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The course introduces the notions of Fourier series and Fourier transform and to study their basic properties. The course is devoted to the one dimensional case in order to simplify the definitions and proofs. Many multidimensional results are obtained in the same manner, and those results may also be stated. The Fourier technique is important in various fields, in particular, in the theory of (partial) differential equations. It is explained how one can solve some integral and differential equations and study the properties of their solutions using this technique.

This course focuses on introducing organizational behavior and leadership in the workplace. Students learn theoretical and conceptual foundations for understanding people, groups, and organizations, and practical tools for accomplishing personal, group, and organizational objectives. Topics include personality and individual differences, work values and attitudes, work motivation, organizational trust and justice, emotions and stress management, organizational culture, decision making, and power and conflict management among others.

This course will teach students to recognize, assess, and generate evidence-based crime policies across a range of contexts and criminal justice domains such as police, courts, and corrections. This will include a focus on how government and non-government agencies can develop "upstream" responses; that is policies and programs that aim to prevent crime before they become "downstream" problems requiring responses by the criminal justice system. This requires an evidence-based approach that emphasizes problem solving and analysis. Topics will include program design and evaluation and the course will cover various crime prevention approaches such as crime prevention through environmental design, situational crime prevention, social prevention, and developmental crime prevention.

This course is designed to familiarize students with important concepts and theories of international security studies as well as prominent security issues in the contemporary world. The first part of the course introduces the basic analytical concepts and theoretical frameworks as regards direct and indirect use of force in international politics; the second part explores strategic policy during the Cold War and the lessons that scholars have drawn from that historical period; the third part examines several security challenges at the dawn of the 21st century such as nuclear proliferation, terrorism and insurgency, and the security implications of technological change; the last part focuses on the rise of China and international security, with particular attention paid to the relationship between China and the United States, the Taiwan issue, and maritime disputes in East Asia. It is worth noting that the course will not touch upon most non-traditional security issues such as energy security, climate change, food safety, etc.

This course examines the link between migration and development. A large share of the migration in the world goes from the periphery in the world system to core states. The course covers the causes of migration, the effect of migration on the sending countries, and the ways in which the unequal relations between the countries influence migration. Migration is studied on a micro-level, as an individual decision to move to another country, or as a family strategy in sending regions to increase income. The course also considers how these remittances affect communities in sending regions. The social networks between sending and receiving countries drive migration and how states influence migration streams are also studied. The course identifies the causes of migration and how migration affects both sending and receiving countries.

This course examines harvest and capture of aquatic organisms and inter-relationships with aquaculture. fisheries and aquaculture are treated not as distinct disciplines but in the context of integrating exploitation and sustainable environmental integrity. Case studies include deep sea and coastal fisheries, and shellfish culture.

The course is divided into two main sections. Following a brief historical introduction to the discipline, students explore classical concepts and theories of IR, including power and anarchy (realism), cooperation and human rights (liberalism), norms and identity (constructivism), followed by critical perspectives on global politics such as class and dependencies (Marxism), gender and the patriarchy (feminism), and exploitation and orientalism (postcolonialism). In the second section of the course, students investigate pressing global issues like terrorism, AI, and the climate crisis, which have fundamentally altered the conduct of international politics. Finally, the course concludes with a discussion of future (im)possibilities for global politics. 

Students learn about the science of wellbeing, including wellbeing as a measure of welfare and its different conceptualizations such as evaluations and experiences of happiness; behavioral scientific phenomena uniquely captured by wellbeing such as adaptation to changing life circumstances, our tendency to make mistakes and mispredict what actually makes us happy, and relative comparisons (or jealousy); and how happiness differs between individuals and societies. Importantly, students then learn how to apply these insights to policy-making, including policy design, appraisal, and evaluation. Students are being familiarized with wellbeing theories and frameworks; data, measurement, and survey design; methods for wellbeing policy appraisal, including cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis; wellbeing policy evaluation; social welfare; and wellbeing interventions.

This course deals with some of Aristotle’s most influential ideas. Students begin with one of his ethical works, the NICOMACHEAN ETHICS, and then move on to his metaphysics in the CATEGORIES. Students then look at Aristotle’s ideas about nature, causation, the infinite, place, and self-motion in his PHYSICS. Throughout the course, students consider questions of interpretation, try to understand how Aristotle’s ideas fit together and engage with his views and arguments critically.

This course equips students with an in-depth understanding of what competition law entails, alongside the broader policy issues that it raises. The focus is the structure and substance of the EU competition rules with a comparative assessment of other competition systems, particularly the laws of the United States. Since most competition systems globally borrow from one or both of these jurisdictions, the intention is to provide students with the necessary understanding and skills to address antitrust problems wherever in the world they arise.