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This course looks at the relationship between the built environment and spiritual space with special focus on Southeast Asia. It looks at a range of spiritual practices and the forms they take including temples, mosques, shrines, and symbols. It addresses how religion shapes and connects cities in different ways as well as how globalization transforms and is transformed by spiritual space. The course examines debates surrounding these questions through cases within and beyond Southeast Asia. Topics range from ghost films to heritage sites. It provides a strong understanding of the religious and spiritual practices, global processes and political events shaping Southeast Asia. It also develops visual analysis skills necessary to read and write about spiritual space in a variety of forms. Course discussions and assignments unpack the aesthetic traditions, politics, and morals surrounding specific cases in order to complicate what it means to be global, regional or local. The content goes beyond Southeast Asia and cuts across disciplines, drawing from Art and Architectural History, Anthropology, Urban Planning, and Geography.

Students read four pairs of plays which open up questions of commerce gender, city limits, liminal space, underbellies and architecture in the urban space: Thomas Dekker, THE SHOEMAKER’S HOLIDAY (1599); Ben Jonson, THE ALCHEMIST (1610) Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, THE ROARING GIRL (1607-10); Ben Jonson, EPICOENE OR THE SILENT WOMAN (1609) Christopher Marlowe, THE JEW OF MALTA (1592); John Webster, THE DUCHESS OF MALFI (c. 1614) Thomas Middleton, A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE (1611-13); William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, John Ford, THE WITCH OF EDMONTON (1621) Students also read a selection of theory on the city from commentators such as Engels, Benjamin, Bachelard and Lefebvre. 

This course introduces students to the history of Europe in the early modern period. It also explores the history of early modern Europe from global perspectives, looking at connections with non-European peoples and polities, and examining what happened when very different cultures came into contact with each other. It compares changes and continuities in different parts of Europe, in a period marked by the disintegration of Western Christendom and the emergence of nation states. Chronologically, the main focus is on the 15th to 17th centuries, a period which saw changes of profound significance for the long-term development of Europe and the wider world, changes which continue to shape the landscape, institutions, and culture of our world today. Assuming no prior knowledge, this course provides an overview of the key political, social, economic, environmental, religious and intellectual developments of the early modern period. 

This course provides an overview of academic debates centred around evolving gender and sexual politics in contemporary China, which manifests as a unique area for studying the expansion of neoliberal economy, digital technologies as well as its socialist legacies. Bringing together significant theoretical insights and empirical research, teaching of this course will be facilitated through case studies of emerging forms of cultural representation, production, consumption and resistance. Topics will be covered include fandom and the popularity of online literature, influencers and gender performativity, feminist and LGBTQ+ activism and the creation of queer media, in the light of the Chinese context of censorship and governance.

The focus of the course is on what the concepts of risk and risk perception mean from various theoretical standpoints. Students explore people's responses to risks such as AIDS, Ebola, Covid, Climate Change and Earthquakes. Beyond gaining an understanding of the nature of these responses, students examine health and safety campaigns and methods of communicating to change health and safety behaviors. Analysis of how media portray risks is central to this course.

This course provides students with an introduction to the criminal justice system in England and Wales, as well as introducing students to key debates on crime, justice, and punishment.  Students learn about policing, the courts system, prisons and community punishments.

This course examines economic miracles of Japan and Korea and their central business organizations, keiretsu and chaebols, that brought the success. It then analyzes how they responded to the challenges of the transition from catching‐up economies to mature economies, and how their business organizations functioned in the transition process. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course offers a historical perspective on the development of the European Union and its close associates yet not formally members of the Union. The EU is usually approached and studied as an administrative and legal construct. In this lecture series by contrast, the emergence and
development of this singular polity is examined in the variety of its manifestations: economic as well as political and cultural.

This course is an introductory study of contemporary organizations and their management. It explores the types of purposes of organizations, their stakeholders and changing environments together with their key managerial processes – entrepreneurship, organizational structure, leading, strategic planning and change. The focus throughout is on helping students achieve a critical and reflective approach, and learning to apply relevant concepts, tools, and models. The course provides a platform for later study by encouraging skills in critical thinking, academic writing, concept acquisition, and research. 

This course focuses on the fundamental principles of circuit theorems and circuit elements, DC/AC and three-phase circuits, transient and steady-state responses, circuit analysis using Laplace transforms. Students learn various techniques ('tools') to analyze the operation of real circuits with a focus on the study of the behavior of the circuit, not the creation of circuits, i.e., the engineering design of the circuit. Topics include capacitors and inductors, Fourier series, Laplace transform, and sinusoids and phasors.