University of Manchester

"'Omic Technologies and Resources will introduce a range of molecular biology, genetic engineering and bioinformatic techniques (e.g., gene cloning, engineering alterations in a gene, screening for genes, genome mapping, sequencing and editing projects), and illustrate how these can be, and have been, applied and adapted to answer major questions in the biological sciences and medical genetics."

This course explores various career paths within the criminal justice system and related fields, and identifies the role of criminology (theory and research) in this applied work. The aim is to encourage intellectual awareness of the issues involved in criminal justice-related professions.

This course challenges the received picture of a Viking depredation and Christian reaction. Students look at growth in the 10th century, which sees the rise of Western Europe's cultural self-confidence, culminating in the expansion of Latin Christendom eastwards in the First Crusade. The culture of Europe at the beginning of the High Medieval period and its gendered patterning is assessed. This course addresses how Europe chaged from 800-1100 and the the conflicting versions of that historical change.

By addressing political, social, and cultural themes in the history of Latin America from the first arrival of European explorers and settlers to the 20th century, this course offers an introduction to the region's past. The course focuses on some of the key challenges faced by the societies which emerged from the interaction of Spanish and Portuguese settlers with Native American peoples and African slaves. It is organized around particular events or themes in Latin American history and adopts a comparative perspective.

This course examines how history can be used to address problems in the contemporary world. Students explore how knowledge about the past can be deployed to inform the development of policy responses to contemporary issues, such as the house-building crisis, or the organisation of grass-roots campaigns to save museums in the face of funding cuts. The course is delivered in conjunction with external guest speakers from sectors such as law, finance, marketing, media, NGOs, media, policy makers, government, and heritage.

This course examines the development of cities and the complex process of urbanization. It introduces theoretical ideas about the growth, development, and change of urban areas over the last hundred years. Students explore how economic, social, political, and environmental pressures shape patterns of land-use in urban areas and the various theories that explain modern day urbanization and the role cities play in societies today. This course covers what it means to be an urban dweller in the modern world.

This course examines various aspects of plant biology and how this is related to a future challenge faced by humanity. Students learn how plants capture the resources they require from the environment, how their productivity is affected by their environment and how they are adapted to tolerate extreme conditions. Students find out how this knowledge is being used to address major societal and environmental challenges such as sustaining our food supply, providing renewable energy, and protecting the environment. This course provides knowledge about plant research to understand more about climate change and food security.

This course gives students the tools to map and analyze the patterns of relations that link individuals or groups. Students develop theoretical concepts and methods to uncover and understand the patterns in the social relations that bind us together and influence our behavior, attitudes, and beliefs.

This course explores steam turbine and gas turbine power systems such as road transportation, buses, aircraft, ships, refrigeration, and air conditioning. Students analyze them in terms of their cycle representations, thermodynamic efficiencies, work/heat inputs/outputs, fuel consumptions, etc. These analyses include the heat input to these systems which comes from internal combustion of fuel in air.