HUM-462: History of globalization IIGlobalization is the linguistic omnivore of our times. This course addresses the long history of worldwide encounters and goes behind the rosy vision of a global village. It gives particular attention to inequalities and to the men and women who fought for ...
MSE-433: Towards sustainable materialsThis course will address and model key sustainability issues through an engineering lens. It will examine emerging materials, hard to abate, and critical materials used to manufacture items in our economy during the transition to NetZero targets and their ...
PHYS-202: Analytical mechanics (for SPH)Ce cours propose une introduction à la mécanique analytique. Il introduit les formalismes lagrangien et hamiltonien, en insistant sur leur capacité à simplifier la description des systèmes contraints, des symétries et des lois de conservation. Il présente ...
ENV-471: Environmental economicsIntroduction to economic analysis applied to environmental issues: all the necessary basic concepts, including cost-benefit analysis, for environmental policy making and its instruments (examples: climate, waste, mobility). Introduction to financial calcul ...
HUM-257: Health, populations and societyCe cours prend le tabac comme fil conducteur pour explorer les diverses dimensions d'un problème majeur de santé publique et ses multiples implications. Les enseignants étendront la discussion liée au tabac à d'autres problématiques semblables. Des questio ...
ENV-501: Material flow analysis and resource managementThis course provides the basis to understand material and energy production and consumption processes. Students learn how to develop a material flow analysis and apply it to resource management cases. They analyze the implications of their models on resour ...
HUM-341: The Middle East: History and contemporary issuesCe cours offre des clés historiques, politiques et culturelles pour comprendre cette vaste zone qui, selon l'une de ses acceptions géographiques, inclut la Turquie, la Syrie, le Liban, la Palestine, la Jordanie, Israël, l'Égypte, la Péninsule arabique, l'I ...
AR-154: Environmental history and theories ILe cours vise a familiariser les etudiants avec l'histoire de l'environnement et des paysages, et avec la maniere dont les preoccupations environnementales amenent a repenser aujourd'hui le sens et les principes de l'architecture et des disciplines de pr ...
CS-430: Intelligent agentsSoftware agents are widely used to control physical, economic and financial processes. The course presents practical methods for implementing software agents and multi-agent systems, supported by programming exercises, and the theoretical underpinnings inc ...
