University College London

This advanced seminar course critically examines theories and practices of racism, racialization, ethnicity, and nationalism. The course evaluates both anthropological and wider social theoretical literatures to investigate their contributions and limitations to understanding these historically and conceptually interlinked problematics across different times and spaces. 

This course develops students' understanding of new and emerging issues in population health; it will prioritize the presentation of academic work in progress rather than established knowledge. Students are taught about emerging themes in population health as well as how knowledge develops and is disseminated within the academic community. Students develop a deeper understanding of contemporary population health research and to further develop your capacity to critically appraise key issues in population health. 

The course first offers students an introduction to the discipline of International Relations to understand some of the key questions that scholars and policy makers have focused on, and how the field has been transformed as the world has changed around them. It then studies a series of pressing contemporary issues, including war, security, development, human rights, and terrorism. These cases and questions are analyzed through different theories including realism, liberalism, constructivism, Marxism, and feminism.

This course provides an introduction to the concepts that underlie modern economic analysis. The course begins with the concept of opportunity cost, proceeding to optimal decision-making at the level of an individual consumer. Similar analysis describe the optimal behavior of an individual firm, distinguishing competitive and non-competitive market structures. The theoretical coverage is supplemented with real-life examples, including a visit to one of the London's markets (e.g. London Metal Exchange) where students can observe a live application of the theoretical concepts.