United Kingdom - England

The course educates students in the main features of the art form, how to achieve them on the page, and how to recognize and appreciate the literary contexts out of which they emerge. Students work through their notebooks and workshops to recognize their own poetic impulses and render them with greater precision in what they write. Students are encouraged to write poems in the workshops, to be discussed by the group. 

This course explores this question in the context of the languages and peoples of the Danube region, focusing on German, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian and Croatian, and Yiddish. These languages belong to two genealogically different groups (Indo-European and Uralic) and one (Yiddish) bears traces of a third group (Semitic); within Indo-European, three different sub-groups are represented (Germanic, Romance, Slavonic). The course uses data from these languages (texts in the original, idioms, proverbs, jokes, etc.) to explore language and cultural contact from both a purely linguistic perspective (language relatedness v. typological features of languages, script v. sounds, areal connections, borrowing of words, idioms, and figures of speech) and a sociolinguistic point of view (intercultural exchange, multilingualism, standardization, purism, and the relation between language and identity). It explores how Danubian languages both converge and differ, how Danubian culture is both intercultural friction and intercultural flow.

To give students the opportunity to understand the key aspects of chemistry that are relevant to biochemistry, including the important structural implications of biologically relevant macromolecules, thermodynamics, and chemical reactions together with their reaction kinetics.

This course provides a solid foundation in corporate finance law covering three components. The first component is an introduction to corporate finance theory, which covers the nature of equity and debt as well as an introduction to how capital markets work and the theories of capital structure and valuation. The second covers the regulation of legal capital, including the relevant core accounting concepts, the regulation of dividends and share buy-backs. The third addresses the issuance of debt and equity, and related aspects of securities regulation such as insider trading and disclosure regulation, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

This course provides a fundamental overview of mathematical finance. It begins with an overview of financial contracts, interest rates, and the value of money. Specifically, it discusses what constitutes a fair price for a contract and explains why fair prices are rarely used in everyday transactions. After that, students investigate financial markets in a discrete-time setting, with the help of some revision on basic probability theory. The concept of risk-neutral asset pricing is discussed with reference to pricing stocks and options in the exchange. The last part of the course introduces the fundamental concepts of stochastic calculus and concentrates on continuous time finance with the widely used Black-Scholes model. The goal of this course is to provide students with a broad understanding of the application to finance theory, while setting a solid theoretical foundation to the field. 

This course starts from the theology of Augustine of Hippo as that which has been formative of the Christian tradition. It explores his characterization of the will, of sin, of grace, and of freedom. Drawing on these Augustinian resources, the course asks how the Christian theological imagination can shape the way that contemporary societal phenomena, such as capitalism and climate change, are diagnosed and addressed. Are these examples of "structural sin"? What sort of agency is possible within these contexts?

The Reformation, which began with Martin Luther in early sixteenth-century Germany, was one of the great turning-points of modern European history, splitting Catholic Christendom and giving rise to many different strands of Protestantism. Using primary sources extant from the period, in English translation if necessary, this course addresses this development in a mixture of lecture and seminar formats. With a broad chronological span, and a geographical scope stretching across much of Western Europe, it offers the stimulating intellectual challenge of learning how to relate key theological concepts to the experiences of the people, in all their diversity.
 

The course explores some of the principles and doctrines underlying the criminal law. It investigates some of the theoretical (and particularly, ethical) problems that criminal law raises. The course increases students’ understanding of many of the principles underlying the criminal law, especially those concerning the scope of criminal prohibitions and the criteria for attributing responsibility and blame to individual wrongdoers. With increased understanding of those principles, students learn to integrate analysis of general issues and principles with argument about particular rules and doctrines in the criminal law.

This course develops awareness of the complex relationship between spoken language and society through discussion of existing literature and through experience of experimental paradigms used to study spoken language variation. It focuses on the study of phonetic aspects of accent variation and change and so it is assumed that students are familiar with basic concepts in phonetics and phonology.  

The course provides an overview of the relationships between computing systems and human beings, from a technological perspective. The first weeks introduce the main theoretical and technical concepts of human-computer interaction (HCI), such as cognitive aspects of visual design, interaction design, persuasion, and user experience. The students analyze the risks and possibilities associated to computing interfaces, wearable technologies, and data visualization. The second part of the course focuses on AI and algorithms, with a broad introduction to the main techniques and challenges involved, e.g., machine learning and data science. In this part as well, once equipped with the basic conceptual tools, students focus on the ethical challenges of modern AI systems, with a discussion on the concepts of accountability and trust?