University College London

The course develops students’ psychological literacy through the cycle of enquiry and evidence. Students are introduced to key conceptual issues, methodological approaches, and significant findings in scientific psychology, their historical background, and the kinds of empirical evidence on which these findings are based. Students take simple questions, and cut across traditional disciplines looking for answers.

This course enables students to apply economic principles and models to understand the role of money and banking in the economy and to critically evaluate current debates on competition and regulation in the banking sector. The course studies the role of banking in the financial system and in the wider economy; the economic theory of bank intermediation; economic models of how banks make lending decisions in different market structures; strategies adopted by banks to address risk, with particularly reference to informational asymmetries; economic assessment of competition in banking, considering price and non-price strategies; banking regulation and government intervention in the banking sector; and current debates on the role of government and future of regulation for the sector.

This course introduces artificial intelligence and neural computing as both technical subjects and as fields of intellectual activity. The course introduces basic concepts of artificial intelligence for reasoning and learning behavior; and introduces neural computing as an alternative knowledge acquisition/representation paradigm, to explain its basic principles and to describe a range of neural computing techniques and their application areas.

The UK’s departure from the EU is a historical event, with global political and economic implications. This course gives students a comprehensive understanding of the causes and consequences of Brexit: Why did British people come to this unexpected decision? Will the British economy survive the shock of leaving the EU? Could this be the beginning of the end for the European Union? In the process, students learn about UK and EU politics, economics, and political economy. The course includes team work on multimedia projects, such as a hypothetical campaign for the next country that considers leaving the EU. The course also includes visits to the European Commission’s Representation to the UK and the headquarters of the pro-EU campaign, as well as talks by representatives of organizations on both sides of the Brexit campaign, such as the European Movement and Change Britain.