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This is an introductory course on international migration. The course explores various issues and challenges that come with growing migration today, focusing on multiculturalism, policy issues, racial and ethnic relations, social inequality, identities, xenophobia and nationalism. While taking a global, comparative approach, the course focuses on Japan, along with other industrial countries, such as the US, the UK, and South Korea. Through lectures, discussions, videos, and other class activities (e.g., guest speakers and field visits), the course collectively examine who migrates; why and how immigrants assimilate and integrate, and how states try to control immigration.

This course examines the details of fiber structures, its properties, and the origin of major textile fibers. It covers the chemical and physical behaviors of fibers, including their optical, mechanical, and thermal properties. Students also learn terminologies, classification, and processing methods of important classes of textile materials: yarns, woven, knit, and nonwoven fabrics. This course defines terminology related to common textiles and fibers, analyzes the influence of fiber chemistry on fiber morphology and physical properties, and covers how to apply simple mathematical models, quantify, and analyze the physical properties of textile fibers.

This course presents a thematic introduction to Irish art, architecture, and design in its broader international context. Subjects are connected across periods and styles – the focus not on presenting individualized summarized histories but rather considering how aspects of Irish visual history are connected and have evolved over time.

The course offers an orientation of Afro-Swedish relations in the past and the present. The module analyses racism and Afrophobia, culture and cultural creativity, collaborations (research, associations, development cooperation), African role models and stereotypes, migration, and diaspora.

This course is an introduction to cognitive science. It provide a selective but representative overview of the subject, suitable for all interested students, including students on the cognitive science degrees and external students. The lecturing team presents a unified view of the field, based on a computational approach to analyzing cognition. The material is organized by cognitive function (e.g., language, vision), rather than by subdiscipline (e.g., psychology, neuroscience). The course covers language, vision, memory, control and action, and reasoning and generalization. All topics are presented from a computational point of view, and this perspective is reinforced by lab sessions in which students implement simple cognitive models.

This course focuses on the Supreme Court of Japan. The first part of the course presents the origin, structure, and functions of the Supreme Court. The second part of the course presents the role it plays in the Japanese legal system and provides an overview of the most important cases and decisions it has made. Depending on participants' interests and on the circumstances related to the Covid-19 pandemic, a class might consist of a field trip to the Supreme Court of Japan.

This practical course offers an advanced study of programming skills and knowledge. It focuses on structured programming (with C) and object-oriented programming (with Java and Python). Assessment is based on developing two games: one in Java and the other in Python.

The course begins by exploring the historical background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, starting with the events which led to the creation of the state of Israel. Particular attention is paid to studying the development of the conflict over the course of the 20th century from a domestic, regional as well as international perspective. The impact of various Israeli and Palestinian movements on the conflict is studied as well as the ongoing involvement of regional and international state and non-state actors. The course concludes with an analysis of the conflict in the 21st century, which includes studying what proposals for peace have been put forward and evaluating their merits. The course is organized according to key events, themes as well as case studies.

This course gives students a thorough introduction to the field of behavioral organizational economics. The course discusses seminal as well as current research papers in the field, featuring empirical studies as well as lab and field experiments. The goal of the course is to transfer research findings to real-world applications in organizations. Students study employment relationships between workers and organizations and get to know key factors that shape them in a positive way. Students focus on the two concepts of motivation and selection, and they learn about how to detect discrimination in the hiring process.

This course interrogates the resilient power of racism in American history from the founding of the United States to the recent past. Students survey African American history from slavery through the Civil Rights era, broadly defined, and to more contemporary struggles. Students embed this history in the larger sweep of American history, covering topics such as plantation slavery, abolitionism and emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, the "New Negro," the long Civil Rights Movement, and the age of recent presidents. Students discuss the legacy of prominent African-American thinkers, activists, and political leaders, as well as the perspectives of ordinary black men and women.