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This course offers an interdisciplinary exploration of visual culture, bridging visual studies, communication, media, and cultural studies to understand how images and the act of looking carry meaning across everyday life. The curriculum covers a wide range of topics, including the power and politics of images, the role of viewers in making meaning, modern and postmodern theories of spectatorship and the gaze, the impact of visual technologies, media and brand cultures, as well as globalization and contemporary digital practices. Student engage with critical theories and methods to analyze artworks and visual media, while addressing social, psychological, and economic implications of visual representation. It course covers a range of themes such as representation, expression, form, style, Formalism, Iconography, Marxism, Gender etc. Using modern and contemporary Chinese art as examples, the course equips students with transferable and analytic skills, knowledge of modern and contemporary Chinese art, aesthetic sensibility, and theoretical literacy, encouraging them to apply these methods and knowledge to the study of visual art.

This course addresses issues of nationhood and identity in British and Irish writing since the 1920s, including recent works by postcolonial writers. The content ranges across a wide geographical area and covers a broad spectrum of literary styles, themes and narrative voices. While the primary focus is on selected works of fiction and poetry, the course also examines key concepts in literary and cultural theory. Authors discussed include Sebastian Barry, Mohsin Hamid, Nikita Lalwani, Andrea Levy, Sam Selvon, Kamila Shamsie, and Irvine Welsh.

This survey course addresses fundamental questions in the history of political philosophy. Questions about government, justice, property and rights are addressed through the work of a range of historical and contemporary thinkers. Philosophers to be studied may include Aristotle, Hobbes, Marx, Rawls, and others. 

This seminar introduces  students to the style, structure, and content of the UCL BSc Psychology program. The seminars develop key academic skills relevant to the range of disciplines that are studied in scientific psychology: including cognition, perception, developmental psychology, neuroscience and health psychology. Students on the course learn academic skills that are required on UCL's program (in particular report and essay writing, and critical assessment of research papers) and which are particular to UK system in general and a British Psychological Society accredited BSc Psychology degree program in particular.

This course begins with an overview of the evolution, characteristics, diversity, morphology, and life histories of the different craniate classes, paying particular attention to adaptations underlying the success of the vertebrates. Distinctive or advanced biological features of each group are highlighted, and their ecological/economic importance briefly considered. The rest of the course comprises integrative, cross-taxonomic modules on the functional biology of vertebrates, notably locomotion, sensory systems, metabolism, homeostasis and behavior. The course includes a strong practical component to demonstrate the links between form and function; as well as a 4-day compulsory field camp during which students are trained in methods for studying the diversity, ecology and behavior of selected vertebrate groups. Attendance is compulsory for all lectures and practicals. DP requirements: Completion of at least 70% of deliverables (tests, practicals, project report), including at least one class test and the project report; attendance of practicals; minimum of 40% for the class record Assessment: A 3-hour theory examination written in June, with subminimum of 40%, will count 50% of the course mark. Coursework marks will be allocated as follows: practical tests (three deliverables) count 15%, project report based on projects counts 15%, two class tests together count 20%. Course entry requirements: BIO1000F/H, BIO1004S.

This course covers the basic concepts and theories in technology and innovation management to enable the organization’s strategic destinations, covering stages from fuzzy front end to strategy execution. This course provides students with different schools of thought, approaches, and techniques on innovative idea generation through group discussions and workshops such as Design Thinking (Stanford d.school), Human Centered Innovation Workshop.

This course examines the multidisciplinary nature of the study of food and nutrition. The course covers a basic understanding of food production, processing and storage from the farmer's field to the dinner table. Topics include food safety, food selection behavior as well as balanced nutrition as part of life style instrumental to good health. Basic macro- and micronutrients from these food and its absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion allow students to understand the function of these nutrients in the human body. The course also includes food composition and functional properties of major nutrients, food additives, food hygiene, safety and regulation, food security, healthy eating-concepts and practice, essential nutrients, diet and disease relationship.

This course examines the intersection of international relations and global health. It introduces students to various issues and topics in global health. Questions include: What are the health threats and opportunities that arise with globalization? Who are the main actors and what are the major institutions influencing processes of global health governance? How do existing institutional arrangements function in responding to global health challenges? To engage comprehensive examination of these key issues, the course includes International Relations concepts, such as power, legitimacy, soft vs hard law, regime, and normative change.

This course explores major theories of personality, including psychodynamic, trait, behavioural, cognitive, and humanistic approaches. Students learn to analyse, compare, and apply these theories to understand human behaviour, development, and individual differences.

This course evaluates the strategic decisions of economic agents and determines optimal action strategies. 

The course covers the following topics: 

• The importance of economic models
• Consumer decisions
• Firm decisions
• Individual choice under uncertainty
• Strategic decisions
• Static games with complete information
• Dynamic games with complete information