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This course teaches symmetries and group theory, and their applications to physical problems – from basic discrete groups, representation theory, and Lie groups and algebras.  This course also includes formal mathematical concepts.

Students learn about group theory and formal mathematics, giving them a firm framework for further study.

This course examines the making of the modern world to 1900. It covers the following questions: How did the modern world happen? How did a few small countries in Europe (and later the United States) come to dominate so much of the world’s wealth and power by 1900? How did they displace the great empires of the Middle East, South Asia and China?

This course involves student-led research and dissemination around contemporary environmental topics e.g. renewable energy, food security etc. Working in groups, students explore an issue or problem, undertake research on it, and communicate their work in a form accessible to non-academic audiences e.g. a policy note or a science communication piece. This helps students to develop key graduate attributes and consider their own employment prospects beyond the academy.

The 20th century completely reconfigured global politics. These reconfigurations also transformed Britain’s international standing. This course examines the often-overlapping shifts behind this transformation – imperial decline, economic crises, world wars, Cold War, European integration. Using a foreign policy lens, it examines how successful Britain was in navigating global challenges; how it adapted its strategies and alliances as a result; and how the foreign policymaking process altogether evolved, from being mainly the domain of ambassadors to increasingly being shaped by individual prime ministers. In answering these questions, the course has three main aims. First, to offer students an overview of the international history of modern Britain; second, to establish a firm basis for further studies in foreign policy and/or British politics; third, to provide the conceptual tools necessary for understanding current political discourses. 

This beginners’ course is aimed at non-mother tongue speakers of Swahili. This course provides a broad overview of the study of sociolinguistics with specific reference to Southern Africa. Topics such as language and gender, language and power, linguistic prejudice as well as language planning are covered. The latter is a very important and controversial field in Southern Africa, given the liberal constitution, which allows for 11 official languages. The course focuses on two specific arenas or work situations i.e. the legal and medical fraternities, in order to assess what complications and challenges arise in a multilingual work environment. How are these challenges being addressed? Why is it important for you to be a multilingual citizen? DP requirements: Students are expected to complete all tests and assignments and attend at least 80% of all lectures, tutorials and language labs. Assessment: Coursework 50%; exam 50%.

This course introduces the dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, focusing on kinematics and kinetics. The course explores motion characteristics, force applications, and analytical methods in the contexts of engineering applications, such as rigid body movements. This course serves as a cornerstone for learning advanced civil engineering dynamics, and the course materials integrate theoretical principles with practical applications. 

Course Prerequisite: Calculus  

This course will focus on the advanced technologies in 3D visual computing in the era of big data. The course will cover a brief introduction to the basic concepts in the geometric analysis including curve, surface, 3D representations, 3D transformations, etc., with the goal of fostering students’ geometric understanding of 3D data. …

This course examines the politics and practices of global health. The course introduces students to the key interdisciplinary concepts used to understand global health policy. Exploring a variety of case study examples drawn from across the world, the course then examines global health policy and governance structures, health systems, and issues of inequality and justice in global health. Through perspectives drawn from the social and political sciences, this course provides students with the skills to analyze current and emergent global health policy challenges.

This course analyzes the driving forces behind income, prices and other macroeconomic variables in closed and open economies. Topics include: macroeconomic problems and national accounts; goods market; financial markets; IS-LM Model; opening goods and financial markets; Mundell-Fleming Model; expectations-- instruments, consumption, investment, and financial market. Pre-Requisites: Macroeconomics I

The course provides an understanding of core aspects of advanced dynamic analysis, dealing with system modelling, dynamic response and vibration analysis, structural dynamics both in the linear and non-linear regimes, wave propagation, and the dynamics of continuous and multi-degree of freedom systems. The main objective is to obtain an understanding and appreciation of the potential and limitations of analytical approaches and solutions, and the value of these in underpinning modern computer methods for simulating dynamic structural response.