United Kingdom - England

This course introduces to students the neglected field of avant-garde film making through a study of its development in Europe during the 1920s and ’30s and its specific relationship to the thought and practice of the modernist avant-garde in other media, especially art and literature. The emphasis is on filmmaking as a personal practice, and its relation to developments in fine art and literary practices within western culture. Content varies depending upon emerging developments in the field.

This course discusses the basic concepts and principles that underpin geomorphic landforms and processes operating at the Earth's surface in a great variety of landscapes around the globe. It presents the significance of time and space scales for recognizing process-form linkages in different environments and the interactions between fluids and sediment transport that result in the formation and development of a variety of landforms.

This course introduces students to core knowledge about child health and development, provides descriptions of common health problems of childhood and adolescence, and evidence-based responses to them, helps students understand the health policy context, including how health care provision aims to meet the health needs of children and young people, helps students understand how our physical and social environment shapes child health, and allows students to apply their knowledge and understanding to a range of topics and contexts.

This course engages witrh contemporary femninist thought, steering a course through the literary criticism, history, and theory of feminism. It examines the significant debates and key concept of feminist thought through a range of literary, political, and philosophical texts and encourages students to develop their own critical understanding of gender and equality issues in the contemporary period. Students are invited to explore the impact of feminism approaches on literary criticism, to understand the critical feminist project in its own terms, and to examine feminism in relation in Marxism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, post-structuralism, neo-liberalism, and international feminism.

This course introduces students to global health by exploring the history of global health, the global disease burden, topical issues in health and development, and key interventions to improve health worldwide. At the same time, this course helps students understand how different disciplines - such as economics, political science, and anthropology - relate to global health.

The course comprises a set of interdisciplinary lectures designed to enquire into the brain systems that are engaged during the experience of subjective mental states such as those of beauty, desire, and love. 

This course deals with the inheritance, biological mechanisms, clinical presentation, and therapy of human monogenic disorders. Following a block of introductory lectures covering the fundamentals of Mendelian and epigenetic inheritance, various disorders are described by experienced scientists and clinicians, in order to illustrate different aspects of human genetics. Finally, the course covers approaches to gene therapy - the stated goal of most studies of human genetic disease.

The course covers: Countability, measure spaces, σ-algebras, π-systems and uniqueness of extension. Construction of Lebesgue measure on R (proof non-examinable), Independence. The Borel-Cantelli lemmas, measurable functions and random variables, independence of random variables. Notions of probabilistic convergence. Construction of integral and expectation. Integration and limits. Density functions. Product measure and Fubini’s theorem. Laws of large numbers. Characteristic functions and weak convergence, Gaussian random variables. The central limit theorem. Conditional probability and expectation.

This course investigates the concepts of liberty, equality, and reconciliation. The course approaches these concepts by studying a sequence of authors including Hobbes, Locke, Wollstonecraft, Betham, Mill, Nozick, and Rawls. Students also explore important considerations of class, gender, and race, with readings from Marx and Engels, MacKinnon, and Delaney.

This course is a challenging introductory course and is for non-History of Art students. It examines modern and contemporary art focusing on objects in London's galleries and museums. The content of this course changes each year, but it introduces students to key issues and themes in British, European, and North American art from the mid-19th century through to the present day, by focusing on works in institutions such as Tate Britain and Tate Modern as well as smaller contemporary galleries such as The Whitechapel.