King's College London

Students learn about the comparative dimensions of urbanization from the 18th to the early 20th century. Students explore the relationships between urbanization and the broader currents of economic, social, and cultural change. Students learn to compare and contrast urbanization at different places and times in both quantitative and qualitative terms; explain the relationships between social, cultural, and political processes; and explain the production of urban spaces and urban forms.

This course introduces students to key theories and concepts of social justice and invites them to consider how these ideas apply to the real world public policy questions with which they are concerned. Drawing on a range of philosophical, sociological, and political perspectives, the course provides students with theoretical tools for understanding what social justice is and how public policy is formulated and enacted, and enables them to use these tools to critically engage with contemporary examples across a range of international contexts and public policy areas and to think creatively about alternative ways in which public policy issues might be conceived and addressed. 

Consumer behavior is an exciting, dynamic, and growing field of marketing that draws on different social science disciplines (i.e., psychology, economics, anthropology, and sociology). The field uses these perspectives to examine individual and collective consumption behaviors in various cultural, social, economic, and environmental settings. This course examines how and why consumers think, feel, and behave the way they do and what this means for marketing products, services, ideas, and experiences.

This course introduces the basic concepts and tools of Statistical Mechanics at equilibrium. Lectures provide an overview of the powerful methods used to describe systems with a large number of degrees of freedom, with many different examples. Students learn how to build an intuitive and physical understanding of technical and mathematical aspects developed in this course.

The course has two sections, with the first section focusing on urbanization, urban form and structure, urban biodiversity and conservation, and the second section focusing on urban hydrology, urban rivers, urban river restoration and both terrestrial and aquatic pollution.  The lecture series ends with a field trip to an urban river site in London.