University of London, Queen Mary

This course covers sustainable and unsustainable development; the economic determinants of population growth; strategies of population control; intertemporal resource management; renewable and exhaustible resources; global warming, ozone depletion, and acid rain externalities, and the control of pollution; economic management of forest resources; and the exploitation of the sea. Assessment is by a final exam for 75% and coursework for 25%.

This course provides students with an introduction to central themes and concepts in Sociology, and applies them to particular cases. Students learn what is distinctive about a sociological imagination of contemporary and historical concerns and helps them see how our individual lives are connected to global developments such as climate change, migration, and the advancement of digital technology. Students are also introduced to how class, gender, race, identity, and religion organize relations in an era of globalization. 

States spend a great deal of time and effort justifying their actions with law, yet international relations scholars have often doubted international law's ability to shape state behavior. This course examines this paradox by introducing the major debates about the politics of international law. These perspectives are applied to the history of international organizations and (legal) order since 1919, including the development of collective security and humanitarianism at the League of Nations and United Nations., particularly since the creation of the United Nations in 1945.

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.