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The use of nanotechnology in medicine is an emerging field that can revolutionize the treatment and detection of disease. Through hands-on laboratory sessions, workshops, and lectures by world-leading researchers and active clinicians, this course offers both an insight into these emerging technologies and a fundamental understanding of why size matters and how nanoscale technologies interact with biological environments. Students visit the nanoscale quantum universe, and see how nanoscale objects can be tuned for disease targeting. 

This course provides a study of the principles of heat transfer, conduction, convection, and radiation.

This course examines handling and analyzing business data, including learning R, which is rapidly becoming the default analytics platform as it supports diverse set of analytic tools and statistical methods. Specifically, it looks at basic concepts in business analytics, and techniques and skills related to data exploration, data utilities, conducting statistical tests, data mining and modeling.

This course examines the historical, social and political forces shaping contemporary relationships between the criminal justice system and racialized populations. It uses criminological theory and research to explore the common and distinct factors contributing to the disproportionate criminal justice contact experienced by a range of racialized populations across the world, from the Aboriginal and African communities of Australia, to African Americans and Latinos in the United States, and foreign nationals in European countries. The course further evaluates some of the key attempts criminal justice agencies have made to improve their relationship with certain racialized populations, identifying and analyzing the conditions under which practices such as police-community building initiatives, specialist Indigenous courts, and culturally-specific prison programs have emerged, and asking students to consider the tensions that remain within these responsive racialized practices.

Students engage in basic everyday interactions in Irish; learn how to introduce themselves in Irish and give some details about themselves and their background; build on their conversational skills and vocabulary; and obtain a basic understanding of Irish grammar and phonetics.

The course begins with a discussion on the nature and origin of plants that includes an overview of major autotrophic eukaryote lineages. The benefits and challenges of life in water and on land are also presented. Diversity and evolution of life histories and reproductive systems in plants and consequences of the diversity of major plant lineages are studied. The functional biology of the major organs of the plant including roots, stems, and leaves in relation to strategies for resource acquisition and utilization, mineral nutrition, plant water relations, and carbon metabolism are considered. This entails studying variations in root, stem, and leaf morphologies in various plant lineages and unique terrestrial and aquatic environments and their function in water, nutrients, and carbon metabolism. There is a strong focus on African plants and a particular emphasis on the Cape Floristic region. The course practicals are compulsory and complement the theory with hands-on experience in working with different lineages of plants, data collection and analysis from scientific studies and experiments, and scientific writing. A compulsory 4-day field camp is undertaken for students to study the relationship between ecology and plant morphology, function, and diversity. Assessment: A 3-hour examination, with a subminimum of 40%, counts 50% of the course. Coursework marks will be allocated as follows: Practical classes count 20%, project based on field camp counts 10%, and two class tests count 20%.

This course covers Japanese Constitutional Law from political and social perspectives. It comprises four parts: 

1) “Invitation to Japanese Constitutional Law” introduces the basics of Japanese Constitutional Law and constitutional law in general; 

2) “Basic Principles of Japanese Constitutional Law” covers basic principles of Japanese Constitutional Law such as pacifism, popular/national sovereignty and fundamental human rights; 

3) “Human Rights and Governance” explores some crucial provisions in human rights and governance; and 

4) “Current Topics in the Japanese Constitutional Law” covers recent topics to discuss the role of Japanese Constitutional Law today and in the future.

Each class is composed of student presentations, lectures and discussion. 

This course covers the basic skills needed to create, examine, appreciate, and understand computational art. It covers basic programming skills in Python, experience using tools for live coding music, creating animations, and hands-on experience using generative AI technologies. Topics include strings, programs as files, semantics, functions; conditionals, Iteration, functions vs methods; lists, dictionaries, sets, reading and writing to files; audio programming, sequencing events in time, randomness, signal processing; animations, graphics, user interaction, performance considerations; and introduction to generative AI, stable Diffusion, and text processing. 

This course discusses the diverse aspects of Korean culture and fashion. It studies the unique social, psychological, and political attributes of Korean culture and fashion; reviews Korean fashion and fashion industry; and analyzes success DNA of K-pop, K- movie, and K-fashion.