King's College London

This course explores how social systems, relationships, and individual characteristics affect people's health status and illness-related conduct. It enables students to put their nutritional knowledge into a wider context by providing a foundation in the concept and methods of the human sciences.

The course provides rigorous theoretical foundation for key concepts appearing in Analysis: open sets, closed sets, continuous maps, continuity, differentiability, Riemann integral. This is done in the context of sets on the real line and of functions of one variable.

Asset managers play an important role within the economy – facilitating effective saving for individuals and institutions, making financial markets more efficient, and allocating capital to firms and entrepreneurs. This course provides an overview of this process from the industry perspective, providing the knowledge and skills needed to manage assets. It introduces the analysis and valuation of securities in the major asset classes, and examines the investment process and how managers construct portfolios which add value for their clients, in theory and in practice.

We are accustomed to encountering ‘the sceptic’ as a hypothetical adversary to overcome. The ancient world, however, presents us with a rich variety of philosophers who lived their scepticism – advancing it as a viable and attractive way of life, and developing detailed systems and defences of their positions. Others attacked such sceptics and their scepticisms, and a lively debate raged. In this course, students explore these varieties of sceptical and anti-sceptical thought in the Pre-Socratic philosophers Xenophanes and Democritus, the towering Classical figures of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, the Hellenistic schools of Academic and Pyrrhonian scepticism and, finally, in the anti-sceptical treatises of Augustine and Al-Ghazali.