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This course discusses the most relevant experimental paradigms for the investigation of conscious perception and its failures. The course discusses topics including notions concerning how the sensory apparatus in human adults selects and organizes the flood of information into coherent and perceivable objects; notions concerning the lively debate about the role of attention as a gate to consciousness; notions about extant functional, neural, and computational models of consciousness; and notions about human error as resulting from a failure at one of more processing stages underlying the generation of a conscious percept, considering a subset of situations in which such errors may engender in particularly problematic situations. The course requires students to have the basic notions typically delivered in classes such as Experimental/General Psychology, and the basic principles for the use of experimental methodologies in the psychological field as a prerequisite.

This course offers an introduction to data science. Topics include: introduction to R-Studio; case studies of exploratory data analysis and visualization techniques; precision, sensitivity, specificity, over-fitting; decision trees and random forests; clustering methods.

The students learn the implementation and practical application of new (under development) web technologies, particularly in the areas of online media (e.g. web TV, streaming, content protection, social media), telecommunications (e.g. web RTC) , as well as Internet of Things.

This course examines methods to model and analyze statistical dependencies in data. The methods are useful for detecting, analyzing and making inference about patterns and dependences within the data so as to support business decisions. This course offers an insight into the main statistical methodologies for modelling statistical dependence in both discrete and continuous business data. This provides the information required for a range of specific tasks, e.g. in financial asset valuation and risk measurement, market research, demand and sales forecasting and financial analysis, among others. The course emphasizes real empirical applications in business, finance, accounting and marketing, using modern software tools.

This course examines the biological, behavioral, social and ecological determinants of health from scientific, social, cultural and policy perspectives. It covers current and historical health challenges faced locally and globally. 

This course introduces the principles of investments and major issues currently of interest to all investors. It focuses on stock markets, portfolio theory and practice, equilibrium in capital markets, efficient market hypothesis, and behavior and portfolio performance evaluations. The course explores intuition and practical applications of investment theory and analytical analysis. 

This course introduces the Earth System as a basis for characterizing and understanding natural hazards, their causes and consequences. The major types of natural hazard are described, analyzed, and assessed in terms of their underlying causes as well as their socio-economic and environmental impacts. This course capitalizes on natural synergies between subsurface, surface, and human dimensions of the Earth System. Hazards for consideration include earthquakes and tsunamis, volcanic hazards (local, regional and global scale), meteorological hazards (hurricanes, tornadoes, dust storms, El-Nino, flooding and coastal erosion), topographic hazards such as collapse of unstable slopes, and hazards arising from climate change. The evidence for past natural catastrophes and hazards, recorded in natural archives, are described along with remote sensing methods for documenting current hazards and hazard risk. The principles and application of risk assessment and analysis are considered with respect to case studies. The course concludes with an overview of human settlement, planning, and policy in relation to natural hazards in the light of their socio-economic impacts. The course comprises lectures supplemented by a series of laboratory classes, together with a directed program of reading. 

This course offers a study of media theories and processes in the global world. Topics include: communication and media; television; modes of representation and reception; multiculturalism and the media; comics and superheroes; fan culture and participatory culture.

This course takes its title from a series of letters and papers that Dietrich Bonhoeffer composed while imprisoned in Berlin from 1943-1945. The theological questions posed by Bonhoeffer in these personal letters will set the tone for this course, as well as its overall aims. Specifically, those aims are to identify and to critically assess a variety of challenges that have been posed against religious thought and belief by the rapid development of secular culture and its rising influence in the modern, Western world. In doing so, this course will explore a wide range of political, social, and personal/existential ideas and provocations that theologians, philosophers, and religious thinkers have been made to confront in this “world come of age”.

This course explores Thailand's roles in the international arena from 1945 to the present. The emphasis is on Thailand's foreign policy and relations with major powers such as the United States, Japan, China, and neighboring Southeast Asian countries. Topics include the background of Thai foreign affairs, Thai foreign policy towards major powers, and Thai foreign policy towards neighboring countries in South East Asia.