United Kingdom - England

The 19th century saw the birth of many revolutionary artistic practices that transformed the visual culture of Europe. Industrialization, urbanization, and colonialism brought about a new social order, and artists responded by developing artistic styles that addressed society's modern values. This course explores artistic innovations in Britain and France including Impressionism, Pre-Raphalitism, and the invention of photography. By examining individual art objects and wider art historical themes, students see how new artistic styles responded to issues like class, gender, and race. This course makes use of the rich art collections on offer in London, with seminars taking place at Tate Britain and the National Gallery.

Environmental management professionals frequently require the ability to understand and work with quantitative data. This course unit starts by introducing the practical and ethical implications of working with quantitative data. Following this, content provides grounding in different data sources, exploring varied data types and the processes required before any visualization or analysis can occur. The course then explores different analytical methods that can be used to facilitate interpretation and presentation of outputs related to environmental management professions, including inferential statistics and the foundations of basic computer coding.

In this course students examine challenges related to measuring and modelling sea rising level, and they learn to appreciate why the sea level is rising and how sea level rise is estimated through a combination of observations and modelling. Reliable estimates of future changes are crucial, and students examine how knowledge of past sea level changes can be used to project future sea level rise, and students assess the limitations of such methods. Since, the ice sheets are the most important driver of sea level rise over the long-term, these are a particular focus of the course. The course also examines the economic and social consequences of sea level rise.

This course examines the contemporary international business issues and challenges posed to managers and organization operating across national borders. The course is highly interactive and covers issues such as the role of multinationals and foreign entry strategies. The course also provides opportunity for students to develop their analytical and transferable skills. By the end of the unit, students would have developed the skills to critically evaluate issues and challenges facing organizations operating across national borders.

The course develops students' understanding of key concepts of the mechanisms by which gene expression is regulated. The multiple levels at which gene expression is regulated is described in relation to the central dogma of molecular genetics whereby genetic information flows from DNA to messenger RNA (mRNA) to protein. Students leran about how gene expression is regulated at the level of transcription, post-transcriptional processing, translation, and post-translation. 

This course provides students with a thorough understanding of core techniques of quantitative economics and econometrics and their application to test economic theories and measure magnitudes relevant for economic policy and other decisions, as a foundation for subsequent study of quantitative topics, and as one of the key elements in the professional training of an economist.

This course deals with some important metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical questions by looking to philosophers from the ancient Greek tradition. 

In this interdisciplinary course, students are introduced to the risks, hazards, and disasters associated with the Earth’s natural environments and the growing impacts of human activity on them. Students consider the nature of hazards, disasters, risks, and how their impacts can be reduced through mitigation, protection, and adaptation. 

The human body offers historians a gateway onto understanding the cultures of the past. On this course students examine several groups of objects from the visual culture of medieval Europe and the Middle East through this contemporary theoretical lens, examining how the techniques and society of the medieval craftsman at once idolized and distorted the medieval body's forms. In previous years this course has also featured a study trip to museums and galleries in London to meet with curators and handle objects.

The management of brands is an important element of marketing strategies within contemporary organizations. This course builds upon the student's prior knowledge of marketing and management by exploring the fascinating world of brands from various perspectives. The course highlights the ubiquitous presence of brands in our contemporary cultures and explores consequences for contemporary marketing practices and for customer-oriented marketing practices.