King's College London

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.

The course places anti-discrimination law in a broader context: theoretical justifications for the anti-discrimination principle are examined, and use is made of historical and social science material where appropriate. The course makes clear the assumptions which underlie traditional thinking concerning anti-discrimination law, and expose these to critical scrutiny. This task is especially important because of the recent expansion and consolidation of anti-discrimination law in Great Britain, as a result of the Human Rights Act 1998, the new anti-discrimination directives under Article 19 TFEU, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and the Equality Act 2010.