University College London

This course provides an introduction to interdisciplinarity and in particular, its role in breaking down traditional boundaries and creating new kinds of knowledge. The course addresses issues facing those conducting interdisciplinary work and look into how they play out in practice. Students examine how and why disciplines exist alongside issues that can impede the integration of different disciplinary perspectives through, for example, different conceptions of truth, power and evidence. The course combines this with looking at different ways of overcoming these issues including by means of '‘superconcepts."

This course introduces students to thinking and writing about political, social, and environmental events geographically, using examples ranging (depending on the year) from environmental disasters and infrastructure failures to epidemics and conflicts. The course introduces students to a variety of ways of analyzing, researching, and representing events and then focuses on the analysis of a small number of past, recent, and on-going events, allowing them to think critically and geographically about current events.

This course introduces students to the life and literature of London from the 17th century to the present day, from Isabella Whitney to Monica Ali. As students read some of London’s greatest poems, short stories, and novels, they walk the streets of London, visiting some of the great landmarks and museums, as well as looking into its lesser-known histories.