Brunel University London

This course introduces students to how communication is used in business marketing. Students examine cases in which a company makes a certain decision on how they present themselves to their customers.

In this course, students learn how to write a report to influence a parliamentary select committee. UK Parliamentary staff teaches part of the course to provide knowledge of parliament, and students use previously written reports as guiding examples. Students also attend a trip to Parliament where they meet with MPs and parliamentary staff and learn about a career in politics.

This course explores the principles of neurotransmission, synaptic physiology, and plasticity. Students survey findings in psychopharmacology on the neurochemical basis of psychological disorders, pharmacological approaches to treatment, and mechanisms of action for recreational drugs, and drugs of abuse. This course also touches on findings in behavioral endocrinology on relationships between hormones and behavior.

This course is based on the idea that important cultural meaning is created through visual media. Students learn practical techniques of visual analysis and are encouraged to apply them in ways that consider relevant sociological and media debates and theories around visuality in contemporary culture. Students examine race, gender, class, dis/ability, and age through close analysis of images found in social media, television, print media, film, and music video. The course also introduces students to visual research methodologies. This course is particularly useful for students wishing to undertake dissertation projects that interrogate or work with visual media.

This course introduces students to the basic principles of psychoanalytic theory and practice. It examines key psychoanalytic concepts and components of clinical psychoanalytic practice, and stimulates a critical understanding of the importance of psychoanalysis for the human and social sciences.

This course examines the ways culture is defined and measured by cross-cultural psychologists; explores the dominant theoretical paradigms in the field and contextualizes cross-cultural psychology within other disciplines: sociology, anthropology, cultural psychology, and evolutionary psychology. It examines cultural variation in psychological phenomena such as cognition, emotion, motivation, the self-concept, relationships, and prosocial and antisocial behavior.

Students examine health issues in relation to changes in the lifecourse, and assess multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary explanations of physical activity, health, and wellbeing in the lifecourse. Students learn about how health is affected throughout life and focus on different aspects such as ageing, gait analysis, and more.

Students acquire a working knowledge of the scientific study of sexual and gendered diversity. Students learn to consider multiple explanatory perspectives on sexual and gendered diversity and to appreciate the difficulty and importance of discussing controversial topics with sensitivity and respect. Students should come to appreciate the many normal variations, and occasional maladaptive pathologies, involving human sexual and gendered diversity.

This course provides an overview of the study of international relations (IR). The first part of the course examines the main theoretical approaches that aim to explain the behavior of state and non-state actors in the international system such as realism, liberalism, Marxism and the "English School," including modern approaches such as feminism, and neo-colonialism incorporating religion-based perspectives. The second part of the course builds on the main IR theories to explore the determinants and dynamics of civil wars, insurgencies, terrorist tactics civil resistance campaigns allied to populism and nationalism. Students focus on the role non-state actors play in shaping these phenomena.

This course examines the basic regression model before considering techniques that have been developed to model the main characteristic of financial data. This course provides students with the theoretical skills needed to understand and analyze econometric studies and the practical skills needed to construct and estimate such models.