Exeter College, Oxford University

In this course, students learn the foundations of neurobiology and neuropharmacology as it relates to stress, trauma, and mental illness. Topics include, for example, the impact of stress on epigenetics and the length of the telomeres causing early aging, the debate of whether genetic or environmental factors shape our mental health and contribute to mental illness, and the different approaches that mitigate the negative impact of stress on brain function.

This course introduces the theoretical and empirical research in behavioral economics and discusses how the use of methods and evidence in behavioral economics has changed both economics as a discipline and policymaking processes in the past few decades.

This course provides students an understanding of the biological bases of behavior and discusses some of our cognitive functions such as memory, learning, decision making, emotion, and the cognitive aspect under social behavior. 

The course examines the global history of migration and experiences of migration in the past. The first part of the course explores the reasons for individual and group migration, exploring the demographic context and impact of geographical mobility across different periods, and identifying different types of migration. Taking a long view of the history of migration, the course highlights the way shifting push and pull factors have shaped patterns of mobility in the past. With this demographic context in mind, the second part of the course examines migrant experiences since 1800 in more detail, considering how migration has been differentiated by class, race, gender, and age. By critically examining the sources, students recover migrant experience and consider both the subjective experience of migration and the ways in which migrant experiences have influenced national identities.