University of Edinburgh

How can firms shape and be shaped by cultures and institutions? This course explores this important question through engaging lectures, case studies, and seminars. It addresses the growing demand for future managers to develop cross-cultural skills and competencies that are essential for improving performance in a globalized economy.

In this course, students explore the process of manufacture, i.e. the creation of components or products from basic raw materials. They also consider the effectiveness of process selection, material selection, and process economies. Additionally, students learn techniques used in Computer Aided Design and Manufacture. This is undertaken through both industry-based CAD/CAM exercises and an introduction to the technologies involved in the research and development of CAD/CAM systems.

The course is for students who want practical experience and skills in social research. The course is designed to mimic a real world research scenario, in which a multi-disciplinary research team takes varying approaches to a topic but works together towards the same goal. The emphasis is on learning while doing, and giving students a structured environment where they can learn how to reflect on your research while they are doing it. The course is taught through lectures and group work. The lectures give you grounding in various research skills, debates, and controversies in social research. The main focus of the course is the group work. Each group develops a topic to investigate, conducts research on it, and presents its findings. Students sign up for a group and conduct a research project under the guidance of a tutor. Visiting students should have at least 2 university-level social science courses (such as sociology, politics, social policy, social anthropology, etc.) at grade B or above.

This course provides an introduction to processing and analyzing chemistry-derived datasets using computer programming. The course comprises of an introduction to the Python scripting language and its applications within chemistry, including topics such as classifying data, performing statistical analyses, 3D visualization, and curve fitting. This workshop-based course is based around chemically-relevant problems.

In this course, students explore and develop their sense of visual narrative in a wider context. The course begins with an overview of some of the key theories of visual narrative and looks at a broad range of examples from within design and screen cultures to help consider how images and spaces can tell stories with or without accompanying words. Narrative perspectives of the maker, the audience, and visual form itself are examined to aid students understanding of the visual culture around them, and their role as a maker in its creation. Topics include the moving image (film, animation, television), illustrated narrative (graphic novels, picture books), interactive narratives, authorship and audience, genres and narrative spaces, music videos, and factual narratives.

This course explores how organizations can work effectively. It covers a wide range of topics to help students understand the principles and processes that underpin effective organizations, and how organizational behavior concepts, theories, and techniques can be applied in work and management settings.

This course offers an introduction to Archaeology, focusing on case studies from Eurasian later prehistory and beyond. It discusses themes such as the rise of early states, monumentality, urbanism, and death and burial. It offers insights into the workings of archaeological research and interpretation through addressing key theoretical perspectives and methods.

This course is an introduction to the study of traditional narrative. Students explore the diverse ways that scholars have attempted to account for the origin, transmission, and practice of traditional tales, including psychoanalysis, Oral-Formulaic theory and the Historic-Geographical method. From this interdisciplinary vantage point, students give close attention to the storytelling heritage of Scotland and Ireland, using materials from the School of Scottish Studies Archives and other sources.

This course explores the concepts of sustainability and social responsibility through a multidisciplinary approach, examining them from a scientific, social, economic, political, and artistic viewpoint. This course investigates the relationship between planetary boundaries, resource consumption and social development, and explores the range of interdisciplinary approaches to address these global challenges. It also covers the topics of sustainability metrics, personal contributions and sustainable lifestyles, as well as considering systems thinking, ways of knowing, power and responsibility as well as systemic structures and biases that may hold us in particular ways of thinking, being, and doing.

What does anthropology have to say about some of the most important issues facing us today? Anthropologists don't just engage with small-scale exotic societies but have always contributed to public debates about global issues that affect us all. In this course, students examine how concepts and ideas that have driven anthropology help us shed new light on debates that are at the heart of contemporary questions about how our societies work. The issues explored vary from year-to-year, examples include climate change, hunger, well-being, body modification, and human rights.