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This course outlines the processes leading to the formation and behavior of economic geomaterials and energy resources. Geomaterials covered include groundwater and the sources of metallic and non-metallic resources. Geoenergy resources covered include coal, conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons, wind, hydroelectric, ocean, solar, geothermal and nuclear energy. The use of and demand for geomaterials and geoenergy are explored, and strategies for transitioning to a clean energy future, including carbon capture and storage technologies, are discussed.

This course teaches the importance of strategic management in today’s health care organizations. Effective strategic thinking, planning, and managing strategic momentum are essential for health care leaders in coping with the dynamics of the industry. The course content is structured around the nature, functions, and major concepts of strategic management.

This course provides an overview of major subfields in linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics. By the end of the course, students are expected to better understand key issues, methodologies, and data involved in modern linguistic theories, and how linguists approach the study of human language. 

This course examines health economics and policy. Topics include health insurance regulation, physician pricing, hospital pricing, and the value of health.

This course examines city systems and theories of urban location; internal spatial structure of the city; commercial and industrial location; social areas; neighborhood and land use change; and urban trends and public policy.

This course deals with dating, mating, and close (intimate) relationships. Although other relationships such as family and friendship are addressed, the main focus is on adult romantic relationships. It discusses core concepts and frameworks of close relationships (attachment, interdependence, love); cycles of close relationships from stages of initial attraction (and underlying mechanisms) to relationship formation, maintenance, repair, and in some cases dissolution; important aspects of close relationships such as trust, commitment, satisfaction, and sacrifice; communication and interaction patterns, conflict, and the relationship’s social context; and dishonesty in romantic relationships and ongoing research. Throughout the course and more in-depth towards the end, it also addresses crucial contemporary matters such as cross-cultural differences and multi-ethnic couples; the LGBTQIA+ community; technology and online dating; and casual, short-term, and non-monogamous relationships. 

To cope with all these aspects of food production, a food technologist should be able to translate these challenges into mathematical expressions, solve them, quantify the outcomes, and subsequently translate them into practical solutions. This course discusses basic principles of food technology like mass and energy balances, reaction kinetics, and equilibrium. Theory is applied directly to a wide variety of practical problems in food technology during the tutorial. Exercises on various topics such as food preservation, reactor design for enzyme reactions, and sterilization of food are solved.

A continuation of Japanese Language Pre-Intermediate. Teaching enables students to speak, read, and write Modern Japanese at a lower to mid-intermediate level of the language, equivalent to Japanese Language Proficiency Test level between N4 and N3, or Common European Framework of Reference for Languages level A2/B1.

China's rise is changing the world's major balances and the system of international governance inherited from the Second World War. But the strategies of this new player are hard to decipher. Firstly, because Chinese foreign policy decision-making processes remain impenetrable. Secondly, because there is a gap between the rhetoric intended for national and foreign audiences and the reality of what the country is doing or trying to do. And thirdly, because the perceptions international players have of China's actions vary according to their own interests. This course, which focuses on Xi Jinping era, provides keys to understanding Chinese positions on the international stage. It compares official statements with the reality of Beijing's actions and tries to understand the motives, modalities and consequences of China's foreign policy.