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This course improves visual communication skills and stimulates creative thinking. Through hands-on practice, students are taught how to use the stylus and tablet to create sketches and paintings in Photoshop. Major topics include dynamic sketching; introduction to stylus, tablet and Photoshop; understanding and applying values and light; rendering with color; silhouetting for ideation; layout for presentation. 

This course examines the functioning of democracies in a context of high economic interdependence. To do so, the course is structure into two parts. In the first part, students learn how to define and measure globalization; how institutions emerge and change and how political institutions have contributed to the development of globalization. In the second part of the course, the focus is on analyzing the relationship between democracy and globalization. In this part of the course, the main topics cover the relationship between globalization and political accountability; the surge of technocracy and the tension with the democratic ideal of self government, and the socio-economic consequences of globalization. These topics provide the basis to understand more complex problems like Brexit, the collapse of establishment parties or the rise of populism. 

A continuation of Japanese language beginner. Teaching is aimed at enabling students to speak, read, and write Modern Japanese at a pre-intermediate level, equivalent to Japanese Language Proficiency Test N5 or Common European Framework of Reference for Languages level A1/A2.
The course provides essential grounding for the pre-intermediate level course "Japanese Language Pre-Intermediate" and subsequent study to the lower intermediate-level continuation course. A good deal of private study is necessary to meet the requirements of the course. This course is not available to native or near-native speakers of Japanese. A placement test and questionnaire on students' background in Japanese language studies is conducted in the induction session.

Economic policies differ widely across countries and – within the same country – even over time. Among OECD countries, government expenditure ranges from less than 40% in the US to almost 60% in Finland. What explains these large differences? The many tools provided by economic theory generally fail to offer a complete and satisfactory answer to this question. The course mission is to analyze the determinants of economic policy in modern democracies and to show how these policies may differ according to the different political institutions in place. The course consists of four parts. The first part of the course discusses the tools of political economics. The second part of the course compares the welfare states across industrialized countries, with special emphasis on the pension systems and the labor market, and discusses the political feasibility of structural reforms. It also addresses the differences in economic policies that may arise from the political institutions, with particular emphasis on the analysis of the electoral rule and of the regime type. The third part analyzes dynamic policies – public debt, economic growth – in a political economy framework to understand how political incentives shape current and future policies. The last part addresses the debate between the role of culture and institutions in shaping economic growth. To feel comfortable in this course, students should be familiar with the optimization techniques learned in math and microeconomic courses.

This course analyzes the place of gender in world politics. It introduces theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of gender in international relations, and reviews different fields of research, focusing on security studies, with cutting-edge literature. The course examines how both the practice of international politics and the academic discipline are gendered. It takes its starting point by reflecting on international relations theory to understand why the mainstream of international relations has traditionally had difficulties in engaging with feminist critiques. It looks at the early feminist debates and turns to themes of international relations such as war, conflict, militarism, and security through a gender perspective. It analyzes the role of bodies in international relations and their complex intersecting identities to understand how gender is intertwined with categories such as race, class, and sexuality. The question of how these complex identities give subjects possibility for agency runs throughout the modules. The course emphasizes how gender, security, and politics are discursively constructed through both language and images. To shed light on these discursive constructions, the course conducts several case studies.

This course is to help students better understand why people make certain financial choices in a way that systematically contradicts theoretical expectations. More specifically, this course is particularly interested in exploring examples of where conventional theory in finance does not hold and markets appearing to be acting "irrationally." Consequently, this course guides students through the development of the field of behavioral finance from the early ground-breaking work of psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in the 1970s-1980s, to the extensive field that it is today, where the course covers a range of topics relating to seemingly irrational financial behavior, including spending, investing, trading, retirement planning, wellbeing, and public policy. 

One of the greatest challenges for today’s global managers involved in transnational Post-Merger Integrations (PMI), is to be able to build and manage a highly effective team. Since today’s teams cross cultural boundaries, this involves building competencies that simultaneously ensure success across numerous cultural environments and enable accelerated performance through collaborative skills. The new breed of global managers must be prepared to work in a new team environment. Critical to forming and managing effective teams is an understanding and mastery of cross-cultural competence.
This interactive course builds individual and team competencies required for working, managing, and leading across cultures and geographies in the context of transnational Post-Merger Integrations. This course is aimed at demonstrating the impact of culture on communication, building relationships, business culture, and management styles, providing participants with the necessary knowledge, mindset, and skills for more effective multicultural teamwork.

This is an independent research course with research arranged between the student and faculty member. The specific research topics vary each term and are described on a special project form for each student. A substantial paper is required. The number of units varies with the student’s project, contact hours, and method of assessment, as defined on the student’s special study project form.

This course introduces students to: (I) the measurement and structure of the national economy; (II) basic macroeconomic concepts (e.g., productivity, output & employment, consumption, saving & investment, long-run economic growth, and business cycles), and (III) a basic framework for macroeconomic analysis.

The course analyses selected American literary works from the mid-17th century to today. The texts include fiction, poetry, traditional autobiographies as well as hybrid forms. Discussions will focus on aspects such as "truth", gender, race, ethnicity and morals.