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This course offers students a unique insight in the linkages between people's recreational use of nature and the management and planning of nature areas. The course deals with practical and theoretical aspects of planning, management, and governance of outdoor recreation. Students learn, from a management point of view, how to deal with visitors and users of nature areas based on both theoretical and practical management related knowledge. Outdoor recreation is high on today's policy, research, and planning agenda because planning authorities have focused on the link between outdoor recreation, active living, and public health. Furthermore, opportunities for outdoor recreation are an integrated part of forest and afforestation policy, municipal landscape planning, urban green space planning, national agricultural policy, and nature policy. Moreover, access to nature and green/blue spaces with opportunities for outdoor recreation plays a key role in peoples' choice of settlement, and development of outdoor recreation opportunities contribute to rural development by delivering economic benefits to rural societies. The following themes are covered: public accessibility, nature protection, conflicts between user groups, zoning and multifunctional planning approaches, public participation and collaboration between stakeholders, management of outdoor recreation facilities, monitoring and mapping of outdoor recreation including usages of interviews, surveys, visitor counting, GIS, GPS, and App's in order to support planning and management of outdoor recreation. The course has an international focus and include examples and cases from Denmark and other countries.

This course surveys the United States' interactions with the world in what Luce (and others) called the “American century”. Starting with the US emergence as an imperial power at the turn of the twentieth century, it traces the evolution of American foreign relations through the First World War, the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the Cold War. It considers how the United States came to rise to its present position of power within the international system, and how the exercise of American power (military, political, economic, and cultural) in turn came to transform the lives of millions. Throughout the course, key themes in American international history are touched upon, such as isolationism, the “new world orders” proposed by Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the emergence of the Cold War, and subsequent challenges to American hegemony, from Vietnam to Iraq. The course also considers the different ways that historians have evaluated and interpreted the history of American foreign relations. The course relies heavily on the use of primary sources, which students are asked to incorporate both in their class readings and in their written work. It also features an archive excursion.

This course examines the early political and ecclesiastical interchange between Ireland and Scotland, covering such topics as the expansion of Irish settlers in Scotland at the expense of the Picts, the range and significance of the monastic federation of Iona, and the impact of the Vikings in different parts of the Gaelic world. The course identifies the primary sources which provide insight into relations between Ireland and Scotland in the period before 1200 AD; gives an overview of the main historical developments which influenced relations between the Irish and those of Irish descent in North Britain; assesses the relative importance of ecclesiastical and secular institutions in forging and maintaining trans-insular contacts; and traces the shifts in the relationship between Irish and Scots from the sixth to the 12th-century.

Labor Economics examines many topics, ranging from the micro-economic behavior resulting in labor supply and demand to macroeconomic questions such as inequality and unemployment. Examples of questions that are addressed in this course are: What is the impact of welfare programs on labor supply? What is the impact of wage subsidies for firms on labor demand and labor market equilibrium? What is the impact of the minimum wage on employment and wages? What is the impact of immigration on employment and wages of natives? Why do educated workers earn more? In addition to outlining theories that can answer these and other questions, the course also provides an overview of empirical methodologies used in labor economics. Besides lectures, students further familiarize themselves with these theories and methods through applications and exercises in tutorials. The topics discussed include: the impact of Artificial Intelligence on labor markets, the rise of non-standard work such as online job platforms, the feasibility of a universal basic income, the gender wage gap, migration, the fall in the labor share, local labor market adjustments from globalization and digitization, the impact of work on family structure and fertility, and the impact of work on voting and the rise of political populism. Note that these topics are currently discussed not only by labor economists but by scholars from many different disciplines, allowing for papers to pursue a multi-disciplinary approach.

This course explores the operations and management of key landform systems. The course provides a detailed synthesis of the physical processes and linkages operating at the earth's surface that shape our landscape and physical environment. Topics include the geomorphology of coasts, tectonic regions, glacial environments, and fluvial systems.

The course covers the field of psychopathology and considers a range of models currently used in clinical research and practice to understand and support psychological problems. It explores how specific problems such as anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia are understood from medical, cognitive behavioral, and systemic orientations.

The course examines social science research, and introduces the nature of research as an orderly process of inquiry. Topics include identification of a research problem, review of literature, research designs, hypothesis formation and testing, sampling methods, research instruments and data collection, data analysis by appropriate descriptive or inferential statistics, and preparation of a research report. Text: A. Bryman, SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS.