English

This course studies how trade and financial linkages with the rest of the world affect the performance of an open economy’s macroeconomic variables, such as interest rates, exchange rate, GDP, the price level. The main topics include balance of payments, foreign exchange market, international linkages of interest rates and price level, exchange rate models, international monetary systems, and exchange rate crises. Prerequisites: ECON1210: Introductory Microeconomics, and ECON1220: Introductory Macroeconomics

This course focuses on a variety of film genres, such as detective and gangster film, musicals, comedies, family dramas and westerns. Genres have been popular since the beginning of the film medium and remain quite popular today. This class examines the cultural and economic reasons for their continuing popularity. Film showings and film clips demonstrate how genres evolve over time and how some of the great film directors have made genre films of lasting impact. This class assumes no prior knowledge of film. Students are assessed on the basis of a paper and an examination.

This course is designed to help students develop an understanding of the principles of analytical chemistry; to introduce chemometrics, chemical equilibria, methods and instrumentation of importance in chemical analysis; and to provide hands on training in analytical techniques applicable in chemical, pharmaceutical, forensic, biomedical and environmental matrices.

This course provide students with the skills required to examine, describe and interpret sediments and sedimentary rocks for a variety of different purposes. This course examines the recent or ancient environment in which sedimentary materials were deposited, and the processes that control the production, movement and storage of sediment bodies. The various controls on the sedimentary record such as climate and sea-level change, as well as diagenesis and geochemical cycles, will be discussed. 

This course presents key theoretical models and related empirical evidence that shape our understanding of how labor markets work. The focus is mostly on the micro-level and the lectures build around the evidence provided by the most recent empirical research in the field. The following topics are typically covered: introduction to labor economics, labor supply, labor demand, labor market equilibrium, human capital, migration, labor market discrimination, and unemployment.

This course covers international organizations and the laws that govern them. 

International organizations govern many different aspects of contemporary international relations, from global security, trade, environmental issues to human rights. Crucial to these international organizations is the legal framework that gives these organizations power but also limits their authority. At the same time, the activities of these organizations also contribute to establishing customary practices that become the foundation for international norms and law.  

This course covers the historical and theoretical foundations of international organizations and provides a comprehensive understanding of the establishment and activities of international organizations from a legal perspective.  

Students explore the roles, forms, and structures of international organizations and acquire a critical perspective on the limitations of international organizations as well as the legal and practical challenges facing them.  

Students become familiar with the debates associated with five international organizations (the UN, ICC, ASEAN, NATO, and the WTO). 

This course examines fundamental concepts in conservation science. It covers different philosophies, perspectives, and disciplines used in setting priorities for managing biodiversity at all scales.

In this course, students approach consumer psychology and behavior from a neuroscientific perspective. Students learn the fundamentals of brain anatomy and their functions in the context of marketing and management. This course also covers cutting-edge marketing research that uses biometric techniques such as eye tracking, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), and students gain hands-on experience with some of these techniques and analysis of biometric data. Students learn how to apply insights from neuroscience not only in marketing and management, but also in their everyday life. 

This course provides an overview of the evolution of the English language from its origins to the 15th century. Topics include: the emergence of English; appearance of Old English varieties; Old English spelling, sounds, and grammar; resurgence of a new English; lexical influx in the late Middle Ages-- innovations and change; English texts from the early Middle Ages; consolidation of English.

Pre-requisites: The student must have a basic knowledge of the main linguistic concepts and a level of general skills suitable for reading and interpreting articles, analyzing data or extracting and communicating relevant conclusions. 

This course examines how images enter and circulate in the public sphere of news and discussion, analyze how images of current events are made, and study the meanings these images create and the purposes they serve. It looks at the past and present of photojournalism, from its origins in the 19th century to its contemporary forms, at a time when it is being impacted by rapidly changing technologies, media structures and cultural values. In addition to reading about the history and contemporary forms of photojournalism, students study a wide range of photographic images and learn to write and think clearly and incisively about them. The class pays particular attention to the photojournalistic traditions of the host country. The history of photojournalism is inseparable from the representation of violence, which is its dominant subject. This course requires students to look at graphic, disturbing and shocking images and to think seriously about the questions they raise.