King's College London

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the complex geographies of gender roles, relations and identities and different type of feminisms in the global South. As well as exploring the theoretical approaches to gender and development thought, and especially different types of feminist thought, the course also examines a series of axes of diversity in relation to people’s lives in the global South. It examines changing social and economic aspects of development on women’s and men’s (and where research exists on trans and non-binary) lives in relation to household transformations, population mobility, poverty, employment, sexualities, gender-based violence, and development policy and practice.

The course extends the methods of calculus of one variable to calculus for functions of many variables, that is, calculus on higher dimensional spaces. This involves concepts such as multiple integrals and partial derivatives, which enable us to make sense of the idea of length of a curve, area of a surface, and maxima and minima of functions of many variables. The final part of the course presents the great integral theorems: Green’s Theorem, Stokes’ theorem and the Divergence Theorem which form a cornerstone of mathematics. 

This course provides an account of structure-function relationships in proteins. To understand the molecular bases of biological function of proteins. Fundamental aspects of structural biology and protein chemistry are explained, with an emphasis on the relationship to biological function. Students are expected to have already a good understanding of biochemistry and chemistry and a basic understanding of protein structure. 

This course provides an in-depth critical introduction to a range of important concepts, musical works, institutions and people in music of a given time period, and explores both their impact on musical culture and their relationship to wider political, social and artistic issues. 

This course provides an in-depth introduction to some core topics in modern development economics. The course is divided into two halves. The first half, taught by Dr. Liang Bai, covers more of the macro literature, discussing the roles of institutions, history, international trade, as well as religion and culture in shaping the economic outcomes of different countries. The second half, taught by Dr. Dimitrios Minos, focuses more on the micro literature, discussing the roles of health, education, gender, as well as migration and remittances in shaping the economic outcomes of different individuals/households. 

The course is an intermediate finance course that builds upon students' existing knowledge to explore fundamental financial theories underpinning crucial corporate finance decisions. Students address pivotal financial questions such as: How should your business raise capital, and for what purpose? Should capital be sourced through debt or equity investors, and how much debt is optimal? What returns must you generate for your shareholders, and should dividends be distributed? Is it preferable to purchase assets or lease them? What are your business’s short-term cash flow requirements, and how will these needs be financed? These essential questions regularly confront business leaders worldwide. Throughout this ten-week course, students will discover that while some solutions emerge clearly from established financial theories, others rely heavily on strategic judgment due to inherent business uncertainties. 

This course provides students with an overview of the trans-Atlantic slave trade as it affected societies in West Africa and the New World, from the 16th century to the early 19th century. The course is taught thematically, so that major themes are interrelated in both social and political history on both sides of the Atlantic. In Africa we look especially at Angola, Dahomey, the Gold Coast, Kongo and Senegambia while in the New World there is a focus on Barbados, Brazil, Haiti, and Jamaica. Finally, the course will also consider the impact of this history in Europe through discussions of the rise of consumer societies and the relationship between this and the Abolition movement. By the end of the course, students will have enhanced their critical understanding of this major historical event and will have developed detailed knowledge of specific case studies which sharpen this knowledge.

This course gives students an understanding of the nature and causes of cancer from a genetic, cellular, and molecular perspective. Students gain a thorough grounding in cancer cell biology, and they also develop employability skills such as working in a team, presentation skills, and interpretation of experimental datasets.

English Lit and Pop Music? Yes! This course reads a variety of English literature, produced from the Middle Ages up through last week, in light of popular music of the last fifty years—and vice versa, too. The course takes both fields seriously (though fun is encouraged too), with an emphasis on connections with King's College London. A variety of genres, eras, and voices, from English lit, the English department, and the music world come together here. Archival work, both at KCL (e.g., the Duffy archives) and beyond, provides an important foundation and opportunities for discovery.  

This course introduces students to the ethical theories of various 17th & 18th century moral philosophers and explains their significance for modern ethical theory. The course relates their thought to continuing debates about moral rationality, sentiment, moral objectivity, moral virtue, and moral obligation.