King's College London

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. 

This course takes you through the history of the Greek world during one of its most significant periods. It examines the relationships between Greek cities, and in particular the Peloponnesian War between Athens and its allies, and Sparta and its allies. It also looks at the importance of the Persian empire in this period, and examines social issues including democracy, slavery, and gender roles and relations.

In this course, students approach consumer psychology and behavior from a neuroscientific perspective. Students learn the fundamentals of brain anatomy and their functions in the context of marketing and management. This course also covers cutting-edge marketing research that uses biometric techniques such as eye tracking, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), and students gain hands-on experience with some of these techniques and analysis of biometric data. Students learn how to apply insights from neuroscience not only in marketing and management, but also in their everyday life. 

This course interrogates the significance of climate change for International Relations as a discipline and for international relations as a set of global political practices. The course explores the relationship between natural science and international relations, and what this means for making sense of the international politics of the environment. It examines the implications of climate change through several lenses including international theory, international institutions and governance, conflict, negotiations and communications, social movements and protest, inequality and justice, and discourses of crisis. The course seeks to facilitate student independence in exploring the international relations of climate change, as well as transferable writing skills, through the creation of a blog post on one of the security implications of climate change and developing an essay on any single climatic process and its implications for international relations.