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This course is designed to provide a basic scientific understanding of musical instruments. The first eight weeks of the course focuses on musical instruments and basic acoustics; the latter part of the course features world folk musical instruments and the professor's hand-made instruments. The course also gives the opportunity for groups of students to make their own musical instruments and demonstrate them to the class.  

This course addresses the historical and philosophical background to current debates in psychology. Emphasis is placed on the development of critical analysis of alternative models and levels of explanations of behavior, and the ability to relate conceptual debates in psychology to issues in the real world.

The course discusses human rights in an interdisciplinary manner as legal, political, and cultural phenomena in both Europe and Asia, in particular China. This is an interdisciplinary course, combining approaches from law and the humanities. 

In this course students explore a variety of representations of modern urban United States, focusing specifically on New York and Los Angeles. Students are looking at a number of different genres of writing - fiction, poetry, travel narrative, and screenplay to consider the ways in which the city has been depicted in American literary culture. The relationship between aesthetics and urban geography is also examined through reading a number of key theorists alongside the primary texts. The course encourages both close critical engagement and conceptual thinking about the ways in which city spaces function as part of modern culture.

In this course, students learn to develop and present a business plan for a commercial or social enterprise within the creative economy. The course equips students with the tools and entrepreneurial skill to rigorously plan, resource, and deliver their own proposal or product launch, as well as articulate and communicate its relevance in a rapidly changing landscape. Students gain a range of sought-after hard and soft skills, across five key areas: market analysis, product or service design, branding, assessing resources, and an in-depth financial forecasting. Regular group and project-based activities help to foster an inclusive and entrepreneurial learning environment. Lectures, seminars, and panels led by specialists and leaders drawn from the commercial art, finance, and startup sectors also help students to generate entrepreneurial sparks to resolve some of the issues facing the contemporary art world. This course culminates in a “shark tank” event, where students present a unique idea to a panel of experts, offering opportunities for networking, advice, and potential investment.

This course covers fields of regulation that relate directly to priority issues on the international agenda, such as the law of armed conflicts, international human rights law, and international criminal law. 

This course covers the fundamentals of innovation and entrepreneurship and how they can help students become more future proof in their careers. It focuses on how innovation can be developed and enhanced and then looks at the world of entrepreneurship and how it can be relevant for each and every one of the participants. Throughout, the course introduces and practices the Lean Startup Model, focusing on how to identify real problems for people and then finding solutions for those problems. As an online course, students watch short videos, use interactive applications, answer online quizzes, and develop an idea for a venture (business, social, or design). The course ends with a project that presents a model for a real world venture.

This course provides a critical introduction to three major related areas of international law that focus on the protection of the human beings: international human rights law, international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict), and international criminal law. The course covers the main normative instruments and principles relating to the international protection of human rights, the rules aimed at limiting the effects of armed conflict, and the criminal repression of individuals under international law; and assesses the flaws and limitations of the international system, as well as the benefits and practical consequences of using the remedies it provides.

Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) allow us to describe many natural phenomena and are therefore essentially important in many scientific areas. This course introduces the standard and most common tools to solve differential equations, particularly Laplace transform and linear algebra method.