University of Edinburgh

This course takes a critical and historiographical approach to the study of music from the Middle Ages to the late 18th century. It explores the emergence and development of new styles of music through this period and the ways in which they develop from and reflect the societies that produced them. It also focuses on the ways in which we have constructed our histories of these periods: what pieces, and what stories about them, are included, and which are not? Score-reading skills are a prerequisite for this course.

This course provides a systematic survey of the development of Scottish architecture from the 11th Century to mid-17th century. There is strong focus on the social and political context and the development of the castellated tradition and its transformation to domestic and civic forms. Students examine buildings, styles and designing, vernacular buildings, and designed landscapes. There is a strong emphasis on archival skills and interpretation and the way that different historiographies impact on our understanding. 

How does access to nature and to greenspaces impact on human health? This course will take a living labs approach to studying the ways in which gardens, parks, flora, fauna, and biodiversity more generally may impact on the health of humans and human communities. We will use a social justice lens in our study, examining how access and engagement with nature and the outdoors is unequally distributed within communities and how environmental injustice may contribute to the observed correlation between social inequality and health inequality.

Students taking this course develop an understanding of core concepts in the disciplines of physiology, pharmacology, reproductive biology, neuroscience, infectious diseases, and medical biology as well as develop core competencies in scientific learning and disciplinary practice. The experimental basis of scientific knowledge ("How do we know what we know") is also discussed. Throughout the course, students acquire a fundamental factual basis for study of Biomedical Sciences disciplines, including core concepts and important scientific principles; competence in effective literature searching and written communication; and practical skills required for research in biomedical sciences, including data analysis and interpretation.

This course provides an introduction to the politics of the Middle East. This includes an analysis of the growth and nature of the state in the Middle East; the prevalence of authoritarianism, neo-patrimonialism and processes towards democratization: the salience of Arab nationalism and Islamism: dynamics of conflict and revolution in the region; and the rise of Islamism.

The course deliver the most important issues on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructuring such as corporate divestitures. In particular, the course develops students' ability to critically understand and evaluate issues such as: regulatory and strategic considerations, takeover tactics, and takeover defenses; target firm and foreign target firm valuation; issues developed through information economics that contribute on the negotiation and re-negotiation stage of corporate reforms; empirical tests on the performance of merging and divesting firms at both the announcement- and the post-merger or integration period; and cross-border (cross-industry) acquisitions and their main differences with domestic (focused) ones.

In this course, students discuss the "extreme internationalism" of Conceptual art shows since the late 1960s, and the "global contemporary" framing of survey exhibitions - notably art biennials - since the late 1980s. Students consider the roles played by concepts such as national representation, multiculturalism, and anti-imperial nationalism. They analyze how numerous factors - for example: artist networks, curatorial agency, installation serendipity, national backing, educational experience, and cultural identity - may affect visibility, especially when exhibiting "at large" rather than "at home" (however many places may be counted as "home"). Visibility afar, or critical engagement in a distant locality, is prioritized above successful commercial access to new art markets, when thinking about exhibiting abroad.

This course in spoken and written French is designed for students who have some knowledge of French and who wish to extend it. All students take all elements of assessment including the degree examination. Students improve competence in the four main skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing French.