Directory of Modules 2013-14
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| 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland | HST6321 | No | 'The Troubles' in Northern IrelandCredits: 60.0 The outbreak of violence in Northern Ireland in 1968-9 marked the start of over three decades of conflict in the province. During that time, some three and a half thousand people lost their lives, thousands more were injured and the fabric of society was irrevocably altered. This module will explore in depth, the phenomenon that has become known euphemistically as 'the Troubles'. It will examine the motivations and mental frameworks of the respective protagonists in the conflict - Irish Republicans, Loyalists, Moderate Nationalists and Unionists and the British and Irish governments. Attention will be paid to the internal culture of the paramilitary organisations that so disfigured Northern Ireland in this period, as well as to the impact these groups had on society. Amongst the key questions to be explored are those of, 'Why did 'the Troubles' begin?', 'Why were they sustained?' 'Why did they end?' and 'What did they mean?' In addition, consideration will be given to the way in which 'the Troubles' have been portrayed in popular culture and memory - and the wider influence of understandings of the conflict. The overall aim is to provide you with a thorough going understanding of why it was that this corner of the United Kingdom was plagued by over thirty years of political violence and the effect this had on those living there.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 30.0% Examination, 50.0% Dissertation
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| 21st Century Networks | ECS703D | No | 21st Century NetworksCredits: 15.0 This module provides an in-depth understanding of the key issues in next generation, all-IP networks. As the module provides timely material, it will be subject to constant but minor evolution. The topics covered include: converged network infrastructures including wired and wireless access networks, IPv6, network virtualization, network design and engineering, Internet traffic and applications, cloud and content delivery, economics and privacy.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| 21st Century Networks | ECS703P | No | 21st Century NetworksCredits: 15.0 This module provides an in-depth understanding of the key issues in next generation, all-IP networks. As the module provides timely material, it will be subject to constant but minor evolution. The topics covered include: converged network infrastructures including wired and wireless access networks, IPv6, network virtualization, network design and engineering, Internet traffic and applications, cloud and content delivery, economics and privacy.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| 21st Century Networks | ECS703U | No | 21st Century NetworksCredits: 15.0 This module provides an in-depth understanding of the key issues in next generation, all-IP networks. As the module provides timely material, it will be subject to constant but minor evolution. The topics covered include: converged network infrastructures including wired and wireless access networks, IPv6, network virtualization, network design and engineering, Internet traffic and applications, cloud and content delivery, economics and privacy.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Abnormal and Clinical Psychology | SBC501 | Yes | Abnormal and Clinical PsychologyCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to give students a scientific overview of psychopathology based on empirical findings and to critically evaluate the range of approaches in this field. Topics covered include the history, classification and diagnosis of abnormal behaviour; aetiology and treatment protocols; current developments and advances in biological psychiatry (e.g., cognitive and affective neurosciences); cognitive and behavioural consequences of neurological disorders; anxiety disorders; mood disorders; personality disorders; schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; somatoform and dissociative disorders; sexual and "gender identity" disorders; developmental psychopathology; practical and ethical concerns in mental health care; the role of mental health professionals particularly psychologists.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Accounting and Value Management | BUSM071 | No | Accounting and Value ManagementCredits: 15.0 This module is framed with the context of managing for value and how managerial and investor interests are aligned and reflected in accounting information for value creation and market value added and value for money. This module is concerned with how accounting numbers are employed at operational, divisional and organizational levels to control and drive value creation for market value added or value for money. It is a module which is concerned with how accounting information is deployed to control and direct corporate and non-corporate organizations towards generating value on invested funds whether these are public, private or state sponsored agencies.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Accounting for Business | BUS106 | Yes | Accounting for BusinessCredits: 15.0 The module provides insights into how accounting is embedded in a socio-economic, political and cultural context and how accounting is shaped by this context and in turn shapes this context. Adopting this broader perspective the module elaborates accounting concepts in the context of decision-making, control and governance. Key concepts and methods of accounting are discussed by focusing on the reporting of the financial position and the financial performance of business organisations, the analysis of the financial statements produced by business organisations and the use of accounting information by management for planning, decision making and control purposes.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Accounting for Business Models | BUSM070 | No | Accounting for Business ModelsCredits: 15.0 This module conceptualizes business models within an accounting framework. There are three significant parts to this module. how we can structure business models, designate business models with a sense of financial purpose (liquidity, solvency and capitalization) and finally evaluate performance and outcomes. These financial objectives are explored and evaluated using accounting data for a range of business model types for example, banking, private equity and bio-pharma and 3rd /public sector organizations.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| A Century of Extremes: Germany 1890 - 1990 | HST5324 | Yes | A Century of Extremes: Germany 1890 - 1990Credits: 30.0 This module provides a systematic account of German history in the twentieth century. It aims at a better understanding of the major developments in society, politics, culture, and economy which shaped the country up to today. In the beginning, special attention will be paid to the origins and consequences of World War I, the challenges facing the Weimar republic, Hitler's rise, the National Socialist Regime, World War II, and the Holocaust. The module then turns to the Allied occupation, Germany's division into two states on opposing sides of the Cold War, the Westernization of the West and Sovietization of the East, and the unexpected reunification. Class readings include historical research and original sources as well as some literary texts and films. Different approaches, arguments, and controversies will be presented. Suggested reading: M. Fulbrook, The Divided Nation: A History of Germany 1918-1990 (1991)
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| A Century of Extremes: Germany 1890 - 1990 | HST5324A | Yes | A Century of Extremes: Germany 1890 - 1990Credits: 15.0 This module provides a systematic account of German history in the twentieth century. It aims at a better understanding of the major developments in society, politics, culture, and economy which shaped the country up to today. In the beginning, special attention will be paid to the origins and consequences of World War I, the challenges facing the Weimar republic, Hitler's rise, the National Socialist Regime, World War II, and the Holocaust. The module then turns to the Allied occupation, Germany's division into two states on opposing sides of the Cold War, the Westernization of the West and Sovietization of the East, and the unexpected reunification. Class readings include historical research and original sources as well as some literary texts and films. Different approaches, arguments, and controversies will be presented.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| A Century of Extremes: Germany 1890 - 1990 | HST5324B | Yes | A Century of Extremes: Germany 1890 - 1990Credits: 15.0 This module provides a systematic account of German history in the twentieth century. It aims at a better understanding of the major developments in society, politics, culture, and economy which shaped the country up to today. In the beginning, special attention will be paid to the origins and consequences of World War I, the challenges facing the Weimar republic, Hitler's rise, the National Socialist Regime, World War II, and the Holocaust. The module then turns to the Allied occupation, Germany's division into two states on opposing sides of the Cold War, the Westernization of the West and Sovietization of the East, and the unexpected reunification. Class readings include historical research and original sources as well as some literary texts and films. Different approaches, arguments, and controversies will be presented.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| A Closer Look at Chemistry | SEF004 | Yes | A Closer Look at ChemistryCredits: 15.0 This module expands upon topics covered in SEF003 and provides a further introduction to the fundamentals of chemistry; including topics such as thermochemistry, reaction kinetics and equilibria, molecular structure, aspects of organic chemistry, and spectroscopic methods. Prerequisite: SEF003 Introductory Chemistry
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Action Design | DRA245 | Yes | Action DesignCredits: 30.0 This module provides a practical and theoretical introduction to the seven areas of technical production for the theatre: Lighting, Sound, Design, Workshop, Costume, Technical Drawing and Stage Management. Through this practical introduction you will develop a theoretical understanding of the Design systems of Josef Svoboda, Jaroslav Malina and Jan Dusek and develop an appreciation and active practical response to the term 'scenografie' and the Action Design Movement. Not open to Associate Students.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Actuarial Mathematics | MTH6100 | Yes | Actuarial MathematicsCredits: 15.0 This module gives an introduction to the mathematics of life assurance. You will learn to value cash flows and use life tables for making predictions and analysing mortality patterns. This leads on to the valuation of life annuities and of the benefits paid in life assurance policies. Various life assurance products will be explained and then used for illustration of the basic principles of life assurance.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Adaptations | DRA248 | Yes | AdaptationsCredits: 30.0 Performances as diverse as Hollywood cinema, West End theatre, Restoration drama, costume dramas, verbatim theatre and experimental theatre and performance practices exhibit a fascination with adapting the work of other artists and media. This module explores issuees at stake in practices of adaptation and provides students with opportunities to experiment with creating adaptations. In particular, Adaptations investigates the ways in which a variety of media might be adapted for performance and the aesthetic, cultural and ethical considerations that arise from this work. Students will engage with these issues and practices through a critical engagement with case studies, criticism and practical tasks. In the module of these investigations, students will experiment with a range of performance-making strategies and test ideas and concepts such as simulation, mimesis, genre, originality and authenticity. Students will work with a range of materials for adaptation which might include, but is not limited to: film, fiction, painting, sculpture, interviews, news media, plays, (auto)biography and photographs.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Administrative Law | LAW5106 | Yes | Administrative LawCredits: 15.0 The module in Administrative Law focuses on the principles of judicial review, the process by which the courts are asked to determine the validity or invalidity of the decisions, actions and inaction of government departments, local councils and other public bodies.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Advanced Accounting for Business | BUS216 | Yes | Advanced Accounting for BusinessCredits: 15.0 This module builds on the foundation provided by BUS106 Accounting for Business in Year 1. In the area of Financial Accounting, the proposed module focuses on Financial Reporting by companies, and impact of company law and accounting standards. In Management Accounting the module looks at different approaches to costing, and the concept of identifying relevant costs for management decision-making; the appraisal of investment opportunities (capital budgeting) and accounting as a control mechanism.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Advanced Aircraft Design | DEN7305 | No | Advanced Aircraft DesignCredits: 15.0 This module is concerned with the design and performance of a typical aircraft. It covers mission based subsonic aircraft design methodology, areodynamic design, engine design, and noise in propeller and jet driven aircraft, structural design and materials selection.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination |
| Advanced Analytical Chemistry | SBC603 | Yes | Advanced Analytical ChemistryCredits: 15.0 This module builds on the 1st year analytical course (SBC107), with an emphasis on advanced instrumental methods. The course will cover advanced separation and spectroscopic methods of analysis, with a special emphasis on hyphenated techniques such as GC-MS, LC-MS-MS, ICP-MS etc as well as advanced techniques in capillary electrophoresis and molecular spectroscopy such as ATR and Raman spectroscopy. Various applications of these methods will be discussed with a view to their application in a modern analytical laboratory.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Advanced Asset Pricing and Modelling | ECOM044 | No | Advanced Asset Pricing and ModellingCredits: 15.0 The aim of this module is to provide students with the analytical tools of advanced finance theory. The module will give an introduction to stochastic calculus, optimal control and martingale methods, and will cover dynamic asset pricing models, optimal consumption and portfolio theory, equilibrium models of the term structure of interest rates, option pricing of interest rates and stocks based on arbitrage and general equilibrium models, incomplete markets and portfolio optimisation in incomplete markets. Prerequisites: ECOM043 Quantitative Asset Pricing
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Advanced Combinatorics | MTH742P | No | Advanced CombinatoricsCredits: 15.0 This module builds on the combinatorial ideas of the modules Combinatorics and Extremal Combinatorics and introduces some of the more advanced tools for solving combinatorial and graph theoretic problems. The topics covered will depend on the module organiser's expertise but significant emphasis will be on the techniques used as well as the results proved.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Advanced Combinatorics | MTH742U | Yes | Advanced CombinatoricsCredits: 15.0 This module builds on the combinatorial ideas of the modules Combinatorics and Extremal Combinatorics and introduces some of the more advanced tools for solving combinatorial and graph theoretic problems. The topics covered will depend on the module organiser's expertise but significant emphasis will be on the techniques used as well as the results proved.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Advanced Combustion in Reciprocating Engines | DEN426 | Yes | Advanced Combustion in Reciprocating EnginesCredits: 15.0 This module introduce fundamentals of combustions in automotive engine. Topics included in the module cover the principles of operation of spark and compression ignition engines, energy and fuels, fuel properties for use in engines, combustion and flame development in CI and Si engines, gaseous and particle emission, and regulations.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination |
| Advanced Combustion in Reciprocating Engines | DENM021 | No | Advanced Combustion in Reciprocating EnginesCredits: 15.0 This module covers fundamentals and applications of combustions in automotive engine. Topics covered in the module include the principles of operation of spark and compression ignition engines, energy and fuels, fuel properties for use in engines, combustion and flame development in CI and Si engines, gaseous and particle emission, and regulations, as well as additional directed advanced reading material in energy use in power plants, combustion modelling and life cycle analysis.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination |
| Advanced Computing in Finance | MTH773P | No | Advanced Computing in FinanceCredits: 15.0 This is a follow-up course of 'Computational Methods in Finance'. Your knowledge of C++ will be further enhanced and further topics of interest in mathematical finance will be numerically investigated. An important topic for this module is the use of Monte Carlo simulations for pricing various types of options. The Black-Scholes theory and its connection with PDEs will be revisited in a numerical context. Moreover, at the end of this course you will also investigate models beyond the Black-Scholes theory, based on stochastic volatility, which touches current research.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Advanced Database Systems and Technology | ECS613U | No | Advanced Database Systems and TechnologyCredits: 15.0 Topics covered include: Database performance tuning: denormalisation, over normalisation, indexing and clustering. Active databases: the event, condition action model, different types of triggers and their applications. Databases for XML and XML query languages: DTD, storage, model, native database, XPath, XQuery, mapping to relational and OO DBMS; Data mining: the exploration of large quantities of data for the discovery of meaningful rules and knowledge; Information extraction: the analysis of unrestricted text to extract information about pre-specified types of events, entities or relationships; Mobile databases: design and performance; Moving objects databases: language extensions to support spatial-temporal data.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Advanced Database Systems and Technology | ECS716D | No | Advanced Database Systems and TechnologyCredits: 15.0 Database performance tuning: denormalisation, over normalisation use of indexes, clustering. Active database systems: the event condition action model, types and applications of triggers. Databases for XML and XML query languages: DTD, storage, model, native database, XPath, XQuery Data mining: the exploration of large quantities of data for the discovery of meaningful rules and knowledge; Moving object databases: approaches to the modelling and querying of temporal, spatial and spatial-temporal data
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Advanced Database Systems and Technology | ECS716P | No | Advanced Database Systems and TechnologyCredits: 15.0 Database performance tuning: denormalisation, over normalisation use of indexes, clustering. Active database systems: the event condition action model, types and applications of triggers. Databases for XML and XML query languages: DTD, storage, model, native database, XPath, XQuery Data mining: the exploration of large quantities of data for the discovery of meaningful rules and knowledge; Moving object databases: approaches to the modelling and querying of temporal, spatial and spatial-temporal data
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Advanced Environmental Engineering | DEN420 | No | Advanced Environmental EngineeringCredits: 15.0 This module is designed for fourth year MEng and for MSc students. It will be taught alongside DEN320 Environmental Engineering and so will contain all of the materials on that module. Students should refer to the description of DEN320 for details of this part of the course. Additional lectures will be provided on advanced numerical environmental modelling including risk analysis, decision theory, probabilities and Monte-Carlo simulation. Students will complete a group project which will involve some of these more advanced analysis and modelling techniques.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Advanced Environmental Engineering | DENM012 | No | Advanced Environmental EngineeringCredits: 15.0 This module is designed for fourth year MEng and for MSc students. It will be taught alongside DEN320 Environmental Engineering and so will contain all of the materials on that module. Students should refer to the description of DEN320 for details of this part of the course. Additional lectures will be provided on advanced numerical environmental modelling including risk analysis, decision theory, probabilities and Monte-Carlo simulation. Students will complete a group project which will involve some of these more advanced analysis and modelling techniques.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination |
| Advanced Experimental Chemistry | CHE010 | No | Advanced Experimental ChemistryCredits: 15.0 A module of practical work designed to familiarise chemistry students with modern experimental methods and techniques in inorganic and organic chemistry. This module will build upon the practical skills acquired during the first two years. A report based on a literature search will also form part of the module, and instruction in the technique of searching the literature will be provided.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Advanced Flight Control and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicles | DENM001 | No | Advanced Flight Control and Simulation of Aerospace VehiclesCredits: 15.0 This is an advanced integrated MSc module consisting of the main topics that are of primary importance to aerospace vehicle flight control and flight simulation. The module aims at providing an in-depth understanding of the principles of flight control and aerospace vehicle simulation. Basic functions of aerospace and launch vehicle flight control systems synthesis and the kinematics and dynamics of flight simulation including pilot physiological modelling and human factors would be covered as part of the course. A student on the course can expect to gain design experience with the application of the numerical simulation of aerospace vehicle dynamics associated with a variety of such vehicles provided he/she completes all tutorial and the supplementary design exercises. He/she could also expect to gain experience in using the School's integrated flight simulation facility. On completing the course the student would be able to parametrically design and synthesise a typical aerospace vehicle control subsystem.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Advanced Flight Control and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicles | DEN7001 | No | Advanced Flight Control and Simulation of Aerospace VehiclesCredits: 15.0 This is an advanced integrated MSc module consisting of the main topics that are of primary importance to aerospace vehicle flight control and flight simulation. The module aims at providing an in-depth understanding of the principles of flight control and aerospace vehicle simulation. Basic functions of aerospace and launch vehicle flight control systems synthesis and the kinematics and dynamics of flight simulation including pilot physiological modelling and human factors would be covered as part of the course. A student on the course can expect to gain design experience with the application of the numerical simulation of aerospace vehicle dynamics associated with a variety of such vehicles provided he/she completes all tutorial and the supplementary design exercises. He/she could also expect to gain experience in using the School's integrated flight simulation facility. On completing the course the student would be able to parametrically design and synthesise a typical aerospace vehicle control subsystem.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer | DEN409 | Yes | Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Heat TransferCredits: 15.0 This module is an advanced module built on the 2nd year Heat Transfer (DEN228) and Mechanics of Fluids 2 (DEN205) modules. The module includes transient conduction with high Biot numbers, mathematical treatment of convective heat transfer problems, boundary layer equations and its analytical solution for flow over a plain surface, natural convection and pipe flow. The topics in mass transfer, turbulent flows, condensation and boiling heat transfer, and radiation will be further developed.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer | DENM031 | No | Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Heat TransferCredits: 15.0 This module is an advanced module built on the 2nd year Heat Transfer (DEN228) and Mechanics of Fluids 2 (DEN205) modules. The module includes transient conduction with high Biot numbers, mathematical treatment of convective heat transfer problems, boundary layer equations and its analytical solution for flow over a plain surface, natural convection and pipe flow. The topics in mass transfer, turbulent flows, condensation and boiling heat transfer, and radiation will be further developed.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination |
| Advanced French | LLU013 | No | Advanced FrenchCredits: 30.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: Higher-further level or similar These modules are for students who have studied French up to intermediate level. Their aim is to improve your performance and confidence in your use of French. The courses are practical and have a core language component for social situations, and also include language and topics for specific professional purposes. You will be able to choose from a range of topics which include study abroad, professional visits, jobs, media, advertising, the world of communications, ecology, etc and will be studied from different angles according to your interests. You will be able to work on individual and group projects according to your interests. Level(s): 4
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Advanced French I | LLU113 | No | Advanced French ICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: Higher-further level or similar These modules are for students who have studied French up to intermediate level. Their aim is to improve your performance and confidence in your use of French and develop the different language skills equally (speaking, writing, reading and listening). The courses are practical and have a core language component for social situations, and also include language and topics for specific professional purposes. These topics include study abroad, professional visits, jobs, meetings etc. You will be able to work on individual and group projects according to your interests. Level(s): 4
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination |
| Advanced French II | LLU213 | No | Advanced French IICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: Advanced level or similar These modules are designed for students who have studied French up to advanced level I or similar. Their aim is to improve your performance and confidence in your use of French and develop the different language skills equally (speaking, writing, reading and listening). The courses are practical and have a core language component for social situations, and also include language and topics for specific professional purposes. You will be able to choose from a range of topics which include media, advertising, the world of communications, ecology, etc and will be studied from different angles according to your interests. Level(s): 4
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Advanced Gas Turbines | DEN427 | Yes | Advanced Gas TurbinesCredits: 15.0 Much of the content is thermodynamics, applicable to both aerospace propulsion and to power generating gas turbines. The lectures and tutorials will be common with those for DEN 306, but there will be additional directed reading on this module, to enable students to tackle a substantial piece of coursework. This will concern the energy use in power and propulsion systems and the optimisation of land-based power-generating gas turbines in combined cycles with steam plant or similar project.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Advanced Gas Turbines | DENM022 | No | Advanced Gas TurbinesCredits: 15.0 Much of the content is thermodynamics, applicable to both aerospace propulsion and to power generating gas turbines. The lectures and tutorials will be common with those for DEN 306, but there will be additional directed reading on this module, to enable students to tackle a substantial piece of coursework. This will concern the energy use in power and propulsion systems and the optimisation of land-based power-generating gas turbines in combined cycles with steam plant or similar project.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Advanced High Speed Aerodynamics | DEN7405 | Yes | Advanced High Speed AerodynamicsCredits: 15.0 This module reviews fundamentals of thermodynamics and introduces compressible flows and moves towards more advanced topics in compressible flows. Oblique shock waves, expansion waves, shock-expansion theory, wave interactions and wave drag will be discussed. Design of the supersonic inlets and nozzles in aircraft and rocket propulsion including method of characteristics, design of high speed test facilities including shock tubes will be addressed. Effects of heat and friction on gas flows. Design aspects of high speed aeroplanes and viscous effects will be discussed and analysed including fundamentals of hypersonic flows and high temperature gas dynamics.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 30.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination |
| Advanced High Speed Aerodynamics | DENM405 | No | Advanced High Speed AerodynamicsCredits: 15.0 This module reviews fundamentals of thermodynamics and introduces compressible flows and moves towards more advanced topics in compressible flows. Oblique shock waves, expansion waves, shock-expansion theory, wave interactions and wave drag will be discussed. Design of the supersonic inlets and nozzles in aircraft and rocket propulsion including method of characteristics, design of high speed test facilities including shock tubes will be addressed. Effects of heat and friction on gas flows. Design aspects of high speed aeroplanes and viscous effects will be discussed and analysed including fundamentals of hypersonic flows and high temperature gas dynamics.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 30.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination |
| Advanced Japanese | LLU043 | No | Advanced JapaneseCredits: 30.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: Higher-further level or similar These modules are for students who have studied Japanese up to Higher Further Level or similar. Their aim is to improve your performance and confidence in your use of Japanese at an advanced level and develop the different language skills equally (speaking, writing, reading and listening). They will also extend your knowledge of the world of business and industry in the countries where Japanese is spoken. The courses are practical and have a core language component for social situations, and also include language and topics for specific professional purposes. Level: 5
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Advanced Japanese I | LLU143 | No | Advanced Japanese ICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: Higher-further level or similar These modules are for students who have studied Japanese up to Higher Further Level or similar. Their aim is to improve your performance and confidence in your use of Japanese at an advanced level and develop the different language skills equally (speaking, writing, reading and listening). They will also extend your knowledge of the world of business and industry in the countries where Japanese is spoken. The courses are practical and have a core language component for social situations, and also include language and topics for specific professional purposes. Level: 5
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination |
| Advanced Japanese II | LLU243 | No | Advanced Japanese IICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: Advanced level or similar These modules are designed for students who have studied Japanese up to Advanced Level I or similar. Their aim is to improve your performance and confidence in your use of Japanese at an advanced level and develop the different language skills equally (speaking, writing, reading and listening). They will also extend your knowledge of the world of business and industry in the countries where Japanese is spoken. The courses are practical and have a core language component for social situations, and also include language and topics for specific professional purposes. Level: 5
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination |
| Advanced Management Accounting | BUSM067 | No | Advanced Management AccountingCredits: 15.0 This module identifies and explores challenges and issues facing organisations as they operate in a world of increasing competitiveness and change, requiring managers to combine management accounting ideas with those from other areas such as marketing, technology and HR. Accordingly it is interdisciplinary. The module is arranged around: 1 Accounting for strategic management: introduction: methodological issues in management accounting 2 The essence of management control in private, voluntary and public sectors 3 Strategic Issues in cost allocation and activity-based costing and activity-based management 4 Advanced manufacturing technology, JIT, target costing and product life-cycle costing 5 Quality costing, total quality management and management accounting systems 6 Value-chain analysis and accounting 7 Customer profitability analysis/customer accounting 8 Competitor analysis/competitor accounting 9 Responsibility accounting, financial performance measures, and transfer prices 10 Measuring non-financial performance: the balanced scorecard 11 Benchmarking analysis The module will draw upon a range of case studies drawn from the `real world¿.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques | MAT804 | Yes | Advanced Materials Characterization TechniquesCredits: 15.0 The module details the latest developments and breakthroughs in characterization techniques used to examine common types of materials. These techniques are varied but focus on high resolution imaging and structural information as well as methods to measure the physical properties of materials. Core topics investigate advanced scanning probe microscopy to image surfaces and provide a wealth of physical information, mechanical testing small volumes using nanoindentation, electron imaging and sample preparation using focussed ion beam methods and X-ray scattering used in biological tissue. Topics are delivered by experts in the field.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques | MTRM066 | No | Advanced Materials Characterization TechniquesCredits: 15.0 The module details the latest developments and breakthroughs in characterization techniques used to examine common types of materials. These techniques are varied but focus on high resolution imaging and structural information as well as methods to measure the physical properties of materials. Core topics investigate advanced scanning probe microscopy to image surfaces and provide a wealth of physical information, mechanical testing small volumes using nanoindentation, electron imaging and sample preparation using focussed ion beam methods and X-ray scattering used in biological tissue. Topics are delivered by experts in the field.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Advanced Medical Negligence | QLLM005 | No | Advanced Medical NegligenceCredits: 45.0 This module will closely delve into medical negligence by examining the principal difficulties associated with the common law cause of action, and the various (often controversial) ways in which statute has encroached in recent years to adjust patient-medical practitioner patterns of legal liability. Following a brief revision of the general cause of action, the module will analyse and critique a number of its manifestations, including: wrongful conception, wrongful birth, wrongful life, secondary victim psychiatric illness, treatment of the legal good Samaritan, failure to warn actions, therapeutic privilege, obligations to fund or to provide health treatment, faulty screening services, and compensatory ceilings. Prerequisites: none Applicable Groupings: M
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Advanced Microeconomics | ECN361 | Yes | Advanced MicroeconomicsCredits: 15.0 This module aims to help you to bridge the gap between undergraduate and postgraduate economics. It is strongly recommended for all students who are considering continuing to a taught Master's degree in Economics. The module will attempt to develop your capacity for strategic reasoning via the translation of economic stories into simple models, spelling out every step of each argument in detail. Topics covered include individual decision making, efficiency of competitive market economy and causes of market failure, social choice and welfare, and information economics.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Advanced Oral Competence in French | FRE407 | Yes | Advanced Oral Competence in FrenchCredits: 15.0 This module aims to develop oral comprehension and language production skills to a very high level. You will study authentic extracts from a wide variety of French and Francophone sources (radio, tv and the internet) and will be trained in language competence in both formal and informal situations ranging from debates to recorded formal oral communication.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Advanced Oral Competence in Spanish | HSP611 | Yes | Advanced Oral Competence in SpanishCredits: 15.0 Students in their final year will practice their aural and oral skills. A range of tests will be used, such as aural comprehension of either video or audio material, summary of a lecture, ability to recognise and switch between linguistic registers (standard, colloquial, etc) and liaison interpreting.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Advanced Polymer Synthesis | MAT7797 | No | Advanced Polymer SynthesisCredits: 15.0 This module will give students a thorough understanding and knowledge of polymer synthesis techniques and their main applications. It will focus on key areas for industrial applications: synthesis of high performance polymers, polymeric biomaterials, polymers used for energy production and in the micro-electronics area. At the beginning of the module, basic polymerisation methods and concepts will be reviewed, to enable students with different backgrounds to come to the same level in the field of polymer chemistry. Following lectures will focus on more advanced polymerisation methods and their use to synthesis functional materials with industrial applications.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Examination |
| Advanced Polymer Synthesis | MTRM797 | No | Advanced Polymer SynthesisCredits: 15.0 This module will give students a thorough understanding and knowledge of polymer synthesis techniques and their main applications. It will focus on key areas for industrial applications: synthesis of high performance polymers, polymeric biomaterials, polymers used for energy production and in the micro-electronics area. At the beginning of the module, basic polymerisation methods and concepts will be reviewed, to enable students with different backgrounds to come to the same level in the field of polymer chemistry. Following lectures will focus on more advanced polymerisation methods and their use to synthesis functional materials with industrial applications.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Examination
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| Advanced Program Design | ECS711D | No | Advanced Program DesignCredits: 15.0 Basic concepts and techniques of object-oriented programming in general and the use of Java in particular. Issues in class and interface design (minimising class and member accessibility, immutability, composition versus inheritance, interfaces versus abstract classes, preventing subclassing, static versus nonstatic classes). The module will also examine a number of Design Patterns. Requirements for creating understandable, maintainable, and robust classes that can be easily reused by others in a team. Exceptions, type variables, iterators and other advanced aspects of the core Java language will be covered. Java's Collections Framework will be considered in detail as an example of a coherent set of Java classes designed to work together, and for its use of generic typing. There will also be some coverage of software engineering principles: analysis and specification of user requirements, object-oriented design, testing and debugging, refactoring.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination |
| Advanced Program Design | ECS711P | No | Advanced Program DesignCredits: 15.0 Basic concepts and techniques of object-oriented programming in general and the use of Java in particular. Issues in class and interface design (minimising class and member accessibility, immutability, composition versus inheritance, interfaces versus abstract classes, preventing subclassing, static versus nonstatic classes). The module will also examine a number of Design Patterns. Requirements for creating understandable, maintainable, and robust classes that can be easily reused by others in a team. Exceptions, type variables, iterators and other advanced aspects of the core Java language will be covered. Java's Collections Framework will be considered in detail as an example of a coherent set of Java classes designed to work together, and for its use of generic typing. There will also be some coverage of software engineering principles: analysis and specification of user requirements, object-oriented design, testing and debugging, refactoring.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Advanced Quantum Field Theory | PHY7007P | Yes | Advanced Quantum Field TheoryCredits: 15.0 This module gives a broad exposition of the modern frame work for the unification of special relativity and quantum theory -- relativistic quantum field theory (QFT). Lagrangian formulation and canonical quantisation of free fields with spin = 0, 1/2, 1 are revised. The construction of interacting quantum field theories is devoloped with special focus on phi^4-theory and quantum electrodynamics (QED). Perturbation theory in terms of Feynman diagrams is developed systematically, and important concepts such as regularisation and renormalisation are introduced. These tools are applied to the calculation of simple tree-level and one-loop S-matrix elements and cross-sections in phi^4 theory and QED, corrections to the electron magnetic moment and the running coupling. The course will also touch on more advanced topics such as anomalies, non-Abelian gauge theories, and modern methods for the calculation of S-matrix elements.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Advanced Quantum Field Theory | PHY7007U | Yes | Advanced Quantum Field TheoryCredits: 15.0 This module gives a broad exposition of the modern frame work for the unification of special relativity and quantum theory -- relativistic quantum field theory (QFT). Lagrangian formulation and canonical quantisation of free fields with spin = 0, 1/2, 1 are revised. The construction of interacting quantum field theories is devoloped with special focus on phi^4-theory and quantum electrodynamics (QED). Perturbation theory in terms of Feynman diagrams is developed systematically, and important concepts such as regularisation and renormalisation are introduced. These tools are applied to the calculation of simple tree-level and one-loop S-matrix elements and cross-sections in phi^4 theory and QED, corrections to the electron magnetic moment and the running coupling. The course will also touch on more advanced topics such as anomalies, non-Abelian gauge theories, and modern methods for the calculation of S-matrix elements.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Advanced Research and Practice in Environmental Science | GEG6216 | No | Advanced Research and Practice in Environmental ScienceCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to develop advanced skills in Environmental Science Research and Practice, in order to prepare students for the Independent Research Project at Level 7 and employment beyond Queen Mary. The module enables students to: (i) develop project ideas for their Level 7 Independent Research Project. (ii) develop the research design for the Independent Research Project. (iii) undertake a critical review of methodological approaches within a relevant scientific field, contributing to the development of the research design for the Independent Research Project and developing writing skills in relation to the synthesis and effective communication of advanced scientific and/or technical information. (iv) produce a detailed project plan and timetable, together with full risk assessment covering any field and laboratory work to be undertaken as part of the Independent Research Project. (v) explore potential future career paths. (vi) develop their ability to effectively communicate their skills and experience in relation to employment criteria.
Assessment: 30.0% Practical, 70.0% Coursework |
| Advanced Research Skills | ESH265 | No | Advanced Research SkillsCredits: 15.0 This module is only available to students on English single and joint honours degree programmes. Research skills form a crucial part of the undergraduate degree at Queen Mary. In the final year, all single honours English students undertake an extended, research-led English Dissertation (a supervised independent study, assessed by a dissertation of 10,000 words in length). On this Level 5 module, you will study, assess and reflect on the skills needed to complete the dissertation. A key rationale for this module is the acquisition of transferable skills. Both in the dissertation, and in later life, as a student of English, you will be required to articulate the research processes and choices underpinning your work, to work independently and in a group on research-led topics, and to present your findings according to agreed criteria. The module is designed to enhance your research capabilities by providing you with the requisite knowledge and skills to conduct research at BA level. Classes will cover all aspects of the research process, including proposal writing, bibliographical skills, note taking, and dissertation planning. Not open to Associate Students.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Advanced Spacecraft Design: Manoeuvring and Orbital Mechanics | DEN7335 | No | Advanced Spacecraft Design: Manoeuvring and Orbital MechanicsCredits: 15.0 The module introduces students to the factors which influence spacecraft design and highlights the need for a systems engineering approach. The module will provide students with a suitable mathematical description of orbital motion in order to understand spacecraft trajectories about the earth and simplified techniques for planning interplanetary space missions. Underlying principles of all spacecraft propulsion technologies are described, with some detailed focus on electric propulsion.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 175.0% Examination |
| Advanced Spacecraft Design: Manoeuvring and Orbital Mechanics | DENM335 | No | Advanced Spacecraft Design: Manoeuvring and Orbital MechanicsCredits: 15.0 The module introduces students to the factors which influence spacecraft design and highlights the need for a systems engineering approach. The module will provide students with a suitable mathematical description of orbital motion in order to understand spacecraft trajectories about the earth and simplified techniques for planning interplanetary space missions. Underlying principles of all spacecraft propulsion technologies are described, with some detailed focus on electric propulsion.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 175.0% Examination |
| Advanced Spanish | LLU023 | No | Advanced SpanishCredits: 30.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: Higher-further level or similar These modules are for students who have studied Spanish up to intermediate level. Their aim is to improve your performance and confidence in your use of Spanish and develop the different language skills equally (speaking, writing, reading and listening). The courses are practical and have a core language component for social situations, and also include language and topics for specific professional purposes. You will be able to choose from a range of topics which include study abroad, professional visits, jobs, media, advertising, the world of communications, ecology, etc and will be studied from different angles according to your interests. You will be able to work on individual and group projects according to your interests. Level(s): 4
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Advanced Spanish I | LLU123 | No | Advanced Spanish ICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: Higher-further level or similar These modules are for students who have studied Spanish up to Further level II or similar. Their aim is to improve your performance and confidence in your use of Spanish at an advanced level and develop the different language skills equally (speaking, writing, reading and listening). They will also extend your knowledge of the world of business and industry in the countries where Spanish is spoken. The courses are practical and have a core language component for social situations, and also include language and topics for specific professional purposes. These topics include study abroad, professional visits, jobs, meetings etc. You will be able to work on individual and group projects according to your interests. Level(s): 4
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination |
| Advanced Spanish II | LLU223 | No | Advanced Spanish IICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: Advanced level or similar These modules are designed for students who have studied Spanish up to Advanced level I or similar. Their aim is to improve your performance and confidence in your use of Spanish at an advanced level and develop the different language skills equally (speaking, writing, reading and listening). They will also extend your knowledge of the world of business and industry in the countries where Spanish is spoken. The courses are practical and have a core language component for social situations, and also include language and topics for specific professional purposes. You will be able to choose from a range of topics which include media, advertising, the world of communications, ecology, etc and will be studied from different angles according to your interests. Level(s): 4
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination |
| Advanced Statistics Project | MTH6103 | Yes | Advanced Statistics ProjectCredits: 30.0 The major part of this module is an individual project on some aspect of probability, statistical theory or applied statistics. There will also be classes, which will cover an introduction to project work, statistical study skills and report writing.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Advanced Structure-Property Relationships in Materials | MAT706 | Yes | Advanced Structure-Property Relationships in MaterialsCredits: 15.0 The module introduces the advantages of producing complex materials consisting of constituents of relatively small size (nanomaterials). The physical properties of nanomaterials are considered and justification on using nanomaterials within composite design made. Complex materials produced synthetically and those found in nature (such as bone, teeth and shell) are examined. The production of complex materials using biomineralization in nature and synthetic routes are defined. In addition, developing an understanding of the relationship between structure and function is enhanced using practical work.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Advanced Structure-Property Relationships in Materials | MTRM065 | No | Advanced Structure-Property Relationships in MaterialsCredits: 15.0 The module introduces the advantages of producing complex materials consisting of constituents of relatively small size (nanomaterials). The physical properties of nanomaterials are considered and justification on using nanomaterials within composite design made. Complex materials produced synthetically and those found in nature (such as bone, teeth and shell) are examined. The production of complex materials using biomineralization in nature and synthetic routes are defined. In addition, developing an understanding of the relationship between structure and function is enhanced using practical work.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Advanced Syntactic Theory | LIN7022 | No | Advanced Syntactic TheoryCredits: 15.0 This course takes students through the analysis of fundamental syntactic phenomena (clause structure, case, extended projection, nominal structure, clausal complementation, long distance dependencies, locality) using current minimalist feature checking models. It shares a lecture slot with LIN039 (the advanced undergraduate syntax course) but goes beyond the material covered there in seminar classes which discuss the motivations for the particular theoretical implementations, and the challenges that arise in applying these ideas to languages other than English (while the undergraduate course is focussed on having students understand the model, rather than being able to improve it). The course begins with the hierarchical functional structure of clauses, implementing this via extended projection (Grimshaw 1991) combined with feature valuation (Chomsky 2001), and then develops these core theoretical ideas in a systematic fashion to cover the other topics mentioned above.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Advanced Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine | MTRM064 | No | Advanced Tissue Engineering and Regenerative MedicineCredits: 15.0 This specialised module covers a range of topics in Tissue Engineering. It will develop the knowledge base of the student with emphasis on the current research directions of this rapidly emerging topic supported by skills developed in the laboratory. The students will understand the multidisciplinary principles underpinning tissue engineering, They will appreciate principles that underlie behind a series of strategies to repair both tissues and organs. They will be able to apply their engineering background to biological systems. They will develop skills to enable them to be fully conversant with current research.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Advanced Transform Methods | ECS706D | No | Advanced Transform MethodsCredits: 15.0 This module introduces transform and sub-band techniques as a pre-cursor to compression and other applications. It is the first step beyond the fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing. The module highlights the time-frequency trade-off and students will learn to understand the relative merits of different time to frequency mappings. Students will also be a exposed to joint time-frequency transforms and will learn to utilize and develop skills in high performance mathematical visualization software.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Advanced Transform Methods | ECS706P | No | Advanced Transform MethodsCredits: 15.0 This module introduces transform and sub-band techniques as a pre-cursor to compression and other applications. It is the first step beyond the fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing. The module highlights the time-frequency trade-off and students will learn to understand the relative merits of different time to frequency mappings. Students will also be a exposed to joint time-frequency transforms and will learn to utilize and develop skills in high performance mathematical visualization software.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Advanced Transform Methods | ECS706U | No | Advanced Transform MethodsCredits: 15.0 This module introduces transform and sub-band techniques as a pre-cursor to compression and other applications. It is the first step beyond the fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing. The module highlights the time-frequency trade-off and students will learn to understand the relative merits of different time to frequency mappings. Students will also be a exposed to joint time-frequency transforms and will learn to utilize and develop skills in high performance mathematical visualization software.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Advanced Translation Into German, and Precis | GER619 | Yes | Advanced Translation Into German, and PrecisCredits: 15.0 This module is intended for Erasmus or Associate Students from German-speaking countries. It offers practice and translation of linguistically and intellectually challenging literary texts and précis in English of substantial German texts.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Advertising | BUS213 | Yes | AdvertisingCredits: 15.0 This module explores advertising as an evolving category of social communication within a convergent media landscape. A strategic managerial perspective is taken to generate insight into the development of advertising and the roles and processes so entailed. The consumer perspective is also considered in the light of advertising¿s role as a vehicle for cultural meaning. Media consumption issues are also important to consider given the rapid growth in expenditure on digital (especially mobile) advertising communication. The module takes a multi-disciplinary approach drawing on socio-cultural, psychological and anthropological perspectives.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Aeroelasticity | DEN410 | Yes | AeroelasticityCredits: 15.0 The module aims to provide an insight and understanding of, complex structural dynamic and aeroelastic phenomenon, by use of the standard bending-torsion vibration paradigm to model the aircraft wing. The module will provide a phenomenological understanding of aeroelastic problems such as control reversal, wing divergence and wing flutter and associated structural dynamic aspects. It will give qualitative understanding of the analytical models of the coupled rigid and flexible body dynamics of future aerospace structures and introduce the dynamics of highly flexible aircraft.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Aeroelasticity | DENM032 | No | AeroelasticityCredits: 15.0 The module aims to provide an insight and understanding of, complex structural dynamic and aeroelastic phenomenon, by use of the standard bending-torsion vibration paradigm to model the aircraft wing. The module will provide a phenomenological understanding of aeroelastic problems such as control reversal, wing divergence and wing flutter and associated structural dynamic aspects. It will give qualitative understanding of the analytical models of the coupled rigid and flexible body dynamics of future aerospace structures and introduce the dynamics of highly flexible aircraft.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Aerospace Research Project | DENM003 | No | Aerospace Research ProjectCredits: 60.0 The project consists of an individual piece of work, under the supervision of an academic member of staff. It can take either one, or a combination, of the following forms: (i) an experimental investigation; (ii) a computational exercise; (iii) the development of a piece of experimental apparatus; (iv) a design study; (v) a theoretical analysis; (vi) a review of a topic of current interest. Not open to Associate Students.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Aerospace Structures | DEN307 | Yes | Aerospace StructuresCredits: 15.0 This module will provide the student with the basic tools of structural analysis including the structure idealization, analysis of the thin-walled cellular type of structure peculiar to the aircraft, stress calculations of composite structures, fundamentals of elasticity and buckling analysis of plate.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Aerothermodynamics of Fluid Flows | DEN5242 | Yes | Aerothermodynamics of Fluid FlowsCredits: 15.0 This module reviews fundamentals of thermodynamics and introduces compressible flows, formation of waves, Mach number and Mach Wave, Shock-Waves, effect of area change and back pressure on the flow of gases and its application to jet engines and wind tunnels, flow measurement and flow visualization in compressible flows. Students will develop knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of compressible aerodynamics and its implication in aerospace engineering. The second part of the module provides students with a basic knowledge of viscous flows and boundary layers and drag.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 20.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Aestheticism and Fin de Siecle Literature | LCMM015 | No | Aestheticism and Fin de Siecle LiteratureCredits: 30.0 This module introduces students to developments in the literature of the late Victorian period with an eye to its possible influences on modernist writing. Students are encouraged to explore such issues as the construction of the self and personality, representation of the body, the role of the artist with reference to gender and sexuality, Decadence, and the 'New Woman', as well as making a more general survey of aesthetics, style, and the visual and literary imagination in the writings of the period. Students study a variety of different kinds of writing including poetry, drama, art and literary criticism, and the novel. Writers included are Swinburne, Pater, Wilde, and Hardy, and lesser known figures such as Vernon Lee and Charlotte Mew.
Assessment: .0% Practical, 100.0% Coursework
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| Africa and International Politics | POL372 | No | Africa and International PoliticsCredits: 15.0 Africa has consistently been ignored by many of the major social science disciplines. Many of the major theoretical traditions treat Africa as either irrelevant to great power politics, or as simply an effect of great power or class domination. This module aims to introduce students to Africa's international relations, African-centric perspectives which challenge traditional academic approaches and seeks to locate Africa's fate not merely in processes of imperial domination but also in African social and class configurations themselves. This is a distinct approach which centres the teaching of Africa on the continent itself, rather than exclusively on what external actors are doing to it. This is not to dismiss the influence of external actors and processes, but to reveal the many cases of where this distinction between the external and internal in Africa has limited utility in explaining events and processes on the continent.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Africa in Europe, 1440 - 1650: Renaissance Encounters | HST5210 | Yes | Africa in Europe, 1440 - 1650: Renaissance EncountersCredits: 30.0 The module will concentrate on three major elements in its focus on sub-Saharan Africa. It will examine the gamut of African peoples, animals, material and artefacts transported to Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from slaves to ambassadors, from giraffes to carved ivory horns. It will also analyse the levels of knowledge and understanding about various parts of Africa within Europe by (for example) looking at maps, influential classical and medieval sources, and Renaissance travel journals and reports. Finally, it will investigate visual representations of Africa and Africans across Europe and assess the gaps between the visual, the textual and the documentary.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| A History of Terror in the Modern Age 1858-2008 | HST6319 | Yes | A History of Terror in the Modern Age 1858-2008Credits: 15.0 "Terrorism" has become a defining phenomenon of the modern era. In the "war on terror" politicians and commentators alike have argued that we face a "new kind" of threat and that the "rules of the game" have changed. This module will consider the truth of such assertions by examining the history of terrorism in the modern age. The process of modern state formation since the middle of the nineteenth century has been accompanied by violent challenges to the status quo from non-state actors who have deployed terrorist methods in pursuit of their goals. From international anarchists to Irish "rebels", from anti-imperialist "revolutionaries" to the Islamist-inspired millenarians of today, this module will examine the methods and ideologies of "terrorism", exploring the milieu and mindset of some of its most prominent perpetrators.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Aircraft Design | DEN6305 | No | Aircraft DesignCredits: 15.0 This module is concerned the design and performance of a broad range of aerospace vehicles including fixed-wing aeroplanes (subsonic and supersonic), helicopters, hovercraft, airships, and launch vehicles. Coursework and tutorial materials involve use of spreadsheets, but the module is primarily assessed by a written exam.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Aircraft Propulsion | DEN306 | Yes | Aircraft PropulsionCredits: 15.0 The aims of this module are to introduce the basic concepts of propulsion and to show how thrust and fuel consumption can be calculated for a variety of engines under design conditions. It will provide an understanding of the way in which materials constraints and aerodynamics limit gas-turbine and aero-engine performance, particularly of turbines and compressors and will introduce the basic principles of turbine, compressor and nozzle design
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Algebraic Structures I | MTH5100 | Yes | Algebraic Structures ICredits: 15.0 The modern axiomatic approach to mathematics is demonstrated in the study of the fundamental theory of abstract algebraic structures. Group theory, subgroups, generators, Lagrange's theorem. Normal subgroups, homomorphisms, isomorphism theorems. Ring theory, integral domains. Ideals, homomorphisms and isomorphism theorems. Polynomial rings, Euclidean algorithm, fields of fractions.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Algebraic Structures II | MTH6104 | Yes | Algebraic Structures IICredits: 15.0 This is a second module in algebraic structures, covering more advanced aspects of group theory and ring theory as well as introducing the theory of modules. There is a strong emphasis on abstract thinking and proof. The group theory portion includes the basics of group actions, finite p-groups, Sylow theorems and applications, and the Jordan-Holder theorem. In ring theory, matrix rings and Noetherian rings are studied. After studying the basic theory of modules, the structure of finitely generated modules over Euclidean domains is determined.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Algorithms and Complexity | ECS634U | No | Algorithms and ComplexityCredits: 15.0 This is a theoretical module, which is concerned with reasoning about algorithms. Using sorting algorithms and graph algorithms as examples, the module introduces methods for proving the correctness of algorithms and for analysing their complexity. The module then introduces the theory of NP-completeness, and attempts to solve NP-complete problems in practice, including approximate and heuristic algorithms.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Algorithms and Data Structures in an Object-Oriented Framework | ECS510U | No | Algorithms and Data Structures in an Object-Oriented FrameworkCredits: 15.0 Algorithms are "ways of doing something", data structures are ways of combining collections of data to form a coherent whole. Many algorithms are about processing collections of data; an obvious example being to re-arrange a collection to put it in some sorted order. This module will introduce the basic concepts of algorithms and data structures expressed using the Java programming language.Java is an object-oriented language, and the object-oriented style is recognised as a good way of both breaking down a program into coherent parts, and generalising these parts so they may be re-used in a variety of contexts. This module introduces algorithms and data structures in an object-oriented framework. A key theme is the idea of "abstraction": being able to separate out the way a program component works in interaction with other components from what goes on underneath to make it work.The module is intended for those who have already covered the basics of programming, and wish to move on to use and develop their programming skills for designing and constructing components of programs of a larger scale.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Alternative Dispute Resolution | CCDD002 | No | Alternative Dispute ResolutionCredits: 45.0 Knowledge: The purpose of this module is to familiarise you with a wide range of dispute resolution processes alternative to conventional forms of adjudication and their impact on legal system. Skills: The module is NOT designed to train you as a mediator or negotiator. If you are interested in mastering these skills you should take specially designed skills based training modules. Instead the module will equip you with basic tools which can help you in representing your client in ADR process, primarily in mediation. Attitudes: It is not the goal of this module to persuade you in inherited superiority of ADR over traditional court system or settlement, but rather to form your own attitude so that you can help your clients and society select and employ the most effective, just, and humane methods of dispute resolution.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Coursework |
| Alternative Investments | ECOM076 | No | Alternative InvestmentsCredits: 15.0 This thirty-hour optional module provides a thorough overview of recent developments in investment strategies including a description of the peculiarities of alternative asset classes. The main emphasis will be on the various complementary investment vehicles, methods and industries, namely commodities, real estate and hedge funds. The first part of the course concentrates on commodities, metals, energy and agriculture. The second part of the course focuses on alternative real estate financing and investment vehicles. The third part of the course offers an analysis of hedge fund strategies. The final part of the course provides an overview of additional alternative investments such as socially responsible funds, microfinance funds and other alternative investments.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Analogue Electronics | MELM008 | No | Analogue ElectronicsCredits: 15.0 This module aims to provide a rapid introduction to analogue electronics, to bring students from different backgrounds to an equivalent level, followed by a more detailed look at specific aspects of electronics of importance to medical applications
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination |
| Analogue Electronic Systems | ECS409U | No | Analogue Electronic SystemsCredits: 15.0 This is a Level 4 module introducing you to electronic devices, components, circuits and simple systems. There is particular emphasis on the basic theorems and techniques of electric circuit theory in relation to simple a.c. and d.c. circuits in order to provide a sound theoretical background to both analogue and digital modules in subsequent semesters.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Analysing Geographical and Environmental Data | GEG4001 | No | Analysing Geographical and Environmental DataCredits: 15.0 This module introduces students to the analysis of geographical and environmental data. It provides hands on training in quantitative research methods, including basic descriptive and inferential statistics. Weekly lectures provide understanding of the theory behind different methods of analysis and offer geographical and environmental examples of their application. These are paralleled by weekly practical sessions where students work with their own data to undertake analysis and deploy different approaches and techniques. As part of this practical training, students learn how to use Microsoft Excel and SPSS, software widely used in both universities and the work place, to manipulate and analyse data.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Practical
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| Analysing Public Policy | POL350 | Yes | Analysing Public PolicyCredits: 15.0 The aim of this module is to examine the theory and practice of policy-making in modern liberal democratic political systems. The module explores the way in which public issues and problems are triggered, defined and constructed, how policy agendas are set, how decision making takes place, and how policies are implemented. The module is comparative in scope and focuses primarily on case studies from the UK and USA.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Ancient Myth - Modern Theory | ESH348 | Yes | Ancient Myth - Modern TheoryCredits: 15.0 "We are all Greeks." (Shelley, Hellas) The myths of ancient Greece have long fascinated and perplexed scholars and intellectuals. In this module we shall examine some of those myths, and their influence on the Western intellectual tradition. The module aims to familiarise students with a number of theories to which they have given rise. Students will be encouraged to examine and critique these interpretations. "We are much less Greek than we believe." (Foucault, Discipline and Punish).
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Anglo-German Travel Writing | SMLM034 | No | Anglo-German Travel WritingCredits: 30.0 The module is to explore the mutual perception of identity and culture of Germany and Britain as reflected by the various modes of travel writing (essay, letter, diary, literary journal etc.) since the Enlightenment. It offers a close study of this important means of literary communication and exploration of `otherness¿. It also addresses the aesthetic and socio-cultural function of Anglo-German travel writing and examines its historical development.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Animal Cognition | SBC344 | Yes | Animal CognitionCredits: 15.0 This module builds on themes developed in Cognition, Evolution and Behaviour (year 1) to an advanced level covering cognitive abilities in non-human animals in an evolutionary and ecological context. This is an area of major research strength at Queen Mary and lectures are given by experts in the field. Topics covered include introduction and history of animal cognition research; fundamental conceptual and evolutionary issues in animal cognition; discrimination and concepts; memory; social cognition; meta-cognition and theory of mind; space and time; number cognition; visual and spatial cognition; and physical cognition.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Animal Physiology | SBS501 | Yes | Animal PhysiologyCredits: 15.0 An introduction to the organisation of nervous systems and endocrine systems in vertebrates and invertebrates, this module covers the principles of action potential generation and propagation in neurons, and the principles of synaptic transmission. You will also cover the physiology of contraction in striated and smooth muscle, and the comparative physiology of circulatory systems, gas-exchange mechanisms, energy metabolism, osmoregulation and excretion. The physiology of sensory systems including comparative biology of eye design, colour vision, sound and hearing, mechanoreception, olfaction and taste, and the neural control of whole-animal behaviour will also be considered.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| An Independent Geographical Study | GEG6000 | No | An Independent Geographical StudyCredits: 30.0 All third year single honours geography students are required to submit an Independent Geographical Study, (IGS) which counts towards the final class of their degree. The IGS aims to develop skills in conducting a research-based project. It requires students to formulate a research question within an appropriate theoretical context and methodology, to subsequently carry out the research and finally to analyse and write up the results in a dissertation no more than 10,000 words long. Not available to associate students.
Assessment: .0% Coursework, 100.0% Dissertation
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| An Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods | GEG4110 | No | An Introduction to Qualitative Research MethodsCredits: 15.0 The module seeks to familiarise students with qualitative research methods. It will provide students with a basic understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of qualitative approaches and of their application within geography and the humanities and social sciences more broadly. The module will be practically based and will provide the basic skills that students require to carry out such research and to evaluate critically the work of others. The module will focus on depth interviews, textual analysis, and visual methodologies and will provide the students with opportunities to put their understanding of these methods into practice.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 90.0% Coursework
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| Antennas for Mobile Applications | ECS723D | No | Antennas for Mobile ApplicationsCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to introduce the antennas and antenna requirements applicable to mobile applications. The module covers all aspects of antennas for mobile from the background theory through their design and testing to their application in real world systems.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination |
| Antennas for Mobile Applications | ECS723P | No | Antennas for Mobile ApplicationsCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to introduce the antennas and antenna requirements applicable to mobile applications. The module covers all aspects of antennas for mobile from the background theory through their design and testing to their application in real world systems.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Antennas for Mobile Applications | ECS723U | No | Antennas for Mobile ApplicationsCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to introduce the antennas and antenna requirements applicable to mobile applications. The module covers all aspects of antennas for mobile from the background theory through their design and testing to their application in real world systems.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination |
| Antisemitism and the Holocaust | HST7405 | No | Antisemitism and the HolocaustCredits: 30.0
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Anxieties of Empire: Rumours, Rebellion and the Imperial Imagination | HST6331 | No | Anxieties of Empire: Rumours, Rebellion and the Imperial ImaginationCredits: 60.0 This course examines the flip-side to the largely celebratory history of the British Empire: From the establishment of an empire in South Asia to the hey-day of the Scramble for Africa, it examines the numerous instances when the illusion of superiority was shattered and colonial power and control imperilled. The course does not only provide an overview of challenges to the British Empire, but addresses the deeper implications of such disruptive events on British culture and identity, as well as for the lives of colonized subjects. The course thus provides a thematic introduction to a number of key events during the long 19th century, when the colonial state was put on the defence and the vulnerability that was very much part of the imperialist project was brought to light. This module will make use of a vast array of different types of sources, both primary material, literary accounts and visual representations, to examine those moments when the British Empire revealed its frailty and colonial authority was threatened. The key themes relating to the imperial experience include: science and colonial knowledge, race and sexuality, crime and violence, rumours and conspiracies, panic and paranoia, rebellion and anti-colonial terrorism.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Dissertation
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| Applied Dental Materials | MAT220 | Yes | Applied Dental MaterialsCredits: 15.0 This module will provide an understanding of the interrelationships that exist between different dental materials and that dictate their usage in clinical practice in order to develop depth and applied knowledge of the key specialist dental materials including the science that underpins their technical usage.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Applied Econometrics | ECN336 | Yes | Applied EconometricsCredits: 15.0 This module provides you with hands-on environment in which you will learn how to analyse real economic data by applying economic theories and econometric methods in combination. The module also aims to develop your abilities in data collection, information gathering from a wide range of reading and critical evaluation of what is taught in textbooks. The module is assessed by coursework only.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Applied Performance | DRA339 | No | Applied PerformanceCredits: 30.0 This course will investigate critical issues in the field of Applied Performance whilst developing practical professional skills required for working in socially engaged contexts. In collaboration with various partners - for example artists, arts organisations, local schools or services - we will examine the possibilities and challenges of applied performance practice including project planning and development, performance methodologies, ethics, documentation and evaluation. Some of this work will take place in designated class time, either at QM or in local venues. Other opportunities will be time-tabled and negotiated with the group as they arise.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Applied Risk Management | ECOM059 | No | Applied Risk ManagementCredits: 15.0 The module is aimed at MSc Banking and Finance and MSc Investment and Finance programmes as an optional module, and fills the gap in the school's current MSc curriculum by addressing one of the most important "hot topics" in the post-financial crisis financial industry - identification, measurement and management if risks faced by financial institutions.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Applied Statistics | MTH705U | Yes | Applied StatisticsCredits: 15.0 The semester will be divided into three four-week periods. In each a genuine application of statistics will be studied, led by a different lecturer with at most two lectures per period. The list of topics will vary from year to year and you should obtain the current list from the module organiser. You can find out more about this module on the Maths website
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Applied Statistics | MTHM002 | No | Applied StatisticsCredits: 15.0 The semester will be divided into three four-week periods. In each a genuine application of statistics will be studied, led by a different lecturer with at most two lectures per period. The list of topics will vary from year to year and you should obtain the current list from the module organiser. You can find out more about this module on the Maths website
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Applied Wealth Management | ECOM079 | No | Applied Wealth ManagementCredits: 15.0 This course introduces concepts in wealth management to be able to comprehend recent developments in the regulatory economics framework behind wealth management. The course will start at a level that is appropriate for students with an economics background enabling them to master the understanding of relevant regulatory framework,. It will start with the basic building blocks, i.e. regulatory environment, conduct of busines rules, cash management, financial products etc., and move on to more applied topics, i.e. retirement planning, financial assets and markets etc.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Approaches and Analysis | FLM401 | No | Approaches and AnalysisCredits: 30.0 Approaches and Analysis will examine film from the perspectives of genre, stardom and auteurism. The module begins with a study of historical and contemporary genre filmmaking, then considers stardom from theoretical, industrial and cultural perspectives. We then look at the origins of auteur theory and its operation in the European context. The final quarter of the module draws on all these approaches in close analysis of filmic texts, thereby consolidating the perspectives and contexts examined across the whole course.
Assessment: 25.0% Examination, 75.0% Coursework
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| Approaches to Applied Performance | DRA250 | Yes | Approaches to Applied PerformanceCredits: 30.0 The module will introduce students to skills and approaches used by theatre artists working in educational, community and socially engaged contexts. Students will gain a unique working knowledge of the project cycle with equal emphasis on theatre practice, project management, documentation and evaluation.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Approaches to Fairy Tales | SML203 | No | Approaches to Fairy TalesCredits: 15.0 This module offers an introduction to the study of fairy tales in a broad comparative context. We will study the various forms and media in which fairy tales have been handed down to us from oral transmission to film; the differences between national variants of tales; some of the key types of tales; and reasons for the modern world's infatuation with them. Most importantly we will discuss major critical approaches to the fairy tale including psychoanalytical and feminist interpretations of meaning and of impact on readers and audience.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Approaches to Political Economy | POLM059 | No | Approaches to Political EconomyCredits: 30.0 This module provides an introduction to the theoretical foundations of the contemporary analyses of advanced capitalism. How have thinkers within politics and economics theorised and analysed the relationship between the two disciplines? Is it even possible to analytically distinguish between the two? The aim of this module is to answer these two questions by reference to the major theories within the field of political economy. The module analyses both classical and contemporary theories of political economy, and explores their continued relevance to understanding the development of advanced capitalism. Towards the end of the module we will consider some heterodox approaches brought to the fore by the onset of the ongoing financial and economic crisis and consider their relevance.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Aquatic Biology Investigative Project | SBC613 | No | Aquatic Biology Investigative ProjectCredits: 15.0 30-unit research projects require prior SBCS approval. All students wishing to graduate with a degree from the School of Biological and Chemical sciences must undertake a project in their final year of study. In the case of biology related projects, students have three choices: a research project (worth 30 credits), which can encompass laboratory based experimental investigations, field studies, field experiments and so on; an investigative project (worth 15 credits), which can include analysis of previously acquired epidemiological data, nutritional surveys and analysis, mathematical modelling of biological processes and so on; as an alternative, students can take the Project skills in the life sciences module (worth 30 credits).
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Dissertation |
| Aquatic Biology Research Project | SBC612 | No | Aquatic Biology Research ProjectCredits: 30.0 All students wishing to graduate with a degree from the School of Biological and Chemical sciences must undertake a project in their final year of study. In the case of biology related projects, students have three choices: a research project (worth 30 credits), which can encompass laboratory based experimental investigations, field studies, field experiments and so on; an investigative project (worth 15 credits), which can include analysis of previously acquired epidemiological data, nutritional surveys and analysis, mathematical modelling of biological processes and so on; as an alternative, students can take the Project skills in the life sciences module (worth 30 credits).
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Dissertation |
| Aquatic Ecosystems: Science, Policy and Management | SBC314 | No | Aquatic Ecosystems: Science, Policy and ManagementCredits: 15.0 Prerequisite - Aquatic Ecosystems: Structure and Function (SBC212) In this module you will be exposed to a broad spectrum of human impacts on aquatic systems (eg pollution and habitat destruction), how policy is aimed at managing these impacts, and the underlying methods that are used (eg biomonitoring indices). An important feature of this module is the "face-to-face" contact between you and the main employers (regulators, industry, and research institutes) within this field, who will give a suite of lectures detailing their roles and potential careers within their respective organisations. These external contacts include CEFAS, Defra, the Environment Agency, Natural England and commercial environmental consultancies. This module is designed with the explicit aims of teaching you how to apply your scientific knowledge to the "real world" and to enhancing your employability in the marine and freshwater sector.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination |
| Aquatic Ecosystems: Structure and Function | SBC212 | No | Aquatic Ecosystems: Structure and FunctionCredits: 15.0 The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) has called for an integrative understanding of aquatic systems, including river basins, lakes, estuaries and coastal ecosystems. This new module will introduce ecological concepts from an aquatic perspective, developing ideas introduced in the more general ecology modules you will have taken previously. This module will introduce you to the dynamic biological, physical and chemical attributes of aquatic ecosystems (ie both marine and freshwater) and thus unite these often separately taught disciplines to produce a more holistic insight into the structure and functioning of such systems. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the linkages and subsidies between aquatic and terrestrial systems, particularly in response to the EU WFD.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Aquatic Ecoystems: Structure and Function | SBCM002 | No | Aquatic Ecoystems: Structure and FunctionCredits: 15.0 The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) has called for an integrative understanding of aquatic systems, including river basins, lakes, estuaries and coastal ecosystems. This new module will introduce ecological concepts from an aquatic perspective, developing ideas introduced in the more general ecology modules you will have taken previously. This module will introduce the student to the dynamic biological, physical and chemical attributes of aquatic ecosystems (i.e., both marine and freshwater) and thus unite these often separately taught disciplines to produce a more holistic insight into the structure and functioning of such systems. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the linkages and subsidies between aquatic and terrestrial systems, particularly in response to the EU WFD.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Aquatic Systems: Field Course | SBSM025 | No | Aquatic Systems: Field CourseCredits: 0.0 The field module provides students with the opportunity to put theory into practice. Students are introduced to a variety of freshwater and coastal habitats (including rivers, shallow lakes, ponds, estuaries, rocky shores and nearshore marine environments) and a range of aquatic organisms (including protests, macrophytes, macroinvertebrates, fishes, wading birds and waterfowl). 'Hands-on' experience and training is given in field survey and monitoring techniques and in basic taxonomy.
Assessment: 100.0% Final Mark |
| Aquatic Systems: Hydrological, Hydrochemical and Geomorphological Processes | GEG7301 | No | Aquatic Systems: Hydrological, Hydrochemical and Geomorphological ProcessesCredits: 15.0 The module will comprise a selection of topics such as: Catchment and hillslope hydrology. Fluvial and coastal geomorphology. Aquatic and wetland biogeochemistry (carbon and nutrient cycling). Physical and chemical processes in the estuarine zone. Sediment characterisation and dynamics with emphasis on the biogeomorphic approach to understanding fluvial landscape change. Sedimentary processes (physical, chemical and biologically influenced). Sediments as archives of past environmental change (cf. saltmarsh pollution history). A range of practical skills will be covered including: Geomorphological survey techniques that are widely used by the EA and consultancies (e.g.River Habitat Survey, River Corridor Surveys) with their scientific underpinning (to link geomorphology and ecology). Laboratory analysis techniques such as Risk assessment and COSHH, quality assurance including precision and accuracy, basic instrument theory and operation (chromatography and colorimetric techniques).
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Aquatic Systems: Science, Policy and Management | SBSM033 | No | Aquatic Systems: Science, Policy and ManagementCredits: 15.0 This module concerns applications in marine and freshwater biology, combined with hands-on experience and direct contact with employers in the aquatic sciences. It introduces a broad spectrum of human impacts on aquatic systems, including pollution (e.g. organics, inorganics, acidification, nitrogen deposition and the concept of critical loads) and habitat alteration, and how these can be mitigated (river restoration, coastal management). National and international legislation and directives are considered (e.g. EU Water Framework Directive; Habitats Directive; Urban Waste Water Treatment; Marine Protected Areas; Nitrate Vulnerable Zones). 'Case Studies' will be used to look at the link between successful science and policy: for example, the recovery of freshwaters from acidification, restoration of coastal salt marshes and the development of marine and freshwater nature reserves. Contemporary aspects of the EU Water Framework Directive will be considered, including underlying methodology behind bioassessment and biomonitoring (e.g. RIVPACS). This module is designed to bring the student 'face to face' with the regulators, policies and their science base, as these potential employers (e.g. CEFAS, Defra, EA, Natural England) will give lectures on these issues and also provide information on possible career paths.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Arabic for Historians 1 | HST5603 | No | Arabic for Historians 1Credits: 15.0 The module is designed for beginners in Arabic, who would be expected to already know the Arabic alphabet (complete beginners who wish to take the module would be provided with preparatory materials over the summer). Teaching will be conducted in small groups of up to 10 students. The topics to be covered will include elementary grammar and syntax (gender, definite article, pronouns, tenses, negation, adverbs, noun-adjective phrases and object pronouns). The focus will be on acquisition of reading skills, using simple texts from modern written Arabic. In addition, the module will also introduce students to some of the differences between spoken and written Arabic. By the end of the module, students should be able to read simple texts taken from media outlets. Students who wish to take the module will be required to demonstrate that the module furthers their academic development, subject to approval by the School of History.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Arabic for Historians 2 | HST5604 | No | Arabic for Historians 2Credits: 15.0 The module is designed for students who have acquired an elementary level in Arabic, through Arabic to Historians 1 or its equivalent. Students should have studied a minimum of 120 hours of Modern Standard Arabic. The topics to be covered will include intermediate grammar and syntax (superlatives, subject-verb agreement, verb forms, relative clauses, infinitives), and modern and classical vocabulary. The focus will be on acquisition of reading skills, using short texts from classical and modern written Arabic. In addition, the module will also introduce students to some of the differences between spoken and written Arabic. By the end of the module, students should be able to read texts on familiar topics and understand the main ideas without using the dictionary. Students who wish to take the module will be required to demonstrate that the module furthers their academic development, subject to approval by the School of History.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Architecture in London I 1600 - 1837 | HST5200 | Yes | Architecture in London I 1600 - 1837Credits: 15.0 Taught by lectures and building visits, this course is intended to introduce the study of architecture in both its historical context and its stylistic development. The course will cover buildings in the London area chronologically, from the beginnings of the Stuart dynasty to the accession of Queen Victoria, dealing mainly with the rise and development of the classical style in both domestic and public architecture. The classical style will be studied in greater depth than certain others, partly because of the lavish availability of monuments, but also so that students may better develop their knowledge of the variety of forms in which that particular style can appear, and be able to assess the significance of such varieties within that style.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Architecture in London II 1837 - to the Present | HST5302 | Yes | Architecture in London II 1837 - to the PresentCredits: 15.0 Taught by lectures and building visits, this course is intended to introduce the study of architecture in both its historical context and its stylistic development. The course will cover buildings in the London area roughly chronologically along thematic lines. Taking the ascension of Queen Victoria to the throne as a starting point, it will explore the effects of Imperialism, the Industrial Revolution, the Second World War, the Welfare State and the more recent rise of the financial elite on the built fabric of London. It is intended that students should gain a good understanding of English architecture in the period considered.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Architexts | ESH243 | Yes | ArchitextsCredits: 30.0 This module allows students to explore systematically both the work of three influential thinkers - Marx, Nietzsche and Freud - and also the responses to and effects of their work in the thought of twentieth century intellectuals and theorists. Students will read a number of seminal theoretical texts, tracing critical genealogies of modern thought.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Architexts | ESH243B | Yes | ArchitextsCredits: 15.0 This module will introduce Associate students to the intellectual and political legacies of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by way of critical post-Marxist, Niezschean, and Freudian thnkers. Student will read from a viariety of seminal theoretical texts, which trace a number of genealogies in modern thought.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Architexts I | ESH243A | Yes | Architexts ICredits: 15.0 This module allows students to explore systematically both the work of three influential thinkers - Marx, Nietzsche and Freud - and also the responses to and effects of their work in the thought of twentieth century intellectuals and theorists. Students will read a number of seminal theoretical texts, tracing critical genealogies of modern thought.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Argument and Address | ESH204 | Yes | Argument and AddressCredits: 15.0 This module is intended as an introduction to rhetorical theory and practice. The module will provide a foundation in the principles of argument, with particular reference to classical treatises on rhetoric, but the main emphasis will be on the practical analysis of argument as a key element in a variety of texts and forms of utterance, including letters (both public and familiar), essays, sermons, pamphlets, and speeches, as well as some more obviously literary examples.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Art, Performance and the City | GEG7102 | No | Art, Performance and the CityCredits: 30.0 This module centres on projects by artists and cultural practitioners in London and particularly its East End. It involves critical reading, background research, and engaging with practices and sites through documentation, excursions and discussions with artists. The module begins with sessions on cultural practices of urban exploring and walking. Sessions then introduce and discuss particular cases that form the basis for research and seminar discussion. These may include historical walking tours in East London; artistic walking projects by Francis Alys, Tim Brennan, Janet Cardiff and Iain Sinclair; cinematic representations by Patrick Keiller; controversies about place and politics involved in Rachel Whiteread's House, completed in 1993 at a site on Grove Road next to Queen Mary; and contemporary artistic engagements with the Olympics site. Through these materials, the module explores geographical and political issues concerned the art and the city, and aspects of the changing nature and practice of urban cultures in London and its East End.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London | ESH249 | Yes | Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in LondonCredits: 15.0 This module is based around the rich visual resources of London. Through lectures and visits to monuments and national museums such as Westminster Abbey, the National Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The British Museum and the Tate Galleries, as well as to local collections such as the Whitechapel Gallery and contemporary art galleries in the East End, we will explore the histories of art from the medieval period to the present day by focusing on a selected group of objects, images or buildings. This will allow you to develop skills of visual analysis and provide an understanding of the historical context in which the object or building in question was originally made. At the same time we will examine issues of how these objects are presented today, considering the questions of museology, curatorial practice, and the contemporary art market. Topics covered may vary according to exhibitions and temporary displays that are open to the public during the Semester.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Artificial Intelligence | ECS629U | No | Artificial IntelligenceCredits: 15.0 The module introduces the student to techniques used in Artificial Intelligence including problem formulation, search, logic, probability and decision theory. The module aims to provide the participants with a basic knowledge of artificial intelligence; an understanding of how to design an intelligent agent; and knowledge of basic AI tools.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Art in France: Manet to Early Picasso | FRE480 | Yes | Art in France: Manet to Early PicassoCredits: 15.0 The module proposes a history of early modernist painting in France from Manet to the beginnings of Cubism. It will focus mainly on the work of Manet (from Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe 1863), Monet, Morison, Gauguin, Cézanne, and Picasso's early paintings (up to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1906-7). Paintings will be discussed both as an aesthetic and a social practice: the pictorial principles of modernism will be related to the socio-historical issues of modernity and modernisation. Topics to be studied include: the spectacle of modernity, gender and representation, the dialogue between art and literature, the influence of non-European art forms, art and politics. You will study works from the collections at the National Gallery, the Courtauld Institute and Tate Modern.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Arts Application Programming | ECS405U | Yes | Arts Application ProgrammingCredits: 15.0 This module will introduce programming to students through designing and building arts applications. Students will learn to build graphics-based applications using Processing and audio applications using Java. By focussing on the range of applications that can be built, students will learn programming skills. The focus on this module is as much on the creativity of ideas as on how to write code to realise these ideas.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Aspects of Meaning | LIN503 | Yes | Aspects of MeaningCredits: 15.0 When you say a sentence, that sentence somehow evokes a new thought in the mind of the person you are talking to. This is because words of human languages have meanings, and the ways that those words combine also has an effect on meaning. This module looks at all the different aspects of meaning that contribute to the process of understanding, and explores a number of different ways that linguists have tried to theorize about meaning. This module is a pre-requisite for LIN301 Formal Semantics and for LIN601 Philosophy of Language.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Asset Management | ECOM057 | No | Asset ManagementCredits: 15.0 The purpose of this module is to provide students with practical application of modern portfolio theory and asset pricing, including active portfolio management, portfolio performance evaluation, portfolio insurance, and international portfolio diversification. On the successful completion of the module students will know how to practically implement modern portfolio management strategies and will be familiar with the practical aspects of asset valuation. Prerequisites: ECOM050 or ECOM043
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Astrophysical Plasmas | ASTM116 | Yes | Astrophysical PlasmasCredits: 15.0 A plasma is an ionized gas where the magnetic and electric field play a key role in binding the material together. Plasmas are present in almost every astrophysical environment, from the surface of pulsars to the Earth's ionosphere. This module explores the unique properties of plasmas, such as particle gyration and magnetic reconnection. The emphasis is on the plasmas found in the Solar System, from the solar corona and solar wind to the outer reaches of the heliosphere and the interstellar medium. Fundamental astrophysical processes are explored, such as the formation of supersonic winds, magnetic energy release, shock waves and particle acceleration. The module highlights the links between the plasmas we can observe with spacecraft and the plasmas in more distant and extreme astrophysical objects.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Astrophysical Plasmas | PHY7014U | Yes | Astrophysical PlasmasCredits: 15.0 A plasma is an ionized gas where the magnetic and electric field play a key role in binding the material together. Plasmas are present in almost every astrophysical environment, from the surface of pulsars to the Earth's ionosphere. This module explores the unique properties of plasmas, such as particle gyration and magnetic reconnection. The emphasis is on the plasmas found in the Solar System, from the solar corona and solar wind to the outer reaches of the heliosphere and the interstellar medium. Fundamental astrophysical processes are explored, such as the formation of supersonic winds, magnetic energy release, shock waves and particle acceleration. The module highlights the links between the plasmas we can observe with spacecraft and the plasmas in more distant and extreme astrophysical objects.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Austrian Literature | GER612 | Yes | Austrian LiteratureCredits: 15.0 In this module, we will consider major figures, themes, and genres of Austrian literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. An important element will be the incorporation of audio-visual materials.
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| Auteur Direction | SMLM041 | No | Auteur DirectionCredits: 30.0 This module offers students the opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge of film studies, in particular auteur theory, and consider this understanding through critical practice; where practical work is used to demonstrate, test and develop theoretical understanding in film. Students enrolled on the module will initially prepare an academic presentation setting out the features which characterize the director as an auteur, especially in relation to directing technique, and this will form the basis for a short production by the student which demonstrates or tests aspects of these features of authorship. Each student will shoot and edit their production with the co-operative support of their colleagues. The completed production and an essay will be submitted for assessment. The essay will be based on the research prepared for the presentation and discuss the completed production in an appropriate theoretical context. Students are not expected to have practical skills in production before starting this co
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Practical
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| Autobiographical Literature and Religious Dissent | ESH7102 | No | Autobiographical Literature and Religious DissentCredits: 30.0 We will first investigate the Dissenting origins of autobiography prior to the coinage of that term in the 1790s, then discuss the relation - whether of continuity or subversion - that Romantic-period life narratives bear to the tradition of puritan religious confession. In examining the impact of theological ideas on narrative self-fashioning, gender-issues, and the controversy regarding 'enthusiasm' in the long eighteenth century, the module will also introduce the reesearch of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Background to British Politics | POL107 | No | Background to British PoliticsCredits: 30.0 British Politics is not just about the institutions like cabinet, parliament, parties and pressure groups. Nor is it simply about voting and elections. It's also an ongoing attempt by more or less self-interested actors to cope with the issues, conflicts, opportunities and threats thrown up by time and chance, as well as by underlying economic and social developments. Using a thematic rather than a chronological approach, this module delves back decades and brings things bang-up-to-date in order to provide you with an academic understanding of why, politically, we are as we are today.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Background to British Politics | POL107A | No | Background to British PoliticsCredits: 15.0 British Politics is not just about the institutions like cabinet, parliament, parties and pressure groups. Nor is it simply about voting and elections. It's also an ongoing attempt by more or less self-interested actors to cope with the issues, conflicts, opportunities and threats thrown up by time and chance, as well as by underlying economic and social developments. Using a thematic rather than a chronological approach, this module delves back decades and brings things bang-up-to-date in order to provide you with an academic understanding of why, politically, we are as we are today.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Background to British Politics | POL107B | No | Background to British PoliticsCredits: 15.0 British Politics is not just about the institutions like cabinet, parliament, parties and pressure groups. Nor is it simply about voting and elections. It's also an ongoing attempt by more or less self-interested actors to cope with the issues, conflicts, opportunities and threats thrown up by time and chance, as well as by underlying economic and social developments. Using a thematic rather than a chronological approach, this module delves back decades and brings things bang-up-to-date in order to provide you with an academic understanding of why, politically, we are as we are today.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Banking Regulation | ECOM069 | No | Banking RegulationCredits: 15.0 This module will address the legal, theoretical and practical aspects of bank regulation and supervision, with a particular focus on current events. The student will be introduced to the rationale of why regulation and supervision are necessary and the analysis of the domestic and international directives that govern banking institutions in the UK and abroad.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Basic Biochemistry | SBS017 | Yes | Basic BiochemistryCredits: 15.0 This module will cover amino acids, the fundamentals of protein structure, isolation and purification of proteins, modification of proteins, and methods of determining protein conformation. You will also cover the basics of enzyme catalysis and kinetics with specific case studies. Other topics include ion transport, and other transport proteins, and the utilisation of proteins and soluble cofactors to generate and store metabolic energy. You will cover the basics of metabolism in glycolysis and the citric acid cycle, as well as ATP synthesis and membrane bound electron transfer in mitochondria. Chloroplasts in plants and algae, and molecular motors, such as muscles, that consume metabolic energy are also covered. A detailed module synopsis will be handed out in the first lecture, and summary outlines of subsequent lectures will be available on the school teaching website for guidance.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Basic Immunology | SBS803 | No | Basic ImmunologyCredits: 15.0 Prerequisites: Basic Biochemistry (SBS017), Heredity and Gene Action (SBS008), The Diversity of Life (SBS005). This module will cover the principles of innate and acquired immunity, as well as the structure and function of cells and organs of the immune system. Antigens, immunoglobins, complement, and immunoassays and the molecular basis of Bcell and Tcell responses are also covered. Other topics include major histocompatibility complex, antigen presentation, cellcell interactions and cytokines. Transplantation, tolerance, autoimmunity, infectious diseases, inflammation and hypersensitivity reactions are also considered.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Bayesian Statistics | MTH709U | Yes | Bayesian StatisticsCredits: 15.0 The module aims to introduce you to the Bayesian paradigm. The module will show you some of the problems with frequentist statistical methods, show you that the Bayesian paradigm provides a unified approach to problems of statistical inference and prediction, enable you to make Bayesian inferences in a variety of problems, and illustrate the use of Bayesian methods in real-life examples.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Bayesian Statistics | MTHM042 | No | Bayesian StatisticsCredits: 15.0 The module aims to introduce you to the Bayesian paradigm. The module will show you some of the problems with frequentist statistical methods, show you that the Bayesian paradigm provides a unified approach to problems of statistical inference and prediction, enable you to make Bayesian inferences in a variety of problems, and illustrate the use of Bayesian methods in real-life examples.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Bayesian Statistics | MTH776P | No | Bayesian StatisticsCredits: 15.0 The module aims to introduce you to the Bayesian paradigm. The module will show you some of the problems with frequentist statistical methods, show you that the Bayesian paradigm provides a unified approach to problems of statistical inference and prediction, enable you to make Bayesian inferences in a variety of problems, and illustrate the use of Bayesian methods in real-life examples.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Beginners' French | LLU011 | No | Beginners' FrenchCredits: 30.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: None Aimed at students with no knowledge of French, these are practical, general modules which will develop the various communication skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing. They will build your competence and confidence in using French and will help you to enjoy your language learning through the use of authentic materials and multimedia packages (taking individual interests and needs into consideration), and by presenting a broad picture of the culture and society of the countries where the language is spoken. Level(s): 3
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Beginners' French I | LLU111 | No | Beginners' French ICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: None Aimed at students with no knowledge of French, these are practical, general modules which will develop the various communication skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing. They will build your competence and confidence in using French and will help you to enjoy your language learning through the use of authentic materials and multimedia packages (taking individual interests and needs into consideration), and by presenting a broad picture of the culture and society of the countries where the language is spoken. Level(s): 3
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Beginners' French I | LLU111 | No | Beginners' French ICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: None Aimed at students with no knowledge of French, these are practical, general modules which will develop the various communication skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing. They will build your competence and confidence in using French and will help you to enjoy your language learning through the use of authentic materials and multimedia packages (taking individual interests and needs into consideration), and by presenting a broad picture of the culture and society of the countries where the language is spoken. Level(s): 3
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Beginners' French II | LLU211 | No | Beginners' French IICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: LLU111 Aimed at students with very basic knowledge of French, these are practical, general modules which will develop the various communication skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing. They will build your competence and confidence in using French and will help you to enjoy your language learning through the use of authentic materials and multimedia packages (taking individual interests and needs into consideration), and by presenting a broad picture of the culture and society of the countries where the language is spoken. Level(s): 3
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination |
| Beginners' German | LLU001 | No | Beginners' GermanCredits: 30.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: None Aimed at students with no knowledge of German, these are practical, general modules which will develop the various communication skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing. They will build your competence and confidence in using German and will help you to enjoy your language learning through the use of authentic materials and multimedia packages (taking individual interests and needs into consideration), and by presenting a broad picture of the culture and society of the countries where the language is spoken. Level(s): 3
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Beginners' Japanese | LLU041 | No | Beginners' JapaneseCredits: 30.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: None Aimed at students with no knowledge of Japanese, these are practical, general modules which will develop the various communication skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing. They will build your competence and confidence in using Japanese and will help you to enjoy your language learning through the use of authentic materials, and by presenting a broad picture of the culture and society of Japan. Level(s): 3
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Beginners' Japanese I | LLU141 | No | Beginners' Japanese ICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: None Aimed at students with no knowledge of Japanese, these are practical, general modules which will develop the various communication skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing. They will build your competence and confidence in using Japanese and will help you to enjoy your language learning through the use of authentic materials, and by presenting a broad picture of the culture and society of Japan. Level(s): 3
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Beginners' Japanese I | LLU141 | No | Beginners' Japanese ICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: None Aimed at students with no knowledge of Japanese, these are practical, general modules which will develop the various communication skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing. They will build your competence and confidence in using Japanese and will help you to enjoy your language learning through the use of authentic materials, and by presenting a broad picture of the culture and society of Japan. Level(s): 3
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Beginners' Japanese II | LLU241 | No | Beginners' Japanese IICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: LLU141 or similar Aimed at students with no knowledge of Japanese, these are practical, general modules which will develop the various communication skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing. They will build your competence and confidence in using Japanese and will help you to enjoy your language learning through the use of authentic materials, and by presenting a broad picture of the culture and society of Japan. Level(s): 3
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Beginners' Spanish | LLU021 | No | Beginners' SpanishCredits: 30.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: None Aimed at students with no knowledge of Spanish, these are practical, general modules which will develop the various communication skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing. They will build your competence and confidence in using Spanish and will help you to enjoy your language learning through the use of authentic materials and multimedia packages (taking individual interests and needs into consideration), and by presenting a broad picture of the culture and society of the countries where the language is spoken. Level(s): 3
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Beginners' Spanish I | LLU121 | No | Beginners' Spanish ICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: None Aimed at students with no knowledge of Spanish, these are practical, general modules which will develop the various communication skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing. They will build your competence and confidence in using Spanish and will help you to enjoy your language learning through the use of authentic materials and multimedia packages (taking individual interests and needs into consideration), and by presenting a broad picture of the culture and society of the countries where the language is spoken. Level(s): 3
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Beginners' Spanish I | LLU121 | No | Beginners' Spanish ICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: None Aimed at students with no knowledge of Spanish, these are practical, general modules which will develop the various communication skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing. They will build your competence and confidence in using Spanish and will help you to enjoy your language learning through the use of authentic materials and multimedia packages (taking individual interests and needs into consideration), and by presenting a broad picture of the culture and society of the countries where the language is spoken. Level(s): 3
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Beginners' Spanish II | LLU221 | No | Beginners' Spanish IICredits: 15.0 Overlap: None. Prerequisite: LLU121 Aimed at students with very basic knowledge of Spanish, these are practical, general modules which will develop the various communication skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing. They will build your competence and confidence in using Spanish and will help you to enjoy your language learning through the use of authentic materials and multimedia packages (taking individual interests and needs into consideration), and by presenting a broad picture of the culture and society of the countries where the language is spoken. Level(s): 3
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination |
| Behavioural Ecology | SBS216 | Yes | Behavioural EcologyCredits: 15.0 Prerequisites: The Diversity of Life (SBS005), Evolution (SBS110), Statistical Methods in Biology (SBS020) This module will cover concepts in animal behaviour which underpin ideas about more complex behaviours, including communication, ritualisation, homeostasis, instinct and learning. Decision-making and the evolution of adaptive strategies of individuals, optimal strategy sets and habitat selection are also included. Comparative socio-ecology including sexual and kin selection, reproductive strategies and social structure is considered. You will also look at resource patchiness, predictability and productivity as determinants of individual and social behaviour.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Behavioural Finance | ECOM038 | No | Behavioural FinanceCredits: 15.0 The purpose of this module is to develop students understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of behavioural finance, the empirical research surveyed in this area and the implementation of investment strategies based on the behavioural finance approach. To compare and contrast the assumptions behind modern financial economics with behavioural finance. Prerequisites: ECOM 050 Investment Management
Assessment: 25.0% Practical, 75.0% Examination
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| Behavioural Finance | ECCL010 | No | Behavioural FinanceCredits: 15.0 The purpose of this module is to develop students understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of behavioural finance, the empirical research surveyed in this area and the implementation of investment strategies based on the behavioural finance approach. To compare and contrast the assumptions behind modern financial economics with behavioural finance. Prerequisites: ECOM 050 Investment Management
Assessment: 25.0% Practical, 75.0% Examination |
| Behavioural Finance and Decision Making | BUSM085 | No | Behavioural Finance and Decision MakingCredits: 15.0 This module identifies and challenges modern theory of finance and covers the major issues in behavioural finance and decision making. These include biases, which frequently occur in financial decision-making such as optimism, mental framing, over-reaction, trend-chasing, conservatism and anchoring of expectations. Emphasis is on related work in psychology in terms of several theories of human behaviour that have policy implications in Finance. Accordingly the module is arranged around:Traditional Finance and Historical development of behavioural finance, Biases in Financial decision making, their manifestation and reduction, Prospect theory and loss aversion, Use of mental frames in financial decision making, Heuristics and biases in financial forecasting, Group decision making processes, Financial Crisis and human behaviour, Empirical regularities such as overreaction and momentum, Introduction to experimental and empirical methodologies in measuring biases in fiancial domains.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Behind Closed Doors: Houses, Interiors and Domestic Life, c. 1660-c1830 | HST6209 | No | Behind Closed Doors: Houses, Interiors and Domestic Life, c. 1660-c1830Credits: 60.0 This module unlocks the front door of the Englishman's castle, to peer into the privacies of life at home from c. 1660-1830. It will vividly recreate the texture of life at home, from bed bugs and insects breeding behind the wallpapers, to new goods, fashions and rituals, from the performances of the drawing room to the secrets of the dressing room. The course sits on the research frontier, and crosses disciplinary boundaries, drawing on anthropology, historical geography, the history of architecture and decorative arts, material culture and museum studies. Domestic life will come out of the closet.
Assessment: 5.0% Practical, 20.0% Coursework, 25.0% Examination, 50.0% Dissertation
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| Being an author, 1450-1550 | ESH7702 | No | Being an author, 1450-1550Credits: 30.0 What did it mean to be an author between 1450 and 1550, years which saw the introduction of printing in Europe, and are now seen as the watershed between the medieval and the early modern periods? This module will explore what constituted authorship, how authors viewed their roles, and how their work reached an audience. Working with a range of writings (to include poems, plays, romances, devotional writings, sermons, and histories) it will engage directly with surviving early books and manuscripts in London libraries.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Between the Citizen and the State: Voluntary Action in Modern Britain | HST6334 | Yes | Between the Citizen and the State: Voluntary Action in Modern BritainCredits: 15.0 From Samuel Smiles' Self Help to David Cameron's Big Society, Britain boasts a rich tradition of voluntary action in its modern history. Whether dispensing charity, socializing the nation's youth, or saving the planet, voluntary organizations have played a major role in British public life and brought millions of individuals into their orbit as beneficiaries, members or activists. This module aims to explore the scale, scope and significance of voluntary action in Britain, from the era of Victorian philanthropy to the modern-day NGO.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Coursework
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| Beyond Acting | DRA302 | Yes | Beyond ActingCredits: 30.0 This module is about things you can do on stage without acting. Since the 1960s, among many serious attempts to reinvigorate the work of the performer, some artists have tried to avoid acting altogether. This module will explore how we might make theatre out of such behaviour: task-based activities, durational work, working from audio and video feeds, building systems and making mistakes, using transcripts, following stage directions to the letter, doing nothing, flirting and listening to music.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Bilingualism | LIN304 | Yes | BilingualismCredits: 15.0 This module will provide an introduction to the field of bilingualism from a linguistic, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspective. Topics to be covered include the definition of bilingualism and types of language contact, bilingual interaction and code-switching, bilingual education and policy, cognitive aspects of bilingual ability, and bilingual language development.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Coursework
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| Bilingualism | LIN7018 | No | BilingualismCredits: 15.0 This module will explore the consequences of simultaneous use of two (or more) languages in an individual or a community. The module covers aspects of societal bilingualism, including language planning, attitudes, language change through contact, codeswitching, and bilingual identity. It also covers individual bilinguality, including experimental research in neurocognition, cognitive advantages or disadvantages of bilingualism, formal models of bilingual mental representations, debates over a critical age for language learning, effects of early and late bilingualism, and language attrition. Throughout the course, the interaction of cognitive and social forces will be emphasised, as will links to linguistic and sociolinguistic theory.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Coursework
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| Biogeochemistry: Carbon, Nutrients and Pollutants in Aquatic Systems | GEG7303 | No | Biogeochemistry: Carbon, Nutrients and Pollutants in Aquatic SystemsCredits: 15.0 This module explores biogeochemical processes at the catchment level, with reference to the broader context of global climate and land use change. Major themes include interactions among the biogeochemical cycles; the linkages of biogeochemistry with sediment dynamics and hydrological processes; and climate change and land use effects on biogeochemical processes in floodplains, rivers and estuaries. The module introduces methods of field sample collection and laboratory analysis; and approaches to controlling pollutants, nutrient levels and greenhouse gas emissions in aquatic systems.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Biological and Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry | CHE464 | No | Biological and Medicinal Inorganic ChemistryCredits: 15.0 Prerequisites: Contemporary Inorganic Chemistry (CHE512). This module seeks to provide a coherent introduction into the roles that metals play in biological and medicinal systems. The first six lectures of the module focus on electron transfer and will include an introduction to basic terms (redox potential and its tuning in biological systems, excited-state electron transfer) and elements of the Marcus theory, followed by a discussion of electron transfer processes in biology, including light-energy harvesting and conversion in photosynthetic reaction centre, long-range electron transfer in metalloproteins, DNA and molecular wires. Application in molecular devices will be discussed as well. Molecular redox chemistry and electrochemistry including redox catalysis is surveyed.The next set of lectures detail the role that metal plays in a range of biological systems and in medical applications. Initially the focus will be on electron transport in naturally occurring systems such as in the oxygen evolving centre within PS2 of the photosynthetic apparatus, nitrogenase enzymes and the role of iron-porphyrin complexes in biological electron transfer. There will then follow a discussion of the roles metals play as Lewis acids in a range of biological systems covering metalloenzymes such as carbonic anhydrase, liver alcohol dehrdrogenase and nickel urease. The final lectures in this part of the module will focus on the roles metal play in medicine eg anti-ageing drugs, anti-cancer drugs and in imaging agents.The final four lectures of the module will begin with an introduction to the important area of biomaterials, which will then be followed by an overview of selected topics from the areas of metallic biomaterials, ceramic biomaterials and bioglasses. The final lecture will consider implant/host interactions and the factors affecting long-term performance of a biomaterial.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Biological and Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry | CHEM464 | No | Biological and Medicinal Inorganic ChemistryCredits: 15.0 This module seeks to provide a coherent introduction into the roles that metals play in biological and medicinal systems. The first six lectures of the module focus on electron transfer and will include an introduction to basic terms (redox potential and its tuning in biological systems, excited-state electron transfer) and elements of the Marcus theory, followed by a discussion of electron transfer processes in biology, including light-energy harvesting and conversion in photosynthetic reaction centre, long-range electron transfer in metalloproteins, DNA and molecular wires. Application in molecular devices will be discussed as well. Molecular redox chemistry and electrochemistry including redox catalysis is surveyed.The next set of lectures detail the role that metal plays in a range of biological systems and in medical applications. Initially the focus will be on electron transport in naturally occurring systems such as in the oxygen evolving centre within PS2 of the photosynthetic apparatus, nitrogenase enzymes and the role of iron-porphyrin complexes in biological electron transfer. There will then follow a discussion of the roles metals play as Lewis acids in a range of biological systems covering metalloenzymes such as carbonic anhydrase, liver alcohol dehrdrogenase and nickel urease. The final lectures in this part of the module will focus on the roles metal play in medicine eg anti-ageing drugs, anti-cancer drugs and in imaging agents.The final four lectures of the module will begin with an introduction to the important area of biomaterials, which will then be followed by an overview of selected topics from the areas of metallic biomaterials, ceramic biomaterials and bioglasses. The final lecture will consider implant/host interactions and the factors affecting long-term performance of a biomaterial.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Biological Sciences Psychology Research Project | SBC608 | No | Biological Sciences Psychology Research ProjectCredits: 30.0 30-unit research projects require prior SBCS approval. All students wishing to graduate with a degree from the School of Biological and Chemical sciences must undertake a project in their final year of study. In the case of biology related projects, students have three choices: a research project (worth 30 credits), which can encompass laboratory based experimental investigations, field studies, field experiments and so on; an investigative project (worth 15 credits), which can include analysis of previously acquired epidemiological data, nutritional surveys and analysis, mathematical modelling of biological processes and so on; as an alternative, students can take the Project skills in the life sciences module (worth 30 credits).
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Biological Sciences Research Project | SBC360 | No | Biological Sciences Research ProjectCredits: 30.0 An experimental investigation involving laboratory work and/or computational work in some aspect of Biological Sciences. The background, results and conclusions of the study to be reported in the form of an oral presentation (part-way through Sem B) and a dissertation (submitted toward the end of Sem B). The dissertation will not normally exceed 10,000 words, which includes a review of relevant literature, data presentation, analysis and discussion.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Dissertation
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| Biology Project | SBS004 | No | Biology ProjectCredits: 15.0 30-unit projects require prior approval from SBCS. All students wishing to graduate with a degree from the School of Biological and Chemical sciences must undertake a project in their final year of study. In the case of biology related projects, students have three choices: a research project (worth 30 credits), which can encompass laboratory based experimental investigations, field studies, field experiments and so on; an investigative project (worth 15 credits), which can include analysis of previously acquired epidemiological data, nutritional surveys and analysis, mathematical modelling of biological processes and so on; as an alternative, students can take the Project skills in the life sciences module (worth 30 credits).
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Biomechanics | DENM030 | No | BiomechanicsCredits: 15.0 The module covers particular aspects of biomechanics related to human motion and related functions of the musculo-skeletal structure. These topics are considered both theoretically and experimentally utilising variety of techniques such as kinetic and kinematic analysis and EMG.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Biomedical Engineering in Urology | DEN430 | Yes | Biomedical Engineering in UrologyCredits: 15.0 The module explores a broad range of medical engineering associated with the areas of urology and nephrology. Topics will include surgical instrumentation, imaging and diagnostics, tissue engineering, implantable devices, functional electrical stimulators, dialysis and lithotripsy. Initially the module covers the basic anatomy, physiology of the urinary tract in health and disease, with particular reference to clinical incontinence. The course will utilize tissue and fluid mechanics to examine the biomechanics of the bladder and urodynamic clinical assessment. Specialist information will be provided by outside lecturers including clinicians and NHS clinical engineerings.
Assessment: 45.0% Coursework, 55.0% Examination
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| Biomedical Engineering in Urology | DENM016 | No | Biomedical Engineering in UrologyCredits: 15.0 The module explores a broad range of medical engineering associated with the areas of urology and nephrology. Topics will include surgical instrumentation, imaging and diagnostics, tissue engineering, implantable devices, functional electrical stimulators, dialysis and lithotripsy. Initially the module covers the basic anatomy, physiology of the urinary tract in health and disease, with particular reference to clinical incontinence. The course will utilize tissue and fluid mechanics to examine the biomechanics of the bladder and urodynamic clinical assessment. Specialist information will be provided by outside lecturers including clinicians and NHS clinical engineerings.
Assessment: 45.0% Coursework, 55.0% Examination |
| Biomedical Pharmacology | SBC402 | No | Biomedical PharmacologyCredits: 15.0 This module is only available to students who enter under the B990 programme. Prerequisites: Biomedical Physiology I (SBS022). This module is only open to students on the Biomedical Sciences degree programme and to suitably qualified associate students. The module aims to show how, from an understanding of biochemical and physiological processes, putative drug targets can be identified and therapeutic agents developed. You will also cover the reasons for prototypical drugs being refined to provide more suitable drugs with regard to route of administration; bioavailability; duration of action; selectivity; and reduction of adverse effects. All the above will be exemplified by consideration of the pharmacological properties of drugs used for the treatment of well known medical diseases/conditions.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Biomedical Physiology I - Exchange, Movement and Integration | SBS022 | No | Biomedical Physiology I - Exchange, Movement and IntegrationCredits: 15.0 This module provides an introduction to major non-cardiovascular/respiratory physiological systems involved in human homeostasis for students reading for the degree in Biomedical Science. Topics covered will include: microanatomy and histology of the major human tissues; feedback control, temperature regulation, cell exchange processes; function and integration of nervous, muscle, gastrointestinal, excretory, endocrine and reproductive systems. The module will describe some of the major human physiological diseases, disorders and dysfunctions of these systems, and some parasitic diseases.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Biomedical Physiology II - Cardiovascular and Respiratory | SBS202 | No | Biomedical Physiology II - Cardiovascular and RespiratoryCredits: 15.0 This module is for students who enter under the B990 programme only. Prerequisites: Human Anatomy (SBC102), The Human Cell (SBC100). This module provides an introduction to the human cardiovascular and respiratory systems. Topics covered will include: structure, function and regulation of cardiovascular activity and respiration. It will include descriptions of some of the major diseases, conditions, abnormalities anddysfunctions of the human cardiovascular and respiratory systems and problems associated with aerospace travel and diving.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Biomedical Research Project | DENM006 | No | Biomedical Research ProjectCredits: 60.0 The project consists of an individual piece of work, under the supervision of an academic member of staff. It can take either one, or a combination, of the following forms: (i) an experimental investigation; (ii) a computational exercise; (iii) the development of a piece of experimental apparatus; (iv) a design study; (v) a theoretical analysis; (vi) a review of a topic of current interest. Not open to Associate Students.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Biomedical Science Case Approach to Problem Solving | SBS320 | No | Biomedical Science Case Approach to Problem SolvingCredits: 15.0 B990 students only. The SBS320(X) modules comprise 6 Biomedical Science clinical case histories at both levels 5 and 6. The case histories will be analysed in group tutorials with subsequent self-directed learning and 6 one hour assessment sessions. The clinical case histories studied will be chosen from a bank of histories and will embrace, over the entirety of the SBS320(X) modules in years 2 and 3, the disciplines of human physiology, anatomy and development, metabolism, molecular biology and genetics and pharmacology. The tutorial will comprise a 1 hour problem analysis and tutor facilitation session. Assessment of the case history will follow a 3 week period of self directed learning founded on the learning objectives defined in the tutorials. The module is examined in SBS320 year 3 and the 2nd year coursework marks will comprise 10% of the coursework marks for SBS320 3rd year.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Biomedical Science Case Approach to Problem Solving | SBS320X | No | Biomedical Science Case Approach to Problem SolvingCredits: 0.0 B990 students only. This module is a pre-requisite for the 3rd year SBS320. The SBS320(X) modules comprise 6 Biomedical Science clinical case histories at both levels 5 and 6. The case histories will be analysed in group tutorials with subsequent self-directed learning and 6 one hour assessment sessions. The clinical case histories studied will be chosen from a bank of histories and will embrace, over the entirety of the SBS320(X) modules in years 2 and 3, the disciplines of human physiology, anatomy and development, metabolism, molecular biology and genetics and pharmacology. The tutorial will comprise a 1 hour problem analysis and tutor facilitation session. Assessment of the case history will follow a 3 week period of self directed learning founded on the learning objectives defined in the tutorials. The module is examined in SBS320 year 3 and the 2nd year coursework marks will comprise 10% of the coursework marks for SBS320 3rd year.
Assessment: 100.0% Final Mark
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| Biomedical Sciences Investigative Project | SBS044 | No | Biomedical Sciences Investigative ProjectCredits: 15.0 30-unit research projects require prior SBCS approval. All students wishing to graduate with a degree from the School of Biological and Chemical sciences must undertake a project in their final year of study. In the case of biology related projects, students have three choices: a research project (worth 30 credits), which can encompass laboratory based experimental investigations, field studies, field experiments and so on; an investigative project (worth 15 credits), which can include analysis of previously acquired epidemiological data, nutritional surveys and analysis, mathematical modelling of biological processes and so on; as an alternative, students can take the Project skills in the life sciences module (worth 30 credits).
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Dissertation
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| Biomedical Sciences Research Project | SBS084 | No | Biomedical Sciences Research ProjectCredits: 30.0 30-unit research projects require prior SBCS approval. All students wishing to graduate with a degree from the School of Biological and Chemical sciences must undertake a project in their final year of study. In the case of biology related projects, students have three choices: a research project (worth 30 credits), which can encompass laboratory based experimental investigations, field studies, field experiments and so on; an investigative project (worth 15 credits), which can include analysis of previously acquired epidemiological data, nutritional surveys and analysis, mathematical modelling of biological processes and so on; as an alternative, students can take the Project skills in the life sciences module (worth 30 credits).
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 20.0% Practical, 60.0% Dissertation |
| Biomolecules of Life | SBC323 | No | Biomolecules of LifeCredits: 15.0 The module offers a grounding in a good range of biochemical topics including the structure function relationship of protein, carbohydrates and lipids; fundamentals of enzyme catalysis and kinetics; transport of molecules across biomembranes; biochemical reactions involved in the generation and storage of metabolic energy; in glycolysis and tricarboxylic acid cycle; mitochondrial electron transfer and ATP synthesis; and molecular motors.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Black Writing in America: 1900 to the Present | ESH372 | Yes | Black Writing in America: 1900 to the PresentCredits: 15.0 The literature of black, or African, Americans is one of the most vibrant and engaging strands in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature in English. This module examines a range of such writing from the early twentieth-century to the present, taking in such writers as W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, Toni Morrison, and Walter Mosley. Though these authors share certain themes - the legacies of slavery, for instance, will be a concern throughout the module - the formal and aesthetic strategies used to deal with them differ greatly. In our reading, we will therefore range from modernist experimentation to hard-edged realism; from autobiography to science fiction; and from crime fiction to discourses of the supernatural.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Body Health and Society | GEG6118 | No | Body Health and SocietyCredits: 15.0 The module examines a variety of contemporary health and care issues and their distinct geographies. The tension between biomedical and alternative knowledges of healthy and ill bodies is an underlying theme informing the module and the body is a lens through which to explore such tension. Topical themes of the module are used to examine how health and care experience is constructed, interpreted, managed and represented within relations of power and social, cultural, and economic change. The module will draw on a number of theoretical influences to consider the gendered, classed and raced dimensions of health, illness and care and their shaping by political economy, globalisation and the politics of medical knowledge. Specific topics include the construction and impacts of the ideal body on understandings and enactment of health, the contribution of feminist and anti-racist critiques to understanding health behaviour, the politics of the body in public health, the transformation of health knowledge and care through global flows of knowledge and people, the construction of disability and the management and experiences of those defined as mentally ill and the therapeutic landscape concept in explaining health and place relationships.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination |
| Bond Market Strategies | ECOM074 | No | Bond Market StrategiesCredits: 15.0 Bond markets and the term structure of interest rates have always been two cornerstones of financial theory. Moreover, in the last decades, bond markets have become highly sophisticated in their offering of a wide range of instruments, from bonds with embedded options to asset-backed securities or structured notes. Because of the great importance of these markets and instruments, participants must become well-informed of the structure and uses of these securities and also of the increasingly complex techniques for valuing them. This module is designed to develop the MSc students understanding of bond markets and securities theory and practice. It is an advanced course that covers the different types and features of these bond instruments and the fundamental analytical tools to price them. The principle objective is to forge a solid understanding of structuring techniques, portfolio strategies and products within the bond markets.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Book History from Gutenberg to Google | HST5609 | No | Book History from Gutenberg to GoogleCredits: 15.0 This module explores whether books, and print culture, have been a dynamic and revolutionary force of change since the mid-fifteenth century. It examines the reading and communications commonly associated with the invention of printing, and will ask if the spread of the printed word had wide-ranging social and political consequences. It introduces students to historical bibliography and bibliometrics; the concept of the early modern public sphere; books as propaganda in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and the current debates over `born digital¿ resources and e-publishing.
Assessment: 15.0% Practical, 85.0% Coursework
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| Brain and Behaviour | SBC141 | Yes | Brain and BehaviourCredits: 15.0 This module is intended for students studying BSc Psychology (C800). This module builds on the theme of psychology as a biological science in parallel with the 'Exploring Psychology' module by specifying the proximate biological mechanisms involved in psychological phenomena. The module will focus on basic principles of biological psychology predominantly, and then introduce psychological processes to illustrate these.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Brand Management | BUSM026 | No | Brand ManagementCredits: 15.0 The module will focus on the strategic role that brands play in the successful marketing of products and services. It aims to introduce current academic thinking and business practice of contemporary branding to students introducing key concepts such as brand equity, brand identity and corporate branding. In addition the course aims to introduce and show the actual process of brand management and the issues and dilemmas that contemporary brand managers and stewards have to face. It aims to comprehensively cover these areas and will deal with topics such as brand identity, brand development, brand strategy, organisational support for branding, brand features and personality, brand portfolios and the internet and branding. The focus of the course will be a final presentation and report that students both in groups and as individuals will have to prepare on analysing a failing brand and proposing ideas to reposition and revitalise it. The brand itself will be taken from the contemporary business world and so will provide the students with opportunities to carry out challenging and relevant research.
Assessment: 30.0% Practical, 70.0% Coursework
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| Brazilian Cinema: the Social Tradition | POR201 | No | Brazilian Cinema: the Social TraditionCredits: 15.0 Why would a Brazilian director depict not the guerrilla Che Guevara but the young doctor developing his social awareness? Walter Salle's Motorcycle Diaries will set the tone for the discussion of Brazil's emphasis on the social agenda as its major contribution to world cinema. This module will approach the evolution of this genre, beginning with Cinema Novo, the shift towards the commercial film (Pixote, Central Station), the development of a new aesthetics (City of God) and of recent radical experimentations such as prisoners and favela (shantytown) inhabitants making their own film. Discussions will include the tensions between aesthetics and ethics, and the achievement of the commercial film and of the documentary as social action.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Brecht and the Drama | GER506 | No | Brecht and the DramaCredits: 15.0 It is generally acknowledged that Bertolt Brecht is one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century. However, his plays, his theatre work and his theories of the theatre are often misunderstood. The purpose of this module, which is also available to students who know no German, is to take some representative plays, put them into their historical and dramatic context, and examine how they work. We will also examine Brecht's pronouncements on the theatre and on individual plays.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 40.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Brecht and the Drama | GER605 | No | Brecht and the DramaCredits: 15.0 It is generally acknowledged that Bertolt Brecht is one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century. However, his plays, his theatre work and his theories of the theatre are often misunderstood. The purpose of this module, which is also available to students who know no German, is to take some representative plays, put them into their historical and dramatic context, and examine how they work. We will also examine Brecht's pronouncements on the theatre and on individual plays.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 90.0% Coursework |
| Bridging Arts and Technology | ECS406U | Yes | Bridging Arts and TechnologyCredits: 15.0 This module investigates the relevance of creativity to computers and their applications. Students will develop ideas through a range of artistic practices to see how creativity informs technological development. Student writing will be developed through exploring narratives of technology, such as science fiction, using this as a springboard to understand the protocols and algorithms that underpin the technologies used in the digital world.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Practical
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| Brief Encounters: Short Stories and Tall Tales | SML100 | Yes | Brief Encounters: Short Stories and Tall TalesCredits: 15.0 This module provides an introduction to that most adaptable of literary forms: the short story. It explores texts ranging from the comic to the disturbing, and from the early modern to the post-modern, by major European and Latin American Authors. Texts will be studied in translation.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Britain's Cultural Cringe: Inventing English Culture. 1700-1800. | ESH6004 | Yes | Britain's Cultural Cringe: Inventing English Culture. 1700-1800.Credits: 15.0 This module examines the general sense in early 18th-century Britain of the inferiority of British culture, as compared with the cultures of France and Italy, and the compensating attempt to create a national culture worthy of the increasing stature of Britain in Europe as a military and trading power. It will focus chiefly on the literature of Britain in the eighteenth century, but in connexion with other arts, including opera, painting, caricature, urban architecture and landscape gardening; but please note that no knowledge of French or Italian culture is required, or of arts other than literature.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Britain and the Middle East, 1900-1960 | HST7300 | No | Britain and the Middle East, 1900-1960Credits: 30.0 This module provides an essential grounding in modern intellectual history and political thought. It introduces students to the most important kinds of methodology practised in the field of intellectual history since the nineteenth century, and some of the most influential thinkers and themes in the history of political thought since antiquity. It is divided into two parts, corresponding to semesters one and two respectively. The first part covers a variety of key philosophical, historical, political and sociological theorists whose work has inspired a range of approaches in the history of ideas in Anglo-American and European scholarship. The second part involves in-depth exploration of the thought of a selection of major authors and thematic concerns in the history of European political thought, considering them in the light of the different methodologies surveyed in the first part.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| British Culture in the 1950's | ESH344 | Yes | British Culture in the 1950'sCredits: 15.0 This module aims to introduce you to the variety of British cultural expression in the 1950s, including novels, poetry, drama, and television and film adaptations. The literature will be analysed in the context of a number of historical and social contexts: post-war austerity, the Festival of Britain, the development of post-imperial Britain, the Suez Crisis, Americanisation and the Cold War, the development of the Welfare State, the role of radio (the Third Programme) and television, the formation of the Arts Council. We will interrogate the critical assumption that the 1950s constituted a period of loss of confidence and ambition among British writers, and examine the range, styles and crucial reception of the literature of the decade. Writers studied will include George Orwell, Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Philip Larkin and Harold Pinter.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| British Drama from the 1950s to the Present | ESH273 | Yes | British Drama from the 1950s to the PresentCredits: 15.0
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| British Horror: Film, Television and Literature | HST5305 | No | British Horror: Film, Television and LiteratureCredits: 15.0 British cinema is often celebrated for its social realism, yet it has made significant and influential though often overlooked contributions to the horror, fantasy and sci-fi film genres. This module will investigate this alternative history or `repressed underside¿ of British cinema. While horror is often side-lined as having little artistic worth, this module aims to reassess the genre's aesthetic, philosophical and intellectual value. It will examine British horror films from key periods in cinema history within their cultural production context and alongside developments in cinema worldwide, from Hammer Studios in the 1960s to the reinvigorated British interest in horror and fantasy film and TV in the 2000s. Students will engage with debates on the cultural appeal and social significance of the genre, and the nature of horror film audiences and spectatorship. With an emphasis on cinema, students will also compare the writing of several authors with film adaptations of their work.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| British Politics | POL243 | Yes | British PoliticsCredits: 30.0 This module will provide students with an advanced knowledge of the British Political system. It is divided into two principal parts: the study of the institutions of British politics, and the study of political culture, behaviour and participation within those institutions. Topics covered include: constitutional reform, Parliament, Prime Minister and the Cabinet system, civil service devolution, role of the judiciary, representation, political engagement, electoral and party systems, political parties, electoral behaviour and pressure groups. Associate student registration: Autumn Semester POL/243A; Spring Semester POL/243B.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| British Politics | POL243A | Yes | British PoliticsCredits: 15.0 This module will provide students with an advanced knowledge of the British Political system. It is divided into two principal parts: the study of the institutions of British politics, and the study of political culture, behaviour and participation within those institutions. Topics covered include: constitutional reform, Parliament, Prime Minister and the Cabinet system, civil service devolution, role of the judiciary, representation, political engagement, electoral and party systems, political parties, electoral behaviour and pressure groups. Associate student registration: Autumn Semester POL/243A; Spring Semester POL/243B.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| British Politics | POL243B | Yes | British PoliticsCredits: 15.0 This module will provide students with an advanced knowledge of the British Political system. It is divided into two principal parts: the study of the institutions of British politics, and the study of political culture, behaviour and participation within those institutions. Topics covered include: constitutional reform, Parliament, Prime Minister and the Cabinet system, civil service devolution, role of the judiciary, representation, political engagement, electoral and party systems, political parties, electoral behaviour and pressure groups. Associate student registration: Autumn Semester POL/243A; Spring Semester POL/243B.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination |
| Building the American Nation: 1756-1900 | HST4310 | Yes | Building the American Nation: 1756-1900Credits: 15.0 This course examines the turbulent development of the United States from the mid-eighteenth century through to 1900. We begin with the country¿s origins as a band of disparate colonies and go on to chart the establishment of the United States and its expansion into the West. We then explore the nation¿s disastrous descent into Civil War and finally examine the postwar ascendancy of a newly powerful capitalist nation at the end of the century. Focusing particularly on America¿s diverse and often diverging culture and society, the course explores the limits and fragility of American democracy, both as a way of politically empowering citizens and as a political system that held the nation together.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Business and Social Approaches to Social Media - Opportunities and Issues | BUS321 | Yes | Business and Social Approaches to Social Media - Opportunities and IssuesCredits: 15.0 This optional module seeks to familiarise students with social media as a business and social platform. It locates social media through the changes in the communication frameworks and explores the different and diverse opportunities, challenges and issues created by social media in an inter-connected world. The lectures will apply theoretical and conceptual issues to real life contexts and phenomena in different cultural contexts.
Assessment: 30.0% Practical, 70.0% Coursework
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| Business and Society | BUS107 | Yes | Business and SocietyCredits: 15.0 The module covers the main aspects of the business environment. It covers: nature and types of business and other organisations; business and society: relationship between work organisations and society; business and governments: government as control, consumer, supplier; business and politics: managing influence; business and people: consumers, clients, employees, the public perceptions; business and the physical environment - sustainability in the business context; business and the technological environment; the social and ethical responsibilities of business; business in emerging economies; the and the international context ( regional economic blocs, World Trade Organization).
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Business Cycles | ECN346 | Yes | Business CyclesCredits: 15.0 The module aims to evaluate how business cycle theories perform when confronted with business cycles stylised facts. The theories are presented based on a micro-founded intertemporal model of the economy that provides understanding on how different types of shocks cause macroeconomic fluctuations.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Business Finance | ECOM051 | No | Business FinanceCredits: 15.0 This module aims to develop an understanding of how firms raise external finance and design their capital structure. We will examine the assumption that a firm's cash flows are exogenous with respect to financial decisions. Also studied are the Modigliani-Miller theorems stating which conditions make capital structure irrelevant, and derive the optimal debt/equity mix in the presence of taxes and costly bankruptcy. The rest of the module addresses the issue of how a firm's financial and governance structure affects its value once information problems between firms' insiders and investors are taken into account.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Business Finance | ECCL017 | No | Business FinanceCredits: 15.0 This module aims to develop an understanding of how firms raise external finance and design their capital structure. We will examine the assumption that a firm's cash flows are exogenous with respect to financial decisions. Also studied are the Modigliani-Miller theorems stating which conditions make capital structure irrelevant, and derive the optimal debt/equity mix in the presence of taxes and costly bankruptcy. The rest of the module addresses the issue of how a firm's financial and governance structure affects its value once information problems between firms' insiders and investors are taken into account.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination |
| Business Information Systems | ECS508U | No | Business Information SystemsCredits: 15.0 This module covers the basics of business information systems, with emphasis on the technical, ethical and human factors in successful information system deployment. You will study how organisations use information systems as well as the basic concepts, methods and terminology used during the design and development stages of business information systems. The module reviews the typical hardware, software, data and telecommunications used in business systems and their strategic importance.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Business Information Systems | ECS745D | No | Business Information SystemsCredits: 15.0 The role of software is increasingly critical in our everyday lives and the accompanying risks of business or safety critical systems failure can be profound. This module will provide students with a framework for articulating and managing the risks inherent in the systems they will develop as practitioners. Likewise, students will learn how to build decision support tools for uncertain problems in a variety of contexts (legal, medical, safety), but with a special emphasis on software development. This course will make a distinctive offering that will enable our students to bring a principled approach to bear to analyse and solve uncertain and risky problems. Course contents: Quantification of risk and assessment: Bayesian Probability & Utility Theory, Bayes Theorem & Bayesian updating; Causal modelling using Bayesian networks with examples; Measurement for risk: Principles of measurement, Software metrics, Introduction to multi-criteria decision aids; Principles of risk management: The risk life-cycle, Fault trees, Hazard analysis; Building causal models in practice: Patterns, identification, model reuse and composition, Eliciting and building probability tables; Real world examples; Decision support environments.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Business Information Systems | ECS745P | No | Business Information SystemsCredits: 15.0 The role of software is increasingly critical in our everyday lives and the accompanying risks of business or safety critical systems failure can be profound. This module will provide students with a framework for articulating and managing the risks inherent in the systems they will develop as practitioners. Likewise, students will learn how to build decision support tools for uncertain problems in a variety of contexts (legal, medical, safety), but with a special emphasis on software development. This course will make a distinctive offering that will enable our students to bring a principled approach to bear to analyse and solve uncertain and risky problems. Course contents: Quantification of risk and assessment: Bayesian Probability & Utility Theory, Bayes Theorem & Bayesian updating; Causal modelling using Bayesian networks with examples; Measurement for risk: Principles of measurement, Software metrics, Introduction to multi-criteria decision aids; Principles of risk management: The risk life-cycle, Fault trees, Hazard analysis; Building causal models in practice: Patterns, identification, model reuse and composition, Eliciting and building probability tables; Real world examples; Decision support environments.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Business Law | BUS205 | Yes | Business LawCredits: 15.0 This unit provides an understanding of: the English legal system, the principles of the law of contract and of the tort of negligence as they apply to business. The unit also provides an understanding of the part law plays in enabling the conduct of business generally; its regulation, and the achievement of commercial aims.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Business Management | SEF028 | Yes | Business ManagementCredits: 15.0 This module aims to provide an introduction to business management and administration. It develops understanding of the external and internal business environment, the different contexts of business, an analysis of markets and issues within business management.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Business Management Dissertation | BUS314 | No | Business Management DissertationCredits: 30.0 In order to take this module students must have attained 65% or over in module BUS007. A dissertation is a piece of independent research carried out by the student under the supervision of an academic member of staff. Research can be carried out in any area of business and management, broadly defined, as long as there is sufficient expertise in the School of Business and Management to supervise the research. The student is expected to identify and review the relevant literature, identify a research problem and conduct original empirical research on primary data, or conduct original analysis of secondary data.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Business Modelling | ECS418U | Yes | Business ModellingCredits: 15.0 Introduces students to the development of quantitative models and associated processes for problem solving and decision making in IT management. The module introduces basic statistical concepts and provides practical experience in developing spreadsheet implementations of quantitative methods. A case study approach is taken to the application of statistical analysis and modelling of a range of engineering activities including concept selection, design optimisation, robust design, manufacturing process improvement, and problem-solving. Examples of modelling approaches may include the use of Microsoft Excel Solver, Scenario Analysis, Data Mining and Discrete Event Simulation.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Business Studies | IFC3008 | No | Business StudiesCredits: 30.0 The module examines the political, economic and legal context in which business operates, people and resources, the structure of firms and organizations, management and leadership, marketing, strategic management and development, organisation management and control, organisational communication, Human Resource Management, motivation, business ethics, and globalization. Students will analyse and comment on management in both written work and seminar discussions to the level that will lead to potential success on Year 1 of a BA Business Management, or similar programme.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 30.0% Examination, 60.0% Coursework
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| Business Studies (Graduate Diploma) | IFC6008 | No | Business Studies (Graduate Diploma)Credits: 30.0 The module examines the political, economic and legal context in which business operates, people and resources, the structure of firms and organizations, management and leadership, marketing, strategic management and development, organisation management and control, organisational communication, Human Resource Management, motivation, business ethics, and globalization. Students will analyse and comment on management in both written work and seminar discussions to the level that will lead to potential success on taught masters degrees with the School of Business and Management.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 30.0% Examination, 60.0% Coursework
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| Business Studies (Graduate Diploma) | IFC6008 | No | Business Studies (Graduate Diploma)Credits: 30.0 The module examines the political, economic and legal context in which business operates, people and resources, the structure of firms and organizations, management and leadership, marketing, strategic management and development, organisation management and control, organisational communication, Human Resource Management, motivation, business ethics, and globalization. Students will analyse and comment on management in both written work and seminar discussions to the level that will lead to potential success on taught masters degrees with the School of Business and Management.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 30.0% Examination, 60.0% Coursework
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| Business Technology Strategy | ECS728D | No | Business Technology StrategyCredits: 15.0 This module focuses on strategic management within the technology industries, specifically in the Electronic Engineering sectors, which includes telecommunications. The module aims to apply the theoretical knowledge to real-world examples, using case studies from the international business environment.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Business Technology Strategy | ECS728P | No | Business Technology StrategyCredits: 15.0 This module focuses on strategic management within the technology industries, specifically in the Electronic Engineering sectors, which includes telecommunications. The module aims to apply the theoretical knowledge to real-world examples, using case studies from the international business environment.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Business Technology Strategy | ECS728U | No | Business Technology StrategyCredits: 15.0 This module focuses on strategic management within the technology industries, specifically in the Electronic Engineering sectors, which includes telecommunications. The module aims to apply the theoretical knowledge to real-world examples, using case studies from the international business environment.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| C++ for Image Processing | ECS624U | No | C++ for Image ProcessingCredits: 15.0 This module gives you a practical introduction to C++ and uses this programming language to examine applications in low-level image processing. Areas covered include image representation, examining perception, sampling and display, and image transforms and image enhancement using point and spatial operations. Also considered are image processing methods such as convolution, frequency filtering and image restoration, compression and segmentation.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| C++ for Image Processing | ECS756D | No | C++ for Image ProcessingCredits: 15.0 This module gives students a practical introduction to C++ and uses this programming language to examine applications in low level image processing. Areas covered include image representation examining perception, sampling and display, and image transforms and image enhancement using point and spatial operations. Also considered are image processing methods such as convolution, frequency filtering and image restoration, compression and segmentation.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| C++ for Image Processing | ECS756P | No | C++ for Image ProcessingCredits: 15.0 This module gives students a practical introduction to C++ and uses this programming language to examine applications in low level image processing. Areas covered include image representation examining perception, sampling and display, and image transforms and image enhancement using point and spatial operations. Also considered are image processing methods such as convolution, frequency filtering and image restoration, compression and segmentation.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Cabinet, Premiership and the Conduct of Central Government since 1945 | HST5323 | Yes | Cabinet, Premiership and the Conduct of Central Government since 1945Credits: 30.0 This module will examine the style of Cabinet Government from Clement Attlee to David Cameron, their management of party, Parliament and media, the changing nature of the role of prime minister and the traditional Cabinet versus prime ministerial government debate. It will also examine Cabinet as the engine room of the British Government. The course believes in a blend of theory and practice, thus the module will some weeks take place in the Houses of Parliament, will offer bonus visits Whitehall and will enjoy guest political and senior civil service speakers.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Calculus I | MTH4100 | Yes | Calculus ICredits: 15.0 This is the first of three calculus modules, whose collective aim is to provide the basic techniques and background from calculus for the pure, applied and applicable mathematics modules that follow. This module develops the concepts and techniques of differentiating and integrating with supporting work on algebra, coordinate transformations and curve sketching.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Calculus II | MTH4101 | Yes | Calculus IICredits: 15.0 This module is the second of three calculus modules, whose collective aim is to provide the basic techniques from calculus for the pure, applied and applicable mathematics modules that follow. This module introduces complex numbers, infinite series including power series, and develops techniques of differential and integral calculus in the multivariate setting.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Calculus III | MTH5102 | Yes | Calculus IIICredits: 15.0 The module develops the elements of vector calculus and advanced topics in ordinary and partial differential equations, such as special functions, Fourier series and Laplace's equation, for application in subsequent applied mathematics modules.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Cancer Biology | SBS703 | No | Cancer BiologyCredits: 15.0 This module is only available to students who enter under the B990, C431 and with Forensic programmes. This module will define neoplasia, describe the macro and microscopic appearance of range of specific tumours and current ideas on the molecular and genetic basis of their pathogenesis. Specifically, the causes of the transformation from normal to malignant tissue will be described together with the manner in which tumours grow and spread. The module will end with an overview of tumour diagnosis and general methods of treatment (pharmacological, radiotherapeutic and surgical).
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Cancer Chemotherapy | CHE561 | Yes | Cancer ChemotherapyCredits: 15.0 Prerequisites: CHE322 Constructing Organic Molecules and CHE422 Chemistry of Biological Molecules An introduction to current cancer research and the treatment of cancer by chemotherapy. Topics may include: DNA lesions, oncogenes, short term assays, multistage carcinogenesis, classes of anticancer drugs and their modes of action.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Cancer Chemotherapy | CHEM561 | No | Cancer ChemotherapyCredits: 15.0 This module covers the main themes in cancer and current cancer chemotherapy, especially concepts and methods of current therapies and the structures and mechanisms of action of chemotherapeutic agents.
Assessment: 15.0% Coursework, 85.0% Examination |
| Capital Markets 1 | ECN226 | Yes | Capital Markets 1Credits: 15.0 The aim of this module is to provide a rigorous training in the theory of investment and capital markets and a good understanding of its central concepts. More specifically, its purpose is to show how firms, individuals and institutions take decisions about optimal investment, and to examine the behaviour of the capital markets in which these decisions are taken.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Cases in Business Finance | ECOM070 | No | Cases in Business FinanceCredits: 15.0 This module will address both the theoretical and practical questions of issues such as: how to value companies; recapitalisation, bankruptcy and distress; optimal capital structure; corporate liquidity; raising equity and debt capital; payout policy; investment under constraints, and the use of decision trees, simulations, and real options.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Case studies in British and EU policy-making | POLM052 | No | Case studies in British and EU policy-makingCredits: 30.0 This module provides a detailed analysis of policymaking in practice to supplement the theoretical training received in the core module. The object is to enrich understanding of the nature and practicalities of the British and European Union policymaking process, based on empirical case studies. After an introduction to the policymaking environment the module focuses each week on a detailed case study of British policymaking in a first part and of European Union policy-making in a second part, with an accent on topicality.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Case Studies in Ethnic Conflict: Northern Ireland | POL322 | Yes | Case Studies in Ethnic Conflict: Northern IrelandCredits: 15.0 This course aims to analyse the ways in which British and Irish governments have attempted to resolve or regulate the conflict in Ireland and Northern Ireland in the modern era (end of 16th C.). After outlining the historical, religious and political foundations of the conflict, the bulk of the course will focus on the period following partition (1920-21), studying the dynamics of conflict from the Civil Rights era (1960s) until and the negotiation and implementation of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement (1998-).
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Catalan Avant Garde Art | CAT602 | Yes | Catalan Avant Garde ArtCredits: 15.0 The module will explore the relations between art, society and politics in Catalunya in the twentieth century. The following topics and artists will be studied : Modernisme and the Quatre Gats ; architecture in Barcelona (Gaudi) ; the international avant-garde in Barcelona ; Visual poetry (Junoy, Salvat-Papasseit) ; Paris ¿ Barcelona ; Joan Miró between Montroig and Paris ; Surrealism (Dali, Planells) ; ADLAN ; Catalan artists and the Spanish Civil War ; Antoni Tàpies and ¿pintura materica¿.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Catalan Cinema | CAT501 | Yes | Catalan CinemaCredits: 15.0 This module focuses on a number of key Catalan films from 1975 to the present day. It reflects on the concept of 'national' cinema in the context of globalisation; it provides critical tools for discussing and writing about the specificities of Catalan cinema as well as for setting it in a Western context; it studies film adaptations of Catalan and/or non-Catalan literary texts; it examines film (re-) constructions of the historical past; it analyses filmic discourses on identity, illness and trauma; and it looks into the relationship between Catalan cinema and Catalan/Spanish/European history and society. No previous knowledge of Catalan is required, as all the films studied are available in English or with English subtitles.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Catalan Culture: History, Language, Art | CAT101 | Yes | Catalan Culture: History, Language, ArtCredits: 15.0 This module offers a general introduction to modern Catalan culture (nineteenth and twentieth century). Topics covered include: nationalism; the politics of language; the city of Barcelona and the architecture of Antoni Gaudí; the avant-garde art of Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí; popular and traditional culture. The module also aims to help students identify the strengths and weaknesses of their writing skills and improve the quality of their essay writing. Please note that there is no language requirement for this module, and therefore it is suitable for students with no knowledge of Catalan or Spanish.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Catalan II Intensive | CAT512 | Yes | Catalan II IntensiveCredits: 30.0 This module is aimed at students who already have a basic knowledge of Catalan. Its focus is on developing oral fluency, improving aural and reading comprehension skills, learning new structures and vocabulary, and writing skills.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 50.0% Examination
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| Catchment Hydrogology: Managing Water Resources | GEG7304 | No | Catchment Hydrogology: Managing Water ResourcesCredits: 15.0 The module will cover four broad themes, which are each explored from the perspectives of estimation, risk assessment and the legislative framework: (1) Implications of global changes in climate and land use for catchment hydrology (2) The catchment water balance: measurement and estimation of precipitation, evapotranspiration and river flow. (3) Flood estimation, flood risk management and the EU Floods Directive (4) Managing low flows and groundwater resources
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Catholics and Politics in England c1558-1603 | HST5212 | Yes | Catholics and Politics in England c1558-1603Credits: 15.0 This module will deal with some of the principal historical debates concerning Catholicism in England after the Reformation. It aims to use contemporary printed and (transcribed) manuscript material to throw light on the way the "Catholic Community" worked in the late Tudor and early Stuart periods. In particular it will ask what the connection was between residual English Catholic belief and practice and the phenomenon of anti-popery which has bulked large in modern explanations of royal foreign policy towards mainland Europe and in resistance to (in particular the Stuart) monarchy, notably in the period leading up to the outbreak of the Civil War.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics | SBS118 | Yes | Cell Biology and Developmental GeneticsCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to provide you with detailed up-to-date knowledge of cell biological techniques, the structural organisation, development and differentiation of eukaryotic cells as well as key processes in development that are based on cell-cell interactions and cell movements. In the practicals you will learn standard cell biological techniques in histology and immunohistochemistry and you will be familiarised with the preparation of cell material from living organisms. The module provides an invaluable foundation for genetics, biochemistry, molecular, neurobiological, physiological and biomedical programmes.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Cell Biology and Physiology | SBC173 | Yes | Cell Biology and PhysiologyCredits: 30.0 This module provides an introduction to cell biology and physiology. At the cellular level it covers pro- and eukaryotic cell structure, the structure and function of the cell membrane, the organelles, the nucleus and the cytoskeleton. Interactions between cell components, the cell cycle and cell differentiation from stem cells to specialised cells are all examined in detail. At the physiology level the structure and function of major systems including the nervous, digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems are surveyed in a variety of different taxa and physiological functioning including homeostasis, temperature regulation, gas exchange, digestion and the endocrine systems are all reviewed.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Cell Biology and Physiology (Sem A) | SBC173A | Yes | Cell Biology and Physiology (Sem A)Credits: 15.0 This module provides an introduction to cell biology. It covers pro- and eukaryotic cell structure, the structure and function of the cell membrane, the organelles, the nucleus and the cytoskeleton. Interactions between cell components, the cell cycle and cell differentiation from stem cells to specialised cells are all examined in detail.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Cell Biology and Physiology (Sem B) | SBC173B | Yes | Cell Biology and Physiology (Sem B)Credits: 15.0 This module provides an introduction to physiology. The structure and function of major systems including the nervous, digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems are surveyed in a variety of different taxa and physiological functioning including homeostasis, temperature regulation, gas exchange, digestion and the endocrine systems are all reviewed.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Cellular Pathology and Blood Science | SBC602 | No | Cellular Pathology and Blood ScienceCredits: 15.0 This module is only available to those students who enter under the B990 programme. Prerequisites: Tissue Biology (SBC101). This module provides an overview of basic pathological mechanisms including cell injury, wound healing, inflammation and cell adaptations. The process of neoplasia and the characteristics of major solid tumours will be covered including a review of the mechanisms of tumour spread. The Haematology component will cover basic haematopoiesis, anaemia, haemaglobinophathies, thalassaemia, myelodysplasia, haematological malignancies, haemostasis and bleeding and thrombotic disorders of haemostasis. An overview of the history and basis of blood transfusion and its complications will also be provided.The practical sessions will build on the earlier Microanatomy, Histology and Cytology Module in providing exposure to the histological and cytological interpretation of disease.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Ceramics | MAT522 | Yes | CeramicsCredits: 15.0 Review to physical and structural origin of the mechanical, electrical and optical properties of ceramics. Relate this knowledge to their applications and commercial importance. Review the processing and characterisation of ceramics. (Particular reference will be made to the following structural ceramics: alumina; silicon nitride; zirconia; and silicon carbide.) Review of functional ceramics: varistors; ferroelectrics; piezoelectrics; pyroelectrics; optoelectronics; and ferrites. Throughout the module the students will develop their knowledge so that they can relate structure, properties and applications.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Ceramics | MTRM068 | No | CeramicsCredits: 15.0 Review to physical and structural origin of the mechanical, electrical and optical properties of ceramics. Relate this knowledge to their applications and commercial importance. Review the processing and characterisation of ceramics. (Particular reference will be made to the following structural ceramics: alumina; silicon nitride; zirconia; and silicon carbide.) Review of functional ceramics: varistors; ferroelectrics; piezoelectrics; pyroelectrics; optoelectronics; and ferrites. Throughout the module the students will develop their knowledge so that they can relate structure, properties and applications.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Cervantes and the Nature of Fiction | HSP303 | Yes | Cervantes and the Nature of FictionCredits: 15.0 One of the world's greatest writers of prose fiction, Miguel de Cervantes almost single-handedly created a new literary genre in the early seventeenth century. The module begins by looking at those works which have as their central concern the role of the individual in society, and then proceeds to examine one of Cervantes's recurring themes, the nature of fiction itself. The module consists of a series of seminars and discussion sessions built around (some of) the following texts: the short stories: El celoso extremeño, El licenciado Vidriera, Las dos doncellas, El casamiento engañoso, El coloquio de los perros; the plays: El retablo de las maravillas and El viejo celoso; the novel Don Quijote de la Mancha (Parts I and II).
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Challenging Europe's Political and Social Order: the 1848 Revolution | HST5306 | Yes | Challenging Europe's Political and Social Order: the 1848 RevolutionCredits: 15.0 The 1848 revolutions represented a truly pan-European phenomenon, one which gave rise to several republican experiments, to an unprecedented development of the public sphere and to the politicisation of new sectors of Europe's society. The module will analyse the causes of the revolutionary wave in Europe and discuss both the commonalities and the regional or national peculiarities of these events. Attention will be devoted to specific case-studies in France, the Habsburg Empire, the Italian and German states. The module will also account for the influence of the European revolutions over British politics, and look at the consequences that the emigration of the revolutionary elites after 1848 had on the development of democratic and socialist ideas. Finally, it will discuss the historiography of the Revolution and the impact that this trans-national event had on European society, politics and political thought in the following decades.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Chaos and Fractals | MTH6107 | Yes | Chaos and FractalsCredits: 15.0 The main aims are twofold: to illustrate (rigorously) how simple deterministic dynamical systems are capable of extremely complicated or chaotic behaviour; to make contact with real systems by considering a number of physically motivated examples and defining some of the tools employed to study chaotic systems in practice. Discrete and continuous dynamical systems, repellers and attractors, Cantor sets, symbolic dynamics, topological conjugacy for maps, definition of chaos. Fractals, iterated function systems, Julia sets.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Chaucer | ESH250 | Yes | ChaucerCredits: 30.0 This module will introduce students to some of the foundational works of English literature, in examining the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer. It will cover a broad range of his work, including the majority of The Canterbury Tales, the dream visions, and his translations from canonical medieval French texts such as the Romance of the Rose. The first semester will deal with The Canterbury Tales in detail, covering ten different tales from a variety of genres. The lectures will offer a variety of ways of approaching the Tales, while the seminars will focus on both textual analysis, and the linguistic skills necessary for the reading of Middle English. The Tales will be used as a means of access to the themes of narrative genre, didacticism and parody, and social hierarchies and heterogeneity, with a focus upon contemporary English society and history. The second semester will broaden the scope of enquiry, looking beyond the Tales to Chaucer's lesser-known works, and placing them firmly in the context of western European medieval and classical literature. It will thus build on the foundations of the first semester, properly situating Chaucer as an author working within a vast literary inheritance and tradition.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Chaucer | ESH250A | Yes | ChaucerCredits: 15.0 This module will introduce students to some of the foundational works of English literature, in examining the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer. It will cover a broad range of his work, including the majority of The Canterbury Tales, the dream visions, and his translations from canonical medieval French texts such as the Romance of the Rose. The first semester will deal with The Canterbury Tales in detail, covering ten different tales from a variety of genres. The lectures will offer a variety of ways of approaching the Tales, while the seminars will focus on both textual analysis, and the linguistic skills necessary for the reading of Middle English. The Tales will be used as a means of access to the themes of narrative genre, didacticism and parody, and social hierarchies and heterogeneity, with a focus upon contemporary English society and history. The second semester will broaden the scope of enquiry, looking beyond the Tales to Chaucer's lesser-known works, and placing them firmly in the context of western European medieval and classical literature. It will thus build on the foundations of the first semester, properly situating Chaucer as an author working within a vast literary inheritance and tradition.
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| Chemical and Biological Sensors | MAT707 | Yes | Chemical and Biological SensorsCredits: 15.0 An understanding and appreciation of the principles and applications of chemical and biological sensors is introduced. The basic sensor technology is presented, and this is then augmented by considerations of practical applications and the interfaces in biological systems. The problems of sensing in a biological environment will be highlighted together with examples of the current state of the art and prospects for future development.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Chemical and Biological Sensors | MTRM069 | No | Chemical and Biological SensorsCredits: 15.0 An understanding and appreciation of the principles and applications of chemical and biological sensors is introduced. The basic sensor technology is presented, and this is then augmented by considerations of practical applications and the interfaces in biological systems. The problems of sensing in a biological environment will be highlighted together with examples of the current state of the art and prospects for future development.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Chemical Research Project | CHRM006 | No | Chemical Research ProjectCredits: 150.0
Assessment: 40.0% Dissertation, 60.0% Practical |
| Chemical Research Project | CHRM006 | No | Chemical Research ProjectCredits: 150.0
Assessment: 40.0% Dissertation, 60.0% Practical |
| Chemistry for Materials | MAT5002 | Yes | Chemistry for MaterialsCredits: 15.0 The role of chemical kinetics and thermodynamics in materials science. The module will begin wilth derivation and description of some fundamental kinematics and thermodynamic phenomena such as Gibbs free energy, rate equations, equilibria etc. The effect of variables such as temperature and pressure will be examined. The module will go and to demonstrate with examples how these can be applied to solve problems for gas, solution, and solid phase scenarios with a particular emphasis on polymer synthesis.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Chemistry MSci Research Project | CHE750 | No | Chemistry MSci Research ProjectCredits: 60.0 The students work independently on research topics set by their project supervisors. Original experimental or theoretical work is the principal component of advanced projects. The work also involves critical evaluation of previously published results. A dissertation is prepared and defended in an oral examination; students also present their work in the form of a poster and as a short oral presentation.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 25.0% Practical, 65.0% Dissertation |
| Chemistry Project | CHE900 | No | Chemistry ProjectCredits: 30.0 Prerequisites: Students with an average of 60% or above (combination of first year and second year results) are eligible to register for this module. Overall the module is expected to involve students for approximately 18h/week, for 12 weeks, spent on laboratory and library work, plus additional time spent on data analysis and on writing the dissertation.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Christians and Jews in Europe: Perceptions and Encounters 1100-1600 | HST7403 | No | Christians and Jews in Europe: Perceptions and Encounters 1100-1600Credits: 30.0
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Chromosomes and Gene Functions | SBC210 | No | Chromosomes and Gene FunctionsCredits: 15.0 This module is only available to students who enter under the B990 programme. Pre-req - A-level Biology or equivalent. This module aims to provide Biomedical Sciences students with a basic understanding of genetic inheritance, chromosome structure and function, how the flow of biological information from DNA to RNA to protein gives rise to the recognisable, inherited attributes of living organisms and how genetic mutations affect these processes. It uses seminal experiments to introduce the students to basic classical and molecular genetics, and then expands on these themes to include genetic engineering and genomic approaches to these phenomena. By the end of the module the students should appreciate the power and limitations of genetics, understand how inherited information manifests as phenotypes, and be able to discuss the principles that underlie patterns of inheritance.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Cine-museology: Theorising Cinema and the Museum | FLM610 | No | Cine-museology: Theorising Cinema and the MuseumCredits: 15.0 This module explores the relationships of cinema (as an institution, as a space, and as a concept) to the institutional, spatial and conceptual contexts of the museum. The museum has in recent years become a respository for film as a museum object in its own right; however, film has haunted the corridors of museums since its earliest invention. In this module, we explore the connections and disconnections between cinematic and museal spaces, using theoretical concepts of immersion, spatial dynamics, the archive, exhibition and curatorial theory to make sense of the plurality of film and the moving image in museums, and indeed the 'museum' in the moving image. Making use of London as an ideal base for interrogating some of these encounters between cinema, the moving image, and museums, the module will also explore the interventions of film across other disciplines, including Art History, Museology, Anthropology and the Digital Humanities. We will explore both actual and virtual museums, through a range of film material from Europe, North America, the Middle East, drawing upon concepts such as 'film as a virtual museum', 'cinematic exhibition practices', 'film as museology', and 'the ethics of ethnographic film'.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Cities, Space and Power | GEG7123 | No | Cities, Space and PowerCredits: 30.0 This module examines the relationships between space and power in different cities in the past and the present. Focusing on debates about the emergence and contestation of urban public space, the module uses a range of materials ¿ poetry, novels, art, film, newspaper stories and fieldwork ¿ to explore how the city¿s geographies have been shaped and reshaped by relationships of power. The course uses London, past and present, as a key example, and develops comparative perspectives through other city examples, such as Los Angeles and colonial and post-colonial Calcutta/Kolkata.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Cities of Empire | HST5349 | No | Cities of EmpireCredits: 15.0 Colonial cities were one of the most enduring legacies of the British Empire. From Cape Town to Hong Kong, Melbourne to Mumbai, the footprint of British imperialism is evident in some of the most powerful cities of the modern world. Drawing upon both colonial and city histories, this course traces the development of the British Empire through the urban form - its trading routes, military conquests, religious impulses, and cultural ambitions. The landscaping and architecture of the colonial city provides a novel insight into the colonial past and, with it, the intermeshing of global cultures. This course explores both ideologies of imperialism and their physical development through the fabric of the colonial city.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Clinical Measurements | DEN406 | Yes | Clinical MeasurementsCredits: 15.0 This module aims to provide an understanding of biopotentials and other biological signals, and identify mechanisms by which they can be measured. It also aims to provide a detailed understanding of the fundamental principals associated with transducers, and comprehensive review of the most widely used techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of disease states
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Clinical Measurements | DENM024 | No | Clinical MeasurementsCredits: 15.0 This module aims to provide an understanding of biopotentials and other biological signals, and identify mechanisms by which they can be measured. It also aims to provide a detailed understanding of the fundamental principals associated with transducers, and comprehensive review of the most widely used techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of disease states
Assessment: 30.0% Practical, 70.0% Examination |
| Clinical Microbiology | SBC205 | No | Clinical MicrobiologyCredits: 15.0 This module is only available to students who enter under the B990 programme. Prerequisites: The Microbial World and Humans (SBC211). In this module you will acquire a basic understanding of modern medical microbiology. You will study the processes by which microorganisms cause human disease, how the pathogens can be identified, and what steps can be taken for the prevention and treatment of infections. There will be a particular emphasis on the development of observational, practical and analytical skills through laboratory work and demonstrations. Your topics will include: pathogens and their interaction with the human host, covering bacteria, protists and viruses and including mechanisms of infection, mechanisms of defense, antibiotic action and antibiotic resistance, the transmission of disease, including public health microbiology, the prevention of infection in hospitals and in the community, and a review of newly emerging diseases. You will be provided with a catalogue of microbial diseases, including infections of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts, the nervous system and wounds.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Clinical Problems in Biomedical Engineering and Materials | MAT4003 | Yes | Clinical Problems in Biomedical Engineering and MaterialsCredits: 15.0 The module is to provide a platform for the students in various disciplines of Medical Engineering, Medical Materials and Dental Materials to give them an insight to the range of disciplines at a fundamental level. These topics include understanding the range of clinical problems and the anatomy/structure and physiology/function of biological systems . The students will be expected to carry out group presentations assessed by SEMS academic staff, a PBL exercise and In-class short tests.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Clinical Solutions in Biomedical Engineering and Materials | MAT4004 | Yes | Clinical Solutions in Biomedical Engineering and MaterialsCredits: 15.0 The module is to provide a platform for the students in various disciplines of Medical Engineering, Medical Materials and Dental Materials to give them an insight to those disciplines at a fundamental level. The topics covered include the use of materials in the body, the design of implants and their performance, and the analysis of solutions. The students will be expected to carry out group presentations, a PBL exercise and perform in-class short tests.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Coding Theory | MTH6108 | Yes | Coding TheoryCredits: 15.0 The theory of error-correcting codes uses concepts from algebra, number theory and probability to ensure accurate transmission of information through noisy communication links. Basic concepts of coding theory. Decoding and encoding. Finite fields and linear codes. Hamming codes. Parity checks. Preliminary algebra on vector spaces and finite fields will be included in the module.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Cognition, Evolution and Behaviour | SBC105 | Yes | Cognition, Evolution and BehaviourCredits: 15.0 This module is only available to students who enter under the C1C8 or C800 programme This module builds upon the theme of psychology as a biological science explored in previous modules. It develops this aspect further by specifying the evolutionary and comparative context of contemporary psychology. The module reviews areas such as animal cognition, animal behaviour, evolutionary psychology, developmental processes in the human infant and child, how comparative work may inform developmental psychology, and the extent to which it could be argued that humans are unique in the animal kingdom.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience | SBC372 | Yes | Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceCredits: 15.0 This module will cover advanced cognitive and affective neuropsychology. The module will be divided into two main research areas ¿ cognitive and affective neuropsychology. In the first series of lectures, students will be introduced to the overall field of cognitive neuropsychology, followed by a detailed lecture on the anatomy of the visual system which will lay the groundwork for their understanding of subsequent lectures on disorders of attention (the neglect syndrome) and perception (object recognition) . Further lectures on disorders of memory will also be delivered. The second half of the module will cover cognitive affective neuroscience with lectures being delivered on attentional biases in emotion processing, interpretative biases in processing and a series of lectures on language and emotion. All lectures will cover these research areas within a behavioural and neuropsychological framework.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Cognitive Psychology | SBC201 | Yes | Cognitive PsychologyCredits: 15.0 This module is only available to students who enter under the C1C8 programme. This module builds upon themes developed in level 4 psychology modules and considers specific cognitive functions and properties of the human mind. The material covered will include traditional cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience and cognitive neuropsychology (the understanding of normal cognitive processes through unique case studies of human brain damage). Cognitive functions examined will include visual, object and spatial perception, psychophysics, memory processes, complex reasoning, language, face processing and the relationship between emotion and these processes. Experiments and studies from classical and modern cognitive psychology will be provided throughout.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Cold Environments | GEG6202 | Yes | Cold EnvironmentsCredits: 15.0 The module selectively addresses processes active in the glacial and the periglacial environment: glaciogenic (both ice and meltwater) erosion, transport, sedimentation, permafrost and ground ice and their effects on fluvial, aeolian and gravitational processes. For each of these processes the resulting landforms, both in active and in fossil form, will be treated, together with features resulting from converging processes. Examples are drawn from the Arctic, the Antarctic and high mountain ranges, while examples of fossil features are mainly drawn from western Europe.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Colloidal Chemistry | CHE463 | No | Colloidal ChemistryCredits: 15.0 Prerequisites: Molecules and Ions at Interfaces (SBC702). For F152 students only. This module will cover various advanced concepts of colloidal systems and their application. An overview of the concepts involved such as surface tension and surfactants, monolayers such as lipids will be given. We shall investigate the application of colloids and their structures and characterisation. Techniques such as light scattering, small angle X-ray and neutron scattering as well as rheology of these systems will be covered. Various examples of in pharmaceuticals and natural products design will be discussed.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Colloidal Chemistry | CHEM463 | No | Colloidal ChemistryCredits: 15.0 Prerequisites: Molecules and Ions at Interfaces (SBC702). For F152 students only. This module will cover various advanced concepts of colloidal system and their application. An overview of the concepts involved such as surface tension and surfactants, monolayers such as lipids will be given. We shall investigate the application of colloids and their structures and characterisation. Techniques such as light scattering, small angle X-ray and neutron scattering as well as rheology of these systems will be covered. Various examples of in pharmaceuticals and natural products design will be discussed.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Colonialism and Culture in Latin America | HSP620 | Yes | Colonialism and Culture in Latin AmericaCredits: 15.0 This module examines the cultural development of Latin America from the early colonial period to the 1960s in the light of a history of colonialism and social and ethnic conflict. It focuses on the ways in which such issues have been addressed in works ranging from European accounts of the encounter between conquerors and conquered, to approaches in recent Cuban film. The module will establish links between views which emerge from these works and the present make-up of the societies of the region
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Combinatorics | MTH6109 | Yes | CombinatoricsCredits: 15.0 Combinatorics involves reasoning about 'discrete' structures, particularly finite sets of objects where there are links or relationships among the objects. The module is largely concerned with concepts and theory, but this is a subject that has many practical applications. Counting, recurrence relations, permutations. Steiner triple systems: construction and properties. Ramsey's theorem and applications. Transversal theory.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Combustion in Automotive Engines | DEN326 | Yes | Combustion in Automotive EnginesCredits: 15.0 This module introduce fundamentals of combustions in automotive engine. Topics included in the module cover the principles of operation of spark and compression ignition engines, energy and fuels, fuel properties for use in engines, combustion and flame development in CI and Si engines, gaseous and particle emission, and regulations.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Commercial and Consumer Law | LAW6028 | No | Commercial and Consumer LawCredits: 30.0 This module will cover: Sale of goods: Nature of a sale of goods contract; Terms implied into the contract of sale by the Sale of Goods Act; Passing of property and risk in goods; Liability of a seller without the right to sell; Delivery obligations; Remedies of the buyer; Remedies of the seller. Consumer Credit: Classification of credit agreements under the Consumer Credit Act; Formalities for making regulated agreements; Liability of the creditor/credit broker /supplier to the debtor; Liability of the debtor to the creditor; Termination of regulated agreements; Judicial control of regulated agreements. Agency: Definition of agency; The agent's authority to bind his principal; The agent's rights and duties; Contractual relationships between the principal, agent, and third party; Termination of the agency.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Commercial and Investment Banking | ECOM049 | No | Commercial and Investment BankingCredits: 15.0 In this module students will study the role of money in the macroeconomy, the behaviour of interest rates, banks and other intermediaries, the regulation of both money markets and the banking system and the operations of central banks. The focus is on the practical aspects of money and banking as experienced by practitioners in financial institutions.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Commercial and Investment Banking | ECCL015 | No | Commercial and Investment BankingCredits: 15.0 In this module students will study the role of money in the macroeconomy, the behaviour of interest rates, banks and other intermediaries, the regulation of both money markets and the banking system and the operations of central banks. The focus is on the practical aspects of money and banking as experienced by practitioners in financial institutions.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination |
| Communicating and Teaching Mathematics: the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme | MTH6110 | No | Communicating and Teaching Mathematics: the Undergraduate Ambassadors SchemeCredits: 15.0 This module allows undergraduates to gain valuable transferable skills whilst exploring the teaching profession first hand by working with a teacher in a local school. The key skills gained include communication and presentation of mathematics, team-working, active listening, time management and prioritisation. The module will be supported by regular classes and assessed by a combination of written reports and an oral presentation. Registration for this module requires validation; places will be limited and interviews to assess suitability will be held during Semester A.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Communication in Science and Technology | SEF030 | No | Communication in Science and TechnologyCredits: 15.0 This module addresses communication skills for scientists and engineers, and also seeks to reinforce other generic skills of a more technical nature. Topics covered include study skills, academic writing, data presentation and analysis, information retrieval, and oral communication skills. SEFP students who are non-native English speakers and who do not have at least IELTS 6.5 or equivalent must register for SEF009 in Semester 1, and then take this module in Semester 2.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Communication in Science and Technology | SEF030 | No | Communication in Science and TechnologyCredits: 15.0 This module addresses communication skills for scientists and engineers, and also seeks to reinforce other generic skills of a more technical nature. Topics covered include study skills, academic writing, data presentation and analysis, information retrieval, and oral communication skills. SEFP students who are non-native English speakers and who do not have at least IELTS 6.5 or equivalent must register for SEF009 in Semester 1, and then take this module in Semester 2.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Communication in Science and Technology | SEJ030 | No | Communication in Science and TechnologyCredits: 15.0 This module addresses communication skills for scientists and engineers, and also seeks to reinforce other generic skills of a more technical nature. Topics covered include study skills, academic writing, data presentation and analysis, information retrieval, and oral communication skills. SEFP students who are non-native English speakers and who do not have at least IELTS 6.5 or equivalent must register for SEJ009 in the first semester, before taking this module in the second semester.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination |
| Communications and Networks | ECS403U | Yes | Communications and NetworksCredits: 15.0 This compulsory module covers the basic concepts in communications and networks. It introduces the concept of a communications system and then focusses on specific elements. It covers circuit and switched versus packet switched networks, and the ISO/OSI 7 layer model. Also covered are certain critical network protocols, e.g. TCP/IP and CSMA/CD, key Internet concepts, converged networks, and mobile networks.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Examination
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| Communication Systems Electronics | ECS606U | No | Communication Systems ElectronicsCredits: 15.0 The module covers: RF SPECTRUM: Revision of basic RF spectrum. Radio transmission bands. Regulatory considerations. MODULATION & DEMODULATION: AM & FM modulation principles; basic modulation & demodulation circuits. Digital modulation principles; basic digital modulation & demodulation circuits. BEHAVIOUR OF ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS AT RF: Behaviour of R, L and C at RF; use of reactance plots and reactance charts. Transistor equivalent circuits for RF applications. COUPLING NETWORKS & FILTERS: The design of RF coupling networks; design of basic Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Band Stop filters. AMPLIFIERS: Revision of basic amplifier circuits. Multi-stage small-signal linear amplifiers. Class B & C amplifiers; switching amplifiers. R.F. & wideband amplifiers. Noise in amplifiers. Principles of feedback & feedforward. Frequency response. MIXERS & OSCILLATORS: Mixer and oscillator theory; basic mixer and oscillator circuits. L.C. tanks, quartz crystals and ceramic resonators. Phase Locked Loops & Frequency Synthesizers.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Communication Theory | ECS701D | No | Communication TheoryCredits: 15.0 This module introduces the basic principles of modern communication systems. The primary objective is to provide fundamental tools and methodologies used in modelling, analyzing and simulating analog and digital communication systems. The following will be covered: Signal representation and spectral analysis, probability theory and random processes, detection and estimation of analog and digital systems in the presence of noise. Simulations are performed using Matlab.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Communication Theory | ECS701P | No | Communication TheoryCredits: 15.0 This module introduces the basic principles of modern communication systems. The primary objective is to provide fundamental tools and methodologies used in modelling, analyzing and simulating analog and digital communication systems. The following will be covered: Signal representation and spectral analysis, probability theory and random processes, detection and estimation of analog and digital systems in the presence of noise. Simulations are performed using Matlab.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Communication Theory | ECS701U | No | Communication TheoryCredits: 15.0 This module introduces the basic principles of modern communication systems. The primary objective is to provide fundamental tools and methodologies used in modelling, analyzing and simulating analog and digital communication systems. The following will be covered: Signal representation and spectral analysis, probability theory and random processes, detection and estimation of analog and digital systems in the presence of noise. Simulations are performed using Matlab.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Community Organising in Practice | GEG7401 | No | Community Organising in PracticeCredits: 60.0 This module will provide students with information and practical experience about the context in which community organising is practised today. The module includes seminars to explore the work of Saul Alinsky, the nature of contemporary citizenship, popular (dis)engagement with democracy, the structures of local politics and urban governance in the UK, urban regeneration, the nature of civil society, the traditions of the Abrahamic faith communities, the education system and the labour movement. These seminars will run alongside student placements as community organisers, working with Citizens UK. Students will work for approximately 10 hours a week (200 hours in total between November and March) with one of the organisations affiliated to Citizens UK. Students will be supported by a practice supervisor from Citizens UK and will attend seminars to explore the issues of leadership, building public relationships, collective action, evaluation and campaigning.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Company Law | LAW6036 | No | Company LawCredits: 30.0 The principles of modern Company Law including the formation of companies, the corporate constitution, the protection of persons dealing with a company, corporate financing, management, the duties of directors, corporate governance, the protection of minority shareholders and insolvency.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Company Valuation | BUS331 | No | Company ValuationCredits: 15.0 This module identifies and explores challenges and issues facing global managers and corporate consultants as they operate in a global world requiring them to know what an asset is worth and what determines its value where ever the asset is around the world. The postulate for sound investing is that a manager does not pay more for an asset than it is worth. In a global world and under competition managers assessments of value must be backed up by reality which implies that the price we pay should relate to realistic estimates of cash flows and uncertainties faced by global managers. Accordingly the module is arranged around: Estimating Discount Rates, Cash Flows and Growth Rates for Valuation purposes, Differences between firm and equity valuation, Real options corporate managers can come across and their valuation, Valuing companies in distress, Relative valuation , Biases in Valuation their manifestation and reduction, Imprecision and uncertainty in valuation, Payoffs to more versus less detail in valuation and cost of complexity, Principle of parsimony and different approaches to valuation
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Comparative Employment Relations | BUSM016 | No | Comparative Employment RelationsCredits: 15.0 The module will concentrate on the following key features: theoretical and conceptual approaches to the study of employment relations; the value and difficulties of a comparative approach; the role of the key actors in employment relations; power, conflict and bargaining; convergence and divergence - a consideration of the debates; the complexity of the trade union role from a comparative perspective; a consideration of international solidarity; impact of globalization and transnational companies on national and cross-national management employment strategies; employee involvement and industrial democracy; social partnership and participation; standards in international employment relations; regulation and voluntarism; examining comparative employment relations through a gender, equality and diversity lens; reappraising comparative employment relations.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Comparative European Law (A): European Legal Systems | LAW6017A | Yes | Comparative European Law (A): European Legal SystemsCredits: 15.0 This module will cover: Comparative law; Historical development of European law, focusing on French, German and common law legal families; Judicial systems; Constitutions; Private law; Human rights.
Assessment: 12.5% Practical, 87.5% Coursework
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| Comparative Law: Asian and African Legal Systems | LAW6050 | Yes | Comparative Law: Asian and African Legal SystemsCredits: 30.0 This module will cover: This module provides an introduction to the basic nature of African and Asian legal systems in their pre-modern, modern and post-modern settings, and places the subject within the wider debate about the future of non-Western laws in light of globalisation. The focus is on the larger groupings of legal systems under the rubric of African, Hindu, Chinese, Islamic laws. The systems are studied in relation to concepts internal to them and in relation to concepts of Western jurisprudence. There is also a focus on selected state-based or jurisdictional legal systems of African and Asia, coverage of which varies from year to year.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Comparative Literature Research Project | SML303 | Yes | Comparative Literature Research ProjectCredits: 30.0 Entry to this module will not be automatic. All students wishing to take this module must see the module organiser before registration and must present a written recommendation from their adviser regarding their suitability. It is designed to enable suitably qualified final-year students to pursue a sustained piece of individual or group research on an agreed topic which may not necessarily be covered in the taught modules. Introductory group sessions on research methods will be followed by individual supervision. You will give presentations of your research in the second semester, and should note that failure to provide evidence of satisfactory progress will lead to de-registration.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Dissertation
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| Competition Law | LAW6048 | Yes | Competition LawCredits: 30.0 The purpose of this module is to teach you the basic provisions of both EC and UK competition law. The module will provide you with a flavour of the economic and market context in which EC and UK competition law is applied. The module will aim to consider important business phenomena in the market such as anticompetitive agreements, abuse of market dominance and mergers between firms. It is hoped that by the end of the module you will gain a good understanding of the competition rules of the EC and the UK in order to help you identify situations in which such phenomena may arise. The module is taught on the basis of on one-and-a-halfhour lecture each week and one-and-a-half-hour tutorials held biweekly. In addition, the module includes several case studies based on real cases. You will be asked to prepare the case studies beforehand and be ready to discuss them in the class. The case studies will give you a taste of what competition law in practice is really like. They will also provide an excellent guidance on how to approach competition law problems in the examination room and beyond.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Competition Law A | LAW6048A | Yes | Competition Law ACredits: 15.0
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Complex Analysis | MTH6111 | Yes | Complex AnalysisCredits: 15.0 This is a rigorous module in complex analysis. The first part of the module will be concerned with detailed analysis of topics already seen in Complex Variables, such as differentiation, integration, Taylor and Laurent series, conformal mappings and the residue theorem. The second part of the module will introduce more advanced topics, perhaps including Riemann surfaces and elliptic functions.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Complex Networks | MTH6142 | No | Complex NetworksCredits: 15.0 This module provides an introduction to the basic concepts and results of complex network theory. It covers methods for analyzing the structure of a network, and for modeling it. It also discusses applications to real systems, such as the Internet, social networks and the nervous system of the C. elegans.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Complex Systems | MTH743P | No | Complex SystemsCredits: 15.0 Complex systems can be defined as systems involving many coupled units whose collective behaviour is more than the sum of the behaviour of each unit. Examples of such systems include coupled dynamical systems, fluids, transport or biological networks, interacting particle systems, etc. The aim of this module is to introduce students with a number of mathematical tools and models used to study complex systems and to explain the mathematical meaning of key concepts of complexity science, such as self-similarity, emergence, and self-organisation. The exact topics covered will depend on the module organiser¿s expertise with a view to cover practical applications using analytical and numerical tools drawn from other applied modules.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Complex Systems | MTH743U | Yes | Complex SystemsCredits: 15.0 Complex systems can be defined as systems involving many coupled units whose collective behaviour is more than the sum of the behaviour of each unit. Examples of such systems include coupled dynamical systems, fluids, transport or biological networks, interacting particle systems, etc. The aim of this module is to introduce students with a number of mathematical tools and models used to study complex systems and to explain the mathematical meaning of key concepts of complexity science, such as self-similarity, emergence, and self-organisation. The exact topics covered will depend on the module organiser¿s expertise with a view to cover practical applications using analytical and numerical tools drawn from other applied modules.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Complex Variables | MTH5103 | Yes | Complex VariablesCredits: 15.0 The integral and differential properties of functions of a complex variable. Complex differentiation, Cauchy-Riemann equations, harmonic functions. Sequences and series, Taylor and Laurent series, singularities and residues. Complex integration, Cauchy's theorem and consequences, Cauchy's integral formula and related theorems. The residue theorem and applications to evaluation of integrals and summation of series. Conformal transformations.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Composites | MTRM730 | No | CompositesCredits: 15.0 The role of composites in modern engineering. Starting from the manufacture of glass fibres, carbon fibres, aramid fibres, polyethylene fibres and extending to the manufacturing of polymers composites using processes including for example resin transfer moulding, compression moulding and pultrusion. In addition to fibre reinforced polymer composites, the module will also consider particulate filled composite materials and high temperature metal matrix composite materials. The module will cover the theory that is used to predict the stiffness and strength of composite components, with emphasis on exploring the roles of the three different components encountered in a composite materials of fibre (filler), matrix and the interface. Inspection and testing, non-destructive methods: ultrasonic inspection, magnetic inspection, acoustic emission monitoring.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Composites for Aerospace Applications | MAT5030 | Yes | Composites for Aerospace ApplicationsCredits: 15.0 The role of composites in modern engineering, in particular aerospace applications will be described which will enable the effective selection of a fibre-resin system for a range of applications . The module will include the manufacture of glass, carbon, aramid and polyethylene fibres, extending to the manufacturing of polymer composites using processes including for example resin transfer moulding, compression moulding and pultrusion. The module will also consider particulate filled composite materials and high temperature metal matrix composite materials. The module will cover the theory that is used to predict the stiffness and strength of composite components, with emphasis on exploring the roles of the three different components encountered in a composite materials of fibre (filler), matrix and the interface. A framework for understanding the cost of manufacture to enable the selection of an appropriate manufacturing technology for a part. Comparisons will be made compare to more traditional materials such as metals, in particular in aircraft applications. Failure modes in composites will be described, non-destructive testing methods such as ultrasonics and strategies towards repair of composite structures will be covered.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Computability | ECS631U | No | ComputabilityCredits: 15.0 This module concerns the limits of what computers can do. The computing methods we study are the simplest models of computers (automata and Turing machines) and of programming languages: Register machines are prototypes of imperative languages (go-to commands) and recursive functions are the base of languages like LISP and SCHEME. We can say, in a precise sense, that certain functions are not computable even in principle, using interesting kinds of argumentation, the so-called 'diagonal arguments'. A related area is complexity theory: what computers can do efficiently. By contrast, computability is about what can be done at all. In complexity theory, we draw a map of the computable realm; in computability theory, we meet the frontier of that realm, and also start to explore the territory beyond it.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Computational Engineering | DEN401 | Yes | Computational EngineeringCredits: 15.0 This is an advanced module in computational modelling focusing on computational solids. Both finite element method and boundary element method are covered together with applications to medical, aeronautical and mechanical engineering. Hands on experience in solving engineering problems using commercial packages is an important part of the module.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Computational Engineering | DENM004 | No | Computational EngineeringCredits: 15.0 This is advanced module in computational modelling focusing on computational solids. Both finite element method and boundary element method are covered together with applications to medical, aero and mechanical engineering. Hands on experience in solving engineering problems using commercial packages is an important part of the module.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination |
| Computational Fluid Dynamics | DEN403 | Yes | Computational Fluid DynamicsCredits: 15.0 Following on from an introduction to CFD in DEN331, in this module we deepen our knowledge in various areas. We learn to analyse the properties of discretisations and apply these to simple model equations. We discuss the various aspects of modelling turbulence. In the accompanying laboratory, we learn to generate meshes, solve viscous flow problems on these meshes and perform the relevant analysis of the quality of our simulations.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Computational Fluid Dynamics | DENM010 | No | Computational Fluid DynamicsCredits: 15.0 Following on from an introduction to CFD in DEN331, in this module we deepen our knowledge in various areas. We learn to analyse the properties of discretisations and apply these to simple model equations. We discuss the various aspects of modelling turbulence. In the accompanying laboratory, we learn to generate meshes, solve viscous flow problems on these meshes and perform the relevant analysis of the quality of our simulations.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination |
| Computational Genomics | ECS633U | No | Computational GenomicsCredits: 15.0 Genome sequencing projects have a large role to play in biology and medicine. High throughput experiments are generating large quantities of high-dimensional biological data, and computational methods play a key role in analysing, envisioning and understanding this data. This module provides an introduction to the types of data and some commonly used methods of analysis.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Computational Genomics | ECS761D | No | Computational GenomicsCredits: 15.0 (1) An introduction to bioinformatics; The current excitement in computational biology. (2) Biological Data; Information encoded in biological sequences; Data types: sequence, structure, gene-expression; Sources/repositories: Formats/Standards; Inference of function (3) Molecular sequence analysis; String comparison; distance measures; Dynamic programming algorithm for string comparison; Bio-sequences: insertions/deletions, gap penalties; Scoring schemes; amino acid substitution matrices; Aligning multiple sequences; Profiles and patterns (4) Searching sequence databases; Strategies for database searching; BLAST/FASTA algorithms; Estimating significance (5) Protein 3-d structures; Structural classification schemes; Algorithms for structural comparison; Visualisation; Structural prediction
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Computational Genomics | ECS761P | No | Computational GenomicsCredits: 15.0 (1) An introduction to bioinformatics; The current excitement in computational biology. (2) Biological Data; Information encoded in biological sequences; Data types: sequence, structure, gene-expression; Sources/repositories: Formats/Standards; Inference of function (3) Molecular sequence analysis; String comparison; distance measures; Dynamic programming algorithm for string comparison; Bio-sequences: insertions/deletions, gap penalties; Scoring schemes; amino acid substitution matrices; Aligning multiple sequences; Profiles and patterns (4) Searching sequence databases; Strategies for database searching; BLAST/FASTA algorithms; Estimating significance (5) Protein 3-d structures; Structural classification schemes; Algorithms for structural comparison; Visualisation; Structural prediction
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Computational Methods in Finance | MTH770P | No | Computational Methods in FinanceCredits: 15.0 This module will provide you with the necessary numerical skills and tools to investigate a variety of problems in mathematical finance. It is based on C++, the programming language of choice for many practitioners in the finance industry. You will learn about basic concepts of the C part of C++ such as loops, arrays, functions, and branching statements, and then be introduced to the object-orientated programming part of C++. As an application you will deal with binomial trees in C++ and the pricing of various types of options in this context.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Dissertation
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| Computational Statistics | MTH731U | Yes | Computational StatisticsCredits: 15.0 This module introduces modern methods of statistical inference for small samples, which use computational methods of analysis, rather than asymptotic theory. Some of these methods such as permutation tests and bootstrapping, are now used regularly in modern business, finance and science.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Computational Statistics | MTHM731 | No | Computational StatisticsCredits: 15.0 This module introduces modern methods of statistical inference for small samples, which use computational methods of analysis, rather than asymptotic theory. Some of these methods such as permutation tests and bootstrapping, are now used regularly in modern business, finance and science.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Computer Aided Engineering for Solids and Fluids | DEN331 | Yes | Computer Aided Engineering for Solids and FluidsCredits: 15.0 This is an introductory module in computational modelling. It covers both computational solids and computational fluids. The most widely used methods such the finite element method are covered. The emphasis is on engineering applications with students being exposed to hands on experience of both solids and fluids commercial packages.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Computer Graphics | ECS610U | No | Computer GraphicsCredits: 15.0 This module is concerned primarily with computer graphics systems and in particular 3D computer graphics. The module will include revision of fundamental raster algorithms such as polygon filling and quickly move onto the specification, modelling and rendering of 3D scenes. In particular the following topics may be covered: viewing in 2D, data structures for the representation of 3D polyhedra, viewing in 3D, visibility and hidden surface algorithms, illumination computations. Some attention will be paid to human perception of colour and interactive 3D such as virtual reality.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Examination
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| Computer Graphics | ECS762D | No | Computer GraphicsCredits: 15.0 This course is concerned primarily with computer graphics systems and in particular 3D computer graphics. The course will include revision of fundamental raster algorithms such as polygon filling and quickly move onto the specification, modeling and rendering of 3D scenes. In particular the following topics may be covered: viewing in 2D,data structures for the representation of 3D polyhedra, viewing in 3D, visibility and hidden surface algorithms, illumination computations. Some attention will be paid to human perception of colour and interactive 3D such as virtual reality.
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| Computer Graphics | ECS762P | No | Computer GraphicsCredits: 15.0 This course is concerned primarily with computer graphics systems and in particular 3D computer graphics. The course will include revision of fundamental raster algorithms such as polygon filling and quickly move onto the specification, modeling and rendering of 3D scenes. In particular the following topics may be covered: viewing in 2D,data structures for the representation of 3D polyhedra, viewing in 3D, visibility and hidden surface algorithms, illumination computations. Some attention will be paid to human perception of colour and interactive 3D such as virtual reality.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Computers and Language | SML209 | Yes | Computers and LanguageCredits: 15.0 This module is designed as an introduction to the application of technology in language education. Providing a balance of theory and practice, it will equip students with the knowledge and skills to make optimum use of computers in their studies and research activities. The module will cover key concepts in the use of digital technologies for language learning and humanities, as well as providing practical experience in the creation of digital materials using a variety of computer-based applications.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Computer Systems and Networks | ECS404U | Yes | Computer Systems and NetworksCredits: 15.0
Assessment: 35.0% Coursework, 65.0% Examination
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| Concepts and Consequences in Grammatical Theory | LIN7026 | No | Concepts and Consequences in Grammatical TheoryCredits: 15.0 Empirical results in a broad range of languages have now made the understanding of the basic building blocks of syntactic theory fundamental to any advanced work in linguistics, not only in syntax and semantics, but within any area of linguistics. This module will familiarize students with the basic elements of syntactic construction, serving at the same time as an introduction for students with less background, and as a critical overview, for those more advanced. Emphasis will be put on the development of argumentation skills and the ability to undertake independent analysis of linguistic data, as well as on the development of critical thinking in evaluating competing approaches to the same paradigms.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Condensed Matter A | PHY5228 | Yes | Condensed Matter ACredits: 15.0
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Consciousness and Causality | SBC614 | Yes | Consciousness and CausalityCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to give students a scientific overview of the study of consciousness and control (e.g., agency, free will, choice behaviors) by introducing critical theoretical movements and empirical findings in psychology. Both the theory and practice of the science behind studying consciousness and control will be grounded in key philosophical arguments concerning causality and agency. In this way, the module will encourage students to critically evaluate a range of approaches in the study of consciousness and control, and integrate philosophical arguments with scientific methods. Topics covered include: The philosophy of causality and agency (e.g., Hume, Kant, Mackie, Hempel); the historical treatment of consciousness and control in psychology (e.g., Behaviourist, Psychodynamic, Information Processing); current developments and advances in the study of consciousness and control (e.g., neuroscientific techniques ¿ EEG, fMRI), differences between intentions and actions, applied issues concerning consciousness and control (e.g., how do we decide when an error in judgment was not made under our conscious control?).
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Consumer Cultures: The United States from the 1760s to the 1960s | HST7331 | No | Consumer Cultures: The United States from the 1760s to the 1960sCredits: 30.0 America's relationship with consumption has always been contentious. Founded on the strength of a consumer boycott in the eighteenth century, the US had become the ultimate nation of consumers by the middle of the twentieth century. How had this transformation taken place and what did it mean for American culture and society? By examining how Americans created their habits of consumption, this module will explore how consumerism shaped multiple aspects of American life: from courtship, sex and gender roles to citizenship and the nation's imperial ambitions. Together, we will use a variety of critical approaches, including the study of economic networks and commodities, the examination of cultural hegemony and gendered histories of consumption and the vast abundance of visual; and material culture to answer the question: what is consumer culture and what effect has it had on American life?
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 90.0% Coursework
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| Consumer Psychology | BUS318 | Yes | Consumer PsychologyCredits: 15.0 Building on a general understanding of marketing, this module develops a useful, conceptual understanding of psychological theories relevant to the study of consumer behaviour. We start with an overview of the scope of consumer psychology and consumer behaviour and position it against mainstream marketing. Subsequently, we will focus on cognitive and affective processes that drive consumer behaviour. Once an understanding of the basic psychological processes has been gained we will look at various factors that are able to influence these processes. Particular attention is paid to how marketing practice influences consumer perception, evaluation and behaviour. Throughout the module real world hands-on exercises will facilitate understanding and transferability of contents.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Contemporary Art and Society | HST5351 | No | Contemporary Art and SocietyCredits: 15.0 This module is an introduction to the socio-historical context and artistic production from 1965 to the rise and fall of Saatchi's Young British Art and today's contemporary art. As the influence of Abstract Expressionism waned in the 1960s, artists came to question the very philosophy underlying modernism, causing a variety of new movements and styles to dominate the art world. The module will follow the development of painting and sculpture and explore a variety of new artistic media including video, performance, photography and installation, through a focus on art movements like Arte Povera, Minimalism, Pop Art, Conceptual and Performance Art, Environmental Art, and Feminist Art. Individual art objects will be discussed in detail within their social, religious, intellectual, and historical contexts, and their public reception. Visits to Tate Modern, and other venues in London will constitute integral part of the program.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Contemporary British Cinema: The Film Council Years 2000 to 2011 | FLM608 | Yes | Contemporary British Cinema: The Film Council Years 2000 to 2011Credits: 15.0 This module is intended to offer students an appreciation and understanding of the contemporary British cinema. It will focus on films that were made during the ten-year existence of the UK Film Council, which was established by the government in 2000 to promote a successful film industry and culture in Britain. It will examine the infrastructure of today¿s indigenous film industry, provide in-depth analysis of some its key films and film-makers and consider the extent to which it has built on earlier traditions. The module will be assessed through a research project that will require students to explore the industrial and cultural significance of a chosen film across three written assignments.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Contemporary German Studies I | GER504 | No | Contemporary German Studies ICredits: 15.0 This module will build on the first year core module and help prepare students for their year abroad. It will be divided into blocks. The first will explore the Federal Ideal in contemporary Germany, and the geographical and cultural specificities of various regions and cities. The second will examine the sounds of German and the phonological system in which these sounds operate. The final unit of the module will focus on the dialectal and regional varieties of German.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Contemporary German Studies II | GER505 | No | Contemporary German Studies IICredits: 15.0 The module will be covering three thematic fields: 1.) Contemporary Berlin 2.) German Speaking Cultures 3.) Working with the Writer in Residence. In block 1, students will get to analyze a variety of cultural representations of contemporary Berlin. They will also familiarize themselves with sociological approaches to urban culture. In block 2, this approach will be opened up to other German-speaking metropolises such as Vienna and Zurich, and students engage with non-German (but) German-language cultures. Students will also be introduced to the question of multiculturalism in German speaking countries and to artifacts thematizing trans-cultural experiences. Block 3 is devoted to work with our writers in residence. By discussing their works, ideas and circumstances with them, students will gain an understanding of current literary and cultural life in Germany.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Contemporary Hollywood Cinema | FLM308 | Yes | Contemporary Hollywood CinemaCredits: 15.0 Through a detailed examination of a number of contemporary Hollywood movies this module aims to foster an understanding of the network of forces that have shaped Hollywood production from the late 1970s to the present day. We will be interrogating contemporary Hollywood movies in order to describe changes in the US film industry since the decline of the studio system and to profile some of the ways in which Hollywood reflects and interacts with American culture and society. This module will be assessed through the production of a 'film note' in which you will select a film of your own choice and across three written assignments situate the film within its industrial and cultural context. The module is research-based and requires a significant commitment to independent study.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Contemporary India: Politics, society and the economy | GEG6129 | Yes | Contemporary India: Politics, society and the economyCredits: 15.0 The module examines significant shifts in South Asian politics, development and society with a particular focus on India. Students will cover nationalism and the `invention¿ of India, the politics of violence and nonviolence on the sub-continent, processes of economic liberalisation and development in India and its Diaspora. More specifically the module will encourage students to engage with questions concerning: everyday experiences of violence and nonviolence with respect to Hindu nationalism, and Islamist activism in a post 9/11 world; the rise of the middle classes, India¿s cities and citizenship experiences; processes of development including the role of the state and civil society/political society; the nature of political and social transformation in light of caste policies of affirmative action and experiences of education and (un/under)employment and finally the South Asian Diaspora and everyday life in the UK. Throughout the module students will be introduced to different theoretical approaches used by South Asian scholars such as feminist and postcolonial frameworks.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Contemporary Inorganic Chemistry | CHE512 | Yes | Contemporary Inorganic ChemistryCredits: 15.0 Prerequisites: Atomic, Molecular and Ionic Structure (CHE111), Transition Metal Chemistry (CHE312). This module covers aspects of modern inorganic chemistry. It is essentially divided into two parts viz: modern solid state chemistry and aspects of modern organometallic chemistry. A basic introduction to each topic is given before specialist topics are discussed. The specialist topics vary from year to year.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Contemporary Inorganic Chemistry | CHEM512 | No | Contemporary Inorganic ChemistryCredits: 15.0 This module covers aspects of modern inorganic chemistry. It is essentially divided into two parts viz: modern solid state chemistry and aspects of modern organometallic chemistry. A basic introduction to each topic is given before specialist topics are discussed. The specialist topics vary from year to year.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination |
| Contemporary Inorganic Chemistry by Distance Learning | SBC609 | No | Contemporary Inorganic Chemistry by Distance LearningCredits: 15.0 Pre-requisites: CHE111, CHE312; overlapping module: CHE511 The nodule covers aspects of modern inorganic chemistry. It is essentially divided into two parts viz: modern solid state chemistry and aspects of modern organometallic chemistry. A basic introduction to each topic is given before specialist topics are discussed. The specialist topics vary from year to year.
Assessment: 30.0% Practical, 70.0% Coursework |
| Contemporary Issues in Accounting | BUSM061 | No | Contemporary Issues in AccountingCredits: 15.0 The module introduces students to some of the key developments and issues in accounting currently discussed by policy makers, the profession, the media and academics. The specific issues addressed will change over time but could include: - On-line Reporting - Accounting and Globalisation - Accounting Regulation: The Convergence Project - Accounting and Poverty - Accounting and Indigenous Peoples - Sustainability Reporting - The Relevance of History - Accounting, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion - Accountants and the Financial Crisis - Accounting in the Community - NGOs and Accountability
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Contemporary Political Theory: Issues and Approaches | POL366 | No | Contemporary Political Theory: Issues and ApproachesCredits: 15.0 The module focuses on the most important approaches in contemporary political theory through an analysis of debates amongst these different approaches, for instance debates between liberals and communitarians, liberals and republicans, and deliberative and agonistic democrats. Examining these debates, we analyze the underlying assumptions about personhood, the nature of the political, the nature of democracy and citizenship, representation, the relationship between identity and difference, and so on. Throughout the course, the debates are analyzed with the help of cases from contemporary politics.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Contemporary Theatre and Performance | DRA7705 | No | Contemporary Theatre and PerformanceCredits: 30.0 What is contemporary theatre and performance doing? What are its benefits and problems? What does it tell us about contemporary culture? How is it particularly well suited to articulating and influencing cultural change? This module identifies trends in recent theatre/performance and its analysis, and considers what we might understand to be those trends' value - be it aesthetic, political, social, emotional - as well as what they articulate about contemporary culture. Trends examined might include: postdramatic theatre, relational aesthetics, performative public activism, and responses to contemporary contexts such as ecological activism or globalisation. Study is grounded in critical reading and current and recent theatre, performance and art events, especially in London.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Control Systems | ECS601U | No | Control SystemsCredits: 15.0 This module introduces the principles of control systems, particularly in respect of electronic systems. It covers: - feedback systems - modelling dynamic systems - the steady state response - the frequency response and s-plane analysis for the transient response - control of digital systems (sampled data systems) - use of the z-transform.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Control Systems Analysis and Design | DEN5200 | Yes | Control Systems Analysis and DesignCredits: 15.0 This module is focused on the basic principles of control systems analysis and design and its application to engineering systems in relation to mechanical, medical, electro-mechanical and aerospace systems. The students will acquire the skill of designing a control system for a particular application. They will also gain practical experience in analysis and design of a typical control system with MATLAB using the theoretical knowledge gained in lectures and problem solving sessions.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Convergence and Continuity | MTH5104 | Yes | Convergence and ContinuityCredits: 15.0 This module introduces some of the mathematical theory behind Calculus. It answers questions such as: What properties of the real numbers do we rely on in Calculus? What does it mean to say that a series converges to a limit? Are there kinds of function that are guaranteed to have a maximum value? The module is a first introduction, with many examples, to the beautiful and important branch of pure mathematics known as Analysis.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Coordination and Social Dynamics | BUS206 | Yes | Coordination and Social DynamicsCredits: 15.0 The module aims to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the organization of economic action and interaction. It builds on a revisited theory of rationality that goes beyond the divides between "global" and "bounded" rationality, and between prescriptive and descriptive theories of choice. The course develops a model of multiple rationalities in which agents are expected to adopt different decision strategies that are applicable under different configurations of knowledge and preferences. The course begins by introducing the notion of agents as intentional systems, the structure of their knowledge, and the processes of perception, judgement and decision-making. Focus will then shift to the problem of interdependent action in multi-agent settings, and to the main coordination mechanisms through which agents interact, communicate, and cooperate with one another. Special emphasis will be placed on group decision-making, authority, negotiation, auctions, rules and social norms. Active learning is sustained by case studies, simulations, and exercises that will concentrate primarily on how to compare and combine different coordination mechanisms to govern interdependencies in areas as diverse as industrial process control, electronic commerce, innovative and dynamic activities, and small group interaction.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Corporate Finance | ECOM015 | No | Corporate FinanceCredits: 15.0 This module aims to develop your understanding of how firms raise external finance and design heir capital structure. n the first three lectures we will examine the assumption that the firm's cash flows are exogenous with respect to financial decisions. In his framework you will study the Modigliani- Miller theorems stating which conditions make capital structure irrelevant, and derive the optimal debt/equity mix in the presence of taxes and costly bankruptcy. The rest of the module addresses the issue of how a firm's financial and governance structure affects its value once information problems between firms' insiders and investors are taken nto account. We first focus on the incentives of he firm's insiders and study how capital structure impacts their agency relationship with outside investors; we then turn to outsiders' incentives, recognising that investors play an mportant monitoring role in the firms they fund. We then study models linking security returns and control rights. Finally, the interaction between firms' financial decisions and product market behaviour is addressed.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Corporate Finance | ECCL013 | No | Corporate FinanceCredits: 15.0 This module aims to develop your understanding of how firms raise external finance and design heir capital structure. n the first three lectures we will examine the assumption that the firm's cash flows are exogenous with respect to financial decisions. In his framework you will study the Modigliani- Miller theorems stating which conditions make capital structure irrelevant, and derive the optimal debt/equity mix in the presence of taxes and costly bankruptcy. The rest of the module addresses the issue of how a firm's financial and governance structure affects its value once information problems between firms' insiders and investors are taken nto account. We first focus on the incentives of he firm's insiders and study how capital structure impacts their agency relationship with outside investors; we then turn to outsiders' incentives, recognising that investors play an mportant monitoring role in the firms they fund. We then study models linking security returns and control rights. Finally, the interaction between firms' financial decisions and product market behaviour is addressed.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Corporate Finance 1 | ECN371 | Yes | Corporate Finance 1Credits: 15.0 This module is part of a two-module sequence that studies how firms make their investment decisions and design their capital structure. This first part deals with Capital Budgeting, building on the asset pricing notions acquired in the Capital Markets 1 module. Topics covered include: finance and the financial manager, present values, the value of bonds and common stocks, superiority of decisions based on present value method, making investment decisions with the net present value rule, risk-return and the cost of capital, recap on portfolio theory, capital budgeting and risk, and practical problems in capital budgeting. Prerequisite: ECN226.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Corporate Finance 2 | ECN372 | Yes | Corporate Finance 2Credits: 15.0 This module is part of a two-module sequence that studies how firms make their investment decisions and design their capital structure. This second part deals with issues of capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, and looks at topics of capital structure and asymmetric information and corporate governance. Topics covered include: the Modigliani-Miller theorems, optimal debt/equity mix with taxes and costly bankruptcy, bankruptcy costs and debtholder-equityholder conflicts, managerial incentives, basic credit rationing models with asymmetric information, optimal capital structure and agency costs, the information conveyed by financial decisions, and corporate governance models. Prerequisite: ECN371
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Corporate Finance for Managers | BUSM030 | No | Corporate Finance for ManagersCredits: 15.0 The focus of this module is the financing and investment decisions made by the managers of companies in pursuit of corporate goals. It examines how managers can obtain the greatest possible return on investments for the smallest amount of risk. You will acquire the knowledge and understanding of theories, models, tools and techniques to assist in making financial decisions to achieve corporate goals. These will include identification of the cost of capital/rates of return, dividend distribution, investment appraisal, portfolio theory, foreign exchange and interest rate issues.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Corporate Governance | BUSM060 | No | Corporate GovernanceCredits: 15.0 The module introduces students to key theories, concepts and issues in corporate governance. It critically explores corporate governance as an embedded practice and provides insights into how local cultures and developments in local contexts have impacted upon and shaped the development of corporate governance systems and practices and how these local corporate governance systems and practices are challenged by globalisation. Within this broad framework case studies provide detailed insights into specific aspects of corporate governance.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Corporate Law and Governance | BUS329 | Yes | Corporate Law and GovernanceCredits: 15.0 This module will provide an understanding of the major principles of UK Company Law with particular reference to the legal and corporate governance rules imposed on the board of directors, the senior management and advisors. The module examines the nature and formation of companies, their constitution and the role of and legal responsibilities of management including the theoretical and practical issues involved in the direction and control of companies. The module considers agency theory and stakeholder theory upon which the modern UK and US corporate governance models are based. It will also review some of the most spectacular failures of governance mechanisms in recent years which led to the development of codes of best practice and legislation in the UK and the USA respectively. In addition specific criminal laws affecting businesses today will be considered such as The Bribery Act 2010 and the Fraud Act 2006 and the active management required of the issues raised as a consequence of such legislation. Learning is sustained by case studies and problem solving scenarios.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Corporate Social Responsibility | BUS313 | Yes | Corporate Social ResponsibilityCredits: 15.0 This module will act as a general introduction into issues of business ethics. The course will approach these issues through the concept of corporate social responsibility. After a general introduction into theories of morality and ethics, the course will introduce key aspects of ethical considerations in business practice, such as those linked to the idea of civil society, globalisation, sustainability, stakeholder relations, corporate accountability & corporate citizenship. This course does not intend to prove that businesses are either ethical or unethical, but rather to illustrate how ethics (both "good" and "bad") can be used as a lens to understand organisations and the dynamics of their relationship to various constituencies (clients, shareholders, competitors, customers, regulators etc.).
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Corporate Strategy | ECN302 | Yes | Corporate StrategyCredits: 15.0 This module provides an overview of corporate strategy in a global context and will enable you to become familiar with the core concepts of: External environmental analysis; models of internal and external analysis, analysis and management of resources; analysis of corporate strengths and weaknesses; knowledge management; development of strategic choice; elements influencing implementation of strategy.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Corpus Linguistics | LIN506 | No | Corpus LinguisticsCredits: 15.0 This module will introduce you to Corpus Linguistics (CL). It focuses on theoretical aspects underlying CL such as collocation, idiom principle, semantic prosody and pattern grammar. You will be introduced to some of the commonly used software and electronic corpora, and gain hands-on experience in creating and analyzing corpus-data. Finally, the module will demonstrate the ways in which CL can be applied to investigate language structures and use in a variety of registers and contexts, e.g. in diachronic research (language change), synchronic research (language variation), discourse studies (gendered discourse) and in work on language acquisition.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Cosmology | ASTM108 | Yes | CosmologyCredits: 15.0 Cosmology is a rapidly developing subject that is the focus of a considerable research effort worldwide. It is the attempt to understand the present state of the universe as a whole and thereby shed light on its origin and ultimate fate. Why is the universe structured today in the way that it is, how did it develop into its current form and what will happen to it in the future? The aim of this module is to address these and related questions from both the observational and theoretical perspectives. The module does not require specialist astronomical knowledge and does not assume any prior understanding of general relativity.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Cosmology | PHY7010U | Yes | CosmologyCredits: 15.0 Cosmology is a rapidly developing subject that is the focus of a considerable research effort worldwide. It is the attempt to understand the present state of the universe as a whole and thereby shed light on its origin and ultimate fate. Why is the universe structured today in the way that it is, how did it develop into its current form and what will happen to it in the future? The aim of this module is to address these and related questions from both the observational and theoretical perspectives. The module does not require specialist astronomical knowledge and does not assume any prior understanding of general relativity.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Costume Drama: the Past Performed | DRA234 | Yes | Costume Drama: the Past PerformedCredits: 15.0 This module explores the ways in which British culture has reproduced, appropriated and performed the past through costume and clothing. The 'performance' of the title includes historical plays and plays about history, novel adaptations on film and television and the performance of the self through 'retro' fashion. The module takes the visual cultures of costume and fashion as the starting point for an analysis of the ideological and historically situated meanings we make of the past. It is taught through seminars, video screenings, fieldwork (one piece of which may take place outside London) and at least one theatre visit.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| C Programming | ECS501U | No | C ProgrammingCredits: 15.0 This module introduces the principles of C Programming to students who already know how to program at a basic level in Java. It provides a knowledge of the theory of C Programming and also its practical use in real engineering systems. The focus is on microprocessor based systems.
Assessment: 40.0% Practical, 60.0% Examination
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| Creating Interactive Objects | ECS511U | No | Creating Interactive ObjectsCredits: 15.0 Interactive objects are physical devices controlled by microcontrollers using simple sensors and actuators. The module provides students with skills, knowledge, and experience of designing and prototyping interactive physical objects using contemporary microcontrollers. The module covers basic electronics, control circuits, sensors (analogue and digital), output (analogue and digital), microcontrollers, simple networking, and microcontroller programming using the popular Arduino open-source platform. It additionally touches on topics of interaction design and evaluation to provide a framework in which students can prototype and understand interactive objects.
Assessment: 40.0% Examination, 60.0% Coursework
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| Creative Group Project | ECS520U | No | Creative Group ProjectCredits: 15.0 The module will be practice-based where students work in a team to produce a creative system for audio-visual content production or interactivity. Students will work in a team to identify the elements in a product development cycle; develop an audio, video, multimedia product with particular attention to its aesthetics, usability and marketability; analyse and present results in qualitative and quantitative measures; report and present findings in a clear and coherent manner.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Dissertation
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| Creative Production | FLM305 | No | Creative ProductionCredits: 30.0 This module is for single Honours Film Studies students at level 6, it is not available to joint Honours Film students or students on other degree programmes. It is valued at 30 credits, running over both semesters and will involve a considerable amount of work and commitment in terms of project development, planning production and post production. Working in groups students will develop two productions, one for each semester, one of which may be a documentary. They will develop these either from a pre-written script of from another source such as a short story or documentary. This project will then be developed, prepared and produced over the module of the year. There is a written requirement for the module that involves an evaluation of the project and student's contribution to it.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Practical
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| Criminal Law | LAW4002 | No | Criminal LawCredits: 30.0 This module will cover: Introduction: the scope and character of the criminal law and its objectives; Deconstructing a typical crime - Criminal Damage; The General Principles of Criminal Responsibility; Criminal conduct - the actus reus; principles of causation; crimes of omission; Criminal fault - the mens rea; General defences; capacity and incapacity; insanity and diminished responsibility, intoxication, duress, necessity, self defence; Particular Crimes; Offences against the person: homicide; wounding and assaults, including assaults aggravated by hatred, sexual offences; Offences against property: theft and fraud; Preliminary or inchoate offences; Conspiracy; Attempt; Assisting and encouraging crime; 6. Participation in crime.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Criminal Law for BA Law Politics Students | LAW5002 | No | Criminal Law for BA Law Politics StudentsCredits: 30.0 This module will cover: Introduction: the scope and character of the criminal law and its objectives; Deconstructing a typical crime - Criminal Damage; The General Principles of Criminal Responsibility: Criminal conduct - the actus reus; principles of causation; crimes of omission; Criminal fault - the mens rea; General defences; capacity and incapacity; insanity and diminished responsibility, intoxication, duress, necessity, self defence. Particular Crimes: Offences against the person: homicide; wounding and assaults, including assaults aggravated by hatred, sexual offences; Offences against property: theft and fraud. Preliminary or inchoate offences: Conspiracy; Attempt.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Criminology | LAW6045 | Yes | CriminologyCredits: 30.0 Sociological and psychological approaches to the aetiology of criminal behaviour; questions of criminal justice policy-making. Topics include: the aims and values of the criminal justice system; the definition of crime both in a theoretical and a practical sense; studies of particular types of crime (eg 'white collar' crime and crimes of the powerful, juvenile crime); penal policy with regard to particular types of crime; crime and public opinion; crime and the mass media; police organisation; prisons and the penal crisis; the role of victims of crime. The module focuses on the contemporary British context but adopts historical and comparative perspectives where relevant.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Criminology A | LAW6045A | Yes | Criminology ACredits: 15.0 This module will cover: Introduction to Criminology and Criminal Justice; Defining crime; Rhetoric and reality of crime; Policing and prosecution of crime; Punishment of crime.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Critical Aesthetics | ESH338 | Yes | Critical AestheticsCredits: 15.0 This module provides an opportunity to explore the defining problems and questions of critical aesthetics. You are introduced to a variety of philosophical texts and are encouraged to use the arguments in these texts to formulate their own perspectives on the central questions of aesthetics.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Critical Human Geographies | GEG4101 | Yes | Critical Human GeographiesCredits: 15.0 How have understandings of geography informed political struggles and protest? How attempts to change the world have shaped the discipline of geography? This module situates geographical knowledge in relation to social and political change. Geography has a long tradition of radical thought, from early anarchist thinkers who raised questions about environmental and social justice to today's critical human geographies that reveal the connections between power, politics and geographical knowledge. The module provides a strong foundation in such critical geographical thinking by introducing a range of radical perspectives and key debates, including anarchism, Marxism, feminism, sexuality politics and postcolonialism. It considers how the study of geography is tied to politics and struggles outside as well as within the academy by introducing questions of scholarship, activism and social change from a geographical perspective. Case studies illustrate the spatiality of political practice and the politics of geographical thought. The module complements GEG4103 Geographical Perspectives in developing themes in the history and philosophy of geography.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Critical Theories of Contemporary Politics | POLM032 | No | Critical Theories of Contemporary PoliticsCredits: 30.0
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Cryptography | MTH6115 | Yes | CryptographyCredits: 15.0 Cryptography is fundamental to commercial life; in particular, the principles of public-key cryptography were a major intellectual achievement of the last century. The module will give you a detailed understanding of the subject.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Cuban Poetry and Fiction Post-1980 | HSP602 | Yes | Cuban Poetry and Fiction Post-1980Credits: 15.0 The aim of this module is to present Cuban writers (regardless of place of residence) within the literary history of the country. We will also examine issues of exile, history and national identity. Some of the writers included are: Carlota Caulfield, María Elena Cruz Varela, Carlos Díaz Barrios, Lourdes Gil, Amando Fernández, Rosario Hiriart, Senel Paz, Delfín Prats, Lourdes Tomás, Carlos Victoria.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Cuban Society Through Film: Post-1959 Revolution | HSP640 | Yes | Cuban Society Through Film: Post-1959 RevolutionCredits: 15.0 This module aims to study the different issues raised by Cuba's cultural politics after 1959. We will examine the questions of modernity and postmodernity, sexuality, communism, revolution and counter-revolution, identity, nationalism, exile, and subjectivity versus the state. Students are informed that many films do not have subtitles and attending the screening is essential.
Assessment: 45.0% Coursework, 55.0% Examination
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| Cultural Diversity and Law | LAW6057 | Yes | Cultural Diversity and LawCredits: 30.0 This module explores how legal systems manage cultural diversity, which includes religious, ethnic and linguistic diversity. The module takes the English legal system as the core case study and compares it to the experience of other legal systems in the management of cultural diversity. The comparative study of legal approaches to cultural diversity includes an exploration of legal pluralism, the significance of long-standing and newer diversities introduced through immigration, the problems of assimilation and integration, and paradigms of citizenship, multiculturalism and secularism.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Cultural Geography in Practice | GEG7122 | No | Cultural Geography in PracticeCredits: 30.0 This module focuses on what could be described as creative and public cultural geographies. It explores the ways in which cultural geography is being undertaken and disseminated through forms of creative practice, participatory approaches and collaborative projects. These include collaborations between cultural geographers and creative practitioners and collaborative relationships with public cultural institutions such as museums and art galleries. Through class discussions and on site explorations of current examples, the module explores the contexts, approaches, practical strategies, possibilities and challenges of creative and public cultural geographies.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Cultural History: Europe and America | HST7607 | No | Cultural History: Europe and AmericaCredits: 30.0 This module will introduce you to the most vibrant area of historical practice: cultural history. This voracious and flourishing field is enriched by the procedures of anthropology and the insights of literary theory, its proponents open to a wide range of historical materials ¿ written, painted, carved and sung. You will be introduced to cultural history through examination of historical works which have tested the range of possibilities by which historians may understand the past as it was experienced by its people: high and low, rich and poor, rulers and dominated. The module will range widely over the European and American past, and so require wide-ranging reading and comparative awareness. In their essays students will be expected to demonstrate in their final essay a good grasp of concepts and an ability to apply them to historical sources.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Cultural Industries | DRA7703 | No | Cultural IndustriesCredits: 30.0 This module explores cultural industries - both their practices, and the issues (ethical, practical, political, economic, etc.) they raise. It examines the political and economic contexts and practices that give rise to and affect them. It evaluates their aims as well as the practices they do and might employ to achieve those aims. Module convenor(s) facilitate students' placements with an appropriate industry partner and students develop industry-based projects to complete within the context of the industry partner's work. Students' work on this module will be partly seminar-based, and partly based on work with the industry partner.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Cultural Legacies of the First World War | ESH7203 | No | Cultural Legacies of the First World WarCredits: 30.0 This module examines both the contemporary and the present-day cultural importance in Britain of the first world war. The literature and culture of the period 1914-1930 are a substantive focus; the categories of modernism and humanism a thematic one. The war was also an important catalyst for change in understanding sanity (through the widespread phenomenon of temporary mental breakdown), and in the development of modern technological cultures of violence. There is attention in the second part of the module to the continuing cultural importance of the war. In exploring the significance of the war to post-modern culture, we aim to rework theoretical issues about modernity, humanism, tradition, and the machine in the interpretation of the war. This module is interdisciplinary in methodology and it draws on elements of cultural history, literary criticism and art history. The module assumes that students will have read Paul Fussell's book, The Great War and Modern Memory (OUP 1975 and many reprintings). We will discuss it in the first session. Unless students have already read it, it would be very helpful if they would read it over the vacation before we start the module. The first session is based on some of the most well-known literary material from the war, which students will probably have come across in the past. If not, theyshould look at the war poems of Wilfred Owen in preparation for our first meeting. The module will be looking at some of the visual art of the war, which students may not be familiar with. The most useful reference book on this is Richard Cork's comprehensive survey A Bitter Truth: Avant-garde Art and the Great War (1994, Yale UP, New Haven and London).
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Culture, Performance and Globalisation | DRA304 | Yes | Culture, Performance and GlobalisationCredits: 15.0 This module will consider the practice and problematic of performance in and between different cultures, particularly in relation to the apparently pan-cultural phenomenon of 'globalisation'. Students will be introduced to, and will discuss key issues from discourses which seek to critique cross- and inter- cultural artistic practice (specifically those of post-colonialism and globalisation). They will seek to situate issues concerning culture within the practice of performance, whether this is from the perspective of the spectator, or the performer him/herself. The module will examine and formulate theory in relation to play texts, historical accounts of performance, video recordings and live performances.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Culture and Society in Medieval Spain: Christians, Jews and Muslims | HSP205 | Yes | Culture and Society in Medieval Spain: Christians, Jews and MuslimsCredits: 15.0 This module aims to provide an insight into medieval Spanish culture and society, in particular the interaction between Christians, Jews and Muslims through the study of a series of literary works. These introduce students to key genres (poetry, ballads, short stories and miracle collections) and key themes in the history and culture (conquest and reconquest, love and sexuality, and religion) of Medieval Spain.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Cultures of Comparison - Theory of Practice | SML7052 | No | Cultures of Comparison - Theory of PracticeCredits: 60.0 This core module looks at the history of the discipline, important debates during its existence, and recent interventions about its place in the Humanities today. Comparison leads to numerous questions of cross-cultural expression ¿ literary, cultural and theoretical: the tensions of identity and difference, the nature of texts, the rôle of the author, mythology, post-colonial theory, gender studies, philosophical issues, translation studies, and other art forms such as music and fine art.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Cultures of Sleep | DRA342 | Yes | Cultures of SleepCredits: 15.0 From Aristotle¿s `Sleeping and Dreaming¿ (350BC) to Christopher Nolan¿s 'Inception' (2010), this interdisciplinary module explores the cultural history of sleep and dreaming, and is designed for students doing both English and Drama. We will investigate how medical interventions (eg: psychoanalysis) and technologies (eg: polysomnography) have shaped changing understandings of slumber, and how literary, philosophical and theatrical explorations of sleep and its maladies have informed medical ideas. Topics may include insomnia, night-terrors, exhaustion and day-dreaming. We will explore a range of materials which might include Thomas Nashe's 'The Terrors of the Night' (1584), William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', Sigmund Freud's, 'The Interpretation of Dreams' (1900), August Strindberg's 'A Dream Play' (1901), `The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders¿ (1994) and Duckie's 'Lullaby' (2010). Students may be encouraged to keep a sleep diary.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Culture Wars | DRA345 | Yes | Culture WarsCredits: 15.0 Culture Wars introduces students to critical strategies for analysing performances and related events in the twentieth century that have been accompanied by controversies. Such works have often been accompanied by: outcry, scandal, and moral indignation; calls for censorship; charges of obscenity; moral panic; iconoclasm; and disgust, taboo, or stigma. Students will explore landmark controversial works in detail, and carry out research into the critical, legal, and public responses they garnered. The module focuses on arts and culture in the UK and the US since the 1950s. Theatrical works will be read closely alongside major works in other forms, including experimental film, poetry, and the visual arts. The module is interdiscipinary in nature, and explores how challenging works raise questions about the social and cultural contexts from which they emerge, in the intersections between performance cultures, literary cultures, and visual cultures. While the term 'culture wars' is generally understood as a reference to the specific political fallout of controversies in the censorship of art works in the US in the 1980s and 1990s, the module will demonstrate that culture in the twentieth century has engaged in a long series of embattled situations on account of the challenges it poses to assumptions about propriety, morality and convention -- at least since the 1950s. Students will engage with the political strategies of policy-makers, who have frequently deployed as well as invented new legislation to prevent the consumption of controversial works, thorough the blocking of exhibition, prosecution of publishers and presenters, or withdrawals of subsidies from makers of challenging works. The module will situate specific examples by historicising the ways that audiences respond to important works. Case studies may include banned or otherwise stigmatised works, for example: plays such as Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's Behzti, Joe Orton's Loot, or Howard Brenton's The Romans in Britain; other performances such as the performance art of Ron Athey, Karen Finley, or Holly Hughes, and the stand-up routines of Lenny Bruce; films such as Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures or Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth; novels such as Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn, or William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch; or poems such as Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl'.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Current Topics in Psychology | SBC160 | No | Current Topics in PsychologyCredits: 15.0 This module will introduce the students to the wide range of research methods and approaches that can be applied to investigate human cognition, emotion and behaviour. The module will provide an overview of the research that is conducted in Psychology at Queen Mary, University of London through a series of lectures on a range of topics, such as vocal communication in mammals, language and emotions in multicultural society, human cultural evolution, psychobiology of sexuality, economics of sociality, visual information processing and blindness, and decision-making in everyday contexts. The topics are unified in their focus on demonstrating how biological framework and experimental methods enable us to develop an increasingly sophisticated and complex understanding of human psychology.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Dancehalls, Dictators and the Dole: British Politics in the 1930s | HST7332 | No | Dancehalls, Dictators and the Dole: British Politics in the 1930sCredits: 30.0 This course enables students to explore multiple aspects of British political life in the turbulent decade of the 1930's, from the formation of the National Government and the impact of mass unemployment, to the limited appeal of home-grown fascism and the roots of appeasement. It provides students with the opportunity to develop a sound knowledge and understanding of key historiographical debates and available research resources, and places a deliberate emphasis on independent study skills.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Data Acquisition and Processing | DEN6007 | No | Data Acquisition and ProcessingCredits: 15.0 Engineers are often require to take measurements of physical quantities using state-of-the-art instruments interfaced to computer-based data acquisition and processing tools. The data they obtain is often complex and plentiful, requiring appropriate processing and analysis. The aims and objectives of this module are to provide students with basic skills and knowledge in data acquisition and processing. Two key computing languages, of importance for engineers will be covered: Matlab and LabVIEW. In addition, key skills in managing data and assessing statistical relevance and significance will be provided.
Assessment: 50.0% Examination, 50.0% Practical |
| Data Acquisition and Processing | DENM036 | No | Data Acquisition and ProcessingCredits: 15.0 Engineers are often require to take measurements of physical quantities using state-of-the-art instruments interfaced to computer-based data acquisition and processing tools. The data they obtain is often complex and plentiful, requiring appropriate processing and analysis. The aims and objectives of this module are to provide students with basic skills and knowledge in data acquisition and processing. Two key computing languages, of importance for engineers will be covered: Matlab and LabVIEW. In addition, key skills in managing data and assessing statistical relevance and significance will be provided.
Assessment: 50.0% Examination, 50.0% Practical |
| Data Analysis | GEG7205 | No | Data AnalysisCredits: 15.0 Students of Physical Geography and Environmental Science require a range of numerical, statistical land modelling skills to undertake higher-level analysis of environmental datasets. This module provides specific training and experience in specific approaches to data analysis relevant to individual students or groups of students. This will include one-to-one or small group workshops on specific statistical methods, but the precise content of the teaching will be specific to the needs of the cohort in each year.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Database Systems | ECS519U | No | Database SystemsCredits: 15.0 This module is an introduction to databases and their language systems in theory and practice. The main topics covered by the module are: the principles and components of database management systems; the main modelling techniques used in the construction of database systems; implementation of databases using an object-relational database management system; the main relational database language; Object-Oriented database systems; future trends, in particular information retrieval, data warehouses and data mining.There are two timetabled lectures a week, and one-hour tutorial per week (though not every week). There will be timetabled laboratory sessions (two hours a week) for approximately five weeks.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Database Systems | ECS740D | No | Database SystemsCredits: 15.0 Introduction to databases and their language systems in theory and practice. The main topics covered by the module are: The principles and components of database management systems. The main modelling techniques used in the construction of database systems. Implementation of databases using an object-relational database management system. SQL, the main relational database language. Object-Oriented database systems. Future trends, in particular information retrieval and data warehouses. There are 2 timetabled lectures a week, and 1 hour tutorial per week (though not every week). There will be timetabled laboratory sessions (2 hours a week) for approximately 4 weeks.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Database Systems | ECS740P | No | Database SystemsCredits: 15.0 Introduction to databases and their language systems in theory and practice. The main topics covered by the module are: The principles and components of database management systems. The main modelling techniques used in the construction of database systems. Implementation of databases using an object-relational database management system. SQL, the main relational database language. Object-Oriented database systems. Future trends, in particular information retrieval and data warehouses. There are 2 timetabled lectures a week, and 1 hour tutorial per week (though not every week). There will be timetabled laboratory sessions (2 hours a week) for approximately 4 weeks.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Decolonising International Relations | POLM047 | No | Decolonising International RelationsCredits: 30.0 Do we really live in a post-colonial world? Are we de-colonized? Who is ¿we¿? With these questions in mind, this course explores the legacies of colonial rule upon key issues and concepts implicated in the contemporary global order. As a pedagogical device for these engagements, the course introduces students to alternative traditions of thought from the colonial context. Specifically, from week 3 onwards, we shall engage with the works of the Martiniquean, Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) and the Indian, Ashis Nandy (1937-). Unlike the majority of European/Western social and political thought that only addresses colonialism incidentally or derivatively, Fanon and Nandy situate their thoughts on the global order from within the (post-)colonial world. However, Fanon and Nandy¿s perspectives and arguments clash with each-other as much as they are in concordance. We will dwell on these resonances and dissonances that are produced in reading Fanon and Nandy side-by-side, and we will use them as inspirations to critically inquire into contemporary global issues. Through these exercises we will also consider the extent to which, and the ways in which, our understandings of global order might need to be decolonised.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Deconstruction and Politics Beyond the Nation-State | POLM034 | No | Deconstruction and Politics Beyond the Nation-StateCredits: 30.0
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Democracy: Modern | HST7305 | No | Democracy: ModernCredits: 15.0
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Democracy in Plural Societies | POLM014 | No | Democracy in Plural SocietiesCredits: 30.0 This module aims to analyse the broad relationship between democratisation and ethno-national conflict. It assesses the success or failure of a variety of policy approaches taken by governments and international organisations to regulate, resolve or manage ethno-national conflict. Coercive policies such as expulsion, forced migration, 'ethnic cleansing' and genocide are compared and contrasted with more consensual policies such as negotiated secession, national self-determination and different forms of power-sharing.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Describing Prosody | LIN505 | Yes | Describing ProsodyCredits: 15.0 This module aims to introduce students to the range of prosodic features found in human languages, and also to their systematicity. It will cover phonetic elements of prosody, such as pitch and duration, and how such elements influence, for example, the notion of stress and its relation to phonological structure. The module also aims to introduce students to intonational contours, tone languages, tempo and rhythm. As well as examining a range of languages (including but not limited to English) certain contrasting languages will be examined more closely as case studies. Much of the module will involve lab work with both impressionistic and instrumental analyses and students will have the opportunity to measure and annotate prosodic features with guidance and independently.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Design and Build Project in Electronic Engineering | ECS514U | No | Design and Build Project in Electronic EngineeringCredits: 15.0 A group project for second-year electronic engineering students to enable them to learn practical skills in solving engineering problems using electronics. Not open to Associate Students or students from other departments.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Design and Innovation Year 4 Major Design Project | DEN419 | No | Design and Innovation Year 4 Major Design ProjectCredits: 60.0 Students will be engaged in a self-initiated project of some weight; evolving their own practice and producing new and meaningful design work. Students will be expected to produce design work, which is appropriately contextualised and also produced to high professional standard. The student will experience the critical decision making in the design development process and learn to synthesize knowledge and understanding gained from previous modules in design and engineering. They will also demonstrate project management skills and how creative design work is produced.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Design for Human Interaction | ECS638U | No | Design for Human InteractionCredits: 15.0 Technology can support new forms of human communication. Embodied robotics, virtual avatars and social software applications (e.g. Twitter, Facebook and Flikr) create new forms of human interaction and new social economies ('crowdsourcing', 'prosumers', 'GPL licensing'). This research-led course introduces psychological theories of human communication that help us to understand how technology can enrich and transform human interaction. It also introduces the tools and techniques necessary for a principled approach to the design and evaluation of such technology.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Design for Human Interaction | ECS712D | No | Design for Human InteractionCredits: 15.0 Developments in information technology have radically altered the nature of human communication. Spatial and temporal constraints on communication have been weakened or removed and new structures and forms of communication have developed. For some technologies, such as video conferencing, text messaging and online communities, the importance of understanding their effect on human communication is clear. However, even the success of 'individualistic' technologies, such as spreadsheets, can be shown to depend partly on their impact on patterns of interaction between people. Conversely, some technologies, such as videophones, that are specifically designed to enhance communication can sometimes make it worse. Currently, there is no accepted explanation of how technologies alter, and are altered by, the patterns and processes of human communication. Such an explanation is necessary for effective design of new technologies. This research led module explores these issues by introducing psychological theories of the nature of human communication and socio-historical perspectives on the development and impact of communication technologies. These models are applied to the analysis of new communications technologies and the effects of those technologies on communication patterns between individuals, groups and societies. A variety of different technologies are introduced ranging from systems for the support of tightly-coupled synchronous interactions through to large-scale shared workspaces for the support of extended collaborations. Detailed studies of the effects of different technologies on task performance, communication processes and user satisfaction are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to the notion of communicative success and to the development of metrics that can be used in assessing it. Frameworks for analysing the communicative properties of different media will be introduced as well as approaches to the analysis of communication in groups and organisations.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Design for Human Interaction | ECS712P | No | Design for Human InteractionCredits: 15.0 Developments in information technology have radically altered the nature of human communication. Spatial and temporal constraints on communication have been weakened or removed and new structures and forms of communication have developed. For some technologies, such as video conferencing, text messaging and online communities, the importance of understanding their effect on human communication is clear. However, even the success of 'individualistic' technologies, such as spreadsheets, can be shown to depend partly on their impact on patterns of interaction between people. Conversely, some technologies, such as videophones, that are specifically designed to enhance communication can sometimes make it worse. Currently, there is no accepted explanation of how technologies alter, and are altered by, the patterns and processes of human communication. Such an explanation is necessary for effective design of new technologies. This research led module explores these issues by introducing psychological theories of the nature of human communication and socio-historical perspectives on the development and impact of communication technologies. These models are applied to the analysis of new communications technologies and the effects of those technologies on communication patterns between individuals, groups and societies. A variety of different technologies are introduced ranging from systems for the support of tightly-coupled synchronous interactions through to large-scale shared workspaces for the support of extended collaborations. Detailed studies of the effects of different technologies on task performance, communication processes and user satisfaction are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to the notion of communicative success and to the development of metrics that can be used in assessing it. Frameworks for analysing the communicative properties of different media will be introduced as well as approaches to the analysis of communication in groups and organisations.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Design for Human Interaction | ECS712U | No | Design for Human InteractionCredits: 15.0 Developments in information technology have radically altered the nature of human communication. Spatial and temporal constraints on communication have been weakened or removed and new structures and forms of communication have developed. For some technologies, such as video conferencing, text messaging and online communities, the importance of understanding their effect on human communication is clear. However, even the success of 'individualistic' technologies, such as spreadsheets, can be shown to depend partly on their impact on patterns of interaction between people. Conversely, some technologies, such as videophones, that are specifically designed to enhance communication can sometimes make it worse. Currently, there is no accepted explanation of how technologies alter, and are altered by, the patterns and processes of human communication. Such an explanation is necessary for effective design of new technologies. This research led module explores these issues by introducing psychological theories of the nature of human communication and socio-historical perspectives on the development and impact of communication technologies. These models are applied to the analysis of new communications technologies and the effects of those technologies on communication patterns between individuals, groups and societies. A variety of different technologies are introduced ranging from systems for the support of tightly-coupled synchronous interactions through to large-scale shared workspaces for the support of extended collaborations. Detailed studies of the effects of different technologies on task performance, communication processes and user satisfaction are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to the notion of communicative success and to the development of metrics that can be used in assessing it. Frameworks for analysing the communicative properties of different media will be introduced as well as approaches to the analysis of communication in groups and organisations.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Design For Manufacture | DEN5101 | Yes | Design For ManufactureCredits: 15.0 This module will examine how 3D CAE can be used to create detailed design drawings, create simple assemblies, manufacture prototypes, real parts and also how analytical models such as finite element analysis geometries can be used to evaluate designs. A wide range of different processing techniques such as moulding, forming, cutting, welding, turning and milling will be examined. Various different strategies such as failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) that can be used to evaluate the design risk, especially in areas with extensive legislation in place, to determine 'safe' design. The role of inspection and statistical process control techniques in ensuring a robust design and manufacturing process will be examined.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Design of Experiments | MTH6116 | Yes | Design of ExperimentsCredits: 15.0 Experiments are carried out in all areas of business, industry, science and medicine. To obtain reliable information, the experiments must be carefully planned. This module introduces the statistical side of the design of experiments from consultation to interpretation.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Desire and Society in Twentieth Century Catalan Literature | CAT201 | Yes | Desire and Society in Twentieth Century Catalan LiteratureCredits: 15.0 This module aims to provide an overview of 20th Century Catalan literature, focusing on the crucial issue of the relationship between history, society and subjectivity. Through detailed analysis and discussion of a number of key texts by some of the most important Catalan writers, the module will explore issues such as the relationship between the individual and society; the construction of identity through gender, sexuality, class and nation; the desire for social, personal, and national emancipation; exile and political oppression; the modern and post-modern recycling of myth; the textualisation of illness. All texts are available in English and/or Spanish translation.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Desk Study | GEG7305 | No | Desk StudyCredits: 15.0 The module provides an opportunity for students to research and acquire in-depth knowledge of a contemporary environmental science issue or specialised area of environmental science not covered in the taught programme. Students select their own research topic, subject to consultation with and approval by the module organiser. Module supervision is provided on an individual basis by the most appropriate member of physical geography staff.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Developmental Biology and Cell Signalling | SBS625 | Yes | Developmental Biology and Cell SignallingCredits: 15.0 Prerequisites: Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics (SBS118) or Human Molecular Biology (SBS009). This module covers genes in development including the specification of the body plan, head development and anterior-posterior development, and dorso-ventral patterning including mesoderm induction. Regulation of morphogenesis, growth and size control (apoptosis) is also covered. A range of model systems will be studied (Drosophila, nematode, Xenopus, Zebra fish, mouse, plants). Basic properties of the cell cycle including the universal cell cycle engine; checkpoints and feedback controls; cancer and feedback controls will also be studied. Other topics include hormones, and hormonal and paracrine regulation of cell signalling in specific endocrine regulated tissues, and the mechanisms underlying cell phenotype responses to physiological stimuli, tissue and organism integrative regulation. Perturbation of these functions in disease will be discussed.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Development Economics | ECN370 | Yes | Development EconomicsCredits: 15.0 This module is concerned with the analysis of economic problems faced by developing countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America. It focuses, on the one hand, on the meaning, measurements and comparability of growth and development across countries (ie income per capita, income distribution and poverty) and, on the other, on the availability and characteristics of resources (ie labour, land, capital, savings), and the problems with their use in the context of developing countries vis-a-vis OECD countries. The above is presented in the analytic context of (historical) alternative development models and globalisation issues. Although the module does not demand advanced mathematics it does require the use of some mathematics and a fair amount of reading. Prerequisite: ECN206, ECN211.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Development Futures: Mumbai Unbound | GEG6120 | No | Development Futures: Mumbai UnboundCredits: 30.0 This innovative fieldwork-based module is unique among Geography departments in the UK. Operationalised thorugh an empirical focus on urban change in Mumbai, India's financial capital, it challenges the long-standing academic division between 'economic' and 'development' geography, and instead builds an alternative hybrid approach. The module will focus on a series of core themes: (i) Mumbai's dual economy, in which low-end, low-paid service providers underpin the success of high profile multinational corporations; (ii) gender and work in India's high profile Business Process Outsourcing - IT-Enabled Services Industry; (iii) the growth of India's new middle classes, their patterns of consumption and the inscriptions of these in the urban fabric; (iv) poverty and hope in Mumbai's slums, focusing around informal economies of survival amongst different social and ethnic groups in Dharavi and NGO projects seeking to improve well-being and quality of life within Mumbai's slums.
Assessment: 15.0% Practical, 85.0% Coursework |
| DH Lawrence: Controversy and Legacy | ESH381 | Yes | DH Lawrence: Controversy and LegacyCredits: 15.0 The shadow cast by D.H. Lawrence over the history and study of literature in the 20th century is a long one. In his own lifetime, he engaged both positively and negatively with some of the most fashionable literary and intellectual currents of the day (he was, for example, both a Modernist and a Georgian poet, a Nietzschean and a critic of war, an Anti-Imperialist and a Primitivist). After his death, his writings were claimed for tradition of working-class writing in England, both for and against feminist campaigns against the suppression of female sexuality and for a new 'postcolonial' approach to early twentieth-century texts. Most famously the 'Lady Chatterley' trial in 1960 gained iconic significance as the event that marked the beginning of a new period of sexual freedom. This module aims to reconsider Lawrence's writings in the light of this history of rediscovery and controversy. It takes seriously (and where necessary not so seriously) Lawrence's claims to be a poet and a thinker, reading his philosophical writings alongside two of his models, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and traces the important shifts in his fiction writing from the early provincial stories to the later 'leadership' novels. It looks at influential responses to Lawrence in the 1950s and 60s and considers what these responses might reveal about how literary legacies are shaped and how this changes the way we read Lawrence's texts in the present.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Differential and Integral Analysis | MTH5105 | Yes | Differential and Integral AnalysisCredits: 15.0 This module provides a rigorous basis for differential and integral calculus.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Differential Equations | MTH5123 | No | Differential EquationsCredits: 15.0 Differential equations frequently arise in application of mathematics to science, engineering , social science and economics. This module provides an introduction to the methods of analysis and solution of simple classes of ordinary differential equations. The topics covered will include first- and second-order differential equations, autonomous systems of differential equations and analysis of stability of their solutions.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Digital Arts Documentary | ECS748D | No | Digital Arts DocumentaryCredits: 15.0 This module focuses on the technical, creative and critical skills needed to produce a professional quality documentary. It introduces contemporary studio production techniques including digital recording and editing. Students, working in groups of three, will research and produce an arts-based video documentary of 12-15 minutes in length. This work will be a content-based research output which either itself implements an innovative digital production technique or reflects and explores an area of contemporary digital production practice.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Practical |
| Digital Arts Documentary | ECS748P | No | Digital Arts DocumentaryCredits: 15.0 This module focuses on the technical, creative and critical skills needed to produce a professional quality documentary. It introduces contemporary studio production techniques including digital recording and editing. Students, working in groups of three, will research and produce an arts-based video documentary of 12-15 minutes in length. This work will be a content-based research output which either itself implements an innovative digital production technique or reflects and explores an area of contemporary digital production practice.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Practical
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| Digital Audio Effects | ECS623U | No | Digital Audio EffectsCredits: 15.0 This module covers the entire field of digital audio effects, including some depth in the subfields and related subjects. It is concerned with the use of digital signal processing and its applications to the creation or modification of sounds and sound effects. It explains what can be done in the digital processing of sounds in the form of computer algorithms and sound examples resulting from these transformations. It describes signal processing concepts and software implementations, as well as advances in filters, delays, modulators, and time-frequency processing of sound. It primarily covers time-domain, non- linear, time-segment, time-frequency, source-filter, spectral, bitstream signal processing, spatial effects, time and frequency warping, and the control of audio effects.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Digital Audio Effects | ECS730D | No | Digital Audio EffectsCredits: 15.0 This module covers the entire field of digital audio effects, including some depth in the subfields and related subjects. It is concerned with the use of digital signal processing and its applications to the creation or modification of sounds and sound effects. It explains what can be done in the digital processing of sounds in the form of computer algorithms and sound examples resulting from these transformations. It describes signal processing concepts and software implementations, as well as advances in filters, delays, modulators, and time-frequency processing of sound. It primarily covers time-domain, non- linear, time-segment, time-frequency, source-filter, spectral, bitstream signal processing, spatial effects, time and frequency warping, and the control of audio effects.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Digital Audio Effects | ECS730P | No | Digital Audio EffectsCredits: 15.0 This module covers the entire field of digital audio effects, including some depth in the subfields and related subjects. It is concerned with the use of digital signal processing and its applications to the creation or modification of sounds and sound effects. It explains what can be done in the digital processing of sounds in the form of computer algorithms and sound examples resulting from these transformations. It describes signal processing concepts and software implementations, as well as advances in filters, delays, modulators, and time-frequency processing of sound. It primarily covers time-domain, non- linear, time-segment, time-frequency, source-filter, spectral, bitstream signal processing, spatial effects, time and frequency warping, and the control of audio effects.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Digital Circuit Design | ECS412U | Yes | Digital Circuit DesignCredits: 15.0 The module covers: Number Systems and Codes; Boolean Algebra and Basic Logic Functions; MAP minimisation; Combinational Logic; Synchronous Sequential Logic; VHDL
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Digital Electronics | MELM004 | No | Digital ElectronicsCredits: 15.0 This module aims to provide a thorough introduction to digital electronics, the art of digital circuit design and the importance of such techniques within medical electronics.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Digital Media and Social Networks | ECS637U | No | Digital Media and Social NetworksCredits: 15.0 Introduction to Online Social Networks (OSN) Characteristics of OSNs Basic Graph Theory Small World Phenomenon Information propagation on OSNs Influence and Content Recommendation Sentiment Analysis in Social Media Privacy and ethics
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Digital Media and Social Networks | ECS757D | No | Digital Media and Social NetworksCredits: 15.0 Introduction to Online Social Networks (OSN) Characteristics of OSNs Basic Graph Theory Small World Phenomenon Information propagation on OSNs Influence and Content Recommendation Sentiment Analysis in Social Media Privacy and ethics
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Digital Media and Social Networks | ECS757P | No | Digital Media and Social NetworksCredits: 15.0 Introduction to Online Social Networks (OSN) Characteristics of OSNs Basic Graph Theory Small World Phenomenon Information propagation on OSNs Influence and Content Recommendation Sentiment Analysis in Social Media Privacy and ethics
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Digital Media and Social Networks | ECS757U | No | Digital Media and Social NetworksCredits: 15.0 Introduction to Online Social Networks (OSN) Characteristics of OSNs Basic Graph Theory Small World Phenomenon Information propagation on OSNs Influence and Content Recommendation Sentiment Analysis in Social Media Privacy and ethics
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Digital Signal Processing | ECS602U | No | Digital Signal ProcessingCredits: 15.0 This is a Level 6 module, which builds upon the signal processing theory introduced in ELE374, Signals and Systems Theory. The main part of the module covers the theory of digital signal processing techniques and digital filter design. The module concludes with an examination of some applications of digital signal processing.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination |
| Digital Worlds: Cartography, GIS and Modelling | GEG5202 | No | Digital Worlds: Cartography, GIS and ModellingCredits: 30.0 This module will build on existing mapping and surveying techniques introduced in GEG4203. It will consist of three connected blocks of teaching centred on digital techniques that all represent key skills in Physical Geography: Digital cartography and remote sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and numerical modelling approaches. For each of the three blocks, lectures will introduce the principles and provide case histories of applications, and laboratory practicals will be used to provide "hands-on" experience of key software packages and the handling of digital data. Assessed coursework assignments, including seminar presentations as well as written submissions, will be used to test the understanding of the subject matter and to discuss key issues in each of the three blocks.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 90.0% Coursework
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| Discrete Mathematics [Foundation] | SEF015 | Yes | Discrete Mathematics [Foundation]Credits: 15.0 This module introduces students to arithmetic beyond the integers and rational numbers: modulo arithmetic, and the arithmetic of polynomials, matrices, logical propositions and sets. Applications of these concepts in prepositional logic, relational algebra and graph theory will also be covered. Prerequisite: SEF026 Essential Foundation Mathematical Skills
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Discrete Mathematics [Foundation] | SEJ015 | No | Discrete Mathematics [Foundation]Credits: 15.0 This module introduces students to arithmetic beyond the integers and rational numbers: modulo arithmetic, and the arithmetic of polynomials, matrices, logical propositions and sets. Applications of these concepts in prepositional logic, relational algebra and graph theory will also be covered. Prerequisite: SEJ026 Essential Foundation Mathematical Skills
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Disraeli, Democracy and Empire | HST5308 | Yes | Disraeli, Democracy and EmpireCredits: 15.0 This module will examine half a century of British history, essentially between the first and third parliamentary reform acts of 1832 and 1884-5 respectively. Partly by focussing on Disraeli's own career, it will consider key developments for this country in terms both of domestic politics and of imperial and international affairs. Particular attention will be given to Chartism, the repeal of the Corn Laws, the Crimean war, the Indian mutiny, the second parliamentary reform act and Disraeli's second ministry of 1874-80. Suggested reading: Shannon, R., Gladstone: Heroic Minister 1865-1898 (1999) Lyons, F. S. L., Charles Stewart Parnell (1977)
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Dissertation | PFRM027 | No | DissertationCredits: 60.0 This independent research project culminates in a dissertation of 12,000-15,000 words. Working with the support of a supervisor, students pursue their own independent investigation of the theory and practice of performance. Research development is also encouraged by a dissertation colloquium in late May/early June, in which students present their research in progress and receive feedback from academic staff and other graduate students. Recent dissertation topics have included studies of illness and performance, performance and second language acquisition, the performance of rural spaces and identities, contemporary performance and relational aesthetics, circus performance in Victorian Britain, cultural value and performance and performance and social conflict.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation | BUSM003 | No | DissertationCredits: 60.0 Students should try to find a suitable supervisor from academic staff research interests during the second semester. A member of academic staff may agree to supervise a student once a brief proposal has been drawn up. If this does not happen, a supervisor will be allocated to each student. Students can expect to see their supervisor four times per term and students are expected to take the initiative in making appointments with their supervisor. Note that supervisory meetings cannot usually be arranged outside term time. The role of the supervisor is to advise on all aspects of the research project including: the topic area and relevant literature; the feasibility of the topic; the time scale of the research; the specification of the research questions; the design and adequacy of methods; sources of data and access to fields of observation; analysis and interpretation of results; structure and style of reporting.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation | MTRM004 | No | DissertationCredits: 105.0 A 105 credit project specific to MRes programmes of study. The project is undertaken over a full calendar year and researches a materials topic in depth and is associated with an academic staff member's research.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation | SBSM016 | No | DissertationCredits: 60.0 This is typically a novel piece of research, often involving field sampling, experimentation, laboratory work, and data analysis. While projects are offered to students we also encourage them to design their own study. The diversity of expertise of lecturers involved with the programme means that good supervision can be found for a broad range of studies in freshwater and coastal environments. Many of the projects that are advertised each year are funded via post-doctoral or PhD student research grants, and some are linked with external organisations such as CEH, the EA and other universities.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation | POLM017 | No | DissertationCredits: 60.0 The Masters' Dissertation is an independent programme of study of an approved topic within the field of Politics completed over the summer months (May-August) of your degree programme. It is a compulsory element of your degree amounting to sixty credits (providing one-third of the credits for your degree). It is designed to enable students to undertake independent research and, through this, allow them to develop a specialised knowledge in an area of the Politics discipline which is of particular interest to them. Thus, it may draw upon, and develop an existing topic or issue associated with a module that they have studied in the earlier part of their programme, or emerge out of a student's specific research interest in an area not covered by other module modules. Although the dissertation is meant to be an exercise in independent research and writing, each student will be offered guidance and support through the assigning of a supervisor within the department who will oversee the progress of the dissertation.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation | ECOM024 | No | DissertationCredits: 60.0
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation | GEG7402 | No | DissertationCredits: 60.0 This module will involve students completing a 15,000 word dissertation on a topic related to community organising. This can be either (1) a humanities-style thesis that scrutinises key ideas in relation to their deployment by broad-based community organisations (including the use of secondary data, and if appropriate, some original empirical material); (2) a social sciences-style thesis that sets out to answer a number of research questions pertinent to the work of broad-based community organisations through the acquisition of original research data; or (3) an action research project that is based on a collective project with members of a community organisation whereby the group focuses on a particular topic and devises their own methods for collecting data with the support and assistance of the student. In this case, students will write up the action research work that was undertaken and reflect on the experience as well as the results. Students will meet an academic supervisor once a month from January to July for support in planning, executing and completing the dissertation.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation | LAW6035 | No | DissertationCredits: 30.0 The content of the dissertation is determined by the student, with limited guidance by a supervisor.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation | ECOM075 | No | DissertationCredits: 60.0
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation | ESH7000 | No | DissertationCredits: 60.0 The dissertation offers students an opportunity to develop and demonstrate their research and writing skills while engaging with a topic suggested by their work on the core and option modules. It provides a preparation for doctoral research. The research topic must be feasible, academically sound, and related to the concerns of the programme. The dissertation must develop an appropriate research methodology and demonstrate an advanced understanding of historical and/or theoretical issues. It must also demonstrate an ability to analyse and present complex evidence and to shape and sustain a coherent, persuasive critical argument at masters level. It must observe appropriate stylistic and bibliographic conventions.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation (Aquatic Ecology by Research) | SBCM003 | No | Dissertation (Aquatic Ecology by Research)Credits: 135.0 The dissertation is a substantial piece of original research involving empirical laboratory and / or field-based studies. Students will be encouraged to choose a project from a diverse range of subjects closely aligned to existing cutting edge research programmes in the Aquatic Ecology research groups of SBCS. Some may have ties to external agencies such as the Environment Agency. Projects will involve a substantial component of lab and / or field data collection.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 30.0% Coursework, 60.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation (Aquatic Ecology by Research) | SBCM003 | No | Dissertation (Aquatic Ecology by Research)Credits: 135.0 The dissertation is a substantial piece of original research involving empirical laboratory and / or field-based studies. Students will be encouraged to choose a project from a diverse range of subjects closely aligned to existing cutting edge research programmes in the Aquatic Ecology research groups of SBCS. Some may have ties to external agencies such as the Environment Agency. Projects will involve a substantial component of lab and / or field data collection.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 30.0% Coursework, 60.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation 15,000 Words | GEG7107 | No | Dissertation 15,000 WordsCredits: 60.0 The module provides an opportunity to undertake a substantial piece of original research on a subject that directly relates to your interests within geography. Following a period of consultation with your supervisor you will develop a topic that relates to your studies and then be given the skills to conduct detailed theoretical and empirical research on that topic. The research may include quantitative or qualitative approaches and include fieldwork and archival research.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation 22,500 Words | GEG7118 | No | Dissertation 22,500 WordsCredits: 90.0 The module provides an opportunity to undertake a substantial piece of original research on a subject that directly relates to your interests within geography. Following a period of consultation with your supervisor you will develop a topic that relates to your studies and then be given the skills to conduct detailed theoretical and empirical research on that topic. The research may include quantitative or qualitative approaches and include fieldwork and archival research.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation for Accounting and Finance | BUSM066 | No | Dissertation for Accounting and FinanceCredits: 60.0
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation - MA European Jewish History | HST7606 | No | Dissertation - MA European Jewish HistoryCredits: 60.0 The dissertation for the MA in MA European Jewish History is worth 60 credits and should be a maximum of 15,000 words. It is undertaken by independent research on a topic formulated in consultation with your adviser, with in-put, as required, from module options teachers. Your topic is formulated early in Semester Two, with titles and brief outlines submitted in March. You are then assigned to an appropriate supervisor. Students are able to discuss plans and drafts with their supervisor in a minimum of three supervision meetings arranged between the beginning of the exam period and the end of June. Tuition takes the form of one-to-one supervision.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation - MA History | HST7605 | No | Dissertation - MA HistoryCredits: 60.0 The dissertation for the MA in History is worth 60 credits and should be a maximum of 15,000 words. It is undertaken by independent research on a topic formulated in consultation with your adviser, with in-put, as required, from module options teachers. Your topic is formulated early in Semester Two, with titles and brief outlines submitted in March. You are then assigned to an appropriate supervisor. Students are able to discuss plans and drafts with their supervisor in a minimum of three supervision meetings arranged between the beginning of the exam period and the end of June. Tuition takes the form of one-to-one supervision.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation - MA History of Political Thought and Intellectual History | HST7603 | No | Dissertation - MA History of Political Thought and Intellectual HistoryCredits: 60.0 The dissertation for the MA in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History is worth 60 credits and should be a maximum of 12,000 words. It is undertaken by independent research on a topic formulated in consultation with your adviser, with in-put, as required, from module options teachers. Your topic is formulated early in Semester Two, with titles and brief outlines submitted in March. You are then assigned to an appropriate supervisor. Students are able to discuss plans and drafts with their supervisor in a minimum of three supervision meetings arranged between the beginning of the exam period and the end of June. Tuition takes the form of one-to-one supervision. For HST7604, Dissertation - MA Islam and the West the text should be: The dissertation for the MA in Islam and the West is worth 60 credits and should be a maximum of 15,000 words. It is undertaken by independent research on a topic formulated in consultation with your adviser, with in-put, as required, from module options teachers. Your topic is formulated early in Semester Two, with titles and brief outlines submitted in March. You are then assigned to an appropriate supervisor. Students are able to discuss plans and drafts with their supervisor in a minimum of three supervision meetings arranged between the beginning of the exam period and the end of June. Tuition takes the form of one-to-one supervision.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation - MA Islam and the West | HST7604 | No | Dissertation - MA Islam and the WestCredits: 60.0 The dissertation for the MA in Islam and the West is worth 60 credits and should be a maximum of 15,000 words. It is undertaken by independent research on a topic formulated in consultation with your adviser, with in-put, as required, from module options teachers. Your topic is formulated early in Semester Two, with titles and brief outlines submitted in March. You are then assigned to an appropriate supervisor. Students are able to discuss plans and drafts with their supervisor in a minimum of three supervision meetings arranged between the beginning of the exam period and the end of June. Tuition takes the form of one-to-one supervision.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation - MA Modern and Contemporary British History | HST7601 | No | Dissertation - MA Modern and Contemporary British HistoryCredits: 60.0 The dissertation for the MA in Modern and Contemporary British History is worth 60 credits and should be a maximum of 15,000 words. It is undertaken by independent research on a topic formulated in consultation with your adviser, with in-put, as required, from module options teachers. Your topic is formulated early in Semester Two, with titles and brief outlines submitted in March. You are then assigned to an appropriate supervisor. Students are able to discuss plans and drafts with their supervisor in a minimum of three supervision meetings arranged between the beginning of the exam period and the end of June. Tuition takes the form of one-to-one supervision.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Dissertation - MPA | BUSM083 | No | Dissertation - MPACredits: 60.0 The dissertation provides students with an opportunity to carry out independent research into a topic of their choice related to the aims of the MPA, subject to guidance from the dissertation supervisor. Each student will be required to have a registered dissertation topic and have been allocated a supervisor by the middle of the spring semester. NB. Students are prepared for the dissertation by taking the compulsory MPA module entitled ""Policy evaluation and research methods"" which includes lectures and classes on research design and methods. Additional methods support may be provided by dissertation supervisors in this module as required.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Dissertation Proseminar | LIN7005 | No | Dissertation ProseminarCredits: 15.0 Research at postgraduate level places special demands on the developing researcher, for which appropriate training is needed. The two primary goals of this module are to prepare students for the practical challenges of postgraduate research (including the development of a research question/agenda, advanced library research, ethics and practical dimensions of research collection, outlining and writing a dissertation, abstract-writing, oral presentation, and other related skills) and to initiate students into specialised research in their chosen dissertation area. The first part of the module (before reading week) will cover core, generic postgraduate training for all students on the MA, taught through group sessions. The second part of the module (after reading week) will require students to apply this knowledge (as well as knowledge from core modules in Semester 1) to their chosen area of research by pursuing independent reading and research towards their potential dissertation topics (to be completed during the summer term), taught through individual meetings with supervisors.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Distributed Systems and Security | ECS608U | No | Distributed Systems and SecurityCredits: 15.0 In this module we cover the basic technical elements of distributed systems, with a focus on basic technologies for security in distributed computing because of their technical and social significance. Concretely we discuss fundamental characteristics of distributed systems, including: openness, geographic distribution, heterogeneity, communication delay and failure; key elements for networking and internetworking, including: layered protocols (centring on the TCP/IP protocol suit), addressing and routing, naming service; server-client models, remote procedure calls (RPC) and remote method invocation (RMI), taking Java and CORBA as examples; basic ideas of distributed file service, including basic architecture/mechanisms, name space management, cache management and concurrency control; and finally models and mechanisms of security, in particular fundamental ideas of security, symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, authentication mechanisms, basic cryptographic protocols and algorithms, protection domains, access control, firewall, and real-world examples of security including web commerce and Kerberos.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Examination
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| Distributed Systems and Security | ECS760D | No | Distributed Systems and SecurityCredits: 15.0 In this module we shall cover the basic technical elements of distributed systems, with a focus on basic technologies for security in distributed computing because of their technical and social significance. Concretely we discuss fundamental characteristics of distributed systems, including: openness, geographic distribution, heterogeneity, communication delay and failure; key elements for networking and internetworking, including: layered protocols (centring on the TCP/IP protocol suit), addressing and routing, naming service; server-client models, remote procedure calls (RPC) and remote method invocation (RMI), taking Java and CORBA as examples; basic ideas of distributed file service and distributed transaction, including basic architecture/mechanisms, name space management, cache management and concurrency control; and finally models and mechanisms of security, in particular fundamental ideas of security, symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, authentication mechanisms, basic cryptographic protocols and algorithms, protection domains, access control, firewall, and real-world examples of security including web.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Distributed Systems and Security | ECS760P | No | Distributed Systems and SecurityCredits: 15.0 In this module we shall cover the basic technical elements of distributed systems, with a focus on basic technologies for security in distributed computing because of their technical and social significance. Concretely we discuss fundamental characteristics of distributed systems, including: openness, geographic distribution, heterogeneity, communication delay and failure; key elements for networking and internetworking, including: layered protocols (centring on the TCP/IP protocol suit), addressing and routing, naming service; server-client models, remote procedure calls (RPC) and remote method invocation (RMI), taking Java and CORBA as examples; basic ideas of distributed file service and distributed transaction, including basic architecture/mechanisms, name space management, cache management and concurrency control; and finally models and mechanisms of security, in particular fundamental ideas of security, symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, authentication mechanisms, basic cryptographic protocols and algorithms, protection domains, access control, firewall, and real-world examples of security including web.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Diversity and Ecology | SEF033 | Yes | Diversity and EcologyCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to introduce you to the basic principles of evolution and to develop an appreciation of the dynamic nature of ecological systems. It is particularly suitable for students who wish to study Ecology, Zoology, Marine and Freshwater Biology, Genetics, and Biology.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Documentary Film - Theory and Practice | SML7050 | No | Documentary Film - Theory and PracticeCredits: 30.0 Documentary in its simplest of forms is a recording of an act. The film camera is first and foremost a recording instrument, whether it captures 'life caught unawares' or a fictional scenario. This module examines the history of 'non-fiction' filmmaking in the 20th and 21 st century through the understanding of documentary styles and genre. Political, social, ethical and historical issues will be addressed through the engagement of theory and practice.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Practical
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| Documentary Production Project | SML7053 | No | Documentary Production ProjectCredits: 30.0 This is an elective/optional module for the MA in Documentary Practice. Utilising knowledge and research skills developed in the first semester core module Documentary Film: Theory and Practice SML7 050, students taking the Documentary Production Project will independently research a documentary topic and from this produce and complete a 23 minute documentary production. Assessment will be based on the documentary production project and on a research report that accounts for the research methodology and the resulting form and style of the completed production.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Practical
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| Dramaturgy and Translation | DRA306 | Yes | Dramaturgy and TranslationCredits: 30.0 This module aims to investigate key questions around the areas of theatre writing, adaptation and translation through practical application. In the first half of the semester, issues around the cultural and linguistic transfer and relocation of dramatic material will be explored as you work both individually and in groups on dramaturgical projects. The second half of the semester will allow for you to begin work on your own play/translation/adaptation, providing the space for scenes to be revised as they are read and presented within a laboratory environment. You will be encouraged to locate and read a variety of new plays as well as neglected pieces from earlier this century in the hope of sharpening your evaluation and critical skills and of introducing you to as wide a body of international writing as possible.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Drug Design and Development | SBC400 | No | Drug Design and DevelopmentCredits: 15.0 This module is designed for students in the fourth year of the F152 MSci programme in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and will be offered as an option. Pre-requisite 18 modules passed in F152. The aim of the module is to introduce you to the approaches currently employed in the pharmaceutical industry for drug discovery and development using a number of recent case studies as exemplars. The module will introduce you to the physical and chemical approaches used in the design and development of new drugs and will make them aware of the physiological/pharmacological issues that need to be considered before a drug can be used clinically.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Drug Design and Development | CHEM400 | No | Drug Design and DevelopmentCredits: 15.0 The aim of the module is to focus on drug discovery and development using a number of case studies and the most recent advances in the pharmaceutical chemistry approaches. At the end of this module students should be able to discuss the physical and chemical approaches to the design and development of new drugs and be aware of the physiological/pharmacological issues that need to be considered before a drug can be used clinically.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Dynamical Systems | MTH744P | No | Dynamical SystemsCredits: 15.0 A dynamical system is any system which evolves over time according to some pre-determined rule. The goal of dynamical systems theory is to understand this evolution. For example: fix your favourite function f from the unit interval to itself (for example cos(x)); now choose some point x(0) in the interval, and define x(1)=f(x), x(2)=f(f(x)), etc (i.e. x(n) is the result of applying the function f to the point x(0) n times). How does the sequence of points x(n) behave as n tends to infinity? How does this behaviour change if we choose a different initial point x(0)? What if we investigate a system which evolves continuously over time? Dynamical systems theory seeks to answer such questions. The more interesting systems are the 'chaotic' ones, where varying the initial point x(0) leads to very different behaviour of the sequence x(n).
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Dynamical Systems | MTH744U | Yes | Dynamical SystemsCredits: 15.0 A dynamical system is any system which evolves over time according to some pre-determined rule. The goal of dynamical systems theory is to understand this evolution. For example: fix your favourite function f from the unit interval to itself (for example cos(x)); now choose some point x(0) in the interval, and define x(1)=f(x), x(2)=f(f(x)), etc (i.e. x(n) is the result of applying the function f to the point x(0) n times). How does the sequence of points x(n) behave as n tends to infinity? How does this behaviour change if we choose a different initial point x(0)? What if we investigate a system which evolves continuously over time? Dynamical systems theory seeks to answer such questions. The more interesting systems are the 'chaotic' ones, where varying the initial point x(0) leads to very different behaviour of the sequence x(n).
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Dynamic Models of Engineering Systems | DEN5108 | Yes | Dynamic Models of Engineering SystemsCredits: 15.0 This module introduces techniques to model and analyse the behaviour of dynamic systems encountered in Engineering practice. It studies plane kinematics of rigid bodies, the modelling of one- and two-degree-of-freedom mechanical systems using energy-based methods, vibrations of mainly two-degree-of-freedom mechanical systems and introduces the modelling and analysis of dynamic systems using partial differential equations.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Early Modern Archival Skills | ESH7704 | No | Early Modern Archival SkillsCredits: 0.0 This course provides students with the skills necessary for scholarly archival research. In the first semester students are introduced to manuscript materials. They learn how to access these documents and how to read, transcribe and interpret them. In the second semester the focus shifts from manuscript archives to the early modern printed book. Students learn how to use research libraries, construct scholarly bibliographies and footnotes, analyse and describe early modern books and finally obtain the skills involved in the critical editing of printed texts.
Assessment: 100.0% Final Mark
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| Early Modern Art in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1950 | HST5309 | Yes | Early Modern Art in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1950Credits: 15.0 Cezanne is considered today as being of enormous importance to the development of modern art. His geometrized landscapes and still life paintings inspired Picasso and Braque to develop Cubism, one of the most influential 20th century avant-garde art movements that revolutionized European painting and sculpture. Change was fast and intense at the beginning of the century. The world was being transformed by a flood of new inventions and new concepts: movies and radio, assembly lines and suburbs, comic strips, psychoanalysis; a scientific utopia which promised a never ending and perfect life. The module will focus on how these changes were captured and addressed in the works of key avant-garde movements like Dada, Futurism, Surrealism, Bauhaus and Abstract Art that so strongly marked the artistic directions of the period.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Early Modern Contexts | ESH7706 | No | Early Modern ContextsCredits: 30.0 This module aims to equip students with conceptual and practical awareness of interdisciplinary research in medieval and early modern studies in the period 1300-1700. This will involve understanding texts and materials across cultures, media and disciplines. Though the emphasis is on reading and habits of reading, we shall also consider how contemporary communities engaged with a variety of cultural practices, and attended to performance and spectacle across literary, visual and material media.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Early Modern Drama and Social Process I | ESH258 | No | Early Modern Drama and Social Process ICredits: 30.0 This double-unit module is intended primarily for second year students who benefitted from ESH101 Shakespeare in the first year, and who wish to continue their exploration of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in a multimedia learning environment. It is also particularly suitable for joint honours English and Drama, and English and History students. Each semester begins with a modern play, and with modern anthropological studies of particular social processes, using them as a way into a series of plays by Shakespeare and other dramatists. The first semester begins with the American writer Arthur Miller's The Crucible (1953), and with studies of witchcraft accusations, before moving on to plays such as Shakespeare's Macbeth, Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, and Dekker, Ford and Rowley's The Witch of Edmonton. The second semester begins with the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman (1975), and with studies of mourning and funeral rituals, before assessing plays such as Shakespeare's Hamlet and Titus, and Tourneur's The Atheist&s Tragedy. Students will work in small seminar groups of 5 students. The module will be taught in two-week blocks each dealing with one play and one piece of secondary reading: in the first week a lecture and lecture-discussion; in the second week a threehour seminar (bringing all the small groups together) on the same text. All teaching in lectures and seminars will be delivered by the module convenor. Students will have access to a WebCT6 course area, where they will submit assignments, and access course materials and communication tools. Students who wish to take this module, and who are interested in studying further plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, can also register for the additional single unit that runs in parallel (ESH259 Early Modern Drama and Social Process 1: Further Study).
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Early Modern Fantasies | ESH360 | Yes | Early Modern FantasiesCredits: 15.0 This module will introduce students to the fantastic worlds of early modern Europe. We will read a variety of canonical and popular texts, examine art works and consider how history, geography, scientific experiment and religious belief was infused with fantasy and fiction in this period. The module is designed to encourage creative and independent research of an interdisciplinary nature. It builds on the historical knowledge developed at levels 1 and 2, but offers a new perspective on the early modern works of the imagination. It will also encourage students to think again about our own contemporary context, by revealing how blurred the line between fantasy and reality, fiction and scientific fact often was in the Renaissance. Topics of study may include, but are not limited to, the following: fantasies of style; fantastic voyages and brave new worlds; religious fervours: new ways of imagining God; scientific fictions I: alchemy, chemistry, and the wondrous new science; science fictions II: ghosts, demons and witches as scientific specimens; cabinets of curiosities; sexual fantasies: gender and desire; political fantasies; wonders and portents; theatrical fantasies.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 90.0% Coursework
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| Earth Surface Science | GEG4209 | Yes | Earth Surface ScienceCredits: 15.0 What makes planet Earth so remarkable? Our planet is shaped by many interacting environmental systems operating from atomic through to global scales. Understanding the science of these systems is central to developing an advanced knowledge of the physical environment. This module explores fundamental Earth surface systems (e.g. tectonics, atmosphere & oceans, landscape development, climate change), focusing on core concepts, processes, their significance within a broader environmental context and their relevance to the human species.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Earth System Cycles | GEG5203 | Yes | Earth System CyclesCredits: 30.0 The module takes an integrative approach to the understanding of material cycles that are fundamental to the functioning of the Earth system: the hydrological cycle, the carbon cycle, nutrient cycles, and cycles of human-derived organic and metal pollutants. Emphasis is placed on understanding the key processes within each cycle and the links between the different cycles. The framework for understanding the cycles is the catchment-coastal continuum, and detailed consideration is given to the cascading of water and sediment through this system. Key hydrological, biogeochemical and ecological processes involved in the cycles are also explored, partly through data interpretation exercises. The course considers the role of humans in the cycles and how this role can be evaluated at local to global scales. The course is delivered through lectures, workshops, practicals, and seminars.
Assessment: 40.0% Examination, 60.0% Coursework
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| Earth Systems Cycles | GEG5203A | Yes | Earth Systems CyclesCredits: 15.0 Cycles of water, sediments and nutrients determine how the Earth functions but all are increasingly being affected by human activities. This module examines these key material cycles, and those of human-made pollutants such as metals, fertilizers and pesticides and reviews how hydrological, biogeochemical and ecological processes characterise each of the cycles. Stores and transfers of water, carbon, nutrients and pollutants are considered from the hillslopes, through rivers and wetlands to the estuaries and the coast, along the catchment-coast continuum, and the impact of humans is examined at the local, regional and global scales. The focus will be on the hydrological cycle and the transfer and stores of sediments.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Earth Systems Cycles | GEG5203B | Yes | Earth Systems CyclesCredits: 15.0 Cycles of water, sediments and nutrients determine how the Earth functions but all are increasingly being affected by human activities. This module examines these key material cycles, and those of human-made pollutants such as metals, fertilizers and pesticides and reviews how hydrological, biogeochemical and ecological processes characterise each of the cycles. Stores and transfers of water, carbon, nutrients and pollutants are considered from the hillslopes, through rivers and wetlands to the estuaries and the coast, along the catchment-coast continuum, and the impact of humans is examined at the local, regional and global scales. Following an introduction to the chemistry of the environment, the focus will be on carbon, nutrient and pollutant processes.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Ecocinemas: Nature, Animals, and the Moving Image | FLM609 | No | Ecocinemas: Nature, Animals, and the Moving ImageCredits: 15.0 Ecocinemas is a single-semester level 6 module focusing on the intersections between cinema and the natural world. The module explores film's embeddedness in the physical world from a number of perspectives: film as an environmental practice in its own right, as a vehicle for exploring the relationship between the human and the nonhuman world, and as a more-than-human projection. The module covers a diverse range of themes: the key role of nonhuman animals and the natural world in the development of the cinematic medium, the representation of animals and nature in film, cinema¿s environmental footprint, and film as an ecological advocacy tool. The first part of the module looks at the history and theory of the visual representation of nature and animals, from pre-cinematic forms such as cave paintings, to photographic studies of animal locomotion and early scientific cinema. The subsequent blocks introduce students to the principal strands of eco-criticism and ecocinema via a variety of case studies, including the wildlife film, environmental and animal advocacy documentaries, and fictional representations of animals.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Ecological Theory and Applications | SBSM029 | No | Ecological Theory and ApplicationsCredits: 15.0 In this module we look at the theory behind our understanding of ecological systems and how that theory can be applied to ecological problems in the real world. Starting with populations of a single species we will progress to understanding twospecies interactions including predation, competition and parasitism and then to whole communities of interacting organisms. We will then study how ecological theory, used in concert with population genetics and evolutionary theory, can be applied to understanding ecological issues such as the conservation of small populations, harvesting natural populations and predicting responses to environmental change.
Assessment: 25.0% Practical, 75.0% Coursework |
| Ecology | SBC176 | No | EcologyCredits: 15.0 This module covers the essentials and fundamental concepts of population and community ecology as well as applied issues such as conservation. There is an one-week residential field course where students will study organisms in their natural environments, rather than in the laboratory.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Field Course | SBSM030 | No | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Field CourseCredits: 15.0 This will include visits to some of Africa¿s largest and most important game reserves and conservation areas, as well as an introduction to some of the day-to-day problems faced by ecologists / conservation biologists in developing nations. You will design and apply census techniques to animals in a natural ecological setting with a focus on large mammals, birds, insects or macroinvertebrates. Elements covered include: Safari Contrasting African ecosystems Quantification of animal behaviour Population/community monitoring skills
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 90.0% Coursework |
| Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research Project | SBSM031 | No | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Research ProjectCredits: 90.0 This module involves a novel piece of research, typically combining field sampling, experimentation, laboratory work, and data analysis. Most projects are offered to students so that they can benefit from close alignment with current PhD or Post Doctoral research within specific research groups, both at QMUL or in partner institutions within London. The diversity of expertise of lecturers involved with the programme means that good supervision can be found for a broad range of studies in ecology and evolutionary biology.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Econometrics 1 | ECN224 | Yes | Econometrics 1Credits: 15.0 This module builds on students' basic understanding of statistics acquired in their first year to introduce them to the basic theoretical and practical principles of econometrics analysis. There are two main goals: to strengthen and widen students' knowledge and understanding of statistical analysis, and to provide a solid grounding of the theory and practice of simple and multiple regression analysis. Prerequisite ECN121, ECN114
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Econometrics 2 | ECN225 | Yes | Econometrics 2Credits: 15.0 Econometrics 2 builds on Econometrics 1 module, providing students with the knowledge of further econometrics methods in standard use in current applied econometrics. Topics covered include: nonlinear regression functions, instrumental variables regression, stationary and nonstationary time series, panel data and regression with binary dependent variable. Prerequisite ECN224.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Econometrics A | ECOM003 | No | Econometrics ACredits: 15.0 The purpose of this module is to provide students with the necessary tools for formalising a hypothesis of interest and testing it, writing a simple econometric model, estimating it and conducting inference. The module starts with a review of the classical linear model. We then analyse finite sample and asymptotic properties of ordinary least squares, instrumental variables and feasible generalised least squares, under general conditions. Classical tests, as well as general Hausman tests, and moment's tests are covered. The case of dependent stationary observations is also covered. Finally nonlinear estimation methods, and in particular the generalised method of moments, are covered.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Econometrics A | ECCL003 | No | Econometrics ACredits: 15.0 The purpose of this module is to provide students with the necessary tools for formalising a hypothesis of interest and testing it, writing a simple econometric model, estimating it and conducting inference. The module starts with a review of the classical linear model. We then analyse finite sample and asymptotic properties of ordinary least squares, instrumental variables and feasible generalised least squares, under general conditions. Classical tests, as well as general Hausman tests, and moment's tests are covered. The case of dependent stationary observations is also covered. Finally nonlinear estimation methods, and in particular the generalised method of moments, are covered.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination |
| Econometrics B | ECOM032 | No | Econometrics BCredits: 15.0 (Macroeconometrics) This module is designed to provide you with a general knowledge and the basic methods used in the current practice of macroeconometrics. The module covers the following lecture topics: A brief history of macroeconometrics and current methodological issues in macroeconometrics; the main characteristics of macroeconometrics and fundamental tools. It examines two important aspects: dynamics and interdependence; and interpretation of econometric results: expectation and exogeneity. It then goes through basic models with cointegrated time series and discusses how to link macroeconometric models to macroeconomic theory. Prerequisites: ECOM 003 Econometrics A
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Econometrics B | ECCL007 | No | Econometrics BCredits: 15.0 (Macroeconometrics) This module is designed to provide you with a general knowledge and the basic methods used in the current practice of macroeconometrics. The module covers the following lecture topics: A brief history of macroeconometrics and current methodological issues in macroeconometrics; the main characteristics of macroeconometrics and fundamental tools. It examines two important aspects: dynamics and interdependence; and interpretation of econometric results: expectation and exogeneity. It then goes through basic models with cointegrated time series and discusses how to link macroeconometric models to macroeconomic theory. Prerequisites: ECOM 003 Econometrics A
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Econometrics C | ECOM067 | No | Econometrics CCredits: 15.0 The purpose of this module is to equip students with the probabilistic and statistical tools necessary to undertake research in econometrics and to cover a number of important topics in this field. The module starts with a review of large sample theory, and then proceeds to analyze the asymptotic behavior of extremum estimators, including maximum likelihood and generalized methods of moments. Some important efficiency results will be covered. Finally, the module will deal with panel data, limited dependent variables, unit roots, and cointegration.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Econometrics for Finance | ECOM072 | No | Econometrics for FinanceCredits: 15.0 The module will cover fundamental methods for the empirical analysis of financial data. Some prior knowledge of general econometrics will be assumed, and the focus will be on building an understanding of the ideas behind, and the application of, those methods that are most heavily relied upon in the empirical analysis of financial data. A majority of the topics treated will be related to empirical asset pricing and portfolio choice, although other areas of finance will also be covered.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Economic Principles | ECN199 | No | Economic PrinciplesCredits: 15.0 This module is a version of ECN113 intended only for LG11 and GL11 students.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Economics | IFC3005 | No | EconomicsCredits: 30.0 The module will explore the question of how economics affects our everyday lives, from the individual to inter-governmental. It introduces students to basic economic concepts and models, and provides them with the skills needed to apply this knowledge in analytical studies of real-life economic situations. The module will explore both micro- and microeconomic issues, discuss the roles of fiscal and monetary policies in achieving governmental goals, and examine the importance of money and the banking system and international trade.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 30.0% Examination, 60.0% Coursework
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| Economics and Finance | IFC6004 | No | Economics and FinanceCredits: 30.0 The module introduces students to the range and level of knowledge in the areas of micro- and macroeconomics, and finance and investment required for entry to the MSc Finance and Investment or similar programmes. Students will also learn to apply appropriate mathematical models in a financial market context and demonstrate awareness of the limitations of these models, as well as demonstrate the ability to analyse and comment on financial issues in an informed and coherent manner in both written work.
Assessment: 35.0% Examination, 65.0% Coursework
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| Economics and Finance | IFC6004 | No | Economics and FinanceCredits: 30.0 The module introduces students to the range and level of knowledge in the areas of micro- and macroeconomics, and finance and investment required for entry to the MSc Finance and Investment or similar programmes. Students will also learn to apply appropriate mathematical models in a financial market context and demonstrate awareness of the limitations of these models, as well as demonstrate the ability to analyse and comment on financial issues in an informed and coherent manner in both written work.
Assessment: 35.0% Examination, 65.0% Coursework
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| Economics and Management of Sustainable Energy | DEN433 | No | Economics and Management of Sustainable EnergyCredits: 15.0 This module will equip you with the fundamental tools of economics and management principles. You will learn about their application to conventional and sustainable energy conversion powerplants; systems and their components; and life cycle analyses of energy systems. In addition to understanding the key aspects of international energy supply and demand economics, (and their effect on fuel prices and energy sources), you will also consider the effects of national and international energy policy and emissions regulations on the overall energy scene, analyse developments in the energy markets, and assess the overall impact on environmental issues.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Economics and Management of Sustainable Energy | DENM023 | No | Economics and Management of Sustainable EnergyCredits: 15.0 This module describes the global energy scene including a historical review of energy supply and demand trends, fossil fuels and climate change, what is renewable energy and a review of sustainable energy sources. It describes Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, accounting and management principles, the free market structure, cartels, barriers to entry, and example applications in the energy field. Applications related to energy vectors and technologies for power plants are included. Policy and climate change issues are discussed, including the emissions regulations. A thermo-economic analysis of various conventional and renewable power plants and their components is included.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Economics for Business | BUS017 | Yes | Economics for BusinessCredits: 15.0 This module explains how firms, consumers and government interact in markets and how business decision-making is shaped by internal factors such as costs and by external market conditions. The unit examines the main concepts of economic theory and explores the importance of these within a business context, with emphasis on the applicability of economic theory to an understanding of the internal dynamics of business organisations.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Economics for Business | BUS017 | Yes | Economics for BusinessCredits: 15.0 This module explains how firms, consumers and government interact in markets and how business decision-making is shaped by internal factors such as costs and by external market conditions. The unit examines the main concepts of economic theory and explores the importance of these within a business context, with emphasis on the applicability of economic theory to an understanding of the internal dynamics of business organisations.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Economics of developing countries | BUSM073 | No | Economics of developing countriesCredits: 15.0 This course introduces contemporary theories and the empirical literature of the economics of developing countries with specific reference to public policy delivery. The course will address the problems with public policy delivery in developing countries and what solutions and strategies have been identified in the literature. The course will deal with debates such as centralised and decentralised delivery methods, political economy issues of corruption and state capture, and the role of incentives among politicians and bureaucrats in service delivery.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Economics of Public Policy | BUSM074 | No | Economics of Public PolicyCredits: 15.0 This course introduces contemporary theories and the empirical literature of the economics of public policy. The course will highlight topics on theories of public goods, public good provision, optimal taxation and redistributive taxation, inequality in incomes and wealth, the global growth and wealth distribution. A large part of the modern literature is empirical, and the course will address the empirical methods which are popularly used in this literature. It will also identify the problems facing public policy delivery and what solutions and strategies are discussed in the literature to address these problems.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Economics of Public Policy | BUSM074 | No | Economics of Public PolicyCredits: 15.0 This course introduces contemporary theories and the empirical literature of the economics of public policy. The course will highlight topics on theories of public goods, public good provision, optimal taxation and redistributive taxation, inequality in incomes and wealth, the global growth and wealth distribution. A large part of the modern literature is empirical, and the course will address the empirical methods which are popularly used in this literature. It will also identify the problems facing public policy delivery and what solutions and strategies are discussed in the literature to address these problems.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Economics of Social Issues | ECN231 | Yes | Economics of Social IssuesCredits: 15.0 This is a module in the applied microeconomic analysis of social issues of topical importance in the UK. Issues examined will vary according to topicality, but the following subjects illustrate the range of the module: income inequality and poverty, labour market policies, education, pensions, crime, pollution.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Economics of Technology and Innovation | ECN344 | Yes | Economics of Technology and InnovationCredits: 15.0 This module examines the challenges and the opportunities that technological innovation and information management present companies and managers. The emphasis is on the development and application of conceptual models that clarify the interactions between information management, technological change, competition, firm positioning and the structure and development of internal firm capabilities. Topics addressed include: understanding information technology markets, technology discontinuities, technology forecasting, network externalities and standards competition, profiting from innovation, new market entry strategy and organising to innovate. Pre-requisite: ECN211
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Economics Project I | ECN326 | No | Economics Project ICredits: 15.0 Independent work on a topic in economics, which can be of a theoretical or applied nature, and can involve the use of any appropriate techniques. Prerequisite: ECN206 or ECN211. Not open to Associate Students.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Economics Project I | ECN326 | No | Economics Project ICredits: 15.0 Independent work on a topic in economics, which can be of a theoretical or applied nature, and can involve the use of any appropriate techniques. Prerequisite: ECN206 or ECN211. Not open to Associate Students.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Economics Project II | ECN325 | No | Economics Project IICredits: 30.0 An expansion of Economics Project I ECN326. Prerequisite: ECN206 or ECN211. Not available to Associate Students.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Electoral Behaviour | POL325 | Yes | Electoral BehaviourCredits: 15.0 The aim of this module is to examine and evaluate the major issues and controversies in the study of elections and voting behaviour in Britain, which will also provide a basis for comparative analysis. It will examine some important questions about elections, such as invest igation into the nature and purpose of elections, why elections often produce differing levels of turnout. There will also be a consideration of alternative theoretically informed approaches to voting behaviour, including partisan alignment and dealignment, socio-cultural and rational choice explanations. In addition we will examine the role of issue voting and economic voting. This will be complemented by discussion of the role of the media, election campaigns - national and local - and leadership effects. Students will also undertake a small survey exercise.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Electric and Magnetic Fields | ECS504U | No | Electric and Magnetic FieldsCredits: 15.0 This module covers the basic laws of electric and magnetic fields, their application to elementary problems involving steady and time changing fields and currents, and an introduction to electromagnetic radiation. The Maxwell Equations, which explain the relationships between time varying electric and magnetic fields, will be introduced. The emphasis is on physical intuition and visualisation supported by mathematical modelling and analysis and labs.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Electric and Magnetic Fields | PHY4210 | Yes | Electric and Magnetic FieldsCredits: 15.0 This module aims to illustrate some important aspects of physics through experimental measurements. The module will be marked by continuous assessment of student laboratory notebooks, which will not be allowed to be removed from the laboratory. You will perform a number of experiments over the term and will then have to write a scientific paper on one of the experiments that you have performed.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Electromagnetic Radiation in Astrophysics | AST740P | Yes | Electromagnetic Radiation in AstrophysicsCredits: 15.0 This module is an introduction to understanding the origin, propagation, detection and interpretation of electromagnetic (EM) radiation from astronomical objects. In this module students will learn: how to describe EM radiation and its propagation through a medium to an observer; the main processes responsible for line and continuum emission and how they depend on the nature and state the emitting material; the effects of the earth's atmosphere and the operation of the detection process at various wavelengths. The material will be illustrated by examples from optical, infrared and radio portions of the EM spectrum.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Electromagnetic Radiation in Astrophysics | PHY7015U | Yes | Electromagnetic Radiation in AstrophysicsCredits: 15.0 This module is an introduction to understanding the origin, propagation, detection and interpretation of electromagnetic (EM) radiation from astronomical objects. In this module students will learn: how to describe EM radiation and its propagation through a medium to an observer; the main processes responsible for line and continuum emission and how they depend on the nature and state the emitting material; the effects of the earth's atmosphere and the operation of the detection process at various wavelengths. The material will be illustrated by examples from optical, infrared and radio portions of the EM spectrum.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Electromagnetic Theory | PHY7005P | Yes | Electromagnetic TheoryCredits: 15.0 Classical electrodynamics as a Lorentz covariant and gauge invariant theory. Vectors and tensors in Special Relativity. Potentials and the field strength tensor. Motion of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field. The action principle for electrodynamics. The stress tensor. Conservation laws. Radiation from point sources and extended sources. Scattering of electromagnetic waves, the Born approximation, Rayleigh scattering, scattering from density fluctuations. Causality, Kramers-Kronig relations and the optical theorem.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Electromagnetic Theory | PHY7005U | Yes | Electromagnetic TheoryCredits: 15.0 Classical electrodynamics as a Lorentz covariant and gauge invariant theory. Vectors and tensors in Special Relativity. Potentials and the field strength tensor. Motion of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field. The action principle for electrodynamics. The stress tensor. Conservation laws. Radiation from point sources and extended sources. Scattering of electromagnetic waves, the Born approximation, Rayleigh scattering, scattering from density fluctuations. Causality, Kramers-Kronig relations and the optical theorem.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Examination
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| Electronic Devices and Applications | ECS517U | No | Electronic Devices and ApplicationsCredits: 15.0 This module describes the physical basis behind common semiconductor devices including the pn junction diode, bipolar junction transistor, MOSFET and related devices (NMOS, PMOS, CMOS) and Operational Amplifiers. Basic circuits using these devices are discussed including rectifiers, amplifiers, inverters, integrators, differentiators, and summing circuits.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Electronic Engineering Mathematics I | ECS408U | No | Electronic Engineering Mathematics ICredits: 15.0 Mathematics primarily for electrical and electronic engineers. Purely a techniques module, involving several topics with variable amounts of overlap. Differentiation and applications, partial derivatives. Integration and applications. Vectors, complex numbers, series.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Electronic Structure Methods | PHY7016P | Yes | Electronic Structure MethodsCredits: 15.0 Electronic structure methods - that is, computational algorithms to solve the Schrodinger equation - play a very important role in physics, chemistry and materials science. These methods are increasingly treated on a equal footing with experiment in a number of areas of research, a sign of their growing predictive power and increasing ease of use. This course will cover the fundamental theoretical ideas behind these methods. Topics will include Hartree-Fock, correlated methods like Moller-Plesset perturbation theory, configuration interaction, coupled-cluster as well as density-functional theory. The theoretical ideas will be complemented with a hands-on computational laboratory using state-of-the-art programs with the aim of providing our students with a basic understanding of the technical implementations and strengths and shortcomings of these methods.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Electronic Structure Methods | PHY7016U | Yes | Electronic Structure MethodsCredits: 15.0 Electronic structure methods - that is, computational algorithms to solve the Schrodinger equation - play a very important role in physics, chemistry and materials science. These methods are increasingly treated on a equal footing with experiment in a number of areas of research, a sign of their growing predictive power and increasing ease of use. This course will cover the fundamental theoretical ideas behind these methods. Topics will include Hartree-Fock, correlated methods like Moller-Plesset perturbation theory, configuration interaction, coupled-cluster as well as density-functional theory. The theoretical ideas will be complemented with a hands-on computational laboratory using state-of-the-art programs with the aim of providing our students with a basic understanding of the technical implementations and strengths and shortcomings of these methods.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Elementary Maths | MAS002 | No | Elementary MathsCredits: 0.0
Assessment: 100.0% Final Mark
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| Elementary Particle Physics | PHY306 | Yes | Elementary Particle PhysicsCredits: 15.0 An introduction to the standard model of particle physics - the strong and electroweak interactions between the basic constituents of the world, quarks and leptons, via the exchange of gluons, photons and W and Z particles. Recent results on CP violation and neutrino mixing. The search for the Higgs particle. Beyond the standard model - Grand unified theories and supersymmetry.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Elements of Accounting | ECN120 | Yes | Elements of AccountingCredits: 15.0 This module will offer you a grounding in financial accounting from basic book keeping to the preparation of financial statements for sole traders and limited companies and an understanding of the way in which accounts are analysed using accounting ratios. You will also learn the basic concepts of accounting and international accounting standards.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Elements of Contract Law | LAW4005 | Yes | Elements of Contract LawCredits: 30.0 This module begins with a consideration of the elements necessary to form a binding contract, including offer and acceptance, intention, certainty of terms and consideration. The major elements capable of vitiating a contract are examined, namely duress, mistake and misrepresentation (in relation to the Misrepresentation Act 1967). The incorporation of contractual terms, and their general regulation through the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 and the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999, is considered. The module concludes with the consideration of the performance of contracts, the methods by which contracts can be discharged, the relief available for a contract discharged through frustration and the remedies available for a breach of contract.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| E-Marketing | BUSM044 | No | E-MarketingCredits: 15.0 This module has been designed to provide the student with an introduction into the fundamental principles of Marketing. Understanding the dynamics and interrelationships between the key marketing variables in the process of defining and executing effective marketing strategies in an Internet context are at the heart of this course. Throughout the module, the participants will have the opportunity to develop their skills and understanding in how to effectively communicate marketing strategies using real-world examples.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Empire, Race and Immigration | GEG7109 | No | Empire, Race and ImmigrationCredits: 30.0 The module will include a historically specific thick case study approach, as well as a broader chronological perspective, to examine how individuals and groups of colonial and racial migrants experienced, contested and negotiated Britain and the types of reactions they provoked over the last three hundred years. Not only does this provide postgraduate students with a unique opportunity to interrogate the historical orthodoxy of an ethnically homogeneous white nation prior to 1948; it also highlights the need for rethinking the relationship between Empire and metropolis. The first half of the module familiarises students with a variety of theoretical approaches to the study of empire, race and migration. This is followed by an analysis of the multifarious strategies adopted by colonial sojourners and settlers in Britain and the popular and official reactions they inspired. Particular emphasis will be placed on how empire, race, class and gender informed both colonial experience and metropolitan attitudes. The remainder of the module considers the racialisation of immigration in the post-colonial period and concludes by examining the legacies of empire, race and immigration on the metropolis. It is intended that students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds including Geography, History, English, Politics) will utilise the knowledge and theoretical expertise gleaned from the module to produce a course paper, which could, if preferred, focus not just on the British experience, but on comparable locations and temporal periods.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Empirical Finance | ECOM042 | No | Empirical FinanceCredits: 15.0 This module will revisit the Efficient Market Hypothesis in finance and its relationship to the random walk model. It will then discuss statistical tests for the random walk hypothesis and their applications to weekly returns on common stocks. It will then go deeper into the empirical analysis of asset returns data so as to uncover the main stylised facts in finance using simple descriptive statistics. To explain the stylised facts in the data, the lectures will then apply asset pricing models from the two main strands of modern finance: market microstructure theory and behavioural finance. Prerequisites: ECOM050
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Empirical Macroeconomics | ECCL012 | No | Empirical MacroeconomicsCredits: 15.0 This module studies modern econometric methods to estimate, evaluate and forecast with structural macroeconomic models. It covers methods that are popular in Central Banks and in policy institutions. The methods covered allow us to extract cyclical information, solve and estimate structural models, evaluate the effect of monetary policy, and forecast variables such as inflation and output growth using econometric software. Prerequisites: Econometrics A and Macroeconomics A (or equivalent; contact the lecturer before registering if you have only Econometrics A).
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination |
| Employment Relations | BUS320 | Yes | Employment RelationsCredits: 15.0 The module aims to provide a critical understanding of the employment relations field of study, give insight into relevant conceptual and theoretical approaches and provide a sound knowledge base. The module content will include: 1. theoretical and conceptual approaches to the study of employment relations; the role of history in shaping contemporary employment relations; power, conflict and the nature of the employment relationship. 2. the role of the key actors in employment relations (trade unions, employer, the state); 3. the processes of employment relations in union and non-union firms: employer strategies; collective bargaining; employee involvement, social partnership and industrial democracy; dispute resolution, grievance and disciplinary procedures; 4. employment relations and the equality project; 5. employment relations from a comparative perspective: convergence and divergence; employment relations across national boundaries.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Encounters with the 'New World': Christopher Columbus to Sir Walter Raleigh | SML103 | Yes | Encounters with the 'New World': Christopher Columbus to Sir Walter RaleighCredits: 15.0 This first-year comparative module will examine the extraordinary impact that voyages of discovery undertaken by Spanish, Italian, French and English explorers had on all aspects of European culture from Columbus's first encounter with the 'New World' in 1492 to Sir Walter Raleigh's description of the mythical El Dorado in his Discovery of Guiana of 1595. The 16th Century was an age of mutual discovery and exchange between East and West, fostering advances and innovations in all sorts of fields (from navigation and cartography to botanical knowledge) and resulting in an altered picture of the world and of man. We shall focus on the sense of wonder that dominates these exotic accounts of the first encounters with America and its landscapes, its flora and fauna, its riches, and above all its inhabitants and their curious customs. The linguistic challenge of expressing the unknown is another important theme that this module will explore. Texts will be studied in translation.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Endocrine Physiology and Biochemistry | SBS517 | Yes | Endocrine Physiology and BiochemistryCredits: 15.0 This module covers hormone definitions, including the range of structures and roles; methods in endocrinology; receptors, concept and significance of high affinity; hormone dynamics; hormone signalling; and modes of action. You will also look at mammalian endocrine glands and hormones: pituitary, thyroid, pancreas. The endocrinology of reproduction; the adrenal gland, and renin/angiotensin system; the paracrine and autocrine systems; growth factors; locally produced hormones; local regulation of hormonal action; and tissue differentiation are also covered. The relationship between hormones and cancer will be discussed.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Energy Conversion Analysis | DEN5107 | Yes | Energy Conversion AnalysisCredits: 15.0 This module will develop the ideas introduced in DEN4006 Energy Conversion Systems and study how energy conversion systems can be analysed quantitatively. To do this it will use many of the concepts and fundamental laws introduced in DEN107. It will also analyse reacting flows with particular reference to combustion and their application to the analysis of internal combustion engines.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Energy Conversion Systems | DEN4006 | Yes | Energy Conversion SystemsCredits: 15.0 The module provides an introduction to the role of the Mechanical Engineer. It sets out the basic concepts of engineering science including statics, dynamics, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics and their application to simple engineering systems. It includes an introduction to energy generation from conventional and renewable / sustainable sources, methods of heating and cooling, and the application of the above ideas to an integrated engineering system (the automobile).
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Engaging Critically with Writing | ELS4001 | No | Engaging Critically with WritingCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to provide students with the opportunity to explore and develop writing in different genres by studying the grammatical structures and lexis in context. Students will examine varieties of English from a historical and cultural perspective. Students will develop their writing in different genres including cyber communication, work-related texts and print media. They will read and discuss texts and analyse the relationship between audience, purpose and content. Students will also examine issues of fluency, clarity and correctness. This will lead to personal, and work-related writing tasks both in and out of class. There will be regular feedback from the class tutor and from peers.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Coursework
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| Engaging Critically with Writing | ELS4001 | No | Engaging Critically with WritingCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to provide students with the opportunity to explore and develop writing in different genres by studying the grammatical structures and lexis in context. Students will examine varieties of English from a historical and cultural perspective. Students will develop their writing in different genres including cyber communication, work-related texts and print media. They will read and discuss texts and analyse the relationship between audience, purpose and content. Students will also examine issues of fluency, clarity and correctness. This will lead to personal, and work-related writing tasks both in and out of class. There will be regular feedback from the class tutor and from peers.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Coursework
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| Engineering Design Methods | MAT4002 | Yes | Engineering Design MethodsCredits: 15.0 This module provides an introduction to some tools used in engineering design, including the use of engineering drawing, the use of CAD in design and the module will include elements of reverse engineering. It also includes a detailed examination of the functional properties of different materials classes that are relevant to aerospace, mechanical and medical engineering.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Engineering Industrial Experience | DEN515 | No | Engineering Industrial ExperienceCredits: 120.0 Students will be helped to secure a work placement through a range of new initiatives in a company appropriate to the programme. The work placement will normally be a year in length but not less than 6 months. Successful students with a placement will each be allocated a tutor, a SEMS academic in a relevant field, who will wherever practical visit the student twice in the year. Where a visit is not possible the tutor will ensure that there is email and telephone contact with the student. SEMS will also identify a mentor in the workplace at each employer. This person is likely to be their line manager and will be expected to support as well as line-manage the student. Students completing the module will be required to work on a project that will allow them to follow a pathway toward CEng registration approximately three years after graduation; maintain a training diary to be reviewed by their tutor during and after the placement is completed; attend at least one Industrial Liaison Forum to share their experience with other SEMS students; deliver one seminar at QMUL to promote future opportunities at their sponsor; complete a final report on the placement.
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| Engineering Industrial Experience | DEN616 | No | Engineering Industrial ExperienceCredits: 120.0 Students will be helped to secure a work placement through a range of new initiatives in a company appropriate to the programme. The work placement will normally be a year in length but not less than 6 months. Successful students with a placement will each be allocated a tutor, a SEMS academic in a relevant field, who will wherever practical visit the student twice in the year. Where a visit is not possible the tutor will ensure that there is email and telephone contact with the student. SEMS will also identify a mentor in the workplace at each employer. This person is likely to be their line manager and will be expected to support as well as line-manage the student. Students completing the module will be required to work on a project that will allow them to follow a pathway toward CEng registration approximately three years after graduation; maintain a training diary to be reviewed by their tutor during and after the placement is completed; attend at least one Industrial Liaison Forum to share their experience with other SEMS students; deliver one seminar at QMUL to promote future opportunities at their sponsor; complete a final report on the placement.
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| Engineering Instrumentation | DEN5109 | Yes | Engineering InstrumentationCredits: 15.0 This module is focused on transducers and their uses in engineering control systems. It studies methods of taking measurements, and motor and actuator theory, reviewing important transducer characteristics and the methodology for selecting an appropriate transducer. In relation to this, the module also covers methods of acquiring data from transducers, and effectively processing electronic signals. All aspects of the module content are brought together in a problem based learning exercise, involving the control of a robotic arm.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Engineering Materials in Design | DEN4001 | Yes | Engineering Materials in DesignCredits: 15.0 This module provides an introduction to the tools used in engineering design, namely sketching, use of measurements, understanding material properties and how this relates to the structure and how properties depend upon the processing route employed. The course will provide a framework for a suitable selection of materials developing problem solving skills and team working skills in applications that are relevant to aerospace, mechanical and medical engineering.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics | DEN4108 | Yes | Engineering Mechanics: DynamicsCredits: 15.0 This module provides an introduction to the modelling and analysis of one-degree-of-freedom mechanical systems. It includes analysis of the motion (kinematics) of particles. It then goes on to deal with the forces causing these motions (kinetics) by the application of Newton's laws of motion. After this methods for the solution of the differential equation describing the equation of motion and one-degree-of-freedom vibrations will be studied and this will be applied to the description of vibrations of onedegree-of-freedom mechanical systems.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Engineering Mechanics: Statics | DEN4102 | Yes | Engineering Mechanics: StaticsCredits: 15.0 This module provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of stress analysis for linearly elastic materials and their application to simple structures. It focuses on the behaviour of structures in particular beams and shafts, and provides underpinning knowledge for a range of analyses on applications relevant to aerospace, mechanical and medical engineering.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| England in the Fifteenth Century: the Paston Experience | HST6103 | Yes | England in the Fifteenth Century: the Paston ExperienceCredits: 15.0 This module will explore the history of England in the fifteenth century with particular reference to the Paston family whose enormous surviving collection of letters (available in a range of editions) is widely used by historians to illuminate the history of the period from the perspective of a gentry family. The module will look at the Paston family's experiences during the Wars of the Roses; at their careers in local government and society; the marriage market; the challenges of managing their estates; life within their household both in peace and war; the education of the Paston children; their religious interests and their leisure activities.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| English/Linguistics Research Project | LIN042 | No | English/Linguistics Research ProjectCredits: 30.0 This module is compulsory for single honours English Language and Linguistics students as well as joint honours English Literature and Linguistics students who are not taking the research project module in the English Department. All other students wishing to take this module must see the module organiser before registration and must have reached a good standard on the prerequisite module LIN306 Research Methods in Linguistics. The module is designed to enable final year students to pursue a sustained piece of individual research on an agreed topic which may not necessarily be covered in the taught modules. You will give presentations of your research as it progresses, and should note that failure to provide evidence of satisfactory progress will lead to de-registration.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation
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| English. Literary Criticism and the Essay | ESH276 | Yes | English. Literary Criticism and the EssayCredits: 15.0 English as a university subject has a definite history which shows a series of choices made about what should be its coverage and methodology. This history makes the way in which we teach it and how you study it more intelligible: it helps us understand the academic character of its current shape and form by comparing it with present and past alternatives. The essay format in which for the most part, we prefer you to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of module topics also has a history. An appreciation of the development of the essay in English literature, from Francis Bacon onwards, should get you to reflect on the kind of work you produce, the intellectual choices made in getting you to submit it in that form, and so the skills you might need to enhance your own academic writing still further. This module, therefore, provides an enabling link with the second compulsory module you have to do in the next semester ¿ 'Advanced Research Skills'.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| English and British Political Culture c1595-1606 and the Accession of King James I | HST6207 | No | English and British Political Culture c1595-1606 and the Accession of King James ICredits: 60.0 The Georgian period was an era of startling contrasts: elegance and squalor, politeness and prostitution, This module is an in-depth document-based exploration of the political culture of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England and Britain. It focuses first and foremost on the defining political event of the period, namely the accession of James VI of Scotland as James I of England and the resulting union of the two crowns. This was a deeply contested issue up to Elizabeth's death in March 1603 and, after James came south, contemporaries argued about what his accession signified politically. The disputes before and after 1603 spilled out into what historians now call the "public sphere" of contemporary politics and this allows us to follow what various different interest groups, court factions, ideologues, and, for want of better words, the general public, thought about the change of dynasty. Here we have a window onto a world of early modern politics like no other.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Dissertation
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| English and History Research Dissertation | ESH397 | No | English and History Research DissertationCredits: 60.0 Under the regular supervision of members of staff in English and History, you will undertake original research and write a 15,000-word essay on an interdisciplinary topic of your choice, approved by the two Departments. It is intended that the Research Dissertation will bring together your skills and interests in the two subject areas. It will require substantial use of primary sources such as literary texts, archival sources, and published documents and reports.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Dissertation |
| English Dissertation | ESH365 | No | English DissertationCredits: 30.0 The English Dissertation is a supervised independent study that is assessed by a dissertation. The dissertation should be 10,000 words in length, including footnotes (excluding bibliography). The topic must be approved by the Module Organiser. In planning, writing and completing a dissertation, you'll have the guidance of a supervisor. From the beginning of Semester 1, you should meet your supervisor to arrange a series of supervisions at mutually convenient times. The English Dissertation is only available to students on English degree programmes. Not open to Associate Students.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Dissertation
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| English in Use | LIN102 | Yes | English in UseCredits: 15.0 This module concerns the contexts in which English is used, and the fact that the patterns and variations in language used in the everyday are worthy of analysis. The aim is to demonstrate how language-in-use can be studied systematically, and to show how English is used in particular situations and in the module of activities, speech situations, public discourse, and interpersonal interactions that we might otherwise take for granted.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 90.0% Coursework
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| English Language and British Institutions | SML411 | Yes | English Language and British InstitutionsCredits: 15.0 This module aims to provide an introduction to Britain's main institutions and to the debates and controversies surrounding them, while at the same time increasing students' confidence in speaking and writing about contemporary issues in English. This will be achieved through extensive reading of a range of different newspapers, discussions in class, and written homework. The module is designed for students whose native language is not English, in particular for Erasmus students.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Coursework
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| English Language and Study Skills (Foundation Certificate) | IFC3001 | No | English Language and Study Skills (Foundation Certificate)Credits: 30.0 This module will provide students with an understanding of UK academic culture, and help them develop the linguistic, analytic and argumentative skills, in both written and spoken work, necessary to succeed on an undergraduate degree programme. It will help them produce linguistically sophisticated work, including under exam conditions, which demonstrates a clear line of argumentation. The students will be exposed to different styles of planning, organising and writing essays (both shorter timed exam essays of 500-600 words and more extended essays of 1500 words) within a standard Social Sciences framework. The students will be encouraged to employ strategies to reflect on their writing styles. Regular formative feedback on writing produced on the module will be imperative in ensuring learning outcomes.
Assessment: 15.0% Practical, 85.0% Coursework
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| English Language and Study Skills (Graduate Diploma) | IFC6007 | No | English Language and Study Skills (Graduate Diploma)Credits: 60.0 This module will provide students with an understanding of UK academic culture, and help them develop the linguistic, analytic and argumentative skills, in both written and spoken work, necessary to succeed on a postgraduate degree programme. It will help them produce linguistically sophisticated work, including under exam conditions, which demonstrates a clear line of argumentation. The students will be exposed to different styles of researching, organising and writing a dissertation within a standard Social Sciences framework. The students will be encouraged to employ strategies to reflect on their writing styles. Based on a focussed topic of research, the students will formulate research questions independently and will be guided in refining research questions so that their research project has greater focus. Regular formative feedback on writing produced on the module will be imperative in ensuring learning outcomes.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 90.0% Coursework
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| English Language and Study Skills (Graduate Diploma) | IFC6007 | No | English Language and Study Skills (Graduate Diploma)Credits: 60.0 This module will provide students with an understanding of UK academic culture, and help them develop the linguistic, analytic and argumentative skills, in both written and spoken work, necessary to succeed on a postgraduate degree programme. It will help them produce linguistically sophisticated work, including under exam conditions, which demonstrates a clear line of argumentation. The students will be exposed to different styles of researching, organising and writing a dissertation within a standard Social Sciences framework. The students will be encouraged to employ strategies to reflect on their writing styles. Based on a focussed topic of research, the students will formulate research questions independently and will be guided in refining research questions so that their research project has greater focus. Regular formative feedback on writing produced on the module will be imperative in ensuring learning outcomes.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 90.0% Coursework
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| English Language I | SEF009 | No | English Language ICredits: 15.0 Reading and study skills, lecture comprehension and seminar skills, and an introduction to academic writing in English. This module is intended for students, primarily from overseas, whose first language is not English and who do not already have IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| English Language I | SEJ009 | No | English Language ICredits: 15.0 Reading and study skills, lecture comprehension and seminar skills, and an introduction to academic writing in English. This module is intended for students, primarily from overseas, whose first language is not English and who do not already have IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination |
| Enlightenments and Revolutions in France, 1715-1799 | HST6211 | No | Enlightenments and Revolutions in France, 1715-1799Credits: 15.0 This module traces the social and political impact of the printed word throughout Enlightenment and Revolutionary France between 1715 and 1799. It examines a series of remarkable publications, ideas and events 'from Voltaire's Candide to the Terror' that underpin democratic modernity. It explores a number of eighteenth-century master works; clandestine publication; Christian modernisation; the slandering of Marie-Antoinette; the storming of the Bastille; and the extraordinary tumult of the revolutionary decade. It asks whether words 'written and whispered' cause revolutions?
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Entrepreneurship | ECS747D | No | EntrepreneurshipCredits: 15.0 The aim of this module is to increase your awareness of the commercial opportunities available to you in the area of Information Technology. We examine how to cultivate an entrepreneurial mind set and discuss the routes available for turning your ideas into business ventures. The module provides an introduction to a number of crucial business skills such as financial planning, business planning and how to sell yourself and your ideas.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Entrepreneurship | ECS747P | No | EntrepreneurshipCredits: 15.0 The aim of this module is to increase your awareness of the commercial opportunities available to you in the area of Information Technology. We examine how to cultivate an entrepreneurial mind set and discuss the routes available for turning your ideas into business ventures. The module provides an introduction to a number of crucial business skills such as financial planning, business planning and how to sell yourself and your ideas.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Entrepreneurship in Information Technology | ECS604U | No | Entrepreneurship in Information TechnologyCredits: 15.0 The aim of this module is to increase your awareness of the commercial opportunities available to you in the area of Information Technology. We examine how to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset and discuss the routes available for turning your ideas into business ventures. The module provides an introduction to a number of crucial business skills such as financial planning, business planning and how to sell yourself and your ideas. Please note that numbers on this module are limited. Priority will be given to Computer Science students who have this module on their recommended programme.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Environment, Nature and Society | GEG4102 | Yes | Environment, Nature and SocietyCredits: 15.0 In the 21st century the environment is at the top of many political agendas. However, what the diverse groups of stakeholders (politicians, scientists, environmental pressure groups and the general public) mean when they say environment can vary hugely, and this has implications for how we think about environmental issues and how we tackle environmental problems. This module looks at some of the ways in which geographers have theorised and researched the relationships between environment and society. The module begins with an overview of different approaches to studying environment-society relations followed by a series of case-studies each of which use the issue of health as a starting point for thinking through the implications of different types and scale of human-environment relations, including: climate and health, famine, health and environment and obesogenic environments. Open to Associate Students.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Environmental Economics | ECN351 | Yes | Environmental EconomicsCredits: 15.0 Sustainable and unsustainable development; the economic determinants of population growth; strategies of population control; intertemporal resource management; renewable and exhaustible resources; global warming, ozone depletion and acid rain externalities and the control of pollution; economic management of forest resources; the exploitation of the sea. Prerequisite: ECN111.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Environmental Engineering | DEN320 | No | Environmental EngineeringCredits: 15.0 The module aims to equip students with an appreciation of the impacts of engineering activity on the environment. It provides them with the basic professional skills to recognise, analyse and minimise adverse impacts. The students will be made aware of the variety of impacts that pollution and engineering works can have upon the environment, e.g. air quality, water quality, waste disposal, noise and vibration, transportation. They will be able to analyse and construct predictive models of the processes which control the level and extent of these impacts. They will apply these, working either individually or in multi-disciplinary groups, to realistic case studies involving engineering problems.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Environmental Hazards | GEG6203 | Yes | Environmental HazardsCredits: 15.0 Topics will include: specific processes (geophysical, geomorphological, meteorological, and technological) leading to environmental hazards; areas at risk, prediction, probability and risk evaluation; consequences and impacts of hazard events; longer-term consequences (social and economic) of hazards and implications for high-risk areas; hazard mitigation strategies in different parts of the world. The hazards covered may include floods on rivers and coasts, technological / industrial accidents, mining subsidence, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, tornadoes, hurricanes, ENSO events, disease and famine, and extraterrestrial hazards such as meteorite impacts. Differences in hazard preparation and response between MEDCs and LEDCs will be considered.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 30.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Environmental Properties of Materials | MAT507 | Yes | Environmental Properties of MaterialsCredits: 15.0 Recycling - possibilities of recycling schemes for different types of materials like glasses, plastics and metals will be discussed. Environmental politics - such as the EU end of life vehicle directive will be discussed as well as other political drivers for creating a sustainable society. Ecodesign - the benefits of designing for recycling using a cradle to grave design methodology. Examining in detail designs for single material or reduced number of materials systems that can be easily disassembled. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) - Detail of how the life cycle analysis is undertaken, including instruction in the use of appropriate life cycle analysis software.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Environmental Properties of Materials | MTRM040 | No | Environmental Properties of MaterialsCredits: 15.0 Recycling - possibilities of recycling schemes for different types of materials like glasses, plastics and metals will be discussed. Environmental politics - such as the EU end of life vehicle directive will be discussed as well as other political drivers for creating a sustainable society. Ecodesign - the benefits of designing for recycling using a cradle to grave design methodology. Examining in detail designs for single material or reduced number of materials systems that can be easily disassembled. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) - Detail of how the life cycle analysis is undertaken, including instruction in the use of appropriate life cycle analysis software.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Environmental Properties of Polymeric Materials | MTRM710 | No | Environmental Properties of Polymeric MaterialsCredits: 15.0 This seminar based module will explore the economics of environmental management, as well as environmental politics, clean processing, recycling and eco-design, using a sophisticated life cycle analysis package. In more details, the content covered will be: Recycling ¿ possibilities of recycling schemes for different types of materials like glasses, plastics and metals will be discussed. Environmental politics ¿ such as the EU end of life vehicle directive will be discussed as well as other political drivers for creating a sustainable society. Ecodesign ¿ the benefits of designing for recycling using a cradle to grave design methodology. Examining in detail designs for single material or reduced number of materials systems that can be easily disassembled. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) ¿ Detail of how the life cycle analysis is undertaken, including instruction in the use of appropriate life cycle analysis software.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination |
| Environmental Science Research and Practice | GEG7206 | No | Environmental Science Research and PracticeCredits: 15.0 This module introduces students to current research issues and approaches in environmental science. Students will develop an understanding of the nature and scope of environmental science research, enabling them to engage with a wide range of research debates. They will conduct an in-depth review of research on a specific topic of interest, and evaluate the utility of different research approaches to investigating that topic. The module is delivered via lectures from guest speakers and seminars with physical geography staff.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Enzyme Catalysis | SBS920 | Yes | Enzyme CatalysisCredits: 15.0 Prerequisites: Metabolic Pathways (SBS905). This module covers various aspects of enzyme catalysis including: enzymes as proteins; enzymes as catalysts; enzyme classification; and the role of molecular mobility in enzyme catalysis. You will also investigate the active site concept and the catalytic and substrate binding properties of amino acid residue sidechains. Binding energy, driving forces and free energy relationships; the use of kinetic analysis in the study of enzyme mechanism and inhibition; and recent theories on catalysis are also discussed. Several enzyme mechanisms will be described in detail to illustrate the applications of biophysical techniques (eg spectroscopy, crystallography) and site directed mutagenesis in the study of such mechanisms. you will be taught a number of important computer-based applications towards the study of enzymes, including the use of bioinformatics and molecular graphics programmes.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Equity and Trusts | LAW5003 | No | Equity and TrustsCredits: 30.0 This module will cover: Express trusts: The three certainties in the creation of trusts; The beneficiary principle and unincorporated associations; Formalities in the creation of trusts; Dispositions of equitable interests; The duties of trustees; Breach of trust. Resulting trusts: Trusts of homes, including proprietary estoppel. Constructive trusts: Proprietary constructive trusts; Personal liability to account for dishonest assistance and knowing receipt Tracing and equitable proprietary claims: Theoretical aspects of equity, property law and restitution
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Equity and Trusts (Level 6) | LAW6056 | No | Equity and Trusts (Level 6)Credits: 30.0 This module will cover: Express trusts: The three certainties in the creation of trusts; The beneficiary principle and unincorporated associations; Formalities in the creation of trusts; Dispositions of equitable interests; The duties of trustees; Breach of trust; Resulting trusts; Trusts of homes, including proprietary estoppel; Constructive trusts: Proprietary constructive trusts; Personal liability to account for dishonest assistance and knowing receipt; Tracing and equitable proprietary claims; Restitution of unjust enrichment.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Essential Biochemistry for Human Life | SBC503 | No | Essential Biochemistry for Human LifeCredits: 15.0 Prerequisites: Biomolecules of Life (SBC323). This module is only open to students on the Biomedical Sciences degree programme and to suitably qualified associates. The module aims to provide biochemical information on selected specialised structural and functional bulk proteins including: selected human physiological processes; monosaccharide, fatty acid, steroid, amino acid and nucleotide metabolic pathways; regulation of metabolic pathways; tissue specialisation; and metabolic diseases.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Essential Foundation Mathematical Skills | SEF026 | Yes | Essential Foundation Mathematical SkillsCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to strengthen manipulative skills in elementary arithmetic and algebra; includes consideration of integers, fractions, decimal representations, estimation, polynomials, rational functions, square roots, inequalities, linear and quadratic equations.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Essential Foundation Mathematical Skills | SEJ026 | No | Essential Foundation Mathematical SkillsCredits: 15.0 This module aims to equip you with a basic understanding of design and manufacturing, with attention to customer needs, product requirements documents, concept generation and selection, basic engineering drawing and projections, and the machining/forming of materials. Includes aspects of team-work and use of CAD. Prerequisite: SEF024 Introduction to Engineering (recommended)
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination |
| Essential Mathematical Skills | MTH3100 | No | Essential Mathematical SkillsCredits: 0.0 A module in basic arithmetic and algebra. Passing this module is compulsory for progression to the second year for students on Mathematical Sciences study programmes. Not open to Associate Students.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Essential Skills for Biomedical Scientists | SBC177 | No | Essential Skills for Biomedical ScientistsCredits: 15.0 This module covers orders of magnitude and scale in space and time. You will cover basic experimental design and statistics including databases and other searchable sources of information. You will learn about reading and summarising academic texts, including providing references to support knowledge claims, and how and why to cite references. This leads naturally to focus on essay writing and peer review. Part of the formal tuition and assessment will be carried out by first year advisers, and there will be four formal, ESB advisorials each semester in lieu of lectures. Not open to associate students.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Essential Skills for Chemists | CHE100 | No | Essential Skills for ChemistsCredits: 15.0 This module is intended for students studying on chemistry-based degree programmes (including F100, F152/3, F1C7 and F1N2). The module is designed to reinforce and develop basic skills. The material covered in the module includes: units and orders of magnitude, simple chemical calculations, basic calculus (differentiation/integration), scientific computing skills, molecular shape and symmetry, basic probability and the statistical analysis of data.
Assessment: 100.0% Practical
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| Essential Skills for Psychologists | SBC140 | No | Essential Skills for PsychologistsCredits: 15.0 This module will equip students with fundamental skills needed in academic psychological studies and practical investigations. These will include basic handling of numbers and quantitative information in psychology (scales, conversion, graphs and numerical computations), essay writing, laboratory report writing, reading and evaluating research papers, research ethics, data handling and acquisition, and communication. Students will also take part in several psychological studies run by faculty and final year project students. This will provide a thorough foundation for students to carry into their other psychology modules. This will be covered by lectures and several dedicated tutorial sessions with advisors. Specifically, topics will include: Introduction to psychological science and fundamental concepts; Introduction to academic writing; Units and orders of magnitude; Volume, concentration and molarity; Scales, graphs and equations; Essay writing skills; Citing references and bibliographies; American Psychological Association (APA) format; Plagiarism; Database searching; taxonomy, scientific database information search and handling (eg PubMed, sciencedirect, Web of Knowledge, PsychArticles); Psychology laboratory report writing skills; how to structure a report in terms of introduction, methods, results, discussion, references and appendices. The American Psychological Association (APA) format. Research ethics; Participating in approximately six actual psychological research studies; Exam essay writing skills and revision techniques; Introduction to psychology in the real world; applications of psychology, what psychologists do
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Ethics and Business | BUS212 | Yes | Ethics and BusinessCredits: 15.0 Ethics and Business introduces students to different understandings of ethics and its relation to business in society. Deontological and descriptive approaches to ethics are introduced and applied to analyses of a selection of case studies. These are organised around three main developments that affect contemporary business: changes in the labour market, the knowledge economy, and the environment. Amongst the issues covered are: value; rationality; self-interest; self-love and self-realisation; the gist economy; utilitarianism and hedonism; growth, wealth and sustainability.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Coursework
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| Ethnography of Communication - Foundations and Fieldwork | LIN620 | Yes | Ethnography of Communication - Foundations and FieldworkCredits: 15.0 This module provides an overview of ethnography of communication, a theoretical and methodological approach to analyzing and understanding a wide range of communicative patterns and language uses as they occur within social and cultural contexts. Students will also apply ethnographic insights and methodologies to fieldwork activities and projects in the local community, investigating the range of practices that constitute ethnographic research, aiming for an integrative and holistic understanding through discussion of class members¿ fieldwork activities.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Ethnography of Communication - Foundations and Fieldwork | LIN7020 | No | Ethnography of Communication - Foundations and FieldworkCredits: 15.0 This module provides an overview of Ethnography of Communication, a theoretical and methodological approach to analyzing and understanding communicative patterns and language use in social and cultural contexts. The focus on primary literature includes the seminal figures who established the approach (e.g., Hymes, Gumperz), developed the framework (Baumann, Briggs, Ervin-Tripp, Philipps), and who continue to advance it today (Duranti, Goodwin, Hill, Rampton). Applying ethnographic insights and methodologies to fieldwork activities and projects in the local community will instill understanding of the broad range of practices that constitute doing ethnography as well as illustrate the points raised in the literature.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 90.0% Coursework
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| EU Immigration and Asylum Law | LAWM009 | No | EU Immigration and Asylum LawCredits: 30.0 The module covers: From Rome to Maastricht: the internal market and the push for the development of EU action in Justice and Home Affairs. The Schengen experiment: an analysis of the Schengen Convention as a model for EU action on JHA: * The evolution of competence on JHA - from the third to the first pillar; * Developments in judicial protection. EU measures on asylum. EU action on economic migration. EU action on irregular migration: * Border controls, in particular: The European Border Agency; * Population controls and EU databases: the development of EURODAC, the EU Visa Information System and the Schengen Information System and their interoperability. The routine collection of information on passengers/movement in the EU - Exchange of passenger data (PNR) with the US. Towards a global system of exchange of passenger data.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their Legacy | HST4107 | Yes | Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their LegacyCredits: 15.0 Medieval institutions, ideas and practices still greatly influence the shape of modern Europe. Europe¿s languages, rituals, religious beliefs, political institutions, urban infrastructure and universities are deeply marked by their medieval origins. This module offers an introduction to Europe¿s medieval past in its full diversity and complexity. It will introduce men and women, laypeople and priests, warriors, traders and farmers, offering learners information and insights into the continent¿s formative past.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| European Culture and Society | SML002 | Yes | European Culture and SocietyCredits: 30.0 This module is designed to give you a broad overview of European culture and society, while introducing you to a variety of different methods for analysis. This module will be divided into blocks, and after an introduction touching on the classical, medieval and renaissance periods, the module will focus on the period from the Enlightenment to the present day, covering the social, historical, economic, geographical and political background and tracing the major movements and themes, as well as encouraging you to analyze in detail, cultural artefacts including paintings, films, philosophy and literature. The module will be taught by lectures (given by representatives from a variety of different departments), and seminars, organised in such a way that some of the texts can be tread in the original language.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 40.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| European Culture and Society | SML002A | Yes | European Culture and SocietyCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to give you a broad overview of European culture and society, while introducing you to a variety of different methods for analysis. This module will be divided into blocks, and after an introduction touching on the classical, medieval and renaissance periods, the module will focus on the period from the Enlightenment to the present day, covering the social, historical, economic, geographical and political background and tracing the major movements and themes, as well as encouraging you to analyze in detail, cultural artefacts including paintings, films, philosophy and literature. The module will be taught by lectures (given by representatives from a variety of different departments), and seminars, organised in such a way that some of the texts can be tread in the original language.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| European Culture and Society | SML002B | Yes | European Culture and SocietyCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to give you a broad overview of European culture and society, while introducing you to a variety of different methods for analysis. This module will be divided into blocks, and after an introduction touching on the classical, medieval and renaissance periods, the module will focus on the period from the Enlightenment to the present day, covering the social, historical, economic, geographical and political background and tracing the major movements and themes, as well as encouraging you to analyze in detail, cultural artefacts including paintings, films, philosophy and literature. The module will be taught by lectures (given by representatives from a variety of different departments), and seminars, organised in such a way that some of the texts can be tread in the original language.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| European Integration and the EU as a Political System | POL330 | Yes | European Integration and the EU as a Political SystemCredits: 30.0 European integration is the most far-reaching development of voluntary supranational governance in world history. The objective of this module is to explore in the first semester the origins, development, and institutions of the EU. In the second semester major policies and policy-making processes are examined such as the single market, monetary union, agriculture, regional development, environment, asylum and immigration and foreign policy. Finally, the module focuses on current EU developments such as enlargement and the role of the EU on the international stage. Students will be introduced to existing and evolving theories of integration and will examine the complex operation of the EU as a political system. They will also analyse the political and economic logic behind different national perspectives on European integration. Associate student registration: Autumn Semester POL/330A; Spring Semester POL/330B.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| European Integration and the EU as a Political System | POL330A | Yes | European Integration and the EU as a Political SystemCredits: 15.0 European integration is the most far-reaching development of voluntary supranational governance in world history. The objective of this module is to explore in the first semester the origins, development, and institutions of the EU. In the second semester major policies and policy-making processes are examined such as the single market, monetary union, agriculture, regional development, environment, asylum and immigration and foreign policy. Finally, the module focuses on current EU developments such as enlargement and the role of the EU on the international stage. Students will be introduced to existing and evolving theories of integration and will examine the complex operation of the EU as a political system. They will also analyse the political and economic logic behind different national perspectives on European integration. Associate student registration: Autumn Semester POL/330A; Spring Semester POL/330B.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| European Integration and the EU as a Political System | POL330B | Yes | European Integration and the EU as a Political SystemCredits: 15.0 European integration is the most far-reaching development of voluntary supranational governance in world history. The objective of this module is to explore in the first semester the origins, development, and institutions of the EU. In the second semester major policies and policy-making processes are examined such as the single market, monetary union, agriculture, regional development, environment, asylum and immigration and foreign policy. Finally, the module focuses on current EU developments such as enlargement and the role of the EU on the international stage. Students will be introduced to existing and evolving theories of integration and will examine the complex operation of the EU as a political system. They will also analyse the political and economic logic behind different national perspectives on European integration. Associate student registration: Autumn Semester POL/330A; Spring Semester POL/330B.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination |
| European Politics: National Identity and Ethnicity | POL351 | Yes | European Politics: National Identity and EthnicityCredits: 15.0 The aim of this module is to study the politics of ethnic and national diversity within the European Union. The module offers a theoretical introduction to the concepts of nation-state, nation, and ethnic community. It explores different models of governance, and considers ethnic, regional, national and European layers of identity contributing to Europe's diversity. The module also studies the main challenges and questions faced by Europeans in trying to accommodate ethnic and national diversity within democratic political institutions such as the European Union, its member states and regions.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| European Studies Research Project | SML014 | Yes | European Studies Research ProjectCredits: 30.0 Entry to this module will not be automatic. Students intending to take this module must see the module organiser prior to registration and must present a written recommendation from their adviser regarding their suitability. This module offers the same opportunity as the Modern Languages Research Project, to enable you to pursue a sustained piece of research, but on a topic covering an aspect of European culture, thought or society. Introductory group sessions on research methods will be followed by individual supervision. You will give presentations of your research in the second semester and should note that failure to provide evidence of satisfactory progress will lead to de-registration.
Assessment: 10.0% Coursework, 90.0% Dissertation
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| European Tragedy | COM507 | Yes | European TragedyCredits: 15.0 Tragedy is one of the most vital and enduring European literary genres. Tragic dramas are often perceived as among the most significant achievements of different national literatures. Not only are there outstanding examples of the genre in the national literatures drawn on in this programme, tragedy has from antiquity been the object of intense theoretical reflection. It has been discussed by such major philosophers as Aristotle and Nietzsche; it has been treated by literary theorists of all schools. What do we gain from and why can we take a kind of pleasure in the spectacle of human misfortune? Are the benefits psychological, spiritual, intellectual? What kind of pleasure is produced? What kinds of misfortune produces the effect proper to tragedy? What can tragedy tell us about the cultures in which it flourishes? What kind of theoretical approaches (social, psychoanalytical, historical) are most fruitfully applied to it?
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Europe in a Global Context since 1800 | HST4309 | Yes | Europe in a Global Context since 1800Credits: 30.0 In the period covered by this module Europe rose to global dominance and then entered a gradual process of relative decline which is still underway. Any history of Europe in the period must also, therefore, take account of Europe's interactions - military, economic and intellectual - with the wider world. During the period of expansion Europeans envisaged themselves as embodying a superior civilisation which exemplified ideals of modernity and progress. But these ideals also had darker side which resulted in Europeans perpetrating upon each other and on others, acts of the most extreme violence. In the nineteenth century, the ideals of nationalism were associated with progress, emancipation and liberalism but in the twentieth century they became vectors of exclusion, authoritarianism and even genocide. Since 1945 ideas of a united Europe have taken root, but Cold War, local wars and inter-ethnic conflicts have emerged and some have endured. These are some of the themes and contradictions that this module will seek to explore.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Europe in a Global Context since 1800 | HST4309A | No | Europe in a Global Context since 1800Credits: 15.0 In the period covered by this module Europe rose to global dominance and then entered a gradual process of relative decline which is still underway. Any history of Europe in the period must also, therefore, take account of Europe's interactions - military, economic and intellectual - with the wider world. During the period of expansion Europeans envisaged themselves as embodying a superior civilisation which exemplified ideals of modernity and progress. But these ideals also had darker side which resulted in Europeans perpetrating upon each other and on others, acts of the most extreme violence. In the nineteenth century, the ideals of nationalism were associated with progress, emancipation and liberalism but in the twentieth century they became vectors of exclusion, authoritarianism and even genocide. Since 1945 ideas of a united Europe have taken root, but Cold War, local wars and inter-ethnic conflicts have emerged and some have endured. These are some of the themes and contradictions that this module will seek to explore.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Europe in a Global Context since 1800 | HST4309B | No | Europe in a Global Context since 1800Credits: 15.0 In the period covered by this module Europe rose to global dominance and then entered a gradual process of relative decline which is still underway. Any history of Europe in the period must also, therefore, take account of Europe's interactions - military, economic and intellectual - with the wider world. During the period of expansion Europeans envisaged themselves as embodying a superior civilisation which exemplified ideals of modernity and progress. But these ideals also had darker side which resulted in Europeans perpetrating upon each other and on others, acts of the most extreme violence. In the nineteenth century, the ideals of nationalism were associated with progress, emancipation and liberalism but in the twentieth century they became vectors of exclusion, authoritarianism and even genocide. Since 1945 ideas of a united Europe have taken root, but Cold War, local wars and inter-ethnic conflicts have emerged and some have endured. These are some of the themes and contradictions that this module will seek to explore.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination |
| Evolution | SBS110 | Yes | EvolutionCredits: 15.0 This module provides a review of evolutionary biology, including Darwinian and Neo-Darwinian perspectives, evolutionary mechanisms and the consequences of evolution. The role of evolution as a central unifying theme in biology will be emphasised. You will develop an understanding of the mechanisms of evolutionary change (including processes that are adaptive and neutral with respect to adaptation) and its significance for speciation. The importance of evolutionary theory for understanding sexual reproduction, host-parasite dynamics, and coevolution will be illustrated. The module will review the significance of the fossil record for evolution and rates of evolution, and will provide an explanation of the reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships among species. The evolutionary origins of humans will be discussed, and the implications of evolutionary theory for medicine and agriculture will also be addressed.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Evolution and Ecology | SBC174 | Yes | Evolution and EcologyCredits: 30.0 This module covers the essentials of whole-organism biology. The evolution component introduces the theory and mechanisms of evolution and speciation, the fossil record and human evolution, whereas the ecology part deals with fundamental concepts in population and community ecology as well as applied issues such as conservation. There is a one-week residential field course where students will study organisms in their natural environments rather than in the lab.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Evolution and Ecology (Sem A) | SBC174A | Yes | Evolution and Ecology (Sem A)Credits: 15.0 This module covers essential topics of whole-organism biology, introducing the theory and mechanisms of evolution and speciation, the fossil record and human evolution.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Evolution and Ecology (Sem B) | SBC174B | Yes | Evolution and Ecology (Sem B)Credits: 15.0 This module covers essential topics of whole-organism biology. introducing fundamental concepts in population and community ecology as well as applied issues such as conservation. There is a one-week residential field course where students will study organisms in their natural environments rather than in the laboratory.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination |
| Evolutionary Genetics | SBS633 | Yes | Evolutionary GeneticsCredits: 15.0 Prerequisites: Evolution (SBS110) and Heredity and Gene Action (SBS008). This module provides an overview of the evolution of sex, and covers the following topics: Genetic diversity (eg cheetahs in Africa, gulls in Britain, Partula in the Pacific); reconstructing evolutionary history from genetic data; the geographic distribution of Cepaea genes (eg neutralism, frequency dependence in selection, founder events, environmental grain); pre- and post zygotic reproductive isolation, speciation illustrated by Hawaiian Drosophil; Polyploidy (eg occurrence, barriers and consequences); DNA amount (eg variability and ecological effects); meiotic and mitotic defects, tri and monosomies; B chromosomes; 'parasitic' chromosomes; and the evolution of the human genome.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Evolutionary Psychology | SBC240 | Yes | Evolutionary PsychologyCredits: 15.0 For students on C800 Psychology. This module builds on the theme of psychology as a biological science presented in the Exploring Psychology module and develops them further by specifying the evolutionary and comparative context of contemporary psychology. Broad topic areas covered include animal cognition, animal behaviour, evolutionary psychology, and developmental processes in the human infant and child, how comparative work may inform developmental psychology, and whether humans are unique in the animal kingdom: 1) Evolution and psychology: the importance of evolution for the behavioural sciences, natural selection, sexual selection, kin selection and reciprocity. 2) How does behaviour develop?: adaptationism and modularity, cognitive ethology, animal learning theory, behavioural ecology.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Exhibiting the First World War | HST6333 | No | Exhibiting the First World WarCredits: 30.0 On this module, students will act as researchers for the Imperial War Museum, gathering and analysing sources about the experience of the First World War for people in South London and around the Museum's other sites in order to inform the redesign of the First World War galleries in the run up to 2014. Students will work together to produce a group report for the Museum on the material available in a wide range of archives across the capital on these communities, as well as individual essays on the existing literature and how a particular aspect of this case study contributes to established historical interpretations. Students will need to have taken HST5321 Winning on the Western Front as a prerequisite. You should be aware that you will be required to work in groups and to conduct archival research away from the QMUL campus. This module will teach students research and group working skills and will also serve as an introduction to the heritage sector.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Exhibition and Reception: the Cinema as a Social Space | FLM504 | Yes | Exhibition and Reception: the Cinema as a Social SpaceCredits: 15.0 This module examines cinema spaces as social scenes by exploring film from the perspective of its audience. It will explore the influence of exhibition context (urban geography, cinema architecture) on cinemagoers, and how this intersects with social identity (ethnicity, class, gender) to produce distinct modes of film reception. The module is divided into two areas: the first examines historically specific spaces of film exhibition (eg picture palaces, 'fleapit' cinemas'); the second focuses on the cinema cultures of diferent socio-cultural groups.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Experimental Economics | ECN367 | Yes | Experimental EconomicsCredits: 15.0 This module explains how the study of economic behaviour in the controlled environment provided by laboratory experiments allows us to examine and to deepen our understanding of economic theory (both microeconomic and game theory). As an integral part of the module, a number of experiments will be conducted and evaluated.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Experimental Linguistics | LIN7003 | No | Experimental LinguisticsCredits: 15.0 The goal of this module is to take students with no prior training in the methods or tools of experimental psychological science and provide them with the theoretical and practical training required to be able to critically engage with the Psycholinguistics literature and to undertake experimental linguistics research themselves. The module will include hands-on training in inferential statistics and hypothesis testing, experimental design, data collection (including training in ethical human subjects research protocols), and data analysis, as well as a thorough grounding in the primary source literature. Students will develop their critical reading skills and gain practice in presenting primary source literature to their peers.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Experimenters of the Twentieth Century | DRA201 | Yes | Experimenters of the Twentieth CenturyCredits: 15.0 This module provides the opportunity for you to engage with the productive strategies and theatrical outcomes of the generations of experimental theatre and performance artists since the beginnings of the twentieth century. The focus on artists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds will seek to map out particular trajectories that have questioned theatre's purpose, technologies, politics and possibilities. Encompassing a discussion of dramatists, directors and performance artists, the module will seek to examine the creation of forms of theatre that redefined audiences understanding of theatre and influenced further generations of theatre makers. Using dramatic and theatrical texts, manifestos and historical criticism, you will study performative practices across a range of modernist, historic avant-garde and post-modernist modes in determining how these theatrical experimenters have conceived and reconceived representation, renegotiating relations between art and life in their writings and theatre-making. Figures for discussion might include a selection of the following: Constantin Stanislavsky, Vsevelod Meyerhold, Anton Chekhov, Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski, Erwin Piscator, Bertolt Brecht, Eugenio Barba, Augusto Boal, Samuel Beckett, Pina Bausch and Richard Foreman.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Explaining Grammatical Structure | LIN037 | Yes | Explaining Grammatical StructureCredits: 15.0 Human languages are not just random sounds with associated meanings strung out one after the other in a kind of Tarzan-speak. Rather they involve complicated interactions between words which constrain order, inflectional markings, long-distance relationships between words and phrases, and a host of other phenomena. In this module we will develop an approach which will help explain how these phenomena work. The theory we will build explores ideas which come from recent work in Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Reading: Adger D, (2003) Core Syntax: a Minimalist Approach (Oxford University Press). This module is a pre-requisite for LIN039 Syntactic Theory, and for LIN312 Unfamiliar Languages.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Explanations in Psychology | SBC263 | No | Explanations in PsychologyCredits: 15.0 This module develops themes introduced in Exploring Psychology (year 1) and Essential Skills for Psychologists (year 1), regarding psychology as a science, to an advanced level by focusing on competing scientific approaches to psychology as well as the discipline¿s moral, historical and political contexts. It will also consider some modern trends in the discipline and critically evaluate them. Specifically, topics covered will include the extent to which psychology exemplifies scientific characteristics, whether psychology is morally and politically neutral, approaches to acquiring psychological knowledge (by illustration of various scientific paradigms), postmodernist questions such as whether psychology is culturally and socially constructed and problems with this approach, and the origins of ethics in psychological research and practice.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Exploring Aerospace Engineering | DEN4005 | Yes | Exploring Aerospace EngineeringCredits: 15.0 The module aims to engage students in various topics closely associated with aerospace engineering with emphasis on the application of materials. These topics include development, flight testing, aerodynamics, structures, failure, reliability, control, propulsion, maintaining operations, environmental impact. Examples will be used from current and future activities within the aerospace sector. A number of group projects will be undertaken by the students to give them a practical understanding of some of the important aspects of aerospace engineering. Lectures delivered by specialists in the School and elsewhere will be given in many of the specialised topic areas listed above.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Exploring Psychology | SBC104 | Yes | Exploring PsychologyCredits: 15.0 This module introduces and develops basic concepts in the philosophy of science and its relevance to psychology as a discipline. A biological framework for psychological science is also provided. It then introduces basic cognitive science/psychology, social psychology, differential psychology and an introduction to brain and behaviour relationships.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Exploring Spoken English | ELS4002 | No | Exploring Spoken EnglishCredits: 15.0 This module is designed for students who want to improve their listening and speaking skills in English in both formal and informal settings. Students will develop strategies for active listening and learn to deal with unfamiliar language. Seminars will consider the importance of audience, purpose, and non-verbal signals in a variety of situations. Students will have opportunities to participate in workshops in which they will be involved in activities such as discussions, role-plays and class presentations. The class tutor will monitor these activities and give feedback on features of spoken English including levels of formality, prosodic features and lexical appropriateness.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Coursework
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| Exploring Spoken English | ELS4002 | No | Exploring Spoken EnglishCredits: 15.0 This module is designed for students who want to improve their listening and speaking skills in English in both formal and informal settings. Students will develop strategies for active listening and learn to deal with unfamiliar language. Seminars will consider the importance of audience, purpose, and non-verbal signals in a variety of situations. Students will have opportunities to participate in workshops in which they will be involved in activities such as discussions, role-plays and class presentations. The class tutor will monitor these activities and give feedback on features of spoken English including levels of formality, prosodic features and lexical appropriateness.
Assessment: 20.0% Practical, 80.0% Coursework
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| Extended Essay in Psychology | SBC610 | No | Extended Essay in PsychologyCredits: 15.0 The extended essay is intended to give students an opportunity to study in-depth a topic of particular interest to them within the subject of Psychology. The essay will not entail the student conducting empirical research. Students can choose to do the Extended Essay rather than SBC304 Psychology Research Project but will need to take another 15-credit module in their final year. The Extended Essay module is intended to provide an opportunity for the student to write substantively, critically and independently about a selected and approved area of Psychology than is possible in a tutorial essay. The work also involves significant evaluation of theoretical issues relevant to the topic under investigation and the student is expected to use original research articles. The assessment comprises a substantive written dissertation.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Extended Independent Project | PHY776 | Yes | Extended Independent ProjectCredits: 30.0 You will initially register for the extended project PHY776. This module provides you with the experience of working, independently, on a problem within physics (often using the resources found within a research group of the department). These may be problems in experimental, computational or theoretical physics or a project in astronomy. A list of projects is available on the extensive projects homepage containing a brief description of the projects on offer and the supervisors of those projects. You shall arrange a project by reading these pages and meeting with potential supervisors. Associated with the project is a weekly mandatory seminar to which you will occasionally be expected to contribute. In the light of adequate progress during the first semester you may, after producing a report, be relegated to a 15 credits Independent Project following careful consideration by a panel of staff (Supervisor, CO and DCO).
Assessment: 30.0% Practical, 70.0% Coursework
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| Extensional Semantics | LIN7028 | No | Extensional SemanticsCredits: 15.0 This module trains students in the craft of doing formal semantics. It introduces Frege's hypothesis that functional application is the mechanism by which the meaning of a complex phrase is composed from the meanings of its constituent parts. It applies this method to the analysis of a variety of core semantic phenomena, including argument structure, adjectival modification, definite descriptions, relative clauses, binding and quantification. These phenomena are all extensional, meaning that insightful analyses of them can be developed without recourse to theories of possible worlds, situations, or temporal intervals. Emphasis throughout is on training students to be able to produce explicit detailed analyses of novel data.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Extrasolar Planets and Astrophysical Discs | ASTM735 | Yes | Extrasolar Planets and Astrophysical DiscsCredits: 15.0 Ever since the dawn of civilization human beings have speculated about the existence of planets outside of the Solar System orbiting other stars. The first bona fide extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main sequence star was discovered in 1995, and subsequent planet searches have uncovered the existence of more than one hundred planetary systems in the Solar neighbourhood of our galaxy. These discoveries have reignited speculation and scientific study concerning the possibility of life existing outside of the Solar System. This module provides an in depth description of our current knowledge and understanding of these extrasolar planets. Their statistical and physical properties are described and contrasted with the planets in our Solar System. Our understanding of how planetary systems form in the discs of gas and dust observed to exist around young stars will be explored, and current scientific ideas about the origin of life will be discussed. Rotationally supported discs of gas (and dust) are not only important for explaining the formation of planetary systems, but also play an important role in a large number of astrophysical phenomena such as Cataclysmic Variables, X-ray binary systems, and active galactic nuclei. These so-called accretion discs provide the engine for some of the most energetic phenomena in the universe. The second half of this module will describe the observational evidence for accretion discs and current theories for accretion disc evolution.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Extrasolar Planets and Astrophysical Discs | PHY7013U | Yes | Extrasolar Planets and Astrophysical DiscsCredits: 15.0 Ever since the dawn of civilization human beings have speculated about the existence of planets outside of the Solar System orbiting other stars. The first bona fide extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main sequence star was discovered in 1995, and subsequent planet searches have uncovered the existence of more than one hundred planetary systems in the Solar neighbourhood of our galaxy. These discoveries have reignited speculation and scientific study concerning the possibility of life existing outside of the Solar System. This module provides an in depth description of our current knowledge and understanding of these extrasolar planets. Their statistical and physical properties are described and contrasted with the planets in our Solar System. Our understanding of how planetary systems form in the discs of gas and dust observed to exist around young stars will be explored, and current scientific ideas about the origin of life will be discussed. Rotationally supported discs of gas (and dust) are not only important for explaining the formation of planetary systems, but also play an important role in a large number of astrophysical phenomena such as Cataclysmic Variables, X-ray binary systems, and active galactic nuclei. These so-called accretion discs provide the engine for some of the most energetic phenomena in the universe. The second half of this module will describe the observational evidence for accretion discs and current theories for accretion disc evolution.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Extremal Combinatorics | MTH711U | Yes | Extremal CombinatoricsCredits: 15.0 An extremal result is one which determines the extreme value of some parameter over a class of combinatorial structures. A classical example is Mantel's theorem which answers the question: how many edges can a graph have without it containing a triangle. Another instance is the Erdos-Ko-Rado theorem which answers the question: how large can a family of r-subsets of an n-set be if any two of them have non-empty intersection. This module will cover results of this flavour on both graphs and set systems. There will be an emphasis on techniques as well as results, including the use of linear algebra, probabilistic methods and compressions.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Extremal Combinatorics | MTHM044 | No | Extremal CombinatoricsCredits: 15.0 An extremal result is one which determines the extreme value of some parameter over a class of combinatorial structures. A classical example is Mantel's theorem which answers the question: how many edges can a graph have without it containing a triangle. Another instance is the Erdos-Ko-Rado theorem which answers the question: how large can a family of r-subsets of an n-set be if any two of them have non-empty intersection. This module will cover results of this flavour on both graphs and set systems. There will be an emphasis on techniques as well as results, including the use of linear algebra, probabilistic methods and compressions.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination |
| Failure of Solids | MAT501 | Yes | Failure of SolidsCredits: 15.0 The physics of fracture and fracture mechanics. Application of fracture mechanics to engineering applications. Influence of temperature on the mechanical properties of materials. High temperature deformation by dislocation movement and by diffusion. Practical aspects of creep deformation. Failure of materials under cyclic loading. Theories of fatigue. Practical aspects of fatigue in engineering materials.
Assessment: 17.0% Coursework, 83.0% Examination
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| Failure of Solids | MTRM025 | No | Failure of SolidsCredits: 15.0 The physics of fracture and fracture mechanics. Application of fracture mechanics to engineering applications. Influence of temperature on the mechanical properties of materials. High temperature deformation by dislocation movement and by diffusion. Practical aspects of creep deformation. Failure of materials under cyclic loading. Theories of fatigue. Practical aspects of fatigue in engineering materials.
Assessment: 17.0% Coursework, 83.0% Examination |
| Family Law | LAW6031 | Yes | Family LawCredits: 30.0 This module will cover: The scope and function of family law in society; Marriage/nullity/civil partnerships; Divorce and divorce reform; The parent and child relationship; The Children Act 1989 and private disputes relating to children; Family property rights; Financial provision and property adjustment on divorce; Domestic violence, abuse and molestation; The Human Rights Act 1998.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Faust in Legend, Literature and the Arts | COM310 | Yes | Faust in Legend, Literature and the ArtsCredits: 15.0 The life and legend of Johann Faust, the necromancer who sold his soul to the devil in return for power and knowledge, have cast a spell on writers, artists and composers ever since the late sixteenth century. We will study this fascination and receptivity through the centuries, from the first Faust book and its English translation to Marlowe, Goethe, Valéry, Mann and others. We will also consider illustrations and visual representations of Faust in early woodcuts and later works (e.g. Retzsch, Delacroix) as well as various musical treatments (e.g. Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Gounod). Readings will be in English translation, although students with knowledge of German and/or French will be encouraged to read the texts in the original. Students of single or joint honours German and/or French will be expected to read the relevant texts in the original.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Feeling It: Emotion and Sensation in the Theatre | DRA307 | Yes | Feeling It: Emotion and Sensation in the TheatreCredits: 15.0 Who feels what in which theatre? From theories of catharsis in tragic theatre to the predicament of the spectator in postmodern performance, this module takes a critical, historical and theoretical look at how emotion and sensation have been experienced in the theatre. The module will draw on theoretical and historical texts, from Aristotle and Saint Augustine, through Diderot, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, via Darwin and Freud to Deleuze and Lyotard, to consider what it might mean to feel real feelings and sense real sensations on stage and off. These theoretical texts will be examined in relation to historical accounts and contemporary experiences of performances. We will also consider the ways in which a theatre that engages those senses other than sight might be both vital and strangely overlooked in a study of theatre that is dominated by the visual experience and its reading of signs. Each seminar will be themed around an emotional or sensational experience, for example: horror, pain, joy, grief, boredom, helpless laughter, hysteria, lust, schizophrenia, despair, love.
Assessment: 30.0% Practical, 70.0% Coursework
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| Feminine Voices in Modern Spanish Fiction | HSP653 | Yes | Feminine Voices in Modern Spanish FictionCredits: 15.0 This module focuses on a selection of twentieth-century women writers from Spain, such as Carmen Martin Gaite, Josefina Aldecoa and Rosa Montero. Texts will be studied within a framework of feminist theory in order to assess their attempts to construct a space for women's writing.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Feminism(s) | ESH393 | Yes | Feminism(s)Credits: 30.0 This module engages witrh contemporary femninist thought, steering a course through the literary criticism, history and theory of feminism,. It examines the signifcant debates and key concept of feminist thought through a range of literary, political and philosophical texts and encourages students to develop their own critical understanding of gender and equality issues in the contemporary period. Students are invited to explore the impact of feminism approaches on literary criticism, to understand the critical feminist project in its own terms, and to examine feminism in relation in Marxism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, post-structuralism, neo-liberalism and international feminism.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Feminism(s) | ESH393A | Yes | Feminism(s)Credits: 15.0 This module is to be taken by Semester One-only Associate students. This module steers a course through the literary criticism, history and theory of feminism, from early feminist texts, to the contemporary period (although the focus will be mainly twentieth and twenty-first century).
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Feminism(s) | ESH393B | Yes | Feminism(s)Credits: 15.0 This module is to be taken by Semester Two only Associate students in the Department of English. The module covers a number of different aspects of twentieth and twenty-first century feminism(s) from psychoanalysis, to the body, from queer theory, to the future of feminism.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Field Methods for Freshwater Environmental Science | GEG7309 | No | Field Methods for Freshwater Environmental ScienceCredits: 15.0 This module is based around a residential field course, which will introduce students to the investigation and assessment of freshwater environments. The field course will provide training in designing safe field programmes and will introduce the equipment and techniques employed in routine sampling and measurement of the physical and chemical properties of freshwater environments and their biota. Overall the module will provide a sound introduction to field methods for studying freshwater environments and their use in the assessment of freshwater environment quality.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Fieldwork in Physical Geography and Environmental Science | GEG4204 | No | Fieldwork in Physical Geography and Environmental ScienceCredits: 15.0 This module gives an introduction to the principles and practice of essential field, laboratory and computing applications for physical geographers and environmental scientists. Theory and practical skills are taught in an integrated series of lectures, practicals and field investigations. A series of thematic modules use project-based examples to give basic practical skills in research design, word processing, computing, statistical analysis, collection of environmental data, laboratory analytical methods and field investigation. Includes a compulsory three-day field course. Not open to Associate Students.
Assessment: 15.0% Practical, 85.0% Coursework
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| Film, Literature and Adaptation | FLM502 | Yes | Film, Literature and AdaptationCredits: 15.0 This module will provide an overview of the role that adaptation has played in cultural history and theory, considering its central importance in the history, economics and art of film. Examining both the Hollywood and European cinemas, it will explore the complex relationship between literature and film over more than a century of the cinema's existence, tracing the varying strategies with which adaptation has been associated, from providing fidelity to an original text to offering a vehicle for revisionist critique and interpretation. It will explore not only the impact of the other arts on the cinema, but also the extent to which the cinema can be said to have influenced these arts in return. The module will include case studies from the cinema's past, but also offer a more contemporary perspective through introducing students to the online archive of British film-maker Sally Potter, which contains materials relating to all stages of her 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando from original concept to completion.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Film and Ethics | FLM607 | Yes | Film and EthicsCredits: 15.0 This module provides an introduction to the relationship between ethics and diverse forms of cinema, tracing the emergence of a relatively new but increasingly influential approach to the medium. How can the interactions between documentary filmmakers, their subjects and viewers be understood in ethical terms? What is specific about the way narrative cinema frames the moral dilemmas and decisions around which it so often revolves? To what extent does the filmic institution render viewers ethically complicit in scenarios of suffering and violence? What is distinctive about the contribution of cinema to debates in ethical philosophy? And how do given films relate to the poststructuralist ethical preoccupation with the possibility of unconditional openness towards the other? Students will address these and other questions through analysis of a wide-ranging corpus of films and critical, theoretical and philosophical texts produced in Europe, North America and beyond.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Film History: The United States and the Second World War | HST6324 | Yes | Film History: The United States and the Second World WarCredits: 15.0 This course focuses on the political, social and economic forces that shaped American films during the Second World War, when cinema-going was at its height and film was believed to be a powerfully persuasive medium. It examines the use of feature films as propaganda during the war and also the nature and appeal of escapist films. Students will develop an understanding of this tumultuous period in US history, as well as an understanding of how film can be used as an historical source. The course also considers how the Second World War has been remembered, in popular memory and in post-war war films. It is taught through weekly lectures, seminars and film screenings. Key films include Gone with the Wind (1939), Mrs Miniver (1942) Casablanca (1942), Lifeboat (1944) and Mildred Pierce (1945).
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 90.0% Coursework
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| Film Philosophy | FLM602 | Yes | Film PhilosophyCredits: 15.0 This module explores the relationship between film and philosophy by examining how films raise philosophical questions. We will learn what philosophers have to say about cinema, and how filmmakers incorporate philosophical perspectives, but we will also explore how films can inform the ways we think about ourselves and understand the world around us. From how we experience cinema in our minds and bodies, to what scares us and how we assess right and wrong, this module will address the question of how films do philosophy.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Film Philosophy | FLM700 | No | Film PhilosophyCredits: 30.0 This module will investigate the relationship between films and philosophy from various critical and conceptual perspectives. Addressing questions about the nature of film and its relationship to reality will lead on to an examination of the ways in which philosophers such as Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze have written about film. We will then examine the work of contemporary film philosophers such as Catherine Constable, John Mullarkey and Robert Sinnerbrink, and investigate how they draw on film and philosophy to create new and invigorating approaches. There will be two detailed case studies - one of a filmmaker who self-consciously imbues their films with philosophical meanings and one of a philosopher who discusses the possibilities of cinema - and a venture into the realm of phenomenology as a way of analysing the experience of film.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Film Studies | IFC6006 | No | Film StudiesCredits: 30.0 The module examines several theoretical aspects of studying film that students will encounter in a core module of an MA Film Studies, including such concepts as how to `read¿ a film, cinematic codes, genre analysis, and various theoretical approaches (semiotics, psychoanalysis, etc). The module will also explore the history of cinema as well as a number of movements and styles from European and Hollywood cinema from the 1930s to the present day. Students will analyse and comment on film in both written work and seminar discussions to the level that will lead to potential success on an MA in Film Studies.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 30.0% Examination, 60.0% Coursework
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| Film Studies | IFC6006 | No | Film StudiesCredits: 30.0 The module examines several theoretical aspects of studying film that students will encounter in a core module of an MA Film Studies, including such concepts as how to `read¿ a film, cinematic codes, genre analysis, and various theoretical approaches (semiotics, psychoanalysis, etc). The module will also explore the history of cinema as well as a number of movements and styles from European and Hollywood cinema from the 1930s to the present day. Students will analyse and comment on film in both written work and seminar discussions to the level that will lead to potential success on an MA in Film Studies.
Assessment: 10.0% Practical, 30.0% Examination, 60.0% Coursework
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| Film Studies | SMLM035 | No | Film StudiesCredits: 60.0 The core module is divided into sections offering students the opportunity to explore key issues in film theory, in the classification and development of national cinemas, and in assessing film production practices, such as cinematography, the continuity system of editing and directorial style.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Film Studies Research Project | FLM304 | No | Film Studies Research ProjectCredits: 30.0 Students must consult with the module organiser before finalising registration for this double module. It is designed as an optional module for Final Year students of Film Studies joint and single Honours programme. The aim of the module is to offer students on the Film Studies programmes an introduction to independent study by pursuing a sustained piece of research on a subject agreed with the module organiser and an assigned supervisor. The module will provide training in the research skills and methodologies that this demands via group sessions and individual supervision.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Final Year Undergraduate Research Project | MAT500 | No | Final Year Undergraduate Research ProjectCredits: 30.0 A 30 credit project specific to BSc and BEng programmes. The purpose of the project will be to provide in depth knowledge of a particular research area in Materials. There will be no set rules concerning format, which will depend on the nature of the subject and personal choice. The project will typically involve experimentation which will be carried out in an associated subject area chosen by a member of academic staff (supervisor). Time for experimentation is limited and considerable emphasis will be placed on the analysis, interpretation and discussion of the experimental results obtained.
Assessment: 100.0% Dissertation |
| Finance for Development | BUSM020 | No | Finance for DevelopmentCredits: 15.0 This module focuses on the problems that developing countries face in the process of development, in particular, in financing their development programmes, and the measures they take in an attempt to overcome the difficulties. In order to study the problems closely and the respective strategies that are adopted by different developing countries, the primary focus of this course is on India, South Korea and China.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Financial Accounting | BUS021 | Yes | Financial AccountingCredits: 15.0 This Course introduces you to and explores the purpose, nature and operation of the Financial Accounting function within businesses, particularly limited liability companies in the UK. It reveals, illustrates and explores how the financial accounting systems operate when tasked with measuring and recording the financial value of the transactions, events and activities of a business. In so doing, it examines the nature and scope of financial accounting and the underlying conceptual framework of accounting conventions and standards. It further looks at the ratio analysis and associated interpretation of published financial statements from the perspectives of a range of differing users of financial accounting information. Accordingly, the module seeks to equip you with the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable you to identify and record the financial value of business transactions, events and activities, and to generate financial information through the construction of Balance Sheets, Income Statements (Profit Statements) and Cash Flow Statements, and through the use of financial ratios.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Financial Derivatives | ECOM026 | No | Financial DerivativesCredits: 15.0 The purpose of this module is to provide students with the theory and practice of pricing and hedging derivative securities. These include forward and futures contracts, swaps, and many different types of options. This module covers diverse areas of derivatives, such as equity and index derivatives, foreign currency derivatives and commodity derivatives, as well as interest rate derivatives. This module also addresses the issue of how to incorporate credit risk into the pricing and risk management. All the relevant concepts are discussed based on the discrete time binomial model and the continuouse time Black-Scholes model. The extensions of the Lack-Scholes model are also discussed.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Financial Derivatives | ECCL014 | No | Financial DerivativesCredits: 15.0 The purpose of this module is to provide students with the theory and practice of pricing and hedging derivative securities. These include forward and futures contracts, swaps, and many different types of options. This module covers diverse areas of derivatives, such as equity and index derivatives, foreign currency derivatives and commodity derivatives, as well as interest rate derivatives. This module also addresses the issue of how to incorporate credit risk into the pricing and risk management. All the relevant concepts are discussed based on the discrete time binomial model and the continuouse time Black-Scholes model. The extensions of the Lack-Scholes model are also discussed.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination |
| Financial Econometrics | ECOM025 | No | Financial EconometricsCredits: 15.0 This module discusses econometric methodology for dealing with problems in the area of financial economics and provides students with the econometric tools applied in the area. Applications are considered in the stock, bond and exchange rate markets. Students will cover the following issues: asset returns distributions; predictability of asset returns; econometric tests of capital markets efficiency and asset pricing models; inter-temporal models of time-varying risk premium; nonlinearities in financial data; value at risk; pricing derivatives 6 MSc Finance and Economics, MSc Finance and Econometrics with stochastic volatility (or GARCH) models; modelling non-synchronous trading; and numerical methods in finance.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| Financial Institutions | BUS201 | Yes | Financial InstitutionsCredits: 15.0 Financial Institutions examines the function, characteristics and operation of various financial institutions e.g. banks, other deposit-taking institutions as well as non-deposit-taking institutions. This involves not only an examination of the nature and characteristics of their services or products they offer via different markets eg money markets, bond markets, equity markets, foreign exchange markets, derivative markets and the credit markets in order to meet the needs of different market participants, but also of why financial crises emerge in the operation of these markets.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Financial Management | BUS306 | Yes | Financial ManagementCredits: 15.0 Relationship between the financial manager and the capital markets; Investment appraisal, single and multi-period capital rationing, and risk analysis; Capital asset pricing model; Types of sources of finance and their characteristics; Efficient Markets Hypothesis; Dividend growth model and Business valuation; Weighted average cost of capital; Issues in capital structure and financial gearing.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Financial Markets and Institutions | ECN222 | Yes | Financial Markets and InstitutionsCredits: 15.0 Topics include the role and function of capital markets, government and company finance; general methods of valuing financial assets; equities and the trade-off between risk and return; London Stock Exchange, and competition between European stock markets; bonds, and the term structure of interest rates; gilt-edged market, eurobond market, institutional investment, and financial regulation.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Financial Markets and Institutions | BUSM072 | No | Financial Markets and InstitutionsCredits: 15.0 This module is about how the increasingly complex relation between financial institutions, markets and firms has evolved over a period of time. A process of financial innovation and deregulation is impacting upon recorded accounting numbers and financial performance of firms much more volatile. In the corporate and non-corporate sectors the relation between financial markets and accounting is complex and inter-related. A large proportion of balance sheet values are now adjusted to reflect financial market values and these adjustments can be significant and volatile. Fair value reporting also requires significant external advisory support to inform accountants: actuaries, credit rating agencies and specialists is specific asset valuations. The development of more sophisticated financial products impacts upon a range of corporate and non-corporate institutions.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| Financial Reporting | BUSM054 | No | Financial ReportingCredits: 15.0 This module examines the financial reporting of companies, and how such reporting can be analysed to evaluate performance. No prior knowledge of accounting is assumed: students learn how accounts are constructed and analysed, then examine the impact of various issues on the reported numbers. These include the reporting of intangible assets; creative accounting; currency translation; and the use of share options to reward management. The module takes a global perspective and refers largely to the regulatory regime of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Financial Statements | ECOM052 | No | Financial StatementsCredits: 15.0 This module provides you with the necessary skills to interpret and analyse accounting reports when making business decisions. Topics include valuation of equity of debt instruments, ratio analysis, fundamental analysis, earning management.
Assessment: 25.0% Coursework, 75.0% Examination
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| First World War Propaganda: Nationalism and Empire in Text and Image | SML501 | No | First World War Propaganda: Nationalism and Empire in Text and ImageCredits: 15.0 The module examines the nationalist and imperialist propaganda produced in Europe and its colonies during the period leading up to and spanning the First World War. The analytical methods to which students will be introduced can be transferred to the study of any type of propaganda and nationalist literature. Attention will also be paid to linguistic and visual imagery. The study of propaganda involves a broad interdisciplinary approach and students will therefore become familiar with the social and political background behind the production of nationalist discourse.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Fish Biology and Fisheries | SBC214 | Yes | Fish Biology and FisheriesCredits: 15.0 In this module you will get an overview of fish biology, including: taxonomy, anatomy, physiology and ecology. You will also be taught commercial aspects of fish biology (eg harvesting techniques, aquaculture and reasons for the recent collapses in fish stocks), leading to an appreciation of the state of global fish stocks and how these can be managed more sustainably for future generations.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Fluid Mechanics of the Cardiovascular System | DEN5300 | Yes | Fluid Mechanics of the Cardiovascular SystemCredits: 15.0 This module further develops material taught in the first year about fluid mechanics. It introduces more complex concepts including the role of the boundary layer and the transition from laminar to turbulent flow. It will describe the non-Newtonian nature of blood, haemodynamics and pulsatile flows. It will consider flow in the context of the human cardiovascular system, including the structure of the vascular network and blood vessels, the heart anatomy and cardiac cycle, flow through bifurcations and bypass grafts. It will consider the clinical relevance of the endothelial cell and their function.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Form and Function in Biology | SEF031 | Yes | Form and Function in BiologyCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to introduce you to the basic biology of microbes, plants and animals. It is particularly suitable for students who wish to study Biology, Zoology, Marine and Freshwater Biology and Ecology. It is also suitable for students who wish to study the more microbial and molecular aspects of biology.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination
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| Foundations of German Studies | GER117 | Yes | Foundations of German StudiesCredits: 30.0 This module is designed to provide students with an overview of the many-facetted cultural, social and linguistic developments that determine German identity, drawing on literary texts and other media to illustrate those developments. In discussions students are encouraged to explore ideas actively and to nurture their curiosity, while at the same time developing reading, note-taking, writing and discursive skills.
Assessment: 40.0% Coursework, 60.0% Examination
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| Foundations of German Studies | GER117A | Yes | Foundations of German StudiesCredits: 15.0 This module is designed to provide students with an overview of the many-facetted cultural, social and linguistic developments that determine German identity, drawing on literary texts and other media to illustrate those developments. In discussions students are encouraged to explore ideas actively and to nurture their curiosity, while at the same time developing reading, note-taking, writing and discursive skills.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| Foundations of Intellectual Property Law and Management | IPLM702P | No | Foundations of Intellectual Property Law and ManagementCredits: 15.0 This module introduces students to both the legal foundations of intellectual property rights as well as to key aspects concerning IP management and exploitation. Students will be introduced (after and introduction into the main economic and moral justifications of IP rights and relevant domestic, European and international sources of law, including patent, copyright, trade mark and trade secret law as well as the basic legal rules concerning licensing and ownership. The focus will be, by way of example, on case studies relating to those rights that students from science subjects will most likely be confronted with in business, such as mechanical and chemical patents, software and database rights, confidentiality and licensing agreements, designs or aspects of brand protection in specific industries such as pharmaceutical industry. This is complemented by lectures explaining how IP rights portfolios are managed and how such rights may be enforced.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Foundations of Intellectual Property Law and Management | IPLM702U | No | Foundations of Intellectual Property Law and ManagementCredits: 15.0 This module introduces students to both the legal foundations of intellectual property rights as well as to key aspects concerning IP management and exploitation. Students will be introduced (after and introduction into the main economic and moral justifications of IP rights and relevant domestic, European and international sources of law, including patent, copyright, trade mark and trade secret law as well as the basic legal rules concerning licensing and ownership. The focus will be, by way of example, on case studies relating to those rights that students from science subjects will most likely be confronted with in business, such as mechanical and chemical patents, software and database rights, confidentiality and licensing agreements, designs or aspects of brand protection in specific industries such as pharmaceutical industry. This is complemented by lectures explaining how IP rights portfolios are managed and how such rights may be enforced.
Assessment: 30.0% Coursework, 70.0% Examination |
| Foundations of Linguistics | LIN400 | Yes | Foundations of LinguisticsCredits: 15.0 This is a core module for all degrees involving linguistics. It introduces what linguistics is, what kinds of problems it addresses and how linguists go about addressing those problems. It also provides a very basic introduction to the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and outlines how these are related to each other. This module is a pre-requisite for most level 5 and all level 6 Linguistics modules.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Foundations of Mathematical Modelling in Finance | MTH771P | No | Foundations of Mathematical Modelling in FinanceCredits: 15.0 This module will provide you with an introduction to important concepts from probability theory and stochastic processes that are useful in modelling asset price dynamics. The introduction of more advanced tools will be preceded by a brief review of basic probability theory. Important stochastic processes that underlie many models in finance, such as random walks, Brownian motion, geometric Brownian motion, and the Poisson process, are discussed. An informal overview on Ito stochastic calculus and its application in finance will be given. By the end of this introductory course you will have achieved a sufficient level of competence of selected mathematical methods to facilitate further studies in Mathematical Finance.
Assessment: 100.0% Examination
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| Foundations of Practical Chemistry | CHE101 | Yes | Foundations of Practical ChemistryCredits: 15.0 This module is appropriate to first-year students undertaking degree programmes in the chemical sciences. It provides training in the principles and practice of key techniques of practical chemistry - including analytical methods, synthetic procedures, methods of purification, and the use of a range of instrumental techniques. Topics such as good laboratory practice, health and safety in the laboratory, the preparation of laboratory reports amd data analysis techniques are also covered.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 80.0% Examination
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| Foundations of Practical Chemistry (Sem A) | CHE101A | Yes | Foundations of Practical Chemistry (Sem A)Credits: 15.0 This module is for associate (study-abroad) students only. It provides training in the principles and practice of techniques of practical chemistry - including analytical methods, basic synthetic procedures, methods of purification and various instrumental techniques. Topics such as good laboratory practice, health and safety in the laboratory, the preparation of laboratory reports and data analysis techniques are also covered.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| Foundations of Practical Chemistry (Sem B) | CHE101B | Yes | Foundations of Practical Chemistry (Sem B)Credits: 15.0 This module is for associate (study-abroad) students only. It provides training in the principles and practice of techniques of practical chemistry - including analytical methods, basic synthetic procedures, methods of purification and various instrumental techniques. Topics such as good laboratory practice, health and safety in the laboratory, the preparation of laboratory reports and data analysis techniques are also covered. Students wishing to register for this module must be able to demonstrate some prior experience of the basic techniques of practical chemistry, equivalent to that provided by the CHE101A module.
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| French Feminist Writing | FRE605 | No | French Feminist WritingCredits: 15.0 All students will have some opinions on what it means 'to be a woman¿. This module will encourage you to examine these opinions in the light of French feminist thought from Simone de Beauvoir's seminal 'Le Deuxième Sexe', to Virginie Despentes raucous manifesto 'King-Kong Théorie'. Through close readings of both philosophical and literary texts we will explore questions such as: is one born, or does one become, a woman? how do the stories we tell shape our understanding of gender roles? From whose perspective are these stories told and what do they exclude or repress? How have writers and thinkers reinvented these stories? What is the role of reading and writing in processes of social change? This module will be taught through a mixture of lectures and seminars. As well as considering the texts for study in their historical contexts, students will be encouraged to draw connections between feminist thought and contemporary culture and to engage in lively debate.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
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| French Foundations | FRE468 | Yes | French FoundationsCredits: 30.0 This is a two-semester module designed to offer an introduction to various aspects of French studies. These include ideas/philosophy, linguistics, literature, visual culture, and political and cultural issues. Each year, four of the aspects listed above will be studied in half-semester blocks, with teaching consisting of a combination of lectures and seminars. The module aims to enable you to develop a broad understanding of (i) French texts, both verbal and visual, in their context, and (ii) socio-cultural and linguistic topics, and to develop your linguistic proficiency in written and spoken French. You will also acquire skills in analysing the texts and topics studied, as well as more general skills in presentation and communication; these will be of value to you not only within the academic institution but also in your future career. In addition, the module will help you get to know a number of members of staff of the French department, and to find out more about your own interests and strengths so that you can build on these in future years of study.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
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| French Foundations | FRE468A | Yes | French FoundationsCredits: 15.0 This is a module designed to offer an introduction to various aspects of French studies. These include ideas/philosophy, linguistics, literature, visual culture, and political and cultural issues. Each year, four of the aspects listed above will be studied in half-semester blocks, with teaching consisting of a combination of lectures and seminars. The module aims to enable you to develop a broad understanding of (i) French texts, both verbal and visual, in their context, and (ii) socio-cultural and linguistic topics, and to develop your linguistic proficiency in written and spoken French. You will also acquire skills in analysing the texts and topics studied, as well as more general skills in presentation and communication; these will be of value to you not only within the academic institution but also in your future career. In addition, the module will help you get to know a number of members of staff of the French department, and to find out more about your own interests and strengths so that you can build on these in future years of study.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| French Foundations | FRE468B | Yes | French FoundationsCredits: 15.0 This is a module designed to offer an introduction to various aspects of French studies. These include ideas/philosophy, linguistics, literature, visual culture, and political and cultural issues. Each year, four of the aspects listed above will be studied in half-semester blocks, with teaching consisting of a combination of lectures and seminars. The module aims to enable you to develop a broad understanding of (i) French texts, both verbal and visual, in their context, and (ii) socio-cultural and linguistic topics, and to develop your linguistic proficiency in written and spoken French. You will also acquire skills in analysing the texts and topics studied, as well as more general skills in presentation and communication; these will be of value to you not only within the academic institution but also in your future career. In addition, the module will help you get to know a number of members of staff of the French department, and to find out more about your own interests and strengths so that you can build on these in future years of study.
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination |
| French I | FRE411 | Yes | French ICredits: 30.0 Basic grammatical structures are revised and reinforced. Practice in comprehension and composition is given using a wide variety of source material in contemporary French, designed to develop appropriateness and accuracy in the spoken and written language.
Assessment: 20.0% Coursework, 20.0% Practical, 60.0% Examination
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| French I | FRE411A | Yes | French ICredits: 15.0 Basic grammatical structures are revised and reinforced. Practice in comprehension and composition is given using a wide variety of source material in contemporary French, designed to develop appropriateness and accuracy in the spoken and written language.
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework |
| French I | FRE411B | No | French ICredits: 15.0 Basic grammatical structures are revised and reinforced. Practice in comprehension and composition is given using a wide variety of source material in contemporary French, designed to develop appropriateness and accuracy in the spoken and written language. Assessment: 20.0% |