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This course uses London's central place in the world's carbon economy to understand global environmental challenges. Through field trips, firsthand encounters, and engaging class sessions students learn about London's role in the global geographies of carbon extraction. The course starts with early connections of empire, colonialism, and coal. It then moves through efforts to transition from carbon intensive energy sources to consider contemporary contests over climate change and the different ways financial activism seeks sustainable futures.

This course is a survey of the main ideas and techniques of game-theoretic analysis related to business decisions. As such, the course emphasizes the identification and analysis of archetypal strategic situations frequently occurring in business situations. The course has a strong experiential component. Students repeatedly participate in a variety of strategic situations thereby developing the ability to translate their analyses into practice. A working knowledge of basic calculus and ease with algebraic manipulation are prerequisites of the course. Prior exposure to microeconomics is very helpful.

This course provides analysis of white-collar and corporate crimes and deviance. Such acts (or omissions) often occur within the context of international commerce and business, and may be facilitated at the transnational level through the use of offshore financial centers and "shell" firms or third parties in other jurisdictions. This course therefore critically examine the nature and organization of these crimes (e.g., the processes and practices necessary to carry them out), the key social actors involved (e.g., who are the "criminals," why do they do it, and who is being victimized?), and the mixture of responses to such crimes (e.g., enforcement, self-regulation, prevention/reduction, disruption/intervention) at the local, national, and transnational levels. To explore these issues, students examine a number of relevant in-depth case studies such as corporate corruption and bribery, tax avoidance/evasion, and modern slavery.

This course distinguishes the talent management processes that generate value for the organization in complex, volatile, ambiguous, and uncertain settings through a real-context case study of a national company.

This course fosters respect in the dignity, rights, contributions, and circumstances in one's own person and in others, with constructive and supportive responses to different circumstances and needs. It also aims to build committed and solid solutions to social problems and needs, strengthening democracy, and the common good, while proposing solutions to problems and projects, systematically integrating knowledge, experiences, and methodologies from other disciplines, groups, and cultures.

This course introduces students to the contemporary law of social security in the United Kingdom against the background of relevant policy debates, and considers the relationships between social security law, human rights law, and devolution.

The Jewish eastern European encounter was among the most significant in the history of the European diasporic encounter. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the political, legal, religious, cultural, and social ramifications of this encounter. It offers in-depth analysis of the emergence of Jewish autonomy and of the variegated cultural life of Jewish communities. It reflects on religious diversification including heretic and dissenting challenges to communal hierarchies and on the scope and limits of social, cultural and legal integration, as well as on the dramatic consequences of the partitions of Poland. It offers insights into the trajectories of formerly Polish-Jewish communities in Russia, the Habsburg Empire, and Prussia, as well as the impact of mass emigration. The emergence of very large Jewish communities and the impact of emigration from Eastern Europe in the late 19th century includes a reflection on the echoes of Eastern European Jewish culture in the Americas and in Palestine/Israel. Jewish political mobilization in the 20th c., the impact of antisemitism and anti-Jewish violence, and the catastrophe of the German occupation and the Holocaust are discussed as well as the attempts to rebuild Jewish life after the war and under communism. 

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