King's College London

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. 

This course explains the techniques behind compilers, lexers and parsers. It looks into mathematical formalisms of regular expressions, context-free grammars, and shows their applications to computer languages and illustrates low level machine languages and compiler techniques. Students learn how to use regular expressions to scrape information from the web, how to design grammars for parsing languages and how to implement a small interpreter and compiler. Students will be able to implement the central components of a small compiler. Students will also know the theory behind lexing and parsing so that they canchoose an appropriate algorithm for recognising a computer language.