University of Manchester

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.

This course explores how the human-animal question is approached in contemporary literature. How do contemporary literary texts portray distinctions between humans and other animals? What are the philosophical, ideological, and political implications of such portrayals? If humans are distinguished from other animals on the basis of their possession of certain qualities such as speech, then what does this mean for groups of people who are deprived of their capacity to speak? Week-by-week, students approach such questions by concentrating on literature that introduces us to rational beasts, poor beasts, migratory or colonized beasts, and of course to edible ones. In doing so, students unearth connections between animal studies and feminism, post/colonialism, scientific innovations and environmental concerns, as well as consumerism and profit-driven economic systems.

In this course, students critically review the inter-relationships between rural environments and the forms of planning intervention that take place within them; evaluate the institutional arrangements for sustainable long-term rural planning and environmental management; and explore the provision and management of recreational opportunities in rural areas.

This is course provides a critical overview of over-arching themes and agendas in war, migration, and health. This includes building understanding of how war and migration affect population and critical assessment of how health systems in Europe respond to population movements. In doing so the course highlights issues of how health is conceptualized in theory and practice, the power relations and inequalities involved within and between key health populations, actors, and institutions, and the key health challenges before and after war. 

In this course, students study in detail the origin and nature of the fundamental interactions generated by invariance of the Lagrangian under local gauge transformations.

Students' objective in this course is to deliver a design group project. Each design group acts as a consultant civil engineering company for the preparation of outline designs sufficient for planning and budget estimating purposes. The project location is on the northeastern part of the Lake District, a region and national park in England that was impacted by Storm Desmond in December 2015. The report includes a work program, construction method statement, and health and safety risk assessment.