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This course provides a combination of critical analytical and practical skills for engaging with the challenges of development planning and policy analysis in relation to African contexts. It includes at least three dimensions: firstly, it introduces critical theoretical approaches to the very notion of doing "development," to the study of policy, and to the politics of planning; secondly, it will prepare students for analyzing different kinds of development planning and policies in their historical-political-social-economic contexts; and thirdly, it provides critically reflective yet practical skills for planning concrete development projects and undertaking critical readings of policy. Students are encouraged to draw on and share their own previous experience of working in "development" settings where relevant but such experience is not a pre-requisite for the course.

This course offers an introduction to the social scientific discipline of sociology. The course focuses on foundational areas of sociological research and theorizing to explore how sociologists approach the study of various social processes, practices, and problems. Topics include defining “society;” society's effects on individuals; individuals' effects on society; the development of societies; the distribution of wealth, income, and other resources; the establishment of political authority and power relations within societies; the reproduction of identities, values, and beliefs over time; and the sources of conflict, consensus, and change in society. The course explores these topics by introducing the different strands of sociological theorizing, the distinctive levels of sociological analysis, and some of the most central areas of sociological investigation, such as class, race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, culture, media, education, marriage, work, and globalization. Periodic attention is given to applying the sociological lens to the analysis of pressing social issues and problems in the contemporary world, such as inequality and violence.

This course in spoken and written French is designed for students who have some knowledge of French and who wish to extend it. All students take all elements of assessment including the degree examination. Students improve competence in the four main skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing French. 

This course provides an overview of key theoretical and practical issues and debates relating to the creation, maintenance, and circulation of film archives, including topics such as collection policies and management, cataloguing access, etc. The course introduces students to a range of seminal writings in relation to the study of archives, with an emphasis on moving image archives, and draws from texts from art history, media and film theory, and archival studies. The course also explores a wide variety of practical and creative engagements with film archives, including its use by researchers, curators, festivals, filmmakers and artists, taking into account relevant practical considerations such as access, ethics, and copyright. 

This course covers the organization and structure of English lexicon. It describes basic lexical and morphological concepts and introduces the structure of lexicon and the processes of word formation in English. Topics include: the structure of lexicon--kinds of words, lexeme, syntactic and semantic features, and lexical models; inflectional morphology--word forms, morpheme, morphosyntactic features, and syntactic and semantic implications; lexical morphology--word formation and syntactic and semantic implications. 

This course examines the history of the Cold War. Special attention will be paid to the different viewpoints and experiences of the Cold War participants by studying the historiography and archival materials released in the Eastern Block and Western World.

This course discusses the traditional Korean dress (Hanbok) within the context of history, culture, philosophy, aesthetics, construction, and design. This course provides both theory and hands-on practice for students to fully understand and apply the elements of Korean traditional dress in building cultural contents and fashion products. The course also aims to develop aspiring global leaders by improving students’ engagement in empathetic communication, convergent thinking, and creative problem solving. 

This course explores why some people appear to find it easier to avoid distraction; why some people find their attention powerfully drawn to particular things; theories on attention regarding the potential causes of attention differences; how to apply this theory to explore different factors of attention – including affective traits, addiction, cultural differences and neurodiversity; and research skills, such as the critically analyzing research studies in the field.

The course provides an introduction to the study of lake sediments, commonly used methods, and inferences derived from lake-sediment analyses. Characteristics of lake sediments, abiotic and biotic components of lake sediments, and the response of lake systems to environmental and climate change are discussed. Practical analyses include initial lake-sediment description, smear-slide analysis, common sample-treatment methods, and the separation, documentation, and identification of macro- and microscopic organic remains. Paleoecological and paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on lake sediments are demonstrated. 

This course examines advanced algorithm design and analysis including linear programming, complexity and NP-completeness, and advanced algorithmic techniques.