Sweden

This course gives a general introduction to embedded system design which can be implemented using System-on-Chip technology. This kind of embedded systems contains both hardware and software components and therefore a hardware/software co-design is emphasized. The course gives a basic knowledge on specification methods, design representations (computational models) as well as related design methods. Special emphasis is placed on interface synthesis and low-power design methods.

The course an overview of the major languages in the world, the families to which they belong, their structural characteristics and where they are spoken. Different accounts as to why languages resemble or differ from each other regarding grammar and sound systems are taken up and discussed. Explanations as to why the number of languages in the world is fast decreasing through language death are further examined. The course puts emphasis on practical exercises where students are trained in analyzing language structure and placing a language in a typological context on the basis of authentic data.

In this course concepts of sustainable development and design from an interdisciplinary perspective are introduced. Includes a broad orientation of different design principles and models of sustainable design, for example design with inspiration from nature and based on ecological systems and conditions. These examples are reviewed and problematized from a critical analysis and discussion with focus on ethics, power, risks and possibilities, idea-historical examples, different culture and world views, and aesthetics. In the course acquired theoretical knowledge is applied within a specific design principle on a field within the sustainability field. An interdisciplinary work process including technical, social, economical, ecological integrated, and sustainable systems is required. The project work offers the possibility to explore different creative presentations techniques.

The course examines the concept of sustainable development, the ecological foundations of human existence on Earth, and our way of using natural resources. Examples of themes covered in this course are ecosystem services, biodiversity, climate change, water supply, and energy systems. Lifestyle issues, leadership roles, and political strategies for a transition towards sustainable development are also addressed. Issues on ethics, health, cultural patterns, globalization, and technological development are discussed in connection with sustainable development. The course also includes studies of sustainability aspects and the implications of the national environmental goals at the local area. This course illustrates many issues including; energy production, water purification, waste management, education for sustainable development, effects of natural resource use, social and economic structure and local problems, solutions, strategies and visions. Students carry out independent in-depth work on any topic in the field of sustainable development.

The course is given as online education. Assignments are submitted in the e-classroom, and the student receives feedback from the teacher. In addition to the students' own literature studies, compulsory discussion forums and chat seminars are included.

The course covers both the historically specific concept of The Total Work of Art (Gesamtkunstwerk), with Richard Wagner's opera aesthetics in focus, as well as other forms of compound medial artistic expressions of our times such as film, music videos, and architecture. Special attention is paid to concepts such as form/content, art, intermediality, border crossings, art, aesthetics, and ideology.