Lund University

The course is aimed at students of French interested in the development of the French language and who want to specialize in the study of orthography and understand some of the difficulties that everyone who has ever had to learn to spell in French have been confronted with. The course starts with Medieval French, when there were no rules, and follows the public debate that resulted in the emergence of a normative language with respect to both grammar and spelling. Within the scope of the course, a number of texts from different periods are discussed. The course ends with an advanced assignment where the student is expected to carry out an analysis of a self-chosen text. The approach is chosen by the student in consultation with the lecturer and should be linked to the focus of the course, that is French orthography.

Many countries rely heavily on voluntary organisations during crises, and their efforts are often crucial in reducing the social impact of a crisis. The course focuses on the phenomenon of volunteerism and discusses the role of volunteerism and voluntary organisations linked to crisis and war in Swedish society as political and empirical phenomena. The course inventories and discusses volunteerism and voluntary organisations and their formal and informal relationship to public organisations and authorities.

This course provides the knowledge and understanding about how cost and environmental issues affect the choice of design solutions and which measures need a longer-term perspective than others, in order to get back the investment costs or make the building sustainable. This course also provides the knowledge and understanding related to different types of actors’ interests (city-owned property owners, private property owners, property developers (build and sell), private homeowners, builders, and manufacturers). Also included are aspects of barriers and possibilities. The course presents methodology and tools for determining life cycle perspective issues like life-cycle costs and environmental certification. This can be used for evaluation, system design and to produce convincing arguments and facts for the client.

The overarching goal of the course is for the students to acquire basic knowledge of linear algebra which is necessary for further studies in mathematics and natural sciences. Special emphasis is placed on developing the mathematical theory for vector spaces in a systematic way that contributes to strengthening the students' ability to absorb mathematical text, to conduct mathematical reasoning, to solve problems of both theoretical and applied nature and to communicate mathematics. The course covers Matrices; Determinants; Linear spaces; Euclidean spaces; Linear mappings; Spectral theory; Systems of linear ordinary differential equations; and Quadratic forms.

Organizations are facing a wide range of unexpected challenges of crises, requiring them to develop strategic thinking in order to prepare for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from unexpected occurrences. The aim of this course is to develop strategic skills in mitigating issues and managing crises that organizations encounter. This course places crisis communication in organizational, social, and global contexts. The course emphasizes real-world application of crisis communication concepts, theories, and principles. Thematically, the course covers the foundational of crisis communication, three phases of crisis management, internal and external crisis communication, media and stakeholder relations, and issues and trends in crisis communication.

The course deals with time discrete signals and systems. Items such as the Fourier Transform, the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and the z-transformed are treated in the course as well as some basic structures for implementation of digital filters. Also, system function and frequency functions are introduced as well as digital filters. Digital processing of analogue signals using A/D and D/A conversion is studied. In the laboratory work, practical applications of digital signal processing such as speech signals processing and biomedical signals processing are treated. Also, the course includes basic filter design using Matlab and digital signal processors (DSP).

This course covers concurrent activities, busy-wait and polling, synchronization and communication, atomic operations such as test-and-set, and mutual exclusion. Central aspects of the Java concurrent package, such as locks, semaphores, thread pools, tasks, and blocking queues are also reviewed. The course concludes with an overview of multicore hardware, real-time operating systems, and scheduling.  Entry requirements include Programming and a second course in Java.

The course gives in-depth knowledge about climate systems and how climate models are constructed. In the first half of the course different components of contemporary climate models (ocean/land/atmosphere) and interactions between them are introduced and discussed. This includes handling of typical data formats associated with climate models and the analysis of model output with varying resolution and/or complexity. The second half of the course focuses on applications in paleoclimate reconstructions and impact models and the use of ensembles to assess model uncertainties. This includes projects where students independently and in groups solve tasks using programming. Exercise in the use of simplified climate models and analysis tools as well as information retrieval and oral and written presentation techniques are included as a part of certain learning activities.

The course consists of a part with a practically oriented project assignment and a theoretical part.  Working in groups, choose a service robotics topic to study and present this orally to the other students. The theoretical part is deepened at a literature seminar where scientific articles are discussed. Examples of service robotics topics include different service robotics applications, human-robot interaction, levels of robot autonomy, navigation of mobile robots, SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping), maze-solving algorithms, line-following algorithms, wheeled locomotion, odometry, anthropomorphic robots, robot ethics or a service robotics topics of the students’ own choice. The practical part consists of a project in one or more of the above-mentioned areas which is carried out in groups of usually four students. A functioning service robot is developed by integrating an Arduino controller, servos, sensors and mechanical components produced by for example laser cutting or 3D printing. The project applies knowledge in mechanics, electronics and programming.

In this online course, learn how to construct graphs and visualizations according to the theory Grammar of Graphics. Learn how to create visualizations yourself using the software R and its package ggplot2. A central part of creating visualizations is making choices. Through the choices you make, your visualizations are more or less intelligible and also highlight different aspects of the data. An important element of the course is therefore to review visualizations by other course participants. Topics covered in the course include introduction to R and ggplot2; choice of color, symbols, scales, and perspective (2D, 3D); summation and abstraction; interactive visualizations; maps and spatial data; visualization of statistical models.