English

This course enables students to develop English conversation strategies for formal and informal settings. Emphasis is on developing effective communication skills which accompany superior pronunciation and sophisticated use of grammar

This course develops an integrated framework of household finance for private and public use. It covers how to maximize intertemporal utility given an individual's life-cycle income; how to become rich if one wants to pay the price for it; how to save, borrow, and purchase property (and if one should do it at all); et cetera. In terms of public policy, the course provides a holistic view of wealth and income inequality, how poverty restricts sound financial decision making, and how policies can improve social outcomes by reducing (or increasing) income inequality. Topics include developing a sound integrated framework for individuals to manage their finances with a long-term horizon in mind (based on the permanent income hypothesis); analyzing the impact of credit restrictions and hyperbolic discounting in household financial management in poor and middle-income countries; investigating the role of public policy in improving household financial decisions; and explaining the determinants of wealth and income inequality and how economic policies can improve social outcomes. 

The course introduces students to the social, political, and cultural contexts out of which its set texts emerge and explores the diverse ways poets, novelists, playwrights and essayists have engaged with their historical moments and written the city. The course is arranged in reverse chronological order, to give a sense of digging down into the strata of London’s accumulated meanings. The course also helps lay the foundation for students' own writing life in London over the course of their study at King’s. 

This course introduces students to Film Studies from a historical and a thematic perspective covering the 19th to the 21st century. It also intends to explore the relationship between Film and other media such as painting, photography, and/or social media). The course also introduces the various ways one can analyze a feature movie and/or a documentary.

The course is a survey course concerned with the histories, languages, literatures, and cultures of the Celtic-speaking peoples from the Iron Age until the end of the Middle Ages. Its principal objective is to guide students to a fully contextualized understanding of the languages, nations, and material and artistic cultures that came to be considered 'Celtic'. Topics include Greek and Roman authors' description of 'Celts' (i.e., in central Europe, Gaul, and Britain) alongside those peoples' visible artefacts and literature; the speakers of Celtic languages (e.g., Welsh and Gaelic) in medieval Britain and Ireland and their emerging intellectual culture; and the ways in which Celtic-speaking peoples understood themselves or were understood by others, and how they related to each other.

This course analyzes discourses of multiculturalism and interculturalism, and their significance to theatre. It explores ethnicity, and its theatrical representation through casting, as an area of fierce debate: performances that investigate ethnicity frequently find themselves at the center of controversial debates, even street protests; at the level of casting decisions. Drawing upon literature from the social sciences, post-colonialism, and gender studies, the course explores the power relationships that shape the production and reception of ethnicities through casting, and examine a selection of case studies where issues around representation in casting have exploded into the views. 

This course examines the challenges women filmmakers have faced, as well as the unique and innovative contributions they have made to film aesthetics and narrative form. It introduces students to some of the central debates within feminism from the 1970s onwards, in particular feminism's influence on women's independent film production, and with a focus on questions of female authorship. What kind of aesthetic and narrative strategies have women filmmakers used to create alternative fictions and documentations of gender conventions, female pleasure, everyday life and social experience? Analyzing the work of female filmmakers who have broken with or resist institutional and aesthetic conventions, and who work primarily on the margins of mainstream industries, this course will address the relationship between film form and ideology. 

This course is mainly designed for undergraduate students in the field of engineering, electrical engineering and computer science to provide basic knowledge on computer networks. The content of the course focuses on the analysis of the development trend of communication networks and its underlying principles; the design of communication protocols, and basic network performance analysis and simulation. The course covers Medium Access Control (MAC Layer), Network Layer, and Transport Layer. This course also provides the foundation for the "Network and Multimedia Experiment" course of NTUEE and other advanced courses on networking and and wireless networks.