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This course develops knowledge and technical skills in the area of financial accounting and reporting, with a focus on the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). In addition, the course aims to enhance the ability to apply professional judgement in making sound financial reporting decisions and effectively utilizing accounting information in business decision-making. 

This course teaches remote sensing which is the use of aerial photographs to collect information about landscapes and the environment, with a focus on how to analyze aerial photographs. By doing so, students detect a wide range of features depending on the film emulsion used, e.g., black and white, normal color, and infrared. The course covers the theoretical aspects of aerial photography and includes several opportunities to interpret and handle different types of non-digital image information from landscapes and environments in different parts of the world.

The course examines how the mass media and political elites structure public opinion and political behavior, both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. While the majority of the course focuses on advanced industrial democracies, specific attention is given to media, elite and mass linkages in the developing world. Topics such as the persuasive effects of the media, strategic agenda setting of political elites, and electoral campaigning are covered from a multidisciplinary approach, covering work from economics, political science, and communication science. Special attention is devoted to social media and social media effects are put in a historical context. The course introduces students to a basic toolkit used by researchers to understand the relationship between the media, strategic political elites, and the public. The course covers the following topics: a historical and comparative look at political communication; media coverage and bias; political elites and electoral campaigns; the persuasion effects of the media: agenda-setting, framing, and priming; empirical analysis of media effects; and the use of social media in politics.

Mime/Pantomime is one of the oldest forms of human communication and, at the same time, one of the most essential tools for stage expression. The goal of this class is to explore the history, theories and practice of mimes, pantomimes, and other physically oriented/ non-verbal performances of each era, with the consideration of their cultural, societal background context. Our study includes comments of people, impressions of critics, or the sometimes vehement attacks of Christian authority on these activities. By doing so, we explore not only the art of physical expression but the social context in which a certain art form was created, modified, developed, and prospered.

This course helps students to better appreciate and understand the contemporary cultural and socio-political importance of film through three central routes. Firstly, a series of nine case studies of important international films released in British cinemas over the past five years illustrates and instantiates a diverse range of key aesthetic, ideological, and industrial contexts that 21st century filmmakers both contribute to and challenge through the work they produce. Secondly, the weekly case studies are drawn from a range of cinematic traditions, including animation, live-action fiction, and documentary filmmaking. Thirdly, and despite their diversity, each of the weekly case studies is taught in such a way as to equip students with some of the foundational critical skills and forms of knowledge associated with the academic study of film. These include an understanding of the relationship between authorial intent, audio-visual technique, and audience experience; an ability to locate and critique individual films within appropriate comparative contexts, such as directorial oeuvre and traditions of film genre; and an informed understanding of the varied range of critical traditions and methodologies that scholars past and present have brought to the study of cinema as both social institution and art form. This course is taught exclusively by filmmakers and film critics from Edinburgh College of Art of Art, School of Design.

The course considers the role(s) of particular specializations in theatre production, analyzes examples of contemporary practices in the field, and presents a program of work within which students will be expected to develop individual or group projects. Topics vary from year to year depending on availability of appropriate in-house or visiting expertise. Topics might be lighting, design, sound design, stage management, and production management.

This course introduces the legal, regulatory, and policy issues raised by social media platforms. It provides an accessible overview of current legal issues relating to social media, with a focus on European law. The first half of the course examines how platforms and states govern online content. The second half broadens the focus to the legal and political issues raised by social media platforms' business models and ownership structures. The assigned readings and lectures provide a thorough overview of the core issues and encourage critical thinking about the underlying power structures and conflicts of interests that shape legal decisions.

This course explores the laws governing and/or related to the Internet and various forms of technology and spans numerous interrelated topics such as free speech, privacy, reproductive technologies and other medical and technological “wonders.” While the course draws extensively upon Anglo-American scholarship, legal texts, and case studies, it also introduces different philosophical foundations of free speech and other relevant concepts as various as privacy, property, and personhood, with the goal of providing conceptual tools for students to examine the laws and case studies in their home jurisdictions.

The Roman empire was one of the longest-lasting in global history. Its enduring impact can be seen, heard and felt today, from language and architecture to film and video. This course examines Rome’s rise and fall, and asks how it successfully ruled over so many peoples for so long, in comparison with other world empires. It considers who made up empire emperors, ‘barbarians’, slaves and ordinary people. It also uncovers the background to early Christianity, Roman legacies inherited through European colonialism, and the numerous references to Rome in both high and popular culture today.

This course aims to fill the gap between the relevant mathematical knowledge necessary in Physics and its late appearance in Mathematics courses for School of Engineering Freshmen students. It allocates plentiful time for students to solve problems, aiding students to progress naturally to college Physics (which uses Calculus as the language); and acquire the basic capacity of calculation and application of Mathematics and Physics.