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In the course, students practice descriptive evaluations as well as inferential statistical analyses with R: In addition to the most common univariate methods, non-parametric and selected multivariate methods are also taken into account. Further focuses are on the diverse options for creating diagrams and data management. After completing the course, participants can carry out standard exploratory and inferential statistical procedures with R, create flexible diagrams and have gained an overview of the diverse possible uses of the additional packages for special problems.

This course covers the following topics: sets and mappings, complete induction; number representations, real numbers, complex numbers; number sequences, convergence, infinite series, power series, limits and continuity of functions; elementary rational and transcendental functions; differentiation, extreme values, mean value theorem and consequences; higher derivatives, Taylor polynomial and series; applications of differentiation; definite and indefinite integral, integration of rational and complex functions, improper integrals, Fourier series; matrices, linear systems of equations, Gauss algorithm; vectors and vector spaces; linear mappings; dimension and linear independence; matrix algebra; vector geometry; determinants, eigenvalues; linear differential equations.
 

The focus of the seminar is the concept of reconstruction in the field of architecture and urban development, an essential term when dealing with loss and destruction in historical urban structures. In addition to the decision or debate between monument preservation and new planning, the course also discusses the crucial role of political, social and identity authorities in these design processes. By reading theoretical and official texts, analyzing international case studies and visiting Berlin case studies, students gain insights into the diversity of theories and methodological approaches to reconstruction in modern and contemporary architectural practice and monument preservation.

The Swiss author Johanna Spyri created one of the world's most famous children's book characters with Heidi's Years of Apprenticeship and Traveling (1880) and Heidi Can Use What She Has Learned (1881). To date, the Heidi novels have been translated into around 50 languages and repeated, among other things. Adapted as a film, (animated) series, comic, musical and radio play. Most recently, in May 2023, the Johanna Spyri Archive and the Heidi Archive were added to the UNESCO World Documentary Heritage, which lists cultural-historical artifacts of global importance. Using the example of auditory adaptations of the first Heidi volume, the seminar provides an insight into the analysis of children's audio media. Audio books and radio plays are available that deal with the story of the cheerful orphan girl and span from the 1950s to the present. The audio media are discussed from aesthetic and narrative points of view as well as with regard to content transformations. The starting point of the seminar is the reading of Spyr'is Heidi's years of teaching and traveling.

Students gain an overview of the fundamental technologies of the World Wide Web (WWW) and their applications. They study the functionality of the WWW as an overlay network of the Internet and examine the underlying communication infrastructure and protocols. Students also study the different generations of the WWW and the current as well as the future development. They learn to semantically structure, design and link web content, to create dynamic web sites, and to program server-side applications and how to connect them with the front-end via interfaces. Course content includes foundations (the main parts of the WWW and its evolution over the past decades), web pages (the structure and design of web content with HTML and CSS), web applications (an overview of JavaScript, the DOM and AJAX ), architecture and communication (the foundations of the OSI model with the consideration of the IP, TCP and UDP protocol as well as the explanation of the REST architectural style), server-side applications (creation of back-end applications with Node.js), selected APIs and frameworks.

From the Enlightenment up to the present Berlin has been a preferred home for poets, novelists, playwrights, journalists and creative writers of any kind. Their stories and visions are not only represented but shaped by the idea of the city. This course includes selected works of literature (and some works of visual art as well) written in different periods in Berlin. The works are contextualized by the dynamic and multilayered history of the city and are connected to the urban spaces of today. Excursions, readings and discussions help students gain insight into the rich cultural history and the current discourses in and about Berlin.

The seminar examines selected areas of development in early childhood. The focus is on emotional development in infancy and toddlerhood, supplemented by important milestones in early social and social-cognitive development.

Since the middle of the 19th century, realistic movements in the visual arts have claimed to show 'real life'. However, this is not about the deceptive illusion of a particularly natural representation, so that one could confuse the image with the model. Rather, a new understanding of the objects worthy of images and the political functions of art is emerging, which not only aims to provide information about reality, but also actively participates in it. The representation of 'real people' and social reality can coincide with the stylistic devices of factual documentaryism as well as with the melodrama and drastic nature of the description, the use of fantastic-magical elements or the artistic processing of everyday objects. The seminar examines and questions various varieties of this understanding of art (e.g. European realism in the 19th century, New Objectivity, Magical Realism, American Realism, Socialist Realism, Nouveau Réalisme, Capitalist Realism, New Leipzig School, Neo-Realism in China). with regard to continuities and changes in demands and means in the respective representation of 'reality'.

This course offers a study of terrorism from ancient times to the present. The course examines the changing understanding and definitions of political violence from ancient times to the September 11th attack in 2001. The course reviews research methods and approaches by examining relevant studies of terrorism definitions and concepts. Terrorism is discussed in relation with freedom, human rights, and security.