University of Glasgow

This course studies the arts of Flanders, Germany, and England during the 15th and 16th century, with special emphasis on painting and sculpture dated up to 1603, the year of Queen Elizabeth I's death. Important components of this course are the investigation of how the term Renaissance is applicable to the artistic styles of these regions during these times, and the extent to which the taste for Gothic survived and was amalgamated within the new Renaissance aesthetic.

This course introduces students to five key Scottish ghost-fiction writers and their most memorable fantastic fictions: James Hogg, J.M. Barrie, Margaret Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, and George MacDonald. It invites students to think about the role that the supernatural continues to play in Scottish writing through exploration of its representation in Romantic and Victorian fiction. Through closely analyzing excerpts from these writers and discussing the various wider cultural, social, and political anxieties and fears that can be expressed via the supernatural, students explore the historical context and literary impact of the Scottish Gothic.

This course offers a brief survey of the neural mechanisms that underlie health behaviors such as eating, drug use, and stress. Besides learning about neural mechanisms important across diverse health domains, students learn to examine a particular health behavior in detail, not only understanding its underlying neural mechanisms, but using this understanding to develop future research. 

This course examines the character, role, and function of international law in the context of the existing system of international relations. 

This course introduces students to theoretical debates about the complex and multi-dimensional nature of crime, and conceptual frameworks that have been developed to explain and understand it.

This course reviews the basic theories of market structure with focus on market power and real-life applications. Students study a range of price and non-price strategies (such as advertising) adopted by firms and the implied market power. By the end of this course, students are able to: demonstrate an ability to analyze various types of strategic behavior in industries; evaluate and discuss firm behavior (including product differentiation) to safeguard their market power; carry out critical analysis of theoretical models and their applications to real market and present this analysis rigorously in written work; undertake independent research, involving literature review, analysis of the empirical evidence and theoretical frameworks to assess firms' behavior, their ability to collude and the role of public policy.

This course introduces the politics and power dynamics of policy making and implementation. Students examine how selected social problems (e.g. teenage pregnancy and welfare reform) are constructed and why some are high on the policy making agenda whilst others are not. This course challenges taken-for-granted assumptions about policy responses to selected social problems via an examination of politics and power; explores the ways in which social problems are socially constructed in political discourse, public debate and policy presentation; locates the lived experiences of social problems within the context of global and local inequalities; and differentiates between policy design, implementation, and lived experience.

In this course students analyze key social problems such as worklessness, poverty, homelessness, and ill health, and how they have been addressed by public policy. Students examine the historical origins and evolution of the welfare state and engage with challenging debates about the government's current role in welfare.