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This course provides a broad introduction to Marine Archaeology and illustrates through a series of case studies how crucial the sea was in terms of human development. The social, economic, and cultural progress of humanity has always been closely connected to the water and the sea. From the spread of human groups in early prehistory to the importance of container shipping and maritime commerce to modern economies today, sea travel has remained central to the development and maintenance of human societies. 

This course offers a comprehensive overview of Europe in the world since 1848. Important topics that are covered are state formation and citizenship, colonialism and the resistance against it in the second half of the 19th century, and the rise of large ideologies (democracy, fascism) around the two world wars. This course discusses how this period was characterized by both war and genocide and important initiatives in the field of international cooperation, in Europe and beyond. Students learn to understand the global Cold War and how it is intertwined with the decolonization process. They study the rise of neoliberalism, the consumer society, and the welfare state in the second half of the 20th century. The more recent period covers globalization, terror, and climate change. This course deals with many topical issues and helps students to think about current events in their historical context.

This course introduces students to some major neuropsychological disorders and outlines how an understanding of these deficits can inform our understanding of brain function and enlighten cognitive neuroscience. Impairments of higher visual functions such as agnosia, optic ataxia, and hemispatial neglect are presented in detail and their relevance to models of brain function outlined. Students also become familiar with cognitive neuropsychological tests.

The course allows students to hear from a broad range of experts in social psychology, social cognition, and social neuroscience at UCL. The course offers interdisciplinary perspectives that are at the cutting edge of social experimental research. It has the following objectives: To provide students with an understanding of social determinants of cognition, judgment and behavior; and the interplay between social processes and individual processes, to familiarize students with basic methods used in social psychology, and to help students critically discuss research in social psychology in an interdisciplinary manner, in order to establish connections between social phenomena and psychological functioning.  

This course teaches about the role of attention as a fundamental cognitive process and how it relates to short and long-term memory. It examines the phenomenon of learning, looking at learning theories and neuroimaging evidence to discover how learning occurs in the brain; and investigates the role of cognition in language, sleep, and consciousness. Throughout the course students learn about the methods involved in studying Psychology and how to think critically about empirical research. Introduction to Cognitive Psychology offers a solid foundation for future study in Psychology and provides an opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research taking place at the University of Oxford.

This course examines the relationships between technological developments and cultural change, with a particular focus on digital media. It interrogates the changing theorizations of technology in society by tracing the influence of key texts in media studies, philosophy of technology, sociology, cultural studies and science and technology studies. Students explore the significance of technology in social power, identity, gender, social shaping, class, space, assemblages, actor-networks, experience, thought, time, and materiality. 

This course addresses the fundamental concepts and advanced methodologies of deep learning and relates them to real-world problems in a variety of domains. It provides an overview of different approaches, both classical and emerging. The course equips students with the necessary knowledge and skills to work in the field of deep learning and to contribute to ongoing research in the area.

How should we balance the need to produce cheap food with environmental damage? Should we be using low-cost airlines? Is it now immoral to have children? Should animals be granted the same rights as human beings? The climate crisis gives rise to many daily and long-term moral questions concerning how we should live and behave. This course introduces students to environmental ethics, the branch of philosophy concerned with how our moral values and decisions impact the natural world. Through a series of talks and discussions, this course grapples with the difficult environmental moral dilemmas we face as humans and encourage students to reflect and consider how we face these challenges.

This course is intended not just for historians, but also for humanities students, social scientists, and scientists and engineers who want to learn not only how the world has been transformed by innovation, by imitation, and by historically novel machines, structures and processes which have resulted.  It is concerned primarily with innovation in the material, and that taking place in the context of capitalism. However, it also covers the socialist world, and the poor world, of the 20th century. It is also an invitation to learn about how to think about this central transformation in human history. The course also provides tools for examining such elusive yet important notions as invention, innovation, science, technology, and introduce key debates surrounding questions of machines, production, and efficiency in the historiography of the 20th century, relating them to various different forms of analysis from political economy to gender studies, in sites from the factory to the field and the home, covering the globe.  

This course examines Indigenous peoples as agents of geopolitical change. It introduces colonial/decolonial geographies to demonstrate the geopolitical implications of Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing. Key themes include: territory and geopolitics; Indigenous identities, subject-formation and intersectionality; Indigenous knowledges, rights and political agency; and, Indigenous relationships with non-Indigenous peoples.