King's College London

The overview of knowledge in the field of stem cell science provided in this course should enable students to follow and understand the potential use of stem cells in cellular therapy, regenerative medicine, toxicity screening, and drug development. The course covers cellular mechanisms of stemness as well as the ethical, legal, and regulatory issues associated with stem cell based therapy, human embryo research, and cloning.

This course is broadly equivalent to A1 Basic user/ Breakthrough level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages..

The course focuses on the evolution of Russia’s federal system after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the nature of center-regional relations in present-day Russia, in the comparative context of post-Soviet Eurasia. The course attends to key institutions, trends, and reforms underpinning the process of regionalization in Russia during the 1990s and the subsequent recentralization during the 2000s. The prism of center-regional relations and federalism provides an additional perspective on the political economy of post-Soviet Russia, including issues such as the nature and extent of social, political, and economic reforms; the importance of structural preconditions and legacies inherited from the Soviet economy; resource-dependence and the politics of energy; and relations between the state and businesses in Russia. 

How do museums seek to engage with their audiences and communities? This course considers how the relationship between museums and their publics has evolved overtime. Attention is paid to the recent call for museums to become more visitor-focused, and how this has required significant changes in professional practice, including in the ways in which museums conceptualize and approach their publics.

This course examines the idea that the contemporary production of urban space restricts the rights of many urban dwellers to inhabit, develop, and otherwise shape the cities in which they live and work. Drawing especially on the work of David Harvey and Henri Lefebvre (alongside other "metromarxists") the course contrasts the way that cities serve the interests of financial powers, developers, and property owners with the forms of urban exclusion, alienation, and marginalization experienced by those who are oppressed by virtue of their class, ethnicity, sexuality, age, or gender. Though consideration of different struggles for urban space, the course explores important questions about how people should make claims to urban space, and explores the political potential of the demand for "the right to the city."

This course examines the role of the City of London in the broader context of social, political, and economic transformations.