English

This course explores the diachronic aspect of culture and the use of culture as a means of ideological and political legitimacy by those in power. Topics include: cultural production; literary production in service of the first theocracies; creation of the historical narrative; the emergence of universal empires and narrative fiction; translatio imperii; humanistic culture; court culture and absolute monarchies.

This course examines how art and visual culture in Europe and the United States both reflected and shaped the cultural discourses of politics, class, gender, race, religion, and science that accompanied these ongoing changes. Particular attention will be paid to processes of industrialization, urbanism, and colonialism and their effects on art’s making and reception from the French Revolution (1789) through the beginning of World War I (1914). In addition to painting, drawing, and sculpture, we will chart the development of emerging media from new printmaking technologies to photography and early film. 

This course the fundamental skill of designing and developing a relational database. It covers applying data modelling to solve business problems, and organizing data with minimum redundancy and dependency. This course is intended to get students started with structured query language (SQL).
 

Examine how racism works structurally and individually and how, this, in turn, affects us in our everyday lives. The course engages with critical approaches such as decolonizing the mind (DTM).  The course builds on the premise that although white and BIPOC persons are affected differently by racism, all groups are affected deeply. The course spends a significant amount of time focusing on whiteness and the ways in which white people are complicit with racism. Through detailed recordings of racialized situations in their everyday lives, participants exercise their ability to recognize that they live in a racialized environment.  Throughout the course, students grapple with France Twine’s contention that racial identities are changeable and movable – at least to some extent. This may help us to get away from monolithic ways of conceptualizing racial identities and, instead, adopt more fluid practices of speaking, writing, seeing, and perceiving. 

This introductory course offers a long-term view of the interactions between human societies and their natural environment in order to better understand sustainable development challenges in the present. 

This course examines the principles of fluid mechanics. Topics discussed include fluid properties; hydrostatics; buoyancy; pressures in fluid systems; principles of mass conservation; steady flow energy equations; flow measurement; forces and momentum in flowing fluids; dimensional analysis, similarity and physical modelling; pipe flow; incompressible laminar and turbulent flow in pipes; friction factor; elementary boundary layer flow; skin friction and drag; pumps and turbines; and pump and pipeline system characteristics.

The course develops students’ skills in understanding, analyzing, and interpreting financial statements. Conceptually, the course emphasizes that producers and users of financial statements have different objectives and informational needs. At the same time, the course is applied in that it teaches students how to analyze actual financial statements data to make informed business decisions and assessments. The course is designed to broaden and deepen students’ conceptual and technical understanding of accounting as it is used for management purposes. The emphasis in the course is on financial controls, which provides the dominant form of control in the vast majority of decentralized organizations. This module provides support in business decisions, evaluation of organizational performance, or in evaluation of others (and/or be evaluated) through the use of financial and non-financial information. Course topics include understanding financial statements; fundamental analysis; growth strategy and financial tensions: the logic behind target setting; market based measures, ESG, and integrated reporting; management and control; financial responsibility; incentive systems; remedy to the myopia problem; and uncontrollable factors.

This course examines the “Rise of China” by both theoretically and practically examining the increasingly important role of China in the international system. It covers the main features of Chinese foreign policy and reviews various factors that drive China’s foreign policy behavior, including its national and international priorities, foreign policy-making process, national security, and strategic culture. The course then looks at China’s relations with other major actors in the world including both developed and developing states. It also studies China’s “maritime” rise by analyzing its expanding maritime ambitions and capabilities as well as its role in global and regional governance. The course concludes by looking at the future prospects for Chinese foreign policy.