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This course provides students with an overview of practices within, and applications arising out of, the discipline of psychology. It is designed to introduce students to the many areas of psychology and provides an essential grounding in the discipline and the basis for further study in the School of Psychology.

The course provides general techniques for the design of efficient algorithms and, in parallel, develop appropriate mathematical tools for analyzing their performance. In this, it broadens and deepens the study of algorithms and data structures initiated in INF2. The focus is on algorithms, more than data structures. 

Building on basic circuit concepts, this course introduces the operating principles of transistors and how they are used in amplifier circuits. It discusses the foundational concepts of transistor amplifiers and analyses their performance. It also introduces operational amplifiers as a circuit component and describes how functional analog circuits, which can be applied to solving complex engineering problems, can be designed and analyzed using operational amplifiers. LTSpice is introduced as a circuit analysis tool. To augment learning, two laboratory sessions are included focusing on the topics of single transistor amplifiers and Op-Amp circuits, respectively.

This course examines various ethical issues involving the Internet. Its unique architecture creates various legal and policy conflicts in freedom of speech (e.g., right to be forgotten), privacy (e.g., mass surveillance), anonymity, common carrier rules (e.g., net neutrality), intermediary liability, data protection, hate speech, domain name disputes, spam regulation, online copyright infringement, pornography and jurisdictional issues. In these debates, what is the role of law or the rule of law? Canvassing the laws of selected countries and international and regional law such as GDPR, e-Commerce Directive, UN Human Rights Committee recommendations, the course attempts to identify a globally consistent set of theories and arguments that have gained normative and prescriptive traction in the relevant regional or international debates.

This course develops the basic concepts and tools applicable to corporate financial decisions. It studies the three main tasks of financial managers: project evaluation, financing decisions, and working capital management. Specific topics include present value calculation, valuation of stocks and bonds, investment criteria and capital budgeting, risk and return, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, short term financial planning, and credit and inventory management. Prerequisite: an introductory accounting course. Text: Ross et al., CORPORATE FINANCE FUNDAMENTALS. Assessment: four assignments (16%), 16-page group project (14%), midterm exam (30%), final exam (40%).

This course provides an introduction to financial economics. The course starts with a brief discussion of the functions of financial systems and a description of existing financial assets, financial intermediaries, and markets. The first part of the course deals with the time value of money and its applications, notably the pricing of risk-free bonds and the capital budgeting decisions by firms. The second part then introduces the notions of risky assets, risky returns, and risk aversion, and highlights the benefits of diversification. It presents the foundations of portfolio theory, explains the standard models of equity risk premia, and highlights some of their important applications. The last part discusses the efficient market hypothesis and the contending theories of behavioral finance.

This course defines how endocrine and brain circuits control sexual, affiliative, and aggressive behavior. Students are introduced to comparative examples from the animal kingdom and underlying genetic mechanisms, as well as neuroendocrine circuits and peptide relays in the brain. Where possible, examples are drawn from the medical literature to indicate the common nature of these processes in our own species, and governing our behavior.

This course discusses major categories and sources of air pollution, dangers of some air and water pollutants, dangers of stratospheric ozone depletion and radon in indoor air, types and effects of water pollution, thermal pollution and thermal shocks, damages of air pollution, control and monitoring of pollution, acid rain and deposition, air pollution control, status of water quality in developed and developing countries, groundwater problems, and human waste disposal.