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This course prepares students to use simple quantitative methods in their dissertations, and provides the conceptual tools needed to produce, commission, evaluate, and interpret statistical information in professional contexts. It provides a brief but systematic introduction to three forms of data collection: sample surveys, experiments, and content analysis. It explains the theory behind these techniques, the form that they would ideally take, the compromises that are made in order to conduct them in the real world, and the consequences which those compromises have for the reliability of findings. Students create proposals for quantitative research projects, analyze pre-prepared datasets, and receive an introduction to the practicalities of data collection by jointly designing and conducting a piece of survey research. 

The course covers the basic concepts, theories, and contemporary debates and issues surrounding Northeast Asia's international security. Topics include realism and military security, liberalism and cooperative security and arms control, constructivism and human security, domestic politics and international security, hegemony and military security, coercive diplomacy, alliances in northeast Asia, US-China competition, Japan`s security policy, north Korea’s nuclear challenge, and ROK and peace in the Korean peninsula.

This course takes on artistic imagination and activism to better understand contemporary social issues. It examines traditional western art history with a critical lens and introduces local issues, cultural sentiments, and historical contexts around Socially Engaged Art. Students learn from artists, the social implications of art, and explore creative solutions for social issues. 

This course is an introduction to economic principles in the analysis of environmental change and natural resource use and in designing appropriate policy responses. The first part of the course primarily covers the concepts and tools of environmental and resource economics, such as the evaluation of regulatory and market-based instruments in controlling pollution; moral suasion and voluntary regulation; the economics of renewable resources (e.g. fisheries); the economics of non-renewable resources (e.g., fossil fuels and minerals). The second part applies these concepts and tools to provide an economic perspective on real-world policy issues. Topics covered include the following: cost-benefit analysis and environmental valuation; stated and revealed preferences methods (and some behavioral considerations); sustainable development; biodiversity; climate change; energy; directed technological change and green innovation; health and the environment.

This course is an introduction to the works and philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard, the internationally renowned Danish philosopher, theologian, and writer. Considered as the father of existentialism, Kierkegaard's works revolve around basic human experiences such as aesthetic lust, despair, anxiety, morality, passion, knowledge, absurdity, and faith. In particular, Kierkegaard claimed to present a complete summary of the possible ways in which we can live our lives or exist. The course also analyzes and criticizes these ways thoroughly in order to judge to what extent they may give us a true point of orientation. This course examines his witty, humorous, and deeply earnest exploration of the philosophical psychology of self-identity. It remains especially attentive to how Kierkegaard considers human relationships to be essential to understanding oneself and one’s obligations to other human beings. Lectures focus on a discussion of excerpts from Kierkegaard's writings. The course includes a City Walk through old Copenhagen and a guest lecture that explores Kierkegaard's view of love. The course does not presuppose specialized knowledge and is eligible to students of all majors.

This course studies traditional open macroeconomic models and the role of monetary policy and exchange rates. It discusses currency and sovereign debt crises and the role of international coordination.

Few things are more dramatic than the collapse of a political system, whether through violent conflict or peaceful negotiations. Explaining why regimes break down and why new ones emerge are among the most important questions in political science. This course looks at the conditions under which regimes unravel, focusing on the breakdown of democratic institutions, the rise of populism, and conversely, transitions away from various types of authoritarian regime, using case studies from Southeast Asia. 

This course is about international financial economics (also known as international monetary economics): the movement of currencies and other financial assets across national boundaries. In this course, students will develop a set of analytic tools that can be used to analyze world economic policy debates. In particular, this course will examine the determination of exchange rates and how they are influenced by various economic phenomena such as interest rates, money supply, output, and unemployment. We will investigate different models of exchange rate determination and discuss how actual data supports or refutes these models.

Class meetings are interactive, usually beginning with a brief, student-led review of current events related to international finance. We then work through together, as a class, one of the models under study or look at some economic data and how it informs our understanding of the models under study. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is generally restricted to local graduate level students and requires the instructor's direct permission to enroll. Enrollment by special permission only. This course offers an introduction to management consulting. A particular focus of the is given to the role of consultants in the strategic decision making of firms, to the management tools used by management consulting firms, to the methodology for the of top management decision making. At the end of the course, participants have a methodical approach to managerial problem solving in a business company. The course discusses topics including: development of a real business case to be solved in teams; management consulting toolbox; principles of management consulting written and oral communication; M&A; and digital transformation.

Database management systems are at the core of computer applications that need to store, manipulate, and query data. This course takes a deep dive into how modern database systems function internally, from studying their high-level design to understanding the underlying data structures and algorithms used for efficient data processing. The course covers a range of data management techniques from both commercial systems and cutting-edge research literature, enabling students to apply these techniques to other fields of computer science. This is the undergraduate version of INFR11199