University of London, Queen Mary

This course discusses concepts, theories, and research evidence on health and wellbeing. Topics include positive psychology, biological psychology, health, health behaviors, and medicine.

This course examines the course of the Black Death, from the mid-14th century through to the mid-15th century, considering humanity's responses to the pandemic's onset and the phenomenon of unprecedented mass mortality. The Black Death was the most lethal natural disaster in human history. Wiping out some fifty million people between 1347 and 1352, and then recurring for decades, even centuries, to come; its effects were felt not just in Europe, but across the medieval world. Students explore a series of micro-histories to reveal the experience of the Black Death and its aftermath in the likes of Florence and Constantinople, Mamluk Egypt and Plantagenet England, while also adopting a comparative, meta-historical approach to consider how these events reshaped the known world.

This course explores the English legal system and the law of contract as they apply to business. The course focuses on the role of law in enabling the conduct of business generally, its regulation, and the achievement of commercial aims. Topics include the English legal system, sources of law, the system of courts and alternative dispute resolution, formation of contract law, misrepresentation, and breach of contract.

Any history of Europe since 1800 must take account of Europe's interactions – military, economic and intellectual – with the wider world. During the period of expansion, Europeans envisaged themselves as embodying a superior civilisation which exemplified ideals of modernity and progress. But these ideals also had darker side that resulted in Europeans perpetrating upon each other, and on others, acts of the most extraordinary violence. In the 19th century, the ideals of nationalism were associated with progress, emancipation, and liberalism, but in the 20th century they became vectors of exclusion, authoritarianism, and even genocide. If there has been no general war in Europe since 1945, as ideas of a united Europe have taken root, Cold War, local wars and inter-ethnic conflicts have mutated and endured. These are some of the themes and contradictions that this course explores.

Race is not a biological fact. It is a social category historically made. In 1963 James Baldwin affirmed: 'I am not a negro. I am a man. But if you think I am a negro, it means you need it. And the question you must ask yourself is, why?' This course explores how race emerged and developed in history as a powerful category for differentiating peoples. We will begin by looking at how human differences were understood in medieval Europe and how the scientific category of 'race' emerged. The course ranges over different geographic territory with examples from Britain and Europe, South Asia, Africa, and America. We will examine the connections between race, religion, sex, gender, class, and migration. While the course will look at how the idea of race has been used to separate people, we will also examine how people throughout history have defied and challenged the categories of racial difference in their daily life and in social and cultural movements.

This course examines Britain's relationship with Europe and European unity from 1945 to 2016. It deals with rich historiographical debates and contemporary issues in a global context. The course considers why the British were not founding members of the European community and what led them to join. It analyzes how the UK became an uneasy member state and why Europe was a consistent problem in British politics. The course investigates the 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU.

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.