King's College London

This course discusses the basic concepts and principles that underpin geomorphic landforms and processes operating at the Earth's surface in a great variety of landscapes around the globe. It presents the significance of time and space scales for recognizing process-form linkages in different environments and the interactions between fluids and sediment transport that result in the formation and development of a variety of landforms.

This course deals with the inheritance, biological mechanisms, clinical presentation, and therapy of human monogenic disorders. Following a block of introductory lectures covering the fundamentals of Mendelian and epigenetic inheritance, various disorders are described by experienced scientists and clinicians, in order to illustrate different aspects of human genetics. Finally, the course covers approaches to gene therapy - the stated goal of most studies of human genetic disease.

The course covers: Countability, measure spaces, σ-algebras, π-systems and uniqueness of extension. Construction of Lebesgue measure on R (proof non-examinable), Independence. The Borel-Cantelli lemmas, measurable functions and random variables, independence of random variables. Notions of probabilistic convergence. Construction of integral and expectation. Integration and limits. Density functions. Product measure and Fubini’s theorem. Laws of large numbers. Characteristic functions and weak convergence, Gaussian random variables. The central limit theorem. Conditional probability and expectation.

This course introduces foundational ideas from some of the most exciting and influential thinkers from ancient Greek philosophy. Students begin by looking at several important Pre-Socratic philosophers (such as Parmenides) with a particular focus on their contributions and approaches to epistemology and metaphysics. The course then traces the thread of these debates through to three towering figures of classical Greek philosophy and the western philosophical canon: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.

Taught in collaboration with academic staff and theatre practitioners at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, this course aims to take full advantage of the fact that we are able to study Shakespeare’s plays in the city in which they were written and first performed. Through seminars at King’s, and lectures, seminars, workshops and demonstrations at Shakespeare’s Globe, you will learn about the cultural, theatrical, political and social contexts in which plays were produced, and students will explore the extent to which Shakespeare’s plays were shaped by the environments in which he lived and worked. Focusing on the early to middle section of Shakespeare’s career, we will look at a spread of plays from different genres, such as 1 Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Othello, Twelfth Night and Macbeth. In doing so, students will engage with topics such as urban place and space, social status, ideas of history and memory, immigration, race and multiculturalism, gender identity and experience, and topicality, terrorism and state control. Students will also draw on one of the most important Elizabethan works about London, John Stow’s A Survey of London Written in the Year 1598, and the plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries such as Chapman, Dekker, Heywood, Jonson, Marston and Munday. 

This course introduces students to the basic concepts of immunology, how the immune system works to fight disease, how its dysfunction can cause disease, and how the immune system can harnessed to treat disease. 

This course uses an active learning approach to link economic tools and insights to real-world policy problems and solutions. This enables students to develop their own skills, knowledge, and experience of the role of economics in policymaking. Students are allocated to study groups, and work together to prepare weekly group presentations on policy case studies. These case studies are discussed in seminars using role play, along with weekly data visualization exercises in Excel. Students build confidence in understanding, analyzing, and producing the materials that are essential to economic policymaking.

This course presents financial statement analysis from the point of view of the primary users of financial statements: company managers, creditors, and investors. The course provides students with tools to enable them to analyze financial statements and draw inferences about the performance and the value of a firm. The course is structured in two broad parts. Financial analysis forms the first part, focusing on past and present performance evaluation to generate expectations about future performance (prospective analysis), credit rating and distress prediction. The second part, security valuation, focuses on market- and accounting-based models to derive the value of a firm. All analyses are conducted within the context of a firm’s industry and strategy. This is an applied and practical course. 

This course provides an overview of natural hazards such as floods, severe storms, droughts, multi-hazard interrelationships, the perception of natural hazards, and the complex relationship that exists between natural hazards and society. Lectures on specific hazards are addressing the basic theory for the creation and/or existence of each hazards, along with an understanding of some of the primary and secondary effectives (both negative and positive) of each hazard, including case study examples. 

Memory is a property of the living brain and operationally it is defined at the behavioral level. For the mechanistic analysis of memory it is important to distinguish between processes, such as memory consolidation and memory retrieval. In mammals, there are independent memory systems that involve distinct brain regions. Neuronal networks establish memories in the brain and distinct molecular and cellular processes within individual neurons are fundamental for memory. In this course, students study state-of-the-art knowledge of memory mechanisms at the molecular, cellular, network, anatomical and behavioral level. Students learn which experimental approaches are being applied to investigate these memory mechanism and they learn to critically reflect on these investigations. The course also covers how diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, affect memory mechanisms, and how memory abilities may be improved with pharmacological treatments.