King's College London

Nowadays, consumers or organizations, are more informed and more demanding as the landscape of international marketing knowledge changes. Combined with technological advancements, environmental degradation and sociocultural changes, these factors provide strong support for the proposition that marketing practices, perspectives, and assumptions are becoming outdated. This course introduces reflection and debate regarding current challenges in international marketing, bringing together culturally diverse and interdisciplinary perspectives. This course provides students with the current challenges and opportunities of international marketing. In this vein, students focus on current trends in international marketing, issues relevant to the global environment.

The course develops students' understanding of key concepts of the mechanisms by which gene expression is regulated. The multiple levels at which gene expression is regulated is described in relation to the central dogma of molecular genetics whereby genetic information flows from DNA to messenger RNA (mRNA) to protein. Students leran about how gene expression is regulated at the level of transcription, post-transcriptional processing, translation, and post-translation. 

The course looks at world cinema's origins and some of its more celebrated manifestations from the Indian subcontinent, Africa, East Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, paying particular attention to the circulation of world cinema in the era of globalization. As world cinema is marketed and consumed as a hybrid form, a fusion of the national and the international, the local and the global, students consider how, for example, China's Fifth Generation and the New Iranian cinemas of the 1980s and 1990s explored ethnically specific cultures in ways that made them (and their makers) exportable and desirable abroad. 

The course examines the peculiar nature of early modern English crime, law, and punishment through its recent historiography, testing arguments about social control, the use of evidence, levels of violence, and changing patterns of crime. From the level of state-building down to the pettiest transgressions, students will see the law in action and follow the people in court.

This course provides a comparative introduction to the topic of political authoritarianism. Authoritarianism, understood as non-democratic governance, is one of the main scourges of modern politics. Though there was a wave of democratization following the collapse of the Soviet Union, authoritarianism has persisted in numerous guises, including the semi-authoritarian regimes that have developed in many of the so-called "democratizing" states. In gaining an understanding of contemporary authoritarianism, students will develop a more nuanced appreciation of the variety of different ways in which power can be exercised. 

In a globalized world, fostering cultural competency is essential for success in any profession and trade that values the diversity of people and their cultures. This course draws on evidence-informed techniques to develop students' cultural competency, focusing on their knowledge and understanding, their awareness and sensitivity, your skills and interaction, and your leadership and management capability. Students are introduced to a range of disciplinary methods that are ideally placed to help them develop specific domains of cultural competency. The teaching is delivered by a wide range of methodological experts from across the College. Learning is dynamic and interactive, and focused on how to make positive changes at the interpersonal, team, institutional/structural and systemic levels. 

This course introduces students into the riches of the Greek literary tradition. It is for students coming to university without any background knowledge of ancient literature and offers a chronologically laid out, broad survey of periods, genres and best known authors of Greek literature and thought. Although the broad conceptual categories of “socio-cultural context” and generic expectations define the overall intellectual tone of this course, extracts from the texts are woven into lectures to whet the students' appetite to continue with further reading of their own. No previous knowledge of ancient Greek/Latin literature and philosophy is assumed and all texts underpinning the teaching of this course can be studied in English translation.

The course gives students an introduction to some key legal areas relevant to business law. It teaches important aspects of business law, looking at business relationships, agency, and the business organization. 

This course introduces students to the material and visual culture of the ancient world from the second millennium BC to late antiquity. Semester 1 focuses on the Greek world. Students will study the built environment - from the great urban monuments to everyday domestic units (including temples, "homes" for the gods). Students explore 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 course draws heavily from the extraordinary collections in London, particularly the British Museum.

This practice-based course develops students’ sense of nonfiction-writing as a creative act, and introduces some of the practical skills and techniques essential to a variety of forms including: memoir and the personal essay; biography; nature-writing; reportage and cultural criticism. Through studying a wide range of non-fictional texts, students explore the ways in which writers engaged in supposedly factual writing nonetheless take creative risks and make the same kinds of narrative decisions as fiction-writers.