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This course discusses the function and role of new tools in the fields of Biotechnology and Bioengineering as well as their applications. It offers a study of tissue engineering tools, regenerative medicine and gene editing, computational drug design, tissue-on-chip development, bio-inspired materials, 3D bioprinting, computational modeling of biological systems, and synthetic biology. This course places special emphasis on how artificial intelligence is shaping each of these tools and applications.

This course explores how international law addresses environmental issues. The course covers different treaties and customs and how States interact regarding environmental issues. Through lectures, case studies, and presentations, the class analyzes the effectiveness of environmental law; its current challenges, and the future of environmental protection.

This course examines the use of spreadsheets and databases for business management and analysis. It develops basic computer skills through the use of various features of Microsoft Excel such as Scenario Manager, Solver, Pivot Tables, and
Macros to solve complex business problems. It will also develop basic spreadsheet skills in Excel using basic functions, logic and reference functions, statistical functions, and charting to solve complex business problems. Moreover, it explores basic SQL (the most common database language) for business analytics.

This course addresses the core concerns of power, domination, inequality, class formation, and transnational political economy, while grounding them ethnographically in urban space. Rather than treating these concepts abstractly, students encounter them through detailed case studies of how colonial spatial logics persist in contemporary cities and how urban residents navigate, reproduce, and contest these structures. The course traces connections between colonial urbanism and contemporary urban transformation across the Global South and in Berlin itself. Students develop analytical tools for understanding how political-economic processes materialize in urban form, social practice, and everyday experience.

This course explores media policy, industry change, and work practices, including concepts of labor and practical responses to workplace dynamics. 

This course examines how monetary theory explains inflation; business cycles; and financial instability, and how central banks use monetary policy to stabilize the economy. Building on the foundations developed in Principles of Macroeconomics, the course introduces students to modern theories of money and central banking and explores how monetary policy shapes macroeconomic outcomes.

The course focuses on Japan’s monetary policy experience, including deflation, the zero lower bound, quantitative and qualitative easing, yield curve control, and current debates about policy normalization. The class applies theory to historical and contemporary policy episodes in Japan and abroad. Finally, the course culminates in a mock Bank of Japan Policy Board meeting in which students debate and determine the appropriate direction of Japanese monetary policy using economic theory and real-world evidence.

This course examines key moments of struggle over what ‘Australia’ means and what it means to be Australian. Topics may include: imperial expansion and the colonial frontier; race relations and British race patriotism, Indigenous resistance and the White Australia policy; battles over land and labor; refugee and border protection; engagement with the Asia-Pacific; economic revolutions; protest movements and state formation. It will explore the ceaseless debate about government, community, history and identity that helps shape a collective and individual consciousness.

This course is a hands-on practice in which students learn to apply film production theory to communicate ideas and tell stories. Students gain experience capturing, constructing and manipulating both audio and moving image in the process of designing, shooting and editing digital short films.

This course is designed to provide a systematic exposition of the scientific foundations, policy frameworks, and global practices of drug regulation, serving as a cornerstone curriculum in the fields of public health and pharmaceutical innovation.

Structured as a chronological survey, this class provides a historical overview of British and Commonwealth spoken word poetry from the late 1960s to the present day. Beginning with US American influences from beat poetry and the Liverpool poets, the class moves on to the “punk poet” John Cooper Clarke and dub poetry by Benjamin Zephaniah and Linton Kwesi Johnson from the 1970s and 1980s. It then discusses work from the 1990s and early 2000s by spoken word performers such as Roger Robinson and Malika Booker, ending with Jay Bernard’s contemporary archival poetry. Students use these primary texts to introduce and revise concepts from literary studies such as intertextuality, reader-response theory, the archival turn, and autotheory. Incorporating modes of writing like Saidya Hartman’s “critical fabulation” and Antonio Gramsci’s and Stuart Hall’s figure of the “organic intellectual” into the discussion, the class attempts to conceptualize spoken word poetry as a uniquely ephemeral and performative form of knowledge production. In addition to discussing the role of spoken word poetry for marginalized communities and identities, the class attempts to understand how it challenges categories like authorship and genre, as well as distinctions between e.g. fiction and nonfiction or high and popular culture.