King's College London

This course takes you through the history of the Greek world during one of its most significant periods. It examines the relationships between Greek cities, and in particular the Peloponnesian War between Athens and its allies, and Sparta and its allies. It also looks at the importance of the Persian empire in this period, and examines social issues including democracy, slavery, and gender roles and relations.

In this course, students approach consumer psychology and behavior from a neuroscientific perspective. Students learn the fundamentals of brain anatomy and their functions in the context of marketing and management. This course also covers cutting-edge marketing research that uses biometric techniques such as eye tracking, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), and students gain hands-on experience with some of these techniques and analysis of biometric data. Students learn how to apply insights from neuroscience not only in marketing and management, but also in their everyday life. 

This course interrogates the significance of climate change for International Relations as a discipline and for international relations as a set of global political practices. The course explores the relationship between natural science and international relations, and what this means for making sense of the international politics of the environment. It examines the implications of climate change through several lenses including international theory, international institutions and governance, conflict, negotiations and communications, social movements and protest, inequality and justice, and discourses of crisis. The course seeks to facilitate student independence in exploring the international relations of climate change, as well as transferable writing skills, through the creation of a blog post on one of the security implications of climate change and developing an essay on any single climatic process and its implications for international relations. 

This course teaches students how money and finance, and processes of global political economy more broadly, enable, shape, and condition development, environment, and conservation processes. It draws on economic geography, but also social, financial, and cultural geography, anthropology, development studies, and work on society and environment relations. The course includes examples of financialization, conservation, and eco-system services from the UK, Africa, and Asia. 

This course examines the political economy of global monetary and financial relations. It is structured around such questions as: What is the global financial system and what purposes does it serve? What are the choices of monetary and financial policies open to national governments, and what determines governments’ different policy choices? How do governments and markets interact in the arena of global finance? How do private actors influence the governance of international finance? When and why are efforts to regulate global markets successful, and what are the distributional consequences of such efforts? What are the political causes and effects of global financial crises? In seeking answers to these questions, this course focuses on empirical and theoretical political economy models of money and finance. 

This course introduces students to the history of the area surrounding the present-day political boundary between the United States and Mexico. How did this peripheral region, far from the centers of state power, become a place of great interest for those who sought to sustain and resist that power? As the course grapples with that question, students learn to think historically across and about national borders. They begin with the first contacts between Spanish explorers and native peoples and continue through NAFTA, the war on drugs, and the contemporary migration crisis. Students look for common trends in regional history that nation-based surveys and nationalistic media coverage tend to overlook. Simultaneously, they chart the emergence of the border as a political boundary, a social space, and a cultural entity.

This course introduces students to the languages of the Bible. It provides students with a basic orientation to the biblical languages: Hebrew and Koine Greek. It enables students to read and translate simple Hebrew and Greek phrases and constructions. Students are able to read and translate, with assistance, selected biblical passages.

This course introduces students to the political science concepts, theories, and methods used to understand how these disciplines explain international development in the emerging economies. Students are exposed to the foundations of classical political philosophy and democratization theory, while also learning the foundational knowledge of capitalism, modernity, and social change from classical and contemporary scholars. Students gain an understanding of the different trends of development, policy reform and outcomes throughout the emerging regions, and how approaching development issues from political analytical frameworks can strengthen their understanding of development issues and challenges in the emerging economies.

What impact does war have on changing societal norms, such as sexual behaviour and the roles and status of women? How have societies altered the conduct of war, through the mobilization of resources or the persecution of minorities, for example? This course addresses these questions, exploring the dynamic relationship between culture, conflict and change to fully explore people at war. Through both a thematic and case study approach, it draws on a wide range of historic and contemporary conflicts to investigate the destructive and transformative power of conflict on social, cultural, and political life, as well as the ways that societies shape the motives, methods, and constraints of conflict. 

The Spanish Civil War is one of the iconic events of the 1930s, capturing the attention of the world from its outbreak in July 1936. But the conflict was also deeply embedded in the broader history of its era, not just as a prelude to the Second World War but also as a reflection of deeper patterns of imperialism and anti-colonialism, internationalism, social conflict, religious belief and political violence. This course explores the uniquely Spanish features and origins of the conflict, but also asks how the Spanish Civil War can help us to understand the global interwar crisis in all its dimensions.