University of London, Royal Holloway

This course provide an overall account of some of the main theoretical and empirical issues in key areas within cognitive psychology. It covers a wide range of topics, including selective attention, problem solving, reasoning, judgement, blindsight, unilateral neglect, social attention, word recognition, and cognitive psychology of sleep.

This course covers energy loss processes, particle detectors, accelerators, spin-off applications. Strange particles, quantum numbers, the simple quark model. Heavy quarks. Leptons and lepton number. Electroweak unification, W and Z bosons, the Higgs mechanism, QCD. Extended topics selected from: deep inelastic scattering, supersymmetry, beyond the Standard Model, dark matter, Neutrino oscillations, and applications to industry and medicine.

This course examines contemporary politics and government. It deals with the nature of politics and its study, and how the study of politics differs from doing politics. Students examine the long spread of democracy (and some of its recent reversals) and the nature of representation, and they look at left and right in contemporary politics, and the challenges posed by populist parties. The course also deals with institutions which are found across different democracies. The course has both conceptual and empirical elements. The empirical elements of the course focus on consolidated democracies (countries which have been democracies for thirty years or more), and more particularly on English speaking democracies. 

This course provides an introduction to the concept of abnormal psychology. The course starts with developing an understanding and knowledge about how we define abnormality in psychology and how this has developed and changed throughout history. Different approaches to understanding abnormal psychology are covered, starting with the biomedical model of abnormality. Following this, social, and cultural approaches to abnormality are covered, followed by the philosophy of abnormality. Psychodynamic, behavioral, and cognitive approaches to abnormality are also covered in detail. There is a focus on psychological disorders as they are currently classify them in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The hierarchy of evidence in clinical psychology research is also covered.