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LARGE-SCALE DATA ENGINEERING
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Technical University Berlin
Program(s)
Technical University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Computer Science
UCEAP Course Number
148
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
LARGE-SCALE DATA ENGINEERING
UCEAP Transcript Title
LG-SCALE DATA ENGIN
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.70
Course Description

In this course and through the DAMS Lab group (FG Big Data Engineering), students learn how to conduct research in areas of data engineering, data management, and machine learning systems. Students review scientific literature in these areas as well as how to design, implement, and evaluate prototypes. The lab group offers this project on large-scale data engineering. The course includes tasks in a wide range of components of data management and machine learning systems. Students will have the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to free open-source projects.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
41183
Host Institution Course Title
LARGE-SCALE DATA ENGINEERING
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Institut für Softwaretechnik und Theoretische Informatik

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CAUSAL ANALYSIS FOR QUANTITATIVE POLITICAL SCIENCE
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Free University of Berlin
Program(s)
Free University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science
UCEAP Course Number
116
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
CAUSAL ANALYSIS FOR QUANTITATIVE POLITICAL SCIENCE
UCEAP Transcript Title
CAUSAL ANALYSIS
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

The class offers an introduction into the modern approaches to causal identification in quantitative political science research. Traditional view implying that quantitative work can establish only correlations, and no causal links, has been challenged recently by new research designs allowing scholars to identify causal effects using quantitative data. This class reviews these methods (such as appropriate strategies of selecting control variables in regressions, matching, instrumental variables, experiments and regression discontinuity design), as well as discuss their application to the practical problems of political science research. It uses specific examples to train students' ability to develop effective research designs.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
31406
Host Institution Course Title
CAUSAL ANALYSIS FOR QUANTITATIVE POLITICAL SCIENCE
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft

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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INEQUALITY AND REDISTRIBUTION IN THE US
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Free University of Berlin
Program(s)
Free University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science Economics American Studies
UCEAP Course Number
138
UCEAP Course Suffix
J
UCEAP Official Title
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INEQUALITY AND REDISTRIBUTION IN THE US
UCEAP Transcript Title
POL ECON INEQUALITY
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

The aim of this course is to understand why income and wealth inequality varies across space and time by focusing on one of the richest, but also one of the most unequal democracies of our time: The US. While in theory all citizens in a democracy have the same voting power - so one would expect democratic governments to act to keep inequality as low as possible - there are quite significant differences in economic inequality over time and space. Why is this? To answer these questions, the course examines different theories of inequality and different policy areas that affect inequality. It looks at long-term trends in inequality and the structural features of capitalism that tend to push inequality upwards. The course examines the wide range of policies in what is loosely termed the 'welfare state' that tend to mitigate the inequalities generated by market capitalism. Students discuss how demography, gender differences, migration and ethnicity relate to inequality. And they try to understand why elections sometimes produce governments that redistribute income and wealth from rich to poor, and sometimes produce governments that do the opposite. Finally, the course reviews how rising inequality - a clear trend in the rich world since the late 20th century - affects politics and democracy.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
32602
Host Institution Course Title
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INEQUALITY AND REDISTRIBUTION IN THE US
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Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
John F Kennedy Institute für Nordamerikastudien

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ANALYTICAL MECHANICS
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Free University of Berlin
Program(s)
Free University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Physics
UCEAP Course Number
111
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
ANALYTICAL MECHANICS
UCEAP Transcript Title
ANALYTCAL MECHANICS
UCEAP Quarter Units
8.50
UCEAP Semester Units
5.70
Course Description

This course, comprised of a lecture and discussion section, includes the following topics: 1) Introduction (historical notes, coordinate dependence of Newton‘s equations, systems with constraints); 2) Lagrange equations (systems w/o constraints, non-inertial reference frames, constraints and generalized coordinates, virtual displacements, D’Alembert’s principle, systems w/ constraints); 3) Hamilton‘s principle (variational calculus, derivation of Lagrange equations from Hamilton’s principle, Lagrange multipliers and constraints); 4) Symmetries and conservation laws (cyclic coordinates and canonical momenta, translational and rotational invariance, Noether theorem, translational invariance in time and energy conservation, energy conservation in 1D systems, Galilei invariance and Lagrangian of free particles, relativistic mechanics of free particles, gauge invariance, mechanical similarity); 5) Oscillations (coupled oscillators, driven oscillators, Green function of damped oscillator, parametric resonance, motion in rapidly oscillating fields); 6) Rigid bodies (degrees of freedom, tensor of inertia and kinetic energy, angular momentum, principal axes of tensor of inertia, equations of motion, Euler angles, free symmetric top, heavy symmetric top, fast top).

Language(s) of Instruction
German
Host Institution Course Number
20113401
Host Institution Course Title
ANALYTICAL MECHANICS
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Host Institution Department
Physik

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SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Technical University Berlin
Program(s)
Technical University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Environmental Studies
UCEAP Course Number
110
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
UCEAP Transcript Title
SUSTAIN ENTREPREN
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.70
Course Description

The course explores various social and ecological issues that are perpetrated by the current system of exploitation for economic gain. Students are introduced to the "flourishing business model canvas" (by Antony Upward). The components of the canvas are broadly discussed throughout the duration of the module, and familiarization with grand societal challenges and entrepreneurial approaches to them. Students work in teams during lecture time to analyze existing sustainable business models and understand how they are aiming to solve problems while delivering social and ecological value. Other sustainability related issues are discussed in class. Team work, open group discussions and utilization of the business model canvas foster sustainable entrepreneurial competencies such as cooperation, individual reflexivity, and initial strategic and systems thinking.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
#70421 / #4
Host Institution Course Title
SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Institut für Technologie und Management

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NEW MEDIA: FROM VIDEO TO AI
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Free University of Berlin
Program(s)
Humboldt University Berlin,Free University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Film & Media Studies Art History
UCEAP Course Number
114
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
NEW MEDIA: FROM VIDEO TO AI
UCEAP Transcript Title
MEDIA VIDEO TO AI
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

Since the 1990s the term “new media” has become associated with digital media, but throughout the 20th century it was used to refer to any image technology of recent vintage. Thus, during the 1920s, artists would refer to photography or film as “new media.” This seminar picks up this history at a later point, in the late 1960s, when the “electronic” medium of video became available to visual artists. It traces how video was adopted by European and American artists and, in particular, how the medium was defined in relation to more conventional media, such as painting or sculpture, or in relation to television as a mass medium. Certain unique characteristics of video can be highlighted (e.g. liveness or feedback), however not all artists who used video were concerned with establishing a separate “discipline” of video art. Video was also instrumental to a form of “artivism” during the seventies, which mirrors comparable developments in contemporary art. Today, the terms “film” and “video” tend to be used interchangeably, but this is largely due to the introduction of digital video in the 1990s. The seminar pursues a genealogy of digital art, which originates in the 1960s, and trace it into the present, discussing the role of artistic practice within an “algorithmic culture” and the impact of artificial intelligence on the current status of the image.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
13500
Host Institution Course Title
NEW MEDIA: FROM VIDEO TO AI
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Kunsthistorisches Institut

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FROM HEGEL TO HABERMAS: HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY AND BERLIN'S PHILOSOPHICAL EVOLUTION
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Humboldt University Berlin
Program(s)
Humboldt University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Philosophy German
UCEAP Course Number
150
UCEAP Course Suffix
D
UCEAP Official Title
FROM HEGEL TO HABERMAS: HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY AND BERLIN'S PHILOSOPHICAL EVOLUTION
UCEAP Transcript Title
BERLIN PHIL EVOLUTN
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

This course examines how the University of Berlin (now Humboldt University) became Europe's philosophical center, tracing its evolution from its revolutionary founding in 1810 through its various transformations. By exploring the dynamic relationship between the university's philosophers and Berlin's cultural and political life, this course follows how philosophical ideas developed within its walls and resonated beyond them. The course examines key figures who taught, studied, or lectured at the university—from Hegel's influential tenure and the Young Hegelians, through Dilthey's establishment of the human sciences and Cohen's Neo-Kantianism, to the philosophical responses to war, division, and reunification. Furthermore, students explore how the University of Berlin shaped major philosophical movements while being shaped by Berlin's dramatic historical transformations: from Prussian reform era through imperial expansion, from Weimar culture through Nazi persecution, from Cold War division through reunification. By examining philosophical texts alongside historical documents and cultural materials, students understand how the University of Berlin fostered philosophical innovations that responded to and influenced some of the most significant political and cultural developments of modern Europe.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
42600077
Host Institution Course Title
FROM HEGEL TO HABERMAS: HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY AND BERLIN'S PHILOSOPHICAL EVOLUTION
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Berlin Perspectives

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HOLOCAUST IN BERLIN AND WARSAW: PERSECUTION, MURDER, AND HELP IN THE URBAN SPACE
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Free University of Berlin
Program(s)
Free University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History German
UCEAP Course Number
120
UCEAP Course Suffix
D
UCEAP Official Title
HOLOCAUST IN BERLIN AND WARSAW: PERSECUTION, MURDER, AND HELP IN THE URBAN SPACE
UCEAP Transcript Title
HOLOCST BERLN WARSW
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

Berlin and Warsaw were two central theaters of the Holocaust. While in Berlin the Nazis planned the global murder of the Jews and attempted to transform the city into the capital of Nazi Europe, it was in Warsaw that they created Europe’s biggest ghetto, in which 100,000 Jews died before the first deportations to the Treblinka death camp in July 1942. In this seminar, the course studies and compares how the Jews were persecuted and murdered in Berlin and Warsaw; who helped them, how and why; and how the local population reacted to their persecution. In studying the Holocaust in both cities, students concentrate on the general frameworks for understanding the Holocaust, the plans of the perpetrators, the behavior of the collaborators, and the fate of particular actors, especially survivors, while analyzing their diaries, memoirs, and interviews. In this seminar, students read theoretical texts about the Holocaust and discuss the urban aspect of the genocide, while concentrating on persecution, murder and help. The course includes visits to museums and memorial sites in Berlin.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
16919
Host Institution Course Title
HOLOCAUST IN BERLIN AND WARSAW: PERSECUTION, MURDER, AND HELP IN THE URBAN SPACE
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Institut für deutsche und niederländische Philologie

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CONTEMPORARY GERMAN LITERATURE: JENNY ERPENBECK'S GO WENT GONE
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Free University of Berlin
Program(s)
Free University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
German Comparative Literature
UCEAP Course Number
128
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
CONTEMPORARY GERMAN LITERATURE: JENNY ERPENBECK'S GO WENT GONE
UCEAP Transcript Title
CONTEMP GERMAN LIT
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone, published in German in 2015, is a politically charged novel about the situation of African refugees in Berlin. Richard, an older German with a GDR background, gets involved with, and befriends, a number of African refugees at a protest camp on Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg. A former Classics professor who was recently forced into retirement, he empathizes with the refugees, who are not allowed to work under German asylum laws. Richard researches their plight and helps them with administrative and everyday tasks, even giving piano lessons to one of them. After a break-in at Richard’s house, he and his friends question their own prejudices and attempt to learn from the experience. The novel serves as a starting point for the exploration of the political and human rights issues surrounding the situation of African refugees in Berlin. Some additional materials are provided to round out the discussion.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
16914
Host Institution Course Title
CONTEMPORARY GERMAN LITERATURE: JENNY ERPENBECK'S GO WENT GONE
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Institut für deutsche und niederländische Philologie

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UNDERSTANDING THE RISE OF THE RADICAL RIGHT
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Humboldt University Berlin
Program(s)
Humboldt University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science
UCEAP Course Number
120
UCEAP Course Suffix
A
UCEAP Official Title
UNDERSTANDING THE RISE OF THE RADICAL RIGHT
UCEAP Transcript Title
RISE RADICAL RIGHT
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

Over the past decades, the radical right has been on the rise worldwide, creating challenges to democratic governance. This seminar investigates the drivers of radical right support, the consequences of their success, as well as responses by civic society to foster democratic resilience. The focus is on quantitative research on Europe and North America. The seminar is split into four parts. The first part gives a brief overview of core concepts and definitions that guide students throughout the course. This involves a discussion of ideological features that characterize the radical right as well as the issues they campaign on. The second part covers the causes of far right success by examining demand-side explanations involving classic theories of voting behavior, as well as supply-side explanations with a focus on theories of political competition. This includes the strategies radical right parties employ and how mainstream party reaction affects their electoral fortunes. The third part gives an extensive overview of consequences of radical right success on democratic governance and civic society. Students analyze how these successes affect democratic governance, other parties’ positions, as well as public opinion. The fourth part engages with a growing literature on interventions that are aimed at bolstering democratic resilience. The seminar is designed to familiarize students with seminal contributions in the theoretical and empirical literature on voting behavior, political competition, and democratic governance that help understand the rise of the radical right.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
42600081
Host Institution Course Title
UNDERSTANDING THE RISE OF THE RADICAL RIGHT
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Institut für Sozialwissenschaft
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