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The human body offers historians a gateway onto understanding the cultures of the past. On this course students examine several groups of objects from the visual culture of medieval Europe and the Middle East through this contemporary theoretical lens, examining how the techniques and society of the medieval craftsman at once idolized and distorted the medieval body's forms. In previous years this course has also featured a study trip to museums and galleries in London to meet with curators and handle objects.

This course examines topics such as motivating and leading others, making effective decisions, and creating effective teams in organizations. 

This course covers most of the issues related to important concepts, theory, and practices of modern management. A key focus is on the modern management function, including issues of 1) delivering strategic value (for planning); 2) building a dynamic organization (for organizing); 3) mobilizing people (for leading), and 4) learning and changing (for controlling) in turbulent and competitive markets. Along the way, the course looks at the importance of managing people, resources, and organizational and leadership agility. The course also emphasizes themes of good management processes and practices, such as collaboration, leadership, strategic value, and adaptive action. 

This course offers an introduction to data science for genomic data. It discusses basic algorithms for genome sequencing, compares DNA sequences or proteins, and analyzes databases with the genomic profiles of different patients for the extraction of information. Other topics include: computational methods for analyzing and performing DNA data sequencing; advanced statistical methods for the analysis of genomic data; statistical tests for the extraction of conclusions.

This course is an experimental exploration into what the study of music and sound can contribute to a planet in crisis. Due to the continuous unfolding of our planet’s environmental emergency, this course grapples with very new, very urgent, and sometimes seemingly impossibly big ideas. This course emphasizes inter-disciplinary co-learning, radiating outwards from recent discussions regarding the chrono-stratigraphic naming of the “Anthropocene” as a geological epoch in which humans have become a decisive geological force that impacts the earth’s ecosystems. It seeks inspiration from the various fields of ecomusicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, and environmental humanities, to engage with and channel knowledge into an applied form and collaborate on creative, educational, and/or activist projects for addressing the challenges of our collective future on this planet.  
 
Students can also choose to take the same course titled “Applied Musicology for the Anthropocene 02” if they are interested in exploring the course subject with more in-depth discussions in class.  

This course uncovers a European history about love that has shaped the present in untold ways. It follows love on various historical stages – from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages, the romantic era, the post-romantic period, and into the present – and pays close attention to the stories we have told ourselves about love. Our love stories reveal that we conceive of the human condition as desiring, striving, and longing, but also as avoiding reality and the concrete commitments that tie us to finitude. The course reads responses to this escapism in the form of a moral call to respond to the other, also when this means respecting difference and the other’s independence. Throughout, it provides tools for thinking seriously about love today.

This course provides an international law of armed conflict framework to the main recent and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa regions. It focuses on the role international law plays in the realm of international and regional relations, namely inter-State relations but also State-individual relations through the growth of human rights law. The first part of the course provides an outline of the general public international law framework to key international conflicts faced by the international community. It then applies these concepts to concrete case studies that are discussed in-depth during the second part of the seminar in view of analyzing and studying international law “in motion.” The course is interactive and necessitates active participation and engagement in the class discussions.

The course equips students with an understanding of (1) the marketing concept, (2) important strategic marketing decisions for business, (3) emerging trends in marketing, and (4) the relationships and tensions that exist between marketing practice and society. Students are first introduced to important concepts underpinning marketing practice; consumer behavior, segmentation & targeting, branding, marketing communications in a digitalized world, and the marketing mix.