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What is neoliberalism? How is power organized in the contemporary political economy and who are the winners and losers from this process? How do struggles from below challenge neoliberalism? Students consider issues such as corporate power, the way debt has transformed everyday life, the changing fortunes of labor, and struggles from the Global South against neoliberalism. 

The Asia-Pacific region is undergoing rapid changes that present both great opportunities and enormous challenges in a number of areas. The complex interactions across states, institutions, and local communities in the region will determine how the region addresses its major governance challenges, such terrorism, refugees, health, drugs, economic development, and the environment. Using these issues as weekly topical case studies, this course focuses on how the wide range of actors in the Asia-Pacific region attempt to comprehend and resolve governance and policy problems.

One person’s carelessness causes another to suffer a broken leg, damage to their car, or a financial loss. Someone plays music too loudly all through the night, disturbing their neighbours’ sleep. One person defames another, or touches their body without their consent. These are examples of torts. Tort law tells us when the person who has suffered injury has a civil right to require the injurer to make repair. Our course examines the fundamental principles and functions of tort law; the general tort of negligence and its application in specific settings (e.g. actions of public authorities, occupiers’ liability); the distinction between negligence and strict liability; liability for defective products; defamation; private nuisance; trespass to the person; and special topics on the kinds of injury that tort law deems worthy of compensation (especially the complex position with regard to psychiatric and economic harm); and the kinds of remedy that it provides to claimants.

This course introduces students to different psychological perspectives for thinking about social justice, inequality, freedom, and collective life. Drawing on social psychology, cognitive psychology, cultural psychology, affective neuroscience, clinical and abnormal psychology, and selected psychodynamic perspectives, the course examines psychological processes involved in social judgment, prejudice, collective action, mental health, and social change. Rather than approaching social justice as a fixed concept or through a single dimension of analysis, the course considers it as a dynamic, socially and culturally situated construction shaped by how people perceive, interpret, feel, contest, and organize around questions of fairness, exclusion, autonomy, and belonging. Anchored in Paris, and in a context where liberté, égalité, fraternité remains both an aspiration and a point of tension, the course also introduces students to French traditions that continue to inform clinical psychology and the human sciences. Through readings, guest lectures, and site visits, students encounter ideas that may offer complementary lenses for contemporary psychology. This comparative approach allows students to place U.S.-style psychological frameworks in dialogue with French ways of thinking about the psyche, society, language, power, and institutions. Field-based learning plays an important role in the course. At La Salpêtrière Hospital, students visit a historically significant site for the development of psychology, psychiatry, neurology, clinical observation, and institutional care in France. The visit to the Paris Commune offers a different kind of historical case study, focused on collective action, social identity, political imagination, and struggles over equality, while also allowing students to discover another facet of historic Montmartre. Guest speakers, including clinical psychologists working in France, help students connect these historical and theoretical questions to contemporary issues in mental health, liberty, autonomy, social inclusion, and public care. Together, these experiences invite students to expand psychological concepts with complementary analytical tools drawn from French theory, cultivating a critical perspective on the psychology of social justice in a French context.

Students learn about the major mechanisms for the protection of human rights in the British Constitution and the role that judges have in enforcing human rights and administrative law. As such, students learn about the Human Rights Act 1998, the rule of law as a constitutional value, the process of legal accountability known as judicial review and relevant human rights topics, including but not limited to freedom of expression, the law governing protest in the United Kingdom, freedom of religion, and other relevant human rights topics. This involves detailed consideration of key pieces of primary legislation and international treaties relevant to human rights protection as well as important case law relevant to these topics. Students also consider and engage with many of the ongoing academic debates about these topics.

In this course, students develop essential engineering skills, working in groups and using problem-based learning to find solutions to real engineering projects; are inspired and be given the purpose behind the method of turning theoretical teaching into practice; work as a group on the development of conceptual designs and to be a creative “designer”; generate ideas and carry out research to assess the feasibility of design concepts; experience hands-on modelling as ways of communicating ideas; work as a group to plan and manage the construction of a design at a 1:1 scale; develop application of geometric and parametric modelling in design; give and receive critical feedback on designs responses to the developed brief; and reflect on the role of civil engineers as designers and makers. The course is delivered across two intensive weeks during Creative Design where no other teaching takes place. 2 x 1 weeks are Creative Design weeks in which students work as groups to develop civil engineering designs across multiple design scales.

In this course students explore the rich heterogeneity of the Victorian novel through close examination of works by a range of canonical and non-canonical authors. Students examine the changing shape of the novel throughout the 19th century (from the sprawling "monstrosity" of the triple-decker to the compact neatness of the proto-modernist aesthetic of the 1890s), as well as the range of novelistic genres that proliferated at this time (including realism, sensation, the industrial novel, Victorian gothic, horror, adventure, and science fiction), and consider the ways in which the cultural, social, and political values of Victorian Britain are both encoded and contested in the novels of the age.

This course provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing the behavior of the aggregate economy. We examine the long-run determinants of national income, economic growth, and inflation, along with the short-run fluctuations in output and employment. The course consists of two main parts. First, we analyze the economy in the long run, focusing on production, consumption, and the monetary system. We also cover the theories of economic growth. Second, we shift our focus to the short run, developing the IS-LM model and the AD-AS framework to understand business cycles, policy stabilization, and the trade-off between inflation and unemployment.  

Prerequisites ECON201 (Microeconomics), ECON173 (Mathematics for Economics) 

This interdisciplinary course increases students’ vocabulary in the areas of business, tourism and law. Students analyze academic tests such as research reports, textbook chapters, and academic articles in the fields of business, tourism, and law. They also complete language tasks that are linked to the industry, such as reading and understanding the language of various types of contracts; reading and understanding the structure and content of annual reports and other company reports; analyzing the language of tourism products and services; and knowing how to interpret and use surveys and statistics published by official bodies.

This course provides students with a foundational understanding of globalization, focusing on its challenges and opportunities in the context of China’s rise. The course is structured in three parts: Theoretical Foundations: The course begins by exploring classic political economy theories of globalization; Geopolitical Challenges: The course then examines how geopolitics and China’s rise challenge and reshape these traditional frameworks; Applied Analysis: Finally, students apply these analytical tools to real-world topics, including industrial policies, foreign direct investment (FDI), economic sanctions, and the green transition.