University College London

This course introduces students to a structured approach to the clinical assessment of a patient, and develops skills important to becoming a doctor, and other allied health professionals involved in patient care. It guides students through a methodical approach to history taking, examinations and choosing and interpreting common investigations, as well as developing leadership and problem-solving skills. The ethical and legal frameworks governing medical practice is explored and allows students to understand its importance in their daily work. The course also focuses on understanding the principles of professionalism, patient safety, and effective communication - applying this to patients, relatives, and colleagues. The course features interactive teaching, practical skills group problem-solving, and simulated role play sessions.

This course offers a comprehensive exploration into the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically designed for students with diverse backgrounds. Spanning a period of three weeks, participants are introduced to fundamental AI concepts and techniques, ranging from basic machine learning principles to advanced neural networks and ethical considerations. Through a mix of interactive lectures, hands-on coding exercises, and practical case studies, students not only acquire a theoretical understanding of AI but also develop practical skills in data pre-processing, model implementation, and ethical decision-making. The course serves as a platform for students to delve into AI's potential and ethical dimensions, cultivating insights into its applications across industries and nurturing a curiosity for further AI study.

This course offers students a grounding in the language of modern machine learning, with a focus on particular topics in linear algebra, differential calculus, probability, and statistics. Rather than focusing on theorems and their proofs, the course covers the key tools (and theorems) within the topic areas, and to illustrate these with exemplars drawn from machine learning. The course is delivered through a mixture of lectures and classes, and involves a mix of traditional lecture delivery, interactive notebooks, and problem sets.

This course examines the principal debates, features, and manifestations of Middle East politics in the 20th and 21st centuries. The course also contextualizes the Middle East as a region of the world that continually impacts on the wider international order. This course situates the Middle East, not as a single unitary manifestation of politics, but as a wider diverse and dynamic region. Political dimensions of the Middle East such as the legacy of colonialism, the democracy deficit, political economy, and contemporary conflict, as well as the role of civil society, feature as topics in the course.

The course explores how frameworks, theories, and models from a number of different areas, including cognitive neuropsychology and psycholinguistics, inform clinical assessment and remediation of aphasia. Findings from basic science, neurophysiology, imaging, and speech and language therapy are linked to increase our knowledge of the effects of the rehabilitative interventions at the level of the brain as well as their functional impact. Both emerging and established rehabilitative approaches are highlighted.

This introductory course deals with changes in our physical and biological environment on a variety of timescales, looks into the causes of natural environmental change and examines the progressive environmental impact of people from the last glacial stage up to the present. This course aims to place present-day environmental issues such as climate change, evolution, biodiversity and human-environment interactions in a long-term temporal perspective, arguing that an understanding of the present and prediction of the future both require an examination of the past.

This course covers Ancient Israel from its cradle to the beginning of the common era, ending with Qumran. It covers the theories about the origins of Israel, including the exodus from Egypt, against the socio-political background of Ancient Israel with due attention to historiography. The succession and successes of various royals are covered, as well as the activity of the prophets in a comparative perspective. Cultic practices throughout the period are discussed.

This course investigates Roman politics through the lens of classical political theory, applying ideas about liberty, citizenship, equality, and form of government to the real political practices of the Romans of the first century BC. The course commences with a survey of the everyday political environment of first-century Rome, which provides the context for an in-depth analysis of republican ideology. The course then explores the political thought of influential ancient authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, and Cicero, before examining the ways in which the image of the Roman Republic and its associated political ideology have been constructed and applied in political theory across the centuries, tracing their metamorphosis in the writings of Machiavelli, 17th-century English republicans, the defenders of the American constitution, and the French Enlightenment.

This course provides the necessary knowledge and skills to enable a student to understand the nature and characteristics of financial planning in the context of entrepreneurship. This involves the understanding of the key financial statements (profit & loss, balance sheet and cash flow), the financial planning process, the financial risks/rewards of entrepreneurship and innovation, new venture financial models and strategies, typical funding sources, the development of business presentations to attract outside funding, the due diligence process, and the strategies for negotiations for funding.

In this course, students view and discuss films that are widely recognized as outstanding or innovative and place them in a European and global context through the framework of manipulating, constructing, and regaining memory. At the same time, the course provides a critical and theoretical introduction to film analysis focusing on narrative form, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound while providing students with analytical tools needed to interpret and write about films by identifying the elements of film art and the terminology to discuss film techniques.