General overview of living organisms. Selected topics on the control of cellular mechanisms. Gene technology and evolution.

General overview of living organisms. Selected topics on the control of cellular mechanisms. Gene technology and evolution.

General overview of living organisms. Selected topics on the control of cellular mechanisms. Gene technology and evolution.

Does light behave as waves or particles? How does light interact with atoms? What is special about the speed of light? The revolutionary theories of light that have emerged over the recent centuries. Topics include a historical survey of the milestones and pioneers, wave nature of light, photons, quantum theory, Einstein?s relativity theories, and interaction of light with atoms. Lasers, fiber optics, and other technological applications based on light.

Chemical facts; matter and energy; nucleus, atom and periodic law; chemical bonding; chemical reactions; polymers. The impact of scientific methods and chemical discoveries on our standard of living. Understanding contemporary issues related to atmosphere, hydrosphere, air and water pollution; global warming and renewable energy; recycling.

Multidisciplinary approach to ear, nose, throat and skin diseases; diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss, vertigo, tinnitus, otitis media, nasal and paranasal sinus diseases, epistaxis, salivary glands and larynx diseases, upper respiratory tract obstructions, neck masses, oral cavity lesions and speech disorders; skin, hair, nails, oral mucosa and sexually transmitted diseases.

Multidisciplinary approach to ear, nose, throat and skin diseases; diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss, vertigo, tinnitus, otitis media, nasal and paranasal sinus diseases, epistaxis, salivary glands and larynx diseases, upper respiratory tract obstructions, neck masses, oral cavity lesions and speech disorders; skin, hair, nails, oral mucosa and sexually transmitted diseases.

Introduces basic concepts, methods and approaches to the study of society. Focuses on social, cultural, and political systems and structures, social conflict and social institutions. Topics include family, education, gender, race and ethnicity, social class, the economy, organizations, social groups, aging and generations.

Examines the concept of culture and cultural change. Discusses how social anthropology can aid in understanding diverse cultures. Focuses on several major themes in social anthropology such as family, kinship, gender, race, language, economy, religion, globalization, and health and illness.

Inequalities based on socio-economic class, gender, and ethnicity; historical and contemporary debates in social stratification; approaches in understanding and conceptualizing different forms of stratification. Readings also focus on sites of conflict and resistance; ways different groups in society deal with forms of inequality.

Discusses the development of modern organizations and bureaucracies, and the deviations from the bureaucratic model with a focus on business organizations. Also provides an introduction to the sociology of work. Focuses on labor control, labor process, gender relations and the transformation of the structure of employment in industrial and service sectors.

Examines the works of major classical sociological theorists such as Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel. Discusses twentieth-century perspectives that build on classical theory (such as structural functionalism). Also explores the contemporary challenges to classical theory such as feminism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism.

Examines the social, economic, cultural and political forces that affect health and illness. Discusses individual experience and narratives of illness, the conceptualization of health and illness in hospitals and institutions and the political economy of health care. Focuses on the creation of medical knowledge, lay-professional interaction, inequalities in health and healthcare and health-related social movements.

Focuses on micro-sociological perspectives that approach society in bottom-up ways. Discusses our taken-for-granted and seemingly private experiences in everyday life and explores the ways in which larger forces and processes, such as gender, race, ethnicity, and class, are intertwined with the micro processes.

Explores critical theory, neofunctionalist theory, theories on structure and agency, microsociological perspectives, postmodern theory and poststructuralism. Discusses identity politics and difference as framed by postcolonial and feminist theories.

Main approaches to various institutions and actors that make up the field of international political economy. Question of who gets what at a global level from a multi-actored, multi-level and multi-disciplinary perspective. Interactions between states, markets, firms, NGOs, and not-for-profit organizations at the local, national, regional, and supranational levels. Global trade, production, finance, and knowledge structures and relations in the context of international organizations, transnational corporations, global financial structures, regional integrations, North-South relations, discourses and practices of development, and problems of global poverty.

Presents and discusses major sociological dimensions of migration.Examines reasons of migration, different categories of migrants, theories of international migration, socio-economic implications migration flows.Analyzes concepts closely related with sociology of migration, such as race, class, ethnicity, gender, diaspora formation, transnationalism, identity and belonging, integration, and social exclusion.

Reviews the field of digital game studies and historically situates the emergence of video games as a medium. Explores the theoretical landscape of contemporary game studies; focuses on topics such as video game theory, political economy and space, video game labor, race, gender, sexuality, design and software, globalisation, pedagogy, resistance, aesthetics, and research methods.

Detailed examination of current topics in sociology.

Detailed examination of current topics in sociology.

THE SOCIOLOGY ARTS: Providing the sociological perspective on art; establishing the links between art and other social realms and practices; evaluating various theories of the avant-garde; introducing the field approach to art.

Examines quantitative methods such as inferential statistics, regression analysis, survey methods in an applied way. Students use a number of quantitative data sets throughout the class to familiarize themselves with sociological methods. Research and publication ethics.

Examines contemporary theoretical approaches that emerged after the Second World War as a follow up to classical sociological theories. Course presents different theoretical approaches including structuralism, post-structuralism, post-modernism, feminism, post-Marxism, and subaltern studies, by reading and discussing the work of most important figures of these fields.

Traces the evolution of notions of social welfare, social justice and social policy from their advent in European and North American societies to the current scholarly and policy debates in developing countries. Examines the development of social welfare systems and the underlying philosophies in the context of the social, economic, political, and cultural environments in which they emerged. Topics include the evolution of modern conceptions of the "welfare state," and the role of public, private and voluntary sectors in the social services. Policy making procedures, the role of the respective policy actors and the effects of social policy measures will also be examined in terms of social participation, social inclusion and (re)distribution of income and services.