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This course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of cognitive neuroscience and major theoretical and methodological issues relevant to the field. Topics include neuroanatomy, development, perception, attention, language, memory, emotion, and social cognition.

This course offers a study of the technological principles of HVAC, lighting, and renewable energy systems in buildings. Topics include: energy consumption in buildings; heating and cooling loads; refrigeration and heat generation; HVAC systems; lighting systems; photovoltaic systems; power factor compensation.

This course examines the close connections of fashion and politics in a globalized world. It covers how fashion circulates as a robust geopolitical, commercial, and personal element of global, national, and local cultures.

This course examines a wide range of topics on the commercialization of sports, tourism/leisure as an encounter of cultures/citizens/space, shopping mall and public sphere, and the impact on social and cultural life by the phenomenon of McDisneyization. Other topics such as advertising and pop culture, broadcasting (narrowcasting on the Net), merchandising and iconography in fashion will be examined to review key contemporary issues and debates about cultural consumption. Bringing together work on reception theory in literary studies and philosophy, studies on consumer culture in anthropology and sociology and those on media audiences within media studies, we will address the consequences and effects of increasing cultural commodifiaction and globalization, by exploring into the complex interactions of cultural production and consumption which are relevant in topics such as place and identity, visual culture and hyperreality, representation and communication technologies. 

This course examines the concepts of how marine species interact with each other and the environment to form functional populations and communities. This course uses a mixed platform of lectures, tutorials, computer labs and field-based exercises to explore and understand current issues and processes affecting marine ecosystems, using New Zealand and worldwide examples. 

This course presents a thematic introduction to Irish art, architecture, and design in its broader international context. Subjects are connected across periods and styles – the focus not on presenting individualized summarized histories but rather considering how aspects of Irish visual history are connected and have evolved over time. Lectures include the identification of key works from Irish art and architecture, addressing fine, applied, and popular art-forms. Throughout the course, Irish visual history is discussed in its artistic, social, and cultural contexts together with its place in a broader international perspective.

This course examines the societal, economical, and cultural impact of integrative systems and the importance of integrating design into the creation of integrative systems. It covers basic design principles, design terminology, design skill-sets, design thinking and process, and how a good design relates to the design principles. Students will also learn about what is an integrative system and the importance of using technology to build an integrative system and how it is decomposed into different sub-systems that involve multiple technology components, interacting with each other.

This course examines globalization and regional transformation in East Asia especially from the joint and distance lectures of the three Universities in Korea, China and Japan. (Yonsei, Fudan, and Keio). Topics include general information and history of globalization, globalization theory, anti-globalization, regionalism, global politics of regionalism, regional transformation, politics and security, economics and society, and culture, consciousness and identity. 

This course focuses on the complete employee lifecycle, with a particular emphasis on personnel selection and development. The competencies of work and organizational psychologists are relevant at all stages of the employee lifecycle in the field of Human Resources. The course covers  attracting, selecting, and developing the right individuals, as well as exemplary recent developments and current issues in HR such as hybrid work and work-life policies, knowledge sharing, and artificial intelligence in HR. The course is graded on a P/NP basis only.