PGT Modules

CFA Training

This module gives students training and revision tools required to undertake the CFA level 1 exam. The training, supplied by Fitch Training, will include lectures and eresources and is designed to prepare students for the December CFA exams (i.e. the December after graduated from the MSc). The module aims to supplement and broaden students understanding of topics covered in the rest of the MSc with a more vocationally-focussed approach and support student employability.

International Child Law

This module examines the broad and continuously expanding field of international child law. It provides an in-depth analysis of the world's most widely ratified treaty, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, along with various other legal instruments and provisions relating to children at the international, regional, and national levels. The module looks at how international child law relates to wide-ranging contexts, such as armed conflict, migration, and criminal justice. Our discussions draw on a rich array of theoretical perspectives, including historical and anthropological studies of childhood, postcolonial theory, queer theory, and critical scholarship on international law.

Themes and Cases in US Foreign Policy

This course will consider the principal forms in which US foreign policy has been practised and interpreted since the foundation of the Republic. Amongst these are American Exceptionalism and Anti-Americanism, 'spheres of influence', liberal interventionism and protectionist isolationism, Cold War containment, the `War on Terror' following 9/11, and the strains on unipolarity in the early 21st century. Amongst the case studies linked to these themes, we shall consider the role of Native Americans and immigration, the war of 1898, gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean, the ideas of Woodrow Wilson, the Vietnam War, the consequences of the 9/11 attacks, and the challenges posed by China.

Cinema and Digital Visual Culture in contemporary China

This module takes contemporary People's Republic of China (PRC) as a site to explore the transformation of the cinema and visual art from the 1980s to the 2020s, with a particular focus on the changes in the digital era. It will consider the aesthetic transformation enabled by digital technologies, and the accompanied ethical and socio-political implications and audience responses. It will examine concepts such as the post-cinematic, digital filmmaking, new media art practice, global auteurs and contemporary Chinese art, online participation, generational cinema, independent and post-independent cinema, the national and the transnational, localized aesthetics as well as the physical and digital exhibition sites. While focusing on practices in mainland China, it will also consider practices in the wider Sino-sphere.

Evaluation and Delivery in Public Policy

This course aims to provide a critical overview of the theory and practice of two of the crucial 'end' stages of the policy process: delivery and evaluation. The module will examine how governments and public agencies around the world have sought to upgrade their delivery and evaluation capacity in recent decades. The course will explore the development of theoretical and empirical academic literature and provide opportunities for students to apply this material to selected case studies relevant to the group. Practitioners will be encouraged to reflect on their practices and experiences.

Contemporary World Politics: Theories, Concepts, Themes

The module is designed to give students a good command and understanding of key concepts and theoretical traditions in International Relations and their relevance for understanding contemporary themes in world politics. The module seeks to provide students with a more nuanced understanding of the various social forces and processes shaping world politics including the co-constitutive relationship between the theory and practice of international relations. The module also aims at developing the students' capacity to reflect critically about the main claims, strengths and weaknesses of theories in international relations.

War and International Security

Dissertation

The Masters' Dissertation is an independent programme of study of an approved topic within the field of Politics. 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 course 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 School who will oversee the progress of the dissertation.

Globalisation and the International Political Economy of Development

The course provides students with a detailed examination - and critique - of theories of globalisation and assessment of contemporary globalising processes, and how these particularly influence the developing world.

Theories and Concepts in Public Policy

This module will provide a structured introduction to key issues and concepts in policy analysis. The module will give students a solid grounding in theories of the policy-making process while enabling students to apply those insights to practical case-studies of policy formulation and implementation in the real world. The module will also provide students with background on the key traditions and approaches to public administration and policy-making in countries around the world, both developing and developed countries. Issues to be covered on the module will include the nature of public policies; the policy context: institutions and actors; theoretical approaches to the policy process; policy problems and agenda-setting; decision-making; implementation/new public management; evaluation; governance; public policy beyond the nation-state; policy change and policy convergence; future challenges for policy-makers.

Current Debates in International Political Economy

This module will examine how ideas from classical political economy have been employed and adapted to understand the contemporary world of trade, international finance and global production networks. Topics such as global capital flows, the power and influence of multi-national corporations, the role of reserve currencies in global system and the regimes governing trade, labour and environmental standards will be examined, all with an eye to the diverse theoretical and methodological traditions that have shaped debates on these subjects. The module thus equips students with a strong understanding of how the global economy works and with the theoeretical and methodological tools to do advanced research in international political economy

Health Social Media Analytics

This module explores patient-generated data from health social media, teaching students how to collect and analyse such data to gain a deeper understanding of patient perspectives, social determinants, and unmet needs behind numerical data. By leveraging health social media analytics, students will uncover insights into patient care experiences, identify opportunities for quality improvement, monitor real-world health events, explore inequalities, evaluate drug safety, and assess perceptions that may influence patient engagement with health services and self-care practices. Methodological approaches include qualitative and quantitative analytics tailored to health social media data, with a focus on ethics and information governance. Clinical and public health applications emphasise understanding patients' perspectives to improve patient care.

Effective and Efficient Evaluation

The module will introduce learners to principles of effective and efficient evaluation, exploring different uses of health data in evaluation, for example in recruitment, or to measure outcomes. It will cover research designs that use health data or can be conducted within health data, including randomised controlled trials, cluster-randomised and stepped-wedge designs, trials-within-cohorts/registries, interrupted-time-series, systematic reviews. Cost-effective analyses and ethics of evaluation will also be covered.

Analysis of Electronic Health Records

This course will equip students with practical skills for analysing routinely collected electronic health records (EHRs) data. During the course, the students will learn about the provenance of EHRs data, how to identify exposures and outcomes, how to apply analytical approaches in EHRs data, and how to conduct research studies using EHRs. The course will focus on a range of techniques for answering causal questions in EHRs such as propensity score methods, trial emulation, and case-only designs. The course will also cover developing and evaluating risk prediction models to support clinical decision-making, and provide hands-on experience with real-world EHRs data throughout.

Further epidemiology & statistics for health data scientist

This module will provide an introduction to epidemiology and statistics with a focus on quantitative analytic approaches. Develop the knowledge and understanding necessary to design, analyse and interpret epidemiological studies with an application to public health and clinical practice. Gain practical skills in using statistical software to clean data, perform statistical analyses and display data. Learn to interpret findings crucial for evidence-based healthcare research, critically evaluate research and contribute to advancements in public health. This module equips students with the expertise to tackle complex health challenges through advanced epidemiological approaches and statistical modelling.

Confronting Violence: Anticolonial Feminist and Queer Approaches

The module introduces students to the study of violence from an anticolonial, feminist and queer perspective in the twenty-first century. Rather than take a case study approach, the module equips students with the necessary analytical, epistemic and ethical tools to understand the complexities of confronting and researching violence with themes such as debility/disability; ecocide and urbicide; femicide and anti-gender violence; extraction and racial capitalism; militarisation and occupation; epistemic violence; coloniality and technology, among others. In addressing these themes, the module will highlight the connections and query the neat distinctions between the global/international and the everyday through a feminist and gender perspective. Students will learn what it means to see the world through anticolonial, feminist and queer perspectives, enabling them to engage with pressing issues in global political in creative and ethical ways.

Global Screens

The second part of the Film Studies course continues to delve into some of the most pressing and current questions of the discipline, while also being accessible to students who did not take the first part. It provides an in-depth foundation in the discipline and its nuances in thematic sections that span the theory and practice of film by examining and considering the many ways in which a century of cinema has shaped our experience of space, time, and reality.

Creative Documentary

This module challenges some of the key tenets and ideas of documentary film (such as transparency, truth, reality, and representational practices) with a view to pushing the boundaries of the documentary form. We will explore different modes of documentary practice, including the performative documentary, artists' moving image documentary in the gallery, the animated documentary, archival and found footage film and the essay film. These non-traditional modalities of nonfiction are designed to enhance and reconfigure your own documentary practices, and enable you to test out new theoretical, aesthetic and rhetorical strategies in your production work. To make the most of the module, you are encouraged to read extensively around documentary film theory and practice, thinking through the myriad formal, political and ethical ways the moving image encounters and represents the lived world. To broaden your horizons, please make sure to keep abreast of the extra-curricular suggestions for recommended viewing, and make the most of the artistic, cinematic, and socially engaged events Queen Mary University and the many communities of London have to offer. Please check your email and social media daily for updates. Sessions will commonly be divided into two parts. In the first part, there will be a screening covering a particular mode of documentary film that challenges traditional approaches to documentary filmmaking, followed by a lecture and discussion of the film and the assigned reading material. The second part of the session will focus on the practical aspects of planning the production of your film - from concept to completion.

Short Film Production

Over the course of 12 weeks, this module requires students to form small production groups to develop and produce a festival-ready short film. Each week they are asked to create presentations that show a different stage in the production process. Taking them from development, through to the finished film. They learn the importance of research and process. The module is broken up between whole class lectures, student presentations and a series of small group meetings with the tutor to facilitate their journey.

Thinking Film Studies

The first part of the Film Studies course provides an in-depth foundation in the discipline and its nuances. It examines the many ways in which a century of cinema has shaped our experience of space, time and reality. We analyse the spatio-temporal world of the film as a language organized through shot composition, mise-en-scene, art direction, production design, editing, sound, on screen and off screen space, deployed to dfferent effect across film forms and national contexts. Of all the modern arts, it is perhaps film that has been the most concerned with the many qualities of time. Central to the temporality of film are critical issues of whether film constructs or reveals the world, conveys or distorts 'real time', emancipates alternative identities, acts as interpretive interface between life and death, and whether idneed it suggsts or condemns the possibility of a shared collective time. We then consider various perspectives on film's relationship with the world through ethics, actuality, nonfiction filmmaking and iconic images.

Business and Commercial Law Issues for Managers

"The module aims to deal with the following commercial and business issues that pertain to the operations of a corporate entity and are relevant for a management degree. The module will cover topics such as Concepts of commercial law, Corporate governance and CSR, Law and corporate finance, Introduction to economic law, Law and innovation ."

Forecasting with AI

The module introduces to methods for forecasting using both classical techniques and the latest AI-driven approaches. It covers methods such as ARIMA, basic machine learning models, and neural networks (e.g., LSTM). The module is centred on fundamental techniques used across industries and provides practical skills in applying forecasting methods to real-world datasets across domains.

Law and Management in Practice

The module aims to allow students to apply through practical case studies their knowledge in law and business in the following commercial and business issues that pertain to the operations of a corporate entity and are relevant for a management degree. The module will cover topics such as Legal aspects of M&A transactions, International financial law and regulation, International economic and competition law, Global IP and data protection, Legal risk management: practical techniques.

Cultures of Friendship

Friendship, said Samuel Johnson, 'like a well-stocked wine cellar, should be constantly renewed'. But he also cautioned that `we form many friendships by mistake'. In an age that embraced sensibility and revolution, clubs and commerce, the varieties of friendship and complexities of the discourse around it are striking. In `Cultures of Friendship¿ we will explore theories of friendship in classical antiquity, Christian ethics and enlightenment philosophy; the practice of friendship as recorded in letters and diaries; representations of friendship in literature and visual culture; political and economic pressures on friendship (including rivalry, corruption, and revolution); the place of friendship in emotional regimes, among women and children, and some famous friendships and fallings-out.

Reading the Middle East to Arab(ic) Fiction

This MA module will introduce you to key texts (in translation or originally written in English), and key debates, from or about the Arab world and its diasporas. The module asks questions about the role of race, religion, regional geo-politics, sectarian and other violence, gender and sexuality and the movement of people. The question of translation (literal, cultural, metaphorical) is at the centre of the module¿s approach to these texts. At a time when it feels as though the Arab world and its people have never been so demonised, nor so victimised, this module seeks to interrogate the work that such texts do in the university and beyond to represent, challenge representations, or `translate¿ their cultures of origin.

Personalised Media and The Digital Self

This module explores topical issues revolved around the digital self, personalisation and social media. It encourages critical perspectives on how digital technologies shape our sense of self and societies through various forms of digital engagements from selfie, self-tracking to online dating. By situating these practices within specific cultural, socioeconomic, political and technological contexts, students will develop nuanced understandings of theoretical debates surrounding the promises and pitfalls of social media and digital technologies.

Victorian Mediascapes

This module examines key works of Victorian literature in relation to the emergence of new print, sonic, and visual media during the nineteenth century. How do fictional narratives engage with an increasingly transnational media environment that gave rise to new forms of serial storytelling; the invention of technologies like the phonograph, photograph, telegraph, telephone, and typewriter; and perplexing social questions generated by the accelerated pace of media change? Investigative procedures derived from the disciplines of print culture, media history, and the digital humanities will be used to explore how authors responded to the explosion in forms of entertainment produced for an emerging mass audience during this period. Related questions about reading practices, changing conceptions of time, gendered notions of authorship, evolving models of British identity, and the relentless commodification of literature will be addressed through readings of literary narratives alongside supplementary non-fiction and digital resources relevant to this turbulent media moment.

Digital Media for Language Education

This module explores the pedagogical applications of digital media, with an emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and adaptive learning systems in language education. It examines key developments in technology-enhanced teaching and practical approaches to designing, creating, and implementing AI-powered tools, adaptive platforms, and interactive media. Participants will develop innovative lesson ideas and materials, leveraging these technologies to personalise learning experiences, automate feedback, and enhance engagement, fostering effective, learner-centred practices in contemporary language teaching.

Reconfiguring Film Theories and Philosophies: A Cross Cultural Perspectives

Global Queer Cinema

Curating Africa: African Film and Video in the Age of Festivals

Contemporary Period Film and the Heritage Database

The Story of African Film: Narrative Screen Media in Africa

New Argentina Cinemas

Genre in Italian Cinema

The Moving Image in Art

21st Century Hollywood and the Cultural Politics of identity

Genre in Italian Cinema

Latin American Digital and Visual Cultures: Identity and Resistance

In response to the frequent conception of the internet as an Anglophone arena, this module explores contemporary digital and visual cultural productions made by Latin American or Latinx artists. These works are united by their explorations of the experiences of individuals living or labouring in precarious or violent circumstances, including women, migrants, and domestic and cleaning workers. Students will analyse the use of different types of media online, and the opportunities the internet provides to combine art and social activism.

Beyond Language: Multimodality in Theory and Practice

Comic books, computer games, playground interactions, and emoji-filled instant messages all highlight the fact that communication involves much more than language. Gestures, positioning in space, and forms of embodied communication carry meaning-making potential alongside spoken and written language. This module explores the interplay of language with other semiotic modes and contexts that play a role in meaning-making. Students analyse print media materials, electronic communication, and video-recorded interactions applying social semiotic, discourse analytic and multimodal interaction analytic perspectives. They also use the acquired knowledge creatively to construct effective multimodal material.

Digital Media and Global Cultures Dissertation

The MA Dissertation gives students the opportunity to pursue an independently conceived research project. Students will identify their specific research field and topic, and, working with the support of individual supervisors, explore the relevant literature to date, develop their own approach and conduct their independent research. They will produce a substantial piece of academic writing (ca 12.000 words). Students are encouraged to think carefully about their choice of dissertation topic and to discuss this with teachers on the MA and other members of academic staff. Formal project supervision typically begins in May for full-time students, and the submission deadline is usually in August.

Theories and Critical Concepts of Digital Media and Cultures

This module explores key theoretical frameworks and critical concepts related to digital media and culture. Students will examine how digital technologies influence identity, power, and social structures, while investigating topics such as platform economies, datafication, surveillance, and debates on the extraction of Big Data and AI. Through interdisciplinary approaches, the module equips students with analytical tools to critically engage with the cultural, political, and ethical implications of digital media in a globalized, networked society.

Digital Methods and Ethics in Digital Media and Cultures

This module offers an introduction to key trajectories of digital social research and practical training in methodological approaches relevant to the evolving field of digital media and culture. Students will acquire the digital tools and skills necessary to navigate the complexities of digital media research, leading to the development of a research design upon completing this course. This module foregrounds critical debates around digital ethics to foster ethical and responsible problem-solving and decision-making in and beyond academic contexts.

Fashion and Luxury Marketing

This module offers an in-depth exploration of fashion and luxury marketing and retailing, focusing on contemporary practices, trends, and challenges within the industry. Students will examine the intersection of fashion and luxury with marketing, delving into consumer behavior, sustainability, and digital retail strategies. Insights into retail management for fashion and luxury businesses will also be a key focus. Critical analysis and strategic decision-making will be integral components of this module. Over the course of four weeks, students will engage with these topics through a combination of lectures and seminars, fostering a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic landscape of fashion and luxury marketing.

Creative Producing

Essential for creatives, filmmakers and scholars alike, this module provides an overview of the workflows involved in the production of film, theatre, live art, gallery exhibition, film/arts festivals and other art forms. Examining the different stages of production, post-production and exhibition/distribution, the module describes how projects are pitched, funded and financed and addresses issues of contracts, copyright, intellectual property rights, contracts, insurance, logistics, marketing, ethics, accessibility, inclusion and more. The module hosts industry professionals and draws upon case studies of productions from a range of different contexts including experimental theatre, performance art, documentary and fiction filmmaking, sound art, VR and augmented/ immersive practices, and artists' moving image.

Digital Global Audiences and Participatory Culture

This module examines the dynamics of global digital audiences and the rise of participatory culture in the digital age. Students will explore how media consumers have become active participants in content creation and engagement, while also analyzing the impact of digital platforms on cross-cultural communication, fandom, and social movements. Key topics include media convergence, platform politics, digital labor, and the ethical implications of participation. The module provides critical insights into the evolving relationship between media, technology, and global audiences.

Writing for Production

Writing for production enables you to initiate, develop and present creative writing that meets the needs of a range of different contexts of creative production. Whether you're interested in playwriting, dramatic monologues, film scripts, augmented-reality storytelling, video game narratives or other forms of creative writing for media, you will gain new skills through writing workshops, critical discussions of set readings, and group activities. You will be led by an experienced practitioner who will provide expert guidance, intellectual and creative rigour, and a mutually supportive environment in which to enhance your craft as a writer. You will also deepen your skills in initiating, developing, and presenting your writing to an audience.

Cinemas in Contemporary China

While the People's Republic of China (PRC) is now the world's second-largest film industry in terms of revenue, as perhaps befits its putative status as the world's largest economy, cinema and moving image culture are increasingly transnational, collaborative, multi-platform. This course will not only explore the commercial cinema and blockbusters, but also the independent practices and moving image art. It will mainly examine the practices in mainland China since the 1980s, but the practices in Taiwan and Hong Kong will also be discussed, to problematise notions of national, regional, transnational and world cinema.

Content Creation for the Creative Industries Project

This project allows you to design and create an original arts and media project in response to a brief given by one of STA¿s external Creative Industries partner organisations, and you will work in response to the `real world¿ needs and requirements that they identify, supported The external partner will provide some additional support In doing this, you will be enabled to use your skills and knowledge to meet the needs and values of a professional organisation and their audience through the creative making of an original project.

Technological Aesthetics: Art, Power, and Cold War Divides

This module crosses the East-West divides of the Cold War era to offer an interdisciplinary exploration of the major approaches to the question of technology and its aesthetic dimensions. Case studies and visual analyses will include discussions of the human, the post-human and the cyborg across the Cold War frontiers, the utopian urbanism and science fiction in the Soviet Union, the debate over NASA's first satellite image of the Earth, the involvement of the British cyberneticist Stafford Beer in the Chilean project Cybersyn, Qian Xuesen¿s project of engineering cybernetics in the Cold War environment and the first AI systems in the USSR and the US. In covering these diverse materials, the module fosters visual fluency and cultural competence in assessing the continuing impact of Cold War dynamics on contemporary technological narratives.

Making Media

What does it mean to create 'audio-visual' media in the context of contemporary creative arts? What sorts of surfaces, screens, tools, channels, materials and processes might be involved in these practices of creative making? What advantages might digital tools have over the analogue and vice-versa? Where, when and how might audience members consume such content outside or including established institutions such as cinemas or theatres? Working collaboratively with colleagues in response to a project brief, this workshop-based module will give you the opportunity to produce and develop new audio-visual materials for audiences who might be variously present or virtually in place.

Capstone Project in Marketing

The Capstone Project in Marketing is an intensive, 30-credit module designed to provide postgraduate students with hands-on experience in real-world marketing projects. Partnering with industry clients, students will apply their academic knowledge to develop and implement strategic marketing solutions, addressing actual marketing challenges. This module fosters skills in strategic planning, critical analysis, and professional communication, enabling students to showcase their expertise and strengthen their career readiness in a dynamic, client-focused environment.

Innovation Management in the Global Economy

One of the core elements of entrepreneurship and economic leadership is competitive advantage via innovation by understanding the industry and firm dynamics of technological innovation. Issues within the context of globalisation, development and digitalisation are covered as a strategic process, beginning with assessing the context and moving on to the formulation and implementation of innovation strategies by examining strategic dilemmas within innovation (e.g. standards battles and design dominance, timing of entry, choosing innovation projects, collaborative innovation strategies and the benefits of protecting or opening up innovation for competitive strategy).

Digital Business, Innovation and Transparency

The module focuses on the implications of entrepreneurial innovation on economy and organization. The central theme of the module is the exploration of the most recent technological developments and the application of blockchain technology in organizations and economy. The module overviews the strategic benefits of the implementation and the use of blockchain technology across the different sectors in the economy.

Blockchain Applications and Social Justice

The module provides a deep analytical insight into the roots of blockchain's social justice elements in the era of digital economy. Students will learn fundamental elements and principal of how blockchain technology contributes to accelerate, implement and achieve social justice not only in the individual economic systems but also globally in the long-term. The module focuses on the analysis of understanding a broader context of key elements of achieving social justice through the digitalization process. Students will build up their theoretical base from case studies.

Employment Relations and Regulation in a Global Context

This module explores employment relations and employment regulation in a global context. There is an in-depth, internationally comparative focus on the employment systems of particular countries, along with an understanding of how aspects of employment law and regulation operates in relation to HRM practice and employment relations at the national and transnational level. The module will also examine key features of employment relations, including theoretical and conceptual approaches; the role and practices of key actors in the employment relationship including international organisations, national governments, employer organisations, employee representation and trade unions.

Financing Sustainability

This module will explore new social and green financial instruments and investment strategies that seek to deliver on both shareholder returns and sustainable development goals. It will cover trends and models including social and green finance, impact investing, blended finance, public private partnerships, microfinance and social impact bonds. We will draw on real-life case studies from the Global North and the Global South to examine their potential for contributing towards sustainable development and low-carbon transition objectives across different contexts.

Introduction to Mathematics and Statistics for Business

This 0-credit module covers Mathematics and Statistics topics which are useful for the different quantitative modules and MSc dissertations. The Mathematics topics include: linear and non linear equations, differentiation, growth and discounting and logarithms. The Statistics topics include: descriptive statistics, probabilities and distributions.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation project with SBM Entrepreneurship hub

The capstone project for the MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation will allow students to integrate and apply their cumulative learning in a practical, real-world context. This project challenges students to either develop a new venture, scale an existing business, or create an innovative solution to a complex problem. The project emphasizes creativity, strategic thinking, and practical implementation, mirroring the challenges faced by entrepreneurs and innovators in the field.

Forensic Mental Health Dissertation

In this module, students will work on a piece of independently produced research relevant to forensic mental health. Students will be assisted in topic choice and guided through the process by a personal supervisor but will be expected to collect data themselves, or organise access to it, and write the thesis independently.

Professional Practice in Forensic Psychology and Mental Health

This module equips students with knowledge of core skills employed by Forensic Psychology and Mental Health professionals in their workplace. The module maps out both classic and contemporary work in these settings and relates theory and research to practice with a particular focus on risk assessment. Teaching will review the evidence base relating to risk assessment in addition to covering such topics as engaging with patients, and administration and interpretation of psychometric tests. Participants will be required to apply learning to practical exercises, with the use of case examples to assist in the development of risk assessment and formulation skills. The module will also notionally include a placement within a clinical forensic psychology/mental health service, or a service allied to forensics (e.g. a Community Rehabilitation Company or the National Offender Management Service). However this will be optional, and will not be credit bearing. If students wish to undertake a placement they will be required to submit an application, making suggestions of their choice of placements from a list of collaborating NHS Trusts or other providers (e.g. private providers; NOMS). Placements will be allocated by the Placement Organiser.

Contemporary Issues in Medical Education

In this module students will apply theories from higher education to clinical education, highlighting both the transferable aspects, as well as the more unique aspects of education for health professions. Students will consider clinical and communication skills, simulation, assessment of competence and e-learning for health professionals. They will also critique current practices, review existing innovations and try to create new innovations for their own personal context of clinical education.

Contemporary Issues in Medical Education

Psychological, Psychosocial, and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Working with Offenders

Recent government policy acknowledges that professionals from criminal justice, mental health and third sector agencies are expected to work with personality-disordered offenders. These individuals¿ complex emotional, inter-personal, behavioural and social difficulties can result in great personal distress, and sometimes a significant risk of harm, to themselves and/or those around them. In this module, students will be developing a better understanding of the interpersonal, team and organisational dynamics that can help or hinder this work.

Cancer Prevention and Screening

This module will provide an understanding of population-based studies and methodology used in cancer epidemiology, focusing on the value of these approaches in cancer prevention and in the design and evaluation of screening programmes. Topics covered include: - The major environmental causes of cancer and their contribution to cancer worldwide - The potential for reducing cancer incidence - The role of screening in cancer control - The prospects for the chemoprevention of cancer in the next ten years.

Clinical Science Project

The clinical project is an applied module. Students will undertake a project to contribute to the improvement of patient care through research, service evaluation, audit or other relevant methods. Students will understand the life cycle of a project and the methodology required, including qualitative and quantitative research methods, ethical considerations, sharing results and the importance of public and patient involvement.

Architecture and Space in Modern Intellectual History

What role do built environments play in the history of ideas? How might the tools and methods of intellectual history be calibrated to engage architecture and space as `sources¿? Can architects themselves be studied as thinkers? In this module, students will explore how buildings have both staged and prompted key debates in twentieth century political and social thought. They will move across the globe from the `primitive hut¿ to the prison, the housing estate to the hospital, and the shopping arcade to the slum, reading philosophers and political theorists (Heidegger, Benjamin, Lefebvre, Massey and beyond) alongside architects and planners (from Le Corbusier to Marina Tabassum).

Haemorrhage and Resuscitation

This module will provide students with the tools to evaluate different clinical situations and broaden the knowledge on diagnosis and management of shock syndrome. Particular attention will be on the deranged physiology underlying the onset of acute traumatic coagulopathy.

Trauma Critical Care: Adults and Paediatrics

This module will provide students with a solid background in the rapidly evolving area of critical care in adult and paediatric trauma. In this module the students will develop an evaluative approach to critical care. Special attention will be given to "hot topics" such as shock therapy, ventilator management, paediatric resuscitation and critical care and surgery. The module will provide students with the latest evidence based in trauma care and the ability to analyse it.

Theories of the State

Some political theorists locate the authority to make laws and exercise political control in the figure of the ruler or prince. The seminar will begin by examining the most celebrated example, Machiavelli's The Prince (1513). Others locate these powers in the body of the republic or people. Thomas More's Utopia (1516) and Machiavelli¿s Discourses (c1519) offer contrasting examples. After examining these texts, the course will then turn to Bodin¿s theory of sovereignty and Hobbes¿s claim in Leviathan (1651) that power lies with the fictional person of the state. The module will also examine rival theories of bodies politic and political authority, notably in the corporation, and in the theories of the nineteenth century pluralists.

Trauma: Epidemiology & Systems

The aim of the module is to provide the knowledge to consider and manage trauma as a disease entity. The module starts with an historical overview of trauma and trauma systems and then proceeds to analyze the different aspects on how to deliver a specialist trauma care, from pre hospital care through the entire patient's care pathway.

Foundations of Computational Linguistics

This module introduces students to the basic linguistic ideas needed for computational processing of text (morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse cohesion) and to how their properties can be understood computationally. With this in hand, it then introduces computational methods for text processing, for example, symbolic parsing models, basic text processing, probabilistic models, vector semantics, and deep learning architectures as well as applications in text classification, sentiment analysis, word prediction and text generation. It considers some of the ethical, environmental and research issues raised and includes discussion of the range of career routes that students' learning is relevant to.

Analysing Language Datasets

This module provides students with an introduction to handling large datasets with confidence. Most careers now require a high level of comfort with complex data of different kinds, as well as the ability to both query existing data or creating datasets. The module will focus on a range of types of data, and then encourage students to develop the skills to understand, organise, clean, process, and analyse a range of data types. Students will use statistical analysis software to develop skills at statistical computing and data visualisation. Throughout the module students will develop their practical experience and complete formative assignments to reinforce skills. The module is suitable for PGT students without any prior experience with software for data processing and statistical analysis. Prior experience with programming is welcome but not required.

Language and Artificial Intelligence: Advanced Programming

This module introduces students to advanced concepts and algorithms in computational linguistics underlying contemporary generative AI models, for language. It covers core computational architectures used in Natural Language Processing and in Large Language Models, advanced linguistic concepts (constituency, ambiguity, dependency, semantic roles, affect, anaphora, and discourse cohesion) and how computational approaches, both symbolic and neural, can be applied to these. Throughout the module students will learn to connect linguistics and artificial intelligence techniques, and consider the ethical and research issues that arise.

Applying Linguistics in the Real World

This module introduces students to the many uses of Linguistics in real-world situations and professions. Although Linguistics is a small and specialised field, it is a crucial element in very diverse professions. The module will integrate talks given by representatives from a range of professions, with readings and assessments about how to apply linguistics in those professions. Examples of professional uses of Linguistics include: speech and language therapy for children and adults with communication disorders, forensic linguistics in criminal investigations and courtrooms, dialect coaching for film and theatre, uses of syntax, semantics, and computational linguistics in IT and search engines such as Google, pronunciation in the media, communication in medicine, policing, and other institutional contexts, and language awareness in school teaching, journalism, and public services. The module offers students a unique opportunity to gain direct exposure to professionals from a range of careers, and to learn how to apply their technical knowledge to real-world problems.

Programming for the Humanities

This module provides students with an introduction to computer programming and computational modelling for language as it is applied in various settings. Language processing software and AI now underpin most professions, and an understanding of how they work¿whether one is in a technical or adjacent role¿is useful for employability and success. The module focuses on the use of programming for data acquisition, cleaning, and analysis, particularly with datasets that relate to the Humanities and Social Sciences. Students will learn how to write code in a widely used programming language (e.g. Python), understand the role of other languages (e.g. Java), and gain experience in using tools that are suited to solving a range of computational problems in linguistics using machine learning approaches. Throughout the module students will develop their practical programming experience and complete formative problem sets to reinforce the new material. The module is suitable for MA students without any prior experience in computer programming or machine learning.

Design and Evaluation of Public Policy

This course will develop microeconometric and policy evaluation techniques through the lens of real world problems and policies in both rich and poor countries. Topics studied will range over public administration, education, design of public services and transfers, labour markets, environmental policy, immigration, microfinance, taxation, compliance and benefits of health policy. Emphasis will be given to policy design, estimation of effects, causal identification, reach of programs, measurement and economic quantification of outcomes.

EU Digital Copyright Law

The module introduces students to fundamental problems and concepts pertaining to copyright law in digital environments. The module focuses on the divergent interests of various stakeholders, such as authors, exploiters, consumers, as well as ¿ more generally - the public interest, that challenge law making today specifically in the EU. The module addresses topics ranging from exclusive rights and limitations, technological protection measures, statutory licenses and claims for payment, the relationship between IP and fundamental rights, and online enforcement amongst others. Emphasis will be placed on Directive 2001/29/EC on Certain Aspects of Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society, which will provide the starting point, and the role and jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice. We will look at the interface between international norms and market integration and the increasingly important role of fundamental rights as factors in balancing the interests, up to the complex issues that have now arisen in the context of platform liability. The module covers the most relevant aspects from the perspective of European Union law an

International Commercial Arbitration 1 (Theory and Context)

The aim of this course is to establish students' knowledge and critical understanding as well as provide an insight into the practice of international commercial arbitration as an independent comparative law subject. The subject is first examined generically, without any reference to any national laws, arbitration rules or international instruments; and then various national and institutional approaches are presented. Course content Week 1: Nature and Characteristics of Arbitration Week 2: Legal and Theoretical Framework of Arbitration Week 3: The Arbitration Agreement I Week 4: The Arbitration Agreement II Week 5: Reading Week Week 6: The Appointment of Arbitrators Week 7: Arbitral Procedure I Week 8: Arbitral Procedure II Week 9: Arbitration and National Courts Week 10: The Arbitration Award Week 11: Revision Week & Practitioner Webinars Week 12: Revision Week & Take-Home Exam

Investment Arbitration: Substantive Protection

International Commercial Arbitration 2 (Selected Issues)

The aim of this course is to establish students' knowledge and critical understanding as well as provide an insight into the practice of international commercial arbitration as an independent comparative law subject. The subject is first examined generically, without any reference to any national laws, arbitration rules or international instruments; and then various national and institutional approaches are presented. Contents: Week 1 Legitimacy of International Arbitration Week 2 Applicable Law Issues I Week 3 Applicable Law Issues II Week 4 Evidentiary Privileges Week 5 Reading Week Week 6 Arbitrators' Independence and Impartiality Week 7 Multi-Party and Multi-Contract Disputes Week 8 Relief, Costs and Third Party Funding Week 9 Recognition & Enforcement I Week 10 Recognition and Enforcement II Week 11 Revision Week & Practitioner Webinars Week 12 Revision Week & Take-Home Exam

Investment Treaty Arbitration

The legal environment for international trade and foreign investment has changed dramatically since the end of the Cold War. Foreign investors are much more willing to pursue a claim of, for example, alleged expropriation or discriminatory behaviour by a host State. Further, public international law principles must also be considered once a state is involved. Principles of state responsibility, expropriation and acts tantamount to expropriation, what comprises fair and just compensation, immunity from suit and immunity from execution. These public international law principles overlap somewhat uncomfortably with the commercial interests of foreign investors. Developments in investment arbitration and trade dispute resolution have been rapid in recent years. It is now crucial that academics and legal practitioners are aware of the complex international legal elements involved in the resolution of investment and trade disputes. The course is divided into three main topics: - Topic 1: International Investment Disputes Out-of-Court: Principles and Historical Evolution (2 sessions) - Topic 2: ICSID (6 sessions) - Topic 3: Bilateral Investment Treaties (3 sessions) Course content - Introduction: International trade and investment disputes out of court - Regulatory and institutional framework - Basic principles of dispute settlement with reference to trade and investment - Applicable law issues - ICSID - Bilateral Investment Treaties - Enforcement of decisions and awards - Grey zone between substance - procedure / public - private international law - Case studies

Retheorising Global Development

-theorising global development provides the theoretical framework underpinning the modules for MSc Development and International Business and MA Global Development programmes. The module will: i) introduce to a range of mainstream, alternative and decolonial theoretical approaches to `D/development¿; ii) challenge the common positioning of the Global South as a place where theories flow to rather than from, and as a collection of places in need of external (Northern) development interventions; iii) expose the spatial limits of mainstream / 'universal' theories of development in geography developed through narrow engagements with formal spaces of advanced capitalist economies in the Global North; iv) recognize the vital and dynamic ways in which the development trajectories of people and places in global South and global North are mutually constituted. Students will develop their conceptual understanding through key themes such as critical global development, the intersections of environment and development, transformations in the economy and work and post development.

Applied Project in Valuation

This module provides a practical, hands-on approach to valuation, enabling students to independently apply key valuation techniques to real-world financial data. Focused on employability, it develops essential skills for careers in corporate finance, investment banking, and asset management. Unlike other valuation modules, this project emphasises independent work, allowing students to deepen their analytical abilities and apply theoretical knowledge to industry-relevant valuation tasks.

Applied Portfolio Construction

This module will looks into the major asset classes and how these are combined to form investment portfolios. The different asset allocation strategies are also examined along with the ways to measure and attribute portfolio performance. Furthermore, portfolio specific issues such as ethical investing and behavioural finance are also studied. The course shows how financial products are used in modern day banking.

Microeconomics

The module aims to develop the skills of microeconomic modelling and analysis, and the principles of welfare economics used in policy analysis. The module will carefully introduce and examine the relevant concepts and tools of microeconomics, including the fundamental principles of individual decision making and concepts of preferences, technology, the functioning of competitive markets, monopolistic markets, general competitive equilibrium and the main sources of market failures.

Applied Time Series and Forecasting

The aim of this module is to provide students rigorous training in econometric methods that are heavily in use in empirical research on Macroeconomics and Finance. The module covers models that are used to estimate dynamic relationships between variables, models with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility, regime switching models and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. Each topic is introduced from a theoretical perspective and then students are trained in the application of these methods using software like Eviews and Matlab. The course introduces students to recent applications of these methods in Economics and Finance and trains them in the practical aspects of carrying out advanced empirical research and forecasting macroeconomic variables.

Independent Project

This module constitutes the research project component of the MSc Economics programmes. Students are required to produce a piece of research work under the supervision of a member of academic staff.

Games and Information

Game theory provides a framework to describe and analyse interactive situations of conflict and cooperation between rational decision makers. It has been successfully applied to many relevant situations, such as business competition, the functioning of markets, auctions, design of employment contracts and union negotiations, to name just a few. This module covers the main ideas of game theory and shows how they have been applied to many situations drawn mostly from economics. We also cover analysis of interactions when actors are asymmetrically informed and may use their information strategically.

Macroeconomics

This module deals with the long-run growth of GDP and its short-run fluctuations. You will start by analysing the traditional models of economic growth theory, ie the Solow-Swan model and the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model. Within the framework of these models you will study the central questions of growth theory as well as the effects of government expenditure on macroeconomic variables. You will then discuss the most important ideas of endogenous growth theory, including research and development, human capital formation, and knowledge creation. The second part of the module deals with two classes of theories of aggregate fluctuations, ie, real-business-cycle theories and Keynesian theories. Whereas real-business-cycle theories assume flexible prices and market clearing, Keynesian theories proceed from the assumption of nominal stickiness and market failure. We discuss possible reasons why prices and wages are sticky and analyse the implications of this fact.

Macroeconomic Policies and Market Outcomes

The module puts emphasis on real-world applications of macroeconomic theory and questions of interest for economic policy. Topics covered include some of the most important macroeconomic developments of past decades, such as structural change, employment polarisation and automation, wealth inequality, and the macroeconomic consequences of firm dynamics (for instance, the role of startsup in economic performance of countries). In addition, a part of the module will be devoted to the understanding of how various macroeconomic variables respond to news in the short run and the interpretation of the responses.

Econometrics

This module provides 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. Nonlinear estimation methods, and in particular the generalised method of moments, are covered. Diff-in-diff methods and their applications will also be part of the module, as well as coverage of micro-level data. Finally, the module will provide a brief introduction to programming in Matlab/Python and familiarization with the statistical package STATA.

Professional Studies

This module covers elements of professional practice in medicine / surgery to ensure that all students possess a fundamental level of skill in clinical practice while developing an understanding of the principles and practice of clinical medicine in the UK context, including the functions of the NHS. Students will develop greater awareness of the multidisciplinary nature of the practice of medicine/surgery in the UK, including the multiple roles of the clinician in practice, audit, quality improvement and research, management, leadership and teaching. This provides a foundation for later clinical placements if applicable so that the learning on such placements can be utilised effectively in the development of audit, quality improvement, clinical research and portfolio creation.

Research into Practice

This module covers aspects of research methodology, ethics and other transferable skills to ensure students are introduced to issues in research, such as governance issues and statistical analysis of clinical research. The research project undertaken in this course will give the student real insight into the philosophy of research as well as practical experience in the process of completing a piece of original work. The module will be delivered entirely by e-learning in a longitudinal pattern so that students can complete their project work alongside their other taught modules. Tutor supervision meetings will be online and all necessary access to materials etc are available to the student in QMPlus and via the relevant online materials (books, journals, papers) in the QMUL library.

Professional Studies

Research into Practice

This module covers aspects of research methodology, ethics and other transferable skills to ensure students are introduced to issues in research, such as governance issues and statistical analysis of clinical research. The research project undertaken in this course will give the student real insight into the philosophy of research as well as practical experience in the process of completing a piece of original work. The module will be delivered entirely by e-learning in a longitudinal pattern , as part of a blended learning strategy, so that students can complete their project work alongside their other taught modules. Tutor supervision meetings will be online and all necessary access to materials etc are available to the student in QMPlus and via the relevant online materials (books, journals, papers) in the QMUL library.

Quality Improvement and Research Methods in Neonatology

The module is designed to make a case for quality improvement to be at the heart of local plans for improving and redesigning neonatal clinical services and their interface with maternity and paediatric clinical care provision. This is further extended into research methods and ways in which evidence is used to inform neonatal clinical practice whilst also underpinning health and social care policy. The module will also provide the knowledge base for the Scientific Paper (Dissertation) of the MSc.

Scientific Paper

This module will allow students to develop specialist knowledge on and insight into a topic of their choice, related to neonatal medicine. Students may choose to organise their scientific paper or evaluation report in the form of a systematic review (with meta-analysis), narrative review, retrospective (medical records) review, or prospective (low-risk) cohort study (e.g. education study). Students will develop the ability to synthesise and analyse published information and new data, to break down complex issues and to compare and contrast alternative viewpoints. Particular emphasis will be placed on developing the ability to disseminate knowledge at a professional level with a view towards publication.

Ergonomics & Human Factors in Neonatal Medicine and Transport

The module is draw on unique local expertise to deliver an overview of the application of Ergonomics and Human Factors to the safe and efficient provision of clinical care in the context of neonatal unit-based and neonatal transport medicine. The module will provide students with a targeted and deep understanding of the human-technology-systems interactions and lead a systems approach to designing safe and effective clinical environments as they pertain to neonatal clinical care provision.

Dissertation in Law of the Creative Industries - 60 Credits

Dissertation ¿ independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field of law and the creative industries

Dissertation in Law of the Creative Industries - 30 Credits

Dissertation ¿ independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Extended Research Project in Regenerative Medicine

Students will carry out an intensive six-month research project selected from a wide range of topics in regenerative medicine. Examples include research on the cellular and molecular aspects of tissue regeneration, disease pathogenesis, development of stem cell therapies, design of novel nano-biotechnologies, or engineering biomaterials and tissue scaffolds. In addition to technical experience, the research project will include training in experimental design, effective collaboration, data analysis, and presentation skills. Most projects will be laboratory based, but at the discretion of the course directors, a literature or bioinformatics based project may be permitted.

Skills and Methods for Contemporary Live Project

The module explores the theoretical perspectives of contemporary management issues and sustainability in management. It develops students' knowledge and skills in the approaches and methods for addressing the fundamental problems that underlie organisational management of sustainability in a changing world. The skills developed in this module are crucial in undertaking the Contemporary Live Management Project module. In pursuit of this aim, the module will examine the key underlying sustainability issues and global mega-trends driving the need to transform the world into a sustainable one. Students will also understand sustainable business/governance models, their underlying principles and their relationship with organisations, and the role of ethics in individual and organisational decision-making. Finally, students will understand the use of relevant tools, techniques, methods and practices in tackling sustainability issues and apply them in their learning and the Contemporary Live Management Project.

Serious Mental Illness

This module will introduce students to the aetiology, diagnosis and management of conditions typically seen in secondary mental healthcare. We will cover the full lifespan, beginning with a general overview of key issues, controversies and uncertainties. Sessions will include: mental illness in pregnancy and the postpartum period, mental illness in childhood / adolescence, psychosis, bipolar affective disorder, personality disorders, eating disorders, and mental illnesses presenting in older people, including the impacts of delirium and dementia. Teachers will be clinicians and researchers with experience of working with people with serious mental illnesses.

Serious Mental Illness

Modalities of Psychological Therapy

This module provides students with major theories of different schools of thought and paradigms within psychology, such as the Psychoanalytic Paradigm, the Sociocultural Paradigm, the Trait Paradigm, the Learning Paradigm, the Evolutionary Paradigm and the Existential-Humanistic Paradigm. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the history of psychology and the nature of psychopathology. This module also touches upon branches of philosophy such as epistemology, rationalism and empiricism and explores how contemporary philosophers, such as Kuhn's and Popper's view of science.

Modalities of Psychological Therapy

Transition to Advanced Neonatal Practice - Leadership and Management

This module is designed to further consolidate knowledge through analysis of the concept and scope of advanced practice, focussing on the interface of advanced practice accountability, clinical governance, autonomy, specialist and expert practice. Students will explore the integration and application to practice of advanced health assessment skills, diagnostic skills, complex decision making, therapeutic management, and speciality specific knowledge and skills, all whilst reviewing the challenges of transitioning into the ANP role as a new professional identity.

Pathophysiology and Management of Neonatal Medical Conditions

This module is designed to give students an understanding of evidence-based assessment, associated interpretation and management procedures for postnatal neonatal medical conditions within the remit of neonatal service care provision. The module will cover postnatal medical pathological processes whilst drawing on the pre- and peri-natal periods, physical examination, pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment principles, and the critical appraisal of short- and long-term clinical outcomes.

Clinical Assessment of the Foetus, Neonate and Young Infant

This module is designed to give students an understanding of evidence-based assessment and associated interpretation procedures for prenatal, postnatal and post-neonatal unit discharge presentations, all within the remit of neonatal service care provision. The module will cover antenatal pathologies and counselling, perinatal pathological processes, physical examination of the newborn after delivery, on the neonatal unit and the postnatal ward including Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) screening, and the assessment of infants in the setting of a general neonatal outpatient follow-up clinic.

Non-medical Prescribing for the Neonate

This module is designed to provide a framework to work towards becoming a safe and effective non-medical independent prescriber for medical and surgical patients who fall within the remit of neonatal clinical services. It draws on the competency framework of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to support prospective prescribers in expanding their knowledge, skills, motives and personal traits, to continually improve their performance, and work safely and effectively in the context of neonatal clinical care provision.

Pathophysiology and Management Neonatal Surgical Conditions

This module is designed to give students an understanding of evidence-based assessment, associated interpretation and management procedures for postnatal neonatal surgical conditions within the remit of neonatal service care provision. The module will cover postnatal surgical pathological processes whilst drawing on the pre- and peri-natal periods, physical examination, operative and pharmacological treatment principles, and the critical appraisal of short- and long-term clinical outcomes.

Decision-making, Communication and Ethics in Neonatology

This module is designed to give students a deep understanding of an evidence-based approach to justifying and articulating clinical decisions, drawing on theoretical principles, current evidence and practical experience in the provision of active and palliative care treatment for neonates.

Education Leadership and Innovation

In this module students will explore of facets of leadership using the key headings, or framing, of the 4Ps - Person, Process, Press and Product (Rhodes, 1961). The teaching will focus on both the theoretical and the practical elements of the domain, regarded primarily in relation to students' own professional work and experiences in the clinical setting. Students will engage in individual and collaborative exercises which can be related directly to practice - with a final target of designing and implementing a new workplace process. The module will have three main elements: Concepts of Leadership - including practical example mapping; Organisations and People - including discourses and practices; Designing and Implementing - including innovation, change processes, strategy and sustainability.

Education Leadership and Innovation

Gender Sexuality and Health

The need for greater critical engagement with sex, gender, and sexuality in health research and practice has been widely acknowledged. Some call for outdated binaries and dichotomies to be contested and broken down, for greater attention to inequalities shaped by gender differences, and for health services and practices to be more sensitive to gender and sexuality. Through dialogue, debate and critical thinking we will explore gender, sexuality, and health from foundational concepts and theories through to current issues in public health policy and practice. Calling on social science, humanities and health science concepts, scholarship and evidence we will aim to develop a nuanced understanding of how gender and sexuality interact with society and medicine to produce particular social realities, health issues and inequalities.

Planetary Health

This module introduces students to various analytical perspectives on environmental change on a local, regional and global basis and how this is related to human health and to planetary health applying an ecological global health framework and a human rights to health approach.

Global Public Health Dissertation

This module will enable you to design and deliver a piece of research on a global public health topic of your choosing. With the support of a supervisor, you will develop a feasible research aim and question rooted in research evidence and your assessment of the existing literature on the topic. You will then select an appropriate method to address your research question and produce a rich and scholarly argument based on your research findings. Overall, the module will be your opportunity to demonstrate the skills and knowledge you have accrued during the degree and develop expertise in an area of global public health you are passionate about.

Global Health Policy and Governance

The module will begin by recounting the history of global health, distinguishing it from international health, and drawing students¿ attention to its colonial and imperial origins. It will then explore how global health policy is made (e.g. the International Health Regulations, pandemic preparedness, FCTC), and explain the importance of economics, politics and power in policy formation. It will introduce different actors (e.g. States, non-State actors, the WHO, civil society organisations), and reflect critically on their contribution to global health governance. Finally, the module will encourage students to consider how the global health system can be changed to better address major global challenges.

Understanding Epidemiology and Statistics

Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution and determinants of health and disease conditions within populations; and is the basic science of public health.¿ Epidemiological evidence is used to plan and evaluate strategies to prevent and control illness and to improve health. It is essential that those working in Public Health understand epidemiology to be able to understand and appraise the public health evidence base. This module provides an introduction in the design, analysis, interpretation, and appraisal of epidemiological studies and introduces statistical methods applied to public health. The focus will be on practical application, providing students with the skills necessary to critically interpret methods, results and appraise the evidence.

Research Methods, Power and Ethics in Global Health

This module will develop students¿ understanding of the different forms of research that are used to produce evidence in global public health. It will introduce students to the philosophy of science and to different paradigms of research and help them to reflect on how we generate data, how this data is used to generate evidence, to what purposes and how that evidence can be used, and for whose benefit. We will explore different research methods in order to reflect on how different methods and types of evidence are required to answer different types of research questions, and use this reflection to start to develop plans for student dissertation projects. Throughout we will reflect on how research and evidence is influenced by power dynamics, and the importance of considering ethics and intersectionality in research design and conduct.

Crises and Global Health

With the intensifying impacts of climate change, newly emerging pathogens, and continual political unrest and conflict, crises have seemingly become the new norm. The impacts of these crises on health are multilayered, complex, and exacerbating existing inequalities. This module engages with these crises and their impacts in a critical, interdisciplinary, intersectional, and applied lens. We begin by reflecting on the notion of crisis and move to applying theories or frameworks to specific case studies in local and global contexts. By exploring strategies for mitigating and adapting to contemporary crises, students will be empowered to reflect, analyse, and act on their learning in a personal and professional capacity.

Quantitative Methods in R

This module provides a solid foundation in applied econometric methods tailored to the needs of finance students, equipping them with the essential skills to analyze financial data, make informed decisions, and prepare for more advanced studies in econometrics and finance. Students will gain hands-on experience using econometric tools, with a practical emphasis on solving real-world financial problems.

Fintech

The juncture of mobile apps and retail financial services has disrupted the money, personal finance, and financial institutions. The digital identity and digital money are pillars supporting new business models in finance, including open banking, robo-advisors, smart contracts and many others. Fintech technologies, value propositions, best practices and regulation are illustrated by many examples of start-ups to enable practical, critical and creative thinking about business and investment opportunities from perspective of a small investor, a business analyst or an entrepreneur.

Machine Learning for Finance

The aim of this module is to explore commonly used machine learning methods in economics and finance. The majority of methods currently available are inherently statistical and so there is a strong emphasis placed on probability and statistics in terms of foundation. Practical application of methods is undertaken using R, although the course does touch on Python use as well. Students are free to use R, Python or other reputable scientific software for assignments.

R for Finance

The aim of this module is to give students a thorough grounding in the use of R in finance, which is now widely used in the finance industry. R is a well-known free software environment for statistical computing and graphics; see https://www.r-project.org/. The module combines language basics with tools, models and methods useful for analysing financial data. It is taught as interactive computer lab R sessions.

Portfolio Construction Theory

This module examines the theory and practice of building investment portfolios by looking into the major asset classes and how these are combined to form multi-asset solutions. Different asset allocation strategies are also examined along with the ways to measure and attribute portfolio performance in the context of client objectives and constraints, including any specific ESG considerations.

Foundations of Mathematics and Statistics for Actuaries

This module introduces necessary analytical tools for risk management. After an introduction on basic statistics and probability used in physical and life sciences and economics, we give an overview of various loss distribution models, which are applied to liability valuations. We then discuss compound distributions and their applications in risk modelling. To manage dependent and extreme risks, we discuss copulas and extreme value theory. We also discuss stochastic modelling and stochastic processes. It covers discrete time processes including Markov chains and random walks, and continuous time processes such as Poisson processes. This module includes real-world data application using R. This module lays the mathematical foundation for risk management, and prepares you to be professional risk managers and actuaries in global business environments.

Risk and Crisis in the Global Economy

This new module seeks to offer students a more comprehensive and contextual understanding of risk and crisis, including economic, social, technological, environmental, and geopolitical risk, inter alia, situating it within a broader set of institutions such as firms, corporations, NGOs, states, international organisations, etc., in order to make sense of what is specific about the causes, evolutions, and responses to risk in a capitalist political economy. This is also meant to address risk beyond the mere presentist purview of corporate management practices, insofar as students in the MSc Management may both i) work in a broad range of institutions, and ii) will have to understand and engage in their professional lives with a variety of emerging risks, which the conventional risk management literature broaches at times only superficially. We hope that, by the end of the course, students understand that risk management is not engineering, with mechanical solutions to social and economic problems, but rather always a fraught endeavor, rife with contradictions and contestations.

Mobile and WLAN Technologies

The module aims to provide an overview of the current commercially deployed wireless networks. Topics include: reference architectures, physical layer characteristics, multiple access techniques, cellular technology, link and mobility management of 4G and 5G cellular networks, Wireless Local Area Networks (WiFi), and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).

Nature-based Climate Solutions

To what extent can climate change be mitigated by improved stewardship of terrestrial, aquatic and urban ecosystems? In this module, we examine how conservation, restoration and improved management of ecosystems can increase carbon storage and/or avoid greenhouse gas emissions. We evaluate a range of 'natural climate solutions' (NCS) for their feasibility, cost-effectiveness, environmental co-benefits and climate mitigation potential. You will take an active approach to learning through participation in lectures and interactive workshops. You will have the opportunity to undertake a non-residential field trip or to explore a virtual field experience. This module addresses the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs): SDG11 Sustainable Cities and Communities; SDG13 Climate Action; SDG14 Life below Water; SDG15 Life on Land; SDG17 Partnerships for the Goals.

Nature-based Climate Solutions

Global Supply Chain Management

This module explores how the management of global supply chains involves negotiating a multifaceted process of value creation and capture cutting across firms' and states' borders and from the environment. It maps the relations between firms and between firms and other actors and explores how supply chains are embedded in different environmental and social contexts. The module explores these issues by focusing on some of the largest corporate-controlled global supply chains in history, e.g. food and supermarkets, fashion retailers and mobile phone producers.

Merleau-Ponty and the History of Social Thought

Essential Mathematics Skills for Engineers

This module provides students with knowledge of basic mathematical skills that are essential for Engineering students. Topics covered are basic logic, sequences and series, limits, differentiation and integration, partial derivatives, complex numbers, basic vector calculus, matrix algebra and an introduction to ordinary differential equations.

Doing Transdisciplinary Research

This module is designed to equip students with the practical skills and research methodologies needed to address contemporary issues in world politics. It encourages a multidisciplinary approach, preparing students to engage with knowledge production in academic and non-academic spaces, such as think-tanks and social movements. Addressing the complexity of issues like climate change, migration, artificial intelligence, global human rights implementation, terrorism, and the continuing presence of colonial legacies increasingly demands skills in collaborative working practices and applying knowledge from multiple disciplines. The module responds to this demand by providing an innovative approach to social science research practices that combines methods training with collaborative problem-solving workshops and other creative activities.

Deep Learning for Data and Image Analysis

This module is an in-depth study of the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and imaging science. The module covers key concepts in both fields, including machine learning algorithms and techniques for data gathering in imaging systems. It is designed for students who work with imaging systems, such as cameras, microscopes, MRI/CT scanners, and ultrasound devices, and want to learn more about how to apply machine learning to improve their data gathering and analysis. The module is also suitable for students who are familiar with medical imaging and/or statistical thinking and want to learn more about the applications of these techniques in imaging systems, or for those who already work with both fields and want to gain a new perspective on the topic. It is also appropriate for students with strong mathematical and signal processing backgrounds who want to learn about both fields.

Queer Now

This module will offer an opportunity to study key thinkers and debates in the field of queer theory, while also exploring how sexuality is narrated in contemporary literature. The module will be grounded in a mix of theoretical texts and contemporary literature. Throughout, we will consider the relationship between reading, cultural objects, and queerness, asking: What is 'queer' about queer theory? How is queerness narrated in contemporary literature? How do LGBTQ writers experiment with form in relation to sexuality? This module offers an opportunity to engage in debates central to queer theory, while also develop skills in literary analysis of contemporary narratives of sexuality.

Dissertation for MSc Global Business and Sustainability

The dissertation forms an important part of the assessment of the MSc Global Business and Sustainability Programme, carrying a weighting of four modules (60 credits), i.e. one third of the entire Programme. The dissertation requires a demonstration of ability to carry out an original research plan and independent investigation into an area of interest. The investigation can rely on primary data independently collected by the student, on secondary data already available in the literature, or a mix of both. The dissertation will reflect skills of formulating research questions, synthesising information and analysing data, drawing insights and conclusions, and written communication.

Global Governance and Sustainability Transitions

This module engages with the institutional, theoretical, strategic and ethical dimensions of global sustainability transitions. Students will learn the history of international institutions such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the United Nations Climate Convention and critically reflect on their role in shaping the global policy context in which sustainability is pursued. Competing approaches to sustainability transitions, such as green growth, degrowth, the circular economy and Green New Deals are explored and compared in terms of their implications for state/business/civil society collaboration and appraised in terms of effectiveness, feasibility and justice.

Foundations 1: Conceptual Models for Global Business and Sustainability

This module is the first in the two-part Foundations series running in Semesters A and B. It introduces a range of key concepts and theories essential to understanding the relationship between global business and the diverse challenges of sustainability and climate change across the globe. The module explores this relationship by focusing on four themes: Business and the Sustainability Challenge, Power and Institutions, Markets and Corporations, and State and Civil Society. The module draws on a range of case studies, showing how theory can be applied to real world business and sustainability challenges.

Foundations 2: Methodologies for Global Business and Sustainability

This module is the second in the two-part Foundations series running in Semesters A and B. It provides students with methodological approaches towards addressing diverse challenges of sustainability from both research and business perspectives. The module will engage with materials from Foundations 1: Conceptual Models for Business and Sustainability to unpack epistemological and ontological issues and reflect on methodologies used. It will explore the various steps in conducting robust research on sustainability (e.g., literature review, data collection techniques, data analysis). The module is designed to aid students¿ progress towards their final programme assessment.

Eco-Business Strategy and Global Supply Chains

This module explores and debates the embeddedness of business in the Earth System. Students examine key relations between corporate strategies and the environment by introducing topical issues in climate change and biodiversity loss and examining emerging eco-business strategies in industries that are foundational to societies and economies across the planet (e.g. food, energy, transport). In examining these industries students will evaluate current consumption and production patterns and their environmental effects, critically appraise a range of eco-business strategies, develop innovative strategic thinking on political-economic challenges specific to each industry, and appraise the ways in which businesses can help build liveable futures based on intergenerational justice.

The Business of Climate Risk

How are climate-related and environmental risks affecting - and going to affect - the world? And importantly, the world of business? This module will equip students to understand and critically engage with anthropogenic climate change as an issue that presents new and compounding risks and challenges to businesses, workers, and society at large. The course will cover climate change and its entangled relationship between natural resources, biodiversity, and processes of commodification, and in the context of how firms and the wider communities adapt and mitigate these risks.

Advanced Water Treatment

This module builds on water treatment theory and practice covered at undergraduate level to develop advanced knowledge of the engineering challenges of modern-day water treatment. Covering both wastewater and drinking water applications, the module will cover the theory and application of several advanced water treatment processes that are part of the water cycle, explore hands-on separation processes in the lab, and move towards modelling and design of sustainable water treatment systems to comply with regional and international regulations. This module aims at preparing the next generation engineers focusing on the design of future-proof water treatment processing plants.

Advanced Chemical Engineering Research Project

The module is an intensive research module for the summer semester. It is designed to develop the research skills of the student and enable them to develop key skills in research in a chemical engineering area.

Advanced Safety Engineering

This module builds on undergraduate process safety taught material to place our chemical engineering students at the forefront of Process Safety in the chemicals and energy industries. Students will learn about advanced safety concepts and methods such as Quantitative Risk Assessments and consequence modelling, and incorporate complex dynamics into to safe design of chemical plants and management structures.

Health Systems Policy and Practice

This module provides students with a comprehensive introduction to health systems in different geographical contexts. Starting with an overview of the different components of health systems and service coverage, it considers how best to finance and organise health systems to achieve universal health, the effective delivery of comprehensive primary health care, and the different components and functions of health systems. The module covers critical contemporary health system issues in countries across the Global South and North. It introduces students to key concepts that help understand the health systems and their components, locating them within socioeconomic, political and historical contexts.

Health Inequalities and the State of Global Health

This module introduces students to the social, economic and political determinants of health and health inequalities, both between and within countries. The module is interdisciplinary in its approach, relying on contributions from public health, anthropology, international relations, human rights, economics, and sociology. It provides students with the wide variety of tools required for a critical and applied understanding of global health issues.

Advanced Introduction to International Political Sociology

This module equips students with the necessary analytical tools to navigate a complex world that is constantly challenging borders and boundaries. It highlights the interconnectivity between local and global processes, as well as the intricate relationship between human societies, technology and nature. Through this module, students will develop a critical understanding of the value and limitations of International Political Sociology as a transdisciplinary field. They will gain fresh perspectives on current international, global, and planetary conditions, which will enable them to engage with pressing world political issues in creative and meaningful ways.

Financial Technology

The Internet and related financial technologies such as cloud services, blockchain, data analytics ("big data"), and artificial intelligence (AI), combined with web-based business models, such as platforms, are rapidly transforming every day work and the future of the accounting and finance professions. This module looks at how the leading financial technologies (Fintech) impact on accounting and finance professionals. How do the accounting and finance professionals adapt to these changes? What are the opportunities and challenges for accounting and finance professions in the Fintech market? The wider legal, ethical and economic implications of using Fintech are discussed. At the end, students will be introduced to Python, a popular programming language for Fintech.

Management Accounting

The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) - the largest association of management accountants in the UK - considers management control system as combining accounting, finance and management with the leading-edge techniques needed to drive successful businesses. The module focuses on the production and analysis of certain information such as job and process costing, joint costs, capital investment decisions, budgetary systems and transfer pricing. The management team in any organisation uses that information produced to shape up its strategy.

Transportation and Logistics Analytics

In today's global supply chains, manufactured products often travel across multiple countries and multiple states, using multiple modes of transportation, before reaching final customers. Along the way, these products are processed at a variety of inventory transfer points, and reconfigured and combined with other products with the goal of arriving intact at the right place and right time. Topics covered include logistics strategy, transportation infrastructure, transport modes, logistics modelling, warehouse operations, logistics outsourcing, and green logistics.

Contemporary Marketing Management

Marketing is one of the most fundamental, most complex, and possibly also most misunderstood functions of the firm. To put it in the words of the famous Peter Drucker: "Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two--and only two--basic functions: marketing and innovation." The aim of this course is to provide you with a sound understanding of the principles of marketing. In a nutshell, understanding marketing comes down to understanding your customers. Thus, even if you have no interest in pursuing a career in marketing per se, the knowledge and skills acquired in this course will be essential to your success in business. The course assumes no previous knowledge of marketing and will give you an overview of the basic marketing planning process, including segmentation, branding, pricing, distribution, and promotion. These concepts are brought to life through interactive lectures and case discussions. Furthermore, you will work on a segmentation project for a real product throughout the course. Module Availability This module is compulsory on the MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation and MSc Management programmes, and an elective on the MA Heritage Management programme. It will complement the programmes and will provide students with an understanding of marketing strategies and practices as they relate to the abovementioned programmes' specific foci and objectives. Organisation of module The course consists of eleven 3-hour lectures/seminars. The lectures/seminars are held each week. Your timetable will show which lecture you should attend.

Entrepreneurship

This module integrates the theory and practice of innovation and entrepreneurship. The module draws together the learning from several functional areas that students will have already covered in the past - marketing, strategy, finance, law etc. - and place these within the larger context of innovation and entrepreneurship. While we will discuss many tools, models, and frameworks that can assist innovation and entrepreneurship processes, a core focus within the course is to critically analyse and apply these ideas.

Corporate Finance for Managers

By studying this module, students would be able to gain understanding of the following topics: How to carry out valuation of real investment projects; Calculating return and risk, cost of capital; Interrelationship between real investment and financial decisions of the firm: capital structure, dividend policy, financial distress and bankruptcy; International financial management: transfer pricing, international taxation, mergers and acquisitions, and optimal investment decisions

Entrepreneurship for Digital Technologies

This module integrates the theory and practice of innovation and entrepreneurship. We will also help develop your skills, abilities and behaviour towards entrepreneurial venturing, whether in established organisations or new ventures. Although business is an important context for this course, the process, skills and ideas we will address are also important for social, sustainability and third sector innovation, and intrapreneurial activities inside established organisations. We will also address broad issues about entrepreneurship, and how it can lead to social benefits and economic value. The module is intended to draw together learning from many different functional areas that students will have already covered in the past - marketing, strategy, finance, law etc. - and place these within the larger context of innovation and entrepreneurship. While we will discuss many tools, models, and frameworks that can assist innovation and entrepreneurship processes, a core focus within the course is to critically analyse and apply these ideas.

Business Digital Analytics

In this module, students will explore the important role of metrics in an organisation's business strategy and its implementation. Students will learn the principles of business performance evaluation using analytic tools.

Sustainability Marketing, Ethics and CSR

This module is designed to expose students to the latest advancements in sustainability issues and research in the marketing discipline. The module will cover the roots of sustainability marketing as a field of research, and introduce the range of research on sustainability, from the theoretical to the empirical, and from the classic to the current. The core of this module will be boosting students' ability to integrate sustainability into the theory and practice of marketing. Readings in each session incorporate theoretical and empirical studies, giving students an opportunity to explore different ways of pursuing answers to current sustainability, CSR and ethical challenges.

Strategic Analysis

This module will explore various theoretical approaches used to explain what markets managers choose to compete within, why and how. We will begin by examining the "traditional" competitive positioning and resource-based views, and critically evaluate these analytical approaches and their appropriateness in an increasingly networked, globalised, digitised and fluid competitive environment. The module will then provide an overview of the emerging literature on the application and use of big data and data analytics within organisations.

International Business Strategy

The module aims to introduce students to concepts and practices related to managing in a globally volatile, complex, dynamic environment within which organisations, national and international institutions and individuals interact. The elective is designed to be an advanced global strategic management course presenting material that is highly contemporary. This course provides balanced global strategic insights along with proven practical business frameworks and prepares you to respond quickly to today's challenging global environment.

Strategic Management

BUSM086 explores theoretical approaches explaining what markets managers choose to compete within, why and how. 'Traditional' competitive positioning, resource-based views are critically evaluated for their appropriateness in an increasingly networked, globalised, digitised and fluid environment. Contemporary approaches to strategic management, such as the importance of strategy process, business ecosystems, behavioural approaches and time/timing are analysed. From a variety of organisational contexts, we assess the extent to which firm strategy models may be applied to public sector/voluntary/entrepreneurial types of organisations and firms.

Large Language Models and Textual Analysis in Finance

Exploring the intersection of finance and cutting-edge AI, this course delves into Large Language Models (LLMs) and their transformative role in financial analysis and decision-making. Students will engage with the latest advancements in textual analysis, learning to extract and interpret complex insights from vast datasets of unstructured text. Practical applications covered include market sentiment analysis, risk assessment, and automated report generation. This module blends theoretical knowledge with hands-on experience, preparing students for innovative careers in finance, where AI meets financial analysis.

Cancer Screening and Prevention

The course will introduce epidemiological methods and the causes of cancer. Screening will be covered in terms of primary and secondary prevention of cancer. Existing, new, and potential screening programmes will be discussed in some detail. Students will learn about the main modifiable environmental causes of cancer and ways of reducing them. The course will cover preventive therapy of cancers and its potential role in reducing cancer incidence in the UK. We will also deal with the role of vaccination.

Data Analytics

Data Analytics refers to the use of statistics and machine learning in inferring information from data sets, with the ultimate goal of gaining insight and aiding decision-making. This module introduces statistical modelling, regression analysis, and machine learning, and the use of the R software environment in analyzing data.

Aeroelasticity

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.

Spacecraft Systems Engineering

In this module a description of the space environment and its influence on the spacecraft design and materials selection is discussed. This is followed by an in depth description of Keplerian celestial mechanics, co-planar and non-planar orbital transfers involving both impulsive and continuous manoeuvers, and perturbation effects that characterise the real non-Keplerian nature of orbital motion. The principles of the optimal synthesis of trajectories is discussed. An introduction to space vehicle propulsion is then presented including a description of launch-vehicle dynamics, the rocket equation and metrics that are used to characterise the fuel requirements over a particular mission. The physics of plasmas is discussed in some detail. After the basics of electric propulsion, the principles and features of a range spacecraft thrusters are discussed to facilitate the selection of an appropriate propulsion system for meeting the requirements of a specific mission. This followed by the background on Electromagnetic theory, Antennas, Helicon waves and Radio Frequency Propulsion based on Helicon waves.

Advanced Flight Control and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicles

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.

Philosophy of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 tells us that `the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world¿. But on what grounds? What counts as `dignity¿ and what makes it `inherent¿ to human beings? What counts as equality and what makes human rights the `foundation¿ of freedom, justice and peace? Many governments throughout history have promised various goods, but do human goods mean the same thing as human rights? If not, then what turns goods into rights? Given the historically recent concept of human rights must we conclude that societies lacking the concept necessarily lack freedom, justice and peace?

Pharmacogenomics and Stratified Healthcare

This particular module will focus on understanding the complexity of pharmacogenomics and effect of medication on individuals based on their genetic makeup i.e. techniques to stratify patients at risk of adverse drug reactions as well as tailoring drug treatment to improve patient response. The course will use examples of known pharmacogenetic tests (e.g. tamoxifen in breast cancer, warfarin in anticoagulation, abacavir in HIV). Furthermore, it will cover the different type of biomarkers currently in use or emerging (e.g. epigenetic markers)

Telecommunications Law

This module examines the law and regulation of the telecommunications sector in the European Union and at an international level. In particular, the course will concentrate on the licensing and authorisation of the provision of equipment, networks and services; the various obligations imposed upon all operators and those with market dominance, such as universal service; the building of international networks and the regimes established under the International Telecommunications Union and the agreements under the World Trade Organization; as well as regulatory issues in developing countries.

Nationalism and International Order

The demise of the nation-state and the disappearance of nationalism have been predicted on many occasions, yet they stubbornly stick around. This module explores the past, present, and possible futures of nationalism through an interdisciplinary approach that brings together insights from sociology, history, political theory, and international relations. During the module, students will acquire an advanced understanding of the sources of nationalism, the role of nationalism in the making of the international order, and the multifaceted ways that nationalism continues to shape society and politics today.

Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Genomic Medicine

The module aims to provide a framework for ethical understanding of medical genomics. Students will be provided with a platform of ethical understanding from which to consider issues of human confidentiality, autonomy, disclosure, informed consent and natural justice. Upon this platform, students will consider the impact of genomic technologies on individual lives and those of demographic and ethnic groupings. The social implications of the availability of genetic testing and screening will be considered, especially in the context of reproductive technologies. Finally students will be provided with a legal framework for patenting of genetic information as well as the use of genetic data for research, diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

Mathematics and Statistics for Finance

This course provides you with the opportunity to: Review key mathematical and statistical concepts and tools. Show examples of how these tools are used in Economics and Finance. Ensure a solid foundation for your study in the MSc program. The course is delivered over the first 2 weeks of the Pre-Sessional Module and is divided into 5 main topics. Additionally, throughout this course we will blend in real world examples and applications of mathematical and statistical concepts within Economics and Finance.

Economic Models and Human Genomics

Technological advances in the area of genomic medicine had led to new tests with major impact on improving disease diagnosis and effectiveness of treatments. However, the continuous growth in the use of genomic technologies has often cost implications. Using established economic models it is possible to successfully predict the costs of new treatments and assess benefits to patients in the context of available budget for health care. Moreover, this module will explore the factors that determine the effects of the rapid development of genomics on health care systems covering the role and relative influence the government, doctors and the public exert in this process . These will be analysed to assess whether clients/patients are best served by current arrangements and whether people's health matches reasonable expectations. Course participants will be encouraged to propose ways of tackling perceived shortcomings.

Dissertation (60 credits)

Students will use both the theoretical knowledge they acquired throughout the taught part of the course and the analytical skills they developed in order to tackle a research question by themselves. The research question will be either in the form of an in depth literature search followed by a critical review / perspective on the selected topic or through undertaking a research project which involves formulating the question, acquiring and analysing the data and finally present and discuss results. In the MSc programme in Genomic Medicine under the Modernising Scientific Careers path this module can be successfully completed by undertaking a 60 credits research project. Projects will be preferentially selected to use experimental data sets from Genomics England that will be made available to participants through a dedicated secure embassy setting. Project supervision will involve tutors from both the hosting NHS laboratory and the programme. Research projects should be presented in the format of a Nature Genetics Letter. As an alternative students can undertake the parallel 30-credits Dissertation module which is based on a literature based project, in combination with two optional modules. In the standard MSc programme in Genomic Medicine this module can be successfully completed by either undertaking a research project as above or by undertaking an extended literature based dissertation which will be presented in the format of a Nature Reviews Genetics review article and should not exceed 20,000 words.

Governing the European Union in Time of Crisis

The European Union has developed from a narrow organisation that sought the peaceful cooperation of certain industries into a supranational political system with executive, legislative and judicial institutions. Over the last three decades the process of European integration has made rapid progress withe the deepening of the Single Market, the creation of a currency union, successive rounds of enlargement . On the other hand, recent setbacks and crises (such as Covid-19, the War in Ukraine, the Eurozone crisis, the 'migratory crisis', Brexit and the grow euroscepticism) have rekindled debates concerning the legitimacy, speed and direction of the European project. The module explores the governance of policy areas in the EU to understand the current challenges within the EU project and the drivers of these crises.

Deep Learning

Machine learning influences modern life through many different avenues and is silently revolutionising the way we live and work. We can see the influence of machine learning algorithms in social media, web search engines, mobile device spell checkers and self-driving cars. This module provides an introduction to machine learning using the Python programming language and the TensorFlow (TM) programming toolkit from Google (TM). Minimal programming background is assumed, however students wishing to take this module should be familiar with using computers, and mathematics at a level commensurate with a BSc in Physics or equivalent degree (calculus and linear algebra).

Law of International Financial Institutions

This module will analyze the law of international financial institutions, in particular the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and regional development banks such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. It will also consider the law and institutions of the Economic and Monetary Union and examine the law of the European Central Bank and the law of the euro, as well as the pillars of the Banking Union: the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM); the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) and the proposed European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS).

Genomics of Common and Rare Diseases

The module will cover practical aspects of genomics research in common and rare diseases, identification of the genes responsible for some of the disorders and the application of genomics in diagnostics. In rare diseases, participants will learn how to identify disease phenotypes that will benefit from exome and / or whole genome analysis and how to select cases and relevant family information. The course will cover through specific examples the experimental approaches currently in use for identifying pathogenic mutations (variant calling, annotation and filtering against publicly available sets of variants such as the 1000 Genomes) as well as available databases and on line resources for assessing such mutations.

IP Protection in the Software Sector

This module seeks to take a holistic approach and treat software based products and services as a distinct subject matter and consider its protectability throughout its various life-cycle phases, from inception, through development, to launch and commercialization, the relevance and application of distinct IP rights (including trade secrets) in each of these phases, highlighting key protectability milestones and the unique considerations that they may entail. The module will examine the relevant issues primarily from a European and US perspective.

Consumer Law for the Digital Age

The digital environment is developing rapidly bringing forward new opportunities for business and challenges for regulators. This is an exciting time for consumer law with many changes underway as the regulation of the digital environment has become a priority. This module examines the latest developments in the UK and in other jurisdictions, such as the EU. From dark patterns to regulation of very large online platforms to online contracts, this module aims to get students to critically engage with the latest digital business practices and the regulatory responses.

Molecular Pathology of Cancer and Application in Cancer Diagnosis

The module will provide an introduction to the principles of molecular pathology. It will cover basic cancer biology and the role of the tumour microenvironment and how this may be exploited for therapeutic gain. It includes the molecular classification of solid tumors - breast, melanoma and soft tissue tumours- and haematological malignancies, with an emphasis on how this may be applied for disease stratification, prediction and prognosis. Students will learn about the analytical challenges in cancer genomics and in particular issues related to the purity of tumour material as well as the quality (many stored samples are paraffin embedded) and availability of samples which is often a limiting factor. It will introduce the student to the challenges raised by genomic analysis of tumours, and how these may be overcome, and finally the application of cutting-edge technologies for the application of molecular diagnostics in the clinical setting.

Select Public International Law Issues in Energy

The module on 'Select Public International Law Issues in Energy' examines the application of public international law to inter-state energy activities. States have long taken responsibility for satisfying domestic demand for energy. Traditionally, this could largely be done at the local or, at times, regional level. Over the last fifty years, however, increasing demand for energy and, in part as a result, the progressive exhaustion of traditional energy sources has led to a more extensive interdependence between mineral resource-rich and mineral resource-scarce countries and cooperation in the energy sector. This, in turn, has led to state regulation of these activities and the emergence of a complex web of inter-state norms and practices. These norms have also evolved significantly as a result of the climate emergency and Russia's invasion of Ukraine which has led to a recent energy crisis. Part I of the module provides the foundations of public international law concepts and principles applicable to energy activities, as well as covering the actors engaged in these activities, with a strong focus on states as the primary actors initiating and endorsing energy activities. Part II covers plurilateral and bilateral treaties governing energy activities, including treaties on the joint exploitation of common offshore oil and gas deposits, treaties on the joint exploitation of international watercourses, treaties on cross-border transportation of hydrocarbons, and energy cooperation treaties. This Part also cover the interplay between these treaties and custom. Part III examines how public international law deals with the decommissioning of energy installations.

Applied Exercise Physiology 2

Development of the clinicians skills in delivering exercise testing and prescription in health and disease forms the foundation of this modules curricula. The knowledge and skills gained in this module are essential for effective interventions to address neurological diseases, cardiovascular heart disease (CHD), diabetes, kidney diseases, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and musculoskeletal disorders. Students will be able to carry out exercise testing, exercise programme design and implementation in patients and healthy individuals.

Introduction to Human Genomics

This module will provide clear understanding of the structure and variations in genetic material. The module aim is to deliver a solid theoretical foundation in the area of basic genetics and genomics to the participants in order to understand the study of disease genetics and how genomic information can be utilised to understand disease mechanisms and biology. The first section 'Genome Structure & Sequence variation' will review the architecture of the human genome and the functional units embedded. It will then cover DNA sequence variation and how it is structured across the genome, explaining the principles of linkage disequilibrium and its extent in human populations. The next part `Biology of Genomes' will cover in more detail aspects of gene regulation (enhancers, promoters, transcription factors, silencers) and chromatin structure (histone modifications; DNase I hypersensitive sites, open chromatin). It will then discuss genetic control of functional elements introducing the basic principles of quantitative trait loci (QTL) analyses. Under the `Association Studies¿ section participants will be introduced to the principles of correlating genetic markers to phenotype as well as the design and execution of association studies both for dichotomous and quantitative traits . Participants will learn how to critically interpret the output of association studies and the potential as well as the limitations of using such information to assess disease risk. Under the Epigenetics section participants will be introduced to DNA methylation and its implication to human disease. In the last section of this module participants will learn about integration of genetic data from an association study with genomic information to explore the biology of the investigated trait.

Expanding the Content of the MSc in Genomic Medicine with Workplace-based Modules

Students will use the knowledge they acquired from the taught modules on genomics and disease (modules 1,2,3 & 6) to build a short case based portfolio of study, for example a family with a rare genetic condition, in which they will explore / evaluate genomic approaches / practice in their work base. The short case based portfolio of study will take place in the hosting NHS laboratory and where applicable will be under joint supervision i.e. tutors from both the hosting laboratory and the programme.

The Law of Theatre and the Performing Arts

This module provides students with the opportunity to study the relevant laws pertaining to the theatre industry and aspects of the performing arts. The module covers key aspects of productions, including development and rights acquisition and management, co-productions, financial and licensing considerations, censorship, exploitation and streaming. Various creative contributions will also be examined, including set and prop design, makeup and costume design, music and musicians, choreography, and performance. Some aspects of performance art will also be considered.

Application of Genomics in Infectious Disease

The module will provide an introduction to the principles of microbial genome structure. It will cover microbial genome sequencing in support of diagnosis and guiding patient care as well as the impact of microbial diversity on understanding and preventing infectious diseases. The module will discuss the use of medical and biological and genetic information in tracking and managing infections and importantly antimicrobial resistance. The genomics of host-pathogen interactions will be discussed. The module will then cover the approaches for characterizing novel and emerging pathogens. Metagenomics as tools for deciphering complex microbial communities and how these influence the exchange of virulence mechanisms and microbial resistance genes within the host. Analysis of quasi-species through deep sequencing to demonstrate the impact of within host diversity on drug resistance and therapeutics particulalry for viral infections will be explained. Students will learn about the challenges that research is facing in determining host-parasite interactions and patient susceptibility.

Genetics and Genomics Counselling

The role of a genetic counsellor has significantly expanded over the past decade. Students undertaking this module will be taught how to communicate and provide appropriate support to individuals affected by a genetic condition or are predisposed to a genetic condition. Development of counselling skills will be achieved via theoretical and practical sessions. After completing this module students will possess the skills and knowledge required to obtain the family and medical history, select and suggest the appropriate genetic tests, inform patients of their genetic predispositions and help individuals understand their genetic disease. Moreover, students will be taught how to discuss reproductive options, inheritance pattern as well as prenatal diagnostics.

Electricity Law and Regulation

This module provides a highlevel overview of the regulations and legislation pertaining to the electricity sector. It will provide an overview of the electricity value chain, including transmission, distribution, generation, supply as well as wholesale trading and discuss models of electricity market design and regulations, with emphasis on electricity pool models and bilateral trading arrangements in both pre-liberalised and liberalised energy economies. The module will analyse the impact of new technology such as battery storage (BESS) on both electricity market organisation and regulation and consider the role and impact of renewable energy (including support regimes for the same) in electricity markets and wider society. Regulatory concequences of the changes in the energy mix due to the increase of renewable forms of electricity generation, such as capacity markets and the current market reforms considered in GB and the EU will also be analysed. The model will also give students the opportunity to engage with different forms of power purchase agreements and their regulatory context (eg, REMIT and MiFID II).

Practical Astrophysics

Astrophysics has been revolutionized by the advent of large accessible data sets and public domain software for accessing that data and also for modelling astrophysical systems. This module will introduce a range of data analysis and modelling methods used in astrophysics, such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo fitting and N-body simulation. Students will develop practical skills with hands-on experience of modern software packages and data from observatories and space missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope, Kepler and the Parker Solar Probe. Minimal programming background is assumed, but students should be familiar with using computers and mathematics at a level commensurate with BSc in Physics (or equivalent).

Public Legal Education for Start-Ups

The Public Legal Education for Start-Ups module gives students hands on experience preparing commercially aware, engaging and accessible legal education videos and other resources for UK start-ups and entrepreneurs. Module students will be trained and supervised in the preparation and delivery of legal education resources covering UK commercial, corporate, intellectual property, data privacy and employment law. Students learn through inter-active class discussions and exercises during the classes and are supervised in their legal education work by qLegal staff and UK practicing solicitors.

Clinical Exercise Physiology

The ability to safely apply exercise testing and prescription for health benefits in patients affected by chronic disease and conditions forms the foundation of this modules curricula. The knowledge and skills gained in this module will ensure clinicians are able to deliver effective interventions to address neurological diseases, cardiovascular heart disease (CHD), diabetes, kidney diseases, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and musculoskeletal disorders. Students will gain understanding and practical skills in exercise testing, exercise programme design and implementation in patients.

Bioinformatics, Interpretation, and Data Quality Assurance in Genome Analysis

Students will learn to handle sequence files from exome and / or whole genome sequencing (e.g. BAM files), apply quality control filters to remove outliers, call variants, annotate variants for functional consequences (e.g. PolyPhene 2 is an algorithm for predicting the impact of amino acid changes on protein stability and function) and finally apply different filtering strategies using publicly available control data sets (e.g. 1000 Genomes Project) to identify pathogenic mutations. The module will cover a wide range of statistical and bioinformatics techniques and tools such as: - R package - PLINK - GATK The module will also cover the use of databases and literature searches to critically assess and annotate findings of genetic and genomic analyses. Theoretical sessions will be coupled with practical assignments of analysing and annotating predefined data sets.

Dissertation (30 credits)

Omics Techniques and their Application to Genomic Medicine

Module will deliver a comprehensive coverage of the techniques used to obtain the DNA sequence of targeted parts of the genome (e.g. exome sequencing) or whole genomes using state-of -the-art highly parallel sequencing platforms. Furthermore, it will provide clear understanding of the use of array based methodologies and RNA sequencing in estimating expression levels of protein coding genes, micro RNAs and long non-coding RNAs; gene expression is a key intermediate phenotype in genetic / genomic analyses of disease. Finally, the module will offer an introduction to the evolving fields of metabolomics and proteomics covering some of the most established techniques currently used in biomedical research.

Professional and Research Skills

- Concepts of health and illness - Measuring health at local and national levels - Healthcare systems - Critical reviewing literature to establish current knowledge - Development and change in the NHS - Evaluating healthcare improvements through research, audit, or service development - Presenting research, audit, and service development - Developing policies and clinical guidelines - Equality, equity and health policy - The professional in a large organisation - Resource allocation and rationing

Probability and Statistics for Data Analytics

This module establishes the probability and statistics background required for students applying techniques or doing other advanced statistics Modules. The Module begins by covering the essential theoretical notions of probability and the distributions of random variables which underpin statistical methods. It then describes different types of statistical tests of hypotheses and addresses the questions of how to use them and when to use them. This material is essential for applications of statistics in psychology, life or physical sciences, business or economics.

MSc by Research Project

The MSc project gives you an opportunity to apply the techniques and technologies that you have learnt to a significant advanced project. Projects will either be significantly development based or have a research focus that will require you to undertake practical work. All projects will be expected either to investigate or to make use of techniques that are at the leading edge.

Project

Clinical Applications in Regenerative Medicine

This module covers embryonic and adult stem cells, applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine; Cell technology: experimental methods in human cells and organ culture; Tissue engineering ¿ emerging technologies include tissue scaffold design, biomaterials, use of bioreactors, nanotechnology, engineering nanomaterials, microfluidics; and Tissue engineering from concept to clinical practice: basic research through to clinical application and impact of therapies

Research Skills for Healthcare Science

This module will prepare students to undertake their own project to contribute to the improvement of patient care. On completion of this module students have a knowledge of research, service evaluation and audit. Students will understand the lifecycle of a project and the methodology required, including qualitative and quantitative research methods, ethical considerations, sharing results and the importance of public and patient involvement.

Antimicrobial Therapy and the Control of Antimicrobial Resistance

This module gives the student a detailed knowledge and understanding of antimicrobials and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance. Students consider the application of laboratory results in a wider context including the use and monitoring of antimicrobial therapy and the impact on patient care. The role of the clinical scientist in antimicrobial stewardship and the control of antimicrobial resistance is explored including the use and development of local and national policies and guidelines for the use of antimicrobials.

Public Health and Infection Prevention and Control

This module will provide the student with advanced knowledge and understanding of the aetiology, clinical presentation and management of infection in the community and of hospital-acquired infection (HAI). The legislation, surveillance and epidemiology of HAI will also be considered. The module provides an understanding of infectious diseases and the role of microbiology in public health at a local, regional and international level.

Infectious Diseases: Clinical Presentations and Laboratory Diagnosis

This module discusses the microbial infections of humans. The aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, epidemiology and laboratory diagnosis and infection control aspects are considered. The infections are studied by organ system e.g. respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract and also by looking at specialist patient groups e.g. the immunosuppressed, paediatrics.

AI and Big Data in Marketing

This module is designed to provide postgraduate students with a comprehensive and critical understanding of AI and big data in marketing. It focuses on integrating real-world scenarios and hands-on experiences to provide students with practical insights. The primary objective is to develop a curriculum that explores the principles, strategies, and practices of AI and big data in the marketing context. Students will explore key concepts, theories, and applications, including the use of AI algorithms, predictive analytics, and automation in marketing processes. The goal is to empower students with the knowledge and skills needed to leverage AI and big data effectively for developing and optimizing marketing strategies.

Strategy and Management Consulting

The 20th-century surge in strategy and management consultancy is a pivotal success story in the modern business world. It is therefore crucial for students to grasp strategy and management consulting theories and frameworks. The module will explore theoretical and practical approaches explaining managers' market choices in a networked, globalized, digitized, and competitive environment. It covers contemporary strategies like practice-based, scenario planning, and the importance of strategy processes and business ecosystems. The principles of effective consultancy are also introduced, alongside the barriers to successful intervention. Examining diverse organizational contexts and international markets, the module prepares you for potential consulting roles and as informed consumers of consulting services.

Applied Econometrics with R

The Business of Climate Risk

AI in the Biosciences Research Project

This module provides you with an opportunity to further develop and apply skills learned during the previous MSc Artificial Intelligence in the Biosciences modules, by conducting a novel piece of Artificial Intelligence / machine learning work, typically within an active research group either within QMUL or at a partner organisation. The specific nature of each project will be determined through discussions between you, the course organiser and the project supervisor but will always involve bioscience problem involving complex data in a cutting edge area of biological or biomedical research. This serves as excellent preparation for future employment or PhD.

Computational Engineering

This is an advanced module in computational modelling focusing on computational solids. The finite element method is covered together with applications to medical, aerospace and mechanical engineering. Hands on experience in solving engineering problems using commercial packages is an important part of the module. There is an introduction of optimisation methods used in computational engineering across industry sectors. Topology shape and size optimisation methods and their applications will be covered. It is envisaged to provide guest lectures by SEMS' Visiting Professors. The student will have assignments with the industry-leading software ABAQUS for solving generic FEA problems as well as structural topology optimisation problems. Student will be encouraged to select problems relevant to their programme of study.

Renewable Energy Sources

The module aims to equip students with an appreciation of the global energy scene and the impacts of energy production and consumption on the environment. The module provide the students with an understanding of the origin and nature of various renewable/sustainable energy resources, the assessment of their ability to meet our future energy demands, and the design of renewable energy systems.

Experimentation and Modelling in Cell and Tissue Biomechanics

This module is concerned with natural biological materials and how design is optimised for appropriate function. It reviews the mechanics of natural tissues and cells and how they relate to structure and composition. The methods by which structures can function effectively within their natural load environment are also covered, in addition to how they may change with age, disease or damage. It brings this together considering the current methods for characterizing and investigating structure-function in tissues.

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Engineering

Deriving insight from data is essential to problem-solving innovation in modern engineering disciplines. To gain this insight, the data needs to be understood and appropriately interpreted. In this module, you will develop tools, systems, and processes to enable the application of artificial intelligence in real-world contexts. You will learn probability theory and the transformation of data from a high- into a low-dimensional space. You will develop statistical thinking in order to design data collection, derive insights from visualising data, obtain supporting evidence for data-based decisions and construct models for predicting future trends from the data. You will learn techniques applied to your discipline for unsupervised and supervised learning and apply them to automating routine engineering tasks, and to apply machine learning approaches to complex and critical systems in a holistic and system-oriented way.

Developmental Approaches in Mental Health

This module takes a developmental science approach to understanding mental health conditions. It will introduce common mental health conditions which typically emerge during childhood and adolescence and discuss the underlying developmental pathways and precursors. It will consider, compare, and contrast psychological, social, and (neuro)biological perspectives on child and adolescent mental health. This module will also have an applied perspective, discussing clinical interventions and evaluating their empirical basis.

Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine

This module will define and describe nanostructures and nanomaterials. it will include how they are manufactured, appropriate characterisation technologies and a description of their application in a range of fields. In particular the application and challenges in the use of nanotechnology in medicine will be considered, including the regulatory issues to be considered, the use of nanomaterials for drug delivery and the development of lab in a chip technologies.

Modern Robotics: Fundamentals and Applications

The module introduces robotics as an integral part of modern automation, provides an introductory insight into the engineering design and application of robot manipulator systems. It also provides an understanding of kinematics, dynamics and trajectory planning of robotic manipulators, actuators and sensors, principles and roles in robotics. It introduces various aspects of robot modelling and control and problems encountered in robot programming and their remedies.

Mental Health in Context

This module explores key topics in mental health, from both historical and contemporary contexts, including in-depth analyses of current issues in the field. Key themes may include the role of mental health services, the importance of evidence-based practice and evidence-based psychological treatments. This module encourages you to view and reflect on mental health through different lenses and to consider the point the view of practitioners, scientists, and clients. It aims to advance critical reasoning skills through the analysis of empirical research, debates in the literature, and the discussion of the broader contexts of the mental health sciences.

Medical Ethics and Regulatory Affairs

This module provides an introduction to applied medical ethics and law related to the development of new products in the field of bioengineering. It provides knowledge of the regulatory mechanisms of approval of products for clinical use in the UK, the EU and the US, risk management and design processes.

Biocompatibility Evaluation for Clinical Innovation

This module will provide a comprehensive understanding of the concepts related to and underpinning biocompatibility. It will cover topics including proteins and protein adsorption, biomaterial- cell, blood and tissue interactions, Inflammation, wound healing, foreign body response, Toxicity, hypersensitivity and infection. The pre-clinical testing of biomaterials will be considered with respect to chemical exchange and degradation, cell response (proliferation vs differentiation), evaluation of material compatibility, evaluation of device functionality (biomechanics, remodelling/adaptation). The importance of the intelligent design of pre-clinical test regimes and unbiased critical analysis of test data to drive development and new innovation in biomaterials and medical device design will be emphasized through consideration of case study scenarios. Clinical trials and regulatory approval will also be discussed.

Computational Fluid Dynamics

This module introduces students to numerical analysis and computational methods for solving engineering fluid dynamic problems. It enables students to develop skills in programming and using CFD codes using modern computational techniques, including the properties of discretisations and their application to simple model equations. Aspects of modelling turbulence and microscale capillary flow are considered. The students will generate meshes, solve viscous flow problems and perform the analysis of the quality of the simulations.

The Forms of Modernism

"What did modernist writers think their forms could do for the twentieth century that other styles couldn't? This module will look at the politics of modernist forms, both official and unofficial, by considering form in the widest sense of the arrangement of characters, words, rhythms, bodies, objects and audiences. It will also look at the significance of forms and genres which are characteristic of twentieth-century writing, but lie outside or slant to modernism. Through these various forms, we will examine some recurrent debates in modern cultural life: ease vs. difficulty; democracy vs. demography; intimacy vs. discipline, sacred vs. secular."

Victorian Print Culture

"This course will examine the Victorian novel in the context of numerous other forms of print available to audiences during the nineteenth century. We will use investigative procedures derived from the disciplines of print culture and book history to ask how authors responded to the explosion in the volume of books, periodicals, and newspapers produced during this period for an emerging mass audience. Our approach will consider the book as a material object that circulated through society as well as the production, dissemination, and reception of literature as a collaborative process implicated in social networks. Particular attention will be given to the ways books had to accommodate themselves to a variety of new media throughout the nineteenth century. Related questions about literacy, reading practices, national identity, the commodification of literature, and the new power of the consumer will be explored through our readings of selected literary narratives as well as supplementary theoretical essays on various aspects of print culture."

Curating London

How does London's built environment narrate the city? Are we able to read London through its architecture, civic spaces and museums? How might we read London's spaces alongside texts representing them? In this module, we adopt a situated view of the city's literary and visual cultures, conceptualising London as a curated space. We ask how London's built environments frame our understanding and guide our interpretation of the city and its literary representation. As such, we will visit a series of key sites across the city, reflecting on the ways in which their histories of construction and destruction have been represented in the literary and visual arts over time and asking how these spaces seek to represent the city of London today.

Applied Statistics

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

Trading and Risk Systems Development

A preliminary outline of the course contents is as follows: Part I: Programming skills - Lesson 1 (2h) Introduction. Trading and risk management system requirements. Typical layout of technology components. Low level/high level coding. - Lesson 2 (2h) Excel fundamentals. Layout of a sheet. Overview of in-built functions. How to build a basic pricing sheet in Excel. - Lesson 3 (2h) Source Code repositories. What is a source code repository and why do we need it ? How to use TortoiseSVN. Implications for controls and regulatory processes. The Excel XML format. - Lesson 4 (2h) Industry strength Excel. Named cells, data validation, maintainability considerations in a production environment, error codes. - Lesson 5 (2h) VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) Functions. Recording macros. Data types and data scope. ByRef/ByVal. Setting breakpoints and using the debug window. - Lesson 6 (2h) VBA Subroutines Controls to trigger and manage code execution. Excel as a pure front end for a financial system. Handling error conditions. - Lesson 7 (2h) VBA Object Oriented Code. Introduction to OOP, the Excel object model, types, classes, property get and set, data validation. - Lesson 8 (2h) Practical session Building a risk management sheet using Excel/VBA. - Lesson 9 (2h) Basics of C/C++. Introductory to the basic language features, emphasizing plain C functions, data types etc. Building a basic console EXE application - Lesson 10 (2h) Basics of C/C++ DLLs. Connecting Excel/VBA to a C/C++ calculator DLL (Dynamically Linked Library). - Lesson 11 (2h) Practical Session Building a derivatives pricing tool based on an Excel thin front end, VBA middleware and a core calculator in a DLL developed in C/C++. Part II: The development framework - Lesson 12 (2h) Low level items Compiled code, C/C++/Assembly language. Binary representation of data. Using Windows kernel C/C++ DLLs. - Lesson 13 (2h) Impact of bugs. Testing protocols. Static tests, nightly regressions. Peer review. Coding policies. - Lesson 14 (2h) High performance programming. FPGAs, GPUs, grid computing, multithreading, low level optimizations - Lesson 15 (2h) Overview of other technologies: Java, COM, Python, .NET, C#, F# (note that there are some overlaps with other modules, e.g. C++,designed to offer additional support with some more difficult key topics)

Bayesian Statistics

The module aims to introduce you to the Bayesian paradigm. The module will show some of the problems with frequentist statistical methods and demonstrate that the Bayesian paradigm provides a unified approach to problems of statistical inference and prediction. In the Module you will learn to make Bayesian inferences in a variety of problems, and apply Bayesian methods in real-life examples.

Advanced Combinatorics

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.

Machine Learning with Python

This module will introduce you to some of the most widely-used techniques in machine learning (ML). After reviewing the necessary background mathematics, we will investigate various ML methods, such as linear regression, polynomial regression, neural networks, classification with logistic regression, support vector machines and decision trees. The module covers a very wide range of practical applications, with an emphasis on hands-on numerical work using Python. At the end of the module, you will be able to formalise a ML task, choose the appropriate method to process it numerically, implement the ML algorithm in Python, and assess the method's performance.

Research Methods in Mathematical Sciences

This module introduces you to a range of skills and knowledge which are required for research in the mathematical sciences but which are not always encountered in undergraduate study. We will consider: what mathematical research is, and how it is published and disseminated; strategies for searching the research literature; strategies for reading research papers efficiently and effectively; effective written and spoken mathematical communication; and the use of LaTeX to create mathematical documents and presentation slides. This module is assessed by a single piece of coursework (which covers the literature search, reading and writing aspects of the module) together with an oral presentation and supporting slides.

Foundations of Mathematics and Statistics

This module introduces students to analytical tools used in risk management. After an introduction of basic probability theory and statistics used in physical and life sciences and economics, you will get an overview of statistical models used in risk modelling. You will learn applications of stochastic processes to finance and loss distribution models to liability valuation. This module includes real-world data applications using R.

Computational Statistics with R

This module introduces modern methods of statistical inference for small samples, which use computational methods of analysis, rather than asymptotic theory. The techniques covered in the module include non-parametric tests, bootstrap, and cross-validation. Most of these methods are now used regularly in modern business, finance, and science. Finally, the module includes the implementation of all the proposed methods with the statistics software R.

Foundations of Mathematical Modelling in Finance

This module gives students a basis in probability theory needed for modelling asset price dynamics. You will start with a brief review of basic probability theory and then you will be introduced to stochastic processes that underlie many models in finance, such as random walks, Brownian motion, geometric Brownian motion, and Poisson process. You will also get an overview of Ito stochastic calculus and its applications to finance. By the end of this introductory course, you will have achieved a sufficient level of competence in mathematical methods to facilitate further studies in Mathematical Finance.

Dynamical Systems

A dynamical system is any system which evolves over time according to some deterministic rule: all future states are determined by the present state in conjunction with the rule which determines the system's evolution. In discrete time, a dynamical system might evolve by the repeated application of a map; in continuous time, it might evolve according to a flow or a differential equation. Dynamical systems are therefore a fundamental tool in modelling real-world phenomena in the sciences. In this module we investigate the qualitative behaviours of dynamical systems in continuous time, considering questions such as: what features does the future evolution from a given point have? How does this future trajectory of the system depend on the initial state? If the dynamical system's underlying rule is itself changed, how do the qualitative features of its trajectories change?

Measure Theory and Probability

This is an introductory module on the Lebesgue theory of measure and integral with application to probability. You are expected to know the theory of Riemann integration. Measure in the line and plane, outer measure, measurable sets, Lebesgue measure, nonmeasurable sets. Sigma-algebras, measures, probability measures, measurable functions, random variables. Simple functions, Lebesgue integration, integration with respect to general measures. Expectation of random variables. Monotone and dominated convergence theorems, and applications. Absolute continuity and singularity, Radon-Nikodym theorem, probability densities. Possible further topics: product spaces, Fubini's theorem.

Project Dissertation

Each MSc student is required to complete a 60 credit project dissertation. Project selection takes place in Semester B with work on the project starting thereafter and continuing through the summer. An MSc project should help prepare students for independent practical work and PhD research. A typical MSc project dissertation consists of about 30¿50 word-processed pages covering a specific research-level topic in pure or applied mathematics. The work usually requires the student to understand, explain and elaborate on results from research articles or analyse a dataset and may also involve programming and computation.

Further Topics in Algebra

This is a course in modern abstract algebra, with a focus on Galois theory. This is a beautiful subject which uses group theory to study the symmetries and solutions of polynomial equations. We begin by building up some necessary tools from the theory of rings and fields, and go on to develop the notions of field extension and Galois group. Towards the end of the module we will be able to prove several remarkable results such as the impossibility of certain ruler-and-compass constructions, and the impossibility of creating a general formula for the solution of quintic polynomials. The latter of these was famously proved by the French revolutionary Évariste Galois shortly before his death in a duel at the age of 20.

Topics in Scientific Computing

This module introduces a selection of numerical methods for solving applied mathematical problems. One of the most fascinating aspects of physical theories is the fact that highly complex behaviour can arise from the repeated application of simple rules - consider for example the motion of bodies under gravity, which combine to give us the rich structure of our Universe. Such systems are the focus of much current research, and whilst they are too complex for an analytic approach, their numerical solution is (at least in principle) straightforward. The aim of the course is to introduce students to a selection of computational algorithms that are used to solve problems in applied mathematics, and to provide them with practical skills in software development that will be useful in many fields both within and outside of academic work. The module uses python as the main coding language. Some experience with python or similar coding languages will be an advantage but will not be assumed.

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

This module introduces you to several state-of-the-art methodologies for machine learning with neural networks (NNs). After discussing the basic theory of constructing and calibrating NNs, we consider various types of NN suitable for different purposes, such as recurrent NNs, autoencoders and transformers. This module includes a wide range of practical applications; you will implement each type of network using Python (and PyTorch) for your weekly coursework assignments, and will calibrate these networks to real datasets.

Financial Instruments and Markets

This module provides students with a wide-ranging knowledge of financial instruments and markets. It focuses on issues related to the role of a financial system, the functions of different types of financial institutions, and the understanding of financial products commonly traded in each financial market (including the equity market, money market, bond market and derivatives markets with applications using Excel/VBA). Additionally, you will gain an understanding of modern portfolio construction and management. This module will give you the practical knowledge that is essential for a career in investment banking or financial markets.

Time Series Analysis for Business

This module will present methods for time series analysis.These will allow the student to understand better how to use and extract information from historical business data series. In particular, the student will learn how to extract the pivotal concepts of time series data, including the trend and cyclic components of a data series, calculate the autocorrelation, learn about autoregressive and moving average models, and cointegration.The module will develop the notions around realistic business examples and an implementation of the methods will be provided using the statistic software R..

Advanced Machine Learning

This module builds on the earlier module 'Machine Learning with Python', covering a number of advanced techniques in machine learning, such as different methods for clustering, dimensionality reduction, matrix completion, and autoencoders. Although the underlying theoretical ideas are clearly explained, this module is very hands-on, and you will implement various applications using Python in the weekly coursework assignments.

Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

This module will provide training in the fundamental principles of biomaterial science and therapeutic applications in tissue engineering. It will cover the key types, properties, synthesis, and testing of biomaterials, as well as how the structure and function of materials impact complex cellular responses and tissue regeneration. The module will present current methods in fabrication of biomaterials into scaffolds for tissue engineering, strategies for cultivation living tissue equivalents, and critical analysis of specific applications in regenerative medicine. Throughout the module students will develop skills in critical thinking, experimental design, oral and written communication, and collaborative work.

Molecular Cell Biology Literature Review

In the early stages of the MSc Molecular Cell Biology the student will undertake a literature review surrounding the research project they are to undertake. The module involves the production of a written report containing the following elements: (i) A title of the student's future dissertation in a relevant area of research within Molecular Cell Biology. (ii) A description of the general background to the relevant research field. (iii) A comprehensive literature review of the specific research topic. (iv) A very brief research proposal outlining the aims, objectives and methodology of their research project. A short formal talk will be presented to a specialist audience summarising their literature review and can include a "Research Pitch". This compulsory 15 credit module will involve regular journal clubs to learn how to analyse and interpret published research as well as one-to-one meetings with the project supervisor(s) while preparing the written report and oral presentation.

Molecular Cell Biology Research Project

An experimental investigation involving laboratory work and/or computational work in some aspect of Molecular Cell Biology. The student will be embedded within the research community of SBBS. The student will attend research seminars and research group meetings and typically spend a proportion of each day (from January until August) in the laboratory doing research. There will be a series of short written and spoken reports incl Poster Presentation, Research Talk (oral presentation), Research Dissertation. The dissertation will be 10,000 words, which includes a review of relevant literature, data presentation, analysis and discussion.

Advanced Cell Biology Research Methods

The module will provide the theoretical and practical skills needed to carry out modern cell biology research. It will cover a wide range of topics such as critical review of published research, data analysis and interpretation, scientific presentation and writing lab reports as well as hands-on experience in advanced cell biology techniques.

Genomic Approaches to Cancer

This module will provide detailed teaching on the principles and interpretation of large scale genomic and proteomic approaches to cancer, including: - The application of genomic technology - The working principles of expression array and genotype array technology - The principles of bio-statistical analysis of genomic data - The advantages and limitations of the various genomic approaches described - The use of proteomic approaches in studying cancers.

Basic Pathology

To provide an understanding of basic disease processes - To become familiar with the terminology and concepts of pathological processes - To develop an approach to identify tissue types and interpret the histological features of pathological processes.

Cancer Biology

This module covers cell and molecular biology relevant to cancer, including: - The processes of carcinogenesis and DNA damage - The key cellular and molecular processes affected in tumour development - Key proteins and pathways regulating cell proliferation and cell death - A broader concept of malignancy and its nvironment - Processes involved in invasion and metastasis.

Cancer Genomics and Data Science Research Project (DL)

This module provides an opportunity to further develop and apply skills learned during the taught modules of MSc Cancer Genomics and Data Science, by conducting a novel piece of bioinformatics and computational work, typically within an active research group either within BCI, QMUL or at a partner organisation. The specific nature of each project will be determined through discussions between the student, the course director and the project supervisor but will involve applying analytical, investigative and communication skills and utilizing a range of bioinformatics and computational methods and tools in a cutting edge area of biological or biomedical research. This serves as excellent preparation for future employment or PhD.

Bowel Anastomosis Skills

This module will introduce the learner to the theoretical and practical knowledge relating to bowel anastomosis. Student will become familiar with use of surgical instruments and techniques of performing bowel anastomosis. The theory topics covered focus on understanding principles of performing safe bowel anastomosis including - Basic surgical skills for suturing and knot tying Get familiar with surgical equipments needed for performing bowel anastomosis Intestinal Anastomosis Techniques Dealing with complications Practical Exercise: Perform Bowel Anastomosis

Clinical Cancer Treatment (CCT)

This module will provide students with a robust understanding of the cancer-specific epidemiology, pathology, diagnostics, imaging, and cutting-edge treatments relevant to contemporary clinical practice (expirative and ablative surgery, radiotherapy, and systemic therapies) as well as outcomes. The scientific basis of cancer diagnostics and therapies will be outlined. Lectures will cover major solid and haematological cancers, and delivered by clinical and research experts in the field with powerpoint presentation of images and videos.

Regional Economics and Policy

This module investigates the various ways in which regional economies operate, the factors that affect their performance, the causes and consequences of regional disparities and the policies that can be devised in order to eliminate spatial inequality. British and European Union regions provide the geographical context for the examination of the above topics. Nonetheless, the concepts and methodologies of regional analysis presented in this module can be equally utilised elsewhere and case studies from around the world will also be discussed.

Drug Development

On completion of this module you will have detailed knowledge on the principles and practice of drug development at all stages of the development process, including: Ethical and good practice issues; What a therapeutic target is; How novel therapeutic targets are identified; How therapeutic targets are validated; Early clinical trials methodology.

Cancer Pharmacology

This module will provide teaching in pharmacology relevant to the treatment of malignant disease, including: The basic concepts of cancer chemotherapy; Practical and theoretical aspects of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; The basic clinical and molecular pharmacology of the major classes of anti-cancer agents; Novel cancer therapies using small molecules.

Molecular Pathology of Solid Tumours

This module aims to provide students with detailed knowledge of the molecular mechanisms involved in cancer development and to give an appreciation of the current $ùhot topics in cancer research and their relevance to cancer diagnosis and management. The major topics to be covered are: - The molecular mechanisms involved in cancer development - The role of the microenvironment in cancer - Emerging changes in classification of cancers - Predisposition to cancer - Cancer stem cells.

Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology

The module will provide an intense and comprehensive overview of Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology, from disease aetiology to novel treatments, and aims to equip the student with a fundamental understanding of the subject area. Topics covered include: - The aetiology of paediatric leukaemia and selected paediatric solid tumours - The molecular aspects of selected paediatric cancers, and how understanding the genetic basis of such cancers has improved molecular diagnostic techniques - The principles of paediatric cancer therapy, from past to present, including novel targeted therapies - The treatment of cancer in adolescent patients.

Fundamentals of Robotic Surgery

This module will provide learners with an introduction to robot-assisted surgery for minimally-invasive surgical procedures. Students will be provided with an understanding of the fundamental principles of robotic surgery for learning which procedures are amenable to robotic surgery, and the scientific basis thereof. Students will also learn about robotic surgery instrument handling and and how to train in robotic surgery by simulation.

Research Methods

The module covers the techniques and knowledge needed to critically appraise published research, and carry out a piece of original research. Topics include: - How to review and interpret published research - How to structure and write a research paper or lab write up - Learn and use a range of statistical methodology - The ethical and legislative framework in which research is undertaken - Training in data preparation and presentation

Research Lab Skills

The module gives the students hands-on experience of key lab techniques and the principles of how to interpret the findings. Techniques include: Skills in measuring accurately using pipetttes, weighing scales Mathematical laboratory skills Immunochemistry Tissue Culture RNA1 extraction and analysis RT-PCR DNA purification, analysis and cloning Flow cytometry

Dissertation

This module provides an opportunity to further develop and apply skills learned during the taught modules by undertaking an independent, critical study and evaluation of an approved and relevant topic, typically within an active research group either within the Institute or at a partner organisation. The specific nature of each dissertation will be determined through discussions between the student, the course director and the project supervisor but will involve applying analytical, investigative and communication skills and utilizing a range of research methods and tools.

Pathology of Cancer and Imaging

This module will introduce the student to the terminology of pathology and histology, and describe the pathological processes of tumour development. It will also introduce students to the vital role that imaging plays in all aspects of the management of patients with cancer, including different imaging technologies, their application, and risks to the patient. Teaching will be delivered as lectures, microscopy sessions and powerpoint presentation of images.

Lab Project

The project is a core component of the Masters courses. It is a substantial piece of full-time independent work which occupies the final three months of the course, running approximately from end of April/beginning of May to end of July. A 5,000 word project describing the work must be submitted by a deadline at the end of July, and an oral presentation (12 minutes + 8 minutes questions) is assessed by at least two members of BCI faculty. Students can start some preparation work earlier; May is the latest it can start. The project is undertaken by the student; it is not done by the supervisor on the student¿s behalf. Projects are demanding and involve spending all your hours on the subject, however students learn a huge amount in the process and it really gives them a very good idea about the process of research. Very successful students have in the past stayed on to do higher degrees (PhD) and more. Supervisors and students are also given guidance as to the expectation of their role.

Molecular Diagnostics and Therapeutics

To provide an understanding of the principles band practice of molecular diagnosis in the detection and management of disease - To provide an understanding of quality assurance issues in the diagnostic setting - To give examples of the use of current molecular techniques in the management of disease - To provide practical experience of molecular techniques.

Extended Research Project

The module is an intensive research module that spans all three MSc semesters. It draws together the knowledge and skills from the taught component to address a research challenge of significant scope to be undertaken independently, under supervision. It focuses on the technical, project management and communication skills needed to successfully execute academic- and/or industry-oriented research. The project entails to apply research methods to solve original problems of fundamental or applied nature.

Molecular Targeted Therapies and Immunotherapy for Blood Cancers

This module will cover the fundamental molecular and biological mechanisms involved in the development of leukaemia and lymphoma. It will specifically address the impact of chromosome abnormalities on the diagnosis, prognosis, risk stratification and management of patients, and include a theoretical and practical understanding of cytogenetic and molecular cytogenetic technology. The contribution of the host microenvironment to tumour cell survival and proliferation will also be discussed.

Cancer Genomics and Data Science Research Project

Biological Therapies

This module will provide an understanding of the science behind the biological therapies of cancer, and an up-to-date review of the current status of preclinical and clinical trials. The module will also provide an insight into the ways that laboratory research is translated into clinical trials. By the end of the module you will be able to: Understand the basis of biological therapy of cancer; Understand the role of non-malignant cells and mediators in cancer growth and progression

Research Methods

Research method teaching will include the following topics: 1. Literature search 2. Critical appraisal 3. Developing a Research Question - PICOS 4. Research Designs & Research Reporting Guidelines. 5. Research Proposal Writing 6. Conducting Systematic review of literature 7. Abstract writing & Poster Presentation 8. Publication of Research - Authorship, Contributorship 9. Ethics of research 10. Statistics for Surgeons ¿ Descriptive and Inferential Statistics

Principles of Synthetic Biology

The module actively introduces you to the cutting-edge research field of synthetic biology, which is enabling far-reaching impacts in medicine, climate change, and manufacturing. The module explores the emerging potential of synthetic biology as we focus on learning the core principles, including the conceptual design, build, test, and learn cycle (DBTL) framework for engineering of biology. We will discuss its vital tools and navigate ethical considerations, encompassing both the potential misuse and the profound societal and economic impacts. We will embark on a transformative learning journey that unlocks the limitless potential of synthetic biology, empowering you to shape the future.

Responsible Innovation and Commercialisation

The module centers around engineering biological systems with a focus on responsible innovation and commercialisation. It acknowledges the significance of responsible innovation at both the national and international levels and its connection to content of the programme involving applying engineering principles to biological systems. Additionally, the module delves into the process of transforming an idea into a commercially viable product, the consideration of ethical and regulatory steps, securing financial investment, understanding intellectual property (IP) and patent development, and employing various strategies to leverage IP for commercialisation. The students' comprehension of these concepts will be evaluated through a Dragon's Den-style slide deck pitch, where they will seek start-up funding.

Proteins and Biocatalysts

Proteins offer a viable alternative as we seek to transition away from the synthetic materials and heavy metal catalysts routinely used in synthetic chemistry. Both natural and synthetic protein catalysts provide a wealth of opportunity, particularly in obtaining structural and mechanistic insight. This module expands functional knowledge and detail which, in turn, will facilitate the future development of next generation biocatalysts. This module aims to refine the students understanding of how we can manipulate the function of proteins and enzymes for applications including sustainable materials (i.e., fibres), the breakdown of plastic in the environment, through to capturing carbon from the atmosphere.

Genome Editing in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology

The module emphasizes practical learning and offers state-of-the-art knowledge in genome editing. It focuses primarily on understanding clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated protein Cas9 (CRISPR-Cas9) as powerful tools for editing and detecting nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA. CRISPR-Cas9 is extensively used in modern biotechnology and synthetic biology laboratories, making it an essential practical skill for biologists in today's industry.

Research Project in Industrial Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology

During this module, students will run an experimental investigation involving laboratory work and/or computational work in a cutting edge area relating to biotechnology or synthetic biology, within the research environment of SBBS. The student will perform a research project that either investigates a specific problem, is hypothesis-led or has a specific focus on applied research. The student will regularly interact with their supervisor(s) to discuss, plan and troubleshoot their project, as well as learn project-specific skills. They will also attend internal research seminars and research group meetings and typically spend a proportion of each day (from Jan until July) in the laboratory doing research. The project will conclude with a series of short written and spoken reports: Poster Presentation, Oral Presentation and Project Report. The report will be in the form of a mock pre-print including a title, abstract, methods, results and discussion.

Industrial Biotechnology

In this module we introduce you to the growing area of industrial biotechnology and its significance to the bioeconomy. Industrial biotechnology harnesses the power of biological processes and organisms to develop biosustainable solutions and products for a wide range of industries. This includes key products such as biofuels and biopharmaceuticals, as well optimisation procedures such as scaled up biological production and downstream processing. Overall, this field holds tremendous potential for transforming traditional industrial practices and addressing global challenges. This module will include a combination of seminars, workshops and hands-on practical work, as well as being exposed to experts in the field. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of the principles, applications, and future prospects of industrial biotechnology.

AI in Astrophysics and Space Science

The AI in Astrophysics and Space Science module is designed to help you understand how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be applied to the astrophysics and space-science domains and help you attain a deeper understanding of ML methods applied to real scientific datasets to refine your practical skills and to help prepare for your independent study research project irrespective of the specific problem domain of that. In this module you will learn about data preparation and pathologies related to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, you will apply the methods you have studied in your other AI and ML and your Deep Learning modules, and you will explore knowledge-guided machine learning.

Research Project in Data Science

The students work on research topics in one of the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Science set by their project supervisors. Computational work is the principal component of the projects. The work also involves critical evaluation of previously published results. A dissertation is prepared.

Cloud Computing in AI

The Cloud computing in AI module is designed to familiarise yourself with the latest Cloud computing and decentralised applications technologies in the context of data management and AI and ML applications. This module will allow you to build working knowledge of the fundamentals of data management and data processing and then to explore network concepts, types of devices and data center functions. You will learn about services provided on the top 'Big Clouds' and practice on how to combine these services to support AI analyses and modelling. You will acquire confidence in applying all the tools learned in your master programme to the widest range of computing and business environments.

ML for Materials Discovery

The ML in Materials Discovery module is designed to help you understand how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be applied to the domain of materials science for materials discovery and help you attain a deeper understanding of ML methods applied to real scientific datasets to refine your practical skills. In this module you will learn the basics of modern chemical informatics, and how AI and ML methods can be exploited to study material properties. Then you will apply these computational methods to design new materials, and to model and predict their properties. You will have the opportunity to apply these techniques to specific cutting-edge examples.

Research Methods

The research methods module is designed to help you attain the relevant skills to assess, understand, and visualise data and to undertake your research project. This includes essential skills such as communication and organising information from the literature, through to being able to extract information on data science methods from a multidisciplinary environment and report writing. A strong emphasis will be placed on enabling you to engage with complex information from seminars and to discuss that information to explore how it relates to material studied on your programme. Discussion sessions will be a key part in helping you develop as a data scientist and enhance transferable skills that will benefit you in the rest of your degree and future employment.

Blockchain Economics and Financial Market Innovation

Blockchain technologies have triggered a fundamental change to the nature of money, payments, and liquidity, ultimately transforming the core of financial markets. It is one of the most disruptive technologies available at present, designed to simplify the value chains around trading, payment and market infrastructure. If fully adopted, blockchain will create a more efficient, more transparent and more secure marketplace whilst reducing transaction processing costs. Its applications span from banks to logistics to ecommerce, and the pace of change is likely to accelerate even more as new technologies such as AI become more prevalent. The course will couple theoretical lectures with practical coding applications and case studies on emerging topics in DeFi and FinTech with a focus on the impact of Blockchain technology on financial markets, trading, and investments.

Survey Sampling

- The module will commence with an overview of the basic principles of sampling, types of surveys, their applications, and the importance of representative samples and sources of bias in surveys. - The following lessons will cover Simple Random sampling, Stratified sampling, Cluster Sampling, and Systematic Sampling - The rest of the module will focus on diagnostics for the efficacy of the techniques above, particularly covering Sampling Bias, Sampling Error, Estimation, Weighting, and Adjustment. The delivery will be centered around realistic cases and the use of R (potentially presenting Python syntax as a complement).

Digital Innovations in Business and Society

This module will address the challenges and opportunities posed by digital economy. This module will be offered as compulsory module for Digital E&I pathway. It will give students an overview of Innovations in digital economy and Industry 4.0, digital business model innovation, value creation through Industry 4.0 technologies , managing digital transformations and designing digital strategy to effectively manage innovations in digital economy. Students will be encouraged to think critically on the social impact of digital technology and the complex interactions between digitalisation and the society at large.

Business Strategy and Technology Entrepreneurship

For students who aspire to become industry leaders and entrepreneurs in the digitalisation era, this module offers knowledge on interpreting the phenomenon of digitalisation and the digital economy in terms of technology, regulation, and the consumer adoption process. It also provides insights on analysing rapidly evolving digital businesses and developing successful strategies for traditional businesses seeking to transform digitally. Specifically, this module allows students to develop a deep understanding of the specific strategies and underlying objectives of highly successful digital companies.

Operations and Supply Chain Management in Engineering

Understanding how large companies create and maximize value through sophisticated operations and logistics processes is of utmost importance. This module effectively addresses this need by focusing on various strategic decisions, such as 'make-or-buy', 'offshore versus onshore', 'vertical integration versus horizontal integration', and different manufacturing approaches, including traditional and additive manufacturing processes. By providing a wide-ranging perspective on strategic considerations and firm structures for manufacturing strategies, the module facilitates students in developing a comprehensive understanding of Operations and Supply Chain Management.

Engineering Project Management

To be a successful industry leader, it is important to be able to efficiently manage various types of engineering projects. This module offers essential concepts, tools and techniques of project management, presented through engaging case studies. By understanding the concepts and analytical frameworks of project management, students will acquire practical knowledge and skills in project management, as well as the ability to conduct 'project risk analysis and management' for analysing recent or ongoing large-scale infrastructure projects.

Cost Engineering and Financial Accounting for Engineers

The module's newly integrated approach to Cost Engineering offers students a valuable opportunity to acquire financial accounting expertise by focusing on cost analysis and understanding the anticipated business sales performance within various industries and markets. By focusing on various cost analysis approaches and incorporating sophisticated analytical methods like stochastic simulation techniques and artificial intelligence, this module provides comprehensive tools for cost control, cost data analysis, cost estimation, and cost management.

Machine and Deep Learning

The module covers fundamental concepts of machine learning with emphasis on the development of practical skills required for the selection and application of machine learning methods to defined problems. Topics include data representation and preparation, unsupervised learning methods, regression and classification methods, artificial neural networks and performance evaluation. Face-to-face teaching will be combined with extensive hands-on sessions in the computational lab.

Mathematical Tools for Asset and Liability Management

This module introduces key concepts in financial economics and risk management. We will learn economic theories used by investors to determine their optimal portfolio of investment: utility theory, stochastic dominance, mean-variance portfolio theory, CAPM, factor models and arbitrage pricing theory. We consider next efficient market theory. We learn various tests for testing efficient market theory. We also introduce stochastic models for asset prices. Finally we study topics related to ruin/risk theory and look at how insurance companies estimate their liabilities using run-off triangles.

Applied Statistical Modelling

The module aims to provide students with a solid understanding of the theory and applications of the General Linear Models as used in modern Statistical Applications. This framework of models consists of a generalisation of linear regression that includes more general response variables such as binary, multinomial, ordinal, Poisson random variables amongst others where the underlying parameters or a function of them depend in linear fashion of the input variables. The module will provide an introduction to the basic techniques in these advanced topics. Including a review of linear and logistic regression and will progress onto how this model can be extended to more general random variables.

Scientific Programming for Drug Discovery

This module covers key concepts of scientific programming including variables, data structures, control flow, regular expressions, functions and libraries for data analysis and visualisation. Use of coding to query chemical databases will also be introduced. Face-to-face teaching will be followed by practical sessions in the computer lab, where student will have the opportunity to build their coding skills and apply them to data analysis and visualisation in the context of drug discovery using an integrated development environment such as JupyterLab. The module does not assume any previous knowledge/experience of programming.

Applied Statistics and Data Science Dissertation

Each Applied Statistics and Data Science MSc student is required to complete a 60 credit project dissertation. A list of supervisors and projects will be provided in Semester B from which students can choose. Students will be offered the opportunity to discuss the project with potential supervisors in order to ensure an optimal match. They will then complete the Applied Statistics and Data Science MSc Project Approval Form by the end of Semester B. The module organiser will support this process and ensure that all students find a project and supervisor in Semester B. A typical MSc project dissertation consists of about 30 word-processed pages, covering a specific research-level topic in Applied Statistics and Data Science, usually requiring the student to understand, explain and elaborate on results from one or more journal articles and/or performing computation, simulations, or analysis. An MSc project may also involve collaboration with a collaborator based in industry. An MSc project should help prepare a good student for PhD research and even allow an excellent student the possibility of doing some research.

Data-driven Drug Discovery

The module covers advanced deep learning techniques applied to drug discovery. Topics include chemical datasets for machine learning benchmarking, deep learning for protein structure prediction, binding affinity prediction and virtual screening, and generative models for de novo drug design. Students will learn both how to use existing applications based on machine learning and how to develop deep learning pipelines in the context of drug discovery through hands-on computational sessions.

Fundamentals of Medicinal Chemistry

The discovery and development of new drugs is critical for improving human health and treating a wide range of diseases. Medicinal chemistry plays a vital role in the drug discovery and development process by providing the fundamental knowledge and principles necessary to design and optimize drugs with improved efficacy and safety profiles. This module equips students with a comprehensive understanding of the principles and concepts of medicinal chemistry, including drug targets, drug-receptor interactions and pharmacology. Students will develop the skills necessary to design and optimize drugs with improved efficacy and safety profiles. By the end of the module, students will be able to critically evaluate the impact of medicinal chemistry on drug discovery.

Financial Engineering

This module covers advanced techniques in financial engineering, which are essential if you want to pursue jobs in financial institutions. We first study the discrete-time binomial model for asset pricing, introducing some more formal concepts such as conditional expectations. Then we look at continuous time models, and use the tools of stochastic calculus to derive the Black-Scholes equation. We solve explicitly for the prices of European call and put options. We also consider some more advanced applications, such as models for stock prices involving jumps and stochastic volatility, as well as interest rate models.

Actuarial Science and Data Analytics Dissertation

Each Actuarial Science and Data Analytics MSc student is required to complete a 60 credit project dissertation. Students may find a potential supervisor and fill out an Approval Form by the end of Semester B. The module organiser will support this process and ensure that all students are allocated supervisor and project. The supervisor and project must be approved by the Actuarial Science and Data Analytics MSc Programme Director, and the process for this, which may involve an interview with the student, takes place as approval forms are submitted. A typical MSc project dissertation consists of about 30 word-processed pages, covering a specific research-level, industry applied topic in Actuarial Science and Data Analytics. The dissertation will follow the CP2 and CP3 (Core Practices) syllabuses of IFoA examinations. The project will consist of two parts: modelling and communication. The modelling part ensures that the student is able to critically analyse and model commonly used data in actuarial work, maintaining an audit trail, using analytical and statistical methods (performing computation, simulations, or analysis) and generate innovative outputs . The communication part ensures that the student is able to communicate effectively in writing to both actuarial and non-actuarial audiences. An oral presentation of results may be required. The student usually will work on case studies in order to understand and explain actuarial questions. Results from one or more journal articles need to be applied. An MSc project may also involve collaboration with a collaborator based in industry. An MSc project should help prepare students for working as qualified actuaries and even following PhD research.

Molecular Modelling for Drug Discovery

This module covers the main molecular modelling techniques used in drug discovery, with emphasis on structure-based approaches. Topics include protein structure, protein-ligand interactions, classical force fields, homology modelling, molecular docking, structure-based virtual screening and molecular dynamics simulations. Practical lab sessions will complement face-to-face teaching and provide the students with the opportunity to use a range of popular modelling tools for drug discovery and assess their performance.

Biostatistics and Medical Statistics

This module will start by providing an overview of the field and its contemporaneous challenges with particular emphasis on ethical considerations and data confidentiality related to biomedical research. Students will also be provided with a review of the basic probabilistic and statistical techniques such as the basic probability distributions and hypothesis testing. The rest of the module will combine coverage of the following: 1. Statistical notions Including analysis of categorical data (chi-square, logistic regression) and continuous data (t-test, ANOVA) 2. Applications Data visualization, clinical trials, experimental design, survival analysis, meta-analysis and systematic reviews.

Project - Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery

The students work on research topics in one of the areas of Artificial Intelligence for drug discovery set by their project supervisors. Computational work is the principal component of the projects. The work also involves critical evaluation of previously published results. A dissertation is prepared.

Fine-Tuning Lead Compounds

This module is designed to teach students about the process of lead compound optimization in drug discovery. Lead compounds are compounds that show promising activity against a specific target, but often require further modification to improve their efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetic properties. Students will learn how to fine-tune lead compounds through various chemical modifications to improve their potency, selectivity, pharmacokinetics, and toxicity profiles. The module will cover topics such as structure-activity relationships, chemical modifications, synthetic viability, ligand efficiency, bioisosteres, prodrugs and ADME/Tox profiling.

Survival Models

Survival models are of crucial importance in the Insurance and Pensions industry. This module covers part of the core principles syllabus of the IFoA's Subject Actuarial Statistics (CS2). The material covered includes the mathematics of survival models, estimation of lifetime distributions, Binomial and Poisson mortality models, graduation of crude rates, goodness-of-fit of derived models, and methods of projecting mortality rates. This module provides deep knowledge of a number of parametric and non-parametric statistical approaches and methods developed by actuaries using age-specific death rates for survival and mortality. Tests of the consistency of crude estimates with a standard table using a number of non-parametric methods is also studied.

Computational Ligand-based Drug Discovery

This module covers the main principles of in silico ligand-based approaches to drug discovery, with a programming component that builds upon the programming skills developed in CHE709. Topics include molecular representations, descriptors and fingerprints, molecular similarity, database searches, application of machine learning to QSAR and ADMET prediction. Tools for the critical assessment of method performance will also be presented.

Sustainability and Climate Risk Analytics

In this module, we discuss contemporary climate risks and sustainability issues, and measure them using various risk analytical models. We first introduce basic analytical tools for climate risk management. Then you are guided to develop appropriate strategies to manage the climate risks and evaluate responses. The module also helps you critically understand the legislation across the world relating to climate risk management and the implications for business. We use real-world data to perform climate risk analytics under different climate scenarios, which predict different climate futures.

Actuarial Risk Management 2

This module will start by introducing students to contract design of financial products. We will consider the process of gathering and using appropriate data for recommending actuarial solutions. We will then move to modelling -we will learn how to analyse mortality and morbidity data, including factors that contribute to the variation in mortality and morbidity by region and in different social and economic environment. We will also study the cost and the pricing of providing benefits on contingent events. We will finally consider investment management (valuation of individual investments and valuation of portfolios of investments). The module also will provide understanding of the process of implementing and monitoring of actuarial solutions.

Regulatory Risk Analytics

This module gives you the practical knowledge that is essential for a career not only in risk management functions, but also in regulatory institutes, e.g., central banks. It is based on Foundations of Mathematics and Statistics and goes deeper, from the lens of regulators specifically. We discuss different types of systemic risks and corresponding strategies to manage them. Then we study models on systemic risk and financial crises, e.g., extreme value theory, network analysis, and learn their recent development and application. Real data on past crises are analysed using the models. To equip you as a future regulator, we introduce the most frontier risk regulation and risk culture across different countries and areas as well. You will take the initiative to propose appropriate risk regulation in the context of risk cultures.

Laser and Energy Based Modalities

This module serves as an introduction to laser and other energy based device modalities. It highlights biophysics of light-tissue interactions and elaborates upon the different classes of devices (vascular, resurfacing and pigment specific lasers). Dedicated sections address novel modalities for skin tightening/fat reduction as well as other light based applications including intense pulse light (IPL).

Medicolegal Aspects and Patient Psychology

This module illustrates the importance of thorough patient psychological assessment and will aim to help the student develop various skills such as identifying challenges, often encountered in the aesthetic field relating to motivation for treatment. Dedicated sections cover pertinent medicolegal principles as well as an overview of the pertinent regulatory framework.

Regenerative and Cell Based Approaches

This module covers the spectrum of regenerative and cell based approaches relevant to the aesthetic medicine field including biostimulant, platelet and adipose derived agents. Dedicated sections cover stem cell technologies as well as topical growth factors and exosome delivery systems.

Principles of Practice Management

This module aims to provide students with the main principles behind launching their aesthetic practice as well as maintaining good management and professional governance. Dedicated sections cover topics related to different models of practice, advertising/marketing, portfolio career pathways and professional development.

Advanced Aesthetic Modalities

This module covers the spectrum of advanced toxin and filler application as well as chemical peels and thread lift techniques by expanding on basic knowledge acquired in year one of the course. Dedicated sections cover novel energy based devices as well as combined techniques for aesthetic rejuvenation.

Risk Analytics Dissertation

Each Risk Analytics MSc student is required to complete a 60 credit project dissertation. It not only trains students' ability to apply the risk analytical tools to solve real-world problems, but also provides a chance to practice collaboration and communication skills and data visualisation skills. A student must find a potential supervisor and fill out a Risk Analytics MSc Project Approval Form by the end of Semester B. The supervisor and project must be approved by the Risk Analytics MSc Programme Director, and the process for this, which may involve an interview with the student, takes place as approval forms are submitted. A typical MSc project dissertation consists of about 30 pages, covering a specific research-level topic in Risk Analytics, usually requiring the student to apply risk management tools to measure, predict, or manage certain types of risks. An MSc project may also involve collaboration with a collaborator based in industry. An MSc project should help prepare a good student for PhD research and even allow an excellent student the possibility of doing some research.

Actuarial Risk Management 1

This module will start by providing an understanding of actuarial advice and how it can be used to meet the needs of stakeholders in both public and private institutions. The module will provide a deep understanding of the actuarial control cycles with their applications. We will also study risk governance, risk identification and classification, risk measurement and responses to risk. We consider scenario analysis, stress-testing and stochastic modeling in the evaluation of risk. The module will focus on capital management and monitoring and it will end with an overview of the general business environment.

Dissertation in International Business and Commercial Law

Dissertation ¿ independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field.

Perioperative Care of Surgical Specialities

This module will describe the 10 different surgical specialties and the common operations for each. It will then discuss the anatomical and physiological considerations relevant to each of the specialties and how these impact on the car around the time of surgery, from preoperative assessment to intraoperative care, anaesthesia, resuscitation and postoperative care. It will also describe common postoperative complications and how to manage them.

Aesthetic Dermatology

The module covers important aspects relevant to aesthetic dermatology by highlighting the most relevant range of skin lesions encountered in aesthetic practice and pertinent management principles. Dedicated sections address skin care agents, common hair and pigmentary disorders, acne as well the principles of injectable mesotherapy and microneedling.

Skin, Wound Healing and Ageing

This module focuses on principles of skin anatomy/physiology as well as wound healing/scarring processes and hair biology. Dedicated sections address extrinsic and intrinsic factors involved in the ageing process as well as principles of subjective and objective methods of skin assessment.

Toxins and Fillers

This module focuses on the history, pharmacology, reconstitution and administration of toxins as well as the classification, rheological characteristics of common filler products. Dedicated sections address basic injection techniques as well as principles of complication management.

Pre Sessional Legal Systems, Research Skills and Writing for IT Law

This module will cover: Legal Systems (national law, EU law, international law; public-private law; common-civil law; law-making; layers & hierarchies of law), Legal Sources (eg different types of legislation and case-law; how to read a case; the system of precedents in the common law etc); Legal Research Skills (where & how to find legal sources; primary & secondary sources; how to use legal sources in an argument; how to quote legal resources in a dissertation); and Legal Writing (how to construct a legal argument; how to carry out an in-depth legal argument; definitions and concepts; how to interpret the law). This module will focus on the computer and communications law field.

Perioperative Care of Surgical Specialities

Dissertation

This module will allow students to develop specialist knowledge and insight on a topic of their choice, related to perioperative medicine. Students may choose to organise their dissertation in the form of a narrative review, systematic review, guideline development, research project, audit, or quality assurance project. Students will develop the ability to synthesise and analyse information and data, to breakdown complex issues, and to compare and contrast alternative view points. This will allow an appraisal and judgement of the direction of the field informed by latest developments and opinion. Students will be supported by regular supervisory contact with a tutor with expertise in their field of research interest. Particular emphasis will be placed on developing the students' ability to disseminate knowledge at a professional level, with a view toward publication.

Dissertation

The Pre-Operative Journey

The module will cover the basics of pre-operative assessment from the perspective of taking a patient history, clinical examination, assessment of physiological fitness, and risk assessment. It will cover the evidence base informing current practice and guidance in this area. Additionally, it will cover some of the issues associated with having high-risk surgery, such as optimisation, prehabilitation, shared decision making and the involvement of the multidisciplinary team.

Post-operative Care

This module will cover the basics and adanved care of patients after surgery. It will focus on the places where patients are cared for (recovery, wards, monitored units and high dependency units). It will also discuss the personnel needed and the equipment needed for monitoring and interventions required to provide high quality surgical care.

Perioperative Medicine in Theory and Practice

The module will cover the basics of perioperative medicine with historical developments leading to the current landscape of the specialty. It will also cover the evidence base, both basic science and clinical that have informed the quality and safety initiatives that have been adopted by the national bodies governing provision of perioperative care.

Applied Perioperative Medicine

In this module the student will gain experience of the clinical application of perioperative medicine relevant to the student¿s discipline and developing career (i.e. medicine, nursing, AHP etc) through a series of guided online and distance learning activities. It will also focus on the processes required for qualitative improvement to improve surgical outcomes.

Medicine for Perioperative Practice

This module will cover the specific physiological impacts of the variety of chronic long-term medical conditions that affect patients undergoing major surgery. These impacts will be considered pre-, intra- and post operatively. The pharmacotherapeutic profiles of such patients will be covered (including the importance of compliance), and the importance of managing this over the peri-operative period. Lastly the impact of these diseases on physical function and the implications for post-operative recovery will be covered. This module will additionally cover the peri-operative care of obstetric and paediatric patients, and those undergoing emergency surgery (including trauma).

Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Context

This module covers key aspects of clinical education. These include planning, teaching, assessing and giving feedback. The module will also cover wider areas of clinical education such as motivation, interaction, mentoring and supervision. All these topics will be learned alongside key educational theories and they will be examined through an analysis of relevant literature. Topics covered include: -Reflective Practice -Session Planning -Learning Theories -Observation of Teaching -Evaluation of Teaching -Supervision and Mentoring -Signature Pedagogies -Individual Pedagogies -Individual Learning -Liminal Spaces -Assessment and Feedback You will be given the chance to plan and undertake teaching events and use observation feedback as a reflective tool; you will also have the chance to explore the resources that support successful teaching, and look at how these can be differentiated to meet the needs of specific learners. The module will allow you to relate what you do in your clinical teaching to wider concepts, and will encourage you to enhance your teaching through reflective practice.

Perioperative Medicine in Theory and Practice

The Pre-Operative Journey

Medicine for Perioperative Practice

Post-operative Care

Introduction to Clinical Parasitology and Mycology

This module will provide a systematic overview of the major groups of parasites and fungi which cause disease in humans and the principles of the laboratory identification of the organisms. Whilst focusing on the biology and identification of individual or groups of organisms, students will also be encouraged to consider aspects of pathogenesis, antimicrobial therapy, epidemiology, and infection control, including the roles of national and international reference services to consider the national and global epidemiology of the organisms.

Introduction to Clinical Bacteriology and Virology

This module will provide a systematic overview of the major groups of bacteria and viruses which cause disease in humans and the principles of the laboratory identification of the organisms. Whilst focusing on the biology and identification of individual or groups of organisms, students will also be encouraged to consider aspects of pathogenesis, antimicrobial therapy, epidemiology, and infection control, including the roles of national and international reference services to consider the national and global epidemiology of the organisms.

Biocompatibility

Biocompatibility is designed to provide students with knowledge of the factors underpinning biocompatibility and how this growing understanding is driving development of biomaterials and medical devices. From understanding of how a materials surface chemistry can influence biological host response, to awareness of the importance of correctly identifying the key application specific properties of a biomaterial or device prior to its development is critical to ensure its safety and efficacy in use.

Cell and Tissue Mechanics

Semi-structured Data Engineering

In this module, student will learn to process XML (with XSLT and Java), to model data with XML (XML native, RDF), and to query XML data (XQuery). The module teachnes many concepts of data modelling and knowledge representation that are beyond the syntactic issues of XML or RDF. The knowledge students acquire in the course is fundamental to the many data design and data analytics tasks occurring in todays IT and business landscapes. The second part of the module is dedicates to advanced DB concepts including active databases, mobile databases, spatial and temporal databases, triggers, performance tuning, distributed databases, indexing and query optimisation. The third part of the module covers the modern, agile world of data processing: NoSQL. It is about the processing of semi-structured data, transforming data streams into formats (triplets, JSON) to be processed by new DB systems (e.g. MongoDB, CouchDB). Overall, students will learn in this module to solve data and information management tasks as they typically occur in today's IT landscape.

Clinical Bioengineering: Applications in Urology

The course explores a broad range of biomedical engineering applied to the clinical area of urology. Urological problems effect 80% of people within their lifetime necessitating the use of diagnostic and therapeutic technology. This important area of clinical bioengineering is rarely covered in degree programmes, despite the unmet need for skilled bioengineers in this area. The module covers the basic physiology and biophysics of the urinary tract in health and disease, with particular reference to clinical incontinence, clinical measurement and urodynamics as used by clinical scientists and clinical engineers for diagnostic assessment. It also considers the development and use of current and future medical devices including urinary catheters and implantable stents, artificial urinary sphincters, functional electrical stimulator implants and urological tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The module is supported by external, clinical and industrial experts providing specialist information with the possibility of additional patient perspectives. This module is taught using flipped learning, that enables students to fully engage with the subject matter and learning objectives. This involves interactive face-to-face small group supervisions with the module organiser(s) and external experts. Students gain both subject specific knowledge and transferable, professional practice skills including the ability to explain and discuss bioengineering concepts, to ask appropriate technical questions of experts, to conduct data analysis tasks, to present graphical data, and to review and discuss scientific literature.

Solar Energy Engineering

Solar Energy is an important aspect of Sustainable Energy Engineering. The understanding of key processes within solar energy will provide students with the knowledge needed to progress further within relevant industries within Solar Energy. The module will focus on the following aspects of solar energy: solar insolation; physical background for semiconductor materials; photovoltaic devices and applications; photocatalysis; solar thermal technologies.

Mechatronics

The new module focuses on electronic engineering aspects of sensing and instrumentation systems. It integrates the themes of signal theory, metrology, sensing & transduction, signal acquisition and conditioning for further processing, analysis, characterisation and design of sensing electronic systems, system-level considerations and sensor data analysis techniques. The knowledge and skills developed through this module are essential for any student engaging in the design of systems which extract signals from, or interact with the real world, and are highly relevant to electronic engineers designing, testing and using sensing systems and applications.

Cognitive Robotics

This module addresses the emerging field of autonomous systems possessing artificial reasoning skills and also environment and context awareness. The module will introduce students to advance numerical and computational techniques associated with machine learning and artificial intelligence. Successfully-applied algorithms and autonomy models form the basis for study, and provide students an opportunity to design such a system as part of their coursework project. Theory and practical applications will be linked through discussion of real systems such as medical robotic surgeons and robotic musicians.

Contemporary Live Management Project

The Contemporary Live Management Project module is a capstone project designed to be offered as a core module and an alternative to the dissertation module. The introduction of the module is driven by the gaps in the sustainability audit and mapping exercise in January 2022. The mapping exercise identified 1) a lack of skills development concerning addressing global challenges associated with sustainability and 2) an inconsistent focus on sustainability across taught modules. The fragmented and disconnected nature of sustainability content covered in the programme meant that students might not appreciate just how much sustainability content they actually get without a way of showing them how the pieces connect up. The Capstone project was identified as an approach and strategy to integrate sustainability learning from across the taught modules in the programme. The Contemporary Live Management Project module meet the following Programme¿s learning outcomes Identifies appropriate research methods to investigate a specific research problem; demonstrates a structured plan for the research; evaluates contemporary issues in business management/society; assesses the strength of arguments in academic literature and debates in a relevant field; expresses arguments coherently through writing; displays good structure, formatting, style and presentation of writing. By meeting these programme learning outcomes, the module meets some of the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and UNESCO key competencies for sustainability such as problem solving, critical thinking, reflexivity collaborative competency and promoting employability and enterprise. There is also the appeal to market- Many Business Schools have the capstone module on offer, for example, The School of Management at UCL, Accounting and Financial Management programme, UCL, https://london.ac.uk/courses/accounting-and-financial-management, Imperial College Business School: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/programmes/global-mba/programme/capstone/ , London School of Economics and Political Science, The MPA Capstone: https://www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-public policy/mpa/capstone The Contemporary Live Management Project module is important in: -Tackling contemporary issues arising in an unsustainable business environment organisation, -Developing critical and analytical skills and methods relevant to addressing sustainability in the workplace. -Identifying and analysing problem-driven issues and using appropriate methods to deal with those issues. -Collaborating with diverse organisations in addressing issues, risks, problems etc. The module will fill a key gap in the MSc in Management programme by capturing the many important issues that are treated by many modules across the programme, which are in some ways fragmented and disconnected at the moment, with which sustainability is one of them. Finally, the module fits in the UN¿s Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative, which asks Business Management schools to pledge their support towards putting sustainability at the forefront of education.

Skills and Methods for Sustainable Management

Advanced Robotics Systems

The module will introduce both basic and advanced concepts related to the programming of robotic systems, for motion planning, visual perception and intelligent behaviors. It will introduce state of the art tools for robot programming, such as the Robot Operating System (ROS), discussing both theoretical and practical aspects. Computational techniques of kinematic analysis, machine learning, signal processing and control theory will be introduced, in the context of robotic systems. The importance of applying multidisciplinary techniques to enhance the current state of the art in Robotics will be discussed, and it will allow the students to explore creative and engineered solutions that are outside the box alongside conventional industrial applications.

Digital Manufacture for Healthcare Innovations

This hands-on module will guide the students through the process of biomedical device prototyping and manufacturing via various examples of fluidic chips, implantables, and functional tissue replicas which they will design and fabricate in the lab. Students will become familiar and practice the basics of (1) various polymerization modalities; (2) design for manufacturability principles; (3) advanced fabrication techniques, and (4) metrology and characterization methods to analyze the printed devices and implants. By the end of the module, they will be able to apply their understanding of manufacturing process capabilities and constraints to the design and manufacture of a new biomedical device which they will be challenged to develop and prototype for the final project assessment. The lab in conjunction with the complimentary modules will equip the students with the experience and skillsets required to operate in a medical device industry as a product engineer or product R&D researcher.

Advanced Aerodynamics of High Speed Flows

This module addresses advanced topics in compressible flows. Supersonic internal and external aerodynamics will be looked at in details including the design of supersonic inlets and outlets for minimum losses as used in high-speed aerospace vehicles, and advanced concepts of shock tubes as used for testing high supersonic and hypersonic flows. Examples of existing and new aerodynamic designs of high-speed aerospace vehicles as future supersonic transport aeroplanes and space launchers will be examined to illustrate the implementation of high-speed aerodynamics concepts.

Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems

This module will focus on electrochemical energy storage principles, energy storage materials, device design and manufacturing, and chemical engineering processes taking place in these type of technologies. It will address fundamental aspects of electrochemistry associated with electrochemical energy storage systems. This module will give the students a thorough knowledge of the importance of energy storage in the field of Sustainable Energy Engineering and provide them with an advanced understanding of key processes in devices such as batteries and supercapacitors, and their important role in the decarbonisation of the power sector.

Machine Learning for Biomedical Engineering

Making custody Safer: Criminological and sociological aspects

The module will examine the social safeguards available to increase the safety of people detained in custodial or healthcare settings. Students will consider society's attitude to failures to provide safe care in custodial settings, and students will examine the way in which the discourse about detention and the use of force is constructed. The module will examine the founding international guidelines that set in place the rights of people in custody. The module will examine the forms of scrutiny provided by official government bodies such as Independent Custody Visitors, Independent Monitoring Boards and Independent Mental Health Advocates. These organisations will be examined critically for their contribution to the safety of custodial settings. The module will also consider the mechanisms of civil society that provide protection to people in custody such as the media and pressure groups. The module will examine the intersectionality of race, age, gender and illness in the provision of safe custodial care and how responses to failures are mediated by wider social perspectives and stereotypes. The development of trauma informed and proactive violence reduction programmes in secure settings will also be considered.

Translation and Adaption Studies Practice Project

In coordination with a supervisor, students will select a text to translate or adapt, and provide a commentary. Students will choose a text from any literary or cultural genre and translate it into a second language, or adapt it into another form. Building on practical translation and adaptation skills gained in earlier modules, as well as research and linguistic skills developed throughout the programme, they will produce a precise, creative translation/adaptation and accompanying critical commentary on the text. The word count is divided roughly equally between translation and commentary.

Forensic Medicine, Public Health and Adolescence

This is a compulsory module which will provide the student with additional knowledge to consolidate and contextualise the learning of the prior six modules. We will provide a grounding in the key public health principles relating to care and custody. Some time will be devoted to exploring the challenges of preventing adolescents from descending into gangs and delinquency and their needs should they be taken into care and custody. An overview of the modes of physical restraint to include less-lethal weapons will be presented. We will review the morbidity and mortality of less-lethal weapons and systems used by security, police, prison, healthcare, the military and other bodies and organisations. The module will describe the nature of healthcare assessment and monitoring of those subject to such restraint and control. The module will thus bring together aspects of public health related to crime and violence, means of addressing and assessing violent individuals safely, and the risks associated with the relevant control techniques and systems.

Physical intervention and restraint

Students will learn how violence, aggression and other challenging behaviours are managed across a broad range of sectors, including hospitals, mental health units, police and prisons. The course will examine how risk is assessed leading to the appropriate selection of skills in the different sectors. There will be an emphasis on safety, efficacy and the importance of integrating any physical intervention with a therapeutic overall behaviour management plan. Different methods of training will also be considered as well as related topics such as staff fitness to train and to apply the skills operationally and report writing.

The Subject's Experience

Students will learn how a broad range of organisations and institutions approach the management of persons in care and custody. They will explore these organisations' policies, processes, working arrangements, education, training and problem-solving. They will understand the service user's journey through each system. Senior staff and service users from these organisations will present their professional and personal experience, identifying good practice, challenges and aspirations for service improvement within their respective organisations.

Behavioural assessment, consideration and behavioural interventions for those in care and custody

In this module students will be provided with a sound foundation in the psychological and behavioural backgrounds to escalation and challenging behaviour. With a focus on trauma -informed care, students will be supported to understand to move their environments towards one that understands and responds to traumatised individuals in a way that prevents escalation and promotes recovery.

Medical and nursing considerations for those in care and custody; service users and staff

This module will cover the medical causes of challenging and violent behaviour, the medical considerations of managing vulnerable groups in care, occupational health considerations for staff undergoing physical intervention training, biomechanical evaluation of physical interventions, pharmacology of rapid tranquillisation, restraint-related injury and death, acute behavioural disturbance and nursing considerations in relation to persons in care and custody.

Law, Policy and Ethics relating to the management of those in care and custody

This module will cover the important legal aspects of managing violence, aggression and other challenging behaviours and will cover both statute law and common law as well as a host of legal regulations. This will be based on the principles of UK Law to include criminal and common law, the mental capacity act, mental health act, the children's act and Health and Safety at work.

Translation Studies II: Translation, Empire, and Law

Translation Studies II: Translation, Empire, and Law invites students to investigate the place of translation in systems of law and governance, particularly in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Structured around five key concepts - empire, law, violence, resistance, and justice - it delves deeply into their definitions and implications through readings of key texts in translation history and in postcolonial and critical theory, as well as select literary and legal texts in translation.

Translation and Adaptation Research Dissertation

In coordination with a supervisor, students will select a research topic for advanced study. They will collect and analyse literary and cultural texts and theoretical materials.. They will produce a 10,000 word dissertation that synthesizes various aspects of the knowledge they have obtained throughout the degree and demonstrates their ability to conduct and present high-quality research.

Screenwriting: Prose to Film

Screenwriting: Prose to film offers practice in adapting prose writing to film screenplay. It is a creative writing module and adaptations will be written based on a range of story sources. Workshops, readings and screenings will support the understanding of story development and practices for adaptation.

Practical Translation Skills

This module equips students with the skills and experience needed for practical and professional translation. Through readings, discussions, and translation workshops, students will develop techniques for translating across a range of literary and technical genres, building a portfolio of polished original translations which can be used in professional contexts. They will also be guided through the process of submitting work for competitions and for publication.

Adaptation in Theory and Practice

This module begins with an examination of theories of adaptation in relation to translation studies before moving on to explore the adaptations of a series of classic works on the page, stage and screen. Encompassing forms and media such as ballet, photography, film and television alongside literature, the module will focus on the ways in which adaptations target new audiences and address the cultural values of their source texts in the light of current sensibilities in relation to race and gender.

Translation Studies I: Problems, Theories, Terms

Translation Studies I: Problems, Theories, Terms explores the major concepts, theories, and debates that structure the modern field of Translation Studies. It introduces students to a broad range of research within translation studies, from linguistics-informed approaches to critical explorations of the ethics and politics of translation practice. In keeping with the global emphasis of the MA programme, students will explore translation theory from the Global South in addition to the classic texts of the Anglo-European canon.

Advanced US Trademark Law

The module will offer students the opportunity to obtain a solid knowledge of the legal principles related to the registration of signs as trade mark in the US, the infringement of US trade mark rights, the defences to trade mark infringement, the maintenance of trade mark registration etc. Among others, the module will cover issues related to the protection of non-traditional trade marks, the enforcement of famous marks, trade mark protection on the internet and parallel imports.

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing has transformed how services and applications are delivered. Thanks to the rise of virtualisation technology and new programming paradigms, applications can quickly be delivered to a growing audience, without the need to physically own and configure the infrastructure. The Cloud Computing module will cover the main characteristics of Cloud Computing, including the enabling technologies, main software and service paradigms underpinning it, as well as related aspects, namely security, privacy, ethical concerns

Business Technology Strategy

The Business Technology Strategy module is focused on strategic management of research and development and how technology strategy drives the commercial strategy of innovative technology-based organisations. This module complements the technical areas of the degrees by focusing on the Computer and Data Science sectors. The increased exposure to and understanding of the benefits of strategic knowledge and thinking will give the graduates a better preparation for management roles within this sector.

Sustainability Challenges

This module examines the broad and historical challenges to achieving sustainability in three arenas: economic, energy, and environmental. Topics include population, demographic transition and sustainable growth, historical energy transitions and their implications, historical energy use and stages of industrialisation, limits to growth and environmental impacts, and growth decoupling. Students use numerical and analytical methods to develop (and analyse) metrics and models of sustainability challenges using historical data spanning 300 years. Typical models include (but are not limited to): statistical and econometric analysis, multivariate time series models, simulation, forecasting, and optimisation. Case studies, empirical research and numerical analysis will be based on real-world data.

Data Analytics I (Introduction to AI)

AI is changing the way we work and live and has become an essential part of business and culture. Data analytics 1 course is a core module that introduces basic concepts of artificial intelligence and machine learning. We will cover supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning methods. Alongside with studying theoretical aspects of machine learning, students will have an opportunity to develop their own machine learning models based on their preferences (computer vision, natural language processing or time series forecasting).

Project

Degree apprentices will have the opportunity to apply the methodologies, approaches and technologies that they have learned during their taught modules to a significant advanced project embedded in their workplace context. The project topic will be appropriate to the degree apprenticeship specialism.

Global Environmental Change: Economics and Policy

The module introduces students to the phenomenon of environmental degradation, and its extreme example, climate change, through the lenses of applied economics and data analysis. First, students will receive good foundations on the science behind the phenomenon of environmental (and climate) change. Second, students will be equipped with strong theoretical and empirical tools and will develop a comprehensive view on the determinants and consequences of global environmental change. The emphasis of the module will be on the linkages between the environment, the economy and society, and the evaluation of the main environmental and climate policy available to policy-makers (eg emission trading schemes, carbon price, green taxes, renewable energy subsidies). The module will focus on environmental change in both developed and developing countries and will study prominent and complex phenomena such as climate induced migration, conflict, poverty and inequality. Students will learn how to empirically assess environmental policy and evaluate its effects on a broad range of economic, environmental and social outcomes, using the latest causal inference methods.

Marketing Consultancy Dissertation

This industry-based consultancy project allows students to apply their knowledge and skills to a real-world consulting problem while also developing their professional and practical marketing management skills. This project leverages independent work and is designed for students to carry out a case-based research plan and apply frameworks and theories taught in the programme through formulating a research question, reviewing relevant literature, collecting primary and/or secondary data, analysing, and reporting findings and proposing evidence-based strategies for a specific problem. For the group work element (i.e., group presentation) students will have the opportunity to fill out a peer-assessment form.

Master Projects in Environmental Analytics

This module is the capstone module for the MSc in Environmental Analytics. Students will work in groups and will be required to provide analysis of a problem or question using complex data from an environmental context. This problem can be of micro/macro economics nature, finance or risk management, AI for climate change, or mixed. Each group will be assigned a mentor who will guide the group through the process of structuring the analytical problem, obtaining and organizing the data, data analysis and presentation of results. Students will present initial results as a group to an audience consisting of mentors and practitioners. Final assessment of the module will then be based on individual essays which cover specific aspects of the case and in which the students will be required to reflect on their work in the light of the methods and theories which their learning in the MSc has touched upon.

Introduction to Supply Chain and Operations Analysis

This module introduces students to supply chain and operations management, including its purpose, general principles, and relationships with other functional areas of businesses. It is also intended to introduce standard terms, concepts, and metrics,crucial for understanding and analysing supply chains and interacting with business professionals. Topics include contemporary issues in supply chain, logistics, and transportation; supply chain drivers and metrics; supply chain strategy and network design; levels of planning; planning and coordinating demand and supply; production planning and inventory control process; and quality management. We will look at case studies on the use of supply chain and operations analysis in practice.

Marketing Arts and Culture for Social Change

The purpose of this module is to examine how marketing can help cultural professionals to employ art in order to catalyse and support positive social change. It further aims at enabling students understand cultural audiences as well as their motivations and barriers to participating in the arts so that they can develop more accessible, meaningful and inclusive cultural experiences for diverse and marginalised communities.

Financial Risk Management (FRM)

Risk management is key to an organisation's sustainability. It allows a business to plan for situations ranging from global pandemics to volatile marketplaces, and to put solutions in place that enable them to continue to thrive. The module is designed to provide a complete set of essential management skills to assess and tackle risks.

Introduction to Management Science

This module introduces the students to Management Science, which is the study of advanced analytical and computational methods to support effective and informed managerial decision-making. The principal idea in Management Science is to formulate managerial decision problems as mathematical problems, which can subsequently be solved with mathematical or numerical techniques. The use of these methods will be illustrated with applications in diverse disciplines, in relation to supply chain and logistics management. Topics include linear and nonlinear programming, integer programming, network models, decision analysis, and queuing analysis.

Supply Chain Planning and Control

Effective supply chain planning and control is the driver of efficiency, flexibility, robustness, and resilience in supply chains. This module will focus on models and techniques required for designing, planning, managing, and controlling supply chain operations. The module will consider decisions and processes at different levels in the decision making hierarchy. Topics include supply network design, aggregate production planning, MPS, MRP, and ERP, JIT systems, inventory management models, production scheduling, and quality management. Students will also learn about fundamental aspects of corporate / enterprise information systems designed to support planning and control.

Practices and Organisation in Accounting and Finance (POAF)

The module provides an introduction to the study of accounting and finance from the perspectives of other disciplines such as economic sociology, science and technology studies, anthropology, communications, and marketing with an emphasis on understanding the establishment of institutions, production of knowledge, and real-life practices found in accounting and finance.

Demand Forecasting and Pricing Analytics

The process of business forecasting involves the study of historical data to discover their underlying tendencies and patterns and the use of this knowledge to project the data into future time periods. This is a challenging task with non-stationarity in data and the impact of external economic factors. The topics covered include simple and multiple regression, time series decomposition and analysis, exponential smoothing, auto-regressive and moving average models, willingness to pay/demand estimation and pricing, dynamic pricing, and quantity-based revenue management.

Analytical Frontiers in Supply Chain Management

In this module, we discuss the current trends and analytical frontiers in supply chain management. We have a particular focus on technological innovations that are transforming and restructuring supply chains, including Industry 4.0, IoT, blockchain and other traceability solutions, big data, and robotics. We will discuss the applications of advanced operations research, machine learning, data science, and network science methods, particularly in such data-rich and digital environments. The module will combine reading of academic literature, discussion of case studies, investigation of industrial projects and initiatives, and industry guest lectures.

Capstone Project in Supply Chain and Logistics Analytics

This is the capstone module for the MSc Supply Chain and Logistics Analytics, for which students will work on projects and use analytical methods to solve a problem related to contemporary issues that concern supply chains, logistics networks, or transportation. The projects can be based on real-world data, simulated data, or a theoretical mathematical model. The projects and problems can be supplied by firms (subject to arrangements), sourced from online data repositories, or identified from the academic literature. Students will present preliminary results as a group to an audience consisting of supervisors and problem owners. The assessment of the Group Work component (30%) will incorporate peer assessment. The final assessment of the module will be based on individual project reports that cover specific aspects of the project.

Backstage: Global Marketing Strategies for the Creative Industries

This module seeks to enrich your understanding around the concepts of marketing and communication strategy in relation to the arts, creative and cultural industries. It will help you develop your strategic skills, marketing and media knowledge and creative capabilities in a critical, analytic and internationally-focused manner.

Macroeconomics of Climate Change

The course will provide students with the theoretical and empirical tools to understand the effects of global environmental change on macroeconomic variables such as GDP, inflation and unemployment, by considering the physical risks induced by climate change and their implications for economic growth. The course will then analyse the transitions risks linked to climate change, by describing the effects of a stringent climate policy on market supply, and it will equip students with an understanding of the role of central banks and how monetary policy can be leveraged to overcome the macroeconomic risks driven by climate change. Students will strenghten their empirical skills by using statistical softwares, such as R and Stata, to run empirical macroeconomic analysis.

Sustainable Finance and ESG Performance

Financing the transition to a low carbon economy, in ways which are aligned with environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, will present, at the same time, significant opportunities and challenges. This module will introduce students to the vast landscape of climate finance tools, both at the global level (eg. clean development mechanism and other carbon offset platforms) and the regional level (eg. renewable energy funds, green bonds and carbon markets), with an emphasis on their economic and financial foundations. The module will provide a thorough analysis of the efficiency and effectiveness of these tools by evaluating their impact on the economy, the environment and society at large. The course will describe the role of key actors in the climate finance scenario, namely, central banks, supervisory authorities, national and multilateral development banks, corporate banks, and institutional investors. Students will have the opportunity to strengthen their empirical skills by using statistical softwares, such as R and Stata, to run impact evaluation studies on climate finance instruments.

Business Models and Company Valuation

Using publicly available information and real-world case studies this Module introduces a framework for business analysis and valuation grounded in recent developments in company valuation and business models. The Module analyses and discusses key components of business models and company valuation such as business strategy analysis, accounting analysis, financial analysis and prospective analysis in a variety of decision contexts. The Module then proceeds to focus on equity valuation.

Environmental Health and Policy: Applications in Developing Economies

The module will introduce students to foundations in labour, development and environmental economics to critically evaluate policy-relevant challenges regarding the impacts of environmental risk factors and climate change on health and labour market outcomes. Students will learn to apply econometric techniques (such as difference-in-differences, event studies, regression discontinuity, synthetic control) using micro-level data for causal inference. Applications will focus on developing contexts. Topics will include water pollution and deforestation in Indonesia, indoor air pollution in India, carbon emissions in Mexico, and the impact of climate change (extreme temperatures) on productivity in China and India.

End Point Assessment

This module is only available to students enrolled on the MSc Digital and Technology Solutions Specialist degree apprenticeship.As defined in the approved Assessment Plan for the standard, a degree apprentice must pass this End Point Assessment in order to be eligible for the apprenticeship award. The End Point Assessment consists of 2 components: a project report and a Professional Discussion, both evaluated by an Independent Assessor.

Social Entrepreneurship

This module will address the social challenges and opportunities and how social enterprise should offer solutions to such challenges and create social value from such opportunities. It will give students an overview of social entrepreneurship and social value creation. It will equip students with a strong understanding of foundational theories of entrepreneurship, innovation, social problems and policy. This module will introduce students to key concepts in the historical development of social enterprise and innovation and to its changing role in society and the economy. Furthermore, this module will also discuss social value creation in digital economy.

Financial Reporting and Analysis (FRA)

This module examines the financial reporting of companies, and how such reporting can be analysed to evaluate performance. The Module expands on Semester A modules of the MSc Accounting and Finance (all the modules in Semester A are compulsory). Students learn how accounts are constructed and analysed, then examine the impact of selected issues on the reported numbers e.g. the reporting of intangible assets; the treatment of Goodwill and share repurchases, financial ratios, analysis of the Equity Statement. The Module refers largely to the regulatory regime of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).

Data Analytics II (AI for Climate Change)

Data analytics 2 course is a core module that introduces advanced concepts of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Students will learn the following machine learning methods: computer vision with convolutional neural networks, time series analysis with long-short term memory networks, generative adversarial networks for data augmentation and data fusion from different sources. Alongside with studying theoretical aspects of machine learning, students will have an opportunity to apply these methods to climate-related data: historical weather data, ground measurements and satellite imagery. Students will learn how to download and process satellite imagery and provide quantitative analysis of this data to solve a variety of climate-related problems.

Climate Change Risk for Business

Many market stakeholders including firms, corporations, banks, insurance companies, and government agencies are becoming increasingly interested in sustainability, climate risk resilience and climate change mitigation. This module will provide the necessary analytical and empirical fundamentals to unpack and measure climate related factors that result in risk for businesses and corporations. It will then help students understand, evaluate and develop business management practices that are helpful in carbon emission reduction and to address climate risks. Moreover, students will learn analytical tools to measure environmental, social and governance impact of instruments and policies that can be employed by businesses and organisations. This course will cover the steps necessary to: i) define and measure climate risks for businesses, ii) define sustainability of business and organisations, developing metrics to measure their environmental, social and governance impact, ii) set and achieve a carbon reduction goal, including: understanding GHG accounting techniques and standards and reporting GHG, iii) analyse the impact of climate policy on business, and iv) design business management practices conducive to carbon emission reduction.

Ecosystem Function and Assessment

Ecosystems provide us with critical services, yet are under growing pressure from human activities. In this module you will learn about the characteristics, functions and management of ecosystems and habitats, and their responses to disturbance in the context of global change. Topics cover predator loss, invasive species, eutrophication and climate warming. Working across aquatic and terrestrial systems, you will learn about ecological, biogeochemical, molecular and ecological assessment methods for evaluating the consequences of local and global environmental changes on ecosystem processes. This module emphasizes an integrative approach that combines cutting-edge perspectives with hands-on practical training in essential components of the modern ecological toolkit. This elective module is taught at Queen Mary University of London.

Environmental Analytics for Supply Chains

Sustainable supply chain management is core to mitigating the detrimental impacts of global production, distribution, and consumption. In this module, we introduce and discuss the fundamentals of environmental analytics for supply chains, by integrating academic knowledge and industry practice and including case studies. We first discuss the different methods and systems for measuring and reporting environmental impact, including Life Cycle Assessment, carbon footprint, water footprint, nonrenewable materials management, and environmental reporting. We then discuss circular economy and associated supply chain strategies and business models, including reverse logistics and closed loop supply chains. We then focus on operational initiatives, such as green inventory management, responsible purchasing, green technology choice, and eco-design. We finally look at the social pillar of sustainability and discuss social responsibility and slavery in supply chains, highlighting the relationships and potential conflicts with the environmental pillar.

Micro & Behavioural Foundations of Climate Change

This course will provide the necessary foundations in Microeconomics and Behavioural Economics to understand potential mitigation and adaptation strategies addressing environmental change and climate emergency. It will start by discussing alternative mechanisms to efficiently manage common-pool resources and public goods, and continue by unraveling the role of incentives and behavioural policies within the environmental policy framework. It will also identify behavioural and micro-economic drivers that can potentially hinder climate action. By employing academic and practical examples, case studies and quantitative analyses it will provide a comprehensive approach to cover key issues and challenges.

Sustainability Reporting (SR)

This module examines aspects of Sustainability Reporting of companies as well as the determinants and the extent of the Integrated Reporting. Specifically the Module focuses on determinants and consequences of Integrated Reporting, Green House Gases regulatory framework and guidance and GreenHouse Gases measurement and reporting

Complex Networks for Environmental Economics

The module will apply the structure and dynamics of complex networks analysis to various aspects of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Examples include the collaboration network among countries co-signing environmental treaties and citation networks among treaties. The module will focus on the main topological properties of networks, including degree, clustering, centrality, and shortest distances. These properties will then be combined into models of growth that explain how real-world networks acquire and sever links over time. Each network model will be discussed and assessed against a number of real-world problems. For example, which cooperation structures most facilitate the diffusion of climate policies among countries? Do multilateral environmental agreements lead to the emergence of exclusive groups of countries collaborating on environmental issues, and how do these groups evolve over time? How vulnerable is the system to countries¿ misconduct or withdrawal from agreements? To address these and many other problems, the course will develop an interdisciplinary approach to networks by combining current research literature on complex social networks with relevant contributions from environmental economics.

Law's plurality: comparative law, legal pluralism, decoloniality

When we speak of law, we regularly refer to one law only: usually our own law, sometimes supranational law. "What are the legal requirements for marriage?" usually means only "What are the requirements for marriage under English law, or international law, or some other law?" But law in the world is not one, it is many. This matters in numerous situation: a contract partner is situated abroad and the question of the applicable law arises; a firm wants to determine in what country to establish a new subsidiary; a Muslim couple in England wants to know whether its marriage is valid; an avocado farmer in Mexico feels the need to comply with European labor requirements. Several legal fields respond to law's plurality: comparative law analyzes differences and similarities as well as transplants between laws; conflict of laws designates which country's law applies; theories of legal pluralism help theorize law's plurality; decolonial theory assesses the power imbalances between Global North law and the Global South. Rather than viewing these fields as separate, the module uses a number of case studies to introduce them as parallel responses to the challenges from law's plurality.

Comparative Competition Law

Competition law has witnessed an impressive increase in significance and geographical scope during the last two decades or so. From the situation which existed in the 1980s ¿ when there were only a few systems of competition law in the world ¿ we have moved to a new one where currently there are about 145 jurisdictions in which some form of competition law has been introduced with many others seeking to develop the process. It is anticipated that this remarkable geographical expansion of the law will increase in the future. With this unprecedented increase in significance and remarkable geographical expansion of the law (as well as other significant developments such as the process of globalisation), it has become important to examine the role and place of competition law and policy in a globalised economy. The course will aim at such an examination. The course is designed to include 'comparative' elements, covering, among other things, developed competition law systems (EU competition law, US antitrust law, German competition law and the Japanese competition law system), and the newer competition systems such as those of BRICS nations. The origins, structure, major provisions and the enforcement mechanisms of these systems will be discussed. In the light of the globalisation of markets, this module will focus on the different elements of various competition law systems. Starting with an introduction to competition law and economics, we will then proceed with discussing different regimes in a comparative perspective.

International Law of Patents

Patents provide, for a limited time, the right to exclude others from acts of making, using, selling, keeping or importing products containing the patented invention. Under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement) WTO Members, in particular developing countries, face challenges in meeting their obligations to provide patent protection and related rights. The module will assess the extent to which these obligations derived from international law impact on access to healthcare treatments, traditional knowledge, biological diversity, farmers' rights, food security and human rights.

Outer Space Law

The objective of the course will be to examine the sources and fundamental principles of Space Law and the role of international law and multilateral organizations in space governance. The topics covered will include the exploitation and sustainability of space resources ¿ emphasis on commercialization of space activities, space debris mitigation and space traffic management, communication satellites and space, the convergence of cybersecurity and space security, environment and space, and the liability regime for damage caused by space activities. References will be made to relevant regulations of space-faring nations to establish the relationship between international and national law in this area of law.

The EU and International law: EU external economic relations

This course focuses on the relations of the EU with other countries, focusing on particular on international economic relations. It discusses a vital component of the European edifice, that is the international economic agreements the EU concluded in the framework of EU external relations law. The EU is an active player globally and participates in manifold international agreements. Trade and Investment policy has always been one of the most important areas where the EU has been active in relations with third countries. After the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the EU has acquired the much-needed and long-awaited institutional and substantive instruments to implement a comprehensive, consistent and effective external action in this field . The module provides a thorough analysis of the relevant legal framework and offers a critical review of its efficacy. It deals with the basic constitutional foundations of EU External Relations law and engages in a detailed analysis of the EU¿s substantive policy on international economic matters.

Competition Law in the Digital Era

We live in a world of unprecedented technological change. The way we live our lives today, with the most essential services being only a click away, has radically transformed our existence as consumers. On the face of it, markets are performing well, as the prices for services have radically decreased - or are even provided for 'free', that is, without monetary payment ¿ through the use of online platforms. We can shop for less money, compare products in real time, search virtually any question, hail a cab on our mobile phone, order any kind of food in an instant ¿ the list is seemingly endless. As such, these technological advancements have transformed consumers¿ choice, yet they have simultaneously created new causes of concern about competition in the marketplace and the role of consumers within it. This course will critically examine how big data, algorithms and AI are transforming market dynamics, challenging the foundations of competition law enforcement and raising new challenges for competition authorities, regulators, businesses and consumers.

International Arbitration: Skills and Advocacy

International Arbitration is a specialized area of law requiring certain skill sets. In this module, students will learn the practical skills needed to become a successful arbitration lawyer. Oral and written advocacy is central to the arbitral process. Students need to know about the main issues dealt with by a Tribunal starting with Procedural Order 1. This module will explain how to make persuasive submissions - both written and oral - to an international Tribunal. It is also important to understand different cultural legal backgrounds as the international arbitral community is diverse. Students will take part in practical exercises, stepping in to the shoes of arbitrator, counsel or clients. Applying the theoretical concepts of international arbitration in practice, students will learn the fundamental skills that will given them an important qualification in a competitive legal market.

Common Law from Theory to Practice

Common law adjudication often appears like a patchwork of decisions with limited overall coherence. Are there any fundamental theoretical principles that can help us gain a deeper understanding of the common law and its workings, both as legal scholars and as practitioners? The central aim of this module is to identify such principles, use them to critically evaluate the common law, and examine how they operate in court cases. The module consists of three parts, as follows. The first part looks at the common law from the perspective of political and legal theory concepts such as the rule of law, democracy, separation of powers, and social utility and change. It discusses questions such as: Do common law judges make policy? Is the common law undemocratic? Is the common law able to provide the certainty required for modern commercial life? The learning will include, inter alia, a case study, whereby students will have the opportunity to apply the above themes to a court case of their choice. The second part looks at the common law¿s operation in a colonial context. Here the common law will be discussed, e.g., as an arena of struggle for emancipation from colonial power, and special attention will be given to the delicate interface between the common law and local norms (such as customary and religious laws) in colonies or former colonies. The third part turns the spotlight onto private law as a central area of common law adjudication. It explores questions such as: Is there a unifying theory that can hold together different areas of private law, such as tort, contract, and property law, and, if so, what is that theory? Should common law judges use private law as an instrument for advancing of policy goals, such as social utility or more equitable distribution of wealth, or should they focus solely on correcting wrongs? Graduates of this module will gain a theoretically-informed insight into the common law, which would benefit their work as practitioners and scholars alike.

Advanced Topics in European Trade Mark Law

This module deals with advanced topics in trade mark law, theory and practice, including current developments in European jurisprudence and policy. The module will also provide students with an in-depth knowledge of the laws and procedures governing the acquisition, maintenance and enforcement of European Union Trade Marks (EUTMs), as well as substantive trade mark law and practice, policy and theory. This module will be taught intensively over a period of 1 week in semester 3. Sem 3 is the final teaching semester taught early June to early July.

Economics of Intellectual Property

This module seeks to introduce an economic approach to understanding intellectual property. It will present the main branches of intellectual property as economic categories and will explain their economic characteristics, functions, impacts and conditions for efficiency. Each type of IP will be analysed as an income generating asset. The module will review the complex value chain, the opportunities that the exploitation of the asset generates and the specifics of its management. The module will examine the relevant issues from a global perspective providing perspectives from developed and developing economies.

Dissertation

This new module aims to support participants in their development and completion of a sustained research inquiry in the field of clinical education. It is designed to facilitate participants who are clinical practitioners in a wide variety of health professions/medical specialities to carry out research which will inform development in clinical education. Finally, participants will also be supported to develop a paper for presentation/publication, on the basis of their completed dissertation research.

Clinical Curricula Evaluation and Development

Through this module students will develop: a critical understanding of curriculum theory, policy and practice, and the history of curriculum development in clinical education; skills in leading and managing curriculum evaluation and development in clinical education; a comprehensive understanding of way curriculum is comprised of different levels (mandated, enacted, experienced), and the implications of this for developing curriculum evaluation in clinical education.

Research Methods in Clinical Education

This module adopts an experiential approach to exploring the issues in designing and conducting research in clinical education. Students will develop skills and critical insight relating to data collection, analysis and writing for different audiences. The module introduces students to different paradigms in educational research and strategies, their philosophical underpinning and relevance as ways to shape a specific research inquiry. As a part of this module, students will identify a specific issue in clinical education, outlining its interest to them, and justifying it as a focus for a research project. They will then devise a literature search strategy, gather and review key literature and produce a literature review. This module also raises participants' awareness as how research can be used as a lever for change in educational practice and policy.

Data Semantics

While data has become a valuable asset across industries in recent years, organisations increasingly realise that having large amounts of data is not sufficient to derive value from it. Data needs to be clean, consistent, preferably interconnected and associated with clear semantics. This enables data scientists and business analysts to focus on extracting useful insights from vast amounts of data, especially in the world of social media. Examples of semantic data models include knowledge graphs, ontologies and taxonomies that have been developed in the data and artificial intelligence world for the past decade. The goal of these models is to capture the meaning of data in an explicit and shareable way, and to facilitate data-driven applications. The popularity of these models has increased substantially through the development of knowledge driven search at internet companies, the development of the Semantic Web, social networks, as well as media sharing and streaming platforms. This module will teach students fundamental principles of semantic data modelling though discussing applications related to the Semantic Web and Semantic Media. This includes logic based data modelling principles which strike a good balance between tractability and usability, and data modelling languages such as the Ontology Web Language (OWL) and the graph-based SPARQL query language. These allow automated processing and reasoning over data and facilitate the use of AI techniques in tasks such as search and recommendation. The module introduces implementations and applications of data semantics to a broad range of content types including music and media. Topics include XML, JSON, semantic modelling, Predicate and Description Logics, the RDF model and databases, OWL2, SPARQL and ontology design, as well as applications and ontologies for specific domains including text, image, audio and multimedia.

International Sports Arbitration

Sport is now big business which means there is more at stake when sporting disputes arise between athletes and sports organisations. In 2021, over 900 cases where filed with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which conducted over 250 hearings that year. This course examines: the organisation and politics of international sport; how sports regulations are made; the legal and binding nature of sports regulations on all participants; the various forms of sports regulation (ie. 'doping', 'integrity', 'eligibility', 'selection', 'conduct' (on and off field), 'game-rule', 'sports governance' and more recently, 'gender-sex issues in sport'); how sporting disputes are determined in an international arbitral framework; the role of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (and other sports tribunals) in the determination of sporting disputes; and the means of challenging sports arbitration awards.

European Law of Patents

Patents are exclusive rights granted for the protection of an invention that offers a new and inventive technical solution or way of doing something. This module compares the process of obtaining and enforcing a patent under the provisions of the European Patent Convention (EPC) with special reference to the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

Dissertation in Common Law Theory and Practice

Dissertation ¿ independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Teaching and Learning for Clinical Contexts

This module will introduce students to key theories relevant to teaching and learning in the clinical context. It will enable students to engage in deep analysis and interpretation of patterns and practices of learning and teaching that occur in and around clinical settings. The module will focus particularly on the role of planning, delivering and evaluating teaching and learning in the clinical setting. It will provide participants with knowledge and skills that will enable them to develop and refine the quality of their interactions as teachers and educational leaders in their clinical workplace settings.

Nutrition for Exercise and Health

The Nutrition for Exercise and Health module focuses on nutrition for safe and effective exercise training and physical activity. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of how diet influences adaptations to exercise training in health and disease. You will analyse and assess various interventions for weight loss and/or maintenance. You will develop problem solving and nutritional data analysis skills relevant to prevention and treatment of different disease and conditions, such as neurological diseases, cardiovascular heart disease, diabetes, kidney diseases, cancer, pulmonary diseases and musculoskeletal disorders.

Innovative Practices and Theories in Clinical Education

Risk and Decision-Making for Data Science and AI

This module provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges of risk assessment, prediction and decision-making covering public health and medicine, the law, government strategy, transport safety and consumer protection. Students will learn how to see through much of the confusion spoken about risk in public discourse, and will be provided with methods and tools for improved risk assessment that can be directly applied for personal, group, and strategic decision-making. The module also directly addresses the limitations of big data and machine learning for solving decision and risk problems.

Data Analytics

Applied Statistics

The module introduces core statistical concepts for practical data analysis. It will provide students with the skills to model data sources, analyze their statistical properties, visualize them in different ways and fit the samples to a known probabilistic model.

Economics

This module will equip students with the standard methods and analytical tools of microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, with emphasis on the relationship between the decisions of individual agents, the operation of markets and the general state of the economy. The microeconomics component will analyse the nature of competition a firm faces, the type of industry in which it operates, the prices of its inputs, while the macroeconomics one will focus on growth, inflation, unemployment, fluctuations and crises.

Molecular Biology, Immunology and Pathogenesis for Infection Science

This module offers the student teaching and workshops covering the principles of molecular biology. Recent developments in the use of molecular biology in the diagnosis and epidemiology of infectious diseases and current research methods will be highlighted. The human immune system is studied followed by a study of the interaction of micro-organisms with the host immune system.

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

This module covers embryonic and adult stem cells, applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine; Cell technology: experimental methods in human cells and organ culture; Tissue engineering - emerging technologies include tissue scaffold design, biomaterials, use of bioreactors, nanotechnology, engineering nanomaterials, microfluidics; and Tissue engineering from concept to clinical practice: basic research through to clinical application and impact of therapies

Economics

Machine Learning

The aim of the module is to give students an understanding of machine learning methods, including pattern recognition, clustering and neural networks, and to allow them to apply such methods in a range of areas.

Ethics, Regulation and Law in Advanced Digital Information Processing and Decision Making

This module takes a practical approach to the coverage of ethics in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. It sees ethical considerations as part of a spectrum of concerns, including ethics, but extending through regulation and legal compliance as formal expressions of what is and is not ethical. It considers examples of the kinds of issues that arise in existing systems, and uses the UK Government's Ethical Framework as an example of how to embed considerations of ethics into business processes.

Project Management for Big Data Analysis

This module will provide degree apprentices with the methodological skills to manage a big data project, both in terms of managing time/schedule and in terms of tools and technologies. It will encompass the whole data analysis pipeline, including obtaining and checking data, analysis, results evaluation, and feedback loop to evolve/improve the process. Degree apprentices will also gain practical experience in applying the taught methodology to data drawn from their own workplace context.

Introduction to Econometrics

Introduction to Econometrics will introduce the student to regression analysis used in studies that test hypotheses and empirically fit models in economics. The methods taught in this module are employed in the economics, finance and many social science disciplines. The level of mathematical treatment is equivalent to that covered on an undergraduate applied econometrics course. As an applied course we will not dwell upon derivations but focus on using regression analysis. The module will provide a solid base in applied econometrics, enabling the student to become a competent user of regression analysis.

Finance and Economics Independent Research Project

This module will provide students with the background knowledge and skills needed for the successful completion of a piece of empirical research in the field of Finance & Economics. Students will build upon skills and knowledge learnt in IFP/IFJ6013 by choosing their conceptual framework, building and testing their model and their writing up their findings in a 5,000 word report. The module is a collaborative module and students will be taught by members of staff from SLLF and from SEF . Students will be assessed by coursework only, consisting of a 5,000 word written report and a 10 minute individual presentation. Marks will be allocated by tutors in both schools, although more of the assessment weighting will be awarded by SLLF, the host school. Students will be provided with regular formative feedback in the form of tutorials.

Finance and Economics Independent Research Project

Finance

This module will introduce students to the basic principles of finance and investment. Finance is essentially about pricing, but the essentials of corporate and international finance will also be covered. There will be an introduction to the theory of financial markets and their regulation, and a brief look at the concept of market efficiency. However, most of the focus will be concentrated on the relationship between risk and return, the principles behind portfolio evaluation, the behaviour of asset prices and the role of institutions and trading systems in modern financial markets.

Molecular Biology, Immunology and Pathogenesis

This module offers the student teaching and workshops covering the principles of molecular biology, the biology of bacteria, and explores the use of current molecular techniques in the research and diagnosis of infectious disease. The human immune system is studied followed by a study of the interaction of micro-organisms with the host immune system.

Investments, Asset Pricing and Portfolio Construction Theory

This course introduces students to the key principles in asset pricing and investment management. It covers: 1) Risk, return and portfolio construction 2) Equity markets and pricing 3) Fixed Income markets and the term structure of interest rates 4) introduction to derivatives markets 5) Applied security analysis 6) Applied portfolio management

Financial Statement Analysis

The model teaches students how to analyse financial statements. Students learn about the basic structure of and the various items in balance sheets, profit & loss statements, and cash flow statements. Key financial indicators (related to leverage, different notions of profit, etc.) are introduced. The module emphasises the perspective of the user of financial statements rather than that of accountants and auditors.

Introduction to Clinical Microbiology: Bacteriology and Virology

Professional Foundations for the Clinical Scientist

This module will provide students with context and foundations to their practice in healthcare as a Clinical Scientist. This knowledge will enable the student to provide safe, effective, high quality patient centred care. Students will develop a framework of skills and knowledge to evaluate and evolve their professional practice in the context of the wider healthcare landscape.

Research Methods in Finance and Economics

This module will provide students with the background knowledge and skills needed for the successful completion of a piece of empirical research in the field of Finance & Economics. Students will learn about the requirements of research at masters level, from learning to read critically, to choosing and selecting literature from the field, to narrowing down a topic area and designing their methodology, to writing a research proposal. The module is a collaborative module and students will be taught by members of staff from SLLF and from SEF . Students will be assessed by coursework only, consisting of a research proposal, an annotated bibliography, a reflective task and one complete draft chapter. Marks will be allocated by tutors in both schools, although more of the assessment weighting will be awarded by SLLF, the host school. Students will be provided with regular formative feedback on their written work and also on their research design and general interaction with the research process.

The Child with a Dermatological or Renal Problem

This module covers common dermatological and renal presentations to ED. Paediatric rashes range from the mild/benign to the life-threatening. In the first part of the module students will cover common dermatological presentations, including non-blanching rashes, viral exanthems, vasculitis, and eczema, exploring the recognition of rashes on different skin tones. In the second part the focus will be on renal presentations including urinary tract infections, nephrotic syndrome, haemolytic-uraemic syndrome, renal vein thrombosis, and glomerulonephritis. Please note, this module does not seek to provide students with clinical training in paediatric emergency medicine, but rather to provide an understanding of specific issues relevant to neonatal and adolescent presentations.

Finance

Introduction to Clinical Microbiology: Parasitology and Mycology

Topics in Econometrics

Topics to Econometrics will extend the student's knowledge of regression analysis to topics in time series, panel data analysis and instrumental variables. The methods taught in this module are employed in the economics, finance and many social science disciplines. The level of mathematical treatment is equivalent to that covered on an undergraduate advanced applied econometrics course. As an applied course we will not dwell upon derivations but focus on using regression analysis. The module will provide a solid base in applied econometrics, enabling the student to become a competent user of time series regression analysis.

Individual Differences

This module provides an in-depth analysis of a central area of psychology known variously as 'individual differences' or 'differential psychology'. We will build on several key areas of psychology that show substantial individual differences including personality, psychopathology, intelligence, and cognition. We will then explore the proposed causes and effects of these individual differences drawing from research using approaches from psycho-dynamics to behavioral genetics. Finally, we will explore the evidence behind several key controversies in individual differences including the continuum between personality and mental heath, the nature vs nurture debate, race differences in intelligence and genetic determinism.

Cognitive Psychology

This module considers the cognitive functions and properties of the human mind. The material covered include the history of cognitive psychology, visual and multimodal perception, attentional processes, memory mechanisms, language and knowledge representation, problem-solving and expertise, and decision making and reasoning. The relationships and links between processes will be covered, as well as the implications of cognitive psychology research in the real life and other scientific fields (e.g., the dialogue between all cognitive sciences including linguistics and computer science will be embedded across the module; critical discussions about the impact of research in memory on eyewitness testimony will be prompted). Theoretical approaches, experimental paradigms and empirical studies in cognitive psychology will be discussed throughout.

Digital and Real Asset Analytics

This module will introduce students to the elementary mathematics and analytics of investment for digital and real assets. This module will develop, from a practical approach, an understanding of the analytics of several asset classes that are currently included in investment portfolios, such as commodities, real estate, art and cryptoassets, and how these assets' statistical properties fit in the context of the portfolio. The module focuses on the concepts and characteristics of digital and real assets. It will introduce students to the mathematics of the Theory of Storage for commodities, the mathematics of indexes and uses in the real estate and art markets, trading algorithms, and cryptocurrency investment strategies such as staking, De-Fi, and non-fungible tokens. This module is particularly useful for students considering a career in financial mathematics, finance, investment management, investment banking, consultancy or asset management.

Sustainable Finance

The Global Contemporary

This module will explore contemporary writing from around the world, using different postcolonial approaches to frame our discussions. We will consider these texts in relation to recent social, political, and cultural developments across the globe. Predominantly examining anglophone texts, but also including some texts in translation, this module will think about how contemporary postcolonial literature interrogates and re-examines topics such as nationhood, migration, identity, resistance, decolonisation, environmental crisis, conflict, the politics of the literary market place, and their gendered, racialised and classed dynamics in the 21st century.

Introduction to Econometrics

Research Methods in Finance and Economics

This module will provide students with the background knowledge and skills needed for the successful completion of a piece of empirical research in the field of Finance & Economics. Students will learn about the requirements of research at masters level, from learning to read critically, to choosing and selecting literature from the field, to narrowing down a topic area and designing their methodology, to writing a research proposal. The module is a collaborative module and students will be taught by members of staff from SLLF and from SEF . Students will be assessed by coursework only, consisting of a research proposal, an annotated bibliography, a reflective task and one complete draft chapter. Marks will be allocated by tutors in both schools, although more of the assessment weighting will be awarded by SLLF, the host school. Students will be provided with regular formative feedback on their written work and also on their research design and general interaction with the research process.

Topics in Econometrics

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: An Introduction

This module introduces cognitive behavioural therapies (CBT) and their use across healthcare settings. CBT is the most-researched form of psychotherapy, and the recommended psychological intervention for most mental health symptoms. You will learn how CBT is applied in understanding psychological problems by examining cognitive behavioral models for different mental health conditions, such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive and trauma disorders. You will be introduced to the theory and the practice of CBT, critically examining a broad range of therapeutic skills and treatment protocols for addressing specific disorders. Case studies will be used throughout to promote the translation of theoretical knowledge into practical applications and viceversa, and to achieve in-depth understanding of CBT.

Psychology Research Project

This module allows you to conceive, design and carry out a substantive, original empirical study in an area of psychology independently. You work on approved research topics set by project supervisors. Experimental or theoretical work is the principal component of the project. The work also involves critical evaluation of data previously published in the literature. A consideration of ethical issues is also required. A dissertation is prepared. This module will teach you to work on original scientific research topics and consolidate quantitative research skills, communication and critical evaluation. It will enhance your understanding of psychology in a broader context and will provide you with experience of working in a research environment. Research project topics are varied to reflect the breadth of psychological and biologically motivated psychological research in the Department, ranging from how parental attachment styles affect students learning to how mice learn to navigate new environments.

Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology II

This module builds on Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology Part I in Semester A and introduces advanced statistics necessary for independently conducting psychological research at the level for the research project. It also introduces additional methods psychologists use in research. The course will combine lectures and practical sessions covering computerised statistical analyses using a relevant statistical software package.

Basics of Biopsychology

To provide psychology MSc conversion students with a scientific overview of the brain and its function emphasizing concepts relevant to behaviour and its study. This compulsory module supports psychology as a natural and experimental science and introduces you to the notion of psychology as a branch of the biological sciences (e.g., that behaviour is the end product of whole organism biology), a core aspect of accredited undergraduate degrees. It will also introduce you to principles of neuroscience and the integrative scientific thinking skills required to study subsequent psychological topics. You will be introduced to empirical findings and will critically evaluate the range of methods in the field. The topics covered include basic cell biology, principles of communication, regulation of gene expression, protein synthesis, and human neuroanatomy. The involvement of these and other cell biological processes in the control of behaviour will be illustrated.

Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology I

This module introduces fundamental skills in experimental design, statistical analysis and other methodologies necessary for conducting research in psychology. You will learn understand and critically appraise the different research methods commonly using in psychology research, with a particular focus on qualitative methods, and understand issues critical to experimental design such as sampling, validity, and reliability. The course will combine lectures and practical sessions covering computerised statistical analysis using a relevant statistical software package.

Developmental Psychology

This module surveys developmental psychology, covering human development across the whole life span but with a more detailed focus on development in the early years (infancy/childhood). The aim of the module is to introduce the key questions, theories, concepts, methodology, studies and research findings within developmental psychology, regarding different domains of psychological functioning including social, emotional, cognitive, cultural and behavioural development. The module will also cover the prenatal period, physical, motor, and sensory development, learning theory, moral development, and development of the self (identity). Where appropriate we will focus on the roles of culture and/or geography in development as well as considering novel stressors that can affect associated processes (e.g., war, displacement).

Social Psychology

Have you ever wondered what influences our perceptions, emotions, thoughts, and behaviours? This module in Social Psychology will allow you to engage with the classic and contemporary scientific theories and methods used to address how other people and different contexts can shape these processes. Topics covered will include the self, social cognition, attitudes and attitude change, social influence, group processes, and stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination.

Research Frontiers of AI in the Biosciences

In this module you will be introduced to frontiers of research and development in the application of AI methods in the biosciences. You will learn how to read papers, write essays and give talks at a postgraduate level. After a series of lectures by experts in the field, you will choose a topic relevant to your field that is currently debated by scientists. You will research and discuss this topic, then write an essay about it.

Missing Biological Data Team Challenge

In this module, students are organised into small teams (~3-4 members per team). All teams are given the same problem to solve: to accurately reconstruct missing data in a large, complex bioscience data set using machine learning techniques. Each team must design an appropriate ML methodology and implementation plan, with specific tasks assigned to individual team members. The distribution of effort within teams is documented through an in-team peer review mechanism. Each team member will present the team¿s work in a report. Reconstructions will be compared after reports are submitted. Since teams will develop their own quality criteria, there may be several ¿best¿ solutions.

Spatial Analysis and Emerging Technologies in Conservation

The module will introduce you to new technological approaches for monitoring species, populations and individuals. You will learn about spatial analyses, including geographical information systems (GIS), as applied to studies of animal movement and habitats. As part of this, you will also look at the use of drones and GPS trackers, and will learn about technology-assisted monitoring approaches, including bioacoustics, camera trapping, environmental DNA sampling and genomics. Examples will cover animals and plants from terrestrial and aquatic systems. This elective module is taught at Queen Mary University of London.

Qualitative Research Methods and Practice

This elective module will be available for students to complete in Year 2 of the online MSc in Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership. It will start by giving students the theoretical basis for qualitative research. They will then journey through the stages of planning a qualitative study: setting research questions, selecting an appropriate study design and sampling strategy, gathering, analyzing and interpreting data and writing up findings. Students will learn how to critically appraise qualitative research. The module will conclude with qualitative research practice where students will develop a topic guide and pilot it on other students through peer learning. Five percent of the module mark will assess student engagment using a criterion-based rubric and QEngage.

Leadership and Planning in Health and Public Sector Organisations

This module will be delivered in Year 2 of the online PGDip in Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership and as one of three elective modules in the MSc course. The Institute of Dentistry and the School of Business and Management will deliver this collaborative module. It will cover dental service planning including planning models, needs assessments, priority setting and action planning. Students will explore leadership theories and critically reflect on leadership challenges. Students will complete three summative assignments for this module covering learning outcomes related to leadership and planning. They will evaluate their own self leadership style by completing a self-leadership reflective essay. They will describe their experience of peer coaching a fellow student in a coaching reflection report. They will demonstrate their healthcare planning competencies by submitting an oral health needs assessment plan. Five percent of the module mark will assess student engagement using a criterion-based rubric and QEngage.

Oral Health in the Global Context

The Oral Health in the Global Context module is a Year 2 elective module available to online MSc in Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership students. It will cover global oral health surveillance systems, development theories and the concept of universal health coverage. Students will also explore the role of advocacy, networking and communication. Students will then demonstrate their applied knowledge by preparing a position statement and presenting a live online 30 minute conference-style oral presentation (part of a their proposed oral health advocacy symposium) as a summative assessment. Five percent of the module mark will assess student engagment using a criterion-based rubric and QEngage.

Commercialisation of IP

Getting intellectual property rights is relatively easy. It's what you do with them that's difficult. And since 80% or more of a business's value is made up of IP (sometimes called "Intellectual Assets"), understanding how a business, a research charity or a university puts its IP to profitable use is fundamental to understanding how modern commercial life works. This module, which is one of few such modules in UK universities, is focused on how IP is created, owned and commercialised (or "monetised"). It is taught by a practising lawyer with extensive experience in all aspects of IP. Guest speakers with front-line experience of IP commercialisation are a key part of this module, allowing students to understand how commercial transactions take place in real life.

Introduction to Strings and Branes

The module will cover the basics of string theory, and provide an introduction to the perturbative formulation of string theories. The topics that we will cover include the classical physics of strings, and the quantisation of bosonic and superstrings, perturbative aspects of D-branes, duality symmetries, and two-dimensional conformal field theory and its application to string theory. A brief discussion on some advanced topics in string theory will be given towards the end of the module.

Victorian Voices

This module introduces students to a range of Victorian authorial voices, which represent most of the key literary genres and span this long, historically transformative, and diverse period. Students will be encouraged to make connections between individual authors and topics; the module invites us to think about the way different perceptions and perspectives from the same cultural moment echo and challenge one another, often in surprising and unexpected ways. Drawing on a wide range of canonical and non-canonical poetry and prose by male and female Victorian authors, students will gain a very strong understanding of British literature from the 1830s to 1900, developing skills that will become useful for later postgraduate research, including the dissertation.

Developing AI Solutions in the Biosciences

In this module, students are organised into small teams (~3-4 members per team). Each team will be tasked with solving a broadly defined bioscience problem involving complex data. Team members collaborate in delineating the problem, identifying an efficient solution strategy, organising division of labour, and solving the problem. The distribution of effort within teams is documented through an in-team peer review mechanism. Each team member will present the team¿s work in a report.

AI and Data Analytics in Ecology and Evolution

This module will provide you an overview of successes and limitations of applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in basic and applied ecology and evolutionary biology. It will cover a wide range of topics such as monitoring and ID of species and individuals from image, video and sound; forecasting of population time series; species distribution modelling; modelling of derived metrics, e.g. for ecosystem service; automated taxonomic classification. Selected examples are developed in depth in both lectures and practicals.

Dissertation in Legal Theory

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

AI and Data Analytics in Physiology and Biomedicine

This module will provide you an overview of successes and limitations of applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in physiology and biomedicine. It will cover a wide range of topics such as image diagnostic tools, medial risk assessment and prognosis, individualised medicine, drug discovery, protein folding, and classification of microbial communities. Selected examples are developed in depth in both lectures and practicals. Social, ethical, and economic implications are discussed.

Text, Media, Theory: 1900 to Now

This compulsory module for the pathway MA Modern and Contemporary explores modernist and contemporary writing in relation to broad ideas about twentieth-century and twenty-first century history, the historical present, the problems of periodization, and the changing cultural context of literary writing. Special attention is devoted to questions of technology, innovation and social change that alter and bring into question the category of writing itself, its role in theoretical debates, its place in modern and contemporary philosophy. The module has a strand that explores technological innovation and its social effect in the twentieth century, and digital cultures in the twenty first century. There is also a broad engagement with social theory and philosophy, and the, the module aims to offer a detailed survey of issues that relate to the definition of modernism, the nature of modernity and the notion of the contemporary, both in academic contexts and in lived social experience.

Literature and Culture 1700-1900: Junctures and Transitions

This module serves as an introduction to graduate study of the eighteenth century, Romantic and Victorian periods. It is structured around five key historical dates, each of which is used to open up important questions and debates. By juxtaposing a wide range of literary and cultural texts published around those dates, it explores seminal developments in philosophy, politics, and culture, whilst interrogating the relationship between these forms of knowledge. Crucial moments of historical transition are set alongside revolutions in literary history, enabling productive new avenues for discussion of poetry, fiction, drama and other genres. These historical moments could include 1710 (the first publication of Addison and Steele¿s Spectator), 1819 (the Peterloo massacre), and 1895 (the year of Wilde¿s trial).

Spanish Language and Culture I (a)

This module is available under the 'QMUL Model'. It is designed for students who have an interest in Spanish Language and Cultures. The module emphasises the global importance of Spanish language and Spanish speaking cultures and is intended for beginner learners. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language and it is highly suitable for students following the QMUL Model. The QMUL Model builds on the existing QMUL Graduate Attributes, which include an aspiration that QM graduates should 'be able to operate in more than one language' alongside the aspiration to optimize the employability of our graduates. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Spanish language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.

Economics of Central Banking

The module introduces students to monetary and macroprudential policies. Emphasis is placed on the key economic principles underlying these policies, rather than institutional details, which may change over time in response to new challenges. The module uses a simple common framework that places little technical burden on students, without compromising on the main insights. The topics cover the role of money and monetary exchange, inflation and inflation expectations, the real effects of monetary policy, including the role of mortgage and housing markets, liquidity, payments systems, and financial crisis, and ,finally, monetary policy and asset pricing. These topics broadly span a number of the main functions of the monetary and financial stability directorates of central banks.

Madness, Past and Present

This module examines how madness has been constructed and represented in western culture from the late Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It looks at the medical and popular notions of madness prevailing at crucial historical moments, and analyses the ways in which the main themes related to madness (fragmentation, folly, lovesickness, alienation, melancholy, delusion, derangement) have been explored and exploited in a wide selection of genres, such as autobiography, diary writing, the novel, the short story, epic poetry, theatre and film.

Pilot Study

This module provides students with practical application of Applied Research Methods. The general aim is to equip students with transferable skills that can be either used towards completing an empirical project or conducting a systematic review. There is no taught component in this module, except for 4 hours of tutorial sessions delivered on alternate weeks. These 4 sessions will be complementary to 5 tutorial sessions delivered in Semester 2 for Psychological Therapies:Paradigms and Systems and Psychological Therapies: applications and Effectiveness. The aim of these 4 tutorial sessions is to provide academic support for their completion of their Pilot study.

Applied Medical Sciences

The aim of this module is to establish a core foundation in the fundamental of clinical medicine and introduction to the healthcare system in the UK. This module will provide the core foundation necessary for MSc Physician Associate students to commence their training in clinical medicine in NHS. This module covers introduction to basic medical sciences, anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology. It is anticipated that most students would have covered some of these areas as part of their undergraduate degree programmes. However, the module aims to review and revise this core material, whilst tackling any deficiencies in knowledge. The module is delivered through a combination of lectures, practical, and self-directed learning.

Life, Death and Money: Welfare States in Theory and Practice

Welfare states are about life, death and money. They aim to cover for risks occurring during individuals' life course, such as unemployment or sickness, and by doing so they consume considerable portion of public budget of the contemporary states. The module will be based on research-led teaching and will provide students with systematic understanding of the policy and politics of welfare from a global comparative perspective. The module will also offer sustained engagements with debates surrounding the politics of welfare across five major welfare sectors - education, healthcare, unemployment, family and pension policy.

Omics Data Analytics and Practical Training (DL)

This module is focussed on teaching the most up-to-date pipelines and tools to analyse high-throughput omics data, including RNA-seq, DNA-seq, ChIP-seq, DNA methylation and proteomics. Students will gain hands-on experience of analysing real-life patient and experimental data through use of high-performance computing. Students will obtain competence in all aspects of the analytic workflow including data handling, QC, data manipulation, interpretation and visualisation. This module is taught through both lectures and praticals, ensuring students are able to analyse diverse types of omics data.

Computational Genomics, Transcriptomics and Evolution

This module is focussed on teaching advanced bioinformatics and computational skills to analyse omics data to address important cancer research and clinical questions, such as tumour evolution and immunogenomics. Students will further their understanding of cancer genomics and transcriptomics, and learn essential skills and workflows of dissecting tumour clonal architecture and evolutionary patterns, deconvolution of immune cell infiltration, and deciphering tumour immunogenicity. This module is taught through both lectures and praticals, ensuring students are able to process and analyse data, as well as produce and interpret meaningful results.

R and Python Programming in Biomedical Research

This module provides an introduction of computer programming of two most widely used programming languages in biomedical and cancer data science, R and Python. It provides and trains students with the introduction of programming concepts, how to manipulate data frames, use regular expression, write/use functions and perform object oriented programming in both languages. This module consists of both lecture and practical sessions, ensuring students understand and solve complex problems using real cancer data as examples.

Cancer Genomics and Data Science Research Project

Single Cell Analytics

The main focus of the module is for students to learn about different single-cell technologies, focusing on single-cell assays for gene expression, chromatin accessibility, genomics and spatial methods and how integration of different modalities can provide a more holistic view of cell and tissue phenotypes, cell-cell interactions and cell state dynamics. The module will introduce these technologies, their advantages and limitations, and will provide examples of how they can be applied in a real biological context. The module will have a specific focus on computational analysis and integration of real data produced by these technologies. Students will gain hands-on experience of analysing real-life patient and experimental data through use of high-performance computing. The students will acquire analytical skills that will improve their employability in research and industry.

R and Python Programming in Biomedical Research (DL)

Omics Data Analytics and Practical Training

Mathematical Modeling and Application (DL)

This module will give an introduction to theoretical modeling in biology. It will introduce classical deterministic models, e.g. exponential growth, Lotka-Volterra and SIR models, it will introduce basic ideas of probabilities and stochastic modeling leading up to the Luria-Delbrück experiment and its many applications to virus, bacteria and cancer evolution. Although, we will discuss concrete mathematical models, the discussion will be on a high level and we expect no advanced mathematical background of students.

Mathematical Modeling and Application

Study Project

The module is an indispensable element of the program since it allows students to gain, in addition to the more abstract legal content taught, not only exposure to the demands of practice as a patent or trade mark attorney, or indeed other legal professions (including the ability to work in teams) but it is also a distinguishing element of our MSc programme which underpins the entire ethos and philosophy of a program that is based upon preparation for such careers. The module gives students a "real life" experience of the role a patent and/or trade mark attorney would experience in their every day role within the IP Field. Students will work in teams under the supervision of a mentor working in practice. Students draft a report on a (real life) companies' IP portfolio which is to be presented to a hypothetical buyer of that company. Students will collectively present their findings, by way of a short oral summary, to a panel following submission of the report.

Patents: Procedure and Practice

The module covers the procedural and practical aspects of patent law, including registration before the UK IPO and the EPO, opposition proceedings, and the main principles of patent protection and registration in other jurisdictions. Prosecution of patents and applications under the Patents Act 1977 and under the Patent Cooperation Treaty Prosecution of patent applications at the European Patent Office The anatomy of a patent Remedies and Expert Evidence (injunctions, damages, other remedies and expert evidence) US Patent Law (US substantive and procedural law in outline) Japanese Patent Law (procedure and law in outline) Supplementary Protection Certificates (patent term extension) Trade Secrets and Confidential Information German patent law (procedure and law in outline)

MRes Research Project

The research 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. The module focuses on the technical, project management and communication skills which a student will need to successfully execute academic and/or industrial research. In the project a student will apply research methods to solve original problems of fundamental or applied nature.

Machine Learning/AI and Application to Biomedical Research

This module provides an introduction to data science, machine learning (ML) and AI, focussing specifically on their applications of analysing omics (e.g., transcriptomics and proteomics) and imaging data to identify novel features in biomedical and cancer research. Lectures cover the methods, algorithms, workflows and application examples for different ML/AI techniques, as well as research / clinical questions they can address. In practical sessions, students will gain hands-on experience in applying ML/AI techniques to different data types to generate robust and meaningful results.

Single Cell Analytics (DL)

Machine Learning/AI and Application to Biomedical Research (DL)

Cancer Genomics and Data Science Research Project (DL)

Computational Genomics, Transcriptomics and Evolution (DL)

Patent Law: British and European Patent Law

The module covers fundamental substantive aspects of patent law in the UK and under the European Patent Convention, including conditions for protection and registration, infringement and defences. It will provide students with the foundations of UK patent law so as to equip them for the basics of patent practice in the UK. In addition, students will consider patent law and corporate strategy as well as practical and professional aspects, including drafting, claim interpretation, patent prosecution, ethics and corporate governance. Students will also gain a detailed and practical understanding of related areas of protection in the patent industries, including confidential information and trade secrets. The module also addresses aspects of specific sectors, including biotechnology, chemical industries and software industries. On successful completion of this module, you will be eligible to sit the CIPA/ITMA exemption papers towards your qualification as UK patent and trade mark attorneys. List of topics: Introduction to Patent Law (history and economics) Novelty and inventive step (EPO and UK) Exclusions to patentability (EPO and UK: medical methods, ordre public, morality, purpose-based protection, non-inventions) Internal requirements (EPO and UK: sufficiency, added matter, clarity, conciseness and support) Scope of protection and infringement (construction, infringing acts, exceptions and third party rights) Transactions in patents (nature of patent property, assignment, licensing and registration) Crown use, non-voluntary licensing, threats (Crown use, licences of right, compulsory licences, threats) Inventors and employees (entitlement, employee/employer disputes and compensation)

Trade Mark Law: Registration and Filing Strategy

Choice of trade mark filing strategy has the potential to create an ever larger market by promoting consumer recognition and goodwill. Moreover, a trade mark is also capable of representing the firm¿s commitment to invest in socio-economic goals. This Module will therefore examine the law relating to the registration of trade marks as it is applied in the United Kingdom and the European Union, including the procedures relating to national, EU and international registration of marks. The Module will also consider various filing strategies that traders may adopt when seeking to obtain trade mark protection in markets abroad. In so far as filing strategy relates to commercialisation, the Module will also examine the relationship between the registration of trade marks and their licensing.

Trade Mark Law: Trade Mark Office Proceedings and Litigation

This module is designed to provide a thorough knowledge of the law governing (a) trade mark office proceedings (including, opposition and cancellation); and, (b) trade mark litigation in the UK. The module will examine substantive law as to claim construction; and, in the case of infringement, available defences and limitations to registered trade mark rights; both substantive and procedural aspects will be considered with respect to proceedings before the UKIPO and the EUIPO and; in the case of litigation, consideration of the law will include the remedies that might be sought, in particular preliminary injunctions.

Design and Copyright Law

The module covers the main elements of copyright and design law, including criteria for protection, subject matter, scope of rights, infringement, defences, moral rights and international and comparative perspectives.

Pilot Study

Public Health Nutrition

This module will introduce students to the key issues around public health and nutrition research and policy. The module will cover the following topics. 1. An introduction to Key Issues in Public health Nutrition including describing the importance of diet in maintaining health in all ages, life stages, sex, and ethnic groups 2. Determinants of health, including the biological determinants, commercial and social determinants of health. 3. Micronutrients and their importance to public health. 4. Macronutrients and their importance to public health. 5. Food systems - including production, availability, access, and planetary and human health 6. Health Improvement. What are the main approaches to improving public health nutrition. 7. Health economics in PHN - including price, affordability and choice, promotions, and food insecurity 8. Translating research into policy. Improved analysis, debate, reading and writing. Fiscal levers eg Taxation (SDIL). Reformulation (sugar and salt reduction). Labelling. Marketing, advertisement and packaging restrictions 9. Stakeholders relevant to public health. Local, national and international actors. The role of third sector, industry, and public. 10. Evidence of progress in policy. Examples of process, implementation, success & failures, evaluation & analytical framework.

A Life-course Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health

This module provide students with a knowledge of key topics in SRH through a life-course approach. It will explore SRH throughout an individual¿s lifespan, from childlhood, through adolescence, pregnancy and childbirth until menopause and beyond. The interplay between social protective and risk factors (e.g., gender, age, ethnicity) in determining SRH outcomes and inequalities will be outlined and opportunities for interventions to improve those outcomes and address inequalities for individuals/groups at each stage of life will be highlighted.

Intrathecal Therapy for Cancer and Non-cancer Pain

Students will gain knowledge of ethical challenges, current clinical guidelines and consensus statements for safe delivery of intrathecal therapy for cancer and non-cancer pain. Students will gain knowledge on setting up an intrathecal service and working in conjunction with allied specialities. Students will gain the knowledge on pharmacotherapy for intra-thecal drug delivery and be able to compare and contrast the role of opioid and non-opioid medications. Surgical skills including percutaneous and surgical placement of intrathecal delivery systems will be described. Students will learn intra operative troubleshooting, complication management and long-term care of the patients.

Devices and Available Technology

Students will gain knowledge and be able to compare and contrast the hardware of available devices including current leads, implantable pulse generators, primary cell and rechargeable technologies for neuromodulation. Students will gain knowledge about the software platforms and be able to compare and contrast the programming capabilities of available devices. Students will gain understanding of deep brain stimulation, its role and indications including movement disorders, parkinsonism and epilepsy.

Patient Care and Procedural Skills

Students will gain knowledge of current clinical guidelines, consensus statements and referral criteria for patient selection. Students will understand the validated assessment tools and MDT based clinical/psychological assessments used for selection for neuromodulation procedures. Radiological assessment including review of MRI scans in context of surgical targets and usefulness of SCS following post-surgery scarring (PSPS type 2) or in absence of surgery (PSPS type 1) will be discussed. Students will be provided with knowledge to manage preoperative preparation, patient education and expectations. Surgical skills including percutaneous and surgical placement will be described. Students will learn intraoperative troubleshooting complication management and long-term care of the patients.

Anatomy and Neurophysiology of Neuromodulation

Students will acquire the knowledge of neural anatomy, pain pathways including peripheral and central transmission relevant to neuromodulation, particularly the targets of stimulation; spinal and supraspinal neurons. Students will learn the emerging concepts of supra spinal mechanisms and closed loop in neuromodulation. Physics of waveform including concept and rationale of differential frequency, charge and neural dose will be discussed and students will be able to ascertain their clinical implications.

Control System Analysis and Design

This module is focused on the basic principles of control systems analysis and design and its application to engineering systems with emphasis on mechanical, robotics and aerospace systems. It is within the scope of the linear time invariant system and frequency domain analysis and design method based on transfer functions. The students will design a control system for a particular application and gain experiences in analysis and design of a typical control system using numerical tools, such as MATLAB/SIMULINK, using the theoretical knowledge gained in lectures.

Trade Mark Law (IPReg TMs)

The module will help the student acquire a solid basis of the law of trade marks, primarily within the UK but with reference to other jurisdictions. The focus will be on the national registration systems based on the European Trade Mark Directive, the Community Trade Mark system, and with reference to other International registration systems and filing strategies will be considered as well. The core underlying purpose of the module is the fundamental teaching of basic trade marks to the trainee IP attorney.

Patent Law (IPReg PATs)

The module will begin with an introduction to the basic principles of patent law. The body of the module will be concerned with the character, structure and drafting of patents, primarily within the UK but with a reference to other jurisdictions. The module will examine in light of statute and case law, the key terms common to such licensing agreements; ownership; grant of intellectual property; territorial exclusivity; invention improvement; sublicensing; royalties; warranties; indemnities and dispute resolution.

Applied Research Methods 2: Practical Application

This 15-credit module provides students with advanced-level training in research techniques appropriate for postgraduate research projects. It includes lectures on key research principles, such as research methodology; writing up research; and conducting ethical research projects, as well as practical workshops focused on developing skills in data analysis.

Business Technology Strategy

Minority and Group Rights: International and Comparative Perspectives

This module provides coverage of a number of domains within the sphere of minority and group rights at international law and in comparative laws. It includes theories of minority rights, the development of minority protection, self-determination, legal pluralism, regulation of racism and racial discrimination, cultural rights, religious freedom, regulation of Islamophobia, regulation of caste, and linguistic rights.

Tax Administration and Procedure

The module is designed to enable students to understand a range of legal issues that arise in connection with the organisation and operation of tax administrations and the design and implementation of tax procedures. In particular, it will consider organisational models for and core functions of tax administrations, legal design of tax procedures, tax procedure and taxpayer rights, and tax dispute resolution and prevention mechanisms. It will also examine case studies of tax administration and tax procedure reform.

Energy and Climate Change

This module looks at the international legal regimes relating to climate change and consider how this will directly impact the energy sector. There is a fundamental shift in the energy industry away from fossil fuels (non renewable sources) to clean energy (renewable sources). This transition and how it will take place over the coming years will be discussed. This module will also consider emissions trading (ETS) and its effectiveness, the NDC (nationally determined contributions) of states to achieve climate change goals. In addition, it will consider the polluter pays principle as well as the growing number of climate change disputes and assess how these might impact future energy regulation, at an international and national level. The focus is climate change exclusively from the perspective of the energy sector. This module will consider new technologies (such as CCUS and hydrogen), renewable projects and emissions trading and its effectiveness.

Data Protection Law Compliance and Practice

This module offers a practical legal learning experience in data protection law compliance. It will be based on various compliance scenarios and activities that a data protection officer or in-house privacy counsel would likely face in assisting the processor or controller for whom they work to meet the requirements of the relevant legal framework in their ongoing personal data processing activities of the data . Although this module will primarily focus on the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation, the skills and knowledge acquired from the course materials and learning exercises will be relevant to most data protection legal frameworks and data protection compliance practice.

Qualitative Methods for Health Research

This module will introduce learners to the principles of interpretive research and to a broad range of qualitative research practice including: interviews; focus groups; ethnographic approaches; participatory research methods; qualitative synthesis; mixed- methods designs. The importance of integrating theory and ensuring ethical practice in the design, conduct and analysis of research will be emphasised throughout. The module will lead learners through the research cycle from formulation of research idea to ensuring research impact with a focus on learning-by-doing and improving reflective practice.

Human Rights and Public Health

Students will be introduced to the core concepts and theories of international human rights and humanitarian law and the ethical debates that underpin contemporary local and global healthcare practices. Particular attention will be paid to: the legal normative basis of human rights and health; the interaction between the protection/promotion of health and the protection/promotion of human rights; the role of international humanitarian law in protecting health during war or military occupation; the tensions between the health business, healthcare and human rights; the ethical debates around the human rights framework in general and specific case studies in health and human rights; and the institutional, economic and political challenges faced by health and human rights worldwide.

Macromolecular Engineering

This module will give students a thorough understanding and knowledge of state-of-the-art technologies for macromolecular engineering. It will focus on key areas for industrial applications and help students draw structure-property relationships and link these to synthetic approaches. Specifically, macromolecular engineering in the fields of high performance materials, tissue engineering and biotechnologies, sensors, materials for energy production and in the micro-electronics area will be discussed and applied. The module will cover advanced polymer synthesis techniques and their application to the design of conjugated polymers, the application of these concepts to macromolecular engineering in microfabrication and 3D printing and the design of biomaterials and hydrogels, and their biofunctionalisation. The module will present state-of-the-art platforms for solid phase synthesis of peptides, oligonucleotides, and recombinant protein production.

Climate Change Law, Economics and Policy

This course will examine the economic, legal, political, institutional, regulatory, and historical underpinnings of climate change as an issue and the related policy challenges of creating and sustaining a prosperous decarbonized modern society. Particular attention will be given to analyzing the existing international framework of treaties, laws, regulations, and policies and the incentives they have created to address the build-up of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere The course will center on a set of critical questions including: What would a 21st-century policy framework that is designed to deliver a successful response to climate change look like? How should issues of (in)equity be addressed? How might incentives be structured to engage the business community in climate change problem-solving?

Seminar on AI Regulation, Rights and Responsibilities

This seminar-based module offers a multidisciplinary study of artificial intelligence (AI). The module examines AI regulations through the lens of AI technology and application and investigates the impact of AI on the economy and regulatory landscape. It discusses rights and responsibilities of AI from a technological, economic and legal perspective, reviews diverse approaches to AI regulatory frameworks in a comparative and competition context. Participants are expected to conduct research in group and to lead weekly issue-based roundtable discussions.

AI for Business

This module will provide an overview of what AI is and how its applications can benefit businesses on strategic and tactical levels. Students will learn basic AI applications/algorithms and their limitations as well as utility.

Dissertation - Working with Open Data

This dissertation is designed to use Open Data and to utilize the digital analytics taught in the classroom to answer a specific research question. This project is designed for students to identify open data on digital platforms and to design a study utilizing this data. This project leverages on independent work and is designed for students to apply the digital analytics taught in the programme.

War and International Security

Violent conflict and the use of force remain salient issues in contemporary international relations. While some have theorised that the advent of globalisation and spread of liberal democracy would make the use of force and violent conflict less relevant to the world, war and conflict have remained an integral part of the international system, as well as forming an obstacle to providing stability and security for many states. The module offers an examination of the ways in which violent conflict and the use of force impact on international relations, how force is used by states and other actors, and how force is managed in world politics. The module surveys a variety of perspectives on the causes of war and peace in order to better examine the roots of violent conflicts and security problems in the present day. A major theme is looking at war in a global context, not only in terms of integrating contemporary concerns with globalisation, but also by looking at interconnections between north and south, and war and society. Additionally, the responses of the international community to violent conflict will also be explored, looking broadly at the contested notion of the "Just War", international law, and the role of the United Nations. Overall, the module gives a broad perspective on the place of armed force in contemporary international relations.

Cultural Production in a Changing World

This module aims to engage students with innovative and ground-breaking ideas that can provide them with new ways of thinking about cultural production in a fast-changing world. The module has a strong theoretical component that is complemented by the analysis of case studies and a series of creative group and individual exercises to activate the imagination and develop transferable skills.

Body, Action, Documentation

This module explores approaches to making performance which centre the politics of the body. Through weekly workshops, you will be introduced to a range of performance-making techniques, and will be encouraged to devise your own methodologies for creating performance. The module will draw on methodologies from live art and experimental performance, using improvisation, action and task-based performance, autobiographical approaches, and score making to develop creative and critical strategies for exploring bodies, identity, and politics. The module will ask what our bodies in performance are capable of saying and doing, and how we might use them to intervene into discourses on identity and politics.

Advertising and Media Strategies

This module will examine the cultural politics of advertising and consumption in relation to the perspective of cultural studies. It will provide a critical map of the field and bring together work on consumer culture in anthropology and sociology with work on media audiences within media studies and sociology.

ESG Investing

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) based investment policies have become increasingly important in financial decision making over recent year. ESG implies an entirely different type of investment analysis from traditional finance and raise important questions about fiduciary duty, externalities and disclosures. This module introduces students to ESG investing and the issues it raises.

Introduction to Sociolinguistics

This module provide an introduction to sociolinguistics - a major sub-field of Linguistics that examines language in its social context. The module introduces students to how the patterns of everyday language use around us, ones that we usually take for granted, tell us a lot about social structure, interpersonal dynamics, identity and social meaning. The aim is to demonstrate how language-in-use can be studied systematically, and to show how the use of English and other languages in particular speech situations, activities, and public discourse, enrich our understanding both of human language and human social behaviour.

Nationalism, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Political Thought, Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries

This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of what some of the most important political thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (before the emergence of what is called 'contemporary political theory' since the 1970s) thought and wrote about the phenomena and concepts referred to as `nationalism', `patriotism¿ and `cosmopolitanism¿. Thinkers focused upon include eighteenth-century predecessors such as Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottfried Herder, J. G. Fichte, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Richard Price, Jeremy Bentham, as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers such as John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, John [Lord] Acton, Matthew Arnold, Giuseppe Mazzini, Alexis de Tocqueville, Auguste Comte, Thomas Hill Green, Henry Sidgwick, Frederic Harrison, J. R. Seeley, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, Rabindranath Tagore, Ernest Barker, Alfred Zimmern, Otto Bauer, Harold Laski, Bertrand Russell, Elie Kedourie, John Plamenatz, Isaiah Berlin and others. The emphasis of the module is not on `nationalist¿ or `cosmopolitan¿ thinkers as such, but on what political thinkers thought and wrote about the nation, patriotism, nationalism, internationalism, and cosmopolitanism from the time of the French Revolution to the Cold War.

IP Protection in the Software Sector

Indian Political Thought

India began the twentieth century as a colonial possession and entered the twenty-first as a global power, routinely celebrated as the `world¿s largest democracy¿. The path between these points ¿ shaped by the drama of anti-colonial struggle, the tumult of decolonization, and the pursuit of postcolonial `development¿ ¿ offered Indian political thinkers and practitioners urgent and critical opportunities to grapple with some of the central questions of modern politics. This module traces the shape and form of India¿s political modernity, exploring its implications for the method and practice of intellectual history.

Writing the East End

"This module considers the mythology of the East End of London as articulated and interrogated by literary texts. It focuses on the period from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day and examines the East End as a continuing site of public fascination and creative production. By exploring a selected body of novels and other texts, considered with reference to different aspects of the mobile environment of the East End and contemporary debate, the module develops an understanding of how texts organise and articulate urban space and urban change. In particular, it explores the ways that fiction and prose writing have represented the East End as a site of immigration, cross-class encounter, crime, political activism and memory."

Digital Economy, Big Data and Platformization

This module interrogates the economic, social and cultural opportunities presented by the digital and platformed economy and its affordances of big data. In specific terms it provides an overview of the opportunities, risks and ethical challenges of such an economy for organizations, marketers, societies and humanity.

Strategic Marketing

This module considers, discusses and evaluates the market orientation concepts and processes necessary for gaining sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. Emphasis is placed upon identifying key strategic issues, competitive positioning and strategy formulation. Marketing strategies are examined from a strategic perspective with a particular focus on Segementation, Targeting and Positioning, Branding and Relationship marketing strategies.

Literature, Science and Technology

"This module explores the diverse uses that contemporary authors (from the past fifty years) make of science and technology in their works, and the distinct ways in which critics and scholars engage with science and technology in the cultural field. We take a broad definition of 'science', 'technology' and 'literature'. Besides reading fiction, poetry and drama we may also look at selected works of electronic literature, non-fiction, performance, graphic novels, film, and museum exhibits."

Advanced Safety Engineering

This module introduces hazards encountered in industrial process plants. It offers students an opportunity to acquire basic skills in the main areas of Safety and Loss Prevention. The core lecture programme covers elementary stress analysis ('mechanics'), process safety and plant reliability; a parallel stream introduces fundamental concepts of corrosion, a particularly important hazard. Environmental impact is considered in DEN320 Environmental Engineering.

The Black Radical Tradition

Black radical thought in the twentieth century drew on a long tradition of circulating ideas. It did so in order to formulate new readings of Enlightenment ideals that would address sovereignty and autonomy within the specific conditions of black life. This module examines how black thinkers stretched the category of "intellectual" through combined thought and practice. Workers and educated elite formulated specific analyses of the combined working of capitalism and empire, grounded in the importance of New World slavery to the modern world's political and social economy. Black women challenged the assumed distinctiveness of race, class, and gender and formulated distinctive visions of what "freedom" might mean. In this module we will think with black radicals' ideas about empire, war and expropriation, work and social life and consider their strategies for realising alternative forms of social and political organisation.

End Point Assessment

As defined in the approved Assessment Plan for the standard, a degree apprentice must pass this End Point Assessment in order to be eligible for the apprenticeship award. The End Point Assessment consists of three components: a work based project, a professional discussion underpinned by the portfolio, and a test. This module is only available for students enrolled on the Economics Master's Apprenticeship Programme.

Integrated Digital Communications and Campaigning

The module will provide an appreciative overview of the digital communications landscape and how digital platforms and technologies have/are transformed(-ing) marketing communications and campaigns. Students will learn to leverage digital channels to create an integrated marketing campaign.

Resourcing and Talent Management

Resourcing and Talent Management as a subject incorporates many aspects of the HRM practice with links to organisational performance. Central to organisational success is an ability to attract and retain the right talent committed to adding value to the organisation and its stakeholders. This module focuses on these activities both from a strategic and practical perspective in a global context, namely Employee Value Proposition (EVP), employee attraction, assessment, selection, onboarding, engagement and retention. It requires students to critically evaluate and reflect on Resourcing and Talent Management theory and practice both from an ethical and professional standpoint, and introduces learners to a range of approaches and tools deployed by organisations, both in the UK and internationally, in support of their strategic choices and objectives.

Climate Finance

Climate Risk is becoming increasingly important in financial markets not just as a new risk factor but also as an important element of ESG investing and as a source of new financial markets (e.g. emissions trading and green bonds). This course aims to identify they key elements of climate change risk and how it influences finance.

Advanced Safety Engineering

Theatre and Performance: Specialist Topic

Each time it is taught, this module is led by the specialist research of the faculty member who teaches it. The module therefore responds to emerging ideas in theatre and performance studies and benefits from the wide-ranging expertise of Drama faculty. For example, the module might focus in any given year on theatre, performance, and: ecology; political economy; postcolonial urbanisms; costume; criminal justice; young people; sexual cultures; possession and automation; emotions; the senses.

Creative and Critical Writing 1

This compulsory module for the MA in Creative Writing explores such writing across multiple literary forms, including nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and dramatic and visual writing. The module focuses on the ways in which the co-mingling of criticism and creative forms can produce new expressive and epistemological modes and genres. It introduces students to theoretical, methodological, and practical frameworks for understanding and producing creative and critical texts, and texts operating at the intersection of multiple disciplinary fields. It will combine seminar-style discussion and writing workshops.

Collaborative Practices

This module invites you to consider collaborative practices as integral to creative and critical writing. Countering notions of writing as solitary pursuit, or individualistic, competitive enterprise within a literary marketplace, the materials and activities on this module will demonstrate how collaboration can enable, support, and expand writers¿ research and practice. Collaboration will be understood in a variety of contexts, including conversation, improvisation, co-writing, cross-genre and interdisciplinary composition, DIY publishing, and event organisation. You will read, view, and listen to a range of texts and artworks produced collaboratively; you will be introduced to and asked to invent processes for making work with others; you will be encouraged to reflect on the aesthetic, intellectual, and political challenges that emerge in these collaborative processes. While collaboration is key to this module, it¿s recognized that students¿ abilities and interests differ: an initial stage of allotting roles and responsibilities will address this, and the nature of individual students' contributions to group work may differ.

Utopia: History, Theory, Action

How might the idea of Utopia helps us galvanise political literary readings amid an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis? What constitutes hope for the future in a context of ecocatastrophe? How does fiction offer alternative ways of imagining subjectivity, community and belonging? This module turns to a range of short stories and novels from across the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will examine the relationship between Utopia and a range of political ideologies and ideas, including feminism, anti-colonialism, Marxism, neoliberalism, anarchism and anti-capitalism. We will also explore historical and contemporary attempts to live out Utopian ideals in intentional communities and other social movements.

Sociability: Literature and the City 1660-1780

"This module focuses on the representation of the city in the literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century. The general research question this module investigates is the interaction between literature and history: in particular how is urbanism - the formation of a new and distinct affectual structure associated with the structural transformation of urban life in the early eighteenth century - manifested in and by the literary. The module will examine how this cultural and historical transformation can be read in and through experiments in literary genre and style in the period (including forms of popular satire, verse, periodical essays, prose fictions and the novel, as well as painting and cartography). The module will focus on four key debates, which may include topics such as the city and its mock poetic forms, the coffee-house, the Spectator essays, and women writers, and will engage in key critical debates in twentieth-century city theory."

International Romanticism

The artistic energies and intellectual currents of the Romantic movement crossed national boundaries and reflected the political and social upheavals of an increasingly globalised world in an age of revolution. This module examines key works of British and European Romanticism and investigates the cultural mechanisms through which Romantic ideas and literary practices were transmitted from one country to another. Diverse strands in British 'Four Nations' Romanticism, including work by Coleridge, Byron, Edgeworth and Carlyle, are analysed alongside Continental texts in translation including Rousseau's Confessions, Goethe¿s Faust, Staël¿s Corinne, and Leopardi¿s Zibaldone. Themes to be explored include the pan-European Ossian phenomenon, the reception of Kant¿s Critical philosophy, the role of literary periodicals, and the `natural supernaturalism¿ of the American Transcendentalists.

Social Marketing for Social Justice

The aim of this module is to explore the theory and practice of planning, effectively designing social marketing strategy, implementing and evaluating social marketing campaigns, and understanding the theory, uses and impacts of behavioural science and behavioural economics on society for its common good and social justice.

Business Game

This is an immersive and application-focused alternative to the traditional dissertation. Students will take part in multiple rounds of a simulation exercise in which they will form groups to operate a fictitious business (based on real-world data).

In the Shadow of the French Revolution: Political Thought 1789-1890

This course examines the impact of the French Revolution upon the shape of nineteenth-century political thought. The course demonstrates its central role in the inception of socialism and positivism in the definition of modern Conservatism and in the inhibiting part it played in the development of nineteenth-century liberalism, republicanism and democracy. It goes on to examine how these elements of thought were modified by the emergence of the 'social question' (individualization and the workers movements) and by the experience of the 1848 Revolution. Finally, it examines the growing preoccupation with questions of secularism, social democracy and empire in the 1850's and after. Among the thinkers examined are Condorcet, Constant, De Maistre, Saint-Simon and Proudhon: Mill and Carlyle; Hegel, Marx, Lorenz von Stein and Lasalle.

Theories of Empire: from Enlightenment to Liberalism

The module explores attitudes to empire and imperial expansion between the 18th and the 19th century. It will cover debates on empire in Europe and will focus first on Enlightenment attitudes (from Diderot, Herder, Raynal to Adam Smith and Edmund Burke), and then on nineteenth century writers, from Benjamin Constant, to Sismondi, Cattaneo, Mill and Tocqueville. By so doing, the module will discuss at the relationship between ideas of freedom civilisation, culture, international trade and Empire, and will provide an analysis of the meanings of concepts of Empire.

Early Modern Theories of State

Some early-modern political theorists locate the authority to make laws and exercise political control in the figure of the ruler or prince. The seminar will begin by examining the most celebrated example, Machiavelli's The Prince (1513). Others locate these powers in the body of the republic or people. Thomas More's Utopia (1516) and Machiavelli¿s Discourses (c1519) offer contrasting examples, and the next four sessions of the seminar will focus on these texts. The second half of the course will then turn to Hobbes¿s contrasting claim in Leviathan (1651) that these powers lie instead with the fictional person of the state. The main aim of the seminar will thus be to engage in a close reading of four classic texts of early-modern political thought.

People Analytics: Strategy and Practice

This module aims to provide learners with a critical understanding of principles and practices of HR analytics and the importance of evidence-based practice more broadly. The focus is on equipping students with strong analytical skills that can be applied to identify and evaluate effective data sources as well as use relevant techniques to interpret and analyse data in support of HR and organizational strategy. The knowledge and competencies gained are then applied to the analysis various aspects of people management such as workforce planning, diversity management, training and development and pay and performance management and organisational change, in different types of organisational and dynamic external settings.

Networked and Influencer Marketing

This module examines networked and influencer marketing with the aim of understanding and applying key conceptual ideas to the platformed economy. These include the idea of celebrity endorsements, social influence and social capital as these transpire onto the platform economics.

Brand Storytelling in the Digital Age

In this course, students will learn the art and science of storytelling as a strategic and tactical language of brand communication to break the information clutter and inform, connect, inspire, persuade and engage the consumers. Storytelling in the digital age fosters brand-consumer conversation, co-creating deeper symbolic meaning and brand tribes.

Financial Techonology and Accounting

The Internet and related financial technologies such as cloud services, blockchain, data analytics (¿big data¿), and artificial intelligence (AI), combined with web-based business models, such as platforms, are rapidly transforming every day work and the future of the accounting profession. This module looks at how the leading financial technologies (Fintech) impact on accounting and finance professionals. How does the accounting and finance professional adapt to these changes? What are the opportunities and challenges for accounting and finance professions in the Fintech market? The wider legal, ethical and economic implications of using Fintech are discussed. At the end, this module introduce students with Python, a popular programming language for Fintech.

Researching Powerful Organisations

The module will provide a set of skills that will enable participants, through a series of taught activities, to enhance research that focusses upon powerful institutions, namely governmental organisations and profitmaking corporations. It will introduce students to a range of innovative methodological techniques capable of generating novel data. The module will instruct students to uncover hidden aspects of the ways that powerful organisations `talk¿ and `act¿ in order to produce original case study materials.

Culture, Ethics, Politics

This module explores urgent socio-political and aesthetic issues in contemporary theatre and performance through a focus on material and cultural conditions of production and reception. Drawing on London¿s rich performance resources but also looking globally, it examines what is urgent in contemporary theatre and performance and how theatre and performance scholarship can help us understand contemporary cultures and cultural debates. In weekly seminars informed by critical reading and preparation, you will explore a range of issues related to, for example, decolonisation, ethics, bodies, gender, sexuality, finance, spaces, institutions, labour, feelings, and spectatorship. You will consider issues of social power, representation, and social change. The module will respond to emerging issues and scholarship as it happens.

Cultural and Creative Industries and the Environment

This module examines the relationship between the cultural and creative industries and the environment from a range of perspectives and in a number of contexts. It addresses the environmental impacts of cultural production, as well as the opportunities for more socially just and environmentally sustainable arts and cultural ecologies.

Global Shakespeare: History and Theory and Performance

This module aims to provide students with a common grounding in the study of Shakespeare within a global context through sustained analysis of three areas: an understanding of Shakespeare in terms of genre, historical context and the close reading of his texts; the transformation of the Shakespearean text by the critical turn of theory; and the afterlife of Shakespeare in his appropriation, translation or adaptation in a global context. The module will be divided into sections. Each section will be devoted to a play of a different genre: comedy, history, tragedy, and romance. The first week of each section will deal with close reading, genre theory, and the play in its historical context. The second will examine a major critical turn by which a new theoretical perspective transformed perceptions of the play--in the classroom, the theatre, or in film. The third will study a particular, global appropriation of the Shakespeare text beyond Britain and North America, through popular cultural or political appropriations and in TV, theatre performance and film. The module will be cumulative: each section will build on the understanding and skills developed in the respective earlier one, and each week devoted to Shakespeare's afterlives will involve an intense critical conversation about the meaning and significance of the 'global'. The texts will be selected in accordance with available teaching expertise and performances of the plays in any year.

Topics in Microeconometrics

This is is an elective module optional for MRes Economics/ Finance students, aimed at second year students with an interest in research in microeconometrics. The first half of the module covers some of the leading methods for identifying and estimating the parameters of governing agents¿ preferences in static discrete action games, which are of particular interest for research in microeconometrics and empirical IO using structural models. The second half of the module introduces students to up-to-date methods in the estimation of network and spatial econometric models, including: spatial models, asymptotic derivations of most common classes of estimators, and their relations to network models.

Global Marketing and Communications

Marketing communications has a global perspective and there are implications in creating, developing, and implementing a marketing communications programme on a global scale or in different countries. This module draws extensively on international communication case studies and contexts.

Writing From Research

This module offers students a range of approaches to the application of research in creative practice, including speculative research as a prompt to creative practice; psychogeographic exploration; direct observation of procedure and expertise; reflective journals examining personal experience; and historical and cultural investigation to inform questions of style, form, structure and subject. Students will receive practical training in the use of archival and library resources, and in techniques of sourcing and recording real-world research, and seminars will examine key ethical questions around eliciting and gathering material, including critical exploration of current cultural debates concerning authenticity and appropriation.

Making Fiction Film

The module establishes knowledge and abilities in fiction film directing through practical workshop teaching. There are a range of topics covered, including, script preparation, casting, blocking, directing on set and working with actors.

Ethics, Regulation and Law in Advanced Digital Information Processing and Decision Making

Benjamin and Adorno

"The module is intended to address core issues in interpreting what might constitute the modern age and a writing appropriate to it. Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno are two of the most important cultural theorists of the 20th century. They explain their ideas in the process of defining the modernism in writing and thinking of which they approve, in contrast to modern trends they condemn. In understanding these two thinkers, students are introduced to the ways in which a heritage of philosophical and political theory is transmitted to the 20th century and applied to that era's sense of its own period. Their opposition is also central to the methodological justifications by literary and cultural studies right now of what they think they can achieve."

Consumer and Digital Cultures

The module provides salient theoretical and conceptual understanding of the changing nature of the politics of consumption, consuming communities and digital cultures emerging through the convergence of technologies in a global networked society/marketplace. The basis of the module is that the cultures of consumption are changing seismically through digital platforms and there is a need to examine the different cultural phenomena and trends which are shaping consumption patterns globally and in terms of specific cultural contexts. The module reviews examines IoT and the home, social media rituals, connected publics, digital cultures in the workplace, the virtues of the sharing economy, avatars, digital bodies, posthumanism, digital intimacies, global digital cultures including perspectives from the global south as well as netnography and digital visualization.

Research Project (Year 2)

The module is an intensive research module that spans all three semesters in the second year of the degree apprenticeship year. It draws together the knowledge and skills from the taught component to address a research challenge of significant scope to be undertaken independently but in collaboration with the employer, under supervision. It focuses on the technical, project management and communication skills needed to successfully execute academic- and/or industry-oriented research. The project entails applying systems engineering research methods to solve original problems of fundamental or applied nature.

Research Project (Year 1)

The module is an intensive research module that spans all three semesters in the first year of the degree apprenticeship year. It draws together the knowledge and skills from the taught component to address a research challenge of significant scope to be undertaken independently but in collaboration with the employer, under supervision. It focuses on the technical, project management and communication skills needed to successfully execute academic- and/or industry-oriented research. The project entails applying systems engineering research methods to solve original problems of fundamental or applied nature.

Research Project (Year 3)

The module is an intensive research module that spans all three semesters in the final (third) year of the MSc degree apprenticeship year. It draws together the knowledge and skills from the taught component to address a research challenge of significant scope to be undertaken independently but in collaboration with the employer, under supervision. It focuses on the technical, project management and communication skills needed to successfully execute academic- and/or industry-oriented research. The project entails applying systems engineering research methods to solve original problems of fundamental or applied nature.

Dissertation in Energy and Climate Change Law

Dissertation ¿ independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field.

Text, Self, Performance

This module explores through practice the relation between text, self, and performance, in order to investigate critically the way performance may articulate individual experience, to invoke or confirm aspects of collective identity, and to complicate the assumed relations between performances and texts. Through weekly practical workshops and contextual research, you will explore forms, methodologies and topics including (for example): writing for solo performance, live art, verbatim and documentary theatre, improvisation, protest performance, and oral histories. Your practical investigations will be embedded in critical readings in identity politics and social justice, in relation to identity formations including gender, sexuality, race, class and ability. In your engagement with found or created texts, you will consider truth and dissemblance, authenticity and representation, auto/biography and disclosure, particularity and community, the politics of representation, and the ethics of performance. Throughout, an emphasis is placed on testing the limits of familiar approaches to creating and performing texts.

Creative Writing Dissertation

The MA Dissertation gives students the opportunity to pursue an independently conceived research and writing project. Working with the support of a supervisor, students will identify a form, or forms, in which they wish to work, conduct in-depth research into their chosen topics, and explore relevant and related creative and critical works. The dissertation will be presented in the form of a substantial piece of written work (maximum 15000 words). Students are encouraged to think carefully about their choice of forms and themes in advance, and to discuss these possibilities with members of academic staff. Formal project supervision typically begins in May for full-time students, and somewhat earlier for part-time students. Dissertation submission is usually scheduled for mid-August.

Creative and Critical Writing 2

Performance, Activism, Social Justice

This module explores how performance contributes to social justice, especially through activism. It examines: activist movements, such as Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion, and activism for indigenous rights; activist practices and actions, spanning pacifism and violence, and including occupations, events like carnivals, and performances such as verbatim theatre; and intersecting theories of activism, social justice, and performance, such as Boal¿s Poetics of the Oppressed, Judith Butler¿s theory of assembly, and Christina Sharpe¿s theory of wake-work, drawing on wider literatures in, for example, critical race theory, environmental humanities, queer theory, law, and disability rights. The module focuses on the present but explores historical roots, such as the Diggers and Levellers of the English Civil War, South African Township Theatre, women's suffrage movements, struggles for abolition and decolonisation, and activism in relation to disability, AIDS, and more. It explores arguments for activism's benefits but also explorations of its limits. It considers how performance studies can help us better understand ¿ and potentially practice ¿ activism for social justice, and how performance might particularly contribute to action for social change.

End Point Assessment

This module is only available to students enrolled on the MSc Systems Engineering Degree Apprenticeship. To progress onto this module the student must have passed through the end point assessment gateway as defined in the approved standard. As defined in the approved Assessment Plan for the standard, a degree apprentice must pass this End Point Assessment in order to be eligible for the apprenticeship award. The End Point Assessment consists of 2 components: a project report and a Professional Discussion, both evaluated by an Independent Assessor.

Field Study Skills in a Biodiversity Hotspot

The module will provide an introduction to practical field work, including botanical surveys and flowering plant identification, field mycology, and how these can be applied to solving practical problems of conservation management as well as biodiversity research. It will be taught by botanists and mycologists from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and local conservationists and researchers from collaborating institutions. Study visits to biodiversity rich sites, conservation projects and some taught case studies will give an overview of the conservation management at the study site. Usually, the field skills module of the MSc in Plant and Fungal Taxonomy, Diversity and Conservation takes place in Madagascar. However, we reserve the right to change the location of this course if advice on travel from the Foreign Commonwealth Office changes, or for logistical reasons. For students unable to travel to the course location, an alternative method of assessment will be undertaken.

AI and Data Science in Biology

This module provides an introduction to data science and AI, focusing specifically on the analysis of molecular data produced by methods such as transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics. Lectures cover the methods, algorithms and resources used for tasks such as the identification and quantitation proteins and metabolites, determination of protein structure, discovery and recognition of patterns in these data using exploratory analysis and machine learning, data integration, interpretation of data in the context of prior knownledge, and large scale analysis of the interaction between biological molecules. Practical exercises are used to gain experience with software tools, data formats and databases of relevance to this field.

Unix and Analysis of Large Genomic Datasets

This module provides an introduction to the management and analysis of big data, focusing specifically on the analysis of genome sequence data. Lectures first introduce relevant data types and data handling skills. They subsequently cover the bioinformatics methods, algorithms and resources used for tasks such as read cleaning, genome assembly, gene finding, variant calling, population genomics, and caveats and quality control approaches for such analyses Practical exercises are used to imbue experience of the Unix command line, high performance computing, and the use of these technologies to run computationally intensive genome analysis tools.

Coding for Bioscientists

This module provides a hands-on introduction to computer programming (popularly known as 'coding') using a scripting language popular in the field. The focus is on producing robust software for repeatable data-centric scientific work. Key programming concepts are introduced, and these concepts are then brought together in answer biologically relevant questions.

Overseas field trip: Terrestrial Ecology and Conservation

Tropical forests are the most biodiverse terrestrial habitats globally, and their loss is of exceptional conservation concern. This module will take place at a remote field station in pristine rainforest in Borneo, where you will gain first-hand experience of rainforest biodiversity and ecology. You will learn about the threats facing this unique biome - including forest fragmentation, logging and the expansion of oil palm - alongside the conservation efforts underway to protect and restore forest habitats. There is a strong emphasis on practical training in survey methods for different animal groups, including camera trapping, acoustic monitoring, bat trapping, and invertebrate sampling. You will spend most of your time in the forest, and there are good chances of seeing iconic species such as gibbon and orangutan, as well as nocturnal species during night safaris and walks. Teaching will consist of some lectures, given in advance in the UK, and small group field exercises in Borneo. You will also conduct a small group research project, allowing you to consolidate newly-acquired skills and knowledge gained from the wider programme.

Statistics for Biologists

This module is focussed on teaching statistical data analysis using the programming language R. The module will cover an introduction to coding with R, exploratory data analysis and visualisation, and fundamentals of statistical testing and learning. The module is taught through both theoretical lectures and computing practicals, the latter comprising of hands-on analysis of experimental data sets.

Academic Skills in Mental Health Sciences II

This module will focus on further developing the key skills required to conduct interdisciplinary research in the mental health sciences. It will provide further support for students during the data collection phase of their projects and semester B modules. It will also provide support in career development to boost students¿ employability on graduation. We will invite speakers from industry, academia and/or the public sector to give careers talks and provide workshops on career planning and job applications, including how to develop a funding application for PhD positions.

Overseas field trip: Marine Ecology and Conservation

The module focuses on the evolution, ecology, and conservation of sea turtles (mostly loggerhead turtles), cetaceans (whales and dolphins), and elasmobranch (rays and sharks). This module is designed to engage with activities undertaken by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to protect marine species. As much as possible we will integrate local NGOs and conduct research activities that are part of their daily routine. We will discuss and demonstrate tracking solutions to follow those cryptic species including GSM/Satellite relayed trackers as well as the use of drones, and we will spend time in boats surveying cryptic species. For part of the field-course you will be working at night, assisting with long-term studies of sea turtles, including sampling for isotopes and DNA analyses. There will be lecture material given over the duration of the field course. Lastly, we will also engage with public engagement activities in the local communities as it is part of the day-to-day conservation efforts.

Spacetime and Gravity

This course presents the essential concepts of both special and general relativity. The emphasis is on the physical understanding of the theory and the mathematical development is kept simple, although more detailed treatments are included for those who wish to follow them; space-time diagrams being are used extensively. The course includes discussion of the big bang and black holes.

Quantum Mechanics B

This module is both an introduction and revision, followed by an extended exposition of the basic principles and applications of quantum mechanics. Topics include: Operators and the general structure of quantum mechanics, observables, orthonormality of eigenstates, expansion theorem, commuting operators, theory of measurement; The harmonic oscillator; Angular momentum theory, the rigid rotator and applications to rotation-vibration spectra of diatomic molecules; Spin in quantum mechanics illustrated with spin1/2: matrix representations, Stern-Gerlach experiments and measurement theory exemplified; Indistinguishable particles in quantum mechanics: Bosons and Fermions; Spherically symmetric potentials and the Hydrogen atom.

Advanced Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy

This module provides advanced coverage of topics in instrumental analysis, with illustrations of the applications of such techniques. Topics to be covered include: atomic spectroscopy, molecular spectroscopy, separation sciences - gas and liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry and hyphenated techniques e.g. GC-MS, LC-MS-MS, ICP-MS, that combine two or more methods to provide improved detection of analytes. There will a strong emphasis on problem-solving in analytical chemistry.

Spacetime and Gravity

"This course presents the essential concepts of both special and general relativity. The emphasis is on the physical understanding of the theory and the mathematical development is kept simple, although more detailed treatments are included for those who wish to follow them; space-time diagrams being are used extensively. The course includes discussion of the big bang and black holes."

Radiative Transfer and Astrochemistry

Radiative transfer describes the emission and propagation of light. In this course students will learn how we use radiative transfer to infer the properties and evolution of distant objects from light alone. They will also learn how light influences the temperature and motion of matter. Light also affects the composition of astrophysical systems which naturally links the course to an introduction to astrochemistry. This module provides a key toolkit for most observational and theoretical astrophyiscs.

Advanced Analytical Chemistry & Spectroscopy

This module provides advanced coverage of topics in instrumental analysis, with illustrations of the applications of such techniques. Topics to be covered include: atomic spectroscopy, molecular spectroscopy, separation sciences - gas and liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry and "hyphenated" techniques e.g. GC-MS, LC-MS-MS, ICP-MS, that combine two or more methods to provide improved detection of analytes. There will a strong emphasis on problem-solving in analytical chemistry.

Overseas field trip: Conservation and Habitat Restoration

You will learn the importance of tropical rainforest conservation and in particular the role of habitat restoration in maintaining and improving ecosystem services. You will learn a range of methods for collecting data through field surveys, specifically in relation to ongoing habitat restoration. You will learn strategies for ecosystem-based restoration, how restoration can alleviate impacts of climate change and the biodiversity crisis, and how to address socio-economic challenges brought about by habitat restoration to local communities. You will be equipped with knowledge including how to identify restoration opportunities, how to carry out rapid site assessments, and strategies for mitigating any negative impacts of restoration. The field course will include talks from relevant researchers, stakeholders, and policy makers all of whom are involved with local restoration initiatives. Your activities will include group field exercises, group-based mini-projects and analysis as well as the presentation of resulting data, both through write-ups and oral presentations.

Academic Skills in Mental Health Sciences I

This module will focus on developing the key skills required to conduct interdisciplinary research in the mental health sciences. You will learn about the different genetic, social, cognitive, behavioural and neuroscientific approaches to mental health research, how to read and critically evaluate the literature and how to translate clinical findings to basic science questions. A key outcome of this module is to learn how to review the literature and identify a research question focusing on an aspect of psychiatric disorders or psychological wellbeing that can be investigated from a social, cognitive, behavioural, neuroscientific, or genetic perspective.

Economics of Inequality

In this module we will learn about the sources and determinants of economic inequality. We will begin by thinking about how we should understand top income and wealth concentration: The fact that rich people are so much higher than the rest (the so-called ¿1%.¿ New and old theories of income and wealth concentration will be studied. We will then switch gears and think about what generates overall inequality. Is it luck? Higher education? Having rich or better educated parents? Finally, we will take a slightly perspective and discuss how income inequality manifests itself, specifically whether income differences are mostly driven by education level, industries, or occupations.

Development Economics

The Development Economics module aims to provide students with a theoretical and empirical understanding of development economics, with emphasis on dynamic models of growth and development.

Advanced Macro

This module builds on the analysis in Macro for Policy (ECOM181) to give a deeper understanding of applied macroeconomics and how it can be used in a policy context.

Competition Policy and the Economics of Regulation

This module aims to further develop the skills of microeconomic modelling and analysis, with specific application to competition policy and the economics of regulation. The module will consider a wide range of issues, from predatory pricing to cartel stability, and from the role of non-price competition to the evolution of high technology industries.

Spatial Economics

This course provides students with a theoretical and empirical understanding of how the dimension of space can be incorporated into economic analysis. It examines the spatial theories and models that have been developed to interpret the formation of prices, demand, productive capacity, levels of output, growth rates and the distribution of income in conditions of unequal regional endowments of resources. Furthermore, it investigates the role of territory as an independent production factor that generates advantages for the people and firms situated within it.

Quantum Mechanics B

Renewable Fuels

This module provides an insight into the physicochemical properties, production and utilisation processes and economics of the renewable and carbon neutral/free fuels. These include liquid and gaseous biofuel, biomass driven fuels (e.g. bio-syngas), hydrogen and hydrogen carriers. Renewable fuel technologies, at different levels of maturity, are discussed and the relevant sustainability issues are identified.

Advanced Mechanical Modelling of Materials

Students will gain knowledge on the mechanical properties and constitutive models of engineering materials along with the associated computing techniques. Topics covered will involve advanced-level content related to elasticity (including anisotropy), viscoelasticity (using a Voigt model or Prony Series), plasticity (using Druker-Prager) and fracture mechanics (J-Intergral) of a wide range of engineering materials (including polymers, composites, metals & ceramics). Students will interpret experimental data (such as stress-strain curves) to determine the correct constitutive model for the observed mechanical properties of the materials. The module will focus on the link between material properties and structure and will provide underpinning knowledge to allow successful modelling using finite element analysis package of a wide range of engineering applications.

Medicines and Pharmaceutical Markets

The module considers drug discovery and the forms and stages of clinical trials. Examples will be given of the influence of networks of public-private partnership on drug approvals. A further focus will be on the regulation of medicines and how patterns of national and regional pharmaceutical production and supply are affected by international regulation such as TRIPS, TTIP and international institutions such as the International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH). The module will also give a comparative overview of national regulatory standards for the production, quality control, distribution, prescribing of medicines, and systems of pharmacovigilance. It will also cover issues related to access to medicine and identify areas in which the market has failed to meet global health needs. For example no new drugs have been developed since the 1950s for `neglected diseases¿ such as chagas in Latin America and leishmaniasis in Africa, and current drugs for these diseases are prohibitively expensive; at the same time infectious disease in poorer societies remains untreated, and the global market for anti-depressants has grown.

Environment, Ethics and Economics in Engineering Design

This module will introduce several dimensions of ethical design, considering the system life cycle including the impact of end-of-life. Elements incorporating ethics into effective system design using a modern set of theoretical frameworks including circular economy, planetary boundaries and environmental life cycle assessment will be considered. The consequential impact of large scale technology shifts to guard against replacing one problem for another will be covered. The role of meeting and contributing to environmental regulation and policy will be explored and an 'ethical cost benefit analysis' will be introduced that internalises otherwise external environmental costs. Decision making under a complex array of economic and environmental objectives will be considered via multi-criteria decision analysis.

Introduction to Systems Engineering

This module uses the classical V-model to provide a guide to the characteristics of systems and fundamental principles of systems engineering. It addresses how a systems approach can be applied to one or more engineered systems contexts as a part of managed interventions into complex real world problems. Topics include stakeholder analysis, requirements definition, system architecture and concept generation, trade-space exploration and concept selection, design definition and optimisation, system integration and interface management, system safety, verification and validation, commissioning and operations and related/emerging disciplines/topics in Systems Engineering.

Engineering Design Optimisation and Decision Making

The use of mathematical models, numerical optimisation algothrims, heuristic search methods, metamodelling techniques, Design of Experiment and complex decision analysis methods for a wide range of engineering system and product design problems will be introduced. Examples and individual/group design projects will cover many areas of aerosapce, mechanical, chemical, and materials engineering problems.

Simulation and Model Based Systems Engineering

This module covers techniques and tools for modelling complex real-world engineering systems. Key steps of creating and using models are presented from general-purpose conceptual modelling to analytical and simulation models using simulation tools and environments. Topics include object process methodology (OMP) for system engineering, systems modelling languages (UML/SysML), simulation paradigms (discrete, continuous, deterministic, stochastic, agent-based models, human and hardware in the loop simulation), verification and validation of models and emerging topics such as digital twins. The modelling process is demonstrated throughout the module using case studies of real-world engineering systems.

Statistical Thinking and Applied Machine Learning

Deriving insight from data collected by businesses in their operations, is essential to problem-solving, innovation, and growth of a business. To gain this insight the data needs to be understood and appropriately interpreted. In this module, you will learn probability theory and the transformation of data from a high- into a low-dimensional space. You will develop the statistical thinking of data scientists on designing data collection, derive insights from visualising data, obtain supporting evidence for data-based decisions and construct models for predicting future trends from data. Building on the statistical foundation, you will learn techniques for unsupervised and supervised learning and apply them to automating routine engineering tasks, and to apply machine learning approaches to complex and critical systems in a holistic and system-oriented way.

Digital Signal Acquisition and Processing

This module will explore sensing and measuring physical quantities interfaced to computer-based data acquisition and processing tools. As the signals produced are often complex and plentiful, tools to process and analyse them appropriately will be covered. Additionally, both theoretical and practical skills of data acquisition, build and signal processing will be taught. Key software of importance for managing the signals will be introduced and applied to students' fields of interest.

Healthcare Improvement

Students will learn how to answer clinical questions using a systematic evidence-based approach. Students will develop skills in constructing literature searches and critically evaluating evidence and will be able to make a reasoned and well-informed interpretation of the evidence behind the NICE Guidelines. This module also provides students with the knowledge and skills to support and guide patients in improving their own health, and to deliver evidence-based patient care. This will be achieved through taking a holistic approach encompassing health promotion, health education, quality improvement and health literacy in the context of public health and social determinants of health. Students will learn to troubleshoot challenges using evidence based and quality improvement methodology and principles and apply these skills through simulated exercises.

Emerging Market Finance

This course introduces concepts (and applications of these concepts in the global banking market) in Islamic Banking and Finance that is appropriate for students with an economics or broad financial background. The first part of the course will introduce students to the overall paradigm of Islamic Banking, its origins, with reference to religious law and how this requires the development of a finance and banking system that differs fundamentally to the existing global system. Then focus will move to analysis of sectors of the industry including the generation and application of capital, roles of banks and other entities such as regulators and industry sponsors. After this students will be introduced to the key sectors of Islamic banking such as the operation of an Islamic treasury function, Islamic Funds, Investments, Debt Capital Markets (Sukuk), and other structured financing vehicles. The course will not only focus on the theory behind each sector, but also clear and detailed analysis of the practical structuring, application, pricing and execution of transactions in each sector.

Blockchain, Innovation and Transparency

Introduction to Coding with Python

Python is a language with a simple syntax, and a powerful set of libraries. While it is easy for beginners to learn, it is widely used in many scientific areas including data science, machine learning and blockchain. This module is an introduction to the Python programming language for students without prior programming experience. Topics include algorithms and problem solving, data types, control structures, functions, arrays, files, and the mechanics of running, testing, and debugging.

Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Programming

This module is an introduction to cryptocurrency and blockchain programming for students without prior programming experience of building a blockchain. Students will learn key fundamentals of blockchain technologies and theories behind cryptocurrency transactions as well as practical training of creation of their own blockchains. Topics include how to build a blockchain, how to create a cryptocurrency, and how to create a smart contract. Although this module is not highly technical, it requires a basic level of mathematics and Python knowledge.

Business Ethics in Digital Economy

The module provides a deep analytical insight into ethical controversies in digital economy. Students will acquire knowledge of how ethics in digital economy contributes to sustainable management of the organisation in the long-term. The module focuses on ethical norms in blockchain technology and other areas of digitalisation. Students will build up their theoretical base from case studies.

Blockchain Regulation and the Law

This is an introduction to the emerging and important area of blockchain regulation and law, and how it may fit into the context of established legal principles. No law background is assumed.

Data Science: Methods and Applications

This module will provide an introduction to the methods and the tools of data science. The module will use the programming language Python and will cover the fundamental stages of data analysis workflow, including data collection, data pre-processing, exploratory analysis, statistical modelling, and business reporting. This will involve web scraping, merging and cleaning data sets, feature engineering, descriptive analysis and data visualisation, and applying various unsupervised and supervised machine learning models. The module will focus on applications in the general business management domain as well as the analysis of digital currency and blockchain data.

Blockchain for Social Impact: Democracy and Governance

The module focuses on the analytical frameworks of using blockchain technology to promote and secure the social impact. The elements of the module is to learn how blockchain technology is linked or can be further related to the digitalisation of the public sector (e-government). The students will gain analytical skills of how blockchain can be used in domains, e.g. digital identity, privacy protection, cybersecurity and e-voting. The most recent technological developments and the application are to be taught through case studies. The module overviews the current and future implementation and the use of blockchain technology by e-government in developed and developing economies.

Research Methods

The module will introduce basic principles of research design and strategy, ranging from the formulation of research problems to the critical assessment of alternative approaches to research. Students will gain a through grounding of most common research methods in medical science. Students will also develop an appreciation for research ethics specific to the discipline of medical science.

Clinical Sensors and Measurements

This module will provide an understanding of biopotentials and other biological signals, and identify mechanisms and principles by which they can be measured via sensors. It will offer a detailed understanding of the fundamental principals associated with transducers and sensors, and a comprehensive review of the most widely used techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of disease states alongside the problems of sensing in a biological environment.

Economics of Mental Health

This module provides an introduction to the key theoretical economic aspects of mental health (e.g. adverse selection and moral hazard, non-contractable provider actions, externalities), as well as to the key policy aspects of service delivery (e.g. risk adjustment policies, behavioral health carve-outs). Special attention will also be given to the institutional contexts within which mental health and substance abuse care is provided (e.g who is treated for mental illness and who pays for mental health care).

Quantum Programming

This module is designed for interested novices at postgraduate level to explore the coming revolution in computing and programming that will move to so-called 'quantum' systems that will massively transform the speed and quantity of computation that can be performed. Its impact on the Internet and mobile services is expected to be a sea-change. The student will be briefly introduced at a conversational level to physical principles that enable quantum computing before moving on for the bulk of the time in hands-on programming special to quantum systems.

Mental Health Policy Evaluation

This module aims to convey the fundamental methodological tools to independently and critically evaluate and interpret policy interventions and impact assessments, with a focus on mental health. The course will blend a rigorous treatment of the main concepts and methods, with a hands-on discussion of how to apply these principles in practice. It will cover material that is complementary to that covered by the Health Economics module, focusing more specifically on mental health.

Health Economic Analyses

The module will introduce learners to key microeconomic concepts and principles, their relevance to the health economy and the need for alternative approaches to priority setting and resource allocation. The module will then discuss key health economic analytical frameworks to inform resource allocation in health, exploring methods of economic evaluation, health policy evaluation, economic analysis of public health interventions, and analysis of inequalities in health and health care. Throughout the module, the focus will be on developing learners¿ ability to critically appraise, conceptualize, design, and carry out appropriate health economic analyses.

Medical Robotics and Surgical Techniques

This module covers the fundamental areas of medical robotics and surgical techniques, introducing various medical robotic systems and their applications. These include surgical robots and robotic devices, prosthetics, assistive and rehabilitative robots and endoscopic robots. An insight into the engineering design, fabrication, control and comprehensive operation will be provided. In addition, a wide range surgical techniques and safety with a focus on equipment for use in surgery will be included. The importance of electrical safety, the regulations governing equipment, the principles of operation of a number of important monitoring devices and some of the major medical equipment used within a surgical environment will be covered.

The Roots of Blockchain's Social Justice Potential

Introduction to Blockchain and Digital Economy

What is Bitcoin? What is a blockchain? This module introduces the conceptual and technical concepts behind Bitcoin, blockchain, and other aspects of the digital economy.

Photography and Narrative

How do photographic images shape oru understanding of the world? Of what are they evidence? How do we 'read' them and what kinds of stories are they used to tell? This module engages students in the analysis of photographs drawn from a range of twentieth and twenty-first century projects and contexts. It considers the ways in which still images invite us to interpret them, and to undestand them as part of an unfolding sequence of events. Students will acquire methods for analysing photographic images and photographic 'acts' and will be introduced to writings by some of the major critical thinkers on photography.

Behavioural Economics

There is mounting evidence that people violate many of the "rationality" assumptions of mainstream economics. Behavioural Economics is a relatively new field that studies such violations and proposes theories to explain them. Key topics include the susceptibility of behaviour to "irrelevant" factors, biases in judgment under uncertainty, overconfidence, dynamic inconsistency, other-regarding preferences, fairness, and departures from the standard game-theoretic notion of Nash equilibrium.

Advanced Nanocomposites

This module will explore the role of advanced nanocomposites in modern engineering. It will cover the micromechanics of these materials with a particular focus on particulate micromechanics and the role of the filler shape, size and morphology. A widerange of nanomaterials will be introduced, and methods for manufacturing these nanocomposites will be explored. Nanocomposites have a huge range of applications, and this module will explore advanced nanocomposites for (i) mechanical and structural applications; (ii) electrical applications; (iii) thermal applications; (iv) barrier membrane applications.

Introduction to Tuberculosis

In this module students will develop a comprehensive overview of Tuberculosis (TB), with an emphasis on prevention, diagnosis and management of drug-susceptible TB. Students will review the history of TB, as well as disease pathogenesis and epidermiology. Students also will be introduced to WHO recommended strategies, various treatment options and their effects, and current diagnostic technologies such as genome sequencing. Students will learn via a series of online lectures delivered by experts in the field and will participate in discussion groups.

Risk Factors and Risk Groups

In this module students will develop a more in-depth review of specific and challenging aspects surrounding the clinical management of Tuberculosis (TB), including rehabilitation, palliative, and holistic care. Students will review the effects of smoking, alcohol, diabetes and HIV, as well as evaluate the specific impact of TB in children and the elderly. In addition, students will evaluate extrapulmonary TB, post TB infections, as well as renal and hepatic failure. Students will learn via a series of online lectures delivered by experts in the field and will participate in discussion groups.

Public Health in Tuberculosis

This module will give students a comprehensive overview of the public health aspects of Tuberculosis (TB) with an emphasis on the theory, guidelines, and exercises used to practice the taught concepts. Students will examine the national TB programme, and develop knowledge related to strategic planning and managing TB outbreaks. Students will learn via a series of online lectures delivered by experts in the field and will participate in discussion groups.

Research Methods in Tuberculosis

In this module students will develop a sound preparation for performing research in Tuberculosis (TB). Students will evaluate theory, including priority areas for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Students also will evaluate how to review literature, develop protocols, conduct trials and design a research project. The module will include coursework to consolidate these skills. Students will learn via a series of online lectures delivered by experts in the field and will participate in discussion groups.

Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis

In this module students will develop a comprehensive overview of multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Students will review epidemiology, as well as diagnostics for MDR-TB. In addition, students will learn to design and evaluate treatment regimens, with particular focus on new and re-purposed drugs, side effects, and therapeutic drug monitoring. Students will learn via a series of online lectures delivered by experts in the field and will participate in discussion groups.

Financial Engineering

Financial engineering combines financial theory, methods of engineering, tools of mathematics, and the practice of programming. This module applies financial engineering principles to different asset classes such as interest rates, currencies, credit, and equities, as well as derivative securities. It discusses and applies methods that use financial markets, instruments, and financial engineering strategies in solving practical problems concerning pricing, hedging, risk management, and product structuring.

Theories of Empire: from Enlightenment to Liberalism

Introduction to Machine Learning

The Introduction to Machine Learning course provides a comprehensive exploration of fundamental machine learning concepts, techniques, and applications. Students will engage with the material through regular quizzes testing their grasp of key concepts. The central focus of the course is a collaborative group project that provides practical experience in applying machine learning principles to real-world problems. This course fosters continuous learning, teamwork, and the practical application of theoretical knowledge, thus equipping students with valuable skills for their future roles in the field.

Problems and Analysis in Biodiversity, Evolution and Conservation

This essential module will teach students how to compile relevant information to prime their research project. They will work directly with their project supervisor who will guide them to i) develop their critical thinking with regards to the most up to date research in their field of expertise and ii) synthesise complex information in a coherent literature review, and (iii) write that up in the form of a literature review suitable for a international review journal.

Biochemistry MSci Research Project

Students work independently on a topic in biochemistry in which their supervisor is a recognized expert. Original experimental or theoretical work is the principal component of this advanced research project. A thesis (dissertation) is written by the student describing the work undertaken, and placing it in context of other research in the field. The dissertation is defended in an oral examination, which includes a short oral presentation.

Conservation and Restoration in Practice

Here you will learn the latest approaches to preserving plant diversity, the recovery of priority species, and restoration of habitats using UK and overseas case examples. The first week teaches the biology and practice of seed banking and cryopreservation, and the use of ecological horticulture for species reintroduction and recovery. The second week reviews the opportunities and approaches for restoring functional biodiverse habitats that will be resilient to climate change and will contribute to livelihoods and natural capital values. This elective module is taught at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.

Biodiversity Survey and Spatial Analysis

Here you will learn how to work with genetic, geographical and biodiversity record data and how to draw conclusions about species distributions, status, and potential conservation approaches. There are three blocks of training: The survey and spatial analysis block teaches the main approaches to vegetation surveying and securing good quality data on which to base analysis of species distribution and status. Assessment will include production of a species distribution map. The conservation genetics block provides an introduction to theory and practice, and examines through case studies of plant and fungal diversity how genetic diversity information can inform conservation decisions. Conclusions are discussed in a group session. The final red-listing block provides training in the requirements for assessing extinction threat in plant and fungal species. The assessment includes preparing a conservation report and a preliminary red list assessment for one species. This is a professional competency using IUCN endorsed materials and approaches. This elective module is taught at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.

Research Project

You will study a topic in some depth and write up your analysis. Typically, the research project will consist of a literature review. A list of suggested topics will be provided, but you can also propose your own topic (as long as it aligns with the research interests of the school's academic staff). You will be assigned a supervisor who can provide you with some guidance, but you will largely work independently.

Nature, Nurture and Mental Health

This module provides an in-depth analysis of a new, rapidly evolving, and often controversial area, of psychology and psychiatry. We will build on several key areas of psychology introduced in previous modules including social, biological and abnormal psychology to explore how genetic and environmental factors come together to cause mental illnesses such as major depression, schizophrenia and autism. Drawing on the most recent research from quantitative and molecular genetics we will explore the evidence behind several key controversies in the field including the continuum between traits and disorders, the nature vs nurture debate, genetic determinism and the ethical implications of genetic research of mental illness.

Nature, Nurture and Mental Health

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

The module covers the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of Neural Networks and automatic differentiation as a tool for modern AI. Neural Networks & Deep Learning are now the method of choice for solving various Machine Learning problems. They are applied to several real-world problems not only within Academia but most importantly within Industry. Knowledge of Neural Networks and how to apply them to solve practical problems is now considered one of the most essential skills in the job market for a CS graduate. The module will include a detailed exposition for Neural Networks and their implementation using a Deep Learning framework. Topics covered include but not limited to: Automatic Differentiation, Stochastic Gradient Descent, Regression, Softmax Regression, Multi-Layer Perceptrons, Training of Neural Networks and hyper-parameter optimization, Convolutional Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks. Applications of Neural Networks to Vision and NLP.

Machine Learning Deployment

Machine Learning Deployment covers the fundamental concepts, methodology and practical tools necessary to turn machine learning models into products that generate value. This module combines modern machine learning and software engineering development and teaches how to design, build and maintain end-to-end machine learning production systems, both on-device and served by cloud platforms. The conceptual and practical skills learned in Machine Learning Deployment will allow students to create machine learning based products that solve real-world problems.

MSc Biomedical Sciences Literature Review

In the early stages of the MSc Biomedical Sciences the student will undertake a literature review surrounding the research project they are to undertake. The module involves the production of a report, ~5000 words. The report will contain five elements. i) A title of the students future dissertation in a relevant area of Biomedical Research. ii) A description of the general background to the relevant research field. iii) A comprehensive literature review of the specific research topic. iv) A very brief research proposal suitable for a PhD research project will be outlined, with a focus on the first year of the research program. v) Finally a short formal talk will be presented to a specialist audience summarizing their literature review and can include a "Research Pitch" . This compulsory 15 credit module will involve regular one-to-one meetings with the project supervisor(s) and should be completed within the first ten weeks (in semester 1).

Advanced Biochemical Research Methods

This module will provide an advanced training in techniques in biochemistry. In addition to lectures from members of staff and seminars from external speakers, there will be computer and practical workshops to teach methods in molecular biology, structural biology, biophysics and synthetic biology.

MSc Biomedical Sciences Experimental Project

An experimental investigation involving laboratory work and/or computational work in some aspect of Biomedical Sciences. The student will be embedded within the research community of SBCS/Barts Cancer Institute and likely other institutes within SMD. The student will attend research seminars and research group meetings and typically spend a proportion of each day (from January until August) in the laboratory doing research. There will be a series or short written and spoken reports (incl Poster Presentation, Research Talk (oral presentation), Research Dissertation). The dissertation will be 10,000 words, which includes a review of relevant literature, data presentation, analysis and discussion.

Advanced Biochemical Research Methods

Nanomaterials

This module is designed to give students an understanding of nanomaterials and nanoscience from inorganic and physical chemistry perspectives. The module includes an introduction to colloidal systems and their applications, as well as insight into nanochemistry, with several examples of nanoscience applications. An overview of physical chemistry and synthesis of colloids with a clear link to practical applications such as medical diagnostics and drug delivery will be included. An introduction into interfacial phenomena, the electrical double layer and intermolecular (van der Waals) forces of significance for colloidal stability are given. Important phenomena such as colloidal stability (steric and charge stabilisation), adsorption, adhesion, self-assembly, diffusion, stability electrophoresis and aggregation will be covered. Techniques such as light scattering, small and wide angle X-ray and neutron scattering and electron transmission techniques, as well as the rheology of these systems will be covered. Methods of measuring particle/crystallite size are also discussed. Various examples in pharmaceuticals and natural products design will be discussed. The synthesis and applications of inorganic nanomaterials including nanocomposites and colloidal dispersions will be discussed. The main properties of nanomaterials will be discussed (electronic, optical, catalytic, mechanical and magnetic properties), always including the comparison between 'nano' and 'bulk' properties.

Nanomaterials

Professional Skills in Chemistry

This module aims to develop an awareness of the role of chemistry in contemporary societal and global issues and at equipping final year students with the key skills required to address some of the challenges that they are likely to encounter as professional chemists. Topics such as advanced experimental techniques, industrial safety, intellectual property and ethical issues arising during professional practice of chemistry will be discussed. This module will particularly focus on developing communication skills that will allow students to evaluate, interpret, synthesise and discuss chemical information effectively and present scientific material to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Professional Skills in Chemistry

Laparoscopic Suturing Skills

This module will introduce the learner to the laparoscopic suturing and knot tying techniques. The course will offer hands-on training by simulation for needle loading, forming roeders knot and endoloop, intracorporeal and extracorporeal laparoscopic suturing and knot tying. Students will also learn how to obtain laparoscopic access to, and closure of, the peritoneal cavity, the physiological effects of pneumoperitoneum, the principles of laparoscopic hemostasis and indications for diagnostic laparoscopy.

Sutures, Instruments and Anastomotic Suturing Techniques

This module covers the theoretical and practical aspects of suturing tissues during surgery as part of a 3 module series of lectures, webinars and practicals. In particular it teaches basic surgical skills like knotting, different suture material properties, use of surgical instruments, handling of surgical staplers, diathermy and use of surgical glues.

Dissertation

This module provides an opportunity to further develop and apply skills learned during the taught modules by undertaking an independent, critical study and evaluation of an approved and relevant topic. The specific nature of each dissertation will be determined through discussions between the student and the module leaders, but will involve applying analytical, investigative and communication skills and utilizing a range of research methods and tools. Students that have the access and opportunity to undertake a clinical or lab based project will be allowed to do so with the module leader's approval.

Practical Surgical Skills in Hysteroscopic Gynaecology

This module will introduce the learner to clinical application of Hysteroscopy as described in the HYSTT-GESEA programme of European Academy of Gynaecological Surgery. The students will be able to describe the technique and safe practice & principles for performing Hysteroscopy as recommended in the HYSTT - GESEA programme of European Academy of Gynaecological Surgery.

Laparosopic Simulation and Cadaver Training

This module will involve students being introduced to laparoscopic anatomy through performing sham laparoscopies on Thiel embalmed cadavers and also using open dissection of these cadavers to understand the internal organs of the abdomen and the chest. Laparoscopic trainers will also be used to train the students in virtual reality settings.

Applied Surgical Anatomy and Physiology

This study-unit comprises the study of surgical anatomy with respect to trauma and surgical procedures. It aims to give a background in physiology with respect to disorders in blood, fluids and electrolytes, jaundice, bilirubin and blood sugar control. Study of degenerative neurological and cardiovascular neurological conditions as they impact surgical practice is also included.

Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills in Gynaecology

This module will introduce the learner to the laparoscopic suturing and knot tying techniques of SUTT2 ¿ GESEA Level 2 programme ( European Academy of Gynaecological Surgery in the (GESEA) programme) of The European Academy of Gynaecological Surgery. The theory topics covered in this modules will introduce the learner to safe practice and principles of Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills in Gynaecology for tubo-ovarian pathologies and the practical skills will enable the students to perform suturing and knot tying of SUTT2 ¿ GESEA Level 2 programme.

Basics in Research Methods

An introduction to Research Methods in the Health sphere with essentials of Health information, epidemiology, qualitative research methods and ethical concerns in research. This unit will introduce the student to basic knowledge on recruiting or collecting health information, processing it in a manner in which it is epidemiologically sound and using statistical tools to be able to interpret findings. This will also enable the student to understand details of the science in published papers.

Sepsis and Soft Skills in Surgery

This module gives a broad overview of the operative management of the surgical patient and complications arising therefrom. It details pre-operative management, prevention, identification and control of surgical sepsis and causes and management of bowel anastomotic failure. It also prepares students with the soft skills required for managing patients.

Virtual Reality Immersive Learning - Cholecystectomy

This module will introduce the learner to the strategies for minimizing bile duct injuries: adopting a universal culture of safety in cholecystectomy by understanding core laparoscopic surgical principles for calots triangle dissection. Students will use virtual reality simulation - VR for learning laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Students will learn how to troubleshoot during laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the diagnosis and management of complications after cholecystectomy and the use of surgical energy.

Laparoscopic Skills

This module will introduce the learner to core laparoscopic surgical principles and hands on training with instruments to master their basic laparoscopic skills. The theory topics covered focus on the history and role of laparoscopy, setting up a laparoscopy stack, the use of surgical energy and troubleshooting during laparoscopy. Students will learn how to use different laparoscopic scopes, cameras and instruments. Through practical exercises (peg/polo transfer & pattern cutting) students will learn to manipulate and use the tools effectively. This will provide the grounding for laparoscopic surgical training.

Bowel and Other Tissue Suturing

This module follows on from Sutures, Instruments and Sutuing Techniques and covers the theoretical and practical aspects of organ resection, suturing and anastomotic techniques with a series of lectures webinars and practical sessions.

The Child with Trauma

This module will provide students with an understanding of specific issues relevant to paediatric trauma presentations. Students will learn about a range of topics including: leading the trauma team, trauma imaging, primary and secondary survey, spinal injuries, chest and pelvis trauma, head injuries. The second part will cover facial injuries, procedural sedation, joint dislocations, wound management, and limb injuries. Please note, this module does not seek to provide students with clinical training in paediatric emergency medicine, but rather to provide an understanding of specific issues relevant to neonatal and adolescent presentations.

Film Studies 1

Part 1 of the Film Studies course provides an in-depth foundation in the discipline and its nuances. It looks at and presents the most cutting edge and current research in the discipline in thematic sections that span the theory and practice of film by examining and considering the many ways in which a century of cinema has shaped our experience of space, time, and reality as well as perspectives on film's relationship with the world through fiction, ethics, and actuality.

Film Studies 2

The Young Infant/Neonate and the Adolescent

This module will provide students with an understanding of specific issues relevant to neonatal and adolescent presentations. Students will learn about a range of topics including: the normal baby, neonatal seizures, congenital heart disease, metabolic conditions; and in adolescents - self-harm, pseudoseizures, vaginal bleeding, sexually transmitted diseases, and anxiety + depression. Please note, this module does not seek to provide students with clinical training in paediatric emergency medicine, but rather to provide an understanding of specific issues relevant to neonatal and adolescent presentations.

The Child with a Neurological or Haematological Problem

Although less common, neurological and haematological presentations in children can present a diagnostic and managerial challenge in the ED. In the first part of this module students will cover common neurological presentations including headache, seizures, ataxia, neuromuscular disorders, and stroke. In the second part the focus will be on haematological presentations including neutropenia, ITP, pancytopenia, and tumour lysis syndrome. Please note, this module does not seek to provide students with clinical training in paediatric emergency medicine, but rather to provide an understanding of specific issues relevant to neonatal and adolescent presentations.

The Child with a Respiratory or Cardiovascular Problem

This module will provide students with an understanding of specific issues relevant to paediatric respiratory and cardiovascular presentations to the emergency department. During this module students will learn about common respiratory such as asthma, bronchiolitis and croup, before moving on to cardiac presentations including heart murmurs, arrhythmias, hypertension, and chest pain. Please note, this module does not seek to provide students with clinical training in paediatric emergency medicine, but rather to provide an understanding of specific issues relevant to neonatal and adolescent presentations.

The Child with a Dermatological, Endocrine, or Renal Problem

This module covers common dermatological, renal, and endocrine presentations to ED. Paediatric rashes range from the mild/benign to the life-threatening. In the first part of the module students will cover common dermatological presentations, including non-blanching rashes, viral exanthems, vasculitis, and eczema, exploring the recognition of rashes on different skin tones. In the second part the focus will be on renal presentations including urinary tract infections, nephrotic syndrome, haemolytic-uraemic syndrome, renal vein thrombosis, and glomerulonephritis. The final part will focus on endocrine presentations including diabetes mellitus, hypoglycaemia, and thyroid problems. Please note, this module does not seek to provide students with clinical training in paediatric emergency medicine, but rather to provide an understanding of specific issues relevant to neonatal and adolescent presentations.

The Critically Ill Child

This module covers the initial resuscitative management of the critically ill child. This will include managing the difficult airways, anaphylaxis, DKA, sepsis and shock, as well as the less commonly but also life-threatening presentations of PIMS-TS, hypothermia and adrenal crises,. The module will also include learning and discussion around transfer, debrief, conflict management, safeguarding, and resus outcomes. Please note, this module does not seek to provide students with clinical training in paediatric emergency medicine, but rather to provide an understanding of specific issues relevant to the critically ill child.

The Child with a Surgical or Gastro-Intestinal Problem

Abdominal pain in children is another common ED presentation. This module will help students differentiate from acute abdominal emergencies, benign presentations and chronic illnesses. In the first part of the module students will cover common surgical presentations including urethral abnormalities, bilious vomiting, common oral and dental injuries, eye emergencies, and intussusception. In the second part the focus will be on gastrointestinal presentations including inflammatory bowel disease, constipation, rectal bleeding, and pancreatitis. Please note, this module does not seek to provide students with clinical training in paediatric emergency medicine, but rather to provide an understanding of specific issues relevant to neonatal and adolescent presentations.

Directing Fiction

Consolidated Clinical Skill and Science in Minimally Invasive Dentistry

This core module will consolidate the advanced knowledge acquired in previous modules. The students will acquire enhanced skills for a multidisciplinary comprehensive approach in examining, diagnosing and managing MID approaches in all ages.

Core Knowledge and Clinical Skills in Clinical Oral Microbiology

This module covers the basic biological science topics and clinical skills relating to the study of Clinical Oral Microbiology to ensure that all students possess the fundamental level of knowledge and skills required to study the advanced level 8 modules in Clinical Oral Microbiology. This fundamental knowledge and skills provides the underpinning building blocks to be developed over the following two years of clinical training and practice.

Core Knowledge and Clinical Skills in Minimally Invasive Dentistry

This module covers the basic biological science topics and clinical skills relating to the study of MID to ensure that all students possess the fundamental level of knowledge and skills required to study the advanced level 8 modules in MID. This fundamental knowledge and skills provides the underpinning building blocks to be developed over the following two years of clinical training and practice.

Advanced Clinical Skills and Science in Minimally Invasive Dentistry

This core module will build on and advance the basic knowledge acquired in previous modules and introduce students to more in-depth aspects of MID and the knowledge required to manage dental diseases by the employment of MID. This module also enhances the student¿s ability to examine the patient, diagnosis of presenting condition, and the ability to formulate an appropriate treatment plan. This module will cover aspects of advanced knowledge in MID. Advanced clinical skills will be acquired to underpin an independent clinical practice.

Consolidated Clinical Skill and Science in Clinical Oral Microbiology

This core module will consolidate the advanced knowledge acquired in previous modules including bacteriology, virology, parasitology, immunology, and pathology. Students will be introduced to more complicated oral infection cases. The students will acquire enhanced skills for a multidisciplinary comprehensive approach in examining, diagnosing and managing complicated head and neck, and systemic infections.

Hazardous Materials and Environmental Medicine

Module 7 is titled 'Hazardous Materials and Environmental Medicine' In this module students will learn how to assess and care for patients involved in CBRN incidents, poison/toxins and the provision of care in a range environments. Students will learn to risk assess the scene and their patients. They will be taught how to select PPE and how to identify toxidromes and poisons. Students will learn about care provision in extreme environments, such as in the (ant)arctic or tropical arenas and heat/cold illness.

Tactical Medical Care

Module 6, Tactical Medical Care, focuses on resuscitation skills required to provide critical care in military and extreme civilian environments, teaching how hospital based practice should be modified. The module builds on the knowledge of year 1 and how this may be adapted to various hostile environments. The module will focus on battlefield medicine, battlefield evacuation, haemorrhage control, airway management, wound & burn management, analgesia and delivery of care for civilian terrorist incidents & natural disasters. It will also discuss inter-service working with fire and police. While the majority of the module is trauma focused, in week 5 we will look at medical conditions and HAZMAT. Examples from recent events such as the Ebola outbreak and recent terrorist incidents will be studied.

Psychological Therapies Dissertation

In this module, students will work on a piece of independently produced research relevant to their pathway, which can be clinical (based on clinical work), empirical (based on new research data) or synthetic (an evidence synthesis). Students will be assisted in topic choice and guided through the process by a personal tutor but will be expected to collect data themselves, or organise access to it, and write the thesis independently. Topics will be identified in consultation with potential supervisors draft from QMUL academic staff involved with the programme, and a topic list will be made available in Semester 1. Students will be asked to select three potential topics (with identified supervisors) and the module organiser will endeavour to facilitate students' first or second choices. Some topics may be broad enough to accommodate more than one student at a time.

Psychological Therapies: Applications and Effectiveness

The module maps out both classic and contemporary work in mental health and relates theory to practice, particularly in psychotherapy. Research is drawn from a number of different therapeutic treatments, such as psychoanalysis, CBT, group and family therapy and 3rd wave therapies. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the effectiveness of each method and how these are used to treat a range of mental illnesses such as Psychosis, Depression and Personality Disorders. Students will be also submitting a reflective piece based on their clinical placement.

Independent Scientific Paper

This module will allow students to develop specialist knowledge and insight on a topic of their choice, related to Emergency and Resuscitation Medicine. Students may choose to organise their scientific paper in the form of a systematic review (with meta-analysis), narrative review, retrospective (medical-records) review, or prospective (low-risk) cohort study (e.g. education study). Students will develop the ability to synthesis and analyse information and data, to break down complex issues and to compare and contrast alternative viewpoints. Particular emphasis will be placed on developing the students' ability to disseminate knowledge at a professional level, with a view towards publication.

Psychological Therapies: Paradigms and Systems

Psychological Therapies: Applications and Effectiveness

Advanced Clinical Skills and Science in Clinical Oral Microbiology

This core module will build on and advance the basic knowledge acquired in previous modules and introduce students to more in-depth aspects of Clinical Oral Microbiology and the knowledge required to manage associated systemic infections. This module also enhances the student¿s ability to examine the patient, diagnosis of presenting condition, and the ability to formulate an appropriate treatment plan. This module will cover aspects of advanced knowledge in Clinical Oral Microbiology including bacteriology, virology, parasitology, immunology, and pathology. Advanced clinical skills will be acquired to underpin an independent clinical practice.

The Scene of Reading

This module explores the theme of reading in literature, film, and the visual arts, and in theoretical writings past and present. Literary texts will range from the early modern to the post-modern novel, and will be taken from European and other literatures. The figure of the reader in film and the visual arts will also be examined, while recent theories of narrative, reading and reception will allow students to reflect upon their own processes as readers and spectators.

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Principles of Machine Learning

Principles of Machine Learning covers the fundamental concepts, methodology and practical tools necessary to understand, build and assess data-driven models to describe real-world systems and predict their behaviour. We will follow the standard machine learning taxonomy to organise problems and techniques into well-defined families (supervised and unsupervised learning) and subfamilies. We will pay particular attention to the methodology that we need to use to avoid and identify common pitfalls. State-of-the-art models and the latest developments on model deployment will be discussed.

Feminist Film Philosophy

Feminist Film Philosophy examines the relationships between feminist thinkers and film from a variety of perspectives. Tracing the history of women's critical writing about film in terms of aesthetics, ethics, politics and filmmaking, the module develops a sustained engagement between women and conceptual, philosophical questions prompted by film. This will range from Maya Deren and Virginia Woolf, to Luce Irigaray and Iris Murdoch; Kathleen Collins and Sally Potter, to bell hooks and Audre Lorde. The module will draw on a range of filmmakers , feminisms and philosophers in order to explore the various ways in which philosophy and film can be brought together to create a distinctive strand of feminist film philosophy.

Psychological Therapies: Paradigms and Systems

Public Economics

This module focuses on the role of the government in an economy. The aim is to provide an understanding of the reasons for government intervention in the economy, analysing the benefits of possible government policies, and the response of economic agents to the government¿s actions.

Economics of Health and Education

The aim of this module is to build understanding of the economic analysis of education and health. The module will introduce key concepts, issues, theories and models relating to health economics and the economics of education, placing emphasis on empirical application and understanding of current empirical research in the field.

Big Data and Machine Learning

Building on the methods and approaches of contemporary applied econometric data analysis developed in Quantitative Methods in Policy Applications, the Big Data and Machine Learning module will equip students with the empirical techniques to use and analyse large datasets. By the end of the course, students will be able to use modern empirical techniques such as machine learning on large microeconomic and financial datasets, assess the informativeness of empirical estimates and their use economic analysis, and visualize complex information sets. Students will learn how to handle real-world data and use econometric software.

Italian Language and Culture I (b)

The module is suitable for beginners in Italian. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Italian (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.

Modern Arabic Language and Culture I (b)

Designed for students who have an interest in Arabic Language and Cultures. The module emphasises the global importance of Arabic language and Arabic speaking cultures and is intended for students with a basic user knowledge of the language. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Arabic language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.

Imagining South Asia and its Diaspora

This module explores the role literary texts play in imagining South Asia and its diasporic cultures and communities. We will examine a range of South Asian novels, as well as poetry and short stories, to ask how they shed light on and complicate our understanding of some of the defining themes of the 20th and 21st centuries, including nationhood, partition, inter-ethnic conflict, disaster, migration, cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, globalisation and terror. Moving across Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Britain and the US, and from the mid-20th century to the present day, we will explore how race, class, religion and gender shape South Asian cultures and identities, and interrogate the paratextual material surrounding contemporary South Asian literary production (festivals, prizes, reviews) to consider how this shapes our understanding of the texts.

Labour Economics

The aim of this module is to enable students to understand the economic analysis of labour markets. The module will introduce the fundamental models of labour economics, and will enable students to gain understanding of contemporary labour economics through empirical applications.

Time Series Econometrics and Forecasting

Building on the methods and approaches of contemporary applied econometric data analysis developed in Quantitative Methods in Policy Applications, the Time Series Econometrics and Forecasting module will equip students with applied statistical techniques for empirical analysis and forecasting of time series in macroeconomics. The module will introduce advanced econometric techniques that are used both in the applied literature and in professional analysis of economic and financial time series data.

Environmental Economics and Climate Change

Environmental economics provides the economic toolkit for the analysis of environmental issues, such as sustainability, climate change, pollution, and renewable energy, and an understanding of environmental economics is essential for policy makers to respond to local, national, and global environmental problems. This module aims to develop understanding of the economic analysis of environmental issues, and to build capability to use economic models to inform empirical analysis and policy.

Applied Microeconomics

Building on the methods and approaches of contemporary applied econometric data analysis developed in Quantitative Methods in Policy Applications, the Applied Microeconomics module will equip students with the applied econometric techniques for the empirical analysis of microeconomic data. This module will place emphasis on learning how to establish causal relationships between different variables and how to use this evidence to inform policy makers' decisions. Students will learn how to handle real-world data and use econometric software.

International Economics

This module aims to develop understanding and analysis of microeconomic and macroeconomic issues in international economics. The module will address key concepts, issues, theories and models in the fields of international trade and international finance, with a focus on application to policy issues.

Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law

This course is offered as part of the LL.M. in Legal Theory. It is intended for students who are interested in both jurisprudence and private international law. It is also aimed at students who want to explore and challenge the role played by core jurisprudential concepts and theories in the context of inter-personal legal relations spanning across multiple jurisdictions. This seminar fills an important curricular void. On the one hand, courses in legal theory often adopt the traditional focus in jurisprudence on law as a singular (either the law of a state or law as an abstract category), rather than on relations between legal systems. On the other hand, courses in private international law generally focus on doctrinal material and broad theoretical principles, rather than the philosophical underpinnings of the field. Furthermore, even courses at the intersection of philosophy and international law focus primarily on the jurisprudential dimension of public, rather than private international law.

Public Affairs Advocacy

This module will examine the theory and practice of public affairs advocacy. Public affairs advocacy concerns how organizations try to influence the development of public policy and its resultant implementation through laws, regulations and related measures. Such advocacy may occur at a national, regional or international level, and is an increasingly important area of practice for lawyers. With technological disintermediation culling many functions of traditional legal services, a premium is placed on the very human skills of political advocacy - the ability of legal counsel to help their clients and organizations navigate the external world to influence and effect positive changes.

News Communication in Early Modern Europe

"Newspaper, newsletters, news conversations in Britain were not simply national phenomena but existed within pan-European networks. Recent histories have begun to recognise the profound interconnectivity between national and international news communication. This module explores this new history of news, and its implications for understanding place, identity, community. We will look at examples of news communication; at ways of reimagining Europe; at using network theory or mapping to analyse news communication; and at literary responses to the business of international news."

Biodiversity and Conservation Research Project

The largest component of your MSc will be your research project, for which you will collect, analyse and interpret original data to produce a written dissertation. We offer a broad range of field-, lab- and computer-based projects that cover all aspects of biodiversity and conservation research. Previous projects have focused on terrestrial and aquatic ecology, genomics, evolutionary biology, animal behaviour, and species conservation. During this part of the programme, you will benefit from working closely with your supervisor and/or their research group members, and you will be based at either Queen Mary or Kew, or in some cases a partner institution.

German Language and Culture I (a)

The module is suitable for beginners in German. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy. The overall desired outcome is for learners to acquire a basic level of the language to cope effectively with a range of commonly occurring circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is built around written and audio texts and tasks, designed to develop and enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in German and they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.

Psychoanalysis and Modern Culture

How can psychoanalysis help us to think through and make sense of our own time? What are the ways in which we can recognize how both the individual and the collective come into contact with this world, which we are responsible for creating, and yet find ourselves subject to? How do we negotiate public and private life, and both inner and outer reality? To help answer these, and other, questions, the module begins by examining texts by Freud which explore civilization (and famously its discontents) and culture. It then moves on to engage with other psychoanalytic thinkers and works of literature to explore ideas such as the unconscious, desire, love, violence, ethics, and anxiety, and how they might be located and depicted in our modern culture. No previous knowledge of Freud or psychoanalysis is required.

Italian Language and Culture I (a)

The module is suitable for beginners in Italian. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy. The overall desired outcome is for learners to acquire a basic level of the language to cope effectively with a range of commonly occurring circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is built around written and audio texts and tasks, designed to develop and enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Italian and they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.

German Language and Culture I (b)

The module is suitable for beginners in German. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in German (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.

Arabic Language and Culture I (a)

The module is suitable for beginners in Arabic. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy. The overall desired outcome is for learners to acquire a basic level of the language to cope effectively with a range of commonly occurring circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is built around written and audio texts and tasks, designed to develop and enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Arabic, and they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.

Sustainability and the Corporation

This course examines how we should design, finance, and regulate corporations in order to align their incentives with sustainability issues in general and climate change in particular. The course will focus on issues such as the concept of sustainability, the relationship between sustainability and the corporation, the design of a sustainable corporation, the role of asset managers and the financial industry in general as stewards of sustainability, and the recent policy initiatives and regulation. The course is strongly committed to presenting a global and comparative perspective highlighting the contemporary principles and trends of sustainable business and finance. This module will be taught intensively over a period of 1 week in semester 3. Sem 3 is the final teaching semester taught early June to early July.

Cultural Diversity and Law

This module explores, in comparative perspective, 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, criminal justice, family law, anti-discrimination law and other legal fields that are relevant to cultural diversity.

Trade, Environment and IPRS

The tragedy of the commons doctrine argues that humans are locked into a system whereby our pursuit of self-interest erodes the commons. But according to a different view, human society is fully capable of managing the commons in ways that protect the commons and benefits us all. Continuous trade and economic growth may eventually lead to an exhaustion of environmental resources. But this is not inevitable and trade relations can be managed in sustainable and mutually beneficial ways. One means to combat this is to accept that institutional intervention and technical progress should be focused so that resources are continuously directed towards environmental improvement. Moreover, the regulation of the environment (as in food, traditional genetic resources, green technologies) affects the trading patterns of both large and small producer countries. This module explores these concerns by studying the interrelation between : (i) the environment (as in food, agriculture, climate, bio-prospecting, and other ancillary rights such as human rights, Nagoya Protocols on climate and biodiversity rules, access and benefit sharing); (ii) trade (as in regulations within the EU, US and WTO, and other UN organisations), and (iii) IPRs (as in patents, plant variety rights, utility models, trade marks, geographical indications and technology transfer). Our environment is of fundamental importance. Activities that derive from our environment (including agriculture, fishing, consuming natural resources) matters more than almost any other productive human activity. Our environment supplies our most basic human needs, and it employs vast numbers of people. Human activities have a transformative effect on the biosphere. Indeed, it has arguably done more than any other activity to give rise to a new era in the Earth¿s history: the Anthropocene. One example is the commercial agricultural sector where farmers are supplied with inputs such as seeds and agrochemicals and advanced new technologies produced by high-tech corporations like Monsanto and Syngenta. The processing of food and other products that are grown or reared by farmers and pastoralists is carried out by transnational corporations. These products are delivered to customers by retailers that may be small and local or are massive operations. The vital role of small-scale farmers especially in the developing countries needs to be acknowledged but all too rarely is. Along all parts of the value chain there is much pressure to innovate and intellectual property rights are an essential feature of the way businesses and markets operate, how investment choices are made and where innovative activities do (and do not) take place. Thus, this module will analyse the legal regulation of such resources from national and international levels, with reference to technology, intellectual property, agricultural and climate policies, and human rights vis-a-vis the global industries. The module is intended to complement substantive modules on the protection of intellectual property. Therefore, students are assumed to have a basic understanding of intellectual property rights.

Children, Law, and Society

This module engages with legal and moral debates relating to children, at both the international and national levels. It examines a wide range of child-focused issues, such as those concerning colonialism, racialisation, sexuality, state regulation of the family, and children¿s voices. Students are introduced to relevant theories and studies, among which are theories of children's rights, postcolonial and anti-racist scholarship, queer theory, criticisms of child development theories, and writing about risk and 'moral panic'.

Media Regulation

The content of the proposed module will cover the content of both current modules SOLM217 and SOLM218. This includes: - Ownership & Control of the Media - Press Regulation - EU Broadcasting Law & the shift to regulation of online, streaming content - UK Broadcasting Law & the shift to regulation of online, streaming content - Advertising Regulation - Article 10, Freedom of Speech and the reasonable limits thereon with a view to protecting the Article 6 right to a fair trial, in the context of media reporting the courts - Contempt of Court and the media - filming and livestreaming the courts, contempt by publication - Reporting restrictions and the media - including identification of victims of serious crimes, statutory restrictions on reporting proceedings involving children and vulnerable adults, discretionary judicial orders, the media's right to representation and to appeal orders. - Protection of journalists sources & materials, including digital resources and communications, from undue state / police interference.

Corporate Violence

This module is about crime committed by corporates and it explores the definition and nature of corporate crime in criminological, legal and political discourse. The module aims to develop a critical understanding of the nature of the corporation and the scale and type of crimes committed by companies and their agents. The definitional processes involved in labeling corporates acts as criminal are explored, as are the forces which explain why and how corporates enter into deviant or criminal practices. Consisting of lectures, seminars and film, the following list is indicative of the subjects that will be covered: corporate manslaughter, State-corporate crime, business and human rights, the power of civil society, corruption, corporate crime denial, and land grabbing. The course will also feature visiting leading scholars, and representatives from key NGOs.

International Economic Law Clinic

This module offers the unique opportunity to work on a real legal project on international economic law of practical importance to a beneficiary. The module is conducted as a legal clinic running over semesters 2 and 3. Students will be grouped in project teams each consisting of a maximum of four students and assigned a project to work on specific questions posed by real beneficiaries who are seeking legal advice on specific problems in international economic law. Under the supervision of an academic supervisor and with the support of professional mentors, each team will prepare written legal memoranda on the assigned problem and present it to the beneficiaries at the end of semester 3. The bulk of the module consists on students' independent work on the project along with meetings with academic supervisors, mentors and beneficiaries as well as workshops on professional skills.

Comparative Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals

Comparative Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals (ICTs) provides a systemic empirical overview of international adjudication and introduces students to the comparative method through the critical appraisal and comparative analysis of the laws, decisions, processes, and policies of ICTs (defined as international institutions capable of resolving disputes through binding decisions and where at least one party to the dispute is a state). The module is organized around a series of 10 cross-cutting legal and/or practical themes common to all or most ICTs (e.g., appointment of international judges and arbitrators, sources of law and applicable law rules, jurisdiction and admissibility requirements, non-disputing party interventions, compliance with judgments/awards, legitimacy challenges, etc.). The module will not dedicate classes to the description of individual ICTs and students will be expected to familiarize themselves with ICTs and their basic features prior to the start of the module.

International Migration Law

This module examines the regulation in international law of human mobility for economic and other purposes (excluding for asylum under the international refuge law regime, which is studied in depth in SOLM171). It provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts and workings of several specialized branches of international law in relation to migration in a global context. The module will look at international labour law; international human rights law; international security and anti-terrorism instruments; the maritime conventions and the law of the sea; nationality, borders and criminal law measures; as well as to disaster law, international environmental law, and development aid law to provide a comprehensive overview of the different regimes concerned with the regulation of the phenomenon. The module will start by exploring the historical origins and development of international legal tools to regulate human mobility across borders, with a discussion of the available regulatory options and their ethical/philosophical underpinnings (ranging from the 'open borders' paradigm and the cosmopolitan approach to 'communitarian' perspectives on 'otherness' and belonging). The different regimes, actors and institutions playing a role in the legal administration of international migration will be examined next, with a particular focus on key inter-governmental institutions (such as the ILO and the IOM) and non-governmental actors (such as ICMPD and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants) as norms entrepreneurs in this area contributing to current regulatory processes worldwide (like the UN Global Compact on Migration). The study of substantive law, including relevant State practice and case law of national and international courts and Treaty bodies, will follow thereafter in thematic blocs: 1) labour migration, with a focus on the ILO conventions and the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; 2) family migration and children on the move, paying attention to the specific situation of unaccompanied minors and their protection under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; 3) terrorism and the securitisation of migration after the 9/11 attacks, including the 'crimmigraton' paradigm; 4) irregular migration, human trafficking and migrant smuggling, with special reference to the 2000 Palermo Protocols to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the situation of 'boat migrants' at sea; and 5) the limits of international regulation with regard to emerging and highly polarizing issues, including climate change, natural disasters, famine, endemic poverty and under-development and their relation to "survival migration".

Taxation and Trade

The module will consider the history of the interaction between trade and tax agreements and will analyse the impact on tax of multilateral WTO agreements (eg GATT 1994) since the WTO¿s creation in 1994. It will also examine the effects of bilateral trade agreements on taxation. Dispute resolution under trade agreements of matters concerning taxation will be addressed. Finally, the legitimate limits of the influence of international trade law on tax law will be interrogated.

Research Seminar

The module will cover advanced and topical issues in law based on respective developments in law and policy and in academic debate. Students are expected to produce a research paper as coursework and to present their findings in class for discussion. The specific content will therefore change from year to year.

Legal Tech

A course will be taught by leading practitioners in legal engineering and design, combining both academic and hands-on practical experience using some of the latest legal tech. This module will examine the theory and application of technology to legal practice and procedures It will consider how machine learning and AI has been, and could be, deployed within the legal sector to provide substantive legal advice, procedural risk analysis, the provision of legal services and contract and practice management. The interaction of technology and legal design will be examined, as well as the practical, legal and ethical issues that legal tech raise.

Advocacy in Commercial Disputes

This module offers the opportunity to learn about advocacy from an experienced English commercial barrister. The module begins by examining the role and nature of advocacy in commercial disputes. It then considers the theory of persuasion, a subject that is - surprisingly - rarely taught to law students. The rest of the module investigates the key skills of professional advocates, including oral and written submissions, and cross-examination. The module draws on a range of materials, from the rhetoric handbooks of classical antiquity to videos of recent hearings in the UK Supreme Court.

State Crime

This module is about crime committed by governments and it explores the definition and nature of state crime in criminological and political discourse. The module aims to develop a critical understanding of the nature of the state and the scale and type of crimes committed by governments and their agents. The definitional processes involved in labeling states acts as criminal are explored, as are the forces which explain why and how states enter into deviant or criminal practices. Consisting of lectures, seminars and film, the following list is indicative of the subjects that will be covered: Torture, State-corporate crime, counter-terrorism and human rights, Natural Disasters, Asylum Policy as state crime, War Crimes, Genocide, Resisting State Crime: the power of civil society, corruption, state crime denial, comparative genocides, and forced evictions. The course will also feature visiting leading scholars, and representatives from key NGOs.

Climate Justice

This module is about crime committed by corporates and states and it explores the definition and nature of crime that causes harm to the environment in criminological, legal and political discourse. The module aims to develop a critical understanding of the nature and the scale and type of crimes committed by companies, states and their agents that damage the environment and ecosystems. There will also be an exploration of resistance tactics, from law-fare to civil society censure of environmental harm. Consisting of lectures, seminars and film, the following list is indicative (but not exhaustive) of the subjects that will be covered: corporate environmental crime, food insecurity, state and state-corporate environmental crime, CSR and 'green' business practice, the economy of environmental protection, the power of civil society to resist planet degradation, the genocide-ecocide nexus, corruption, agribusiness, toxic waste dumping and land grabbing. The course will also feature visiting leading scholars, and representatives from key NGOs.

Regulation and Compliance Clinic

The Regulation and Compliance Clinic is the opportunity for students to apply the skills and knowledge they acquire about regulation and compliance to a real life setting. In this this module, students will work with partners to (1) develop and hone their oral presentation skills; (2) develop and hone their written professional skills; and (3) understand and replicate how entities deal with regulatory issue. The Clinic blends problem based approach with hands-on experience.

Law and Economics of Regulation and Compliance

This course covers different topics of economic analysis of regulation and compliance. The first part of the course focuses on the economic theory of regulations. The second part of the course investigates different regulated industries: environment, energy, telecom, and financial sector. Finally, the course discusses the economics of compliance and what happens when industries are deregulated.

Psychology MSc Research Project

In this module, students will conduct an in-depth research project focusing on an aspect of psychiatric disorders or psychological wellbeing from a social, cognitive, behavioural, neuroscientific, or genetic perspective. Students will be assigned to a supervisor and start developing a project proposal as part of Semester A module `Academic Skills in Mental Health Sciences I¿ and under the guidance of their supervisor. Students will complete their ethics application, begin designing their experiment and collecting data in semester B. In semester C they are expected to focus solely on the analysis, interpretation, and write-up of the dissertation.

Statistical Machine Learning in Finance

This course should appeal to those students wishing to understand some of the more commonly used statistical machine learning methods in finance. Many of these methods have been available for some time with practical usage increasing as available computing power has become more widespread. The course will also introduce students to the use of R. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics that implements all of the machine learning methods explored during the course

Dissertation in Creative Industries and Arts Organisation

Patria and Cosmopolis: Nation, Country, and Humanity in Political Thought, from ancient Greece to the Age of Revolutions

The module analyses the reflections on patriotism or love of country, cosmopolitanism or attachment to Humanity, and the nation or alternative groups commanding people¿s loyalties in the thought of a great range of thinkers, from classical antiquity to the threshold of the modern era - the time of the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. Besides many thinkers from a wide range of periods, the module focuses on the significant contributions of non-European or female authors (Augustine of Hippo, Ibn Khaldun, Toussaint Louverture, Mary Wollstonecraft, Germaine de Staël) and their distinct perspectives. Students will master the vital importance of historical contextualization in understanding the changing meanings of concepts as important as patriotism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, nation, state, race, ethnicity, and related terms. The module will also highlight the issues related to the reception and use of older concepts, ideas and texts in later times and how they were interpreted, misinterpreted or distorted.

Global Politics of Infrastructures: Race, Inequality and Conflict

The module offers a sustained engagement with debates surrounding the politics of infrastructures in a variety of manifestations prevalent in the global South. The course themes include the role of class differentiation and race in the making of infrastructures, the specific histories and politics of conflict and struggle surrounding access to basic infrastructures such as electricity, water, and sewage, and the ways in which banking, telecommunications, and transport infrastructures have been crucial in remaking societies and politics in Asia and Africa.

US Public Policy

US politics attracts high levels of attention around elections, but far less notice afterwards. In order to understand the politics of the United States, we must study not only who holds power but also how power is exercised. Public policy is the marshalling of public resources and legal power to shape individual and collective outcomes. This module explores the US policy-making process before examining a wide range of domestic and foreign policy competences, such as education, housing, trade, and immigration.

Geospatial Science

This module aims to develop an understanding of the theory and methods involved in the creation, storage, analysis and presentation of geospatial data, building on knowledge acquired in GEG4011 Introduction to Research Methods. Using industry standard software, the module will provide the knowledge and skills to tackle advanced problem solving using Geographic Information Systems, providing a key foundation for independent research projects at Level 6 and within the workplace.

Research Skills for Environmental Scientists

This module provides students with the necessary skills to become professional environmental science researchers. Students will engage with School research theme activities and the current postgraduate training programme. This includes attendance and contribution to research seminars, presentation at the School research conference day, group-based research training and professional development sessions (e.g., CV writing, how to publish, careers, academics and the media, lab safety and risk assessment) and through meetings with the research supervisors on research design and proposal development.

History Advanced Research Project

In this module, you will undertake a practical historical research project in partnership with one of our academics. These projects will be drawn from our staff's current research interests, and might include: compiling and analysing a database; preparing a biographical or bibliographical companion; conducting oral history interviews; translation or transcription of previously unpublished sources. Prior to embarking upon the project, you will receive training in the methodological tools employed by historians, and assistance in preparing an application for your preferred project. A range of project options will be available, though students are not guaranteed their first choice.

History Internship

This module gives you the opportunity to complete an internship placement with one of our local partners in the museum, public history, archival, or education sectors. Working alongside practitioners in the field, you will be introduced to the skills employed by public historians, such as curating exhibitions, creating digital resources, cataloguing archival materials, or participating in outreach. The placement allows you to put into practice in a professional environment the knowledge and skills gained through the MA degree. Prior to embarking upon your placement, you will receive training in the practices and responsibilities of professionals working in history-related fields, and assistance in preparing an application for your placement from the options available. The placement will be sixteen hours per week over a period of six weeks, and you will be supported throughout by the School of History. A range of placements with partner-organisations will be available, though students are not guaranteed their first choice.

History: Methods, Approaches, Challenges

In this module, we explore the methods that historians employ, different approaches to studying history, and the challenges we must overcome. This module will support you in the transition to postgraduate study, as you acquire the skills and training required for the other modules on the MA programme, including the dissertation. You will be encouraged to explore the perspectives and practices that you find most engaging, whether cultural, social, political, intellectual, or some other form of historical inquiry. At the same time, we will reflect on the diversity of historical experience and interpretation, and the values that shape your own research and writing. The module will also include site visits to London archives and museums.

Mastering the Field

In this module, you will master your chosen field of historical study. You will choose to specialise in one of several streams, each taught by experts who will guide you through the important concepts, debates, and problems that engage historians working in that field today. You¿ll be encouraged to reflect critically on key texts in the field, as you develop the historiographical awareness that will prepare you for your dissertation.

Method and Practice in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History

This course 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.

Dissertation - MA History

The MA History Dissertation provides an opportunity for you to complete an independent research project within an area of historical inquiry related to their chosen `stream¿ for Mastering the Field You will be encouraged to pursue your own intellectual interests, applying the skills you have developed on your other MA modules. You will be assigned an appropriate supervisor for your chosen topic, and will begin meeting with them in Semester 2, with the bulk of the research and writing completed during Semester 3, leading to completion of a 12,000 word dissertation by the early summer.

Radiation Sensors

This module introduces the principles underlying the detection of ionising radiation and the techniques used in modern particle physics experiments and other radiation environments (nuclear, environmental). The fundamental processes involved in the interaction of charged and neutral particles with matter are described and the implications for sensor design are discussed. A range of modern radiation sensor technologies, including Gaseous sensors, Semiconductor sensors and Scintillators are described and their performance analysed. A number of examples of complete sensor systems used in particle and nuclear physics for example Calorimeters, Tracking detectors and Neutrino detectors are critically evaluated.

Ancient Human Occupation of Britain

Who are we and where do we come from? These frequently-asked questions are addressed through an examination of the archaeological record and the rich Palaeolithic record in Britain. The British evidence is considered in the context of dispersals of hominin groups from Africa into Europe over the last two million years. Major climatic fluctuations, repeated advance and retreat of ice sheets and major geographical and environmental changes provide the backdrop for this exploration of the ancient human occupation of Britain.

Geospatial Science

This module aims to develop an understanding of the theory and methods involved in the creation, storage, analysis and presentation of geospatial data. Using industry standard software, the module will provide the knowledge and skills to tackle advanced problem solving using Geographic Information Systems. This knowledge is fundamental not only to research in Physical Geography, Environmental Science and many other disciplines, but provides a critical skill set used widely within a range of industries (including environmental management, local and national government, the utilities and the insurance sector).

Individual Research Project

This module allows the student to undertake a piece of independent, supervised research on a topic within the scope of physical geographical and environmental science. Each student will be allocated two supervisors. Progress will be monitored through supervision meetings, presentation/ discussion of research at internal research meetings and a formative viva-style meeting with supervisors and, where, appropriate the programme convenor. The project may involve working with a partner organisation and it may therefore have an applied focus or contribute to the work of that organisation. The project can involve fieldwork, laboratory work and/or advanced data analysis and modelling. The thesis will be submitted in the format of a draft manuscript and supplementary material (e.g., extended literature review, detailed methodologies, additional data analysis) as appropriate to a relevant, peer-reviewed journal by agreement with the supervision team and programme convenor.

Advanced Geospatial Science

The analysis of geospatial data is the cornerstone of much physical geography and environmental science research. Building upon the knowledge acquired in GEG5223 students will be taught through a range of lectures and computer based practicals. Material covered will highlight recent developments from across the discipline, demonstrating the use of cutting edge Geographical Information Systems to solve problems from a range of physical geography and environmental science sub-disciplines. Time will also be devoted to the effective visualisation of geospatial data and analysis outputs, equipping students with key skills required in the workplace or for further study .

Volcanoes, Climate Change and Society

Volcanic eruptions can influence earth systems on a number of scales, from individual landforms to landscape development and global climatic change. Volcanic hazards can have global-scale social impacts and directly threaten the approximately 800 million people that live within 100 km of an active volcano. This module will provide students with knowledge about volcanic environments, the hazards they pose on many scales and potential benefits to societies.

Advanced Geospatial Science

Ancient Human Occupation of Britain

Volcanoes, Climate Change and Society

Social-Environmental Influences on Mental Health and Well-Being

This module investigates the role of social and environmental factors on psychopathology and psychological wellbeing across the life span. Prenatal influences, the immediate social context (i.e., parenting, family structure), the socio-economic context, the wider social context (i.e., neighbourhood quality, green spaces), adverse life events such as exposure to war and displacement, as well as cultural factors, will be covered. This module will also have an applied perspective: reviewing social and environmental interventions that have been developed to address adverse mental health outcomes and promote positive development.

Advanced Research Methods and Statistics

This 15-credit module provides students with advanced-level training in research techniques appropriate for postgraduate research projects. It includes lectures on key research principles and research methodology, as well as practical workshops focused on developing skills in data analysis.

Translational Mental Health Sciences II

Psychiatric Genetics and Genomics

This module will focus on the genetic underpinnings of mental health and illness. Students will learn about the variety of genetic approaches that have been developed to understand the genetic risk for psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions, such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, autism and ADHD. Drawing on the wealth of research studies in this field, we will explore novel clinical applications that integrate genetic information, discuss the way genetic predispositions interface with the environment and are manifested in cognitive and brain phenotypes, and highlight key strengths and limitations and future directions for genetic studies.

Quantitative Methods with Policy Applications

This module aims at familiarizing students with the most widely used and up-to-date methodologies and approaches of contemporary applied econometric data analysis. After reviewing fundamental concepts in probability theory and statistics, the module will analyse issues of sampling, linear regression models, causality and endogeneity, alternative data structures (i.e. cross-sections, time series and longitudinal data), Maximum Likelihood methods and policy evaluation.

Microeconomics for Policy

The module aims to build on undergraduate economic theory in order to develop the skills of microeconomic modelling and analysis, and the principles of welfare economics used in policy analysis. The module will carefully introduce and examine the relevant concepts and tools of microeconomics, including the fundamental principles of individual and collective decision making, the rigorous concepts of preferences, technology, and endowments, the functioning of competitive markets and the main sources of market failures, efficiency and equity, and information economics. The module will then proceed to use the fundamental notions of microeconomics to construct and apply microeconomic models to a variety of policy questions -- ranging from environmental issues, inequality, education, and public finance to competition, industrial organisation and health economics.

Economic Appraisal

This module is designed to build understanding and capability in appraisal and evaluation techniques, including cost-benefit analysis, multi-criteria decision analysis, real options and least regrets; and the underpinning tools that are required to conduct appraisals e.g. asset pricing models.

Macroeconomics for Policy

The aim of the course is to offer the foundation of modern macroeconomic policy analysis. How do fiscal stimulus payments like tax rebates boost consumption? How do tax incentives affect business investment and R&D? To answer such questions, we will study up-to-date macroeconomic models, balancing with meta-analysis and case studies on policy carried out in the past across countries. We also discuss how to better use micro data to address questions of interest to macroeconomists.

Foundations in Corporate Finance

This module is designed to provide students with an understanding of the theoretical issues of Corporate Finance and their empirical applications. This module covers topics such as : capital structure; financial contracting; financial intermediaries; corporate control; principal-agent models; product markets; entrepreneurial finance; behavioural corporate finance.

Advanced Macroeconomics

This module covers some advanced concepts and techniques that are used in macroeconomic theory and applications, in areas such as monetary economics, monetary and fiscal policy, consumption and investment, economic growth, labour markets, optimal taxation, dynamic contracts, and firm dynamics. In addition, it will explore in detail some specific topics that are the subject of current research at the frontier in the above areas. A significant part of the course is based on the reading of original research papers.

Macroeconomics I

This module, together with Macroeconomics II, provides students with fundamental training in macroeconomics required to pursue independent research in this area. Macroeconomics I covers deterministic models: growth; endogenous growth; OLG and labour markets.

Microeconomics II

This module, together with Microeconomics I, provides students with the fundamental training in microeconomics required to pursue publishable research in this field. Microeconomics II covers game theory and information economics.

Cognitive Neuroscience

This module will focus on developing the skills required to conduct cognitive and neuroscientific studies of mental illness. A variety of different methods will be covered in-depth, including EEG, fMRI, and psychophysiology. The lectures will cover the theoretical basis of each method and its application to mental health research, and accompanying workshops will teach students how to analyse and interpret neuroimaging data.

Translational Mental Health Sciences I

This module will focus on developing the key skills required to conduct interdisciplinary research in the mental health sciences. You will learn about the different genetic, social and neuroscientific approaches to mental health research, how to read and critically evaluate the literature and how to translate clinical findings to basic science questions. A key outcome of this module is to develop a MSc project proposal focusing on an aspect of psychiatric disorders that can be investigated from a social, neuroscientific, or genetic perspective.

International Organisations

This module will provide an advanced examination of International Organisations (IOs) as a transnational political workspace for both cooperation and contestation between global actors. The module will be grounded in a historical and critical examination of the development of IOs in the 19th century as a tool to manage European international order, and it will emphasize the ways in which IOs developed in conjunction with the modern state. Building upon this critical grounding, the module will examine today's IOs, with a particular focus on the UN system, and their effectiveness in confronting global challenges in the 21st century. The module will conclude with a capstone day-long Model UN simulation.

Advanced Econometrics

Advanced Econometrics is an elective module optional for MRes Economics students. Successful completion of the module sequence will equip students to conduct publishable research in pure or applied econometric theory. This module covers active research areas in econometric theory and applied econometrics, such as: advanced time series econometrics, structural estimation, nonparametric econometrics, applied Bayesian econometrics, financial econometrics, and empirical methods for labour economics, development economics, and the economics of organisations.

Labour and Public Economics

Labour & Public Policy is an elective module optional for MRes Economics students. This module covers active research areas in labour and public economics, such as human capital and returns to schooling; labour supply and the allocation of time; labour demand; wage determination, technology and wage inequality; race and gender gaps; migration; search frictions, monopsony, unemployment and welfare-to-work; contracts and incentives in the labour market; Taxation and redistribution; Incidence and efficiency of government policies; Externalities; Public goods; Social insurance.

Macroeconomics II

This module, together with Macroeconomics I, provides students with the fundamental training in macroeconomics required to pursue independent research in this area. Macroeconomics II covers stochastic models: DSGE/RBC; fiscal and monetary policy; consumption, saving and investment; incomplete markets.

Advanced Finance I

This module provides an empirical treatment of major topics in asset pricing, including empirical methods, testing asset pricing models, alternative asset classes, portfolio construction, predictability of asset returns, financial econometrics of asset pricing, and financial derivatives. In addition, it will explore in detail some specific topics that are the subject of current research at the frontier in the above areas. A significant part of the course is based on the reading of original research papers.

Microeconomics I

This module, together with Microeconomics II, provides students with the fundamental training in microeconomics required to pursue independent research in this area. Microeconomics I covers consumer and producer theory; and general equilibrium.

MRes Dissertation

This module constitutes the dissertation component of the MRes Economics and MRes Finance programmes. Students are required to produce a piece of original research under the supervision of a member of academic staff.

MRes Dissertation (LISS DTP Pathway)

This module constitutes the dissertation component of the MRes Economics/Finance (LISS DTP Pathway) programmes. Students are required to produce a piece of original research under the supervision of a member of academic staff.

Advanced Microeconomics

This module covers some standard advanced concepts and techniques that are used in microeconomic theory and applications, in areas such as decision theory, behavioural economics, mechanism design, auction theory, game theory, information economics, welfare economics, political economy, experimental economics. In addition, it will explore in detail some specific topics that are the subject of current research at the frontier in the above areas. A significant part of the course is based on the reading of original research papers.

Laparoscopic Procedure Skills (Cholecystectomy)

This module will introduce the learner to the strategies for minimizing bile duct injuries: adopting a universal culture of safety in cholecystectomy by understanding core laparoscopic surgical principles for calots triangle dissection. Students will use virtual reality simulation for learning laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Students will learn how to troubleshoot during laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the diagnosis and management of complications after cholecystectomy and the use of surgical energy.

Laparoscopic Suturing Skills

Laparoscopic Skills

1. Laparoscopic camera manipulation 2. Laparoscopic PEG transfer 3. Laparoscopic sugar cube stacking

Econometrics II

This module forms the second part of first year students' econometrics training. Econometrics II considers more general estimation approaches (ML, Bayesian, GMM). Finally, it focuses on multivariate models, from both a micro-econometrics and macro-econometrics perspective.

International Economics

This module covers some standard advanced concepts and techniques that are used in trade theory and their quantitative applications, alongside trade policy. In addition, it will explore in detail some specific topics that are the subject of current research at the frontier in quantitative trade, spatial economics, firms in the global economy, and trade policy, among others. A significant part of the course is based on the reading of original research papers.

Foundations in Asset Pricing

This module is designed to provide students with a solid training in Asset Pricing strategies and techniques. The module will cover expected utility functions; portfolio choice; CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model); consumption CAPM; the stochastic discount factor; APT (Arbitrage Pricing Theory); market microstructure.

Econometrics I

This module forms the first part of first year students' econometrics training, which continues in Econometrics II (semester B). Econometrics I focuses on uni-variate regression models and covers the following topics: some further statistics; classical linear regression model, hypothesis testing and inference; generalized linear regression model; nonlinear regression model; endogeneity and instrumental variables and Regression Discontinuity Design.

Advanced Finance II

This module provides an empirical treatment of major topics in corporate finance, including empirical methods, capital structure, investment decisions, corporate governance, banking and financial intermediation, regulation, financial contracting, law and finance, financial development, organizational economics and applications, labor and finance, household finance, private equity, and entrepreneurial finance. In addition, it will explore in detail some specific topics that are the subject of current research at the frontier in the above areas. A significant part of the course is based on the reading of original research papers.

Development Economics

The course will be divided in two parts. In the first half of the course, the focus will be on theoretical and methodological issues in development economics: field experimental evidence on poverty, inequality, health, education, trade, credit markets, foreign aid and how this evidence can be used to inform development policy. The second half of the course will cover some fundamentals of economic growth¿climate, geography, endowments, historical legacies, technological innovation and human capital¿before considering issues that are more explicitly political, including political institutions, accountability, media capture, clientelism, etc.

Professional Skills in Mental Health

This module equips students with knowledge of core skills employed by Mental Health professionals in their workplace. The module maps out both classic and contemporary work in mental health settings and relates theory and research to practice, particularly in psychotherapy. Theory and research are drawn from a number of distinct areas, such as clinical and counselling psychology with a review of core mental health skills, such as assessment, diagnosis and formulation.

Cultural Psychology and Psychiatry: Theory and Method

This module will provide a critical understanding of the intersection between culture and mental health within a global context. Students will be introduced to social science theories from disaplines such as anthropology and sociology which have been used to inform psychological and psychiatric understandings of mental illness and its treatment. Topics discussed will include the links between culture and mental processes, variations in the manifestation and interpretation of mental illness across cultures, challenges of assessment and treatment of mental illness within multicultural contexts and the impact of intersecting inequalities on the mental health of minority populations . Students will be encouraged to reflect on the impact of culture on both mental disorder and mental healthcare treatment at both local and global levels.

Cultural Psychology and Psychiatry: Theory and Method

Applied Research Methods 2: Practice

Dissertation

This module is designed for students undertaking a research project in their chosen area of mental health. Although this module is predominately independent study, students are expected to complete a set of formative assessments and have regular contact with their supervisor in order to monitor progress.

Dissertation in Insurance Law (30 credits)

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in Energy and Natural Resources Law (30 credits)

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Clinical Placement

The zero credit Clinical placement module forms an integral part of the MACP accredited MSc route for physiotherapists. To meet the criteria of clinical expertise, outlined by the MACP, the student undertakes a minimum of 150 hours of directed mentored clinical practice. Within the module students will be required to manage a clinical caseload whilst receiving mentorship form a clinical mentor. A variety of models and tools may be used as part of the mentorship to achieve the best development of the individual student. Direct contact hours with the Clinical Mentor will include observation of the student assessing and managing patients in the practice setting. A summative assessment of the student is mandatory and will be completed by the Lead Clinical Mentor (a MACP member) and an MACP approved assessor. This will include a clinical examination of a new and follow up patient.

Dissertation

Applied Research Methods 1: Theory

This module provides students with essential knowledge and skills about Applied Research Methods. The general aim is to equip students with transferable skills that can be either used towards completing an empirical project or conducting a systematic review.

Applied Research Methods 2: Practice

Cultural Psychology and Psychiatry: Clinical Applications

The module links theory to practice, providing an overview of culturally competent approaches to the assessment, treatment and prevention of mental illness in local and global contexts. Students are introduced to research evaluating cultural competency at different levels of service delivery including culturally adapted psychological therapies, culturally appropriate assessment tools, clinical and organizational strategies to improve accessibility of mental health services, cultural competency training frameworks as well as strategic approaches to equitable global mental health care. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the importance and effectiveness of these different approaches and how they are used to enhance and improve available psychological interventions and systems of service delivery to treat a range of mental illnesses across diverse populations. Students will be also submitting a reflective piece based on their work/clinical placement.

Cultural Psychology and Psychiatry: Clinical Applications

Professional Skills in Mental Health

Applied Research Methods 1: Theory

Mental Health in Context

This module provides students with knowledge about how mental health can be viewed in different contexts. From causal and protective factors to prevention, stigmatization, rehabilitation and social integration. It is also aimed at addressing contemporary issues, such as the impact of digital technology on mental health and the extent to which world crises can affect the onset and prognosis of mental illness. This module aims at enhancing critical thinking skills by giving the opportunity to reflect on the reciprocal relationship between the context and the individual. Issues or health inequalities, continuity of care and accessibility to mental health care are also addressed.

Performance Lab

This module is a studio-based research laboratory that focuses on and experiments with performance process. In tandem with these practical activities students formulate creative strategies for documenting and disseminating process. Through weekly workshops the group will be introduced to a range of performance-making approaches, tools and techniques, and will be encouraged to devise their own methodologies for creating performance languages. Each student raises a series of research thematics that are explored through practical group experiments, individual development of performative prototypes, critical analysis, evaluative writing and collaborative dialogue and feedback sessions. The module leads towards a Performance Lab Research Event where students present the practical and process-based outcomes of their research investigations.

Introduction to Creative Industries and Arts Organisation

This module explores the foundational concepts and theories of the creative industries. This module provides students with the relevant theories, conceptual tools and factual information necessary to gain an understanding of, and be able to engage critically with, the realities of managing, working and progressing within the cultural and creative industries.

Dissertation in Language Teaching

In coordination with a supervisor, students will select a topic for advanced study. They will collect and analyse the necessary data. This will result in the writing of a 10,000 to 12,000 word dissertation. For this, students will synthesize various aspects of the knowledge they will have obtained through the degree and demonstrate their ability to conduct and present high quality original research.

Applied Methods (Master Class)

This module focuses on the relevant methods of analysis and applied research into the organisation history of the creative industries. What are the interdisciplinary methods that generate innovation and leadership in the creative industries and arts and cultural sector, and which methods are more or less appropriate for engaging these different sectors of society? This module will provide students key methodological knowledge to be able to engage critically with creative industries practice and organisation, and prepares students to undertake dissertation and practice-based projects in the third semester.

Research Design

This module aims to help you build skills and methods in research design. Moreover, it helps to prepare you for your MA dissertation by providing guidance and skills in designing and completing research projects. Seminars will include discussions of assigned readings and research workshops. By the end of the semester, you will have prepared and submitted a final draft of your dissertation proposal if you're studying full time; if you're studying part time, you will have the option of submitting a final draft of your dissertation proposal or preparing a field statement.

Contemporary Theatre and Performance

"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."

Practice-Based Dissertation

This independent research project - the practice-based dissertation - consists of a sustained piece of practice-based research that is documented in a submittable format, and a critical analysis (or written reflection) of 4,000-6,000 words. The form and scope of the practice is to be agreed between you and the supervisor and the MA convener. The documentation may accompany a live performance; or may document or otherwise consist of practice taking another form, including but not limited to performances with incidental audiences, one-to-one performances, performance for video or camera, online interventions, organising, or curating. Research development is enabled and supported by participation in a Dissertation Colloquium and Festival in May/June, in which you will present your research in progress and receive feedback from academic staff and other postgraduate students.

Live Art Histories

'Live Art Histories' explores histories, social contexts, and genealogies of live art in the UK and internationally after 1960, in its emergence from visual art, as well as from intersections with other histories including those of theatre, dance, video, installation and activism. Key histories and case studies may include solo and autobiographical, endurance and durational, intimate and one-to-one, interventionist and collaborative performances, among other forms of live art practice. The module reflects upon the aesthetic, methodological, historiographical and other implications of encountering live art in its live manifestations and through documentation (such as scores, photographs, videos or oral accounts). In addition, the module will introduce you to key research methods and provide essential research training you will need on the rest of the programme. Teaching will include archival research at a venue such as the Live Art Development Agency, Tate Archives or Whitechapel Gallery Archive.

Mental Health in Context

Performance Research

This module provides you with opportunities to engage with theoretical and practical issues surrounding research in theatre and performance studies. It invites you to consider what might be at stake in conducting research in such fields, and about wider questions of research, disciplinarity, writing and research ethics. Through analysis of critical writing and completion of preparation tasks, the module aims to support your skills in devising research projects in the broad interdisciplinary fields of theatre and performance studies.

Dissertation

"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."

Theory and Practice of Anglo-German Cultural Transfers

The conception 'cultural transfer' includes aspects of inter- and intra-cultural relations between (national) cultures that represent essentially hybrids. Research on cultural transfers began in the mid1980s and focused initially on France and Germany integrating research on reception studies, intertextuality, translation studies and language teaching, This module endeavours to apply findings in this field to Anglo-German cultural relations and to engage students in describing these relations in terms of "transfer models" (Michel Espagne). It analyses the theory and history of Anglo-German cultural transfers from the late 18th century to the present day. The second part will bring students into contact with practitioners in this field and will introduce them to the reality of such transfers between cultures.

The Rise and Fall of the Hero(ine)

From Ariosto¿s epos Orlando furioso to Mario Vargas Llosa¿s A discreet hero, modernism in literature and literary theory has been conditioned by critical appreciations of what might constitute the heroic. Today, in the age of the star-cult and media-assisted idolatry as secular forms of worship, questions about the status of the heroic in society and its artistic representation have again been raised by literary scholars, cultural theorists, sociologists, and psychologists alike. How appropriate a conception is the heroic in our time? Should in our time social engagement, Zivilcourage and bravery in military action be regarded as equally fit for being labelled `heroic¿. Likewise, modern discourses on the anti-heroic have dominated literature since the emergence of the fool as a credible protagonist in the Renaissance. The anti-heroic is often associated with the `crisis of subjectivity¿ and the disintegration of the Ich. This seminar is to examine exemplary texts and cultural phenomena linked with this dual approach to the heroic.

Disciplines of Live Art

'Disciplines of Live Art' explores the material conditions and social infrastructures for live art as a practice and an object of study. You will consider the institutional pressures and considerations that shape performance, while giving special attention to the cultural politics of live art specifically. In addition, you will study how the practice of live art relates to other disciplines of art making- such as visual art, theatre, music, and more - and how research into live art requires engagement with multiple academic disciplines ¿ such as Art History, Performance Studies, Musicology and more. The module examines how artists, curators and researchers negotiate funding structures, engage with cultural policy, and seek to intervene into a range of political and cultural issues.

From the Postcolonial to the Global: Literature and Theory

In this module, we will ask questions about key terms which define a constantly-moving field of study, and which help us to understand the world in which we live, for example colonial, postcolonial, empire, globality, world-system. We will think about these through literary and creative texts that offer us new perspectives on a modern world that is as connected as it is uneven, governed by the structures of contemporary capital and longer histories of empire. We will do this, very consciously, from the perspective of our location in east London, itself an exemplar of the global city.

Theatre and Performance Theory

This module examines key theoretical texts and ideas that have shaped our contemporary understanding of performance, theatre and culture. It offers a distinctive, performance-oriented route into looking at work of wider social, philosophical, and political importance. It aims to provide you with a diverse range of theoretical and historical starting points from which to consider the study of theatre and performance, and introduce you to a variety of performance texts and practices that these ideas can be applied to.

Pathology of Cancer and Imaging

Clinical Cancer Treatment (CCT)

From Blitz to Brexit: Britain and the EU

This module critically analyses the UK's relationship with the process of European integration to explore the drivers behind the UK's reluctance to embrace the European Project and why, in June 2016, the UK took the decision to leave the European Union. Students will gain a historical and analytical insight into one of Europe's most difficult challenges: the potential fragmentation of the European Union.

Oral Pathology and the Oral Microbiome

Carcinogenesis. Acquisition and metabolism of oral flora. Oral commensal and opportunistic pathogens. Dental plaque. Disease of the salivary gland. Microbiology and periodontal disease. The mouth as a microbial habitat. Oral defence mechanisms. Oral infections. Overview of infectious agents. Pathology of pre cancer. Overview of virulence.

Applied Sports Injury Management in Dance and Football

Applied Principles of Injury Management in Dance and Football is taught by experts from the elite side of sports. The module will provide students with the ability to expand and employ the evidence based multidisciplinary approaches used in elite sport to prevent and manage injuries. These involve both expertise from medical staff as well as e.g. sports science, nutrition and psychology.

Biomechanics

Biomechanics is essential in understanding most musculoskeletal injuries mechanisms, risks and pre-/rehabilitation effectiveness. Biomechanical tools are additionally becoming more and more accessible and affordable to clinicians. The importance of understanding biomechanics in relation to sports and exercise medicine is therefore paramount. This module will give you a greater level of knowledge in relation to biomechanics, both in terms of its applications and its strengths/limitations. You will learn the key biomechanical principles. You will learn how to critically carry out biomechanical testing and assess output data. By the end of this module you will have the skills to perform biomechanical testing, critically analyse and review biomechanical output as well as published data.

Sports Injury Assessment

The Sports Injury Assessment module provides a sound knowledge of the anatomy and pathophysiology of soft tissue, bones and joints. It applies this knowledge to the formulation of a comprehensive detailed approach to clinical assessment of presenting injury. This module has an extensive clinical component, developing students critically evaluative skills.

Research Project

The Research Project (RP) module will allow students to experience the research process in a selected area of Sports and Exercise Medicine. Particular emphasis will be placed on presenting the students' research in a professional manner, which will include writing up according to the guidelines of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, as well as giving an oral presentations (viva exam and podium presentation at the QMUL Sports & Exercise Medicine conference). Through a number of tutorials, students will be provided with guidance and feedback on specific areas of the research process. The overall aim of the RP module is to produce high-quality research which will be encouraged to be published and shared with other members of the Sports and Exercise Medicine community.

Researching Global Health and Biomedicine: Geneva Fieldclass

This innovative fieldwork-based module offers a critical introduction to the vast endeavour of global health policy through a particular focus on the position of Geneva as a centre of decision-making. Through lectures, seminars and independent study, students will develop a policy critique of the work of one global health organisation based in Geneva. Students will conduct site visits to this and other organisations on the field class, with this original research feeding into the submission of an assessed policy critique. This 15-credit module is only open to students on selected SMD Masters programmes.

Sports Injury and Podiatric Assessment

This module provides an in-depth knowledge of the anatomy, biomechanics and common sports injuries of the foot, ankle and lower leg. It also provides an overview of tools available for biomechanical assessment of the lower limb and covers a range of diagnostic investigations that are used, with a specific emphasis on exercise induced leg pain.

Hypothalamus and Pituitary

Calcium and Bone

This module covers the physiology and pathology of the calcium homeostasis, parathyroids and bone. A variety of teaching and learning methods will be used to cover the molecular and clinical features of the relevant hormones, glands and their disorders. This includes anatomy, physiology and disorders such as hyperparathyroidism, hypercalcaemia of malignancy, hypocalcaemia, osteomalacia and osteoporosis. During the module, students are encouraged to attend and observe relevant clinical activities such as clinics and academic meetings and to add to module-specific sections of their reflective portfolio.

Reproductive, Pregnancy and Paediatric Endocrinology

This module covers physiology and pathology of disorders of the reproductive axis, pregnancy and the growing child, . A variety of teaching and learning methods will be used to cover the molecular and clinical features of the relevant hormones, glands and their disorders. This includes normal growth and development and the physiology of puberty, disorders of growth, development and puberty. The module will also cover menstrual disorders, hirsutism, fertility, contraception, male and female gonadal dysfunction and endocrinology in gender dysphoria. In addition topics will include principles and practice of male and female hormone replacement therapy, endocrinology of normal pregnancy and the management of endocrinopathy in pregnancy. During the module, students are encouraged to attend and observe relevant clinical activities such as clinics and academic meetings and to add to module-specific sections of their reflective portfolio.

Clinical Endocrinology Dissertation

In this module students will research and write up a dissertation on a topic relevant to clinical endocrinology. Exposure to relevant clinical topics and materials will form part of this module with a timetabled observership alongside their taught modules including additional attendance at clinics and ward-based activities in order to enable students to develop a particular topic of interest for their dissertation. The final dissertation may be based on (for example) independent clinical research, research allied to an existing or ongoing project, the development of a clinical audit, the construction of a formal systematic review on a topic of clinical interest, a case series or a group of four independent case reports of patients from their clinical practice. Students will develop skills in presenting information objectively, whilst producing a well-organised document, using a scientific approach. The final dissertation should be up to 15000 words in length; where 4 individual case reports are submitted these should be of a quality equivalent to that publishable in a case reports journal and therefore should be compatible with such a format, namely each case should be of 2000-3000 words including a detailed discussion, with a maximum of 15 references and 3 figures for each case.

Advanced Sports Injury Assessment

This module builds upon the knowledge and practical skills gained in Sports Injury Assessment. The greater complexity of the knowledge provided gives the required level of understanding for the multiple paradigms that underpin the clinical assessment and reasoning of presenting injuries and subsequent management planning. The integration of different imaging modalities, and their rationale for been used, is explored. Topics will include the selection of imaging modalities by body site and pathology to aid in the diagnosis and monitoring of injury. At the core of the module will be the acquisition of practical skills in ultrasound scanning with a syllabus based on recommendations by the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine. This module has an extensive clinical component.

Advanced Clinical Practice

This module has been developed to provide allied health professionals with the necessary knowledge, insight and exposure to develop their competencies as advanced clinical practitioners. The modules teaching will promote a high degree of clinical autonomy and complex decision making in partnership with individuals, athletes and the multi-disciplinary team.

Literature Review

The Literature review (LR) module will focus on the review processes most commonly used in Sports and Exercise Medicine with a particular emphasis given to the systematic review approach . Through a numbers of lectures given by experienced authors and editors , students will develop a critical understanding and knowledge of different types of reviews (systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis, review of reviews and narrative reviews), how to employ Quality Assessment Scales and graphic/ presentation skills for review purposes (flow charts, table designing) and be able to employ an analytical and critical approach to SEM literature. The overall aim of the LR module is to produce high-quality systematic review papers which will be encouraged to be published and shared with other members of the Sports and Exercise Medicine community.

Principles of Injury Management in Dance and Football

Principles of Injury Management in Dance and Football is taught by experts from the elite side of sports. The module will provide students with an understanding of the evidence based multidisciplinary approaches applied in elite sport to prevent and manage injuries. These involve both expertise from medical staff as well as e.g. sports science, nutrition and psychology.

Thyroid

This module covers the physiology and pathology of the thyroid. A variety of teaching and learning methods will be used to cover the molecular and clinical features of the relevant hormones, glands and their disorders. This includes anatomy, physiology and disorders such as hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, goitre, thyroid nodules and thyroid cancers. During the module, students are encouraged to attend and observe relevant clinical activities such as clinics and academic meetings and to add to module-specific sections of their reflective portfolio.

Endocrine Oncology and Genetics

This module covers the genetics of endocrine disorders, neuroendocrine tumours and other aspects of endocrine oncology such as paraneoplastic syndromes and the late effects of cancer treatments on the endocrine system. A variety of teaching and learning methods will be used to cover the molecular and clinical features of the relevant hormones, glands and their disorders. These include inherited aspects of endocrine disorders, multiple endocrine neoplasias and inherited disorders of hormone resistance. Neuroendocrine tumours of the GI tract, pancreas and lung will be covered as well as the role of investigations and imaging and current and emerging therapies. During the module, students are encouraged to attend and observe relevant clinical activities such as clinics and academic meetings and to add to module-specific sections of their reflective portfolio. During the module, students are encouraged to attend and observe relevant clinical activities such as clinics and academic meetings and to add to module-specific sections of their reflective portfolio.

Clinical Portfolio

In this module students will participate in a range of observership activities and other skill-building sessions, tutorials, journal clubs, research seminars etc that are relevant to clinical endocrinology and supportive of the taught curriculum. This module aims to support the student in recording their participation, reflections and broader reading in a reflective portfolio. This is an important way to demonstrate engagement with such activities and also to demonstrate engagement with learning outcomes across the breadth of the programme. It also builds a skill that is vital to clinical trainees in their day-to-day development and is something they will be required to do at all stages in their career.

Adrenal Cortex and Medulla

This module covers the physiology and pathology of disorders of the adrenal cortex and medulla. A variety of teaching and learning methods will be used to cover the molecular and clinical features of the relevant hormones, glands and their disorders. This includes anatomy, physiology, adrenal development, homeostatic control, the glucocorticoid receptor and the use of steroid therapy in replacement as well as adrenal investigations and imaging. This also includes disorders such as Conn's syndrome, Cushings syndrome, congenital adrenal hyperplasia and phaeochromocytoma. During the module, students are encouraged to attend and observe relevant clinical activities such as clinics and academic meetings and to add to module-specific sections of their reflective portfolio.

Endocrinology: Core Knowledge and Key Skills

This module provides the foundation knowledge and skills to progress to the subsequent modules in the course. The rationale for the course overall is outlined in the overall proposal which the module proposal accompanies. This module aims to develop an understanding of the basic science underpinning clinical endocrinology, together with the assessment of the endocrine patient and the principles and pitfalls of endocrine evaluation. It also focuses on the development of skills which are important for maximising benefit from the forthcoming modules, including a development of critical appraisal skills and experience in the purpose and application of evidence-based medicine. Techniques for approaching clinical cases will be developed, together with an approach to writing structured essays and reviews. The content of the module and the course as a whole maps to the syllabus set by the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board as a specialty curriculum for Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus, in particular to the part of the syllabus assessed in the knowledge-based exam set by the Royal Colleges.

Clinical Chemistry, Gut and Metabolism

This module covers physiology and pathology of disorders of metabolism, energy balance and lipids. Inborn errors of metabolism, proteins, enzymes and toxicology are all related topics. Pancreatic hormones and diabetes mellitus are critical aspects of endocrine medicine. The module will extend to the related disciplines of metabolic medicine and chemical pathology and include laboratory techniques, quality assurance, principles of screening, audit and governance in biochemistry. A variety of teaching and learning methods will be used to cover the molecular and clinical features of the water and salt homeostasis, lipid biology and pathology, gut hormones, diabetes mellitus and disorders of body weight and metabolic pathologies. The laboratory and public health aspects of these areas will also be reviewed. During the module, students are encouraged to attend and observe relevant clinical activities such as clinics and academic meetings and to add to module-specific sections of their reflective portfolio.

Advanced Pharmaceutical Chemistry

This module is concerned with the principles of drug design, drug discovery and the relationship between the molecular structure of drugs and their biological activity. Topics to be covered include: how candidate drug structures are selected for synthesis, structure activity relationships, physico-chemical properties of compounds and how these may be employed to assist in the selection of drug candidates, organic synthetic methods that are of particular relevance to the preparation of drug-like molecules. The module will build upon the knowledge and understanding of pharmaceutical chemistry gained in CHE206, and examines applications of the drug discovery process by focusing on specific disease areas such as cancer, where concepts and methods of current therapies and the structures and mechanisms of action of chemotherapeutic agents are studied.

Clinical Research in Gastro-intestinal Diseases

This module provides a thorough training in research methods, including original research leading to submission of a dissertation and presentation of the data. These skills are generic for any type of research work, and include background research, planning methods, practical work to collect data, analysis and presentation of the data, and defending the research in a viva.

Clinical Research in Gastro-intestinal Diseases

Dissertation in Banking and Finance Law

Dissertation ¿ independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field.

Dissertation in International Business Law

Dissertation ¿ independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field.

Dissertation in Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law

Dissertation ¿ independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field.

Dissertation in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution

Dissertation ¿ independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field.

Level 7 Project

The module will initially provide students with a introduction to research, including qualitative and quantitative paradigms, methodology, validity and reliability and support them to choose their research projects which are in the areas of their discipline.

Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine

Advanced Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Advanced Topics in Chemistry

This module contains advanced topics in chemistry across the disciplines of inorganic, organic, physical and materials chemistry, especially in relation to contemporary advanced topics in these areas and will touch on the research interests of staff teaching on the module. The exact content of the module may vary from year to year as different staff contribute to the module and as new topics become more relevant and/or with advances in knowledge in these areas.

Advanced Topics in Chemistry

This module is aimed at familiarising students with advanced areas in organic, bioorganic and/or bioinorganic chemistry, with the specific content varying periodically. The syllabus faims to equip the students with sufficient knowledge to be able to appraise and develop synthetic strategies for the synthesis of drug and other complex organic molecules using catalytic methodology. It is designed to provide an overview of the principles and applications of contemporary catalytic methodology of relevance to drug discovery and manufacture within the pharmaceutical industry. Both asymmetric and enzyme catalysis routes will be discussed. Proteins, their structure and purification will be discussed as well as the role of enzymes both in living systems and in industrial settings.

Regulating the Chinese Financial System

Understanding any countries regulatory framework is paramount to understanding its financial system. Nowhere is this more apparent than China. This course provides an overview of China's financial system and its regulatory framework. The goal is to understand the development of the Chinese financial system, the challenges, opportunities and risks facing it now and over the long-term, and possible implications for the global financial system. The course will provide a view of how capital, risk, and liquidity are intermediated within China and cross-border. It will also explore current trends (including liberalisation of markets and financial stability).

Dissertation in Intellectual Property Law

Dissertation ¿ independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field.

Programming for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

This module provides an intensive practical introduction to programming in Python, suitable for students with some degree of mathematical or statistical maturity. It covers a range of practical skills and underlying knowledge. These include the basic programming constructs for control, data structuring and modularisation; the use of systems for collaborative development and version control such as Git; unit testing and documentation; project structures and continuous integration/deployment.

Dissertation in Energy and Natural Resources Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in International Business Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in Banking and Finance Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in Intellectual Property Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Biodiversity Loss - Challenges and Solutions

This module examines the causes and consequences of biodiversity loss from the landscape- to global-scale, alongside the strategies being adopted to mitigate and reverse these effects. You will learn about the impacts of climate change, pollution, habitat loss and agriculture, as well as national, regional and international policies and frameworks (e.g. EU Biodiversity Strategy, CITES, IUCN and Nagoya). You will be trained in how to evaluate data quality for evidence-based recommendations, and in grant writing for real-world projects, case studies, such as illegal wildlife trade and plastic pollution. Interactions with practitioners will offer direct insights into the pressing threats to biodiversity and its conservation. This core module is taught at both Queen Mary and the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.

Ecology and Evolution Research Project

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 genomics, ecology and evolutionary biology.

Biodiversity and Conservation Field Course

The module focusses on developing field skills in topics related to biodiversity and conservation. Students will be trained for one of three field trip venues, depending on their MSc degree choices. For those choosing to specialise in Ecological and Evolutionary Biology, the students will travel to Borneo, a biodiversity hotspot in a tropical forest, where students are particularly exposed to a wealth of animals. Topics will encompass aspects of taxonomy, ecology, biogeography, conservation and evolution. Specific areas of content will include ecological processes in tropical rainforests (decomposition, pollination and seed dispersal); rainforest structure and defining characteristics (including the importance of rainforests as centres of biodiversity) and anthropogenic factors affecting rainforests (including disturbance, forest fragmentation and agriculture). There will be strong emphasis on practical training, in particular, students will be trained in a range of survey methods covering diverse terrestrial and aquatic taxonomic groups. The module will also provide training in data collection, analysis and presentation For those choosing to specialise in Plant and Fungal Taxonomy, Diversity and Conservation, the students will travel to a biodiversity hotspot in Madagascar, where students are particularly exposed to a wealth of plant and fungal groups. This Madagascar Field Course Module will provide an introduction to practical field work, including botanical surveys and flowering plant identification and how they can be applied to solving practical problems of conservation management as well as biodiversity research. It will be taught by botanists from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre (KMCC) in Antananarivo. Several site visits to conservation projects and some taught case studies will give an over-view of conservation in Madagascar. For those choosing to specialise in Freshwater and Marine Ecology, the students will travel to a marine biodiversity hotspot in Cape Verde, where students focus on the diversity, behaviour, ecology, physiology, conservation and management of cetaceans (whales and dolphins), and marine turtles. It covers such issues as the life history and migrations of turtles, their diving ability and behaviours, the social behaviour of dolphins, and the conservation of whales. It also includes (even though they are not mammals or reptiles!) a brief look at the sea-birds and sharks that will likely also be seen during field excursions. For part of the module students will be taught in the archipelago of Cape Verde, with boat trips for whales and shark observations, sea turtle monitoring. We reserve the right to change the location of any of these field courses if advice on travel from the Foreign Commonwealth Office recommends it, or for logistical reasons it becomes impractical. Whilst the field trip is compulsory, if a student is unexpectedly unable to travel, an alternative method of assessment will be undertaken.

Statistics and Data Analysis

This module aims to provide a strong foundation in data analysis, visualisation and interpretation¿all critical skills in modern biodiversity and conservation science. You will be taught experimental design, statistical analysis (incl. ANOVA, correlation and regression), and basic bioinformatics analyses. Teaching in this module uses the software R, and typically comprises formal instruction in the mornings followed by practical sessions in the afternoons, in which you will gain hands-on experience of analysing real-world datasets. This core module is taught at Queen Mary University of London.

Research Frontiers in Biodiversity, Evolution and Conservation

This core module will introduce you to cutting-edge topics in biodiversity, evolution and conservation. In a series of interactive lectures and workshops, you will be taught by leading experts on the latest scientific advances in their respective fields. You will conduct a critical review on a subject of your choice, with potential topics covering marine and terrestrial species and ecosystems, evolution, and conservation. The module is designed to develop skills in critical thinking and scientific writing, and offers a firm foundation for the MSc programme. This core module is taught at Queen Mary University of London.

Advanced Clinical Skills and Science in Endodontics

This core module is to: - develop the basic training, acquired in previous modules, to an advanced level to allow progression towrads independent practice in endodontics; - further develop endodontic skills and on a range of more asvanced techniques; - introduce students to a multidisciplinary approach to management of endodontic diseases.

Consolidated Clinical Skills and Science in Endodontics

This core module will consolidate the advanced knowledge acquired in previous modules, including further development of surgical skills and reflection (using clinical portfolio progression). Holistic patient care will be encouraged in this module and students will gain an appreciation of the relationships and networks necessary in order to practice as an independent endodontist. Students will be introduced to more complicated endodontic cases and will gain an appreciation of the overlap with other dental specialties. This module will cover other aspects of advanced knowledge in endodontics, including radiology, microbiology and pathology. Students will be encouraged to develop into independent practitioners.

Core Knowledge and Clinical Skills in Endodontics

This module covers the basic biological sciences and clinical skills to ensure that all students possess a fundamental level of knowledge and skill relevant to endodontics, which will then be applied and built-on over the following two years of clinical training and practice.

Film Studies Alternative

The module builds on IFP6003 / IFJ6003 Film Studies: an Introduction to Hollywood Cinema by examining a number of movements and styles from British, European and Asian cinema, as well as New Hollywood Cinema. 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.

French Language and Culture I (a) for IFP

The module is suitable for beginners in French . Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in French, they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.

Japanese Language and Culture I (a)

The module is suitable for beginners in Japanese. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Japanese, they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics. They will learn the Hiragana and Katakana scripts and around 30 kanji (Chinese characters).

Film Studies Hollywood

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, narrative and genre analysis, and various theoretical approaches (narrative, genre, etc). The module will also explore the history of 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.

Introduction to Business and Management

The module provides students an appreciation of the operations of organisations and functions of management. It introduces students to principles and models of and developments in management. The module explores the behaviour of organisations and their interactions with the industry, national and global environments.

Contemporary Issues in Business and Management

The module builds on IFP/IFJ6009 Introduction to Business and Management by developing students' analytical and problem solving skills, through the examination of challenging contemporary issues within Business. Students will analyse and comment on Business issues in essays, reports and presentations to the level that will lead to potential success on a range of masters degree programmes in the School of Business and Management. Students will also be taken on external visits to encourage the application of theoretical knowledge in real life situations.

Dental Public Health and Policy

The Dental Public Health and Policy module is the first module in the distance-learning (online) Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership postgraduate Certificate, Diploma and MSc course. This module covers the fundamental principles of Public Health, Dental Public Health and policy making. Teaching is delivered online over nine weeks using a range of interactive e-learning tools, videos, key readings and tasks for students to complete on a weekly basis.

Prevention and Oral Health Promotion

The Prevention and Oral Health Promotion module is the fourth module in the distance-learning (online) Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership postgraduate Certificate, Diploma and MSc course. This applied and consolidated module covers oral health promotion, oral health promotion strategies, how to use behaviour change theories and models in oral health promotion, and how to use planning models to design, implement and evaluate oral health promotion activities. The module will enable students to design oral health promotion activities, and learn how to evaluate them.

Assessing Oral Health and Diseases in Populations

The Assessing Oral Health and Diseases in Populations module covers oral epidemiology, measures of oral diseases and the study designs used to assess the prevalence and causes of oral diseases in populations. It will introduce students to the epidemiology of common oral diseases. Students will also learn how to interpret data from epidemiological studies. The teaching delivered online over nine weeks will use a range of interactive e-learning tools, videos, key readings and weekly tasks for students to complete.

Evidence Based Dentistry

This module will equip students with (i) applied knowledge of evidence-based dentistry; (ii) the skills to enable them to critically appraise research and; (iii) strategies that allow them to apply and implement evidence in practice. The nine-week online teaching will use videos, existing publicly available resources, key readings and interactive task to build critical appraisal skills. Library skills teaching developed in collaboration with the School of Medicine and Dentistry librarian will equip students will database searching skills.

Mandarin Chinese Language and Culture I (b)

Designed for students who have an interest in Mandarin Chinese Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Mandarin Chinese language and culture and is intended for students with a basic user knowledge of the language. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language . The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated 'global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Mandarin Chinese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.

Introduction to Politics and International Relations 1: Ideas and Concepts

This module introduces students, who may not have English as their first language, to modern political ideas and to international relations. It examines general issues such as: What is politics about? Why and how do we study Politics? What kinds of ideas and institutions is politics concerned with? It examines key concepts which inform political debate and the historical development of such key concepts. Political ideas and concepts to be studied include the state, the nation, race, ideologies, citizenship and democracy. Students will also examine key political ideologies in detail. Ideologies to be studied will include Marxism, feminism, liberalism, conservatism and socialism.

Film Studies Hollywood

Film Studies Alternative

Mandarin Chinese Language and Culture I (a)

Designed for students who have an interest in Mandarin Chinese Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Mandarin Chinese language and culture and is intended for beginner learners. It develops students' ability to operate practically and effectively in the target language . The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated 'global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Mandarin Chinese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.

Humanities and Social Sciences Independent Research Project

This module will provide students with the background knowledge and skills needed for the successful completion of a piece of empirical research in the field of Humanities and Socail Sciencess. Students will build upon skills and knowledge learnt in IFP/IFJ6011 by selecting this sample, designing, piloting and conducting their questionnaires, analysing their findings and writing up their findings in a 5,000 word report. Students will be assessed by coursework only, consisting of a 5,000 word written report and a 10 minute individual presentation. Students will be provided with regular formative feedback in the form of tutorials.

Spanish Language and Culture I (a)

The module is suitable for beginners in Spanish. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Spanish, they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.

Research Methods in HSS

This module will provide students with the background knowledge and skills needed for the successful completion of a piece of empirical research in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences. Students will learn about the requirements of research at masters level, from learning to read critically, to choosing and selecting literature from the field, to narrowing down a topic area and designing their methodology, to writing a research proposal. Students will be assessed by coursework only, consisting of a research proposal, a draft chapter, an annotated bibliography and a reflective task. Students will be provided with regular formative feedback on their written work and also on their research design and general interaction with the research process.

Introduction to Politics and International Relations 2: Application and Analysis

This module introduces students to the study of international politics. The main objective of this course is to offer a comprehensive and critical overview of politics on a global scale. Having taken International Politics 1: ideas and concepts, students will build upon and apply their knowledge to case studies. The course will survey a range of topics including war, conflict, peace and intervention; the global economy; security studies and the environment. This module will also pay close attention to understanding how historical legacies continue to shape current global issues.

Real-Time and Critical Systems

Most computer systems do not sit on desks but are inside machine such as cars and medical devices. Building on modules in operating systems and software engineering, this module introduces techniques for the safety analysis of such systems and for real-time system development.

English Language and Study Skills

This module encourages student engagement through a blended learning approach, permitting students to demonstrate their independent study skills increasingly to an exit level. The module provides students with a critical understanding of UK academic culture, and motivates them to develop the linguistic, analytical and argumentative skills necessary to succeed on a postgraduate degree programme in both written and spoken work. The module introduces how to incorporate evidence successfully into academic text, and raises awareness regarding issues of plagiarism. Students are exposed to different styles of academic texts within the disciplines of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Finance and Economics, focusing on the development and evaluation of critical argument as well as on linguistic features, such as syntactic and grammatical patterns. The module assessment is both formative and summative and is flexible enough to allow students to develop ideas around their subject specific areas. The portfolio incorporates an extended essay which also externalises the writing process effectively. Students write a series of text responses and demonstrate reading and writing skills to an exit level in two comprehension assessments. In addition, students are assessed in their ability to lead and engage in academic presentations and discussions, using (where appropriate) an online platform.

Spanish Language and Culture I (b)

Designed for students who have an interest in Spanish Language and Cultures. The module emphasises the global importance of Spanish language and Spanish speaking cultures and is intended for students with a basic user knowledge of the language. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Spanish language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.

Contemporary Issues in Business and Management

Introduction to Politics and International Relations 2: Application and Analysis

French Language and Culture I (b)

Designed for students who have an interest in French Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of French language and French speaking culture and is intended for students with a basic user knowledge of the language. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated 'global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in French language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.

Japanese Language and Culture I (b)

Designed for students who have an interest in Japanese Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Japanese language and Japanese speaking culture and is intended for students with a basic user knowledge of the language. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Japanese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.

Introduction to Politics and International Relations 1: Ideas and Concepts

Introduction to Business and Management

Environmental Data Acquisition and Analysis

Students of Physical Geography and Environmental Science require a range of skills in data collection plus numerical, statistical and modelling skills to undertake higher-level analysis of environmental datasets. This module provides specific training and experience in approaches to the collection of field data and data from secondary sources as well as 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.

Real-Time DSP

This module will provide training in the use of the latest programmable DSP devices. The module is examined entirely through coursework. Students will use TI DSP chips to undertake various exercises and projects. The module will also cover: * Introdution to Real Time DSP Systems * Basic CPU Architecture * The TI C6xxx Architecture * Introduction to Code Composer Studio * Coding numerical issues

Oral Health in the Global Context

The Oral Health in the Global Context is a Year 2 elective module available to MSc students taking the distance learning Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership course. It will cover global oral health surveillance systems, development theories and the concept of universal health coverage. Students will also explore the role of advocacy, networking and communication. Students will then demonstrate their applied knowledge by preparing a position statement and giving an online 30 minute conference-style oral presentation as a summative assessment.

Leadership and Planning in Health and Public Services

This module will be delivered in Year 2 of the Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership distance-learning postgraduate Diploma and MSc courses. The Institute of Dentistry and the School of Business and Management will deliver this collaborative module. It will cover dental service planning including planning models, needs assessments, priority setting and action planning. Students will explore leadership theories and critically reflect on leadership challenges in case studies. They will evaluate their own leadership styles and skills by completing a summative personal leadership e-Portfolio.

Health Systems Policy and Performance

This module will introduce students to various conceptual frameworks and theoretical understandings of health systems; and locate them within a social, economic, historical and global context. Students will learn about the functional components of a health system, including the mechanisms generating health systems resources, financing healthcare delivery, and designing the management-administrative systems of a health system. The module will cover the health systems challenges of low, middle and high income country settings and will look at the application of social and economic theories to health systems policy. It will describe and discuss the distinction between public and private financing, as well as the role of markets and hierarchies, and of private and public providers within health systems. Students will learn about the health system of one country that will be assigned to them at the beginning of term, and compare it to their home country as the basis for developing an in-depth knowledge and understanding of two health systems.

Research Project for Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership

The research project module will allow students to develop both an understanding of the research processes and the skills required to undertake a supervised project. It has two components worth 60 credits. The written report is a synopsis of a research project worth 90% of the module assessment (maximum 20,000 words). Students will have the option of carrying out a systematic or scoping review, a primary research study with fieldwork carried out in their home country or submit a full research grant proposal or a publishable academic public health report. Students will answer questions about their research project in a 20-minute oral presentation (viva) via Skype worth 10% of the module mark.

Qualitative Research Methods

This elective module will be available for students to complete in Year 2 of the Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership distance-learning MSc course. It will start by giving students the theoretical basis for qualitative research. They will then journey through the stages of planning a qualitative study: setting research questions, selecting an appropriate study design and sampling strategy, gathering, analyzing and interpreting data and writing up findings. Students will learn how to critically appraise qualitative research.

Research Methods

This compulsory module will be delivered in Year 2 of the Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership distance-learning postgraduate Diploma and MSc courses. It will start by giving students the theoretical basis for research. They will then journey through the stages of planning a research project including setting research questions, designing a study and acquiring ethical approval. The nine weeks of teaching will culminate in students submitting a research protocol and defending this in an oral presentation as a summative assessment.

International Arbitration Award Writing

The course consists of self-study, a residential course for students and further self-study. Students will be sent a reading list as well as a set of reading materials focusing on arbitration awards, their characteristics, functions and drafting. The residential course will consist of one full day of teaching and learning by way of a seminar. At the residential course students will be given the first set of materials relating to a fictional arbitration case; these will normally cover all information but the hearing. Candidates will be required to start working on the awards by drafting summary of facts, summary of parties' positions, claims, etc.

Dissertation

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.

Clinical Skills and Science in Oral Surgery 3

This core module will consolidate the advanced knowledge acquired in previous modules including further development of surgical skills and reflection (using clinical portfolio progression). Holistic patient care will be encouraged in this module, and students will gain an appreciation of the relationships and networks necessary in order to practice as an independent oral surgeon. Students will be introduced to more complicated oral surgery cases and will gain an appreciation of the overlap with oral and maxillofacial surgery and a basic working knowledge of common maxillofacial conditions. This module will cover aspects of advanced knowledge in oral surgery including radiology, microbiology and pathology. Students will be encouraged to develop into independent practitioners and they will operate on patients in theatre who are under a general anaesthetic. An introduction to the science and surgical aspects of dental implantology will be included in this module, the students will attend the implant clinic which is under the auspices of restorative dentistry.

Ethics, Regulation and Law in Advanced Digital Information Processing and Decision Making

Statistics for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

This module has two components. The first introduces students to the use of probability and statistics in the context of data analysis. The module starts with basics of descriptive statistics and probability distributions. Then we go on with applied statistics techniques, such as visualisation, fitting probability distributions, time-series analysis, and hypothesis testing, which are all fundamental to the exploration, insight extraction, and modelling activities that are fundamental in handling data, of any size. The second covers some basic matrix algebra, including matrix multiplication and diagonalisation.

Advanced Game Development

This module covers games programming in C++, assuming the student has experience with object-oriented programming. The module introduces the C++ language and uses it to explores a range of topics in games programming, including 2D and 3D graphics, OpenGL, physics, input systems, and the use of C++ in modern game engines. It emphasises a practical approach to programming, with the students developing playable games for the final assessment.

Health Economics

The Health Economics module is an elective module in the Year 2 of the distance-learning MSc in Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership course. This module will introduce students to the concepts of health economics and how it specifically relates to oral health care and public health interventions. It will cover the five methods used in economic evaluation. Students will use case-studies to explore the application and limitations of using Health Economics in dentistry by critically analysing papers.

Primary Dental Care

This module will be delivered in Year 2 of the Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership distance-learning postgraduate Diploma and MSc courses. Students will explore working relationships, skill-mix and practice management approaches in primary dental care. They will learn how to identify and design a quality improvement project that they can use in their own practice environment. Students will reflect on their role as professionals in the wider healthcare workforce and create a oral presentation aimed at other health professional audience.

Interactive Digital Multimedia Techniques

Interactive Digital Multimedia Techniques (IDMT) studies human-computer interaction through the lens of digital lutherie. The module will introduce students to fundamentals of creating their own musical instruments (final project) using methodologies and technology across music, design, engineering, and computing. Using a combination of hands-on and theoretical exercises, we will explore the influence and feedback between the tool (e.g., a musical instrument/interface), its user (a musician/producer), and the creative output (music/sound/timbre). Along the way, we will learn about interaction design, embedded computing (using Arduino or Bela), sensor technology, sound programming and synthesis (using Max/MSP or PureData), machine learning (using Wekinator), and musicality/timbrality (using your sensibilities as a musician/sound artist).

Paediatric and Adolescent Gastro-Intestinal and Liver Diseases, Gastro-Intestinal Infections

This module serves as a thorough overview of gastrointestinal and liver diseases in children and adolescents and gastrointestinal infectious diseases.

Chemistry MSci Research Project

Students work independently on chemical research topics set by their project supervisors. Original experimental or theoretical work is the principal component of this advanced project. The work also involves critical evaluation of previously published results. A dissertation is prepared describing the research work undertaken, and placing it in the context of other research in the field. The dissertation is defended in an oral examination; students also present their work in the form of a poster and as a short oral presentation.

Cardiac Arrest, Airway Management, Oxygenation, Analgesia and Procedural Sedation

This module will equip students with knowledge of oxygen delivery, advanced airway care, respiratory support, procedural sedation/analgesia, and state of the art treatment of cardiorespiratory arrest in adults and children. In the first part of the module, students will review the mechanisms for respiratory failure, non-invasive ventilation, and advanced airway care. Students also will learn best practice in acute care analgesia and sedation. In the second part of the module, students will focus on the best practice care for patients in cardiopulmonary arrest in a wide range of scenarios. In the final section of the module, students will focus on the critically ill child and mother.

Sighting Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Cinema

Major films and landmark documentaries have projected the workings of gender and sexuality in Latin American political history in novel and complex ways. Moving away from such clichés as Latin American machismo, this course explores other perspectives on gender and sexuality opened by Latin American Cinema and also by renowned directors in the international circuit, Roman Polanski being a case in point. The focus will be on Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. The course initially analyzes codings of masculinity and power in representations of popular revolutionaries, notably Che Guevara, and of State authoritarianism, emblematized by General Pinochet; it also surveys representations of the encounter of the revolutionary and the libidinal in the lives of earlier twentieth century feminine icons Frida Kahlo and Olga Benario. The course then features important unfoldings of feminine agency in the context of dictatorships later in the century in major documentaries and award-winning commercial films: the politicization of motherhood and widowhood in response to violations of human rights; women engaging in armed struggle; women traumatized by rape during torture confronting its perpetrators. It also discusses film representations of homosexual persecution by the dictatorship in Argentina and the representation of sexual excess on the Brazilian screen as challenges to the repressive State.

Dissertation - Clinical Case Reports

In this module students will write up four case reports of patients from their clinical practice. The student should describe the case using skills and knowledge acquired from previous modules. In addition, they will be expected to relate each case to basic science and/or research relevant to the case ( e.g. evidence for treatment, pathology of disease, etc.) There are several reasons that may make a clinical case interesting for publication which include: 1. Unusual presentations or unknown disease 2. Unusual aetiology for a disease 3. Challenging differential diagnosis 4. Errors in diagnosis, their causes and consequences 5. Unreported or unusual side effects or adverse interactions concerning medications 6. New associations or variations in disease courses 7. Presentations, diagnoses and/or management of new and emerging diseases 8. An unexpected association between diseases or symptoms 9. An unexpected event in the course of observing or treating a patient 10. Findings that give new insight into the possible pathogenesis of a disease or an adverse effect Case reports should be short, no more than 2000-3000 words with a maximum of 15 references and 3 figures for each case.

Bioorganic Chemistry

This module reviews the chemistry of some important biomolecules, including: peptide chemistry (the synthesis, properties and reactions of aminoacids, and their combination to give peptides); sugar chemistry (sugar nomenclature, sugar protection protocols and synthetic manipulations); nucleosides and nucleotides (representation of DNA and RNA structures, the significance of the purine and pyrimidine ring systems noncovalent interactions, and an introduction to the synthesis and sequencing of oligonucleotides).

Collider Physics

The aim of this course is to develop and apply theoretical ideas relevant to collider physics experiments, such as the Large Hadron Collider and related facilities. The course begins by reviewing non-abelian gauge theories, which underly the Standard Model of Particle Physics, before focusing on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of quarks and gluons. Detailed applications to experimental observables (e.g. cross-sections) will be examined, as well as modern search methods for new physics signals.

Fundamentals of Research Methods

This module is divided into two components: research process (including methods and ethics) and basic statistics. Students will learn about the research stages including conducting literature searches, setting research questions, selecting study designs and research methods, drafting research protocols and seeking ethical approval delivered in the form of lectures and practical seminars. The basic statistics component will introduce students to medical statistics and common statistical tests delivered in lectures.

Cultural Industries

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. The programme will 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.

Research Project in Gastro-Intestinal Science

Parallel Computing

High performance computing refers to the practice of aggregating computing power in order to deliver higher performance than would be obtained from a normal desktop machine. This module introduces concepts associated with high performance computing, such as parallel processing, hardware acceleration, GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) programming and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) programming. It also explores some of the contexts in which high performance computing is often used, e.g. in scientific research and in business.

Advanced Control Systems

This module introduces the advanced topics in control systems and the control engineering application in power electronic systems, automotive and robotics design. Topics include stability analysis of nonlinear systems, digital control systems, intelligent systems, model predictive control, adaptive control and variable structure control, estimator design and modeling and real-time simulation. This module will have labs either in the electronics lab, or in the ITL.

English Language and Study Skills

Interactive System Design

The main areas of study are (i) interaction and design (ii) modelling of interaction (iii) the design process (iv) design principles and (v) usability evaluation. Various types of interfaces will be considered including those encountered on the web and mobile computing devices. A historical perspective is encouraged in order to provide a means of understanding current and projected developments in the discipline and profession of interactive computer system design. The module will include seminars and group laboratory classes in which analysis, design and evaluation methods will be used in practical contexts. Students will be expected to participate fully in the seminars by presenting and discussing their own designs and evaluations. Students will be required to construct prototype interfaces using techniques of their own choice (e.g. Java, Director).

Credit Ratings

This module provides an overview of credit ratings, risk and analysis. It explains the role of rating agencies and goes though the rating process; how credit ratings are assigned and monitored. It provides knowledge of both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of credit analysis. It presents credit rating methodologies and an overview of securitisation and structured finance technology. The module puts considerable emphasis on practical applications. It explains how a transaction is put together by an investment bank as an arranger. Then goes through the steps of how it gets rated by the rating agencies and finally distributed in the markets.

Clinical Endocrinology Dissertation

Documentary Production Project

Molecular biology and pathogensis

Sound Recording and Production Techniques

The module develops the students' skills and understanding of contemporary audio production techniques. It will give the students a good grounding in the theoretical aspects of audio production, from the functionality of audio interfaces to the signal processing within audio effects, as well as providing practical experience in the use of all audio equipment to which the theory applies. The students will learn the implications of audio digitisation, through which they will gain an understanding of the various means by which digital media is disseminated in the modern age.

Project and dissertation

The overall aim of this module, building on the Research Methods module is for the trainee to undertake research that shows originality in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret new information in a specialism of healthcare science. During Years 2 and 3 the trainee will undertake an original piece of research involving the application of scientific investigation to one or more clinical situations. The trainee will also be expected to complete three shorter health services research projects to gain an understanding of the health services contexts within which clinical research is undertaken. One each in: Evidence-based practice, Clinical audit and Supporting professional service users

Audit Project in Endodontic Practice

In this module, students will build on the principles and protocols for audit and/or research. The students will select an agreed endodontic topic, design a strategy, collect relevant data and analyse the findings. At the end of this module, students will be required to produce a report of their project.

Introduction to Endoscopy and GI investigations

This module allows the students to gain knowledge and understanding of the principles and practice of the gastrointestinal endoscopy and investigations. It is intended as an update for those with some experience in endoscopy and as an introduction for novices allowing them to accelerate further training after completing this module. Specific learning objectives of this module includes: To study the structure of an endoscope and how it works; Understanding the indications, contraindication and complications of the main diagnostic endoscopic techniques: gastroscopy, colonoscopy, enteroscopy, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and capsule endoscopy; Recognition of normal and pathological endoscopy images; Knowledge of the processes consent, preparation and sedation of the patients; How to organise and run an endoscopy service; Basic knowledge of interpretation of a videocapsule endoscopy; Formulate their own options for investigating various GI symptoms/diseases; Describe the nuclear medicine techniques available for assessing diseases of the gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary tract; Learn the advantages and disadvantages of the different techniques for assessing gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.

Health Inequalities and Social Determinants of Health

This module will examine the theories and evidence underpinning social inequalities in health (defined as the unfair and avoidable differences in health status). It will consider structural/material and psychosocial theories, and hypothesis about social drift, self-selection, and genetics. Attention is given to the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Sources of data and measurement of scale of inequalities between and within groups are addressed. The module will consider association with income and distribution of money, resources, and power at global, national, and local level. Policy interventions and their different approaches will be explored including universal and targeted or selective approaches to reducing inequalities by reducing the inequitable distribution of power, money, and resources.

Clinical Medicine and Surgery

This module is a natural extension of the 'Clinical Medicine: Physical and Mental Health' module students undertake in year 1, where they cover much of what might generally be regarded as core clinical knowledge and skills as they relate to medical practice. The first part of the module includes taught theory components in the fields of cardiology, critical care, endocrinology, haematology, gastroenterology, nephrology, oncology and respiratory medicine. Clinical medicine and surgery is taught as 3 blocks; 1. The first block focuses on general surgical problems seen in adulthood 2. The second block constitutes medicine for the elderly, and end of life care 3. The third block constitutes the emergency medicine component of your training Care of the Older Adult - will provide a comprehensive overview of the health and social needs of the older adult, the problems and challenges we may face as we age and how services might be reorganised in order to meet them. A special emphasis will be placed on the understanding and evaluation of frailty, dementia, rehabilitation and social care as well as end of life care.

Fundamentals of DSP

Introduction: Why DSP, sampling, quantization, Signals, LTI systems, Z transforms and polynomials, DFT, FFT, Spectrum Analysis, FIR filters, IIR filters

Genomic Approaches to Cancer

Reading the Middle East

This MA module will introduce you to a range of anglophone texts, texts translated from Arabic, and key debates, from or about the Middle East. The module aims to ask questions about the role of race, religion, regional geo-politics, sectarian and other violence, gender and sexuality. It will allow you to explore these and other topics though some of the most interesting, iconic, or controversial writing to come from, or engage with, the region in the 20th and 21st centuries. The question of translation (literal, cultural, metaphorical) is at the centre of the module¿s approach to these texts. At a time when it feels as though the Middle East and its people have never been so demonised, nor so victimised, this module seeks to interrogate the work that such texts do in the university and beyond to represent, challenge representations, or `translate¿ their cultures of origin, and to shed light on the many prisms through which we analyse, understand, and perceive the Middle East, its people, languages and cultures today.

Consolidated Clinical Skill and Science in Periodontology

This module covers all aspects of periodontics to a specialist level and consolidates advanced clinical skills. It will cover integrated knowledge obtained from the previous two years and its application to clinical practice. This module will also cover aspects of periodontic care in relation to other dental and medical specialties and provide clinical training on basic and multi-disciplinary approaches on diagnosis and treatment planning for adults needing comprehensive oral rehabilitation.

Medical Ethics and Regulatory Affairs

Research Methods for Astrophysics

"Research in astrophysics builds on a vast body of literature and archived data. This module is an introduction to research methods which exploit existing information sources in astrophysics. The module serves as preparation for the research project which forms a major part of the MSc programme. In this module students will learn how to review and evaluate with critical insight, the current state of research of a chosen area in astrophysics. They will receive training in writing academic reports in an appropriate style, and will learn how to convey research material in a presentation. Additional topics will be included so that students are prepared for project work at an advanced level. These can include specific exercises in using astronomical data archives, scientific word processing, mathematical skills, using mathematical and data analysis packages, project planning, etc."

Professionalism Management and Leadership

This module is designed to ensure that students develop their management and leadership skills in the context of the ethical and legal framework within which a UK dental professional should practice. It will be conducted in the form of lectures and interactive sessions. Topics covered will include: Ethics, Law, Communication Skills and UK regulatory requirements.

Spine, Spinal Cord and Nerve Injuries

This is a compulsory module that will focus on the patho-physiology of trauma to the head, spinal column, spinal cord and the central and peripheral nervous system. This module will provide students with the knowledge to critically evaluate head and neurological injuries. Non-operative and operative treatment will be discussed in order for students to fully understand the options available and help to refine decision making skills in order to instigate the most appropriate treatment. Ethical issues surrounding traumatic head and spinal cord injuries will also be critically discussed.

Critical Mental Health Sciences

This module examines contemporary debates within the field of mental health theory and practice from the critical premise that the dominant, so-called `biomedical¿ model of mental health is in urgent need of reform. Students will learn about critical approaches to assessment and diagnosis, psychiatric treatments, and mental health theory. They will also start to consider how the arts can contribute to a critical approach to mental health. Examples of themes include: critical psychiatry; the Power Threat Meaning Framework; Open Dialogue; a psychoanalytic framework for understanding unconscious emotional processing; social justice and mental health; survivors¿ and service users¿ narratives and critiques, including through the arts.

Cultures of Comparison

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.

Communicable Disease: Prevention and Control in the Hospital and in the Community

This is a compulsory module covering aspects of communicable disease control in the hospital and community. After an introduction to practical epidemiology with special reference to clinical microbiology and infectious disease in the community, the module focuses on the relationship between the NHS, PHE, infection control teams, environmental health services and other relevant bodies in the UK. The module also explores the worldwide public health issues which have implications for public health in the UK.

Advanced Clinical Microbiology and Laboratory Management

This module extends the knowledge acquired in the other modules of this degree to create an in depth knowledge of infectious disease. Students also are equipped with knowledge essential to the efficient management of a diagnostic laboratory.

Biogeosciences and Ecosystem Services

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.

Public Health, International Law and Governance

This module provides students with an introduction to the interplay of international relations, international politics, international jurisprudence and global governance as they relate to global health. This module will build upon the themes already explored in the core modules from the first semester core modules. It will examine the content and operation of various supra-national policy instruments, structures, institutions and processes, and place this within the context of the right to health and contemporary controversies and topical issues being confronted by the global health community.

Modelling and Performance

Background material: probability, conditional probability, Markov models, Queue modelling of OS, e.g. multi-tasking, proof (and uses) of Little¿s law. Workload modelling: exponential versus Pareto; call centre analysis. Simulation-how to generate random numbers from arbitrary distributions, steady state versus terminating; output analysis; some simple simulation applications. Reliability theory: oriented towards electronic systems, though e.g. passive component failure, and then to microprocessor (embedded software) systems through s/w failures Network Science: introduction to the fundamental ideas in network science: graph theory, network metrics, network models, network robustness. Approach to modelling emergence and topological robustness of supply networks, communication networks and general human-technology interaction.

Calcium and Bone

Thyroid

Ethics in International Arbitration

Parties, attorneys, and arbitrators come to international arbitral proceedings different jurisdictions and with often distinctive legal cultures and ethical assumptions. As a result, many ambiguities exist about what rules apply to their professional conduct and often parties and counsel from different jurisdictions effectively play by different ethical rules. This module, which is to be offered as an option at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, will address these issues.

International Competition Law

Competition law has witnessed an impressive increase in significance and geographical scope during the last two decades or so. From the situation which existed in the 1980s - when there were only a few systems of competition law in the world ¿ we have moved to a new one where currently there are about 120 jurisdictions in which some form of competition law has been introduced and 30 others seeking to develop the process. It is anticipated that this remarkable geographical expansion of the law will increase in the future. With this unprecedented increase in significance and remarkable geographical expansion of the law (as well as other significant developments such as the process of globalisation), it has become important to examine the role and place of competition law and policy in a globalised economy. The course will aim at such an examination. The course is designed to include 'international' elements (comparative elements will then be addressed in the Comparative Competition Law course in semester 2), looking at, among other things, issues such as, the process of internationalisation of competition law and policy; the role of international organisations and multinational enterprises (MNEs) in this process; the extraterritorial reach of the competition rules of the EU, the USA and those of other jurisdictions; and the relationship between competition and trade policy.

Comparative Competition Law

The course is designed to include `comparative¿ elements, covering, among other things, developed competition law systems (EU competition law and US antitrust law), BRICS, Japan and other developing jurisdictions. In the light of the globalisation of markets, this module will focus on the different elements of various competition law systems. Starting with an introduction to competition law and economics, we will then proceed with discussing different regimes in a comparative perspective.

Competition and the State: EU State Aid Law

This course examines EU state aid rules, i.e. rules restraining the public conferral of selective advantages to certain companies. In recent years, EU state aid rules have attracted increased attention not only in Europe but internationally, especially as a result of the European Commission¿s actions against big multinationals.

Directed Research in Linguistics

This module provides an opportunity for students to undertake a course of independent study in a sub-field of Linguistics, tailored to their own interests and needs. You will work closely with a member of staff to design a programme of inquiry into an area of interest, enabling you to delve deeper into your chosen topic. The module is intended to serve as a springboard into higher-level research, by providing specialist training in your chosen area, with close supervision from a member of staff with substantial relevant expertise.

Applied Anatomy for Prehospital Medicine

The understanding of pathology of the diseases that present in the prehospital phase is dependent on a sound knowledge of human anatomy. The interpretation of mechanisms of injury, the analysis of symptoms and signs, as well as the delivery of key diagnostic tests during the very early stages of care all rely on a clinician's application of their anatomical knowledge.

Commercial Conflict of Laws

This module introduces students to the fundamental questions of applicable law that arise in a globalised society. The course gives a broad theoretical underpinning to the concepts of conflicts of laws as well as examining from a practical standpoint the challenges faced by litigators dealing with cross-border disputes. The substance of the module provides an overview of choice of law principles in the main areas of civil and commercial practice (contracts, torts, property, and company matters) and takes a closer look at developing and problematic areas as well as the challenges posed to these traditional principles by new technologies and an increasingly interconnected global marketplace. The starting point of the course is to address these issues of applicable law as they arise before the English courts. In this context, aspects of both the English common law rules as well as the European regulations, which now govern substantial aspects of English private international law in civil and commercial matters, are covered in depth. Where appropriate, the course also considers from a comparative perspective the approaches taken in other major jurisdictions (for example the USA, Switzerland and South America).

Intellectual Property and Fashion: Business and Law

In this module, students will engage directly with industry and commercial fashion practice through workshops and enterprise development, gaining specific insight into design practice, fashion media, merchandising, branding, and retail curation. Seminars will cover a range of topics in commercial fashion enterprise and will consider in detail practical examples in management and innovation, allowing students to gain a comprehensive insight into building a fashion brand identity and an understanding of commercial and artistic practice in fashion and design.

Introduction to IOT

This module provides a comprehensive overview of the Internet of Things, also called machines, smart objects, smart devices and ubiquitous computers. These Things will support smarter interaction with physical environment things; smarter interaction with each other, virtual or cyber things and with humans. Form factors for smart devices will be based upon the form factors of Smart Tabs (Wearable centimeter sized devices, e.g., smart tags used to track good), Smart Pads (Hand-held decimeter-sized devices for personalised communication, e.g., tablets, smart phones), Smart Boards (Meter sized displays and surfaces for collaboration), and Smart Dust: MEMS (ICT devices can be miniaturised, cheaply manufactured, without visual output displays, ranging from mm to nm, that can be embedded into 2D & 3D surfaces or scattered into 3D spaces), Smart Skins (fabrics based upon light emitting, conductive, polymers, organic computer devices that can be formed into more flexible non-planar display surfaces and products such as clothes and curtains), Smart Clay (ensembles of smart dust and smart skins that can be formed into arbitrary three dimensional shapes as artefacts resembling many different kinds of physical object, including additive printing), and Smart Containers (use to house or transport goods or people. This module will define the core system architectures, including middleware to design single device and multi-device systems. It will also offer hands-on experience in labs to build smart device applications.

Integrated Circuit Design

The course introduces CAD, design methodology, architectures, circuit and fabrication techniques for integrated circuits. The main emphasis is on CMOS design. Content covers: ICD Overview & IC Fabrication, MOS Transistor Principles and CMOS Gates. Device Performance and Yield. Programmable Architecture, Layout Languages & Design Rules. Hardware Description Languages, specifically VHDL - although prior VHDL knowledge is beneficial. The VHDL content covers: - Sequential / Combinational Logic - State Machines and Clocking - Simulation, Synthesis, Place & Route, Back Annotation The module also examines Testing mechanisms. Finally, some State-of-the-Art developments are introduced.

Fundamental Questions in the Law of Treaties

This module focuses on the most fundamental elements of the law of treaties. It is based on the analysis of the text of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the law of Treaties. It relies on the case law of international courts and tribunals and the theory of international law. Anyone who wants to study or practice international law should take this module, as giving an invariable analysis of the law of treaties, which is the pillar of international law. This module deals with such important issues as the definition of the treaty in international law; consent to be bound; interpretation of treaties; reservation s to treaties.

Applied Toxicology for Prehospital Medicine

This module has two broad headings, recreational drug pharmaco-toxicology and chemical/biological agent toxicology. Students will study the clinical syndromes and the underpinning basic science principles of drug actions as well as the basis of the management for patients in this phase of care. The module will enable students to understand the mechanism of action of antidotes that are used in the prehospital phase and will provide the clinician with a scientific background to the toxidromes and the diverse set of presentations that exist in the context of recreational drug pharmacology and toxicology. The module will also cover the pharmacology and clinical syndromes associated with 'deliberate-release' chemical and biological warfare agents - including traditional and more modern agents - and will develop a pragmatic approach to the identification and management of these.

Negotiation Theory and Practice

The course will explore negotiation through various theoretical approaches including strategic bargaining, cognitive theories, processual analysis, for example. The focus will be on the lawyer as negotiator and the intent is to blend theoretical analysis with practical application. Lectures will be delivered in combination with role-play simulations and exercises. Students will be expected to participate in exercises and simulated roleplays each class. This module is very well suited to a three hour weekly lecture due to the experiential nature of its delivery.

Public Management and Governance

This module provides an overview of key developments in public administration and management from a comparative perspective. It combines theoretical perspectives with discussion of a wide range of case studies to consider what makes effective public management and what are the different styles of public management and how this affects public administration. The module will use the comparative method to look at the different ways public management is implemented in Europe and in other OECD countries and in understanding why is there variation across countries in public management. The module surveys a range of techniques including performance management and quality assurance, and considers contemporary debates such as the role of markets and partnerships in public management. At the end of the module you should be able to understand the factors influencing the shift from the public administration to the public management paradigm and demonstrate a critical awareness of the strengths and weaknesses of management approaches. Upon completion of the module, successful students will have a thorough knowledge of the current theories and practices in public management, how public administration have been affected at global, EU and OECD countries' levels and potential solutions to its set of problems.

Molecular Pathology of Cancer and Application in Cancer Diagnosis

End Point Assessment

The end-point assessment (EPA) gives the apprentice the opportunity to demonstrate that they have attained the skills, knowledge and behaviours set out on the standard. There are three parts to the end-point assessment: * a written submission * an academic practice assessment (teaching observation) * a professional conversation (viva voce) The assessment will cover all of the knowledge, skills and attributes set out in the Core and Specialist Teacher elements of the Academic Professional assessment plan. There will be opportunities for formative assessment in these three modalities throughout the programme, via self assessment, peer assessment and tutor assessment.

History of Cultural Industries

BUSM163 focuses on the social and economic history of cultural production networks in different historical and global contexts through overlapping histories of media technologies, organisational form, accumulation strategies, and value generating activities. This module concerns the History of Culture Industries, a sector of which has become heritage management. This optional module gives students a grounding in the 19th and 20th century developments of the cultural sector and its analysis through into dynamics of class, gender, sexuality, race, and ecology as they relate to the emergence of the CIAO sector.

Cine-museology: Theorising Cinema and the Museum

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'.

European Convention on Human Rights Law

This module concerns the legal mechanisms for protecting human rights at the Council of Europe level, primarily the European Convention on Human Rights, and questions of reform. Detailed study will be made of: the right to life (Art.2); freedom from torture and inhuman or degrading treatment (Art.3); the right to respect for private life (Art.8); freedom of religion (Art.9); and freedom of expression (Art.10). Problem questions will be solved utilising Convention case law and critiques made of current jurisprudence.

New Product Development and Business Ecosystems

Innovation is an essential drive of a firm's competitiveness. The module New Product Development and Business Ecosystems enables students to analyse innovation processes within complex ecosystems, from the definition of a new product concept to the involvement of suppliers, partners and end-users in developing new product/process architectures. Students will analyse the organisational implications and challenges deriving from the involvement of partners, supplier and end-users in new product development, through a blend of theoretical and case study based approaches.

Social and Sustainable Innovation

Environmental pollution, inequality or climate change, have driven an increasing need and demand for products or services that contribute value through enhancing environmental performance or alleviating social issues. Thinking critically about the role of innovation in social justice and sustainable development is the goal by providing a rigorous conceptual understanding of various perspectives of emerging models of innovation, such as sustainable, social, frugal, reverse, grassroots, and inclusive innovation along with the practical challenges of managing these approaches.

Regulating Health Professions

This module examines the regulation and discipline of healthcare professionals, the development of its law as an established discipline, with its own principles, policy imperatives and specialist jurisprudence, and the far-reaching changes of the past two decades. The student will be introduced to the structure and governance of the regulators and to the law and practice of their disciplinary processes, along with those of the NHS. The concept of 'fitness to practise', the categories of impairment, issues of disclosure, confidentiality and double jeopardy, expert and other evidential matters, the role of the appellate courts, and the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 will form part of a comprehensive, detailed and practical study of the subject. The module will appeal to law graduates, practising lawyers, healthcare professionals and those seeking to work in a regulatory capacity or to undertake many of the key roles within a healthcare tribunal setting.

Advanced Medical Negligence

Medical negligence is a branch of the law of torts or civil wrongs where relationships between individuals generate private law obligations. If an individual is harmed through breach of a duty of care in a health care context, then that individual has a private remedy in law. Therefore understanding medical negligence means understanding the means open to patients and some non-patients, who suffer injury in the course of medical care, to seek compensation from the health care professional. This module facilitates such an understanding by focusing on the constituent elements of tortious liability for medical negligence - duty to patients and significant third parties, breach of duty through failure to observe the relevant standard of care, causation and damages - as they have developed in the medical context. We will also consider alternatives modes of addressing damage through medical error and malpractice. Given the significant role of medical negligence in recognizing and remedying harms to patients when things go wrong, we will consider the merits of the boundaries of medical negligence as we go along. Interesting questions arise about the proper boundaries of medical negligence in relation to the recognition of emotional and psychological injury, the merit of a distinction between acts and omissions of third parties, and the standard of information and advice a patient is owed as an aspect of the duty of care. Doing medical negligence law entails engaging in analogical case-based reasoning, where the particularities of the individual case matter in deciding whether and how negligence rules apply. Law and medicine share this interest in case-based reasoning, or what Harrington calls the universe of one. By understanding the different techniques of analogical reasoning, you will be better equipped to use, criticize and participate in the development of medical negligence law. We will also consider how other critical and contextual legal methods such as rhetorical analysis, human rights reasoning, and ethical evaluation, can assist in critical development of such reasoning and adaptations thereof.

Social and Political Marketing

This course is a critical review of the application of marketing for social and political purposes. It charts a progress from moderate and admissible practices to the application of marketing in the most extreme causes imaginable; some would even say the use of the term marketing was illegitimate, that we are dealing in fact with propaganda. Essentially then our concern is with the usage and abusage of marketing to change our world, for better or worse.

Continued Professional Development and Academic Skills Workshops for MSc International Human Resource Management & Emplo

This module consists of Professional Development workshops. These workshops include a mixture of knowledge dissemination, interactive discussion, and the use of worked examples and role plays (including a number of case studies based on actual organisations) to provide students with practical insight and initial development of the necessary skills to become effective in addressing issues that arise in various areas of HR including: recruitment and selection, performance management, negotiation and bargaining, career development and talent management.

Heritage: History, Theory and Practice

This module will provide the theoretical basis for understanding heritage from a range of cross-disciplinary perspectives. It will address the relationships between heritage, history, and memory in theory and practice, exploring heritage on personal and collective scales, the politics of heritage, and the materiality of heritage sites and objects alongside intangible heritage in the form of testimony and stories. The module will explore the ways in which different understandings of heritage inform practice in the heritage sector, from community archives and heritage projects to museums, historic-houses, and palaces.

Islamic Finance and Commercial Law

Islamic finance and commercial law are characterised by the application of moral and religious precepts to the way players conduct their transactions and business. The module will analyse the constraints that made the application of conventional banking and financial transactions not applicable in Islamic countries. Great attention will be given to both the transactional and the supervisory aspects of Islamic finance. The course will consider how Islamic law has shaped the global Islamic finance industry. Secondary works will be supplemented by legal opinions (fatw?s) as well as legal documentation produced for contemporary Islamic finance transactions. In the first part of the module the main features of Islamic contract law in commercial activities and how this is shaped by the evolution of legal doctrine will be investigated. Particular attention will be given to the role played by Rib? (Unlawful Gain). It will then analyse specific sale contracts such as Ij?ra (Lease), Istisn?? (Commission to Manufacture) and Mur?baha (Cost-Plus Sale). In the second part of the course, students will be exposed to the main characteristics of the global Islamic finance industry, and its relationship with traditional activities in capital and financial markets. A thorough analysis of the main features of Islamic Financial institutions will be conducted. Also the peculiar role played by a secular regulator/supervisor in over-sighting standards and activities which are religious in nature will be analysed. It will then move towards specific transactions and products such as Equity Investment and Partnerships: Mud?raba (Silent Partnership) and Musharaka (Partnership); derivatives; and debt transactions (Suk?k). Students will also familiarise themselves with the peculiarity of insurance (Tak?ful) and dispute resolution mechanisms under Islamic law.

Topics in Econometrics A

The aim of this course is to provide an overview of selected techniques which are popular in modern econometrics. The course starts with some advanced lectures on extremum estimators that include Maximum Likelihood and Generalized Method of Moments estimators, examples for their applications in different economic models will be given. The fact that the confidence intervals based on the Central Limit Theorem may not have the requested level in finite sample is used as a motivation to consider the Bootstrap. This technique can also be applied when asymptotic distributions depend upon some unknown parameters as for dependent data where the variance in the Central Limit Theorem is difficult to compute. Sub-sampling can also be used in this setup. Another essential tool in Econometrics is nonparametric estimation. The lecture will present the kernel and local polynomial methods, for which some real data applications will be given. The cross validation bandwidth choice will be discussed. The last lectures deal with Econometrics of Auctions.

Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Mental Disorder

This module will provide an overview of a range of theories of psychotherapy, including cognitive behavioural therapy, analytical therapies, group therapy and the systemic approach. Theoretical concepts and underpinning assumptions of each approach will be discussed. The participants will be encouraged to apply the theoretical frameworks to a variety of mental health and emotional problems and to use relevant concepts and terminology to discuss psychological problems. Historical foundation and contemporary research on major psychotherapeutic approaches will be discussed.

Online Dispute Resolution in e-Commerce

Online transactions present potential difficulties for enforcement: parties in different jurisdictions with different legal rules (and possibly languages); transactional amounts that often preclude cross-border litigation and; the use of technology to effect an offer and acceptance. This module examines the need for and use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in the online environment in light of these challenges as well as the particular alternative dispute resolution framework, UDRP, that has evolved to address the problem of internet domain name disputes.

Accounting for Business Models

This module conceptualises 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 capitalisation) 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 organisations.

European and US Law of Patents

Patents are exclusive rights granted for the protection of an invention that offers a new and inventive technical solution or way of doing something. This module compares the process of obtaining and enforcing a patent under the provisions of the European Patent Convention (EPC) with the equivalent legal arrangements under Title 35 of the Code of Laws of the United States of America (USC).

Project Management for Big Data Analysis

US State Law and Practice

Contract and tort are the two areas of law that are considered the cornerstones of commercial relationships. These as well as real property law are US state law subject matters with commercial significance. This module examines the United States law of commercial contracts, the US Uniform Commercial Code, which serves as the basis for most state law of commercial transactions, including state jurisdictions such as New York or California that are often the choice of law in commercial contracts. It also examines the general US principles of intentional torts, including harms to property interests, negligence, employer responsibility, products liability, nuisance, defamation and interference with business relationships, all with import for commercial legal practice. Finally, the module explores ownership and rights in real property, easements, mortgages and security interests in real property, deeds and titles, real estate contracts and brokerage.

Principles of Regulation

Regulation covers virtually all significant aspects of modern life. It is here to stay but it remains as controversial as ever. This is an advanced foundational course on regulation. The module examines problems that are common to the regulation of a wide range of industries and fields and considers how these problems are (or fail to be) treated. In particular, the module considers the nature of regulation and its relationship with law, economics and politics, the regulation of risk, standard setting, compliance and enforcement strategies, the issues of accountability and legitimacy and the rise of multi-level governance and transnational regulation. Being `problem-solving sensitive¿ but 'industry neutral', this module is an ideal complement to more narrowly-focused modules irrespective of choice of LLM Specialism.

Topics in Macroeconomics B

The module presents applications of recursive methods to various fields in macroeconomic theory including asset pricing, consumption, monetary economics, labour economics and fiscal policy. The aim of the course if to provide students with a taste of the power of these methods, to direct them to sources where they can learn more and to equip them to approach much of the fields in modern macroeconomics with confidence.

Clinical Medicine: Physical and Mental Health

There are two areas within this module: a. Clinical Medicine: Physical Health - this area establishes the basic foundation of knowledge that is relevant and essential to a PA¿s practice of general medicine. A basic introduction to pharmacology will be included. Communication and clinical skills will form an integral part of this module. b. Clinical Medicine: Mental Health ¿ this area will take a holistic view of how to care for individuals with mental health, psychiatric, substance misuse and cognitive problems. You will have the opportunity to apply and develop this knowledge further within your first clinical placement.

MSc Physics Research Project

The MSc Research Project is at the heart of the MSc programme. It is an independent project undertaken by the student within a working research group in the School. The project runs over three semesters in order to allow for the student to both design their project (using available literature etc.), be trained in the relevant techniques and carry out a reasonably substantial piece of research based on an actual (real) research problem.

Project

Microeconomics B

This course aims to help students to develop advanced analytical and theoretical skills. The course will attempt to develop students' capacity for strategic reasoning via the analysis of game theoretic tools and mechanism design. Topics to be covered in the second term include: games in strategic and extensive form; Nash equilibrium and its refinements; games with incomplete information; repeated games; adverse selection, signalling, and screening; the principalagent problem; incentive theory and mechanism design.

Epidemiology and Statistics

The module will include case studies to explore contemporary policy debates and the influence of quantitative research studies on public health and primary care policy and government intervention programmes. The advantages and disadvantages of different study designs and their application to different research questions will be covered. Students will gain skills in summarising quantitative data, including routine morbidity and mortality measures and interpreting the results of commonly used statistical techniques.

International Security: War and Peace in a Global Context (Paris)

Competition Law Overview

The module will begin with an introduction to the basic principles of Competition law. The body of the module will be concerned with the character, structure and drafting of patents, primarily within the UK but with a reference to other jurisdictions. The module will examine in light of statute and case law, the key terms common to such licensing agreements; ownership; grant of intellectual property; territorial exclusivity; invention improvement; sublicensing; royalties; warranties; indemnities and dispute resolution.

Migration and Asylum Law through Practice

This module examines the international (and regional, especially European) law dimensions of protecting refugees and other categories of migrants through practice. It provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts and workings of international law, in general, and international (and European) refugee, migration, and human rights law, in particular, as they relate to trans-broder movement, covering aspects of border control, maritime migration, transnational crime, torture, terrorism, and humanitarian governance. Tuition will be delivered in mixed fashion, through a placement with one of the industry partners offering QM-exclusive internships (including: REDRESS - Justice for Torture Victims; The European Council on Refugees & Exiles (ECRE); the UN Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC); AMERA International; Kingsley Napley LLP; and The AIRE Centre: Advice on Individual Rights in Europe) in combination with fortnightly group reflection and consultation sessions with the module convener. Candidates will be selected during Term 1, after a "Meet & Greet"" event with partner organisations, and be given a training session before the start of the internship. A choice between on-site and on-line placement options will be available. Regardless of the type of experience, candidates will keep a internship diary, where they will record key milestones of their learning experience. A self-evaluation and guided reflection session will gather the whole group to assess the practical work against set readings and debate key issues in light of current academic, policy, and media debates every other week of Term 2. An oral presentation and a final internship report will complete the assessment portfolio for the module."

Visual Jurisprudence

This course introduces students to the basic issues in visual jurisprudence. Legal practice is increasingly visual: the use of video evidence, the use of video testimonials and settlement films, and the use of 3D and even virtual reality to support expert testimony are all on the rise. There are also new and emerging practices, such as graphic contracting. This course introduces students to the benefits and dangers of visuality in law, and more broadly to the importance of critical visual literacy in legal practice.

Elements of Islamic Law

Islamic law constitutes the expression of Allah¿s command for Muslim society and permeates every aspect of it. It is applied to all ranges of legal areas from criminal to commercial to family law. Islamic law is gaining increased momentum and it has resulted in various jurisdictions having to adopt special regimes for the regulation of certain sectors, or adapting their existing ones (eg for financial services). Drawing upon a very well established legal tradition, this module will introduce students to the essential doctrines and procedures of Islamic law. Students will explore the development of Islamic law from its origins to the modern period. In addition to secondary works on Islamic law readings will include translations of a variety of Islamic legal texts. In the first part of the module, students with be provided with an overview of Islamic history and Islamic law, its origins and its continuous developments within modern society. It will then move forward to cover the main sources (al-masadir) and guiding principles (al-usul) of Islamic law. More specifically, Qur¿?n (scripture); Sunna (tradition); Ijm? (consensus); Qiy?s (analogical reasoning) will be covered. Also, given that Islamic law is based upon the legal tradition of different schools, the genesis and development of the latter will be investigated (Madhahib), together with a thorough analysis of the institutions of Islamic law (ie Courts and Judges (Q??is)). The second part of the module will be focused on specific legal sectors such as commercial law, criminal law and family law. Attention will be given to Islamic banking and finance as well. The module would indeed provide the basic knowledge of the subject matter that will be more specifically developed in the module on Islamic Finance and Commercial law. In recent years in fact, these areas have grown remarkably and Islamic institutions have become big players and alternative source of funding for many financial and non financial institutions. However, despite the special nature of Islamic finance, banking and commerce, these service providers may still pose certain risk to financial markets which will be duly investigated.

Renewable Energy Law

This module will cover all of the legal and policy issues relating to renewable power generation. There are a range of renewable energy sources available from solar to wind, biomass to geothermal. Students will learn how the energy transition will impact the renewable sector as the world moves towards low-carbon energy. This module will consider this move towards reducing Green House Gas emissions and the growing international, regional and national laws that require States to encourage green investment. China, Denmark, Germany and the Middle East will be used as case studies.

Cultural Diversity and Law

This module explores how legal systems manage cultural diversity, which includes religious, ethnic and linguistic diversity. The module is based on 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.

United States Energy Law, Regulation and Policy

This course covers US energy regulation and policy including the impact of pending climate change legislation and proposed Environmental Protection Agency climate change rules and regulations. The US has been a market leader in energy regulation and privatization since World War II. This module looks at how this was achieved in the electricity markets, oil a& gas including unconventional resources and more recently the renewables market. The work of the FERC (Federal Energy Regulaiton Commission) and the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) are also considered.

Energy and Climate Change

This module will look at the international legal regime relating to climate change and consider how this will directly impact the energy sector. There is a fundamental shift in the energy industry away from fossil fuels (non renewable sources) to clean energy (renewable sources). This transition and how it will take place over the coming years will be discussed. This module will also consider emissions trading (ETS) and its effectiveness, the NDC (nationally determined commitments) of states to achieve climate change goals. In addition it will consider the polluter pays principle as well as the growing number of climate change disputes and assess how these might impact future energy regulation, international and national. The focus is climate change exclusively from the perspective of the energy sector.

Topics in Macroeconomics A

Most interesting economic problems are dynamic; ie, they involve more than one period. This module provides an introduction to recursive methods that enable analysis of such problems. The topics covered include: Markov processes, dynamic programming and recursive competitive equilibrium. We will use some classic applications to practice these tools, such as economic growth, business cycles and asset pricing.

Nationalism, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Political Thought, Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries

Global working lives

The module explores the economic-development geographies of people's everyday struggles to make a living in the contemporary global economy. Drawing on research within and across the Global North and Global South, this module engages with an exciting 'labour geographies' research agenda, concerned with how workers are capable of fashioning the geography of capitalism to suit their own needs and self-production; and to identify geographical possibilities and labour market strategies through which 'workers may challenge, outmaneuver and perhaps even beat capital' in different locations. The module seeks to expose the spatial limits of mainstream 'universal' theories in geography which presume that 'the economy' and 'labour' can be theorised solely from the perspective of the formal spaces of advanced capitalist economies in the global North.

Researching Global Health: Geneva Fieldclass

Banking and FinTech Law

The purpose of the course is to examine the nature and content of private banking law at the UK, European and international levels. Banking Law is concerned with the private law aspects of banks and banking including both Commercial Banking and Investment Banking. Banks are among the most important financial institutions within any economy, nationally and internationally, and the City of London is one of the foremost financial centres of the world. This module examines all aspects of the law governing the structure, operation and function of banks and banking markets from a UK as well as European and international perspective. The course is essentially private law based although it also examines recent areas of significant law reform especially following the recent financial crises in banking markets.

Topics in Econometrics B

This course covers a variety of empirical strategies for applied micro research questions. Classes focus on concepts and econometric applications. Emphasis is given to the "thought experiment", the hypothetical experiment that should be used to answer the causal question of interest. A taxonomy of departures from the experimental ideal is presented, as well as the assumptions required to mimic the conditions of the unfeasible experiment from observational data. The agenda includes regression and matching, instrumental variables and natural experiments, differences-in-differences, synthetic control methods and regression discontinuity designs. In addition to causal parameters defined from conditional moments, quantiles and effects on conditional distributions are also considered. The final part of the course compares the structural approach to economic policy analysis with the programme evaluation approach.

Short Dissertation

You will study a topic in depth and write up your analysis. In general, the topic can be either an empirical one (in which case it involves the analysis of data using econometric techniques) or a valuation one (in which case it involves the rigorous valuation of a company or companies). A list of suggested topics will be provided, but you can also propose your own topic (as long as it aligns with the research interests of the school's academic staff). You will be assigned a supervisor who can provide you with some guidance, but you will largely work independently.

Gender, Sexuality and Health

Recent media coverage and debate over female genital mutilation, trafficking, circumcision, gender reassignment, trans issues, and LGBTQI healthcare provision, have moved gender and sexuality to be central issues in health and human rights. Often in public health and medicine, through the adopting of a biomedical model, 'gender' is coupled with `woman¿ and heterosexuality assumed. Public and academic debate, though, regularly unpacks, even attacks, these assumptions. This module responds to such shifts and debates, encouraging students to explore contemporary issues around gender, sexuality and health in society through seminars and self-directed research. Students will be able to critique recent developments and theories, synthesizing different approaches to articulate the broad array of potential developments around gender and sexuality in public and global health policy and practice. This module aims to develop and deepen the students' knowledge and skills regarding gender and sexuality around global health policy and practice. It aims to develop an understanding of the diversity of conceptions and debates inside and around global health in responding to challenges to traditional and biomedical understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality, and to allow students to re-evaluate their own approaches and assumptions using appropriate theories and experiences. It aims to develop in students an understanding of the current debates, encouraging them to reflect on challenges and corresponding political and social movements. Students will be able to critique recent developments and theories, synthesizing different approaches to articulate novel developments, interventions and policies. The module aims also to allow students to conduct a piece of research on a topic of their own interest or from a list of suggestions, developing both their research practice and allowing engagement with contemporary or critical issues.

Dissertation in Criminal Justice

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Admiralty

No aspiring maritime (or shipping) lawyer can claim to be educated without at least some knowledge of the law relating to maritime claims. Indeed, such knowledge is invaluable to anyone who aspires eventually to work in shipping or international trade, whether as a lawyer in a law firm, as a legal advisor in-house, or in a P & I Club. While the emphasis will be the admiralty practice and procedure in England, the jurisprudence of other jurisdictions, namely Australia and South Africa, as well as international conventions on arrests of ships and on maritime liens and mortgages. No account will be taken of the special difficulties which fall within the ambit of the conflict of laws (or private international law), significant to a practitioner though these are. The module will cover the Admiralty jurisdiction and its nature; Maritime, statutory and possessory liens: legal characteristics; transferability; assignment; extinction; accrual of statutory liens; The exercise of Admiralty jurisdiction: limitations on the exercise of jurisdiction; time of invocation; residual matters; arrest scenarios; Priorities: generally; non-admiralty principles; admiralty principles; priorities and maritime liens; priorities and possessory liens; statutory liens; execution creditors; alteration of the prima facie order.

Production Design: History, Theory, Craft

This module examines the creative practice of production design in cinema, specifically in relation to architectural construction and set design. It takes a historical approach to design as an industrial practice shaped by technology, artistic and design movements, and the discipline of architecture. It proposes critical approaches founded in theory and practice to find ways of analysing film decor and identifying how it contributes to our understanding of film texts. The artistic and technical challenges posed by film design will be examined though close case study work and the completion of a 4,000 word essay.

Dissertation in European Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Advanced Aircraft Design

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.

Research Methods in HSS

This module will provide students with the background knowledge and skills needed for the successful completion of a piece of empirical research in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences. Students will learn about the requirements of research at masters level, from learning to read critically, to choosing and selecting literature from the field, to narrowing down a topic area and designing their methodology, to writing a research proposal. Students will be assessed by coursework only, consisting of a research proposal, a draft chapter, an annotated bibliography and a reflective task. Students will be provided with regular formative feedback on their written work and also on their research design and general interaction with the research process.

Structured Finance

This course provides students with an overview with the basic concepts of structured finance and also acquaints them with the different asset classes. The course integrates theoretical and practical knowledge and provides an insight on the securitised products available on the financial markets by means of analysis of recent issuances. This module is designed to particularly appeal to students keen to develop professional skills in deals structuring and risk analysis of securitisations in investment/corporate banks and rating agencies.

Dissertation

Marine Insurance Law

Marine insurance is a fascinating and important area of international shipping law. Shipping has always been perilous - adverse sea conditions, piracy, accidents and pollution at sea, deterioration of goods during transportation - and both owners of vessels and cargo have increasingly sought, over the years, to protect themselves in the event of loss. This module deals with the law of marine insurance. This module will examine, among other issues, the definition and formation of a marine insurance contract (including the duty of disclosure and insurable interest), the parties to the contract and the various risks covered (as well as those excluded), what constitutes evidence of the contract and its terms, claims under the contract, assignment, subrogation and contribution, the rule of proximate cause, and the diverse forms of loss that a vessel or cargo owner might suffer.

Cases in Corporate Finance

Cases in business finance is an innovative module based on case method teaching. The module aims to foster the ability to write a structured financial analysis of a business within the context of its market(s) of operation. In terms of learning process, the module makes use of real cases, including, for example, Apple and Boeing vs. Airbus.

Cancer Immunology

Module taught by the University of Southampton

Clinical Science and Skills in Oral Surgery 1

This module covers the basic biological science topics, and clinical/surgical skills to ensure that all students possess a adequate level of skills that are relevant to oral surgery, which will then be applied and built on over the following two years of clinical training and practice. This module must be successfully completed before the student can progress to Year 2.

Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights and Migration

Artificial Intelligence is constantly in the media, both praised and vilified. But what is AI and how do public-authorities use it? This course examines public authorities' use of AI in border, immigration and asylum decision making in the UK and worldwide. Taking a case study approach using recent and pending court cases we will analyse the issues from a human rights perspective: fair procedures, non-discrimination and protection of privacy.

EU Financial and Monetary Law

The purpose of this module is to analyse the institutions of EMU (Economic and Monetary Union), in particular the law of the ECB and the law of the euro, and the pillars of banking union (single supervision, single resolution, single deposit insurance). The module also examines the law relating to economic governance in the EU and Eurozone, and the road to economic union, and provides an introduction to Capital Markets Union. The relationship between the single market and the European financial architecture on the one hand and banking union on the other hand are also critically considered, in the light of the challenges that Europe faces in its process of integration.

Dissertation

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in English Language Teaching / Standard (Research) Pathway

"This module is one of the two possible core modules in the MA in applied Linguistics for English Language Teaching. With your supervisor's guidance, you will select a topic for advanced study. You will have the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to justify the topic, to synthesise knowledge from the modules you have studied during the programme, to narrow your topic to research questions following a close reading of literature, to design and implement a research plan, to collect quantitative and/or qualitative data and to analyse and interpret this data in order to answer your research questions. You will also be able to demonstrate your ability to structure an extended piece of written work, and to construct an argument which supports your conclusions. Your dissertation will be 10,000 to 12,000 words, and you will be supported by guidance from your supervisor on a one-to-one basis."

Professional Skills for Chemists

This module aims at developing students' awareness of the role of chemistry in contemporary societal and global issues and at equipping final year students with the key skills required to address some of the challenges that they are likely to encounter as professional chemists. Topics such as green chemistry, industrial safety, intellectual property and ethical issues arising during professional practice of chemistry will be discussed. This module will particularly focus on developing communication skills that will allow students to evaluate, interpret, synthesise and discuss chemical information effectively and present scientific material to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Programming in Python

This module introduces you to the Python programming language. After learning about data types, variables and expressions, you will explore the most important features of the core language including conditional branching, loops, functions, classes and objects. We will also look at several of the key packages (libraries) that are widely used for numerical programming and data analysis.

Behavioural Economics

There is mounting evidence that people violate many of the "rationality" assumptions of mainstream economics. Behavioural economics studies such violations and proposes theories to explain them. Some key topics are bounded rationality, overconfidence, prospect theory, dynamic inconsistency, and implications of human irrationalities for public policy. Knowledge of behavioural economics provides students with a deeper and more realistic understanding of human decisionmaking than is offered by the mainstream approach alone. Such knowledge will hopefully also make students less susceptible to common mistakes in their own decisions.

Artificial Intelligence

This module provides an overview of techniques used in Artificial Intelligence including agent modelling, problem formulation, search, logic, probability and machine learning.

Language Attitudes and Perception

In this module, students engage in an in-depth exploration of language attitudes, or the set of implicit and explicit beliefs about language and language users that circulate in society. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach to the subject, we will explore the major theories of language attitudes that have emerged in linguistics and social psychology and will situate these theories within a more general conceptualisation of social cognition. Empirical examples will be derived from a variety of sources, and will include a focus on attitudes both to micro-level variation in language and to broader social and cultural categories of language users. We will further explore applications of the theories discussed to such domains as speech perception and processing and language acquisition and learning.

Principles of Secondary Reconstruction (Hard Tissue)

"This module will address the differences between the management of acute hard tissue injuries and those presenting late - either after no treatment or failed management. This is an extremely challenging area and requires a methodical and systematic approach to diagnose and treatment plan. Three dimensional diagnosis of secondary defects uses the latest digital technology and this is discussed with reference to malunions of the orbit, zygoma, maxilla and mandible."

Designs & Copyright Law (IPReg D&C)

This module offers an overview of the main copyright and design principles established under international, EU and UK law. The main focus is on UK copyright and design. Authorities from other jurisdictions will be used, where relevant, as a means of comparison to afford a cohesive basic knowledge of the subject area.

The Rise and Fall of the Hero(ine)

Quality Improvement in Healthcare Project Proposal

In this module you will explore the dimensions of quality in healthcare and what it means to provide safe, efficient, effective and equitable patient-centred care. You will learn about change management and quality improvement (QI) methods. The focus on this component of the module is on the conceptualisation and design of a quality improvement project with a view to writing up a project proposal which will then be executed in the second year. Successful submission of a research proposal must occur prior to being permitted to carry out the reported research project exploring aspects of quality improvement.

Asset Management

The purpose of this module is to provide students with a practical introduction to 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 implement modern portfolio management strategies and will be familiar with the practical aspects of asset valuation. The course emphasises real world cases and real world investment and hedging strategies.

Research Methods for Management

The module will provide a foundation in Research Methods for students for their dissertations. It will instruct them in how to put together a research proposal, how to draw out objectives of research, how to undertake literature reviews, how to assess suitable research methods to use. In terms of research methods, the course covers both qualitative methods such as case studies, questionnaires, surveys and interview techniques and an introduction to quantitative methods and data analysis. By the end of the course students will know how to put together their own research proposal and will have done some preliminary analysis of literature, assessment of data required and methods to be used.

US International Taxation

The module is designed to cover the structure, principles, rules and application of the US international tax system. In particular, it will cover the US tax principles and rules that apply to US and foreign entities and individuals engaged in cross-border operations and transactions. Coverage will include jurisdictional principles, the inbound and outbound regimes, income tax treaties and the treatment of corporations and shareholders. The module will also cover the taxation of trusts, estates and gifts, reporting requirements and tax administration and procedure, all with a focus on the cross-border context. The module will examine how the system operates in practice and also consider US tax policy in these areas.

Languages in the Classroom 1: Practical and Theoretical Approaches to Teaching

This module introduces you to language teaching at school. It includes French, German, Spanish, and Russian. The module can count for a degree in those languages. It also includes English but for exchange students only. It is the first of two 15 credit modules, and it focuses on the theoretical aspects of language teaching - whereas the other one (SML6212 which runs during the second semester) focuses on practical matters. Through the completion of this module, you will gain an understanding of key aspects of Applied Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. You will focus on theoretical aspects of second/ foreign language acquisition and their implications for teaching approaches and the design of teaching materials. This will involve planning, producing and delivering teaching materials. This module will also enable you to develop a range of transferable and professional skills such as organisational skills, communication skills, team-work, time management and problem-solving skills. Important: If you are planning to attend the module SML6212 (Languages in the Classroom 2: Teaching and Reflective Practice) in semester 2, you will be required to complete a placement in a local school and will therefore require clearance from the UK's Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). towards the end of the first semester. Please contact the module organiser for further information.

Assessment in Language Teaching

Assessment in Language Teaching is an optional module for the MA in Language Teaching (MALT). It provides you with a comprehensive overview of the principles, practice and impact of language assessments as well as the analytic skills to critique language assessments for learning and achievement purposes. It consists of a weekly one-hour lecture and a two-hour seminar.

International Law of the Sea

The module provides a critical analysis of the international law of the sea. It examines the codification of the law of the sea that led to the adoption of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the main sources of the law of the sea, including treaties and custom, the institutional arrangements and international legal framework for governance of the world¿s oceans, and the zonal regime of maritime zones that constitutes the foundation of the international law of the sea. The module will also focus on the delimitation methodologies and the compulsory system of dispute settlement under the law of the sea.

EU Environmental Law

This module focuses on European Union's environmental protection regime .The European Union provides a highly complex set of rules and institutional arrangements, unique in nature, in its institutional and constitutional organisation in relation to the member states. This course will give an insight to the general aspects of EU environmental law, such as the structure governing environmental policies, how does this policy fits in within the broader spectrum and purpose of the EU, the connection between environmental protection and trade, the monitoring and application of EU environmental law and finally its effect beyond the EU territory.

Bond Market Strategies

Bond markets are a critical part of the global financial system. This module explores global bond markets from a practitioner perspective. The module is designed to help students learn key bond market mathematics, identify value and understand the key risks. The module will explore how bond market strategies can be employed to capture value, create portfolios and meet specific investment objectives. The course also links core material with topical issues in global bond markets, showing students the critical importance of bond markets for the banking system, the wider financial system, the economy and government policymaking.

Fundamentals of Research

In this module students will learn the basic skills required for academic medicine, including research design, statistical analysis, and methodology. Students will be introduced to a variety of databases including FOAMed and develop the necessary skills to evaluate the scientific literature. With the emphasis on personal research, students will be made aware of current legislation and ethics surrounding clinical research. The module will conclude with students learning how to submit their work for publication and present their research for differing audiences. Student learning will be supported by a series of online lectures and discussion groups.

Toxicology and CBRN

In this module, students will learn about acute toxicology as applied to critical illness. They will gain an understanding of toxidromes, diagnosis of poisoning, and the approach to both supportive and toxin specific care. Importantly, students also will learn about the decontamination of patients and safe working in a CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) environment. Students will learn via a series of on-line lectures delivered by experts in the field and will participate in discussion groups.

Dissertation

"The students are required to build upon the knowledge acquired in the masters program to produce a dissertation. The coursework is presented in anatomical blocks which then build to an interrelated understanding which will be augmented by an independent project. The project will link clinical practice within the student's practice and the coursework. The project will take the form of a clinical audit of outcome or process which will include case selection , database design, data collection, analysis and publication of results. The student will then be mentored to develop the work both for publication in the literature and presentation to a scientific meeting. The dissertation will enable the student to reflect on their own clinical practice, and signpost further opportunities for further independent research."

Management Control

The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) ¿ the largest association of management accountants in the UK ¿ considers management control system as combining accounting, finance and management with the leading-edge techniques needed to drive successful businesses. The module focuses on the production and analysis of certain information such as job and process costing, joint costs, capital investment decisions, budgetary systems and transfer pricing. The management team in any organisation uses that information produced to shape up its strategy.

Dissertation for International HRM & Employment Relations

The dissertation requires a demonstration of ability to carry out an original investigation into an area of interest. The process should reflect skills of formulating research questions, synthesising and analysing data, drawing insights and conclusions, and written communication. An investigation of an issue relevant to the content of the Programme of which it forms a component will be guided through the dissertation process by a supervisor. Students are required to take the compulsory Research Methods module.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics

Corporate Social Responsibility will offer students an introductory and in-depth module unpacking the sensitive relationship between corporations and issues of social justice, environmental destruction (animal, climate, pollution, ecologies) and labour rights. At a time when globalisation is perceived as a threat to international business addressing inequalities across the global North and South, this module will provide postgraduate students with indispensable knowledge about key issues facing corporations today. The module will also address both philosophical issues that include ethical theories, moral debates and social scientific perspectives as well as a grounding in real life case studies and access to a local stakeholder engagement project with charities in Tower Hamlets and Poplar. Specific modules will cover a wide-range of subjects including: 'greening' management (reducing emissions, waste management, protecting biodiversity), workers rights (trade unions, ILO, outsourcing, supply-chains), sustainable consumption (ethical marketing, corporate lobbying, consumerism), and promoting democratic processes (governance, accountability, stakeholder engagement).

Selected Issues in Commercial and Company Law

This module will introduce students to those aspects of law that are relevant to business operations by examining selected issues and fundamental principles that underlie the law of contract and company law. In particular, this module will deal with creating commercial contracts, contractual terms, effect of exemption and unfair clauses, remedies for breach of contract, corporate personality & limited liability of shareholders, corporate constitution and corporate management, managerial accountability & directors' duties, shareholder rights & remedies and comparative corporate governance.

Tax System Design and Policy in Emerging and Developing Economies

The module considers tax system design and tax policy issues relevant to emerging and developing economies. It examines tax policy and design issues regarding the choice of taxes, expanding the tax base, expanding the tax net, encouraging taxpayer compliance and strengthening administrative capacity. In this context it considers the political economy of direct and indirect taxes, the incidence of taxation, fiscal federalism and the impact of tax treaties. It will also look at options for reform of existing systems and for improving tax administration and collection in emerging and developing economies.

Taxation of Individuals

The module will consider the tax policy, system design and technical issues involved in the taxation of individuals. It will look at a range of issues in the design of an individual income tax system, including the construction of the tax base, tax rates and deductions and incentives. It will also look at options for the taxation of savings and wealth. The increasingly important area of cross-border taxation of both income and wealth will also be examined.

Big Data Processing

The module syllabus adopts a hands-on programming stance. In addition it focuses on algorithms and architectures to familiarise students with message-passing systems ((MPI) as adopted by industry. Parallel computing, which implies the simultaneous execution of several processes for solving a single problem, is a mainstream subject with wide ranging implications for computer architecture, algorithms design and programming. The UK has been at the forefront of this technology through its involvement in the development of several innovative architectures. Queen Mary has been involved with Parallel Computing for more than a decade. In this module, students will be introduced to parallel computing and will gain firsthand experience in relevant techniques.

Regenerative and Cell-based Applications

This sixth module is for 8 weeks duration and is the third of the second year. Combinations of toxins, soft tissue augmentation by means of fillers, threadlifts and collagen inductor agents in addition to laser technologies, epidermal conditioning tools and therapies can be used to give synergic anti-aging and enhanced aesthetic outcomes. This module will introduce the students to the principles of combined treatment planning to avoid side effects and optimise the timing and sequence of combined treatment components. The module will re-introduce aesthetic medicine techniques and products with particular emphasis on combined treatments and difficult areas highlighted in modules such as, lower face , neck and hands

Genetics and Genomics Counselling

Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Genomic Medicine

Trade Mark Law I and II

This module is for MSc students in IP following the professional and business stream.

Introduction to Implantology

This is a core module delivered in the Master of Science (MSc) in Dental Technology which is designed to ensure students are taught about the use of osseointegrated implants to stabilise or support fixed or removable prostheses. Subjects covered are: History & Development of Implantology, Osseointegration Surface Topography; Patient Assessment and Restorative Driven Planning for Implant Restorations; Imaging & Implantology; Diagnostic Wax ups, Radiographic stent, surgical stents; Implants in Anterior Maxilla, Guided Bone Regeneration, Socket Preservation; Soft Tissue Augmentation; Surgical and restorative Procedures; Maintenance of Implants and Implant Restorations; Fixed/removeable implant construction. Practicals: Radiographic Tracing Pouring working casts. Making Provisional Restorations. Customising Impression copings. Implants restorations may be constructed as part of the technical practice.

Research Design and Methods

The purpose of the module is to provide master's level research training in human geography and related social science disciplines. The module therefore covers core understandings of key concepts and approaches to human geography and social sciences research; subject specific research and transferable skills; and qualitative and quantitative, subject specific methodological and presentation techniques. This module will equip students with the skills necessary to independently design and implement an extended piece of primary dissertation research.

Risk and Regulation for International Banks

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.

Advanced IP Issues: Video Games

Interactive Entertainment Law analyses some of the legal and commercial issues that the Interactive Entertainment industry faces. It delineates and analyses the legal parameters within which video game developers and publishers, and Virtual Worlds platform providers operate and in which users create and consume content, providing students with an in-depth analysis of the industry from the development to the commercialisation of interactive entertainment software products and the administration of online video games and virtual worlds.

Cultural & Global Perspectives in Mental Health Care

The Cultural & Global Perspectives in Mental Health Care pathway primarily focuses on cultural capability in mental health and social care and research. Students will develop an understanding of the impact of socio-cultural factors on mental health, mental illness and mental health care and about mental health research and practice in various settings worldwide and in multicultural societies. Students undertake a placement related to cultural and global mental health care for reflective practice and complete a research project or systematic literature review on a related topic.

Technologies, Work and Organisations

The module presents, explains and illustrates the key concepts that are relevant to mainstream and critical analysis of the role of technology in contemporary organisations. In addition, we will examine several case studies to explore the challenges that the introduction and use of new technologies may pose in organisations. In particular, the module will focus on the literature on practice-based approaches to technologies, i.e. the literature that is interested in exploring what happens when technologies are at work in real organisational settings. The module will also explore how new technologies, and especially digital technologies, affect the relations among organisations, institutions and social contexts.

Adrenal Cortex and Medulla

Core Knowledge and Clinical skills in Periodontology

This module covers the basic biological science topics, operative and clinical skills to ensure that all students possess a fundamental level of skills, which will then be used and built on over the following two years of clinical training and practices that are relevant to periodontics and restorative care.

Genomics of Common and Rare Diseases

Cosmology

"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."

Film Archaeology

The origins of cinema, key moments of transformation and recent challenges to its form in the wake of digital technologies are the subjects examined in this module. Far from being simply a conflict between the magical tradition of Méliès and the documentary account of the Lumière brothers, cinema archaeology reveals the connections between various nineteenth century inventions concerned with movement, perception and transmission, and the advent of cinema. The course explores the various cultural influences that have contributed to the idea of 'cinema' at a particular time, such as those from painting, literature and theatre. Perhaps more significant are the moments of crisis brought about by the prospect of adding to film, such as the qualities of sound and colour. Most illuminating of all is film's competitive relation to its 'rivals': television, video, digital production and youtube. The course examines the question of whether film is a specific medium with enduring qualities, or whether its component parts are remade with every decade.

Research Project in Gastro-Intestinal Science

SAS for Business Intelligence

Quantitative Business Intelligence refers to the general application of quantitative techniques to business insight generation or the business decision process. This module builds on the Data Analytics module by increasing the level of sophistication of the techniques employed. Students will use SAS to solve business problems related to hypothesis testing, correlation and linear regression. The module will also present techniques related to cleaning of noisy data, detection of outliers, filling in blanks which are key to any industry implementation.

Advanced High Speed Aerodynamics

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.

Power Electronics

This module is intended to strengthen the electrical power component of our UG programmes. This has been highlighted as an area of weakness in the past by our accrediting body, the IET. This module is intended to complement ECS618U Electrical Power Engineering. This module will be optional on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and optional on Electronic Engineering and Electronic Engineering and Telecomms.

Innovative Practices and Theories in Clinical Education

Clinical Curricula Evaluation and Development

Contemporary World Politics: Theories, Concepts, Themes (Paris)

Supersymmetric Methods in Theoretical Physics

This course introduces core concepts in supersymmetry that can be applied to quantitatively understand a broad variety of physical systems and is a complement to the AQFT and FMQFT modules. Starting with supersymmetric quantum mechanics as a toy model, the course covers the supersymmetry algebra, its representations, the Witten Index, and the resulting constraints on quantum dynamics. We then move on to introduce supersymmetric field theories in three space-time dimensions consisting of scalars and fermions while giving a basic introduction to symmetry currents, the classical and quantum Wilsonian renormalization group flow, moduli spaces, spurions, and non-renormalization arguments. The course culminates in a study of simple dualities in three-dimensional supersymmetric abelian gauge theories. We conclude with a discussion of supersymmetry in four space-time dimensions and, time permitting, the embedding of our constructions in string theory.

Computational Chemistry

This module discusses key approaches in modern theoretical and computational chemistry, including HF, post-HF and DFT methods, and considers the application of such methods to study of the structure, properties and chemical reactivity of individual molecules, and further extended to the study of condensed matter.

Research Lab Skills

Multilingualism and Bilingualism

This course will provide an introduction to the field of bilingualism and multilingualism from a linguistic, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspective. Topics to be covered include the definition of bilingualism and multilingualism and types of language contact, code-switching, bilingual and multilingual education and policy, as well as language development in individuals who are proficient in more than one language, and the cognitive effects of speaking more than one language.

International Relations of the Middle East

This module gives students the opportunity to study the international relations of the Middle East through the lens of contemporary conflict. The Middle East is often characterized as the most conflict-ridden region of the world. This module seeks to explore firstly if that is an accurate assessment and secondly why so many conflicts have occurred in this region. Focusing on the contemporary Middle East, while also discussing recent history, `conflict¿ is broadly defined to mean not just wars, but also contested politics. Exploration of these conflicts will be framed by international relations theory and the theories of civil conflicts. The module will first consider the key state (and non-state) actors involved in many of these conflicts, whether regional (Turkey, Iran, Saudi, Israel, UAE/Qatar) or international (US, Russia, China). Thereafter, we will explore different conflict case studies each week in which these rivalries have play out and interacted with domestic politics: Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Kurdistan, Palestine and Libya.

Introduction to Solar Energy

Solar Energy is an important aspect of Sustainable Energy Engineering. The understanding of key processes within solar energy will provide students with the knowledge needed to progress further within the relevant industry. The module will focus on the following aspects of solar energy: solar insolation, physical background for semi-conductor materials, photovoltaic devices and applications , photocatalysis, learning from nature and photosynthesis, future solutions. The module will be delivered through a series of lectures, as well as sessions focused on laboratory practicals and will feature guest lectures from industrial practitioners.

Organic Synthesis

This module covers the techniques used to plan the syntheses of organic compounds, together with a selection of reaction types that may be used in organic synthesis. The aim is to provide you with sufficient knowledge and experience to analyse and evaluate the design of syntheses of molecules of pharmaceutical relevance. The second half is specifically designed to give students an understanding of advanced heterocyclic chemistry, again covering examples that are appropriate to the pharmaceutical industry. The aim here is to enable you to design syntheses of a range of types of heterocyclic compounds and to predict the reactivity of these compounds with a variety of common reagents.

Ethnography of Communication - Foundations and Fieldwork

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.

The Films of Powell and Pressburger

This module is intended to offer students an in-depth appreciation of the films of Powell & Pressburger. Commencing with the formation of Powell & Pressburger's production company the Archers in 1942, it will focus on the series of films that the partnership made during the 1940s and early 1950s, exploring their preoccupation with art, tradition, landscape and British identity, as well as their pioneering use of colour. Besides considering the themes and motifs of the films themselves, the module will look at their production history, the social and political context in which they were made, and the creative dynamic between Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Multinationals and Global Business

This is a core course which is compulsory for students in the MSc in International Business ; it is an optional course to other Masters programmes in SBM. It aims to introduce students to central debates about the relationship between global economic integration (globalisation) and economic development, highlighting the role played by multinational enterprises. Students are introduced to central themes and theories of international integration and its impacts, and to core ideas of why there are multinationals, and what their economic impacts are. Location and distance, and the costs therein are strong themes throughout the module, as they play central role in structuring both the actions of multinationals and larger patterns of economic activity.

Biomedical Engineering in Urology

The course explores a broad range of biomedical engineering associated with the area of urology. Initially the course covers the basic physiology and biophysics of the urinary tract in health and disease, with particular reference to clinical incontinence. We then focus on clinical measurement and urodynamics as used by clinical scientists/engineers for diagnostic assessment. Finally, we study catheters and implantable devices including stents, sphincters, functional electrical stimulators and urological tissue engineering.

Advanced Topics in Financial Economics

This module covers active research areas in theoretical and empirical finance, such as: advanced corporate finance, market microstructure, high-frequency data, and behavioural finance. In any particular year the topics covered are at the discretion of the convenor. Advanced Topics in Financial Economics is required for the MRes Finance and optional for the MRes Economics (each candidate must select two of the four Advanced Topics modules), and registration is normally restricted to students on these programmes. Successful completion of the module will equip students to conduct publishable research in theoretical or empirical finance.

International Macroeconomics and Finance

International macroeconomics and finance is a new area of open economy macroeconomics. This module: 1. Offers an overview of international monetary economics and finance. 2. Explain how monetary policy and fiscal policy interact to gather the dynamics of sovereign external debt and their financing. 3. Stress the importance of coordinated macroeconomic and financial policies. 4. The theory and the insights provided by this module relate to current policy issues.

Complex Networks and Innovation

The structure and dynamics of various complex networks (e.g. World Wide Web, online social, intra/interorganisational, im/export trade networks) are examined. A unified theoretical framework to analyse sociologically relevant phenomena exhibiting complex dynamic network structures (e.g. information diffusion, cultural fads, financial crises, and viral marketing) is the aim. Innovation, to uncover the structural foundations of knowledge creation, transfer, sharing, and diffusion in various empirical domains is emphasised from an interdisciplinary perspective by combining current research on complex networks with contributions from relevant organisational and sociological research.

Interaction Design

Traditionally, interactive systems design has focused on enhancing people's efficiency or productivity. For example, to increase the speed with which tasks can be completed or to minimise the number of errors people make. Economic and social changes have led to a situation in which the primary use of many technologies is for fun; ie. in which there is no quantifiable output and no clear goal other than enjoyment. Computer games, mobile music players and online communities are all examples where the quality of the experience is the primary aim of the interaction. This module explores the challenges these new technologies, and the industries they have created, present for the design and evaluation of interactive systems. It moves away from a human computer interaction model, which is too constrained for real world problems and provides you with an opportunity to engage with theories relating to cultural dynamics, social activity, and live performance. It explores the nature of engagement with interactive systems and between people when mediated by interactive systems.

Relativistic Waves and Quantum Fields

Relativistic wave equations for particles of various spins will be derived and studied, and the physical interpretations of their solutions will be analysed. After an introduction to classical field theory, and the role of symmetries in field theory (including the beautiful Noether's theorem) students will learn the fundamental concepts of quantum field theory, including the quantisation of the free Klein-Gordon and Dirac fields and the derivation of the Feynman propagator. Interactions are introduced and a systematic procedure to calculate scattering amplitudes using Feynman diagrams is derived. We will also compute some explicit tree-level scattering amplitudes in a number of simple examples.

Topics in Inorganic Chemistry

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.

Storing, Manipulating and Visualising Data

The ability to store, manipulate and display data in appropriate ways is of great importance to data scientists. This module will introduce you to many of the most widely-used techniques in the field. The emphasis of this module is primarily on the interactive use of various IT tools, rather than on programming as such, although in a number of cases you will learn how to develop short programs (scripts) to automate various tasks.

Design for Human Interaction

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.

Digital Intellectual Property

The module introduces students to fundamental problems and concepts pertaining to intellectual property rights, with an emphasis on copyright law, in digital environments. The module focuses on the divergent interests of various stakeholders, such as authors, exploiters, consumers and creators that challenge law making today, and addresses topics ranging from the protection of software and databases, exclsuive rights and limitations, technological protection measures, the relationship between IP and fundamental rights, and online enforcement amongst others. A further emphasis will be placed on the role of the European Court of Justice and the interface between international norms and market integration.

Study Project - Professional Stream

The module is taught over the 1st and 2nd semester by way of intensive small and whole group seminars. The module is an indispensable element of the programme since it allows students to gain, in addition to the more abstract legal content taught, not only exposure to the demands of practice as a patent or trade mark attorney, or indeed other legal professions (including the ability to work in teams) but it is also a distinguishing element of our MSc programme which underpins the entire ethos and philosophy of a programme that is based upon preparation for such careers. The module gives students a 'real life' experience of the role a patent and/or trade mark attorney would experience in their every day role within the IP Field.

Post-Genomic Bioinformatics

This module provides an introduction to bioinformatics, focusing specifically on the management and analysis of data produced by so-called post-genomic methods such as transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics. Lectures cover the bioinformatics methods, algorithms and resources used for tasks such as the identification and quantitation of transcripts, proteins and metabolites, and analysis of the interactions between these key biological molecules. Practical exercises are used to gain experience with bioinformatics tools, data formats and databases that have been developed for this field.

Critical Encounters in Arts and Mental Health

This module examines productive intersections between the arts and mental health from a critical perspective. It investigates the use of arts-based practices as research, education, health intervention, advocacy and activism in mental health. Students will learn about contemporary art practice which interrogates, critiques and/or contributes to mental health theory and practice. Examples of themes include: art interventions with groups and communities for the promotion of mental health and as preventive measure; creative enquiry for professional development; a psychoanalytic framework for understanding the role of the arts in emotional processing; artistic practices which give voice to survivors¿ narratives and concepts, including towards activism.

Flood Risk Management and Modelling

The module is divided into two linked elements. The first explores the current status of flood risk and associated legislation in the UK and Europe. Flood generation mechanisms are examined and novel management options for reducing flood risk (including strategic rural land management and Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems) are critically reviewed. Flood protection in London is explored through a field trip to the Thames Barrier and potential impacts of predicted changes in climate and socio-economic conditions on UK flood risk are reviewed. The second component of the module is focussed on flood risk modelling. A combination of lecture and practical sessions are used to introduce students to design discharge estimation methods, flood frequency analysis and 1D inundation modelling using industry standard software.

Big Data Processing

Big Data Processing covers the new large-scale programming models that allow to create algorithms that process massive amounts of information with a cluster of computer nodes, while hiding the complexity of coordinating parallel computations across the cluster. The module covers the MapReduce programming model and the big data processing platforms Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. Big stream and big graph processing solutions are presented and related topics such as NoSQL data stores and cloud computing execution infrastructure are discussed.

Complex Systems

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.

Project

A project can be proposed in any area of your specialisation (module). Industrially and commercially proposed topics are welcome. All work must be original and your own. Where you use ideas, structure or text from other sources you must always fully reference this. The project is probably the most demanding task that you have to undertake. It is very different from the taught modules. Although you will have a supervisor, you are on your own to a greater extent. The onus is on you to define the project boundaries, to review relevant literature, to devise the methods of investigation, to carry out the investigation, to assess your findings and to report your work in a scholarly manner. You will be introduced to many of these aspects during the Research Methods module. To be successful you will need to plan, estimate and manage your time and energy. The rest you will have to learn as you go along. You are required to produce three documents, on or before specified deadlines, as part of the project. The project specification is a short document; the Draft report is required one month before the end of the project; followed by the final report (the dissertation).

Intellectual Property and the Creative Industries

This module addresses the major creative industries, the way they operate and their impact on the national global economy, with a particular focus on the interplay between intellectual property protection and the industries' business environment. This module will analyze various contentious issues in the law surrounding the creative industries with a focus on intellectual property. A number of specific creative industries will be examined as well as famous' persons rights over their name and image and the commercialization of such rights. The module is international in scope, looking at a variety of jurisdictions according to significance and relevance to particular industries.

Physical Cosmology

"This module covers the essential concepts of modern cosmology, and in particular introduces the student to what has become known as the ""cosmological standard model"". It discusses the structure and properties of the universe as we observe it today, its evolution and the the underlying physical concepts, and the observations that formed our understanding of the universe."

Advanced Applied Science of Endodontology

This module is an academic module focussing primarily on the clinical basis of endodontics and its interface with other aspects of dentistry.

Human Resource Management in the Public Services

This module provides a critical evaluation of the issues, challenges and processes involved in managing employees in the public services. It does so by considering the unique financial, political and legal context within which public personnel practitioners operate as well as the distinct characteristics of public sector jobs and those attracted to work within them, and examines the constraints and opportunities these place on personnel policy and its implementation. Themes covered in this module include resourcing and selection, pay and executive compensation, performance management, employee relations, values and organisational ethics, managing change and the relationship between human resource management and public sector performance. A further element of the course involves exploring the characteristics of public sector labour markets including trends, labour market policy initiatives and their impact. The module draws on case study evidence from multi- country institutional and organisational contexts and encourages students to assess how past legacies and recent reforms impact on HRM strategy.

Empire and Early Modern Political Thought

European states raced to establish empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that would provide them with resources to assist in their struggles with each other to survive. As those states engaged in this process of expansion, various authors reflected on what it would mean to be the subject of such empires, thereby developing the concept of rights. At the same time, others used the tools of political thought, including concepts of virtue, greatness, interest, and reason of state, to animate the instruments of empire, including joint stock corporations such as the East India Company. These authors articulated modern understandings of the ways in which states project their power as well the rules of the international order.

Dissertation in Law and Economics

The chosen topics should relate to a relevant issue within the academic fields of Law and Economics or Law and Finance. The particular subject area is the student's own choice, guided and agreed by their supervisor. It is expected that students will undertake primary research and/or secondary research based in the sources where the data has not been already subjected to a relevant analysis. The group presentation is complementing, integrating and applying lecture material, is the small group project. The presentation is designed to develop a wide range of technical and analytical skills prior to the submission of dissertation proposal and also organizational and communication skills.

Economics of Public Policy

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.

Coding for Scientists

This module provides a hands-on introduction to computer programming (popularly known as coding) using scripting languages popular in the field. The focus is on producing robust software for repeatable data-centric scientific work. Key programming concepts are introduced, and these concepts are then brought together in scientifically relevant applications to analyse data, interact with a database and create dynamic web content. Good coding practice, such as the importance of documentation and version control, is emphasised throughout.

Research II - Research Project Progression Report II, Clinical Portfolio and Service Evaluation Preliminary Reports

This module builds on the knowledge acquired in module Research I to enable students to carry out an independent research project and to write a report on their research, and to conduct a service evaluation through the completion of a clinical service audit. This module develops the skills and experience required for module Research III.

Consolidated Clinical Skill and Science in Paediatric Dentistry

This module covers all aspects of paediatric dentistry to a specialist level including genetics, abnormalies, and advanced clinical skills. It will cover integrated knowledge obtained from the previous two years and its application to clinical practices. This module will also cover aspects of paediatric dental care in relation to other dental and medical specialties and provide clinical training on basic and multi-disciplinary approaches on diagnosis and treatment planning for children needing comprehensive dental care.

Corporate Reporting

In this module students will understand the evolution of corporate reporting from nationally specific practices to a more convergence towards IASB standards and why and how this has been sponsored. This module introduces the core accounting concepts and explores the financial reporting framework and guidelines currently available to international companies. Students will understand and appreciate how changes in regulation and corporate governance arrangements have added remuneration reports and the chairman's statements plus new demands for international integrated corporate reporting.

Laboratory Techniques

ELISA. mRNA extraction reverse transcription.PCR. Immunofluorescence staining. SDS PAGE. Western blot. Cell culture. Introduction to microscopy.

Liver and Pancreatic Disease

This module provides the students with a comprehensive overview of the study of liver and pancreatic diseases in adults, with a focus on research and science underpinning this speciality. Topics: Causes of liver disease (alcohol, drugs). Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Liver disease in pregnancy. HCV. HBV. Metals and liver. Autoimmune liver disease. Virological assays. Liver histology. Liver cancer - surgical aspects and chemotherapy. New drugs for viral hepatitis. Liver and HIV. Biliary and pancreatic disease. Pancreatic surgery. How interferon works. Benign liver lesions. Liver disease in children. Imaging of the liver

Trauma: the Disease

Chinese Business Law

The module will introduce the structure of the Chinese legal system, its cultural and political background and historical development. With these in mind, it will then cover major business and commercial law areas, including company, contract and trade law; taxation; financial regulation; and dispute resolution and litigation, with a particular focus on their application to foreign businesses, investors and individuals. The module will provide students with an understanding of the principles and rules of the Chinese business and commercial law regimes. It will also provide them with the knowledge and skills to study the Chinese business and commercial legal system in greater depth. No knowledge of Chinese is required to take the module, but students will be expected to become familiar with the relevant Chinese business and legal terms.

Alternative Dispute Resolution: Theory and Context

The module will seek to provide an understanding of the various dispute resolution processes available to parties in dispute, and to understand the necessity of considering the process which best suits the dispute. The module will cover such topics as the nature of conflict, the emergence of disputes, the history of the ADR movement with its attendant debate between informalism and formalism, the adjudication process, the nature of negotiation and their strategies, the mediation process and approaches, the continuum of dispute resolution processes, the relationship between ADR and institutes such as courts, the English Courts and within the EU. ADR is a vibrant area of scholarship; it is impossible to give 'yes' or 'no' answers to most of the issues arising in scholarship. Therefore the module will employ a critical thinking and open discussion approach. It is expected that students will be willing to share the results of their analysis, research and supported opinions,and be involved in active discussion of all issues.

Immunity and Infection

Module taught by the University of Southampton

Engineering Instrumentation

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.

Charterparties: Law and Practice

The module will examine all aspects of charterparties, being contracts of vessel hire between the relevant parties. More specifically, the module will cover the stage of negotiating a charterparty, the basic principles underlying all such contracts, different types of charterparties (including voyage, time, hybrid and demise charters), various charterparty forms and their practical application, the effect of charterers' orders on the operation of charterparties, and the charters' discharge (including issues of breach, frustration and damages).

International Regulation of Shipping

Since time immemorial, ships and their activities were the subject of customs and laws that inexorably transcended authorities anchored in a single land jurisdiction. It is historically recorder that shipping is the oldest economic activity that engendered the legal concept of, what today we refer to in contemporary terms as, international regulation. In particular the module covers: The international regulatory framework of shipping; Registration of ships; Access to ports and the evolving port-State control; Safety and security (including cyber-security) ship requirements; Ship-source pollution; Rescue of distressed persons at sea (including matters relating to refugees and irregular migration; covering also the issue of stowaways); Maritime labour; Construction and Recycling of ships.

Fracture Biology and Limb Trauma

This is a compulsory module that will focus on the basic science of bone and fracture biology as well as specific injuries within the upper and lower limbs. This module will provide students with the knowledge to critically evaluate extremity trauma. Non-operative and operative treatment will be discussed in order for students to fully appreciate the strengths, weaknesses and controversies around each option. Students will be able to apply their basic science knowledge to individual cases, in a stepwise and methodological approach to fracture treatment.

Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology

Cancer Pharmacology

Failure of Solids

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.

Community Medicine II

You will study this module which builds upon IHS7112 during Year 2 of the course. Most weeks, you will spend at least one day learning in the community. As your skills develop, you will start to manage your own caseload under the supervision of your GP tutor. We will focus on the management of chronic conditions as well as introduce new fields of medicine, not previously studied in detail. For example; dermatology, ENT, ophthalmology, rheumatology/ musculoskeletal medicine. The end of year assessment will encompass elements from all aspects of the course taught over the two years, and will not be restricted to the module. This highlights the integrated nature of the course.

Services Management

The services sector has become one of the most important sectors from both an economic and a managerial point of view. Besides pure services providers an increasing number of 'new' services providers emerge, usually offering hybrid offerings that include goods and services components. This module provides students with an overview of important aspects of services management; outlines relevant frameworks, concepts, tools, and processes to improve the understanding of service design, management and commercialisation.

Imaging

Science and principles underlying the use of a number of imaging techniques in the diagnosis and treatment of malignant disease. Aims are: To introduce the vital role imaging plays in all aspects of the management of patients with cancer; To provide an overview of different imaging technologies and their application for this purpose; To introduce the role of imaging in development of cancer treatments (drug, radiotherapy, surgical); To introduce the principles of the generation of images of all these technologies (ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine); To understand the risks of imaging to the patie

International Law and Indigenous People

Once peripheral to international law, indigenous peoples are increasingly at the centre of developments in international law. Competing claims for resources, land, and the recognition of rights, coupled with the rapid development of international and regional standards and jurisprudence, place indigenous peoples at the cutting edge of international law, in both practice and in theory. This course will introduce students to the institutions, standards and jurisprudence which structure indigenous peoples' relationship to international law. Addressing questions of indigenous status under the law, self-determination, land rights, cultural rights, natural resources, and state obligations of redress, the course will give students a concrete understanding of how indigenous peoples' rights claims have come to play a leading role in recent developments in international law.

Insurance Contracts

This module looks at particular types of insurance contract. It considers the impact on specific insurance contracts of the application of general principles of insurance contract, the terms that appear in different types of contract, their function and how they are interpreted by the courts, and how the applicable legislative environment varies with different types of insurance. Insurance is fundamental to a modern economy, allowing businesses and individuals to transfer the risk of loss, thereby facilitating investment and protecting wealth, and London is a world centre of the insurance industry. Students require no prior knowledge of insurance or English law. They will learn all they need to know as the module progresses.

Corporate Finance Law

Primarily the course aims to contribute to a critical understanding of the subject matter through the combined study of theories of regulation in general and the corporate dynamics in particular, with a special focus on the different stakeholders involved in international corporate finance. The module will focus on providing an introduction to the different corporate financing options, methods and techniques, with special emphasis on the use of debt and equity. The course is strongly committed to presenting a global and comparative perspective highlighting the contemporary principles and international trends of corporate finance rather than the pointillist and ephemeral details of national rule books.

Law and Authority in a Global Context

The course offers a theory of law and authority in a context marked by the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion. It analyses this issue in five lectures/seminars: (1) the passage from state-centric law to global legal pluralism; (2) (global) legal ordering as a process of including and excluding ; (3) the contestation of emergent global legal orders by alter- and anti-globalisation movements; (4) authority and struggles for recognition; (5) Global constitutionalism and its limits. Drawing on insights from legal and political theory, it proposes a model of legal order that explains how globalisation transforms law and how law gives shape to globalisation processes.

Corporate Governance and Responsibility in Finance

The module aims at providing students with a thorough understanding of the main corporate governance problems pertaining to the financial sector. This is necessary as the governance of financial institutions is profoundly different from that of non financial institutions. The module will investigate how banks, investment funds and insurance companies are governed and controlled, the link between compensation, performance and risk, and whether structural separation in banking (also called ring fencing) will contribute to simplify banks' governance. The responsibility aspects will cover both managers' liability and corporate responsibilities towards society (CSR). The module will also consider the overall spectrum of duties owed by financial companies towards investors as included in the Mifid and in other EU Directives, and the legal consequences in case of breach. The legal systems analyzed will mostly be the UK and the EU ones with reference to international standards where applicable.

Applied Medical and Social Sciences

This module will cover: -An introduction to the biomedical sciences that form the basis of modern medicine. We will cover essential principles and theory in biochemistry, pharmacology, microbiology, immunology, molecular and cell biology as well as introduce elements of anatomy and physiology on which we will build on in later modules. In addition we will study psychology and sociology in order that you can better understand the experience of illness and place the role of medicine and medical professionals within a broader social context. -The role of health professionals and health services in preventing illness; by working with individuals to optimize their ability to care for themselves and via population scale initiatives such as screening and immunisation.

Cultural and Global Perspectives Dissertation

Concepts in Natural Resources Law: Biodiversity, Human Rights and Trade

The international legal regime relating to natural resources is complex and multi-dimensional. It is found in many places, based on doctrines of public international law, regional and local laws as well specific treaty obligations. It is also a dynamic area of international law as changes in technology and environmental awareness of the impact of such developments have led to further changes in legal regime. Concepts in Natural Resources Law: Biodiversity, Human Rights and Trade intersects and supports the study of other disciplines including international environmental law, energy law, as well as international investment law and international economic law. This unit examines International Natural Resources Law broadly from the perspectives of biodiversity, human rights and trade. Emphasis is placed on utilisation, development and sustainability. Specific topics include the conservation and utilisation of biodiversity, management of the polar regions, human rights, privatisation and the trade in environmental goods and services. The impact of globalisation and international legal rules on activities in the natural resources sector will be explored throughout the unit.

Extended Research Project

Applied Econometrics (Macro and Finance)

The aim of this module is to provide students rigorous training in econometric methods that are heavily in use in empirical research on Macroeconomics and Finance. The module covers models that are used to estimate dynamic relationships between variables, models with timevarying parameters and stochastic volatility, regime switching models and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. Each topic is introduced from a theoretical perspective and then students are trained in the application of these methods using software like Eviews and Matlab. The course introduces students to recent applications of these methods in Economics and Finance and trains them in the practical aspects of carrying out advanced empirical research.

Machine Learning Applications for Finance

This course should appeal to those students wishing to understand some of the techniques that are now commonly referred to as machine learning. Most of these techniques have been in use for some time but have become more popular as more 'big data' applications have become available. This course will also introduce students to the use of the R Project for Statistical Computing. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

China and Global Financial Markets

China's financial markets and institutions operate in ways that differ significantly from those in other major economies such as the US and Euroarea. Despite the importance of the Chinese economy, these unique features of its financial industry are not covered in standard finance courses thus this module aims to fill that gap. This course is aimed at providing the students with an understanding of i) how financial markets and institutions operate in China, ii) how China interacts with global financial markets.

Compliance in Global Markets

The module will have four general sessions in which all the students will study together advanced cases in Compliance. The course covers advanced topics in compliance. Then the students will be split into specialist groups as specified above for another four sessions. For the final sessions the students will get together for a conclusion of the module.

Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming

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.

E-Commerce Regulation

"This module examines the theoretical basis of the legal and regulatory framework within which online commercial transactions have to be undertaken (bearing in mind that there is much commercial activity which is, ostensibly, 'free' ¿ Facebook and Google are prime examples). It does this through the lens of legitimate authority, asking the fundamental question: 'Why should an e-commerce business accept this particular law and comply with it?' This question arises because of the regulatory and legal difficulties involved in e-commerce as a cross-border activity. The proposition that an e-commerce business must obey all the laws of the world is, simply, both unrealistic in practice and unsustainable in theory. The first part of the module examines jurisprudential theory in some depth, and the second part applies this theory to particular areas of e-commerce activity to explain how law and regulation there works (or, often, doesn¿t work). Because e-commerce is a global activity it doesn't examine the law of one country alone, but focuses on the underlying principles for regulation, how they differ between jurisdictions, the justifications for and limits on national lawmaking, and how e-commerce businesses respond to regulation. This module uses elements of lawmaking and regulatory theory to illuminate how e-commerce regulation operates in practice."

Topics in Financial Economics B

This module focuses on the fundamentals of continuous time finance. It will cover the foundations of option pricing models (Black Scholes, stochastic volatility and jump models), volatility modelling, static and dynamic hedging, complete and incomplete markets, market frictions, and dynamic portfolio allocation. Examples from the empirical literature may be provided given time constraints.

Introduction to Literature: Texts and Contexts

This module provides an accessible but challenging introduction to the study of literature. It offers students an opportunity to exploreboth literary texts and the critical and theoretical contexts that shape our interpretation of them. Through the close analysis of a whole range of short texts and extracts, this module considers the literary in relation to popular culture, and examines critical concepts such as genre, period, influence, and the canon. No language requirement.

The Physics of Galaxies

"Galaxies are the building blocks of the universe and deserve the extensive study they now enjoy. This course applies basic physical ideas to astronomical observations, exploring the properties of galaxies themselves and the evolution of structure in the universe."

Continuous-time Models in Finance

This module explains how we can price financial derivatives in a consistent manner, in the realistic case where the price of the underlying asset changes continuously in time. To do this, we first introduce the key ideas of stochastic calculus in a mathematically rigorous, but still accessible, way. Then, using the Black-Scholes model, we show how we can price a wide range of derivatives, using both the PDE approach and the alternative martingale approach. Finally we look at several more recent models that attempt to rectify some of the known deficiencies of the Black-Scholes model.

Research Methods for Management

Research Methods introduces you to the main approaches and strategies in research methods so that you develop a strong understanding of how social scientists search for and test out evidence in their disciplines. In this way it will help you to develop a critical approach to questions of evidence during your studies and specifically prepare you to work on your dissertation. The lectures will cover issues of research design, searching and reviewing the literatures on topics, and the requirements for research at this level. You will also be given guidance on how to devise research proposals and write dissertations.

Managing Heritages at Historic Royal Palaces

Academic rigour and applied professional theory introduces students to the actual practice of heritage management at historically renowned sites and coordinated by Historic Royal Palace's Programme Director with masterclass sessions by other specialists from within HRP. Possible visits to heritage organisations are planned. A combination of classroom-based discussion from readings, site visits and Masterclasses with HRP staff will take a `critical practice¿ approach connecting QMUL compulsory module themes to HRP case studies.

Hollywood's Vietnam

This module examines American feature films of the Vietnam War such as The Green Berets, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter and Platoon. These movie and others are located within the wider war movie genre (extending lines of inquiry begun in the module 'Hollywood and the 2nd World War') and we will investigate how the war is mapped in relation to dismodules of gender, race, and social class. The tangled relationship between feature film representation and other cultural forms such as documentary film, war photography and television news coverage, will also be explored. Complimenting the module `History, Memory and Fiction in French Cinema', this module will also track how the Vietnam War movie has shaped American cultural memory since the war¿s end and how `Vietnam¿ continues to be a significant force in American cultural and political life.

Music Perception and Cognition

Music is a fundamental part of being human and exists only in the mind of the listener. This module will provide students with advanced training in current understanding of how musical sound is processed by the mind and brain. This is crucial for developing creative tools for musicians and intuitive interfaces for music lovers as well as for using technology in the creative production of new music.

Human Rights of Women: Legal Framework and Issues

The course will follow on from the material covered in Human Rights of Women - Feminist Legal Theory by covering the general international human rights legal framework before moving on to the gender specific international human rights framework. This will include assessing provisions such as CEDAW and the ECHR. The course will then move on to examine and assess international law and policy on a number of substantive areas such as violence against women, prostitution, trafficking, the veiling of women etc. In any given year the precise subjects to be studied will vary according to the provenance of the members of the class and other factors.

International Financial Regulation

The purpose of this module is to examine the regulation of non-bank financial institutions and markets, in particular securities firms, insurance companies, fund managers, financial derivatives, financial infrastructures, clearing and settlement. The module also considers the sources and evolution of international financial regulation and the competing demands between prudential regulation and financial services liberalisation.

Advanced Asset Pricing and Modelling

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.

Topics in Microeconomics A

This module consists of a pure microeconomic theory, which may be taught by different instructors. The module covers topics such as: advanced game theory, behavioural and experimental economics, decision theory and bounded rationality, social choice, and theoretical political economy.

International Arbitration and Energy

International arbitration proceedings in the energy sector have seen an important increase in recent years, both in terms of their numbers and their economic and political importance. This module provides students with the basis for understanding the particular issues of disputes in the energy sector, both in international investment and commercial arbitration. It gives students aiming to work in the arbitration area an important qualification in a very competitive market.

Dissertation in International Business Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Social Rights

Social Rights examines the contribution of law to making poverty history. The course critically examines the role of international and comparative law in constructing and maintaining historic and current social, political and economic inequalities. The course will analyse the law¿s potential and limitations as an instrument of redistributive and egalitarian social, economic, cultural and political change; in addition, legal and political philosophies focussing on the separation of powers, justiciability and institutional conversations. The history of the different systems of implementation will be studied together with new developments both procedural and substantive within the United Nations human rights machinery. The implementation of positive obligations on governments within the African Union, the Organisation of American States as well as within Europe are also analysed. International and Comparative Social Rights will also include comparative jurisprudence from Argentina, India, Philippines, South Africa and Venezuela as well as other relevant jurisdictions and will explore the potential of these different approaches for other democracies.

International Tax Law

The module is designed for students who wish to gain an understanding of the key concepts of international tax law and of how multinational enterprises are taxed on their profits. It is also designed to equip students to participate in International Tax Law in Practice, for which it is a prerequisite. The module covers the basic principles of jurisdiction to tax, the factors used by countries in imposing taxes and the issues governing major types of income. It looks at how conflicts lead to international double taxation, the problems this creates for international trade and solutions provided for in double taxation treaties. The taxation of multinational enterprises has become a political issue, with the G20 and the OECD undertaking substantial work to address Base Erosion and Profit Shifting. This work has progressed rapidly and features prominently in the module.

Neurodegenerative Diseases

To provide an overview of the specific translational medicine challenges in neurodegenerative diseases

Military and Humanitarian

This module will provide students with a background into both military and civilian austere events. The module will cover triage, pre-hospital care, mass casualty management and surge capacity, ballistics, chemical and biological trauma. The latest techniques learnt by the military will be proposed and critically evaluated.

Regulation of Cross-border Online Gambling

This highly topical Module analyses the conflicts between different regulatory regimes governing online gambling in the international context and how these affect the cross-border provision of online gambling. Online gambling is a key case-study for the regulation of cross-border activities on the internet. States fundamentally disagree on how to regulate gambling, for moral, religious and social reasons, and therefore regulatory regimes differ, ranging from the prohibitionist to the permissive. The Module examines the latest legislation and cases concerning online gambling by comparing different regulatory models. The regulation of online gambling also has negative implications for the freedom to trade. Hence this Module covers international trade by making sense of the myriad of cases in the EU Internal Market and the WTO. It also explains conflict of laws issues, including which state or court is competent, which law is applicable, and what rules govern enforcement in cross-border egambling disputes. This Module represents a detailed examination of all international law issues of cross-border online gambling and thus provides an invaluable insight into internet regulation.

Capitalism and Political Thought

This course examines the pivotal role that capitalism has played in political thought from the early twentieth century to the present. It shows how a range of thinkers blurred the boundaries between political and economic analysis in order to reformulate key political concepts and variously to argue, for the maintenance, transformation or overthrow of capitalism. The course starts with a number of figures seeking to grasp the imperial and racial character of the global market system, before exploring how these arguments were transformed by total war, revolution and decolonisation. The course then turns to the ways in which questions of financialisation, inequality, automation and climate crisis came to shape how capitalism is understood. Thinkers studied include: W.E.B. Dubois, Rosa Luxemburg, John Maynard Keynes, W. Arthur Lewis, Eric Williams, Gunnar Myrdal, Joan Robinson, Friedrich Hayek, Silvia Federici and Thomas Piketty.

Macroeconomics B

Together with Macroeconomics A, this module will give you a firm grounding in modern macroeconomics. Topics to be covered include: the determinants of individual consumption and saving and their aggregation, macroeconomic theories of asset pricing, the determinants of firm investment and the implications for aggregate investment.

International Telecommunications Law

Telecommunications is an inherently transnational technology. As such, the development of telecommunications has always required substantial co-operation and agreement between nation states. Historically, the need for on-going co-operation between states has meant the establishment of inter-governmental organisations, of which the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the oldest. In addition, the nature of the industry demands the construction of communications links across jurisdictions subject to both domestic and international law. As such, the telecommunications industry has been subject to treaties and conventions established under public international law for the treatment and use of common natural resources, specifically the law of the sea and outer space law. This module broadly examines four substantive aspects of international telecommunications law: (a) The construction of international telecommunications network infrastructure, both satellites and submarine cables; (b) the standards and operating rules established under the framework of the International Telecommunications Union; (c) the impact of the World Trade Organisation and associated trade agreements on national telecommunication markets and legal regimes and (d) issues for developing countries.

Inflammation and Immunology (General and Oral)

Introduction to immunology. Immune functions. Cells of the immune system. Mucosal immunology

Multimedia Materials Development for Language Teaching

This module is designed to provide an introduction to the pedagogical applications of multimedia in the language classroom. The course will focus on key issues and developments in the field of language teaching with multimedia and will explore practical approaches to exploiting, creating, adapting and developing multimedia materials for language teaching purposes. Participants will be given opportunities to develop practical lesson ideas and materials and will be encouraged to pursue their particular interests in the subject area.

Antimicrobials in Clinical Practice

Interactive Entertainment Transactions

Interactive Entertainment Transactions focuses on legal and business issues contained in the complex matrix of agreements used to structure deals in the games and interactive entertainment industry and provide the legal skills needed to analyze, negotiate, and draft agreements representing various parties in the video game industry.

Film Archaeology

Introduction to Forensic Psychology and Mental Health

This module provides an overview of the theory, practice and evidence base for forensic mental health services in the UK and internationally. It provides a focus on the practices of violence prevention, risk assessment and management, as well as legal frameworks and the role of different professionals with the forensic mental health system.

Data Mining

Data that has relevance for decision-making is accumulating at an incredible rate due to a host of technological advances. Electronic data capture has become inexpensive and ubiquitous as a by-product of innovations such as the Internet, e-commerce, electronic banking, point-of-sale devices, bar-code readers, and electronic patient records. Data mining is a rapidly growing field that is concerned with developing techniques to assist decision-makers to make intelligent use of these repositories. The field of data mining has evolved from the disciplines of statistics and artificial intelligence. This module will combine practical exploration of data mining techniques with a exploration of algorithms, including their limitations. Students taking this module should have an elementary understanding of probability concepts and some experience of programming.

Advanced Skills in Mental Health

All students taking this module will develop more advanced knowledge and best evidence-based practice of mental health assessment and management. Module 1 Advanced Mental Health Assessment is compulsory and completion of this module alone is accredited for exit with a certificate in Advanced Mental Health Assessment.

Risk Management in Law

This module introduces complex concepts in finance at a level that is appropriate for law students to master them . The focus of this course is on the analysis of valuation models, their application in different economic situations, and the benefits/consequences when investing or conducting business, both locally and globally. Tools and basic models that help in understanding the appropriate usage of different valuation models as used in different situations will be introduced and examined in order to assess risk and be able to manage it appropriately. Through the course analysis, students will develop a thorough understanding of the models that influence and eventually determine the relationships between risk and return when evaluating assets. Legal cases are used to analyze actual situations and explore different possible solutions when dealing with risk and other financial concepts, facilitating an acceptable legal determination as to the best selection for various risk exposure. The module will be taught on the assumption that the students have no prior knowledge of finance.

Regulating Health Systems

"This module introduces the concept of a 'health system', and considers what the scope of a health system is, and how regulation can shape and monitor system performance. It focusses on the diverse institutions and regulatory frameworks which operate in the UK context as a case study, paying close attention to the NHS and independent healthcare sector, and the social care sector. We will look at theories of regulation, and apply these to the different regulatory mechanisms at work. We will look at financial as well as quality and performance regulation. We will pay particular attention to public inquiries which consider how regulation has gone wrong or failed, to consider what we can learn from such inquiries as a sui generis mode of regulation."

Law of Economic Crime: Corruption

"The treatment of tax evasion in the UK, including the alternatives to prosecution and the developing regime for dealing with evasion. It will then turn to the national and international law of corruption, dealing with misconduct in public office. The treatment of bribery will include its history and theory, the developing international régime and the trend towards greater negotiation with persons suspected1 of bribery and placing greater duties in respect of enforcement and reporting on the private sector. There will be detailed case studies of corruption in sports and of the Trump Presidency. "

Teaching Languages for Specific Purposes

This optional module provides a focused route for students who wish to develop advanced knowledge and skills in teaching Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP). The module starts with the exploration of theoretical approaches and key research as well as pedagogical developments in the field of LSP in the UK and across other national and international contexts. This in-depth introduction then moves on to the discussion of the principles of LSP course design, placing particular emphasis on practical knowledge of syllabus content/structure, material development and assessment methods.

Simulation and Moulage for Prehospital Medicine

Simulation and moulage are a key component of education for prehospital clinicians. The module focuses on creating and developing scenarios for moulage and simulation praxis. Students will have an opportunity to further their understanding of moulage and simulation in terms of history, purpose, methods/processes, educational theory, teaching, learning, assessment and feedback. There will be opportunities for creating simulated learning experiences , and developing these in the student¿s work environment.

The Value of Literature: Debates in Twentieth Century China

Is literature valuable? In a global political climate that increasingly casts doubt on the value of literary studies (and of the Humanities more broadly), this module poses the timely questions of what value literature holds and how to articulate literary value. We will explore these questions through readings in Chinese literature, examining how writers theorized and practiced the value of literature at key historical junctures of the twentieth century, including current debates on the Nobel Prize stage. Students will gain familiarity with theories of ¿value,¿ central critical debates and major texts of modern Chinese literature, and with the concept of value in world literature.

International Energy Law and Ethics

The International Energy Law and Ethics module is concerned with legal and ethical issues arising in the energy sector. It aims to provide both a theoretical and practical approach to the analysis of these issues.

Neural Networks and NLP

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has become one of the most important technologies in Artificial Intelligence. Automatic methods for processing natural language now find application in almost every aspect of our communication in person or online, in particular through social media. The increased use of Neural Networks has played an important role in the most recent progress of NLP, as NN techniques have delivered improved performance in applications ranging from language modelling (next word prediction) to speech to machine translation to sentiment analysis. The proposed module provides a thorough introduction to this cutting-edge approach to developing NLP systems.

Competition Enforcement: From Investigation to Sanctions

The European Commission is empowered to send information requests to companies, enter the premises of companies, examine the records related to the business, take copies of those records, seal the business premises and records during an inspection, ask members of staff or company representatives questions relating to the subject-matter and purpose of the inspection and record the answers. At the end of the initial investigative phase, the Commission can take the decision to pursue the case as a matter of priority and to conduct an in-depth investigation, or to close it. Alternatively to a prohibition decision the Commission may take a commitment decision under Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003. This is a quick way of restoring effective competition to the market. Finally, as the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission states, infringements of competition rules, such as price cartels and abuses of a dominant position in the market, are not only negative for the economy and consumers as a whole: they also cause direct harm to the infringer's customers and competitors (e.g. higher prices, lost profits). The European Court of Justice held that any citizen or business who suffers harm as a result of such breaches is entitled to compensation from the infringers. Thus, any citizen or business which suffers harm as a result of a breach of the EU competition rules is entitled to claim compensation from the party who caused it. This means that the victims of competition law infringements can bring an action for damages before the national courts.

Competition Law in the Cyberspace

Torso Trauma

The torso module will focus on the mechanism and pathophysiology of torso injuries. The module seeks to provide students with a more critical knowledge of common patterns for torso injuries and will provide students with the tools to recognise and initiate treatments for the most common and life threatening injuries. This is offered as a compulsory module.

On-Line Banking and Financial Services

The aim of the module is to educate students in the law and regulation of banking and financial services with specific relevance to their provision on-line. It examines the law relating to on-line payment services and on-line investment, the consumer protection issues which arise, the authorisation and supervision of on-line financial activities and the legal issues of cross-border provision of financial services.

Intellectual Property: Foundation

This module aims to give you a firm foundation in the law of Intellectual Property, as it relates to computer and communications law. It should assist you to gain the maximum benefit from other module modules. It should also help you to understand the basic principles of national and international Intellectual Property law; to establish why aspects of information technology and the Internet pose problems in the applications of these principles; and to be able to analyse critically the solutions which have been put forward at a national and international level.

Internet Content Regulation

The Internet is often portrayed as unregulated and anarchic, rife with pornography and salacious lies. Laws regulating such content, typically predate the arrival of the World Wide Web. Internet technology, however, presents a number of challenges to what were previously settled legal issues such as whether an Internet service provider (ISP) should be held liable for defamatory material, as would a publisher or distributor of a newspaper. This module will consider such problems raised by the technology, and explore how different jurisdictions - particularly the UK, the EU and the US - have responded to this challenge. Policy issues surrounding legal reform will form an integral part of the module.

Comparative Corporate Law

Today almost all aspects of corporate law have become increasing international and globalised. This optional module aims at offering a thorough analysis of corporate law from a comparative perspective. After an overview of the common law and civil law systems of corporate law and the mutual influences, the module will move on to examining core corporate law concepts in different legal systems. While the point of reference will be the UK corporate laws, focus of the module will also be on US (Delaware and Federal law where relevant) and continental European jurisdictions. The analysis will also extend to other jurisdictions for relevant topics. Rather than a simple rule-based method, the module will adopt a problem-based functional method for certain key topics. The module aims to provide an understanding of the approaches taken by different jurisdictions to resolving fundamental challenges faced by companies. The module will increase the students' knowledge and understanding of corporate law from an international and comparative perspective and stimulate a critical attitude towards the study of corporate law. The module will also improve students' evaluation skills which will take into account context including different legal traditions in a corporate law context. Students will also become capable of improving their skills for carrying out comparative legal research.

Emergency Care

In this module, students will review a wide range of acute medical disease processes, developing knowledge about their pathophysiology and clinical presentation. Topics will include acute coronary syndromes, diabetic and non-diabetic endocrine emergencies, acute non-traumatic and traumatic neurosurgical emergencies, and infectious disease and tropical medicine. Students also will develop the skills required to manage these diseases, by evaluating clinical scenarios. Students will learn via a series of online lectures delivered by experts in the field and will participate in discussion groups.

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Thoughout this module students will study microbial infections of humans. The clinical presentation, laboratory diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy and infection control issues of the microbial infections are explored both theoretically and practically. The infections are studied by organ system e.g. respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract and also by looking at specialist patient groups e.g. the immuno-compromised, patients in the intensice care unit, pregnancy and paediatrics. Students also study the surveillance, legislation and methods of control of hospital acquired infection.

Bowel Anastomosis Skills

This module will introduce the learner to the theoretical and practical knowledge relating to bowel anastomosis using virtual reality Touch Surgery. Students will become familiar with how to use surgical stapling devices. Student will be able to explain the principles of performing safe bowel anastomosis including: preprocedural planning, patient preparation and intestinal anastomosis technique.

Ceramics

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.

Photography the Self and its Image

This module examines how photographic images and processes are used to understand and give accounts of the self. Focusing on experimental self-narratives and specific image types (e.g. self-portraits, family photography, art photography, phototexts), it considers the shifting meanings of photography as a tool of self-knowledge. It explores tensions between self-documentary and self-invention, and the ways in which these tensions are inflected as photographic technologies change. Students will be introduced to key theories and concepts for the analysis of photography in self-narrative and to practitioners from a range of cultural backgrounds. Where feasible, advantage will be taken of relevant resources/events/exhibitions in London (notably the Photographer's Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition).

Formal Syntax

This module will familiarize students with the issues and methodologies found in contemporary syntactic literature, with a focus on Chomsky's (1995) Minimalist Program. The aim of the course is to provide students with a strong interest in syntactic theory with the tools and knowledge necessary to carry out original research that engages with current debates in the syntactic literature. The module also emphasizes the development of argumentation skills and the ability to undertake independent analysis of linguistic data.

Labour and Public Policy

This module will give you an understanding of some of the issues in contemporary labour economics, with an emphasis on the empirical side of the discipline. You will cover a mix of theoretical economic, data analysis and econometric techniques. This eflects the nature of a discipline which is eclectic and constantly 'on the move'. This illustrates how economists uncover the effect of policy reforms and changes in opportunities and constraints in the labour market using micro-data. This module is designed to appeal to both prospective researchers and those wishing to pursue a career in government, international institutions and consultation with public and private bodies. This module is not intended to be an exhaustive survey of all of the relevant issues in labour economics. The topics chosen are selected in order to illustrate the varieties of questions labour economists ask themselves, and how they proceed to solve them. Topics covered include: introduction to empirical labour economics; human capital and returns to education; school quality; changes in the wage structure; changes in employment structure; US vs. Europe; the employment effect of minimum wages; labour supply; immigration; crime; neighbourhood effects.

Core Knowledge and Clinical skills in Orthodontics

This module covers the basic biological science topics, operative and clinical skills to ensure that all students gain the fundamental level of skills and knowledge, which will then be used to build on, over the following two years of clinical training in Orthodontics.

Researching Development in Practice: Mumbai Unbound

This innovative fieldwork-based module challenges the long-standing academic division of labour between 'economic' and 'development' geographers, and instead builds an alternative hybrid approach, operationalised through an empirical focus on urban change in Mumbai, one of India's Tier I cities. PGT students will be expected to devise their own projects and site visits in Mumbai in relation to these themes. Teaching is focused around a series of core themes: (i) Mumbai's dual economy, in which low-end, low-paid local service providers such as janitors, security guards, cleaners, and laundry underpin the success of high profile, multinational corporations in the financial services, hospitality and IT sectors; (ii) work and employment in India's high profile Business Process Outsourcing - IT-Enabled Services Industry; (iii) the growth of India's new middle classes, new patterns of consumption amongst these classes and their inscriptions in the urban fabric; and (iv) poverty and hope in Mumbai's slums, focusing around informal economies of survival amongst different social and ethnic groups in Dharavi; diverse informal economies related to leather, itinerant waste collectors and pottery and NGO projects to improve well-being and quality of life within Mumbai¿s slums.

Study Project - Business Stream

The module consists of independent research; an advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law. The chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field. The study project for business stream students will be a specific element of work relating to the IP field in general. This will give the candidate a chance to experience the specific issues regarding research, data analyses and IP specific analysis experienced by IP Professionals on a daily basis within the workplace.

Dissertation - Global Health, Law and Governance

This core module on the MSc Global Health, Law and Governance module offers students the opportunity to pursue an area of interest in depth in public health, global policy or law and produce a critical and scholarly study. Sudents wil either select a project from a range on offer, mostly from supervisors in the Centre for Public Health and Primary Care, the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, or the School of Law, or (in discuission with their academic adviser and a potential supervisor) devise and focus on their own small project. The advanced analytic and writing skills required for this module will be supported by a series of seminars covering literature searching, critical evaluations of evidence. organising a major piece of academic work, and presentation and writing skills. Students will acquire skills in developing, planning, organising and focusing a project as they work on one to one basis with their supervisor. They will also acquire skills in searching, critically appraising, summarising and synthesising the literature.

Public Economics

Public Economics deals with the role of the government in a market economy. The objective of the course is to understand the reasons for government intervention in the economy, the different forms that government intervention may take, and the consequences of government policies, in particular the response of economic agents to such policies. Therefore the course considers both normative questions (what governments should do) and positive questions (what are the impacts of actual government policies). After presenting necessary tools and concepts, the course covers topics related to externalities (e.g., pollution), public good provision, social insurance, social security, and tax policy. On each topic, lectures will combine economic theory and applications based on real-world government policies. Special emphasis will be devoted to current policy issues, and the reading of actual research articles on these issues.

Forms of Film Practice

Mainstream narrative cinema has always benefitted from the formal innovations taking place at the margins of film practice. The formal, aesthetic and technical experiments conducted by the avant-garde were soon appropriated by the commercial film industry. Risks taken in the documentary field have led to new attitudes towards truth and actuality. This module focuses on what forms film practice can take beyond fiction and storytelling. The module aims to broaden the students' skills-base by focusing on documentary filmmaking and artists' moving image, encouraging formal experimentation and an active critique of the ways in which mainstream cinema and conventional televisual formats construct meanings and representations. The module covers a range of practices, production procedures, technologies and techniques for concept development, and is structured to develop creative thinking, collaboration, crew dynamics and practical abilities. It is designed to ground the student in appropriate research and development methods along with practical and aesthetic skills to produce a short documentary or experimental film. Students choose from two short film project options: either a documentary portrait of a person, place or event, or a film that engages with process, concept and aesthetics, rather than with explicitly narrative content. In parallel, students produce an essay consisting of a close reading of a filmmaker or filmmakers working in a mode that relates to their short film production.

MSc Astrophysics Research Project

The MSc project involves a critical review of a chosen topic in modern astrophysics, and may include some original research. Students write a dissertation summarising current research in that chosen field and the extent of their own investigations.

E-Commerce Transactions

This module examines the law relating to online commercial transactions (bearing in mind that there is much commercial activity which is, ostensibly, 'free' - Facebook and Google are prime examples). It focuses on the law which governs a range of online transactions, including contracting, signatures and online marketplaces. Because e-commerce is a global activity we don¿t examine the law of one country alone (though we will inevitably look at more UK and EU law than that of anywhere else). Our focus is on the underlying principles which are common to all jurisdictions, and the differences in some areas - the theory is that if you understand these, you will be able to analyse any particular national law and apply it to the particular e-commerce activity in question.

Dissertation in Environmental Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in Commercial Law

"Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field of Commercial Law. The particular subject area within this field is the student¿s own choice, guided and agreed by their allocated supervisor."

Electrical Machines and Systems

This module introduces the principles of electric power generation, transmission and distribution. It also explains the operation of electric machines and the principles of the protection of power systems. It provides revision of ac and dc circuit theory and analysis of balanced and unbalanced three-phase ac power systems. The methods of generating electric power and how power is transferred from the generating station to industry and domestic consumers will also be explained. The module will include ac and dc generators, ac and dc motors, stepper motors, transformers, ac and dc transmission, protection of power systems and introduce the smart grid.One part of this module introduces the principals and technologies of power system operation (generation, transmission and distribution). This module will have labs either in the electronics lab, or in the ITL

Cosmeceuticals

This sixth module is for 8 weeks duration and is the first of the second year. This module discusses the categories of cosmeceuticals and compares and contrasts their active ingredients and activity profiles. Students will be expected to develop an in-depth knowledge and demonstrate critical appraisal skills of literature on biochemical properties and actions. The active entities will then be individually discussed and examined including, antioxidants, peptides, growth factor compounds and combination products. Evaluating the effectiveness of cosmeceuticals by understanding how they are scientifically tested is key,such as by polymerase chain reactions (PCR).

Trauma to the Pelvis and Torso

This is a compulsory module that will focus on the mechanism and patho-physiology of trauma of the pelvis and torso. Students will evaluate the common injury patterns within the chest, abdomen and pelvis, both penetrating and blunt. They will critically appraise treatment algorithms and resuscitation strategies for these life-threatening injuries and develop a clear comprehension of how to recognise the clinical priorities within individual cases and instigate appropriate courses of action.

Dental Manikin Practical Skills

This is an academic and core module which will provide students with hands on experience of undertaking dental procedures using typodont teeth set in a manikin head. This is a practically biased module that will cover intracoronal direct filling plastic restorations, extracoronal restorations, endodontics and removable prostheses. Teaching will be delivered using the dental phantom head facilities but there will also be seminars and small group discussions. Students will be expected to engage in independent study and reflection.

Auteur Direction

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

Mergers and Acquisitions

This module provides an overview of mergers and acquisitions from the point of view of an industry practitioner who has worked in both M&A advisory (Corporate Finance Advisory) and Merger Arbitrage Trading. The module explains the role of Corporate Finance practitioners and the modelling tools they use to value companies and advise clients. The module also explains the role in the markets for traders and portfolio managers at hedge funds and other asset management firms who specialise in trading announced merger transactions and other corporate actions.

Management of Fractures of the Lateral Midface

"This module will focus on injuries of the lateral face to include the orbit, zygomatic bone, and soft tissues of the region. A summary of the relevant anatomy and physiology of the region will build to diagnostic principles, urgent management, treatment planning followed by surgical management. Principles of surgical access, methods of production and fixation, and both autogenous and alloplastic reconstruction of this anatomical area. More advanced techniques including surgical navigation are discussed, together with the use of CAD CAM imaging and prosthesis fabrication."

Management of Fractures of the Central Middle Third

The module discusses the management of complex middle third of the face injuries with special reference to the naso orbital region. Surgical management of fractures of the midface is discussed both in terms of anatomical reconstruction and sequencing of repair of the region and adjacent anatomical subunits within the middle third - upper and lower thirds of the craniofacial skeleton. The importance of the integrity of the medial canthal region is discussed and management of ligament reconstruction is discussed.

Internet Governance

The Module critically analyses internet governance and the role of different agents in governance and the UN Internet Governance Forum, discussing different modes of international governance (eg intergovernmental institutions, self-regulation). It examines ICANN's role, function and operations in particular in respect of the Domain Name System. The Module critically evaluates the nature and significance of domain names, in terms of technology, commercial interests and law (are domain names a form of property?). In this context the Module very briefly and by way of background examines the nature of the conflict between domain names and trademarks (without discussing trademark law in great detail). The Module critically assesses the Uniform Dispute Resolution Procedure and the wider issues related to domain name dispute resolution. It analyses the issue of identifying the person registering a domain name (WHOIS) and the role of registrars and registries in law enforcement and in respect of policy-making. One aspect of policy making in the domain name space is whether certain types of internet activities (gambling, pornography) should be limited to certain types of domains in order to achieve important policy goals such as child protection. The Module also compares governance in respect of the generic TLDs with CC TLDs to compare different models of internet governance in order to assess their effectiveness. Finally the Module examines the new generic TLDs and their impact on trademarks, policy, dispute resolution and law enforcement.

Econometrics A

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.

Labour Economics

Dissertation (10,000 words)

Dissertation (independent research), an advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field of Computer and Communications Law. The particular subject area within this field is the student's own choice, guided and agreed by their allocated supervisor.

Clinical Dental Skills

This is an academic and practical module which provides students with hands-on experience which will include practice in taking radiographs using phantom heads. Teaching will be delivered in the clinical skills laboratory but there will also be seminars and small group discussions and problem based critical reasoning sessions. Students will have the opportunity to observe current UK dental practice via clinics in Oral Medicine, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Periodontology, Paediatrics, Orthodontics, Sedation and General Anaesthesia. Topics covered will include: Infection control; Patient examination; Diagnostic tools and techniques and their interpretation; anesthesiology and sedation techniques, basic life support (BLS); Accurate measurement of periodontal indices according to current deadlines

Applied Statistics

Paediatric Trauma and Limb Reconstruction

This is a optional module that will focus on the pathophysiology and spectrum of paediatric orthopaedic injuries, along with the assessment and structured approach to limb deformities in both adults and children. The module will provide students with a deep knowledge of the evidence and controversy around common paediatric fractures and the fundamental basic science behind growing bones and injuries to them. It will also give students a structured approach to quantifying post-traumatic limb deformity and then analysing how that can be corrected using an array of powerful implant choices. There will also be an opportunity for practical application of all these skills.

Environmental Change: Economics and Policy

The module introduces to the phenomenon of environmental degradation with an emphasis on economic analysis, albeit taught in a non-technical style. The course will provide students with the theoretical and empirical tools to understand the determinants and consequences of global environmental change. The course will analyze the policy tools available to policymakers to tackle environmental degradation and climate change. The course will then discuss the effects of environmental policy on businesses and the barriers to environmental policy implementation with a focus on developing countries and an emphasis on political economy factors such as corruption. Finally the course will analyze the implications of global environmental change in developing countries focusing on prominent phenomena such as migration and conflict. The module will also teach how to empirically assess environmental policy using STATA (an econometrics software).

Antimicrobials in the Laboratory and in Clinical Practice

This module will provide the trainee with detailed knowledge and understanding of the structure, function, mode of action and resistance mechanisms of antimicrobial agents. They will gain knowledge and experience of the use and monitoring of antimicrobial therapy and the impact on patient management in a variety of clinical settings.

Postcolonial Studies Today

Why, after having such a massive impact on the study of literature, is postcolonial studies now thought by some to be obsolete? This module will consider multiple explanations for the so-called crisis in postcolonial studies today. We will examine the views of scholars who have taken the field to task for its restricted canon and capitulation to the global marketplace (Lazarus, Huggan, Brouillette). In addition, we will study alternative models such as "world literature" and environmental studies (Moretti, Nixon). Are these approaches more suited to address the economic, cultural and ecological disparities thrown up by globalisation? We will meditate these questions with the help of a range of postcolonial literary works by Amitav Ghosh, Derek Wacott, Mahasweta Devi and J.M. Coetzee, among others.

Latin America in the Modern World

This module will examine the historical and contemporary place of Latin America in the world system through issues of political economy, cultural identity and international relations. The module will explore dependency, modernization and marxist theories, the legacy of European empires, and the independence movements of the 19th century. It will then consider the more contemporary phenomena of a contested Pan-Americanism, exceptionalist theses for Cuba and Brazil, the evolving role of indigenous American societies and that of Latinos in the USA. The module will conclude with appraisal of the regional experience of neo-liberalism and the reactions to it on continental and international planes.

Physiology for Medical Engineers

This module will provide an understanding of the aspects of medical physiology relevant to a wide range of medical engineering related students. In will include the basic principles of physiological feedback and measurement with consideration of excitable tissues, membrane transport and ionic equilibria. The module will cover the structure, function, and monitoring of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, in addition to renal function, nerve function, bone physiology and intestinal function and control.

Encountering the City: Historical Enquiry in Action

This core module provides students with an overview of the history of the cities of Paris and London from earliest times to the present day while developing acquaintance and understanding of key critical paradigms in social, political and cultural history. Including core readings, but also field visits and research on the cities' streets, squares, bridges and monuments, and an intensive study trip to London, it will help students develop a sense of the "shape" of urban history and discover that moving around the city offers multiple opportunities for historical enquiry in action.

End Point Assessment

Clinical Microbiology: Diagnosis and Management of Human Infectious Disease

Throughout this module, students will study microbial infections of humans. The clinical presentation, laboratory diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy and infection control issues of the microbial infections are explored both theoretically and practically. The infections are studied by organ system e.g. respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract and also by looking at specialist patient groups e.g. the immune-compromised, paediatrics. Students also study the surveillance, legislation and methods of control of hospital acquired infection.

Cartels, Collusion and Competition Law

The Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission states that a cartel is a group of similar, independent companies which join together to fix prices, to limit production or to share markets or customers between them. Instead of competing with each other, cartel members rely on each others' agreed course of action, which reduces their incentives to provide new or better products and services at competitive prices. As a consequence, their clients (consumers or other businesses) end up paying more for less quality. This is why cartels are illegal under the competition legislations of a vast number of jurisdictions and why competition authorities impose heavy fines on companies involved in a cartel. Since cartels are illegal, they are generally highly secretive and evidence of their existence is not easy to find. The 'leniency policy' encourages companies to hand over inside evidence of cartels to competition authorities. This results in the cartel being destabilised. In recent years, most cartels have been detected by competition authorities around the world after one cartel member confessed and asked for leniency, though the authorities also successfully continue to carry out its own investigations to detect cartels.

Quantitative Methods in Finance

This module provides an introduction to applied econometrics used to analyse financial problems. The material is presented through detailed examples with associated data and software, and hence should prove useful and interesting to students whether or not they have some prior exposure to econometrics. Basic statistical tools needed for understanding and using financial models are introduced and explained.

Paris on the Screen

This module uses Paris as an example of a city that has a particular relationship to filmmaking, both in terms of representation and in terms of its status as a centre of innovative practices in design. It will look at examples of how Paris has been represented by French filmmakers, by emigrés working in France, and by the international film community. Students will gain insight into a range of design methodologies and production practices that underlie visual expression, particularly as they relate to depictions of urban space.

Introduction to Film Archives

This module will focus on the documentation of the film production process, to challenge students' perceptions about film-making, the film industry and the finished product on the screen. It will provide a corollary both to practical film-making modules, and to the theory and critical analysis of film, as well as introducing students to the principles of archiving as part of the film production process.

Clinical Chemistry, Gut and Metabolism

Exilic Writing and the Making of World Literature

"This module introduces students to exile as one of the foundational discourses of modernity that interrogates memory, identity, and language. Today's notion of world literature is inseparable from a transnational and cosmopolitan perspective, which is intimately - and in a characteristically contradictory manner - linked to exilic experiences and the practice of exilic writing. In this course, we will analyse artifacts (literature, but also some paintings, two texts which fall in the genre of "philosophy of history", a play, and a film) by European, Indian, Japanese, and American authors in order to begin to think about how exile and exilic writing have been inscribed in the very notion of world literature with which we work today."

Application of Genomics in Infectious Disease

Risk Management for Banking

The module is designed to give an insight into the risk management process and how capital is allocated. We identify the main sources of risk experienced by financial institutions such as credit, market, liquidity, and operational risks. Methods for quantifying and managing risk are explored in detail with an emphasis on understanding factors affecting Value at Risk (VAR) calculations. Finally, we see how reporting standards, regulation and innovation have transformed the way financial institutions operate and what can we learn from recent risk management failures.

Machine Learning

Consolidated Clinical Skill and Science in Prosthodontics

This module covers all aspects of prosthodontics to a specialist level and consolidates advanced clinical skills. It will cover integrated knowledge obtained from the previous two years and its application to clinical practice. This module will also cover aspects of prosthodontic care in relation to other dental and medical specialties and provide clinical training on basic and multidisciplinary approaches on diagnosis and treatment planning for adults needing comprehensive oral rehabilitation.

Advanced Clinical Skill and Science and in Prosthodontics

This core module will consolidate the basic knowledge acquired in previous modules and introduce students to the more indepth aspects of Prosthodontics and the knowledge required to manage cases needing more complex intervention such as those requiring treatment with or for dental implants, cleft palate, oral cancer or hypodontia. This module also enhances the student's ability to examine the patient, in diagnosis of presenting condition, and to formulate an appropriate treatment plan. This module will cover aspects of advanced knowledge in Prosthodontics and advanced clinical skills that form part of specialist training in Prosthodontics.

Research Project in Regenerative Medicine

Students will carry out an intensive 12-week research project selected from a wide range of topics in regenerative medicine. Examples include research on the cellular and molecular aspects of tissue regeneration, disease pathogenesis, development of stem cell therapies, design of novel nano-biotechnologies, or engineering biomaterials and tissue scaffolds. In addition to technical experience, the research project will include training in experimental design, effective collaboration, data analysis, and presentation skills.

Dissertation (Paris)

Dissertation

1. Student will be required to complete a 10,000 word Master's level dissertation in an appropriate research area. 2. This will be an independent piece of research, requiring the student to conceive, plan and execute an appropriate piece of research based on academic foundations, application of relevant theory and methodology and critical analysis of findings. 3. Student will also be required to present the dissertation

Site Specific Tumour Treatment

This module will provide you with an understanding of the basic principles and management of the major types of cancer, including: Diagnosis and staging; Treatment; Prognosis; Late effects of treatment

Pathology of Cancer

This module will provide an understanding of cellular and clinical aspects of cancer pathology, focusing mainly on the histological features of neoplastic processes in common tumours. By the end of the module you will have a good understanding of: - Normal tissue histology - Tumour histology - Effects of tumours on normal pathology.

Advanced Clinical Skill and Science and in Paediatric Dentistry

This core module will consolidate the basic knowledge acquired in previous modules and introduce students to the more indepth aspects of Paediatric Dentistry and the knowledge required to manage diseases not directly related to dental caries and periodontal diseases. This module also enhances the student's ability to examine the patient, in diagnosis of presenting condition, and to formulate an appropriate treatment plan. This module will cover aspects of advanced knowledge in paediatric dentistry including genetics, abnormalies, and advanced clinical skills that form part of specialist training in paediatric dentistry.

Professional Skills for Chemists

Experimental Methods in High Energy Physics

The module will cover the interaction of particles with matter, detector technologies and their application to modern particle physics experiments. Techniques of triggering and data acquisition as well as offline particle identification will be discussed in detail. In addition there will be a critical evaluation of detector design considerations, as well as efficiency, resolution and calibration methods. In each case examples of actual detectors will be used. The use of a variety of analysis methods will be introduced including the use and role of monte carlo simulation, to understand detector response for optimum performance.

Optimisation for Business Processes

This module will present the basics of optimisation techniques employed in business. It will be based around exercises and realistic business case studies. The topics to be covered are multiple variables, optimisation with constraints, linear programming, convex optimisation and the review of one variable case.

Energy Conversion Analysis

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.

Fundamentals of Drug Discovery and Drug Development

To provide an overview of the main components of the translational process, from drug targets to clinical trials

Computer Aided Engineering for Solids and Fluids

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.

International Arbitration Law and Practice: Theory and Context

The growth of international commercial transactions, including infrastructure and investment projects, financial and IP transactions, has been accompanied over the last four decades by the increasing use of arbitration to settle disputes. Arbitration is now established as the preferred method of international dispute resolution as it provides for the neutrality and flexibility commercial parties seek. In the last ten years more than 5,000 arbitration cases have been recorded annually in London alone. This module examines the fundamental theoretical concepts and legal framework for international commercial arbitration. The teaching approach taken for this module is international and comparative, drawing on the laws of all major legal systems (including England, France, Switzerland, the USA, Model Law Countries, Singapore, China and Hong Kong) as well as the most important institutional and ad hoc arbitration rules (including the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, the UNCITRAL Rules, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre). Particular focus is also given to the 1958 United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention) which has a central importance in international commercial arbitration.

Introduction and Common Dermatological Problems

Inflammatory and Papulosquamous Disorders

Film Philosophy

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.

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Genome Engineering

This module introduces the students to the different types of pluripotent stem cells which are used for research and in therapeutics. The emphasis will be on induced pluripotent stem cells, where the focus will be on generation, verification, and applications of these cells. Additionally, techniques that are used for genome engineering will be covered which will be integrated in applications of induced pluripotent stem cells.

Migration and Mobilities

This module explores theoretical, empirical and policy dimensions of patterns and processes of migration and mobilities in a global context and consciously across the global North/global South 'divide' from a scalar, relational and networked perspective. Although the focus will be on the nature and dynamics of contemporary movement of people, the module will also incorporate an analysis of the movement of information, goods and capital as framed within the 'new mobilities paradigm'. Theoretically, the module analyses the key framings of contemporary migration in relation to transnationalism, diaspora and post-national citizenship. In turn, it will interrogate the nature and links between transnationalism, multiculturalism and/or integration; the migration-development nexus; the politics of irregularity and 'illegality'; the relationships between the emergence of global cities and a migrant division of labour; the nature of global gendered mobilities and power and mobility as well as the interrelations between conflict, violence and mobility.

Topics in Physical Chemistry

This module will explore the theory of ionic solutions, the behaviour of molecules at interfaces and the properties of interfaces and the kinetics of adsorption of gases. Experimental methods for the investigation and characterisation of such systems will be discussed. Classical thermodynamics of open systems and interfaces will be corroborated by the statistical interpretation of thermodynamic functions. Further topics include the conductivity and electrochemistry of ionic solutions, molecular adsorption at interfaces and self-assembly, as well as experimental techniques for nanoscale investigations, e.g. atomic force microscopy and scanning tunnelling microscopy.

Public Financial Management and Accounting

This module provides understanding of the financial development and trajectory of central government finances in the advanced economies. The first half of this module will introduce students to the challenges facing governments in the advanced economies, and in particular, that of sustaining deficit financing. How have the components of central government revenues changed over time relative to expenditures in GDP and the nature of accumulated sovereign debt (roll-over timings and repayments schedule)? Students will examine the political context of public budgeting. We shall explore how the policy shift towards macro-prudential management of these economies has impacted not only on monetary policy, but also on public spending and cutback management, nationally and at regional and local levels of government. The module examines the link between changing budgetary politics and pressure to develop innovative financial vehicles, as well as exploring some of the medium-term financial risks to which these innovations can unintendedly give rise. The second half of this module will focus on the importance for public management of reforms in accounting systems which require a shift toward resource-based and accrual-based accounting. We examine the impact on managers' accountability for public expenditure of the convergence of public sector with corporate international financial reporting standards (IFRS) and role of resource-based auditing . What are some of the implications of adoption "corporate" financial accounting and performance key financial and non-financial KPIs? We examine public-private partnerships such as the UK's Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs) for financing public sector capital projects, and issues of risk transfer and cost-effectiveness. We will consider changes financial practices and reporting in sub-national public agencies (local authorities, health care, policing, etc), the possibilities in some countries for bond-financing for sub-national agencies, and their implications on their financial stability and organisational dynamics.

Core Knowledge and Clinical skills in Paediatric Dentistry

Financial Reporting

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 selected issues on the reported numbers e.g. the reporting of intangible assets; and the treatment of share options used to reward management. The module takes a global perspective and refers largely to the regulatory regime of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).

Corporate Governance

This module examines the role and duties of corporate managers, goals of corporate activities, and interests in which corporations should run through debates by introducing students to key topics in corporate governance theory. Research and practice enables them to criticise relevant academic literature to develop the ability to suggest potential areas for development. Developments in early 21st century European corporate governance, corporate governance theory, regulatory frameworks, share/stakeholders, family-owned firms, institutional investors, socially responsible investments, and board of directors are explored.

Cyber Crime

Computers have made it possible for people to commit old crimes in new ways as well as new crimes such as hacking, the dissemination of computer viruses and other misuses of computers and networks. This module examines how the criminal law has had to adapt to both scenarios as well as the evidentiary and cross-border challenges that these present to law enforcement. The primary focus will be on UK law but the module will address the international response to such issues, as well as such jurisdictions as the US and Canada.

Brain and Spinal Cord Injury

This module will cover the pathophysiology of Brain and Spinal Cord injury. The course teaches student to critically evaluate the principles of diagnosis and treatment for patients with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries. The material covered will include description of specific type of injuries. Students will discuss cases involving different clinical scenarios. Once completed the students will be able to describe the mechanisms and dysfunction inherent to traumatic brain injury and to outline the key elements of their management. Particular reference is given to the recent scientific literature.

Burn and Wound Healing

The module will be offered as an elective module for the MSc in Trauma Science and will deepen and broaden the knowledge on patients with burns injuries. It will allow students to develop a more critical and evaluative approach to the care of burns patients, through a complete overview of assessment, stabilization and management in respect to the most recent literature. There are also sections on electrical and chemical burns.

Haemorrhage and Response to Injury

Neurogastroenterology: Advanced Functional Gastro-Intestinal Diseases

This is an advanced course in the field of neurogastroenterology including the application of basic science and research to the problems seen in the clinics. Part of the module includes teaching and experience of complex diagnostic techniques within a GI physiology unit, such as oesophageal and small bowel manometry, high-resolution manometry, impedance, nuclear medicine techniques etc.

Advanced Management Accounting

This course examines the role played by management accounting information in organisational control and decision making to develop a critical understanding of the management accounting roles in organisations. Contemporary issues in management accounting (e.g. total quality management/accounting systems; Customer profitability analysis/customer accounting; Responsibility accounting, financial performance measures, transfer prices, Measuring non-financial performance and the balanced scorecard) are analysed. Perspectives of accounting management control are explained. Contemporary approaches of management control theories related to current global practices of management accounting are contrasted.

Project Management

The module will focus on project management techniques, methodologies, theories appropriate to projects that deliver complex outcomes in a context of high uncertainty on the desired result. The module will also provide team and teaming management principles and practices needed to obtain the desired project management results within time, budget and quality. Students will be encouraged to take advantage of opportunities to earn an accreditation for project management and the course will prepare students for this additional examination.

Evidence-based Human Resource Management

This module focuses on a practical project to provide participants with a hands-on experience of using different types of evidence and information to identify real HRM problems and their potential solutions. Evidence-based practice approaches consider a broad range of sources of information and crucially develop skills around critical appraisal in order to judge the trustworthiness of information. The learner develops skills related to collecting relevant information of different types (including scientific evidence, organisational data, professional expertise and stakeholder perspectives and values).

The Global Economy

This module is concerned with economic interactions among nations and addresses some of the major issues affecting the world economy today. The first part of the module covers such topics as: main theories of international trade, economies of scale, national competitiveness issues, and trade policy. It addresses such issues as the effects of trade on income distribution, the debate about import substitution and protectionism, and approaches to trade policy. The second part covers topics in international macroeconomics and finance.

Neurocritical Care and Trauma Management

In this module, the students will learn about approach to the early care of the multiply injured patient, including haemodynamic resuscitation, management of severe chest, abdominal pelvic and long bone injuries. The module will then focus on anatomy and physiology of the central nervous system and the effect of diseases and injury on it. The students will learn about management of traumatic brain and spinal cord injury as well as cerebrovascular events, CNS infections, and other neurological conditions resulting in admission to critical care.

Cloud Computing

Decision-making, Communication and Ethics

The module will cover clinical outcomes and quality of life following critical illness, psychological effects of critical illness, costs and resource utilization, scoring systems in critical care, and the practice of critical care and the law (UK). Module will also focus on decision making around withholding/withdrawing life sustaining treatment, end of life care, brain stem death, and organ donation. Students will learn the science of decision making, as well as communication skills with colleagues, patients and relatives, and breaking bad news.

Designs & Copyright Law (IPReg D&C)

Trade Mark Law A (IPReg TMs Part A)

This module offers an overview of the main trade mark principles established under international, EU and UK law. The main focus is on UK trade marks. Authorities from other jurisdictions will be used, where relevant, as a means of comparison to afford a cohesive basic knowledge of the subject area.

Pathophysiological Basis of Critical Illness

In this module, the students will learn about normal cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, liver, haematological and immune physiology and function. This is followed by pathophysiological processes in these system that result from critical illness. Students will learn about body's response to common insults such as infection, trauma and surgery and how the immune system and cellular processes manage this in an adaptive and at times maladaptive ways. The concepts of shock, cellular dysoxia and genetic factors will also be discussed.

Dissertation - International Primary Health Care

This core module on the MSc International Primary Health Care offers students the opportunity to pursue an area of interest in depth relating to international primary health care and produce a critical and scholarly study. Students will either select a project from a range on offer, mostly from supervisors in the Centre for Public Health and Primary Care, or (in discussion with their academic adviser and a potential supervisor) devise and focus their own small project. The advanced analytic and writing skills required for this module will be supported by a series of seminars covering literature searching, critical evaluation of evidence, organising and managing a major piece of academic work, and presentation and writing skills. Students will acquire skills in developing, planning, organising, and focusing a project as they work on a one to one basis with their supervisor. They will also acquire skills in searching, critically appraising, summarising and synthesising the literature.

EU Competition Law

The Module EU Competition Law (along with the co-requisite Module EU Competition Law and Practice) aims at a comprehensive study of the basic provisions of European Union (EU) competition law. The Module will provide participants with a flavour of the economic and market context in which EU competition law, especially Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) is applied. The Module will aim to consider an important business phenomenon in the market namely anti-competitive agreements. It is hoped that by the end of the Module participants will gain a solid understanding of the relevant competition rules of the EU whilst developing a good business and market perspective and practical approach in order to help them identify situations in which such phenomenon may arise and how should this phenomenon be addressed. EU competition law is based on the rules contained in Articles 101-109 of the Treaty on The Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and upon subsequent secondary legislation. The focus of the Module will be however on Articles 101 TFEU; as well as a number of block exemption Regulations, notably those dealing with: Vertical Restraints; Technology Transfer; and Horizontal Research and Development and Specialisation Agreements. The Module will however consider where relevant and appropriate other provisions of EU competition law, especially Article 102 TFEU. EU competition rules are applied by the Directorate General (DG COMPETITION (COMP)) of the European Commission, the Directorate in charge of competition matters; there is also shared competence with designated national competition authorities (NCAs) in relation to the application of Articles 101 (and 102) TFEU. Decisions of the Commission are the principal means of enforcement in competition cases. The Commission¿s decisions are subject to review by the General Court of the EU (GCEU) (formerly the Court of First Instance (CFI)) and the Court of Justice of the EU/European Court of Justice (CJEU/ECJ). This has created an extensive case-law in competition law matters and reference will be made to this case law. In addition to considering substantive issues, the Module will also deal with relevant procedural mechanisms, such as cartel leniency and settlement mechanism.

Law and Finance in Practice

This course introduces concepts in Finance and the Financial Law at a level that is appropriate for students with various backgrounds. The course walks the students through the life cycle of a firm: from a startup raising funds to winding down and selling assets. The course focuses on the legal and financial issues that arise when a company raises funds, grows, merges or winds down. The course applies Financial Theory and Financial Law to different situations. The course uses case studies for the students to simulate how lawyers and consultants combine legal and financial analyses.

Online Trademarks

This module focuses trademark infringement on the internet and in particular the conflict between trademarks and domain names and the use of trademarks in the metatags of websites and the use of trademarks in keyword advertising (search engines, online marketplaces). This involves an overview of trademark law from a comparative perspective (English, EU, French, German and US Federal trademark law). The module assesses the function and role of trademarks and compares this to the use on the internet. It evaluates the different types of consumer confusion on the internet and their legal assessment. It examines the role of internet service providers such as search engines, marketplaces, advertisers and how they relate to the trademark use. The module assesses primary and secondary liability in the trademark context and the various immunities granted to internet intermediaries. The module examines the relevant jurisprudence before the English, French, German, US Courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Competition Policy and Regulations

This course aims to familiarise students with the key motivations that underpin market interventions by regulatory and competition authorities, the economic analysis that is used to inform the need for intervention, and the considerations (grounded in IO theory) that these authorities must make to ensure that their remedies to the problems of market failure are welfare enhancing. This course is delivered by Frontier Economics, one of Europe's largest economics consultancies, and so also gives students an introduction to the world of economic consulting. Students who attend this module are also eligible to apply for one of the summer internships offered by Frontier for QMUL students.

Law and Ethics in Business and Finance

The module provides students with a broad understanding of the importance of conducting business activities (both financial and non-financial) with fairness and integrity and how this is reflected in EU and UK law and supervisory powers. By making reference to real case studies, the module investigates the legal framework pertaining to bribes, market manipulation, and other malpractices and critically analyses its effectiveness taking also into account the deterrence effect, or lack thereof, of the sanctioning and prosecution regime. It then covers corporate social responsibility and sustainable/responsible investment to analyse if and how this can nudge change. The module will also touch upon the efficacy of the organizational requirements companies are obliged to have in place to prevent unethical conduct from happening and/or spreading.

Sovereign Debt Restructuring

The module covers the various procedures available in financial distress scenarios aiming at restoring viability and overcoming the excessive burden of debt. The module will address these issues from the perspective of sovereign states. The course will have a transactional focus with actual case studies and will also analyse general principles of international financing techniques.

Cutaneous Physiology, Healing Scarring and Ageing

Non-Invasive Techniques

Legal Aspects of Paperless Trade

The module will examine the legal implications of forming and performing international sale contracts using electronic records and communications in place of paper. While the formation of such contracts using electronic means is supported by a maturing legal framework, the law relating to the use of documents used regularly in the performance of such contracts, including transport document such as bills of lading and sea waybills, as well as insurance policies and certificates, is still firmly anchored to the paper world. Thus, eliminating paper is not as simple or straightforward as it might at first seem and this course will address attendant legal issues and implications in depth. The module will also examine in detail common financial arrangements entered into by international traders for the purpose of the buying and selling of goods across borders.

Principles of Accounting

This module aims to introduce students to the fundamentals of accounting and financial reporting: the conceptual and regulatory framework of accounting; and the interpretation of financial statements.

Securities Regulation

This module examines the law and regulation of conduct of business/market conduct aspects of financial intermediation seeing from the angle of investor protection in primary and secondary capital markets. It covers a wide range of issues including the reform of the regulation of financial intermediation in the aftermath of the 2008 credit crisis, mandatory disclosure and transparency requirements for securities trading, conduct of business rules, financial mis-selling, market abuse, the regulation of credit rating agencies, hedge funds regulation, and the regulation of financial resilience. The module covers policy issues, statutory materials and case law. UK regulation is examined within the context of EU law and regulation. Where appropriate specific themes are discussed with reference to international harmonization initiatives and/or comparative analysis with parallel developments in the US. The module also places emphasis on the practical problems, which arise in capital markets and consider ways in which these may be addressed in the future.

Common Law Reasoning

This course is an advanced introduction to common law reasoning. We will examine key issues and debates over the character of common law reasoning, including: is the common law a system of rules? What is the binding content of precedent? What is the place of policies in common law reasoning? What is analogy and how important is it to common law reasoning? And, how is common law reasoning affected by transnational and global forms of legal reasoning?

Critical Jurisprudence

This module introduces students to a broad range of theoretical critiques of conventional (doctrinal) legal scholarship. The course begins with liberal political theory (Aristotle, Locke and Hobbes). It then considers more specific liberal critiques of law (Economic analysis, Rule of Law critique, and Mill¿s harm principle). The last section of the course looks at Foucault, Feminist legal theory, and Critical Legal Theory.

Sociological Jurisprudence

This module focuses principally on sociological approaches to law, but with the aim of contrasting philosophical and sociological approaches to legal study, it begins by considering the dominant conceptual approaches to studying law, taking the 20th century examples of Hart and Kelsen. It then moves the focus from theories of law as such, to theories which engage with law from an understanding of modern society. The works of Durkheim, Weber, and Luhmann will be considered with a view to appreciating what they can tell us about the nature of law within modern society. The third section of the course will examine the relevance of sociological approaches to the legal practice, transnational law, and legal reform.

General Principles of Insurance Law

This module provides students with an overview of the general principles of law involved in the formation of the insurance contract, the terms of policies and the claims process, as well as the role of brokers and the conduct of business at Lloyd's of London. Insurance is fundamental to a modern economy, allowing businesses and individuals to transfer the risk of loss, thereby facilitating investment and protecting wealth, and London is a world centre of the insurance industry. Students require no prior knowledge of insurance or English law. They will learn all they need to know as the module progresses.

EU Data Protection Law

This module examines EU data protection laws and examples of the regulatory frameworks established in the Member States. It explores the key debates surrounding and commercial and other implications under the new regime of the General Data Protection Regulation, the Policing and Criminal Justice Data and the E Privacy framework, including the challenges of particular developments, such as telecommunications, cloud computing and the Internet of Things.

Cyberspace: Jurisdiction and Dispute Resolution

The module analyses the concept and theories of jurisdiction under International Law (Public International Law), from the perspective of international criminal law, especially in the context of transnational crimes such as cybercrime, from the perspective of regulation (eg data protection and transborder data flows; online gambling; online content regulation) and from the perspective of private international law/conflicts of law (jurisdiction and applicable law in civil and commercial disputes such as contract, torts generally, defamation & privacy infringements, IP infringements). It therefore takes a novel approach by looking both at private law and public law- but this approach is necessary as internet communications are not restricted to private law and private international law.

Health Data in Practice

The module provides an introduction to health data in practice with a focus on health care delivery challenges and patient and population health outcomes from an interdisciplinary perspective. It will provide students with a grounding in legal and ethical frameworks governing health data access and use, and the role of patient, health professional and public engagement for delivering the full potential of health data sciences for public benefit.

Leading Organisational Change

This module will investigate and discuss leading change in organisations from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Marrying theory and practice will allow students to critically reflect on organisational change processes through both a scientific and practical lens and to apply their knowledge directly to real world cases and practices. Understanding different perspectives, practices and challenges of leading change will also contribute to students' employability and their personal development. More specifically, how they can become both an effective and a responsible future contributor to organisational change.

Risk and Crisis Management

This qualitative module introduces students to distinctive features of risk and crisis management. Concepts of probability, severity, uncertainty, anticipation, resilience, robustness and bias are explored. We examine varieties of biased risk perception among managers and regulators, assumptions underpinning assessment, mitigation and prevention of and risk. We concentrate on operational risk, external shocks, risk to customers and clients, and political risks. Regulatory requirements for corporate risk management are examined. Finally, we consider decision-making, public relations and regulatory relations during corporate crises.

Advanced Readings

This module offers the opportunity to develop advanced knowledge of an area of research through self-directed reading. In order to take this module, students must identify an area of interest that can be supervised by a member of the teaching team. The module is assessed by a 4000-5000 word paper that demonstrates advanced engagement with their chosen field of study. If supervision of the topic is agreed, students complete self-directed reading at an advanced level and discuss their readings and develop their paper at fortnightly supervision meetings. The structure of the report may vary according to the nature of the topic, and this is reflected in the word count range provided. Human Geography topics are expected to produce longer papers (up to 5000 words) while topics in Physical Geography and Environmental Science are likely to produce shorter papers (up to 4000 words) that may incorporate figures and data in certain circumstances.

Creative Public Engagement

Engaging with wide and diverse publics is a core concern of both academic institutions such as universities and cultural institutions such as museum and art galleries. This module addresses the ways these imperatives to reach wide audiences have developed in these two domains, the ideas which inform them and the strategies undertaken to meet them. It explores how these shared aims have led to collaborations between academics and cultural professionals, with a particular focus on exhibitions and related activities as a mode of collaborative and creative public engagement. The module examines these themes through a focus on the creative and collaborative work of geographers, but addresses the value and challenges of creative forms of academic public engagement and collaboration more widely.

Microeconomics A

Microeconomic Theory provides the basic conceptual tools of economic analysis. In Microeconomics A, we will cover the standard economic models of individual decision making, models of consumer behaviour and producer behaviour under perfect competition, the ArrowDebreu general equilibrium model and the two fundamental welfare theorems. At the end of the course students should be able: to analyse decision making with and without uncertainty, derive individual and market demand curves and explain the concept of market equilibrium and its welfare properties.

EU Human Rights Law

"In this module, students study the legal mechanisms for protecting human rights within the legal order of the European Union. We will start off with basic misconceptions found in media regarding the EU and the ECHR and discuss the historical origins of EU fundamental rights. Subsequently, we will discuss what 'Brexit' means for EU fundamental rights as well as the structure, nature, and legal effects of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the enforcement of these rights, both before the courts of the EU and the Member States. The last part of this module will focus on the most controversial and complex issues of EU fundamental rights, namely their relationship with international law and the EU's planned accession to the ECHR. Problem questions will be solved by utilising CJEU case law and discussing academic articles in this field."

Climate Change Law

Climate Change Law and Policy Application focuses on specific aspects of international, regional and national law in relation to climate change: Human Rights, international and national litigation, state responsibility, non-state actors and participation, capacity building and trade and climate change. There is also an overview of the core principles of the UNFCCC regime , including the Paris agreement and principles of international environmental law applicable to climate change, both of which are examined in depth in Climate Change Law.

Dental Hard Tissues and their Microenvironment

Mechanisms and underlying principles and of the diseases of dental hard tissue loss, including calcium phosphate chemistry, chemical interaction with acids, and protective role of salivary proteins How an understanding of these processes can contribute to the treatment, restoration, and ultimately prevention of these diseases.

The Basis of Gastro-Intestinal Disease

This module provides an introduction to the basic science of gastroenterology. It covers the anatomy, embryology, histology, immunology, physiology (pharmacology and neuroscience), cell biology and genetics of gut function. In addition, lectures focus on research methodologies allowing students to appraise the evidence base underpinning the taught content. Important study skills such as drafting an essay, critical appraisal and referencing, are also covered allowing the students to write an essay or other long documents, with referencing (for examples using endnote).

Topics in Microeconomics B

This module consists of applied microeconomic theory, which may be taught by different instructors. The module covers topics such as: contracts and incentives in organisations, auctions and matching markets, industrial organisation, and the economics of networks. In any particular year the topics covered are at the instructors' discretion.

Mining and Natural Resources Law

This module covers the legal aspects of the mining industry. Mining companies also have to be aware of political considerations and the impact of the nationalisation cycle. The different stages of the mining industry will be reviewed from development, production and remediation at the closure of the mine. Each phase requires certain licences and permits to proceed to the next stage. Some of the newer innovations of underwater mining will be looked at and the impact of the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Of particular interest, is the work of the International Seabed Authority and the regulations and recommendations it is making on prospecting in the sea. Environmental considerations and corporate social responsibility standards will also be discussed. Finally, there will be a review of mining disputes, how they are resolved and their impact on the mining sector and the contracts negotiated.

Dissertation 12,000 Words

The dissertation should include: a) a set of research aims clearly relating the dissertation and its aims to the relevant field of enquiry, b) a review and synthesis of previous studies and of the relevant theoretical, epistemological and methodological literature relating to the dissertation's field of enquiry and an examination of the place of such studies within the field of human geography; c) an examination of the study's research question(s) by means of analysis of new empirical material and/or original analysis of existing non-academic sources; and d) a full and critical discussion of methodology, research design and implementation.

The Physics of Galaxies

Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine

Iconic Photographs of Political Violence and the Cinema

This module explores how iconic photographs and film footage are reproduced, reenacted, and re-appropriated on film and in post-cinematic media. A case study focusing on a specific iconic image - for example, World War II, the Holocaust, the Vietnam war, 9/11 ¿ will be selected each year and will form the basis for exploration of how iconic images shape senses of the past. Students will work in groups to produce `web essays¿ (combining photographs, film and text) that contextualize specific iconic images in relation to their critical literature.

Private International & European Air Transport Law

Who is liable if a flight is cancelled? Are air passengers compensated if their flight is delayed? Do air passengers need to take special insurance against loss or damage to their baggage? Can pilots deviate from the instructions given by air traffic controllers? How do airlines pay for their glamorous, but also costly aircraft? Is it legal to fly a drone? This module will set out to explore the regime of domestic and international liability in aviation, namely the liability of air carriers towards passengers and shippers (Warsaw and Montreal Conventions), as well as for surface damage (Rome Convention), the liability of air traffic controllers, airports, aircraft manufacturers and government bodies; the regime governing aircraft financing and aircraft nationality (Geneva and Cape Town Conventions); EU consumer protection law (Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 on compensation for denied boarding, cancellation and delay of flights and relevant jurisprudence), and last, the nascent law on unmanned aircraft systems (drones).

Maritime Conflict of Laws

International maritime disputes often raise the issue of conflict of laws. A common scenario would be where a ship is owned by a Greek owner, the ship's flag is Panamanian, the ship is carrying cargo loaded in China for discharge in Chile, the ship is involved in a collision in Singapore waters, the ship's liability insurers are English and her cargo insurers are French. Which court will have jurisdiction to determine any contractual disputes arising? Which law will apply? Will any resulting judgment be enforceable?

Reading Images: Painting, Photography, Film

The module offers a study of pictorial, photographic and cinematic images, focusing mainly on modernist and postmodernist works of the 20th century. It will be both theoretical, exploring the work of theorists of the visual image; and critical, applying a range of critical approaches (including semiotic, psychoanalytical, feminist, postcolonial) to the analysis of groups of images. Each session explores a specific critical approach, based on a theoretical text and the close analysis of a (group of) image(s). While the specificity of each medium will be constantly kept in mind, the aim is to propose readings which can be applied to different media, as well as plural readings of a single visual text. The module thus combines the practical objective of the acquisition of precise critical tools to read a photographic image, a film sequence or an abstract painting, and the more ambitious intellectual objective of a theorization of (post)modernism.

Multilingualism and Bilingualism

Advanced Technical Practice

This module involves advanced laboratory Technical practice in order to produce a complex dental prosthesis for case submission. Students will tackle a multitude of Technical exercises in order to achieve this and will receive one to one teaching where necessary.

Compliance Systems in Practice

This module seeks to give students a thorough grounding in the essentials of regulatory and compliance environment. To prepare students for issues likely to arise in the application of regulatory framework in various economic and business environments . No previous knowledge of the subject is required. In addition, the module does not require prior knowledge of regulatory framework . The module takes a very practical approach with a number of case studies and always with an eye to the real world implications. Guest lecturers will provide their practical experience and the challenges they face.

Law and Practice of the Unified Patent Court

The establishment of a Unified Patent Court is the most significant change to patent law and practice in Europe since the early 1970s. The module will provide advanced knowledge of EU Regulation 1257/2012 on the creation of unitary patent protection, detailed knowledge of the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court, and advanced knowledge of procedures, litigation and practice before the Unified Patent Court.

Intellectual Property in Biotechnology, Food and Agriculture

The module covers the wider ramifications of IP in relation to the life sciences globally: (a) the need to examine the relationship between IP statutory limitations and freedom of contract; and (b) the relationship of IP law with regard to the exploitation of traditional knowledge and the ethical ramifications of global IP and its exploitation with the fields of Biotechnology, food and agriculture nationally, regionally and globally. This module is therefore intended for intellectual property professionals involved in the commercialization of IP, including patent and licensing its potential interactions with reference to UK, EU and international IP law. The course will introduce students to international IP law and will predominantly cover the protection of registered rights in the global stage predominantly for patents, but will also examine other important areas within IP. The course will provide students with a basic understanding of the fundamental structures and principles applying in the specific field of life sciences. It will also enhance the general perception of IP rights from a comparative perspective, and emphasis is placed therefore on those rules and principles that deviate from the law nationally, regionally and globally. Please note that there will not be weekly lectures but that the course will be running as an intensive course over a period of two weeks

Renewable Energy Sources

Sociophonetics

In this module students will discover phonetic methodology which can be used to investigate sociolinguistic variation and change. Through training in the phonetic and phonemic transcription of various languages and their varieties, as well as in the acoustic analysis of speech phenomena, students will learn to objectively measure and quantify phonetic variation and change. Both segmental and prosodic analyses of speech will be examined. For example, students will conduct acoustic analyses into the acquisition of phonetic norms in a second language and how these impact a person's native language pronunciation. We will also reflect on socially significant pronunciation norms, as shared by groups of speakers, and discuss how and why such norms affect our understanding of what it means to speak "correctly" in English and other languages. The ultimate goal of this module is to equip students with an integrated understanding and set of methodological tools for phonetic studies into sociolinguistic variation and change.

Research Practicum

Students taking this module will work closely with a member of staff on a research project that is connected to the staff member's own research objectives and is related to the intended specialization of the student. Students will receive individualized training in the skills necessary to engage in this research, and regular supervision as they complete their project. Possible research projects include organizing and analyzing an existing data set with a view to publication of the results, designing materials for a future experiment, conducting critical literature reviews preparatory to the launch of a new line of research, collecting data from research participants, formulating new research protocols and research methods, synthesizing existing research results for presentation to non-academic audiences, etc. The skills and experience gained through this practicum will substantially enhance the preparedness of the student to pursue their own research goals.

Foundations of IT Law

This Module will provide practising lawyers with an introduction to the fundamental principles and concepts of computer and communications law. The students will learn to apply and critically analyse the legal principles in these fields and evaluate future developments. The Module provides an Introduction to Software Licensing Law, Key Elements of IT Contracts, Negotiation of IT Contracts, Outsourcing, Cloud Computing, the Law Relating to Social Media, IT Law in Corporate Transactions, Cybercrime and Computer Misuse, Data Protection & Privacy, Big Data, the Internet of Things, IT Regulation. The Content focuses on IT Transactions (contract, negotiation), E-commerce, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy and Internet Regulation, thus covering the main cornerstones of Computer & Communications Law thereby giving students a thematic overview before studying the various topics in greater depth (as they progress in the Certificate/Diploma/LLM). This Module will consist of a series of 12 lectures/seminars , supported by reading materials & self-study and online tasks and assessed by essays on the areas covered.

Environmental Pollution

The module introduces students to the sources, pathways and effects of a range of inorganic and organic pollutants in soils, sediments and aquatic environments. It will address current methods of pollution control, focusing on risk-based methods of pollution management and appropriate management strategies for different pollutant types. Developing a process-based understanding of contaminant cycles through the catchment-coast continuum, students will learn how to apply this to environmental management scenarios using case study material. The module includes a one-day site or field visit.

Comparative Employment Relations

This module explores comparative employment relations and can enable an understanding of the international global context, as well as in-depth study of particular countries and key contemporary issues such as fairness, pay determination, power and regulation. The module will examine key features of employment relations, including theoretical and conceptual approaches; the role and practices of key actors in the employment relationship; including international organisations, national governments, employers and their organisations and trade unions.

International and Comparative Law of Unfair Competition

"The module aims at providing the students with a thorough account of the main legal theories of unfair competition in various jurisdictions with a particular focus on US, EU, UK, French and German law in light of the binding European and international legal frameworks. Legal problems are approached from a comparative perspective. At the same time, emphasis is placed on the practical problems that arise in the context of disputes that involve claims of unfair competition."

OIder Population and Oral Health with Minimally Invasive Strategies

The population of older people in the developed world is increasing significantly and nowadays older population retain more of their teeth. This module will deal with the special knowledge, attitudes and clinical with technical skills in the provision of oral health care for older people. The module is 15 credits. There will be closely supervised clinical sessions throughout the programme in parallel to the seminars. 3 hour clinical exposure for 9 weeks = 27 hours 2 hour lecture/seminar every week over 9 weeks = 18 hours 1 hour revision seminar during the last week = 1 hour

Theories and Concepts in Public Policy

Dissertation

This module will allow students to undertake a dissertation project on a topic within the science and practice of trauma care. Each student will be able to chose a pertinent topic within the individuals' specialism and career aspirations. Students will be supervised and will receive guidance by their academic tutor (supervisor). Students will have to write a 10,000-20,000 words dissertation. The work shall discuss the most relevant aspects of the chosen topic and demonstrate the student's ability to select the most appropriate research methodology to conduct the chosen research. During this module, students (in coordination with a supervisor) will select a topic for advanced study; collect and analyze data to adequately address the chosen topic; and write a 10,000-20,000 word dissertation. Through the dissertation, students will synthesize various aspects of the knowledge they will have obtained through the degree and demonstrate their ability to conduct and present high quality original research.

Laparoscopic Skills

This module will introduce the learner to core laparoscopic surgical principles and hands on training with instruments to master their basic laparoscopic skills. The theory topics covered focus on the history of laparoscopy, setting up a laparoscopy stack and troubleshooting during laparoscopy. Students will learn how to use different laparoscopic scopes, cameras and instruments. Through practical exercises (peg/polo transfer & pattern cutting) students will learn to manipulate and use the tools effectively. This will provide the grounding for laparoscopic surgical training.

History, Fiction, Memory in French Cinema

This module will investigate the contribution of cinema to current debates about the interplay of history, fiction and memory. It will begin by examining the aesthetics of films that represent processes of remembrance and forgetting. This initial interrogation of how memory is mediated by the filmmaker will allow us to establish a critical and theoretical framework in which to conceptualise and explore the screen representation of memory. We shall then focus on questions of memory in relation to specific moments of national trauma, concentrating on fiction films and documentaries relating to episodes in recent French history (the Holocaust, the Occupation, Algeria). These will be considered in the context of recent historiographical material; our analysis of these films will focus on understanding what the French filmmaker's contribution has been to acts of commemoration and repression of national memory, as well as to the formation of ideas about the relationship between public events and personal memories.

Directed Study in Linguistics

EU Criminal Law

The module will examine the constitutional evolution and key legal issues underpinning EU Criminal Law as a distinct field of law. The module will examine all forms of governance of EU criminal law, including the harmonisation of substantive criminal law, judicial co-operation in criminal matters under mutual recognition (and in particular the operation of the European Arrest Warrant), harmonisation of criminal procedure and the rights of the defendant, the evolution and powers of EU criminal justice agencies (Europol, Eurojust and the European Public Prosecutor's Office), EU criminal justice databases and the evolution of the EU as a global security actor. The constitutional and human rights implication of European integration in criminal matters will be fully explored.

Research Seminar

Art and Money

This module will examine the function of art and other cultural objects as financial assets. This involves seeing historic and artistic chattels from the point of view of wealth management (via investment, capital appreciation and leasing potential) and as collateral for transactions that are otherwise unrelated (art pledges, mortgages and charges). Since the investment in and taking of security over such assets necessarily involves questions of title, title warranties and title retention terms will also be examined. The module will also consider the treatment of art and cultural property in times of financial turmoil and insolvency. The main question here will be whether such cultural objects can be protected during corporate restructuring or insolvency, or indeed governmental/state financial difficulties. The module will end by considering the new area of art financing and alternative funding models for the acquisition of art.

Dissertation in Tax Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Policing in Local and Global Contexts

This module examines law enforcement in different cultural contexts (i.e. Europe, Asia, North America) and addresses possible conflicts of interests when different jurisdictions have to work together internationally and trans-nationally. It traces the evolution of international, transnational and EU legal frameworks on law enforcement cooperation, eg the development of Interpol and Europol, from their early beginnings in the 20th century to todays more sophisticated models of information transfer between policing and judicial agencies. The first half of the module will provide an overview of law enforcement models and procedural requirements in different jurisdictions around the globe. The second half of the module will consider international, EU and regional police cooperation strategies and underlying legal frameworks and how the specific jurisdictional requirements discussed in the first half of the module might foster or hamper cooperation in practice.

Comparative Criminal Justice

This module examines civil and common law jurisdictions in the area of criminal justice in different cultural contexts (i.e. Europe, Asia, Australasia, North America) and addresses possible conflicts of interests when having to work together internationally and trans-nationally. It traces the evolution of civil and common law criminal justice systems, assesses similarities of legal doctrines, theories and application of punishment, prison systems and legal aid provision. The first half of the module will provide an overview of different types of criminal justice systems around the globe, including the assessment of similarities and differences in substantive criminal law. The second half of the module will consider criminal procedure, the trial process, legal aid, penalties, prison systems and rehabilitation programs in different cultural contexts and how judicial cooperation between the systems can by hampered by differences in criminal procedure requirements.

Research Methods in Sociolinguistics

This module provides students with an advanced overview of both qualitative and quantitative research methods in sociolinguistics. Covering all aspects of data collection and analysis, students will learn how to devise appropriate research hypotheses; collect data for subsequent quantitative and qualitative scrutiny; and perform a variety of analytical techniques most commonly used in the humanities and social sciences (including narrative analysis, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, analyses of variance, multiple regression and various non-parametric tests). Methods covered include observation, interview, surveys, questionnaires and corpus-based techniques. Students will also learn how to effectively summarize and present findings to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Law and Economics

This course aims to provide students with the analytical tools developed by Law & Economics scholars and the legal framework to develop their own research. First, this course aims to provide students with the analytical skills to understand the relationship between Law and Economics using various methods (e.g., case law discussion, modeling, etc.). The module looks at the neoclassical economic model, market failures, behavioural economics, and their application to the law. Second, the course aims to equip students with the legal background and the legal framework to develop their own research: Criminal Law, Tort Law, and Competition Law. This module relies on three approaches: the economics analysis of the law, law and economics, and economics in the law. Students will apply economic reasoning to different examples and case studies.

Law Internship in France

The Internship Module consists of applying for, securing, and undertaking an internship of a minimum of three months in a law firm, company or elsewhere within the legal profession, in France (most likely Paris), between April and June. It is the student¿s responsibility to find and secure their internship. S/he will be supported by the Sorbonne and the CCLS PG Law Postgraduate Professional Development team in identifying possible internship opportunities, developing a CV and cover letter, and interview technique. As well as the day-to-day work expected within the terms of the internship, and outlined within the Convention de Stage, students will also be assessed on this module as part of the Double LLM programme. To this end, they will be expected to: i. submit a written report in French on a specific topic determined by the academic supervisor from the Sorbonne Law School by the end of June; and ii. make an oral presentation of the report in French in front of a jury including the Double LLM Programme Directors as well as an External Examiner, also in June. Note that neither QMUL nor the Sorbonne can guarantee internships for all students. Whilst they will make best endeavours to support students in securing appropriate positions, it is ultimately at the discretion of the firm/company as to who they take on and whether the student meets their expectations. In this way, we maintain perceptions and expectations of the realities of entering the legal job market. Should, for whatever reason, a student fail to secure an internship for the expected period, they would not be disadvantaged, as they would still be able to secure credit towards the programme in the form of an independent research essay in French.

Strategic Entrepreneurship

This module introduces concepts, theories and practices that are shaping our thinking about creating and scaling new ventures in a fast-moving environment with great uncertainty. It addresses strategic (e.g. how to design a business model and entrepreneurial strategy) and practical issues (how to write a business plan and make a pitch to win funding). Students will not only be introduced to the principles of business model design, but also how to deal with uncertainty in the entrepreneurial process.

Minimally Invasive Approaches in Clinical Dentistry Part 2

The field of minimally invasive dentistry is wide, including the detection of diseases as early as possible, the identification of risk factors (risk assessment) and the implementation of preventive strategies and health education for the patient. This module will provide practical points for the Clinical Dentistry in relation to Minimally Invasive approaches. 3 hour clinical and Clinical Skills laboratory exposure for 12 weeks = 36 hours 2 hour lecture/seminar every week over 11 weeks = 22 hours 2 hour revision seminar during the last week = 2 hours

Topics in Inorganic Chemistry

The module covers aspects of modern inorganic chemistry and is divided into two parts: modern solid-state chemistry and aspects of modern organometallic chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry. A basic introduction to each topic is given before specialist topics are discussed. The specialist topics vary from year to year.

Global Supply Chain Management

Over the last few decades the business world has become more complex, fragmented, and geographically scattered. As firms outsource a growing portion of the activities and functions that were previously carried out in-house, they become one element of a multifaceted and intricate process of value creation and capture that cut across firms' and states' borders: the supply chain. As value-creating activities and functions are shared between ever more players their linkages increase as well as their interdependence. The study of global supply chains and their management looks at this scattered environment: the linkages and relationships among firms, and among firms and other actors; and focuses on how leading firms attempt to drive this complexity in multiple ways, whether by increasing coherence, consistency and unity in the supply chain, or by shifting costs to other chain members and increasing competitive pressures among them.

Leadership

This module will investigate and discuss how change is lead in organisations from theoretical and practical perspectives. Students will learn how to critically reflect on organisational change processes and apply their knowledge directly to real world cases and practices. The module will focus on theories and concepts of leading change, how to lead change in different cultural environments, the nature and practice of responsible leadership, and followers' roles in and contributions to organisational change.

Culture, Memory and Trauma

This module explores the place of the trauma and memory and analyses responses to and theorisations of trauma by writers, thinkers and visual artists. We consider theoretical treatments of memory, trauma and witnessing including Erll, Freud, Felman and Laub, Caruth, Agamben, along with historical case studies in literature and other media. These focus on depictions of the Holocaust, but also narratives of the Gulag, the post-colonial, 9/11 and other historical phenomena understood as traumatic.

Leadership Seminar

This module consists of professional development seminars within the theme of creative industries and cultural sector leadership. The seminars, delivered by diverse professionals and practitioners from these sectors, will provide students with professional skills and networking opportunities within different industries and will inspire new thinking and develop practical behaviour changes. The seminar series is also designed to bring together students on the CIAO and Heritage Management MAs, and to encourage both cohorts to cross-fertilise knowledge and understanding of sector leadership.

Financial Analysis and Management Accounting

The module addresses a range of interconnected topics such as: The evolution of the accounting conceptual framework and the centrality of managers reporting to investors, shareholders and government; The range of financial statements (as specified by IAS1): income, cash, changes in equity and balance sheet; Comprehensive income statement (recognizing holding gains); Applications of Cost Volume Profit Analysis on Management Accounting and implications on decision making; Cost Allocation using Traditional methods and Activity Based Costing ; Strategic Investment Decisions: How companies use accounting information in order to make important decisions; Budgeting and Variance Analysis; Performance Evaluation: How business evaluate business units¿ performance; Presentation of different techniques, Performance Evaluation: EVA vs Balanced Scorecard.

Formal Methods and Theory

Much of the current literature in syntax and semantics presupposes an understanding of aspects of mathematics as they are applied in linguistic domains. This module provides students with the wherewithal to understand what these techniques are, why they are applied, whether they have been applied appropriately and how to apply them themselves. The course introduces students to the relevant aspects of: set theory, functions, propositional and predicate logic, model theory, basic concepts in algebra (including lattice theory), compositionality and lambda abstraction, basics of formal grammar theory.

Topics in Biological Chemistry

This modules focuses on the role of organic compounds in the natural world, with particular reference to biological and pharmaceutical systems. The role of synthetic models for biological systems is examined. The aim is to rationalise the properties and reactivity of the principal classes of natural products and to demonstrate the fundamental chemistry behind biochemical reactions in biosynthetic pathways. Major biosynthetic pathways leading to the formation of secondary metabolites are examined from the mechanistic point of view. Background knowledge of biochemistry is not assumed.

World Economy and Development

This module examines processes of economic "globalisation" and changes in international business over time. The focus is on the multinational firm in the context of trends in the world economy since the 1970s. It provides a critical and comparative perspective on the nature and scope of international business, theories of international trade and its regulation, and conceptualisations of global supply chains. It uses sector and country case studies to encourage an applied understanding of differentiated political-economic relationships, processes and outcomes.

Computer Architecture and Networks

The main focus of this module is software engineering and systems analysis. Students will learn about binary digital logic, essential aspects of computer architecture, the hardware/software interface, and computer networks, particularly the Internet. Content covers: Digital Logic and information representation in binary The Concept of a Stored Program Computer: the von Neumann Architecture and the Fetch/Execute Cycle The Memory Hierarchy and Caching The Concept of a Packet Switched Network: Internet Protocols Routing and Performance Issues with Networks Representative Internet applications such as DNS and the WWW (HTTP)

Psychological Therapies Dissertation

Special Areas in the Law of Treaties

This module focuses on the most fundamental elements of the law of treaties. It is based on the analysis of the text of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the law of Treaties. It relies on the case law of international courts and tribunals and the theory of international law. Anyone who wants to study or practice international law should take this module, as giving an invariable analysis of the law of treaties, which is the pillar of international law. This module deals with less known areas of the law of treaties, such as conflict of treaties, treaty termination (including material breach of a treaty) and third parties and the law of treaties. These areas are as well very important especially for practicing of international law . Some other fundamental issues of the international law will be also analyzed such as state responsibility .

Crimes of the Powerful: State Crime

Punishment in England 1750-1950

The study of punishment in the period 1750 -1950 provides a number of fruitful encounters with political and social theory, evolving legal doctrine and concurrent economic and social developments. It requires and imparts versatility and flexibility in the identification of core issues. Handling this and related material can supplement and enrich broader legal studies. Full of human interest and controversy, it is challenging, engrossing and illuminating. Debates range from theories such as moral agency and culpability, to varieties of determinism to consideration of the powers, prerogatives and duties of the state.

Accounting and Value Management

This module is about how value is managed within different sectors: private, public and non-profits. In the private sector the focus is with value creation and capture to extract cash and a return on capital. In contrast the value management problem in the public sector is framed as one of value for money (VFM) and in not for profits 'values' management. Both public and not for profits are converging towards a private sector management approach to resource stewardship.

Research Methods for Accounting

The module will provide a foundation in Research Methods for students for their dissertations. It will instruct them in how to prepare a research proposal, to draw out objectives of research, to undertake literature reviews and to assess suitable research methods to use. The course covers both qualitative methods such as case studies, questionnaires, surveys and interview techniques and an introduction to quantitative methods and data analysis. By the end of the course students should be able to prepare a research proposal.

Esports Law

Esports law focuses on the legal, contractual, commercial and regulatory issues that affect competitive video gaming. The module recognises the magnitude of the phenomenon and delineates the legal and commercial parameters under which esports industries operates.

Principles of Behavioural Economics and Behavioural Finance

There is substantial evidence that people violate the "rationality" assumptions of mainstream economics. Behavioural economics studies such violations and proposes theories to explain them. Behavioural finance is a subfield of behavioural economics studying irrationalities in financial decisions as well as puzzles on financial markets. The module provides an overview of behavioural economics and behavioural finance. Some key topics are bounded rationality, the winner¿s curse, overconfidence, saving for retirement, insurance, predictability of returns, and bubbles. Frequent use will be made of in-class experiments.

Private Equity and Venture Capital

This practical module will provide a deep insight into the landscape and practices in private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC). The course will combine sound academic theory with practice and will incorporate a PEVC ecosystem analysis, a review of the main fund and deal lifecycle processes, practical exercises in the art and science of valuation, growth strategies in portfolio management, a 360o pitching simulation (both as an investor and investee) and a review of the latest trends and complexities in the world of fund management, start-ups, scale ups, ¿unicorns¿ and PE leveraged buyouts.

Dissertation, Migration, Culture and Global Health Policy

This core module on the MSc, migration, culture and global health policy offers students the opportunity to pursue an area of interest in depth in public health, global policy, or law and produce a critical and scholarly study. Students will either select a project from a range on offer, mostly from supervisors in the Centre for Public Health and Primary Care or (in discussion with their academic adviser and a potential supervisor) devise and focus their own small project. Assessment will via a 15,000-word essay-style dissertation.

Patent Law (IPReg - PATs)

Sound Recording and Production Techniques

Research Methods for Human Resources Management

The nature of business and management/ human resource management research and business techniques is explored to build knowledge, skills and expertise to undertake a successful MSc dissertation. Fundamentals of business management/HR research help design relevant and rigorous dissertation projects through suitable quantitative and/or qualitative research methods techniques. The entire research process from finding a research question to the results including the write-up is developed. The dissertation will also provide the fundaments for future research projects in academia and different business contexts.

Funding and Financing in the Creative and Cultural Industries

This module focuses on the theory and practise of funding and financing in the creative and cultural sector ( including the heritage sector). The module will give students a grounding in the landscape of funding and financing streams as well as technical aspects of understanding the organisational and legal frameworks that exist in the creative and cultural sector.

Dissertation in Law and Finance

The chosen topics should relate to a relevant issue within the academic fields of Law and Finance The particular subject area is the student's own choice, guided and agreed by their supervisor. It is expected that students will undertake primary research and/or secondary research based in the sources where the data has not been already subjected to a relevant analysis.

Law of the Sea: Navigational Freedoms and Practice

It is a statistical fact that 'around 80 per cent of the volume of international trade in goods is carried by sea, and the percentage is even higher for most developing countries' (UNCTAD/RMT, 2015 / IMO, 2016). The above statement is however more accurate when re-phrased as to literally affirm that 'around 80 per cent of the volume of international trade in goods is carried by ships,...' and hence this module places its immediate focus upon their navigational freedoms and the evolving practice of commercial shipping in the 21st century. The module covers: The international ocean regime and contemporary legal order; Nationality of ships and the freedom of navigation; Passage regimes; Navigation in Special and Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas; The new IMO Polar Code for navigation; Ships in distress and places of refuge; Ship-to-ship activities within coastal maritime zones; Unlawful acts against the safety of navigation; Navigation in High Risk Areas; Detention and prompt release of the vessel/crew; The future of international navigation law: from e-Navigation and Sea Traffic Management to Unmanned ships and autonomous systems.

European and International Telecommunications Law & Regulation

Media Law: Reporting the Legal System

One of the most fundamental concepts governing a legal system is not only that justice should be done, but that it should also be seen to be done. The modern notion of open justice sees the media encouraged to report on the court system in operation; indeed, the right to do so comes under the scope of Article 10. There are, however, situations in which limits must be put upon what may be reported, such as, for example, where the public interest lies in protecting the Article 8 privacy rights of an individual, or perhaps even where it is necessary for information identifying them to be withheld from publication lest it put their actual lives in danger, as was seen in regards to the Bulger killers, Thompson & Venables (UK). Prior to and during legal proceedings, it can be necessary to put limits on the manner in which the media report particular proceedings; in some circumstances, it may even be necessary to prevent certain key information from being able to be reported at all for the duration, as to do otherwise could pose a threat to the integrity of the proceedings, violating the Article 6 right. This module will undertake a comparative exploration of different legal approaches which seek to maintain the balance between open justice and media freedom of expression on the one hand, and the protection of vital interests in the integrity of the justice process on the other. Consideration will also be given to the challenges posed by the nature of the contemporary media: online, global, and instantaneous. Can traditional approaches in this area, designed in an era of professional journalists and defined boundaries, be adapted in order to really address the internet era of amateur commentators, online gossips, and international communication platforms with global reach?

Film Practice and Manifestos

This module examines filmmaking practice through the study of statements on practice made by a range of film practitioners across a variety roles, filmmaking styles (including non-fiction examples), institutional contexts and periods, and via the study of a number of film manifestos. In the first part of the module students examine statements made by film practitioners in which they reflect on their practice and compare and contrast these to examples of the film practitioner's work. A particular focus will be how practitioners negotiate the restraints of the film industry, thereby encouraging an understanding of filmmaking as a profession. The second part of the module examines three manifestos from different historical periods and you will consider how these relate to filmmaking practice, especially through the importance of the adoption of measures to restrict creative freedom. Alongside this students produce a podcast of an interview with contemporary film practitioner about their practice.

Art and Cultural Values

This module will examine the cultural values and ethical considerations that guide both the public and private treatment and management of art and cultural property. This extends down from the values accepted in widely followed internationals conventions like the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, into national law, and finally into the ethical guidelines and codes of museums and other cultural institutions. The approach will also be sensitive to non-Western approaches to 'cultural property' and will consider the alternative conceptions of cultural dominion, guardianship and responsibility. Finally, the module will address the issues stemming from requests and claims for restitution and repatriation of cultural objects.

Art Disputes and their Resolutions

This module will explore the many ways in which art disputes can be resolved including litigation and alternative processes to litigation. It will examine specifically the public processes of litigation in national courts, administrative tribunals and international tribunals, and also private processes such as arbitration, mediation and other alternative processes. In so doing, it will consider the nature of the art dispute, the appropriate methods to resolve the disputes, and the remedies and solutions available. This will be led in seminar style, with lecture and interactive participation from students through exercises and dialogue.

Systematic Trading Strategies

The use of systems for trading and investing has grown exponentially over the last twenty years, gradually replacing the discretionary judgement of human beings. This course will help students understand why systems have become so important in financial markets, and provide an overview of key concepts needed to understand and develop strategies for systematic trading and investing.

Energy Decommissioning and Waste Management in International Law

The module on Energy Decommissioning and Waste Management in International Law examines the legal issues arising in connection with the decommissioning of energy infrastructure and the management of waste in the energy sector, both from a theoretical and practical perspective.

Themes and Cases in US Foreign Policy

This module will consider the principal forms in which US foreign policy has been practised and interpreted since the foundation of the Republic. Amongst these are American Exceptionalism and Anti-Americanism, spheres of influence, liberal interventionism and protectionist isolationism, Cold War containment, the War on Terror following 9/11, and the strains on unipolarity in the early 21st century. Amongst the case studies linked to these themes, we shall consider the role of Native Americans and immigration, the war of 1898, gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean, the ideas of Woodrow Wilson, the Vietnam War, the consequences of the 9/11 attacks, and the challenges posed by China.

Advanced Computing in Finance

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.

Laboratory Management

In this module students are introduced to the key concepts of laboratory management.The students will study and reflect on: Good management practice. Legislation relevant to diagnostic laboratories. Health and safety in the laboratory. Development of standard operating procedures. Quality assurance in the laboratory. LEAN evaluation and Audit processes. Methods of evaluation of new methods for use in the diagnostic laboratory. Have a knowledge of the role of new technologies e.g. molecular and automation in the diagnostic laboratory. Understand of the role of th diagnostic laboratory within the NHS and with external agencies such as the HPA and WHO. Occupational health

Time Series

A time series is a collection of observations made sequentially, usually in time. This kind of data arises in a large number of disciplines ranging from economics and business to astrophysics and biology. This module introduces the theory, methods and applications of analysing time series data.

Bioinformatics Software Development Group Project

In this module, students are organised into small teams (~3-4 members per team). Each team is given the same written specification for a piece of software that must be delivered by the end of the module. Each team must design an appropriate software architecture and development plan, with specific tasks assigned to individual team members. The project involves elements from the previous bioinformatics modules (genomics, post-genomics, coding and statistics) as well as new topics that are introduced during the module. This module serves as a simulation of a real software development environment, providing invaluable experience for future employability.

Cities, Space and Power

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.

Professional and Research Skills

Distributed Systems

The Internet interconnects billions of machines, ranging from high end servers to limited capacity embedded sensing devices. Distributed systems are built to take advantage of multiple interconnected machines and achieve common goals with them. The module will cover the fundamental concepts and technical challenges of building distributed systems. The topics will include the characteristics of network communications for applications, application-level communication protocols, the concept of synchronization (implications, role of consistency modes and protocols), as well as the impact of data replication, and options for tolerating failures.

Research Skills and Methodology

This module combines lecture-based teaching with practicals and workshops to provide students with a foundation in research methodology as well as generic skills in thinking, writing and oral communication. It covers topics ranging from the formulation of hypotheses based on critical analysis and evaluation of scientific literature to experimental design and core laboratory methodologies used in biomedical research. Safety and ethical concerns relating to research, as well as professional conduct and careers in regenerative medicine will be discussed. Data handling including statistical analysis, skills in dissemination of information through oral and written presentation, and public engagement will also be covered.

Second Language Acquisition

Second Language Acquisition is a compulsory module on the MA in Applied Linguistics for English Language Teaching. Students are presented with a comprehensive overview of theories and current research in second language acquisition; in addition, students have opportunities to put language learning strategies into practice by being required, as part of this module, to learn a language which is not their own. Students can choose from: French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Japanese or Mandarin (depending on timetable constraints). Proficiency in the chosen language is not assessed, but we ask you to reflect on the learning strategies that you use while following your language course. The module explores: the history of language learning; goals of language teaching; the L2 user and the native speaker; individual learner differences; motivation and aptitude; learner strategies; multiple intelligences and multi-competences; group dynamics; general models of L2 learning; the interaction approach; socio-cultural SLA theory.

Organic Synthesis

The module aims to provide a wide understanding of the occurrence, synthesis and behaviour of organic compounds. Topics to be covered include: theory and application of retrosynthetic analysis, modern heteroatom chemistry, reactive intermediates & aromatic chemistry. The use of spectroscopic techniques as a tool for structure determination in organic chemistry will be embedded within the course. The module builds upon the knowledge of structure and reactivity of organic molecules gained in CHE202.

Research III - Dissertation, Research Project Final Report, Service Evaluation Final Report, Clinical Portfolio Final

This final module in the programme enables students to demonstrate their ability to complete an independent research project and to write a thesis on their research, and the acquisition of advanced skills for service evaluation through the completion of a clinical service audit.

Computer Graphics

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.

Occlusion

This module introduces students to the occlusal concepts for Prosthodontics. Subjects covered in seminars are anterior/posterior occlusion, group function, balanced occlusions and conformative and re-organised occlusions. TMJ and managing occlusal changes and articulation. This module is based on the theory of occlusion, which will be applied to the technical practice cases carried out in the laboratory including: Setting up dentures; Occlusal splints; Diagnostic/occlusal waxing; Impressions, casts, facebows and mounting for analysis of cases.

Advanced Clinical Skills and Science in Orthodontics

This core module will consolidate the basic knowledge acquired in previous modules and introduce students to the more indepth understanding of the knowledge and clinical principles required to manage a range of maloclusions. This module also enhances the student's ability to mange the patient, in terms of their diagnosis and formulation of an appropriate treatment plan. This module will cover aspects of advanced knowledge and advanced clinical skills that form part of specialist training in orthodontics.

Bioinformatics, Interpretation, and Data Quality Assurance in Genome Analysis

Hair Biology and Hair Treatment

This second module is for 8 weeks. The module commences with an introduction to hair biology. This covers discussion and differentiation of different hair types, hair anatomical structure, histology of the hair follicle and sebaceous gland. Students will be expected to develop a thorough scientific basis of hair biology. Hair follicle development is broken down and identification of vital signalling hair pathways is done and their actions are compared and contrasted. This progresses to hair pathology and treatment principles. A comprehensive discussion on patient assessment and identifiable pathologies contributing to hair problems will be undertaken. Hair transplantation is also critically evaluated and methods appraised.

Genome Bioinformatics

This module provides an introduction to bioinformatics, focusing specifically on the analysis of DNA sequence data. Lectures cover the bioinformatics methods, algorithms and resources used for tasks such as sequence assembly, gene finding and genome annotation, phylogenetics, analysis of genomic variance among populations, genome wide association studies and prediction of gene structure and function. Practical exercises are used to gain experience with relevant existing bioinformatics tools, data formats and databases.

Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing (aka Computational Linguistics) has become an important and growing field in the last decade. Many of the most important applications for computing now involve the processing and understanding of spoken or written language: machine translation, question answering, news summarisation, text and opinion mining, and spoken dialogue systems like the iPhone's Siri. This module will introduce the core techniques in language processing, including statistical and rule-based approaches, and show how to apply them to the main application areas.

Business Finance

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.

River Assessment and Restoration

This module aims to provide the key knowledge and understanding at an advanced level necessary to support the development of management strategies for rivers along the catchment to coast continuum. Based upon an understanding of the multi-dimensional connectivity of fluvial systems, the module focuses on themes such as sediment and vegetation dynamics, river and floodplain process-form relationships, environmental flows, ecohydraulics and particular issues relating to constrained urban environments. Based on a solid scientific underpinning, the module introduces the legislative context, methods of field survey and assessment, and integrated approaches to the sustainable management of river systems, their flood plains and estuaries.

Research Methods

MSc students will learn some of the methodological challenges in conducting research relevant to the students chosen pathway (Transcultural Mental Healthcare or Psychological Therapies). They will also carry out a sustained inquiry and extended piece of high quality research work relevant to their professional context or personal interest. Students will be encouraged to publish and disseminate their research work. Module 3 Research Methods is compulsory to all MSc students and includes research methods and evidence based practice. Students aiming for the MSc award are required to undertake a dissertation on an original topic that includes original research and comprehensive literature review using systematic methods. Completion of Modules 1, 2 and 3 is accredited for exit with an MSc in either Psychological Therapies of Transcultural Mental Healthcare.

Economic models and human genomics

Expanding the Content of the MSc in Genomic Medicine with Workplace-based Modules

Adult Gastro-Intestinal Diseases: Luminal Diseases

This is a comprehensive course on all aspects of adult luminal gastroenterology, excluding functional gastrointestinal diseases. There is a focus on research and science underpinning this speciality.

Liver and Pancreatic Disease

Biomaterials in Regenerative Medicine

This module will provide training in the fundamental principles and therapeutic applications of biomaterials. It will cover the key types, properties, synthesis, and testing of biomaterials, as well as how the structure and function of materials impact complex cellular responses and tissue regeneration. The course will analyse in-depth some of the most recent technological advances in biomaterial sciences. Throughout the module students will develop skills in critical thinking, experimental design, oral and written communication, and collaborative work.

Whole System Design in Sustainable Engineering

This module examines the nature of sustainability and various sustainability models before examining the role of national and international government agencies on environmental management. The role of technology is examined, primarily through life cycle analysis, and includes design of products, energy supply, and personal consumption. A particular emphasis will be placed on life cycle analysis of wind, solar and nuclear.

Deep Learning and Computer Vision

Fuelled by the advances in sensing, computing and Machine Learning, Computer Vision applications start finding their way in our everyday lives. Face detection/recognition in Facebook, augmented reality with Google glasses, gaming with Microsoft kinect, to name just a few. This module, covers emerging topics/applications in the field of Computer Vision, and the underlying Machine Learning methodologies.

Bayesian Decision and Risk Analysis

The module will cover: Introduction to information systems; Types of information system; Uses of Information systems; Information systems in e-commerce and e-business; Information system design and development; Case studies of business information systems; The human factor in information systems; Legal and ethical issues in Information systems.

Mapping Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction

"The material covered in this Cultural History course is approached from a trans-Latin American comparative perspective. The module explores the various paths to literary modernisation which the Latin American novel undertook in the second half of the twentieth century, across the historically defined Caribbean, Andean, River Plate and Brazilian cultural regions. Focusing upon major landmarks of modern Latin American fiction, the course provides students with an understanding of these texts in the light of both the specific socio-political processes and the theoretical and aesthetic debates to which they are articulated."

Pharmacogenomics and Stratified Healthcare

Phase Transitions

"Phase transitions are so common in materials that our understanding of condensed matter is incomplete without understanding the physics of phase transitions. Furthermore, it is often the existence of phase transitions that give materials their properties that are exploited in technological applications. This module will survey the wide range of phase transitions observed experimentally, including ferroelectric and other displacive phase transitions, magnetic transitions, and atomic ordering transitions. Various models with be described to account for the existence of these phase transitions and their properties."

Tissue-specific Stem Cells

This module aims to provide in depth knowledge of the role of tissue-specific stem cells during tissue homeostasis and wound-healing, as well as current and future applications in regenerative medicine. The course will cover tissue-specific stem cells present in tissues derived from each of the three primary germ cell layers: Ectoderm (e.g. neural; melanocyte; epidermis; eye lens) Endoderm (e.g. respiratory; intestine; liver; bladder; pancreas) Mesoderm (e.g. kidney; mesenchymal; bone; muscle; hematopoietic; heart) In addition, this module will examine cutting-edge experimental techniques (e.g. lineage tracing; cellular barcoding; xenotransplantation; sphere formation assays) that are used to evaluate adult stem cells. Students will develop skills including critical analysis of scientific literature, interpretation of experimental design, evaluation of statistical analysis, and design of presentations. Essential generic skills include critical thinking, organisation, writing, and oral communication.

Dissertation (60 credits)

Cloud Computing Law

This module will provide a foundation for understanding and analysing cloud computing structures and contracts for private and public sector cloud services, including standard terms and contract negotiations; the application of data protection law to the storage and other processing of information in cloud environments, including what is regulated, who is responsible, which laws apply and the circumstances in which law enforcement authorities access information; and the subsistence and ownership of proprietary rights in data stored, processed and generated in cloud environments.

10,000 Word Dissertation

Write a 10,000 word dissertation on a particular topic within an appropriate subject area. A Supervisor will be allocated according to topic.

Business Information Systems

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.

Research Methods

Geographical Thought and Practice

Management Consulting

This module will enable students to learn the main academic perspectives on management consulting, and some skills in designing and implementing management consulting interventions. It will consider the approaches that management consultants adopt, the needs that clients appoint consultants to meet, and the ethics of management consulting. It will also introduce students to skills in applying project management methods to management consulting interventions, and impression management skills in managing relationships with existing and potential clients.

Foundations of Corporate Finance

This module aims to develop further the understanding of how firms raise finance and design their investing strategy. It will address the issue of decision problems such as capital raising, capital structure decisions, the effects of conflicts between different types of stakeholders within the corporate and governance environment. A particular focus on the services offered by investment banks to support corporate financing, such as financial advisory, corporate lending, leveraged acquisition, financial management under distress.

Health, Illness and Society

This module involves sociological analyses of health and illness experiences, of experiences of health care, and an introduction to research methods relevant for carrying out such work. Topics within these broad headings will vary from one year to the next, but indicative content includes the sociology of the body, chronic illness and disability, provider-patient relations, medicalisation and the medical model, health social movements, mass media and health, and the sociology of bioethics.

Patients, Quality and Safety

This module will critically explore the principles and practices of quality and safety in health care. Through a combination of lectures, group seminars, self study and project work students will learn about the history of quality and safety movements, the contribution of different disciplines (eg, psychology, sociology, management) to understanding quality and safety, the relevance of work undertaken in other industries, the way components of health care systems affect quality and safety, and the various methods and tools for reducing risk, improving quality and safety and implementing change.

Introduction to Oral Biology

This module is an academic module focussing primarily on the introduction to the basic and clinical sciences of the dental hard and soft tissues and the biochemical processes processes relevant of Oral Biology. It will be conducted in the form of 12 seminars of 3 hour duration, and 6 research seminars. The major topics include: Tooth development and mechanisms driving formation Structure of enamel Structure of dentine Structure of bone Structure of the periodontal ligament Dental anomalies

Research Design and Methods

This compulsory module supports students in the development of their dissertation projects. Through a series of workshops with practical engagement with different methodologies, including work-in-situ analysis, ethnographic research and using archival material, students will develop their analytical skills and discover the range of methods of enquiry that they can bring to bear in advancing their dissertation project. Students will also be guided towards the preparation of a dissertation proposal that will be presented orally to a combined faculty and student session to be held on the Mile End campus at the beginning of the 3rd semester.

Protection and Indemnity (P&I) Clubs

The module will examine the operation of P&I Clubs as mutual insurance associations vital to the existence and running of the international shipping community and trade. The module will cover their history, development and structure, their basic rules of cover and the provision of security, as well as the basic (and sui generis) concepts underlying their operation. The module will additionally examine the various risks P&I Clubs insure against, their financial operation, the International Group of P&I Clubs (including its structure, cover and importance), and how these associations relate to other forms of insurance.

Professional and Research Skills

The overall aim of this module is to ensure that the trainee has the underpinning knowledge of the importance of research, development and innovation across the NHS and in healthcare science in particular and to provide the underpinning knowledge for the research project

US Federal Law: Select Advocacy Issues

"This module examines core legal aspects of procedural and he its separation of powers among three branches of government, the relation of nation and states in a federal system and the protection of individual rights. It also explores the federal rules for civil procedure and the federal evidentiary code, both key components of federal legal practice and foundations for US legal practice entry. "

Advanced Aerospace Structures

This module provides students with the basic tools of structural analysis including the structure idealisation, 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. This specialisation covers theory, computations, experiments and implementation issues, as well as the study of specific cutting edge aerospace vehicles. In this module, four case-studies in aerospace manufacturing will be designed/ delivered during the tutorial sessions.

Directed Research in Linguistics

International and Comparative Social Rights

International and Comparative Social Rights examines the contribution of law to making poverty history. The course critically examines the role of international and comparative law in constructing and maintaining historic and current social, political and economic inequalities. The course will analyse the law¿s potential and limitations as an instrument of redistributive and egalitarian social, economic, cultural and political change. New legal tools such as human rights budgets and the minimum core will be critically analysed together with legal and political philosophies focusing on the separation of powers, justiciability and institutional conversations The history of the different systems of implementation will be studied together with new developments both procedural and substantive within the United Nations human rights machinery. The implementation of positive obligations on governments within the African Union, the Organisation of American States as well as within Europe are also analysed. International and Comparative Social Rights will also include comparative jurisprudence from Argentina, India, Philippines, South Africa and Venezuela as well as other relevant jurisdictions and will explore the potential of these different approaches for other democracies.

AI, Robotics and the Law

The evolving area of AI and Robotics gives rise to many ethical and legal questions over the status of robots, the rights and responsibilities arising from their use and liability for any harm caused. The module will explore the issues of legal personhood, the protection of robots through IP, the responsibilities arising from data use and the various approaches to allocating responsibility and liability. The module covers both embodied artificial intelligent systems (robots) and non-embodied ones (intelligent agents). Distinction is also made between the behaviour of robots as tools of human interaction, and robots as independent agents in the legal arena and its legal ramifications.

MSc Advanced Research Project

This module draws together the knowledge and skills from the taught component to address a research challenge of significant scope to be undertaken independently, under supervision. It focuses on the technical, project management and communication skills needed to successfully execute academic- and/or industry-oriented research. The project entails to apply research methods to solve original problems of fundamental or applied nature. The module is assessed by oral examination and a thesis produced at the end.

Managerial Economics

Managerial Economics applies microeconomics to problems confronting decision-making within firms, and covers how to tie and apply economic thinking to current events and policy debates that are relevant to businesses. The topics concern key aspects of the functioning of markets, including the role of prices, interdependence and elasticities, as well as market failures, the impact of non-competitive market structures, focusing on the case of oligopoly, pricing decisions, including quantity discounts and different types of market segmentation.

Leadership in the Social and Public Sectors

This module will investigate leadership in the social and public sectors from theoretical and practical perspectives. The module explores established and new paradigms of leadership at all levels in social and public organisations, characterised by their tendency to operate in politically- and/or resource-constrained environments. Students will reflect critically on relevant research, and apply their insights to real social and/or public organisational cases. The process of understanding and challenging leadership practises will also contribute to students' employability and personal development.

Professional Practice in Heritage Management

HRP placement students experience four key areas of heritage management practice learning professional skills, knowledge and essential experience through engagement with sector leaders. Critical skills applied to practice areas showcases their own professional capabilities by forming networks. Students have the opportunity to present lessons learnt to professionals and academics, thus promoting career planning and employability.

Ethics and Governance in Business and Finance

This module analyses unethical practices arising in business and in the financial sector and links them with corresponding corporate governance problems. The module then provides a critical evaluation of the relevant regulatory and supervisory framework which strive to address them.

Assessment in English Language Teaching

Assessment in English Language Teaching is an optional module for the MA in English Language Teaching (MAELT). It provides you with a comprehensive overview of the principles, practice and impact of assessment in English Language as well as the analytic skills to critique external language tests and design assessments relevant to the classroom. It consists of a weekly one-hour lecture and a two-hour seminar.

General Linguistics for Language Teachers

This option module is suitable for students on the MA for Language Teaching who have little or no knowledge of linguistics. Students will acquire basic knowledge about languages and linguistics. You will be introduced areas such as: Phonetics and Phonology; Morphology; Word Classes; Syntax; Semantics; Language in the Social world; Language Change; Language Contact. You will have an opportunity to compare different languages and consider examples from languages throughout the world. PLEASE NOTE: This module is NOT available for students with prior knowledge of Linguistics. If you are in doubt about this, please contact the module organiser before registration.

International Accounting

The module will provide students with an understanding of the nature of accounting practices in an international context. With respect to accounting it emphasises the importance of a country's culture, social and economic, legal and political environment in determining the nature of the rules and regulations, which governs its financial reporting practices. In this respect, the problems of financial reporting diversity across countries as a result of the increasing internationalisation of business are explored.

Multinational Enterprises: Social Issues

"This module will provide a comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of the business and legal organisation of MNEs and of the regulation of their activities. Throughout the module we will aim to examine the regulatory environment for international business by dealing with sub-national, national, regional and multilateral policies and rules for the regulation of MNEs."

International and Comparative Copyright Law

"Copyright, the legal foundation of the creative industries, is by its modern nature international and comparative This module will offer students a solid basis for understanding the essential elements of copyright law ,its philosophical and legal basis, the international Copyright Treaties, and the different approaches adopted in major civil and common law countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the United States. We further focus on the growth of EU copyright law with its distinctive flavour, which incorporates civil law doctrines in a pragmatically common law precedent-based approach. Where relevant, reference is also made to well-known decisions on certain topics in Australia, Canada and India. This interactive course will explore copyright principles by considering and discussing crucial topics, namely, the types of protected works, copyright ownership, beneficiaries, term, nature of rights, exceptions and limitations, collective management, enforcement and user rights - from national and international perspectives. The course also looks at current international copyright policy discussions such as new Treaties and Trade Agreements. The module will enable students to embark on more specialised and in-depth courses. "

Intellectual Property and the Life Sciences

The life sciences can be defined as the use of living organisms (biotechnology) and the protection or treatment of living organisms (medicine, veterinary medicine and plant protection). It comprises the science behind medicine, pharmacy and agriculture and their corresponding industries. The module will provide detailed knowledge of the role that intellectual property plays in providing investments for investment and incentives in the life sciences. It will also focus on the question of how to distribute the benefits of life sciences research fairly so that it benefits society.

Econometrics B

This module is designed to provide you with a general knowledge and the basic methods used in the current practice of econometrics. The module covers the following lecture topics: panel data and its application in micro econometrics; maximum likelihood methods, as fuelled by the development of limited dependent variable and discrete choice models; the generalised method of moments in relation with Euler equations from inter temporal stochastic utility maximisation in macroeconomics. Both estimation and inference are considered.

Research Essay

The research paper will examine a particular area of law. The particular subject area within this field is the student¿s own choice, guided and agreed by their allocated supervisor.

Design and Intellectual Property: EU and United States

The importance of design within competitive economies has been underestimated academically. Designs increase the visual, ergonomic, aesthetic and branding appeal of a product, and has the potential to increase the impact and competitiveness of the product within different market sectors. This option will teach students the key ways to protect the investment in graphic, environmental and product designs, with an emphasis on design patents, trade mark/trade dress and copyright laws. While the focus of the course will be on EU and US laws, the course will also cover the international design registration system, as well as specific design-related issues in major industries such as competition and consumable markets (coffee pods, spare parts, cartridges), 3D printing, and counterfeiting within furniture & fashion lifestyle industries.

Agriculture Trade and Intellectual Property

The module covers several interrelated topics: food, agriculture, trade, business, technology and its regulation, intellectual property, and human rights. Agriculture, including pastoralism, matters more than almost any other productive human activity. It supplies our most basic human needs, and it employs vast numbers of people. It has had a transformative effect on the biosphere. Indeed, it has arguably done more than any other activity to give rise to a new era in the Earth¿s history: the Anthropocene. In the commercial sector, farmers are supplied with inputs such as seeds and agrochemicals and advanced new technologies produced by high-tech corporations like Monsanto and Syngenta. The processing of food and other products that are grown or reared by farmers and pastoralists is carried out by some enormous transnational corporations. These products are delivered to customers by retailers that may be small and local or are massive operations, the biggest being Walmart. The vital role of small-scale farmers especially in the developing countries needs to be acknowledged but all too rarely is. Along all parts of the value chain there is much pressure to innovate and intellectual property rights are an essential feature of the way businesses and markets operate, how investment choices are made and where innovative activities do (and do not) take place. Food is a fundamental human necessity; it is also related to the luxury goods market, and can be seen as a social phenomenon. It affects the trading patterns of both large and small producer countries. The regulation of food and trade is currently a global concern, and this module will also analyse the legal regulation of food from national and international levels, with reference to technology, intellectual property, agricultural and climate policies, and human rights vis-a-vis the global food and agricultural industries. The specific concerns are as follows: 1/Biotechnology has assisted corporations to propertise and privatise food production; this is increasingly being done through patenting, plant variety rights protection, trade secrets and trade marks law, and bio-cultural/geographical indications; 2/ Small farmers and producers, in developing and developed countries, struggle to produce, and market their goods in increasingly competitive markets, within challenging climate and environmental conditions; such actors have started to use policy tools based on the individual's right to food, and the collective right of farmers to re-use seeds and determine food patterns; 3/ International law and institutions have widened the policy-making space by intertwining the issues of food security, genetic resources, environment, agricultural innovation, intellectual property, trade, human rights and sustainable development; 4/ Consumer trends have made agricultural products, especially cheese and wine, an international and trans-national branding and luxury issue, with producers using several legal tools, including trade marks, geographical indications, and bio-cultural indications, to capture niche, as opposed to mass, markets. The module is intended to complement substantive modules on the protection of intellectual property.

International Human Rights Law: Law, Practice and Institutions

"This course explores the institutional and legal foundations of the post-WW2 framework for international human rights law protection, as well as a number of key rights and topics in contemporary international human rights law and practice. The first part examines the core institutions and legal regimes that together constitute the core of international human rights law. The second part of the course 'samples' a number of substantive rights, such as the right to life, the prohibition on torture and inhuman and degrading treatment, and the right to housing. It also explores the international human rights regimes from the perspective of different subjects or groups, such as women and labour, paying particular regard to the possibilities and limitations of human rights as a truly universal and emancipatory project. "

Key Issues in Linguistics

This module explores selected basic questions about the nature of human language from a contemporary, cross-linguistic perspective. It introduces students to some of the classical debates in linguistics, such as those centered around the relationship between language and thought, the nature of dialects and their status as languages, the nature of language acquisition, or the existence of linguistic universals. Students are exposed to a variety of modes of argumentation and methodologies commonly used in linguistics.

Formal Semantics

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.

Directed Study in Linguistics

Organisational Behaviour

This module will provide an in-depth understanding of the broad range of theory, research, and practice in organizational behaviour for the adoption of appropriate policies and leadership styles. This will include understanding individual differences, motivational factors, ethics, group dynamics, patterns and negotiation practices which can mediate the functioning of an organisation. The module will analyse a range of case studies to illuminate the different work patterns, practices and behaviour both at individual, group and organisational levels. Students will gain an awareness and knowledge of contemporary issues and approaches to organisational change and development facing organizations. Beyond providing theoretical frameworks, the module will augment skills to prepare students for the work place through communication and team management skills, and through analytical and critical thinking skills.

Bioorganic Chemistry

International Human Rights Law: History, Theory and Politics

"This module explores the history, theory and politics of international human rights. It will explore both traditional and revisionist accounts of the philosophical and historical foundations of international human rights. It introduces the students to the main critiques of rights, from the early critiques of natural rights, including the Marxist critiques of rights, to feminist and post-colonial critiques, exploring the different strands within each of these schools of thought, all of which have generated considerable debates. Through these different lenses, it aims to engage the students with the ambivalence of international human rights, both as a concept, and as a contemporary praxis and ideology. The course closes by putting these theoretical insights and foundations into practice by looking at two contemporary phenomena that illustrate the ambivalence of the human rights project, namely the war on terror and the advent of neoliberalism. "

Community Medicine I

This module is taught in year 1 but is linked to module IHS7115 taught in year 2 of the course. Most weeks, you will spend at least one day learning in the community. As your skills develop, you will start to manage your own caseload under the supervision of your GP tutor. We will focus on the management of chronic conditions as well as introduce new fields of medicine, not previously studied in detail. For example; dermatology, ENT, ophthalmology, rheumatology/ musculoskeletal medicine. The end of year assessments will encompass elements from all aspects of the course taught in the first year, and will not be restricted to the module. This highlights the integrated nature of the course.

Prevention and Control of Communicable Disease in the Hospital and in the Community

Introduction to Phonology

This module provides an introduction to one of the core sub-fields of linguistics. A central part of speakers' knowledge about the language that they speak is that words are not always pronounced in the same way. The variation that we observe is systematic. Phonology is concerned with describing the system that underlies our knowledge of the sound patterns, i.e. the ways in which words are pronounced differently across contexts. You will be introduced step-by-step to the tools of phonological analysis, and will learn to apply that knowledge through problem solving exercises. The module is suitable for MA students without substantial prior background in Linguistics, or for those who want to branch out into a new sub-field.

Strategic Decision Making for Lawyers

"This module provides the students with effective decision analysis skills, coupled with comprehensive theoretical background in the fields of decision making, game theory, and contracting theory to provide the theoretical context for applied decision analysis in a legal context. Aspects of various decision-making theories will be examined which may include: decision analysis involving independent decision-making under uncertainty which may include basic probabilistic modelling, decision tree construction and rollback, assessment of probabilities and ranges, sensitivity analysis, analysis of risk profiles and risk-attitudes, and application of decision analysis to litigation; game theory involving interdependent decision-making under certainty and uncertainty which may include consideration of relevant case studies, sequential and simultaneous games, common cooperative and noncooperative games, dominant strategy, iterated dominance and Nash equilibria, information asymmetry, Akerlof¿s adverse selection and moral hazard, and specific application of game theory in the legal setting; contracting theory involving function of contracts and key elements of effective agreements which may include risk allocation and incentive analysis, value creation in legal work, impact of strategic considerations and information asymmetry, probabilistic analysis of zone of possible settlement in litigation, and analysis of common contracts such as construction and production contracts, principal-agent contracts, sale and lease of property contracts, financing contracts and joint venture agreements; and decision-making Irrationality involving various aspects of bounded rationality and judgmental heuristics, information availability driven biases, anchoring, judgmental overconfidence, and instances of bounded awareness in strategic settings (inattention and change blindness, winner¿s curse in negotiation and in auctions). Classes combine classic academic teaching with a case method approach with particular emphasis on utilising the presented material for improvement of students¿ strategic decision making in the legal context."

Translational Immunology - Project 1

"This module aims to give you the opportunity to complete a substantial research project within a research laboratory. You will be able to select from a range of projects across the School of Medicine and Dentistry. On completion of the project, you will be able to: Carry out background research into a project; Design and implement your own experiments; Interpret data and analyse results; Prepare a scientific project report; Prepare and give an oral presentation describing and defending project findings."

Translational Immunology - Project 2

Topics in Financial Economics A

This module focuses on Asset Pricing fundamentals. It will cover the foundations of the expected utility paradigm, portfolio choice (briefly), asset pricing models (CAPM, CCAPM, APT), the concept of the stochastic discount factor (SDF) in a discrete multiperiod setting, as well as in continuous time. Finally, an overview of market microstructure will also be presented.

Advanced Derivatives Pricing and Risk Management

This module covers a number of advanced topics in the pricing and risk-management of various types of derivative securities that are of key importance in today's financial markets. In particular, the module covers models for interest rate derivatives (short-rate and forward-curve models), and looks at the multi-curve framework. It then considers credit risk management and credit derivatives (both vanilla and exotic). Finally, it also discusses credit valuation adjustment (CVA) and related concepts.

Biology of Oral Tissues

Anti-microbial peptides. Structure and function of oral mucosa. Bone pathologies. Cell biology of bone. Cytoskeleton. Desmosomes and cell attachment. Introduction to stem cells. Oral defence mechanisms.

e-Commerce Law

This module examines the legal issues pertaining to e-commerce and is addressed to lawyers wishing to act for and advise e-businesses (and other information society service providers), whether in private practice or as in-house counsel. The course takes a practical, transactional and multi-jurisdictional perspective while maintaining academic rigour. The aim is to provide an in-depth analysis and examination of the ways in which the legal framework deals with the practical issues raised by e-commerce. In particular, this course will examine gaps, conflicts and compliance issues within the current and developing legal framework on e-commerce and to what extent the existing legal framework impacts on new and emerging technologies.

Management of Craniofacial Fractures

"This module discusses the interface between the neurosurgical and craniofacial management of upper third facial injuries. The management of the frontal sinus and frontal bone fractures with particular emphasis on timing of surgical intervention and anterior skull base reconstruction. Diagnostic principles are discussed with reference to both hard and soft tissue treatment planning. The anatomy of the upper third of the facial skeleton and skull base are discussed, as well as neurosurgical implications of these injuries. Surgical approaches to the region are classified and discussed and surgeon choice based on a risk benefit analysis. Choice of plating strategies are discussed and an evidence based algorithm based on complexity is presented."

Quantitative Cell Biology

Module taught by the University of Southampton

Molecular Organisation of the Eukaryotic Cell

Eukaryotic cell structure. Cytoskeleton. Extracellular Matrix. DNA, RNA to Protein. Transcription & Translation. Cell Receptors and Cell Signalling. Cell cycle.

Interest Rate Derivatives

The main goal of this module is to focus on Interest Rate Swaps structures and how they are used in financial markets. It aims to explain basic concepts and features of Interest Rates Swaps. While doing that, it touches upon various types of interest rates and participants spend time on building a yield curve. Based on this background information, it delves into economics, valuation and pricing of swaps. The course also covers other interest rate derivatives such as bond futures and options.

Core Knowledge and Clinical Skills in Oral Medicine

This module covers the basic biological science topics and clinical skills relating to the study of Oral Medicine to ensure that all students possess the fundamental level of knowledge and skills required to study the advanced level 8 modules in Oral Medicine. This fundamental knowledge and skills provide the underpinning building blocks to be developed over the following two years of clinical training and practice.

International Trade and Investment Law of the EU

This course will introduce students to the law and governance of the external economic relations of the European Union (EU), the world's largest trading bloc and most successful example of regional integration. The course focuses specifically on international trade and investment law of the EU in the context of unilateral, bilateral, regional, and multilateral arrangements. The course will cover bilateral and multilateral agreements between the EU and non-member states, such as trade agreements and relations with emerging economies and developing countries.

International Construction Contracts and Dispute Resolution

International construction contracts have by their nature special features, which affect the methods of resolving disputes arising from them. The module, conducted through series of seminars, examines in detail the nature of international construction contracts, the typical clauses included in the standard form of FIDIC conditions, the parties to construction contract (and in particular the role of the Engineer and the Contractor), their structure, and the types of disputes that arise under them.

International Law of Patents and Related Rights

Patents provide, for a limited time, the right to exclude others from acts of making, using, selling, keeping or importing products containing the patented invention. Under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement) WTO Members, in particular developing countries, face challenges in meeting their obligations to provide patent protection and related rights. The module will assess the extent to which these obligations derived from international law impact on access to medicines, traditional knowledge, biological diversity, farmers' rights, food security and human rights.

What is World Literature?

This module allows students to engage with key examples of texts that might be regarded as belonging to a notional nascent 'canon' of 'World Literature', as well as those that might trouble its boundaries. 'What is World Literature?' begs other questions: has the category displaced the postcolonial as a critical term, or reinforced its purchase?; how does the term engage questions of translation, let alone aesthetics (what is `Literature'), politics (whose `world¿), and philosophy (what, after all, is a 'world')? We will read excerpts from theoretical works that have helped stake a claim for--or critiqued--the field¿s constitution in an attempt to find some answers.

Legal Aspects of Financing Development

Developing countries vary in size, resource endowments and income levels, but they face similar challenges to access capital for financing development and put it to good use. The module examines the legal framework underpinning the access to and mobilisation of different sources of capital - public and private, domestic and international - for financing sustainable development. A theoretical framework on the relationship between legal institutions, financial markets, economic growth and sustainable development is applied to discuss practical legal issues on financing development such as the effectiveness of financial law reforms for channelling private savings into productive investment, the conditionality attached to financial assistance provided by international financial institutions, sovereign debt restructure mechanisms and aid effectiveness. Topics covered include selective aspects of financial markets (capital markets, financial inclusion, public private partnerships) and foreign investment in developing countries, sovereign debt, IMF and Multilateral Development Banks¿ financial assistance, official development assistance and innovative mechanisms for financing development. This module will be particularly attractive to students interested in career paths in international financial institutions, development organizations, consulting firms, government bodies, law firms, commercial banks and NGOs concerned with financing development.

Corporate Governance: Operation and Practice

The module aims to inform and educate students as to the issues affecting both the business community and the wider societal effects of the debate on corporate governance. As such the module will focus on the systems by which companies are or should be directed and controlled, particular emphasis will be given to: self regulatory systems and their provenance, the UK Corporate Governance and associated Codes, Hostile Takeovers, and Case studies of extreme Corporate Governance failure eg. Enron and The financial crisis 2008 onwards. As such, students will have an enhanced knowledge of the issues surrounding various corporate governance industry and state regulatory perspectives on corporate governance. The module also aims to highlight future directions and trends in corporate governance.

Comparative Contract Law

This optional module aims at offering a thorough analysis of French, German and English contract law from a comparative perspective. After an overview of the worldwide strong position of English, French and German private law, and most notably contract law, their historical roots will be analysed, including their mutual influence. Core concepts in the different legal systems will be discussed (cause/consideration; implied terms/moral principles; objective/subjective interpretation; etc.) and the more practically oriented English approach as opposed to the use of general principles on the continent (reasonablenes, good faith, fairness, equilibrium, protection of the weaker party). Also the influence of EU law will be discussed.

Animal Law, Media and Culture

This module brings together an interdisciplinary perspective on behaviour science, welfare, economics, and law in order to introduce students to a range of legal and welfare issues arising through the use of animals in media, culture and entertainment. The module will deal with both domesticated and wild animals, considering animals in film and television, advertising, fashion, zoos and conservation, circuses, and sport. Students will also explore a range of critical questions and specific episodes on animals and creativity, including the animal as performer and the animal as author, analysing the significance for sentience and welfare, and gaining important insight into creativity and intentionality in other areas of the law (including intellectual property).

Wet Shipping Law

The module will cover all areas of the so-called 'wet' shipping law; i.e., all legal issues that might arise while a vessel and its cargo are at sea arising from various unfortunate incidents. The module will cover in detail collisions at sea, the law of salvage, the problematic area of wreck removal, the complex area of marine pollution, incidents of piracy at sea including the modern employment of armed guards; and the importance and computation of general average adjustments.

Urban Public Cultures

This module examines the development of modern, urban public cultures from the eighteenth century to the present day. Focusing on debates over public life in the city, the module uses a range of materials and methods ¿ including fieldwalks in London ¿ to explore the relationships between urban form and public life as they are shaped by cultural and artistic practices, the production of urban space, changing forms of regulation and governance, ideas of creativity and urban development, and new forms of technology and conviviality.

Clinical Skills and Science in Oral Surgery 2

This core module will build on and advance the core knowledge acquired in previous modules and introduce students to more in-depth aspects of Oral Surgery in terms of pathology and surgical management of more advanced conditions. This module also enhances the student¿s ability to examine the patient, diagnosis of presenting condition, and the ability to formulate an appropriate treatment plan. This module will cover aspects of advanced knowledge in oral surgery including radiology, microbiology and pathology. Advanced clinical skills will be acquired to underpin the development towards independent clinical practice. Conscious sedation techniques will be introduced in this module.

Emergency Management of Severe Trauma

This module will detail the burden of trauma on society and the national / systems wide approach to trauma care. We then discuss the assessment, classification, resuscitation and treatment of major trauma system by system. In the latter part of the module we look at the cellular and metabolic affects of trauma.

Secession and Self-Determination in International Law

"In this module students will study and debate how the creation of new 'States' by way of secession and self-determination can be reasonably embedded in the existing international legal framework of State succession and State continuity (especially in the light of the ICJ¿s Kosovo Opinion); whether and under what conditions separation/secession is in conformity with international law; and which status 'old' and 'new' States have under international law. In general, this module pursues the goal of investigating the applicable legal instruments and potential scenarios in the context of the creation of new 'States' in a critical and analytical way."

Globalisation and the International Political Economy of Development (Paris)

Evaluation and Delivery in Public Policy

This course aims to provide a critical overview of the theory and practice of two of the crucial 'end' stages of the policy process: delivery and evaluation. The module will examine how governments and public agencies around the world have sought to upgrade their delivery and evaluation capacity in recent decades. Lectures will be given by staff and leading practitioners who have front-line experience and knowledge. The course will explore the development of theoretical and empirical academic literature and provide opportunities for students to apply this material to selected case studies relevant to the group. Practitioners will be encouraged to reflect on their practices and experiences.

Lab Project

Essential Mathematics Skills for Engineers

Euromasters Project/Dissertation

Students will develop design, experimental, computational or analytical skills through the independent study of a problem in physics. They will learn to write a scientific report summarising results of an independent investigation, placing them in a physics context, and detailing the methods used and the results obtained. The project will run through both semesters and will involve a report and an oral presentation.

Advanced IP Issues: Digital Rights Management

This module will explore the emergent legal and technological framework for the Protection of Digital Intellectual Property. This will encompass the WIPO Copyright Treaty and its implementation in key signatory states, including the EU's copyright and related rights in an information society Directive, the UK Copyright Regulations and the US' Digital Millennium Copyright Act as well as the range of digital rights management tools, their use and their interaction with laws governing other areas such as privacy and competition.

International Environmental Law

This course focuses on international legal and institutional arrangements concerning the management of the environment. It examines both theoretical and practical dimensions of these arrangements. This course explores some of the most salient aspects of the expanding area of international environmental law. It examines, in particular, global environmental issues that have risen to the top of the international law and policy agenda in the wake of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio Conference) and the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development and 2015 UN Goals . It deals with the fundamental questions of IEL : the precautionary principles ; polluter pays principle, environmental impact assessment. The notion of sustainable development occupies an important place in this course. It provides an acknowledgment that environmental law needs to be considered at the same time as social and economic dimensions of development The module is linked with human rights law and economic law (WTO).

Music Informatics

This module introduces students to state-of-the-art methods for the analysis of music data, with a focus on music audio. It presents in-depth studies of general approaches to the low-level analysis of audio signals, and follows these with specialised methods for the high-level analysis of music signals, including the extraction of information related to the rhythm, melody, harmony, form and instrumentation of recorded music. This is followed by an examination of the most important methods of extracting high-level musical content, sound source separation, and on analysing multimodal music data.

Dissertation in Linguistics

During this module, students (in coordination with a supervisor) will select a topic for advanced study; collect and analyze data to adequately address the chosen topic; and write a 15,000 word dissertation. Through the dissertation, students will synthesize various aspects of the knowledge they will have obtained through the degree and demonstrate their ability to conduct and present high quality original research.

Dissertation (60 credits - with IMU)

Students will use both the theoretical knowledge they acquired throughout the taught part of both programmes and the analytical skills they developed in order to tackle a research question relevant to Genomic Medicine by themselves. Undertaking a research project will involve formulating the question, acquiring and analysing the data and finally presenting and discussing results. Students will have joint supervision with the first supervisor being from the Institution at which the dissertation project will be taking place. Students will submit a thesis (~20,000 words).

Cybercrime: Substantive Offences

Internet technologies have enabled new ways of committing crimes and have moved 'old' crimes such as fraud online - this has created interesting challenges to substantive criminal law. These challenges concern both the interpretation of traditional criminal law (common law and statute based) and potential new crimes where there is a need to develop the law to close legal gaps. This Module examines substantive criminal law(s) of different jurisdictions (using the UK and the US as the main comparators) from a comparative and international perspective. It also looks at international harmonization efforts such as the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime and the EU framework for the harmonization of the law in the fields of cybercrime. The Module looks at definitions and categorisation of cybercrime; the relationships between cyberterrorims, cyberwarfare and cybercrime; content related cybercrime (such as child sex abuse images; pornography; IP infringement; terrorism propaganda (glorification and encouragement); hate speech); communication offences and harassment; online fraud and forgery; computer misuse (hacking; malicious code; interception) and illegal devices and malicious marketplaces. It will also examine the jurisdictional aspects of such criminality.

Information Security and the Law

The security of important data, including personal, is of considerable concern to governments around the world as is the safety of critical infrastructure assets, systems, and networks (both public and private) that are considered so vital that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety. Concerns about former have led to growing legal obligations to ensure the security of information and the systems that transmit and store it. Whether as part of personal data protection regimes, sector-specific regulations (e.g., healthcare, banking and finance) private law or company law obligations, these present a growing source of potential corporate liability. Concerns about the latter have produced frameworks to enable oversight and cooperation needed to manage and mitigate risks to critical infrastructure. This course examines various EU and US legal frameworks

Molecular Pathology of Solid Tumours

Introduction to Bioinformatics

This is a Core Module for the MSc in Molecular Pathology and Genomics, Bioinformatics is a new interdisciplinary area involving biological and computer sciences. As data in the major genomic databases are rising exponentially, the gap between the individual researchers and the data sets is rapidly widening making Bioinformatics a particularly important tool for biologists. Bioinformatics will enable researchers not only to manage, analyse, mine and understand the currently accumulated valuable data sets but also to integrate these in their current research program.

Regulation of Financial Markets

The module provides an overview of monetary and financial regulation drawing on a comparative study of the law in relevant financial centres in the US, UK, EU and Japan as well as on the increasing corpus of international financial `soft law¿ (such as the Basel capital rules) and considers the dynamics of financial regulation in emerging economies. The module goes beyond the description of the black letter law and explains the underlying economic and political forces which bring that law into being, analysing the interaction between law and finance. Focus is on regulatory issues, and not on contractual or transactional aspects.

International Finance Law

The purpose of the module is to examine the principal markets and main professional documentation used in the international finance and capital markets. International finance markets are key drivers in national and international economies and the new global economy. The City of London remains one of the key financial centres in the world for all of these markets and activities. This course examines the nature, function, structure, operation and importance of all of the key financial markets involved. This is essentially a private law, contract or transactional and documentation course which provides professional preparation in designing, structuring and executing all of the principal separate financial contracts involved.

International Investment Law

This module offers a comprehensive treatment of international law governing foreign investments. It identifies and analyses the sources of international investment law, such as Bilateral Investment Treaties and their content, examining the international law rules that determine investor-State relationships, and discussing their application in practice. It looks into the standards of investors¿ treatment and protection, such as Fair and Equitable Treatment, and assesses their application in arbitral practice. The aim is to familiarise students with the complexities of international investment law, enabling them to give advice about the application of investment law in specific cases.

Foreign Investments and Public Policy

This module examines the different public policy interests that guide regulation of international investments. It explores theories on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), how the law deals with FDI and in particular what is the role and objectives of international investment law. Moreover, this module examines how different legal instruments balance investment promotion and protection objectives with other regulatory interests, such as human rights and environmental protection. The aim is to enable students to critically reflect on the objectives of investment regulation and whether existing rules offer an appropriate balance of (conflicting) public policy interests.

UK Tax Avoidance

The module is designed for students who wish to gain an understanding of tax avoidance from a UK perspective. The module approaches tax avoidance firstly from a historical viewpoint and distinguishes it from both evasion and mitigation. The responses of both courts and the UK Parliament to the perceived problem are examined from the viewpoint of both individuals and businesses. Apart from judicial approaches, the General Anti-Abuse Rule will be examined as will other anti-avoidance measures, including the Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes rules. The international perspective will be explored, including the use of transfer pricing, controlled foreign companies and tax havens. The penalties that tax authorities wish to impose will also be discussed.

Tax and Technology

The module will focus on tax and technology. It will provide an introduction to domestic and international tax provisions that are important to owners of intellectual property, with a particular focus on domestic incentives to encourage investment and to attract foreign direct investment, as well as the international perspectives around harmful tax competition by countries. The module will also consider the current debates regarding a digital services tax. This module will be taught intensively over a period of 1 week in semester 3. Sem 3 is the final teaching semester taught early June to early July.

Research and Audit Methodology

This module will provide the students with detailed knowledge about research methodology. Students will learn the differences between research, audit and quality improvement. They will learn about: - Research legislation, ethics and governance; - Study design, from observational to randomised controlled studies, and translational research; - Introduction to statistics and it's appropriate use; - How to present and publish data; - How to read a paper and review the literature. And finally, how to implement research/evidence based medicine and standards of care.

Computational Engineering

Advanced Combustion in Reciprocating Engines

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.

Empirical Finance

The aim of this course is to provide a rigorous training in order to analyse financial markets and corporate decisions processes from a computational point of view. Allows Students will be taught the theory to help them to understand the applications used in EViews. Students will learn how to use specific statistical packages, how to formalize their ideas within an econometric framework and how to derive and interpret results obtained from their investigation of financial market phenomena and corporate decisions processes.

Financial Econometrics

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.

Human Resource Management

This module provides learners with a critical understanding of the internal and external contexts of contemporary organisations, including the managerial, business, regulatory, labour market and institutional contexts. It further examines the role of the HR function, HR strategy and the link between HR and organisational performance. The module also introduces the major functions of HRM including resourcing, performance management, learning and development and explores the applications in professional practice in different types of organisational scenarios (large, small, global, national, public, private). This is further achieved through additional skills workshops that engage learners in the analysis of case studies, role play and problem solving exercises.

International Finance

As the international company becomes the norm rather than the exception, the need to internationalise the tools of financial analysis is apparent. We now live in a highly integrated world economy, and it is crucial that businesses understand both the risks and opportunities that globalisation brings. This module is designed to immerse student in the international dimension of financial issues. It specifically focuses on the international aspects of financial management to appreciate the issues that international investments and money management that international operation involves.

Mental Health Law: Compulsory Detention and Treatment

The Mental Health Act (MHA) creates the legal framework in England and Wales for the compulsory detention and treatment of patients suffering from a mental disorder in a psychiatric hospital. This course will discuss the legal requirements for authorizing compulsory detention and treatment, the safeguards to protect them against arbitrary and unnecessary hospitalization, and the alternatives to hospitalization. The MHA can be used to legally detain and treat people without their consent, even when have the capacity to consent and object to detention and treatment. The question that will guide this module is whether this exception to the principle of autonomy in the context of health care is compliant with human rights law (in particular, the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Covention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities). Even though this course will focus on England and Wales, students interested in comparative and human rights approaches to mental health and the law are strongly encouraged to apply. Students interested in applying for this course are recommended, although not required, to take 'Mental Health Law: Capacity to Consent and Best Interests'.

Graduate Professional and Academic Skills

The NCM (Non-Credit Module) will assist with the written academic work, practical problems with academic development (structure, plagiarism, collusion, etc). All these initiatives are expected to pave the way to a smoother transition to Post-Graduate setting and the expectation set by the University. The Module aims to boost the skills associated with quantitative analysis and computer lab exposures using both quantitative and qualitative inputs. Moreover classes on skills development, employability, appreciation of labour market trends, exam strategy, personal development, use of University resources are offered.

Intellectual Property Law in China

Reflecting the growing importance of Chinese developments in IP, and its vital role in the current and future global market economy, this module is designed to provide an insightful study of Chinese IP law and its relevance to the international community. The seminar based module looks into China's current copyright, trademark and patent, the law, policy and enforcement in the context of trade, and identifies the diverse approaches to effective management for IP in China.

Law's Bodies: Donation, Reproduction and Dying

Law's Bodies draws on knowledge of the experience of embodiment to explain and assess different legal approaches to use of bodily parts and processes. Through consideration of the law regulating donation, reproduction and dying, we will consider the difference that embodiment makes to consent rules, the distinction between bodily gifts and commodities, and how legal regulation of consent over the body contributes to affects such as happiness.

Laparoscopy Skills

1. Laparoscopic camera manipulation 2. Laparoscopic PEG transfer 3. Laparoscopic sugar cube stacking

Investment Management

This offers a high level introduction to concepts related to investment analysis. Topics covered include valuation of financial securities; the principles of investment; portfolio analysis and management; financial market equilibrium; the CAPM and APT models; capital budgeting and risk; and market efficiency.

Investments

This course introduces students to the key principles in asset pricing and investment management. It covers risk, return and portfolio construction, focussing on equity, bond and derivatives markets.

Topics in Biological Chemistry

Research Methods for Marketing

This module will give you a basic introduction to research methods for marketing, starting with problem definition and question formulation, continuing onto selecting and designing appropriate research methodology and collecting data in various marketing circumstances, and finishing with essential data analysis with modern tools, and interpretation of that data. Finally, we will also work on essential tools for putting all of this together: how to communicate these ideas and findings to a broad audience in the form of a research report and oral presentation.

Curriculum Design and Materials Evaluation for Language Teaching

This optional optional module provides advanced knowledge in three key areas of teacher development, namely curriculum design; materials development; program and materials evaluation. The first half of the module focuses on aspects of curriculum design, including language policies and pedagogies, by exploring: historical perspectives; environmental and situational analysis; needs analysis. The module also examines the relationship between curriculum ideology and learning outcomes and how this impinges on syllabus design, the role of teachers, and materials. The second half of the module presents an overview of language program evaluation with a focus on: approaches to evaluation; evaluation practice and research; materials evaluation and multimedia materials evaluation. The module develops and deepens students' understanding of issues in curriculum development by providing practice in evaluating language curricula and language teaching materials.

Public Management and Governance

This module focuses on the political context for public management, the complex accountability pressures which public managers face, the roles they play in policy-making, as well as some of the trends in public management reform. Increasingly public services are delivered by for-profit firms and non-profit organisations. The module examines the trade-offs and implementation challenges of these arrangements. Of great interest are strategies for e-government, and we'll examine the challenges involved. The module will introduce students to key issues in budgeting which affect the work of all public managers during periods of 'austerity'. We'll explore the deepening relationships between local, national and international tiers of governance.

Project and Dissertation

The overall aim of this module, building on the Research Methods module is for the student to undertake research that shows originality in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret new information in a specialism of healthcare science. The student will undertake an original piece of research involving the application of scientific investigation to one or more clinical situations.

Critical Care and Trauma

This module will provide students with a solid background in the rapidly evolving area of critical care. In this module the students will develop an evaluative approach to critical care. Special attention will be given to "hot topics" such as shock therapy, ventilator management, infectious disease. The module will provide students with the latest evidence based in trauma care and the ability to analyze it.

Laboratory Endodontic Skills

This module is a practical module essential for the development of the skills required for competency in endodontic techniques. Students will need to demonstrate satisfactory completion of this module as a pre-requisite for the clinical module which follows this module.

Qualitative Methods in Social Sciences

The course aims to provide graduate research students with skills and tools that are relevant and useful to their PhD research. The module will explore the general nature of qualitative research but with a view to its application to the specific issues of each individual student's areas of interest. The course focuses on the main methods that qualitative researchers employ in their work and with general strategies for qualitative data analysis, including interviewing, ethnography and participant observation, discourse analysis, and the use of online and other data. Specialized sessions will focus on the qualitative analysis of language, namely conversation analysis, interactional analysis, and discourse analysis. It also examines issues that emerge when reading about and assessing qualitative research, the ethical considerations involved in the conduct of qualitative research and the development of a qualitative methodology and writing a qualitative research proposal.

Composites

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.

Cancer Biology

Independent Practical Project

"This module requires students to devise an individual project that focuses on a chosen area of performance practice. The aim of the module is for each student to raise a series of research questions that are addressed as a result of and through their practical work. This could encompass playwriting, applied drama, directing, dramaturgy, acting, new technologies, site-specific performance and live art. Working under the supervision of the module convenor and a mentor, each student will craft a professional project that also provides an opportunity for critical reflection on the processes of performance practice. Whilst the work developed on the module will be undertaken within the confines of academia, and subsequently critically rigorous, the importance of the public economy in which performance takes place will not be overlooked. In order to give focus to both creative and theoretical investigation, the module will produce a series of in-progress presentations that will be open to the public, who will be invited to follow the development of the work as it progresses. This is intended not only to invite critical commentary from the public as well as the module tutors, but also to anchor the importance of public presentation as part of artistic creation. The final assessed presentation will be produced in the context of a public festival of new work during the exam term and each student will design and create a portfolio of documentation to accompany the presentation. Both assessments (presentation and portfolio) are designed to provide public platforms for the dissemination of rigorous practice-based research while maintaining an emphasis on high standards of professional performance making."

Meaning in the Real World

The study of linguistic meaning has many real-world applications. In the areas of law, healthcare, politics and other domains of public life, one must grapple with issues such as ambiguity, vagueness, and context-sensitivity. This module will investigate how analytical tools from formal semantics can be applied in order to highlight and address a diverse range of problems in these areas. We will apply the tools from Extensional Semantics to a set of real-world cases. Examples might include legal cases involving an ambiguity in the wording of a contract, the expression of pain in healthcare settings, and recent controversies over the use of racial slurs by politicians. By conducting your own investigation of a real-world case study that raises issues about the nature of linguistic meaning, you will learn about the ways in which linguistics can shed light on contemporary societal and political issues.

Laparoscopic Suturing Skills

1. Laparoscopic Needle Handling 2. Extracorporeal Suturing 3. Intracorporeal Continuous Suturing 4. Intracorporeal Interrupted Suturing

Advanced Topics in Econometrics

Advanced Spacecraft Design: Manoeuvring and Orbital Mechanics

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.

Polymer Physics

This module presents the physical and mechanical properties of polymers in relation to their molecular structure. The module will provide an understanding of the structures of polymers and how structure affects performance and properties, will introduce and develop an understanding of transitions in polymers, such as phase transition and melt mixing and end with descriptions of functional materials.

Use of Force in International Law

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the legal framework regulating the use of force in international affairs. It examines in detail the content of the prohibition on use force in a historical context , as well as the self-defence and collective security exceptions that were explicitly provided for. The course will also examine in detail the effect of threats from terrorists and rogue states on the development of the law. Particular attention will be paid to the impact of human rights norms on the law on use of force and whether international law recognises a distinct right of humanitarian intervention. It is will also consider arguments advanced in support of a general responsibility on States to intervene militarily in support of those facing mass atrocity.

Principles of Taxation

The module covers the structure, principles, rules and application of a selection of taxes from a multi-jurisdictional and comparative perspective. In particular, the module looks at the taxation of individual income and wealth, the taxation of corporations and indirect taxation, as well as taxation at the sub-national level and tax administration. This is crucial not only for an understanding of specific domestic tax systems and the options available in designing domestic tax systems, but also to an understanding of the international tax system, which is determined by the interaction of national tax systems.

The Dental Technology Research Project

This is a core module of all the Masters Programmes offered by the Institute of Dentistry. The research project undertaken in this course gives the student real insight into the philosophy of research as well as practical experience in the process of completing a piece of original work. This module involves the following content: Self-directed study; Research; Preparation of dissertation and presentation.

Advanced Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

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.

Comedies of Desire

This module looks at Romantic Comedy in Hollywood and Europe. It concentrates on some of the most significant films made in the genre, considering them through discussions of film history, aesthetics, ideology, psychoanalysis, gender and stars.

Neuro-oncology

To provide an overview of the specific translational medicine challenges in neurooncology

Brand Management

This module takes a critical approach to Brand Management, reviewing key concepts through case studies. In so doing, it approaches the field of branding through global and comparative perspectives while interrograting key concepts through intercultural vantage points.

Environmental Properties of Materials

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.

Computational Creativity

There will be two main areas of content for this module: (i) creative AI procedures and practice and (ii) philosophical issues of Computational Creativity. The first area will cover the application of well-known AI techniques such as Deep Learning and Markov Models to generative projects, as well as ad-hoc techniques. These will be illustrated with applications in music, the visual arts and video game design, considering issues of human-computer interaction in these domains. The second area will raise and discuss questions around the value of having autonomous and semi-autonomous creative AI systems in society, drawing on philosophy, sociology, psychology and cognitive science, as well as engineering disciplines.

Quantitative Research Methods

The module provides a relatively non-technical overview of the use of statistical methods in business research. There is an emphasis on practical work and interpretation, and there will be extensive use of Stata, a statistics/econometrics package. The course covers the basic elements of: descriptive statistics, probability, sampling, inference, and multivariate regression analysis.

Computational Chemistry

Database Systems

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.

Reproductive, Pregnancy and Paediatric Endocrinology

The fourth module covers physiology and pathology of disorders of the reproductive axis, pregnancy and the growing child, . A variety of teaching and learning methods will be used to cover the molecular and clinical features of the relevant hormones, glands and their disorders. This includes normal growth and development and the physiology of puberty, disorders of growth, development and puberty. The module will also cover menstrual disorders, hirsutism, fertility, contraception, male and female gonadal dysfunction and endocrinology in gender dysphoria. In addition topics will include principles and practice of male and female hormone replacement therapy, endocrinology of normal pregnancy and the management of endocrinopathy in pregnancy. During the module, students are encouraged to attend and observe relevant clinical activities such as clinics and academic meetings and to add to module-specific sections of their reflective portfolio.

Energy Storage Engineering

This module will give students a thorough understanding of the importance of energy storage in the field of Sustainable Energy Engineering and provide them with an advanced understanding of key processes in the area of electrochemical storage such as batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells etc. The module will also address fundamental aspects of electrochemistry associated with energy storage devices and introduce the concepts of hydrogen economy, storage and utilisation. It will also cover mechanical and thermal energy storage technologies and discuss aspects related to system integration, with a particular focus on their use for the integration of renewable energy into low-carbon power systems. The module will be delivered through a series of lectures, as well as sessions focused on laboratory practicals and will feature guest lecture from industrial practitioners.

Dissertation

Endocrinology: Core Knowledge and Key Skills

This module provides the foundation of skills and knowledge required for the an understanding of clinical endocrinology. Topics covered include an overview of endocrinology, critical appraisal skills for scientific and clinical literature, principles of clinical assessment, principles of hormone release, action and omeostasis, cell surface and nuclear receptors and endocrine investigations and imaging. Design of clinical trials, use of statistics and principles of screening for endocrine disease will also be covered. During the module, students are encouraged to attend and observe relevant clinical activities such as clinics and academic meetings and to add to module-specific sections of their reflective portfolio.

Astrophysical Plasmas

"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."

The Semantic Web

The idea of putting semantic information on the Web has been around for a long time: we now have the beginnings of a practical application. This has its foundations in what is called Description Logic, which strikes a good balance between tractability and usability. This has led to a Web language called OWL, which is at the centre of modern work on the Semantic Web: there are now useful implementations, and there are workable, if modest, applications of this technology.

The State of the Novel

This module enables students to explore the relationship between formal innovation in the contemporary novel and the expression of social, political, and ethical questions. Across the module, we will encounter writers who invite readers to reflect on the cultural status, aesthetic potential, and political mission of the novel as a form. Secondary criticism and theoretical frames will be integrated as the weeks unfold. Students will be encouraged to devise and develop their own avenues of inquiry in preparation for the final assessment on a topic of their choice.

Surgical Techniques and Safety

This module introduces students to a wide range of equipment for use in surgery. It looks at the importance of electrical safety within the medical environment, and the rules governing equipment. It also aims to cover the principles of operation of a number of important monitoring devices and some of the major electronic equipment used within a surgical environment.

International Public Policy: Concepts and Practice

This module will examine the key concepts, debates, actors and processes within international public policy in the contemporary period. Concepts explored include cooperation, international law, globalisation and governance, and regionalism. The module will explore the role of various agents, including states, international organisations, regiobal organisations, private authorities and NGOs in the processes of international public policy-making. The course also examines these issues through a series of case studies, including climate change negotiations, the global financial crisis, human rights regimes, European policy-making and the International Criminal Court.

Advanced Clinical Skills and Science in Periodontology

This core module will consolidate the basic knowledge acquired in previous modules and introduce students to the more in-depth aspects of Periodontics, including Regenerative, Mucogingival surgery , Implant Dentistry and the knowledge required to manage cases needing more complex intervention such as those requiring treatment with or for dental implants, cleft palate, oral cancer or hypodontia. This module also enhances the student's ability to examine the patient, in diagnosis of presenting condition, and to formulate an appropriate treatment plan. This module will cover aspects of advanced knowledge in Periodontics and advanced clinical skills that form part of specialist training in Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry.

Extrasolar Planets and Astrophysical Discs

"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."

Security and Authentication

This module is concerned with the principles and practice used for secure communications in the Internet and aims to give students an introduction to the principles and practice of cryptography and authentication used for network security.

The EU as an International Actor

The aims of this module are to provide students with a theoretically informed understanding of the European Union's international role, the different tools through which the European Union pursues its external relations, and the historical junctures and patterns of development of its international presence.

Consolidated Clinical Skills, Multidisciplinary Care and Science in Orthodontics

This module covers all aspects of Orthodontics to a specialist level including genetics, abnormalities in growth and development and advanced clinical skills. It will cover integrated knowledge obtained from the previous two years and its application to clinical practice. This module will also cover aspects of orthodontic care in relation to other dental and medical specialties and provide clinical training in the basic Multi-disciplinary approach to a range of malocclusion.

Basic Pathology

Molecular Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Core Knowledge and Clinical skills in Prosthodontics

Information and Communications Technology and Competition Law

Information and communications technology industries are characterised by rapid change and the high costs of developing industry standard technology. Both are needed to tip the market in favour of the developer and capturing the market, is usually their goal. This, combined with the extensive use of intellectual property rights that are effectively limited monopolies, as well as new business models that change the traditional supply and distribution systems pose possible tensions with competition law and rules created over 100 years ago. This module explores the EU competition laws and enforcement and highlights their application to ICT.

Biological Therapies

Digital Media and Social Networks

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

Frame, Space, Time: Approaches to the Experience of Film

The module will explore the distinctive formal and expressive features of cinema as an audiovisual medium in relation to the experience of consuming a film. Topics to be covered include: space--the space of the film's world, and how it is organised cinematically (through shot composition, mise en scene, editing, sound, etc); frame--the world as contained (framed) within film, screen and frame, space within and outside the frame, onscreen/offscreen space; time--how film organises different forms of temporality; time--film as a time-based medium; the experience of time in film; movement--the kinaesthetics of film; engagement--how film engages us, draws us in to its world; spaces of viewing/consuming film (cinema, gallery, etc).

Medical Problems in Sport

This module covers a wide variety of medical issues in sport including cardiology and screening, overtraining and underperformance syndrome, respiratory disorders, diving, altitude, warm and cold weather medicine, dope testing, supplements, marathon medicine and diabetes.

Project and Dissertation

Stem Cell and Developmental Biology

This module aims to provide a comprehensive overview and foundation in stem cell biology, including the biological mechanisms by which stem cells regulate the processes of self-renewal and differentiation. Students will develop in depth knowledge of the complex networks that regulate stem cells, permitting critical evaluation of how deregulation can lead to disease. The module will cover topics including: basic concepts of stem cell biology, developmental origins of stem cells, comparing/contrasting different types of stem cells, biological regulation of stem cells, and the role of stem cells in cancer biology. Students will develop skills including critical analysis of scientific literature, interpretation of experimental design, evaluation of statistical analysis, and design of presentations. Essential generic skills include critical thinking, organisation, writing, and oral communication.

Solar System

"As the planetary system most familiar to us, the Solar System presents the best opportunity to study questions about the origin of life and how enormous complexity arise from simple physical systems in general. This module surveys the physical and dynamical properties of the Solar System. It focuses on the formation, evolution, structure, and interaction of the Sun, planets, satellites, rings, asteroids, and comets. The module applies basic physical and mathematical principles needed for the study, such as fluid dynamics, electrodynamics, orbital dynamics, solid mechanics, and elementary differential equations. However, prior knowledge in these topics is not needed, as they will be introduced as required. The module will also include discussions of very recent, exciting developments in the formation of planetary and satellite systems and extrasolar planets (planetary migration, giant impacts, and exoplanetary atmospheres)."

In Pursuit of Prejudice? Mutual Perceptions of Identity

Prejudice, stereotypes, and clichés often inform the representation of the Other in the media, publicand private dismodule. This module seeks to identify and assess the impact of such stereotypes on Anglo-German relations. It discusses the meaning of prejudice as "Vorverständnis" in Nietzsche's and Gadamer's terms and analyses the specificity of Anglo-German stereotypes and stereotyping. It proposes to examine prejudice and stereotypes as denominators of "Kulturanalyse" and discusses the interconnection between prejudice and identity formation. It also considers ways of making prejudice productive and of limiting its negative effects.

Anthropology and Global Health

The module will introduce key theoretical themes and concepts in anthropology which relate to global health issues. A range of topics will be presented which demonstrate how anthropologists have understood global health issues as biological, cultural and social in nature. The content will include theoretical perspectives in medical anthropology, illness narratives, biopolitics, pharmaceutical governance, health citizenship, structural violence and social suffering, medical technologies, global mental health, the anthropology of communicable and non-communicable disease, medical pluralism, and the anthropology of bioethics.

Applied Asset Pricing

This course is designed to teach students how to price products and services providing a framework for understanding pricing strategies and tactics. This course has an additional focus on pricing dynamics and reaction to and by competitors, taking a highly pragmatic approach and one that is directly applicable to your day-to-day professional life. Topics covered include economic value analysis, price elasticities, price optimisation, pricing complementary products, pricing in platform markets and anticipating competitive price responses.

Fundamentals of Game Design

This module covers the fundamental principles of game design and provides a practical introduction to the game design process, relevant to both physical and digital games. It examines games in terms of their formal and dramatic elements, and how these combine to create experiences for players. Students are guided through the process of developing their own non-digital games, from initial concept, through prototyping and playtesting, to a final design.

Asset Pricing, Trading, and Portfolio Construction

This module introduces students to key principles in asset pricing, financial trading, and portfolio construction. Key topics: 1) Risk, return, and optimal portfolios 2) Asset pricing theories, risk premia 3) Tests of asset pricing theories 4) Fixed Income markets and the term structure of interest rates 5) Derivatives

Trade Mark Law B (IPReg TMs Part B)

The module will help the student acquire a more advanced knowledge of trade marks, primarily within the UK but with reference to other jurisdictions. This module aims to cover the more specific areas of trade mark law with reference to those intending to specialise in trade marks specifically.

Fundamentals of Law and Professional Ethics (IPReg FL & PE)

This module aims to give students general knowledge of the English legal system in order to understand sources of law, the effects on intellectual property and the interaction between intellectual property and other areas of law. Students will obtain knowledge of the legal system and legal language and the ability to apply this understanding to various legal questions. Students receive a pre-teaching study pack one month prior to the start of the programme.

Real Estate Finance

Residential and commercial real estate is fundamental to bank lending and has become increasingly important as an asset class for investment banks and hedge funds. Its role at the centre of the financial system was highlighted by the 200809 financial crisis where problems in that sector led to the largest global recession since the great depression. This module aims to provide students with concepts and techniques for analysing real estate investment and financing decisions. The module covers mortgages and debt securitisation (secondary mortgages and mortgagebacked securities like CDO's), real estate investment appraisal and risk assessment, financial leverage in real estate, and alternative financing and investment vehicles, such as real estate investment trusts (REITs).

Techniques in Cell and Molecular Biology

Antibody Discovery and Applications. Bioinformatics. Cell Culture. Fixation and Processing. Immunocytochemistry. Immunofluorescence. Staining. Molecular Biology. Proteomics. Stereology

Topics in the Grammar of a Language, Family or Group

One of the great successes of linguistic theory is its capacity for insightful application to languages and language groups from all parts of the world; and applying and testing theory in this way is a major impetus to theoretical advances. This course picks one domain of linguistic theory (e.g., syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics, phonetics) and one language or language group (e.g., Arabic or Abaza, Slavic or Kiowa-Tanoan), and examines core research at intersection of the two: the syntax of Arabic, the sociolinguistics of Hebrew, the morphology of Kiowa-Tanoan. Students gain both an in-depth understanding of the language (group) and the theoretical domain in question.

Early Modern Theories of State

Dissertation (30 credits)

20,000 Word Dissertation

Write a 20,000 word dissertation on a particular topic within a subject area of the computer and communications programme. A Supervisor will be allocated according to topic. Students will have two terms to write up and submit the dissertation.

Electronics

The module will set out the fundamental principles of analogue electronics analysis and design, prior to studying applications of a range of electronics devices and subsystems, such as instrumentation amplifiers, active filters, low-noise amplifiers, feedback systems, isolation amplifiers, front-end amplifiers. Grounding and shielding and data acquisition systems will be briefly outlined. It outlines the operation of components such as diodes and transistors (BJTs and FETs) only briefly, while the main emphasis is on systems built and based on amplifiers.

Omics Techniques and their Application to Genomic Medicine

Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences

The course aims to provide graduate research students with skills and tools that are relevant and useful to their PhD research. The module will cover general quantitative and statistical methods but with a view to its application to the specific issues of each individual student's areas of interest. The course focuses on research design, measurement, data handling, quantitative description, statistical inference, hypothesis-testing, and analysis of bivariate and multivariate data. Specialized sessions will focus on the quantitative analysis of sociolinguistic data, including collection and analysis of sociolinguistic interviews and other data and statistical approaches used in variationist sociolinguistics.

Clinical Measurements

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

Information Technology Outsourcing

Business and governments view outsourcing of information and communications technology equipment and services as a means to allow them to focus on their core functions, while maximising their effectiveness and efficiency through integration of the latest technology. This module explores the legal issues surrounding outsourcing arrangements including: the transfer of employees; legal due diligence for asset and intellectual property transfers; the ongoing management of the long-term contract; the establishment of enforceable performance criteria and mechanisms to manage change and; the termination of the contract and return of in-house function or transition to new supplier.

Economics of Competition Law

The aim of this module is to ensure that students have an appreciation of the underlying economics employed in antitrust and merger enforcement. This module seeks to give students a thorough grounding in the essentials of economic analysis in competition law and to prepare students for issues likely to arise in the enforcement of competition legislation. Although this is an advanced module, no previous knowledge of the subject is required. In addition, the module does not require prior knowledge of economics or advanced mathematics. The module takes a very practical approach with a number of case studies and always with an eye to the real world implications of the use of economics in competition enforcement. Guest lecturers will provide their practical experience and the challenges they face in the use of economics in competition enforcement.

Machine Learning for Visual Data Analysis

The module will cover the following topics: The Discrete Fourier Transform and the frequency content of images. The design and use of Gabor filters. Principal Component Analysis for denoising and compression. Unsupervised classification via feature space clustering. Texture segmentation with Gabor filters.

Insurance Regulation

This module deals with the regulation of insurance. It will look at the nature of risk in insurance business, the international standards on regulation and their influence on the shape of EU law and UK law, and in detail at the UK's approach to regulation, covering the structure of the regulator and the rules that are applied to regulation of insurance business (both those companies that provide insurance and intermediaries who facilitate insurance contracts) focusing inter alia on macro and micro prudential requirements & solvency rules, conduct of business rules and the resolution of systemically important insurers (financial resolution).

From Morpheme to Meaning

Current generative theory has developed a model of the interaction between structure, morphological form, and meaning which takes the syntax to provide the central system with which morphophonology and semantics interface. This idea has been mainly developed in primary technical literature by Chomsky, Marantz, Borer, Kayne, Cinque, Ramchand, Adger and others. The module systematically develops an understanding of what this architecture for language implies for analyses of crucial phenomena: clause and nominal structure, predication, syntactic dependencies, language variation, through a critical exploration of the relevant literature. It also develops students' skills of syntactic argumentation, and the presentation of these arguments to professional audiences.

Bowel Anastomosis Skills

This module will introduce the learner to the theoretical and practical knowledge relating to bowel anastomosis. Student will become familiar with use of surgical stapling devices. The theory topics covered focus on understanding principles of performing safe bowel anastomosis including: Preprocedural Planning; Equipment; Patient Preparation; Intestinal Anastomosis Technique; Dealing with complications. Practical Exercise: Bowel Anastomosis on Virtual Reality

Dissertation

The dissertation forms an important part of the assessment of the MSc Programmes, carrying a weighting of four modules i.e. one third of the entire Programme. The dissertation requires a demonstration of ability to carry out an original investigation into an area of interest. As such, the process should reflect skills of formulating research questions, synthesising and analysing data, drawing insights and conclusions, and written communication. Students will be required to conduct an investigation of an issue relevant to the content of the Programme of which it forms a component. Students will be guided through the dissertation process by a supervisor. To prepare you for the dissertation, students are required to take the compulsory Research Methods module.

Introduction to Marketing Theory and Concepts

This module gives an advanced outlook on marketing as a field of inquiry. It is providing students on the MSc in Marketing with a theoretical foundation of theories and concepts of marketing, which allows them in their subsequent studies to understand and situate more specialised aspects of marketing (e.g. consumer behaviour, brand management, or business relationships and networks). Special emphasis is given to understanding current academic debates in the field. This means students are expected to read articles in leading marketing journals.

Computer Programming

This module provides an introduction to the principles of programming in the context of designing and constructing complete programs. Programming techniques will be introduced and practical work will form an integral part of the course and of the assessment of students. The first half of the course will concentrate on program structures. The second half will cover representation of abstract types such as lists and trees using the types such as records and arrays provided in imperative programming languages.

International Reward Management

Reward management is one of the key components of human resource management. It is one of the most sensitive and problematic areas of people management that poses additional issues when cast in an international setting. The course starts by giving students a theoretical grounding before applying this knowledge to issues such as payment systems, executive compensation, equal pay, payment structures and pay negotiations. These issues are examined from an organisational and international perspective with topical case studies and practical examples.

Programming in C++ for Finance

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.

Intellectual Property in the United States

The course will introduce students to US IP law and will predominantly cover the protection of registered rights in the US such as patents and trade marks, but will also examine other important areas such as copyright law, design patents and publicity rights as well as aspects of IP licensing. The course will provide students with a basic understanding of the fundmantal structures and principles applying in US law. It will also enhance the general perception of IP rights from a comparative perspective, and emphasis is placed therefore on those rules and principles that deviate from the law in the UK and the European Union. Please note that there will not be weekly lectures but that the course will be running as an intensive course over a period of two weeks,

Applied Finance with Eviews

The module is intended to offer a deep understanding of the EViews software. There are no prerequisites for the course, since it will cover the topics from introductory level to more advanced material. The students will learn how to use the software through practical examples. The topics will follow closely the material covered in econometrics modules to provide practical applications to the theory developed in those courses.

Sex, Gender and Language

In this module, we explore the development of feminist and queer theoretic conceptualizations of identity and how these conceptualizations relate to language. Drawing on foundational texts in philosophy, literary theory, sociology and cultural studies in addition to linguistics, we interrogate the position of women and men in society through the prism of linguistic practice, and work to develop a holistic account of the ways in which individual speakers negotiate social and ideological pressures in their construction and presentations of gendered and sexual selves. Students will gain hands-on experience in conducting original research on a sex- and/or gender-related topic, and special emphasis will be placed on linking academic research in this area to finding solutions for the real-world problems that women and men may face.

Applied Corporate Finance

In this module we are going to explore how firms finance their activities and the resulting capital structure. We will consider the circumstances where the choice of the source of funding is irrelevant and those in which the choice of capital structure can affect the firm value, due to tax considerations or informational frictions, for example. We will then explore how the global environment affects firms¿ financial policies. In the final part of the module we will talk about the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the value of the corporations involved.

Valuation

Valuation is at the heart of many areas of finance such as valuebased investing, mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings. This course introduces students to company valuation. Starting with the estimation and forecasting of free cash flows it shows students how to value a company as the present discounted value of its future cash flows. It will also introduces other valuation tools such as use of multiples and real options. The course strongly emphasizes practical applications of these valuation tools.

Thinking Translation

Interest in translation studies has intensified in recent years, not least because writers and critics return time and again to the implications of transfer between languages or indeed between different media. At the heart of the debates are the recurring themes of identity and difference, statement and repetition, 'original' and reproduction. A primary area of inquiry is the exploration of the scope and limitations of translation and of the ambiguous area where the translated text seems to depart from its own nature and become `original' writing.

Free Movement of Persons in the European Union

"This module examines the rules concerning the free movement of Union citizens and their families in the European Union. It traces the evolution of these rules from their economic origins to their current conceptualisation as citizenship rights. The first half of the module will provide a detailed analysis of the general framework of EU internal migration rights. In the second half, we will consider the application of these rules in particular situations or to particular categories of individuals (eg: professionals, students, patients, posted workers). Indicative list of topics that might be covered include: concept of Union citizenship; scope of EU internal migration law; wholly internal situations; the right to enter, leave and reside in another EU Member State ; equal treatment and access to work and welfare in the host state; derogations from free movement."

Understudied Languages and Linguistic Theory

The diversity of the world's languages is of crucial importance to linguistic theory. Linguistic theory developed primarily with reference to data from major world languages (English, Japanese, French, etc.) nonetheless frequently yields rapid and deep insight into understudied languages from diverse families. In this course, we will work with a speaker of such a language, eliciting data, forming generalisations, and testing and explaining these in light of current linguistic theory. The course is, therefore, a practicum-style approach to formal linguistics.

Applied Wealth Management

The module looks at modern wealth management. Students will study the regulatory framework governing firms and individuals in the wealth management industry. The various asset classes (such as money markets, bonds, equities, property, hedge funds etc) will be examined and how they can be combined in wealth portfolios. The utilisation of pensions and insurance solutions will also be discussed as well as the areas of philanthropy and ethical investing.

Energy Economics Legal Perspective

This module introduces students to the fundamentals of energy economics. It looks at specific case studies to elaborate on factors faced by government policymakers towards energy. The module will consider the economics of different energy resources, law and economics as well as the economics of innovation in the energy sector. The impact of economic incentives in the energy markets is also considered.

Further Group Theory

This module provides an introduction to advanced group theory. The aim is to explore the theory of finite groups by studying important examples in detail, such as simple groups. In particular, the projective special linear groups over small fields provide a rich vein of interesting cases on which to hang the general theory.

Masterclass in Business Analytics

The Masterclass in Business Analytics introduces students to current industrial and commercial business analytics practices. This is done through three components: 1. A hands-on experience with industry-popular Machine-Learning software packages; 2. Descriptions of recent Big-Data projects, initiatives and business models from leading corporations and organisations; and 3. Direct interaction with London-based industry experts through class presentations.

Advanced Cosmology

This module covers advanced concepts of modern cosmology, and in particular will introduce the student to cosmological perturbation theory. It discusses the observed structure of the universe, how these structures formed, and how they can be used to test our theories and models of the universe. The module will also discuss recent and upcoming experiments and large scale structure surveys and their relevance for cosmology.

Final Project

Launching in semester two of your programme and running the course of the summer, the Final Project module guides you to deepen your research skills and realise an ambitious, high-production, festivals-ready documentary film drawing on the methods and modes given attention to over the duration of the MA. The documentary film production is supported by a research portfolio and an academic essay in giving detailed and theoretically informed context to the topic and the form of the film produced.

Plant Taxonomy and Diversity

This module will provide an overview of global plant diversity, with a particular focus on flowering plants. It will be taught at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by leading botanists, affording students the opportunity to explore the outstanding collections and facilities housed there. Topics will range from taxonomic principles and methodology, plant systematics and comparative biology (including morphology, chemistry and genomics), phylogenetics, biogeography and evolution. The module will have a practical component, providing excellent hands-on experience for students.

Legal Principles and Concepts in Computer and Communications Law

This Module will provide non law students with the fundamental principles and concepts of the core legal subjects of tort, contract, criminal law, administrative/constitutional and property law. The Module will introduce these subjects to the students and also explain the connections and differences between different areas of law (eg private-public law) and the wider legal system (eg the national and international layers; civil law and case law). The principles and concepts will be explained by using examples and cases from the Computer and Communications Law field. The students will learn to apply and critically analyse the legal principles in these fields to the subject area of computer and communications law.

Research Seminar

Students are to prepare power point presentation on a topic with in the programme area and present this at the Residential Weekend. In addition students will have to write a 5,000 word paper on the topic. Students will be allocated a Supervisor to assist with the preparation.

Minimally Invasive Dentistry

The underlying biochemical and physicochemical mechanisms of clinical dental prevention methods How protective mechanisms against hard dental tissues diseases exist in the oral environment and how these can be used to prevent the disease. The progress of hard dental tissue diseases and learn about existing and novel detection methods. How novel biomaterials are developed mimicking oral environment.

Latin for MA students

This is a course in classical Latin, with emphasis on its role in political, scientific and philosophical writings in different historical periods through to the nineteenth century. It is suitable for complete beginners, but will also provide a thorough revision course for students who already have some knowledge of Latin.

Competition and Regulation in EU Healthcare Markets

"This module examines how EU competition rules and regulatory principles and processes affect healthcare markets. We will look at internal market rules primarily from the perspective of corporate actors (whether public or private) rather than individual patients and healthcare professionals. We will consider the legal regime for the placing of medicines and medical products on the market, market surveillance and product liability regimes as well as the application of competition law rules in this sector. Indicative list of topics that might be covered include: free movement of health goods and services in the European Union: general principles and intellectual property issues; pharmaceutical products: clinical trials and marketing authorisations; medical devices and human tissues; post market policies (vigilance, advertising and product liability); applicability of competition rules to the healthcare sector; cartels and abuses of dominant position; use of intellectual property rights and competition law; Services of General Economic Interest and competition law; state aids and public procurement in the healthcare sector."

New Medical Technologies: Emerging Technologies

"This module introduces the ethical, social and regulatory issues arising in the context of selected emerging technologies in healthcare. The choice of technologies will vary from year to year, as the emphasis of the course is on new challenges in technology and regulation. Technologies to be covered in any given year might include clinical genomics, human genome editing in human reproduction, personal genome sequencing for non-medical uses, social media and Big Data analytics in health, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications in health, novel neurotechnologies, and behaviour modification technologies in public health. The module seeks to be responsive to student interests as they may vary from year to year."

International Merger Control: Special Topics

Within the field of competition law, merger control has attracted special attention. The reason for this attention can be found in the special nature of mergers as a business phenomenon, especially when compared with other business phenomena, such as abuse of dominance by firms or cartel activities. The process of relentless globalisation which has been developing since the 1990s has meant that merger operations can produce an effect on the conditions of competition in more than one jurisdiction. This means that, quite inevitably, regulatory approval in more than one jurisdiction may need to be sought. Such a consequence - as is widely accepted ¿ can give rise to uncertainty for the firms concerned and cause huge expense and significant delay. Those who are involved in advising business firms in a merger situation are also not immune from the uncertainty when merger operations have to be notified to more than one competition authority. Often legal advisors have to answer extremely difficult questions in merger cases, such as whether notification of the merger to the competition authorities in one or more jurisdictions is necessary or mandatory or even desirable; which authorities need to be notified; what is required for this purpose and how to go about notifying the authorities concerned; and how will the authorities assess the merger, including any relevant time framework within which they will operate and ultimately reach a decision in a given case. The Module will aim at a thorough examination of the highly important phenomena of international mergers and their regulation worldwide. The focus of the Module will be on special topics including: government intervention and national champions; the treatment of conglomerate effects from practical perspective, merger remedies among others. The Module will be taught in a very practical manner, to reflect the very nature of the topic. A highly interesting range of case studies and the knowledge and expertise of practitioners in the field will be a key aspect of the course. The Module should prove to be attractive for students attending other competition law courses and those with an `international¿ dimension in other areas of commercial orientation on the LLM.

Advanced Law and Economics

The course aims at showing the students how economics interacts with the law so they can develop economic based legal argument or develop their own research. The module builds on the Law & Economics module. This module further into other areas of the Law and other concepts in Law and Economics. First, this course looks at the Law and Economics of Property Law and discusses nuisance, externalities, and the Coase theorem. Second, the courses investigates Intellectual Property Law and dives into public good and incentive theory. Third, this course looks at the Law and Economics of Contract Law and the Efficient Contract Theory. Finally, this course looks at the Law and Economics of Corporate Law including the Principal-Agent problem and Evolutionary Law and Economics Theory applying this to Forum Selection.

Law of Geographical Indications

Geographical indications (GIs) recognise the provenance and heritage of products, especially food and drink. The GI provides registered products with protection against imitation; and protects consumers from being misled about the geographical origin or quality of goods. They are important to the economy and environment of rural regions. GIs, such as Scotch Whisky, Parmigiano Reggiano or Darjeeling Tea, have become a valuable form of collective intellectual property. This module is intended for those involved in the drafting of specifications for the registration of GIs; or the formulation of regulations governing GIs; or the complementary administration of trade mark systems; or more generally, in the devising socio-economic policy for rural regions. The module will focus on EU law for the regulation of GIs; while having due regard to the comparative relationship other influential jurisdictions, including those of India and China; and by way of contrast, to the means by which GIs are protected as trade marks in the United States (US). The module will examine the substantive and procedural law relating to the EU regulation of GIs including the definition and eligibility of geographical names for registration; control or inspection obligations; enforcement and; the inter-relationship of GIs with trade marks. The module will consider the international enforcement of GIs, especially the way in which the competing models of EU and US regulation might be further harmonised within trade agreements; as well as possible approaches to future agreement between the UK and the EU concerning the recognition and protection of GIs following the withdrawal of the UK from the EU.

Multi-platform Game Development

This module covers the fundamentals of game development in a multi-platform (consoles, PC, Web and mobile devices) environment. The course focuses on development of 3D games, covering all aspects of game development: the game loop, math, physics, audio, graphics, input, animations, particle systems and artificial intelligence. This module has a strong programming content, required for laboratories and assignments. The practical aspects will be taught using a popular game development platform. The main assignment of this module consists of the development of a full game at the student's choice.

Marketing Management

This module is meant to provide an outlook on marketing as a sub-discipline of management studies. It is providing students on the MSc in Management a with a theoretical foundation of theories and concepts of marketing management which allows them in their subsequent studies to understand and situate more specialised aspects of marketing (e.g. consumer behaviour, social and political marketing, or business relationships and networks). Special emphasis is given to understanding current academic debates in the field. This means students are expected to read articles independently in leading marketing journals.

Religion and the Age of Enlightenment

`The Enlightenment¿ was once confidently described an intellectual movement of eighteenth-century Parisian philosophes whose express aim was to annihilate the religious interpretation of life. In recent decades scholars have attempted to undo this dramatic if simplistic picture of an `Enlightenment Project¿ aiming at the creation of secular modernity, replacing the thesis of antagonism with one of mutual support across the globe. This course encourages students to assess this shift by studying some of the leading texts and controversies during the age of Enlightenment.

Introduction to Software Engineering

The main focus of this module is software engineering and systems analysis. Students will learn about system complexity and the special challenges of building software systems. They will learn how to analyse system and software requirements, produce object-oriented designs, and learn the principles of how to plan, manage and test systems. Content covers: Systems Analysis Requirements capture and analysis Use cases; UML for use-cases Object oriented design; UML for class diagrams Project management Software lifecycle Quality assurance and testing

Language Policy and Language Planning

This module provides students with an advanced exploration of the of the field of Language Policy and Language Planning. We will learn the various theories that have been proposed to account for phenomena such as language maintenance and language death, and we will describe the different kinds of policy applications that these theories have. Case studies from around the world will be scrutinized in order to impart to students different modes of language policy and planning that have been effective in the past. Our discussion of policy and planning issues will also be informed by a critical examination of language attitudes as it has been described and theorized in both linguistics and social psychology.

10,000 Word Dissertation

Write a 10,000 word dissertation on a particular topic within a subject area of the computer and communications programme. A Supervisor will be allocated according to topic. Students will have two terms to write up and submit the dissertation.

Enabling Communication Technologies for IoT

This module provides a comprehensive study of the major communication technologies that enable applications on Internet of Things. This module comes as a response to the increasing commercial and research interest in smart everywhere applications, like smart grid, smart city, smart home, industrial automation, telemetry, etc. This module covers the technologies that allow the formation of a network for autonomous communication and processing between devices that supply the vital information, such as sensing and identification for the smart applications . Topics include: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID); Near Field Communication (NFC); Wireless Sensor Networks: covering its major concepts in node sensing, wireless transmission characteristics, medium access protocols, and routing protocols; Wireless Personal Area Networks such as the ones using IEEE802.15.4 standard, Zigbee, Zwave; Low Power Wide Area Networks such as LoRa and Sigfox systems; and Power line communications.

Indirect Taxation

The module will consider the tax policy, system design and technical issues involved in indirect taxation, with a particular emphasis on value added and goods and services tax regimes. It will look at the construction of the tax base, tax rates and the operation of VAT/GST regimes in the cross-border context. It will consider the move to destination based indirect taxation and the recent expansion of indirect taxes in China, India and other jurisdictions. The module will also look at customs duties and other indirect taxes.

Learning Languages: Second Language Acquisition

"Learning Languages: Second Language Acquisition" is the second of two compulsory modules on the MA in Language Teaching. You will undertake a comprehensive overview of theories and current research into second language acquisition. In addition, you will have opportunity to put language learning strategies into practice by studying a language which is not your own. You can choose from: French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Japanese or Mandarin (subject to availability and timetabling). Proficiency in the chosen language is not assessed, but you are required to reflect on the learning strategies that you use while studying the language. The module explores: the history of language learning; goals of language teaching; the L2 user and the native speaker; individual learner differences; motivation and aptitude; learner strategies; multiple intelligences and multi-competences; group dynamics; general models of L2 learning; the interaction approach; socio-cultural SLA theory.

International Commercial Arbitration

This is an introductory module on the law and practice of international commercial arbitration. This one-semester module is aimed at students who do not specialise in dispute resolution and therefore does not require prior knowledge of the subject. However, the module may still be suitable for those not specialising in dispute resolution, but have some knowledge of the topic and would like to explore it in some further detail. This module will consider most of the key themes covered in the specialist arbitration modules but in less detail.

Dissertation in Competition Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Robotics

Primary Care Capacity Building: Leadership and Learning

High quality primary health care is the cornerstone of a universal, equitable and efficient health system. Many countries are seeking to shift from a hospital-led health care system to one characterised by a greater degree of healthcare delivery in community settings, based on systems of primary care delivered by multidisciplinary teams. Building and sustaining capacity to deliver appropriate primary care for different populations requires a range of critical skills, knowledge and practical attributes. This vision for developing primary care is widely held but depends critically on capacity building to produce research leaders, educators, and policy-makers. Healthcare planners and leaders need to respond to local epidemiological, political, economic, demographic, workforce and socio-cultural phenomena. Developing capacity for the 21st century demands transformative skills in leadership and learning to achieve maximum potential health gain in the face of shifting burdens of disease, workforce and population mobility, environmental changes, availability of evidence and information technologies. This module is aimed at students likely to be involved in primary care development as healthcare professionals and policy makers. Whether from high income, low income or situations of stress, graduates will be equipped with knowledge and capabilities in leadership , quality improvement and education to scale up and enhance flexible primary care teams and workforce.

Planetary Health and International Health Policy

This module will introduce the student to historically grown concepts of ecological global health. It gives an overview of scientific background on planetary boundaries in relation to health and sustainable development, allowing people to comprehend and apply the analysis to case studies. The module will begin with a human rights approach to health and environmental justice as a tool for critical analysis of the complex interrelationship of historically grown political, economic, cultural and social factors that have impacted the planetary system, putting health of people at risk. It will engage with public policy, international relations, health centred global environmental governance and medical anthropological approaches to health and environment to provide students with the necessary tools to engage in current local, national, regional and global affairs.

International Business Analysis

International Business is about business or firms engaging in intercontinental (cross-border) economic activities and trading transactions and/or the activity of doing business abroad. In this module students would be expected to understand the nature of international business and key analytical techniques for the operation of a business in a global setting. This module will involve developing a critical understanding of the key techniques that can be employed to support the allocation of corporate resources within an international sphere of operation.

Introduction to Bioethics

"This module introduces the main theoretical questions and frameworks in modern bioethics. Bioethics is a field of inquiry concerned with the ethical, legal, social, professional and policy questions relating to technological and other innovations and practices in healthcare, with particular reference to human health and wellbeing. It stands in an important critical dialogue with medical law and ethics. This module introduces the theories and methods of bioethics, and although it can stand alone, it is also preparatory to the subsequent New Medical Technologies and the Law 2 and 3 modules. Topics will include: the history of the field of bioethics; the main intellectual approaches in bioethics including principlism, consequentialism, feminist bioethics and approaches to justice; and key methodological approaches in bioethics research."

Advanced Intellectual Property Issues: Protection of Computer Software

The first chapter provides a technical overview of software, aimed at the non-technical reader. The law of confidential information and trade secrets is then examined, and it's suitability to the software industry is assessed. The module then deals with copyright law, considering the unique characteristics of computer programs as literary works and the consequences these characteristics bring about. Patent law is examined as a vehicle for software protection, and the main difficulties that arise from the unique nature of software are highlighted. Finally, there is an examination of the main forms of software licensing, including the non-IP alternative model of open source licensing.

Investment Treaty Arbitration: Foundations, Jurisdiction and Procedure

Introduction to Syntax

This module provides an introduction to one of the core sub-fields of linguistics. How is it that the grammar of any given language can produce an infinite array of sentences? Syntax is concerned with describing the system that underlies our knowledge of grammatical structure. You will be introduced step-by-step to the tools of syntactic analysis, and will learn to apply that knowledge through problem solving exercises, working with data from a variety of well-known and unfamiliar languages The module is suitable for MA students without substantial prior background in Linguistics, or for those who want to branch out into a new sub-field.

Activist Film

This module examines films that can be considered activist - a body of work that engages issues of social and political significance. These varied films are driven by the activism of their filmmakers, their protagonists and through the films' direct participation in activism. Using artistic, ideological, socio-cultural, historical, technological, and practical frameworks to examine activist filmmaking this course will explore how the cinema and activism interact. This is a theory/practice module and will include the production of a short film.

Dissertation in Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Creative and Critical Writing

This optional module for the English MA explores creative and critical writing across multiple literary forms, including nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and dramatic and visual writing. The module focuses on the ways in which the co-mingling of criticism and creative forms can produce new expressive and epistemological modes and genres. It introduces students to theoretical, methodological, and practical frameworks for understanding and producing creative and critical texts, and texts operating at the intersection of multiple disciplinary fields. It will combine seminar-style discussion and writing workshops.

Dissertation in Human Rights Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in Insurance Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in Energy and Natural Resources Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Introduction to Semantics

This module provides an introduction to one of the core sub-fields of linguistics. How is it that we can understand sentences that we have never heard before? Semantics is concerned with describing the system that underlies our knowledge of meaning. You will be introduced step-by-step to the tools of semantic analysis, and will learn to apply that knowledge through problem solving exercises. The module is suitable for MA students without substantial prior background in Linguistics, or for those who want to branch out into a new sub-field.

Communications Systems

This module provides a broad background to communications systems and the associated underlying theory. The module will provide an introduction to the generic communication system model, and how it is affected by noise. This will also include switching networks, PCM and SQNR, voice over packet. It will cover and introduction to information: the information measure, entropy and the binary symmetric channel model; coding: for compression and for error detection and correction.

Drug Development

Understanding and Managing Human Resources for Global Health

In this module, students will be introduced first to working definitions of human resources for health (HRH), health system management and health policies, and their relevance for achieving Sustainable Development Goals. Drawing from health systems research, management and economic theory, an overview of health and labour markets concepts will usher the discussion of appropriate tools for planning and managing health workforces in low- and high-income settings. Models to forecast HRH demand and supply will be explained, as well as quantitative methods to analyse health personnel's geographical distribution across services. Training and education systems for health personnel will be considered; particular emphasis will be given in strategies to recruit and retain health personnel in undeserved areas.

Romanticism and Genre

Studying a wide range of texts from 1760 to 1830, this module examines the formal innovations of Romantic literature but also the fascination with archaic genres such as ballad, epic and national song, whose revival and transformation made Romanticism a 'retro' movement as well as a revolutionary one. The module analyses Romantic theories of genre alongside historical examples, while investigating too the 'poetics of the book': the publishing processes and paratextual practices through which experiments with form and format took concrete shape.

Art and Intellectual Property

This module will examine the interplay between art and intellectual property, in particular copyright, including digital issues. The module will involve a comparative approach, looking in depth at the protection of intangible rights in the UK, before comparing this with the regimes of other countries (namely France and the United States). the module will focus on the related intellectual property rights that impact the art trade: moral rights and the artists' resale right. The module will then look specifically at museum and gallery practice to see the effect of the 2014 UK copyright changes. This will cover the two 'orphan works' schemes, extended collective licensing and the new copyright exceptions, many of which are aimed specifically at the museum and heritage sector

Dissertation

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Trade Mark Law (IPReg TMs)

5G Mobile and Beyond

This module covers the fundamentals of 5G mobile telecommunication, including: Standardisation, Air interface, Waveforms, MIMO methods, Densification, SON and backhaul technologies, Cooperative communication.

Animal Law,Welfare and Trade

Animal Law and Welfare is of considerable and growing importance, particularly in the areas of trade and development, access and equality, welfare and criminal liability, public liability, and health. This module brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from behaviour studies, welfare, economics, and law in order to consider a range of issues in domestic animal welfare, including companion animal law and welfare, ownership and liability, shelters and rescue, breeding industries and the commercial pet industry, farm animal welfare and trade, science and research. The course develops an evidence-based approach to legislative practice, policy and development.

EU Competition Law and Practice

This module (along with the prerequisite module 'EU Competition Law') aims at a comprehensive study of the basic provisions of European Union (EU) competition law. The Module will provide participants with a flavour of the economic and market context in which EU competition law, especially Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and EU Merger Regulation 139/2004 are applied. The Module will aim to consider an important business phenomena in the market namely abusive dominance and mergers. It is hoped that by the end of the Module participants will gain a solid understanding of the relevant competition rules of the EU whilst developing a good business and market perspective and practical approach in order to help them identify situations in which such phenomena may arise and how should these phenomena be addressed.EU competition law is based on the rules contained in Articles 101-109 of the Treaty on The Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and upon subsequent secondary legislation. The focus of the Module will be however on Article 102 TFEU and Regulation 139/2004. The Module will however consider where relevant and appropriate other provisions of EU competition law, especially Article 101 TFEU. EU competition law is based on the rules contained in Articles 101-109 of the Treaty on The Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and upon subsequent secondary legislation. The focus of the Module will be however on Article 102 TFEU and Regulation 139/2004. The Module will however consider where relevant and appropriate other provisions of EU competition law, especially Article 101 TFEU. EU competition rules are applied by the Directorate General (DG COMPETITION (COMP)) of the European Commission, the Directorate in charge of competition matters; there is also shared competence with designated national competition authorities (NCAs) in relation to the application of Articles 102 (and 101) TFEU. Decisions of the Commission are the principal means of enforcement in competition cases. The Commission¿s decisions are subject to review by the General Court of the EU (GCEU) (formerly the Court of First Instance (CFI)) and the Court of Justice of the EU/European Court of Justice (CJEU/ECJ). This has created an extensive case-law in competition law matters and reference will be made to this case law. In addition to considering substantive issues, the Module will also deal with relevant procedural mechanisms, sanctions etc. Particular attention will be given to questions of practice under Regulation 1/2003.

Plant and Fungal Taxonomy, Diversity and Conservation Research Project

This module involves a novel piece of research, typically combining field sampling or use of Kew's biological collections, experimentation, laboratory work, and data analysis. Students can benefit from close alignment with current PhD or Post Doctoral research within specific research groups, both at QMUL and in RBG Kew. The diversity of expertise of lecturers involved with the programme means that high quality supervision can be found for a broad range of studies in plant and fungal biology, ecology and evolution.

Paediatric Dermatology, Cutaneous Surgery and Drug Reactions

It offers the student detailed tuition regarding the diagnosis and management of paediatric dermatology, dermatological surgery and wound healing, with a comprehensive overview of cutaneous manifestations of drug reactions.

International Economics

This module will analyse the causes and consequences of international trade. To this end, we will learn the theoretical tools necessary to understand why countries trade, which goods are traded, which are the gains from trade and who enjoys them, and why multinational corporations may arise. The theoretical results will be confronted with data by reviewing the related empirical literature. Next, we will address the reasons why countries may have an incentive to restrict or regulate international trade and study the tools of trade policy.

Care of Women and Children

Year 2 begins with Care of Women and Children. This module will deliver a comprehensive exposure to the specific health needs of women throughout their lives as well as caring for children and the unique skills and knowledge required to do so. You will explore the various stages of human development from conception difficulties to puberty. Many students find this an exhilarating experience; being part of and witnessing the anticipation of a new human life coming into the world can be very rewarding. Equally, the loss of child can be the darkest moment of someone¿s life. These experiences can have a profound effect on a professional¿s future career choices. You will spend time learning theory before clinical placements in gynaecology, community obstetrics, sexual health and paediatrics.

Multimedia Materials Development for English Language Teaching

This module provides a comprehensive introduction to the pedagogical applications of multimedia materials and digital learning in English language teaching. The core syllabus covers key developments in the field, including critical analysis of multimedia content, pedagogical task design, content creation and delivery, digital communication, and approaches to synchronous and asynchronous on-line teaching. During the course, participants develop their own sets of digital multimedia lesson materials, thus gaining a wide range of practical skills needed to become confident English Language Teachers in the digital domain.

The Basis of Gastro-Intestinal Disease

The Business of Film

This module deals with intellectual property and the international film industries, including the transformative environment of digital technology and user-generated content, through a consideration of protection and commercialisation in key jurisdictions and markets. Topics include the development of a film prospectus, ancillary rights, financing and alternative funding (including crowdfunding models and fan-based theories), development and production, distribution, merchandising and co-branding, film franchises and adaptations, censorship, titles and credits, cast and performers.

Organising in the Creative and Cultural Industries

Explores the multiple organisational forms in the creative and cultural industries to give students critical and practical tools to organise in the creative economies. Rooted in the ethical mission of the School of Business and Management, the organising methods and organisational forms and behaviours common and emergent in the creative industries and cultural sector will be explored through an interdisciplinary understanding of creative ecologies and their political and economic networks.

Dissertation for Management

The dissertation forms an important part of the assessment of the MSc Management Programme, carrying a weighting of four modules (60 credits), i.e., one third of the entire Programme. The dissertation requires a demonstration of ability to carry out an original investigation into an area of interest. As such, the process should reflect skills of formulating research questions, synthesising and analysing data, drawing insights and conclusions, and written communication.

Dissertation for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Alternative Dispute Resolution: Selected Issues

This module seeks to explore specialised issues arising in dispute resolution processes that are alternative to conventional forms of adjudication. The module will examine selected issues in ADR and may include issues dealing with confidentiality and enforcement, issues of globalization and transplantation of ADR systems, ethics and morality in ADR, special areas of ADR application (for example, on-line dispute resolution), role of lawyers, the professionalisation of ADR, system design, for example. ADR is a vibrant area of scholarship; it is impossible to give 'yes' or 'no' answers to most of the issues arising in scholarship. Therefore the module will employ a critical thinking and open discussion approach. It is expected that students will be willing to share the results of their analysis, research and supported opinions, and be involved in active discussion of all issues.

Properties of Dental Materials/Processing Methods II

This is a core module delivered in the Master of Sciences (MSc) in Dental Technology and Dental Materials (the latter jointly accommodated by the Institute of Dentistry, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and the School of Engineering and Materials Science). This module is designed to ensure students gain in depth knowledge of the composition and essential properties (eg physical, chemical and biological) of clinical dental materials based on metals, ceramics/glasses, and polymers. Application of clinical dental materials and appropriate processing techniques are also thoroughly examined.

Intellectual Property and Fashion: Art and Culture

This interdisciplinary module brings a range of perspectives to the analysis of intellectual property law in the fashion and design industries, including business sociology and knowledge management, art history and fashion theory, fan theory and fashion tribes, and economic and cultural aspects. Students will understand and analyse fundamental interactions between protection frameworks, the creative process, and the fashion customer, analysing critically the social, political and legal aspects of the industry and its interaction with other cultural forms. The course equips students with the skills to identify and manage intellectual property in fashion practice and to analyse critically policy aspects of the fashion industries and the interaction with the law.

Interactive Entertainment Law

Interactive Entertainment Law analyses some of the legal, commercial, contractual and regulatory issues that the Games and Interactive Entertainment industry faces in. It delineates and analyses the legal parameters within which developers and publishers operate and in which players create and consume content, providing students with an in-depth analysis of the industry from the development to the commercialisation of interactive entertainment products.

International Economic Law

The module examines the law that governs international economic relations between states and between states and non-state actors. It provides an overview of international agreements and organizations concerned with state conduct affecting trade, foreign investment, finance and monetary stability. It also considers less formal means of international economic governance such as standards, principles and guidelines. The study of the relevant law is informed by pressing development, environmental and financial stability concerns arising from the globalisation of the world economy and shifts in global economic power. The module aims to provide the foundation and context for further exploration of specific areas of international economic law covered by other modules offered by this programme. The knowledge and skills gained on this course are suitable for careers in government, international organizations, law firms and NGOs concerned with international trade, investment, finance and development.

Art and Governance

The module will enable students to learn about state regulation of art, art transactions and transfers of art. In particular, it will examine four areas of state regulation of art: criminal law provisions related to art, import and export controls on art, the impact of competition law on art acquisitions and transactions and the taxation of art. Coverage of criminal law issues will include the handling of stolen art, art fraud and forgery, the treatment of obscene artworks, trade in artefacts from war zones and treasure offences. The module will also cover how states control the cross-border movement of cultural treasures, competition law as it relates to agreements prevalent in the art industry and the direct and indirect tax regimes governing art and dispositions of art.

Dissertation for International Business

The dissertation forms an important part of the assessment of the MSc International Business Programme, carrying a weighting of four modules (60 credits), i.e., one third of the entire Programme. The dissertation requires a demonstration of ability to carry out an original investigation into an area of interest. As such, the process should reflect skills of formulating research questions, synthesising and analysing data, drawing insights and conclusions, and written communication.

Dissertation for Marketing

The dissertation forms an important part of the assessment of the MSc Marketing Programme, carrying a weighting of 60 credits. The dissertation involves demonstration of ability to execute a research plan and independent investigation. The investigation can rely on primary data collected by the student, on secondary data available in the literature, or a mix of both. The dissertation will reflect skills of formulating research questions, synthesising information and analysing data, drawing insights and conclusions, and written communication.

Innovation and Global Competition

Dissertation

ESH7000 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. The research topic must be feasible, academically sound, and related to the concerns of the programme. The dissertation project 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. To support the independent study that is the mainstay of this module, students attend a number of skills-based structured workshops in addition to one-to-one supervision from their allocated supervisors.

International Migration Policy

Students will get a comprehensive understanding of how migration policy works at European and International levels and of the cutting-edge debates surrounding the so-called 'migration crisis'. Students will explore and critically analyse the causes and consequences of the migration crises from a public policy perspective. The module is divided in four parts. First, migration as a phenomenon of globalisation is introduced as well as the way states and the supranational level (EU and UN) have developed policies to `manage' and `control¿ migration. Second, the module offer a theoretical and empirical explanation of security and border policies and practices developed to control migration as well as of policies of integration. Third, the course spends some time discuss the so-called 2015 migration and refugee `crisis¿, the policies adopted by the EU, the divergent policies adopted by European member states and the role of European cities and regions. Fourth, the course studies the migration policies that are in place in North Africa, with a specific focus on the Moroccan immigration reform, and in West Africa, with a focus on ECOWAS.

Dissertation for MSc Accounting and Finance

BUS184 Dissertation is a significantly lengthy (7,500 words) piece of independent work on a theme chosen by the student. Each Dissertation must fulfil certain topical areas, which are supported with the guidance of a Dissertation Supervisor, and involves an extended period of research and writing (two to three months). The Dissertation supports the BUSM143 Research Methods Module. Assessment submission is at the end of the semester.

Electromagnetic Radiation in Astrophysics

"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."

Behavioural Finance and Decision Making

This module identifies and challenges modern theory of finance and covers major issues in behavioural finance. These include biases, which frequently occur in financial decision-making. Emphasis is on several theories of human behaviour that have policy implications in Finance. The module will use a number of research articles published in top academic journals, for a better understanding of theory and empirical regularities and will have guest speakers from International Financial institutions to familiarise students with real life applications.

Introduction to Experimental Linguistics

This module provides students with introductory training in theoretical and practical elements of experimental linguistics. The module will include hands-on training in statistics and hypothesis testing, experimental design, data collection (including training in ethical human subjects research protocols), and data analysis. The module will also engage students in considering strengths and limitations of various kinds of linguistics data, and how multiple sources of data and methods of data collection can be combined to enhance understanding. Students will develop their critical reading skills and gain practice in presenting primary source literature to their peers. The module is suitable for MA students without substantial prior background in Linguistics, or for those who want to branch out into a new sub-field.

Islamic Finance in Practice

Tissue Mechanics

This module is concerned with natural biological materials and how design is optimised for appropriate function. It reviews the structure and composition of natural biological materials and their resulting mechanical properties, before covering how these build to make the wide range of biological structures we see in nature. The methods by which structures are able to function effectively within their natural load environment are also covered, in addition to how they may change with age, disease or damage. It brings this together considering the current methods for characterizing and investigating structure-function in tissues and the latest understanding and thinking which is driving the field.

Understanding Consumer Behaviour

All marketing action is aimed at consumers. Without an understanding of the consumer the application of marketing tools is unlikely to yield the desired outcomes. This module develops a useful, conceptual understanding of consumer and market behaviour as a main consideration in marketing. The course offers a brief introduction into consumer research and then focuses on an understanding of the consumer from a mainly psychological perspective. Overall, the course provides frameworks that enable students to address the issue of understanding consumers responsibly, systematically, and creatively.

Leadership Skills for Business Analytics

The module will familiarise students with the fundamentals of effective leadership in analytical initiatives/project teams including the difference between leading and managing initiatives/projects, dealing with resistance, knowledge hoarding and different stakeholder interests, transactional versus transformational leadership, inspiring peers and subordinates effective communication, trust and knowledge sharing within and across teams and other stakeholders, presenting and pitching concepts and results, managing the organisational synergy of a team and dealing with acceleration and over-acceleration in analytical projects.

Advanced Robotics Systems (Robotics III)

The module will introduce both basic and advanced concepts related to geometric, kinematic, and dynamic robots manipulation, vision and machine learning specifically for Robotics, motion control and practical implementation of locomotion solutions, mechanical considerations of medical robots and the necessity of understanding acceptance and ethical values, etc. It will introduce the practicality of applying multidisciplinary techniques in enhancing the current state of the art in Robotics and allow the students to explore creative and engineered solutions that are outside the box along side conventional industrial and cognitive applications.

Experiments for Business and Analytics

This compulsory module is taught in Semester 2 building on statistical methods in Data Analytics module in Semester 1. The module introduces students to the problem of causal inference, theories of causality and causal effects empirical methods. The focus is on randomised controlled trials in similar settings. Students learn about different econometric techniques to identify causal effects and their strengths and weaknesses. Data collection and organisation of real or natural experiments, data analysis and reporting results to non-specialists is covered.

Approaches to Political Economy

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.

Pain and Epilepsy

To provide an overview of the specific translational medicine challenges in chronic pain conditions and epilepsy

International Law on the Rights of the Child

Once peripheral to international and national law, the international law on the rights of the child are increasingly at the centre of national and international policy decisions concerning children. Competing claims of resources, other family members and the state place the international law on the rights of the child at the cutting edge of international law and national family law and human rights. This course will introduce students to the institutions, standards, and case law which structure children's relationship with law.

Introduction to Social Science 1: Epistemology, Research Design, and Qualitative Methods

The module provides you with advanced research skills, including the ability to select and use relevant resources effectively and to devise research questions appropriate for postgraduate research. You will develop the capacity to undertake independent guided research at postgraduate level.

Electronic Sensing

Advanced Quantum Field Theory

This module gives a broad exposition of the modern framework 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.

Mergers and Acquisitions

This module is a corporate law and financial regulation module analyzing transactions using sophisticated methodologies. The module will focus on issues such as: due diligence, purchase sale agreements and contractual governance; the role of the board of directors in an acquisition/financing transaction; the permissibility and regulation of takeover defenses in the UK, the US and the EU; the protection of minority shareholders in common law and civil law jurisdictions; the protection of other constituencies such as employees affected by control transactions; and financial assistance regulation in the UK, US and the EU. The course is strongly committed to presenting a global and comparative perspective highlighting the contemporary principles and trends of corporate finance rather than the pointillist and ephemeral details of national rule books.

Company Law: Corporate Finance and Management Issues

The module aims to inform and educate students as to the field of law that governs UK corporations. The course is a UK focused Company law course covering: Minority protection. Capital, The duties of directors and of the controlling majority and the enforcement of these duties. Shareholder Remedies and Liquidation of companies. The module also aims to highlight future directions and trends in the regulation of companies.

EU Immigration Law

The module will examine the key legal issues underpinning EU Immigration Law as a distinct field of law. The module will examine a number of central themes in law and governance of EU Immigration policy in Europe's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. These include the development of the Common European Asylum System through an examination of the operation of the Dublin Regulation; EU law on irregular migration and the criminalisation and securitisation of migration; border control and border management in EU law (including the law of the external border and the Schengen area); the role of EU agencies in the field of immigration law (including FRONTEX and the European Asylum Support Agency-EASO); and relations with third countries and the external dimension of EU immigration law. The constitutional and human rights implication of European integration in the field will be fully explored.

Contemporary Issues in Accounting

The module introduces students to key theories, concepts and issues in public sector financial management and governance. It critically explores how the advanced economies central government finances have evolved over time and specifically the importance of deficit financing. We then consider the accounting practices underlying public finances and the shift to accruals accounting and adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards before turning to consider three cases.

Organisational Behaviour

This module will provide an in-depth understanding of the broad range of theory, research, and practice in organisational behaviour for the adoption of appropriate policies and leadership styles. This will include understanding individual differences, motivational factors, and group dynamics which can mediate the functioning of an organisation. The module will analyse a range of case studies to illuminate the different work patterns, practices and behaviours both at individual, group and organisational levels.

Taxation and Electronic Commerce

The growth of e-commerce has made it an important driver of national economies. However, it has presented such challenges for nations and states as the tax presence of virtual entities and their jurisdiction to tax online transactions, under the existing bilateral tax treaties and national laws governing taxation. This module examines these issues with a focus on both direct and indirect taxation, as well as the international legal framework that is being developed to address such issues.

Finance for Development

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.

Law in Asia

This course introduces key problems in the study of Asian laws and legal systems. It covers a variety of topics of importance to the study of Asian legal systems and to comparative law and legal theory more widely. It introduces the relevance of Orientalism, colonialism, legal pluralism, comparing across cultural frames, legal transplantation, and the role of the state. The case studies in terms of jurisdiction vary across Asia and across historical periods.

Topics in Physical Chemistry

This module will explore the theory of ionic solutions, the properties of interfaces and the behaviour of molecules at interfaces, and experimental methods for the investigation and characterisation of such systems. This will include discussion of topics such as the conductivity and electrochemistry of ionic solutions, molecular adsorption at interfaces and self-assembly, the structure of solid surfaces and experimental techniques such as atomic force microscopy.

International Finance Law Applied

The purpose of the course is to examine the principal markets and main professional documentation used in more specialist international finance and capital markets. International finance markets are key drivers in national and international economies and the new global economy. The City of London remains one of the key financial centres in the world for all of these markets and activities. The course examines the nature, function, structure, operation and importance of all of the key financial markets involved. This is essentially a private law, contract or transactional and documentation course which provides professional preparation in designing, structuring and executing all of the principal separate financial contracts involved. The course can be taken with International Finance Law or as a free standing module.

Managing Diversity

This module examines concepts of workplace equality, diversity and inclusion, and theories of occupational segregation/labour market segmentation. It explores diversity and equality across the dimensions of gender, race, disability, religion, age and sexual orientation and considers the organisational processes, which produce and reproduce inequalities of outcome among diverse social groups in workplaces and careers. The module also considers equality and diversity policy and practice at labour market and organisational levels. Different national contexts are investigated.

Financial Markets and Institutions

This module will compare the forms and functions of various financial markets, and develop an understanding of how financial managers use these markets to attain corporate goals. This module will also analyse various sophisticated and complex financial instruments used, and establish a framework of how different forms of financial institutions operate to manage financial risks. In addition, it will discuss the framework of financial regulation and the functions of central banks.

Psychological Therapies

The Transcultural Mental Healthcare pathway provides a stimulating academic environment in which the relationship between race, culture, ethnicity and mental health is explored in the spirit of advancing knowledge, and improving the mental healthcare needs of diverse populations. The pathway attracts social care and mental health professionals, and other potential students from the UK and worldwide. A key aim is to address the current gap in training professionals working in multi-cultural populations where mental health issues are important. Completion of Module 2 Transcultural Mental Healthcare and Module 1 permits exit with a Diploma in Transcultural Mental Healthcare.

Sunshine and the Skin, Urticaria, Psyche and the Skin and Uncommon Infections

Neurotrauma and Stroke

To provide an overview of the specific translational medicine challenges in neurotrauma and stroke.

Logic in Computer Science

The module introduces students to Mathematical Logic concepts and their use in Computer Science. The topics covered include: - Propositional Logic and Introduction to Critical Thinking - Solving SAT instances. DPLL algorithm, validity, satisfiability, SAT solvers - Temporal Logics. For example: Linear Temporal Logic, Computation Tree Logic, model checkers (e.g. SPIN) - Predicate Logic. First-order logic, syntax and semantics, satisfiability, SMT solvers - Program Logics. For example, Hoare logic. The module will include exercises and hands-on practicals e.g. using SAT solvers and model checkers.

Financial Analysis and Management Accounting

The module provides insights into how accounting is embedded in a socio-economic context and how accounting is shaped by this context. Key concepts and methods of accounting are discussed by focusing on the reporting of the financial position and 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.

Numerical Optimisation in Engineering Design

1. Introduction. Motivating examples. Sizing, shape and topology opt, Local vs Global opt. Deterministic vs. stochastic opt, linear vs. non-linear, unconstrained vs constrained opt. 2. Deterministic Optimisation * Unconstrained Optimisation. Line search vs Trust region methods. Line search methods: Armijo and Strong Wolfe Conditions. Steepest descent algorithm. Search directions: nonlinear conjugate gradient method, Newton's method; Quasi-Newton methods. * Constrained Optimisation Penalty methods, interior point methods * Computation of derivatives Finite-Differences, tangent linear models, adjoints, automatic differentiation 3. Stochastic Optimisation * Population-based methods Genetic algorithms, Evolutionary algorithms, Simulated annealing, Particle swarm methods, Multi-criteria evolutionary strategies * Surrogate modelling Design of Experiments, Response surface methods, Kriging, Regression models 4. Applications * Parametrisation Shape optimisation methods (CAD-based methods, surface and volume morphing, re-meshing techniques), Topology optimisation methods (negative / positive voxel methods) * Industrial applications FEM applications in structural opt of shape and topology, CFD applications in shape optimisation * Overview of commercial software

Global Health Geographies

Global Health Geographies provides the opportunity to engage with the remarkable health challenges that face the world we live in today. Organised around central themes which outline the shift from international health to global health and identify the importance of geographical analyses to this transformation, the module draws on core geographical concerns with people, place, space, power and justice to promote critical encounters with the interdisciplinary field of global health.

Pidgins and Creoles

This module examines controversies over the origins of pidgin and creole languages, salient aspects of their structure, sociohistorical factors and socio-political issues in contemporary creole-speaking societies, and the relevance of these languages for theories of syntax, morphology, phonology, language acquisition, and cognitive universals. Pidgin and creole languages provide important insights into processes prevalent in situations of natural language contact, radical language change, and language birth. The module also examines the question of whether they are a special type of language, considering structural as well as sociohistorical factors in the development of these languages. In relation to contemporary creole-speaking societies, the course will study processes of decreolization, language planning issues, creoles in literature, creole influences in London English, and ideologies and identities in situations in which creoles co-exist with other languages.

Mobile Services

This module covers the motivation behind and development of Mobile Services, enabling students to understand the characteristics, motivation and opportunities for developing mobile user services while appreciating the strengths and weaknesses of developing mobile services using different software architectures. The module also covers the e-commerce and management issues associated with rapid development and deployment of mobile services.

Semi-structured Data and Advanced Data Modelling

Law and Civil Disobedience

The central topic of this module is civil action and the law. It explores themes such as civil disobedience, conscientious refusal, political obligations, and obedience/resistance to authority. The module provides students with insight into the legal and theoretical aspects of such themes, studied in the context of both historical events and current world affairs. Governments¿ policy on ideologically charged issues¿such as human impact on the environment, globalisation, military action and armament, immigration, abortion, or animal rights¿is often the subject of controversy. What forms of civil action are available to citizens who find the current policy objectionable? Do citizens owe the law a civic duty of obedience on such matters? Is there a right to engage in civil disobedience, and, if so, when? What should be the law¿s approach to conscientious objectors? What brings people to perform morally questionable (or sometimes even clearly deplorable) acts under the orders of higher-ups, and how does this reflect on the idea of obedience to authority? These are some of the key question considered in this module, which gives students the opportunity and freedom to engage with rich and diverse perspectives, from law, philosophy, and social sciences. This module does not require previous knowledge of the subject.

European Telecommunications Law

Communication systems and services remain a key part of the information society and the delivery platform for other sectors. How these are regulated impacts their take up and development. This module aims to teach you a key aspect of communications law: the European legal framework governing the markets for telecommunications equipment network and services. It should also help you to understand: the historical development of European telecommunications law within the broader context of European Union law and policy; as well as key principles, obligations and operational implications of the current EU regulatory regime for the markets in telecommunications equipment, services and networks.

Advanced Flight Control and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicles

Applied Science of Endodontology

This module is an academic module focussing primarily on the basic science of endodontology.

Molecular Targeted Therapies and Immunotherapy for Blood Cancers

Group Project in Business Analytics

This module is the capstone module for the MSc in Business Analytics. Students will work in groups and will be required to provide analysis of a problem or question using complex data from a business context. Each group will be assigned a Mentor who will guide the group through the process of structuring the analytical problem, obtaining and organising the data, data analysis and presentation of results. Final assessment will be based on individual essays which cover specific aspects of the case and student's reflection in the light of Business Analytics methods and theories.

Aeroelasticity

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.

Youth Language

The module explores the language of adolescents in the UK and elsewhere in the world. It investigates why adolescence is the life stage where language change is most clearly visible and linguistic innovations most likely to be found. It considers how research on youth language contributes to our understanding of language variation, language change, and language and identity. It also considers the social relevance of research on youth language.

Language Style and Stylization

In this module, students engage in an in-depth exploration of "style" as it has been treated in sociolinguistics and related disciplines. Adopting a historical approach, we cover the major frameworks for conceptualizing language style (including those offered by Bell, Coupland, Eckert, Goffman, Labov, Rampton and Silverstein). Through this module, students will gain a deep understanding of indexicality and intra-speaker variation, and of how these concepts relate to the development of the study of language and social meaning more broadly (i.e., in terms of the progression through the first-, second- and third-waves of sociolinguistic theory).

Interactive Agents and Procedural Generation

Modern video games employ various agents that interact with the player as opponents or characters, and that generate new content. This module covers the broad range of computational approaches developers currently use to create these in-game agents. The first part deals with techniques for authoring agent behaviour. The second part explores approaches procedural content generation for environments, narrative and others forms of game content.

Health Systems Policy and Practice

In this module we address the fundamental public health question of how best to finance and organise health systems in order to achieve universal health coverage and the effective delivery of comprehensive PHC. We will be particularly concerned with the ways in which health care systems differ from the perspective of access to services among different social groups within the population, and also with the distributive effects of different organising principles such as market and public control. The relationship between health systems and the Primary Health Care Approach will be covered, as well as key debates around the interface between aid, global health governance and national health systems. This module will also cover the essential economic theories used to inform health systems policy.

Governance of Migration, Displacement and Healthcare

This module investigates how migration, displacement and healthcare is managed by national governments, inter-governmental organisations, humanitarian agencies and private actors. It examines how political, legal and economic processes interplay to shape governmentsÆ attempts to manage migrantsÆ healthcare, including national, regional and international frameworks for human rights, labour rights and æmigration healthÆ policy. Focusing on migrants as both non-citizens and citizens, it contemplates the differential healthcare experiences of labour migrants and forced migrants when they migrate internally and across borders or continents.

Public Mental Health Dissertation

The module will consist of a self-directed research project in the field of mental health care, mental health policy, mental health systems, or public mental health. There will be some group support, and one-to-one tutor support provided by a appointed dissertation supervisor.

Dissertation for International Financial Management

The dissertation requires a demonstration of the ability to carry out an original investigation into an area of interest. As such, the process should reflect skills of formulating research questions, synthesising and analysing data, drawing insights and conclusions, and written communication. Students will be required to conduct an investigation of an issue relevant to the content of the Programme of which it forms a component. Students will be guided through the dissertation process by a Supervisor.

Dissertation for Accounting and Management

The dissertation forms an important part of the assessment of the MSc Programmes, carrying a weighting of four modules i.e. one third of the entire Programme. The dissertation requires a demonstration of ability to carry out an original investigation into an area of interest. As such, the process should reflect skills of formulating research questions, synthesising and analysing data, drawing insights and conclusions, and written communication. Students will be required to conduct an investigation of an issue relevant to the content of the Programme of which it forms a component. Students will be guided through the dissertation process by an Advisor. To prepare you for the dissertation, students are required to take the compulsory Research Methods module. Information about the Dissertation will be provided on the dedicated module area on QM+.

Physical Cosmology

Introduction to Clinical Microbiology

This module introduces the clinically important bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi. The lectures focus on recent developments in classification, pathogenicity and identification of these organisms. The lectures are studied in conjunction with the practical sessions of the core diagnostic microbiology and laboratory methods module to develop a complete understanding of the organism, mechanisms of pathogenicity and laboratory diagnosis of clinically important micro-organisms.

Advanced Polymer Synthesis

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.

Epidemiology and Statistics

Research Methods

The module focuses on the methods, tools and techniques to conduct research, how to critically assess and evaluate literature and findings, and how to apply the academic theory. Topics include: 1. Web knowledge and End note 2. Statistics by design and SPSS 3. Writing an abstract, research proposal and how to make a poster 4. Critical appraisal of journal articles 5. Research design and management 6. Theory of surgical skills

Dissertation

In this module, students will work on a piece of independently produced research relevant to one of the programmes four scientific themes (Human-Data Interaction, Health Data in Practice, Effective and Efficient Evaluation, and Actionable Information). Students will be assisted in topic choice and guided through the process by one of the scientific theme leads but will be expected to collect data themselves, or organise access to it, and write the thesis independently. Potential topics will be identified in consultation with scientific theme leads and other academic staff involved with the programme, and a list will be made available early in Semester 2. The scientific theme leads will endeavour to facilitate student preferences. Some topics may be broad enough to accommodate more than one student at a time.

Clinical Skills in Endodontics

This core module comprises supervised clinical patient treatment sessions. At the end of this module, students are required to submit two clinical case reports of patients they have treated.

Individual Research Project

Students are encouraged to undertake their Individual Research Project in collaboration with a practitioner / user organisation The theme for the Individual Research Project is selected by the student in collaboration with the module organiser and in most cases with the practitioner organisation in order to ensure that the project and practitioner link matches the research interests and career aspirations of the student. Students not wishing to link with a practitioner organisation can opt to undertake a free-standing research project of their choice, subject to approval by the module organiser. In either case, the project is undertaken over a twelve week period, and each student is allocated an academic advisor from the MSc academic staff to ensure that they receive appropriate academic guidance during the research. The project report will be marked by two members of the MSc academic staff (usually including the student's advisor) and, where the project is in collaboration with a practitioner / user organisation, comments on the project by the link person in that practitioner / user organisation will also be taken into account.

Experimental Linguistics

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.

Quantitative Methods in Linguistics

This module provides students with an advanced overview of quantitative research methods in linguistics. Covering all aspects of data collection and analysis, students will learn how to devise appropriate research hypotheses; collect data for subsequent quantitative analysis; perform a variety of quantitative analytical techniques most commonly used in the social sciences (including analyses of variation, regressions, and various non-parametric tests). Students will also learn how to effectively summarize and present quantitative findings to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Formal Approaches to Variation

For the last 35 years, sociolinguistic theory and syntactic and morphological theory have interacted only rarely and lightly. However, more recently an emerging field of `sociosyntax' has taken root, which brings syntactic methods to bear on problems of language variability, and sociolinguistic findings to bear on questions about the structure of formal theories of language. This course introduces students to that literature, its problems and findings, and provides students with the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills necessary to combine the two fields in their own work.

Advocacy and Mooting (Aviation or Shipping)

This module offers the students the opportunity to sharpen their advocacy skills in aviation or shipping by working on carefully-crafted hypothetical scenarios which may be based on cases pending before the courts or modeled on high-profile cases that have attracted significant attention. The module simulates court or arbitration proceedings by familiarising the students with the procedural rules applicable, the substantive issues of the dispute in question, the formulation of legal arguments in the written submissions to the court/tribunal and their oral defense at the hearing. The module follows two routes, one on aviation and one on shipping. Students can select one route only. The assessment is based, on the one hand, on the written submissions to the court/tribunal and, on the other hand, on the oral performance at the hearing.

International Merger Control: The Jurisdictions

Within the field of competition law, merger control has attracted special attention. The reason for this attention can be found in the special nature of mergers as a business phenomenon, especially when compared with other business phenomena, such as abuse of dominance by firms or cartel activities. The process of relentless globalisation which has been developing since the 1990s has meant that merger operations can produce an effect on the conditions of competition in more than one jurisdiction. This means that, quite inevitably, regulatory approval in more than one jurisdiction may need to be sought. Such a consequence ¿ as is widely accepted ¿ can give rise to uncertainty for the firms concerned and cause huge expense and significant delay. Those who are involved in advising business firms in a merger situation are also not immune from the uncertainty when merger operations have to be notified to more than one competition authority. Often legal advisors have to answer extremely difficult questions in merger cases, such as whether notification of the merger to the competition authorities in one or more jurisdictions is necessary or mandatory or even desirable; which authorities need to be notified; what is required for this purpose and how to go about notifying the authorities concerned; and how will the authorities assess the merger, including any relevant time framework within which they will operate and ultimately reach a decision in a given case. The Module will aim at a thorough examination of the highly important phenomena of international mergers and their regulation worldwide. Different merger control regimes worldwide and their operation will be an important part of the focus in the Module. The Module will be taught in a very practical manner, to reflect the very nature of the topic. A highly interesting range of case studies and the knowledge and expertise of practitioners in the field will be a key aspect of the course. The Module should prove to be attractive for students attending other competition law courses and those with an `international¿ dimension in other areas of commercial orientation on the LLM.

Seafarers' Law

Over 90% of international world trade is carried by ships, crewed by around 1.5 million seafarers. The work of these seafarers is of global significance. But seafarers face a growing and fast evolving range of issues, including, for example, unpaid wages (approximately 30$million is recovered annually as unpaid wages); abandonment; civil, criminal and administrative investigations following maritime casualties; fatigue; suicide; piracy; ship automation; ship safety; and ship based pollution. A very wide range of shipping documents and contracts are impacted by the work of seafarers. This module addresses the manner in which these issues are addressed by: the International Labour Organization; the International Maritime Organization; the Admiralty Court in England and some other courts around the world; port states; flag states; shipowners and international and national unions. Given the essential and crucial work of seafarers regarding international trade, no study of shipping law would be complete without a critical understanding of seafarers' law and how this area of the law impacts other areas of shipping law.

Research Methods and Responsible Innovation

This module will teach generic high-level research and transferable skills applicable to pure and applied research in computer science and engineering. The module fosters the development of practical understanding of established approaches, methods and techniques of research; conceptual understanding that enables critical and rigorous evaluation of research; ability to communicate ideas and conclusions logically and fluently in both written and oral contexts. It will also discuss responsible research and innovation practices, acknowledging that science can raise questions and dilemmas, is often ambiguous in terms of purposes and motivations and unpredictable in terms of impacts. Topics include research writing with an introduction to LaTeX, research ethics and responsible innovation, quantitative, qualitative and reproducible research methods, including experiment design and basic statistical analysis with an introduction to statistical programming and an introduction to scientific programming environments and version control systems.

Applied Statistics

Globalisation and Contemporary Medical Ethics

The module will take the student on a journey through seven major areas of contemporary medical ethics: consent and consensus medical confidentiality, the discourse on distributive justice, human and animal research ethics, end-of-life ethics, transplant ethics, and reproductive ethics. The introductory presentation of each of these topics will be followed by a critical discussion on their possible history and on the theoretical and practical implications of the competing conclusions.

Human Rights and Public Health

This module will introduce students to the core concepts and theories of international human rights law, ethics and policy that underpin contemporary global healthcare ethics and international public health practice. Particular attention is paid to: the legal normative basis of human rights and health; the interaction between the protection/promotion of public health and the protection/promotion of human rights; the international cooperative frameworks for health and human rights; the ethical debates around the human rights framework in general and specific case studies in health and human rights; and the institutional, economic and political challenges faced by health and human rights worldwide.

International Investment Analysis

The module focuses on investment analysis and aims to develop an understanding of how securities and portfolios investment fits with the international financial markets. It will introduce students the Capital Asset Pricing Model, Arbitrage Pricing Theory, multi-factor model, bond valuation, equity valuation, Financial Statement analysis, option valuation and portfolio performance evaluation. This module is particularly useful for students considering a career in finance, investment management, investment banking, investment consultancy or asset management.

Evidence, Policy and Global Health

The module provides an introduction to the philosophy of science and debates about the nature of data and evidence from a public policy and practical / applied public health perspective. The literature covered in the module will draw attention to the nature of social systems that are influenced by a range of socially, culturally and politically mediated factors and variables. Its approach to the study of the social factors that influence health, public health programmes and health policy will differ from, but complement, the teaching and methods of study that are covered in the Epidemiology and Statistics module (ICM6040). Overall the module will develop and strengthen critical appraisal skills and help intercalating students develop a command of the multi-disciplinary field of Global Health. These are skills that will be new, and crucial throughout their studies and in particular during the second semester as students begin to consider their dissertation project.

Further Topics in Valuation

Private equity is a relevant source of capital for companies. This course explores the private equity cycle: (i) fundraising and structure, (ii) investing and (iii) exit. As valuation plays a crucial role in thie cycle, the course starts with valuation techniques: from traditional methods such as DCF to more recent methodologies as real options. Strong emphasis is given to practical applications: a DCF model for a target company will be developed in-class and a real world of case of Private Equity transaction will be exposed.

MRes Dissertation

The dissertation forms one third of the entire Programme and requires the ability to carry out an original investigation into an area of interest. It should reflect skills of formulating research questions, synthesising and analysing data, drawing insights and conclusions through written communication. Students will be guided through the dissertation process by a supervisor. Students are required to take the DTC modules in the first and second semesters. Information about the Dissertation will be provided on the dedicated module area on QM+.

Advanced Structure-Property Relationships in Materials

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.

Married to the Mob? Mafia Representations in Hollywood and Italian Cinema

This option scrutinises representations of the Mafia in Hollywood and Italian cinema. It traces the origins of the gangster film in Hollywood, and its re-emergence in the postwar period. In the context of Italian national cinema the political cinema of Francesco Rosi is analysed, followed by examples of the representation of the Mafia in contemporary Italian and Hollywood cinema. The module encompasses a range of approaches (historical, and relating to star theory), while at the same time identifying the very different cultural practices that inform Hollywood and European filmmaking. The validity of the generalisation that Hollywood cinema is 'married to the mob' in the sense that it glorifies the gangster will be considered, while the corresponding argument - that Italian cinema depicts a fundamentally more critical role of criminality - is given equal scrutiny.

Science of Biocompatibility

This module will provide a comprehensive understanding of the concepts related to biocompatibility. It will cover topics including proteins and protein adsorption, cells and tissue interactions (attachment, fluid shear and mechanotransduction), biomaterial blood and cell interactions, Inflammation, wound healing and foreign body response and Toxicity, hypersensitivity and infection. The In vitro testing of biomaterials will be considered with respect to - chemical exchange and degradation - cell response (proliferation vs differentiation) - evaluation of material compatibility - evaluation of device functionality (biomechanics, remodelling/adaptation) Matters related to clinical trials and regulatory approval will be considered including clean manufacturing, microbiology, packaging and sterility assurance.

Graphs and Networks

Networks characterise the underlying structure of a large variety of complex systems, from the internet to social netwroks and the brain. This module is desgined to teach students the mathematical language needed to describe complex networks, characterise their basic properties and construct mathematical models of complex networks.

Derivatives in a Legal Context

This module introduces complex concepts in finance at a level that is appropriate for law students to master them . The first part of the course introduces the student to basic understanding of financial models and concepts as it relates to valuation in a legal context. This knowledge forms the basis of analysis for the more complex and broader concept of derivatives. The focus eventually turns to the analysis of ¿derivative¿ instruments, their application in different economic situations, and the benefits/consequences of helping clients set up contracts employing them when investing or conducting business, both locally and globally. Derivative instruments will be analyzed from two separate points of view: speculative and hedging. Tools and basic models that help in understanding the appropriate usage of different derivatives in different situations will also be introduced and examined. Through the course analysis, students will develop a thorough understanding of the models that influence and eventually determine the relationships among different derivative instruments. Legal cases are used to analyze actual situations and explore different possible solutions using financial models and derivatives, facilitating an acceptable legal determination as to the best selection for every particular exposure. The course will be taught on the assumption that the students have no prior knowledge of these financial instruments.

Constellations: Online Anthology Project

"Students will begin by analysing existing anthologies in both academic and commercial contexts as well as examining selection processes in a range of other domains such as museum curation. There will be opportunities to meet professionals working in these domains. Having received the necessary IT training, students will then go on to create their own anthology which will include an introduction, a series of extracts in a range of media and commentaries on those extracts. Students will work independently, but will develop their teamworking and leadership skills by mentoring a team of undergraduates working on their own anthology."

Energy Law Principles

This module provides students with an overview of the energy sector. It identifies the sources of energy law from international treaties to soft law guidelines for example the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Energy is the largest sector globally and is one of the most heavily regulated. Students will learn about the evolution of the energy sector and the difficulties for the future as the sector adapts to the energy transition. There are many interested parties in the energy sector from hosts states, international oil companies, national oil companies, NGOs, IGOs as well as service providers. The different interests of the main actors can be addressed in contracts, national laws or international obligations for example the Nationally Determine Contributions of each State under the Paris Agreement 2015.

Dissertation

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

International and Comparative Petroleum Law and Contracts

Petroleum laws and contracts are the ultimate manifestation of policy and are the result of lengthy negotiation processes and have an unusual dynamic. According to the World Bank, between 1999 and 2010 more than 30 countries revised their petroleum contracts and made major amendments or completely changed their petroleum legal and fiscal framework. Several more countries have done the same since the 2014 oil price downturn in order to adapt themselves to the changes in the industry. This module will examine the main type of contracts used in the upstream petroleum industry (Production Sharing Agreements, Concessions and Service Agreements) and their most important legal and fiscal mechanisms and the reasons why these are so frequently changed. This course will also focus on the study of these contracts dynamics within the so-called energy transition, risk mitigation strategies in order to avoid the most common forms of legal and political risks: expropriations and contract renegotiation.

Enforcement of International Criminal Law

This module explores the national and international institutions that are available for the enforcement of international criminal law. Beginning with the international criminal tribunal at Nuremberg, it traces the evolution of international criminal tribunals in a historical perspective. It considers in detail the Chapter VII powers of the Security Council and their use in the setting up of ad hoc tribunals. The jurisdiction, competence and contribution of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and the International Criminal tribunal for Rwanda are considered in detail. The continuing relevance of ad hoc mechanisms of accountability is considered in light of the jurisprudence of the Special Tribunals in Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Cambodia. A large part of the course will be devoted to the Permanent International Criminal Court. The final part of the module explores whether accountability through criminal processes is mandatory or permissive, and the extent to which accountability can be achieved in non-judicial forums such as Truth and Amnesty Commissions.

International Tax Law in Practice

The module focus is on how multinational enterprises are structured and operate. In particular, the module will cover how groups finance their business, structure their operations and own and protect their intellectual property. There will also be some consideration of the impact of mergers, acquisitions, disposals and reorganisations. The module will also look at the challenges created by new forms of technology and new ways of doing business. The module will discuss these issues from the viewpoint of the enterprise and of the relevant revenue authorities.

Financial Data Analytics

This module will provide students with a general understanding of current applications of Data Analytics to the Finance and in particular to derivatives and investment banking. It will revolve around problems that will be explained as part of the module delivery such as volatility surface management, yield curve evolution and FX volatility/correlation management. It will provide students with a overview of some standard tools in the field such as Python, R, Excel/VBA and the Power BI Excel functionality. Students are not expected to have any familiarity with coding or any of the topics above as the module will develop these from scratch. It will provide students with the understanding of a field necessary to boost their careers in finance in roles such as trading, structuring, management, risk management and quantitative positions in investment banks and hedge funds.

Artificial Intelligence in Games

This module covers a range of Artificial Intelligence techniques employed in games, and teaches how games are and can be used for research in Artificial Intelligence. This module has a strong programming component. The module explores algorithms for creating agents that play classical board games (such as chess or checkers) and real-time games (Mario or PacMan), including single agents able to play multiple games. The module gives an overview of multiple techniques, such as Monte Carlo Tree Search, Evolutionary Computation, Deep and Machine Learning applied to games.

Introduction to Patent Law

Care of the Unconscious Patient

In this module the students will learn about the (patho)physiology of consciousness, it's assessment and management. This will encompass the initial emergency management as well as the ongoing care to include Airway, Breathing and Circulation. The student will learn the details of physiological monitoring and management of cardiorespiratory, metabolic, endocrine, renal and neurological systems. They will develop an understanding of the importance of good nursing care, physiotherapy, speech and language and occupational therapy.

Dissertation in English Language Teaching (Professional Qualification Pathway)

"This module is one of the two possible core modules in the MA in applied Linguistics for English Language Teaching. Students who wish to attend the Level 5 Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA) course or Trinity Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CertTESOL) course will be given the opportunity to critically reflect on their learning in a 10,000 to 12,000 word dissertation. Students may choose this option at their own additional expense, and at an institution of their choice, but the CELTA/CertTESOL must be studied after the end of the second semester modules. Students will not be assessed on the professional qualification but will be assessed on their ability to write and reflect on their own teaching and learning: the teaching practice they have gained in the professional qualification course and the micro-teaching opportunities provided on the MA programme, together with the learning experiences they have gained on the MA programme as learners of another language, both integrated with the theories, concepts and methodologies they have discussed in the subject areas studied in the MA programme."

Research Methods

Amateur Cinema: Archives, Practices and Memory Construction

This module explores the histories, technologies, cultures of amateur cinema in relation to the construction of memories and micro-histories. It will discuss different forms of amateur films including home movies, travelogues and missionary films, etc., on how they represent everyday life, regional histories, national identities, and mediate transnational communications. It will also introduce students to archiving practices, amateur media in the digital age, and the use of (found) amateur footage in contemporary film practices. Students are also given a chance to create a moving image work, experimenting with their own or found amateur footage.

Research Methods

The module covers the techniques and knowledge needed to critically appraise published research, and carry out a piece of original research. Students will develop skills for literature searches, writing abstracts and presenting posters. Students will also learn how to apply statistics for surgeons (descriptive statistics and inferential statistics).

Ethics of Migration and Asylum

"This module introduces the main philosophical and ethical debates concerning border control, citizenship, migration and refugee/asylum-seeker status. It sets out the arguments for and against ¿open borders¿, the political theory of citizenship and the nation state, and the relationships between citizens¿ rights and universal human rights. As well as matters of general philosophical principle, we will look at the ethics of border control practices, from identity cards and entry controls to surveillance and access to public services, detention and repatriation. We will also consider the cultural dimensions of migration control, in particular the relationship between discourses of security, citizenship, and race/ethnicity/cultural difference."

Health Inequalities and Social Determinants of Health

Dissertation - Global Public Health and Policy

This core module on the MSc Global Public Health and Policy offers students the opportunity to pursue an area of interest in depth in public health and global policy and produce a critical and scholarly study. Students will either select a project from a range on offer, mostly from supervisors in the Centre for Public Health and Primary Care, or (in discussion with their academic adviser and a potential supervisor) devise and focus their own small project. The advanced analytic and writing skills required for this module will be supported by a series of seminars covering literature searching, critical evaluation of evidence, organising and managing a major piece of academic work, and presentation and writing skills. Students will acquire skills in developing, planning, organising, and focusing a project as they work on a one to one basis with their supervisor. They will also acquire skills in searching, critically appraising, summarising and synthesising the literature.

Exploitation of Energy Resources in Disputed Areas

The module on Exploitation of Energy Resources in Disputed Areas examines the international legal issues arising in connection with exploration and exploitation of energy resources in disputed areas (both onshore and offshore, eg the South China Sea) from both a theoretical and practical perspective. It examines international rules and practices relating to disputed areas and how exploitation can proceed even when agreement on a boundary delimitation cannot be reached.

Applied Econometrics (Micro)

This module will analyse the main challenges faced by economists in answering empirical questions using microdata. The main emphasis will be on learning how to establish causal relationships between different variables and how to use this evidence to inform policy makers' decisions. The course will also teach how to deal with features and limitations of the data (longitudinal data, limited dependent variables, censoring, etc.) that are common in empirical work. After introducing each methods and discussing its statistical properties, we will present applications in different areas of public policy evaluation. In addition, students will learn how to handle realworld data, how to use econometric software to generate estimates and how to link econometric theory with data work and produce an insightful and coherent empirical analysis.

Financial Modelling in Excel

The ability to build flexible and robust financial models, is a key skill in the financial sector. During the financial modelling module, students will receive intensive instruction on how to use best practice to construct a professional model. During this course, the class will work in Excel continuously. Techniques and tools will be introduced to ensure all models built are robust in their structure, easy to use, adaptable and transparent.

Time Series Analysis

The module aims to provide a foundation in time series analysis in general and in the econometric analysis of economic time series in particular, offering theory and methods at a level consonant with an advanced training for a career economist. Topics include: An Introduction to Time Series Analysis for Econometrics and Finance; Linear Time Series Models; Seasonal Time Models; Estimation and Forecasting; Unit Roots and Cointegration; and ARCH and GARCH Time Series models.

Corporate Finance

This course provides a broad introduction to the key issues in understanding corporate financial policy. In particular, we will investigate how companies should finance their activities by issuing securities (debt, equity and convertible claims) and the interaction of business policy with corporate financial policy. Special consideration is given to tax issues, the possible costs of financial distress, the incentives behind financial decisions and the signalling impact of those for financial market participants. The final part of the course covers some specific topics in corporate finance: dividend policy, the decision to go public, mergers and acquisitions and possibly corporate governance issues.

Financial Derivatives

The purpose of this module is to provide students with an overview of 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 of derivatives. All the relevant concepts are discussed based on the discrete time binomial model and the continuous time BlackScholes model. The extensions of the BlackScholes model are also discussed.

Criminal Justice and Surveillance Technologies

"This module is designed to provide you with an overview of the societal, legal, and policy implications of new surveillance capabilities in use by both law enforcement and intelligence agencies and a solid understanding of the relevant legal frameworks. In doing so, we will examine the basic way modern communications technologies operate and the technological architecture they operate within. Throughout the module we will consider the implications of this rapidly developing area of law for the future of modern technologies, and the relationship between the individual and the state. We expect we will all be challenged in trying to reconcile society's need for a functioning and well equipped law enforcement and intelligence apparatus, with the need for protections against unnecessary and disproportionate interferences with privacy and free expression."

International and Comparative Data Protection Law

"Over 100 jurisdictions have adopted frameworks protecting personal data, many in response to the EU data protection framework that precludes international transfers unless equivalent protection applies. This module examines a number of these data protection legal frameworks, particularly in key jurisdictions such as Russia, China, APEC, Canada, Australia and the US. In addition to examining their particular implementation of the fair information processing principles that have emerged as best practice, the module will explore the key policy implications and debates around trade, commercial and human rights implications and, enforcement, including the challenges of particular technological developments, such as telecommunications, cloud computing and the Internet of Things."

Chemical Research Project

This module involves students carrying-out an original piece of experimental or computational research on projects agreed with their academic supervisor. Projects are in the areas of biological, organic, inorganic, physical, materials or theoretical/computational chemistry; or a combination thereof. The work also involves an in-depth and critical evaluation and dissemination of the relevant literature associated with the topic and methodologies employed. A dissertation is prepared and defended in an oral examination (mid-September); students also present their work in the form of a ~15-20 min research seminar (mid-September). The diversity of expertise of the chemistry and biochemistry faculty involved with the programme affords a wide range of project choice within the chemical sciences, in addition to facilitating identification of potential project supervisors.

Human Rights of Women: Feminist Legal Theory

The course will cover the theoretical foundations of the subject by including an indepth examination of general legal theory concerning human rights and the different strands of feminist legal theory which inform the interpretation of the human rights of women. The course will also include an analysis of how these different theoretical positions inform what has been termed the universality v cultural relativism debate

International Finance

Foreign exchange is not only the most heavily traded of all financial assets, it has the clearest interface between macroeconomics and finance. In this module you'll get an introduction to the main theoretical models used to understand FX markets as well as indepth analysis of how they work in practice. Topics include: understanding global imbalances, models of exchange rate determination, the structure of the FX market and how trades are priced, FX derivatives markets, foreign exchange intervention and reserves, and currency regimes and crises. Each week the key lessons of the lecture are illustrated through an analysis of current economic events such as the problems in the Euroarea, China's foreign exchange rate policy and the role of the dollar as a global reserve currency. We also price and monitor foreign exchange trades suggested by course participants to see how good you are at FX trading!

Quantitative Techniques

The course offers an introduction to Econometrics in the context of quantitative financial analysis. Basic econometric tools needed for understanding and using financial models are introduced and explained. These will be accompanied by a number of applications in the fields of asset management and risk management. The two variables regression model will first be used to present the topics of estimation and hypothesis testing. Then, the standard regression model will be generalized to the multiple variables regression model. Next, an introduction to time series analysis and forecasting will be undertaken. Depending on time constraints, topics such as volatility forecasting and principal components analysis will be explained. We will assume that you have knowledge of basic statistics and mathematics.

Behavioural Finance

Behavioural finance studies irrationalities in savings and investment decisions as well as puzzles on financial markets. Some key topics are saving for retirement, insurance, predictability of returns, and bubbles. Knowledge of behavioural finance provides students with a deeper and more realistic understanding of finance than is offered by the mainstream approach alone. Such knowledge will hopefully make students less susceptible to common mistakes when they make financial decisions in their personal or professional lives.

Research Essay

The research paper will examine a particular area of law. The particular subject area within this field is the student¿s own choice, guided and agreed by their allocated supervisor.

Cutaneous Neoplasms, Benign and Malignant

This module allows the student to explore the clinical features of a variety of both common and more unusual primary and secondary cutaneous neoplasms. In additional to the clinical findings, the histology and scientific pathways (where known) resulting in these neoplasms will be discussed along side relevant aetiological factors. The diagnosis and management of the individual conditions will be discussed in detail. Dermoscopy will be covered at an appropriate level of detail as will the cutaneous features of internal malignancy and the rare familial cancer syndromes which may present with cutaneous findings.

Programming for Business Analytics

This module will provide an introduction to programming in a commercial environment including: - Advanced use of Microsoft Excel for data analysis - Usage of Macros to automate common tasks - Introduction of Visual Basic for applications programming language (VBA) - Writing custom Excel functions and subroutines using VBA - Design of databases in Microsoft Access - Querying data with Microsoft Access - Externally loading data to Microsoft Access - Using ActiveX Data objects - The SQL query language

Cultural Contexts of Mental Health

This module will discuss the key issues in the transcultural psychiatry. The topics will include differences in clinical manifestation of mental disorders across cultural, challenges of diagnosis in a multicultural environment, specific needs of ethnic minorities in terms of care and treatment. The students will be encouraged to reflect on the impact of cultural context on the development and treatment of mental disorders. The impact of migration on mental health will also be covered.

Mental Health: Theory and Practice

The module will familiarize the students with basic concepts in mental health. The participants will learn about the modern definitions and classifications of mental disorders, as well as some methods of treatment. Several types of mental disorders, including personality disorders and psychosis, will be discussed in detail. The module will also cover epidemiology of mental disorders in diverse populations and ways of assessing and treating psychological problems in various populations.

Competition Law, Intellectual Property and Innovation

Innovation, recognized as critical to growth of national economies, is often cited as a primary justification for the grant of intellectual property rights and the varying periods within which these `monopolies¿ can be exercised. It is sometimes claimed, therefore, that there is a tension between competition law that might be viewed as `antimonopoly¿ and intellectual property law that grants exclusive rights that might be viewed as monopolistic. This, however, is not the case. Although competition law has, in some cases, restricted intellectual property rights, e.g., those that are exercised beyond their lawful scope, competition law and intellectual property law often have similar objectives, including to further consumer interest through a competitive market place offering innovative products and services. However, in some competition cases against companies engaged in innovation such as Microsoft, Google, Intel, Apple, etc., that are rooted in intellectual property principles, the balance between applying competition principles and IP principles is not always clear or uncontroversial. While the European courts have sought to draw a distinction between the existence of IP rights and their exercise within the specific subject matter of the right that, in principle should not be affected by competition law, the distinction does not provide a safe harbour for IP rights. This is because the ECJ has also considered abusive practices that fall within the scope of the ¿specific subject matter¿ of the IP right in certain 'exceptional circumstances'. The Court also gives a broad definition to the term ¿exercise¿, thus keeping an important discretion as to the scope of the application of competition law. The course aims at exploring in detail the relationship between competition law and intellectual property law.

Applied Exercise Physiology

Exercise Physiology is the study of how our bodies' structures and functions are altered when we are exposed to acute and chronic bouts of exercise. This module is designed to provide insight into how concepts of exercise physiology apply to i) training athletes and enhancing the athlete¿s sport performance and ii) improving and maintaining function in chronic disease patients and members of the general population. Topics covered within this module include musculoskeletal, cardio-respiratory and metabolic adaptations to exercise training and methods of fitness testing and application of physiological principles to different population groups.

Information Security and the Law

Current Issues in International Energy Regulation

"This module will provide students with a good knowledge of the regulation and governance of the energy sector and the debates and issues impacting the continued development of the sector. It will consider the impact climate change mitigation measures must be taken into account by governments in energy regulation. It will examine energy regulation models and the regulation and governance of specific markets such as oil and gas, electricity and renewable energy sources. It will explore issues such as the role of ACER as a transnational regulator as well as the impact of IRENA. "

Transnational Law and Governance Applied

The central question which this module will address is how Transnational law impacts on the future of law-making, supervision and enforcement of rules in a globalised world of transnational business and markets. Globalisation and polycentrality are phenomena that influence every aspect of the world society and challenge the efficiency and validity centralized law-making by the states. In a globalised world where business is mostly done at transnational level coupled with the pace that both economic and technology change, traditional national law-making is proving ineffective and as a result we have witnessed alternatives appearing, including from regional and international organisations but also from private transnational market actors too. The law has emerged from its national setting and presents itself as transnational which has important ramifications for policy making. A weekly topical issue related to Transnational Law will be discussed in depth. The discussions are based on readings and will follow a presentation of the readings. Potential issues which could be covered include: Is Transnational Law, Law?; The World Justice Forum Index; the Cape Town Convention; Climate Change as a Transnational Legal Order; private law-making in the diamond trade and financial markets; and Transnational lawyering.

Global Intellectual Property Law

What is intellectual property? Who benefits from these laws? What types of subject matter are protected in the global perspective under patent, copyright, trade mark, etc. laws? What are the main I.P. treaties and conventions? What is the connection between trade (WTO-TRIPS) and intellectual property law? What are the main justifications and criticisms in relation to IP law? By looking at national and global IP laws, the course gives a fundamental grounding in patents, copyright, trade marks, as well as international hybrid rights such as geographical indications, plant and seed protection, utility model, design, and unfair competition protection. The module also examines the global nature of intellectual property law and policy as it is affected arising from emerging technologies, and the consequential impact on the rights and obligations of peoples and corporations. Concentrating on the jurisprudence of major countries, including the EU and US, the course also examines the conflicting positions adopted as to the propertisation of (i) drugs, biological organisms and gene technologies; and (ii) traditional knowledge and cultural heritage. The module further examines the controversial clashes which have emerged between IPRs and international norms in various fora including competition law, human rights, development and environmental agendas.

The Law of Film

This module introduces students to skills in reading film and intellectual property critically and analytically. Students will undertake interdisciplinary evaluation of film protection and commercialisation using film theory, fan and cultural studies, and intellectual property. Studying key jurisdictions and markets, topics include history of film and its protection, film theory and intellectual property, film theory and creative practice, authorship and film practice, audience and reception, sound and intellectual property, adaptation and genre.

Topics in Probability and Stochastic Processes

Topics will be chosen from the following list: (i) Borel-Cantelli lemma, Kolmogorov's inequalities, strong law of large numbers; (ii) Weak convergence of distributions. The Central Limit Theorem; (iii) Recurrent events and renewal theory; (iv) Further topics in random walks; (v) General theory of Markov chains. Classification of states and ergodic properties; (vi) Continuous time Markov Processes. Please see the module organiser before registering.

Dissertation in Banking and Finance Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in Immigration Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Public International & European Air Transport Law

Air transport is one of the most heavily regulated sectors of the economy. For passengers and goods to be transported safely, regularly, economically and efficiently, a dense web of rules is governing aspects such as the use of airspace, safety, security, air navigation, airports and the environment. This module examines the international, supranational and national rules that make aviation pride itself on being the safest and most innovative mode of transport, as well as the industry that has globalised the world, contributing to peace and economic growth. It also examines critically the lack of uniformity in the international regulatory framework and its implications for the industry and the economy at large.

Global Governance and International Organisations

¿his module examines the emerging structure of global governance and the role of international organisations, looking at the roles played by Western states and international agencies in setting norms for good governance and for managing trade, labour and the environment. Students will acquire a solid historical and critical understanding of key developments and concepts such as the role of international financial institutions and the United Nations, "good governance" and "global civil society", and a comprehension of policy making at the global level.

Interpreting the City: Cultural Constructions and their Material Effects

This compulsory module approaches the city as an imaginary construction, represented on the page or on the canvas, or potentially on the walls of the city itself. It asks how these means of representing the city - to those who live in it and those how may potentially never see it - deal with questions of totality and exemplariness. It considers the interplay between movement and unchanging essence, and it gives students the means to grasp that a city is constructed in culture as well as in bricks and mortar, and that these two processes are inseparable.

Dissertation in Laws

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Applied Principles of Clinical Dentistry

This is an academic and practical module which introduces clinical concepts and approaches. Teaching will be delivered in the form of lectures/seminars, journal clubs and problem-based and critical reasoning sessions. Students will also be expected to engage in independent study and reflection. Topics covered will include: Patient examination and diagnosis; Treatment planning and patient management; Health promotion and disease prevention; Medical and dental emergencies; Anesthesia, sedation, pain & anxiety control; Periodontal therapy and management of soft tissues; Hard and soft tissue surgery; Non-surgical management of the hard and soft tissues of the head and neck; Management of the developing dentition; and Restoration and replacement of teeth.

Maritime Arbitration

Specialist dispute resolution mechanisms catering to specific industry needs are popular in international commerce, and arbitration has emerged as the dominant industry choice for resolving shipping disputes, in particular charterparty disputes. Indeed important maritime arbitration centres have long been established in London and New York, and more recently others have started to emerge in countries such as Russia, China and Singapore. London remains a leader in this field with a large number of disputes being decided each year through arbitration in accordance with the terms of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association. The module will tackle questions such as: What is special about maritime arbitration and what distinguishes it from general commercial arbitration? What are the features of maritime arbitration that make it particularly popular? Is arbitration by its nature more suited to the resolution of disputes arising in connection with certain types of shipping contracts (e.g. charterparties) rather than others (e.g. contracts of carriage contained in bills of lading)? Why? What are the implications of widespread use of arbitration for the continued development of shipping law?

Media Law: Reputation Management

Media Law: Reputation Management covers the key areas of law used by those who seek to build and protect a media 'brand' for commercial gain. The module will open with a detailed consideration of libel law and how that protects the public image of an individual (or, indeed, an entity with legal personhood). Whereas perhaps three decades ago the law in this area seemed well settled, the challenges of the internet combined with much of the Defamation Act 2013 remaining to be refined through interpretation by the courts makes this an important and ongoing focus for study by the commercial media lawyer. The second aspect of law which the module will look at is the developing area of privacy. While traditionally English law has not offered direct protection for privacy, a wide range of las have been used in effect to prevent or at least compensate individuals aggrieved by private elements of their lives being published to the masses. Sometimes this has simply been about the privacy of an individual, while in other circumstances it has been about the protection of a direct commercial relationship (such as that between the Douglases and OK Magazine in Douglas v Hello). The development of the tort of Misuse of Private Information, a result of the application of the Human Rights Act 1998, has arguably created a de facto common law privacy protection which continues to explore new nuances at the discretion of the courts. The continued existence of the tabloid press, the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal, and the apparently unending appetite on the part of the general public for 'celebrity' gossip indicates that this is an area of law which will continue to see development for some time to come. The final area of law to be covered in this module focuses on intellectual property in a media context, in particular the use of IP in personality rights and, more broadly, as a means of controlling an individual's brand. As of yet, English law does not recognise personality rights, instead protecting only those who choose to actively merchandise themselves via a form of passing off ('false endorsement'). The course will open up the debate on this issue and consider the potential for this to be expanded, as well as other ways in which IP may be used to protect personal reputation (or not - see, for instance, application of HUbbard v Vosper in this regard). Although English law will be the primary context in which this module will be taught, it is intended that this will provide more a 'case study' context in which the issues raised will be debated rather than a course solely about English law per se. Laws in other jurisdictions (such as, for example, the ongoing debate on defamation reform in Scotland and Northern Ireland) will be raised and discussed where appropriate.

Doing International Relations Research: Theories Methods, Data

This module introduces students to main theories from which international relations research is conducted and methods and analytics with which to conduct such research. Taught in SEM2 the module serves as a preparation for undertaking dissertation research that students are expected to accomplish in SEM3. The module enables students to learn (1) various theories of knowledge (e.g., positive versus normative, explanation versus understanding, objectivist versus subjectivist, postcolonial and decolonial, and rational versus relativist ways of doing international relations research; (2) major methods used in international relations research (e.g., interviews, documents, repositories, archives, recordings, and digital sources); and (3) analytical relations between various theories of knowledge in international research and methods appropriate to them. The module introduces students all these three issues with judicious examples drawn from major debates in contemporary international relations research.

International Business in the Digital Age

The objective of this course is to examine how organisations develop and execute their international business strategies in a rapidly digitising business environment. Classic international business theories and concepts will be revisited in the light of evolving information and communication technologies. International business strategies (with a special focus on the global sourcing of IT) will be discussed. The course will involve a critical appreciation of contemporary developments and future trends.

Corporate Rescue and Cross-border Insolvency

The module covers the various procedures available in cases of reorganization and insolvency of corporations; the relationship between the general law of property, obligations and insolvency; and, the law of credit and security issues in the context of distress scenarios. The module will have a transactional focus with actual case studies and will also analyse general principles of international financing techniques.

Relationship and Network Marketing

The module Relationship and Network Marketing provides students with an overview of important aspects of business-to-business marketing. For this purpose, students will explore crucial underlying concepts of relationships and networks as well as develop a sense of business marketing practices. The module fosters an understanding of how organisations are embedded in an interdependent net(work) of business exchanges. Using collaborative and cooperative relational management provides firms within such net(work)s with the possibility to mobilise important external resources via business partners.

Applied Empirical Methods

The module provides a non-technical overview of quantitative methodologies frequently used in finance and international business research. The module is data driven and covers the basics of: Hypotheses testing, OLS and Logistic Regression Analysis, Instrumental Variables, Time Series Analysis, Panel Data Models and Differences-in Differences. The module also teaches how to apply these methods using STATA (a leading econometrics software).

International Primary Care - Principles, Policy and Practice

High quality primary health care is the cornerstone of a universal, equitable and efficient health system. Many countries are seeking to shift from a hospital-led health care system to one characterised by a strong primary care sector. The primary health care model provides the internationally established norm for attaining the World Health Organization¿s commitment to 'health for all¿. This vision for developing primary care is widely held but depends critically on capacity building to produce research leaders, educators, and policy-makers. The PCGPH module introduces students to the study of primary health care with a focus on the delivery of primary care services as part of a wider public health programme. This module aims to introduce students to the study of primary health care (PHC) with a focus on the delivery of primary care services as part of a wider public health programme to provide effective primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of disease and illness. It will build on and complement 'Health Systems, Policy and Practice' modules, which cover the main principles, organisational models, politics and reforms of primary care globally.

Dissertation in Comparative Literature

In coordination with a supervisor, students will select a topic for advanced study. They will collect and analyse the necessary literary texts and theoretical material. This will result in the writing of a 12-15,000 word dissertation. For this, students will synthesize various aspects of the knowledge they will have obtained through the degree and demonstrate their ability to conduct and present high quality original research.

Translational Immunology - Project 3

Description of Language

"Description of Language provides you with an overview of the nature and extent of linguistics and enables you to apply the systems of syntax, lexis, practical phonetics, and discourse to the language learning classroom. From your understanding of language, you then explore and evaluate the range of language learning materials and the sequencing of materials for language teaching and learning. The module allows you to apply your newly acquired knowledge of language and materials to the language learning classroom, both through micro-teaching with your peers, and through opportunities to observe language teaching in either English or another language."

Dissertation 15,000 Words

MSc Industrial Placement Project

The industrial placement project consists of 8-12 months spent working with an appropriate employer in a role that relates directly to your field of study. The placement is undertaken between the taught component and the project. This will provide you with the opportunity to apply the key technical knowledge and skills that you have learnt in your taught modules, and will enable you to gain a better understanding of your own abilities, aptitudes, attitudes and employment potential. The module is only open to students enrolled on a programme of study with integrated placement.

Initial Presentation and Assessment

This module provides the basic understanding behind the whole course in terms of the types of injury caused by the various mechanisms of trauma commonly seen in clinical practice. Background pathophysiology required to understand healing processes and surgical manipulation with respect to both bone and soft tissue elements underpin all of the following modules. Emergency assessment relevant to both the primary and secondary trauma survey are discussed together with treatment delivered in this phase of treatment.

International Commercial Law

The module covers the fundamental characteristics of international contracts for the sale of goods and to a lesser extent, the key ancillary contracts for the financing of trading activities, transportation of goods to their place of destination and insurance of the cargo. When traders sell or buy goods or commodities on the international markets, that transaction is composed of several contracts: the goods are sold under a contract of sale, transported under a contract of carriage, insured under a contract of insurance and frequently have payment assured through a letter of credit. The purpose of this module is to examine primarily the regulation of the sale contract under CISG, English Sales law and other international law instruments and standards. The regulation of peripheral contracts to the contract of sale will be examined too but in less detail as this is now considered in depth by more focused specific modules (e.g., on the shipping of goods, marine insurance etc). The module will also place emphasis on the practical problems, which arise in the international commercial arena and consider ways in which these may be addressed in the future.

International Migration Law

"The module will start by studying the historical origins and development of international legal tools to regulate human mobility across borders, with a discussion of the available regulatory options and their ethical/philosophical underpinnings (ranging from the 'open borders' formula to 'communitarian' perspectives). The different regimes, actors and institutions playing a role in the legal administration of international migration will be examined next, with particular focus on key inter-governmental institutions (such as the ILO and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants) and non-governmental actors (such as IOM and ICMPD) as norms entrepreneurs in this area. The study of substantive law, including relevant State practice and case law of national and international courts and Treaty bodies, will follow thereafter, following four thematic blocs: 1) labour migration, with particular focus on ILO conventions and the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; 2) family migration and children on the move; 3) terrorism and the securitisation of migration post 9/11; and 4) irregular migration, human trafficking and migrant smuggling, with special reference to the 2000 Palermo Protocols to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime."

Media Regulation

"Within the field of media law, there are a range of sector-specific regulatory systems, each of which raises complex practical and ethical questions. This course will examine each of these using English law as a case-study (international comparisons may be raised as and where appropriate, in particular in the context of discussion with students commenting on the approaches taken in their home jurisdictions)."

Comparative Immigration Law

This module relates developments in migration law to wider socio-political developments including decolonisation, nationalism, and economic demands; race and ethnicity in immigration laws; marriage and families in immigration law; gender and spouses in migration laws; international and comparative refugee law; how states compete for skilled migrants; immigration law as an aspect of Europeanisation; how states create and deal with irregular migration.

Bank Insolvency and Resolution

The module covers the various procedures available in financial distress scenarios aiming at restoring viability and overcoming the excessive burden of debt. The module will address these issues from the perspective of banks/financial conglomerates. The course will have a transactional focus with actual case studies and will also analyse general principles of international financing techniques.

Critical Care Medicine in Special Patient Groups

This module will describe the anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology of a varied group of patients requiring specialist considerations during their critical illness. The module will cover managing patients with chronic renal disease, endocrine, and neurological problems. It will also cover special considerations in patients with burns, obstertrics, old-age, high risk surgical and immunocompromise (cancer and HIV), as well as those requiring cardiothoracic surgery, cadriac bypass (including ECMO), and long-term respiratory support.

EU Tax Law

This module provides students with an understanding of EU tax law, with an emphasis on EU corporate tax law. Sources of EU corporate tax law (legislative instruments, soft law and case law) are examined. A number of corporate topics are covered, including parent-subsidiary relationships, permanent establishments, passive income, reorganisations, anti-abuse provisions, proposed directives (CCCTB, FTT) etc. The module also examines recent developments and high-profile debates in the intersection of international tax law and European tax law. Topics such as international tax avoidance, corporate social responsibility, good tax governance, harmful tax competition, state aid and tax treaty abuse are considered from the angle of EU tax law and international tax law. The interaction of the OECD/G20's BEPS project with the European Commission's measures to fight tax fraud and tax evasion is also considered.

Telecommunications Policy, Law and Regulation

This module examines the global trend away from national monopolies in telecommunication and broadcasting networks towards competition in a regulated and increasingly international communications market. The principles underlying this process of liberalisation and regulation are elucidated and explained in this course, which control the provision of telecommunications equipment, networks and services. In particular, the course will concentrate on the policy issues that governments pursue in the sector, the regulatory mechanisms used to regulate, the challenges of economic regulation; and communications content issues arising from privacy and convergence. Specific attention is given to the role of ex post competition law in the behaviour and structure of telecommunications markets and some of the main forms of contractual arrangements that arise in legal practice.

International Refugee Law

This module examines the international law dimensions of protecting refugees and other categories of forced migrants. It provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts and workings of international law, in general, and international refugee and human rights law, in particular, as they relate to the phenomenon of forced displacement. While international refugee law forms the backbone of the course, the module will also cover aspects of international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and the law of the sea as these apply to refugees and other forced migrants. The module will start by studying the historical origins and development of refugee law up to its codification in the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol. The institutions tasked with overseeing the implementation of these instruments will also be examined, with particular focus on UNHCR and its evolving role through time. The study of substantive law, including State practice and case law of national and international courts and Treaty bodies, will follow thereafter, following ten thematic blocs: 1) the refugee definition (inclusion, exclusion, and cessation of refugee status); 2) the status of Palestinian refugees; 3) non-refoulement and complementary forms of protection; 4) status determination procedures; 5) the content of international protection and other 'durable solutions'; 6) access to asylum; 7) war and displacement; 8) 'climate refugees'; 9) poverty, destitution and 'survival migration'; 10) and the ethical roots of refugeehood, to be taught in 3-hour blocs from Week 2 to 11.

Consolidated Clinical Skill and Science in Oral Medicine

This core module will consolidate the advanced knowledge acquired in previous modules including immunology, microbiology, and pathology. Students will be introduced to more complicated oral medicine cases. The students will acquire enhanced skills for a multidisciplinary comprehensive approach in examining, diagnosing and managing complicated oral medicine conditions.

Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Students will learn about a wide range of topics within the field of paediatric resuscitation, including airway management, critical care interventions, and common paediatric emergencies. Please note, this module does not seek to provide training in paediatric emergency medicine, but rather to provide an understanding of specific issues relevant to paediatric resuscitation. Hospital based practitioners will gain knowledge regarding the resuscitative management of common paediatric emergencies, including issues specific to looking after children such as distraction techniques, and safeguarding.

Researching Economic Futures in Practice: Malaysia Emerging

This innovative fieldwork based module aims to bridge the study of 'economic', `labour', and `development¿ geographies. Core themes are: 1) Malaysia¿s integration into the global and regional production networks of the electronics industry; 2) the state of Malaysia as a `graduated sovereignty¿ and post-developmental state which exhibits discipline over labour and civil society while allowing foreign corporations to assume certain aspects of state power; 3) the role of foreign migrant workers in the stabilisation of the labour market; and 4) the embedding of race politics in the cultural and economic geographies of the country. These themes will be explored through field case studies in Penang and Kuala Lumpur. PGT students will be expected to devise their own projects and site visits in Malaysia in relation to these themes.

Advanced Clinical Skills and Science in Oral Medicine

This core module will build on and advance the basic knowledge acquired in previous modules and introduce students to more in-depth aspects of Oral Medicine and the knowledge required to manage associated systemic disease. This module also enhances the student¿s ability to examine the patient, diagnosis of presenting condition, and the ability to formulate an appropriate treatment plan. This module will cover aspects of advanced knowledge in oral medicine including immunology, microbiology, and pathology. Advanced clinical skills will be acquired to underpin an independent clinical practice.

Machine Learning

Teaching English in Professional and Academic Settings

"This optional module provides a focused route for students who wish to develop advanced knowledge and skills in teaching both English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP). The module starts with the exploration of theoretical approaches and key research as well as pedagogical developments in the fields of ESP/EAP in the UK and across other national and international contexts. This in-depth introduction then moves on to the discussion of the principles of ESP/EAP course design, placing particular emphasis on practical knowledge of syllabus content/structure, material development and assessment methods."

Methods of Text and Corpus Analysis

The course offers an overview of key theoretical and methodological frameworks for doing discourse analysis in applied linguistics. Particular attention is paid to corpus-assisted studies of discourse which offer systematic insights in a variety of registers and settings. The module introduces students to corpus-assisted discourse analysis in two stages. The first part of the module will focus on the theoretical and practical aspects underlying discourse analysis. Students will learn how to systematically relate linguistic and semiotic properties of texts to the broader social and cultural contexts of which they are a part, and thereby to contribute to (1) the understanding and critique of social problems and inequalities, and (2) the development of critical language awareness in language learners. The second part will introduce the principles and theoretical constructs developed within corpus linguistics and corpus-assisted discourse analysis, as well as some of the most widely used corpora and corpus software.

Theatre for Young People: Pedagogy in Practice

This module offers a group placement within a young people's theatre company or other relevant arts organisation working with young people. The organisations offering the group placement will normally be working with young people in mental health contexts, or with young people who have experiences of social and mental health issues. It offers the opportunity to observe, learn and develop arts-based teaching methodologies with and for young people and to explore the social, mental and creative benefits of the arts for young people.

Corpus Linguistics - Theory and Practice

This module will introduce you to Corpus Linguistics (CL) and allow you to develop an independent project using its tools. 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 and 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. Finally, you will be couched through developing your own research project which you could pursue using the tools learned.

The Multidisciplinary Team in Critical Care

This module will cover important aspects of ICU organisation, from staffing to equipment and information technology to continuous audit and quality control. It will also discuss major incident planning and management, as well as aspects of toxicology and environmental hazards (including biological threats and terrorism). It will end with microbiology and infection control as applied to critical care, with special focus on development of microbial resistance emerging throughout the world.

The Production of Texts in Context

"This is the compulsory core module for students taking the MA in English Literature. By focusing on the production of texts in a range of historical periods, and by considering different genres of writing, the module is designed to prepare you for the three special options you will choose from across the spectrum of the Department's postgraduate taught programmes. The Production of Texts in Context investigates selected historical case studies in order both to provide you with an advanced understanding of the material and social conditions in which texts are produced, disseminated, and read, and to prompt you to reflect critically upon the significance of literary-historical enquiry for the present-day interpretation of texts. The module will thereby equip you with a sound historical and conceptual preparation for the further study of literary writing at Masters level and beyond, whether or not your interests are specific to a particular period."

Practical Machine Learning

Investigative and Legal Processes in Forensic Psychology and Mental Health

This module equips students with knowledge of practical application of theoretical knowledge bases related to investigative and legal processes within the discipline of Forensic Psychology and Forensic Mental Health. The contribution of Forensic Psychology to the English Legal System will be introduced prior to students reviewing involvement of related theory and practice in the investigative system. Theory and research are drawn from a number of related areas, including the link between forensic psychology and: policing; interrogative interviewing; working with witnesses; eyewitness testimony; behavioural investigation, and offender crime scene behaviour.

Humanities and Social Sciences Independent Research Project

The Physiology of Shock, Shock Syndromes and Tools of Resuscitation

In this module, students will learn how to identify patients in shock, evaluate which patients require resuscitation, and examine tools by which this is achieved. Students will review the most common causes of shock and learn how to classify shock syndromes, maximise the cardiovascular response to shock, choose fluid therapy (dose/type) for resuscitation, and select which inopressors to apply. Students will develop further insights into cardiovascular physiology and have a clear and in depth understanding of what is meant by resuscitation. Students will learn via a series of online lectures delivered by experts in the field and will participate in discussion groups.

Dissertation in International Business Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in Public International Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in Critical Care Medicine

This module will allow students to develop specialist knowledge and insight on a topic of their choice, related to Critical Care Medicine. Students may choose to organise their dissertation in the form of a narrative review, systematic review, guideline development, research project, audit, or quality assurance project. Students will develop the ability to synthesise and analyse information and data, to breakdown complex issues, and to compare and contrast alternative viewpoints. This will allow an appraisal and judgement of the direction of the field informed by latest developments and opinion. Students will be supported by regular online supervisory contact with a tutor with expertise in their field of research interest. Particular emphasis will be placed on developing the students' ability to disseminate knowledge at a professional level, with a view toward publication.

Photography the Self and its Image

Multilingualism and Bilingualism

International Arbitration Law and Practice: Applicable Laws and Procedures

"The aim of this course is to establish students' knowledge and critical understanding as well as provide an insight into the practice of international commercial arbitration as an independent comparative law subject. The subject is first examined generically, without any reference to any national laws, arbitration rules or international instruments; and then various national and institutional approaches are presented. The focus is on selected issues of applicable law(s) and procedures. In particular, in the first section the classes will explore the role of arbitral institutions as regulators of arbitration and classes will also discuss issues of legitimacy and how concerns users may have can be best addressed. In the second section of the course the focus will shift to applicable law issues. In particular, classes will discuss how applicable laws are being determined (and by whom) before looking at specific applicable substantive laws and rules as well as the role of lex mercatoria and transnational commercial rules. There will also be specific discussion of the impact of mandatory rules or law as an issue of methodology and practice. In the third section of the courses the classes will discuss they key (f)actor of arbitration: the arbitration tribunal. In particular, classes will cover the selections, status, rights and duties of arbitrators, how arbitrators are being appointed and the main duties of independence and impartiality. In this context the classes will also address liability and/or immunity of arbitrators. In the penultimate and longer section the classes will explore issues of procedure and evidence in international arbitration, ranging from the law governing the procedure (`lex arbitri¿), the classification of procedural issues, the organisation and management of procedure. Then the classes will look at provisional and interim measure as well as emergency arbitration and will also cover multi-party, multi-contract and multi-action arbitration. Issues of evidence, such as evidentiary means (witnesses, documents and document production, experts) and regulation of evidence will also receive specific attention. Finally, we will discuss efficiency as a driver of arbitration micro-regulation. Depending on the class size we may also endeavour a simulation of an arbitration process."

Investment Treaty Arbitration: Agreements and Substantive Protection

"The aim of this course is to establish students' knowledge and critical understanding as well as provide an insight into the practice of international investment arbitration at the juncture of dispute resolution and public international law and policy. The focus will be on BITs, FTAs and other International Investment Agreements, Investor Protection and State Defences. There are a number of reasons why a course on substantive protection of investors through investment arbitration is important at this time. Indeed, recent and rapid changes in investment arbitration prompted by globalisation and widespread foreign investment. There are also debates about legitimacy crisis and further debates about the negotiation and drafting of new generation treaties - so-called mega-regionals. The course is divided into three main topics: (1) Major Treaty Systems - Fragmentation and new Regionalisation, (2) Case Law of and case studies relating to Substantive Protection, (3) Specific Policy issues and State Perspectives to Investment Arbitration and ISDS. The classes will address the content and negotiations of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and Multilateral Treaties (Energy Charter Treaty, NAFTA, CAFTA, ASEAN, CETA, TPP (CPTPP) and TTIP). The discussions will focus on substantive protection and the evolution of such protection as well as policy considerations associated with BITs and MITs. The second section of the class will focus on substantive protection as developed through jurisprudence of international tribunals. The classes will cover (1) expropriation, (2), fair and equitable treatment, (3) umbrella clauses and fork-in-the-road, (4) full protection and security and (5) MFN clauses. The third section of the course will discuss balancing interests - public interest, public policy and regulatory chill and typical state defences raised in investment disputes (including corruption and admissibility defences). Specific attention will also be paid to treaty Shopping, Transparency and Third-Party-Funding and assessment of damages by investment tribunals."

Terrorism & Human Rights: Constitutional Perspectives

"This course examines the legal responses to terrorism since 9/11 2001 in the context of international and European human rights obligations. At the start of the course we will consider some overarching questions: how has terrorism been defined in different legal contexts and what is the significance of the language used in describing terrorism and counter-terrorism? From a legal perspective is terrorism different to other criminal activities? Why does our response to terrorism seem to defy legal categorisation (civil/criminal, domestic/international, immigration/national security) and why does terrorism create so many conceptual difficulties for the law? The course will a selection of issues from the following, including: Thinking about terrorism, counter-terrorism and human rights: some of the themes we will be looking at throughout the first half of the course. Terrorism has put significant stress on the rule of law and human rights since 9/11. It has led to a proliferation of new legal regimes and new legal categories (control orders, UN asset freezing, ¿unlawful combatants¿ etc). Defining Terrorism: the difficulty of defining terrorism both in everyday discourse and in the law. We will examine what is at stake when we call an act one of terrorism. Are there forms of political violence that do not constitute terrorism? If so, is terrorism simply the label we use for political violence with which we disagree? If not, can we come up with a neutral definition of terrorism? Torture and Terrorism: why has torture re-appeared as a contentious legal issue since 9/11? Is torture ever acceptable? Are there dangers in attempting to learn from ¿ticking bombs¿ and other catastrophe scenarios? We will examine the national and international legal regime governing torture, in particular the provisions of the ECHR and UNCAT. Extraordinary Rendition and CIA Black Sites at the European Court of Human Rights: although extraordinary rendition, secret detention and torture are all nominally illegal in Europe, the space for legal redress when they have occurred has become highly complex, with governments, non-governmental organisations, media and investigators all playing a role. The session will examine how it was possible to construct the case, and will encourage reflection on the effectiveness and limitations of such legal action in creating accountability. Targeted killings and drone strikes: In recent years we have seen growing prominence given to targeted killings, and in particular drone strikes, as a key, and increasingly public, part in the ¿war on terror¿. We will examine the ethical and legal issues they raise. What is the applicable international and domestic legal regime that applies to targeted killings?"

Nuclear Energy Law

This module will cover all of the legal and policy issues relating to nuclear power generation. It is one of the most heavily regulated sectors of the energy industry. The course will consider the policy aims of Governments in building nuclear power plants to comply with their obligations to transition to clean energy. Nuclear power provides a stable, secure and efficient clean base load of power. The course will also review of all of the international treaties and standards applicable to the nuclear industry from safety and liability to transportation of highly active waste material. Nuclear power is not without its challenges including time and expense of contruction, security concerns post Fukishima, wast management and decommissioning.

MRes Dissertation

Introduction to Phonetics

This module will provide a introduction to phonetics, one of the core sub-fields of Linguistics. This is the study of how speech sounds are produced and perceived, as well as what the acoustic properties of these sounds are. This module will focus on the main processes of phonetic articulation, practice with transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet as well as on the acoustic analysis of speech. The module is suitable for MA students without substantial prior background in Linguistics, or for those who want to branch out into a new sub-field.

Open Fractures and Orthoplastic Surgical Care

This is a compulsory module that will focus on the multi-specialty management of open fractures, from pre-hospital care to definitive ortho-plastic surgical treatment The module will provide students with a deep knowledge of how open fractures can be treated by a combined, collaborative approach between surgical disciplines, from the emergency room, to first debridement and then definitive fixation and soft tissue cover. Skeletal stabilisation and soft tissue reconstruction are discussed in detail, including decision-making around implants and choice of grafts/flaps for covering skin defects.

Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction

This module will offer an opportunity to study key thinkers and debates in the field of queer theory, while also exploring how sexuality is narrated in contemporary culture. The module will be grounded in a mix theoretical texts and literary and visual cultural texts. Throughout, we will consider the relationship between cultural texts, politics, and theory, asking: What kind of object is sex and sexuality? What is 'queer' about queer theory? How is queerness narrated in contemporary literature and cultural texts? How do LGBTQ writers experiment with form in relation to sexuality? This module offers an opportunity to engage in debates central to queer theory, while also develop skills in literary and cultural analysis of contemporary narratives of sexuality.

Research I: Research Project Progression Report I and Clinical Portfolio Initial Report

Regulation and Compliance Dissertation

Case study component - Using three or four case studies for each of the three topics covered: Financial Institution, Emerging Economies and Taxation, to illustrate some of the issues covered in the seminars with a focus on analysing what went wrong and what lessons may be applicable to a Compliance function. Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field.

Dissertation in Emergency Medicine

This module will allow students to develop specialist knowledge and insight on a topic of their choice, related to Emergency and Resuscitation Medicine. Students may choose to organise their dissertation in the form of a narrative review, systematic review, guideline development, research project, audit, or quality assurance project. Students will develop the ability to synthesise and analyse information and data, to breakdown complex issues, and to compare and contrast alternative view points. This will allow an appraisal and judgement of the direction of the field informed by latest developments and opinion. Students will be supported by regular online supervisory contact with a tutor with expertise in their field of research interest. Particular emphasis will be placed on developing the students' ability to disseminate knowledge at a professional level, with a view toward publication.

US Federal Law Constitutional Law: Select Issues

"As a federal constitutional republic, the United States¿ governance is based on the US Constitution, the supreme law of the land that establishes the framework for the federal and state governments, systems of designated, limited powers. As the government may exercise only powers specifically granted to it in the Constitution, it provides important protection of rights and powers of individuals. This module examines this core legal instrument, including the its separation of powers among three branches of government, the relation of nation and states in a federal system and the protection of individual rights. "

Music Industry Contracts

The Music industry contracts module analyses the contracts between the various parts of the music industry. On the creative side it looks at the contracts between composers and music publishers; performers/ producers and record companies as well as other players such as music managers. A key aspect of the creative side of the music value chain concerns the activities of Collective Management Organisations and the module analyses the membership agreements of PRS for Music, MCPS and PPL respectively.The module we also look at the relation of music industry players with users such as broadcasting organisations and online platforms. The course will show how copyright is applied in practice on the example of the music industry. The music industry has been at the cutting edge of legal and commercial developments dealing with new business models throughout the years. The course will look at the main markets for music such as US and UK. Experiences in the field of music are transferable to all creative sectors such as audio visual and book publishing.

Cell and Molecular Basis of Regeneration

This module combines lecture-based teaching with workshops to provide students with a foundation in the cellular and molecular basis of regeneration. It covers topics including cellular senescence and organismal ageing, wound healing, hormonal regulation of regeneration, immunity, organ regeneration, epigenetics and hot topics in regeneration. Essential generic skills in critical reading, presentation skills and oral communication are also covered. Workshops will facilitate student learning and acquisition of skills.

Dissertation MSc Aesthetic Medicine

This is the final module A brief introduction to medical ethics and evaluation of clinical practice opens this module. The subsequent dissertation enables the student to apply their skills in critical analysis and the knowledge acquired from the other core modules to writing a 15,000 word dissertation. It will be an approved topic of the student's choice in aesthetic medicine and may be a formal piece of research or a detailed literature review. The module is crucial to further develop literature review skills, critical appraisal and promoting a deep understanding of a specific topic in aesthetic medicine. It should demonstrate a detailed knowledge and understanding of essential facts, concepts,principles and theories relevant to aesthetic medicine and management.

Data Analytics

This module focuses on the range of approaches, methodologies, techniques and tools for data analysis, and the use of data analysis findings to inform decision-making in an industrial / business context. It exposes students to a range of industry-standard statistical and data analysis techniques and tools, and fosters awareness of the challenges associated with working with large datasets. The module also covers topics related to the legal, social, ethical and professional issues associated with data storage and analysis. Students will undertake practical work including empirical data analysis and summarisation / presentation of the results to a range of relevant stakeholders.

International Commercial Litigation

The module examines matters relevant to the resolution of all commercial transactions before national courts. It looks into general principles of International Commercial Litigation and Private International Law, and focuses in particular on issues related to Jurisdiction of National Courts, Conflicts between Jurisdiction of National Courts and International Tribunals and Recognition and Enforcement of National Judgments. The approach taken is international and comparative, although particular emphasis is given on the European regime and legal framework. Thus, sources relevant to the course include the EC 44/2001 Regulation on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments.

Introduction to Social Science 2: Quantitative Methods and Data

This module teaches you to use advanced quantitative skills appropriate for postgraduate research. Further, you will be able to analyse, interpret, critique and replicate published research using quantitative research methods and will acquire sufficient technical competence using SPSS to perform a range of quantitative techniques in your own research.

Image Processing

This course gives students an introduction to image processing. Areas covered include image representation, and image transforms, image enhancement using point and spatial operations, image filtering, image restoration, image compression and image segmentation.

WTO Law: Fundamental Principles

The module examines the fundamental principles of the law of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Topics covered include sources of WTO law, the relationship between WTO law and international and domestic law, the WTO dispute settlement system, and substantive rules on market access (tariffs and non-tariff barriers), non-discrimination (national treatment and most-favoured nation treatment) and rules aimed at balancing free trade and non-trade concerns. The module provides students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the regulatory framework underpinning the multilateral trading system. On completion of the module, students should be able to advice public authorities, private companies or civil society organisations on the consistency of market access restrictions and discriminatory measures affecting international trade with WTO Law and on the remedies available for breaches of WTO Law.

Law of Economic Crime: Proceeds of Crime

Introductory, History of Financial Crime, Corporate Liability and procedural and evidential issues in financial crme, Criminal vs Regulatory Justice, AML/CTF - the International Framework, UK regulatory framework, The substantive UK criminal offences , Art Crime, Kleptocracy, Confiscation (UK), Civil actions, Non Conviction based Seizure

Licensing Intellectual Property

The module begins with an explanation of the principles of intellectual property, contract and competition law as they relate to licensing contracts. The body of the module will be concerned with the character, structure and drafting of licensing agreements for the major forms of intellectual property to include patent, trade mark and copyright licensing. The module will examine in light of statute and case law, the key terms common to such licensing agreements including: ownership; grant of intellectual property; territorial exclusivity; invention improvement; sublicensing; royalties; warranties; indemnities and dispute resolution. The module will discuss current issues in the field of licensing including trade marks and selective distribution agreements; standard essential patents and FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) licensing; as well as copyright licensing, news aggregation; and technological self-help measures including blockchain technologies.

Control Systems

The module provides a grounding in control systems modelling and analysis, using engineering mathematical techniques. It concludes with the examples of control systems design, underpinned by the modelling and analysis that precedes and informs the design. Syllabus: Control systems: what they are, examples of control systems, open-loop and closed-loop control systems, block diagrams of continuous (analog) and discrete-time (digital) control systems, system equations, differential equations, difference equations, linear and non-linear systems, free response, forced response, total response, steady state and transient responses, second-order systems, linearity and superposition, Laplace transform and its inverse , properties of Laplace transform, pole-zero mapping, application of Laplace transform to model systems, Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion, transfer functions and properties, analysis and design of feedback control systems, Bode analysis and design, Root-locus analysis and design, steady-state error analysis, introduction to advanced topics in control systems.

Carriage of Goods

The module will cover essential aspects of the law relating to carriage of goods by sea (mandatory international law regulating carriage of goods contracts, international standard terms, functions of documents such as bills of lading, waybills and delivery orders, as well as electronic alternatives to these documents, detailed discussion of logistics services and multimodal transport).

Art Transactions

This module will examine the various rules of domestic and international private law that can impact the art trade, from the sale and purchase of artworks by private individuals, to acquisitions by other private law means, such as gift and exchange, and loans and other bailments involving museums, galleries and other cultural institutions. Beyond this, the module will also consider the impact of statute: one notable example being the statutory immunity of certain loaned cultural objects from seizure. Owing to the high value and irreplaceable nature of the art being traded, the issue of insurance is an important one. This section will consider both private cover and public insurance. Finally, the module will look at the law of auctions. Auctions are of course a favoured forum to buy and sell art, and the law that applies to the auction is different from the law of the open market.

Dissertation in Commercial and Corporate Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in Intellectual Property Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Microwave and Millimetrewave Electronics

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.

IT Transactions

The module covers information technology transactions, contracts and licences in a variety of areas, such as: system procurement contracts, commercial software licensing, outsourcing, cloud computing and free and open source software.

Cloud Computing

UK Tax Law

The module will provide an introduction to the UK system of taxation, both personal and business. It will also allow students to gain an understanding of the key concepts of tax law from a UK perspective. It will cover the basic principles of the taxation of individuals in the UK on their earnings, gains and wealth. The rationale for various types of taxes will be explored, in particular the UK inheritance and capital gains taxes. Much discussed issues such as tax avoidance, sin taxes and zero hour employment contracts will also be considered. The international perspective will be included and comparisons will be made with taxes in other jurisdictions.

Transfer Pricing

The module will provide students with knowledge of transfer pricing and the various principles and standards developed to deal with it. There will be a historical overview of the issues followed by an analysis of the evolution of principles leading to the BEPS Action Plan and the updated 2017 Transfer Pricing Guidelines. The module will consider major current transfer pricing issues around intangibles, business restructuring, the digital economy, services and financing. It also examines issues such as transfer pricing documentation and dispute resolution (both arbitration and litigation). The intersection of transfer pricing with EU law will also be considered and the case law on state aid and APAs will be reviewed in detail. The course is not jurisdiction specific; rather it offers a holistic approach to the topic with cameos of the different approaches of countries to it.

Water Law

Water Law is a module examining the ecology and legal management of water. The legal area forms part of the wider body of environmental, international and economic law. It consider topics including the transboundary management of water resources, the human right to water, initiatives improve water service, privatisation, the role of water in energy production and the trade of water as a good or service.

Astrophysical Computing

This module is an introduction to the use of computational methods in astrophysics. The material presented in this module consists of the following: Basic notions of computer algorithms: Introduction to numerical analysis: approximations, errors, convergence, stability, etc; Finite difference methods: solution of ordinary and partial differential equations; Introduction to numerical methods used in data analysis: image processing, spectral analysis, etc. Students will also be introduced to the a range of astrophysical data and related online resources. The concepts will be illustrated with authentic examples from astrophysics, such as solar system dynamics, astrophysical fluids, stellar structure, etc. Computer practical courseworks using Python are a major element of the module. Students will write simple programs, and present their results in written reports. The module is intended to cater for students with very different levels of programming expertise.

Strategy, Leadership and Management of Investment Banking Firms

The module will familiarise students with the fundamentals of strategic analysis including competitor and client analysis and effective leadership in knowledgeintensive firms. Key areas of focus will be the difference between leading and managing initiatives/projects, dealing with resistance and different stakeholder interests, transactional leadership in teams and projects, building commitment for change, inspiring peers and subordinates, challenging others' assumptions and views, effective communication within teams/project groups and with other teams/projects, executives and stakeholders, building and nurturing relationships and social networks, presenting and negotiating with clients.

Principles of Corporate Finance

In this module we are going to explore how firms finance their activities and the resulting capital structure. We will consider the circumstances where the choice of the source of funding is irrelevant and those in which the choice of capital structure can affect the firm value, due to tax considerations or informational frictions, for example. We will learn about the process through which companies become publicly traded. We will also explore the governance challenges faced by corporations and how corporate governance affects firms¿ access to external sources of finance.

Reinsurance Law and International Risk Transfer

Reinsurance involves insurance (and reinsurance) companies insuring all or part of the risks they write with other (re)insurance companies. Reinsurance is required by regulators but also makes business sense since it allows insurance companies to increase their capacity to write insurance. In this module we are looking at traditional reinsurance and innovative reinsurance solutions. We consider how reinsurance contracts are formed and how they can be structured. By reference to typical reinsurance market wordings, we will consider the interaction between the underlying insurance contract and the reinsurance contract and how their relationships impacts on the reinsurance terms and claims. We will also examine the structure and regulation of insurance-linked securities which are a means of risk transfer to, and of financing insurance risk in, the capital markets. London is one of the world centres of the reinsurance industry and the London reinsurance market is amongst the leaders in developing innovative reinsurance solutions. This module will provide a thorough understanding of this important and rapidly developing area of law and practice. English law is the governing law applied to Lloyd¿s and London market insurance and reinsurance policies, and is frequently chosen as governing law for international reinsurance transactions. The LLM in Insurance Law, of which this module forms part, opens up lucrative career opportunities in the global insurance and reinsurance industry, the legal sector, management consultancies and the financial services industry generally.

Ecosystem Structure and Functioning

Ecosystems are under continued and growing threat from human activity. To preserve them we need to understand how ecosystems function and how their structure responds to either enforced or natural change. Key ecosystem functions (fluxes of energy, nutrients and organic matter), their services (freshwater, fisheries, climate regulation) and the consequences of local and global environmental changes (including predator loss, invasion of non-native species, eutrophication and climate warming) are assessed using contemporary population-ecological, biogeochemical, molecular-genetic and modelling methods. Empirical perspectives are complemented with discussions and explorations of theoretical approaches aiming to reveal the mechanisms by which individual and population-level processes control structure and function of ecosystems.

Bioinformatics Research Project

This module provides an opportunity to further develop and apply skills learned during the previous MSc Bioinformatics modules, by conducting a novel piece of bioinformatics work, typically within an active research group either within QMUL or at a partner organisation. The specific nature of each project will be determined through discussions between the student, the course organiser and the project supervisor but will always involve data analysis and/or software development in a cutting edge area of biological or biomedical research. This serves as excellent preparation for future employment or PhD.

Primary Markets and Securities

This course aims at developing key concepts in investment theory from the perspective of an investment banker, rather than a portfolio manager or individual investor. The goal of this class is to provide you with a structure for thinking about investment theory and show you how to address investment problems in a systematic manner. Special consideration is given to debt and equity capital markets, how firms use these securities, how they are priced and structured, and how they are issued. As well as introducing the operation of primary markets, this module also gives students an introduction to the key properties of the securities that are traded in financial markets.

International Natural Resources Law

The international legal regime relating to natural resources is complex and multi-dimensional. It is found in many places, based on doctrines of public international law, regional and local laws as well specific treaty obligations. It is also a dynamic area of international law as changes in technology and environmental awareness of the impact of such developments have led to further changes in legal regime. Concepts in Natural Resources Law: Climate, Energy and Water intersects and supports the study of other disciplines including international environmental law, energy law, as well as international investment law and international economic law. Concepts in Natural Resources Law: Climate, Energy and Water examines the area of International Natural Resources Law from a multi-dimensional perspective with a particular emphasis on climate, energy and water resources. The impact of globalisation and international legal rules on activities in the natural resources sector will be explored throughout the unit.

Contemporary World Politics: Theories, Concepts, Themes

Historical Jurisprudence

This course introduces students to the benefits of theorising law historically - and, more broadly, to the value of history for legal scholarship. The course takes students through the history of historical jurisprudence, beginning with the French humanists in the 16th century, and then proceeding through English, German, Scottish and more contemporary American and international developments. In each case, the course asks what has been at stake, especially politically, in debating the value of history to theorising law.

Corporate Governance: Foundational and Theoretical

The module will inform and educate students as to the issues affecting both the business community and the wider societal effects of the debate on corporate governance. As such the module will focus on the systems by which companies are or should be directed and controlled, particular emphasis will be given to the legal and extra-legal rules/systems governing internal corporate accountability and the legal and extra-legal rules/systems governing the corporations accountability to the external world. As such students will gain an enhanced knowledge of the issues surrounding various corporate governance theories that seek to explain the position of, and relationship between, the company as a metaphysical entity and its members, managers and other interested constituencies (i.e.`stakeholders¿) and the different theoretical and industry perspectives on corporate governance. The concept of shareholder primacy will be critically examined and contrasted with alternative approaches. The module also aims to highlight future directions and trends in corporate governance.

Transnational Law and Governance in Practice

The central question this module discusses is the application and implication of Transnational law, its formation, supervision, and enforcement process in the context of the transnational business community and globalised markets. This module will take a series of case studies from different areas of law to provide examples of how governance can be conducted in a globalised world. The focus will be on the role and functioning of transnational law in a globalised world. Guest lecturers will be invited to talk about the impact of globalisation on their specialism and a Transnational Law solution.

Extremity & Vascular Trauma

This module will provide a comprehensive overview of the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal and extremities vascular trauma. Students will be encouraged to use a critical and scientifically robust approach to plan patient care and to develop problem solving skills in the context of orthopedic trauma. Particular attention will be given to cases of blunt and penetrating injuries to the extremities and the resultant vascular abnormalities.

Documentary Film - Theory and Practice

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.

Introduction to Endoscopy and GI investigations (DL version)

Differential Geometry in Theoretical Physics

The aim of this course is to complement the core Relativistic Waves and Quantum Fields (RWQF) module by providing the student with some advanced tools essential for research in modern Theoretical Physics. Using the same starting point as RWQF, Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, we will focus on the Lagrangian formulation of the two most prominent theories of our time: Yang-Mills (gauge) theory and gravity. The alternative notation of differential forms will be explored and the geometric aspects of gauge theory emphasised. Building on this, and introducing elements from group theory and fibre bundles we will introduce classical solitons as localised, finite energy solutions to the classical field equations in various dimensions (kinks in 2d, vortices in 3d, monopoles in 4d, instantons in Euclidean 4d) and discuss their properties, including the existence of zero-modes, associated collective coordinates and moduli spaces.

Research Methods in Language Teaching

The module examines the various approaches to research and research design, providing guidance as to the appropriateness of certain methodologies in differing research scenarios. The module will provide an overview of key approaches with a critical discussion of the quantitative/qualitative divide and convergence. In the first part of the module we focus on research design and data collection instruments such as, for example, surveys and interviews. The second part focuses on qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis. By the end of the module, and in readiness for their Masters dissertation, students should be able to understand the main research methods employed in Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics for data collection and be able to analyse data using a range of quantitative and qualitative methods.

Data Mining

Advanced Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics

This module covers advanced topics in heat transfer and fluid mechanics. It develops and builds on ideas in heat transfer commonly found in undergraduate mechanical and energy degree programmes. The following topics will be covered: transient heat conduction; heat exchanger theory and design; phase change; heat transfer in turbulent flows; heat transfer in compressible flows.

UK Human Rights Law

In this module students will study the interpretation and application of the Human Rights Act 1998 and other important issues concerning the legal protection of human rights in the United Kingdom. There will be a significant focus upon substantive Convention rights and how these are interpreted and applied in the UK context including the right to life, freedom from torture and inhuman and degrading treatment, respect for private life, freedom of religion and freedom of expression. Procedural issues will also be examined including an assessment of the success of the Human Rights Act, and an examination of future alternative mechanisms for the protection of human rights in the UK.

Formative Studies

This module aims to support the full time student to enable them to participate fully during the in class discussions with the part time students who can reflect on their work place experiences. Whilst not being a work-placement the full time students are supported in developing an understanding of principles and practices of microbiology and infection control within the NHS, UK and the global perspective by the use of tutorials, practical classes and additional assignments. All full time students must attend the teaching on this module. The majority of the module teaching is provided during semester 1 (October-December). The usual pattern of study for this module is 2 x 90 minute practical tutorials and 1 x 90 minute theory tutorial per week.

Crimes of the Powerful: Corporate Crime

Designs and Copyright Law (IPReg)

Introduction to Human Genomics

Principles of Secondary Reconstruction (Soft Tissue)

"This module will address the differences between the management of acute hard tissue injuries and those presenting late - either after no treatment or failed management. This is an extremely challenging area and requires a methodical and systematic approach to diagnose and treatment plan. Soft tissue scar management together with manipulation of the superfical musculoaponeurotic system, deep and superficial tissue suspension is discussed. The role fat grafting techiques together with rhinoplasty is discussed."

Management Consulting

This module will explain various theoretical approaches used to explain what management consultancy is, the variety and types of consulting firms and the markets they serve. We will examine a range of approaches to consultancy as a process of diagnosing management and organisational problems, designing implementing and evaluating organisational interventions. We will examine studies of some of these interventions and case studies we will examine how consultants present their knowledge and expertise, the claims they make for its efficacy and the role of ethics in this. We will examine and explore different kinds of organisational context where management consultancy has been used: firms, public institutions, voluntary organisations and other organisational forms. We will also practise skills critical for consultancy such as diagnosis, intergroup facilitation and evaluation.

Dissertation: Aquatic Ecology by Research

The research project 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 Aquatic Ecology (in its very broad sense) 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. Students will be encouraged to identify advisors within the first half of semester 1 in order to start the heavy part of the research project in January. The preparation of the thesis will involve the majority of the following stages: - considering an ambitious, suitable and achievable research topic - discussion and preparing of a draft proposal in relation with academic advisor - revision and finalization of the research goals and objectives - write a literature review on the identified research topic - field / lab work - data analyses including up to date statistics - writing thesis - revision of the final text following supervisory comments - oral presentation and viva.

Dissertation

Students will complete a 10,000 word dissertation on an element of prehospital medicine. Subject matter could be related to the module content across the related course content, or be independent of this. Dissertations will allow students to develop and demonstrate a detailed understanding of a specific subject as applied to prehospital medicine.

Terrorism, Migration and Human Rights

"This module looks at the relationship of terrorism, human rights and migration. Among the key questions will be the relationship of foreigners to threat, the treatment of suspected terrorists through immigration laws, the entitlement of foreigners to protection against return to persecution and torture (as refugees) and the transformation of the technologies around movement of people across international borders which are driven by terrorism related concerns. The module is designed to provide students with an overview of the law around terrorism and how it intersects with migration and border crossing issues. The module will include: an introduction to the course from citizens to foreigners including Human Rights, Political Violence, Terrorism and Extradition. We will examine the issues around refugees, political violence/terrorism and the principle of non-refoulement and how they interact with the prohibition on torture in the context of terrorism allegations. The question of the political issue of diplomatic assurances and legal obligations of protection will be examined as well as the convergence of terrorism, criminal law and refugee protection. The use of digital means by state authorities to counter terrorism and the use of the personal data of foreigners will also be part of the reflections of this course. Students will have an opportunity to present in class their research."

Dissertation

Research methods in clinical education

Dissertation

Data Analytics

Applied Resuscitation Science for Prehospital Medicine

This module offers the opportunity for students to develop and deepen their knowledge and skills in the discipline of resuscitation science. The module covers some of the latest developments in the field, such as prehospital extra-corporeal life support and cardiac arrest and peri-cardiac arrest science. Alongside this, students will review the latest organisational responses to patient need - for example, cardiac arrest centres and advanced prehospital resuscitation teams. The module aims not only prepares students for their practice-based work, embracing current and future innovation, it also allows them to gain broader understanding of the critical decision making in developing and applying new practice to the service.

Catchment Science in Practice

This module will connect students with the water sector practitioner/ stakeholder community and deepen understanding of science-based catchment management. The module will explore the ways in which advances in scientific understanding of catchment systems and developments in water policy have been translated into management, and the challenges associated with this. Students will engage with a diverse range of practitioners and stakeholder groups including government organisations, environmental consultancies, third sector/ charitable organisations and professional bodies to gain a broader perspective on catchment management and to develop a network of contacts. The module will also provide students with an opportunity to reflect on the knowledge and skills developed during the programme and how these can be communicated effectively to potential employers. The module is delivered through a combination of lectures and seminars led by Geography teaching staff, guest lectures and workshops by representatives from the water sector, field visits, student-led reading groups and attendance at external events.

Trade, Climate Change and Energy: EU and International Perspectives

This course examines the interface of climate change, international trade, and energy law, with a view to addressing the question: How can we increase economic well-being and expand trade, while promoting the optimal use of the world¿s energy resources and protecting and preserving our shared environment? It will seek policy solutions linking climate change, trade, and energy law in the context of the World Trade Organization (WTO) by drawing upon findings in three interlinked sections: 1) the nexus between energy and international trade law/WTO law; 2) the interface between climate change and WTO law; and 3) the link between energy and climate change in the context of WTO law/international trade law.

Development Economics

This course consists of two parts. The first part provides a short overview of economic development from a macro perspective using both theory and empirics. The main part of the course will then discuss some of the determinants and consequences of development from a microeconomic perspective. This part will emphasize currently active research topics in the field. Topics covered include: climate, conflict, institutions, corruption, health, education, credit markets and firm structure in developing countries.

Strategic Asset Allocation

Almost all investment management firms make a distinction between strategic and tactical asset allocation. Strategic allocation focuses on broad asset classes, longer term trends and portfolio constraints whilst tactical allocation tends to be shorter term and focused on allocation between individual assets rather than asset classes. This course focuses on the process of Strategic allocation introducing concepts such as smart beta and asset liability management as well as detailed models like BlackLitterman that are used in this type of allocation.

Laparoscopic Suturing Skills

Dissertation

This module provides an opportunity to further develop and apply skills learned during the taught modules by undertaking an independent, critical study and evaluation of an approved and relevant topic. The specific nature of each dissertation will be determined through discussions between the student and the course director, but will involve applying analytical, investigative and communication skills and utilizing a range of research methods and tools. Students that have the access and opportunity to undertake a clinical or lab based project will be allowed to do so with the course director's approval.

Commercial and Investment Banking

The aim of this module is to develop an understanding of the international financial system and its associated risks given the ever evolving regulatory regime.On successful completion, students should be able to critically understand, evaluate and question the operations of banks and of nonbank financial institutions, the process of deposit creation, the term structure of interest rates, the supply and demand of loanable funds, and the role of Central Banks. More importantly students should be competent in the analysis, interpretation and assessment of all facets and aspects of financial risk and its management.

Applied Risk Management

The module addresses one of the most important ¿hot topics¿ in the postfinancial crisis financial industry ¿ the identification, measurement and management of risks faced by financial institutions.

The Galaxy

"The module considers in detail the basic physical processes that operate in galaxies, using our own Galaxy as a detailed example. This includes the dynamics and interactions of stars, and how their motions can be described mathematically. The interstellar medium is described and models are used to represent how the abundances of chemical elements have changed during the lifetime of the Galaxy. Dark matter can be studied using rotation curves of galaxies, and through the way that gravitational lensing by dark matter affects light. The various topics are then put together to provide an understanding of how the galaxies formed."

Stellar Structure and Evolution

"Stars are important constituents of the universe. This module starts from well known physical phenomena such as gravity, mass conservation, pressure balance, radiative transfer of energy and energy generation from the conversion of hydrogen to helium. From these, it deduces stellar properties that can be observed (that is, luminosity and effective temperature or their equivalents such as magnitude and colour) and compares the theoretical with the actual. In general good agreement is obtained but with a few discrepancies so that for a few classes of stars, other physical effects such as convection, gravitational energy generation and degeneracy pressure have to be included. This allows an understanding of pre-main sequence and dwarf stages of evolution of stars, as well as the helium flash and supernova stages."

Dissertation - MA History of Political Thought and Intellectual History

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.

Manufacturing Processes

This module provides a development of both fundamental and technological studies of shaping, fabrication, and product-evaluation processes. It applies phase transformation, microstructure, stress analysis, diffusion, plastic deformation and/or rheology to the manufacture of different products. Examples of current practices in the automobile, aerospace and bio-medical industries are illustrated, where appropriate, to enhance students' technological awareness. In more detail, the syllabus will cover the following topics: Casting: nucleation, crystal growth, solidification, segregation, ingot microstructure, casting defects, casting processes, temperature and recrystallization, strain rate. Forming: element of plasticity and deformation mechanics, selected methods of analysis of simple forming processes, element of transport properties and viscous flow, extrusion, injection moulding. Joining and Welding: fusion welding, solid-state welding, effect of welding on materials microstructure, brazing and soldering. Additive manufacturing methods: Rapid Prototyping. Inspection and testing, non-destructive methods: ultrasonic inspection, magnetic inspection, acoustic emission monitoring.

Entrepreneurship Law Clinic

Entrepreneurship Law Clinic is a unique opportunity to learn and reflect on the legal issues that face entrepreneurs. In this module you will have the opportunity to (i) develop a number of professional skills and your professional identity; (ii) understand the practical legal issues that are faced by entrepreneurs and how to respond to those issues; (iii) interview and draft advice for a client; (iv) develop and practice public speaking and presentation skills; (v) work within a team and network closely with legal experts and entrepreneurship specialists in London's Tech City. Students must adhere to the Legal Advice Centre's practices and procedures including the signing of a confidentiality agreement and student contract.

Teaching and Learning for Clinical Contexts

Intensional Semantics

This module will build on the techniques and research areas explored in the pre-requisite module Extensional Semantics and will greatly expand the range of semantic phenomena that the student can analyse. The emphasis will still be on using functional application and a small number of other combinatorial techniques to explain how meanings are built up in a compositional fashion. But in contrast to the previous module, we will now examine lexical items and constructions that seem to demand analysis in intensional terms, that is in terms of quantification over circumstances of evaluation such as possible worlds, situations, or temporal intervals. Phenomena to be analysed include modal verbs, predicates of necessity and possibility, conditionals, intensional transitive verbs, and propositional attitude constructions.

Anglo-German Travel Writing

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.

Film Studies

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.

Independent Written Project

"This module provides students with the opportunity to design and produce an independent written project under the supervision of a member of staff. This module enables students to work independently on topics not provided within existing modules, subject to the availability of a suitable supervisor. Entry on to the module is at the discretion of the module convenor and prospective students are required to submit a 300-word abstract outlining their proposed topic by Week 10 of Semester 1. Student should consult with a member of staff (ideally their proposed supervisor) in the module of preparing their abstract. Students will be notified by Week 12 of Semester 1 whether they have been accepted on to the module. This module may only be taken by students enrolled on the MA Theatre and Performance."

Cognitive Robotics

Aestheticism and Fin de Siecle Literature

"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."

Paediatric and Adolescent Gastro-Intestinal and Liver Diseases, Gastro-Intestinal Infections

This module serves as a thorough overview of gastrointestinal and liver diseases in children and adolescents and gastrointestinal infectious diseases.

Information Retrieval

The field of information retrieval (IR) aims to provide techniques and tools to support effective and efficient access to large amounts of textual information (e.g. stored on the web, digital libraries, intranets). This involves representation, retrieval, presentation and user issues. The following topics will be covered: 1. Application of representation and retrieval approaches described in the Foundations of Information Retrieval module, Semester A, in the context of structured documents, in particular web documents, and digital libraries. 2. Databases & information retrieval, and logical models for information retrieval. 3. The organisation of documents according to categories (e.g. Yahoo directory) or their content to provide more effective presentation of the collection to the users. 4. The design of interfaces and visualisation tools that aim at supporting end-users in their search tasks. 5. User aspects, including the evaluation of IR systems according to user satisfaction, and the incorporation of user information seeking behaviour in the search task. The module consists of 3 hours per week of lectures for 12 weeks, including labs and tutorials.

Time Series

Functional Programming

Recent approaches to systems programming frequently involve functional programming either overtly in the sense that they use modern functional programming languages for rapid prototyping, or more covertly in that they use techniques developed in the functional setting as a way of lending greater structure and clarity to code. This module gives a structured introduction to programming in modern industrial functional languages such as Haskell and F# and to techniques such as map-reduce and monadic programming.

Oral Health Management for Children by Implementing MI Techniques

The population of younger people in the developed world is increasing significantly. Paediatric Dentistry with MI approach is therefore becoming an essential part of the clinical dentistry which deals with the special knowledge, attitudes and clinical with technical skills in the provision of oral health care for children. The module is designed to develop understanding and knowledge through a structured and developmental series of topics in Paediatric Dentistry in relation to Minimally Invasive approaches. 3 hour clinical and Clinical Skills laboratory exposure for 9 weeks = 27 hours 2 hour lecture/seminar every week over 9 weeks = 18 hours 1 hour revision seminar during the last week = 1 hour

Biomineralisation and Biomimetics

Mechanisms and underlying principles of biomineralisation with particular emphasis on hard tissues relevant to the oral environment such as enamel, dentine and bone formation. Also, how an understanding of these processes can lead to the development of synthetic biomaterials and biomimetic products with applications in Oral Biology.

Dental Science Clinical Audit Project

This is an academic module which will involve researching and analysing the literature pertinent and relevant to dental clinical sciences. Students will be expected to use library and on-line sources and will be supported and supervised by a dedicated teacher. Students will undertake and complete a clinical audit and present their findings and conclusions. Students will be familiarized with the principles of clinical governance and training will be provided in designing and implementing an audit project. Students will have dedicated support and supervision and access to clinical resources.

Project Finance

This course is aimed at providing the students with an understanding of i) what project finance is, ii) how banks structure and execute a project finance transaction and iii) financial modelling with particular emphasis on sizing project finance debt. The course will be structured mirroring the steps a bank would typically follow to execute a transaction, from termsheet negotiation to financial close.

Introduction to Medical Law

"This module examines how medical law works by using different legal tools to deter, promote or repair medical interventions which have an impact on health and well-being. Some medical interventions such as surgeries are lawful if there is valid consent, but other interventions are deemed so 'improper' e.g. voluntary amputation that a person is not allowed consent to them. But is the boundary between proper and improper medical treatment clearcut? Why is surgical extraction of a live kidney donation for donation purposes lawful if consensual, even though voluntary amputation is not? By considering such questions, alongside the law's use of public funding and private remedies for malpractice, the module will equip students to do their own 'research experiments' with medical law as they consider which legal tools are the most appropriate for regulating medicine and promoting health. "

New Medical Technologies: Medical Research and Product Regulation

"This module introduces the principles of ethics, governance and regulation of biomedical research and new product regulation in global context, though with a particular focus on the legal implementation of these principles in the law of England and Wales. Topics to be covered include the history of research regulation in medical research since the second World War; the licensing system for medicinal products (including devices); the regulation of research in animals and its place in medicines regulation; the inclusion of ""vulnerable subjects"" in medical research; and the global context of medical research and its regulation."

Cancer Prevention and Screening

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Advanced Environmental Engineering

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.

In the Shadow of the French Revolution: Political Thought 1789-1890

Oral Pathology and Microbiology

Online Media Regulation

A key element in the development of the world wide web over the past decade has been its increasing colonisation by commercial interests, including commercial provision of content online. In particular, the media has actively embraced the online world; for instance, the Newspaper Society estimates that in the UK alone, 90% of regional newspapers now have an online presence with at least some degree of archival material available via that route. As technologies converge, the web has become an integral part of content delivery, with not only newspapers but also organisations such as the BBC providing online content which supplements their other services. This module will examine the issues which arise when a number of traditional legal concepts are brought into this online context - in particular, it will consider the application of the law on libel, contempt of court, and copyright as relates to the online delivery of content by the media, as well as looking at the Press Complaints Commission self-regulatory system employed by the press in the UK, which applies equally to online press content. The module will primarily use UK / EU law as a case-study, however, where relevant examples from other jurisdictions will be considered for comparative analytical purposes.

Broadcasting Regulation

Since the early days, the broadcast media has been subject to sector specific regulation. In the modern world, broadcasting is regulated both at the level of the right to broadcast, and the content which is broadcast. Recent years have also seen the increasing proliferation of on-demand audio-visual content, delivered in a non-linear manner via the internet. Such technological development poses new challenges for regulation: the content, and so, inevitably, the impetus for regulation, may be similar or the same, however the context has changed. Traditional devices such as limiting the time of day at which certain content is allowed to be made available are inapplicable in this context. As ever, the cross-border nature of the internet raises difficulty. This module will consider from an international perspective the challenges posed to regulation of the contemporary broadcast media, and how they may be overcome.

Vehicular Crashworthiness

The module aims to provide an in-depth description of all aspects related to the design of vehicles with respect to their crashworthiness. Here within are included technical aspects, social aspects and economical aspects, which are finally placed in the context of the total product development processes of current industries. Main parts are: history of crashworthiness, crash tests, structural aspects, material selection and modelling, numerical methods for crash, biomechanics, restraint systems and special aspects related to aerospace and automotive.

Jurisdictional Issues and Dispute Resolution in e-Commerce

The resolution of disputes arising from e-commerce transactions and interactions is made difficult by the borderless, anonymous nature of the Internet. This module will look at the resolution of disputes arising from Internet interactions. It covers the concept of Conflicts of Law/Private International Law (PIL) with particular focus on European and US rules and how the Internet as a borderless medium has changed the paradigm of PIL.

Electronic Structure Methods

"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."

Neurogastroenterology: Advanced Functional Gastro-Intestinal Diseases

Literature Review in Relation to Endodontic Practice

In this module, the students will build on skills in conducting a search and appraisal of the literature on an agreed endodontic topic. At the end of this module, students will be required to produce a literature review report.

Econometrics for Finance

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.

Relativity and Gravitation

This module starts with mathematics and principles required to formulate general relativity, before moving on to consider how the theory describes empty space, black holes, and the generation of gravitational waves. The motion of particles and the propagation and observation of rays of light is discussed. The module covers both strong gravitational fields (as found near black holes), and weak gravitational fields (as found in the solar system). The module ends with a discussion of the detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration.

Research Methods

This module provides the knowledge and skills to understand, design, and execute a variety of research projects. Understanding and applying for ethics approval is also covered. A range of statistical techniques essential to analyse quantitative research will be covered. This is a core module for physiotherapists and doctors.

9/11 and American Film

This module will examine a range of mainstream, independent and underground American films with a view to reading those films as representing a variety of responses to the experience and legacies of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; produce symptomatic readings of films and cycles of films that directly and indirectly address the terrorist attacks and their aftermath and explore the tangled relationship between feature films and other cultural forms such as documentary film, photography and television news coverage.

Functional Methods in Quantum Field Theory

The module will introduce Feynman's path integral formulation of Quantum Mechanics and apply it to the study of Quantum Field Theory (QFT). Emphasis will be given to the role of symmetries (Ward identities), the renormalisation group and the idea of effective action. The concept of Wilson's effective action and the different nature of (ir)relevant/marginal terms will be discussed. Simple scalar theories will provide the example where to apply the concepts and the techniques introduced. The course will also touch on some more advanced topics, such as quantum anomalies and conformal field theories.

Trauma Nursing

The module will provide students with a more critical view of holistic trauma care. Subjects will include: patient assessment, pain management, psychological interventions, post injury nutritional needs, meeting elimination needs in the multiply injured patient, nursing the patient with Traumatic Brain Injury, care of the open abdomen, abdominal compartment pressure monitoring, older trauma patients - comorbidities and specific age related needs, the impact of early rehabilitation, organ and tissue donation, end of life care and human factors/team communication.

Advanced Gas Turbines

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.

Research Project

To apply the bench- to- the clinic process through experience of a specific project addressing a translational medicine issue

Endocrine Oncology and Genetics

Grad, div and curl: Vector Calculus for Engineering

This module builds on DEN4122/4123 Mathematics and Computing 1/2 to provide students with knowledge of more advanced mathematical and computing techniques that are essential for Engineering students. Topics covered are basics of vector calculus, vector and scalar fields, gradient of scalar fields, optimisation, div and curl of vector fields, vector integration, integral theorems, curvilinear coordinates, application to derivation of the Navier-Stokes Equations.

Reading Shakespeare Historically

"One of the central skills required of a postgraduate in Renaissance and Early Modern studies is to be able to put texts in historical contexts. This module aims to help Masters students acquire this skill by examining a range of ways in which Shakespeare's plays can be contextualised. Although there may be occasion to talk critical trends such as new historicism, the new bibliography, interdisciplinarity, intertextuality, genre criticism, Bakhtinian dialogism, psychoanalysis, rhetoric studies, material culture, intellectual and cultural history (well, maybe not all of them!), the principal objective is not to arm students with labels. It is to test various models of contextualisation against specific plays, as well as to provide contexts from the secondary literature that students can themselves begin to apply."

Advanced Topics in Microeconomics

This module covers active research areas in pure and applied microeconomic theory, such as: experimental game theory, voting models, public goods and networks, and ambiguity aversion. In any particular year the topics covered are at the discretion of the convenor. Advanced Topics in Microeconomics is optional for both MRes degrees (each candidate must select two of the four Advanced Topics modules), and registration is normally restricted to students on these programmes. Successful completion of the module will equip students to conduct publishable research in pure or applied microeconomic theory.

Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics 2

This module covers more advanced topics in heat transfer, developing the ideas introduced in DEN5208 Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics 1. The following topics will be covered: transient heat conduction; fins; heat exchangers; phase change; turbulent flows; compressible flow.

Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics

This module covers active research areas in theoretical and empirical macroeconomics, such as: macro-labour models, business cycles, monetary policy and sovereign debt, and empirical and numerical methods. In any particular year the topics covered are at the discretion of the convenor. Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics is optional for both MRes degrees (each candidate must select two of the four Advanced Topics modules), and registration is normally restricted to students on these programmes. Successful completion of the module will equip students to conduct publishable research in theoretical or empirical macroeconomics.

The Law of Patents I and II

This module is for MSc students in IP following the professional or business stream.

Dissertation

Introduction to Computer Vision

In recent years, research in computer vision has made significant progress. This is largely driven by the recognition that effective visual perception is crucial in understanding intelligent behaviour - unless we understand how we perceive, we will never understand how we reason The first part of the module will introduce the relevant concepts and techniques in machine learning. In the second part we will show how these techniques can be applied to various areas in computer vision.

Global Governance and International Organisations

The module examines the emerging structure of global governance and the role of international organisations. This includes both informal aspects, such as the pressure from Western states and international agencies for all states to adopt "good governance" norms and formal aspects such as the international organisations in areas like finance, trade, labour and the environment. The aim is to give students a solid historical and critical understanding of key developments and concepts such as the international financial institutions, the role of the United Nations, "good governance" and "global civil society" as well as a comprehension of policy making at the global level and the interrelationship between national, regional and international institutions and policy makers. Accordingly it is interdisciplinary. It comprises of lectures, (1 session x 1 hour) and 11x 2 hours workshops. The module is arranged around: 1 Introduction: Global Governance and International Organisations 2 Good Governance As a Global Norm 3 Globalization and Policy Transfer 4 Democratic Accountability and Global Governance 5 Globalization and Europeanization 6 International Financial Institutions 7 Global Governance and Regional Organisations 8 Global Public Management Reform and the OECD 9 Global Environmental Governance 10 Global Health Governance 11 Global Civil Society

Case Studies in EU Policy Making

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.

Medicolegal Practice and Patient Psychology

This fifth module is for 8 weeks duration and is divided into two sections; Medicolegal practice and Patient psychology. This will be the final module of year1. Medicolegal practice; There is an introduction to evaluating and critiquing professional accountability and the law. Students will identify professional responsibilities appropriate for their practice. Students will apply ethical and legal knowledge to their practice, particularly applying the principles of confidentiality, consent, honesty and integrity. Patient psychology; Students will be able demonstrate performing a psychological assessment and identify characteristic patterns of maladaptive or self-conscious behaviour. They will interpret findings, justify management plans and refer patients for psychological appropriate assessment when indicated.

Management of Acute Facial Soft Tissue Injuries

"This module deals with all aspects of acute facial soft tissue management from intial wound care and correct surgical technique for primary wound closure through to complex soft injuries involving tissue loss and motor nerve loss. The module will also discuss the soft tissue management of major tissue loss and gross contamination in acute gunshot and major avulsive injury. Applied neck anatomy is discussed with reference to penetrating neck trauma, and the management of major neck neurovascular injuries is discussed."

Adult Gastro-Intestinal Diseases: Luminal Diseases

This is a comprehensive course on all aspects of adult luminal gastroenterology, excluding functional gastrointestinal diseases. There is a focus on research and science underpinning this speciality.

Advanced Syntactic Theory

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.

Integrating Science with Professional Practice

This module is the first module undertaken and will consolidate knowledge gained by students during undergraduate studies and will ensure a solid basis upon which the first work placement can take place. Underpinning the need for inter-professional activities some tuition may be with GEP medical students or MSc clinical microbiology students. Students will develop an awareness of the professional responsibilities of the clinical scientist and their role within the wider NHS. Infectious Disease specific elements of the course will include basic laboratory training.

Advanced Techniques and Combined Treatments

Hypothalamus and Pituitary

This module covers the physiology and pathology of the hypothalamus and pituitary. A variety of teaching and learning methods will be used to cover the molecular and clinical features of the relevant hormones, glands and their disorders.This includes physiology and disorders of the gonadotrophs, prolactin, growth hormone and the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis, as well as disorders of the posterior pituitary and structural disorders of the pituitary. During the module, students are encouraged to attend and observe relevant clinical activities such as clinics and academic meetings and to add to module-specific sections of their reflective portfolio.

Dermatoses of Specific Sites, Ages or Skin Types

Week 1 Inflammatory and Papulosquamous Disorders, week 2 Hair disorders including alopecia and hirsutism and hypertrichosis, week 3 Body Parts Connected to the Skin covering lips, mouth, skin around the eyes, week 4 Genital Dermatology to recognise the clinical appearances and pathology of the common genital dermatoses, week 5 Skin Problems in Different Skin Types and week 6 Diseases of the nail.

Management of the Fractured Mandible

"The module discusses fractures of the mandible and condyle using a variety of techniques which underpin the totality of facial trauma management. Building on presented anatomical principles, the module will build a strategy which will enable the student to diagnose and treatment plan a wide variety of simple and complex injury patterns. Different types of bone fixation are discussed together with principles of intermaxillary fixation. Fractures of the mandibular condyle and their management are discussed with an evidence based rationale for decision making. Edentulous (fragility) mandibular fractures are discussed in terms of management options and prognostic indicators."

Dissertation Proseminar

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.

Materials Selection in Design

Introducing material selection concepts including processing constraints in design. An appreciation of the interaction of processing and material related cost considerations and the need to adopt a simultaneous engineering approach. The use of design guides such as Ashby diagrams is a key skill developed in the module.

International Security: War and Peace in a Global Context

Trends in Linguistic Research

Each week, students in this module will read one paper by a member of staff (along with, optionally, a related text in that subfield) and prepare questions about the research described in those papers. The member of staff will attend that week's class meeting, and engage in discussion of their research goals, results and methods with students. Students will be expected to participate in developing further research questions and novel methodological solutions pertinent to the sub-discipline being focused on in a given week. Students will gain an appreciation for the full range of research topics and methods that staff are expert in, and have a unique opportunity to engage in high level, in-depth discussions of world renowned, cutting edge research with the researchers who have done this research. Students will write several short 500 word response papers and will develop one of these into a longer piece of work.

Global Health, Governance and Law

The protection of public health at the national and subnational level often depends significantly on various decisions made at the international or global level by regimes, including those related to trade, finance, law, diplomacy and inter-governmental relations. Such regimes can have a profound impact on the determinants of health as experienced within countries, at the national and local levels, and have become increasingly important as a result of ever-deepening forms of `globalisation¿ and the threat of global hazards to health such as large-scale global environmental change. This module provides an introduction to the disciplines of international relations, international politics, international jurisprudence, globalization and global governance as they relate to global health. It will examine the content and operation of various supra-national policy instruments, structures, institutions and processes, and place these within the context of the right to health and contemporary controversies and topical issues being confronted by the global health community.

Health Systems Theory, Policy and Political Economy

In this module we examine trends towards the reform of health systems in the context of globalisation. Particular attention is given to the impact of neoliberal policy and commercialisation; the move towards universal health coverage; policy on integration; and decentralisation. The role of actors in shaping policy will also be covered, as well as the impact of trade and investment related agreements on health systems. The impact of other aspects of globalisation on health systems - such as migration - will also be covered.

Research Seminar

The student will be assigned or choose a research topic on which they will prepare a power point presentation followed by the submission of a 5000 words essay, under supervision. The student will be expected to give a 40 minute presentation followed by a question and answer discussion session for a further 20 minutes at the Residential Weekend. Students will also be required to listen to presentations from fellow students and engage in the discussion session.

UK Business Taxation

Companies are essentially legal vehicles for carrying on a business enterprise. Taxation is a key factor in business decisions, regarding how funds are raised and invested. How to raise tax from businesses without damaging the economy is a central element in government policy. The module will review the basics of the UK tax system as they apply to businesses, the basis of accounts and aspects of the computation of income and tax liability common to all businesses and particular features affecting individual traders, partnerships and companies. It will then examine the taxation of company distributions, groups of companies, and equity, debt and loan relationships. Finally, the module will consider transactions between companies and shareholders and corporate reorganisations and reconstructions and places the UK taxation of companies into an international framework.

Cybercrime: Forensic Investigations

Internet technologies have enabled new ways of committing crimes and have moved "old"" crimes such as fraud online- this has created interesting challenges to the investigation, prosecution and enforcement of the criminal law. Internet technologies are borderless and have enabled an increase in transnational crime. This Module will examine the legal procedural issues arising from transborder online crime: international co-operation, mutual assistance, extradition; the role played by private actors/industry in the enforcement of cybercrime (payment intermediaries; hosting providers (eg cloud computing); internet access providers; domain name registries and registrars etc); the relationship between public and private enforcement; the national and international powers of collecting intelligence & evidence (including surveillance); the law of evidence and admissibility; computer, device and network forensics."

Puzzles in Semantics

This is a problem-based module that will enable you to get hands-on experience on working through data sets from English and from other languages, and to learn how to link up your data analyses to semantic theories.

Computational Game Design

This modules explores computational and data-oriented approaches to game design, drawing on both latest academic research and games industry practice . Topics include formal models of games, applications of game theory, game description languages, player modelling, gameplay and experience metrics, games user research, game analytics, and automated playtesting and game tuning The module is taught through a mixture of lectures, labs and seminars, with guest speakers from academia and the games industry.

Clinical Days (UK) /Online tutorials (Overseas)

Neuroinflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases

To provide an overview of the specific translational medicine challenges in neuroinflammatory diseases and autoimmune disease

Hollywood and the Second World War

This module focuses on a key period in film history, and it considers the methods with which film critics and historians have analyzed it. It is as much about the writing of film history as it is about individual films and filmmakers, and the syllabus is designed to offer students the opportunity to engage with several different methods and schools of criticism, while at the same time maintaining a continuity by centering on the films of one distinct time period and country.

Forensic Human Identification

To provide core knowledge in the area of identification.To provide a broad understanding of the various methods used for identification and their relative importance in establishing identity. Identification of buried remains including mass graves. To provide a broad understanding of: Forensic DNA analysis, Forensic Osteology, Forensic Odontology. To provide an understanding of identification in special circumstances such as mass disasters, the investigation of mass graves.

Alternative Investments

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.

Laser and Camouflage Techniques

Primary Health Care - Theory and Practice

Students will cover the following through a combination of self study, group seminars, lectures and project work: the many and varied models of primary health care across the world, the commonalities of good primary care provision across different structures and systems, links between primary care (individual and family focus) and public health (community and population focus), management of chronic illness and multimorbidity, the therapeutic relationship and continuity of care, uncertainty and complexity in primary care and the challenges arising from this, quality in primary care - definitions and approaches, lifelong learning and reflective practice

Performing Mental Health

"This module explores the performance of mental health and mental illness as they have been defined across history, and in the contemporary moment. In particular the module asks how the social construction of mental health is reflected in and produced by performance. While the module focuses on the types of subjectivity and selfhood that have emerged in the history of theatre and performance, students are also encouraged to explore ways other creative practices engage these topics. Special attention is given to representations of 'madness' and `mental illness' produced in historical performance, as well as to how these representations have since been reinterpreted and adapted to reflect current constructions and concerns. In addition we will consider a variety of contemporary and collaborative performance practices that interrogate attitudes relating to normative concepts of mental health, and even try to intervene into policy and care. Students will be introduced to broad debates on mental health from within the Humanities and informed by the approaches of disability studies. "

Fungal Taxonomy and Diversity

This module will focus on fungal diversity and it will be taught at RBG, Kew by leading mycologists. Kew has the largest collection of fungal specimens in the world that will be available to the students during the course. The module will give an overview of the systematics and taxonomy of major fungal groups, of basic concepts in mycology, field collecting, and culturing and fungarium techniques. In addition, front-line research on the ecology of fungi (e.g., symbiosis, 'rotters and recyclers', pathogens), fungal biogeography, and fungal evolutionary genomics, will be explored through study of contemporary research. The module will have a practical component, providing excellent hands-on experience for students.

Method and Practice in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History

Globalisation and Contemporary Medical Ethics

Human Rights and Public Health

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health

This seminar-based module examines the categories of intellectual property and the sources of intellectual property law (national, regional, and international) relevant to medical research, development and public health. In particular, the module examines the way in which intellectual property developments interact with ethical and socio-economic aspects of medicine, development and human rights (in particular the right to health, the right to development and access to medicines). Students will be introduced to patent law, trade marks and other related aspects of intellectual property laws relevant to medical innovation, research, and public health. Discussion topics will consider especially the relationship between intellectual property frameworks and the various industries contributing to medical innovation, the possible interaction with research practices and developments, and the consequences for various questions of public health, including individual property, access to products and information and human rights in health and development.

Big Data Applications for Finance

The past few years have witnessed enormous interest in the use of large datasets and new empirical techniques to uncover patterns in financial markets. In this course, we will examine how large datasets, empirical techniques for using large datasets such as (but not limited to) machine learning, and insights from decades of finance research come together in helping market participants take decisions, and affect financial markets. The use of such techniques forms the core of modern financial institutions, especially in retail markets that interact with financial consumers such as credit markets, and quantitative asset management strategies. The primary purpose of this course is not to teach statistical methods, but to facilitate their use and the financial and economic interpretation of empirical estimates. We, therefore, will study tools and applications at the same time. At the end of the course, students will be able to use modern empirical techniques such as machine learning on large financial datasets, assess the informativeness of empirical estimates and their use in financial markets and visualize complex information sets. Students will be able to apply these tools to specific financial markets (for e.g. credit markets) and in asset management.

Music and Audio Programming

This module will introduce a broad class of principles of programming music and audio systems, with a particular focus on real-time digital signal processing on embedded hardware. Students will develop audio projects using the Bela embedded hardware platform, which is based on an ARM Cortex-A series processor, an architecture also commonly found in mobile devices. This is a project-based module, with the overall mark determined by two smaller assignments and one more extensive final project. It is expected that students already understand basic digital signal processing theory and have a moderate familiarity with programming in C, C++ or a similar language.

Teaching Languages: Approaches and Methods

"Teaching Languages: Approaches and Methods" is the first of two compulsory modules on the MA in Language Teaching. You will undertake a comprehensive overview of the main approaches and methods in language teaching. The areas to be covered include: - Early approaches and methods: Grammar-Translation Method, Direct Method, Oral Approach, Situational Language Teaching, and Audiolingual Method -Current Approaches and Methods: Communicative Language Teaching, Task-Based Language Teaching, Text-based Instruction, Content-Based Instruction, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Competency-Based Language Teaching; Post-method and principled eclecticism - Teaching the four skills across contemporary approaches and methods - Standards and the Common European Framework of Reference - Testing, Evaluation and Assessment. You will also study a language as part of the module and be required to maintain a critically reflective diary each week.

Ablative Therapy

This module will provide an understanding of the science and principles underlying the use of radiotherapy and surgery in the treatment of malignant disease.

Laparoscopic Procedure Skills

This module will introduce the learner to the strategies for minimizing bile duct injuries: adopting a universal culture of safety in cholecystectomy by understanding core laparoscopic surgical principles for calots triangle dissection. Students will use virtual reality simulation - Touch Surgery for learning laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Students will learn how to troubleshoot during laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the diagnosis and management of complications after cholecystectomy and the use of surgical energy.

Quality Improvement in Healthcare Project Report

Topics in Financial Econometrics

The module will reaffirm the student's understanding of the classical techniques of regression analysis, which will be extended to encompass financial data modelling. The module will also cover the techniques of time series modelling. It will begin by analysing classical linear stochastic models that are formulated in discrete time. It will proceed to analyse models in continuous time that are a feature of modern financial analysis.

Valuation and Private Equity

Private equity is a relevant source of capital for companies. This course explores the ¿private equity cycle¿: (i) fundraising and structure, (ii) investing and (iii) exit. As valuation plays a crucial role in this cycle, the course starts with valuation techniques: from traditional methods as DCF to more recent methodologies such as real options. Strong emphasis is given to practical applications: a DCF model for a "target" company will be developed inclass and a real world case of a private equity transaction will be discussed.

Practical Valuation

Valuation is at the heart of many areas of finance such as valuebased investing, mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings. This course introduces students to company valuation and gives the background to all the tools used in the Excel modelling course (ECOM116) such as free cash flows and present discounted value. It will introduce a range of valuation tools such as use of multiples and real options. The course strongly emphasizes practical applications of these valuation tools.

Illegal Speech, Censorship and Digital Rights: Social Media vs 'Old' Media

This digital revolution has had an enormous impact on fundamental rights such as freedom of expression and privacy (and personality rights more widely), and on concepts such as identity, autonomy and agency online. The Module will analyse (1) how the law protects these rights and balances them with the rights of others; (2) whether new fundamental rights should be recognized online and (3) how the law balances potential harms online with these rights. The Module will examine the relationship between law, technology and behaviour. It has a practical dimension by looking at liability relating to online communication and the management of that risk and by examining how these existing and emerging rights can be enforced (including for example the disclosure of a pseudonymous identity). It has a theoretical, law & policy dimension by examining concepts such as identity, privacy and autonomy and how these concepts relate to the law. It will compare traditional approaches to (offline) media regulation and how they relate to new phenomena on social media. The Module therefore examines traditional approaches to content regulation on 'old' media and how these censorship regime(s) is challenged by new media, reflecting on how the law needs to adapt to 'cope' with new (and ever evolving) technologies and business practices. As in traditional media regulation, this encapsulates administrative, civil and criminal law approaches to content regulation and censorship.

Conduct of Hostilities in International Law

This module is concerned with the rules of international law that govern the conduct of military operations in situations of armed conflict. Since these rules are largely intended for the protection of the civilian population, they apply irrespective of the legality or illegality of war. In the literature, the issues studied in this module are variously referred to as humanitarian law, jus in bello, or the law of war. The module will examine the core principles of humanitarian law , in particular, the centrality of the principle of distinction between civilians and combatants; rules for assessing the proportionality of military operations and their impact on targeting decisions; means and methods of warfare including the prohibition of weapons of mass destruction. The module will also consider the law applicable to situations of military occupation in light of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Principles of International Criminal Law

This module explores the evolution of International Criminal Law in a historical perspective. It examines the sources of international criminal law in both treaty and custom, as well as the main principles of interpretation. It seeks to provide students with an understanding of the concept of international crime, and the distinction maintained in international law between regimes of individual and state responsibility. It is especially concerned with the substantive crimes within the jurisdiction of international tribunals such as genocide, war crimes, aggression, torture, and crimes against humanity.

Human Factors for Prehospital Medicine

An understanding of human factors, error mitigation and performance is essential to both ensuring patient safety and excellent outcomes in prehospital medicine. The term 'crew resource management' is used as a synonym for 'human factors' in the aviation, nuclear, maritime and other organisations where optimal performance is seen as essential. In prehospital and emergency care, the performance of teams, especially those that are rapidly formed, is commonplace. Working with experts from elite sport, aviation and other related industries, the module will embrace best practice in team performance. In parallel with the performance of individual teams, it is recognised that high performance in clinical teams is supported by quality performance systems, good governance, ergonomics and team structures, all crucial to delivering optimal care to patients.

Deep Learning for Audio and Music

This module, for those who have some prior knowledge of machine learning, focusses on deep learning methods and how they can be used to address many tasks in audio and music. The theory of modern deep neural networks (DNNs) is covered, including training of common DNN types as well as modifying DNNs for new purposes. Various tasks in analysis/generation of audio and music are studied directly to inspire the content, using raw audio and/or symbolic representations. Background in machine learning is essential, and some background in digital signal processing is highly recommended. Music knowledge would be desirable but is not a requirement.

Globalisation and the International Political Economy of Development

The module provides students with a detailed examination - and critique - of theories of globalisation and assessment of contemporary globalising processes, and how these particularly influence the developing world. It examines these influences through detailed analysis of contemporary manifestations of globalisation, including neo-liberalism, US hegemony and contemporary imperialism, capital flows, global commodity chains, state-market relations, patterns of global inequality, international institutions, and questions of cultural homogenisation/imperialism. The module also examines the ways in which globalisation is resisted, focusing on the rise of transnational social movements and NGOs, and the politics of anti-globalisation, and how this relates to an ostensibly post-development era. In addressing these issues, the module concludes by asking the most important question: how do we think of development in an era of globalisation, US hegemony, neo-liberalism and imperialism?

EU Healthcare Law: Rights, Policies and Instruments

"This module examines the laws and policies of the European Union regarding healthcare primarily from a rights-based perspective. The module will start by looking at the powers, strategies, instruments and techniques used by the EU to develop its policies in this area. It will then consider the relationship between the EU internal market and healthcare from the perspective of individual rights of patients and health professionals as well as the relationship between healthcare and fundamental rights in the European Union. Indicative list of topics that might be covered include: role and competence of the European Union in relation to health policies; sources of EU health law; Free movement of patients in the European Union; free movement of health professionals in the European Union; fundamental rights and EU health policies; EU policies on health promotion."

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Dissertation

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.

Applied Research Methods

Law and Ethics for Prehospital Medicine

Legal and ethical considerations are relevant for all clinicians, but offer particular challenge for those who practice in the prehospital field. Case management has to embrace key underpinning practice principles but within the specific contexts that apply in the prehospital phase i.e. medicine undertaken in public and generally unprotected environments and on patients not expecting medical need. The module will cover a spectrum of pertinent legal and ethical concerns and will also include new and emerging areas such as the application of ethical principles related to the filming of patients, or the use social media for educational purposes etc.

Macroeconomics A

Empire, Race and Immigration

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.

Knowledge Innovation Learning and Organisation

The Information Society is a growing global phenomenon. Related ideas such as Knowledge Economy, Learning Organization, Learning Community, Learning Region and Post-Industrial Knowledge Society are widely known. Knowledge Management, Innovation and Organizational Learning are all management and organizational practices that drive and shape this growing phenomenon and help us understand how it develops and where it might be heading. This module will look at these ideas through practical empirical studies and landmark theories, drawing implications for management and leadership.

Cultural and Global Perspectives in Mental Health

This compulsory module will discuss the key issues in the transcultural psychiatry. The topics will include: the theory of, and clinical implications of, mental disorders across cultures; differences in clinical manifestation of mental disorders across cultural contexts; challenges of diagnosis in a multicultural environment; and specific needs of ethnic minorities in terms of care and treatment. The students will be encouraged to reflect on the impact of cultural context on the development and treatment of mental disorders. The impact of migration on mental health will also be covered.

Law's Relations: Autonomy, Consent and Confidentiality

"This module considers the different aspects of consent to treatment for capacitous adults and mature 'Gillick competent' children, from perspectives which respect autonomy and seek to support relationships which foster autonomy. We will examine current legal standards for information disclosure and voluntariness as aspects of consent and ask how such legal standards could be improved in order to support autonomy as one of law's relations. "

EU Energy Law

"This module provides students with an understanding of the EU regime relating to energy. It will examine specifically energy regulation models and the regulation and governance of specific markets such electricity and gas. It will encourage students to recognize the relevant issues impacting regulation of the specific energy markets, understand and contribute to the debates surrounding the regulation of such markets, to critically analyse the issues impacting regulation and to apply their knowledge and critical abilities to factual problems encountered by regulators and non-state actors. It examines central themes and debates in energy regulation and their impact on legal developments and policy reform as it relates to the European energy sector. The module covers energy regulation models and the regulation and governance of specific markets such as oil and gas, electricity and alternate energy sources. It will explore issues such as the role of ACER as a transnational regulator, the European Target Model for the electricity and gas markets, market coupling and the likely shape of future energy markets as the Energy Union continues to take shape. "

Accounting for Lawyers

This module is designed to introduce fundamental management accounting concepts to non-accountants. This will include applying various techniques to evaluate business decisions in both the long and short term. Students will be able to employ a range of control methods within a business and analyse its performance. The module is designed for students to gain an appreciation of the concepts while having an insight into their practical application. Students on this module will be introduced to a wide range of accounting techniques. The emphasis during lectures will be on building confidence in the use of financial techniques associated with planning, control and decision-making.

Multinational Enterprises: Business and Legal Organisation

The Law of Registered Trade Marks

The module covers all legal issues that might arise from the very moment someone decides to apply to register a sign as a trade mark. Covered topics include: what may constitute subject matter eligible for trade mark protection?; absolute grounds for refusal and invalidity; relative grounds for refusal and invalidity; distinctiveness acquired through use; trade mark infringement; invalidity; revocation; defenses; parallel imports; the concept of the trade mark functions; economic justifications for trade mark protection; trade mark protection against dilution; the free-riding theory of trade mark protection.

Privacy and Data Protection Law

Privacy is a growing concern in today's society, where the power of computers and the growth of the Internet have combined to make it possible to collect and disseminate more information about an individual than ever before. This module explores different aspects of privacy: privacy as a theoretical concept, a social norm or value and a legal right. The primary module focus, however, is the current legal infrastructure that governs the protection of data in various jurisdictions, (including the EU, the UK, the US, Canada and Australia) and its practical implications for global business.

Cellular Pathology

Introduction to pathology. Cell adhesion and migration. Genetics of oral cancer. Mechanisms of cell death. Mendelian inheritance. Hallmarks of cancer. Salivary gland structure, normal and inflamed mucosa.

Introduction to Marketing Management

This module provides an outlook on marketing as a sub-discipline of management studies. It offers students (MSc in Management and Management and Organisational Innovation) a theoretical foundation of marketing concepts (e.g., consumer behaviour, pricing, product management, branding) and different ways that these concepts can be integrated within the broader field of management. Special emphasis is given to understanding practical implications of marketing and consumer behaviour theories.

Statistics for Bioinformaticians

This module is focussed on teaching data analysis using the statistical programming language R. The module covers the basics of using R; drawing publication-standard graphs with R; experimental design; exploratory data analysis; the fundamentals of statistical testing including t-tests and chi-square tests; ANOVA and Regression; fitting and interpreting general linear models; the basics of bioinformatic analysis in R. The module is taught with a mix of theory and practice, with a typical day including roughly two hours of theory instruction in the morning followed by a practical session in the afternoon, often involving hands-on analysis of real experimental data sets.

Dissertation in Regulation and Compliance

The chosen topics should relate to a relevant specialisation within the academic fields of Regulations and Compliance. The particular subject area is the student's own choice, guided and agreed by their supervisor. It is expected that students will undertake primary research and/or secondary research based in the sources where the data has not been already subjected to a relevant analysis.

Cultural Industries: Policy and Practice

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. It pays particular attention to arts (and related) policies and organisational practices with particular attention to theatre and performance. We will investigate these areas through a selective combination of seminars (including from visiting speakers), organisational visits and analysis of policy documents and critical writing.

Summer School

This module will take place over a two week period in London. It is the only time during the MSc course that students and faculty are able to meet personally. It will provide a number of interactive courses and simulations, designed to tie together various aspects of the the taught modules.

Literatures of Sensation

This module explores the nature of aesthetic pleasure. Is our delight in language an embodied or an intellectual pleasure? How and why do people read? Is it a good thing to find oneself engaged in a `willing suspension of disbelief¿ (Coleridge) or transported via a `spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings¿ (Wordsworth)? Beginning with late-eighteenth-century cults of Sensibility and their detractors, the module will survey the full range of nineteenth-century writing on sensation, including Romantic balladry, the Gothic, melodrama, sensation fiction, and literatures of decadence. One aim will be to understand what links this heterogeneous body of writing together ¿ an abiding interest in the nature of power, desire and the numinous that crosses genres, media, ideologies and national traditions. While addressing questions of genre and cultural context, the module will also consider post-structural, affective and sociological approaches to Sensation¿s identities, histories and tendencies.

Supportive Care for Failing Organ Function

In this module, students will become familiar with support of the cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, liver and haematological systems. The principles of management for each of the systems, including fluid resuscitation, inotropes, vasopressors, mechanical support of heart and lungs as well as extracorporeal techniques will be discussed. They will understand principles of renal and liver support, as well as becoming familiar with dialysis and haemofiltration. This will be coupled with general considerations in managing critically ill patients, such as nutrition and metabolic support.

Laparoscopic Procedure Skills (Cholecystectomy)

1. Practical training to perform salpingostomy by simulation 2. Practical training to perform salpingectomy by simulation

Approaches and Methods in English Language Teaching

Approaches and Methods in English Language Teaching is a compulsory module on the MA in Applied Linguistics for English Language Teaching. Students are presented with a comprehensive overview of the main approaches and methods in language teaching, and have the opportunity to put these into practice: each week there is a lecture/interactive seminar to discuss the theoretical underpinnings of language teaching, followed by a practical session in which students will try out the different approaches in a peer/micro-teaching learning environment. Students will receive practical and formative feedback on their teaching sessions from both teachers and peers. The areas to be covered include: common assumptions of language teaching; the natural, oral and audio-lingual approaches; situational language teaching; social and cognitive construction; communicative language teaching; content-based Instruction; and task-based teaching.

European Management

This module will explore aspects of the European political, economic, social and cultural context that are relevant for managers doing business in Europe. It will begin with an introduction to Europe's institutional framework, and the history of European integration. It will then introduce students to key features of Europe's business environment such as the Single European Market, competition policy, labour policy and monetary union. Case studies will explore these trends in particular industries such as transport, energy and high tech. Students will also be engaged in discussions over Europe's place in the world and future structural changes.

Curriculum Design and Materials Evaluation for English Language Teaching

Curriculum Design and Materials Evaluation for English Language Teaching is an optional module in the MA in Applied Linguistics for English Language Teaching. The module initially focuses on aspects of curriculum design, including language policies and pedagogies, by exploring: historical perspectives; environmental and situational analysis; needs analysis. The module also examines the relationship between curriculum ideology and learning outcomes and how this impinges on syllabus design, the role of teachers, and materials development. The second focus of the module is to present students with an overview of language program evaluation discussing at length: approaches to evaluation; evaluation practice and research; materials evaluation and multimedia materials evaluation. The module develops and deepens students understanding of issues in curriculum development by providing practice in evaluating language curricula and language teaching materials.

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Qualitative Research Methods

This module provides an introduction to qualitative research methods in linguistics used to analyze naturally occurring language in a range of social contexts and via various modes (spoken, written, online). Frameworks include ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, multi-modal discourse, and narrative analysis; methods include observation, interviews, and questionnaires. We will explore how the intersections of theory, method, and data motivate the different frameworks and how research questions can be derived from them. Choosing the appropriate method, eliciting and transcribing data, ethics protocols, and the role of the researcher will be explored in relation to linguistic topics for study.

Sociolinguistic Theory

The field of sociolinguistics has seen the parallel development of a number of theories of how language relates to, and is embedded in, society. Some of these developments have been mutually reinforcing or complementary, while others have raised questions and debates over the nature of social variation in language. This course reviews the major 'lineages' of thinking in sociolinguistics, covering theories that have formed the foundation of both quantitative and qualitative approaches sociolinguistics. With a focus on the former, the course will require students to read classic texts from early sociolinguistic theory (developed in William Labov's early work and parallel strands of thought from the same period) and then trace the development of distinct 'waves' of thinking and analysis in subsequent decades. On the qualitative side, the course will cover selected classic works from social theory, and literary and cultural theory that have been influential in sociolinguists' thinking about social structure and variation (e.g. Bourdieu, Bakhtin). Overall, the course will provide students with an advanced foundational knowledge of major developments in sociolinguistic thought over the past half century.

The Scene of Teaching

We will be comparing and contrasting a range of texts drawn from a number of different cultural contexts in which the processes of teaching and learning figure prominently. You will be encouraged to reflect on your status as learners and on learning experiences more generally, considering your experiences to date as well as your expectations as to what a university education can offer and provide.

International Strategic Management

This module will explore various theoretical approaches used to explain what markets managers choose to compete within, why and how. We will begin by examining the traditional competitive positioning and resource-based views, and critically evaluate their appropriateness in an increasingly networked, globalised, digitised and fluid competitive environment. We will then go on to consider more contemporary approaches to strategic management, such as the importance of strategy process, strategy as practice, scenario planning, business ecosystems, behavioural approaches, and the role of leadership. In particular, the emphasis on business ecosystems will allow students to appreciate the internal and transnational nature of strategic management with specific reference to the European context and European businesses. Nonetheless, throughout the course we will also examine a variety of organisational contexts, assessing the extent to which firm strategy models may be applicable to public sector, voluntary, entrepreneurial or other types of organisations.

Economics of Development

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.

Dissertation in Heritage Management

This important module requires a demonstration of ability to carry out an original investigation into an issue of interest relevant to the content of the MA Heritage Management. The process should reflect skills of formulating research questions, synthesising/analysing data, drawing insights and conclusions, and written communication. Students are guided through the dissertation process by one or more supervisor/s (including HRP academics). To prepare them for the dissertation, students are required to take the compulsory Research Design & Methods module (GEG7135).

Diagnostic Tools in Critical Illness

This module aims to provide students with an understanding of diagnostic work up in the early phases of resuscitation. Students will improve their ability to interpret bed side metabolic parameters provided by blood gas analysis, and their ability to interpret the chest radiograph and acute computed tomography imaging as applied to acute care in critical illness. They will also gain an understanding of the role of focused ultrasound and echocardiography in the diagnosis of acute illness and guiding resuscitation. Students will learn via a series of on-line lectures delivered by experts in the field and will participate in discussion groups.

International Energy Transactions

International energy transactions are complex, large, incredibly high risk and very expensive. They involve many parties from hosts states, international oil companies, national oil companies, NGOs, IGOs as well as service providers. The course focuses on the applicable laws and contract provisions for each type of transaction including upstream contacts including JOA's. The module also looks at the project finance structure used in large energy transactions, for example, a power plant or LNG liquefaction plant as well as reserve base lending in upstream explorations. The unconventional market and LNG value chain and their impact on the global market are considered in the context of the energy transition and the future role of gas as a lower CO2 option. Nuclear power remains part of the energy matrix of many states being a low carbon process, highly efficient and thus ensuring energy security.

Banking Law International

The purpose of the course is to examine the nature and content of banking law and regulation at the international, European and UK levels with reference to US law as well. Banking markets are key drivers in any national, regional or global economy with banks carrying out a number of essential services without which no economy could operate. Banking markets are nevertheless unstable and prone to significant crisis and collapse which was confirmed by the severity and damaging impact of the recent financial crises in global, European and national financial markets. Many difficult problems still arise with regard to the causes of the crises and most appropriate responses going forward. All of the relevant issues that arise in this exciting area are examined in this course.

Globalisation and the Law

To provide a comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of actors, institutions and structures of globalisation from historical, economic and sociologic perspectives as they are reflected in national, international and transnational legal regimes.

Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes

The Course will first trace the evolution of dispute settlement amongst states from the use of force to the use of a binding form of dispute settlement and to compulsory jurisdiction. It will then discuss the centrality of consent and, in particular, analyse the main treaties creating courts and tribunals and their procedures and treaties creating rights and obligations and including a dispute settlement clause. Thirdly, the Course will present the different methods for peacefully solving international disputes between States: negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration and permanent courts. An essential part of the course will be dedicated to analysing in detail the procedure before the International Court of Justice.

Feminist Film Philosophy

Researching Global Health: Geneva Fieldclass

Embedded Systems

This module provides a practice-oriented introduction to embedded real-time systems. The main topics are (1) Modelling and simulation in UML and state-of-the-art tools; (2) Basic concepts of micro-controllers; (3) Real-time systems with interrupts and schedulers; (4) Real-time operating systems: processes and communication; (5) Energy aware design and construction; (6) Debugging and testing as part of software development processes.

Dissertation in International Economic Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Description of Language

Description of Language (Level 6) provides an overview of the nature and extent of linguistics and enables you to understand and apply the systems of syntax, lexis, practical phonetics, and discourse to the language learning classroom. From your subsequent understanding of language, you then explore and evaluate the range of language learning materials and the sequencing of parts of speech for language teaching and learning. The module allows you to apply this knowledge of language and materials to the language learning classroom, both through micro-teaching in a peer environment, and through observation of language teaching in either English or another language. The module is delivered through lectures and seminars, where the content of the module is further explored, and language learning materials and ELT textbooks are evaluated and their application in the classroom is discussed. The module provides you with a solid understanding of language, which will prepare you to study related areas of English language learning and teaching in your second year of the MA in English Language Teaching (2-year).

Dissertation in Art, Business and Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

French and European Law Independent Research

Independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field of French & European Law. The essay should be produced in the French language.

Trade Secrets

Every intellectual property right starts life as a trade secret. Trade secrets and related intellectual assets are viewed as critical to the success of many businesses. But they are also uniquely fragile rights and so their protection under different legal systems requires close assessment. This module complements other IP modules by providing an opportunity to study the economic and legal foundations of these important rights. This module will be taught intensively over a period of 1 week in semester 3. Sem 3 is the final teaching semester taught early June to early July.

Mental Health Law: Capacity to Consent and Best Interests

This module will analyse the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), the legislation that provides the framework in England and Wales for assessing capacity and making decisions on behalf of those who lack capacity to decide, and its application in the context of medical and social care. This module is recommended for those interested in issues of consent in health and social care. The question that will guide this module is whether the law in England and Wales strikes a good balance between respecting the autonomy of individuals and protecting their welfare. It will also discuss the compatibility between the MCA and human rights law (in particular, the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities). Therefore, even though this course will focus on England and Wales, students interested in comparative and human rights approaches to mental health and the law are strongly encouraged to apply. The cases that students will discuss in this module include, for instance, the force-feeding of anorexia patients, the withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration from people in a minimally conscious state, deprivation of liberty in hospitals and care homes, and the reproductive choices of people with learning disabilities.

WTO Law Domestic Regulations and Trade Remedies

The module covers WTO rules and principles on domestic regulations (technical standards, rules on services, intellectual property protection) and on trade remedies to protect domestic industries against both fair and unfair trade (safeguards, anti-dumping duties and countervailing duties). It examines how WTO rules, as interpreted by adjudicators, seek to balance the tensions between free trade obligations and the right to regulate in pursuance of national policy objectives and free trade and unfair trade. On completion of the module, students should be able to advice public authorities, private companies or civil society organisations on the consistency of trade defence measures and domestic regulations affecting international trade with WTO Law and on the remedies available for breaches of WTO Law. Students which are not familiar with WTO law are strongly advised to take SOLM192 WTO Law: Fundamental Principles.

Transnational Problems of Commercial Law

In an era of globalisation English contract law governs many international transactions between commercial parties and is essential to energy, shipping, commodities and the construction industry. This course will introduce students to the making, breaking, interpreting and disputing of contracts. It covers a range of subjects including contract interpretation, frustration, breach, termination, misrepresentation and fraud, and some of the special problems of insurance, shipping, and sale of goods law. It will also provide them with insights into the procedural aspects of commercial law; and into the different ways in which good faith may be approached in the common and civil law. In doing so, we consider typical problems concerning contract law, private and public international law, and procedure, which are encountered by commercial lawyers in negotiation, litigation, arbitration and mediation. Do you interpret contracts as a literalist goat or as a purposive sheep? When does a breach of contract destroy a contract? What are the modes and dangers of terminating a significant contract? What is the role of an ¿international commercial court¿? What is the role of private and public international law in commercial law? How does ¿good faith¿ differ in the common and civil law? Would you advise a client to arbitrate or litigate or mediate? It will give students and practitioners the ability to answer these questions and apply contract law to complex commercial disputes. It will teach them to be lawyers in business and pragmatists in law.

Company Law: Foundational and Constitutional Issues

The module aims to inform and educate students as to the field of law that governs UK corporations. The course is a UK focused Company law course covering: Meaning of Corporate Personality and distinction between incorporated and unincorporated associations. The nature, types and functions of companies. Historical development of the modern business company. The consequences of incorporation and its practical advantages and disadvantages. The corporate entity principle and exceptions to it. The ultra vires doctrine and the Articles of Association. The company's organs and agents and the liability of the company for their acts. Formation and flotation of companies. The module also aims to highlight future directions and trends in the regulation of companies.

Aesthetics

This is a core module delivered in the Master of Science (MSc) in Dental Technology which is designed to ensure students are taught the basic principles of the factors that affect aesthetics in Restorative Dentistry including; Light, colour and shade selection, Basic restoration aesthetics (understanding and designing tooth shape and form and use of colour effects), Ethical aesthetics, Denture aesthetics, Maxillo facial aesthetics, Implant aesthetics. Practicals; Shade selection and designing a colour map. Diagnostic waxing, Denture gingival staining, contouring/stippling techniques. Porcelain building techniques to achieve aesthetics. Techniques may be taught one to one during the technical practice sessions to enable the student to complete their advanced case presentation.

Properties of Dental Materials I

This is a core module delivered in the Master of Sciences (MSc) in Dental Technology, Oral Biology and Dental Materials (the latter jointly accommodated by the Institute of Dentistry, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and The School of Engineering and Materials Science). It is designed to enable students to gain a greater and more in depth understanding of the basic sciences knowledge that underpins the clinical uses of dental materials. Topics covered include chemical, mechanical, surface properties and other physical property tests used for dental biomaterials, as well as basic ceramic science, basic polymer science and basic metallurgy. Water absorption and the biocompatibility of dental materials are also covered in detail.

International Rights of the Child

Once peripheral to international and national law the international rights of the child are increasingly at the centre of national and international policy decisions concerning children. Competing claims of resources, other family members and the state place the international rights of the child at the cutting edge of international law and national family law and human rights. This course will introduce students to the institutions, standards, and case law which structure children's relationship with law.

Pre-Hospital Care and Mass Casualties

Students will learn about a wide range of topics within the pre-hospital care environment, including scene management, critical care interventions, and mass casualty events. Please note, this module does not seek to provide training in pre-hospital care, but rather to provide an understanding of specific issues relevant to the pre-hospital environment. Students also will gain an understanding of specific issues faced by those who work in the pre-hospital environment. Hospital based practitioners will gain knowledge regarding the types of care that can be provided pre-hospital and how mass casualty events are managed.

EU Trade Law

"This module is concerned with the legal framework for cross-border trade in the European Union. The module provides an in-depth study of the economic and commercial aspects of the 'four freedoms' (free movement of goods, services, establishment and capital) in the EU single market and discusses the various approaches to regulating the single market adopted by EU institutions. Indicative list of topics that might be covered would include: the concept of the Single Market - market integration in the EU vs other forms of international trade liberalisation; non-tariff barriers: non-discrimination and market access; locating and relocating in another EU Member State - freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services for companies ¿ regulatory competition; tariff and fiscal barriers to free movement - free movement of capital; regulating the Single Market: harmonisation policy - governance of the Single Market"

Law and Religion

This module explores the relationship of law and religion and how law deals with religion. It also covers theoretical material from non-legal writing and, as relevant, comparative material. The course explores what religion is and how it is theorised. It covers historical material drawing links between dominant legal cultures and religion . It explores how secularisation has been variedly theorised. It includes discussion of legal responses to religious claims and how different religions are positioned or treated by the dominant legal order and public sphere.

Comparative Law Methodology

For a long time, comparative law was both marginalized as a discipline and thoroughly undertheorized. Today, both have changed: comparative law has received more attention, and there has been a healthy, if at times disorganized, debate on questions of method and theory. The course provides a systematic introduction into this debate through a combination of seminal texts, overview articles, and brief examples of selected positions.

Effective and Efficient Evaluation

The module will introduce learners to principles of effective and efficient evaluation, exploring different uses of health data in evaluation, for example in recruitment, or to measure outcomes. It will cover research designs that use health data or can be conducted within health data, including cluster-randomised trials, stepped-wedge designs, trials-within-cohorts/registries, interrupted-time-series. The role of devices such as wearables or mobile phone apps in evaluation, cost-effective analyses, use of qualitative methods, and ethics of evaluation will also be covered.

Digital Marketing

Internet and digital technologies have transformed marketing and impacted industry from retailing to healthcare. Companies face the challenge of developing and maintaining their business operations and customer engagement in a constantly evolving digital space. The key question is how to successfully deploy digital marketing strategies. What are techniques that companies need to master to make effective use of digital marketing? This module empowers students with skills and knowledge needed to work as a digital marketing professional after graduation.

Managing Yourself and Building Positive Relationships at Work

Organisational behaviour theories and ideas from psychology provide insight on how individuals/groups behave in organisational settings. Various organisational models are analysed for future HR practitioners to enhance self-awareness and interpersonal skills. Individual differences, managing group dynamics, communicating with impact, influencing and persuasion skills, working across differences, managing workplace politics constructively, building nurturing relationship for professional growth and career progression are examined. Self-development through practical and experiential activities are embedded in weekly sessions.

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and the Law

While the use of robots creates arguably more efficient, precise and innovative outcomes, it also presents a number of questions with regards to liability, responsibility and legal personhood in criminal law, contractual obligations, and torts. The use of cognitive features allowing robots to interact with their environment inevitably raises issues of data protection and privacy. The module covers both embodied artificial intelligent systems (robots) and non-embodied ones (intelligent agents). Distinction is also made between the behaviour of robots as tools of human interaction, and robots as independent agents in the legal arena and its legal ramifications.

Dissertation

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Dissertation in International Shipping Law

Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field

Syntax

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.

Study at Queen Mary

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PGT Modules

CFA Training

International Child Law

Themes and Cases in US Foreign Policy

Cinema and Digital Visual Culture in contemporary China

Evaluation and Delivery in Public Policy

Contemporary World Politics: Theories, Concepts, Themes

War and International Security

Dissertation

Globalisation and the International Political Economy of Development

Theories and Concepts in Public Policy

Current Debates in International Political Economy

Health Social Media Analytics

Effective and Efficient Evaluation

Analysis of Electronic Health Records

Further epidemiology & statistics for health data scientist

Confronting Violence: Anticolonial Feminist and Queer Approaches

Global Screens

Creative Documentary

Short Film Production

Thinking Film Studies

Business and Commercial Law Issues for Managers

Forecasting with AI

Law and Management in Practice

Cultures of Friendship

Reading the Middle East to Arab(ic) Fiction

Personalised Media and The Digital Self

Victorian Mediascapes

Digital Media for Language Education

Reconfiguring Film Theories and Philosophies: A Cross Cultural Perspectives

Global Queer Cinema

Curating Africa: African Film and Video in the Age of Festivals

Contemporary Period Film and the Heritage Database

The Story of African Film: Narrative Screen Media in Africa

New Argentina Cinemas

Genre in Italian Cinema

The Moving Image in Art

21st Century Hollywood and the Cultural Politics of identity

Genre in Italian Cinema

Latin American Digital and Visual Cultures: Identity and Resistance

Beyond Language: Multimodality in Theory and Practice

Digital Media and Global Cultures Dissertation

Theories and Critical Concepts of Digital Media and Cultures

Digital Methods and Ethics in Digital Media and Cultures

Fashion and Luxury Marketing

Creative Producing

Digital Global Audiences and Participatory Culture

Writing for Production

Cinemas in Contemporary China

Content Creation for the Creative Industries Project

Technological Aesthetics: Art, Power, and Cold War Divides

Making Media

Capstone Project in Marketing

Innovation Management in the Global Economy

Digital Business, Innovation and Transparency

Blockchain Applications and Social Justice

Employment Relations and Regulation in a Global Context

Financing Sustainability

Introduction to Mathematics and Statistics for Business

Entrepreneurship and Innovation project with SBM Entrepreneurship hub

Forensic Mental Health Dissertation

Professional Practice in Forensic Psychology and Mental Health

Contemporary Issues in Medical Education

Contemporary Issues in Medical Education

Psychological, Psychosocial, and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Working with Offenders

Cancer Prevention and Screening

Clinical Science Project

Architecture and Space in Modern Intellectual History

Haemorrhage and Resuscitation

Trauma Critical Care: Adults and Paediatrics

Theories of the State

Trauma: Epidemiology & Systems

Foundations of Computational Linguistics

Analysing Language Datasets

Language and Artificial Intelligence: Advanced Programming

Applying Linguistics in the Real World

Programming for the Humanities

Design and Evaluation of Public Policy