King's College London

This course explores key intersecting dimensions of inequality, particularly class, race/ethnicity, sex/gender, sexuality, disability. It focuses on power relationships and social change, and drawing on theory, research and examples from experience. The course investigates how inequality and power intersect at different levels, including individual; interpersonal/social, institutional, and international.

This course is about the theory and practice of leadership in organizations. It provides students with knowledge, understanding, and application of leadership theories and concepts. Through weekly workshops and participation in exercises designed to develop leadership skills, students hone their abilities in reflective practice and self-analysis.

Exploring the nature of myth, this course asks where we see myths being created and retold in the modern era and why a form that is often considered to be ancient still has such prominence today. Students read a range of modern mythic narratives, from the Caribbean to Japan, from the United States to the UK, considering how and why myth takes shape in 20th- and 21st-century literature. Examining the modern reception of ancient myths from Greek and Yoruba culture and delving into the creation of new mythic tales in graphic novels and performance poetry, students ask questions about what makes a text mythic and explore the ways in which myth continues to be used to address and think through very contemporary concerns.

The course examines key biogeographical and ecological topics from both physical and human perspectives. This interdisciplinary approach is essential for the understanding and management of environmental problems that involve biological diversity and ecological communities. The course provides students not just with an essential grounding in the fundamentals of biogeography and ecology, but also an appreciation of how this is mediated by society. These skills are valuable for both physical and human geographers and are a central facet of environmental geography.  Most specifically, the course focuses on biodiversity, ecological systems, and ecosystem services with a focus on current threats, management, and conservation. 

The course explores how our anatomy has emerged through vertebrate evolution. The course focuses on particular body parts and use them as case studies to probe how they have been assembled during evolution. In studying these issues, students compare our anatomical organization with that of other vertebrates. This give them insights into origins of our body and how it has been modified during evolution. Students consider evidence from comparative anatomy, from fossils, and from embryology and thus gain an understanding of the transitions that occurred during evolution.

This course is broadly equivalent to A1 Basic User, Breakthrough Level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

This is a course in policy analysis, and it helps students understand how policy is made and what impact it has. The course introduces the concept of the policy process – studying policy-making in terms of decision, implementation, and evaluation. Students seek to understand how governments function, why policy is often not implemented effectively; and how we can judge and measure policy success and failure. 

The course enables students to develop an understanding of contemporary dimensions of citizenship as a way of thinking through how these shape and are shaped by cities.  This understanding includes an awareness of the different kinds of primary, secondary, and gray sources available for the study of cities and citizenship. The course uses case studies from the global North and South to explore the political, economic, social, and cultural processes that shape cities and citizenship as connected sites of people's sense of identity and belonging.