University of London, Queen Mary

This course provides an overview of corporate strategy in a global context and familiarizes students with the core concepts of external environmental analysis; models of internal and external analysis, analysis, and management of resources; analysis of corporate strengths and weaknesses; knowledge management; development of strategic choice; and elements influencing implementation of strategy.

This course considers a unique area of psychological research: positive psychology, and area that focuses on psychological well-being and optimal functioning as well as the individual and social determinants thereof. Students explore this field of psychology and explore its relationship to other areas of psychology. Key studies, and their ethical dimensions, from both classic and modern biological, experimental and intervention perspectives are provided throughout.

This course illustrates how simple deterministic dynamical systems are capable of extremely complicated or chaotic behavior. Focus is placed on examining how to make contact with real systems by considering a number of physically motivated examples and defining some of the tools employed to study chaotic systems in practice. Discrete and continuous dynamical systems, repellers and attractors, Cantor sets, symbolic dynamics, topological conjugacy for maps, definition of chaos, fractals, iterated function systems, and Julia sets are studied in detail.

This course examines the pathways involved in carbohydrate, lipid, and nitrogen metabolism in a normal generalized cell; their regulation in the normal cell; and pathway adaptations that occur in specialized cells and tissues of the human body. Metabolic disease states caused by dysfunction of these pathways are used to illustrate their working and importance in central metabolism. The course covers the use of ultraviolet and light spectroscopy and enzyme assay techniques to measure the functioning and inhibition of metabolic enzymes.

This course examines the diverse language landscape of the UK, including English dialects, Celtic and French dialects, and immigrant languages. The course emphasizes careful description of structural and social aspects of language variation in the UK, and students are encouraged to explore language use in their own environment. The importance of basic concepts in linguistic description are emphasized, as well as issues concerning language ideologies, the media, and education.

This course covers the fundamental issues of financial management and the quantitative techniques used to address them. The issues that are of importance to a financial manager operating in a global market, in particular, the application of the theories of valuation to practice are discussed. Topics include investing, financing, and evaluating the cost of capital.

This course provides an analysis of the area of psychology known variously as "individual differences" or "differential psychology." The course covers several key areas of psychology that show substantial individual differences including personality, psychopathology, intelligence, and cognition. It explores the causes and effects of these individual differences drawing from research using approaches from psycho-dynamics to behavioral genetics. Students examine the evidence behind several key controversies in individual differences including the continuum between personality and mental heath, the nature versus nurture debate, race differences in intelligence, and genetic determinism.

This course covers econometrics, which uses economic theory and statistical techniques to analyze economic data. The course focuses on the regression model, which enables the use of data to estimate the effect of changing one variable on another variable. It develops statistical tools for single and multiple linear regression analysis and provides the tools needed to carry out independent analysis using real data.

This course studies the roles that financial markets play within our economic system. With the help of principles from finance and economics, the course explores the connection between these two by examining how the most important players in financial markets, central banks, operate and how monetary policy, both domestically and internationally, is conducted. Students examine the operations of commercial banks and of non-bank financial institutions, the process of deposit creation in commercial banks, the structure of interest rates, the supply and demand of loanable funds, and the role of the central bank. Students analyze the impact of monetary policy on interest rates, on flows of funds in financial markets, and on aggregate spending and international economic activity.

This course combines an exploration to modern and contemporary ideologies with the analysis of key political concepts. It begins by examining conceptions of politics and the political, with particular attention to what it might mean to approach politics normatively/critically and through a range of theoretical perspectives. Next the class explores modern political ideologies (including liberalism, socialism, conservatism, and anarchism), paying attention both to their historical development and contemporary manifestations. The focus then shifts to an analysis of key political concepts (including human nature, liberty, democracy, justice, equality, and rights), examining the ways in which these concepts are deployed within and by the different ideological traditions studied earlier. The emphasis throughout is upon relating the theoretical material to contemporary political movements and questions, and the course addreses a series of contemporary issues that demonstrate the uses of political theory today.