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This course examines the critical issues facing organizations in simultaneously managing their human resources at home and abroad. It focuses on the connection between corporate strategies and the effective management of human resources across countries. Key topics include local responsiveness, global integration, social architecture, global talent, and global leadership. The course uses a combination of lectures, class discussions, and case analyses.

Oceans cover most of the globe. Yet once we venture even a few meters from the shore, our understanding of the marine environment is necessarily mediated by technology, from the rudimentary underwater goggles used by divers for centuries to the latest remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) that are transforming our understanding of ocean ecologies. The ocean thus provides a perfect opportunity to explore the relationship among technology, society, and science. Science is often defined as a process of posing, testing, and producing increasingly refined hypotheses with data generated by experiments and measured with instruments. Yet if we look more closely, it becomes clear that rather than playing a subordinate role, instruments and technologies operate to confer scientific authority, to allow knowledge to “travel,” to mediate between science and popular culture, and even to define the method and content of science. This course examines how different “machines,” or technologies have produced understandings of the ocean across history, and places these technologies in their social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. It relates these technologies to key problems in the study of science, like authority, networks, translation, and representation. The result is to complicate our understanding of what science is, and to reveal the complex and evolving interconnections that link technology, and society and our understanding of the oceans.

This course considers what and how the humanities can contribute to key debates about environmental crisis, climate change, overconsumption, biodiversity loss, and sustainability. This course provides a general introduction to the emerging field of the environmental humanities, as well as to other forms of transdisciplinary and collaborative environmental scholarship in which humanities thinking plays a key role. The first part of this course introduces a selection of key humanities ideas about human relationships with place, technology, and the more-than-human world, drawing insights from across multiple disciplines and cultures. It also provides a concise overview of selected conversations and debates in the environmental humanities, presenting theories, issues, concrete examples, and case studies. The second part of the course explores collaborations between the humanities and other fields, including relation to natural sciences, as well as the relationship between scholarship, action, and intervention in relation to environmental humanities research. This part of the course includes an outdoor fieldtrip in addition to in-class activities. The course includes a number of guest lecturers by Aarhus University staff members affiliated with the Aarhus University Center for the Environmental Humanities as well as the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) group in order to bring a diversity of perspectives and examples of current research to the course.

This course provides a study of the international art trade. Topics include: the international art market; international art auctions; international art loans; black market; international thefts of works of art; illegal export of works of art.