Under de senaste decennierna har det blivit allt tydligare att mänskligt driven resursanvändning och miljöförändring orsakar föroreningar, förlust av biologisk mångfald och klimatförändringar i en skala som äventyrar jordens beboelighet. För att förstå och förklara dessa miljö- och hållbarhetsutmaningar krävs teoretisk och empirisk kunskap om varför politiska åtgärder hittills varit otillräckliga Over the past decades it has become increasingly clear that human-driven overconsumption, pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change endanger the habitability of the Earth. Environmental politics involves the study of green political theories, green movements and parties, international agreements and environmental policies. Planetary politics is characterised by eco-centric planetary relatio

Compulsory masters's thesis course for the students in the master´s programme MSc (Two Year) in European Affairs.Compulsory masters's thesis course for the students in the master´s programme MSc (Two Year) in European Affairs.

Syftet med kursen är att fördjupa de studerandes kunskaper och färdigheter inom några av de viktigaste forskningsområdena inom ämnet jämförande politik. Av särskild vikt är teorier, metoder och empiriska resultat som relaterar till politiskt beslutsfattande i olika politiska system. Kursen ger en överblick över aktuella debatter inom området och ger studenterna verktyg att förstå och analysera polThe purpose of the course is to deepen students' knowledge and skills in some of the main areas of research in comparative politics. Of particular importance are theories, methods and empirical results that relate to political decision-making in different political systems. The course gives an overview of current debates in the field and gives students the tools to understand and to navigate the i

The course explores, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, the political, economic and legal role played by the European Union outside its own borders. Central themes include - the EU’s changing place and role in the global order, - the evolution of the EU as a global actor, - the EU’s varying capacity to influence global trends and events, and the interplay between such trends and theThe course explores, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, the political, economic and legal role played by the European Union outside its own borders. Central themes include - the EU’s changing place and role in the global order, - the evolution of the EU as a global actor, - the EU’s varying capacity to influence global trends and events, and the interplay between such trends and the

The course is structured in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The teaching aims to provide the students with the knowledge and skills required to achieve language proficiency in Swedish equivalent to level B1:2. The course consists of teaching and practical exercises dealing with Swedish vocabulary, pronunciation and sentence structure. Furthermore, tThe course is structured in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The teaching aims to provide the students with the knowledge and skills required to achieve language proficiency in Swedish equivalent to level B1:2. The course consists of teaching and practical exercises dealing with Swedish vocabulary, pronunciation and sentence structure. Furthermore, t

I den här kursen får du lära dig modern statistisk datoranvändning inom data science genom implementeringar i populära programspråk såsom R och Python. Den behandlar följande ämnen: R- och Python-miljöerna: paket och moduler för statistik Arbeta med data frames, arrays och matriser Metoder för slumptalsgenerering Monte Carlo-integration, inferens och variansreducering Bootstrap och återsamplIn this course you will learn modern statistical computing as viewed in data science through implementations in popular computing platforms such as R and Python. It covers the following topics: The R and Python environment: R packages and Python modules for statistics Working with Data Frames, Arrays, and Matrices Methods for Generating Random Variables Monte Carlo Integration, Inference and

This course in political science is offered to students in Lund University’s Bachelor Programme in Development Studies (BIDS). The course explores the political dimensions of development policies and processes with an emphasis on the global governance level and the national level. We look into governance structures, institutions and power relations shaping current development thought and practiceThis course in political science is offered to students in Lund University's Bachelor Programme in Development Studies (BIDS). The course explores the political dimensions of development policies and processes with an emphasis on the global governance level and the national level. We look into governance structures, institutions and power relations shaping current development thought and practice

The course will introduce how and why ‘The Political’, institutional politics, and international politics are popularly represented and understood through the medium of cinéma. The course uses the medium of political cinéma to study central dimensions of contemporary politics: ideology, colonialism, environment, political economy, society, gender, conflict, international politics, and the state. F

The overall aim of the course is to provide a theoretical and empirical orientation of different explanations and analyses of contemporary wars and attempts to achieve a more peaceful world. The course highlights theoretically how war as an institution is transformed and what consequences this alteration has on warfare, security and peace support operations in different parts of the world. ParticuThe overall aim of the course is to provide a theoretical and empirical orientation of different explanations and analyses of contemporary wars and attempts to achieve a more peaceful world. The course highlights theoretically how war as an institution is transformed and what consequences this alteration has on warfare, security and peace support operations in different parts of the world. Particu

Kursen behandlar bland annat matriser och multivariat normalfördelning singulärvärdesuppdelning och dess geometriska tolkning principalkomponentanalys inklusive dess funktionalformulering faktoranalys klusteranalys prediktionssteori inklusive prediktion med högdimensionella prediktorer penalised regression och prediktion glesa matriser linjär diskriminantanalys storskalig infThe course covers matrices and multivariate normal distribution singular value decomposition and its geometric interpretation principal component analysis including its functional formulation factor analysis cluster analysis prediction theory including prediction with high-dimensional predictors penalised regression and prediction sparse matrices linear discriminant analysis

Please note that this is only open to students currently studying the BSc programme in Development Studies, majoring in Political Science. The course aims at giving the students the experience of working in a development context. It also serves as a means of gathering material for the forthcoming bachelor’s thesis. The course is divided into three 15-credit tracks, and the student has to choose onPlease note that this is only open to students currently studying the BSc programme in Development Studies, majoring in Political Science. The course aims at giving the students the experience of working in a development context. It also serves as a means of gathering material for the forthcoming bachelor’s thesis. The course is divided into three 15-credit tracks, and the student has to choose on

This course is open to students in the BSc in Development Studies programme (BIDS) majoring in Political Science. The course introduces International Political Economy (IPE) with an emphasis on theories, theorists and issues that problematise the politics and political economy of development, North-South relations and ethics. The first part of the course is designed to examine the roots of InternThis course is open to students in the BSc in Development Studies programme (BIDS) majoring in Political Science. The course introduces International Political Economy (IPE) with an emphasis on theories, theorists and issues that problematise the politics and political economy of development, North-South relations and ethics. The first part of the course is designed to examine the roots of Intern

The theoretical aspects of the course focus on the interaction between three different dimensions of analysis: norms, institutions, and actors. The course studies the way in which actors make decisions, attempt to govern the system and influence outcomes. Secondly, it studies the way in which norms and institutions both limit and enable the behaviour of actors. Two analytical problems are paid spThe theoretical aspects of the course focus on the interaction between three different dimensions of analysis: norms, institutions, and actors. The course studies the way in which actors make decisions, attempt to govern the system and influence outcomes. Secondly, it studies the way in which norms and institutions both limit and enable the behaviour of actors. Two analytical problems are paid sp

Maskininlärning handlar om statistiska prediktioner som förbättras genom erfarenhet; modellen lär och anpassar sig allt eftersom nya data blir tillgängliga. Exempelvis priset som en matvarubutik kan ta ut av en leverantör för en annons beror på hur bra den är på att hitta de kunder som är benägna att köpa leverantörens produkter. På samma sätt är det pris som Google kan ta ut för en annonslänk dirMachine learning refers to statistical model predictions that that improve through experience; as new data arrive, the model learns and adapts. For instance, the price that the supermarket can charge for advertisements depends critically on its ability to learn from the data which customers that are likely prospects for a particular supplier’s product. Similarly, the price that Google can charge f

I den här kursen ska du skriva ett examensarbete, vilket kan vara ett arbete rörande en specifik problemställning eller forskningsfråga. Med hjälp av din tidigare kunskap och erfarenhet i ämnet statistik, tränas du i att självständigt behandla ett problemområde.   Utöver att skriva en uppsats kommer du att muntligt presentera arbetet vid ett seminarium, att närvara och deltaga i diskusIn this course you will write a thesis, which could consist of a specific problem or a research topic. Using your previoius skills and knowledge in Statistics, you will be trained in independently investigating a problem. Apart from writing a thesis you will orally present your work during a seminar, attend and participate in discussions during semiars, and act as an opponent during a pre

The aim of the course is to give advanced knowledge of comparative policy, particularly concerning the output side of the political system. This includes relationships between political institutions, political decision-making and public policy in democratic states. Some examples of questions that are brought up during the course are: Why is the USA the only wealthy democracy in world that not has

Grunderna för maskininlärning samt de matematiska och beräkningsmässiga förkunskaperna för deep learning. Feed-forward artificiella neuronnät, convolutional artificiella neuronnät och de återkommande kopplingarna till feed-forward artificiella neuronnät. En kort historik över artificiell intelligens och artificiella neuronnät, samt genomgång av intressanta olösta forskningsproblem inom deep The fundamentals of machine learning, and the mathematical and computational prerequisites for deep learning Feed-forward neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and the recurrent connections to a feed-forward neural network A brief history of artificial intelligence and neural networks, and reviews interesting open research problems in deep learning and connectionism. The course

Kursen ger en introduktion till statistisk analys av text. Du kommer att studera både metoder som bygger på både klassiska statistiska ansatser (inklusive Bayesianska modeller) och moderna ansatser som djupinlärning (recurrent neural networks). Ämnen som behandlas är bl.a. Olika sätt att representera text så att informationen går att analysera på ett statistiskt vis Tekniker för att klassifiThe course provides an introduction to statistical analysis of text. You will study both methods based on classic statistical approaches (including Bayesian models) and modern approaches such as deep learning (recurrent neural networks). Topics covered include Different ways to represent text to facilitate statistical analysis Techniques for classification fo text Text clustering Techniq

The course is structured in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The teaching aims to provide the students with the knowledge and skills required to achieve language proficiency in Swedish equivalent to level A2. The course consists of teaching and practical exercises dealing with Swedish vocabulary, pronunciation and sentence structure. Furthermore, texThe course is structured in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The teaching aims to provide the students with the knowledge and skills required to achieve language proficiency in Swedish equivalent to level A2. The course consists of teaching and practical exercises dealing with Swedish vocabulary, pronunciation and sentence structure. Furthermore, tex