United Kingdom - England

This course examines the history of Palestine and the people who lived in it, from the spread of Christianity, through the Islamic period, and until the beginning of Western domination in the 19th century. The story of the land is told from the bottom up, focusing on peasants and the urban non-elites, and to encompass the diversity of the ethnic and religious groups who made Palestine their home.

This course develops the understanding, securely based on materials science, of various common failure modes, the reasons for their occurrence and how we seek to avoid failure by design. This course enables students to predict component failures under multiaxial loading conditions due to yielding, fracture, fatigue and creep mechanisms and to identify these failure mechanisms in practice, and to design against them.

In this course, students explore the evolution, contemporary controversies, and ongoing validity of human rights.

Through a range of cases studies around gender, citizenship and migration, torture, the death penalty, development, and corporate abuses of human rights, the course outlines the rise of the human rights regime, analyzes whether we now live in a post-human rights world, and considers the implications for human rights in a post-human era. Students draw on international examples of human rights institutions and violations, including torture in Guantanamo Bay, the death penalty in the US and countries such as Saudi Arabia, and the treatment of migrants and asylum seekers in Europe.

In this course, students study complex factual and/or literary texts; learn to structure and present an argument, description, or narrative logically and clearly in Spanish; study complex language structures including specialized terms; and demonstrate in Spanish their knowledge of a special subject linked to their chosen field of study. This can include a case study, report, research project, or a creative project, such as, fiction writing, documentary, or web profile for professional purposes. 

Through a detailed examination of a number of recent and contemporary French films, this course fosters an understanding of the network of forces that have shaped French film production since major changes to cultural policy were implemented in France by the socialist Mitterrand administration in 1981. Students profile some of the ways in which French cinema reflects and interacts with French culture and society, and evaluate this in the light of social, political, and cultural shifts in late 20th and 21st century French life. The course is research-based and requires a significant commitment to independent study.

This course explores the concepts of diversity and inclusion in organizations, through identities of gender, race and ethnicity, disability, class, and sexuality. We explore, through case studies and in-class discussion, different management strategies for diversity and inclusion, in different contexts around the world, and critically explore their pros and cons. This course provides the theories, toolkits, and practical examples needed to manage for a diverse and inclusive organization in the 21st century. 

In this course, students learn how images are formed, how they are represented on computers, and how they can be processed by computers to extract semantic information. Students develop algorithms for detecting interesting features in images, design neural networks to perform natural image classification, and explore algorithms for solving real-world problems such as hand-written digit recognition and object detection.  

This course introduces students to the uneven scope, scale, and pace of change in contemporary Britain. Students interrogate the ways in which different narratives of continuity and change emerged in and about the 20th century in Britain, and the purposes they have served. By exploring different areas of life – from politics, voting, and protesting, to working, shopping, belief, and love – students engage with alternative ways of understanding this period in British history. In this course students tackle big historiographical debates in the field and develop a more complex understanding of the political turmoil, economic uncertainty, and social upheaval of the 20th century.

The course provides an overview of the main developments in monetary and financial history from 800 to the 18th century, taking the students from the simple beginnings of medieval European monetary history to the emergence of the complex financial arrangements characterizing the modern world. Historical developments in major European and non-European countries (England, Spain, Italy, France, Germany) are discussed and compared. The course introduces students to the main concepts of money and finance (commodity money, inflation and deflation, financial development, financial integration, monetary policy etc.).