University of Copenhagen

In this problem and knowledge based course, students learn about their own bias in relation to nature perception, learn about how nature conflicts are embedded in different nature views and values, and analyze various stakeholders in nature perception in theory and exercises. By applied theory and discussions the course explores people's visions, ideas, and values about nature and landscape. Visions, ideas, and values of full time farmers, hobby farmers, foresters, biologists and visitors to the countryside might serve as examples of different and often conflicting interests in the same area. In lectures the students are introduced to different methods, approaches and frameworks for analyzing perceptions of nature, i.e. visions, concepts, images, or views of nature. The course studies frameworks from environmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, environmental ethics, human geography, and landscape research. Concepts such as rewilding; value orientations; environmental framing; social representations; place attachment; myth of nature; faking nature; human-nature relationships; and cultural ecosystem services are addressed. Further, values of selected groups of people are presented and discussed. Based on introductory lectures the use of different frameworks for investigations of perceptions of nature are exercised.

This course is an advanced introduction to International Political Economy (IPE). The course divides into three inter-related parts: history of the international economy and the various ways in which it has been ordered politically, including competing accounts of world order, and the necessary and sufficient conditions for the construction and maintenance of a liberal economic order; detailed examination of liberalism (in its economic and IR variants), economic nationalism, realism and neo-realism, Marxism, and varieties of critical IPE (including feminism); finance, production, trade, consumption, the environment, and crises. This course includes debates about the locus and operation of power, the significance of institutions, the prospects for global governance, the role of the state under conditions of globalization, and the importance of ideas (such as neoliberalism).

This course covers the components that go into a full data science pipeline from the collection, processing, and cleaning of data, to storing it efficiently in a database, to the implementation of efficient and modular models, to the exploration of data through interactive visualizations. Emphasis is on dealing with data from multiple sources, and on the design of a modular work flow. Finally, the course touches upon some of the fundamental challenges in data science, such as the presence of bias, and its potential impact on decision-making.

This course gives an overview of the 110 years of Danish film as well as presenting special topics such as realism, comedy and melodrama in Danish cinema. Furthermore, the course presents director case studies of Oscar winning Susanne Bier and of Lars von Trier, who won The Golden Palms in Cannes. Every lecture ends with a showing of a relevant film. The course also includes an excursion to Nordisk Film, which is the world's oldest still existing film company.

This course provides an introduction to the history and culture of Japan from ancient times to the present. The structure is broadly chronological, but the chronological approach is combined with a thematic one. Part 1 covers the period from 1945 to the present. It begins with contemporary Japan. After a brief chronological outline, the course looks at selected topics in detail.

The course explores the design space of programming languages and how the design choices affect implementation and other properties of the language. A brief history of programming languages is presented and a selected set of features are explored with respect to design choices, how they interact, and how they can be implemented. The course gives the student an understanding of the programming-language landscape that is helpful when the student designs and implements programming languages. The following topics are covered: implementation strategies, syntax, memory management, scope rules, control structures, types, language paradigms, modules, semantics, domain-specific languages, and computational power of languages.

The first part of the course gives a general introduction to the study of the European Union (EU) including the central theories applied in the field. Key questions include the following: What should the focus be in studying the European Union and how should significant developments be analyzed? How can the EU be theorized and analyzed as a political system, including its institutions and decision-making processes? The second part of the course deals with the current challenges and changes in the EU related to the Lisbon Treaty. How do these elements influence the structures and processes of the present EU? How can the effects of these be conceptualized theoretically? The third part of the course considers other challenges and changes within the EU: namely, specific policy areas (for example, agricultural policy); relations between the different institutions of the Union and between the institutions and the member states; processes of Europeanisation in individual member states. The first part of the course will give a general introduction to the study of the European Union including the central theories applied in the field. Key questions include the following: What should the focus be when we study the European Union and how should we analyse significant developments? How can we theorize and analyze the EU as a political system, including its institutions and decision-making processes? The second part of the course will deal with the current challenges and changes in the EU related to the Lisbon Treaty. How will these elements influence the structures and processes of the present EU? How can the effects of these be conceptualized theoretically? The third part of the course will consider other challenges and changes within the EU: namely, specific policy areas (for example, agricultural policy); relations between the different institutions of the Union and between the institutions and the member states; processes of Europeanisation in individual member states.