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Climate change is a global policy challenge whose solutions need to transcend national borders to address its multilayered causes and courses of action. This course reflects on transnational climate governance through the case of the EU Green Deal by exploring case by case its relevant stakeholders: in-house policymakers, member states, civil society, private and international actors. These stakeholders are viewed in parallel to climate policy domains (social and intergenerational justice, carbon markets, sustainable finance), and its tools (lobbying, negotiations and legislative procedures). This course provides a comprehensive approach to studying climate governance, combining theoretical concepts with practical examples, engaging students with real-life policy developments.

This course invites students to rethink their preconceptions about studying the complex modern topic of religion by introducing them to key approaches and debates in Religious Studies, including historical, sociological, and anthropological approaches. It uses these to examine through a comparative and theoretically informed perspective empirical examples and case studies of how religion/s are articulated by diverse people in multiple settings. The course gives prominence to people's everyday ideas and practices about religion, while also indicating the broader disciplinary shape of the Study of Religion/s.

This course introduces students to the field of Development Economics. The object of the course is to equip students with a greater understanding of the process of economic development and the challenges faced by nations and individuals to transit out of poverty. The course covers a range of economic problems in developing countries and discusses - both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective - possible strategies to overcome these problems. Topics include inequality, and poverty reduction; nutrition and poverty traps; markets for land, credit, and insurance; agricultural transformation; and evaluation of development programs and international trade.

This course introduces parallel programming and covers the following main topics: 1) Vector and superscalar processors: architecture and programming model, optimizing compilers (dependency analysis and code generation), array libraries (BLAS), parallel languages (Fortran 90). 2) Shared-memory multi-processors and multicore CPUs: architecture and programming models, optimizing compilers, thread libraries (Pthreads), parallel languages (OpenMP). 3) Distributed-memory multi-processors: architecture and programming model, performance models, message-passing libraries (MPI), parallel languages (HPF). 4) Hybrid parallel programming for clusters of mutlicore CPUs with MPI+OpenMP.

This course explores Korean literature from the perspective of performativity. Although many literary works that have been passed down to us exist in printed form, examining their production and distribution processes reveals that their original forms were quite different. We particularly focus on works based on orality that have gone through performances, reinterpretations, and recreations. Through this exploration, we come to understand that the creation and enjoyment of literature have not been limited to "writing" alone but have continuously evolved within diverse cultural ecosystems. As a way to produce new understanding beyond what is stored in traditional, text-centered archives, we look into the intertextual relations between the performative dimension and literature, and seek to produce robust knowledge about human agency and creativity. Along with reading literary canons of Korea, we examine how their aesthetic, social, and political significance of performativity have documented and transformed literary history of Korea. Topics include the following: (1) Traditions of oral literature and their modern revival, (2) Poetry in performance: recitation, slam poetry, and hip-hop, and (3) Literature as an interruption in the quotidian or an intervention into the political.

Self-identified indigenous peoples inhabit all continents except Antarctica and struggle against oppressive inequality, ethnocidal assimilation and genocidal extermination by the settler societies, colonial/neocolonial/postcolonial developmental states and national populations that surround them.  Nevertheless, the local/global contexts of their struggles differ substantially.  What are the political consequences and effects of grouping together into a global category, for example, the Saami in Scandinavia, the Yanomami of Brazil, India’s adivasi, and Australian Aborigines?  This course will survey the global history of the discourse of indigeneity and some local political contexts of indigenous peoples.  The aim will be to try to understand relevant commonalities and also important differences among indigenous struggles across the world, though our primary focus will be on indigenous peoples in Brazil and Latin America.  Themes will include racism and ethnic discrimination, extractivism and clashes over large-scale economic development projects, human rights and international organizations, and political self-determination and the politics of state recognition.  As this semester coincides with COP30 in Belém, Brazil, we will spend some weeks on questions of eco-politics and indigenous participation in climate change negotiations. 

This course covers an in-depth understanding of the physics and principles behind lasers. The course covers the theoretical foundations of beam optics, cavity optics, light–matter interaction, laser amplifiers, and laser systems. Furthermore, the course aims for the student to gain both fundamental knowledge and practical skills necessary to study and apply lasers in scientific and technical contexts.
 

This course introduces the role of psychological theory, research, and practice in understanding and addressing contemporary social issues. It explores how psychological perspectives inform our understanding of social problems such as prejudice, inequality, violence, climate change, and mental health. It emphasizes critical thinking, empirical analysis, applied psychology, and hands-on experiences in promoting social justice, well-being, and policy change.

This course examines how normal processes of the earth-atmosphere-hydrosphere-space systems result in events that are capable of dealing disastrous blows to humans on the scale of individual lives to civilizations. It focuses on the geologic processes of events such as earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, floods, hurricanes, tsunami, tornadoes, climate change, and asteroid impacts, and their local, national and global repercussions. In particular, It looks at the spatial and temporal occurrences of these hazards, methods and processes for hazard preparedness, response and recovery, and the social, economic and policy aspects that affect and, in many cases, compound the magnitude of the disasters associated with these natural phenomena.