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This studio course focuses on issues and design considerations particular to printmaking. Students acquire specific printmaking techniques, skills and processes to gain competence in this hands-on medium. Students who successfully complete this paper should be able to: Demonstrate understanding of the use of form, texture, balance, weight, hierarchy and visual coding in art and design; Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and experimentation within the practice of printmaking; Apply exploratory thinking to generate ideas and creative works in response to project challenges; Competently utilize iterative printmaking processes to transform ideas into technically resolved outcomes; Source and utilise information in a variety of forms and contexts to support their process.

Spanning political theory and practice, the course begins with an assessment of influential 19th-century critiques of capitalism and industrialism. Students then consider the rise of modern ecologism and the recent turn to green capitalism, which in turn sets the stage for in depth engagement with ecology and the politics of technology, contemporary anarchist ecologies, post-capitalist and post-industrial utopian imagination, and contemporary anti-capitalist and ecological social movements.

This course offers a dynamic and comprehensive introduction to the systems and politics of global health in low and middle-income countries. Students examine critical challenges, including pandemics, ageing populations, pharmaceutical innovation, and the climate crisis, alongside the key determinants of health and their consequences for development. Students explore policies designed to improve health and development, the barriers to their implementation, and practical strategies to overcome these obstacles. Topics include global health governance, universal health coverage, health system strengthening, and the politics of disease burdens. The course also considers the impacts of migration, conflict, and climate change on health.

This course offers a study of the classification and morphology of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial animals, and consists of lectures and laboratory practicals. Students dissect and demonstrate representatives from most animal phyla with emphasis on their morphology, development, and general biology. During the laboratory practicals, students utilize modern morphological instruments and interpret results from videos of live animals and from electron and confocal microcopy. The lectures review topics including embryology, larval development, life cycles, body skeletons, motility, reproduction, and managing of body functions in general. The course utilizes specimens in the Natural History Museum collections. This course requires a strong background in biology, zoology, or a relevant field as a prerequisite.

This course examines the basic principles of receptor pharmacology and of pharmacokinetics with emphasis on molecular and cellular mechanisms of action, clinical uses and adverse effects using lectures, tutorials and practicals. The lecture topics start with the classical drug receptor theory followed by pharmacokinetics and molecular pharmacology of drug receptors and their regulation including receptor-mediated signal transduction and membrane ion channel function. Autonomic pharmacology (adrenergic and cholinergic) is introduced. The module also focuses on the pharmacology of autacoids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents, corticosteroids, immunosuppressants, anti-asthma drugs, and anti-arthritic drugs.

This is an introductory course on the history of economics. The course reviews the history of economics to understand what economics is, clarifying economic ideas which have been a part of today's economics; those that no longer receive much attention, and those which have potential to be resurrected. Please note that the history of economics is different from economic history. Basic knowledge of world history from the modern times is required as this course reviews the way in which economists have tried to understand economic problems. 

The global challenge of sustainable development requires solutions and mindset that bridge traditional divisions between nature and culture, and the technical and social sciences. Sustainable development requires that engineers and other professionals are able to include social and ecological considerations alongside technical and economic requirements in managing projects and infrastructure. This course outlines the challenges of sustainability, introduces some theories which can help think through these challenges more clearly, and applies them to city and infrastructure systems. As each topic, such as ecological modernization, and sustainable consumption, is introduced, students learn about the theories behind the topic, they discuss relevant papers that shed light on the topic, and they discover the practical examples of relevance of the topic.