University of Bristol

This course covers modern approaches to artificial intelligence with a focus on neural networks (NNs). Among other topics, students cover discussions of NN loss functions, optimization, and back propagation. Throughout the course there is a focus on students understanding theory and modelling principles in order to apply them effectively to AI. At the end of the course, students apply these principles to other AI tasks and learn how that can be done in practice.

The course explores the needs and rights of children and young people involved in offending behavior and in the youth justice system, and how we should respond to those children and young people who cause harm to others. The course unpicks the politicization of youth crime and the demonization of young people, reflects on the recent development and explores the current Positive Youth Justice approach. The course considers the research evidence that attempts to explain why children and young people become involved in offending behavior, ranging from anti-social behavior to grave crimes. Understanding current priorities within the youth justice system, such as the over-representation of specific groups of children or their involvement in "county lines" offences, is an integral part of the course; the course also considers international perspectives on youth crime to see how youth justice systems operate elsewhere in the world. 

Machine Learning is the science of how we can build abstractions of the world from data and use them to solve problems in a data-driven way. This course allows students to both understand the principles upon which Machine Learning methods are based and learn the practical skills required to apply Machine Learning to solve real problems.

In this course, students progress through a series of weekly workbooks that consist of structure practical tasks, each with specific outputs and objectives. Reference images are provided for many of these tasks, so that students may assess their own progress and determine when they have successfully achieved the objectives of a workbook. Completion of these formative tasks provides students with the skills and knowledge required to pass the assessments. 

The course introduces students to British & Irish film and television through the study of a selection of examples and topics. These might cover specific periods, styles and traditions, themes, stars, filmmakers and television providers, among others. Through this approach, students are introduced to some of the ways in which British and Irish identities and cultures are represented and constructed on screen.

This course introduces students to the rich diversity of poetry in English and equips them with the skills and knowledge to better understand, and better enjoy, that poetry. The poetry studied ranges throughout the history of English Literature, and tutorial work generally focuses on the close reading of poetic texts. Weekly lectures and tutorials study matters including: rhyme and meter; poetic imagery; a number of poetic forms such as the sonnet; a number of poetic genres such as epic or pastoral. There is also space for students to look at poetry from a variety of aesthetic and historical contexts and to consider poetry from diverse authorships.