University of Edinburgh

The city invites exploration across a compact and diverse topography, where evidence of the historic and the contemporary can often be found side by side. In an urban site we can discover a range of phenomena, the physical, psychological and ephemeral, all of which invite a wide range of interpretation and response. Through three distinct yet related projects students on this course will be encouraged to employ a variety of tactics in establishing and developing a personal language of response. This could be through drawing, photography, recording, film making, repurposing objects, notation or writing. The course will have recorded lectures and other resources alongside online structured tutorials, and discussion. Art Practice, research strategies, and the presentation of finished work will be addressed through online lectures from a variety of ECA staff with different expertise.

The course provides a framework for understanding key concepts and contemporary debates about food, as well as critically evaluating how past, current, and future food-related issues are framed and dealt with locally and globally. Students ask: What is food and where has it come from? Can we measure food? How does food act on us? Has food anything to do with government? Who can grow food and where? Whom do we eat with and who is not at the table? How could food be different? Can food be 'sustained' and is there a politics of food?

Often referred to as the "age of improvement," the Victorian era was one of unprecedented growth and development. The Victorians not only benefited from the technological advantages afforded by the full flowering of the Industrial Revolution but also enjoyed the profits that came with Britain's economic and political rise to world dominance. With this rise came profound social change as politicians, academics, social reformers, manufacturers, and religious leaders vied to institute new sensibilities regarding morality, spirituality, science, charity, education, and political representation. This transformation naturally affected the type and style of buildings that were erected during this period, dramatically altering the character of Britain's rural and urban landscapes. This course considers the architectural consequences of these transformations by exploring the development of theories and practices in architecture in the context of the social and cultural changes (and challenges) that gave rise to them. Although the Victorian era may be seen to have come to a close with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, the course concludes by examining how these transformations were carried through and further developed in the first decade of the 20th century leading up to the First World War.

The course introduces students to the basic theoretical and empirical literature on how labor markets have evolved over time and across countries. In particular, it will enable students to apply the tools of analysis to a wide range of models and policy relating to the question of who and how much we work: over time, over the life-cycle, and in the household. We focus particularly on female labor force participation, the impact of technological change on the labor market and sectoral shifts. To understand these, students discuss income vs substitution effects, savings decisions, intertemporal substitution of work and consumption, intensive (how many hours?) vs extensive (whether to work) margin labor supply choice. The goal is to develop good economic intuition on these topics, while also discussing the empirical strategies to analyze these labor market outcomes.

This is a one-semester course, covering time-independent and time-dependent properties of electric and magnetic fields leading to the vector calculus formulation of Maxwell's Equations and the derivation of electro-magnetic waves in vacuo and in media. On completion of this course, the student is able to: state the integral laws of electromagnetism and state and derive Maxwell's equations; formulate and solve with vector calculus problems of static and time-varying electrical and magnetic field including utilization of the electric scalar potential and the magnetic vector potential; derive and apply the concepts of: Maxwell's displacement current, the continuity equation, self- and mutual inductance, Poynting's vector, energy flux, and radiation pressure; define and explain: polarization and magnetization, the fields D, H, E and B, the relation between E, B and the force on a particle, polarization charges and magnetization currents, boundary conditions on fields at interfaces between media, and Maxwell's equations in media.