Unsustainable consumption patterns and the upwards spiraling resource use embedded in these are at the core of the world’s sustainability challenges. And while overconsumption has been on political ...

This course provides an overview of behavioral economics. Behavioral economics incorporates descriptively accurate assumptions about cognitive ability, social interaction, moral motivation, and ...

Refugee and Asylum Law addresses forced migration and the role of law in determining the need for international protection within determination proceedings. Students will study the 1951 Convention on ...

This course focuses on human-environment relationships and their implications for nature and society. The issue of climate change will be a focal point for examining the drivers and consequences of ...

This course gives a basic introduction to machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Through an algorithmic approach, the students are given a practical understanding of the methods being ...

This course gives an introduction to commutative rings and their modules. We study concepts such as localization, decomposition of modules, chain conditions for rings and modules, and dimension theory ...

This course gives an introduction to numerical methods for solving problems in physics and chemistry, i.e. methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations, matrix operations and ...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are computer systems designed to collect, manage, edit, analyze and present spatial information. This course introduces the basic concepts and methods in mapping ...

This course introduces students to the international legal norms relevant to addressing climate change and its adverse impacts. These norms are found in the (1) UN climate regime, (2) other ...

This course focuses on one or more central topics in the field of contemporary Chinese society and politics. It is closely related to ongoing research of the teacher(s), and topics, or at least the ...

The course studies legal rules on data protection — i.e., a set of norms that specifically govern the processing of data relating to persons (personal data) in order to protect, at least partly, the ...

The political communication systems of established democracies are currently undergoing fundamental processes of change. Digitization changes the structure of the public sphere, challenges news ...