University of Glasgow

The course explores the process of starting and growing a business. It covers issues crucial to the development of a new venture. It considers the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial team, opportunity recognition, the start-up process, strategy, business models, resourcing, scaling up, and entrepreneurial outcomes.

The course examines social dynamics of digital technologies, platforms, and services in society. In order to understand how digital technology features in social life, students study the history of the internet and are introduced to the three main approaches in the social study of technology. It then examines key areas in the structuring of society through human-technology interactions and the array of social practices that surround and give meaning to the use of digital technology. This includes the way in which the digital shapes notions of community and identity, how digital technologies are adapted and used in the context of both the domestic environment and working life, as well as the ways in which the digital has permeated educational policies and discourses about literacy and citizenship. The course also addresses the interweaving of digital technologies with broader questions of social justice and inequality by analyzing the concept and evidence of the digital divide and by critically assessing the opportunities but also challenges posed by AI, algorithms, and broader processes of datafication. The understanding gained about the various social contexts of digital technology forms the basis for students to assess whether digital technology is part of (but not determining) broader social change and transformation. Students are encouraged to critically engage in this debate by drawing on the knowledge about data sources that they have developed during the course as well as course literature, and are introduced to various open data sources that they can draw on such as the PEW internet survey, the Oxford Internet Institute survey, and open government data.

This course explores the creation, use, and impact of digital content and information technology in the arts, humanities, and society at large. It brings a human perspective to the issues of the digital age.

This course provides an overview of the study of global energy politics. Grounded in International Political Economy and related sub-fields, this course equips students with a framework for understanding and analyzing the political stakes and trade-offs involved in addressing the global energy challenge of ensuring secure, sustainable, and affordable access to energy supplies for all.

This course provides an analysis of the nature, origins, developmental course, and provision for atypical development. It critically evaluates theories and research related to the psychological development of children with physical disabilities, developmental psychopathologies, and gifted development.

This course explores key concepts, such as the state, legitimacy, sovereignty, nations and nationalism, democracy and authoritarianism, and the principal issues in comparative political analysis (e.g., why and under what circumstances do revolutions or democratic transitions occur?).