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FOUNDATION FRENCH LANGUAGE 1
Country
United Kingdom - Scotland
Host Institution
University of Edinburgh
Program(s)
University of Edinburgh
UCEAP Course Level
Lower Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
French
UCEAP Course Number
12
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
FOUNDATION FRENCH LANGUAGE 1
UCEAP Transcript Title
FOUND FRENCH 1
UCEAP Quarter Units
8.00
UCEAP Semester Units
5.30
Course Description

The course is a communicative course and develops students' understanding and production of the language at CEFR level A1. It is composed of two classes per week, and students must attend both classes. The course introduces basic French grammar and develops students' reading, speaking, and writing skills. 

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
ELCF7011
Host Institution Course Title
FOUNDATION FRENCH LANGUAGE 1
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department

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INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Country
United Kingdom - Scotland
Host Institution
University of Edinburgh
Program(s)
University of Edinburgh
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Economics
UCEAP Course Number
139
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
UCEAP Transcript Title
INTERNATIONAL ECON
UCEAP Quarter Units
8.00
UCEAP Semester Units
5.30
Course Description

The course is divided into two parts: (1) International trade and (2) International macroeconomics. In the first part, the course introduces a number of models that help us understand the reasons why countries trade goods and services. Empirical evidence is provided to highlight the strengths and limitations of the introduced theories. In the second part, the course explores topics linked to the global macroeconomy. It presents a framework to analyze how the interdependence among countries shapes their economy-wide variables and draws links between theory and real world events. 

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
ECNM10087
Host Institution Course Title
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
School of Economics
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Economics

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THE GOLDEN AGE OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Country
United Kingdom - Scotland
Host Institution
University of Edinburgh
Program(s)
University of Edinburgh
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
English
UCEAP Course Number
128
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
THE GOLDEN AGE OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
UCEAP Transcript Title
GOLDEN AGE/RUSS LIT
UCEAP Quarter Units
8.00
UCEAP Semester Units
5.30
Course Description

The course focuses on the most important 19th century Russian writers with the view to introduce students to their works and ideas. It examines the main socio-political and cultural trends in Russia and in Europe that influenced such writers as Pushkin, Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. This course is idea-led: it examines in depth several key themes clearly outlined at the beginning of the course. The list of main themes includes: the legacy of the Enlightenment and the representation of madness in Russian literature; the inter-relationship between the author and the government; the representation of St Petersburg in literature and the construction of Russian national identity; the criticism of Russian imperial policies; the emergence of nihilism and positivism in Russia; and the ongoing dialogue between Russia and the West. The course develops students' literary analytical skills, and enables them to gain deeper insights into the major themes explored by Russian most influential 19th-c. writers as well as into the techniques employed in their works.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
ELCR08011
Host Institution Course Title
THE GOLDEN AGE OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Host Institution Campus
Edinburgh
Host Institution Faculty
School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department

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HUMAN PERSONALITY
Country
United Kingdom - Scotland
Host Institution
University of Edinburgh
Program(s)
University of Edinburgh
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Psychology
UCEAP Course Number
139
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
HUMAN PERSONALITY
UCEAP Transcript Title
HUMAN PERSONALITY
UCEAP Quarter Units
8.00
UCEAP Semester Units
5.30
Course Description

The course covers key topics in personality science including (but not limited to) its overarching goals and mission within psychology, measurement, development, and prediction of real world outcomes. Topics include the scope of personality science; personality perception and assessment; the units and structure of personality; personality traits associations with life outcomes; age, gender, cultural and regional variation in personality; genetic and environmental influences on personality; main principles development; key personality theories, and personality as a unifying model for psychopathology.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
PSYL10157
Host Institution Course Title
HUMAN PERSONALITY
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Psychology

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MUSIC ANALYSIS
Country
United Kingdom - Scotland
Host Institution
University of Edinburgh
Program(s)
University of Edinburgh
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Music
UCEAP Course Number
107
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
MUSIC ANALYSIS
UCEAP Transcript Title
MUSIC ANALYSIS
UCEAP Quarter Units
8.00
UCEAP Semester Units
5.30
Course Description

This course provides an introduction to the analysis of music composed in the Western extended common practice. It concentrates on Western tonal music from the 17th to the 20th centuries, but more broadly extends modal and post-tonal repertoires from c. 1350 to the present, and ranges from instrumental and vocal genres to music theatre and music for screen. It involves the study of musical scores alongside aural evidence obtained from listening. Students must be able to read music and a good grasp of basic theory (harmonic functions, cadences, etc.).

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
MUSI08076
Host Institution Course Title
MUSIC ANALYSIS
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Edinburgh College of Art
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department

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INDUCTION: ANALOGY, LEARNING, AND GENERALIZATION IN HUMANS AND MACHINES
Country
United Kingdom - Scotland
Host Institution
University of Edinburgh
Program(s)
University of Edinburgh
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Psychology
UCEAP Course Number
158
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
INDUCTION: ANALOGY, LEARNING, AND GENERALIZATION IN HUMANS AND MACHINES
UCEAP Transcript Title
INDUCTN:HUM&MACHINE
UCEAP Quarter Units
8.00
UCEAP Semester Units
5.30
Course Description

In this course, students cover topics in human and machine inductive inference. In the first half of the course, students are exposed to the problem of induction and how the problem manifests in a range of domains such as object recognition, categorization, and learning. The focus of the course then turns to analogy and relational reasoning, areas were humans make generalizations across situations and domains with much more success and flexibility than non-human animals and conventional machine learning approaches. Students cover research in analogical reasoning as well as the development of analogical thinking and the representations that support analogy and generalization. The second half of the course focuses on computational theories of how humans and artificial (i.e., machine) systems perform induction and generalization. Students cover broadly the main approaches to representing knowledge and modelling human cognition (symbolic and connectionist models). They then cover how these approaches have been leveraged to explain human induction and learning with focus on traditional production system models, Bayesian models, neural network models, and symbolic-connectionist models.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
PSYL10176
Host Institution Course Title
INDUCTION: ANALOGY, LEARNING, AND GENERALIZATION IN HUMANS AND MACHINES
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department

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CITIES OF WORDS: 20TH CENTURY URBAN AMERICA
Country
United Kingdom - Scotland
Host Institution
University of Edinburgh
Program(s)
University of Edinburgh
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Urban Studies English
UCEAP Course Number
138
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
CITIES OF WORDS: 20TH CENTURY URBAN AMERICA
UCEAP Transcript Title
20TH C URBN AMERICA
UCEAP Quarter Units
8.00
UCEAP Semester Units
5.30
Course Description

In this course students explore a variety of representations of modern urban United States, focusing specifically on New York and Los Angeles. Students are looking at a number of different genres of writing - fiction, poetry, travel narrative, and screenplay to consider the ways in which the city has been depicted in American literary culture. The relationship between aesthetics and urban geography is also examined through reading a number of key theorists alongside the primary texts. The course encourages both close critical engagement and conceptual thinking about the ways in which city spaces function as part of modern culture.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
ENLI10096
Host Institution Course Title
CITIES OF WORDS: 20TH CENTURY URBAN AMERICA
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department

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OUR CHANGING WORLD
Country
United Kingdom - Scotland
Host Institution
University of Edinburgh
Program(s)
University of Edinburgh
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Environmental Studies Biological Sciences
UCEAP Course Number
120
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
OUR CHANGING WORLD
UCEAP Transcript Title
OUR CHANGING WORLD
UCEAP Quarter Units
8.00
UCEAP Semester Units
5.30
Course Description

This is a challenging interdisciplinary first-year course, based on a series of high-profile, evening lectures given by prominent members of staff from the three Colleges. The course engages students in thinking about the global challenges that confront society, and makes them aware of the role of academic research and scholarship in meeting these challenges. Students are expected to address key global issues across discipline boundaries, and develop an understanding of the relevance and impact of their own subject in the broader context. Students in the course attend the public lectures, research the topics in depth, participate in facilitated group discussions on each topic, work in small groups to produce a collaborative project on a chosen topic, and produce an individual research report on an aspect which may be closer to their own subject area. Our Changing World is a pass/fail grade-only course.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
BIME08006
Host Institution Course Title
OUR CHANGING WORLD
Host Institution Campus
Edinburgh
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Biomedical Sciences

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THE FIELD FULL OF FOLK
Country
United Kingdom - Scotland
Host Institution
University of Edinburgh
Program(s)
University of Edinburgh
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
English
UCEAP Course Number
145
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
THE FIELD FULL OF FOLK
UCEAP Transcript Title
FIELD OF FOLK
UCEAP Quarter Units
8.00
UCEAP Semester Units
5.30
Course Description

This course introduces students to a varied range of 14th- and 15th-century English and Scottish literary texts: allegory, romance, dream vision, meditation, lyric, and drama. Through these texts students explore the medieval imaginative models of the physical and metaphysical world, considering issues such as society, the body, gender, God, love, and death. Visual images and other kinds of writing and commentary are considered alongside the literary texts, to develop an understanding of the imaginative world which the literature both emerged from and helped to shape.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
ENLI10267
Host Institution Course Title
THE FIELD FULL OF FOLK
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department

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PRE-MODERN EAST ASIAN HISTORY
Country
United Kingdom - Scotland
Host Institution
University of Edinburgh
Program(s)
University of Edinburgh
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History Asian Studies
UCEAP Course Number
148
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
PRE-MODERN EAST ASIAN HISTORY
UCEAP Transcript Title
PRE-MOD EAST ASIA
UCEAP Quarter Units
8.00
UCEAP Semester Units
5.30
Course Description

This course provides an overview of notable historical dates, events, trends, and individuals in China, Korea, and Japan from approximately the 3rd century BCE until the early 17th century.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
ASST08073
Host Institution Course Title
PRE-MODERN EAST ASIAN HISTORY
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
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