University of London, Royal Holloway

This course explores knowledge relating to the analysis of foreign policy from a comparative perspective. The course enables students to critically evaluate contending perspectives on foreign policy analysis, with respect to the foreign policies of key countries and IGOs. It prepares students for critical engagement with key themes surrounding foreign policy by asking them to apply theory to practice through the analysis of both primary and secondary literature. The course provides structured opportunities for students to develop and test their own hypotheses. By drawing on literature in the UK in particular, this course examines foreign policy from a comparative perspective. The course focuses on theories of foreign policy, followed by in-depth investigation of foreign policy in key countries and IGOs.

This course applies the techniques and formulae of mathematical analysis (in particular the use of vectors and calculus) to solve problems in classical mechanics, including statics, dynamics, and kinematics as applied to linear and rigid body rotational dynamics. The course also covers first principles and the derivation of standard formulae in classical mechanics.

This course examines key actors shaping the global economy, namely Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), states, civil society, and inter-governmental institutions. Using the concept of global production networks (GPNs), the course explores the nature and developments in the following industries: extractive, agro-food, garment, automobile, and finance. While globalization has brought enormous economic benefits to MNEs and some sections of society, it has also produced negative social and environmental consequences, for which MNEs are increasingly held responsible. This course also considers key responsibility issues businesses face and discusses various governance mechanisms to deal with challenges arising from globalization.

This course analyzes the creative/media industries from a business perspective. Three main sectors of the creative industries are covered: film, television, and digital media. The course examines the operation of these different industries through the lens of a number of interconnecting issues: economics and finance; policy and regulation; copyright and global trade; ratings and audience measurement; branding, marketing, and production cultures. Students are introduced to a number of important industrially oriented research skills such as interviewing, market/demographic analysis, locating and interpreting legal documents, and archival research.

The course examines advanced theoretical and practical skills to analyze the social media segment of choice. Students explore its main principles (analysis of existing campaign), and create a piece of digital /social media (campaign), combining the ability to conceive and create a project plan and budget (plan), and realize a piece of digital media communications. Students cultivate an awareness of the aesthetic cultural and practical possibilities of non-linear narrative forms and make an argument for the creative and technical choices they have made having regard to their understanding of digital culture and the socioeconomic, cultura, and regulatory forces that shape online experiences.

This course examines the "dark" side of late Victorian and Edwardian literature. It provides an appropriate cultural history for the literature of the fin de siècle, exploring a wide range of topics: fears of over-civilization and diagnoses of neurasthenia in the upper classes, a psychology that divides the mind into upper and lower (primitive) layers, a psychopathology describing deviant sexualities and states of hysteria, the emergence of "the new woman," occultism and spiritualism, drug abuse, fears of contagion and disease, and ideas of apocalypse at the turn of the century. The course moves from cultural symptoms diagnosed by theorists of decline to the solution often proposed by writers concerned with Empire (and, in America, with the Frontier): a masculine regeneration sustained by travel, adventure, and heroic struggle. Debates about "new" and "fallen" women are considered within the context of late Victorian sexual politics. Lectures and seminars also address the interests of the Rhymers' Club, the poetic coevals of the decadent novelists, preoccupied with the "literature of failure."

This course explores a range of musical cultures from around the world, including aspects of their contexts, functions, philosophies, techniques, and organizing principles. The case studies usually feature musical traditions from at least three continents and certain sessions may include hands-on performance opportunities. Students examine many fascinating and unfamiliar repertories, and are challenged to reflect on or even rethink certain fundamental musical assumptions and values.

This course offers a study of history and culture of the Greek state. It includes an exploration of how we examine historical remnants of the state and its limitations; a deep analysis of Greek hierarchy and how the state was run by rulers; exploration of many wars: the Persian wars, Peloponnesian War, etc.; the rise and fall of Sparta in the fourth century; and the Athenian democracy in the fourth century.

This course provides an introduction to the field of psychiatry. It looks at reductionism in psychiatry, what psychiatric disease is, the reality of mental illness, addiction as an illness, mental illness and moral responsibility, medicalization, coercive treatments, delusions, and psychiatric drugs and enhancement.