United Kingdom - England

The course analyses accounting practices and processes from the point of view of investors. The course examines revenue recognition, tangible and intangible assets, the reporting of financial instruments, off-balance-sheet accounting, stock-based compensation, as well as, issues related to the differential approaches to measurement including historical cost and fair values. However, the exact composition of the topics may vary from year to year driven by the latest developments in financial reporting, standard-setting and related debates. The course enhances students’ understanding of contemporary issues in financial accounting. Throughout the course, taken-for-granted “wisdoms” are evaluated and challenged. 

In this course students study how organisms have changed through time. They look at the historical origins of the modern concept of evolution, examining the evidence for it and the processes that have shaped faunas and floras. Students consider Darwinism and its development, the origin and maintenance of variation, and adaptation and selection. They analyze how evolution can be studied using phylogenetic methods and the mechanisms of speciation, with a focus on human evolution.

Decolonizing education is critical for social justice in the Global North and South. This raises important questions about the relationships between knowledge, power, and society in the past and present. This course addresses these issues. It engages with the politics and history of education in both UK and international contexts. It critiques how the curriculum has privileged particular knowledges and identities in ways that are racialized, gendered, and classed. Throughout the course, students relate these issues to students’ own experiences of education and what decolonizing education means for them.

The course explores everyday relationships and their sociological significance for contemporary debates on family, personal life, and kinship; as well as illuminating the importance of relationships in all aspects of everyday life,  provides theoretical frameworks and empirical materials to allow students to explore for themselves how personal relationships are played out through all aspects of everyday life, and explore and critique different relationships through different institutions and practices.

A research project that assigns students to expert professors in their proposed research topic. The course takes the student's research capabilities to a more professional level. This can be most closely compared to what is called a supervised research project in American universities.

The course analyzes the political and policy-making processes in contemporary Greece, Italy, and Spain. The study of the three countries is placed into a strong comparative perspective with particular attention focusing on (a) the common historical traits that shaped their political culture and development, (b) the similarities and contrasts of their political institutions and policy-making processes, (c) the nature of party political competition, (d) the impact of EU membership on their political systems and on their political economy, and (e) their foreign policy orientation. 

George Orwell once wrote that "many people who would consider themselves extremely sophisticated and “advanced” are actually carrying through life an imaginative background which they acquired in childhood." This course examines the political lessons children’s books encode about what childhood is, and about which children matter and why. Students read children’s texts from a range of genres and forms – including fantasy, school stories, picture books, and domestic fiction – written between the late 18th century and the present day. Key focuses include agency, gender, race, class, and the environment. 

This course is for absolute beginners. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of German grammar, reading, and writing while developing some basic communicative skills. This course teaches students simple structures, lexis and phrases which enables them to communicate in a limited number of common everyday situations in German-speaking countries.

This course develops intellectual and practical skills in the use of modal logics for knowledge representation and automated reasoning in Artificial Intelligence. The first part of the course focuses on general modal logic: modal and temporal operators, Kripke frames and models, and the basics of the model theory of modal logics, including the notions of satisfaction and validity, their computational complexity, as well as invariance under bisimulation. The second part of the module introduces the language of Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL), an extension of the temporal logics CTL and LTL, which allows for the expression of game-theoretical notions such as the existence of a winning strategy for a group of agents.