King's College London

This course introduces students to performative events, dramatic representations, performance processes, and theater institutions in London. London has been a "dramatized society" as Raymond Williams once put it, a "society of the spectacle" as Guy Debord claimed in another capital context. But what might these general terms mean more specifically in London, now?  How does performance theory help us to read the behaviors and relationships of people that make up the city? What are the ways in which configurations of space, power, and movement determine what it is possible to think and feel in the city? This course uses ideas from performance, theater, and literary studies as a framework to think about our everyday experience as consumers, tourists, and citizens in the global city that is 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.