King's College London

This course is concerned with the ways we design, develop, and assess new technologies and innovations for organizations. It considers the activities involved in the design process: how to identify what users need, how to design solutions that fit those needs, and how to assess whether technology meets those needs.  It focusses on computer technologies to support work activities and organizations. The first part of the module details approaches and methods for design and development. The second part focusses on recent areas of technological innovation that are relevant to businesses and organizations. The course considers technology and innovation from a social scientific perspective. 

This course explores the processes and patterns of climate variability and change, and considers how these aspects of climate impact society. The course emphasizes the concept that climate is not only a determinant of human activities but is one of humankind's greatest resources. The course also examines how it can be one of humankind's greatest threats, due to the occurrence of climate extremes and anthropogenic-related changes to the global climate system. The course explores the relationship between climate and society; climate oscillations and teleconnections as well as the mechanisms underlying climatic variability; the nature of direct and indirect impacts of climate on society and the science of climate change and how climate change impact assessments are conducted; climate risk and its assessment; how climate knowledge can be applied to the problem of sustainable development.

This course introduces students to examples of youth cultures from around the world, puts them in context, and provides conceptual and theoretical frameworks to help analyze and understand them. It explores a number of key themes and ideas, including identity, resistance/threat, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, fandom, and the digital. The course looks at how youth culture can be seen in relation to culture, media, and creative industries, and the connections and tensions between creativity, agency, and commodification. 

This course provides an introduction to classical and recent models of international trade and their predictions of trade patterns, with some consideration of empirical studies and policy issues. More precisely, it introduces students to the remarkable growth of international trade in recent decades; the Gravity model, classic models of trade theory, such as the theory of comparative advantage; the Specific Factor model and the Heckscher–Ohlin model, always focusing on the empirical relevance and usefulness of the theories. It also covers new trade theory, i.e. trade models incorporating economies of scale, imperfect competition, and product differentiation. Finally, it provides tools to analyze the economic effects of various trade policies.