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This course is to deepen students’ understanding not only of the substance of Irish politics, north and south, but also of the academic research that aims to interpret and understand it. The course covers the Irish governmental system, and politics in Northern Ireland.
 

This course introduces the basis of privately run maritime trade; the threats faced by ship owners, ports, and seafarers; and the systems in place to protect them. It tells the story of mercantile trade on the world's seas focusing on the modernization and formalization of the merchant fleet in the 20th and 21st centuries; its governing systems under UN agreements; and its practical business considerations versus the geopolitical priorities of governments and the intentions of criminals and terrorists to profit from shipping's loss, from gray zone aggression to kidnaps at sea. The course draws upon international maritime law and trade agreements, international business standards, and national level government policies. Throughout, it maintains a practical approach on what these issues mean for the seafarer, the ship owner, the policy maker, and the consumer to illustrate the real-life impact of maritime polices – and the very real impact when there are no policies – as well as the career paths available in the maritime sector.

This course examines a range of key contemporary problems at the interfaces between biology and the environment, health, and society. It helps students consolidate and develop skills including data analysis and presentation, making ethical judgements, and interpretation of data and statistics. It covers issues such as Measurement of Self, One Health, Forensics and Excess Mortality. 

In this course students study the determinants of economic growth, as well as explanations for the current wide disparity of income levels across countries.

The growth in computational power and availability of all sorts of data has led society to become bombarded with a variety of statistics. How much of this information is trustworthy, how much is noise - and how might it affect one’s decision-making? 
 
This course looks at the mathematical foundations of probability and randomness, and how they inform our understanding of how real-world data may be generated. Next, the course discusses what statistics are; how they are generated; when they are meaningful and when they are not. In parallel with theoretical study, the class will utilize statistical software to get a practical understanding of data processing and statistical analysis. 
 

Database systems are the most widely used software systems in any area of life related to mainly information technology, management, business as well as web applications and services. This course first introduces the fundamental concepts of databases and their design. Then, it introduces database operations like updating and searching in database systems, as well as the newest database types and systems. 

The course covers the following topics: 

• Introduction to databases and their types 

• Introducing the modeling of data and introducing database management systems 

• Introducing the relational model 

• Understanding the basics in database design 

• Learning the steps of normalization 

• Advanced normalization 

• Understanding relational algebra  

• Introducing the Standard Query Language (SQL) 

• Using SQL 

• Advanced database operations: transactions, triggers etc. 

• Using databases in Web applications or in Web services 

• Object-oriented databases 

• Introducing new database solutions and new systems for handling BigData 

• Understanding the concepts and usage of several NOSQL type database systems 

• NOSQL type Database systems 

• How to use these database systems for storing, searching and analyzing BigData 

• Programming with NOSQL databases to create new applications from web-services to data mining and handling BigData 

This course examines the power relations of theatre and performance, focusing on how artists engage with the politics of representation and identity formation. Discussions and readings will draw from key academic and political debates, which could include queer theory, post-colonial studies, critical race theory, feminism, disability studies, Marxism, etc. Through study of a wide range of play texts and performance traditions, students will examine how formal and aesthetic innovations in theatre relate to the social and economic conditions from which they emerge.

This course connects fashion to law through different expanses. It offers an analytical and critical perspective by indulging in the creative intricacies of the fashion industry to applying it to the rigid, robust nature of politics and law. It covers law and civil rights from the 18th to 21st century through key expressions of fashion, gender law, environmental and sustainability law, intellectual property, new technologies, social and labor law.

This course introduces thermodynamics in materials. It covers phase equilibrium, calculation of heat capacitance, and the relation between free energy and phase diagram. 

This course aims at providing strategic framework and practical knowledge for future entrepreneurs who explore new business opportunities through creating a venture or acquiring a job position at existing firms. By the end of the course, students should be able to have a clear understanding of how to develop raw ideas to product, service, or business concepts through the process of identifying, refining, and screening opportunities, and should be well poised to take the next steps to designing and successfully launching a new product, service, or business. To shed light on entrepreneurship from the perspective of ideation, project management, and valuation, this course incorporates both top-down theories of resources to bottom-up simulations.