Denmark

This course examines (and sometimes challenges) the common premises and approach of today’s psychological researchers, practitioners, and educators. By reading, thinking, discussing, observing, and writing, it also reflects on our own values and assumptions, which would hopefully make us better members of this increasingly globalized world. The course discusses core concepts and frameworks of cross-cultural psychology and culturally sensitive research; cross-cultural research methods (types of cross-cultural comparisons, research, and Bias and equivalence); culture, cognition, and emotion; culture and self; culture and human development; cultural understanding and sensitivity in mental health and psychotherapy; and multicultural competence (acculturation, challenges, and strategies for intercultural interactions).

This course uncovers a European history about love that has shaped the present in untold ways. It follows love on various historical stages – from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages, the romantic era, the post-romantic period, and into the present – and pays close attention to the stories we have told ourselves about love. Our love stories reveal that we conceive of the human condition as desiring, striving, and longing, but also as avoiding reality and the concrete commitments that tie us to finitude. The course reads responses to this escapism in the form of a moral call to respond to the other, also when this means respecting difference and the other’s independence. Throughout, it provides tools for thinking seriously about love today.

This course covers algebraic number fields and their rings of integers; trace, norm, and discriminants; prime decomposition in Dedekind domains and rings of integers; prime decomposition in quadratic and cyclotomic number fields; decomposition theory in Galois extensions; decomposition- and inertia groups and fields; quadratic reciprocity via decomposition theory; Frobenius automorphisms; the prime divisors of the discriminant and ramification; finiteness of class numbers; Dirichlet's unit theorem; the first case of Fermat's last theorem for regular primes.

This course covers a number of fundamental topics concerning groups of graph automorphisms, with an emphasis on group-theoretic notions and results. Topics include fundamentals of graph theory and of group theory; graph automorphisms, transitive graphs; group actions on graphs; Cayley graphs, Schreier graphs; fundamental group of a graph, coverings; free group: definition, elementary properties; subgroups of free groups; and Hanna Neumann conjecture.

This course provides a broad introduction to marine mammal biology and research, including topics such as origin, evolution, taxonomy, distribution, abundance, anatomy, sensory biology, ecology, and behavior. Further, the course addresses impacts caused by pathogens, human activities, and climate change, as well as marine mammal management and conservation. Each topic is covered at a general introductory level, and selected topics are additionally presented and discussed by guest lectures with expertise in marine mammal research, conservation, and management. The course provides an overview of marine mammal biology and research practices, forming a solid basis upon which to build future study, research, and career interests in marine mammal biology and wildlife biology in general.

This course examines the past three decades' explosive surge in neuroscientific explanations of human nature, promising clear-cut biological answers to commonplace philosophical questions concerning rationality, emotion, behavior, values, and ethics. It explores to what extent such a promise is warranted, in particular concerning existential questions such as anxiety, responsibility, and religious faith.

This course provides a combination of critical analytical and practical skills for engaging with the challenges of development planning and policy analysis in relation to African contexts. It includes at least three dimensions: firstly, it introduces critical theoretical approaches to the very notion of doing "development," to the study of policy, and to the politics of planning; secondly, it will prepare students for analyzing different kinds of development planning and policies in their historical-political-social-economic contexts; and thirdly, it provides critically reflective yet practical skills for planning concrete development projects and undertaking critical readings of policy. Students are encouraged to draw on and share their own previous experience of working in "development" settings where relevant but such experience is not a pre-requisite for the course.

This course is an introduction to the burgeoning field of philosophy of psychiatry. Against a solid historical background, the course sets out to present, examine, and discuss concepts fundamental to our understanding of mental illness (mind, body, self, person, rationality, emotion, normality/disorder), the meaning of psychopathology, the relationship between biology (genetics, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience in particular) and subjectivity, and the question of therapy (the values and norms of well-being).

The course deals with particular aspects of Egypt’s archaeology, history, and social history, from Prehistoric to Islamic periods. It draws on archaeological knowledge from the material remains, such as architecture, burials, and pottery in their social and archaeological context to reconstruct social and political history, development of hierarchy, power and ideology. Through Egyptology, it combines textual sources with material remains in the construction of various aspects of ancient culture: social and political history, art and architecture, and religion. The course also introduces the theory and methods of archaeology and Egyptology to discuss the sources of information and how they can be approached.

This course provides a broad and coherent understanding of sediment transport, geomorphological processes, coastal deposits, and landforms in coastal environments. It builds an understanding and appreciation of coastal development over both short and long time spans and how (and why) changing boundary conditions (climate change; sea level change) affect these landscapes in the long term. This includes an appreciation of risks related to climate change along with possible adaptation strategies and measures. Topics include waves and currents; erosion and transport of sediments; beach and shoreface morphology; conceptual morphological models; stratigraphy and formation of coastal landscapes; beach erosion/accretion; coastal response to changes in sea-level, sediment supply and climate change.