University College London

This is UCL's principal Entrepreneurship course for students who are actively seeking to develop and test a new business idea. It is most relevant to those who are considering forming their own business but is also valuable for “intrapreneurs” promoting new initiatives within existing organizations. Through the study of existing high-potential ventures and the development of a business feasibility plan the course provides deep insights regarding critical success factors (desirability feasibility and viability) along with strategies to attract and retain the necessary resources (personal, technical, and finance) to launch a new venture.

This course focuses on the mechanism of cancer generation and progression and on the most advanced treatments. Starting with a background integrating genetic, cellular, and molecular aspects, it covers recent cancer research leading to a general conceptual framework for the development of this disease. The course also provides insights and illustrations from specific cancer types and concludes with a variety of established and emerging treatments. 

This course examines the application of legal considerations to the activities of organizations. The focus is on a practical approach to legal issues and problems that arise. If I want to start a business what structures are available to me, such as forming a company? When is a legal contract formed, how can it be breached and what remedies may be available? What rights do employees have in the workplace, particularly in relation to dismissal, redundancy and discrimination? How does the English Legal System work? How can my valuable original work be protected from imitation and what are copyrights and patents?

Competency in structure and function of genomes as well as their evolution is essential in modern biology. This course gives students an advanced understanding of current scientific research in molecular mechanism of gene regulation, evolution of genomes and experimental approaches to study the function of genomes. The course focuses on the contribution of molecular biology and genomics to our knowledge of regulation of the gene activity in eukaryotic organisms and concepts of gene expression evolution. Critical analysis of original experimental data provides the intellectual framework for students to discuss the design of experiments and to draw appropriate conclusions from any results.

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.

This course explores the history of emotions in the Greek and Roman world through literature and their relevance to the modern world. It focuses on emotions like wrath, eros and love, jealousy, fear, loss and separation, affection, happiness, sadness, surprise, contempt, disgust, pity, sympathy, pain and on how these emotions have been represented in Greek and Roman cultural systems and literary examples (both Greek and Roman literary texts will be explored and compared). How were these emotions born and what is their influence in the modern world? How does Greek and Roman literature relate to these emotions? And more generally, what is the relationship between these emotions and the Greek and Roman life and thought? After an overview of major Greek and Roman sources on the role of emotions in human life, the course explores the complex debate around emotions, their value and their use for philosophical, religious, political, and educational purposes. 

This course discusses a range of advanced topics in normal and abnormal development, in order to illuminate the processes underlying children’s development. Students learn about diverse cognitive, social, and biological determinants of development, and how the contribution of such factors depends on the domain of development. Students learn about recent theoretical approaches to child cognitive and social development and come to appreciate the conceptual link between views of the adult mind (the end state of development) and theories of how we develop towards this end state. The first section considers typical cognitive development, in particular the development of “higher” reasoning skills and the development of memory. The second section explores a variety of topics in typical and atypical socio-emotional development. There is a focus on the role of the care-giving environment, the importance of both nature and nurture, and longitudinal approaches to studying psychological development.

This course allows students to explore current and enduring educational questions through a sociological lens and to identify the relationships between education and social inequalities. Special attention is paid to issues of social justice, inclusion/exclusion, and possibilities for social transformation. The course considers various axes of power, identity and institutional organization, including sessions focused on social class, race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, and learner and teacher identities.  

This course is about the economic effects of taxation, and economic aspects of tax policy. It gives students an understanding of the key economic issues in tax policy, and shows how these can be analyzed using standard tools of theoretical and empirical economic analysis.

This intensive three-week course explores, experiments, and discovers students' creative writing abilities and tastes and embraces creative writing as an ongoing process, an entrepreneurial "fail better" and "succeed together" via constructive feedback experience. Fortune helps those who dare, and sharing one’s own writing can be, albeit a means to self-expression and experimentation, scary, vulnerable, and quite uncertain. In this course, however, students can grow together in a practice-based environment exploring boundaries, challenging stereotypes and developing skills in a fun, intense, and stimulating way. Get inspired by poetry, prose, drama. Get a peek into the publishing world and the life of a writer. Experiment, play, and create with writing styles, language, and online media. More importantly, do what all writers have to do in the end of the day, write! Not a course for the faint of heart, but definitely one for those who want to be more creative, perceptive, develop a writer’s toolbox, and see London with literary-colored glasses.