United Kingdom - England

A research project that assigns students to expert professors in their proposed research topic. The course takes the student's research capabilities to a more professional level. This can be most closely compared to what is called a supervised research project in American universities.

The course analyzes the political and policy-making processes in contemporary Greece, Italy, and Spain. The study of the three countries is placed into a strong comparative perspective with particular attention focusing on (a) the common historical traits that shaped their political culture and development, (b) the similarities and contrasts of their political institutions and policy-making processes, (c) the nature of party political competition, (d) the impact of EU membership on their political systems and on their political economy, and (e) their foreign policy orientation. 

George Orwell once wrote that "many people who would consider themselves extremely sophisticated and “advanced” are actually carrying through life an imaginative background which they acquired in childhood." This course examines the political lessons children’s books encode about what childhood is, and about which children matter and why. Students read children’s texts from a range of genres and forms – including fantasy, school stories, picture books, and domestic fiction – written between the late 18th century and the present day. Key focuses include agency, gender, race, class, and the environment. 

This course is for absolute beginners. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of German grammar, reading, and writing while developing some basic communicative skills. This course teaches students simple structures, lexis and phrases which enables them to communicate in a limited number of common everyday situations in German-speaking countries.

This course develops intellectual and practical skills in the use of modal logics for knowledge representation and automated reasoning in Artificial Intelligence. The first part of the course focuses on general modal logic: modal and temporal operators, Kripke frames and models, and the basics of the model theory of modal logics, including the notions of satisfaction and validity, their computational complexity, as well as invariance under bisimulation. The second part of the module introduces the language of Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL), an extension of the temporal logics CTL and LTL, which allows for the expression of game-theoretical notions such as the existence of a winning strategy for a group of agents.

This course explores the advanced mathematical techniques required to understand, design, and implement modern statistical machine learning algorithms and inference mechanisms.

In this course, students explore some of the exciting and experimental developments in film music practices emerging in the second half of the 20th century. During this time cultural changes and expectations were reflected in greater experimentalism and innovation across society and art forms. This includes film music and sound, following the so-called Golden Age of classical Hollywood film scores in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Students will begin with a brief review of Golden Age film music and the established continuity system of musical editing. Students then examine case studies of film scores from several different countries, including USA, Britain, France, and the former Soviet Union. Students consider fragmented, composite, formalist, and popular music solutions. Finally students consider the growing influence of sound design and the blurred boundaries between music and sound in some contemporary cinema.

Students are introduced to data science and its practice: how it works and how it can produce insights from social, political, and economic data. It combines accessible knowledge of data science as a field of study with practical knowledge about data science as a career path. By combining case studies in applications of both with the study of the content of data science, it covers data science that is both pedagogic but accessible, as well as fundamentally applied and practical. The course combines three perspectives: inferential thinking, computational thinking, and real-world relevance.

The course is to understand how evolutionary principles can help us to better explain health and disease.  Why do we get sick? Why are pregnancies complicated? Why do we grow old? Why do infectious diseases have a disproportionate effect in men and women? These fascinating questions are the core of evolutionary medicine. Through case studies, students explore contemporary issues in health and disease –ones that we confront on a regular basis– and ask how evolutionary concepts –e.g., life history theory, cooperation and conflict, constraints and trade-offs, coevolution– help us to understand, mitigate, or combat those issues. 

In this course, students learn to explain the behavior and properties of fluids (static and dynamic), solve problems involving incompressible flows, and apply these basic principles in flow measurements and other flow (e.g. pipe) related problems, and (ii) to develop a basic understanding of conductive, diffusion and convective heat and mass transport, emphasizing first principles analysis, and apply it to a broad range of contexts.