University College London

This course is for students who are planning to work in international teams or are considering an international career. It provides students with background knowledge of different cultural models and approaches that impact people’s behavior in a professional setting. The course raises students’ awareness of potential areas of cultural differences and the ways how to improve their intercultural communication ability. It considers a range of professional skills and situations from intercultural perspectives in order to prepare students for confident communication in their work or study-related settings. 

This course provides an introduction to the basic mathematical aspects and associated data analysis of statistical design and survey sampling, and also to data ethics as a set of principles to guide the design of appropriate data use in academia and the public sector. 

This course explores the relationships between science, war, and the prevention of war. It places military and security technologies within social, political, and historical contexts. The course emphasizes 20th and 21st centuries and weapons usually designated as "unconventional" or "weapons of mass destruction." In addition to thinking about how science, technology, and warfare have shaped each other, the course considers the changing role of the scientist in relation to the state. It also considers broader themes, such as arms control, disarmament, ethics, and popular culture in relation to war.

Through laboratory work, the course introduces students to the chemistry and physical properties of minerals; morphological elements of crystallography; the optical properties of minerals, introduced in conjunction with use of the petrographic microscope; the physical, chemical, and optical properties of the major rock-forming mineral groups; and the intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks and clastic and chemical sedimentary rocks.

This is a largely practical course, which develops experimental skills. A selection of practicals and follow-up sessions designed for students taking Pharmacology PHAR0004 provide reinforcement of the material in that course. Students learn to conduct simple experiments on in vitro preparations and present their findings in a written account, use animals in medical research from the standpoint of animal welfare and ethics; set-up tissue preparations and use transducers and computers to measure tension or length changes in smooth muscle preparations; understand the experimental conditions required to maintain tissues in vitro and of the requirements to achieve stimulation of nerves using pulse generators; perform dilutions of stock drug solutions and calculate appropriate volumes to add to organ baths to achieve the desired final concentrations; follow experimental protocols accurately to generate reproducible results; and quantify results and present them clearly in graphical form.

This course explores how different kinds of outposts became key sites for directing and negotiating the different forms of US empire, from the early days of colonization to the recent past. Each week students explore a different kind of outpost, often focusing on one particular beachhead of American power. Likewise, they analyze the outsized influence of Americans abroad and assess how the creation and maintenance of different kinds of outposts helped form the structure and sinews of the US empire. This course combines different strands of transnational history, particularly the histories of empire, capitalism, and ecology. 

The course explores how this complex organization of hundreds of cells emerges during embryo development. The course focuses on the precise organization of tissues that arises during embryo development by the coordinated control of the differentiation, migration, proliferation, and death of cells. It provides a solid grounding for future specialized study of nervous system development, function, and repair.

The course provides students with a thorough understanding of core concepts and methods of microeconomics, as a foundation for subsequent study of microeconomics, and as one of the key elements in the professional training of an economist.

This course covers the main dementia subtypes and language change associated with each. In lab sessions, students work with language samples to understand the linguistic profiles of dementia first-hand.

This course provides a synthetic study of the history, politics, and political economy of modern Ukraine. Students study history up to independence in 1991, the formation of post-Soviet Ukraine in the 1990s and 2000s, and the attempts to reform it via the Orange Revolution and Maidan Revolution/Revolution of Dignity in 2013-14. Students look at the reasons for the election of a comedian Volodymyr Zelensky as President in 2019. Particular attention is paid to the theme of national identity, and to the complex historical interrelationship between Ukraine and Russia. Students also explore Russia’s motives for invasion in 2014 and 2022 and Ukraine’s will to resist.