Business Models for Innovative Care for Older People
This course will introduce you to healthcare innovation within the field of healthy living and active aging. By following two specific cases on diabetes and rehabilitation, this interdisciplinary course will provide you with key theories, tools and concepts for analyzing and developing viable innovative solutions for aging populations.
Asian Environmental Humanities: Landscapes in Transition
This is an introduction to some of the most vibrant cultural trends addressing landscape appreciation, degradation, protection, and rehabilitation that currently circulate in the Asian hemisphere. You will learn about concepts of landscape in Asian religions, philosophy, social sciences, history and the arts and their reverberation in selected environmental projects in China, India and Japan.
Understanding Memory: Explaining the Psychology of Memory through Movies
An introduction to the scientific study of human memory by focusing on a select group of topics that hold widespread appeal, especially in the movie industry. Even if entertaining films are not always scientifically accurate, they can still learn us some things.
Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity
In this course created by former associate professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Jon Stewart, we will explore how Kierkegaard deals with the problems associated with relativism, the lack of meaning and the undermining of religious faith that are typical of modern life. His penetrating analyses are still highly relevant today and have been seen as insightful for the leading figures of Existentialism, Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism.
Network Dynamics of Social Behavior
How do revolutions emerge without anyone expecting them? The social world is complex and full of surprises. Our experiences and intuitions about the social world as individuals are often quite different from the behaviors that we observe emerging in large societies.