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This course considers the environmental factors that control and modify human and non-human behavior. Generally, an experimental laboratory approach is taken, and quantitative theories are stressed. Topics include: classical and operant conditioning, theories of reinforcement, the stimulus control of operant behavior, behavioral analysis of problem solving, concept and language learning, choice, self control, memory, and experimental design. 

This course introduces the field of user experience (UX) design involving the study, planning, and design of the interaction between people (users) and computers, and the resulting user experience. The course covers the basics of relevant issues, theories, and insights about the human side, the technical side, and the interaction (interface) between the two, and the process involved in designing the user experience. The course includes both theoretical and practical work and requires students to take prerequisites

This course introduces students to selected ways in which human geographers seek to understand cities. It explores the relationship between people and place. Primarily engaging with London, students consider how the city has been shaped over time by its people and how, in turn the city experience has shaped and continues to shape the lives of those who live there. Students consider how the city is described, imagined, and planned through official discourses, and how people create a sense of place, of self, and of others in the city. In the fall semester, students explore the relationship between planning, architecture, design, and people’s identities. In the spring semester, students explore the relationship between infrastructure and people. Throughout students consider how human geographers engage with the lived experience of the city through the lens of, for example, ethnicity, class, and sexual identity.

This course delves into matrix algebra, calculus (including differentiation and integration), and introductory optimization techniques, all of which are essential in the social sciences, particularly economics and finance. The primary focus of the course lies in mathematical analysis via programming with Octave. The course employs Octave (the free version of Matlab) to facilitate both analytical calculations and simulations.  

The course does not assume that students have prior proficiency in calculus or programming and will start from the basics, progressing to the theoretical application of calculus, notably optimization. This term, we will emphasize studying static optimization using the Lagrange method. Optimization theory serves as the cornerstone of economics and finance.  

For anyone interested in economics, finance, and programming, this course will be invaluable. 

This course introduces some fundamental styles and plays from European avant-garde theatre and sets them within an artistic and socio-political context. Futurism, Dada, Expressionism and the Theatre of the Absurd are included. Special attention is paid to Spanish and Catalan drama. 

This course focuses on skills to design and execute communication plans using social media. It explores the social, political, and economic impact of social media on public relations and strategic communication. It also discusses how social media, as part of the internet, affects private companies, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and people's daily lives.

Students gain a systematic understanding and a critical awareness of current problems and recent insights in relation to different theoretical approaches to cookery and eating as cultural processes that are materially embedded and embodied. This contributes to the overall program aim of challenging assumptions about what makes humans similar and different across borders. The course also fosters values of social responsibility and inclusion by exploring how diverse groups of people approach food in their cultural settings.  

The technical aspects of environmental issues in Egypt are examined taking into account the cultural, social, and political dimensions upsetting the balance of the environment. Major issues such as water scarcity, global warming, desertification, urban pollution, tourism, and demographic pressures are presented and analyzed.

This course introduces a range of advanced and current topics in evolutionary ecology with a strong focus on studies using vertebrate systems. Evolutionary ecologists investigate the interactions between and within species, and, for example, consider the evolutionary effects of competitors, mutualists, predators, prey, and pathogens. Lectures and assigned readings provide a foundation in evolutionary ecology and a sampling of specific topics (i.e., Life-History Theory, evolutionary medicine, phenotypic plasticity, ecological speciation, and the evolution of sex). 

The course builds upon all areas of business and their related theories that are introduced by ELE402 Enterprise Management. These include the roles of personnel, marketing, sales, and production. The roles of these departments is further developed in terms of the introduction of a new product and the impact of the business on the development of that product and vice-versa, i.e. the implication of success and failure, risk assessment etc.