King's College London

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. 

This course focuses on the history, institutions, actors, and policies of the European Union (EU) from its beginnings in the aftermath of the Second World War to more recent developments such as the Eurozone crisis, migration and Brexit. It also analyses some of the current challenges and controversies that the EU is facing, including an increasing domestic contestation, the democratic deficit and the future of integration. In so doing, it sets the basis for the final year core courses on the EU, in which specific policy areas are discussed in greater detail.