University of Manchester

This course involves studying the ethical aspects of various principle issues in contemporary world politics. It introduces students to a number of ethical difficulties surrounding identifying and applying ethical principles to aspects of world politics, such as war and human rights. Students begin by asking to what extent moral action is possible in international politics. As such, the course starts by analyzing theoretical approaches to the place of ethics in world politics and then moves to consider specific issues such as war, human rights, and the politics of the human and torture, for example.

In this course, students evaluate the importance of sex and gender as relevant categories in politics, whether and how they give rise to inequalities and disadvantages, and what should be done about it. In so doing, they also ask how certain areas of life, which are traditionally considered to be entirely private and thus lying beyond the realm of political concern (such as family life) might also have important political ramifications. Students address these questions mainly from a normative perspective. They ask what, if anything, is wrong about gender representations and relations in our society and what, if anything at all, should be done about it.

Countering organized crime has been accorded high priority by many states and intergovernmental bodies, however, the concept is ill-defined and often subject to clichéd, analytically weak discourse. This course reframes the debate to think in terms of how serious crimes are organized. Students analyze the nature and organization of criminal activities (i.e., the crime commission process) such as modern slavery, drug trafficking, alcohol counterfeiting, and money laundering.

Environmental management professionals frequently require the ability to understand and work with quantitative data. This course unit starts by introducing the practical and ethical implications of working with quantitative data. Following this, content provides grounding in different data sources, exploring varied data types and the processes required before any visualization or analysis can occur. The course then explores different analytical methods that can be used to facilitate interpretation and presentation of outputs related to environmental management professions, including inferential statistics and the foundations of basic computer coding.

This course covers various theoretical traditions of scholarship within the sociology of education, and explores questions about the role of education in society. It explores institutional based processes, such as institutional power dynamics, teacher labelling, the curriculum and "hidden curriculum," and the construct of ability. In doing so, the course explores the processes through which educational and social inequality are generated and how alternative forms of education might address inequality.

This course provides a foundation knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices of financial reporting and of the role of accounting information within its broader economic, social, and organizational context. It offers broad coverage of the core financial statements presented and considers the capacity for accounting information to develop in response to changing economic and social needs. 

In this course, students learn to engage with information visually. They learn to recognize and critique oversimplifying, biased, or misleading forms of visual representation, and to create their own visualizations to explore and communicate data that matters to them. Using examples from a wide range of academic disciplines - from economics, to literature, meteorology, history, urban design, or computer science - students discover key principles of visual thinking and communication and learn how to create their own charts and maps. Historically, data visualization has often been used to discriminate, control, and police. In this course, students also explore interventions by critical data scientists, scholars, and activists who visualize data to expose injustice, challenge unfair classification systems, and speak truth to power. The course does not involve any coding and does not require previous technical knowledge.

Microbes, extremely diverse both in form and in function, play a critical role in the global ecosystem. Students explore how these organisms evolved from more primitive lifeforms to colonize new environmental niches. Students study their interactions with plants, animals, and insects and how they impact on our everyday lives.

The course introduces the basic concepts from a wide spectrum of topics in finance including financial statement analysis, time value of money, capital budgeting, bond valuation, stock valuation, stock returns and market efficiency, portfolio diversification, CAPM, cost of capital, corporate governance, and behavioural finance. In addition, it also introduces empirical research evidences that synthesise the aforementioned topics. 

The principles covered include caching in order to overcome latency; pipelining to increase processor utilization; Multi-Threading and Multi-Core principles, along with potential structures, and challenges such as memory coherency and consistency.