King's College London

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. 

The course introduces physical quantities and fundamental laws of electrical circuits. The basics of direct and alternating current networks are explained allowing the evaluation of complex electric networks.

This course reviews the nature and processes of terrestrial environmental changes, focusing on those related to the carbon cycle, and to Earth’s landcover and land use. By covering variability and change in these areas of the Earth system and how they are assessed, both in relation to natural variabilities and anthropogenic influences, the course provides the scientific background necessary to better understand the causes and consequences of environmental changes in isolation and as a whole, whether they be paleo-environmental changes, studies of the contemporary environment, or future projections.

 

This course provides conceptual and analytical tools for students to be able to systematize their experience as viewers and spectators of a range of visual representations across the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. Students are introduced to the broad field of Visual Culture in order to be able to engage critically with various forms of expression such as painting, printmaking, photography, and film (including genres such as portraiture, comics and documentary). It also considers the visual image within literary texts. Students examine selected samples from a range of visual and, where relevant, verbal material produced in relation to the Spanish and Portuguese speaking worlds, as well as relevant theoretical and critical literature. Sessions focus on the ways in which images are part of the production of meaning and how vision and visuality might be culturally constructed. 

This course studies medieval narratives of journeys in, to, and from Britain. These journeys of conquest and conversion, pilgrimage, vision, and quest allow examination of the relation between humans and their natural and built environments. Issues considered include national identity and borders; the localization of the sacred; memory places; performance and ritual; the projection of the self onto landscape; the agencies of place. Its places include taverns, cathedrals, castles, cities, forests, and Fairyland: some of them are still here. A core of literary texts is supplemented by visual and historical material.

This course examines the tensions and contradictions that arise from societal, political, and economic demands in relation to the developing role and form of education policy and practice. It considers education as the cornerstone for the realization of competing social imaginaries by examining the complex ways in which economic priorities, technological advancements, and demographic, and labor trends intersect, posing new problems and new demands for education. This course considers the use of artificial intelligence, the Quantified Self Movement, and satellite-enabled distance learning as concrete manifestations of these global trends.