King's College London

The course enables students to achieve an in-depth understanding of interactions which underlie the function of the nervous system in disease states, evaluating different approaches employed in the research on pain and human nervous system disorders. It provides students with a sample of neurological and psychiatric disorders, drawn primarily from research carried on at King's College London. From the analysis of these samples, students are expected to achieve an understanding of the complexity of research in human nervous system disorders and the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to tackle such complexity. 

Issues and Topics in Music offers a broad introduction to some of the main areas of music. These include an introduction to a key selection of music and music history from the Middle Ages to the 21st century; and 2) an introduction to contemporary topics and methodologies, such as jazz studies, ethnomusicology, or sound studies. The course gives students a solid basis of information and methodologies, a platform from which they can enter into more specialized work.

This course is broadly equivalent to A1 Basic User, Breakthrough Level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

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.