King's College London

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. 

This course examines the functioning of democracies in a context of high economic interdependence. To do so, the course is structure into two parts. In the first part, students learn how to define and measure globalization; how institutions emerge and change and how political institutions have contributed to the development of globalization. In the second part of the course, the focus is on analyzing the relationship between democracy and globalization. In this part of the course, the main topics cover the relationship between globalization and political accountability; the surge of technocracy and the tension with the democratic ideal of self government, and the socio-economic consequences of globalization. These topics provide the basis to understand more complex problems like Brexit, the collapse of establishment parties or the rise of populism. 

This course is to help students better understand why people make certain financial choices in a way that systematically contradicts theoretical expectations. More specifically, this course is particularly interested in exploring examples of where conventional theory in finance does not hold and markets appearing to be acting "irrationally." Consequently, this course guides students through the development of the field of behavioral finance from the early ground-breaking work of psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in the 1970s-1980s, to the extensive field that it is today, where the course covers a range of topics relating to seemingly irrational financial behavior, including spending, investing, trading, retirement planning, wellbeing, and public policy. 

Students explore, expose, and open up conversations around King's College London's historic associations with colonialism and racial injustices. It is open to students of different disciplinary backgrounds. Students do not need to have studied history before; over the course of the course, they learn the skills to become historians (or, at least, historians-in-training).