University of Edinburgh

The course surveys the art and archaeology of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age (c. 3000-1100 B.C.) to the early Roman imperial period (1st century AD). The chronological sequence of lectures considers the physical remains of ancient Greek life and society, including religion, domestic life, civic spaces, burial practices, social practices, the military, and interactions with other cultures.

The course examines key themes in the history of black nationalism in America from the 19th century until the mid-1970s, with some attention to post-1970s developments. Key issues include defining black nationalism, examining bases of support, and explaining the shifting appeal of black nationalism. Accordingly the course investigates different forms of black nationalism, including racial solidarity, cultural nationalism, religious nationalism, and pan-africanism.
 

This course introduces students to a variety of applications of nonprofit marketing. It considers how commercial marketing concepts can be applied to nonprofit organizations, in contexts such as charities marketing and fundraising, political marketing, and social marketing. The course also considers the dark side of marketing through an examination of issues such as bad marketing practices, living in a consumer culture, commercialization of life, and the McDonaldization of society.

Language and communication are important aspects of how societies and individuals understand and deal with health and well-being. This course examines key aspects of communication in relation to health and well-being across a range of scales, including the societal and community scales, within health and social care settings and between individuals. Students are introduced not only to ideas and theory on these topics but also to practical activities, which enables them to reflect on their own experiences of communication styles across these settings and to further develop specific skills. Through lectures/workshops and tutorials students explore the ways in which (1) health matters are represented and discussed in public media, (2) language and communication shape individuals' experiences of health and wellbeing, and the role talk plays in help-seeking and health-related behaviors, and (3) language and communication are constitutive of the delivery of health and social care. 

This is a comprehensive first course in computer communications and networks. The course introduces basic networking concepts, including protocol, network architecture, reference models, layering, service, interface, multiplexing, switching, and standards. An overview of digital communication from the perspective of computer networking is also provided. Topics include internet (TCP/IP) architecture and protocols, network applications, congestion/flow/error control, routing and internetworking, data link protocols, error detection and correction, channel allocation and multiple access protocols, communication media, and selected topics in wireless and data center networks. It covers recent advances in network control and management architectures by introducing the concepts of software-defined networking (SDN) and network (function) virtualization. Students gain hands-on experience in network programming using the socket API, network traffic/protocol analysis, and on assessment of alternative networked systems and architectures.

This course presents an integrated approach to the processes that have driven environmental changes at various time scales during the Quaternary period. Discussed are the interactions between the oceans, ice sheets and continents, and the way in which climate change drives/affects Earth surface processes. The archives that preserve records of environmental change on Earth on time scales of millions of years to decades are examined. Causes for environmental change through time are scrutinized in a global context. In addition to covering the general change in Earths climate over a longer period, there as a focus on the last glaciation and the transition into the modern Holocene climate. The causes for environmental change are studied from a marine and a continental perspective. Also, a computer simulation component highlights the processes having driven past climate change in addition to assessing future climate states. Computer based practical sessions are an important part of the course and introduce techniques used in retrieving information on, and reconstructing, past environments from environmental archives (e.g. sediments, corals) and comparing data from different settings.

This course describes the phases of a modern programming language compiler with an emphasis on widely used techniques. The course project requires students to implement a complete compiler for a simple educational programming language targeting an abstract machine such as the JVM. On completion of this course, the student is able to analyze compilation tasks and apply standard compilation techniques; develop, implement, and apply modifications to standard compilation techniques and algorithms wherever this is necessary; and understand and implement design decisions in modern compilers.

This course is the follow-up to Foundation Spanish Language 1 at UCL. Students who have successfully completed Foundation Spanish Language 1 or have an equivalent knowledge (e.g. GCSE or Standard Grade) in the language are ideally suited for this course.