King's College London

This course is an introduction to propositional logic and predicate logic. It acquaints students with the notions of logical consistency and logical validity, syllogisms, the languages of propositional logic and predicate logic, truth-tables for propositional, logic, and introduces the truth-tree method to check for logical validity of arguments and consistency of sets of sentences in both logics.

The fear of conspiracy functions as a recurring motif in many American cultural forms including novels, film, television, certain genres of music like hip-hop and rap, graphic novels, and social media. After considering early articulations of conspiracism in the US, this course focuses on 20th and 21st Century mediations and figurations of conspiracy fears and theories. The course considers conspiracism through key events that have unsettled epistemic certainty and fuelled hermeneutic activity, including the assassination of JFK, 9/11, the election of Barack Obama, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

This course looks at key social movements from the 20th and 21st century and the ways in which culture and cultural expression have been central to representing social causes, communicating concerns, and engendering public support for social change. It examines how technologies have changed the shape of cultural expression, often defining the texture and possibilities of activist practices. The course explores a wide range of cultural practices and their relationship with activism including the visual arts, performing arts, and music. It draws from examples across time and geographic locations. 

From K-pop to Korean television series and cinema, South Korean culture has boasted its popularity both within the East Asian region and across the globe. Since the so-called South Korean film renaissance of the 1990s-2000s until the recent box office mega-hits such as TRAIN OF BUSAN, ALONG THE GODS, and PARASITE, the Korean film industry has been showcasing its versatility through its adapting to the changes of the global film industry and transforming of popular genre conventions. This course surveys the history of post-war Korean cinema since the 1950s to the present, in particular its relationship to urban space and gender, popular genre, trauma and history, and authorship.

This course enables students to explore key concepts in the economics of work and pay, labor market theory, and the theory of personnel economics. Students develop an understanding of how these tools can be used to address theoretical, applied, and policy problems. Students also learn the nature and role of the labor market in the UK. Students master the core concepts of labor economics theory and the theory of personnel economics and then use those theories to analyze real-world labor market phenomena such as how pays are set, why there is wage inequality and unemployment. Students also evaluate the case for the use of the theory in designing reforms of the labor markets.