University of London, Queen Mary

Linear models are widely used in almost every field of business, economics, science, and industry where quantitative data are collected. This course focuses on linear models and concentrates on modeling the relationship between a continuous response variable and one or more continuous explanatory variables. The course is concerned with both the theory and applications of linear models, and covers problems of estimation, inference, and interpretation. Graphical methods for model checking are discussed and various model selection techniques are introduced.

With a career spanning nearly 50 years, Stephen King is one of the world's most popular and influential writers, his stories and iconic characters forming an integral part of the American cultural landscape. Film adaptations of his work continue to receive critical acclaim and extraordinary box office success. The analysis of Horror film and fiction can reveal cultural anxieties at significant socio-historic moments. In this course, we will explore the ways in which Stephen King's shorter novels, novellas and film adaptations of his work interrogate the American psyche, capturing its fears and apprehensions at defining points in modern history. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this QMUL Model course will use King's work as a lens through which to examine developments in American horror cinema and fiction, investigating the articulation of cultural anxieties from the New England Puritan imagination in the influential works of Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft to the disillusioned aftermath of the Vietnam War in 'Carrie' and contemporary contexts of gender, empowerment and sexuality in 'Gerald's Game'. While the course will focus on the Horror texts for which King is renowned, we will look at his contribution to other genres, from the depiction of boyhood in 'Stand by Me' to the prison melodrama of the world's favorite movie, 'The Shawshank Redemption'. We will read and reflect on what we can learn about our own writing from King's memoir and reflection on the writing process, 'On Writing'.

This course teaches students the most important issues in operations management (i.e. process design, quality planning and control, supply chain management, just in time, and total quality management) through a blend of theoretical approaches and seminar-based activities. Students analyze the relationship between process design in services and manufacturing, the reproduction of technical and managerial knowledge, and the implications of such a relationship in terms of governance and strategic decisions.

This course is an overview of the diversity in language structure and use around the world, and forms a key foundation for any student of linguistics. In order to appreciate the basic goals of linguistics as a discipline, students must appreciate the full scope of human language. The course will examine how different language families differ from one another in sounds, word formation, sentence formation, and usage. Using indigenous languages from diverse regions, such as Africa, Australia, Asia, and North America, we will explore the question of whether universal constraints limit the range of what is possible in human language, and if so, why such universals might exist. We will also consider diversity in how social and pragmatic functions are signaled by language use in different speech communities around the world, and the problems associated with language endangerment and death. The course will feed directly into both theoretical and social themes in future modules in linguistics degree programs.

This course explores the field of cultural geography. It draws on examples both historical and contemporary, in the UK and beyond, to demonstrate how spaces, places, and landscapes are laden with meaning. It shows that culture is not something that is fixed, but rather constructed through relations with different people, places, ideas, objects, and practices. The course therefore helps students understand and interpret matters of culture critically, with careful attention to plurality, complexity, and power. Students examine power and identity, cultural representations, more-than-representational geographies, geographies of embodiment and mobility, cultural geographies of food, emerging cultural landscapes and politics, and tensions and new directions in cultural geography. 

 

 

This course looks into how language is used in the health community. It will consider how linguistic concepts and linguistic analysis can be applied to real world problems and issues in the health community. Students will study what role language plays in health care delivery and how we experience health and illness.

This course provides the opportunity for you to engage with the productive strategies and theatrical outcomes of the generations of experimental theater and performance artists since the beginnings of the twentieth century. The focus on artists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds will seek to map out particular trajectories that have questioned theater's purpose, technologies, politics and possibilities. Encompassing a discussion of dramatists, directors and performance artists, the course will seek to examine the creation of forms of theater that redefined audiences understanding of theater and influenced further generations of theater makers. Using dramatic and theatrical texts, manifestos and historical criticism, you will study performative practices across a range of modernist, historic avant-garde and post-modernist modes in determining how these theatrical experimenters have conceived and reconceived representation, renegotiating relations between art and life in their writings and theater-making. Figures for discussion might include a selection of the following: Constantin Stanislavsky, Vsevelod Meyerhold, Anton Chekhov, Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski, Erwin Piscator, Bertolt Brecht, Eugenio Barba, Augusto Boal, Samuel Beckett, Pina Bausch and Richard Foreman.

This course provides a wide-ranging view on what working in the field of chemistry actually looks like today. Students gain a broad understanding of modern chemistry techniques, such as nanomaterials and flow chemistry, and their applications through hands-on experience in the laboratory, group activities, field trips, and discussions with industry experts. The course explores the increasing challenges that face research and industrial chemists, and how these challenges are being addressed as research moves into the future.

This course examines the theory and practice of politics from a gendered perspective. It considers feminist debates concerning women's role in the public and private spheres and asks whether the political process can be complete without women. It then explores women's current involvement in politics and considers a range of explanations as to why women are under-represented, and possible solutions. The course also examines women's political participation within and beyond electoral politics, and asks what difference women can make.