King's College London

This course explores the role of seapower and empires in the development of modern warfare, strategy, and international relations. Students examine the role of sea power in imperialism and the relationship between East and West, the role of technological innovation in the ability of sea power to affect war and politics both at the global and regional levels, the role of maritime geography as a structural impediment and enabler in the projection of power, and the conceptual complexities involved in the terms empire and imperialism as tools for understanding the strategic challenges that face the world today.

This course explores the theory and practices of international human resource management (IHRM). The first part of the course helps students understand the institutional characteristics across states and capitalist economies. Here, the course asks why and to what extent companies located in different countries adopt distinct practices regarding compensation, work design, training, and flexibility. The second part of the course examines the role of HRM in the management of multinational firms and discusses particular human resource management challenges faced by multinational corporations.

The course covers the following: Microscopic properties of networks: adjacency matrix, vertex degree, clustering coefficient, measures of node centrality and node similarity.  Macroscopic properties of networks: degree distributions, graph modularity, and assortativity. Processes on networks: voter model, diffusion process, random walk on a graph, PageRank, and spectral distribution. Random graphs: Erdos-Renyi ensemble, graphs with a prescribed degree distribution, giant components and percolation transition.  

Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by a type of virus, manifesting itself in individual human beings; but the covid-19 pandemic is not just a health issue, but a social and economic phenomenon. This course explores the economics and politics of the covid-19 pandemic and the policy response (health-related, economic and social) in the UK and other countries. It does not cover specific medical or scientific aspects of covid-19 as a disease, but beyond that discusses a wide range of topics relating both to the direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic. There is a particular focus on how and why policy decisions were taken; and on the longer-term implications. 

The course enables students to achieve an in-depth understanding of interactions which underlie the function of the nervous system in disease states, evaluating different approaches employed in the research on pain and human nervous system disorders. It provides students with a sample of neurological and psychiatric disorders, drawn primarily from research carried on at King's College London. From the analysis of these samples, students are expected to achieve an understanding of the complexity of research in human nervous system disorders and the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to tackle such complexity. 

Issues and Topics in Music offers a broad introduction to some of the main areas of music. These include an introduction to a key selection of music and music history from the Middle Ages to the 21st century; and 2) an introduction to contemporary topics and methodologies, such as jazz studies, ethnomusicology, or sound studies. The course gives students a solid basis of information and methodologies, a platform from which they can enter into more specialized work.

This course is broadly equivalent to A1 Basic User, Breakthrough Level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

This course provides an introduction to the literary culture of the medieval period, highlighting some of the key cultural issues of this era.  Students orient themselves in this long period (roughly from 600 to 1500) by looking at a range of texts and genres - poetry, prose, drama, lyric - from the early medieval as well as the later medieval periods. In exploring the various locations of the Middle Ages, students consider borders, boundaries, and zones between different places and periods.