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This course covers various approaches to the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and programs to address global health problems. By learning from previous successes and failures in global health, the course explores evidence-based strategies, policies, and programmatic interventions to improve the following outcomes: child undernutrition; maternal mortality; malaria; tuberculosis; HIV/AIDS; alcohol use and tobacco control; chronic diseases; mental health; air pollution and climate change; and the 21st century epidemics. Through these case studies, the course will challenge and encourage students to brainstorm various ways to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of global health projects. Sessions in this course will be comprised of interactive lectures and case-based learning. The course requires active participation from all students.

90% of security incidents exploit software vulnerabilities. This course studies principles and mechanisms for improving software security. It discusses various attack techniques; how to defend against them; and more importantly, how to develop software with less vulnerabilities in advance.

The course covers topics such as security principles, buffer overflow, race condition attacks and security development lifecycles (SDL), security by design. Operating systems and computer network courses are recommended before taking this course.

In this course students think critically about diversity and inequality and how they are manifest in place, focusing particularly on local scales. Students learn to see the places around them as a product of complex processes that reflect and reinforce social differences. In studying the making and meaning of place students consider themes such as international and internal migration, housing structures and gentrification, neighborhood representations, and place belonging. Students interrogate how social and spatial sorting (or stratification, or segregation) happens along lines of race/ethnicity, class, and age, and who is advantaged and disadvantaged. In this course students work with a variety of types of evidence (data) and be encouraged to appreciate how this can provide deeper and broader interrogations of social phenomena. There is considerable focus on the UK but also examples from elsewhere, and the inherent themes and theories are applicable globally.

This workshop focuses on marketing and leadership. The objectives of this workshop are to:
1. Explore marketing strategies and executions;
2. Put theories into practice to become an effective marketer; and
3. Exchange ideas on cross-cultural leadership, and how leaders may contribute to society.

Through various readings, in-class discussions, and group work, students will engage in both the theoretical exploration of marketing and leadership as well as practical marketing projects with realistic assignments.

Furthermore, there will be a philosophical component to this workshop in which students will be challenged to apply critical thinking and question conventional assumptions about business and success. There are no right or wrong answers - the crucial point is for the class to actively participate and learn from each other.

This course examines the ambivalent role of digital technologies in our societies and questions our future by questioning their relevance. It first considers where we come from and how the pre-web world prepared us for this new reality, notably through science fiction. It then invites us to understand what is happening in our daily lives by deciphering the announced technological advances and their effects on reality. Finally, the course imagines a horizon that seems most desirable for all.

This course examines anthropological approaches to foodways and agricultural sustainability. It considers how small-scale producers and their communities fulfill their basic needs, and how they relate to the living world, including the plants and animals that are the sources of valued foods. It also undertakes the critical analysis of food movements, food systems and the socio-economic contexts of food provisioning and food production, particularly through ethnography.

This course asks and answers the question "what are data, and how do they come to be?" The story of data reveals the moral and political values that shape human practices of counting, measuring, and labelling reality, and helps us better understand the growing power of data in today's world. Designed to engage students across the disciplines, this introductory course offers a foundational integration of basic concepts and methods of data science with the historical and philosophical context that reveals their ethical and political dimensions as inseparable from their scientific value. The course draws from the disciplines of philosophy, sociology, history, mathematics, computer science, and the design arts to build up a more comprehensive picture of how data are constructed, interpreted, shared, and used for a growing range of scientific, commercial, public and creative purposes.

This course concentrates on literary culture and its production in Ireland and Scotland in the transitional period of c.1100-1600. Students review the literary corpus that existed in Ireland before the arrival of the Normans, looking at the structure, genres, and typical content of this literature. The 12th century in Ireland witnessed the changeover from monastic to secular schools, a new professionalization of poetry-making, and the perfecting of syllabic metres which had been in use for some 500 years. Students assess the function of the poet and the nature of his relationship with his patron. Irish-Scottish literary connections at this period are often over-looked and forgotten, but the same standard literary language stretched across the straits of Moyle from north east Ulster to Gaelic-speaking Scotland. 

This course presents the analytical tools, financial theories and empirical evidence necessary for making good investment decisions. It focuses on equity investing and covers the following topics: stock returns in historical perspective, expected returns, stock price and macro news, asset allocation problem, international investment, investor's horizon, capital asset pricing model (CAPM), multi-factor model and trading strategies. The course contrasts the traditional view and the behavioral view on portfolio management. Excel (including Excel solver) will be used throughout the course (no prior knowledge is required). 

This course studies the earth’s climate history from the deep past to recent climate change. It spotlights changes on geological time scales as well as variations over glacial-interglacial cycles, and recent human induced changes. There is a particular focus on the climate archives in the large polar ice sheets and the geological record. It introduces reading the paleo-climate archives and judging their uncertainties. This course provides an introduction to and general knowledge of what can be learned from paleo-climate archives about global and regional climate on timescales from a few thousand to millions of years. It provides an update of new records of past climate and their interpretation and the background for a critical view on man made climate change.