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Digital technologies are more pervasive than ever, profoundly reshaping how people work and navigate today's job markets. Yet technological change is often framed as either a blessing or a curse, overlooking the complex ways it interacts with work. This course takes a step back to examine the foundations and stakes of contemporary, technology-driven changes in the domain of work. How are current technological changes affecting the nature of work? To what extent are they contributing to new or existing forms of labor market inequality? And what policy levers can effectively address new challenges posed by digital innovations in the area of work? Drawing on a multidisciplinary perspective, it explores the interactions between technology and labor market inequality, integrating insights from sociology, economics, and digital anthropology. Each class begins with a one-hour lecture and Q&A, followed by a one-hour student-led session. The second half follows a flipped-classroom format, in which a group of students designs and facilitates an activity (e.g., discussion, debate, case study, or mini-presentation) that engages peers in applying and critically examining course concepts.

This course provides the knowledge needed to participate in development and control of drivetrain in modern electric vehicles and in wind power generation. Lectures and arithmetic exercises include the following: Modulation and Current Control methods for power electronic circuits. This is a repetition of required prior knowledge built in the preceding course EIENnn “Power Electronic Control and Design Project”. EV drivetrains design based on vehicle performance requirements. Battery voltage level, Power electronic switching frequency, Maximum vehicle speed, Acceleration requirements, hill climbing requirements, Size requirements, Number of gears. Wind turbine design based on performance requirements. Turbine Size and rotor speed range, mechanical and electrical transmission, power optimization dependent on wind speed, ancillary services requirements. Modelling of electrical machines. Torque map, flux map, voltage limitation, current limitations, optimal operating points. Applications on both EV drives and Wind power generation. Control of electrical machines. Optimal operating points, Torque control, Magnetic flux limitations, Field weakening control, Applications on both EV drives and Wind turbines. Simulation tasks and laboratory work include electric machine (PMSM) in a vehicle drive system and electrical machine (PMSM) in a wind power system. These labs are prepared through simulation work, which is reported as a homework before the lab. After the laboratory, a report is written where simulations and measurements are compared. Assumed prior knowledge: EIENnn Power Electronic Control and Design Project, ESSF01 Analogue Circuits, ESS030/ESSF20 Physics of Devices, ESSF15 Electrical Engineering (EE, WE), MIE012/EIEF35 Electrical Engineering, basic course (ME)or EITF90 Electromagnetics and Electronics (FE) and FRT010/FRTF05 Automatic Control, Basic Course.

This course gives a comprehensive introduction to the main branches of intellectual property law, providing a solid foundation for advanced study. It covers the essential legal frameworks governing patents, copyrights, trademarks, and designs, examining how they incentivise creativity and innovation while balancing public interest. Students explore the legal principles and policy rationales underlying IP protection, gaining a deep understanding of core IP doctrines and the ability to apply this knowledge across various industries and legal contexts.

Starting from the assumption that gendered differences are at the basis of an unequal gendered system, to which are added other forms of domination, such as race and class, and that this inequality results from a social construction based on prejudices and stereotypes, this course explores how these mechanisms of gender assignment are reflected, constructed but also challenged in literature. It reflects upon the processes of construction and deconstruction of gender in a corpus of Anglophone and Francophone literary texts, and also in the back-and-forth movement between languages and cultures, insofar as geographical displacement very often induces a displacement of gendered and textual issues: how is gender inscribed in literature and how is it translated? The course considers the literary space as a symbolic space where gendered models can be transgressed and undermined. To do this, it alternates theoretical readings and textual analysis of literary texts in English and French. These texts are systematically contextualized and historicized in order to show how literary writing and translation are determined by ideology. Finally, the course tries to define what “feminist” literary translation is and investigates how queer theory has transformed literary and translation studies.

This course introduces students to the history and culture of Rome under the emperors. It focuses both on the city of Rome and its vast empire, from the Antonine Wall to the Euphrates. The course covers the political and social history of Rome from the death of Augustus to the late 3rd century AD, together with the material culture, monuments, art, literature and thought of the Romans during this period. Lectures cover topics such the expansion of the empire, the Roman army, Roman religion, monuments of the city of Rome, Roman villas, and Roman poetry and drama, as well as the various imperial dynasties. 

This course examines the development of contemporary physical and human geography, its disciplinary roots, substantive focus, analytical methods and practical applications. 

This course examines how international security is challenged by the risk of systemic disruptions that not only spread within a single system but may also spill over into other systems. Particular attention will be paid to the trinity of international security, risk, and uncertainty. Identifying, assessing, and mitigating risk are essential capabilities for achieving international security. 

This course provides an introduction to the fundamental approaches of cognitive psychology, biological psychology and the intersection of the two fields. It covers concepts relevant to phenomena such as attention, perception, language, memory, vision, emotion, and the neurophysiological processes involved in these. The course covers concepts relevant to brain functioning from chemistry, biology, cognitive science, and neuroscience, to explore how biological and cognitive explanations are complementary.

 This course introduces AI ethics, focusing on fundamental philosophical questions about the nature and implications of artificial intelligence. It is structured around twelve topics, such as: What is the nature of artificial intelligence? Can AI systems be moral agents? Can AI systems have minds, consciousness, or knowledge? How can we collaborate with AI systems while maintaining trust and avoiding discrimination? Can AI systems speak meaningfully and refer to the world? Do AI systems pose an existential threat to humanity? The course discusses some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary AI ethics, including trustworthiness, explainability, discrimination, alignment with human values, and the potential risks posed by advanced AI systems. At the end of this course, students should: understand central issues in the ethics of AI, understand relevant relations between these issues, clearly and concisely expound these issues in their own words, critically discuss questions and assess arguments, offer well-founded views on these issues.

This course supplements existing teaching on Romantic-period literature, allowing students the opportunity to study works by and about women written between 1789 and 1820. It complements two other courses at St Andrews: EN3162 and EN3163, but students are not required to take these classes. The focus of this course is the richly varied and often exciting fiction, poetry and non-fictional prose emanating from the "revolution in female manners" which sprang out of the momentous changes of post-1789 European society. Students explore how arguments about women’s education, marriage, inheritance, and status in society connect with the more general political and ideological ferment of the 1790s and beyond.