University College London

This course provides students with an introduction to the phenomena of radicalization and terrorism, including key definitions, casual accounts, empirical trends, past and present manifestations, current groups and tactics. With a rigorous grounding in the empirical reality of terrorism trends and processes, the course then outlines a number of prevent counter-terrorism practices and asks the question: what works in countering terrorism?

This introductory course is a practical platform for students to build their understanding of games, immersive media, and film. The course provides students with an overview of the skills, knowledge, and understanding needed to create both games and film work. Students work in lab environments to both develop practical outcomes with industry-orientated skillset and acquire a critical understanding through foundational lectures. It includes an introduction to film-editing and 3D Design for Games, integrated into group and individual project activities.

Psychological disorders are common and very diverse across the lifespan. In this course, the most common disorders in childhood and adulthood are discussed. Topics include theoretical models applied to psychopathology (biological, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and systemic); the efficacy of recommended treatments; significance of experimental psychopathology to good clinical psychology research; controversies and issues, such as stigma, diagnosis, and cultural issues; and research methods in clinical psychology.

This course introduces statistics and the free software R/RStudio to students with no previous knowledge of mathematics beyond high school level. The course also assesses the uses, misuses and limitations of statistical methods. Topics range from basic descriptive statistics to more advanced topics including multivariate analysis, logistic regression, and model optimization. As additional skills, students are introduced to professional-standard plotting resources, basic programming functions in R, and the user-friendly RStudio interface.