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This course examines theories, concepts, forms and practices of law in contemporary Australian society. It looks at the ways that "harm" is constructed as a legal category and encourages students to ask who is able to name something as either harmful, or not worthy of state intervention, and how this capacity to name effects socio-political relations. To develop this analysis, the course discusses the norms that underpin the capacity to name particular practices as harmful, and engages critically with certain historical and current harms. Examples of such harms might include treachery, riot and disorder, terrorism, payback, the Northern Territory Emergency Response, torture, sadomasochistic sex acts, or female circumcision.

This course discusses political philosophy in general and the conception of justice in particular. The most prominent issues in political philosophy are ethical and political controversies as there are various theories proposed throughout history to solve them. In ethical and political theories, nothing is more important than the explication of justice. The conception of Justice is extremely complicated that it has become a subject of philosophy since its beginning in the world of ancient Greece.  

This course addresses justice as a virtue due to the following three characteristics:  

1. It is the only virtue that needs others to admit is validity; there is no concept of justice to be defined by any person alone. 
2. It is a perennial issue in political philosophy. The debates about justice have lasted more than 2500 years. 

3. It has been an issue in philosophy without a definite solution or even improvement. 

This course examines the main issues of the economic development in Chile, highlighting its strengths and challenges. Topics include historical social development, the Chilean Pension system, labor markets and informality, privatization, regulation and competition policy, trade policy, and relation of fiscal policy and economic development.

This course examines information technology infrastructure and security in the business environment. It covers the different components of IT infrastructure and security, as well as the best practices for designing, implementing, and managing secure systems.

This course introduces the field of public health and aims to provide a bird's-eye view of the discipline's orientation and content, the historical development and institutional status of public health in Taiwan, current important public health research and practice issues, and the field of practice of public health professionals through a macro perspective.

The course covers basics of Turkish language, alphabet, vowel harmony, simple, past and future tenses. Topic-based vocabulary is provided, and simple dialogue introduced.

This course aims to engender a mastery of the fundamentals of programming in C++, a language compiled to optimised machine-code, usable in a uniquely wide range of scenarios, from low level ‘close to the metal’ ones to ones involving high level programming abstractions. Command-line tools are used for program development so the module serves also as an introduction to that approach.

This course examines the economic geography of developing countries through a Marxist theoretical lens, exploring how capitalism creates and maintains global and local inequalities through spatial processes. Students engage with foundational concepts including primitive accumulation, uneven development, world-systems theory, and the new international division of labor to understand how wealth extraction, labor exploitation, and environmental degradation operate across geographic scales. The course traces the historical development of coreperiphery relations from colonialism through contemporary neoliberal globalization, analyzing specific processes such as export processing zones, land grabbing, structural adjustment programs, and resource extraction in the Global South. Through critical examination of topics including urbanization and slums, gendered labor relations, social reproduction, and environmental crisis, students will develop analytical tools, including mapping, to understand how capitalism necessarily produces geographic inequality while also exploring forms of resistance, social movements, and alternative development strategies emerging from the Global South. Using learning circles and collaborative pedagogical approaches that embody democratic and egalitarian principles, the course connects theoretical analysis with contemporary struggles for social and environmental justice, preparing students to critically analyze and engage with questions of global development, spatial inequality, and transformative social change. 

Students will complete syllabus quizzes, mapping exercises using GIS, a midterm exam, and a final research paper. 

This course examines the social and economic justifications for intellectual property rights as well as their multi-layered regulation. Drawing upon a selection of domestic intellectual property regimes, this course shows the impact of international and European law and decision-making on EU Member States and critically evaluates some of the policies and goals that underlie today’s intellectual property. Although the idea of multi-level regulation of patent and copyright laws goes back to the end of the 19th century, intellectual property rights and their enforcement have been globalized more effectively since the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1994 and the related adoption of an international agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (known as the ‘TRIPS’ Agreement). The course provides an in-depth examination of the most important provisions of this Agreement and of other international intellectual property conventions, as well as EU regulations and directives that sought to harmonize (or in certain cases even unify, as in the case of trademarks and designs) national legal systems such as the Irish one.

This course covers topics in contemporary issues of psychology, health, and public health, including clinical, institutional, historical, and public policy aspects. Prerequisite: a course in public health.