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Students develop skills in data analysis, structuring decisions, building decision models, risk assessment, decision making under uncertainty, recognizing areas where business analysis can add value, selecting appropriate types of analyses and learn to apply them in a small scale, and quick-turnaround fashion. This is a practical course, which uses state-of-the-art decision support software to illustrate how to apply the methodologies introduced. Therefore, the course consists of a mixture of lectures and computer workshops. The software used in the lectures and workshops is Microsoft Excel, with add-ins @Risk for simulation, PrecisionTree for decision analysis, and Solver for optimization. 

The behavioral differences between individual cells from normal tissues and those from tumors, and how cancer cells learn to invade other tissues and create the metastases responsible for cancer mortality. To introduce the major concepts and principles of cancer biology including tumor viruses, oncogenes, signal transduction, tumor suppressors, the cell cycle, angiogenesis, metastasis, and cancer treatment. Students are able to comprehend and explain the molecular and cellular nature of cancer. Students are able to comprehend and explain tumorigenesis, maintenance of genomic integrity, angiogenesis, and metastasis. Students are able to comprehend and explain tumor immunology, immunotherapy, and cancer treatment.

Prerequisites: Organic Chemistry 1, Biochemistry 1, Cancer Biology (recommended)

The course examines contemporary social theoretical explanations of the salience of risk within so-called "late modern" society.  The course then explores the factors that shape the politics, processes, and outcomes of risk governance, as well as the factors that shape public perceptions of environmental risk and the associated problems posed for policy-makers, businesses, and other stakeholders in communicating risk issues.  The course finishes with reflections on the future management of environmental risk issues.

This course examines three areas: the interaction between language structure and use on the one hand, and social structure and social norms on the other (sociolinguistics); the relationship between linguistic and cultural knowledge (anthropological linguistics); and the inter-relationship of language and other cognitive structures, especially as it is revealed through language acquisition (psycholinguistics).

This course provides an introduction to the industrial, cultural, and theoretical histories of Chinese/Chinese language/Sinophone cinemas. Since the 1980s, filmmakers such as Ann Hui, Tsai Ming-liang, Ang Lee, Jia Zhangke, and Wong Kar-wai have made Chinese-language films known to the audiences in Europe and North America. This course discusses the historical contexts in which these filmmakers emerged. Also, it introduces lesser-known filmmakers and film practices and suggests new understandings of what Chinese/Chinese language/Sinophone cinemas are.

Celtic languages are presently spoken in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, on the Isle of Man, in Cornwall and in Brittany, as well as in a small number of diasporic communities. This course explores the emergence of these Celtic speech communities into the historical record in the Middle Ages, the social, political and cultural forces which have shaped their development, and their current prospects for survival. The impact of the development of central state authorities, the protestant Reformation, wider British and French politics, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the emergence of the modern nation-state, contemporary minority discourses will be considered. Literary and other sources in the various Celtic languages (in translation) will be used to explore these themes. While the focus will be sociolinguistic and literary, linguistic characteristics of the languages will be referred to from time to time.

This course is a challenging introductory course and is specifically for non-History of Art students. The specific content changes each year, but the course introduces students to various themes and issues in architectural practice and patronage from the medieval period to the present day, focusing on buildings and sites in London such as Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, Chiswick House, the South Bank Centre, the Barbican, and Canary Wharf.

The course provides a historical overview of language and gender theory and research. It examines how language is used by men and women, and the linguistic means by which they are portrayed, to understand the process of gender (re)construction in society. Topics include essentialist and constructionist views on sex and gender, essentialist and constructionist approaches to language and gender, construction of gender identities, notions of femininity and masculinity, and representation of gender and language use in specific domains. It also involves critical analyses of gendered texts from various domains.

This broadly chronological course gives students a detailed understanding of black and Asian British writing in its historical, political, and cultural contexts. It examines a range of works by black and Asian writers published in Britain. It explores how black and Asian writers shape and reflect a changing Britain and how race, gender, class, migration, and generation intersect and impact on changing notions of British identity. Students consider how these writers have shaped shifting notions of "Britishness" and engaged with a range of pressing contemporary issues including racism, anti-racism, multiculturalism, gender politics, terror, asylum-seekers, Islamophobia, and debates on free-speech.

Students explore how women influenced and were influenced by the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War, Decolonization, leftist movements in the 1960s, revolutions, authoritarian regimes and struggles related to gender, racial and LGBTQ+ equality. Through broad global, regional, and comparative analysis in lectures and in-depth historical study of key women, groups, movements or institutions, students explore different methodologies for examining history in the 20th and 21st century. The course’s geographical focus is the Americas, including the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, though there are also opportunities to explore comparisons and contrasts with other parts of the world including Britain, Europe, and Asia.