University of London, Queen Mary

Students often experience politics as a remote practice of the elite. This course teaches students how politics is present in everyday life, the impact of everyday politics on traditional politics, and how political authorities contribute to everyday politics. The course explores how politics is embedded in the daily lives of individuals and communities. Students examine the manifestations of everyday politics (engagement, resistance, social media, culture, identity, symbols, emotions, values, political practices) and how everyday politics influences the formal and informal practices of politics.

This course explores the key components of the global politics of health and disease: health security, global health governance, inequality, and the political economy of health. The course examines the actors in global health, right to health, equality, and contemporary global health issues, such as Ebola, Zika, and HIV/AIDS. Students have the opportunity to attend a range of global health events in London, such as film screenings, talks, and career events.

This course examines theory and data on the evolutionary basis of human cognition and behavior. Students explore how evolutionary theory generates powerful predictions about human psychology, but how hypotheses must be backed up with convincing data. Topics covered include evolutionary theory in the human behavioral sciences, perspectives within evolution and human behavior, cultural evolution, evolutionary psychology, American and European traditions, mate preferences, attractiveness and jealousy, social cognition, status and cooperation, morality, aggression, language, culture, and evolution.

This course focuses on the analysis of economic problems faced by developing countries from Asia and Africa to Latin America. It examines the meaning, measurements, and comparability of growth and development across countries, the availability and characteristics of resources, and the problems with their use in the context of developing countries vis-a-vis OECD countries. The course is presented in the analytic context of historical alternative development models and globalization issues.

This course provides an introduction to embedded and real-time systems. Students gain practical experience using a small micro-controller development board, programmed in C, and industrial development tools. The course examines the interface between the digital micro-controller and physical sensors and actuators, and the process of analyzing, designing, and testing systems that react to external events.

This course explores the foundations of English literature, from Beowulf to the love poetry of the Tudor court. It offers students a sense of the historical, political, social, and literary developments over this long period, thoroughly contextualizing works within their cultural and intertextual fields. The course covers eight centuries of writing in England, and some influential continental works brought over by William the Conqueror. Many of these texts are available in modern English translations, but students also have the experience of reading and working with original forms of the varieties of Middle English which developed over the period. This course offers students a growing understanding of the purposes and effects, conscious and unconscious, of literary production and development. Students in this option undertake the fall-term portion of the year-long course.

This course covers the entire software development lifecycle from design to deployment and maintenance, with an emphasis on quality, industry standards, and professional issues. Topics include software in business; software development processes and technologies; modeling, architecture and design; configuration, change, versioning, and release management; implementation, deployment, and maintenance; legacy architectures, technologies, and systems; software quality, standards, and processes; project management, resourcing, and control; project risk management; and software documentation.

This course explores the foundations of modern portfolio theory. Topics include risk and return, risk preferences and asset allocation, portfolio optimization and its equilibrium implications, index models, CAPM, multifactor models, the efficient market hypothesis, behavioural finance, empirical evidence on security pricing, and bond prices and yields. Alongside this students examine term structure of interest rates and bond portfolios.

This course examines the links between sex, gender, sexuality, and identity, and how these connections were made at certain key moments in history, from the ancient Greeks to the liberation movement of the 1960s. The course contextualizes and relativizes common assumptions about the nature of sexual identity.