King's College London

The course allows students to develop their natural gift for creative thinking.  To this end, students make films of poems - film poems. These cinematic works usually exceed the likely intentions of the poet, becoming something new; one creative work is used as a springboard for another. In this course, students are shown how to make film poems using a combination of mobile phone technology and analysis of style, enabling them to produce novel cinematic interpretations of poetry.  Students learn how to conduct an authoritative stylistic analysis of a poem, using this as the basis for creating a screenplay which they film on their mobile phone (or other device), editing, and enhancing through their employment of freely available apps.  

This course consolidates year 1 organic and physical chemistry by reference to biological examples and shows students its relevance to cellular biochemical processes. It introduces mechanisms and thermodynamics of chemical processes in the cell, including central metabolic pathways, principles of enzyme and metalloenzyme active site catalysis, coenzyme chemistry, and thermodynamics of biochemical processes. It conveys the multidisciplinarity and role of chemical ideas in understanding biochemistry, and enable students to apply basic chemical principles in unfamiliar biochemical contexts to generate hypotheses. It also introduces key concepts of cell biology and protein structure.

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.