United Kingdom - England

This course is for students who are new to the subject of pharmacology. The course provides an overview of pharmacology and some of the most important mechanisms of drug action; illustrates these actions for you with specific examples of important drugs; provides a foundation in some of the basic theory for pharmacology; illustrates some of the principles of pharmacology whilst providing basic laboratory skills and experience; and introduces principles of laboratory safety. 

In this course, students explore the musical rudiments that underpin their practical activities of singing, playing, and listening; how to listen to music tentatively; and how to hear and aurally analyze the musical parameters of meter, rhythm, pitch, timber, dynamics, expression, and structure. 

The course introduces students to the study of nations and nationalism from both an empirical and a normative perspective. It encourages students to explore the advantages and disadvantages of nationalism and national identity in light of recent history and current political developments. Students are introduced to contemporary normative debates on the political morality of nationalism and provided with conceptual tools to engage in these debates in a theoretically sophisticated way. They employ their conceptual and theoretical knowledge to explore possible solutions to contemporary political problems involving nationalist claims, and they deepen their understanding of the relationship between empirical and normative analyses of politics.

In this course, students are introduced to the main ways in which the rise of digital cultures have disrupted existing political forms and structures. Students focus initially on identifying different understandings of politics prior to the rise of digital cultures and then explore the ways these have been changed. Part of this change is the increasing advancement of digital technologies and rise of platforms, leading to new shapes of political communication and the mediation of politics. In this course, digital politics is examined through some of its key political manifestations: for example, through changes in election campaigns globally, including in the Global South, through piracy and the Pirate Party; online censorship in the UK, China, and other parts of the world; privacy and ownership in Facebook and other social media platforms.

In this course, students study the defining features of British society, politics, and culture in the period 1880-1990; the dominant historiographical traditions defining this field; and the relevant and appropriate key primary sources.

This course develops students' knowledge of the key microeconomic issues facing developing economies, and deepens their familiarity with modern analytical and empirical approaches to development economics with an emphasis on the most recent advances in the field. Students also learn about the use of formal microeconomic modelling in development, the links between formal models and empirics, and the seminal debates in development. Students must have taken a microeconomics course prior to enrollment.

This course looks at ways of writing throughout the long history of experimentation with critical form: from essays and auto-fictions to critical fabulations and diaries, the "personal" and the "political" in writing have often deeply intermeshed. The course considers ways of thinking about the relationship of formal innovation and structure to the content or air of the text; to ways writers enact performative relationships with their real or imagined interlocutors; and to ways we ourselves can examine and reinvent our own manners of shaping written thought. Affect, race, gender, aesthetics, and politics, as well as archives and documents occupy students' attention, as they navigate some radical and long-lasting experiments in the history of critical thought. 

This course introduces students to public health, a discipline which seeks to prevent disease and promote the health of populations through the organized efforts of society. Public health addresses complex health and social problems that are influenced by social, cultural, political, environmental, organizational, and economic factors. Students explore determinants that shape inequalities in health and explore how the organized efforts of communities and governments can help to ameliorate these. Students learn how different theories support public health practice and develop their skills in critically appraising evidence. They explore a breadth of public health topics – from sexual health to mental health - and include examples from low-, middle-, and high-income countries.

In this unit, students study five major authors working in a range of genres and offering radically different outlooks and outputs. Students explore the conditions in which their work was produced, and the social and political contexts in which it was consumed, reflecting critically throughout on the category of the "woman writer," and the history of scholarship thereon.

International criminal justice is at a crossroads. On the one hand, we now have an unprecedented ability to prosecute individuals accused of torture, genocide, and crimes against humanity both domestically and internationally, emblematic of the extent to which these kinds of prosecutions have become normalized over the last seventy years. On the other hand, more and more countries have raised concerns about the efficacy and fairness of international criminal prosecutions, arguing that they are selective or neo-colonialist, biased, or myopic. This is exemplified by the complex status and reception of the International Criminal Court, alternately lionized and criticized. This course introduces students to these debates and examines the legal and philosophical underpinnings of international criminal law and justice.