Denmark

Autobiographical memory is the ability to remember and reconstruct the past. This course focuses on how people remember their lives, and how cultural factors influence autobiographical remembering. In this context, the course discusses research in cultural differences on cognition and autobiographical memory, especially in cultural life scripts and life stories, as well as childhood amnesia and the reminiscence bump.

This course introduces the marketing function of an organization. It provides an overview of the theories and principles of marketing, which are supported by marketing science. The course focuses on how organizations identify the needs of their target markets, understand the buying behavior of their target markets, and develop a marketing mix to satisfy the needs and wants of these markets. While the course has a theoretical base that is underpinned by a marketing science approach, practical application of the concepts of marketing is an essential element.

The course covers chromatographic separation of small molecule organic compounds with special emphasize on the molecular mechanism and theory of analyte-column interactions for gas, supercritical fluid and liquid chromatography, and the theory of ionization, fragmentation, mass-to-charge separation, ion detection and data interpretation for all common mass spectrometers and ionization techniques. 

This course provides insight into three interconnected fields of inquiry: the interdisciplinary study of contemporary Scandinavia and the larger Nordic region; the analysis of a large variety of cultural products; and an understanding of how narratives and images reflect past and present transnational and transcultural relations. The interdisciplinary course relates close readings of literary texts, films, art works, and other cultural products to discussions of the larger socio-political and media-aesthetic context. Among other things, this context is marked by the global circulation of ideas and artifacts; migration and diversity; climate change and other environmental concerns; and decolonization processes. Within the Nordic region, changing relations between majorities and minorities and between centers and peripheries are at stake that link the region to transformations on a global level. A special focus is directed at cultural and geopolitical changes in the Nordic part of the Arctic; at shifting relations within the Danish Realm between Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands; at the situation of Indigenous people in the region including the Sámi of the northern Scandinavian peninsula; and at the legacies of the transatlantic enslavement trade linking Scandinavia to Africa and the Caribbean. The course looks at how artistic, medial, and public expressions represent and reflect these processes. It presents a variety of textual, visual, and audiovisual material, as well as discourses and practices that reflect current shifts in Nordic self-images; imagined communities on national, regional, and global levels; and transnational entanglements. In short, the course explores and expands the notion of Scandinavia or “Norden” and traces the region’s transnational connectedness as reflected by contemporary arts and public discourse.

This course develops a hands-on approach by learning and applying the methods of behavioral economics to public policy. It reviews research on human decision making from psychology, political science, organizational behavior, and economics and looks for easy‐to‐implement solutions. The course builds skills to identify human biases and creatively design behavioral interventions, policies, or products that help people make better decisions.