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ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS: THE OTHER NINETEENTH CENTURY
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
King's College London
Program(s)
English Universities,King's College London
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
English American Studies
UCEAP Course Number
132
UCEAP Course Suffix
E
UCEAP Official Title
ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS: THE OTHER NINETEENTH CENTURY
UCEAP Transcript Title
ALTERNATVE AMERICAS
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
Historians and literary critics have long identified 19th century America as a period when categories such as race, nation, and gender became established modes for defining identity. According to the narrative, U.S. citizens increasingly defined their selfhood by relating it to fixed categories, such as their place of birth, ethnic background, or sexual choices. This course tells a different story by looking at texts that offer other ways of living, writing, and perceiving in the 19th century United States. This perspective allows students to create an alternative set of categories for thinking about 19th-century life and rejuvenate the canon by incorporating minoritarian voices, genres, and texts. The course explores the writing of revolutionary African Americans, popular Native American dime novels, immigrant novels, and forgotten utopian fiction. Through the testimony of such literature, the course penetrates into the subterranean, barely visible, American communities that existed on the margins of mainstream culture. Many of the texts that this course covers were out of print for many years and have only recently been rediscovered, meaning that their canonical status is still up for dispute. Students learn to question their own ethics by exploring these works.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
6AAEC087
Host Institution Course Title
ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS: THE OTHER NINETEENTH CENTURY
Host Institution Campus
King's College London
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
English

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IMAGINARY GEOGRAPHIES: NOVELS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF SPACE 1800-2000
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
King's College London
Program(s)
King's College London
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
English
UCEAP Course Number
124
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
IMAGINARY GEOGRAPHIES: NOVELS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF SPACE 1800-2000
UCEAP Transcript Title
NOVELS:SPACE 18-20C
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
This course examines the poetics of space in the European novel of the 19th and 20th centuries. Students consider how, in the course of two centuries which saw the emergence of the modern city and the rise of the global world, novels trace the changing perception of space as they move away from concepts of realism and mimesis, and toward an increasingly problematic and volatile relation with reality. Students examine representations of the house and its parts, the country and the city, familiar settings and exotic locations, physical places, and spaces remembered or imagined. The course also analyzes how novelists use space to dramatize relations between characters, as well as a character's inner world. Students explore different theories of narrative space, including Bakhtin's chronotope and Moretti's maps of novelistic plots.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
6ABA0003
Host Institution Course Title
IMAGINARY GEOGRAPHIES: NOVELS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF SPACE 1800-2000
Host Institution Campus
King's College London
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Comparative Literature

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SOCIOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
King's College London
Program(s)
King's College London
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Sociology
UCEAP Course Number
125
UCEAP Course Suffix
N
UCEAP Official Title
SOCIOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
UCEAP Transcript Title
SOC OF POL SCIENCE
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
This course begins from the bottom up. Whereas political science begins with assumptions about human beings as political animals, and economics deals with economic actors – and both perspectives suppose the existence of at least a basic institutional framework – the sociological imagination begins with the human being as a fundamentally social animal. As a result, by beginning with the individual in the simplest of contexts, the course explores fundamental questions about how identities, communities, and institutions emerge, how conflicts arise and are resolved, and about the boundaries of the "rationality" that underpins most social science analysis. It examines political and economic reality as a social experience, bound up with and informing an individual's sense of self. From "self" the course moves to "other," and from the relationship between self and other students examine the contours of power. It then explores capitalism and Marxism, mobilization and anomie, and finally the digital age.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
4YYR0003
Host Institution Course Title
THE SOCIOLOGY OF POLITICS
Host Institution Campus
King's College London
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Social Science & Public Policy

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MUSIC AND THE CITY
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
King's College London
Program(s)
King's College London
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Music
UCEAP Course Number
128
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
MUSIC AND THE CITY
UCEAP Transcript Title
MUSIC & THE CITY
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description

The course investigates the musical life of a specific city to investigate different themes, movements, events, composers, and/or other musical figures, and the social, political, and aesthetic issues with which they engaged.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
6AAMS387
Host Institution Course Title
MUSIC AND THE CITY
Host Institution Campus
Strand Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
bachelors
Host Institution Department
Music

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THE HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING AFRICA FROM 1960 TO THE PRESENT
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
King's College London
Program(s)
King's College London
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History African Studies
UCEAP Course Number
155
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
THE HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING AFRICA FROM 1960 TO THE PRESENT
UCEAP Transcript Title
PORT-SPEAKNG AFRICA
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
This course explores the political, economic, and social history of Portuguese-speaking Africa from 1960, when most of Africa became independent and anti-colonial wars broke out in the Portuguese colonies, to the present. The course places the modern history of Lusophone Africa within the larger context of the history of the Portuguese presence on the continent, and relates the history of Portuguese-speaking Africa to the history of the rest of Black Africa. Students examine decolonization and the transition to post-colonial politics in the five former Portuguese colonies. Topics include the roots and nature of nationalism, the impact of armed struggle, the consequences of the 1974 revolution in Lisbon, the impact of decolonization of the post-colonial governments, the relevance of socialist policies, the failures of development, the curse of civil war and other forms of violence, the involvement of outside powers in southern Africa, the importance of oil to politics, the transition to multiparty politics, and the prospects for development.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
5AAH1024
Host Institution Course Title
THE HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING AFRICA 1960 TO THE PRESENT
Host Institution Campus
King's College London
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
History

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THE POLITICS OF TOLERANCE IN LIBERAL STATES
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
King's College London
Program(s)
King's College London
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science
UCEAP Course Number
166
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
THE POLITICS OF TOLERANCE IN LIBERAL STATES
UCEAP Transcript Title
POL OF TOLERANCE
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
This course examines the political theory and practice of tolerance in the European Union and North America with particular attention to the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. In addition, it uses comparative cases from Turkey and Israel. The course integrates three research traditions: political science, applied political and social philosophy, and political psychology. It examines empirical studies of recent and historical cases.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
6SSJM500
Host Institution Course Title
THE POLITICS OF TOLERANCE IN LIBERAL STATES
Host Institution Campus
King's College London
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Middle Eastern Studies

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CONSTANCY AND CREATIVITY: JEWISH INTERPRETATIONS OF TRADITION
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
King's College London
Program(s)
King's College London
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Religious Studies
UCEAP Course Number
113
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
CONSTANCY AND CREATIVITY: JEWISH INTERPRETATIONS OF TRADITION
UCEAP Transcript Title
JEWISH TRADITION
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description

Modern Jews address contemporary issues by communicating across time and space, in words and practices, with other generations and other communities. Is this a "traditional" approach? How did Jews in early modern Europe think about "tradition"? How did they create traditions in the age of the European Enlightenment, how did they challenge them in the nineteenth century, and how do they argue about them today? We will explore these questions by looking at unity and diversity among Jews in early modern Europe; examining the implications of the European Enlightenment for their innovations; studying major movements, texts and practices that will allow us to understand Jewish perspectives on tradition and modernity in Europe, America, and the Middle East.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
4AAT1032
Host Institution Course Title
CONSTANCY AND CREATIVITY: JEWISH INTERPRETATIONS OF TRADITION
Host Institution Campus
King's College London
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Theology and Religious Studies

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SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
King's College London
Program(s)
King's College London
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Computer Science
UCEAP Course Number
114
UCEAP Course Suffix
N
UCEAP Official Title
SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
UCEAP Transcript Title
SIGNALS & SYSTEMS
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description

This course introduces the theory of signal and linear systems; the concepts of modeling, description, and classification of signals and systems; and specific methods of signal processing.

 

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
5CCYB020
Host Institution Course Title
SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department

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CELL BIOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
King's College London
Program(s)
King's College London
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Biological Sciences
UCEAP Course Number
142
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
CELL BIOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE
UCEAP Transcript Title
CELL BIO & NEUROSCI
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of Cell Biology through the lens of Neuroscience. In addition to a limited number of core lectures on key processes such as cell division and cell organelles, a series of ‘expert lectures’ will showcase research areas at the forefront of cell biology and neuroscience that are flourishing at King’s (e.g. a lecture on Neuroimaging by Prof Steve Williams, Head of the Neuroimaging Centre in Denmark Hill). Regular practicals help students to get acquainted with laboratory approaches in cell biology. 

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
4BBY1030
Host Institution Course Title
CELL BIOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE
Host Institution Campus
King's College London/Guy's
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Anatomy & Human Sciences

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COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
King's College London
Program(s)
King's College London
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Communication Business Administration
UCEAP Course Number
110
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
UCEAP Transcript Title
COMMUNICATN SKILLS
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
This course teaches students the theory and practice of effective interpersonal communication and how it relates to the process of management. Students learn to demonstrate the practical knowledge, understanding, and skills of the effective business communicator whether it be written, verbal, or electronic.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
4SSMN116
Host Institution Course Title
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Host Institution Campus
King's College London
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Management
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