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LEGO ROBOTICS WORKSHOP
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
Program(s)
Summer in Cambridge
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Engineering
UCEAP Course Number
110
UCEAP Course Suffix
S
UCEAP Official Title
LEGO ROBOTICS WORKSHOP
UCEAP Transcript Title
LEGO ROBOTICS
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
This intensive practical course revolves around technical problem solving, engineering and programming using Lego Mindstorms sets. Students design, build, and program autonomous robotic systems to perform tasks such as measuring the gravitational constant or constructing a time piece. Students encounter and acquire an understanding of all aspects of such an architectural challenge, including research, design, hardware construction and software implementation. After some carefully selected introductory problems, teams of two students move on to design and build their own constructions. In order to facilitate creative thinking and free exploration, teams choose their projects freely, without constraints, under advisement. Teams work continuously throughout the duration of the course, with scheduling and planning at their own discretion, while receiving guidance and help from the instructors during the timetabled sessions. The course culminates in a series of presentations, where teams have a chance to demonstrate the fruits of their newly acquired skills and share their experiences.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
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LEGO ROBOTICS WORKSHOP
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Science and Mathematics
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INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH COMMON LAW
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
Program(s)
Summer in Cambridge
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science
Legal Studies
UCEAP Course Number
103
UCEAP Course Suffix
S
UCEAP Official Title
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH COMMON LAW
UCEAP Transcript Title
INTRO ENGLISH LAW
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
The course provides students with an understanding of common law procedure, common law reasoning and argumentation, as well as an understanding of the place of human rights within the contemporary English legal system. To this end, the course fosters understanding through activities and reading. This course consists of three parts: In Part I there is an introductory lecture and a visit to the Crown or Magistrates' Court, including the completion of a court observation form as part of a learning log. Seminars are used to discuss the court observation, the notion of a fair trial and how the various actors in the court process contribute to the idea of a fair trial. Students complete the learning log by bringing together their observations, reflections, readings, and discussions. In Part II lectures examine the sources of English common law from domestic legislation and judge-made case law to international treaties and the law of the European Union. In seminars, students are introduced to reading cases, discovering the judges' legal reasoning, and applying the principles to new legal problems. In Part III students concentrate on the development of case-law and recent legislative changes in relation to the crime of murder and the civil wrong of defamation. Seminars explore causation and intent, general and partial defences to murder, and defences to defamation.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
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INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH COMMON LAW
Host Institution Campus
University of Cambridge
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Social ScienceS
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READING JANE AUSTEN
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
Program(s)
Summer in Cambridge
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
English
UCEAP Course Number
117
UCEAP Course Suffix
S
UCEAP Official Title
READING JANE AUSTEN
UCEAP Transcript Title
READING JANE AUSTEN
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
Focusing on the relationship between Austen and her readers, this course uses a series of close readings from the six major novels to explore Austen's work in the context of her life and times, including subjects such as: Austen's portrayal of gender and power; the influence of war and colonialism in her work; her humor and wit; her sense of theatre and performance; her use of free indirect style; her subversion of the Gothic; and the many adaptations and afterlives of her fiction. Students read excerpts from Austen's major novels alongside her teenage writings, her letters and other works unpublished in her lifetime, paying special attention to Austen's narrative style, which challenges her reader to decipher fact from fiction, opinion from objectivity. Students place the works alongside each other, and they add into the mix the "Austenalia" which has become an essential element of her contemporary reception. This includes contemporary film adaptations and spin-offs, and allow students to investigate the rich intertextual relationship between Austen's core published oeuvre and the many revisionary readings it has inspired.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
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READING JANE AUSTEN
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Host Institution Faculty
Arts and Humanities
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SUPERVISION IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
Program(s)
Summer in Cambridge
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science
UCEAP Course Number
186
UCEAP Course Suffix
S
UCEAP Official Title
SUPERVISION IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
UCEAP Transcript Title
SUPERVISION: POL
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
A research project that assigns students to expert professors in their proposed research topic. The course takes the students' research capabilities to a more professional level. This can be most closely compared to what is called a supervised research project in the USA.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
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SUPERVISION IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
Host Institution Campus
International Summer School, Pembroke/King's College, Univ. of Cambridge
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Host Institution Department
Political Science
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN EMERGING ECONOMIES
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
Program(s)
Summer in Cambridge
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science
Economics
Business Administration
UCEAP Course Number
100
UCEAP Course Suffix
S
UCEAP Official Title
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN EMERGING ECONOMIES
UCEAP Transcript Title
GOV/EMERGING ECON
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
The rise of China and India, along with other big emerging economies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, has shifted the focus of future corporate governance research and reforms to the way these economies finance and govern their companies. This course examines in detail the various typologies, systems, and models of corporate governance in emerging economies, and identifies the key drivers of corporate governance evolution in these countries. A focus of the course is to look at issues of convergence to and/or divergence from the Anglo-Saxon model of corporate governance and how such issues are reshaping our understanding of the underlying goals and assumptions of future corporate governance research and reforms in these economies.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN EMERGING ECONOMIES
Host Institution Campus
University of Cambridge
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Economics, Business, Finance and Management
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SUPERVISION IN PHYSICS
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
Program(s)
Summer in Cambridge
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Physics
UCEAP Course Number
186
UCEAP Course Suffix
S
UCEAP Official Title
SUPERVISION IN PHYSICS
UCEAP Transcript Title
SUPERVISION: PHYS
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
A research project that assigns students to expert professors in their proposed research topic. The course takes which takes the students' research capabilities to a more professional level. This can be most closely compared to what is called a supervised research project in the USA.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
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SUPERVISION IN PHYSICS
Host Institution Campus
University of Cambridge
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HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
Program(s)
Summer in Cambridge
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Near East Studies
History
UCEAP Course Number
110
UCEAP Course Suffix
S
UCEAP Official Title
HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
UCEAP Transcript Title
HIST/MOD MID EAST
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
In 1800, two empires dominated the region of the Middle East: the Ottoman and Qajar Empires. Today, there are seventeen nation-states in the Middle East. How and why did this happen? This course serves as an introduction to the history of the modern Middle East with an emphasis on developing an understanding of how the region we call the Middle East came to take its current shape. Students explore the encounter with European modernity and subsequent European imperialism, modernisation efforts, responses to colonialism, the rise of new ideologies such as nationalism, and the role of religion in politics and political discourse. The course focuses on the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Turkey, and the Middle East in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
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HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
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Host Institution Faculty
Arts and Humanities
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MATHEMATICS WORKSHOP - THE ART OF DISCOVERY
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
Program(s)
Summer in Cambridge
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Mathematics
UCEAP Course Number
107
UCEAP Course Suffix
S
UCEAP Official Title
MATHEMATICS WORKSHOP - THE ART OF DISCOVERY
UCEAP Transcript Title
MATHEMATICS WORKSHP
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
This interactive course revolves around problem-solving and both playing and analyzing mathematical games. Throughout the course, students are given a sequence of carefully selected problems to solve individually. Students are given ample time to think about the questions - with hints from the instructors as needed - and they receive follow-up problems after each problem solved. Later in the course, the solutions and key learnings are presented by the instructors. Topics include mathematical games, graph theory, chapters from combinatorics, information theory, and invariants.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
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Host Institution Course Title
MATHEMATICS WORKSHOP - THE ART OF DISCOVERY
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Science and Mathematics
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
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SUPERVISION IN MATHEMATICS
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
Program(s)
Summer in Cambridge
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Mathematics
UCEAP Course Number
186
UCEAP Course Suffix
S
UCEAP Official Title
SUPERVISION IN MATHEMATICS
UCEAP Transcript Title
SUPERVISION: MATH
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
A research project that assigns students to expert professors in their proposed research topic. The course takes which takes the students' research capabilities to a more professional level. This can be most closely compared to what is called a supervised research project in the USA.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
Host Institution Course Title
SUPERVISION IN MATHEMATICS
Host Institution Campus
University of Cambridge
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
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SUPERVISION IN SOCIOLOGY
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
Program(s)
Summer in Cambridge
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Sociology
UCEAP Course Number
186
UCEAP Course Suffix
S
UCEAP Official Title
SUPERVISION IN SOCIOLOGY
UCEAP Transcript Title
SUPERVISION: SOC
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
A research project that assigns students to expert professors in their proposed research topic. The course takes the students' research capabilities to a more professional level. This can be most closely compared to what is called a supervised research project in the USA.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
Host Institution Course Title
SUPERVISION IN SOCIOLOGY
Host Institution Campus
Cambridge
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Sociology