United Kingdom - England

The course introduces a wide range of issues concerning the role of cinema in the British cultural context, as distinct from and in connection with the cinemas of Hollywood and Europe. The course focuses on the following aspects: cinema as an economic system operating within an international audio-visual market; cinema and national identity, particularly representations of London as Metropolis; genre in cinema; and cinema as a formal system, considering questions of authorship, narrative and audience.

This course explores aspects of electrical power in the context of a wider energy system. The first aspect is electronic “switch-mode” circuits for conditioning and converting power such as in the grid interface for solar and wind energy systems. Circuits for various types of conversion between DC voltage levels and to/from AC are analyzed in order to support circuit design to meet a performance specification. The second aspect covers the electromagnetic devices such as transformers, motors, generators, and transmission lines of an AC power systems. The performance and efficiency of each type of electromagnetic device will be analyzed. The link between these devices and how frequency and voltage of a power system are controlled will be illustrated. The course concludes with a discussion of the transition needed in power systems to achieve zero carbon dioxide emissions and the roles of power electronic, electromagnetic, and information technologies have in that transition.

This course is an introduction to the strategic management of modern diversified firms. It studies how the firm’s portfolio of products and its internal organization can be designed to maximize corporate performance. The focus of this course is on the strategic plan for managing a diversified firm. It studies how the firm portfolio of products and its internal organization can be designed to maximize corporate performance. It combines in a unified framework the study of two separate but complementary issues: the opportunities and challenges afforded by the firm’s external environment, and the resources and capabilities arising from the firm’s internal environment.

This course gives students a thorough grounding in electromagnetic systems in electrical engineering. It teaches students how electromagnetic systems provide the foundation of understanding and designing systems as diverse as electrical motors to wireless communication. The Maxwell equations are the basics of Electromagnetism. Students use vector calculus to solve these equations and apply them in low frequency and high frequency applications. Low frequency applications forms strong links with analogue and power electronics whilst high frequency application covers communications and sensing.

This course takes both a short and long-term view of the economy, helping students understand recent developments in macroeconomics using graphic analysis and simple algebra. It focuses on the stylized facts of business cycle fluctuations, economic growth, and unemployment. Embedding students' learning through the analysis of real-world situations, including the European Monetary Union, the European Crisis and the Great Recession, students discuss how modern macroeconomics can shed light on these important areas and evaluate the scope for policy to improve macroeconomic performance.

This course takes students through the idea of transmitting information from one point to another in the presence of noise. The course introduces students to both analogue and digital transmission, show how the two are connected, and explain the differences (e.g. signal-to-noise ratio vs. bit error rate). The course also introduces students to information theory, and the fundamental theoretical limits of compression and channel coding it identifies.

This is a special studies course involving an internship with a corporate, public, governmental, or private organization, arranged with the Study Center Director or Liaison Officer. Specific internships vary each term and are described on a special study project form for each student. A substantial paper or series of reports is required. Units vary depending on the contact hours and method of assessment. Graded pass/no pass only.

This course introduces students to a range of high-profile controversies by viewing them through the prism of the law. It enables the students to transcend the culture wars by critically engaging with the moral, political, and legal issues at stake and by becoming skilled participants in the respective debates. Students engage with some of the most important and controversial political issues of our time, and these issues will be approached by studying and comparing landmark judgments from the world’s most influential and powerful courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, the Canadian Supreme Court, the South African Constitutional Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the U.K. Supreme Court, and the German Federal Constitutional Court. 

This course explores key concepts and recent advances in environmental economics with the view to addressing environmental policy questions. It is concerned with studying the interaction between human activity and the natural environment. Students capture work both on how economic growth can be made cleaner but also on how to mitigate the damages from this growth. The course illustrates how frontier theory and empirics from economics can be brought to bear on the key climate, environmental and energy challenges that face mankind.