University of Sussex

This course explores the common types of investment and analyzes investment portfolios. Students explore the investment environment, the investment process, mutual funds and other investment companies risk-return-based asset allocation methods, popular index models, theoretical and empirical asset pricing models, and their applications to investment analysis, security analysis, and performance measurement.

This course examines a momentous period of British political, social, and cultural history. Topics include imperialist conflict, the growth of nationalism, war, technological change, shifts in the relationships between the sexes, the development of consumerism, the creation of the mass press, the radio and cinema, the emergence of anarchism, socialism, communism, and fascism. Through various forms of literature, this course explores many of the key cultural issues of the period such as the changing notion of the subject; the development of "mass" culture and increased urbanization; the democratization of education; the consequences of science and technology; secularism; new attitudes toward gender, race, and sexuality; and definitions and re-definitions of Englishness.

This course addresses the long sweep of European history from the First World War to the present. While essentially chronological in structure, it hinges around the apparent contrast between the two halves of the century. Alongside this consideration of the overall narrative structure of 20th-century European history, students use a broad comparative approach to analyze specific themes of overall importance and explore how they emerged within particular national trajectories. The course ranges across Europe as a whole, cutting across distinctions of East and West, North and South, and encompasses a way of approaching certain events that draws out common features across the continent over the last century.

This course explores key ideas in the implementation of compilers for modern programming languages such as Java, including lexical analysis, parsing, semantic analysis based on types and type checking, syntax-directed translation using abstract syntax trees, intermediate languages, and code generation. Students also discuss run-time issues such as garbage collection. This course addresses key ideas in processor architecture such as stack machines and register machines, RISC vs CISC processors, and processor caching.

This course explores advanced syntax and broader lexis which improves the student's receptive and productive skills. Emphasis is on handling authentic materials, including texts of many kinds and audio-visual resources in all media. The processes of language learning (the consolidation and extension of grammar, the building of vocabulary and the application of knowledge in practical skill-based tasks) is therefore continuously embedded in authentic modern and contemporary contexts.

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to critical perspectives on terrorism. It draws upon a variety of critical sociology, criminology, and social psychology theories, interspersed with empirical evidence.

This course provides an insight into British theatre of all kinds. It exposes students to the theater of Shakespeare, Pinter, and beyond. Students visit Theatres (choices may include The Globe, National, Royal Court, Regional, and Fringe Theatres), go backstage, and write critiques of plays seen; research presentations on actors, directors, designers, and playwrights; and have a chance to meet and talk to those currently active in theatre.

This course explores the condition, reception, and modes of dissemination of music in contemporary culture, and examines the roles and functions of the contemporary musician. It reviews recent musical history from a number of perspectives, including technology and the media, finance, political agendas, sociology, and audience trends. It also challenges preconceptions and develops an awareness of alternative/counter-cultural activity, including a consideration on non-western musical cultures.

This course examines interactive leisure forms and practices based on digital technologies. It understands digital media as a significant and expanding new media formation; one that is transforming both the content and economics of the culture industries. This course considers the cultural, political, and social implications of new forms of interactive media designed for leisure and entertainment. Topics include computer gaming, networked new media such as networked games, networked social spaces, pornography and other on-line entertainment. In addition, this course explores new forms of convergence between previously discrete media forms - for instance Net-TV collaboration and net-served films.