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This course offers a study of human development and the key psychological principles that scientifically explain the developmental process with a focus on children aged 6 to 12. It discusses important theories, current approaches, and scientific principles that explain human development. Student gain analytical skills to assess a child's developmental level including cognitive, language, physical, social, and emotional growth within their social contexts.

This course examines representaions of American society through popular Hollywood films. Issues we examine include race, gender, class, sexuality and (dis)abilities. These films show customs, traditions, values and institutions in American society. They also depict cross-cultural dilemmas that people from different background face. In this way, the class aims to develop students' understanding of and sensitivity to the influence of culture on communication in different social settings.

This course introduces the fascinating world of Sensory Science, where humans are the ultimate instruments to experience and evaluate food quality. It covers the senses, how to use them to perform sensory evaluation of foods, how to choose between different sensory methods and panels, and how to analyze sensory data in a meaningful way. The course discusses general principles of sensory measurements (discrimination, ranking and scaling), pitfalls in sensory evaluation (carry-over effects, response biases, etc.) and how to deal with them in experimental settings. Special attention is on performing difference tests, descriptive profiling and consumer acceptance tests, the challenges in the sensory laboratory and working with sensory panels, as well as data analysis (e.g. checking panel performance and product differences). The course also looks at how to relate descriptive data with instrumental analyses of foods and emerging tools for descriptive analysis (e.g. machine learning applications). Finally, it introduces the wider implications of changing sensory quality for food reward and nutrition behavior. Besides lectures. the course includes hands-on sensory exercises where students learn about their own senses, and work in groups on different methods for sensory evaluation. It arranges “dry” exercises to work with course materials and sensory data to get confident in applying your sensory skills.

Crime has been readily associated with London's metropolis, from loveable rogues, spivs, and celebrity criminals such as Jack Sheppard to panics caused by the "London Monster" and "Jack the Ripper." Criminals have been the focus of both fascination and horror in the city's past. In tandem, the city developed efforts to control crime, from Beadles and Bobbies to slum clearances and the ultimate sanctions of Tyburn Tree and Newgate Prison. This course analyzes thematic aspects of crime and punishment in London, with particular attention to race, gender, and queer history. By recovering marginalized voices, students chart transitions in societal reactions, policing, legislation, and culture across the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Through analyzing primary materials and site visits linked to key cases from London's past, this course provides glimpses into the shifting criminal and judicial landscape of London.

This course explores key issues within the sociology of family. In particular, it focuses on how perceptions and experiences of family shift over space and time. Students develop an understanding of key sociological perspectives on the role of the family in society. The course explores the social construction of family, and how the definition of it developed over time. This understanding of diverse family and household structures include topics such as same-sex parents, lone-parents, divorced/step families, adoption and reproductive rights of Irish women. It considers how these changes impact individual and family relationships.

The course develops students’ professional orientation in the field of psychological counseling. It offers an opportunity to acquire the basic skills and abilities necessary for practical work as a psychologist-counselor, while also fostering the development of professionally and personally important qualities for future specialists. The course introduces the main structural levels within psychoanalytical psychodiagnostics, providing a deeper understanding of how to determine counseling strategies for individual clients.

This course examines the main cultural manifestations of the United Kingdom and the United States, focusing on the principal geographical and social features, as well as the events and processes that have shaped the social and cultural development of both these English-speaking countries since 1945.

This course covers topics including the evolution of modern China's political and economic system, the Chinese state in comparative perspective, and issues and problems of China's political and economic development. Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to explain the Chinese political system and state administration, explain the characteristics of China's socialist market economy, analyze the role of the Communist Party of China, critically assess different theoretical approaches used in current research on modern China, and develop and present individual research interests on China's political system.

This course provides a systematic study of the structure, function, and regulation of major body systems and organs, including homeostasis, nutrition, and regulation of temperature and fluids. The structure and function of the respiratory, circulatory, and digestive systems, reproduction, hormonal and nervous control, and behavior are discussed with a focus on the human body.

This is a production-based course with an emphasis on hands-on learning. The course provides students with intensive training on digital storytelling techniques from cinematography, lighting to sound recording. Going through different stages of video-making from preproduction, production to postproduction, students are abel to understand the aesthetic reasoning behind visual production. They learn how to communicate and tell a story via visual images.