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This course draws from sociological, anthropological, and psychological theory to provide a contemporary view of consumer behavior that moves beyond predominant behaviorist approaches to the subject area.  Students are introduced to research methods for studying consumer behavior, while also putting these methods into action to examine their own consuming behavior and others'.  They consider the multi-sensory nature of consumption, asking themselves why sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell are so important in understanding how and why people consume.

This course introduces students to core knowledge about child health and development, provides descriptions of common health problems of childhood and adolescence, and evidence-based responses to them, helps students understand the health policy context, including how health care provision aims to meet the health needs of children and young people, helps students understand how our physical and social environment shapes child health, and allows students to apply their knowledge and understanding to a range of topics and contexts.

This course considers international law's dynamics in the modern world and delves into some of the pressing structural, institutional, and thematic challenges of the international legal order. It explores the potential and risks posed by evolving norms, new actors, and failing institutions. It also critically studies the capacity of international norms, international institutions, and judicial bodies to deal with global issues like climate change and environmental protection, the right to self-defense, peacekeeping, human rights and democracy, and international criminal justice. This course provides important legal knowledge, both in terms of concepts and methods, to hone analytical and problem-solving skills.

This course examines how to better understand data, present clear evidence of the findings to the intended audience, and tell engaging data stories that clearly depict the points made though data graphics. 

This course engages witrh contemporary femninist thought, steering a course through the literary criticism, history, and theory of feminism. It examines the significant debates and key concept of feminist thought through a range of literary, political, and philosophical texts and encourages students to develop their own critical understanding of gender and equality issues in the contemporary period. Students are invited to explore the impact of feminism approaches on literary criticism, to understand the critical feminist project in its own terms, and to examine feminism in relation in Marxism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, post-structuralism, neo-liberalism, and international feminism.

In this course, students learn about the benefits as well as the challenges of building diverse and inclusive (D&I) organizations. The course is grounded in social and organizational psychology. In addition, students are introduced to a multidisciplinary approach to D&I (e.g., drawing on economics, law, gender studies, media studies, and sociology to name a few) to gain a multilevel understanding of how to promote D&I at the institutional level (e.g., which laws, organizational structures, AI systems promote or limit D&I?), the experiential level (e.g., why do people resist D&I policies? What is it like to not feel included at work?) and the symbolic level (e.g., how is power and status in organizations symbolized? How diverse is an organization’s board and why does that matter?). In work groups, existing D&I initiatives are analyzed and a theoretically sound and evidence-based approach to change these is developed. 

This course examines a wide range of Elizabethan and Jacobean tragic drama, including plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Carey, Middleton, and Webster. It explores a variety of tragic modes in the period - including revenge drama, "heroic" tragedy, closet theatre, tragi-comedy, and domestic tragedy as well as the range of theatrical contexts and staging practices that developed across the 16th and 17th century. The course considers how dramatists responded to these key concerns and it also examines different critical and conceptual understandings of tragedy.

This course introduces students to global health by exploring the history of global health, the global disease burden, topical issues in health and development, and key interventions to improve health worldwide. At the same time, this course helps students understand how different disciplines - such as economics, political science, and anthropology - relate to global health.

The course covers human psychological development from childhood to old age and methods used in research in development psychology. It describes theoretical perspectives on personality and related fields of application. The course consists of four modules, this is the second module: Development in Adults. The module covers development during adulthood and the aging process based on theories of developmental, personality, and social psychology. Different aspects of aging are addressed, such as stress, mental and physical health, and ill health.

The course comprises a set of interdisciplinary lectures designed to enquire into the brain systems that are engaged during the experience of subjective mental states such as those of beauty, desire, and love.