University College London

This course provides a theoretical and practical overview on the economic "globalization," and the changes in international business over time, in the context of the continuous changing global economy trends. It emphasizes on international business strategy and development by integrating three key concepts. The first one is the international business which approaches business globalization, internationalization, and extroversion theoretically. The second one is strategy which extends the international business concept and theories with critical thinking on which, when, where and how shall be applied best. Furthermore, practical business development models, methods, and frameworks are presented to implement the selected international business strategy. The course covers all types of businesses, from the multinational firm to the start-up, aiming to sustain, develop, or achieve effective and successful international business. 

This course is an interdisciplinary course that explores the relationship between art and architecture through visits to London’s famous museums, art galleries, public artworks, and iconic architecture. Students analyze the impact architecture has on viewing art with seminars which take place in some of London’s most famous museums and galleries such as the British Museum, Tate Modern, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. The course then consider alternatives to this model, including more recent curatorial phenomena by organizations such as ArtAngel which commission contemporary artists to make artworks in unexpected places: from a performance in an abandoned Underground station to a concrete cast of an entire house. Through the lens of specific case studies of art and architecture, the course examines relevant critical issues such as race, globalization, and environmental justice. In doing so, students interrogate how urban circumstances have shaped issues in modern and contemporary art and architecture in London.

The course presents the integration of three different disciplines under an applied philosophical dimension needed to achieve the impossible. A vision needs leadership to develop the strategy, the roadmap through which management coordinates the execution of thoughts and acts. Strategic management without leadership is a well thought plan with the vision. The course presents the philosophy behind each discipline, their integration and their execution through various frameworks, methods and practices, but also metrics, case studies, and examples.

This gallery-based course focuses on developments in modern art during the 20th century in relation to artistic concepts of the future, looking at how these changed as the century progressed and earlier imagined futures were not realized. Themes discussed include historical avant-gardes, the Dada group, surrealism, utopion ideas, futurism, and activist art from Europe and the US in the 1960s.