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This intensive course enables students to understand and measure the process, impact, funding needs, and challenges of sustainable social entrepreneurship. Students learn about the growing trend of entrepreneurs looking to identify and bring about transformative societal change through their business activities. Students assess current approaches, profitability, challenges, and opportunities of social entrepreneurship, as both business owners and consumers seek to find sustainable solutions to complex social problems. Discover how social entrepreneurs develop creative solutions to address both local and global social problems and gain the tools to make an impact on the lives of others. The course increases awareness and understanding of the main challenges affecting the world, and how Social Enterprises can be a definite factor of change. The course focuses on team development; self-awareness for leading, persuading, and working with others; effective business planning; and communicating. The subject concentrates on social impact projects targeting areas such as the environment, inequality, poverty, education, future employment, etc. The course re-introduces key concepts that students may have studied in previous syllabuses in entrepreneurship, economics, and social science. It also develops more advanced themes that address emerging issues in business planning, finance, funding, and marketing literature specifically relevant to projects with a social impact. The course emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of social change and stresses practical business matters when addressing transformation via the formulation of a specific proposal/project that students deliver at the end of the term.

This course discusses fluid statics (hydrostatic forces on submerged plane and curved surface, buoyancy, fluids in rigid motion), fluid kinematics(lagrangian and eulerian descriptions-acceleration field and material derivative, streamlines, streaklines, pathlines, profile plot, vector plot, contour plot), Reynolds transport theorem, control volume analysis, conservation of mass, conservation of momentum (Newton's Laws and choosing control volume, linear momentum and angular momentum), conservation of energy, mechanical energy and efficiency, the Bernoulli equation and its applications, general energy equation and energy analysis of steady forms, dimensional homogeneity, dimensional analysis and similarity, method of repeating variables and the Buckingham pi theorem, ideal flow, compressible flow.

The course presents the image of Scandinavia and Europe and its culture and history in television series and films. The examples range from German historical drama and British literary adaptations to current representatives of Scandinavian television drama. Furthermore, the course presents and uses theories that highlight the phenomena discussed in the course.

This course explores the field of study on the European Union's (EU) foreign policy with a focus on the relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the EU and the PRC in 1975, this set of bilateral relations has undergone different stages of interactions. This course concentrates on the time period beginning from 2013. The first part of the course introduces fundamental knowledge about EU foreign policy: an overview of the field of study in the literature and main actors and the coherence issue in EU foreign policy. The second part provides a brief historical overview of EU foreign policy towards the PRC before 2013. The third part examines EU foreign policy towards the PRC in the post-2013 timeframe through different dimensions: economic and trade, foreign and security, values and norms, and the EU facing United States-PRC strategic competition.

This interdisciplinary course examines the representation of London in a variety of cultural outputs from the Victorian to the contemporary period. In particular, it analyzes how writers and artists have expressed their perception of the city as a dark site of social tensions, mystery, crime, and detective work. Alongside representative literary texts (from Dickens and Conan Doyle to Ackroyd), the course makes room for a significant amount of visual material such as illustrations (Doré, Cruikshank), films (Hitchcock, Reed), television dramas (Ripper Street, Sherlock), and documentaries (Keiller, Ackroyd). It is also supplemented by visits to UCL Collections and other London Museums.

This course offers a theoretical and practice-based approach to exploring the nature of digital gaming. It is eclectic in scope and students are guided to make their own digital games and to critically reflect upon what their games are able to achieve. Students then explore the relationship between games, narratives, and stories, including the famous ludology versus narratology debate that characterized the birth pangs of game studies as a field. Can games tell stories? If so, what kind of stories are they most suited to telling? Next, students consider the distinctive but also varied practices that characterize gaming. These include counterplay, transgressive play, casual play, competitive play, speedruns, etc. Games are also considered as philosophical texts that can prompt us to rethink and question reality, agency, time, and our relationships with our in-game avatars.