University of Manchester

In this course, students learn how to use a prominent data analytics programming language. They gain practical experience in different analytical techniques, such as network analysis and time series decomposition. The course also emphasizes the creation and usage of programmable visualizations for the communication of business insights by means of lab studies and presentations.

The projects, in addition to illustrating particular aspects of physics, represent tasks that might well be expected of physics graduates in the real world of research, technology, and commerce. Students seek to attain a goal agreed with the project supervisor by deploying all the skills and physical background they have accumulated. Feedback is offered by supervisors at each stage of the work.

This course introduces students to the inter-disciplinary field of peace and conflict studies, and the range of practices that have developed to make peace in different parts of the world. These include international peacekeeping, mediation, peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and peace formation, among others. In particular, the unit sets such practices in the context of the key political science and international relations’ dynamics of power, international and state design, rights, resistance, and socio-political agency. It does so in the context of inter-disciplinary, multi-methodological, approaches, as well as a wide range of empirical case studies. The course outlines insights from a range of disciplines (social psychology, economy, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and geography) and places them in the context of insights from different conflict-affected regions around the world where various methods associated with peace processes have been applied.  

In this course, students learn to understand the basic background behind soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering and their importance and relevance in civil engineering; the importance of basic geology in civil engineering and learn about the three rock groups and origin of soils; classification of different type of soils; the principle of soil compaction and representing soil as a three-phase system; and the mechanics behind the flow of water through soils and to understand the concept of permeability of soils.

This course introduces students to an approach to politics which emphasizes a global perspective. Postcolonial studies moves beyond both International Relations, which tends to discuss relations between states or great powers, and Third World Studies, which isolates certain parts of  the world and discusses them separately. In contrast to a view of the world as split into the industrialized, developed West and the underdeveloped or developing South, what this course explores is the relationships between these two areas, seeing them as mutually constitutive: they produce each other. It examines how they have come to be produced as distinct, and how these differences are perpetuated as well as resisted through practices of development, race, gender, and neocolonialism. 

The course provides the key economic concepts and tools for analyzing environmental and urban issues; introduces and explains the application of economic methods to the analysis of the built and natural environments; presents the ways in which sound economic analysis is critical to urban and environmental policy making; and encourages critical debate and reflection on the key environmental and urban policy issues. 

Students gain a systematic understanding and a critical awareness of current problems and recent insights in relation to different theoretical approaches to cookery and eating as cultural processes that are materially embedded and embodied. This contributes to the overall program aim of challenging assumptions about what makes humans similar and different across borders. The course also fosters values of social responsibility and inclusion by exploring how diverse groups of people approach food in their cultural settings.  

The course provides a thorough and in-depth knowledge of modern experimental particle physics including recent results. It provides an essential basis for students who will undertake research in this subject.

In this course, students achieve an understanding and appreciation, in as integrated a form as possible, of some mathematical techniques which are widely used in theoretical physics.

In this course, students learn how to formulate the linear theory of structure formation in the CDM model, obtain solutions in simple model cases of a one component universe; explain the problems of big bang cosmology and the way to solve them in inflationary theory; calculate basic cosmological parameters in inflationary slow roll models; indicate the relations of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and cosmological parameters; and discuss the evidence for an accelerating universe and the possible role of dark energy.