United Kingdom - England

The course begins with a brief introduction to the marine environment and oceanography. Following on from this a number of topical subjects are used to illustrate recent developments in the field of marine ecology. The biodiversity and biogeography in the marine environment are illustrated with reference to selected habitats, namely coral reefs and the deep ocean. The biology of the deep ocean, in particular the biology of mid-water and hydrothermal vent communities, includes consideration of technological advances in deep ocean exploration. This theme is developed further in lectures on tracking studies, behavior, and conservation of marine megafauna, e.g. sharks, sea birds, and marine mammals. The topical issues of marine pollution (including plastics pollution), ocean acidification and global climate change is considered with respect to effects on marine biodiversity. 

This course examines the hybrid and diverse nature of the British cinema since the advent of the British New Wave in the early 1960s. Students explore a number of key themes in the British cinema's long post-war quest for a sustainable model of film-making: the tensions between the local and the international; the consistent struggle between art and entertainment; and the recurring pattern of "boom and bust" in British production. Central to the examination of British cinema since 1960, however, is a focus on the social, political, and cultural contexts of British cinema, and the ways in which British cinema, and British culture, has been marked (and transformed) by the British Empire and its legacies. 

This course examines the idea of the communication revolution from two perspectives. First, how have changes in communications technology altered the speed and nature of communication between individuals and societies? The course explores how inventions such as the printing press, the camera and the radio helped connect Latin Americans to national and international networks and gave rise to new political and cultural identities. Second, how have individuals and groups used mass communication to both push for and resist revolutionary change? Examples include the role of print culture in the Atlantic Revolutions, printmaking in the Mexican Revolution and the pioneering use of radio education in the Andean countryside during the 1960s. 

The projects, in addition to illustrating particular aspects of physics, represent tasks that might well be expected of physics graduates in the real world of research, technology, and commerce. Students seek to attain a goal agreed with the project supervisor by deploying all the skills and physical background they have accumulated. Feedback is offered by supervisors at each stage of the work.

This course teaches students to appraise engineering with alloys, and evaluate multi-objective engineering design problems (cost, temperature, performance – e.g. creep, fatigue, strength, processability, light weighting, material costs & lifecycle). Students discuss approaches to engineering design and lifing, where failure and optimisation of alloys dominate function (drawing in ideas of process-microstructure properties) in solid stage metal components and consider the science of alloys as a microstructure system with an engineering goal. 

This course provides an overview of the economics of Globalization and Development. The first part of the course takes a historical perspective and focuses on globalization and development up to the Industrial Revolution. The course discusses the main driving forces: geography, culture, and institutions. The second part of the course first introduces several models of development and underdevelopment, with an emphasis on capital accumulation, rural-urban migration and the possibility of poverty traps. Next, it moves on to explore the influence that international trade, financial globalization and international migration have on modern development. Finally, the course turns to examining in more detail the agricultural and industrial sectors and what governments can do to facilitate their transformation as well as the development of the whole economy.

This course explores arguably the most popular of secular literary forms from late medieval and early modern Europe. The course explores a range of chivalric romances alongside a variety of other literary, textual, and material productions that testify to a cultural fascination with the ideals of knighthood and with courtly values more generally. The course pays particular attention to the rise of romance literature in the late medieval period, with narratives that were repeatedly translated into English for socially diverse audiences. It explores particular tropes within romance literature and courtly lyric poetry, particularly in respect of the portrayal of women. It has long been recognized that romance literature was often read by mixed gender audiences and the course explores how the genre functioned to guide female behavior against patriarchal and social norms.

This course introduces the underlying molecular basis of cellular and sub-cellular processes in cells, with special emphasis for engineers. The course introduces students to some of the physiological concepts and systems that are important application areas for technology in the field of bioengineering and develops the practical laboratory skills to use the technologies introduced in the lectures.

This course teaches students to acquire the knowledge and ability to design and analyze complex mechanical systems. This teaches students about the design process, product design specification, computer-aided design, design for manufacturing, equivalent stresses and failure criteria, transmissions and machine elements, prototyping, fatigue, shaft design, practical workshop skills, conceptual design, motors and batteries, design in plastics, ergonomics, and intellectual property.

Topics covered provide students with a comprehensive knowledge, theoretical and applied, to design and realize a full mechatronic system. The course content includes an overview of Control systems, modelling of dynamic systems, Laplace Transforms, Root locus, Steady state errors, final value theorem, Frequency response analysis, Bode diagrams, Compensation, and PID Controllers.