English

The aim of this course is to let students understand all the basic concepts in biochemistry, and at same time, develop their ability of reading scientific literature directly in English and critical thinking.

The course provides an introduction to a particular aspect of sonic practices with the moving image. It focuses on a particular film sound context or approach defined chronologically, generically, or by composer (where appropriate). The exact content of the course varies from year to year, but might include one or more of the following: the sounds of early cinema; narrative film music and Hollywood; contemporary theory and analysis of music and the moving image; • auteur film music; the Hollywood musical; the sounds of television; music and animation; the sounds of video games; recontextualized music; opera and screen; European film music; and Hindi film.

This course is an introduction for undergraduate students who are interested in empirical methods applied to natural language processing. We will emphasize on empirical methods, which mainly refers to data-driven models with ingredient from pattern recognition and machine learning. We will also survey interesting NLP applications, e.g., word segmentation, tagging, parsing, etc., and introduce recent advances in statistical machine translation and information extraction. In this course, students will learn what data-driven methods are, how to utilize those models to build their own systems to analyze massive text data and actually solve a real NLP problem in practice. T

This course is for students who are new to the subject of pharmacology. The course provides an overview of pharmacology and some of the most important mechanisms of drug action; illustrates these actions for you with specific examples of important drugs; provides a foundation in some of the basic theory for pharmacology; illustrates some of the principles of pharmacology whilst providing basic laboratory skills and experience; and introduces principles of laboratory safety. 

This course examines the following questions: What is intelligence, and can machines really possess it? Could it be that—as many have argued—we ourselves are no more than intelligent machines (designed by evolution rather than engineers)? How do technologies such as artificial neural networks and machine learning change our understanding of the mind? Others are ethical, social, and political. What are the risks associated with these technologies, and how can we minimise them? What are their benefits, and how can we ensure that they are equitably shared? Conversely, assuming that true A.I. is possible, what are our own moral obligations towards our non-human but intelligent creations?

In this course, students explore the musical rudiments that underpin their practical activities of singing, playing, and listening; how to listen to music tentatively; and how to hear and aurally analyze the musical parameters of meter, rhythm, pitch, timber, dynamics, expression, and structure. 

This course discusses the main instruments of management accounting. Topics include: income statement types; CVP analysis; pricing decisions; budgets; job and process costing; ABC and department costing. Pre-requisites: Introduction to Accounting.

This course examines the history of the Graeco-Roman world during the first millennium BCE: from the Greek Early Iron Age to the rise of the Roman Empire. The main topics include material culture, the Greek city-states, the Persian Wars, Greek politics and theater, Athenian imperialism, ancient daily life, mythology and religion, Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic kingdoms, and the Roman Republic and Empire (about 70/30% Greece/Rome). While the focus is on Greece and Rome, attention will also be paid to their interaction with neighboring cultures such as Persia and Anatolia, as well as to the reception of the Classical world up until today.  

This course introduces students to the subject of Criminology through the lens of the Scottish Criminal Justice System. It begins with an overview of the Scottish Criminal Justice System before examining the major avenues by which the public obtain information about crime – as victims of crime and from the media and official statistics. The course examines the processes that have developed Scotland's definitions of crime and the broader social and political context in which this crime occurs.