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This course introduces students to key debates about migration in Mexican and Chicanx Studies through cultural productions that focus on migration and diaspora. This interdisciplinary course introduces students to Mexican and Chicanx literature and film through narratives of migration. It examines how representations of migration and diaspora have evolved from the 1940s to the present day in the light of debates about citizenship, ethnicity, narco-culture and gender.

This course introduces major themes and approaches from the field of global intellectual history in 17th-20th century history. It looks at early modern "connected history" approaches, the history of enlightenment-era travel and travelogues, the history of colonial-era cultural and textual knowledge (orientalism, ethnography), the traditions of thought emanating from Atlantic slavery, the rise of humanitarianism and of international law, the political thought of empire, (multi-)cultural identity and hybridity, and postcolonial and decolonial theory. The course offers orientation on how global history has shaped thought, and on how the different forms of globality or globalization that can be observed throughout modern history have been understood.

This advanced course addresses the ongoing theoretical and scientific crisis in psychotherapy research. It begins by presenting and critically discussing the evidence-based treatment (EBT) framework, its historical development, recent meta-analytic findings, and its epistemological and methodological limitations. Particular attention is given to the historical, cultural, and methodological challenges of studying psychodynamic psychology within this framework. On these grounds the course  introduces the current effort in literature of pushing the field from its current state of caucus-race, toward individualized treatment and prevention practices. These efforts emphasize repeatable phenomena, causal evidence, and falsifiable theories, while remaining compatible with the unique demands of studying interpersonal relationships between reflective, self-updating individuals. To this end, the course offers a critical reinterpretation of core psychodynamic constructs, such as conflict, resistance, and defense mechanisms, reframing them in light of leading paradigms in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, and infant research. These contemporary perspectives are used to revise and extend Freud’s theory based on decades of experimental evidence. Central attention is given to Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle and the Bayesian brain model built upon it, as well as computational semiotics, the Dynamic Complex Systems framework, and recent advances in Attachment Theory, particularly regarding epistemic trust and mentalization. The course provides students with foundational knowledge of scientific literature in the field of psychotherapy, as well as the ability to engage with it critically. Furthermore, students are equipped with conceptual tools to develop a critical stance toward clinical models, their effectiveness, integration, and application in clinical practice. Students acquire advanced theoretical tools from an interdisciplinary framework and are trained to apply them to clinical cases, particularly in the context of case formulation. 

This course covers the fundamental concepts and principles that shape modern computer networks, helping students understand how the Internet is designed and is being operated in practice, and the course prepares students to think about current issues. Class content is introduced top-down, starting with the applications that are most familiar to students, such as the Web and e-mail. Students gain a hands-on perspective by writing their own simplified versions of popular Internet protocols. 

Topics include HTTP and FTP, Socket programming, Transport layer overview and Reliable data transfer, TCP and congestion control, Network layer, Virtual circuits, Datagrams, Forwarding, IP and ICMP, Routing algorithms and protocols, Link layer, Error detection and multiple access, ARP, Ethernet, hubs and switches, Wi-Fi, Email security and SSL, IPSec, VPN, Wireless LAN security, and more. 

Prerequisite: EE209 Programming Structure for Electrical Engineering or similar  

This course introduces a number of different texts ranging from the canonical via the postcolonial to the contemporary. The course engages in the affective turn in literary studies and explores the relationship between literature and emotions. In turning to critical theory, it also considers how affective science has impacted on literary studies. The course is organized around thematic clusters, zooming in on emotions such as passion, anger, shame and grief.

This course introduces the basic concepts of statistics to systematically analyze the essential characteristics and interrelationships of economic data. 

The main goal of this course is to understand statistical analysis of data and to apply to various issues using Excel. The topics include the basic concept of probability and statistics with the application of practical cases 

Several Excel homework assignments will be assigned during the semester that will involve qualitative discussions and working through quantitative analyses and computations.  Please be aware that to complete the homework, you will need to learn some Excel functions by yourself. 

Through close readings of works of political, economic and religious thought produced by African intellectuals, this course provides a grounding in some of the major debates around identity, sovereignty, and racial, gender and sexual equality as they have played out on the African continent. First, the course starts with the time when Africans became African: when they began to think of themselves as “African” in a sense different from other human beings they encountered from other continents. Second, while African intellectual history is related to political, economic, social and cultural histories of Africa, it is not the same thing. African thought influenced all of these histories, but the course focuses on the non-material, ideational, and ideological influences on these histories and their material results. In the end, the course develops a better understanding of how Africans in the past made sense of their world and how that understanding has affected the present.

This course covers Seismology, one of the main geophysical methods for studying the Earth.  The course introduces fundamental concepts and basic theory of seismic waves, and then applies them to earthquakes, Earth structure, and plate tectonics. Practical exercises are provided in class labs and take-home assignments. Students build both physical intuition and basic skills for reading and using seismological data. 

There are no formal prerequisites. However, students should be comfortable with basic calculus and introductory physics (e.g., derivatives and simple differential equations). 

This course introduces the roles of chemistry in different stages of our life. Topics include: basic chemical knowledge related to life science; origin of life - essential elements, water, and proteins; growing up - food. nutrients, and hormones; medication: chemicals against diseases; messing up - narcotics, some stimulant drugs, and hallucinogens ( e g heroin. ketamine, and ecstasy); ageing; the mystery of heredity - nucleic acids and the Double Helix.

This course explores Japan’s evolving relationship with the world by examining its historical nation-building, post–World War II reconstruction, and contemporary foreign policy challenges. Through analyses of regional relations, national security issues, and Japan’s growing international role — especially in the context of China and the United States — students gain a deeper understanding of how Japan seeks to maintain autonomy and shape its place in global affairs.