Political Science

This course examines current environmental and climate change movements in Europe and the United States, including their background and their significance. At the same time, it utilizes these movements as a lens to understand the politics of climate change and social movements more generally. Specifically, this course investigates the main political ideas driving environmental and climate activism; analyzes the main features, forms, developments, and challenges of environmental and climate activism; discerns their impact and relevance in sustainability politics today; and introduces an understanding of social movements as key drivers of social change. The course provides a thorough understanding of climate and environmental activism: its origins, pathways, and diversity, as well as its relevance for sustainability politics in general. Through an interdisciplinary approach that draws on research and theories of social movement studies and environmental politics from several of the social sciences, there is an empirical focus on Europe and the United States, as well as links with other continents and global politics.

This course examines the role of the City of London in the broader context of social, political, and economic transformations. 

This course provides students with an introduction to central themes and concepts in Sociology, and applies them to particular cases. Students learn what is distinctive about a sociological imagination of contemporary and historical concerns and helps them see how our individual lives are connected to global developments such as climate change, migration, and the advancement of digital technology. Students are also introduced to how class, gender, race, identity, and religion organize relations in an era of globalization. 

This course introduces students to the basic concepts and issues in contemporary political economy, with a particular focus on the political economy of the contemporary social democratic state. The course introduces students to the concepts of economic analysis and the relevance of these concepts to the study of government and politics. It provide students with an understanding of the problems of market failure and government failure and provides a scholarly framework to comparatively evaluate these problems. It provides students with a familiarity with a number of classic and key contemporary readings in political economy.