King's College London

In this course, students explore ancient Greek drama through a study of select plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. The plays are read in English translation. Students read four plays, one by each playwright. In our reading, students consider such issues as the development of the genre, performance conventions, gender, ethnicity, and religion. Particular attention is paid to the evolving relationship between Athenian drama and the socio-political context of the democracy. Students supplement our investigations with readings from contemporary scholarship.

This course offers a global introduction to comparative politics, focusing on case studies of politics and religion around the world. The course introduces students to approaches to analyzing and critiquing the way in which secular and religious issues are negotiated in institutions such as government, religious hierarchies, and civil society. Moreover, the course develops students' broader understandings of how power, conflict, and identities are conceived in the modern, globalized world. Topics can include religion-state relations, identity politics, religion and violence, and various international case studies of political participation and mobilization.

Students study how marketing strategies, tactics, and analytics tie together to create a digital marketing campaign, learning how a market position is selected and bolstered by the appropriate marketing tools to achieve success, critically considering the advantages and disadvantages of different digital marketing choices, and applying a range of tools to create realistic and viable marketing campaigns. 

This course covers a range of contemporary topics in economics from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Students learn the theoretical arguments behind each topic covered but also study a whole range of empirical methodologies employed by economists to test these theories. 

Students study the principles, procedures, and practices  of drug discovery and development; discuss the challenge facing those involved in drug discovery and development; evaluate experimental observations in relation to current theory; and explore technical expertise in certain areas of experimental pharmacology.

Global interaction and exchange have increased on a dramatic level since the 1970s. This course offers the opportunity to examine the real life of globalization by treating it as a historical phenomena, helping us to think precisely about what was globalized when, and how understandings of it have changed through time. Students trace the emergence of technologies and practices which facilitate global interaction, from the container ship to the internet. Students examine the emergence of the idea of globalization, and trace the history of arguments about what it is and whether it is a good thing or not. Finally, students study its political consequences, charting debates about the effects of global interaction on the choices available to publics and their leaders, and how far institutions and individuals are able to shape phenomena which occurs on such a large scale. In taking course, students develop a crucial set of tools for understanding one of the major issues of our age.

This course consists of six focused seminars with an accompanying discussion/workshop. Each workshop focuses on one of the SCMMS (School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences) research focus. Each formal lecture is given by academics in the school who review some of their work including clinical problem, research background, hypothesis and aims, methodology, outcomes, and application. These are not high level conference lectures but firmly set in level 5 level of understanding.

From the 1960s, British and North American publishing industries started to undergo a process known as conglomeration, a form of financialization that increasingly held publishers accountable to producing books that would make near-immediate profit rather than incentivizing editors to pursue work that might amass reputation and financial returns over time. In this course students examine the narrative of conglomeration amidst other developments in literary publishing and editorial politics during this time, covering topics including: commercial and independent presses; feminist publishing; under representation of POC authors; the relationship between publishing and political movements; the poetics of editing; the outsourcing of work to the Global South; and self-publishing. Throughout the course, students remain attuned to questions of literary form and the politics of editing and publishing.