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This course describe the structures of biological macromolecules, particularly proteins, in relation to their functions in catalysis, ligand binding, membrane transport, and ability to form and function as complexes, and to illustrate the types of experimental techniques used to study macromolecular structure and function. It develops personal skills appropriate to a third-year biological science student, including competence in a range of laboratory techniques; the ability to analyze scientific papers; familiarity with the use of libraries and databases; the ability to present the results of experimental work concisely and accurately, both numerically and in writing, and to write about biochemical and molecular biological topics in a clear and well-organized manner.

Incorporating the human security discourse into sustainable development, this course focuses on four themes representing overarching approaches for developing sustainability solutions, whose interests they represent, and their implications on the "individual" as the referent object of security and sustainable development. Engaging the human security components allows students to understand the implications of sustainable development, or lack thereof, on the people whose development is to be sustained. Through critical interrogation of approaches to the sustainable development, this course explores the benefits and trade-offs implicit in different dimensions of sustainability and their implications. The course builds on the core material of SD1000 and SD1004.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrolment is by permission of the instructor. The course focuses on topics including: the basics for ICT, big data, and IoT; the introduction to IoT, application scenarios, enabling definitions and technologies, and cloud and fog computing; the main components of IoT solutions, and big data and references to Artificial Intelligence; and IoT and big data services from the product to the service, and application cases in smart agriculture. The course content is divided into 6 parts: 1) introduction to computer science; 2) Internet of Things (IoT); 3) big data and Artificial Intelligence; 4) tools for data analysis, elaboration, and visualizations; 5) field work; and 6) seminar.

This course examines the relationship between crime, law, medicine and science. It focuses on criminal detection practices, death investigation systems, the coroner's office, autopsies and socio-legal management of the dead body, human tissue and organ controversies, and the role of medicine, science and psychology in criminal justice.

A war of ideas is being waged within the private sector. Efforts to obfuscate the truth collide with attempts to reveal the reality beyond the headlines. Long-Term Capital Management, Enron, Lehman, names of former so-called “high-flyers” now reduced to grim labels that serve to remind the wary of how quickly the elite can fall from grace. This course focuses on the interplay of truth and fiction in the business world and the critical thinking skills needed to unravel this twisted web.

This class is built in two “halves." During the first half of the course, the class will be exposed to many forms of analytical style used in the social studies and the field of history in particular—to (a) better understand both the language and terminology used in discussions of the subject matter and (b) improve their critical thinking skills. By using these analytical tools, the second half of the course focuses on case studies to see the interplay of fact and fiction on both the floor of investment banks and in the real estate markets of the US. 

Dublin is one of Europe's oldest and greatest historic cities, and one of the fastest-growing. This course explores that long history, from the late first millennium AD when Vikings began a formal process of settlement to the early 21st century when global migration patterns enlarged its population and enriched its culture. The course focuses on the city's history as represented in its layout and physical fabric, two concerns of interest to archaeologists. It is intended to inform students about Dublin's history, but it also to equip them to read the evidence for that history in the physical character of the city. The course has three main components: the medieval city (to 1600), the early modern city (1600-1800), the modern and contemporary city (1800 to the present).

This course provides a broad understanding of how our brain works. The course structure is focused on active learning with a balance of lectures and hands-on activities. Topics include perception, reasoning, memory, attention, emotions, and decision-making, among other cognitive traits. The course is accessible to students with different backgrounds and provides important new insights into how our brain gives rise to our abilities to perceive, act, and think.

When external stressors happen to individuals, their coping occurs with their family involved as a unit. This course covers diverse types of stressors, including immigration and health condition, and investigates how families cope with the stressors. Contemporarily, whereas diverse forms of families exist, the cultural expectations towards families do not seem to have changed accordingly. Thus, the discussions in this course will cover the context of diversity and the diversity of contexts.  

Lifting the Iron Curtain studies the political, social, and economic transformation of Eastern Europe from the end of the First World War till today. This multidisciplinary course can be divided into two major parts: a historical one devoted to the short twentieth century until 1989-91 and a more contemporary one exploring the achievements and shortcomings of the three decades since. The first half of the course starts by examining East-West relations in Europe on a material and discursive level. It continues by discussing the emergence and characteristics of the post-imperial order after the First World War. It also focuses on the practically simultaneous imposition of the Bolshevik regime in the (newly created) Soviet Union as well as the brutal development of this regime under Lenin and Stalin. The course subsequently includes four meetings on the post-war (Soviet) era west of the Soviet Union, respectively devoted to the origins of Soviet-type regimes in Eastern Europe; the major challenges these regimes had to face, such as the Hungarian uprising or the Prague Spring, and how they responded to them; the reasons behind their unexpected and sudden collapse in 1989-91; and, last but not least, continental and global perspectives on these developments. As mentioned, the second half of the course assesses the political and economic transformation of Eastern Europe since 1989-91. Questions regarding democratization and the quality of democracy in the region as well as the European opening and the related expectations, hopes, and frustrations are the center of attention. The course closes with a discussion of the major challenges Eastern Europe confronts today.

This course examines the fundamentals of accounting theory and the conceptual framework that underlies financial reporting in Canada, and the procedures currently used in accounting for assets, revenues, and expenses.