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This course covers the principle of vaccination and how different types of immune responses are required for different kinds of pathogens, e.g. bacteria versus virus. Students discuss how researchers use different strategies to make different kinds of vaccines and ethical issues that arise.

This course introduces students to the pervasive nature of animation by examining key texts in both historic and contemporary culture and to interrogate the significance of the form. Drawing on current discourse in animation studies, the course enables students to think about the connection between animation and other moving image and visual cultural artefacts.

This is a course in abstract algebra, although connections with other fields will be stressed as often as possible. It is a systematic study of the basic structure of groups, finite and infinite. Topics include homomorphisms, isomorphisms, and factor groups; group presentations and universal properties; Sylow theorems and applications; simple groups and composition series; classification of finite abelian groups and applications; and solvable groups and the derived series.

All engineers make use of fundamental scientific principles to design and construct the future. They work in inter-disciplinary teams to solve complex problems within the ever-changing environmental, economic, societal and policy landscape. In this context, this course provides an insight into what it is to be an engineer and showcases how engineering is done. 

This course provides a study of life and norms in Ancient Rome from different aspects of society. It examines the political organization and sources of law in Ancient Rome; different historical periods and the law systems that existed within each; the structure and dynamics of the family in Rome; religion, work, and free time.