University College London

This course introduces students to the economics of globalization. It explores reasons why classical economists thought comparative advantage (or differences between countries) was the basis for international trade, when in the past few decades the bulk of international trade has been between very similar countries. Students study the effects of the growing importance of international trade, with a focus on recent trade agreements and their projected consequences. During the second part of the course, students study the causes and effects of migration, and data and policy analysis is conducted to investigate the immigration regimes of some popular migrant destinations.

The course familiarizes students, quantitatively and qualitatively, with important issues in environmental economics and environmental policy making such as anthropogenic global warming, the sustainable use of resources such as fish and forests, and environmental pollution. The course gives you hands-on experience in how to model complex economic and environmental systems, helps you understand the basic natural processes affecting the environment, introduces you to you the main tools and challenges involved in environmental valuation, shows you ways to determine the efficient level of pollution, and discusses the instruments available to policy makers to reach such targets.

In this course, students focus on how bodily experiences shape sickness, disability, health, and wellbeing. The course also explores more general themes in anthropology by addressing how multisensory bodily experience shapes and is shaped by factors such as identity, gender, religion, kinship, the material world, and political economy.  This course introduces students to the "sensory turn" in anthropology and equip students with knowledge of relevant theories for studying the sensorial body, including concepts such as phenomenology, embodiment and perception. Students gain ethnographic knowledge regarding how people experience the world through multisensory bodily experience and the role this has in shaping cultural life in many contexts. Students explore the methodological skills needed to carry out ethnography that focuses on the sensorial body, and they have the space to put this knowledge into practice as students are required to design and conduct your own mini research project as the summative assessment. 

This course introduces students to the discipline of Film Studies by focusing on the main theoretical and technical aspects of filmmaking. Through lectures, seminars, screenings, and excursions, students learn how to approach and discuss films analytically and acquire an awareness of the history and development of cinema and of the key concepts that can be used to discuss and write about films

On the standard conception of the place of linguistic meaning and mental content in the world, there are facts about what speakers mean by linguistic expressions and about what people believe and desire. Interpretation is the process by which we gain access to these facts—we use the evidence at our disposal to determine what people mean by what they say and the contents of their mental states. On this standard conception, facts about meaning and content are generated by connections between language and the mind, on the one hand, and the world, on the other. These facts do not depend in any way on the interpretative procedures by which we seek to discover them. Since the last few decades of the 20th century, several philosophers have challenged this conception, arguing that facts about linguistic meaning and mental content are somehow produced by the procedures that we employ for ascribing meanings and contents. The goal of this course is to provide a general introduction to this approach.