Urban Issues

This course addresses the challenges faced by 21st century cities as the world?s population becomes increasingly urbanized. These challenges are grouped in five themes: water, land, air, built environment and community. The course takes an integrative, geographical, case-study based approach in its exploration of the linkages between these issues and the physical, social, cultural, economic and political aspects of today?s rapidly changing cities.

S- Melodrama Effect

What were Godard's early films for Fassbinder? Instead of rejecting the most influential avant-garde film maker of the sixties, Fassbinder adopted Godard as father. Yet this fathering was a highly selective progeneration. What does the juxtaposition of these film makers reveal and conceal - and not only about Fassbinder's films, since we cannot now see those of Godard without having our past viewings of Fassbinder films in our heads.

ST-Methods of SciComp/ChemEng

This course introduces basic concepts and methods of scientific computing, computer programming, mathematical modeling, and statistical analysis in the broad context of science and engineering from the perspective of chemical engineering. Topics include: introduction to computer systems, hardware and
software; introduction to Matlab and Octave as programming languages; design and implementation of algorithms; iterative methods; systems of linear algebraic equations with applications; nonlinear algebraic equations with applications; function interpolation and
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