United Kingdom - England

This course will provide a quantitative understanding of the hydrologic cycle, will identify the properties of water as a natural resource, will describe the aspects of the integrated water resource management, as well as the engineering related to water purification processes. The module will recognise socio-economic factors that impact effective water solutions, including urban infrastructure projects and managed urban infrastructure. Models for water transport in the subsurface (hydrogeology) will also be discussed, specifically in relation to the resources sector with focus on the pressure on groundwater quality and quantity, relating to appropriate measures to preserve or improve the quality of water. This will cover aspects of water management to combat water shortage in the energy and mining sectors. Management of wastewater and produced water in the oil and gas sector, involving injection to the reservoir and suitable reclamation treatments will also be considered. Of particular importance for the mining sector, effective tailing management, will be discussed.

Terror expands the soul, said Ann Radcliffe. Does it? Why did Gothic begin in the 18th century? How does it work as a powerful, disturbing, dangerous genre? How did it challenge philosophers and aesthetic thinkers? What can we learn from parodies and satires of Gothic? What questions does it stage and why do they continue to compel and fascinate? Could there be a "Female Gothic"? This course explores a selection of Gothic texts – poems and novels - to investigate the genre's variety of forms and its appeal to readers. 

This course introduces students to the key texts, arguments and controversies in European political thought from the end of the 17th century to the present. This is based on the close reading of classic and complex texts, situated in their broader intellectual and historical context. A single key thinker is typically central to each week’s teaching, but these thinkers are read in relation to the political environments that shaped them and the debates in which they participated. Students explore the development of the central assumptions, arguments, institutions, and concepts that have played and continue to play a crucial role in political organization and debate across the Western world and beyond. 

The focus of this course is on critically evaluating the place and meaning of American popular culture in contemporary life. In order to do so, students look at the complex historical and transnational roots of American popular culture. Students also discuss how American ideals, both constitutional (such as freedom of the press, and also the right to keep and bear arms) and mythic (the American Dream, the frontier, individualism) have influenced the place and content of popular culture in the US.

This course introduces and explains a range of concepts from set theory, philosophy of language and metaphysics, probability theory, and decision theory. These include the notions of set, cardinality, infinity, analyticity, necessity, possible worlds, reference, scope, probability, conditionals, utility, decision rules, dominance, backward induction. The emphasis is on basic ideas rather than on technical elaboration. The concepts are sketched, illustrated by examples, and made familiar via exercises. 

This course provides an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of brand management, with a focus on building and managing strong brand identities in various contexts. Students explore the strategic and tactical aspects of brand management, including brand positioning, brand equity, brand extension, brand communication, and brand performance measurement. The course also covers the latest trends and issues in brand management, such as digital branding, brand storytelling, and brand sustainability. 

Through the study of some of the most controversial and celebrated examples of what may be termed as utopian, anti-utopian, and dystopian literature, this course explores some key elements of utopian/dystopian/anti-utopian literature. The course examines themes such as the control and manipulation of language, as well as religion, history, and gender and considers the way in which the contemporary can be explored in an imagined future. Examples of texts studied for this course include Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s HERLAND (1915), set in an isolated society made up entirely of women and engages with issues relating to gender identity in the early part of the 20th century. Zamyatin's WE (1924) presents a totalitarian society, "OneState", and is arguably the archetype of the modern dystopia. BRAVE NEW WORLD (1931) in an imagined future engages with questions of identity, mass production, and homogenization emerging post World War One. 

This course develops students' understanding of contentious politics in international relations and comparative politics by looking at how conflict spreads. A range of advanced topics are covered, with a primary focus on how diffusion and spatial dynamics affect the empirical study of international war, democracy, autocracy, and civil war. This course goes beyond traditional theories of international relations by offering a network perspective on contentious politics. In addition, this course asks students to develop theory and use statistical software to plot networks, predicting dynamics of diffusion, and designing informed policy decisions based on those insights.

This writing-intensive course provide preparatory skills in written communication that will support students in their multidisciplinary academic work throughout the degree and beyond, enabling them to develop as a confident and effective writer who can tailor their writing for a range of audiences. Throughout the term, in small-group writing workshops, students write and reflect on formative short pieces and will receive tutor and peer feedback; students then edit and redraft their writing to compile a summative portfolio. Moreover, the course provides opportunity for students to engage in detail with an interdisciplinary topic in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences, led by a tutor from the Liberal Arts core team with specialist expertise in this area. 

This course introduces students to the study of foreign policy. As a sub-field of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) concentrates on decision making and how international, domestic, and individual pressures shape the actions states take. The course focuses on explaining and understanding the process of foreign policy decision making, the foreign policy instruments available to policy makers, and the differing strategies that states employ in achieving their aims. Students learn about major concepts and theoretical approaches that help explain why and how states and foreign policy makers behave the way that they do.