What are the social, economic, political and cultural processes that are driving the climate and biodiversity crisis and influencing responses? How can we understand the relationship between ...

The course deals with digital images and their properties, color models and perception, representation methods for digital images, histogram transformations and 2-dimensional digital convolution and ...

This course considers Christian ethics in relation to select ethical issues, including suffering, poverty and economics, family and belonging, environmental ethics, war and pacifism, and medical ...

This course explores audiovisual texts based on the works of Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, such as Fritz Lang’s M (1931), Raphael Bob Waksberg’s BoJack Horseman (2014–2020), and Greta Gerwig’s ...

In this course, art will be studied in relation to ecology. It covers environmental approaches to aesthetic practices in a global context drawing on examples from the early modern period until today.

The study of bureaucracy is the study of politics. Political decisions affect bureaucracies, and decisions inside bureaucracies affect politics. Politicians depend on different types of bureaucracies ...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has risen to global power status over the past two decades. This rise is not only noticeable in the classic areas of geopolitics, which typically include ...

We will discuss common concepts in economics to learn why we harm the environment and overuse natural resources, and what we can do about it. We will discuss different types of environmental policy, ...

The course introduces students to several legal aspects of the EU action on the global stage, as envisaged in EU primary law, and as interpreted by the European Court of Justice. It envisages the ...

This course provides an introduction to technologies for search and information retrieval on a large scale over text. You will receive a presentation of index structures, relevance and ranking of ...

Knowledge and power have always been linked, not only because of the popular adage ‘knowledge is power’, but also because unchecked knowledge can be a threat to established political power.

The course introduces you into research methods in the study of religion and theology, with the explicit goal to assist you in the development of your thesis project. You will learn how to develop a ...