University of London, Queen Mary

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.

Shakespeare's tragedies are performed, filmed, read, and taught all over the world, making Shakespeare a truly global force. The study of power, race, and violence in his tragedies speak to all human desires and emotions. This course focuses on four plays: ROMEO AND JULIET, KING LEAR, OTHELLO, and TITUS ANDRONICUS. The course examines how the plays were received in their own time, and how they would have been communicated to spectators at the Rose or the Globe. The emphasis is on the text, historical context, and performance traditions. The course also examines modern performances, particularly cinematic adaptations, of each of these plays throughout the world: Mexican and Malaysian versions of OTHELLO, an African KING LEAR, ROMEO AND JULIET in Southeast Asia, and TITUS in Ireland. The course examines why the contemporary world remains fascinated by the nexus of power and desire staged by Shakespeare, and includes opportunities to learn from Shakespearean film directors and theater practitioners.

This course examines the representation of London in films made from the 1920s to the present. It explores the social and cultural forces that have given rise to changing views of the city over time, as well as the diversity of 'Londons' that may arise within a single time period. Through analysis of a wide range of films, the course investigates how the city has been imagined, and what meanings it has embodied, in a wide variety of genres and time periods. Students develop skills necessary to deconstruct, decode, and interpret filmic imagery, sound, dialogue, and story, and demonstrate how their knowledge and understanding of London's history in the 20th century can be applied to film analysis with reference to both textual and contextual factors.

This course covers the fundamental principles of general non-equilibrium thermodynamics. It examines applications of single-constituent fluids, and provides background for all applications in engineering. Students learn what is meant by the terms thermodynamic system; state; property; equilibria; first and second laws of thermodynamics; formal definitions energy, entropy, temperature, work and heat interactions; extensive property; intensive property; simple fluid system; internal energy; entropy; temperature and pressure of a simple fluid system; static; stagnation; and total properties. The course explores ideal and perfect gases and derives expressions for their internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, and specific heat capacities. Students use tables of thermodynamic properties and perform simple calculations on the performance of energy conversion devices and simple thermodynamic cycles. They gain an understanding of the requirement of equality of temperature, pressure and specific Gibbs function for equilibrium between phases of a pure (single constituent) fluid.