King's College London

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. 

This course provides an advanced introduction to global governance and the key international institutions that form the basis of global governance. It gives a detailed knowledge of the institutional landscape through which international political and economic interaction is mediated. The analysis is grounded in the theories of International Political Economy (IPE)/International Relations, which students are expected to familiar with.

The first films of the Skladanowsky brothers in Germany and the Lumières in France were documentaries: recordings of circus acts, workers leaving a factory, a train arriving at a station. This course examines the history of ùnon-fiction filmmaking, or what has been termed reality-driven representation, from 1895 to the present. Students concentrate on landmark films from America, Russia, Britain and France to examine the different ways in which documentary filmmakers have engaged with contemporary society and asserted the truth value of cinema. Focusing on Robert Flahertys and Dziga Vertovs pioneering work in the 1920s, British Free Cinema of the 1950s, cinéma vérité and Direct Cinema of the 1960s, the essay film of the 1980s, and concluding with examples of contemporary practices (the recent work of Errol Morris and Werner Herzog, for example), political, social, and historical issues are addressed alongside more theoretical concerns. 

Topics cover include: Bivariate probability, continuous densities, generating functions. The exponential densities, including normal, t-, χ2 and F. Simple parametric and nonparametric tests. Further topics include the consistency, efficiency and sufficiency of estimates, maximum likelihood estimation; the central limit theorem, Chebyshev's inequality, the Neyman-Pearson lemma and the likelihood ratio test; regression, and analysis of variance.