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The Finance function is a critical aspect of any organization.  The success or failure of a firm may be influenced significantly by how it manages its finances.  It is therefore important for both managers and employees to understand the principals of financial management for firms operating in any industry. This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of financial management. It focuses on analyzing and evaluating financial products using various techniques. It covers several topics related to financial management such as debt policy, dividend policy, maximizing corporate value and financial risk. Throughout this course, students will become familiar with the basic concepts of corporate finance and financial language used within academic literature and the media.

This advanced course offers a comprehensive examination of women's engagement in politics worldwide, with a primary focus on the French context. Through a nuanced and comparative lens, it explores the complex dynamics surrounding women's participation in political spheres. Students critically analyze the multifaceted challenges that women encounter in their pursuit of political power and decision-making roles but also in influencing political and intellectual debates. Drawing on extensive research and scholarly works, the course investigates the historical, social, and political factors that have shaped women's involvement in politics from a global perspective. 

This course examines forces that shaped the modern world and the development of a modern global society, from the sixteenth century to the present. It explores the major critical junctures that placed human society on a path towards modernity. It examines
the linkages between society, economics, politics, administration, culture, and science and technology as the foundation for globalization. 

This course provides an introduction to the politics of the Middle East. This includes an analysis of the growth and nature of the state in the Middle East; the prevalence of authoritarianism, neo-patrimonialism and processes towards democratization: the salience of Arab nationalism and Islamism: dynamics of conflict and revolution in the region; and the rise of Islamism.

This course provides an introduction to ocean properties and processes. Topics include processes that exchange energy and water within the Earth system; main sources, sinks, and pathways of material; temperature, salinity, and density structure; temperature-salinity diagram; waves and tide generation; Eulerian and Lagrangian co-ordinate systems; hydrothermal circulation; biogeochemical cycling of oxygen, carbon dioxide and nutrients; biogenic sediments; volume transport and fluxes of material; and instrumentation used in oceanography.

This course is designed to help students to gain a deep understanding of Chinese consumers and Chinese market and expose students to the business innovations and marketing practices in this market. This course will discuss the characteristics of Chinese consumers and the evolution of demand, the growth of Chinese brands, the business innovations powered by internet and important marketing strategies leveraging social media and mobile technology. The course will also cover cases of international brands in China and analyze the underlying reasons for their success or failure in this market. You will learn the strategies that marketers can use to operate successfully in today's dynamic environment.

The course Poetry and Pop Songs reads English and American poetry from the 20th and 21st centuries Works are unraveled from a variety of older and newer music artists, ranging for example from U2 and Coldplay to Rihanna and Pink.  Students learn how to interpret poetry and popular music in a systematic and sophisticated way, and to write an in-depth analysis of a song or poem. The focus is on the analysis of the lyrics or ‘text’ of the poems and songs by using insights and tools from literary theory to find out how (specific) poems work, which effects they evoke, and what they mean. Students also apply these tools to the analysis of song texts. The course focuses on contemporary popular music, which means including other genres than just conventional pop music, such as rap, hip-hop, and rock.

This course focuses on how a solar heating system can be integrated into and cooperate with a building's main energy system. An important part of the course is to teach the uses of simulation programs for investigating the performance of the solar system. The course covers the following topics: basic energy knowledge and the problems connected to the use of energy; radiation physics, the annual irradiance distribution and the climatic conditions for using solar energy in Sweden, calculation of solar angels and the irradiance on different surfaces; performance and efficiency of different types of solar collectors; material and optical properties of different types of energy-efficient surfaces; the function and performance of the components in a solar thermal system; system design of small and large solar thermal systems; building integration of solar systems; and the use of simulation programs for estimation of annual and monthly performance of solar thermal systems. The course includes laboratory lessons, computer simulations, and study visits to solar thermal installations. The recommended background is basic knowledge in mathematics, building and service installations, and thermodynamics as well as experience in using calculation programs such as e.g. Excel or Matlab.

Translation not only represents the meaning of the statement translated, but represents as well the culture of the language in which the statement originated. How, then, have translations interacted with the representation of China on display in other works of Western literature? By reading literary translations from Chinese into English alongside the tradition of literary imagination of China (sometimes known as “Orientalism”), this class will examine how translation has engaged with, confirmed, altered, and shaped the notion of China as understood in the West.