University of Glasgow

This course gives students an overview of physical and chemical treatment systems for water and wastewater.

The course aims are to describe water and wastewater sources; explain the characteristics of water and wastewater (physical, chemical, and biological parameters); provide an overview of both national and international regulatory frameworks governing drinking water and wastewater management; discuss the fundamental principles of physical and chemical processes for water and wastewater treatment, and water reclamation; introduce water treatment processes including coagulation and flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, adsorption, disinfection, softening, and membrane filtration.

How does archaeology affect society? Why is archaeology important in the modern world? This course discusses the theory, practice, and responsibilities of archaeology. In exploring these themes, the course considers the role of governments, the general public, the popular media, museums, the antiquities trade, and archaeologists. This course also explores how archaeology is practiced and presented to the public, and the implications this has for the ways in which archaeology has been used as a tool for creating communities, identities, and legitimacy.

Public International Law governs the everyday life of the international society and supplies the fundamental framework for the conduct of the international political process. In this context, it deals mainly, but not exclusively, with the relations of sovereign states inter se and their relations with international organizations, individuals, transnational corporations, ‘peoples’, and other international actors. This course provides the students with an introduction to this field of law. The course provides students with a contemporary introduction to the subject of international law. Further this course provides students with an understanding of the nature and sources of international law; introduces students to the main subject areas of international law and keep them abreast of contemporary developments; introduces students to the principal areas of international conflict and the main actors on the international stage; fosters a critical appreciation of the role played by international law in world affairs; introduces students to the basic international legal research and IT skills using the Library and the Internet; and familiarizes students with the professional role and career choices of the international lawyer.

This course considers the diverse literature produced during a transitional era stretching from the Restoration of the British monarchy in 1660 to the eve of American independence. It addresses a wide range of genres that flourished during this period, including poetry, novels, drama, travel writing and life writing.

This course introduces students to the contemporary law of social security in the United Kingdom against the background of relevant policy debates, and considers the relationships between social security law, human rights law, and devolution.

This course takes a thematic approach to the literary representation of medical professionalism, disease and illness (physical and mental), across a range of literary texts dating from the 18th century through to the present, including poetry, prose fiction, and memoir. No prior medical knowledge is required, but students are encouraged to give attention to specific cultural contexts and historically shifting medical paradigms.

This course introduces students to some major neuropsychological disorders and outlines how an understanding of these deficits can inform our understanding of brain function and enlighten cognitive neuroscience. Impairments of higher visual functions such as agnosia, optic ataxia, and hemispatial neglect are presented in detail and their relevance to models of brain function outlined. Students also become familiar with cognitive neuropsychological tests.

How should we balance the need to produce cheap food with environmental damage? Should we be using low-cost airlines? Is it now immoral to have children? Should animals be granted the same rights as human beings? The climate crisis gives rise to many daily and long-term moral questions concerning how we should live and behave. This course introduces students to environmental ethics, the branch of philosophy concerned with how our moral values and decisions impact the natural world. Through a series of talks and discussions, this course grapples with the difficult environmental moral dilemmas we face as humans and encourage students to reflect and consider how we face these challenges.

Framing the study of gangs in the context of debates on globalization, youth studies and urban sociology, this course approaches street gangs as a lens through which to analyze broader processes of social change and inequality in the contemporary era. Taking in perspectives from children and young people involved alongside the social, economic, cultural, and political forces shaping these experiences, the course equips students with an understanding of gangs that is sensitive to both the micro- and macro-level forces at work in the global era.

This course provides an overview of microbiology and immunology, ranging from microbes in diverse environments to the cells and molecules that make up the immune system, and how these act in health and disease. Students have the opportunity to explore the wider context in which microorganisms exist as microbial communities, followed by a focus on core molecular and cellular principles of both microbiology and immunology. Students learn how infectious agents combat host immune defenses and how aberrations in the immune response can lead to disease.