King's College London

This course introduces students to the basic concepts and issues in contemporary political economy, with a particular focus on the political economy of the contemporary social democratic state. The course introduces students to the concepts of economic analysis and the relevance of these concepts to the study of government and politics. It provide students with an understanding of the problems of market failure and government failure and provides a scholarly framework to comparatively evaluate these problems. It provides students with a familiarity with a number of classic and key contemporary readings in political economy. 

In this course, students "place" Austen in a number of different senses: socially, environmentally, and with a view to her lasting legacies and impact on our modern cultural industries. They attend to the treatment of place as a theme across her own novels, the way that her characters navigate space and that particular geographical locations bear witness to social interaction. Though Charlotte Brontë famously complained that Austen's works offered only a "highly cultivated garden" with "no open country", students discuss Austen's interest in a much wider range of settings, which in turns allows for a complex engagement with ideas of nature, colonialism, health, leisure, and mobility. 

This course provides an overview of the British political system in theory and in practice. Students learn about the key British institutional structures such as the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Civil Service, and Parliament. They learn about key areas of change: the development of devolution, nationalist movements, and parliamentary reform. The course provides an insight into the party and electoral systems. It also considers how the British political system relates with the outside world, including the aftermath of the vote to leave the European Union of June 2016. Students combine empirical study with the application of a variety of theoretical approaches.

This course introduces students to the physiological basis for requirements for energy, macronutrients and micronutrients, causes and consequences ofvitamin and mineral deficiency, current dietary guidelines for the UK.