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The course focuses on the role health psychology can play in health. Explore how broader social factors can affect health and discuss health care in global contexts. Draw on your own experiences to evaluate the role of health cognitions, behaviors, systems and health-promoting campaigns in different cultures, and demographic populations. The course considers a range of psychological theories and methodologies used within the discipline. It covers the history and scope of health psychology, from origin to virtual clinics. You will have the opportunity to contribute to and design interactive activities, recognizing the complex roles that psychology plays in human health.

Learning and learners are at the heart of education, yet they are often absent from educational studies. This course considers how ideas, theories, and policies played out in experiences of learning as well as the ways in which learning has been transformed over time. The experience of learning is connected to broader political, social, economic, and cultural changes. Students are introduced to the ways that learning has been understood and practiced in the past, the forms of learning that took place and its significance in people’s lives. Who was able to learn, and what they learnt, are closely related to changing forms of inequality. Themes include histories of school learning, higher education, learning in civil society, learning at work and in the domestic sphere. Although the course is mainly focused on the UK, there will be scope to pursue international comparisons.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to modern data science with a strong emphasis on the mathematical and algorithmic foundations of machine learning. Students will develop practical Python programming skills for data analysis while gaining rigorous understanding of the mathematical principles that underpin modern machine learning. The course adopts a "learn by doing" approach: every mathematical concept is immediately applied to real-world datasets and problems.

This course examines the natural history of Australia from the Cretaceous to the present and the influence of Australia's First Peoples and Europeans on Australia’s environments. It explores the major biomes and climatic zones that have existed across the continent in the past, and the influence of climate change on their present and future distributions. It covers the incredible diversity of Australian flora and fauna both on land and in aquatic environments, and considers the biological challenges, adaptations and evolutionary journeys that have led to our current species diversity. This will include Australia's familiar and our more elusive inhabitants - from eucalypts and kangaroos to velvet worms and orchids.  

This course introduces the field of history, focusing on East, Southeast, and South Asia. Topics covered include Asia's interaction with the West, the various forms of nationalism, and the impact of globalization.