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This intermediate international relations course engages students to design prospective scenarios for emerging challenges that have an impact on the international system, organizing the information in a way that will facilitate international political decision-making processes and using forecasting tools. Prior knowledge is required of qualitative and quantitative research methods and historical analysis of the international system.

This seminar is divided into two parts exploring the relationship between literature, history, gender, and cultural representation from the early modern period to the present. The first part on revolution, utopia and gender examines utopian thought from Thomas More’s UTOPIA (1516) to the revolutionary era. Focusing on the English and French Revolutions, the course analyzes how utopian writing and political upheaval challenged—or reinforced—gender norms, women’s agency, and patriarchal structures. Through a range of texts by men and women, it assesses the emancipatory and oppressive dimensions of utopian imaginaries. The second part of the course focuses on contemporary film and television portrayals of Shakespeare and his circle from 1998-2025. From SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE to recent series and films, the course explores biofiction, authorship, historical imagination, and the place of Shakespeare in modern visual culture, in dialogue with major screen adaptations of his plays. Together, the course investigates how literature and media reimagine alternative social worlds and canonical figures across time. 

This course provides an introduction to the most commonly used methods for causal inference in the social sciences using observational data. It covers simple and multiple regression (particularly focusing on the conditions for a causal interpretation of the coefficients), matching, panel data, diff-in-diff, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity. The course prioritizes the practical understanding and application of the methods rather than their statistical foundations. Applications are selected from existing research literature.

Stonehenge is the world's most famous stone circle, dating from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. An iconic symbol of mystery and counter-culture, it has attracted attention from enthusiasts around the world who have come up with myriad and often bizarre interpretations of who built it, how and why. This course explores Stonehenge and other monumental constructions within their social, cultural, and landscape context, allowing Stonehenge to be understood within the world of prehistoric Britain and Europe from the adoption of farming to the development of copper and bronze metallurgy. The course examines the history of archaeological research on Stonehenge, and the nature of social change from the Neolithic to the Bell Beaker period and the Early Bronze Age. With many recent investigations of Stonehenge and its wider context producing a wealth of new evidence, this course brings students up to date on our knowledge of this fascinating period in prehistory.

A wide range of phenomena from areas as diverse as physics, economics, and biology can be described by simple probabilistic models. Often, phenomena from different areas share a common mathematical structure. In this course a variety of mathematical structures of wide applicability is described and analyzed. The emphasis is on developing the tools which are useful to anyone modelling applications, rather than the applications themselves Students should have a good knowledge of first year probability and of basic material from first year analysis. As the course builds on Probability 1, it also deepens students' understanding of the basis of probability theory.

This course offers a global introduction to comparative politics, focusing on case studies of politics and religion around the world. The course introduces students to approaches to analyzing and critiquing the way in which secular and religious issues are negotiated in institutions such as government, religious hierarchies, and civil society. Moreover, the course develops students' broader understandings of how power, conflict, and identities are conceived in the modern, globalized world. Topics can include religion-state relations, identity politics, religion and violence, and various international case studies of political participation and mobilization.

This is intermediate course delves into the historical evolution of the international system. It covers the main trends and characteristics of the system in different eras of modern world history, identifying the main causes, consequences, and stakeholders of different international conflicts. 

How to make money in China? How to avoid to losing money within China? While the first issue suits business schools, the latter is a typical law school issue. However, this course stands up in between, in the belief that without the helmet and shield from the legal premise, a business pioneer would risk all the efforts of his innovations, products and business models in the long-term race, not to mention safeguarding his harvest from such business. A proper parachute is instantly and constantly necessary before the entrepreneurship soars high into blue sky. This course applies PEST and SWOT analyses, as well as case-study methods, in the POV of a start-up, to walk the students through the whole business-life, including but not limited to soft-landing phase, the formation of business, the transaction rules, the legal compliance of routine operations, and the dispute resolutions.

This course introduces students to Slovene literature and the culture and history of the Slovenes since 1800. It is focused on one of Europe’s smallest nations, but it asks big questions: How does a national tradition take shape by combining and integrating various cultural and linguistic influences? Does national unity depend on regional diversity? Can language be the sole basis of national identity? The course explores such questions through canonical works of Slovene poetry, prose, drama, visual art, film and architecture and address a number of key themes, including: romanticism and the national awakening; folk culture and Slovenian regions; search for a Slovene modernism; the birth of Yugoslavia; the Second World War and the partisan memory; the end of Yugoslavia and Yugostalgia; gender and feminism; Slovenia and contemporary Europe.