King's College London

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.

The course provides students with a grasp of the main conceptual approaches, schools, methods, and sub-disciplines in Politics. All the course contents are framed and taught with reference to contemporary European politics and political systems. The course gives students the toolkit and ability to problematize and reflect critically on common-sense assumptions and understandings of political institutions and processes.

Asset price in discrete time, random walks, conditional expectation, elements of discrete-time martingale theory, the binomial asset pricing model, option pricing in discrete time, and -time permitting- discrete time term structure models and/or discrete time portfolio theory.

This advanced course in development economics provides a thorough exposition of concepts, policy issues, and controversies in the process of economic development. The course covers leading issues in development economics such as the role of trade and institutions in industrialization and long-run development as well as cutting-edge empirical research on various topics such as human capital, conflict, corruption, foreign aid, gender, and the environment.

The course explores a selection of puzzles, ideas, arguments, and debates in political philosophy broadly conceived. The specific selection of topics changes every year.

The course introduces students to the key concepts and debates in global health, and uses case studies to illuminate these inequalities and the political, economic, social, and structural forces that perpetuate them. In this course students focus on the politics of global health in order to critically assess the role that governmental, institutional, and corporate actors play in financing, governing, and delivering healthcare worldwide. 

Through lectures/seminars, students will explore the ways in which philosophers have sought to understood and respond to the demands of Christian faith from both within and without that faith.Students will explore the social and psychological context of such faith, and the ways in which one might understand Christian notions of love, purity, devotion and sainthood, amongst others. Students will explore the ways in which some thinkers have seen Christianity as deepening our sense of the human condition whilst others have seen Christianity as degrading of our condition. The course is text based as, in this context, this is one of the best ways in which students can come to a deepened intellectual understanding of the matters under consideration.

In this course, students are introduced to and practice three specific psychological skills, choosing two skills from a suite of optional skills, alongside a third compulsory skill (learning to carry out a literature search).  

The course introduces students to the history, changing fortunes, monuments, and artistic output of Constantinople, successor to Rome and the largest city of the medieval world. This is achieved through the examination of the city’s fabric, of individual monuments with their decoration, and of primary texts which shed light on important questions, with particular emphasis on the transformation of the city from Late Antiquity through the so-called dark ages and into the medieval period (4th - 15th century).

This course deepens students' understanding of the writer’s craft and enhance the development of techniques they acquired in Prose Fiction. The first ninety minutes of every workshop is devoted to the critique of student work-in-progress (either a short story or a novel excerpt). Discussions are guided by the lecturer, who offer feedback tailored to the craft-related issues evident in each submission. This may include topic such as characterization, plot, structure, dialogue, voice, point of view, narrative time, conflict, and prose style. The last half-hour of each workshop promotes the close reading and evaluation of established authors’ work, exemplifying matters of technique and the various stylistic approaches to the form.