King's College London

The course introduces students to the history, literature, and culture of those who spoke and wrote in Greek over almost two millennia beginning in late antiquity, and still do today. The first half of the module focuses on the Byzantine period, from the foundation of the capital city of Constantinople in 330 AD to the conquest of the Byzantine empire in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks (who renamed the city Istanbul). The second half follows the fortunes of Greek speakers during and after the breakup of the empire, and focuses on the building and consolidation of a Greek nation state in the early 19th century, the cultural achievements of Greeks since, particularly in literature, and their troubled relationship with Europe that lies at the root of the financial and social crisis that broke out in Greece in 2010.

This course introduce students to the study of American literature at university level. Students gain a knowledge of some of the most emblematic texts and movements in American literary culture as well as some of the historical contexts that have framed them. Through studying a diverse and varied array of works, students gain an insight into the most productive approaches, concepts, and methods for reading US culture. These include thinking about settler colonialism, indigeneity, questions of race, the tension between popular and canonical forms of writing, the effects of literary nationalism, capitalism and its effects, and the problems of narrative representation when faced with the troubling history of America. Central concepts include slavery, democracy, freedom, individualism, personal identity, and geography. 

This course provides an in-depth critical introduction to a range of important themes, scenes, artists, groups, recordings, and/or performance in popular music and explores both their impact on musical culture more broadly and their relationship to wider political, social and artistic issues.

The course deepens students' understanding of inference about of sample means and linear correlation and extend these techniques to more complex analysis (with multiple different groups, multiple manipulations, or multiple types of measurement).  Much of what students do is based around introducing the most common form of inferential statistical analysis (Analysis of Variance) and related techniques. This course introduces the theory and develop practical knowledge of how to do all these types of analysis, which will form the basis of the course assessment.