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The Economic and Monetary Union is the latest major step in the integration of the European Community Union. As a result, companies now operate in a European environment and national policymakers are constrained by EC regulations. The course provides an economic analysis of the effects of integration of markets for goods and services, the creation of common policies, harmonization of the regulation of markets, and monetary integration in the Economic and Monetary Union.

This course examines the nature and development of television fiction and its interaction with media culture. It analyzes the evolution of television fiction from an international perspective and the mutations that occur in the production of contemporary fiction. Case study of the course: "WandaVision" (Disney+: 2021).

This course introduces students to key concepts and ideas in the discipline of psychology. The course starts by investigating a brief history of psychology; learning about significant theorists and exploring psychological methods. It then investigate fundamental topics in psychology through four of the core perspectives in the field, namely: developmental, biological, social, and cognitive psychology. The course encourages students to begin to think about links between psychology and other related disciplines in the social sciences. Topics include: relationships, mental health, persuasion, identity, and parenting. The course draws on past experiments and theories from an array of global scholars, as well as real life examples, to demonstrate how relevant psychology is in our day-to-day lives.

This course develops the probability theory that is necessary to understand statistical inference. Properties of probability are reviewed, random variables are introduced, and their properties are developed and illustrated through common univariate probability models. Models for the joint behavior of random variables are introduced, along with conditional probability and Markov chains. Methods for obtaining the distributions of functions of random variables are considered along with techniques to obtain the exact and approximate distributions of sums of random variables. These methods will be illustrated through some well known normal approximations to discrete distributions and by obtaining the exact and approximate distributions of some commonly used statistics. 

Bullying: Beyond common examines the phenomenon of youth bullying. The course focuses on both traditional bullying that usually takes place on school premises and cyberbullying, which occurs via information and communication technologies. With a social-ecological perspective, the first part of the course explores the boundaries of these phenomena, and analyzes the characteristics of youth involved and the social-psychological processes that underlie the different roles youth play in bully-victim-bystander dynamics. The second part of this course covers the prevention and intervention strategies available at the international level. The course recommends students have previous knowledge of theories and methodologies from developmental psychology and social psychology as a prerequisite.