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This course introduces students to several fundamental principles of biochemistry and metabolism. Students study the structure and function of major classes of biomolecules, including proteins, lipids and carbohydrates; the role of enzymes and enzyme kinetics in biological reactions; and the biochemistry of processes which support life, including cellular metabolism and its control. Students also explore the theory and practical use of commonly used biochemical lab techniques.

This course will lead students through building corpora, annotation, text-mining, quantitative analysis and visualization techniques using text data from English, various languages of Asia, the Pacific and beyond. It will provide the theoretical foundation to understand how corpora can answer research questions, as well as guided practice with computational skills. 

The course provides students with a broad understanding of the biology of microbial infections, focusing on bacterial and fungal human infections. Students study the mechanisms of microbial pathogenicity, starting with pathogen transmission and entry into the host, progressing through adhesion and invasion, to cell and tissue damage and host responses to injury. The diseases studied include tuberculosis, cholera, listeriosis, salmonellosis, gonorrhoea, pseudomembranous colitis, and key fungal infections. 

The EU is central to all of the most pressing challenges that we face: migration, environment, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, rule-of-law backsliding, AI regulation. It is the biggest and most ambitious experiment with governance beyond the state. This course focuses on how the EU works, and how it has navigated the tension between, on the one hand, the commitment to "do things together," solve collective problems by cooperation and the creation of institutions beyond the state, and, on the other hand, the desire for domestic self-rule, national interests and political identities. It covers the basic institutional, constitutional, and substantive discussions that animate EU law and that influence the EU-UK relationship. It covers the EU law aspects of the GLD and SQE. The course is composed of two parts. In the first weeks, students look at the EU’s institutional and legal structure. It covers the legislative process, the judicial institutions and the doctrines that are central to its legal order. The second part of the course moves from questioning how the EU works to what it actually does. 

This course examines the intricate relationship between large urban areas, climate change, and the governance of risks, crises, and disasters from a geographic and political science perspective. The unique vulnerabilities of urban areas to the impacts of climate change is examined, alongside an analysis of the pivotal role of politics and policy in mitigating and responding to these challenges. The course delves into the political, social, and environmental dimensions of global cities' challenges in facing a changing environment and the policies and governance strategies for promoting sustainability and resilience. It explores how the existing frameworks, tools and instruments dealing with risk, crisis and disasters, may be used in the context of climate change risks. The course explores risk, crisis, disaster and climate adaptation governance with a multi-level perspective, from international negotiations to local implementation and contestations. Each session is dedicated to discussing key notions through text analysis, providing the opportunity to work on case studies in groups.

Money is not just an economic tool: it is a form of power shaped by law. This course uncovers how the legal architecture underpinning the euro structures monetary policy, markets, and sovereignty. By analyzing the design of the Eurosystem and the role of the ECB, students learn to see monetary law as a crucial arena in which the dynamics of integration, power, and inequality are structured and contested. Combining legal analysis with political economy and history, the course equips future policymakers to think (critically) about monetary governance.

This course provides an account of structure-function relationships in proteins. To understand the molecular bases of biological function of proteins. Fundamental aspects of structural biology and protein chemistry are explained, with an emphasis on the relationship to biological function. Students are expected to have already a good understanding of biochemistry and chemistry and a basic understanding of protein structure. 

This course explores the emergence and transformations of women’s cinema in Britain from the 1950s with a focus on the contemporary period. It examines the position of women directors within the film industry (mainstream productions and art films) as well as their appropriation of genre and history.

The close analysis of novels, texts, and poems develops an understanding of the social novel in the contexts of American and British literature. This course introduces key authors, concepts, and critical tools in modern British and American literary studies. It provides the historical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks necessary to understand “The Poetics of Subversion” in both traditions. The British component focuses on Romantic poetry through selected works by Blake, Shelley, and others, using Stanley Appelbaum’s ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY as the primary text. The American component examines forms of poetic subversion in 20th‑century U.S. literature, with readings from Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde, and other major voices; a curated selection of poems IS made available to students. Students acquire analytical tools specific to the study of literary texts, become familiar with essential concepts in critical terminology, and practice applying these tools through guided exercises based on the program’s texts. Through this combined methodological and analytical approach, students deepen their understanding of the social and aesthetic stakes of British and American literature while strengthening their argumentative, interpretive, and communicative skills.

This course provides an in-depth critical introduction to a range of important concepts, musical works, institutions and people in music of a given time period, and explores both their impact on musical culture and their relationship to wider political, social and artistic issues.