University of London, Queen Mary

Biomedical materials have improved healthcare in many ways and continuous developments in this multidisciplinary and rapidly expanding field are expected to lead to breakthrough solutions for many clinical problems. This course covers the science and technology of materials used in biomedical applications and provides students with an understanding of the challenges involved in engineering materials for the repair or replacement of injured, diseased, or malfunction tissues in the human body.

This course provides an examination of cell biology. Students consider cell structure, the history of cell biology, and the basic mechanics of a eukaryotic cell. The structure and function of the cell membrane, organelles, nucleus, and cytoskeleton are explored. Finally, normal cell cycle, cell division, and differentiation processes are examined alongside their dysregulation leading to cancer.

This course presents a mix of different sorts of representation of one great historical moment, that of Civil Rights in the US from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. The movement for Civil Rights marked a decisive moment in the making of our contemporary world; although the situation of blacks in the USA was not formally a colonial one, the social determination to break the bonds of racial subjugation was part and parcel of the world becoming postcolonial; and it is an unfinished history, which still reverberates. The first few weeks focus on the novels, short stories, and autobiographical reportage of one writer, James Baldwin. Baldwin was pretty much (though not quite) the first non-white American author. Thereafter students branch out to explore different writings and different forms of representation.