King's College London

This course introduce students to the literary culture of Ancient Rome. It is designed for students without any background knowledge of ancient literature and aims to offer a chronologically laid out, broad survey of periods, genres, ideas, and best-known authors of Roman literature and thought. 

This course examines philosophical questions relating to the scientific study of the mind. It will focus in particular on mental representation, for example on the nature of the mental representations postulated by scientific psychology and neuroscience, the role of these representations in psychological and neuroscientific explanation, and their relationship with a person’s experiences and attitudes. 

This course examines a theoretical and practical understanding of game theory. Students will learn to build and solve models of strategic behavior, covering static and dynamic games under both complete and incomplete information. 

This yearlong course introduces students to the material and visual culture of the ancient world from the second millennium BC to late antiquity. The fall term focuses on the Greek world, and the spring term on the Roman. It studies the built environment - from the great urban monuments to everyday domestic units (including temples, ‘homes’ for the gods). It explores the art and iconography of the ancient world alongside the material residues of daily life and ritual. Students are introduced to the different perspectives and methods of both archaeologists and art historians in interpreting material remains and visual images. The course combines close study of individual pieces of evidence with an evaluation of how they illuminate the societies, cultures, institutions and economies of classical antiquity.

The courses will focus on some basic notions that are widely used in contemporary normative ethics, notions like impartiality, benevolence, respect and equality. Ethical theories differ both in regard to which of these notions they employ and in regard to how they interpret the notion in question. The ethical theories we shall examine will include Kantianism, Consequentialism and Contractualism.

This course examines complex numbers; vector spaces: row and column vectors (real and complex), linear combinations, abstract vector spaces, bases and dimension of vector spaces; linear maps: definitions and examples, matrix of a linear map, composition, invertibility and isomorphisms; solving systems of linear equations using linear algebra; determinants: definition and properties; eigenvectors and eigenvalues: definitions, diagonalisation of matrices, canonical forms of 2x2 matrices.

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.