United Kingdom - England

This course is about the economic effects of taxation, and economic aspects of tax policy. It gives students an understanding of the key economic issues in tax policy, and shows how these can be analyzed using standard tools of theoretical and empirical economic analysis.

This course develops students’ familiarity with modern philosophy through an examination of the thought of Spinoza and Leibniz. Students are introduced to the central metaphysical, epistemological, and moral claims of each philosopher, through a reading of primary texts. They develop an appreciation of the historical context within which the thought of Spinoza and Leibniz developed. The course examines the similarities and differences between these two crucial thinkers in the modern period, and set out their approaches to topics such as the nature of substance, knowledge, and morality.

The course is conceived against the background of important debates on the conceptualization of development in global academic and policy contexts from the post-independence period (1960s) to date. This course is concerned with the notions of "emergence" and "transition" and pays special attention to African economies that are increasingly cited as having "achieved" some level of prominence in this regard. Students are encouraged to engage critically with mainstream thought on African experiences as they examine the interaction between theoretical frameworks/debates and empirical realities.

Every war story, according to Leo Tolstoy, begins with the disclaimer that war cannot be understood by those who have not witnessed it for themselves – yet the story is always told anyway. Since the earliest works of art and literature, war has been a persistent topic and a prevailing theme, but it has also presented a challenge for artists and writers: while culture cannot resist representing war, war often seems to resist being represented. This course asks why war has seemed to hold such a challenge for representation in art and writing, and how artists and writers have attempted to overcome this resistance to image-making and storytelling. Our primary focus is on literary works that offer rich and evocative writings of modern warfare, but students begin by paying brief attention to earlier works of literature, as well as some visual pieces, that set the scene for our cultural understanding of warfare today.

This intensive three-week course explores, experiments, and discovers students' creative writing abilities and tastes and embraces creative writing as an ongoing process, an entrepreneurial "fail better" and "succeed together" via constructive feedback experience. Fortune helps those who dare, and sharing one’s own writing can be, albeit a means to self-expression and experimentation, scary, vulnerable, and quite uncertain. In this course, however, students can grow together in a practice-based environment exploring boundaries, challenging stereotypes and developing skills in a fun, intense, and stimulating way. Get inspired by poetry, prose, drama. Get a peek into the publishing world and the life of a writer. Experiment, play, and create with writing styles, language, and online media. More importantly, do what all writers have to do in the end of the day, write! Not a course for the faint of heart, but definitely one for those who want to be more creative, perceptive, develop a writer’s toolbox, and see London with literary-colored glasses. 

This course develops the awareness, knowledge, and skills needed to both appreciate the real-world societal context in which taxation exists as well as the technical ability to plan and manage the taxation for individuals and companies. 

The course provides an introduction to statistical and computational methods of analyzing and interpreting genetics/genomics data. Emphasis is placed on statistical model application and interpretation. Students learn how to implement various statistical methods, analyze and visualize genetic data through programming in R and command line tools. The emphasis is on students doing analyses in class, and on the interpretation of the results. Programming forms a major part of this course. Students learn how to write their own scripts to perform advanced statistical analyses of genetic data. This is an advanced, fast-paced course with extensive programming assignments. We strongly advise students with no previous programming experience to undertake the R crash course. A short introduction to R at the start of the module will be given. If enrolling on the module with no previous programming knowledge, please be aware that programming skills can only be obtained through many hours of practice. Good performance in the course is dependent upon additional private study to further develop programming skills.

This course enables students to critically assess aspects of strategic project management. Organizations have to choose where they focus their resources and what they hope to achieve. Strategic project management introduces the key principles of project, program, and portfolio (P3) management, focusing on how projects are selected, sustained and completed. Students have the opportunity to understand how P3 management relates to operational management. Essential management skills such as leadership, team building, and conflict management are explored in the context of strategic management of projects, programs, and portfolios. Through a blended learning approach, students are encouraged to evaluate organizational strategies through case studies both in lectures and coursework. Through strategic business relationships, case studies are both current and relevant. The focus is on providing students with insights based on current practice, significant industry experience, and professional standards.

This course explores a range of dramatic works produced throughout the Caribbean since the start of the 20th century.  Students study the colonial and postcolonial context of the Caribbean, and reflect upon the ways in which this informs the work of Caribbean writers.  Theories developed by postcolonial and performance studies scholars are analyzed and applied to the plays under consideration, and colonial and postcolonial discourse is put into dialogue with theories of performance and Caribbean identity. 

This course provides a detailed introduction to complex function theory which interrelates the geometric and analytic aspects. A principal goal is Cauchy’s famous integral theorem and its many consequences.