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In this course, student study the theory behind decisions of investors and corporations regarding building and managing asset and liability portfolios. Risk management of corporations is also covered.

The course examines the interrelationship between humans and nature, with a particular emphasis on how social power relations produce and change socio-physical conditions. The course starts from the premise that nature and society are not separate, but intimately interwoven. They are mutually intertwined and co-evolving. The course draws on a variety of critical theoretical perspectives (Marxist, post-Marxist, feminist, post-colonial) and illustrates the argument with a series of case studies. 

This course examines a range of challenging and controversial population issues facing the world today, including population growth, ageing, the COVID pandemic, immigration, the growth of megacities, the fertility crisis and environmental degradation.

Metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that occur in living organisms to maintain life. Students focus on the metabolic pathways in the cells of mammals, with some reference to microbes and plants. Students learn about diseases caused by defects in metabolism, such as diabetes, which emphasizes the importance of metabolic control.

This course introduces the sector and its principal issues, contracts, and sources of dispute, with lectures on the financing of major energy projects; granting of hydrocarbons rights and related contracts; the power sector and its main contracts; public international law rules on climate change and national litigation; the legal effects of an expanded role for renewable energy in the energy transition; how disputes are typically managed including international treaty and commercial arbitration.

This course introduces some of the main aspects of Britain from the First World War to the present day. The lecture begins from the eve of the war to post-Brexit Britain, and highlights the main social and political developments during this period. Some of the questions addressed include: What were the main changes which took place? In particular what were the effects of the two World Wars on Britain, and of Britain's membership of the EC/EU between 1973 and 2020? How did British society evolve during this period? In what ways has the UK become an increasingly divided country? What, particularly, were the main changes in the composition of the British population and the way the British state was governed? What has been the impact of the different nationalist movements across the UK and of devolution? The tutorial section studies contemporary documents and, by analyzing and interpreting these, attempts to better understand how modern Britain functions, how it sees itself, and how others see it.

This course covers state-of-the-art mobile computing technologies and the development of application software for terminal devices. Due to recent advances in computing technology and wireless communication, multimedia information can now be processed "anytime, anywhere." These mobile computing systems consist of terminals (smartphones, tablet computers, etc.), wired and wireless networks, operating systems/middleware, and the integration of all these enables effective application services. Mobile computing is a key technology based on distributed computing and embedded system technologies, and is applied in ubiquitous systems, mobile commerce, mobile phones, and more. 

Topics include Life-Immersive mobile computing, Understanding behavior and contexts, Mobile data, Edge AI systems, AR and VR systems, Efficient ML models (pruning, quantization, neural architecture search, on-device training, knowledge distillation, application-specific optimizations). 

The evaluation will be based on four assignments, one mini-project, and the final exam. Students should be aware that there will not be a term project to design and develop a new mobile application. 

This course introduces the essential tools and frameworks of sustainable finance and impact investing. It explores how ESG principles shape investment decisions, how to evaluate the trade-offs between financial returns and social impact, and how sustainable finance drives capital allocation and firm behavior. Drawing on cutting-edge research from LSE's Department of Finance, students navigate the complexities of responsible investing and understand where investors and industry need to focus to support the transition to a more sustainable economy.

Focusing on two key areas, the course equips students to analyze how sustainable finance and impact investing create value while also developing the skills to lead organizational change toward more sustainable practices.

This course examines the study of the ‘blue’ spaces of our planet—oceans, rivers, reefs, and inland bodies of water—through case studies in the arts and literature. Using the vantage point in Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, “The Great Connector”, it considers environments and peoples whose lives are explicitly connected with and determined by the ocean. It considers kinship, sovereignty, and belonging through aesthetic, historical, religious, political, social, and material manifestations. Situated around issues of ocean acidification, pollution, and sea-level rise, it critically reflects on ways the humanities can improve our knowledge of cultures, histories, publics and practices of the blue planet.

Art and cultural heritage is not only a tool to express the creative value of an artist, of a community, of a movement, it is also inundated and steered by a complex set of legal rules and institutions. Art Law has been quipped as a quixotic way of navigating through concepts from contracts, property, and taxation to deeper, ethical issues such as moral rights, the levity of ethnic repatriation, and memorialization. This course surveys an expanse of topics to serve as an introduction into both art and cultural property law. It traverses the intersectionality of art, culture, and international law in topics as varied from Nazi looted art, generative AI, capitalism in the art market, institutional actors such as auction houses and museums, culture in times of war, and modes of dispute resolution. This course simulates a moot court, on a fictional looted art case. Prior knowledge and artistic inclination is not required for this course (but passion is preferred).