Ecotechnology (Ecological engineering) is the design of sustainable ecosystems that integrate human society with its natural environment for the benefit of both. The task of the course is to give introductory overview on different ecotechnologies: general principles of ecological engineering, ecological architecture, building and assessment of sustainability of materials and technologies (e.g. life cycle assessment, planning of sustainable buildings, sustainable building materials, natural paints, energy saving technologies of buildings, passive energy in buildings, passive houses, indoor climate), sustainable water management and treatment technologies (e.g. green infrastructures, sustainable drainage systems, constructed wetlands); ecosystem restoration and ecotechnologies in sustainable agriculture. As a part of the course students have to write and present report based on scientific papers.

1. Methodology of semiotics of culture, applied cultural analysis and qualitative methods. 2. The dynamics of defining the object of analysis. Static and dynamic analysis. 3. The problem of the unit of analysis in semiotics of culture. Complementary (parametric) analysis. 4. Cultural semiotic analysis in discrete and non-discrete systems. 5. Types of textual analysis in semiotics of culture (text, textuality, metatextuality, intertextuality, multimediality, chronotopicality). 6. Types of semiospheric analysis (synchrony, diachrony, panchrony, tradition, genesis). 7. Cultural analysis based on narrativity (narration, story, storyworld, transmediality, divergence and convergence). 8. Performative cultural analysis (performance, staging, play, spectacle, cultural scene, mise-en-scène, intersemiotic translation). 9. Applications of semiotics of culture, and interdisciplinary cultural analysis. 10. Semiotics of culture, holism and complex cultural analysis.

Applied Creative Destruction Lab with Startups is a hands-on course about commercializing technological innovation. Students, who have learned the theory of startup strategy, scaling, and financing, apply this theory by working closely with early-stage technology ventures in the CDL program performing precisely those tasks. Participation in CDL-Estonia meetings offers students frequent interaction with experienced entrepreneurs and investors. In particular, you will apply analytical frameworks that are useful for addressing the following issues: 1. how can startups determine if they are providing value to customers, 2. why do some startups capture that value and others do not, 3. what is the role of experimentation for startups, 4. what makes high-growth startup financing unique, 5. how can startups evaluate market size and potential for new goods, 6. how do you compute the value of a startup, 7. how should startups run pilots, tests, and other early customer interactions, 8. What are different pricing forms and strategies and how should startups choose the right one for their business. Our expectations for you are exceedingly high both because our goal with the course is to prepare you to work in the startup ecosystem after you graduate and because this course has you work hands-on with real startups and engage directly with the CDL program. We require rigorous preparation before each class. In our class exercises, we demand rigorous logical application of theoretical ideas to cases. You will provide actual strategic assistance the assigned company. Throughout the year, we will visit the CDL digital society stream sessions, where prominent venture capitalists and startup founders meet. You will have the opportunity to ask them questions and we expect that you will come to these sessions well prepared, with questions that are relevant to the topic being discussed and the speaker's background.

The use of cryptographic libraries for encrypting files and communication, authentication methods, integrity protection, public key infrastructures, composition of secure protocols, secure methods for obtaining random bits, smartcards, digital signatures.

Some more general topics in the field of applied electrochemistry will be studied. Various cyclic voltammetry methods, rotating disc and rotating ring disc techniques, chronoamperometry, chronopotentiometry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, ellipsometry methods will be characterised. More general methods for electroanalysis will be discussed. The applicability limits of various experimental methods for electroanalysis and electrochemical studies will be discussed. Also the quantum chemical models for the electrical double layer structure, adsorption of organic molecules and ions as well as for electrochemical kinetics will be analyzed. The basic principles of various electrochemical energy storage devices (supercapacitors, batteries) will be given.

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