King's College London

This course provides students with an understanding of the fundamentals of audit and assurance practices, in relation to the regulatory framework. It discusses the role, principles, and limits of audit and assurance, and students learn to assess internal controls and apply the audit procedures for detecting material misstatements or fraud in financial statements. Students also discuss the professional values of auditing and learn to apply them to specific cases. Students demonstrate problem solving skills and develop reasoned arguments by applying concepts and frameworks to case studies.

The course describes formal languages and the main abstract models of computation.

The course engages students in systematic reflection on the assumptions, concepts, and values inherent in the fields of global public health; develops participants' critical awareness and appreciation of theories and themes from applied moral philosophy related to the fields of global public health; develops students' capacity to use this awareness to analyze the nature and values of health/public health-related practice and the policy context shaping it; and develops participants' awareness of the contribution of bioethics to the health-care arena.

This course introduces students to basic concepts from abstract algebra, especially the notion of a group. The course helps prepare students for further study in abstract algebra as well as familiarize them with tools essential in many other areas of mathematics. The course is also intended to help students in the transitions from concrete to abstract mathematical thinking and from a purely descriptive view of mathematics to one of definition and deduction.

This course unravels many of our unquestioned assumptions around the world of work. It examines work as a domain of human activity, a site of meaning-making, a source of identity, a form of dispossession, and a mechanism for social and economic differentiation. Students use theoretical perspectives from sociology, anthropology, political economy, ecological economics, and feminist thought to explore debates around the role of work in human cultures and societies, as well as work as a site of exploitation, class-formation, inequality, and resistance.

This course introduces students to the formal characteristics of film, to acquire a critical vocabulary for describing and analyzing films and to gain practice in discussing and writing about them. This is achieved by focusing on a range of narrative films, examining the various visual, aural, and narrative conventions by which they create meaning and practicing film analysis through discussion and written work. Issues of mise-en-scène, framing, cinematography, editing, sound, narrative structure, and point of view will be discussed as key components of cinematic style and meaning.

The course introduces students to the fundamental principles of intercultural competence and ethnographic research. It proposes to develop perception and appreciation of different cultural perspectives and values. It prepares students to carry out an ethnographic project. It also guides and prepares students for the challenges of intercultural experiences and of conflict resolution by developing practical tools to be applied in a diverse cultural environment.