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As the demand for digital visualization is rapidly growing, there is a need to learn about computer graphics. Today, industries such as animations, games, movies, advertising, architecture, and many other fields are no longer sustainable without computer graphic technologies. With the development and broader utilization of digital visualization, there is a growing need to develop basic knowledge of computer graphic technology. This course aims to review basic computer graphic tools and then introduce various techniques for creative visual expression for a wide range of applications. This course is to understand the usages and the characteristics of essential 2D graphic tools; to engage in the creative process by producing artwork and compositions; and to experiment with expressivity to elevate both the aesthetic and emotional qualities within the artistic endeavors, mainly learning how to use photoshop/illustrator/InDesign. 

The purpose of this course is to understand how race and gender issues have been represented in different dramatic texts since the late 19th to the early 21st century modern drama. Each week the course discusses one (or sometimes two dramatic) text(s) to examine how each playwright use different dramatic strategy, symbols, mise-en-scene, and characterization to convey his or her social and political messages. By the end of the course, students understand several playwrights' dominant aesthetics and historical contexts and the critical turning points in the history of modern and contemporary drama from 1870s to the present.

The aim of this course is two-fold: to take a retrospective view to trace the evolution of media sociology, and a prospective view to assess current challenges confronting sociological analyses of the new media paradigm – monopoly-owned and user-driven digital platforms – the business models which underpin them, including algorithmic journalism, and their perceived "surveillance" effects.

This course examines geography education, past, present, and future. Geography in schools is the focus, with some other educational contexts considered. The course offers a space for students to reflect on their own geographical education, considering how and why geography education varies. Students are encouraged to think about the potential of geography in education, as the world changes.

The course covers inter-religious relations between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from a variety of thematic and interdisciplinary perspectives. The content provides an understanding of the historical roots and contemporary effects of the relations between the three religions. The basics of inter-religious relations are learned and analyzed. Themes covered include gender and sexuality, eschatology and apocalypticism, the intersection of religious and civil law in Western societies, and the challenges of maintaining individual and community identity in a shifting cultural, social, and political landscape.

This is a research-led and research-based course, providing an introduction to the fields of cultural and historical geography. It has a slightly different emphasis to other courses because it explores some of the philosophies and methodologies used to create cultural and historical geographies, and is designed to give students the experience and confidence to undertake their own independent research using UCL’s museum and archive collections. The course encourages students to think critically about questions of representation, different kinds of materials, forms of analysis, and engage with questions of politics and ethics.

The course helps students to become confident with a range of data structures and algorithms and able to apply them in realistic situations. The course provides the tools required to analyze a problem and decide which algorithms or algorithmic techniques to apply to solve it. The course involves practical programming and encourages a thoughtful approach to analysis and design problems.

This course studies the cellular initiation and construction of mammalian organisms. The major models of amniote and mammalian developmental biology are used to facilitate the study of early development (cleavage, gastrulation, and axis formation), building with ectoderm (the vertebrate nervous system and epidermis), and building with mesoderm and endoderm (organogenesis). Students are able to comprehend and explain the cellular initiation and construction of mammalian organisms using mechanisms of cell differentiation, morphogenesis, and stem cell potential. Students are able to comprehend and explain the major models of amniote and mammalian developmental biology. Students are able to comprehend and explain how the major models of amniote and mammalian developmental biology are used to facilitate the study of early development (cleavage, gastrulation, and axis formation), building with ectoderm (the vertebrate nervous system and epidermis), and building with mesoderm and endoderm (organogenesis).

Prerequisites: Organic Chemistry 1, Biochemistry 1