United Kingdom - England

This course offers an introduction to corporate law and to the legal and non-legal governance mechanisms which encourage directors to act in their company's and not in their own interests. The course sets corporate law and governance within its economic and business context, with particular regard to how corporate law and governance mechanisms facilitate or inhibit economic activity. The course adopts an explicitly comparative approach drawing on both UK, US, and continental European law.

This course explores both theoretical and practical aspects of cryptography, authentication, and information security. Students learn the relevant mathematical techniques associated with cryptography, the principles of cryptographic techniques and how to perform implementations of selected algorithms in this area, and explore the application of security techniques in solving real-life security problems in practical systems.

This course seeks to ensure that students are familiar with and competent in a number of discourses or narratives of global health, and that it fosters critical, intellectual curiosity in a range of contemporary global health challenges that are currently being addressed by policy makers, international organizations, and public health specialists. The first half of the course provides students with all the conceptual and theoretical knowledge they will need to be able to explore and, hopefully, critically interrogate the case studies presented to them in the second half of the module. A key focus of the course is the media, both print and social. The media is an important vehicle for the construction and dissemination of global health discourses, and students learn how the media can (and do) frame global health issues in particular ways. This course encourages students to explore contemporary global health challenges from a range of diverse perspectives and disciplines, including cognitive linguistics, media studies, public health, anthropology, political economy, and international relations.

This course examines the key concepts and schools of thought in the study of foreign policy. Concentrating on the process of decision making, internal and external factors which influence foreign policy, and the instruments available to foreign policy decision makers, the course provides students with an understanding of the role and effect that foreign policy has on international politics.