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This course follows the process of locating, designing, constructing, and maintaining highways. It covers the highway planning process and the principles of route location and introduces the concepts of design speeds, operating speeds, and speed limits. Consideration is given to geometric link design and in particular vertical links and horizontal links. This is followed by pavement design, considering the design of both flexible and rigid pavements. The final part of the course considers alternative methods of surface drainage for highways, as well as the earthworks requirement for the construction of highways.

In this course, three major topics are covered: (1) treatment and reutilization technology in wastewater engineering, including wastewater and storm water systems; physical, chemical, and biological wastewater treatment unit processes; industrial wastewater treatment; advanced wastewater treatment and reclamation technology; sludge treatment and disposal technology; (2) treatment and reutilization technology in air pollution control engineering, including techniques for air pollution measurements; sulphur oxides and nitrogen oxides abatement techniques; VOCs and HCs abatement techniques; particulate matters abatement techniques; control technique of mobile source pollutants; and (3) treatment and reutilization technology in solid & hazardous waste engineering, including waste minimization and processing, biochemical waste conversion, thermal waste transformation, waste disposal, hazardous waste treatment and reuse.

This course introduces students to the key ideas, concepts and thinkers in the Western tradition which underpin the ways we approach the world in the different disciplines in the arts, from archaeology to literature, history to film, art to drama, religion to music. Students will have heard of Paul, Marx, and Freud, but may be less familiar with Connell’s arguments about gender, or Fanon’s writing on ethnicity. Students engage directly with the texts or images at the heart of the debate and gain a broad foundation in the ideas and concepts to understand the intellectual underpinnings of the Western approach to knowledge, wisdom, and truth.

The first part of the course introduces American art and artists, with a focus on the second half of the 20th century. It includes a survey of American art from Abstract Expressionism to Land Art, through Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Pop Art, Graffiti Art, Hyperrealism, Body Art. The course highlights the interplay between artistic practices and discourses. It brings to the fore the textual dimension or discursive component in a selection of postwar American artistic practices and artworks while examining the status of commentaries in their relationship to the artwork, be they statements by artists or by other commentators (reviewers, critics, writers, scholars). The second part of the course focuses on the Ekphrastic poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), the leading figure of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly on some of his most significant double works. Close reading is also essential in showing the fruitful relations between art and poetry in the Victorian Age.

This course gives students an introduction to the structure of Tongan as well as allowing them to develop basic language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. 

The course focuses on understanding the interaction among diets, nutrients, genetics and metabolism from molecular mechanisms to interventions.

This course provides knowledge about the most important power electronic circuit configurations, including both power semiconductors and passive components like inductors and capacitors in addition to how modulation and current control is done in the most relevant circuits. The course includes a project to design a power electronic circuit with a specific set of functional specifications. Participants develop and verify (electrically and thermally) a power electronic converter for a low power application like an electric scooter or bicycle motor drive. The battery supply and the motor are given, but the power electronic converter with its modulation and control are developed as a part of the course. Topics include diodes, transistors (BJT, IGBT, MOSFET), materials (silicon, silicon carbide), inductors, capacitors, sensors (current, voltage). Function, mechanical and thermal design, aging, drive and protection circuits, various bridges such as 1Q, 2Q and 3-phase 2- and multi-level converters, parasitic components, load currents, and earth currents, carrier modulation, sampled current control, tolerance band control of current, voltage control, switching power supplies, motor drive systems for DC and AC motors, solar cell converters, electric vehicle chargers, "Unified Power Flow Controllers" (UPFC), active power filters, and high voltage direct current (HVDC). Assumed prior knowledge: ESSF01 Analogue Circuits, ESS030, ESSF20 Physics of Devices, ESSF15 Electrical Engineering (EE) or MIE012, EIEF35 Electrical Engineering, basic course (ME) and FRT010, FRTF05 Automatic Control, Basic Course.

This course examines basic concepts in modern linguistics relating to sentence structure and how meaning is encoded. 

This course introduces some of the central issues and concepts involved in a critical consideration of punishment and penal systems. The course explores the main theoretical perspectives and applies these to some contemporary problems in the field. Topics include the aim of punishment and societal structure; the political economy of punishment; punishment and discipline; punishment and culture; probation, electronic monitoring, and risk; restorative justice; prison; the death penalty and life imprisonment ; and fines and intersectionality.
 

The course explores the needs and rights of children and young people involved in offending behavior and in the youth justice system, and how we should respond to those children and young people who cause harm to others. The course unpicks the politicization of youth crime and the demonization of young people, reflects on the recent development and explores the current Positive Youth Justice approach. The course considers the research evidence that attempts to explain why children and young people become involved in offending behavior, ranging from anti-social behavior to grave crimes. Understanding current priorities within the youth justice system, such as the over-representation of specific groups of children or their involvement in "county lines" offences, is an integral part of the course; the course also considers international perspectives on youth crime to see how youth justice systems operate elsewhere in the world.