University College London

This course provides an introduction to significant aspects of human anatomy and embryonic development. The course covers topographical anatomy and embryonic development of the nervous system, cardiovascular system, respiratory system, digestive system, musculoskeletal system, urogenital system, and limbs. The first few weeks of human development are examined, alongside the cellular organization of tissues and organs. An understanding of the key principles of embryonic development is provided. The course is taught through lectures, a series of seminars covering more specialized topics, a small number of practicals, and a class in the Anatomy Laboratory (Dissecting Room).

The course examines the relations between Europe’s different religious groups – the various Christian denominations chiefly, but also Christians and Jews – in the centuries between the Reformation and the French Revolution. With the Reformation, a once-united western Christendom split into hostile, warring camps. Despite the ideals of toleration and religious freedom championed by some thinkers, actual social relations between the groups remained intensely problematic to the very end of the early modern period.

This course examines core themes and debates in contemporary metaphysics. Topics may vary slightly year to year but include objects and properties; possibility and necessity; causation; space and time; and the nature of truth. 

This course focuses on art works exhibited in London collections and temporary exhibitions, discussing, and theorizing the evolution of the modern art object from the 19th century to present. Through a series of seminars and gallery-based classes, the course closely scrutinizes a broad range of art objects, including painting, sculpture, photography, and video, to consider how the development of visual technologies, materials and techniques are negotiated by artists and have impacted on the critical methodologies developed by art historians. Each week takes a different thematic category to foreground discussion, helping to address changing cultural, social, and historical contexts in the making of visual art and its relationship to current sites of exhibition and mechanism of display