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This course provides an introduction to applied medical ethics and law related to the development of new products in the field of bioengineering. It provides knowledge of the regulatory mechanisms of approval of products for clinical use in the UK, the EU and the US, risk management, and design processes.

This course is a challenging introductory course and is for non-History of Art students. It examines modern and contemporary art focusing on objects in London's galleries and museums. The content of this course changes each year, but it introduces students to key issues and themes in British, European, and North American art from the mid-19th century through to the present day, by focusing on works in institutions such as Tate Britain and Tate Modern as well as smaller contemporary galleries such as The Whitechapel.

This course explores various concepts of economic inequality, including a consideration of measurement and data issues. It reviews key theories about the relationship between economic inequality and economic development, including the causes and consequences of inequality levels.

What kind of anthropology is it that we, as scholars and students of the discipline, should or need to be advocating – also and especially with a view to current timely demands for conceptual and structural decolonization? How has anthropological critique questioned the fundamentals of the discipline (of anthropology) itself? Which programmatic pathways have been sketched out to indicate constructive ways forward? What do we think of them; which others would we like to raise; why? Does the inclusion of, and focus on theory from the South already constitute a fundamental change? How might anthropology engage constructively with thinkers and theoretical contributions from the global South? In which ways, finally, does it matter that we as researchers and social agents are inevitably positioned in certain ways, often belonging clearly to regions of the Global North or South? This seminar course will pursue these and related questions with a view to some classic and some recent readings, both from within and outside anthropology, and engaging with theorizing from the South, especially from Africa.

This course provides an introduction to finance by examining the basic concepts, tools, and techniques of corporate financial management. It examines the structural and functional aspects of financing and investment decisions of a modern corporation. Topics include raising capital from capital and money markets; the cost of capital; analysis and evaluation of investment projects; capital budgeting; management of corporate liquidity; capital structure policy; dividend policy; financing forecasting; time value of money; interest rates; portfolio theory; the capital asset pricing model; and stock valuation.

This course examines the great contemporary problems of poverty and inequality within the context of a globalizing world. Sources and selected empirical cases of poverty and inequality are explored and related development theories and policies are examined. The geographical scope of the course ranges from local to international. One or more African languages may accompany English in some lectures or reading material. Coursework counts 60%; an examination counts 40% of the final mark. Course entry requirements: SOC1001F or SOC1005S or at least three 1000-level social science courses, and be in the second or subsequent year of study.

This course explores research issues in the newly emerging field of mobile computing. Many traditional areas of computer science and computer engineering are impacted by the constraints and demands of mobility. Examples include network protocols, power management, user interfaces, file access, and security. 

This course considers popular music within a social context. This does not just mean how and where popular music is used (though this is important) but, rather, how popular music is socially constructed: how do social conditions give rise to particular forms of popular music, and how do they affect the creation of popular music, and its reception? Using both historical and contemporary examples, the unit introduces students to some of the key ideas needed to understand popular music sociologically.

This course is designed for beginners who can read and write Hiragana, Katakana, and some basic Kanji. It is already assumed that students have already learned the basic Japanese vocabulary and grammar for the beginner level. The course aims to allow students to review what they have learned previously and to be able to use their knowledge in communicating in the Japanese language. 

By the end of this course, students should be able to express themselves or obtain information from Japanese people on a variety of everyday topics using the vocabulary and grammar of the first half of Elementary Japanese.

This course studies the fundamentals and recent progress in the research fields of molecular biology, cell biology, and physiology with plants, animals, and microbes as well as chemistry of biologically active natural products. More than ten Professors and Associate Professors will give lectures weekly to introduce their specific research fields.

The goal of this class is to obtain the background knowledge concerning life science for agricultural and industrial applications as well as the basic principles of biochemistry and biotechnology.