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This course examines a range of contemporary issues in international politics across a number of areas of economics and politics, which include events that are occurring in contemporary world politics that have significant interests for students and layperson alike.  Students get out into the real world, thinking about the wider meanings of the events that they have witnessed and are witnessing in world politics. Students question what is the relationship between IR (as a body of knowledge) and international politics (as the subject of that knowledge)? Do the IR theories make sense in terms of contemporary developments, do they shift in line with these developments or do they lag behind politics? Whilst issues form the foreground, this question forms the background to the course. 

The course blends theoretical knowledge and practical skills, preparing students to understand and leverage AI technologies in various business contexts. The course begins with an insightful introduction to AI and Machine Learning, providing a solid foundation in AI concepts and terminologies. Discovering the evolution of AI and understanding the core mechanisms that drive machine learning and deep learning technologies provides the foundational knowledge to set the stage for more advanced topics. To dive deep into the realm of AI technologies and their applications in business, the course explores a wide array of AI technologies, including Natural Language Processing, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and demonstrates their practical applications.

This course provides an introduction to programming within the statistical package R. Various computer-intensive statistical algorithms are discussed and their implementation in R is investigated. Topics to include basic commands of R (including plotting graphics); data structures and data manipulation; writing functions and scripts; optimizing functions in R; and programming statistical techniques and interpreting the results (including bootstrap algorithms).

The course begins with exploring the concept of the "urban" in urban studies literature by examining what urbanization means to the governments, businesses, and people whose lives are affected by changes to the built environment of cities and to the ecosystems that support them. It moves on to consider urban contestations over policy, planning, and development among a wide range of stakeholders, from real estate developers to social movements to international NGOs. This interactive course draws on examples of urban policy and planning practices from both the global North and the South, with emphasis on Asia, Latin America, and the North Atlantic. It also includes a field visit to central London.

In this course students learn skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Arabic in a range of predictable situations and contexts. Students interact in a simple way orally and in writing in Arabic. They develop strategies for coping with unfamiliar language or unexpected responses, such as asking for repetition or clarification. They also use Arabic to reinforce/further their knowledge of other disciplines. 

The majority of the course focuses on analysis of inequality and poverty using monetary measures of living standards. The final section of the course broadens the perspective to consider a range of non-monetary and multidimensional measures reflecting the "Beyond Income" agenda.

This course focuses on supply chain management topics of operations management. Its goal is to help students become effective managers in today's competitive, global environment. Students gain an understanding of what supply chain managers do, and that supply chain management is a highly complex activity and involves many business functions.

This course explores the emergence and key concepts of the global market for art from the 18th to the 21st centuries through a discussion of its history, disruptions, and innovations. The course takes a thematic approach delivered via specific case studies to map the key concepts, individuals and institutions, and the various business models, and ethical and legal considerations that underpin the contemporary market. Students gain an understanding of the globalized art market economy through a comparative study of different geographical market regions across time, including the emergence of new global art market centers and the rise of the millennial collector. Throughout, the auction house and the unique behind-the-scenes access afforded to students of Sotheby’s Institute of Art, provides a detailed and practical case study of the history, development, and future of this market.

This course examines concepts of trauma and memory as historically and culturally contingent, asking what counts as trauma, for whom and under what circumstances. The course will open by tracing history of the concept of trauma in psychoanalysis and medicine, followed by critical perspectives from feminist, queer, transgender, critical race, and body studies perspectives. It also looks at different sites, forms and representations of trauma in literature, films, art, oral narratives, memoirs, photographs, and social movements.