United Kingdom - England

This course provides an overview of child development from birth through adolescence. Students examine contemporary research in five main areas of development including social and communicative (e.g., language acquisition), cognitive (e.g., mathematics development), social cognitive (e.g., moral development), emotional (e.g., processing and regulating affect), and biological (e.g., temperament).

The course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the governance of climate and environmental change. Students are introduced to the science of regional and global environmental change, and frameworks for understanding the relationship between humans and biophysical systems. This is followed by an examination of the different policies, instruments, and approaches used by different actors to govern climate and environmental change. These include government, market (e.g. businesses) and civil society (e.g. NGOs and community groups) actors. Finally, the course reflects on the politics of environmental change, providing students with a critical perspective on contemporary forms of climate and environmental governance. Throughout the course, real-world examples are used to ground and illuminate the material covered in the lectures and classes. Additionally, a half-day field course is included, exploring issues of urban climate change governance in London.

This course covers cell biological techniques; the structural organization, development, and differentiation of eukaryotic cells; and processes in development that are based on cell-cell interactions and cell movements. Students learn standard cell biological techniques in histology and immunohistochemistry, and become familiarized with the preparation of cell material from living organisms.

This course is an introduction to physiology, with an emphasis on mammalian physiology. Topics include homeostasis; cell biology and physiology; nervous system and muscle; cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal systems; whole body pH; and digestive, endocrine, and reproductive systems.

This course examines Shakespeare's development as a dramatist and poet, and covers a range of his plays and poems in detail. The course situates Shakespeare's work within the specific historical contexts of stage history and print culture, and examines the latest developments in Shakespeare criticism. Students explore the history of Shakespeare stage, consider the ways in which he re-worked his source material, examine the literary and performative contexts of the period, and look at how his texts appeared in both performance and in print. The course examines some of the problems involved in the transmission and editing of Shakespeare's texts, and the resulting implications for contemporary criticism and performance.

This course looks at databases and their language systems in theory and practice. Topics include the principles and components of database management systems; the main modeling techniques used in the construction of database systems; implementation of databases using an object-relational database management system; the main relational database language; object-oriented database systems; and future trends such as information retrieval, data warehouses, and data mining.

The academic study of life-writing has often privileged male narratives of the self. Diaries, letters, and memoirs have become part of a gendered canon in the philosophical study of humanity and subjectivity. Paradoxically, women's autobiographical works are routinely dismissed as too personal to be of relevance to a general audience. While autobiographical works written by men are read as important contributions to knowledge about the human, those by women are frequently read as frivolous, echoing other gendered inconsistencies in the perception of “male” and “female” genres by intellectual commentators. In tandem with primary texts, the integration of theoretical secondary readings examines how feminist theory has offered radical approaches to the study of the self. This course explores the development of women's autobiography through different media forms over the course of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in the UK and USA. This exploration highlights the cultural, social, and technological shifts that have enabled new avenues of creation and distribution for women whose voices have been doubly marginalized by inequalities of race, class, sexuality, or gender identity. The move from analogue to digital media in the production and dissemination of autobiographical material are explored in relation to questions of ephemerality, longevity, and value. From diaries to political essays, memoirs, photographs, graphic novels, web series, films, blogs, and music videos, the texts studied illuminate the gendering of “seriousness” in the study of culture and the sustained relevance of the relationship between the personal and the political.

This course explores media history from the perspective of media studies, cultural consumption, and historiography. It highlights the material, social, and institutional contexts in which media forms have been produced, mediated, and consumed and the ongoing power struggles therein. Students look at different interpretations of how the media has intersected with long-term changes in society. This course examines the contrast between "top down" histories of industrial organization, technological evolution, and regulatory intervention with "bottom up" histories of media as social activity.

The aim of the project is to integrate knowledge gained from CE2 Reaction Engineering I and CE1 Chemical Engineering with CE2 Process Dynamics and Control and apply this to the design of a reactor for chemical conversion with an appropriate control structure. Further aims are to become familiar with the control systems simulations package Simulink and to gain proficiency in the use of MATLAB for real reaction rate equations and numerical integration. Simulink will enable study of dynamic effects on control of the reactor designed in this project.