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This course gives an overview of the contributions from applied cognitive, social, forensic psychology, and criminal psychology to the understanding of witness and criminal behavior. It examines the evidence from child witnesses and impact of crime on victims of sexual offences and provides an understanding of the implications of forensic psychology in the justice system. Students are expected to demonstrate awareness of current theories and research related to witness and criminal behavior. Students discuss issues related to the current state of knowledge on criminal behavior current incidents, research, and media influences.

This intermediate foundation course investigates the various materials, skills, and expressive issues involved in drawing the city of Florence, its architecture, sculptures, and the human figure from the live model. Students explore a range of compositional issues such as figure/ground relationships, light and shade, perspective, line and shape, value and color, texture, anatomy, contrapposto, and design.  Students draw on site in the city of Florence as well as in the classroom. Both are used in conjunction with exploring diverse approaches to the learning of drawing fundamentals. Emphasis is placed on drawing from perception while focusing on different cultural conventions relating to space, perspective, the human figure, architecture, anatomy, and proportion. The course includes trips to on-site locations in the city of Florence: its piazzas, gardens, museums, as well as a visit to an artist studio. There are two versions of the FOUNDATIONS OF DRAWING: DRAWING IN THE CITY OF FLORENCE, a beginner level and an intermediate level, this course is the intermediate level. Intermediate students are required to have completed a beginning drawing course as a prerequisite. Some assignments for the intermediate students will vary from the assignments given to beginning students. Intermediate students' assignments and progress are held to a higher standard than beginning students. The intermediate students are expected to perform at a higher level.

This course emphasizes hands-on laboratory experience and teaches students research background, relevant theories, and basic laboratory techniques relevant to their field of study. Students formulate a research plan, implement it by conducting experiment-based research, and convey the results in scholarly presentations. Students submit a written research report at the end of the course.

This course focuses on how entrepreneurs generate the ideas that allow them to create and grow their firm. It examines how entrepreneurs discover ideas and how they implement them. The course is grounded in research-led teaching but also links into the wider employability agenda. It is relevant for all students, with no prior business knowledge required.

This course is divided into two sections introducing recent developments in economic theory and policy analysis. The first half of the course covers economic policy in the global economy. Students study the causes and consequences of international economic integration, focusing on how globalization affects the trade-offs that shape policy. Both theoretical and empirical analyses will be considered. Key topics include international trade, capital flows, migration, technology diffusion, taxation in the global economy, and the relationship between globalization and national sovereignty.

The subtitle to Søren Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death captures both the tone and the overall project for this seminar as: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening. From this point of orientation, an exploration of the Kierkegaardian oeuvre will unfold that focuses on what he believes to be the earnest need of attending to the dual existential tasks of self-examination and the strengthening of the inner being through spiritual upbuilding. In “building up” from his spiritual diagnosis on the various forms of existential despair – and by way of his cycle of discourses on the “lilies of the field and the birds of the air” – this course will ultimately arrive at Kierkegaard’s proclamation of “how glorious it is to be a human being.”

Many novices in the historical study of the Cold War tend to draw a simplistic picture about it. For example, the Cold War was an international political process of US-Soviet strategic and ideological confrontations which never reached a third world war. But this widely shared image is not at all appropriate to properly depict the highly complex historical reality of the Cold War. In order to comprehend the complexity, this course analyzes the multiple actors and issues which determined the process of Cold War world politics. This includes not only the global superpowers, but the roles played by their allies, Third World countries, and even transnational actors such as NGOs. The course also sheds more analytical light upon interplay of manifold issue areas such as strategy, economic interdependence, societal changes and so forth.  In short, this course explores Cold War history from a global perspective.

This course provides students with theoretical and practical understanding of macroeconomics. The course covers long run and short run analysis of the economy, goods, money and labor market analysis, and policy implications. Students must have a good knowledge of calculus and basic mathematical tools such as log transformations. Visiting students must have studied an introductory economics course.

This course provides an introduction to Einstein's relativity theory: Special relativity, four-vectors and tensors. General relativity, spacetime curvature, the equivalence principle, Einstein's equations, experimental tests within the solar system, gravitational waves, black holes, and cosmology.

Topics include the development of the study of victimization; measuring victimization; theoretical perspectives on victimology; the ideal victims and claims to victimhood; victims' role in the criminal justice system and rebalancing in favor of the victim; victim offender overlap; the vulnerable victim; victims of sex crimes; victims of state and corporate crime; overcoming victimization; and victim support organizations.