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The course focuses on close examination of movement of and in the frame. The first part of the course considers the emergence of mobile vision in the 19th century and its adoption by early cinema as well as review theoretical approaches to movement in film. The second part considers narratives of travelling and displacement (travel films, road movies, exilic and diasporic cinema) and the movement of film (as a cultural object and as a commodity) across national borders.

This course is a challenging introductory course and is specifically for non-History of Art students. It examines early modern European art from the 13th to the 16th century, focusing on objects in London's galleries and museums and taught predominantly in front of works in these collections. The specific content of this course changes each year but the aim is to introduce students to key issues in Italian Renaissance and northern European art, focusing on paintings, sculpture, and the decorative arts in London institutions such as the National Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum. 

This course offers an introduction into the core concepts of the digital age, drawing on a rich variety of disciplines. Students examine a number of concepts, including, but not limited to: technicity, affective turn, digital subjectivity and extended mind, creative expression and participation in the digital era, amateur production, Free Software, fun and politics, self-organization, media archeology, and sonic architectures. 

The course gives an introduction to group and ring theory with emphasis on finite groups, polynomial rings, and field extensions.

This course analyzes the emergence and constructions of hybrid and transcultural cultures and identities in Spanish American societies, mainly through some of the fundamental texts that were produced in the 20th and 21st centuries. It examines where and how we can observe hybrid and transcultural phenomena in the texts and the meaning of each phenomenon within a specific socio-historic and political context.  

This course contemplates the following key questions: What significance does a hybrid and transcultural phenomenon have within the context of Spanish America? How can one define and interpret hybridity and transculturation? What are the principal factors that contribute to the production of hybrid and transcultural cultures and identities? What is the process of hybridization and transculturation?  

The course explores the connections between sport and history. The course investigates the ways in which history has produced sport. Emphasis is placed upon the ways in which sport has shaped history. This course provides an opportunity to compare societies and cultures as they are reflected in sport and competition. Topics can include pre-industrial forms of sport (in Meso-America, Classical Greece and Medieval Europe, Southeast Asia, and Japan), the impact of industrialization, the emergence of modern team sports, the Olympic movement, Colonialism and Sport, Olympic politics, sport and the American civil rights movement, and sports and globalization.

Old Irish is the Celtic language of Ireland between ca. 600 and 900 AD. It has an exceptionally rich and varied literature. Celtic is one of the most complicated languages in the world. It is the parent of the Modern Gaelic languages of Ireland and Scotland. This course offers an introduction to Old Irish grammar as well as a first survey of medieval Irish saga literature. Students translate short texts from the Táin Bó Cúailnge, ‘The cattle-raid of Cooley'.  At the end of this course, students can answer questions relating to the basic grammatical structure of Old Irish; translate simple Dutch/English sentences into Old Irish; translate a simple short Old Irish prose text into Dutch/English in a limited amount of time; answer questions regarding the contents and literary themes in some early Irish tales; and list and explain some of the most common theoretical approaches to early Irish literature.

The course deals with basic issues in finance, such as risk diversification and asset pricing, capital structure, investment valuation, market efficiency, dividend policy, and the use of derivatives. Prerequisites include BENC2004 or an understanding of the following finance concepts: Types of securities (stocks, bonds) and their returns; the concept of risk diversification and efficient frontiers, and principles of the time value of money. Exchange students need to have taken at least one introductory finance course.

In this course, students engage in practical fieldwork to map, measure, and describe saltmarsh geomorphology, ecology, and the action of biophysical processes that shape coastal wetlands through a mini-project carried out on the wetlands in Dublin Bay. In this endeavor, they place particular emphasis on the socio-economic and political dimension of saltmarsh restoration in an urban context.

This course introduces the study of human rights in political science. It discusses how the ideas of and discourses about human rights have been structured and discussed in the context of domestic and international politics.  The course also explores how actual human rights norms are acknowledged or rejected, observed, or ignored, and promoted or withdrawn at the domestic as well as international level. 

This course is organized into two parts. The first half of the course begins with an overview of the concepts and theoretical issues in human rights studies. The second half focuses on the explanations of different human rights practices across countries, looking at various topics related to human rights; it considers the conditions favorable for better human rights practices and processes that bring actual changes in human rights practices. 

By the end of the course, students are expected to have become an expert on at least one human rights issue. Small group case study research and presentations are also expected throughout this course.