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The course covers in depth the chemistry of three major classes of biologically important molecules; carbohydrates, peptides and proteins, and nucleic acids. In addition, the course provides an introduction to molecular imaging and covers methods for labelling of biomolecules with fluorescent dyes and radionuclides.

This course examines key concepts and approaches in film and television studies. Central ideas in the development and practices of these disciplines – such as auteurism, genre, national cinema, realism, representation, and ideology – are examined through close readings of scholarly texts, and the analysis of case studies and examples drawn from the history of film and television. In doing so, this introduction to film and television studies engages with questions of the distinctive place of these media – as popular and artistic forms – within culture and society.

This course draws on global marketing/business situations and contexts to introduce students to the theory and practical application of negotiations with an emphasis on practical skill development. Negotiation can be taught and—with practice—improved with experience. This course covers research on negotiation-related issues but also provides a platform to develop actual negotiation skills and practice them in-class (and optionally online) using group negotiation simulations in a role-playing-game format
(RPG).

In this course, Western ocularcentrism and the modernist segmentation of our sensory functions and sensorial experiences are questioned. Philosophical, artistic, and scientific ideas that question the supremacy of the eye, the modernist hierarchy of the senses, and the division of our sensory functions are reviewed. Through lectures, guest lectures, museum visits, experiments, discussions, and the intensive study of texts participants become more attentive to how our sensorium functions. Students learn to analyze contemporary art, film, fashion, design, consumer goods, and environments from a multisensorial perspective and identify interrelations that exist between the different senses into account in their scientific work.  If there are excursions to museums, cities, or other art institutions, these may incur additional costs.

From the first European measures to the European Green Deal, this course focuses on energy transition plans and strategies. To do so, it analyzes the stakes inherent to the multilevel governance of energy in the EU, between European objectives, national policy-making, and local implementation of energy infrastructures. Through this multi-scale approach to public policy, the course explores and compares the challenges raised by the regulation of different energy forms in various European countries. It tackles renewable energies such as wind power, fossil fuels such as shale gas, and provides an overview of European energy policy-making through national case studies.

The course acquaints students with a wide range of microorganisms, including virus, archaea, bacteria, fungi and protists. In addition, students will acquire background knowledge of microbiology, which can then be applied to different microbe-associated tasks. 

This course discusses how findings from the study of human behavior have been applied to policy concerns in a substantive and sustained way, and how behavioral scientists are increasingly playing a much greater role in policy making across a range of sectors.

This course focuses on the ability of green infrastructures to contribute to resource management, climate adaptation, and social-cultural performance of urbanized areas. The main focus of the course is on the freshwater cycle in urban settings and there is a special focus on adaptation to more extreme weather conditions, especially stormwater management and flood control. The interdisciplinary course, relevant for urban designers and planners as well as for agronomists, geographers, and biologists, encourages a transfer of scientific knowledge into new urban designs at multiple scales to increase sustainability and climate resilience. The course contains a number of lectures in which relevant knowledge from environmental chemistry, agronomy, climatology, and biology is presented. The lectures are supported by several exercises and study tours for a better understanding. By means of innovative learning methods, the theory is transferred to design criteria and specific design proposals.

This course on contemporary Asia focuses on the integration and synthesis of culture, economics, and politics in Asian societies to increase an understanding of the region in its contemporary social-political and cultural setting. This course transcends the borders of academic disciplines and domains and deals with topics such as modernity and public policy; politico-cultural obstacles for intra-regional cooperation; social change and prosperity; inter-cultural interaction; and cultural forces in society. 
No specific required knowledge. Exchange students should have finished their first year of Bachelor study.

From boy bands to Valentines, our ways of expressing sexual love were first formulated in the Middle Ages. This course traces the early history of the language of love, through poetry and songs composed between the 12th and 15th centuries. With the help of English translations, students explore different types of poetry in various languages: Spanish, French, Catalan, Galician-Portuguese, and the Occitan language of southern France. They learn to analyze complex poems, and to understand and respect cultural differences, through a range of activities including creative rewriting of translations.