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This course examines the socio-cultural and political impact of New Zealand films foregrounding Māori, both in front of and especially, behind the camera. It looks primarily at how Māori filmmakers have used cinema as a means to reassert cultural identity and tino rangatiratanga, from its activist beginnings during the Māori Cultural Renaissance in the 1980s, to the present.

This course presents the issues associated with tax fraud from both a budgetary and financial point of view and from a political and democratic point of view. By using and abusing legal loopholes, tax fraud threatens the rule of law. Governments must find ways of ensuring that the rule of law prevails over the lure. After a brief introduction and presentation of the main actors in this field, the course is divided into three parts: tax fraud as a breach to fiscal justice; tax fraud as a threat to public order; foreseeable solutions. The European Union is the main area of analysis, although extra-European comparisons may be made during this seminar.

This course focuses on the novels of Jane Austen, four published in her lifetime (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma), two published posthumously (Persuasion, Northanger Abbey), and one unfinished fragment (Sanditon). It examines key themes in Austen’s novels, such as the roles of family and femininity, of class, manners, status and authority, and teaches about Austen’s pioneering and distinctive narrative techniques, including her use of free indirect discourse, epistolary narration, and natural dialogue. This course provides a thorough introduction to the life, works, and influence of Jane Austen, and is perfect for students seeking to develop their knowledge of this popular author and their skills of literary analysis.

This course examines the risks to which information systems are exposed and explores preventive measures and corrective actions to address them. Based on the principle that security is everyone’s responsibility, the course takes a managerial rather than a technical approach, as risks to information system security are not limited to the technological risks of IT platforms or networks. They encompass risks related to the company’s organizational structure, work methods, legal and regulatory constraints, personnel, partners, and so on. The course provides the necessary knowledge of methods and tools to actively contribute to various aspects of information system security. Real-world business cases supplement and concretely illustrate the concepts studied. Mastering the terminology specific to information system security is a key objective of the course.

The modern history of Iran has been tumultuous, full of revolts, revolutions and reversals. Key political developments in the nineteenth century included the impact of European political philosophies and Western educational systems, the Tobacco Revolt (1891), the Constitutional Revolution (1906-1911) and its aftermath, the rise of feminist movements and its effects in the revolutionary uprising in 2022. Pivotal events in the twentieth century included the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and the modernization project, the nationalization of oil production, the CIA-staged coup that removed the democratically-chosen Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq (1882-1967), the White Revolution and urbanization, the repression of intellectuals and the 1979 Revolution, the hostage crisis, the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), and the consolidation of the Islamic Republic of Iran. These events have been followed in recent decades by reforms and most recently, the revolutionary uprising with the powerful slogan “Women, Life, and Freedom” (zan, zendegi, azadi). The year 1979 marked the start of several weighty political developments in the Middle East, which have considerably changed the region and international relations. The rivalry between Iran and Saudi-Arabia, the Shiite-Sunnite divide, the role of Iran in Afghanistan, the ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and Hizballah in Lebanon are among topics which are going to be treated in this course. The course surveys this period from the perspectives of Iranians, seeing how they view their own history and use religious tenets, poetry, art and material culture to contribute to the modernization of their country. The course address how they positioned Iran in the regional and international political settings? While secondary sources are used to examine Iran’s modern history, key primary sources are introduced in translation, to show how Iranians look at their own history in relation to their neighbors and Western powers.

How does archaeology affect society? Why is archaeology important in the modern world? This course discusses the theory, practice, and responsibilities of archaeology. In exploring these themes, the course considers the role of governments, the general public, the popular media, museums, the antiquities trade, and archaeologists. This course also explores how archaeology is practiced and presented to the public, and the implications this has for the ways in which archaeology has been used as a tool for creating communities, identities, and legitimacy.

This is an introductory course on scientific research methods for social welfare research. The course covers the process of formulating appropriate research questions and hypotheses; issues on conceptualization and measurement; components of research designs; basic techniques for testing hypotheses and relationships among variables; and ethical issues associated with conducting social welfare research. Topics include Human inquiry and science, the research process, problem formation, searching and reviewing literature, conceptualization and measurement and scales, assessing quality of measurement instruments, sampling, research designs, evaluation research.

Students will be required to prepare research plans according to a social research framework. 

This course offers a global perspective while contextualizing health issues within China's unique national circumstances. The course systematically introduces essential concepts, policy practices, and cutting-edge developments across key global health domains, including health governance, health financing, infectious disease prevention and control, and maternal and child health

This course is structured into four hands-on modules. Three modules are dedicated to using and developing different types of models typically used by Earth Scientists. Many models rely on solving Partial Differential Equations (PDE). They either represent an efficient simplification thereof, e.g., in the form of box modelling (module 2 or directly write and solve (un)coupled sets of PDE’s (module 3). A new branch of modelling constitutes data-driven modelling, which exploits artificial intelligence to build models based on observations (module 2). These first three modules integrate the learning of more advanced programming with acquiring the basics of different methods used for modelling. The last module focuses on the process of modelling itself, such that you can translate Earth Science problems into effective modelling strategies. Together these modules complete the programming, modelling and data skill learning lines. Participants develop and write their own box model with a complete numerical model, which quantifies to what depth the water level would fall if the Mediterranean Sea was disconnected from the Atlantic Ocean. The course teaches the development and uses data-driven models. Learn the basics of different machine learning models, including how neural networks, random forests, and long short-term memory algorithms work. Train models using hydrological data and optimize their performance on different data sets. Finally, you build a machine learning model from scratch to simulate a new hydrological data set. Participants also develop or program various codes from scratch, starting from physical conservation laws to writing codes to simulate 1D and 2D flow; heat, chemical and pressure diffusion; and coupled momentum and continuity equations with variable viscosity. Developments are based on a staggered grid, finite difference formulation, which facilitates understanding of numerical mathematics for Earth Science students. Through gradually increasing code complexity students are introduced to spatial and temporal discretization, initial and boundary conditions, and basic numerical solvers. Finally, learnings is applied to perform a numerical modelling research project. The thermomechanical code used for this module is an extension of the building blocks you have programmed yourself in the PDE-module. You can choose to apply this code to simulate subduction over millions of years to understand earthquake sizes, flow of a mountain glacier, or tsunami propagation over a lake. Students are tasked to formulate a research question in one of these Earth Science domains based on literature and develop and execute a modelling strategy to answer it. Execute your research project step-by-step accumulating into a poster presentation. Assumed previous knowledge includes GEO1-1135, GEO2-1230 and GEO2-1301. 

This course offers an introduction to the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It covers the Court's role within the broader framework of international justice, its history, legal structure, and organs, the sources of law it applies, and the procedures governing contentious cases and advisory opinions. The course also introduces incidental proceedings, enforcement, and requests for revision of judgments. It involves an analysis of the Court's current docket and of its jurisprudence through the study of landmark cases that have shaped its history and the history of international law more broadly.