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This course is taken in stage 4 of the Food Science degree program. Course lectures focus on how raw materials, processing, and microbial interactions affect the quality of fermented foods.  Students focus on bread and beer but a range of other plant and animal-based fermented products is also a feature of group project work. Students are given a substantial group challenge in which they examine in detail the fermentation processes exploited in selected food systems, the processing steps involved, and the impact of processing parameters and raw material components on the quality of the finished fermented products.

 

The diverse history of experimental film practice is examined in this course through a lecture-based pedagogy that supports practice-based learning. The course examines the history of experimental film with reference to avant-garde, experimental, and moving image artistic practices. The course considers movements in other fine art practice and focuses on film as a medium of artistic self-expression. The course balances theory, history, and practice to address sometimes difficult and unfamiliar films that can blend subjective expressions of lyricism, tradition, personal experience, participation, technology, appropriation, performance, and mediation. 

International economic law is a branch of international law governing a number of economic phenomena, such as international trade and investment. The course focuses on the study of intergovernmental institutional frameworks covering the circulation of goods, services, capital, and labor. It discusses institutions such as the World Trade Organization, the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes, and the Bretton Woods institutions. Furthermore, it introduces normative instruments such as the WTO Multilateral Trade Agreements (GATT, GATS, and TRIPS) and the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement negotiations. The course also explores the international regulation of capital and labor, as well as introduces the private governance of international economic relations.

The course introduces students to philosophical debates concerning emotions and morality in the 18th century. Students discuss topics such as human nature and personal and moral development, love, and empathy. They read selected texts by philosophers such as Damaris Masham, Mary Astell, David Hume, Adam Smith, Sophie de Grouchy, and others.

This course teaches students to define the phases of a typical compiler, including the front and back end. Students learn to identify tokens of a typical high level programming language define regular expressions for tokens and design implement a lexical analyzer using a typical scanner generator. The course explains the role of a parser in a compiler and relate the yield of a parse tree to a grammar derivation design and implement a parser using a typical parser generator, and how to apply an algorithm for a top down or a bottom up parser construction construct a parser for a small context free grammar. The course describes the role of a semantic analyzer and type checking create a syntax directed definition and an annotated parse tree describe the purpose of a syntax tree. The course focuses on the role of different types of runtime environments and memory organization for implementation of typical programming languages. The course describes the purpose of translating to intermediate code in the compilation process. Students design and implement an intermediate code generator based on given code patterns.

As the main and most comprehensive undergraduate course on economic elites, this class is an introduction to several streams of cutting-edge sociological research on the latter. It presents and discusses the definition of economic elites in terms of organizational positions, wealth, multiple forms of capital and/or class. It explores the different quantitative approaches to describe and study national and transnational business elites, as well as their relations with other fractions of a larger power elite, using – among other methods – network and correspondence analyses. It also draws upon the many contributions of cultural sociology to the understanding of the meaning-making processes and the symbolic economy underlying the professional habitus, the morals, the consumption patterns and the philanthropic practices of these elites.

This course introduces students to organizational psychology and wellbeing (brief history). It provides a definition and understanding of models and constructs of wellbeing. The course stresses the importance of workplace wellbeing for both the organization and the individual employee, a psychological perspective. 

Other topics that are included in this course are: Organizational process and procedures that enhance wellbeing are covered in this course, Leadership styles and wellbeing, Vertical and horizontal organizational communication and its impact on wellbeing, theoretical overlap of Social psychology and organizational psychology in wellbeing theory,  Organizational culture and wellbeing, Social norms within the organizational culture that enhance wellbeing, Individual psychology and wellbeing, and Measurements of employee wellbeing 

This course examines the many different ways that we might think about fans and fan cultures, from what they think about, talk about and produce, to the way they are seen by themselves, other fans, media industries, the culture more broadly. This course encourages students to observe the media around them and to assess it critically, including understanding economic and power dynamics, as well as the role that is played by gender, race, ethnicity, language, sexuality, and cultural and social capital.

This course examines the changing public sphere over time, from its early-modern emergence to the challenges of tabloid news and online fragmentation in contemporary media culture.

This course examines stochastic modelling, with an emphasis on queues and models used in finance. Behavior of poisson processes, queues and continuous time markov chains will be investigated using theory and simulation.