japanese”? Is all philosophy done on Japanese shores “Japanese philosophy”? Otherwise, are there certain core or essential characteristics that make philosophy Japanese? In tackling these questions, the course seeks to learn more about the history of philosophical thought in modern Japan and seeks to reach a deeper understanding of the notion of philosophy itself. 

This course is about randomness as a resource in algorithms and computation. The course introduces basic mathematical models and techniques and applies them to the design and analysis of various randomized algorithms. Students also cover a variety of applications of probabilistic ideas and randomization in several areas of computer science.

The course introduces students to economic and social history in global perspective. It covers the period from ca. 1750 to the First World War, an age that saw the emergence of industrialization, the rise of modern European global empires, and what has been considered as the first wave of globalization. The first block of the course examines Glasgow's history and its connections with the wider world forged through slavery, empire, and globalization. Subsequent blocks of the course allow students to integrate study of key historical questions and themes with consideration of different world regions, which may include Europe, East Asia and South Asia, Africa, and North and South America.

This course provides an introduction to databases. Topics include: information systems, modeling methodologies, and management of semi-structured and complex data; relational database including design of a database and query languages; NoSQL databases.

This course focuses on the social and cultural relations produced by resource management projects, and explores the global and local frames through a series of world-wide case studies of mining, oil, gas, and forestry projects. Resource projects have long been important sites of cultural contact, environmental impact and anthropological interest: whether first contact with prospectors, disputes with multinational companies, sustainable development initiatives or civil-society monitoring, resource exploration and extraction has long played an important part in the interface with non-western and indigenous peoples and the forces of globalization. The course also examines the potential for anthropological skills and knowledge to contribute to an industry that has increasingly to account for its social and environmental impacts to a global constituency.

This course introduces the study of human development through the life-course. It considers biological, psychological, and social domains of concern, viewing development as a product of genetic maturational, self-directed, and social factors. A psychosocial perspective provides the orienting framework for the course, emphasizing the continuous interaction of person and social environment. The framework helps students identify essential tasks, concerns, and sources of vulnerability and resilience in development and functioning through the life course.  

The course encompasses a range of perspectives, drawing on recent lines of inquiry in neuroscience and neuropsychology; psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and social learning theories; ecological models; stress and coping studies; and concepts of culture, race, and ethnicity related to growth and behavior. Lecture and discussion seek to bridge theoretical perspectives, social policy considerations, and direct practice issues with particular attention to diverse and vulnerable populations. 

This course introduces the economic analysis of the labor market. It presents both traditional topics in the labor economics literature (e.g. demand, supply, human capital, discrimination and compensating wage differentials) as well as recent developments (e.g. early childhood education, migration, non-competitive labor markets and alternative work arrangements). The focus in the course are the fundamental models of labor economics, while basic empirical methods and empirical applications in contemporary labor economics are also discussed. Students apply the economic concepts to real world empirical problems.

Sport is central to life in the modern world. Why do people play sport, watch sport, talk about sport, dream about sport? And why do they choose the sports that they choose? This course examines the modern passion for sport and seeks to explain this passion. It assesses to what extent the straightforward pursuit of pleasure overwhelms everything else when people chose to engage with sport. But it also looks at how such choices are defined (or refined) by the influence of ideology and tradition, class and gender, commerce and geography, education, and employment. From the colosseum of the Roman Empire to the stadia of the 21st century, this course considers the creation of the modern sporting world and analyzes the place of sport within the context of social, cultural, political, and economic change.

 

This course covers how to design and implement tropical forest restoration programs that are adapted to local biophysical and social situations. It focuses on the initial restoration phase and discusses how to make wise choices of methods, species, and propagation techniques in relation to given restoration objectives and with participation of rural people in the implementation. Topics include biological aspects of tropical forest landscape restoration; seed supply, genetic aspects, and climate change; tree seed procurement and propagation; and implementation, monitoring, and management of tropical forest landscape restoration.