University of Bristol

This course explores key global challenges, including the climate emergency, decolonialization, racism in education, displacement, and migration. The course gives students the means to understand and design proposals (or strategies) to address these challenges. This course takes an exploratory and multidisciplinary look at what is known about climate change and will also examine the inter-relationship between climate change and other key issues. The course provides students the opportunity to creatively explore the role of education in developing hopeful proposals for responding to these challenges and for imagining social, political, and economic alternatives that promote environmental, social, and epistemic justice.

The course covers the fundamental concepts in microbiology, covering the basic biology of viruses, fungi and bacteria, and focusing on genetics and genomics, how genetic variability arises and how genetic information is processed into important phenotypic characteristics including structural diversity, metabolic diversity and virulence.

This course introduces students to several foundational traditions of thought in Greek and Roman philosophy. Authors or movements covered may include the pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, and Epicureanism. Among its themes is the nature of reality, its relation to human thought and language, the purpose of life, and the way to happiness.