​Overview of the development of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age (ca. 3000 BC) to the Roman conquest (1st century BC), based on written sources and material evidence. Urbanistic processes, art and architecture as expressions of political, socio-economic and religious evolutions that defined ancient Greek society.  Concentrates on the Greek Mainland and other areas under Greek influence, including South Italy/Sicily and Anatolia, in their broader Mediterranean and Near Eastern context.

​The UNIC Research Blockseminar seeks to develop a research and questioning attitude among UNIC students of BA and MA levels by providing them with international and inter-disciplinary practical research learning opportunities. The Blockseminar will focus on three main aspects: 1) specialized theoretical knowledge, 2) rigorous field-research competence, and 3) the improvement of student’s intercultural, social and transfer competencies. Regarding the first focus, the topic of the Blockseminar will prioritize thematics such as religious belonging and practice in the context of migration; analysis of trans-national/cultural exchanges in European multicultural societies; dynamics of religious accommodation, integration, or extremism among migrant communities; cultural dynamics and trends among historically established religious groups in Europe; the intersection between national, ethnic, cultural and religious identities, and the pluralization and super-diversification of current European metropolis. In the first block of the Blockseminar, students will be introduced to conceptual frameworks, research models, and methodological techniques. At the end of the first block, students will form international and interdisciplinary groups in which they generate a research question within the frame of the seminar’s topic. Between blocks, the groups will develop individual observation and analysis in-situ of field cases and compare them inside the group. At this phase, each group will have private meetings with the Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter who will assist and advise them in the entire research process. The second block will take place as a two-days virtual conference on which students will present the field-work material, research results, descriptions of the field they visited, samples from the field interviews, etc.

​In the 18th century, Britain went through a time of relative stability: most of the monarchs
were called George and the political system ran more or less smoothly along party lines. Due
to a series of successful wars, the country rose to a major European and world power.
Britannia ‘ruled the waves’ and dominated overseas trade. Architecture and literature
supported Augustan splendour, symmetry and stability. At the end of the century, this
stability was undermined: the take-off of the Industrial Revolution changed the lives of the
people, and the Revolutions in North America and France challenged traditional ideas about
politics and power. Neo-classicist symmetry was superseded by Gothic irregularity, the
sublime and Romantic irrationality.
The lecture course aims at having a critical look at 18th-century Britain and the grand
narrative of Augustan stability. By dealing with political and religious developments,
literature, music and fashion – not to mention beef and gin – it intends to present the students
with a multifaceted survey of 18th-century culture.

​The course offers an introduction to Finnish culture and society from a holistic perspective. Its purpose is to cover some important aspects (Education, Nature, History, Social organization) of Finland through literature, discussion and lectures.

​Visual culture and built environment of Asia (China, Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia and Asian diaspora). Painting, sculpture, architecture, ritual objects, ceramics, textiles and other visual forms within the wider context of political, religious, social and economic developments of the region.

​International migration as a complex phenomenon with linkages with other global issues. Global governance of international migration. Historical and cross-geographical perspective. The role of various institutions in the governance of international mobility. Governance of forced migration, border controls environmental migration, migration of highly skilled. Case studies from Türkiye and other countries.

​The value of the environment and environmental valuation are threads that appear increasingly often in discussions on environmental management and even environmental protection. On the one hand, these concepts follow the trend related to the domination of economic discourse in various areas of knowledge and social life, as well as neoliberal tendencies in politics in many countries. On the other hand, there are numerous controversies, especially ethical ones, but also related to methodological issues. In this situation, it is worth knowing what valuation methods are available, and which wider approaches to valuation exist.

Course content:
1. What is value? - different understandings, different measures
2. How to express value? How to evaluate?
3. Is the value constant or can it change? If it changes, is it influenced by what?
4. Value conflict or value synergy
5. Valuation methods - monetary and non-monetary
6. Concepts for which valuation is particularly popular: ecosystem services, blue and green infrastructure
7. Examples of applications, work on the tool for valuation

​The course is to provide information concerning roots of European integration after the second World War, its main developments, institutions and policies.

Course Content:
Module 1. Introduction
1. History of European Integration.
2. Theories of European Integration.
3. EU's Institutions
4. Budget and internal market.
5. Common Agricultural Policy.
6. Cohesion policy.
7. Monetary union.
8. Foreign policy

Module II Simulation Game
9. Game preparation – individual tasks distribution, explanation of rules
10-12 Simulation of the European Council. Method developed in the Erasmus+ project ANTERO (authors: Maurer, Noutcheva and Pomorska). Each student taking part in the game play role of different participant of the European Council. The game is the EU crisis simulation and its main aim is to foster understanding the EU decision making process, which is very complex phenomena, with multiple, interacting and dynamic elements. Moreover, the game helps to develop key skills of research, synthesis, analysis, presentation and negotiation. Duration: 6 hours,

Module III EU and Asia
13. Why Asia matters for the EU?
14. Big topics of the EU policy towards Asia: Climate Change, Development, Civil society
15. General revision

Internet, social media, mobiles, and other recent digital technology advances such as artificial intelligence have unleashed powerful forces that shape and reshape local, national, and international life. The interests of many stakeholders (state and non-state actors) are impacted by the generalization of information communications technology (ICT) and the emergence of an information society. The impact of the Internet is growing in breadth and depth, transforming traditional industries, reshaping government interactions, and increasing opportunities for social inclusion. Topics like privacy protection and cybersecurity are increasingly in the focus of global policymaking.

Yet, no one organisation is responsible for ownership, development, or regulation of the Internet, with the ability to govern or regulate the outcomes of these conflicting forces. Hence, Internet governance (IG) has become one of the most important policy areas of our time. The term may be loosely defined as the various sets of norms (legal and non-legal) that determine how the Internet and its related applications function. Although how we manage the internet will define much of our society, the growing relevance of the internet is not yet supported by effective and inclusive IG.

Meanwhile, there is also increasing frictions between free services and privacy, data protection and security, sovereignty and globalisation. New factors, such as technological innovations and non-traditional security threats, including digital affairs, pose security challenges to international actors. Unlike traditional security studies considering 'security' contextually given as the military threats of nation states, new security theories take a more critical stance towards the presumptive 'realities' of security in today's world. Ontologically, they share a more reflective understanding on security that fits to the rapidly changing global environment.

The seminar will introduce several Aspects about digital geopolitics, Internet Governance, and security. It will focus on the EU's and East Asian States' role in this field. It will examine the multi-stakeholder model that governs the Internet, and how the different stakeholders impact the outcome of critical policy questions. To better understand the forces shaping the Internet, it will examine a number of current international challenges, including the role of the Internet in the international institutions, how to understand data related issues and increased cybersecurity threats, and the concerns over growing market power in the industry. This course provides students with some critical factual and analytical elements that should contribute to a better understanding and appreciation of this new field of study.

​The purpose of this course is to provide students with a fundamental understanding of the principles, concepts and theories of macroeconomics. The course will explain how a country's economy works and present the main rules of macroeconomic policy.
Course Content:
(in line with selected chapters of the textbook)
• Measuring a nation's wellbeing and the price level
• Production and growth
• Unemployment and the labour market
• The monetary system
• Open-economy macroeconomics
• Business cycles
• Keynesian economics and IS-LM analysis
• Aggregate demand and aggregate supply
• The influence of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate demand – if time allows us
• The short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment
• Supply-side policies – if time allows us

​We will read and discuss novel trends in M/EEG technology and analysis techniques for the use in modern cognitive neuroscience applications.

​Generally accepted auditing standards, professional ethics, legal liability; the role of the auditor; organization of the accounting profession, the current audit environment; theory of auditing and practical examples of auditing techniques and work programs.

​Law is an overwhelmingly linguistic institution. It is realized and communicated through language. Therefore, it is important for legal professionals to know how legal language works. This course provides an introduction to legal language and linguistics for students of law. It examines characteristics and functions of legal language in different legal contexts, legal translation and terminology. Attention is also paid to development of major European legal languages.

​Analysis of special corporate finance topics including dividend policy, capital structure, leasing, option valuation, risk management, mergers, and acquisitions.

An introduction to financial reporting designed to create an awareness of the accounting concepts and principles for preparing the four basic financial statements: the income statement, statement of stockholders’ equity, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. The course is designed to benefit all students who will be future users of accounting information

​Structure of financial markets and financial intermediaries; interest rates and security valuation; central banking system and monetary policy; securities markets including money, capital, foreign exchange, and derivatives markets; commercial banking and other depository institutions; institutional investors, including investment banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, and pension funds; introduction to financial risk management.

​Introduction to the process of investing in financial securities; overview of the investment decision-making process; analysis of securities markets and trading practices; asset pricing under the capital asset pricing and the arbitrage pricing models; principles of modern portfolio theory; performance measurement techniques; asset allocation strategies; introduction to fixed income and derivative securites, risk management strategies.

The overriding objective of this course is to practice and experience business related concepts introduced in Understanding Business. Grading is based on every student's activity throughout the semester. The students are required to prepare and upload their deliveries on moodle each week. The instructors moderate student deliveries. Please see below for details of each activity.

Weekly journals
Weekly journals are one page reports outlining individual learning that is relevant for and related to the previous class. Journals are not meant to describe class content and proceedings. Weekly journals may contribute maximum 12 points: 2 per delivery - 1 for each criterion.
Criteria:
• Timeliness: the delivery arrives on time
• Relevance: it relates to problems covered during the previous class without repeating class content

Reading report (infographics)
Reading reports are a structured record of each student's readings. Students are required to find in the EBSCO database at least three articles that are relevant to the theme of the next class and to prepare an infographic (a mind map, a poster, a personal board). Submission is to be through an activity in moodle. It is expected that everyone is ready to discuss their readings in the class.
Reading reports (infographics) may contribute maximum 24 points: 4 per delivery - 1 for each criterion.
Criteria:
• Timeliness: the delivery arrives on time
• Bibliography: the report (infographic) comes with complete bibliographical information on three articles
• Learning: the report (infographic) indicates learning relevant to the theme of class
• Design: the report (infographic) displays thought-through design and layout 

Team stories (simulations)
Simulations are prepared by teams of 3 students and are to illustrate problems relevant to the theme of the class. Simulations are to be reported on in moodle with a follow-up report that includes:
• explanation of the flow of activity,
• expected learning outcomes of the activity,
• assessment of the activity's flow and degree of achievement of expected learning outcomes,
• indication of proposed changes (re-design) of the activity.
The follow-up reports are to be prepared and uploaded until the end of the day following the date of class.
Team stories (simulations) may contribute maximum 48 points: 8 per delivery - 2 for each criterion.

Final Interview
The Final Interview is a meeting of professors and 3-4 students to discuss diligence, bringing and learning of each person.
The Final Interview may contribute maximum 16 points that reflect diligence, bringing and learning of the student.

​An introduction to the determination, development, and uses of internal accounting information needed by management in decision-making while continuously controlling and managing costs. The course is designed to benefit all students who will be future users of accounting information.

​U.S. Intellectual Property Law

(Mr. Hanrahan, Course ID 060306, Tuesday, 4-6 p.m., Zoom Video Course)

This course will provide students with a basic and fundamental overview of major areas of intellectual property law in the United States. We will cover topics related to United States patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, as well as how each of these different areas are interrelated to one another. We will not only discuss how to obtain intellectual property rights, but also how and when to enforce those rights against an infringer. The course will reference current United States laws, cases, as well as rules and procedures enforced by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and U.S. Copyright Office. Some participation is expected during the lectures.

The aim of the "Stem cells" course is to provide students with basic terms used in stem cells science and present milestones in the development of stem cell technology and its application in medicine and veterinary sciences. Real achievements of stem cells-based therapy will be shown along with critics of some unproven and unreliable reports. Therefore, a warning will be sent towards unproven applications of stem cells claimed as beneficial. Some social, philosophical, and bioethical issues will be presented.

​Generation of ionizing radiation, interactions of radiation with matter, radiation detection and measurement as well as radiations units and quantities, radiation in the environment and its biological effects, laws and regulations about radiation safety, usage of radiation in industry and research.

​Theory  and practice of 3D  computer graphics. Topics covered include graphics systems and models; geometric representations and transformations; graphics programming; input and interaction; viewing and projections; compositing and blending; illumination and color models; shading; texture mapping; animation; rendering and implementation; hierarchical and object-oriented modeling; scene graphs; 3D reconstruction and modeling.

​Overview of Computer Security Techniques, Conventional Encryption, Public-Key Cryptography, Key Management, Message Authentication, Hash Functions and Algorithms, Digital Signatures, Authentication Protocols, Access Control Mechanisms, Network Security Practice, TCP/IP Security, Web Security, SSL (Secure Socket Layer), Denial-of-Service Attacks, Intrusion Detection, Viruses.

https://vvz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/campus/all/event.asp?gguid=0x71274A9CC3764E8D8FD3A25A87437CB6

​Imaging modalities. Applications and challenges. Medical image segmentation. Feature extraction. Medical image classification. Deep learning for medical images. Convolutional neural networks. Fully convolutional networks. Generative adversarial networks. Multiple-instance learning. Case studies.

​Linear Bayesian estimators and filters, sequential Bayesian and least squares algorithms, Wiener and Kalman filtering, iterative algorithms, adaptive filtering and algorithms, statistical decision theory for signals with unknown parameters, application examples: equalization in communications engineering, array processing and beamforming, spectral analysis and estimation, delay estimation and positioning.

​Review of Maxwell's equations; conservation laws; electromagnetic waves; propagation of electromagnetic waves in conductors and dielectrics; transmission lines; waveguides; potentials and fields; radiation theory; electrodynamics and special theory of relativity.

​Overview of corporate dynamics, including career paths, organizational structure and behavior in large organizations, corporate culture, decision-making process (organs, levels of authority, meetings, crisis and stress management), customer-focused organization and engineering ethics. There will be several case studies. There will also be high profile speakers from the corporate world to convey their real world experiences.

​The course presents an overall insight in the modeling and control of active structures and systems. Basic terms and definitions are introduced along with presentation of the potential application fields. For the purpose of the controller design for active structural control, the basics of the control theory are introduced: development of linear time invariant models, representation of linear differential equations systems in the state-space form, controllability, observability and stability conditions of control systems. The parallel description of the modeling methods in structural mechanics enables the students to understand the application of control approaches. For actuation/sensing purposes multifunctional active materials (piezo ceramics) are introduced as well as the basics of the numerical model development for structures with active materials. Control methods include time-continuous and discrete-time controllers in the state-space for multiple-input multiple-output systems, as well as methods of the classical control theory for single-input single output systems. Differences and analogies between continuous and discrete time control systems are specified and highlighted on the basis of a pole placement method. Closed-loop controller design for active structures is explained. Different application examples and problem solutions will show the feasibility and importance of the active structural systems development. The students also get insight into basics of active structural health monitoring. Within this course the students learn computer aided controller design and simulation using Matlab/Simulink software. Students will implement the acquired knowledge in the framework of a seminar paper related to the controller design supported by Matlab Software.

​Investments and cash flows, present value and internal rate of return; fixed income securities, yield, duration and immunization; portfolio optimization, mean-variance models, Capital Asset Pricing Model and Arbitrage Pricing Theory; forwards, futures, swaps and risk hedging; pricing derivative securities and options, binomial market models, continuous  market models and Black-Scholes equation.

​Formulation of integer and combinatorial optimization problems Introduction to logistics systems; logistics network design, location models; warehouse design, tactical decisions, operational decisions; transportation management; planning and managing freight transportation; fleet management, vehicle routing problem.

​Principles of molecular modeling in chemical engineering applications; fundamentals for molecular simulation of adsorption and diffusion processes in nanoporous materials; molecular dynamics methods for gas transport in nanopores; Monte Carlo methods for equilibrium based gas separations; molecular modeling of zeolites and metal organic frameworks for gas storage.

​Introduction to programming in MATLAB, foundations in computing, root finding, solving systems of linear equations with direct and iterative methods, solving nonlinear equations of multi-variables, curve-fitting, numerical differentiation and integration, solving ODEs and PDEs using Eulerian time-marching scheme and finite difference method (FDM), solving many engineering problems related with initial- and boundary-value problems, Laplace and heat equations.

​Polymers, their synthesis and properties. Relationshios between molecular structure and properties. Rheology in polymer processing. Fabrication methods and applications.

​Fundamental concepts of modeling, control sensing, and intelligence of robotic systems. Robotic manipulators and mobile robots. Forward and inverse kinematics, trajectory planning, dynamics, control, and programming of robotic manipulators. Hardware components of mobile robots, visual and navigational sensors, pose estimation, navigation, and reasoning in mobile robots. Hands-on experience with robotic arms and mobile robots in a laboratory environment.

​The fundamentals of tissue engineering at the molecular and cellular level; techniques in tissue engineering; problems and solution in tissue engineering; transplantation of tissues in biomedicine using sophisticated equipments and materials; investigation of methods for the preparation of component of cell, effect of growth factors on tissues.

​Please see syllabus: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C_-BwBjWczfJ5-JyW2CbJXyHgAk21Bal/view