University of Glasgow

This course introduces students to the problems of automatic control with practical illustrations drawn from various areas of electrical, mechanical, and process engineering.

This course explores Christian approaches to the question of God in terms of Christianity's key theological affirmations. In the 21st century, humans are still asking questions of and about God, and probing the meaning of human existence. This course explores the big questions and looks at the way Christians through the ages have been challenged by and responded to them. Students study the intellectual and religious ideas that have influenced Christian practice.

This course explores and analyzes a diverse range of travel texts by Scottish writers and visitors to Scotland from 1700 until the present day. It engages with Scottish writers' preoccupation with their native land and landscape and grapples with topics including the tourist industry, geopolitics, and nature-writing.

This is an introductory course in Japanese for students with no prior knowledge of the language. The course, which enables students to reach the A1.1 level in the Common European Framework of Reference for languages, introduces the tonal system and the four fundamental skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) with a focus on communication. Students also develop some awareness of Japanese culture.

This course considers the end of the modern European empires and the resulting postcolonial contexts. It looks at debates within postcolonial studies around the effects and consequences of empire, including the ways the imperial world created diasporas and migrant populations which have profoundly shaped contemporary identities, and at discussion over recent forms of imperialism, and public debates in Britain about the legacies and memorialization of the imperial past. Students examine debates over the ending of formal empires in the 20th century, the crises of postcolonial nationalism, and the forms of imperialism which have emerged since. The course considers both historical and theoretical discussion of these questions, and it offers a critical introduction to aspects of postcolonial theory as a specific body of scholarly work.

This course provides students with the ability to apply the principles of engineering mechanics to determine elastic behavior of members and components subjected to bending moment, shear force, axial force, and torque, including elastic deflections of beams (statically determinate and statically indeterminate) and torsion of circular and thin-walled sections. Behavior of beams is also extended to simple cases of plastic-bending behavior.

This course analyzes issues of curriculum and education systems. The course enables students to discuss, interpret, and analyze key features of Scottish curricula, curricular design, and educational systems and at least two other national education systems. Topics include social, political, economic, technological, religious, and cultural factors on the formulation and conduct of educational policy.

This course introduces students to key topics in the broad area of social cognition. The course demonstrates the social cognitive processes involved in aspects of healthy psychology and evaluates the social cognitive features of human attraction. Students examine how social cognition varies with culture and analyze how social cognitive processes affect internal thought monitoring.

This course examines the diverse ways in which the society and military of the United States were affected by developments in nuclear technology during the early decades of the Cold War, in terms of such aspects as culture, protest, race, gender, civil defense, commercialization, energy, spaceflight, warfare, and international relations. Students use a range of both publicly available and declassified sources, from written documents to film clips, to explore the early postwar visions of an atomic-powered future and the lasting impact of their ideas on modern America.