United Kingdom - England

Students study the role and content of management accounting systems and learn computational and evaluative techniques for information analysis, organizational planning, and problem solving. Students learn how management accounting systems help organizations identify, measure, and communicate information for valuation purposes and enable managers and employees in an organization to make informed judgements and decisions.

Reflecting on the causes and consequences of war involves some of the most fundamental questions facing any student of conflict, and this course is an introduction to thinking about them. Students explore the theoretical and methodological questions that arise when studying the causes of war. They consider the definition of war, and examine the role of theory in explaining and understanding its causes. Students utilize historical case studies, explore contemporary international politics and explore political change over time. In the second half of the year, the course also investigates some of the consequences of war – on the international system, on society, and on individuals. The course also addresses ways in which war and conflict can be prevented and mitigated.

In this course, students explore the debate over the onset of the Anthropocene, and the unique contribution that human geographers can make to it. Students gain a firm grasp on how the idea of the Anthropocene is re-shaping geographical thought, and encounter concepts and methods from across the field of human geography which can help us to think in new ways about the past, present, and future of human-environment relationships. 

This course provides an introduction to game theory, a framework for studying situations of strategic interdependence. Students are shown how to describe such situations formally, how to analyze them using concepts of dominance and equilibrium, and how the theory can be applied to questions arising in various social sciences. Concepts and techniques to be studied include: games in extensive and strategic form, backward induction, strategic dominance, imperfect information, choice under uncertainty, pure and mixed strategy Nash equilibrium, coordination and outguessing games, the prisoners' dilemma, subgame perfection, iterative dominance, commitment and credibility, and repeated games.

This course introduces students to the study of film genres by focusing on historical, theoretical, and technical aspects. Through lectures, seminars, and screenings, students learn how to approach and discuss film genres analytically and acquire an awareness of the history and development of different types of film narratives and of key concepts that can be used to discuss and write about them. Students study elements that are at the basis of genre theory, such as contexts, recurring themes and patterns, locations and characters, while developing an appropriate technical vocabulary to be used in class discussions and in their assessments. 

This course introduces students to current psychological research and theories within the field of sport and performance psychology. These can help students to understand and explain how people consistently produce high levels of performance at an elite level.

Topics include theories of stress and coping, resilience, thriving, leadership, group cohesion, and organizational sport psychology.

This course examines how cultural interventions are used in areas of social development in local, national, and international contexts. Students examine how performance has been used to address issues which may include education, health, sexuality, gender, race, migration, disability, and social exclusion. Students consider case studies of theatre and performance work in action, theoretical frames to examine them, and current debates which inform and impact upon the field.

This course provides an introduction to the Bayesian approach to statistics.

This course covers the main empirical methods used for causal inference in economics, political economy, political science and development: randomized controlled trials, natural experiments, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity design. Students learn how to use these methods to address important questions in the social sciences. The emphasis is on applications and not on the derivation of estimators. Students study a large number of articles published in leading journals in economics and political science. Students consider the research question these articles address, how they address it, what data they use, and the strength and weaknesses of their approach. 

This course looks at key moments in the history of globalization over the ‘"long" 20th century. Approaching globalization as a contested and malleable project, students move from the "first" high age of globalization and empire in the late 19th century, through the reconfiguration of the world system in the wake of the Great Depression and the World Wars, to the era of decolonization and neoliberal globalization in the latter part of the century. Students reflect together on how capitalism, internationalism, empire, immigration, race, the environment, and human rights came to shape the contemporary world.