United Kingdom - England

This course examines the knowledge, skills, and experience in starting up an innovative business, in looking for critical funding and in structuring a deal to make a business viable. The course is geared towards students who want to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, want to undertake innovative business cases, or have a general interest in start-ups.

This course is a dynamic exploration of William Shakespeare’s London and literature inspired by and set in his city. The course is designed introduces students to the historical and cultural milieu of 16th and 17th-century London through a variety of genres, including drama, prose, verse, and broadside ballads. Historical accounts, artefacts, and maps provide context to the rich material for critical reading offered by these texts. Students learn about historical research methodologies while sharpening their literary close reading skills. 

The course familiarizes students with the basic principles of law, so that they can apply them to a wide range of commercial transactions, in the light of the policy objectives that legal regulation pursues, and with an understanding of the context of commercial transactions in which the law operates. 

This course outlines the structures of the European Union, its law-making processes, judicial architecture, and its most important policy domains. It does so by focusing on both the law of European integration and the political, social, and cultural context within which it operates. Students tackle questions about the dynamics and direction of integration, including the existential challenges posed by Brexit, the rule of law crisis and the refugee crisis.

This course introduces students to a range of Victorian fiction. It addresses the content, form, and significance of the Victorian novel and how it develops amid the cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts of 19th-century Britain. It also examines the alternative form of the short story and considers what specific kinds of narrative and narrative effects this form enables. Authors to be studied may include Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Wilkie Collins, Dinah Mulock Craik, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Vernon Lee, Margaret Oliphant, Bram Stoker, and William Thackeray.

This course looks at the role of education as a signaling device, labor market discrimination, job search models and their applications, decisions within households, and non-cognitive skills as human capital. The course covers both the theoretical model and the empirical evidence to support the model in each part. Students pay particular attention to policy interventions and their effectiveness. While the focus is primarily on the UK, comparisons with other countries will also be introduced.

The course explores a selection of puzzles, ideas, arguments, and debates in political philosophy broadly conceived. The specific selection of topics changes every year.

This course explores and identifies why engineering is essential to the modern world. Students learn how engineers draw on scientific knowledge, research techniques, technical know-how, skills and collective experiences as well as societal facts and values to solve problems of any size or complexity. Within the interplay of these factors, many life-changing decisions and engineering solutions cannot be made using only calculations but require sound thinking and justifications based on often incomplete information.   

A research project that assigns students to expert professors in their proposed research topic. The course takes the student's research capabilities to a more professional level. This can be most closely compared to what is called a supervised research project in the USA.

The course introduces students to the key concepts and debates in global health, and uses case studies to illuminate these inequalities and the political, economic, social, and structural forces that perpetuate them. In this course students focus on the politics of global health in order to critically assess the role that governmental, institutional, and corporate actors play in financing, governing, and delivering healthcare worldwide.