United Kingdom - England

This course provides students an introduction to recent developments in the migration and job search literature. Students learn how to formulate and solve dynamic models, and apply these models to analyze a range of topics including migration, employment transitions, and wage dispersion across workers. Throughout the course, analysis is linked to the current debate on migration and other labor market policies.

This course is a work experience placement, which students undertake in an art-related work environment in London. Students examine established and emerging art world careers, together with cultural and management issues related to the creative sector. Part of the class is a range of sessions designed to develop and enhance students’ professional skills, including training on wider employability skills, such interview skills, networking, and communication. Students are introduced to contemporary management models for commercial and non-commercial practices through theory, case studies, and practical work. The course prepares students for a wide range of careers in the art world, wider creative sector, or for further study.

This course examines concepts relating to gender and sexuality, and discuss the obsession with gendering in a historical, social, and cultural context.  Topics for discussion also include the sex/gender system; gender and sexuality in relation to identity, behavior, the body and desire. Questions include: to what extent are the characteristics of masculinity and femininity born with us, or to what extent do the makers of gender vary over time and between societies? Is sexuality innate of socially constructed or a combination of the two? 

This is UCL's principal Entrepreneurship course for students who are actively seeking to develop and test a new business idea. It is most relevant to those who are considering forming their own business but is also valuable for “intrapreneurs” promoting new initiatives within existing organizations. Through the study of existing high-potential ventures and the development of a business feasibility plan the course provides deep insights regarding critical success factors (desirability feasibility and viability) along with strategies to attract and retain the necessary resources (personal, technical, and finance) to launch a new venture.

This course introduces students to the history of the world from 1900 to the present. It focuses on the idea of modernity, following four major themes that help explain the making of the modern world: war and empire; the material world; politics and revolution; and societies and cultures. It also reflects on what it means to think globally about the past. A series of chronologically organized lectures and seminars addresses significant events, topics, and concepts relating to the history of Britain, Europe, and other world regions. 

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

This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of using social media data for research and enables the development of transferable research and data skills. Such skills are in demand in the research and consultancy profession across the public and private sectors. After reviewing the different data types including Facebook and Twitter, students consider how to access and analyze such data. This, in part, includes developing the student’s critical data skills, hands-on training, and practice analyses on real social media data such as coding Tweets and blogs. This involves the use of on-line software to gather social media data. The course involves the development of research design skills including hypothesis testing, data analysis, and interpretation and writing skills. The emphasis on the use of real data to answer questions is designed to engage students and for them to consider using such approaches as part of their own dissertation research.

This course focuses on the mechanism of cancer generation and progression and on the most advanced treatments. Starting with a background integrating genetic, cellular, and molecular aspects, it covers recent cancer research leading to a general conceptual framework for the development of this disease. The course also provides insights and illustrations from specific cancer types and concludes with a variety of established and emerging treatments. 

This course covers basic concepts of database management systems, including relational and other types of database management systems. The topics covered include basic concepts of the relational model, creating and modifying relations using Structured Query Language (SQL), basic SQL queries using SELECT operator, nested queries, aggregate operators such as GROUP BY, integrity constraints and relations, views, application development using JDBC, Internet protocols such as HTTP and XML, storage and indexing, tree-structured indexing using B+ trees, hash-based indexing, query evaluation and algorithms for relational operations, external sorting, transaction management and concurrency, database schema and normal forms, and overview of NoSQL databases such as key-value stores, document, and graph databases. The course demonstrates how various theoretical principles are implemented in practice in a database management system, such as MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL.

This course examines the application of legal considerations to the activities of organizations. The focus is on a practical approach to legal issues and problems that arise. If I want to start a business what structures are available to me, such as forming a company? When is a legal contract formed, how can it be breached and what remedies may be available? What rights do employees have in the workplace, particularly in relation to dismissal, redundancy and discrimination? How does the English Legal System work? How can my valuable original work be protected from imitation and what are copyrights and patents?