Lund University

This course provides the skills needed to critically evaluate brain-related information from diverse sources and engage in evidence-based discussions. This knowledge and ability to analyze complex neuroscientific concepts can be highly valuable for you as a future leader, enabling you to make informed decisions, understand human behavior, and effectively communicate with others in areas related to neuroscience and its implications.

This course develops an appreciation of both theoretical and practical conceptions of public relations. Although examples are drawn primarily from Swedish, UK, and US experience, students are invited to consider public relations in a broader transnational and global context. Emphasis is placed on understanding the changing nature of the discipline, including those driven by the increasing importance of digital platforms and channels. The course develops the student’s ability to consider public relations as a strategic activity and builds familiarity with the public relations toolkit. The range of tactical devices employed for delivering organizational messages and engaging with a range of stakeholder groups. This includes developing techniques for measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of such activity. As well as critically examining the reality of what is sometimes described as the “professional project” students are encouraged to consider ethical issues surrounding public relations activity, including power imbalances and tensions around truth, persuasion, authenticity, transparency and legitimacy.

The course covers basic theory of analytic functions including elementary properties of analytic functions in one variable. Complex differentiability and Cauchy-Riemann equations. Calculation rules. Elementary examples of analytic functions: power series expansions, exponential functions, branches of logarithms, and functions defined by these calculation rules. Contour integrals in the complex plane. Cauchy’s integral theorem and integral formula. Existence of a primitive function and local power series expansion of analytic functions. Cauchy estimates, Liouville’s theorem, and the fundamental theorem of algebra. Theory of meromorphic functions, Laurent series expansion, and the residue theorem. Residue calculus. Further elements of the theory of holomorphic functions such as argument principle, Rouché’s theorem, and open mapping property. Harmonic functions. Regularity, existence of harmonic conjugate, mean value property, maximum principle, Poisson integrals.

This course teaches how to identify opportunities for innovation and develop user-centered, impactful, and innovative digital solutions that respond to real-world needs. Through a combination of theoretical insights and practical tasks, explore how new digital solutions can drive change across various industries and societal needs.

Work in teams on real-world problems, realize bold ideas, and develop MVPs (minimum viable products) with mentoring and supervision. Key skills include market analysis, requirement elicitation, innovation strategy, solution making, and effective pitching.

This course gives knowledge of and familiarity with concepts and methods from the theory of dynamical systems which are important in applications within almost all subjects in science and technology. In addition, the course should develop the student's general ability to assimilate and communicate mathematical theory, to express problems from science and technology in mathematical terms and to solve problems using the theory of dynamical systems.

Drinking water production plants and wastewater treatment plants are essential parts of the urban water infrastructure and have a large influence on the hydrological cycle. To protect the environment and the environmental services the ecosystems provide, water needs to be handled in an environmentally sustainable way. In the glocal perspective SDG 6 "Water and sanitation" targets the need to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and saniation for all. The aim of the course is to provide knowledge about water and wastewater treatment to be able to design and operate municipal facilities for production of drinking water and treatment of wastewater in the urban area.

This course explores how poetry can address sustainability issues relevant to participants' professional, personal, and academic lives. Participants are encouraged to use poetry to deepen their connection with sustainability-related themes that are meaningful to them. It aims to use poetry's emotional impact to transform readers into active agents of change. The course extends poetry's potential beyond the literature classroom, encouraging participants to decenter human perspectives through the analysis of poems. The course provides a basic introduction to the tools required for analyzing poetry and facilitates the application of these to poems on various sustainability topics. Concepts from poetry analysis that are covered include the use of figurative language, diction, tone, as well as form and structure. Additionally, the course explores poetry and affective responses by exploring how poetry engages emotions. The course delves into both individual and collaborative responses to poetry and how such responses reshape perceptions of sustainability issues through an affective/reader-response lens. A creative-writing component is also integrated into the course. Participants use the writing of poetry to explore sustainability themes.