University of Edinburgh

The course encourages students to find new ways to create, structure, and orchestrate/produce their music, to express themselves musically and engagingly, and to develop and challenge their own understanding of music through the creation of new work.

This course examines the city in history as represented in fiction in the particular case of Edinburgh, from the historical fiction of Scott, Hogg, and Stevenson to the genre fiction of the last two decades. It examines the construction of the city in these texts as a site of legal, religious, economic, and cultural discourse. The extent to which civic identity both contributes to and competes with national identity is a central theme, as is the internal division of the city along lines of religion, gender, and, especially, class. In addition to the skills training common to all English Literature students (essay-writing, independent reading, group discussion, oral presentation, small-group autonomous learning) this course develops the student's understanding of: (i) the ways in which urban space is constructed in the various discourses of the novel as a genre; (ii) the relation of civic identities to national identities as the novel brings them into relation; (iii) a broad understanding of the history of the novel in Scotland in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The course introduces students to a range of contemporary critical theories and debates on the body and identity. Students explore the body as a site on which social constructions of difference are inscribed, as well as how these constructions can be challenged and resisted. Bodies are regulated and self-regulated, marginalized, oppressed, erased, owned, visualized, textualized, and designed. The body is not isolated; rather, it extends and connects with other bodies, practices, human and non-human entities, and technologies. The course also examines the ways in which digital developments are reshaping our understanding of our bodies and question what it means to be human.

This course is an introduction to finance. It starts by introducing the value of money, interest rates, and financial contracts, in particular, what are fair prices for contracts and why no one uses fair prices in real life. Then, there is a review of probability theory followed by an introduction to financial markets in discrete time. In discrete time, students learn how the ideas of fair pricing apply to price contracts commonly found in stock exchanges. The next block focuses on continuous time finance and contains an introduction to the basic ideas of Stochastic calculus.

This course describe the structures of biological macromolecules, particularly proteins, in relation to their functions in catalysis, ligand binding, membrane transport, and ability to form and function as complexes, and to illustrate the types of experimental techniques used to study macromolecular structure and function. It develops personal skills appropriate to a third-year biological science student, including competence in a range of laboratory techniques; the ability to analyze scientific papers; familiarity with the use of libraries and databases; the ability to present the results of experimental work concisely and accurately, both numerically and in writing, and to write about biochemical and molecular biological topics in a clear and well-organized manner.

The course covers the archaeology and prehistory of Scotland from the very earliest human settlement in the 10th millennium BC until the end of the Iron Age and the Roman Occupation in the first millennium AD. Practical aspects of the course introduce students to the study and interpretation of archaeological artefacts, sites, and remains using Scottish material relevant to the course.

This course looks at popular fiction in the late 19th, 20th, and earlier 21st centuries to see how suspense narratives are encoded in society. Students examine detective stories, espionage fiction, ghost stories, horror fiction, and thrillers to see how ideologies are both reinforced and challenged by popular fiction. The course considers the emergence and development of the genres, explores the allure of fear, and examines ideas about class and gender in relation to the practices of reading and the circulation of texts. Though primarily focused on literature, the course is supplemented by optional film screenings and discussions. The course introduces students to the study of popular fiction as it both contributes to and is produced by ideology. The comparison of generically-linked texts from either end of the 20th century encourages discussion of the changes in social history of the period. The chosen texts guide students into a basic understanding of important theoretical ideas: the unconscious, post-Marxist concepts of ideology, Foucauldian ideas about surveillance and power. The course encourages discussion of a wider range of film and general reading and an understanding of students' own cultural environment.

This course is an introduction to blockchain systems and distributed ledgers, the relevant cryptographic tools and smart contracts programming.

This course examines concepts and debates relating to public health, health inequalities, and health policy in a global context. It enables students to understand the policy making process, to analyze the roles of key health policy actors, and to consider the relationship between evidence and policy in relation to health.