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This course covers the basics of corporate finance, principals of accounting, and financial statements, emphasizing their role and application to corporate finance and corporate decision making. The course starts by presenting key concepts like time value of money, the value of a bond and a stock, financial risk, CAPM, and accounting. The course provides exercises and tutorials to practice these newly introduced topics. It also stresses the importance of Excel to make the course more hands-on.

This course examines how speech sounds are organized and patterned typologically; how speech sounds are processed mentally; how we learn the sound systems of language and communicate with each other.

This course provides students with an understanding of the Irish economy and public policy-making. It shows how various pressures and policies have shaped the development of the Irish economy, and helps students economically interpret and evaluate public policy making in Ireland and elsewhere. The course also facilitates the use of clear and concise English that is required for understanding economics and policy-making.

This course introduces students to the nature, types, structure, and dynamics of international conflicts as well as the mechanisms used in addressing them. It explores the conflict behavior of states at the international arena, the impact of such behavior, and the likely conflict resolution mechanisms needed to address them. Also, the course keeps students abreast with post-conflict peace building strategies; the role of international institutions such as the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and ad-hoc tribunals in addressing human rights violations during periods of transitions and the general role of culture in these endeavors. 

This course studies and examines Chinese Buddhist art from historical and cultural perspectives to explore its origin, evolution and influence. The course also studies the transmission of Buddhism as well as its transformations through the investigation of the various art treasures found along the Silk Road. A study of these archaeological artifacts, religious monuments, and art and sculpture from the area reveals the fascinating story of the development of Buddhism from India to Central Asia and eventually to China, Korea and Japan. Assessment: short essay with 2,500-3,000 words (50%), 2 short quizzes (10%), presentation (25%), attendance and participation (15%)

This course introduces the fundamental principles behind methods in pharmaceutical modeling and provides hands-on experience with methods used in academia and industry. It focuses on mathematical models and computer programming for a quantitative understanding of diverse pharmaceutically relevant problems. This includes models at different scales, both for molecular and particle level properties, interactions between molecules and particles, and their interactions with the organism. The course uses practical examples to provide the theory behind methods used for pharmaceutical modeling and simulation of system behavior. It begins with a introduction and refresher of fundamental mathematical tools, then applies and modifies computer scripts that model the pharmaceutical systems, and discusses these models in relation to the literature.

This course presents an understanding of how the complexity of matter has evolved from its simplest forms during Big Bang to the rise of intelligent life that is capable of understanding its own place in this fabulous development. Topics include the formation of the elements during Big Bang, supernovae, and red giants; dust formation, stellar winds, and the re-circulation of cosmic material; the formation of the solar system; planets around other stars; the physical-chemical basis for life; the rise and development of life on the Earth; conditions for finding life beyond Earth; and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.