Brunel University London

This course examines the roles of comedy in contemporary media and society. Students explore these roles in relation to comedy's institutional, historical, social, and textual conventions. They also examine comedy in a broad range of texts. Students consider the role of comedy in the construction and transmission of social difference and issues of identity through a series of case studies. They examine the role of political comedy in contemporary political systems, and finally they explore the limits of comedy through an analysis of the offence and moral controversies that it can cause.

This course helps students develop an appreciation of the key characteristics of entrepreneurship and business ventures and addresses the theoretical and practical issues of marketing communications in a global context.

In this course, students examine applied theater practice in different contexts and consider how theater might affect social and political change, in people’s personal lives and in society more widely. Students learn different ways of thinking about and practicing applied theater and analyze how these ideas and techniques speak to social and political developments in society.

This course covers topics from a variety of areas of a routine nature, e.g. everyday life, university and training, and professional life.

This course explores core ideas in feminism via the key concepts of gender and sexuality. It develops students’ understandings of social structures, human cultures, and economic inequalities and political relationships. The course offers theoretical tools and historical insights into gendered, feminized, and sexualized socio-cultural worlds.

Students explore a range of key concepts, theories, and controversies in the anthropology of ethnicity, culture, nationhood, and identity. Drawing on case studies from within and beyond Britain, it encourages students to consider how identities are created, deployed, and contested; how they are embedded in broader social, political, religious, and economic contexts; and how an anthropological perspective can illuminate contemporary debates on race, ethnicity, nationalism, and multiculturalism.

This course introduces students to anthropology . It teaches students how to approach questions and arguments and how to examine the lives of other people without presuming that one way of doing so is better than another.

In this course, students analyze and examine the industry sector in the context of how firms make profits. The course provides theories and applications for students to understand how markets and firms are run and how their economical strategies are implemented.

The first term gives students an overview of the trajectory of European integration, of the main institutions of the EU, and of theories that help with the interpretation of the successive steps in European integration as well as policy-making in the EU. In the second term, students examine some of the most highly contested debates about European integration, including debates over EU enlargement, democratic legitimacy, or UK membership. Frequent reference is made to current EU affairs, as reported in the UK media, equipping students with the skills to follow these news, and challenge the ideologically charged way in which EU affairs are often reported in the media.

This course includes topics ranging from constrained optimization, Lagrange's method (LM), the application of LM to the consumer's theory, maximization and minimization problems (Hicksian and Marshallian demand functions), value function and economic interpretation of the Lagrange multiplier, application to the producer's theory (direct profit maximization and duality approach), and the Kuhn Tucker method. Examples include labor vs. leisure, technical unemployment, minimum wage, welfare economics, and conditions for Pareto efficiency.