University of Edinburgh

This course covers generalized linear models, some major statistical learning tools, and models for complex causal relationships, mainly in the context of social sciences. Lectures are combined with practical computer lab tutorials in order to illustrate the applications of the theoretical tools. The analysis is carried out using the statistical software environment R, which is freely available under the GNU General Public License.

This course gives students an intuitive feel for the basic building blocks of analogue circuits. This course also teaches students how to analyze and design discrete and integrated CMOS based analogue circuits. Topics include MOS transistor model, linear and saturation regions, dc equations, MOS capacitances; small signal equivalent circuits and analysis; CMOS current mirrors, simple and cascode inverters, source follower plus differential amplifier circuits; differential amplifier circuits with gain and bandwith of simple amplifiers; and use of LTSPICE for circuit simulation. (The course builds on material presented in the second year.) 

This course offers an introduction to the religion of Islam. It explores the key texts, central beliefs, and rituals, as well as the main branches and traditions of religious thought and practice, which developed over the centuries following the rise of Islam up to the modern period. It covers central elements and concepts of the religion of Islam. These include the central texts of Islam, the Qur'an and Hadith, as well as the role and significance of the prophet Muhammad, the central beliefs and the major ritual duties. The course also explores the main divisions of Islam and various aspects of Islamic thought, such as law, theology, Sufism, and political thought.

This course focuses on a selection of readings from the Greek Old Testament, Greek New Testament, and other Greek writings of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, along with some elements of advanced grammar and vocabulary. The syllabus changes from session to session but incorporates a range of koine Greek texts. These typically involve a selection from the Septuagint (LXX), the Greek New Testament, the Apostolic Fathers, the Apologists, and other early Christian writers, with a focus on the New Testament Apocryphal Gospels and other non-canonical texts.

Feelings are things we usually think of as "natural," but sociologists are interested in to what extent emotions are socially constructed and/or socially constituting. In this course, students examine why sociologists have largely neglected emotions and what a sociological approach can bring to our understanding of them. This enables students to explore how the sociology of emotions can challenge some of sociology's key premises and ways of thinking and to critically analyze debates about the changing role of emotions in social life. The topic examines how modernity has made people feel about each other and their world and how those feelings have in turn shaped that world. 

This course considers the ways that science and technology shape the relationship between humans and the environment. Students examine a number of topical historical and contemporary cases and in the process reflect on the role played by science and technology in how societies understand nature and environment. Themes to be dealt with include science and cultural uses of natural resources; sociology of climate science; science, technology, and international development; science and public understandings of environmental debates; science, knowledge, and power; and environmentalism. Students approach these themes by studying various environmental topics, often reflecting current events.

This course introduces critical approaches in human geography to understanding the relationships between landscapes, power, and society. The critical approaches applied in this course stem from ideas within cultural, political, and social geographies which centralize the role of power in socio-spatial dynamics, and how power produces complex relations between society and the landscapes we inhabit. Critical approaches in human geography provide a framework to understand society and landscapes as carrying multiple meanings. Students examine society as composed of knowledge, institutions, community dynamics, representations, discourses, inclusions/exclusions, material aspects, and more. Similarly, landscapes are explored in terms of nature, bodies, the imagination, digital realms, technology, everyday experiences, and other dimensions. These various perspectives demonstrate how power imbues landscapes and society with various meanings, and how ideas in human geography can critically analyze the co-production and experiences of landscapes, power, and society.

The course examines different types of foreign market entry strategy; the world trade regime and the various elements that comprise this environment e.g. EU/ NAFTA; and issues in international finance, management, production, and labor. The course is devoted to an analysis of the global business environment, concentrating on the world trading system including the important role played by the international financial institutions. The course, focusing more on macro-economic business patterns, processes and institutions, provides the basis for the International Business and the Multinational Enterprise course which looks more at the micro-level and the individual firm in a global business environment.

This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of electronic device operation as well as the fabrication techniques used in their manufacture, and it introduces students to the design and manufacture of electronic products and the importance of quality control and design for manufacture. It covers the basics of semiconductor physics, the important building blocks of the p-n junction and MOS capacitor, and the operation and fabrication of MOS and bipolar transistors. Students are also introduced to electronics industry relevant materials relating to product design and manufacture as well as the important developments that are driving future technologies.

This course considers the shifting nature of Gaelic identities in Scotland from the Middle Ages to the present and assesses the ideological and discursive presentation of these identities. The course also addresses the current sociolinguistic dynamics of the language, particularly in relation to the effect of English-Gaelic bilingualism and the impact of recent revitalization initiatives.