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The course lays foundations in performance studies, introducing key concepts, theories and approaches. These are supplemented by seminars to focus on critical and textual analysis and small group tutorials. Students are introduced to a range of performance forms and methods of analysis. 

This course provides new thinking about public health which integrates the arts and sciences to address current health and social care issues. Topics include, for example, public health systems and structures, behavior change theories, arts in public health communication, public health interventions for non-communicable diseases, creative approaches in public health, arts in mental health promotion, public health inequities, public health in the workplace, participatory global health, co-designing health architecture, and public health and the environment.

This course deploys literary-critical thinking and attention to literary forms in order to interrogate the narrative of the ‘raw material’, and the histories that have emerged from it. From vital materialist accounts of the agencies and powers of nonhuman things, to Marxist analyses of the hidden labor that produces the ‘raw’ material before it can even be said to exist, students consider the ways in which the Victorian invention of raw materiality contributed to violence, environmental destruction, and ideologies of domination over the earth and its species. 

The course analyses all aspects of various short films and discusses how to write a short film, how to deal with the dramaturgy of the short film, and how to direct it. The course examines masterpieces created by the best directors in the history of cinema as well as contemporary ones. The course is intended for the students who are preparing their own short films but also for those, who want to understand the short film as a form.

This course involves studying the ethical aspects of various principle issues in contemporary world politics. It introduces students to a number of ethical difficulties surrounding identifying and applying ethical principles to aspects of world politics, such as war and human rights. Students begin by asking to what extent moral action is possible in international politics. As such, the course starts by analyzing theoretical approaches to the place of ethics in world politics and then moves to consider specific issues such as war, human rights, and the politics of the human and torture, for example.

This course introduces intercultural communication. It reviews core theories and research in intercultural communication and examines various issues that arise when encountering differences with others, fostering an understanding of the opportunities and challenges involved in intercultural communication. 

This course aims to develop students' understanding of short fiction writing. More specifically, the course focuses on the core concepts of fiction writing such as theme and plot. In addition, students produce a piece of fiction using original characters and viewpoints. The course goal is to develop students' ability to express their ideas through creative use of language.  

This course is open to ELA students who have completed their freshman ELA requirements and non-native English-speaking JLP track students who wish to further develop their English language skills. 

This course introduces the basic economic rationale of major innovation policy measures as well as the principles and methods used for their evaluation. It covers simple treatments of the key economic problems addressed by the most important among such policies, coupled with data and examples on how they are implemented and evaluated. Topics include: key vocabulary, market-failure versus systemic policies, supply- versus demand-side policies, knowledge as a public good, supply-side policies; R&D policies: public science, public support to private R&D; intellectual property rights: classic model (dynamic versus static welfare trade-off), advanced topics (cumulative innovation), demand-side policies; and diffusion of innovations.

This course explores the interdependencies between natural systems and human disease in a time of rapid environmental change. Acknowledging diverse and changing perspectives on health and the environment across history and cultures, students are introduced to emerging concepts and issues in this field, fundamental approaches to assess evidence for causal relationships between environment and disease as well as begin to develop an understanding of the complex socioecological systems within which remedial action can be taken.

This course focuses on understanding the process and results of marketing research (MR) and its applications. After taking this course, students will be able to experience the entire process of MR, including problem definition, research design, data collection, data analysis, interpretation, and reporting of results. This course emphasizes an applied approach to the practical application of marketing research to management.