University of Edinburgh

This course covers a range of issues and activity associated with mechanical engineering practice. These include legal issues and knowledge of real world activity through engineering applications, guest lectures, and study of engineering companies.

How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? How is gender constructed in different contexts and what are the material consequences? How can gender analyses empower us to act as agents of personal and social change? This inter-disciplinary course provides an overview of the major issues at stake in the study of gender relations from a broadly social science perspective. It introduces students to gender studies as a theoretical field of investigation, examining key concepts and debates in the field. Students will explore issues of power, inequality, intersectionality, change and resistance through contemporary examples of 'doing gender' around the world. In doing so, this course equips students - as 21st Century graduates - with awareness and understanding of global inequalities based on gender, race, class, and sexuality, as well as basic tools to undertake gender analysis.

This first-semester course introduces students to the history of literature in Scotland in English and Scots, covering two periods of its great flourishing: at the Stuart court of the late 14th and 15th centuries, and in the Romantic period of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The focus is on how questions of literary form relate to the social and intellectual context in which the text was written and read; that is, on how the text's formal achievement reflects the institutions which made it possible and the ideas which made it meaningful. The course encourages students to extend their essay writing skills through engagement with critical material.

The course is divided into four sections: advertising in context, advertising planning, models of advertising effectiveness, and social/cultural effects of advertising. It seeks to relate theories or issues to examples of advertising where possible, and draws on practitioner as well as academic literature in relating theory to practice. Video material is used, providing insights into the development of particular campaigns as well as different perspectives on issue such as stereotyping and the communication of values in advertising. Practitioner input into the course is also intended to relate theory to practice. 

This course is for beginners with no previous knowledge of Korean. It gives absolute beginners a basic, working knowledge of spoken and written Korean. The lectures are taught in larger groups (of approximately 30 students), while separate oral tutorials entail smaller groups (of around 15 students). In the tutorials, students practice speaking and writing tutorials. Students learn the Korean script (Hangul) and acquire a vocabulary of 600/700 Korean words. They also learn how to comprehend and compose short pages in Korean. Topics covered throughout the course include daily routines, making plans, means of transportation, and shopping.

This literature course develops independent thought and the ability to communicate information effectively. Students are encouraged to work independently, to discover and synthesize information, and to select the most relevant materials from a wide range of reading. Students learn how to assess the reliability of evidence and weigh a variety of competing or conflicting arguments, to analyze complex questions, to exercise problem-solving skills, and, in the developing and organizing of arguments, students learn how to present a coherent, reasoned, and well-supported set of conclusions in clear prose. Reading list includes: Jane Austen, NORTHANGER ABBEY, Charles Dickens, HARD TIMES, Elizabeth Gaskell, NORTH AND SOUTH, Mary Shelley, FRANKENSTEIN, and Walter Scott, IVANHOE, among others.