English

Intellectual property is at the core of all modern economies. Digital technologies are shaped by rights of creators and inventors, and the licensing practices that have evolved around these rights. Thus, understanding what intellectual property rights protect is indispensable to understand the world around us. This course introduces the intellectual property law system and its role in forming the building blocks of the modern economy.

This course traces the premodern histories of contemporary constructions of race and gender, exploring the figuration of these concepts in (mainly) non-dramatic texts from Old English to the 17th-century. Students read works including Old English texts scrutinizing the practices of slavery, early modern women’s conduct books, the diplomatic correspondence between Elizabeth I and the Ottoman “Sultana” Safiye, travel writings by Leo Africanus and Al-Hasan al-Wazzan, and Zadie Smith’s reimagining of Chaucer, THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN. Students draw upon important recent scholarship in Premodern Critical Race Theory, Post-Colonial Theory, Gender Studies, Trans Studies and Queer Temporalities to trace how premodern texts helped to construct, perpetuate, challenge, critique, or explore ideas of race and gender, and how this has shaped our field and our world today. 

This course incorporates the key concepts of global citizenship, conflict resolution, diversity, human rights, interdependence, social justice, sustainable development, politics, diversity, values and perceptions and fake news. It builds knowledge and understanding, as well as develop critical opinions and analysis in English. The course is designed for group and pair work, with the teacher serving as the facilitator guiding students through news media.

This course starts with a historical overview of computer simulations in science and engineering and an introduction to the challenges and opportunities in connecting simulations, theory, and experiments. Students address the core concepts essential to understand and interpret computer simulations in science and engineering, including the fundamentals of statistical physics, interaction potentials, Monte Carlo simulations, equation-based simulations, and the concept of coarse-grained simulations and enhanced sampling techniques. 

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of computer algorithms. It presents many algorithms and covers them in considerable depth. Each chapter presents an algorithm, a design technique, an application area or a related topic. Since we emphasize efficiency as a design criterion, we include careful analyses of the running time of all our algorithms. In addition to the introduction of “design of algorithms”, we also play the emphasis on the “complexity analysis of algorithms” to help students understand the detailed differences between various algorithms for a certain problem mainly in terms of time. The carefully chosen English material is intended to provide the students an enjoyable taste for the international class on algorithms. The textbook we chose is also used by many other universities for undergraduate algorithm course. The course targets the enhancement of the following skills: 1)understanding and mastering the fundamental algorithm design by a series representative algorithms such as: graph algorithms, sorting algorithms etc.; 2) training the capability of algorithms analysis as well the proof of the correctness of algorithms in terms of time complexity and asymptotic efficiency, improving the logic reasoning and understanding the development of algorithm theory; 3) encouraging students to have a depth understanding of studied algorithm by applying them to practical applications as well as problems, training them to relate what they have learned in the class to the real-world problems.4) improving the capability of solving real-world problems.

This course explores the making of a modern metropolis: London in the 20th century. Using the city as a classroom, students take a social and cultural approach to London’s history. The course attends to differences in the urban space, thinking about the dividing line of the Thames that separates the city North and South, or the East/West divide. They consider the multiplicity of lives lived in London, as shaped by structures including gender, class, race, and age. Students study some of the major events of this period including suffrage campaigns, two world wars, mass migration, and decolonization. They also think about how the public history of the city has been constructed through museums, walking tours, podcasts, documentaries, fiction, and film.

This course surveys research methods for science and technology studies and across the social sciences that contribute to the generation of new data. Students study a diverse range of methods and learn to understand the strengths and weaknesses of particular methods for investigating particular questions. Students are introduced to the theory and practice of qualitative and quantitative methods. Topics include research ethics, research design, face-to-face interviews and focus groups, surveys, content and discourse analysis, and ethnography. 

This course explores the diverse forms of collaboration in which anthropologists are involved. Whether in working across academic disciplines, with Amazonian people to document an indigenous language, co-authoring ethnographic texts with local research assistants, or working with government officials to design public health policies, collaboration has become an ethical imperative that underscores the potential benefits and challenges of contemporary anthropology. The course involves thinking creatively about new possibilities for collaborative practice in anthropology. It also invites critical thinking about how, whether in academia, international development, artistic practice, or the business world, collaboration has become a seemingly ubiquitous regime of value in the contemporary world.

The course introduces theoretical perspectives on the "public sphere" by drawing on political and philosophical arguments, and illustrating them in the context of the competition/complementarity of political and religious discourses and movements in the age of mass communication. The course also focuses on how religious and political authority is communicated through both conventional and new global media. Topics include the study of religion in the public sphere, power, media, and religion, media representations of religion, media and religious political conflict, and others.

This course examines clinical psychology (also known as abnormal psychology). The main emphasis is on current views, perspectives, and research in this field. Clinical psychology draws upon most basic areas of psychological knowledge (e.g., social, developmental, physiological, cognitive, learning theory).