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This course focuses on Deep Learning (DL), with an emphasis on recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP). It is structured into lectures that cover the fundamental concepts of the field, complemented by practical tutorials and exercises, where these concepts are further expanded and practically implemented through live coding sessions (mainly in Python). The course is organized along the following themes: Recap of Machine Learning (ML) fundamentals; Introduction to Neural Networks and the connectionist paradigm: from the perceptron to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs), universality theorems, the backpropagation algorithm, and principles of Neural Network design; The rise of Deep Learning: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), regularization techniques, and residual connections. Basics of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), attention mechanisms, and Transformers; Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP): text preprocessing, static and contextual word embeddings, language modelling, and neural approaches to text processing—from neural machine translation to modern large language models (LLMs). Course prerequisites: solid understanding of calculus, linear algebra, probability, and statistics, along with basic prior programming experience in Python.

The course looks at economic theories and the process of integration, with a focus on European integration. The first part of the course examines various trade policy measures, their economic effects and the role of the WTO in multilateral liberalization, and international integration. Emphasis is put on current WTO issues and the challenges faced by the future trade system. The second part of the course looks at economic theories aimed at explaining the purpose and the effects of regional integration. This part focuses on the factors that impact on the economic effects of regional integration as well as on policies that are of importance for the integration process. Emphasis is put on the various types of regional integration, various forms of market structure and competition policy. The third part studies the process of multilateral trade liberalization within the framework of the WTO. Special emphasis is placed on current WTO issues and the challenges of the future multilateral trade system. Here, the regional dimension of economic integration is also examined.

This course covers the foundations, principles, importance and guidelines of financial planning for life goals, the uses of financial instruments, together with self-discovery techniques, financial planning techniques including how to earn, collect, use and invest money, savings allocation and DCA investment techniques, debt management techniques, savings increase techniques, personal income tax saving planning techniques as well as the principles and importance of the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy in Thai society.

This course introduces students to learning about, practicing, and discussing the most effective science-backed methods for improving psychological well-being and building resilience. The course also places these often Millenia-old practices into their historical and cultural contexts. Students participate in and critically reflect on personal experiences with wellness practices and apply Thematic Analysis to qualitative data derived from journaling.  Topics include What is learned optimism, Resilience and positivity ratio, Mindfulness and science. e.g. Evolutionary psychology, plasticity, cognitive science, Thematic Analysis and its applications.

This course explores questions of memory, remembering, and time as these are refracted and represented via a range of verbal, literary, and cultural forms. The course considers the making of collective and public memory (e.g. the creation of national pasts; cultures of commemoration; oral history; testimonial forms; displacement, exile and global conflict; literatures of war) but also the question of individual and personal memory (e.g. language and identity; narrative and subjectivity; literature and psychoanalytic theory). As such, the course opens onto a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: the relation between the literary text and the history text; life-writing, autobiography and memoir; representations of childhood and ageing; engagements with the archive; the question of silenced, repressed or invisible histories; the historical, post-colonial and post-apartheid novel; discourses of trauma, truth and reconciliation; old age and forgetting; death and commemoration. Course entry requirements: At least second-year status.

This course covers an overview of solid-state microanalysis methods, including elastic and inelastic scattering, identification of phases by morphology, chemical composition, electron diffraction, and microscopy. Principles and functions of different types of microscopes for materials analysis as well as spectroscopy for elemental analysis, analysis of spectra are also reviewed. Methods for surface analysis: Atomic force microscopy, scanning tunnelling microscopy, LEED, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) are covered.

This is a special topics course in Global Korean Studies. Topics are subject to change. The course examines political, social and economic inequality in South Korea. Through rigorous analysis of scholarly literature and critical engagement with the readings, students develop a comprehensive understanding of various dimensions of inequalities, one of the fundamental challenges facing contemporary Korea.  In the second part of the course, students develop an academic research idea and design a research project exploring a specific aspect of Korean society, regarding inequalities. Expect to formulate a well-defined research question, construct a coherent research proposal, and present it in a scholarly setting. While the primary focus of this course is Korea, we adopt a comparative perspective to explore the academic advantages and broader contributions of studying Korean politics and inequality within the wider field of the social sciences.  

Topics include Facts and trends of inequalities in Korea, Unequal representation by age, Unequal representation by gender, Educational inequality, Trends in economic inequality in Korea, Facts and trends of inequalities in Korea, Social consequences of economic inequality, Medical consequences of economic inequality, Gender inequality, Ethnic minorities, Fighting against inequality. 

This course covers analytic functions, special functions (gamma function, Bessel functions, Legendre polynomials and spherical harmonics), Fourier series and Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms, Ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, and green functions.

This course explores the principles of preventive medicine, focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, and rehabilitation. It covers primary prevention strategies such as nutrition, exercise, vaccination, environmental risk reduction, and the prevention of occupational or accidental injuries. Secondary prevention emphasizes early detection and timely intervention through disease screening, health checkups, and identification of pre-clinical conditions. Tertiary prevention addresses limiting disability, preventing complications, and supporting recovery through medical treatment, psychological support, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and long-term care.

This advanced topics course covers international trade institutions, trade law, and trade policy. Students explore trade policies, how they are implemented by the United States and other countries, and how their use is constrained by international trade agreements.  

The Fall 2025 offering of this course covers fundamental principles of international trade rules established by the World Trade Organization (WTO), including the principles of non-discrimination, trade remedy measures, SPS, TBT, and exceptions to trade obligations. 

In addition, students examine newly emerging issues in trade, such as environmental concerns, digital trade and e-commerce, intellectual property rights, and trade in services, and delve into the most frequently used methods of dispute resolution: mediation, arbitration, and litigation. Through lectures, simulations, and student presentations, students learn the procedures and actual workings of these three methods at various settings such as WTO, WIPO, and LCIA, inter alia. 

Students should expect to present a substantial case study and produce a final paper.