English

This course examines the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on work processes in organizational contexts, on the professions and on expertise. It starts with defining what AI is, examining how it exactly works, how it is used in professional contexts, and how its uses should be regulated. The course uses a number of case studies from across finance, health organizations, or urban planning to investigate how AI changes the professions, expertise, and organizations. 

Art museums are increasingly programming performance and live art events. At the same time, visual artists are looking to the theatre for aesthetics and forms to incorporate into their work. This seminar uncovers points of connection between performance and the visual arts, looking at key moments in the history of relations between these forms and giving particular attention to the current rise of theatrical aesthetics in contemporary arts practice. Through the Department’s three-year partnership with Tate Exchange, students have the opportunity to work in Tate Modern and to explore performance in the context of the art gallery. Students respond to the work of a range of contemporary artists – indicatively Pablo Bronstein, Boris Charmatz, Tacita Dean, Trisha Donnelly, Tim Etchells, Tino Sehgal and others. Working through creative examples, this course raises big questions about performance, theatricality, curation, participation, and museum practice. 

This course introduces methods for creating systems that use data intelligently to improve themselves. This requires combining human intelligence (using methods like crowdsourcing, collaborative design) with artificial intelligence (discovering which technology designs help which people) through designing randomized A/B experiments that are collaborative, dynamic, and personalized. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course offers students insights and different perspectives that can help explain why, over the centuries, some nations and cities succeed in our global economy while others fail. The course is divided into three parts. The first part introduces theories of global economics and the determinants for a nation/city to achieve power and prosperity versus poverty from a historical perspective. The second part examines specific case studies to enhance our understanding of concepts and broad intellectual perspectives to do with international trade, and monetary and financial systems. The course ends with current challenges in the global economy and the way nations and cities might resolve those problems. Special attention is given to the emergence of the world economy in the 21st century and the changing world economic order over time.

This course provides students with a broad understanding of international business, including the fundamental abilities and knowledge essential to the doing of business internationally: both in theory and practice. The course offers a foundation in international business. 

This course introduces fiction film screenwriting. It covers the professional practice of developing, writing and rewriting short film scripts in a collaborative, workshop environment. Upon completing this course, students will have significantly developed their practice in preparation for future screenwriting projects.

The course provides an introduction to the key neuroscience concepts and research techniques relevant to psychology.  Topics include the basics of neural function, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, sensorimotor processing, and research methods used. 

The course provides students with knowledge of the major theories and approaches to the analysis of international relations. In order to do so, it will focus on the structure of the international system, the dynamics of cooperation and conflict in the international arena, and the evolution of war in international politics. At the end of the course, students are able to distinguish the key factors underpinning cooperation and conflict in world politics and to use the major theories in international relations to understand contemporary international political phenomena. 

The course introduces students to the main theoretical traditions in international relations, including realism, liberalism, constructivism, the English School, and critical approaches to IR. It explores how these traditions conceptualize power, security, interests, institutions, and ideas, and how they contribute to our understanding of international politics. Students engage with the core theories of the discipline, such as balance of power, hegemonic stability, institutionalism, democratic peace, and capitalist peace. The course also examines the constructivist emphasis on norms and identity, the English School’s analyses of the evolution of the international order, as well as critical IR perspectives, which challenge mainstream theories by highlighting issues of inequality and colonialism.

What is queer art and who makes it? Has there always been queerness in art? This course looks at art-historical practices from a variety of historical, geographical, and social contexts, to explore how queerness, same-sex desire, or “homosexuality” have been represented, and how these representations changed over time, at intersections with their sociopolitical contexts. While the course has a predominantly contemporary focus, it begins with an examination of historical examples of same-sex desire in art before the 19th century. It looks at the modern developments brought by the Enlightenment and scientific progress which first invented and categorized “homosexuality” as a medical category and deviance, prompting 19th century artists to develop an elaborate language of coded homoeroticism. Following this historical introduction to the course, the focus shifts to a thematic approach: it covers a broad range of distinct practices and reflect on many different meanings of queerness, including: the US gay liberation history and the AIDS epidemic; thriving spaces of queer cultures such as waterfront and nightclubs; Irish, Polish, and Jewish queer artistic practices; and gender binary-defying practices of two-spirit Indigenous Americans and Indian Hijras. The course also looks at queer exhibitions and exhibiting queerness in various international contexts, and explores instances of explicit or implicit censorship of same-sex desire in art institutions. The course features a visit to an exhibition.