University College London

This course offers students the opportunity to engage with art thinking and art practice. It proposes a collective and experimental space based on the individual projects of each student. This course strengthens an analytic and experiential perspective regarding art practice as a method of research and its potential to understand our relation with the world from different disciplines and practices. 

This course provides an introduction to youth studies, with a particular focus on the association between youth and the globalizing world. The course considers a broad body of interdisciplinary scholarships such as history, education, politics, and the environment. Students discuss the increasing use of social media by youth movements in creating changes in society and the notion of young people as the agents of change. This course brings in perspectives from various parts of the world through diverse reading materials. The reading materials provide a fundamental understanding of youth studies (Cieslik and Simpson, 2013), global situation of young people (UN, 2003), and engage critically in the discussion of youth as an agent of change (Sukarieh and Tannock, 2015; Kwon, 2013).

This course introduces students to the key findings and theories concerning how people think, feel, and behave in organizations. It is equally relevant to students wishing to gain an understanding of business psychology at the university level as it is to students keen on developing hands-on skills that can be applied in organizational settings. The course focuses on topics such as motivation, negotiations, group and network dynamics, social status, influence, and individual personality. The course features interactive lectures, research exercises, and experiential activities, including individual negotiations, group problem-solving, and using data analysis to make strategic business decisions.

The course reviews the nature and extent of development theory, practice, and policy over the past 70 years (mid-20th century onwards), with case studies largely focused on the Global South. The course provides a broad awareness and understanding of the key theories and policy debates which inform humanitarian development ideas and practices, as well as the empirical context of different regions of the world. 

This course draws on the extensive theoretical underpinning of urban design as a means to explore approaches to appraise the character of the built environment, and, as a result, to forward practical proposals aimed at beneficially influencing the overall quality and liveability of urban space. 

This course studies the cycle of public policy in developing countries, paying attention to evaluation of public policies, taxation in developing countries.

Python has rapidly become the standard in scientific computing. It is however much more than that, receiving much excitement about the application of Python to finance, medicine, mobile technology, online gaming, film industry. Its appeal continues to grow in both academia and industry. Much of the advances of medical technology has been due to Python. This is a an intensive Python programming course with numerous medical and health-based applications. Due to the transferability of these skills, students also study examples from investment banking and quantitative finance. The course assumes no prior knowledge of the Python programming language. However, an interest in biomedicine/health is essential.

One often encounters situations in which two agents are involved in a mutual agreement. Invariably, one economic agent has more information about a characteristic that is relevant to the agreement, than the other. In this course, students study how agents deal with this information asymmetry by designing incentives and embedding them in contracts. Students also study the effects of information asymmetry on the prevailing market equilibrium. Applications of the theory include insurance, labor economics, industrial economics, and environmental economics.