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This course focuses on the philosophy and core concepts of experimental design, and provides an introduction to analyzing experiments. It discusses (in)famous experiments in science, psychology, and neuroscience and analyzes their impact on today’s worldview – including theoretical, practical, and ethical implications.

This course studies various sport, health, and cultural issues in Korea. It also explores possible solutions to solve the problems and issues for others in society.

This course examines the structure and function of neurons and neural circuits, with an emphasis on how the nervous system regulates natural behaviors across various animals. Highlights from the history of the field are integrated with the recent experimental findings.

This course examines the history of Western art music, from the medieval era to the present day, with an emphasis on the period between Late Middle Ages (14th century) and Romanticism (19th century). It examines the foundations of music cognition and acoustics by looking at works in their historical and political context while inspecting the relationship of music to other art forms.

This course examines global policies, politics, industry and institutions and their neo-colonial underpinnings, and their influence on current global health theory, research and practice, with a special focus on the health of Indigenous peoples in Canada and other racialized groups. It looks at the environmental and social determinants of health and health inequities, with attention to women and children’s health, communicable and non-communicable disease, and the complexities of disasters and humanitarian crises, as well as global health governance,systems, and innovations and social entrepreneurship in health.

This course is about arts and artists in the Nusantara, the archipelagic Malay–Indonesian world. Attention is drawn to the art making and distribution processes which are not only determined by artists but also involves other stakeholders. This includes critics, museum personnel, gallery owners, collectors, art consumers, interest groups as well as the state. The political, social, cultural and economic contexts in the Nusantara at different time periods are considered to explain the kinds of artworks that emerge. Topics include gender and race in the arts, art and activism, censorship and patronage.

This course addresses theoretical concepts of environmental issues and provides an introduction to key concepts and solutions in environmental policy and politics at local, national, and global levels. Topics include how to cope with environmental problems; impacts of globalization on the environment; the main actors in planning and implementing environmental policies; what approaches seem most likely to solve environmental issues such as air pollution, natural resource depletion, and climate change; using political institutions, regulations, market mechanisms, or voluntary schemes to form environmental policies; and the roles of environmental movements, firms, and bureaucrats in environmental politics and policies.

This is an introductory course in psycholinguistics, which explores the cognitive processes underlying language production, comprehension, and acquisition. It covers the major concepts and issues of the discipline which encompass theoretical claims, research methodology and findings.