Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Olumide Popoola

Description: This module is the first module of both taught routes to HEA Fellowship offered by the Queen Mary Academy; Certificate in Learning and Teaching (CILT) and Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP). The module runs over 1 semester. Designed as an introduction to the theory and practice of learning and teaching in higher education, the module will help participants develop the practice of reflecting on and enhancing their teaching.

The module is focused around key elements of designing an individual teaching session, in a range of modes of delivery (including face to face, online and blended). It also includes an introduction to theories of learning and focuses on the importance of active and student-centred learning approaches, including the flipped classroom. The module comprises seven core teaching sessions which will be focused around planning, designing and reflecting on teaching. Participants will undertake a microteaching session as part of the module, presenting a mini teaching session to course peers. Participants will be in interdisciplinary groups and encouraged to exchange practice between disciplines.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Microteaching session plan (1500 words or equivalent)
• Item 2: 70% Reflection on microteaching session (2000 words or equivalent)

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Stephanie Fuller

Description: This module is the first module of both taught routes to HEA Fellowship offered by the Queen Mary Academy; Certificate in Learning and Teaching (CILT) and Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP). The module runs over 1 semester. Designed as an introduction to the theory and practice of learning and teaching in higher education, the module will help participants develop the practice of reflecting on and enhancing their teaching.

The module is focused around key elements of designing an individual teaching session, in a range of modes of delivery (including face to face, online and blended). It also includes an introduction to theories of learning and focuses on the importance of active and student-centred learning approaches, including the flipped classroom. The module comprises seven core teaching sessions which will be focused around planning, designing and reflecting on teaching. Participants will undertake a microteaching session as part of the module, presenting a mini teaching session to course peers. Participants will be in interdisciplinary groups and encouraged to exchange practice between disciplines.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Microteaching session plan (1500 words or equivalent)
• Item 2: 70% Reflection on microteaching session (2000 words or equivalent)

Learning and Teaching in the Discipline

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Angela Gallagher-Brett

Description: This module is the second module of all the taught routes to HEA Fellowship offered by the Queen Mary Academy. It takes place over one semester. Participants on the module will be divided into three streams: 1) Science, Maths & Engineering; 2) Medicine and Dentistry; 3) Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (those on the boundary between streams will be offered a choice). Within those streams students will be able to study small-group and large-group teaching, student support, assessment and resource creation as they pertain to their discipline. They will also be introduced to broader professional bodies and frameworks, such as the QAA Subject Benchmark Statements in their discipline and QMUL Graduate Attributes. Students will also undertake three teaching observations (one of a colleague and two as the observe) and reflect on the process of creating and delivering a teaching resource in their subject.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Presentation of created resource for learning teaching or assessment
• Item 2: 60% Reflection on Teaching Observations (2000 words)

Learning and Teaching in the Discipline

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Angela Gallagher-Brett

Description: This module is the second module of all the taught routes to HEA Fellowship offered by the Queen Mary Academy. It takes place over one semester. Participants on the module will be divided into three streams: 1) Science, Maths & Engineering; 2) Medicine and Dentistry; 3) Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (those on the boundary between streams will be offered a choice). Within those streams students will be able to study small-group and large-group teaching, student support, assessment and resource creation as they pertain to their discipline. They will also be introduced to broader professional bodies and frameworks, such as the QAA Subject Benchmark Statements in their discipline and QMUL Graduate Attributes. Students will also undertake three teaching observations (one of a colleague and two as the observe) and reflect on the process of creating and delivering a teaching resource in their subject.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Presentation of created resource for learning teaching or assessment
• Item 2: 60% Reflection on Teaching Observations (2000 words)

Curriculum Design

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Stephanie Fuller

Description: This module is the third compulsory module on the PGCAP and runs over one semester. The module builds on the topics studied in the first two modules on the course. It supports participants to take a broader view of higher education and to work at a unit, module or programme level to engage in a piece of curriculum redesign, or in some cases a new piece of design. The module looks at theory and practice of curriculum design, and supports participants to review aims and ILOs, teaching profile, assessment and feedback strategies, evaluation plans, and to consider their course within broader contexts. There are seven compulsory topics and participants will choose from a range of optional topics those which are most relevant for their curriculum project.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Curriculum design report

Curriculum Design

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Stephanie Fuller

Description: This module is the third compulsory module on the PGCAP and runs over one semester. The module builds on the topics studied in the first two modules on the course. It supports participants to take a broader view of higher education and to work at a unit, module or programme level to engage in a piece of curriculum redesign, or in some cases a new piece of design. The module looks at theory and practice of curriculum design, and supports participants to review aims and ILOs, teaching profile, assessment and feedback strategies, evaluation plans, and to consider their course within broader contexts. There are seven compulsory topics and participants will choose from a range of optional topics those which are most relevant for their curriculum project.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Curriculum design report

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Distance Learning)

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Stephanie Fuller

Description: This module is the first module of both taught routes to HEA Fellowship offered by the QM Academy; Certificate in Learning and Teaching (CILT) and Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP). The module runs over 1 semester. Designed as an introduction to the theory and practice of learning and teaching in higher education, the module will help participants develop the practice of reflecting on and enhancing their teaching.

The module is focused around key elements of designing an individual teaching session, in a range of modes of delivery (including face to face, online and blended). It also includes an introduction to theories of learning and focuses on the importance of active and student-centred learning approaches, including the flipped classroom. The module comprises seven core teaching sessions which will be focused around planning, designing and reflecting on teaching. Participants will undertake a microteaching session as part of the module, presenting a mini teaching session to course peers. Participants will be in interdisciplinary groups and encouraged to exchange practice between disciplines.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Microteaching session plan (1500 words or equivalent)
• Item 2: 70% Reflection on microteaching session (2000 words or equivalent)

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Distance Learning)

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Olumide Popoola

Description: This module is the first module of both taught routes to HEA Fellowship offered by the QM Academy; Certificate in Learning and Teaching (CILT) and Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP). The module runs over 1 semester. Designed as an introduction to the theory and practice of learning and teaching in higher education, the module will help participants develop the practice of reflecting on and enhancing their teaching.

The module is focused around key elements of designing an individual teaching session, in a range of modes of delivery (including face to face, online and blended). It also includes an introduction to theories of learning and focuses on the importance of active and student-centred learning approaches, including the flipped classroom. The module comprises seven core teaching sessions which will be focused around planning, designing and reflecting on teaching. Participants will undertake a microteaching session as part of the module, presenting a mini teaching session to course peers. Participants will be in interdisciplinary groups and encouraged to exchange practice between disciplines.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Microteaching session plan (1500 words or equivalent)
• Item 2: 70% Reflection on microteaching session (2000 words or equivalent)

Learning and Teaching in the Discipline (Distance Learning)

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Angela Gallagher-Brett

Description: This module is the second module of all the taught routes to HEA Fellowship offered by the Queen Mary Academy. It takes place over one semester. Participants on the module will be divided into three streams: 1) Science, Maths & Engineering; 2) Medicine and Dentistry; 3) Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (those on the boundary between streams will be offered a choice). Within those streams students will be able to study small-group and large-group teaching, student support, assessment and resource creation as they pertain to their discipline. They will also be introduced to broader professional bodies and frameworks, such as the QAA Subject Benchmark Statements in their discipline and QMUL Graduate Attributes. Students will also undertake three teaching observations (one of a colleague and two as the observe) and reflect on the process of creating and delivering a teaching resource in their subject.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Presentation of created resource for learning teaching or assessment
• Item 2: 60% Reflection on Teaching Observations (2000 words)

Learning and Teaching in the Discipline (Distance Learning)

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Angela Gallagher-Brett

Description: This module is the second module of all the taught routes to HEA Fellowship offered by the Queen Mary Academy. It takes place over one semester. Participants on the module will be divided into three streams: 1) Science, Maths & Engineering; 2) Medicine and Dentistry; 3) Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (those on the boundary between streams will be offered a choice). Within those streams students will be able to study small-group and large-group teaching, student support, assessment and resource creation as they pertain to their discipline. They will also be introduced to broader professional bodies and frameworks, such as the QAA Subject Benchmark Statements in their discipline and QMUL Graduate Attributes. Students will also undertake three teaching observations (one of a colleague and two as the observe) and reflect on the process of creating and delivering a teaching resource in their subject.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Presentation of created resource for learning teaching or assessment
• Item 2: 60% Reflection on Teaching Observations (2000 words)

Curriculum Design (Distance Learning)

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Stephanie Fuller

Description: This module is the third compulsory module on the PGCAP and runs over one semester. The module builds on the topics studied in the first two module on the course. It supports participants to take a broader view of higher education and to work at a unit, module or programme level to engage in a piece of curriculum redesign, or in some cases a new piece of design. The module looks at theory and practice of curriculum design, and supports participants to review aims and ILOs, teaching profile, assessment and feedback strategies, evaluation plans, and to consider their course within broader contexts. There are seven compulsory topics and participants will choose from a range of optional topics those which are most relevant for their curriculum project.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Curriculum design report

Curriculum Design (Distance Learning)

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Stephanie Fuller

Description: This module is the third compulsory module on the PGCAP and runs over one semester. The module builds on the topics studied in the first two module on the course. It supports participants to take a broader view of higher education and to work at a unit, module or programme level to engage in a piece of curriculum redesign, or in some cases a new piece of design. The module looks at theory and practice of curriculum design, and supports participants to review aims and ILOs, teaching profile, assessment and feedback strategies, evaluation plans, and to consider their course within broader contexts. There are seven compulsory topics and participants will choose from a range of optional topics those which are most relevant for their curriculum project.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Curriculum design report

Action (practitioner) Research Project (Distance learning)

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Ana Da Silva Cabral

Description: Designed to build on the first three modules, this module will help these non-research-active participants to develop and strengthen their skills in developing action (practitioner) research on their own teaching.

The module will introduce participants to the principles, methodologies and approaches to conducting research and scholarship on their own teaching practice. Participants will be supported in selecting and planning their own action (practitioner) research project to help them develop their own teaching further.

The assessments are designed to be authentic and require participants to plan and write an action (practitioner) research project proposal.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Action (practitioner) research design proposal (500 words)
• Item 2: 80% Action (practitioner) research design report (5000 words)

Action (practitioner) Research Project (Distance learning)

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Ana Da Silva Cabral

Description: Designed to build on the first three modules, this module will help these non-research-active participants to develop and strengthen their skills in developing action (practitioner) research on their own teaching.

The module will introduce participants to the principles, methodologies and approaches to conducting research and scholarship on their own teaching practice. Participants will be supported in selecting and planning their own action (practitioner) research project to help them develop their own teaching further.

The assessments are designed to be authentic and require participants to plan and write an action (practitioner) research project proposal.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Action (practitioner) research design proposal (500 words)
• Item 2: 80% Action (practitioner) research design report (5000 words)

Affective Computing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Bobby Sturm

Description: This course is a guided exploration of affective computing, defined as computer systems that relate to, arise from, or deliberately influence emotion. It helps students examine how these systems detect human affect, how they respond to affect, and how they themselves express affect. The topics that are covered include but are not limited to definitions of affect, functions of affect, physiological manifestations of affect, affect data collection, affect model building, testing of affective interventions, and surveys of existing affect-sensitive systems. The student will survey literature in affect detection, response and expression. The student will learn to design and implement an affective computing experiment. This will include the collection of data, its analysis, and the writing of a report.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Final Mark

Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Bobby Sturm

Description: The course is an introductory course to entrepreneurship for scientists and engineers. The content was prepared by the Institute of Physics and is adapted for implementation in the Philippines setting. It provides scientists and engineers a glimpse into the world of business; particularly it introduces science and engineering students to the processes of innovation, generation and protection of intellectual property, technology transfer and commercialisation of inventions.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Final Mark

Games and Game Design (Seminar)

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Bobby Sturm

Description: This course is an introduction to the essential concepts behind game design. These concepts include the game development process from brainstorming a game idea and establishing the focus to getting the gameplay working and playtesting. Analysis of different games - PC and console games - of different genres is also discussed.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Final Mark

Human-Computer Interaction

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Bobby Sturm

Description: This course familiarises students with principles of good user experience design and methodologies for arriving at good designs. It also acquaints students with quantitative and qualitative user experience testing methodologies.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Final Mark

Introduction to Mobile Application Development

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Bobby Sturm

Description: This is an introductory course in Mobile Applications Development, designed for both computer science and non-computer science majors. A particular mobile application development platform and environment (such as iOS and Xcode) will be employed for the course and students will be taught basic programming concepts and development techniques using the chosen platform. The course will also tackle interface design and project management concepts to enable students to develop complete applications. User experience is emphasised. Students are challenged to conceive, design, and develop mobile applications that are relevant to their intended users.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Final Mark

Introduction to Social Computing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Bobby Sturm

Description: Social Computing is a multidisciplinary course that provides a background on social psychology, understanding of online environments and online social networks; social mining and social network analysis to better understand our networked societies. This course covers key developments and tools in areas such as Big Data Analytics (Hadoop and NoSQL) and Massively Distributed Systems. Students study an online community, and conduct research related to social computing.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Final Mark

User Modelling and User Profiling for Adaptive Systems

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Bobby Sturm

Description: This project-based course engages students in current, ongoing research on user modelling. Students in this course design user interaction experiments in which they will capture user interaction logs, human observations, videos and other forms of data. Students will use statistical and data mining techniques to create models of user affect and behavior.

A major portion of credit in this module comes from class participation, which includes recitation during discussions and participation in in-class activities. Examples of the latter in the case of HCI include a mock usability test and a mock eye tracking test. The purpose of these exercises is to familiarise students with procedures for collecting data. Class participation is graded based on frequency of participation and quality of contribution. In-class activities are graded based on actual attendance in the activity and answers to guide questions.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Final Mark

Essential Skills for Biologists

Credits: 10.0
Contact: Dr Chris Faulkes

Description: This module covers some of the fundamental skills required by biologists. This module is structured around three main themes:

(1) Acquiring Essential Skills. This module will support students in acquiring a variety of key skills such as essay writing, information handling, oral and written communication skills, literature search techniques and appropriate use of referencing and citations.

(2) Considering the role of biological sciences in the "real world". Through personal investigations, workshops on critical thinking and a series of talks from professionals, students will be encouraged to consider the role of biological sciences in an applied context and gain a more global perspective of their discipline.

(3) Exploring Career Pathways. Students will be given an opportunity to explore various career choices, to reflect on their own career aspirations and to meet with professional scientists from diverse backgrounds.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Essay
• Item 2: 50% Specific report

Essential Skills for Biochemists

Credits: 10.0
Contact: Dr Mark Van Breugel

Description: This module covers some of the fundamental skills required by biochemists. This module is structured around three main themes:

(1) Acquiring Essential Skills. This module will support students in acquiring a variety of key skills such as essay writing, information handling, oral and written communication skills, literature search techniques and appropriate use of referencing and citations.

(2) Considering the role of biochemical sciences in the "real world". Through personal investigations, workshops on critical thinking and a series of talks from professionals, students will be encouraged to consider the role of biochemical sciences in an applied context and gain a more global perspective of their discipline.

(3) Exploring Career Pathways. Students will be given an opportunity to explore various career choices, to reflect on their own career aspirations and to meet with professional scientists from diverse backgrounds.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Essay
• Item 2: 50% Specific report

Evolution

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr David Hone

Description: This module covers essential topics of whole-organism biology, introducing the theory and mechanisms of evolution and speciation, the fossil record and human evolution.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Coursework
• Item 2: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)

Cells

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Kenneth Linton

Description: This module provides an introduction to cell biology. Specifically, we consider cell structure , the history of cell biology and the basic mechanics of a eukaryotic cell. The structure and function of the cell membrane, organelles, nucleus and cytoskeleton will be explored. Finally, normal cell cycle, cell division and differentiation processes are examined alongside their dysregulation leading to cancer.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Coursework
• Item 2: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)

Ecology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr David Hone

Description: This module covers the essentials and fundamental concepts of population and community ecology as well as applied issues such as conservation. There is an one-week residential field course where students will study organisms in their natural environments, rather than in the laboratory.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Coursework
• Item 2: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)

Physiology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Greg Szulgit

Description: This module provides an introduction to physiology. The structure and function of major systems including the nervous, digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems are surveyed in a variety of different taxa and physiological functioning including homeostasis, temperature regulation, gas exchange, digestion and the endrocrine systems are all reviewed.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Coursework
• Item 2: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)

Basic Biochemistry

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Bob Janes
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BMD123

Description: This module will cover amino acids, the fundamentals of protein structure, isolation and purification of proteins, modification of proteins, and methods of determining protein conformation. You will also cover the basics of enzyme catalysis and kinetics with specific case studies. Other topics include ion transport, and other transport proteins, and the utilisation of proteins and soluble cofactors to generate and store metabolic energy. You will cover the basics of metabolism in glycolysis and the citric acid cycle, as well as ATP synthesis and membrane bound electron transfer in mitochondria. Chloroplasts in plants and algae, and molecular motors, such as muscles, that consume metabolic energy are also covered. A detailed module synopsis will be handed out in the first lecture, and summary outlines of subsequent lectures will be available on the school teaching website for guidance.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)
• Item 2: 50% Coursework

Molecular Genetics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Patricia Munroe

Description: This module consists of an introduction to genetics, a description of the process by which genetic information is converted into the molecules that make up living things, and a review of the essential properties of those molecules. Genetics topics covered include DNA structure, classical and molecular genetics and genomics. We then examine how information flows from DNA to RNA and then to protein to give the recognisable phenotypic features of living things.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Coursework
• Item 2: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)

Practical Molecular and Cellular Biology

Credits: 10.0
Contact: Dr David Hone

Description: This module teaches the practical and analytical skills required for molecular and cellular biology. The module will start by introducing basic laboratory safety and routine laboratory procedures, it will then move on through DNA extraction and purification to microbiological and physiological techniques.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% In-course Practical & Statistical Analysis

Practical Biology

Credits: 10.0
Contact: Dr Brendan Curran

Description: This module teaches the practical and analytical skills required for biologists. Starting with basic laboratory safety and routine laboratory procedures, the module then moves on through protein extraction and purification to microbiological and physiological techniques and finally studies involving whole multicellular organisms.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% In-course Practical & Statistical Analysis

Practical Biochemistry

Credits: 10.0
Contact: Dr Ewan Main

Description: This module teaches the practical and analytical skills required for biochemists. Starting with basic laboratory safety and routine laboratory procedures, the module then move on through protein extraction and purification to microbiological and physiological techniques and techniques of practical chemistry.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% In-course Practical & Statistical Analysis

Biochemistry Communication

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Christopher Duffy

Description: The module will focus on presenting science, types and structure of scientific literature, as well as types of journals and the process of peer review. Most of the teaching will be via small-group tutorials where students will develop an appreciation and experience in various aspects of communication in biochemical science. Tutorials will cover approaches to effective short essay writing and delivering scientific talks. Identify and discuss their own career aspirations or relevant skills and knowledge and develop skills to shape and influence their future career and life-long learning. Students will create a podcast on a Biochemistry topic.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Sem A-Essay+Plan
• Item 2: 30% Sem B-Video Blog
• Item 3: 30% Sem B-Calculations

Research Methods and Communication

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Sally Faulkner

Description: In this module we look at how to design experiments, how to analyse and present the data obtained and how to communicate those results to others. The lecture and workshop component includes the principles of experimental design, statistical analysis including t-tests, correlation and regression, ANOVA, ANCOVA and non-parametric tests and discussion of how to interpret and present data. The tutorial component consists of a series of writing exercises designed to teach how to structure an argument and how to communicate ideas effectively.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Essay (1500 words)
• Item 2: 25% Reporting results/coding assignment (1000 words)
• Item 3: 50% Examination (4 hours)

Diversity of Life

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Dr David Hone

Description: In this module students will cover the huge diversity of life on Earth (with a particular emphasis on plants and animals) including their current and previous diversity (i.e. including extinct and fossil lineages), their relationships and key characteristics. Lectures will be supported by workshops and other teaching activities.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% In-course Quiz 1
• Item 2: 25% In-course Quiz 2
• Item 3: 25% In-course Quiz 3
• Item 4: 25% Written assessment

Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Angelika Stollewerk

Description: This module is designed to provide you with detailed up-to-date knowledge of cell biological techniques, the structural organisation, development and differentiation of eukaryotic cells as well as key processes in development that are based on cell-cell interactions and cell movements. In the practicals you will learn standard cell biological techniques in histology and immunohistochemistry and you will be familiarised with the preparation of cell material from living organisms. The module provides an invaluable foundation for genetics, biochemistry, molecular, neurobiological, physiological and biomedical programmes.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Online test 1
• Item 2: 30% Online test 2
• Item 3: 20% Online test 3
• Item 4: 30% Online test 4

Infectious Disease Biology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Shane Wilkinson
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must ( take BIO163 or take BIO161 ) and ( take BIO113 or take BIO123 )

Description: This module divides into two sections.
1. Biology of pathogens, both multi- and unicellular, as viewed from a whole-organism perspective. There is a particular emphasis on recent advances in our understanding of the evolution/ ecology of pathogens and of the importance of pathogens on the ecology/evolution of their hosts.
2. Understanding the importance and pathologies associated with named infections and the mechanisms used by these pathogens to complete their life cycles. There will be an emphasis on the drugs used against these organisms from a molecular, biochemical and pharmacokinetic perspective with consideration given to the problems associated with these treatments (side effects, resistance etc).

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Coursework
• Item 2: 75% Examination (2 hours)

Comparative & Integrative Physiology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Maurice Elphick

Description: The following themes will be covered in this module:1). Comparative anatomy and evolution of nervous systems. 2). Molecular & cellular mechanisms of neuronal signalling. 3). Invertebrates as model systems for understanding mechanisms of neural control of behaviour. 4). An introduction to comparative endocrinology, including the evolution and functions of neuropeptides as regulators of physiological and behavioural processes. 5). Comparative physiology of muscle and connective tissue. 6). Comparative physiology of gas exchange. 7). Comparative physiology of circulatory systems 8). Comparative physiology of osmoregulation 9). Comparative physiology of excretion.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% In-class test 1
• Item 2: 25% In-class test 2
• Item 3: 50% Examination (2 hours)

Genes and Bioinformatics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Paul Hurd

Description: Prerequisites:Heredity and Gene Action (SBS008) or Chromosomes and Gene Function (SBC210). Genes occupy most of a bacterial genome, but very little of the three million kb of DNA in the 23 pairs of chromosomes in the human genome, so what is a gene? This module provides a molecular view. Gene structure is illustrated in the context of how a gene is transcribed to produce RNA, how the RNA is processed and translated to produce protein and how these processes are regulated through other DNA sequences and proteins. An introduction to bioinformatics will explain how to recognise, compile and identify genes, and infer protein sequence, from DNA sequence, including procedures for interrogating public sequence databases and phylogenetic analysis.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 75% Examination (2 hours)
• Item 2: 13% Bioinformatics SAQ assignment
• Item 3: 13% Online MCQ

Human Genetic Disorders

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Jayne Dennis
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BIO163

Description: This module explores human hereditary disease in terms of genetics, pathogenesis, clinical features and clinical management. We will look at key examples of chromosomal abnormalities (i.e. Trisomy 21), monogenic disease (e.g. cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy) and common disease (e.g. coronary artery disease). Students will be introduced to methods and techniques for identifying genetic loci associated with disease (e.g. homozygosity mapping, genome-wide association studies, DNA sequencing). Finally, we will discuss issues around genetic screening, testing and counselling.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Coursework
• Item 2: 50% Examination (2 hours)

Microbial Physiology and Growth

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Conrad Mullineaux

Description: Prerequisites:EITHER General Microbiology (SBS758) OR Basic Biochemistry (SBS017) plus one Chemistry Year 1 option. Diversity of microbial metabolisms. Bacterial growth and replication, including organization and division of the chromosome, yield and responses to temperature and nutrient availability. Photolithotrophy, photoorganotrophy, chemilithotrophy and chemoorganotrophy. Fermentation and anaerobic respiration. Growth and extension metabolism of fungi. Nitrogen transformations by microorganisms in free-living and mutualistic settings. Microbiological standards in public health. Clean water processing and waste-water treatment. Practical work will cover prokaryote photosynthesis, bacterial fermentation, fungal digestion of wood and nitrogen transformations in sediments, and microbiological water quality. There will be a brief consideration of clean water processing and waste-water treatment.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 75% Examination (2 hours)
• Item 2: 25% Coursework

Ecological Interactions I

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Lee Henry

Description: In this module you will obtain knowledge of basic ecological principles and learn to integrate theory with empirical observations. You will develop understanding of (i) distribution, growth and regulation of single species populations; (ii) interacting species pairs such as competition, predation, herbivory, parasitism; and (iii) structure and dynamics of multitrophic systems such as food webs, ecological communities and ecosystems. The topics will also cover spatial aspect of ecological systems in the metapopulation and metacommunity context, highlighting relationships between biodiversity, stability and ecosystem function.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% In-class test
• Item 2: 75% Examination (2 hours)

Membrane and Cellular Biochemistry

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Conrad Mullineaux
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BIO161 or take BMD123

Description: Prerequisites: Basic Biochemistry (SBS017). This module coves a range of topics: Membrane functions and subcellular organelles; lipid structures; membrane proteins; mobility in membranes and methods for its measurement; cell signalling.; membranes and cancer; endocytosis and exocytosis; protein import; building membranes; mitochondria and chloroplasts; oxidative phosphorylation; the chemiosmotic hypothesis; membrane transport; ion channels.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 75% Examination (2 hours)
• Item 2: 25% Coursework

Metabolic Pathways

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Bob Janes
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BIO161

Description: Prerequisites: Basic Biochemistry (SBS017). This module covers a range of topics including: Chemical reactions - Biochemical logic. Biochemistry of some vitamin and coenzyme catalysed reactions. Glycogen synthesis and degradation. Pentose phosphate pathway. Gluconeogenesis. Amino acid metabolism and the urea cycle. Fatty acid synthesis and breakdown. Prostaglandin and steroid biosynthesis. Purine, pyrimidine and deoxyribonucleotide synthesis. Control and regulation of metabolism.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (2 hours)
• Item 2: 25% In-class test
• Item 3: 25% Practical

Techniques for Biological and Chemical Sciences

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr John Viles
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BIO161

Description: The module introduces the modern techniques used by the biochemist to study proteins and other macromolecules at the atomic level. The module is divided into the 3 broad themes: Techniques for purification and characterisation of macromolecules; Spectroscopic methods to study macromolecules; and Methods to determine 3D structures, crystallographic and NMR.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Coursework
• Item 2: 75% Examination (2 hours)

Ecological Interactions II

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Pavel Kratina
Corequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take BIO234

Description: In this module you will obtain knowledge of basic ecological practice and fieldwork, and learn to integrate theory with empirical observations and data collection. You will gain practical experience in the field and also observe researchers collecting scientific data for both terrestrial and freshwater aquatic ecosystems. This will build on, and relate to, the theoretical aspects covered directly in earlier ecology modules.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Presentation
• Item 2: 30% MCQs
• Item 3: 40% Field notebook

Biochemistry Communication

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Guy Hanke

Description: Most of the teaching will be via small-group tutorials where students will develop an appreciation and experience in various aspects of communication in biochemical science. The module will focus on types and structure of scientific literature, as well as types of journals and the process of peer review. Tutorials will cover approaches to effective short essay writing and delivering scientific talks. Attendance at research seminars is required and a library workshop to developing literature search skills. Tutorials will require a high level of student participation. A number of essays and other course will set and assessment for the module will be Coursework (60%) Final Exam (40%).

Assessment:

• Item 1: 60% Written Assignment
• Item 2: 40% Examination (2 hours)

Behavioural Ecology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Stephen Rossiter
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BIO113

Description: Prerequisites: The Diversity of Life (SBS005), Evolution (SBS110), Statistical Methods in Biology (SBS020) This module will cover concepts in animal behaviour which underpin ideas about more complex behaviours, including communication, ritualisation, homeostasis, instinct and learning. Decision-making and the evolution of adaptive strategies of individuals, optimal strategy sets and habitat selection are also included. Comparative socio-ecology including sexual and kin selection, reproductive strategies and social structure is considered. You will also look at resource patchiness, predictability and productivity as determinants of individual and social behaviour.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Scientific report 1
• Item 2: 30% Scientific report 2
• Item 3: 50% Examination (3 hours)

Advanced Human Genetic Disorders

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Jayne Dennis
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BIO227 or take SNU213

Description: This module explores human hereditary disease in terms of genetics, pathogenesis, clinical features and clinical management. Although examples of Mendelian and complex conditions will be discussed, we will also look at further mechanisms of disease development (for example uniparental disomy and mitochondrial disorders) and the role of genetics in drug efficacy. Students will extend their knowledge and understanding of genomic technologies and the techniques used to identify genetic loci associated with human disease.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Coursework
• Item 2: 50% Examination (3 hours)

Population and Chromosome Genetics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Andrew Leitch
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BIO113

Description: Pre-requisite: Transmission genetics OR Genes and Bioinformatics This module will introduce strategies and methods for identifying the molecular genetic basis of inherited human disorders and other traits in particular how linkage disequilibrium (LD) is used to identify the loci involved. It will use examples from the current literature to better understand genetic variation at a population and species level. It will examine quantitative traits in humans and other species; in particular the heritability estimates to infer the relative contribution of genes and the environment to important quantitative traits and disorders. Together the information will lead to an understanding of genetic drift and natural selection acting on the DNA sequence, the chromosome and genome organisation. The module will explore the evolution of genomic sequences and of chromosomes. Particular attention is paid to evolutionary processes observed at repetitive DNA sequences and the role of chromosomes in transmitting genetic material through mitosis and meiosis. It explores the role and evolution of sex chromosomes, the evolution of sex and of sexual selection. The course should students to achieve a critical understanding of thinking and research in the genetic processes of evolution.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay
• Item 2: 30% Synthesis excercise
• Item 3: 20% Portfolio of documents
• Item 4: 10% Group talks

Functional Genomics and Epigenetics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Paul Hurd

Description: This module is designed to provide students with an introduction into the variety of ways that genetics and genomics have been applied in biotechnology and functional genomics. The module covers a variety of topics including biotechnology, protein expression, microarrays, proteomics, systems biology, genome projects (assembly. annotation and comparison) and the identification and functional characterisation of non-coding sequences in vertebrate genomes

Assessment:

• Item 1: 5% Online MCQ
• Item 2: 15% Bioinformatics In-class Test
• Item 3: 80% Examination (3 hours)

Professional Skills and Development for Biologists

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Richard Nichols

Description: In this module we look at science communication and conveying ideas effectively to different audiences and with different aims. It will include areas such as how to structure a scientific argument, evaluate sources of information and associated biases, and the importance of biological research and its futures trends in the wider world.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Careers passport
• Item 2: 40% Precis of popular science article
• Item 3: 40% Essay

Mammals and Evolution

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Chris Faulkes

Description: Prerequisites: The Diversity of Life (SBS005). This module covers the following: the fossil record, origin and evolution of mammal-like reptiles. Evolution of monotremes, marsupial adpative radiation. Evolution and classification of eutherian mammals, cladistics, molecular approaches to phylogeny reconstruction. Adaptation in the main orders of eutherian mammals. Evolution of hominids. Evolution of reproductive strategies and social evolution: the origins of societies; kinds of societies; evolution of cooperation; mammal vs complex insect societies; skew theory as a unified approach to social evolution; genetic, phylogenetic and environmental factors and social evolution. Recent controversies in mammalian evolution.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Skull practical
• Item 2: 25% Essay (1500 words)
• Item 3: 50% Examination (3 hours)

Neuroscience: from Molecules to Behaviour

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Mark Preece
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BIO215 or take BMD261

Description: This module provides a detailed survey of the molecular components that mediate neurotransmission in the nervous system and confer plasticity on neurons and nervous systems (e.g. ligand-gated ion channels, NMDA receptors, G-protein coupled receptors, second messengers, gaseous signalling molecules such as nitric oxide). This leads on to the role of such components in various aspects of nervous system function and in control of whole-animal behaviour. Topics covered include: mechanisms of learning and memory; mechanisms by which drugs of abuse (e.g. cannabis) affect brain function; mechanisms of phototransduction, olfaction, touch and hearing in animals; genetic and neural substrates of circadian clocks that regulate rhythmic behaviours.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Coursework
• Item 2: 80% Examination (3 hours)

Reproductive and Development Biology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Angelika Stollewerk

Description: This module reviews all aspects of reproductive and developmental biology (from molecular and cellular mechanisms to physiology, ecology and evolution). Topics to be addressed will include molecular gametogenesis, fertilization, embryo development, placentation, pregnancy, parturition, lactation, reproductive and parental strategies, reproductive suppression, courtship and sexual selection, and the evolution of reproductive-isolating mechanisms. The module will take a comparative approach to compare and contrast reproductive and developmental mechanisms across a range of vertebrate and invertebrate species.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 80% Examination (3 hours)
• Item 2: 20% Coursework

Climate Change and Conservation Challenges

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Ozge Eyice-Broadbent

Description: The module will consist of lectures, group discussions, lab and computer-based practical sessions. These will cover aspects of climate change, ecosystem services and sustainability, impact of global warming on the ecosystems at different levels and the role of human activities. The students will also learn about the global conservation challenges such as deforestation and habitat fragmentation and modelling simulations in adaptation to climate change. Work will be both theoretical and practical, with emphasis on current research questions in global ecosystem conservation and methodologies in the primary literature.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Report (1000 words)
• Item 2: 25% Presentation
• Item 3: 50% Examination (2 hours)

Membrane Proteins

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Alexander Ruban
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BIO263

Description: Prerequisites: Membrane Biochemistry (SBS908). This module covers a wide range of topics, including: A detailed study of structure and function of a selection of membrane proteins. Examples will illustrate different mechanisms by which proteins achieve vectorial electron transfer, ion transport and the generation of electrochemical gradients, the coupling of electrochemical gradients to ATP synthesis and transmembrane signalling. Electron transfer through proteins (e.g. cytochrome c). Structure and function of redox centres and the proteins that contain them. Membrane proteins studied will include respiratory chain complexes, light-harvesting pigment-proteins, photosynthetic reaction centres, bacteriorhodopsin, rhodopsin, ATP synthase, tyrosine kinase reception.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 80% Examination (3 hours)
• Item 2: 20% Coursework

Molecular Basis of Disease

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr John Viles

Description: An introduction to a number of human diseases, with an emphasis on how these diseases are characterised at the molecular level. The module will include a study of the processes associated with the following amyloid formation in Mad Cow and Alzheimer's diseases, Bactorial Invasion, Flu, TB, Heart Disease, flavin deficiency and the role of metals in disease.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 80% Examination (3 hours)
• Item 2: 20% Coursework

Enzyme Catalysis

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Ewan Main
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BIO265

Description: Prerequisites: Metabolic Pathways (SBS905). This module covers various aspects of enzyme catalysis including: enzymes as proteins; enzymes as catalysts; enzyme classification; and the role of molecular mobility in enzyme catalysis. You will also investigate the active site concept and the catalytic and substrate binding properties of amino acid residue sidechains. Binding energy, driving forces and free energy relationships; the use of kinetic analysis in the study of enzyme mechanism and inhibition; and recent theories on catalysis are also discussed. Several enzyme mechanisms will be described in detail to illustrate the applications of biophysical techniques (eg spectroscopy, crystallography) and site directed mutagenesis in the study of such mechanisms. you will be taught a number of important computer-based applications towards the study of enzymes, including the use of bioinformatics and molecular graphics programmes.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 80% Examination (3 hours)
• Item 2: 20% Coursework

Protein Structure, Folding and Assemblies

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Vidya Darbari
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BIO269

Description: In the first part this module will cover the processes of protein biosynthesis, folding and degradation, and assembly of large macromolecular complexes, as well as structure and function of the macromolecular complexes that are involved in these processes. These complexes include the nucleosome, the ribosome, chaperonins and the proteasome. The module will also cover the relationships between misfolding, formation of amyloid fibres and human disease. In the second part our present knowledge about structure and function of the following macromolecular assemblies will be presented: collagen, muscle proteins, and fatty acid synthase, as well as the different types of viruses.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Coursework
• Item 2: 80% Examination (3 hours)

Savannah Ecology and Conservation

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Rob Knell

Description: In this module you will spend two weeks on field-location in Borneo. The module is designed to provide you with first-hand experience of ecological processes, biodiversity and conservation issues associated with humid tropical environments. Tropical rainforests are the most biologically diverse habitats on Earth and the loss of rainforest is of tremendous conservation concern, both due to loss of diversity as well as its consequences for global warming. You will spend time working in both terrestrial and aquatic systems, and there will be an emphasis on practical training in ecological survey and assessment methods. Topics will include: ecological processes in tropical rainforests and lakes including nutrient cycling, decomposition, pollination and seed dispersal; rainforest structure and defining characteristics and the importance of rainforests as centres of biodiversity; rainforest community ecology and tropical forests and lakes as centres of ecological diversification; practical training in survey methods for a range of terrestrial and aquatic taxonomic groups; anthropogenic factors affecting rainforests including disturbance, forest fragmentation, global warming, agriculture, development human-wildlife conflicts and wildlife management.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Oral assessment or presentation
• Item 2: 25% Field notebook (Portfolio)
• Item 3: 25% Essay 1 (1500 words)
• Item 4: 25% Essay 2 (1500 words)

Advanced Biochemical Research Methods

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Dr Peter Thorpe

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Protein Prep Report
• Item 2: 25% Microscopy Report
• Item 3: 25% Structure Report
• Item 4: 25% Computer Lab Report

Advanced Biochemical Research Methods

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Dr Peter Thorpe

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Protein Prep Report
• Item 2: 25% Microscopy Report
• Item 3: 25% Structure Report
• Item 4: 25% Computer Lab Report

Biological Sciences Research Project

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Ms Joanne Littlefair

Description: An experimental investigation involving laboratory work and/or computational work in some aspect of Biological Sciences. The background, results and conclusions of the study to be reported in the form of an oral presentation (part-way through Sem B) and a dissertation (submitted toward the end of Sem B). The dissertation will not normally exceed 10,000 words, which includes a review of relevant literature, data presentation, analysis and discussion.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 60% Dissertation (10000 words)
• Item 2: 20% Oral Presentation
• Item 3: 20% Laboratory Work

Project Skills in the Life Sciences

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Dr Sally Faulkner

Description: 30-unit project modules require prior SBCS approval. In this module students will: create a short, investigative project based on individual reading lists; give a presentation based on the above using Powerpoint; develop scientific writing and critical appraisal skills (referee a real but anonymous paper, write a referees report, redraft the paper); attend research seminars, research background to any two of them (by consulting web-site of speaker), and produce two reports discussing the research in non-technical language and explaining its likely significance for the layman. You will also have to either produce a website on a topical biological subject (eg environmental, health or ethical scientific issue), or produce a small portfolio of scientific images, either macroscopic or microscopic.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 5% Presentation (3 min)
• Item 2: 10% Lay summary (250 words)
• Item 3: 10% Media assignment (video or leaflet)
• Item 4: 10% Self-reflection (1200 words)
• Item 5: 15% Lay article
• Item 6: 50% Dissertation (5000 words)

Bioinformatics Research Project

Credits: 90.0
Contact: Prof Conrad Bessant

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 10% Project Presentation
• Item 2: 90% Dissertation (10000 words)

Plant and Fungal Taxonomy, Diversity and Conservation Research Project

Credits: 90.0
Contact: Prof Andrew Leitch

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 90% Dissertation
• Item 2: 10% Oral Presentation of results

Dissertation: Aquatic Ecology by Research

Credits: 120.0
Contact: Prof Christophe Eizaguirre

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Literature review (5,000 words)
• Item 2: 10% Work ethics - professional capability
• Item 3: 60% Dissertation (10,000 words)
• Item 4: 10% Presentation (20 min)

Genome Bioinformatics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Yannick Wurm

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% In-Class Test
• Item 2: 80% Genome Analysis Task

Coding for Scientists

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Conrad Bessant

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Programming Task (coursework)

Post-Genomic Bioinformatics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Conrad Bessant

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% In-Class Test
• Item 2: 80% Data Analysis Task

Bioinformatics Software Development Group Project

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Prof Conrad Bessant

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 60% Software Development Project
• Item 2: 20% Written Reflective Report (850 words)
• Item 3: 20% Presentation

Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics Group Project

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Yannick Wurm

Description: In this module, students are organised into small teams (~3-4 members per team). Each team is given the same genomic or transcriptomic data set that must be analysed by the end of the module. Each team must design an appropriate analysis pipeline, 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 data analysis environment, providing invaluable experience for future employability.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 60% Software Development Project
• Item 2: 20% Written Reflective Reports (850 words)
• Item 3: 20% Presentation

Ecosystem Structure and Functioning

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Mark Trimmer

Description: 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 an introduction to formal theoretical approaches to these problems that show how individual and population-level processes control structure and function of simple consumer-resource building blocks and complex ecological networks and the relationships between biodiversity, community structure and ecosystem stability.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 15% MCQ
• Item 2: 85% Essay (2000 words)

Science into Policy & Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Mark Trimmer

Description: Without knowledge, there can be no application. This module is designed to bring you 'face to face' with the regulators, policies and their science base, as these potential employers (e.g. CEFAS, Defra, the Environment Agency, Natural England) will give lectures on topical issues. The focus is on human impacts upon ecosystems, including pollution and habitat alteration and how these can be mitigated. National and international legislation and directives are considered (e.g. EU Water Framework Directive). Guest lecturers will also include consultants who will be able to advise on career paths. As a detailed case study, you will visit the River Communities Group based in Dorset for one week and investigate the link between successful science and policy: for example, contemporary aspects of the EU Water Framework Directive will be considered, including underlying methodology behind bioassessment and biomonitoring (e.g. RIVPACS). This will be closely linked to how the Environment Agency is working with Defra Test Catchments (DTCs).

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Coursework (2000 words)

Plant Taxonomy and Diversity

Credits: 15.0
Contact: To Be Confirmed

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 60% Practical Exercise with Assessed Written Report
• Item 2: 40% Written Assessment (2000 words)

Fungal Taxonomy and Diversity

Credits: 15.0
Contact: To Be Confirmed

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 60% Essay (3000 words)
• Item 2: 40% Assessed Practical

Conservation and Ecosystem Science

Credits: 15.0
Contact: To Be Confirmed

Description: This module will explore the role and application of plant and fungal science in integrated conservation and management of biodiversity, in the delivery of ecosystem services and livelihoods, and in the development of mechanisms for their maintenance and restoration in the context of a changing planet. Drawing on the exceptional breadth of expertise, collections and facilities across Kew's sites, and building on the fundamental understanding of plant and fungal taxonomy and diversity, it will provide an essential introduction to a range of technical approaches including policy development, species and habitat prioritisation, protected area management, conservation genetics, ecosystem service research, seed banking and propagation, application of traditional knowledge, and integrated conservation for biodiversity and livelihoods.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 60% Assessed Written Exercise (3000 words)
• Item 2: 40% Research Plan

Research Frontiers in Biodiversity, Evolution and Conservation

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Richard Buggs

Description: In this module you will be introduced to frontiers of knowledge in biodiversity, evolution and conservation research. 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 90% Essay (2000 words)
• Item 2: 10% Group presentation (20 min)

Statistics and Data Analysis

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Rob Knell

Description: 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 bioinformatics 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% MCQ
• Item 2: 40% Stats assignment
• Item 3: 40% Bioinformatics assignment

Biodiversity Loss - Challenges and Solutions

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Mark Trimmer

Description: Here students will study the direct and applied aspects of biodiversity loss and its mitigation across a range of ecosystems. Our rationale is simple and topical: Given the impact that human activity is having on biodiversity ¿ how, through science, can we understand the causes to biodiversity loss and find solutions to limiting this loss further and even reversing it? How can the science that students learn actually serve to improve the world we live in?

Students will be taught the reasons behind biodiversity loss, from the global to the local scale, looking at some of the causes in detail including climate change, land use change, pollution and the impacts of non-native species. Approaches to assessing quality of biodiversity data and measuring biodiversity loss will be covered including relevance of fieldwork survey and experimentation. Students will explore this topic through the writing of compelling research funding proposals.

Later in the module, students will examine the challenges facing science and policy development through a series of topical case studies including, for example, plastics in the environment, acidification of freshwaters, and illegal-trade in biodiversity. There will be interactions with practitioners working hands-on with threats to biodiversity and its conservation.

The rationale and ethos behind the module is the understanding of the scientific basis for assessing and halting biodiversity loss in a rapidly changing world and to appreciate how student's scientific knowledge can lead to opportunities and careers directly aimed at reversing biodiversity loss.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 75% Research funding proposal exercise (1500 words)
• Item 2: 25% Case study summary (500 words)

Biodiversity and Conservation Field Course

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Stephen Rossiter

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Field skills
• Item 2: 70% Project work
• Item 3: 5% Engagement

Ecology and Evolution Research Project

Credits: 105.0
Contact: Prof Christophe Eizaguirre

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 10% Project presentation (10 min)
• Item 2: 70% Thesis (10,000 words)
• Item 3: 20% Literature review (2000 words)

Statistics and Bioinformatics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Rob Knell

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% MCQ (15 questions)
• Item 2: 40% Statistics coursework (5 pages)
• Item 3: 40% Bioinformatics coursework (3 exercises)

Statistics for Bioinformaticians

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Joseph Williamson

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% MCQ
• Item 2: 40% Statistics coursework
• Item 3: 40% Bioinformatics coursework

Problems and Analysis in Biodiversity, Evolution and Conservation

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Tom Fayle

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Report (5000 words)

Biodiversity Survey and Spatial Analysis

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mike Fay

Description: 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 & 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 & 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Mapping exercise
• Item 2: 50% Report

Biochemistry MSci Research Project

Credits: 90.0
Contact: Dr John Viles

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Coursework
• Item 2: 70% Dissertation

Conservation and Restoration in Practice

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mike Fay
Prerequisite: Before or while taking this module you must take BIO789P

Description: 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 & 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Conservation & Recovery Plan
• Item 2: 50% Habitat Restoration Plan

Biodiversity and Conservation Research Project

Credits: 90.0
Contact: Prof Andrew Leitch

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 10% Project presentation
• Item 2: 90% Dissertation (10000 words)

Essential Skills for Biomedical Scientists

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Greg Szulgit

Description: This module covers some of the fundamental skills required by biomedical scientists. This module is structured around three main themes:

(1) Acquiring Essential Skills for Biomedical Sciences.
The module will support students in acquiring a variety of key skills such as data and information handling, oral and written communication skills (including essay writing), experimental design, literature search techniques and appropriate use of referencing and citations in the biomedical sciences. The module will explain how certain aspect of mathematics and chemistry underpin biomedical sciences and will support students in acquiring basic numerical and chemical skills (including SI units, order of magnitude, basic geometry, calculation of concentration and molarity, scales in time, linear and logarithmic equations and graphs). Students will also be introduced to the use of statistical analysis to support biomedical sciences.

(2) Considering the role of biomedical sciences in the "real world".
Through personal investigations, workshops on critical thinking and a series of talks from professionals, students will be encouraged to consider the role of biomedical sciences in an applied context and gain a more global perspective of their discipline.

(3) Exploring Career Pathways.
Students will be given an opportunity to explore various career choices, to reflect on their own career aspirations and to meet with professional scientists from diverse backgrounds.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 13% Short written work
• Item 2: 13% Poster
• Item 3: 25% Essay
• Item 4: 50% In-class test

Human Anatomy

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr John Riches

Description: B990 students only. In this module you will cover human anatomy from a systems-based perspective. Human anatomy will be introduced through review of the major systems. You will study material relating to systemic anatomy, especially the lymphatic and integumentary systems. You will be introduced to comparative hominid anatomy, and the evolution of human anatomy, especially in relation to the skull, skeleton and dentition.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Practical 1
• Item 2: 25% Practical 2
• Item 3: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)

Cells

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Kenneth Linton

Description: This module provides an introduction to cell biology. Specifically, we consider cell structure and the microscopy techniques that enable visualisation of cell structures. The structure and function of the cell membrane, organelles, nucleus and cytoskeleton will be explored. Finally, normal cell cycle, cell division and differentiation processes are examined alongside their dysregulation leading to cancer.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Short written work
• Item 2: 13% In-class test 1
• Item 3: 13% In-class test 2
• Item 4: 50% Examination (2 hours)

The Microbial World and Humans

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Shane Wilkinson

Description: This module is only available to students who enter under the B990 programme The module is an introduction to microbiology and will provide a general knowledge of archaea, bacteria, fungi and protists. There are also selective discussions in greater detail, for example of motility, adherence and metabolic diversity, as well as the bases for methodologies for asepsis and infection control. Microbial ecology is presented as a discipline which explores the roles of microorganisms in natural processes and mutualistic associations. Practicals allow students to observe living bacteria, fungi and protists and to gain experience in the safe handling and culture of microorganisms.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)
• Item 2: 25% In-class MCQ 1
• Item 3: 25% In-class MCQ 1

Biomedical Physiology I - Exchange, Movement and Integration

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Greg Szulgit
Prerequisite: Before or while taking this module you must take BMD113 and ( take BMD115 or take BMD116 )

Description: This module provides an introduction to major non-cardiovascular/respiratory physiological systems involved in human homeostasis for students reading for the degree in Biomedical Science. Topics covered will include: microanatomy and histology of the major human tissues; feedback control, temperature regulation, cell exchange processes; function and integration of nervous, muscle, gastrointestinal, excretory, endocrine and reproductive systems. The module will describe some of the major human physiological diseases, disorders and dysfunctions of these systems, and some parasitic diseases.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)
• Item 2: 15% In-class MCQ 1
• Item 3: 35% In-class MCQ 2

Biomolecules of Life

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Andrew Durham

Description: The module offers a grounding in a good range of biochemical topics including the structure function relationship of protein, carbohydrates and lipids; fundamentals of enzyme catalysis and kinetics; transport of molecules across biomembranes; biochemical reactions involved in the generation and storage of metabolic energy; in glycolysis and tricarboxylic acid cycle; mitochondrial electron transfer and ATP synthesis; and molecular motors.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)
• Item 2: 25% Practical report 1 (1 hr)
• Item 3: 25% Practical report 2 (1 hr)

Exploring Neuroscience

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Joanna Riddoch-Contreras

Description: This module introduces leading topics of interest in neuroscience, through study of which students will gain essential skills in academic and scientific writing, reading scientific literature and writing short reports. An introduction to research methods and statistics will also be provided. The module will aim to give a historical and scientific overview of neuroscience from early anatomists studying the nervous system to the significant contribution to the discipline made by Nobel laureates.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Oral presentation
• Item 2: 40% Written Report (1000 words)
• Item 3: 30% Practical report (500 words)

Functional Neuroanatomy

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Arturas Volianskis

Description: This module will introduce students to the development and anatomy of the nervous system. Topics will include the principles of nervous system development, axonal and dendritic growth. The anatomical organisation of the central and peripheral nervous systems, including blood supply and functionally important neural circuits will also be covered. Lectures will be accompanied by practical workshops designed to encourage accurate observation and annotation skills and mastery of functional neuroanatomy.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Practical report (500 words)
• Item 2: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)

Genetics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Patricia Munroe

Description: This module consists of an introduction to genetics, a description of the process by which genetic information is converted into the molecules that make up living things, and a review of the essential properties of those molecules. Genetics topics covered include DNA structure, classical and molecular genetics and genomics. We then examine how information flows from DNA to RNA and then to protein to give the recognisable phenotypic features of living things.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Coursework 1
• Item 2: 25% Coursework 2
• Item 3: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)

Introduction to Pharmacology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Egle Solito

Description: This module will introduce to the students the concept of the interaction of drugs and other exogenous chemicals with living organisms. It will introduce students to the basic pharmacological principles and concepts which will define drug activity within the body including pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. These introductory lectures will give students a broad overview into approaches used in drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, main drug targets, drug absorption and routes of administration, drug metabolism and elimination, phamacokinetics, drug treatment of major medical conditions and rationale for prescribing a particular drug, the role of biotechnology in drug discovery, preclinical pharmaceutical development, understanding of the use of animals in pharmacology and adverse drug reactions. Lectures will be delivered by experts in both academia and industry. In addition to formal lectures and interactive seminars, we will provide practical workshop sessions to reinforce the lectures.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)
• Item 2: 25% Practical Report
• Item 3: 25% Oral presentation

Research Skills for Pharmacologists

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Thomas Nightingale

Description: This module will cover some basic laboratory skills including experimental design and hands-on experience of a range of laboratory practical (such as quantification of drugs in biological fluids) techniques enabling them to develop skills of working safely and accurately in the laboratory. This module will also provide a basic knowledge of the appropriate statistical ideas and methods to use in the collection, presentation and analysis of pharmacological data, and the use of statistical software. Students will also learn about Informatics (finding the correct information online), bioinformatics (how computers can be used to analyse genomes, genes and gene products), general scientific reading and writing skills (including how to avoid plagiarism), ethics and drug trial design as well as presentation skills in a scientific context.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)
• Item 2: 25% Coursework essay
• Item 3: 25% Oral Presentation

Tissue Biology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Helen Rifca Le Dieu

Description: In this module you will be introduced to the embryological development of the major organs and study the nature of different cell types, the structure of different organs and the structure-function relationship of major organs. Your work will include studies on connective tissue, muscle, blood vessels, circulatory system, skin, respiratory system gastrointestinal system, liver and pancreas, urinary system, endocrine system, male reproductive system, female reproductive system, central nervous system, skeletal system, lymphoreticular system, cytology and embryology. In practicals you will be using microscopes to learn the identification of normal tissues and organs.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (1 hours 30 mins)
• Item 2: 25% In-class test 1
• Item 3: 25% In-class test 2

Case-based Biomedical Sciences

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Andrew Durham

Description: In this module students will analyse and discuss cases in small groups using the Problem Based Learning (PBL) process, which resembles the PBL structure used in the medical curriculum. There will be two group meetings per case: the first meeting to establish the learning objectives through group discussions, the second meeting to exchange information gathered through self-directed learning.

Students will work both independently and in teams to develop thinking, communication and research skills through analysis of the clinical case histories.

The cases studied will be chosen from a bank of cases and may embrace the disciplines of human physiology, anatomy & development, metabolism, molecular biology & genetics and pharmacology.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Essay 1 (1000 words)
• Item 2: 25% Essay 2 (1000 words)
• Item 3: 25% Essay 3 (1000 words)
• Item 4: 25% Essay 4 (1000 words)

Human Molecular Biology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Sergey Krysov
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD111 or take BIO163

Description: In this module you will look at the following: Structure and organisation of eukaryotic genes; replication and repair of DNA; gene transcription; RNA processing; translation and post-translational processing; control of eukaryotic gene expression; generation of antibody diversity; recombinant DNA technology; basic principles of human molecular genetics; the Human Genome Project; pharmacogenetics and pharmagogenomics; transgenic and knockout mice; and gene therapy.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (2 hours)
• Item 2: 25% Practical report 1
• Item 3: 25% Practical report 2

Biomedical Physiology II - Cardiovascular and Respiratory

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Greg Szulgit
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD121

Description: This module is for students who enter under the B990 programme only. Prerequisites: Human Anatomy (SBC102), The Human Cell (SBC100). This module provides an introduction to the human cardiovascular and respiratory systems. Topics covered will include: structure, function and regulation of cardiovascular activity and respiration. It will include descriptions of some of the major diseases, conditions, abnormalities anddysfunctions of the human cardiovascular and respiratory systems and problems associated with aerospace travel and diving.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% In class test 1
• Item 2: 30% In class test 2
• Item 3: 35% Lab report
• Item 4: 10% Peer marking

Essential Biochemistry for Human Life

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Peter Thorpe
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD123

Description: This module is only open to students on the Biomedical Sciences degree programme. The module aims to provide biochemical information on selected specialised structural and functional bulk proteins including: selected human physiological processes; monosaccharide, fatty acid, steroid, amino acid and nucleotide metabolic pathways; regulation of metabolic pathways; tissue specialisation; and metabolic diseases.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (2 hours)
• Item 2: 25% In-class test
• Item 3: 25% Practical

Biomedical Pharmacology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Steven Buckingham
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD121 or take BIO125

Description: This module provides an introduction to the subject of pharmacology, the study of drug action on biological systems. Initial lectures focus on important general pharmacological principles, including a consideration of how drugs are absorbed, distributed and then removed from the body. Subsequent lectures focus on the therapeutic action of drugs on example disease states of specific physiological systems.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (2 hours)
• Item 2: 25% In class test 1 (1 hr)
• Item 3: 25% In class test 2 (1 hr)

Clinical Microbiology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr David Wareham
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD117

Description: This module is only available to students who enter under the B990 programme. Prerequisites: The Microbial World and Humans (SBC211). In this module you will acquire a basic understanding of modern medical microbiology. You will study the processes by which microorganisms cause human disease, how the pathogens can be identified, and what steps can be taken for the prevention and treatment of infections. There will be a particular emphasis on the development of observational, practical and analytical skills through laboratory work and demonstrations. Your topics will include: pathogens and their interaction with the human host, covering bacteria, protists and viruses and including mechanisms of infection, mechanisms of defense, antibiotic action and antibiotic resistance, the transmission of disease, including public health microbiology, the prevention of infection in hospitals and in the community, and a review of newly emerging diseases. You will be provided with a catalogue of microbial diseases, including infections of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts, the nervous system and wounds.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (2 hours)
• Item 2: 25% In class test (1 hr)
• Item 3: 25% Poster

Basic Immunology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Mathieu-Benoit Voisin

Description: Prerequisites: Basic Biochemistry (SBS017), Heredity and Gene Action (SBS008), The Diversity of Life (SBS005). This module will cover the principles of innate and acquired immunity, as well as the structure and function of cells and organs of the immune system. Antigens, immunoglobins, complement, and immunoassays and the molecular basis of Bcell and Tcell responses are also covered. Other topics include major histocompatibility complex, antigen presentation, cellcell interactions and cytokines. Transplantation, tolerance, autoimmunity, infectious diseases, inflammation and hypersensitivity reactions are also considered.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% MCQ 1
• Item 2: 20% MCQ 2
• Item 3: 20% MCQ 3
• Item 4: 40% Essay (2000 words)

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Mark Baker
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take CHE202A
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD123 or take BIO161 or take BMD161

Description: This module will develop students' understanding of electrical and chemical signalling in neurons and synaptic transmission. Students will learn about the mechanisms of excitability of nerve cells, voltage-dependent membrane permeability, ion channels and synaptic transmission. Neurotransmitters and their receptors will be covered and students will gain an understanding of intracellular signalling and synaptic modulation. The module will provide an critical understanding of the regulation of neuronal signalling, necessary for advanced study of neuronal circuitry/network function.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Essay (1000 words)
• Item 2: 20% Practical report (1000 words)
• Item 3: 50% Examination

Systems Neuroscience

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Arturas Volianskis
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD261

Description: This module aims to provide an overview of integrated systems which control cognition and behaviour. Topics include the organisation and planning of movement, visual processing, smell and taste perception, cognition, learning and memory. Students will gain understanding of techniques used in systems neuroscience including tract tracing of interacting groups of neurons, immunohistochemistry and extra-cellular electrophysiology. Practical sessions and workshops will give students experience in designing experiments, using apparatus, collecting and interpreting data.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Practical report (500 words)
• Item 2: 50% Examination

The Business of Pharmacology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Christoph Thiemermann

Description: This module will bring together pharmacology knowledge and apply it in the context of commercialisation. Students will examine and compare small and start up enterprises, including University spin outs alongside larger pharmaceutical companies. This module will also introduce aspects of finance, intellectual property rights, business law and marketing for business development.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 16% Report (2000 words)
• Item 2: 9% Oral Presentation
• Item 3: 75% Essay (3000-4000 words)

Clinical Pharmacology and the Assessment of Drug Safety

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Rizgar Mageed

Description: This module will introduce students to the drugs that work on systems including the neurological, endocrine, immune, cardiovascular disorders and cancer and their mechanisms of action. It will also consider drugs of abuse including cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana and their harmful effects and post marketing safety of pharmaceuticals and pharmacovigilance. Introductory lectures will be followed by lectures in specialized areas of the subject given by experts in their field. In addition to formal lectures and interactive seminars, the course will provide tutorials with opportunities to critically-evaluate research papers. We will offer practical workshop sessions to reinforce the lectures.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Oral presentation
• Item 2: 25% In-class MCQ test
• Item 3: 50% Online Examination (2 hours)

Drug Target and Identification

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Sadani Cooray
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD115 or take BIO111 or take BMD116

Description: This module will cover the main drug targets including receptors, enzymes and transporters and molecular therapeutic drug targets such as DNA, rRNA and mRNA. Lecture content will include, topics such as receptor theory, GPCR structure and function, nuclear receptor structure and function, ligand-gated ion channels, receptor tyrosine kinases, signalling pathways including Jak/STAT pathway, an overview of developmental signalling, hedgehog pathway, Wnt pathway, TGF beta/BMP, Notch and FGF pathways and crosstalk between these pathways. Lectures will be followed by interactive sessions in specialised areas of the subject given by experts in their field. In addition to formal lectures, the course will provide tutorials and seminars with opportunities to critically-evaluate research papers and reinforce the lectures.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Written Exam (2 hours)
• Item 2: 25% Practical Report
• Item 3: 25% Oral presentation

Endocrine Physiology and Biochemistry

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Leonardo Guasti

Description: This module covers hormone definitions, including the range of structures and roles; methods in endocrinology; receptors, concept and significance of high affinity; hormone dynamics; hormone signalling; and modes of action. You will also look at mammalian endocrine glands and hormones: pituitary, thyroid, pancreas. The endocrinology of reproduction; the adrenal gland, and renin/angiotensin system; the paracrine and autocrine systems; growth factors; locally produced hormones; local regulation of hormonal action; and tissue differentiation are also covered. The relationship between hormones and cancer will be discussed.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (3 hours)
• Item 2: 25% Essay 1
• Item 3: 25% Essay 2

Cellular Pathology and Blood Science

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Helen Rifca Le Dieu
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD181 or take SNU213

Description: This module is only available to those students who enter under the B990 programme. Prerequisites: Tissue Biology (SBC101). This module provides an overview of basic pathological mechanisms including cell injury, wound healing, inflammation and cell adaptations. The process of neoplasia and the characteristics of major solid tumours will be covered including a review of the mechanisms of tumour spread. The Haematology component will cover basic haematopoiesis, anaemia, haemaglobinophathies, thalassaemia, myelodysplasia, haematological malignancies, haemostasis and bleeding and thrombotic disorders of haemostasis. An overview of the history and basis of blood transfusion and its complications will also be provided.The practical sessions will build on the earlier Microanatomy, Histology and Cytology Module in providing exposure to the histological and cytological interpretation of disease.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (3 hours)
• Item 2: 25% In class test 1
• Item 3: 25% In class test 2

Infectious Diseases

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Lucinda Hall
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD231

Description: In this module we select a few topics related to infectious diseases to cover in depth. These will include topics that are currently causing public interest or concern in the UK and internationally. Some lectures will cover principles that apply to many microorganisms, while others will look in detail at particular microbial species.

Two major themes will link lectures on different organisms:
1. Microbial pathogenesis
- How microorganisms damage and manipulate the host
- How microorganisms evade the immune response
- How we investigate microbial pathogenesis
2. Combatting infectious diseases
- Public health surveillance and epidemiology
- Molecular diagnostics and typing
- Drug development
- Vaccines

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% In-class Test 1
• Item 2: 25% In-class Test 2
• Item 3: 50% Examination (3 hours)

Biomedical Neuroscience

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Steven Buckingham
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD115 or take BIO125

Description: This module will use innovative teaching to equip you with an understanding of the workings of the nervous system and how it goes wrong in disease. You will also learn how to investigate problems with the nervous system and to form your own, novel lines of inquiry and points of view. You will learn how the brain uses sensory information, makes decisions and produces a controlled motor output. The module integrates an understanding of basic physiology with clinical applications, with a continual emphasis on what is meant to happen, what goes wrong in disease, and how such knowledge leads to treatment. You will cover major health issues such as drug addiction, mental illness and dementia. You will learn actively through a combination of simulations, lectures, seminars and workshops. These will teach you in the same way that practicing neuroscientists learn.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Data activity
• Item 2: 30% Essay
• Item 3: 50% Examination (3 hours)

Advanced Immunology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Andrew Stagg
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD251

Description: This module will build on the second year immunology teaching, to provide in-depth knowledge of fundamental immuneprocesses, of the ways in which these interact as a complex system that provides protection against infection disease but can alsocause disease when dysregulated and of the importance of immunology in modern medicine. There will be emphasis onmolecular immunology and the key signalling pathways that underpin immunological mechanisms. Lectures in specialised areas of the subject will be given by experts in their field, providing a sense of the frontiers of their subject. In addition to formal
lectures, the course will provide tutorials with opportunities to critically-examine research papers. We also hope to offer laboratory practical sessions in which students will be able their own classic immunology experiments.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Short written work
• Item 2: 25% MCQ test
• Item 3: 50% Examination (3 hours)

Drug Design

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Rayomand Khambata

Description: Students will be given a perspective on the history of drug discovery to the present challenges in drug design. The medicinal chemistry content will provide students with an understanding of the complex biological and chemical problems that are involved in the design and synthesis of novel therapeutic agents. They will be given an in-depth analysis of the principles of identifying new compounds with the potential to be drugs, and their development for therapeutic use. Students will also be given an understanding of preclinical testing of drugs including the use of animal models for safety testing, intra and inter-species variations, detecting carcinogenicity in experimental systems and man, strategies of new initiatives in pharmaceutical development and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals.

Introductory lectures will be followed by lectures in specialized areas of the subject given by experts in their field. In addition to formal lectures and interactive seminars, the course will provide tutorials with opportunities to critically-evaluate research papers. We will offer workshop sessions to reinforce the lectures.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Coursework essay
• Item 2: 20% Oral presentation
• Item 3: 50% Examination (3 hours)

Repair and Regeneration in the Nervous System

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Ping Yip
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD261 and take BMD265

Description: This module focuses on response of the nervous system to injury focusing on the peripheral nervous system and spinal cord. Detailed organisation of the peripheral nervous system, spinal cord including pathways and relevant higher brain structures will be covered. Pathological mechanisms and plasticity of the system will be examined. Topics will be covered in the context of experimental studies to develop understanding of current research strategies in the laboratory and clinic aiming to lessen effects of such injuries and facilitate neural regeneration and functional recovery.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Written Poster critique (1000 words)
• Item 2: 25% Oral poster presentation
• Item 3: 50% Examination (3 hours)

Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Kristin Braun
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD115 or take BMD116

Description: This module aims to provide a comprehensive overview and foundation in stem cell biology, including applications in regenerative medicine. The module will cover topics including: developmental origin of stem cells, comparing/contrasting different types of stem cells, biological regulation of stem cells and tissue-specific functions. The module also will cover fundamental principles of tissue engineering and cellular reprogramming. Finally, the module will explore how these concepts can be applied in academic, industrial and clinical settings, towards the development of novel regenerative technologies and treatment of disease. Essential generic skills that will be developed on this module include critical thinking, organisation and communication.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Exam (3 hours)
• Item 2: 20% Short written work
• Item 3: 30% Poster

Biomarkers in Neuroscience

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Joanna Riddoch-Contreras

Description: This module will provide a comprehensive understanding of biomarkers in both neurological and psychiatric disorders. The application of biomarkers for diagnosis, patient stratification, monitoring disease progression and establishing drug effects and safety will be discussed. Students will gain an appreciation of current genomic, proteomic and neuroimaging approaches to undertake biomarker discovery and validation. Neurological conditions such as Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's diseases and neurotrauma will be discussed as well as emerging biomarkers for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, and depression.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Written report (1000 words)
• Item 2: 25% Oral presentation
• Item 3: 50% Examination (3 hours)

Perspectives on Brain Disorders

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Ping Yip
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BMD261

Description: The module will focus on understanding the mechanisms underlying complex brain disorders and injury. Topic covered will include an integrated view of the major neurotransmitter systems and in-depth analysis of the mechanisms underlying the effects of drugs used in central nervous system. Neuronal pathways using excitatory and inhibitory amino acids and neuropeptides will be reviewed, with emphasis on their involvement in neuropathological processes underlying disorders such as Parkinson's disease, dementia, schizophrenia, mood disorders, pain, head injury, stroke, epilepsy and drug abuse.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% Oral presentation
• Item 2: 25% Essay (1000 words)
• Item 3: 50% Examination (3 hours)

Receptors and Mechanisms of Cell Signalling

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Sadani Cooray

Description: This module will consider the general properties of receptors, signal transduction pathway, and the regulation of their activity. Emphasis will be given to G-protein coupled receptors, receptor tyrosine kinases and nuclear receptors. Introductory lectures will be followed by interactive sessions in specialised areas of the subject given by experts in their field. In addition to formal lectures, the course will provide tutorials and seminars with opportunities to critically-evaluate research papers and reinforce the lectures.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (3 hours)
• Item 2: 25% Essay
• Item 3: 25% In class test

Translational Pharmacology and Innovative Therapeutics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Michele Bombardieri

Description: Students will be exposed to innovative therapeutics in areas including vaccines, oncology, cardiovascular, metabolic diseases, pain and neuroscience, inflammation and immunology as well as rare disorders. Students will also gain awareness into challenges that the pharmaceutical industries face. Lectures will cover topics such as drug shortages, targeted/personalised drugs, use of biomarkers, clinical trial design, drug safety, risk/benefit assessments, collaboration between patient, academia, industry and the regulatory community, international collaborations, policy and bioethics, novel tools for scientific/clinical communication, sustainability of innovation/financial models of product development/pricing, marketing and licencing. Introductory lectures will be followed by lectures in specialized areas of the subject given by experts in both academia and industry. In addition to formal lectures and interactive seminars, the course will provide tutorials with opportunities to critically-evaluate research papers. We will offer practical workshop sessions to reinforce the lectures.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Exam (3 hours)
• Item 2: 25% Essay
• Item 3: 25% Oral presentation

Classic Papers and Current Topics in Pharmacology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Carol Shoulders

Description: In this module Students will carry out an exhaustive search of the scientific and medical literature which is relevant to their research project using the resources of the University, including appropriate databases and specialist search engines, as well as paper-based resources in the University Library. This module will provide PBL-like tutorials and seminars with opportunities to critically-evaluate research papers. Some students may further develop this work to include a meta analysis of multiple papers.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (3 hours)
• Item 2: 25% Essay
• Item 3: 25% Journal

Clinical Trials and Regulatory Affairs

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Francesca Pugliese

Description: This module will introduce students to the whole spectrum of the clinical trials process from first-time-in-human-beings studies through to post-marketing studies that examine whether clinical trial promises translate to 'real-life' benefits for patients, with reliable evidence that benefits are likely to exceed their harms. The stringent processes for establishing and appraising the evidence with be critically discussed, together exploring the issues of the global market-place for medicines, the roles and challenges of regulators responsible for approving new drugs for public.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% In-class test
• Item 2: 50% Coursework

Cancer Biology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Sarah Martin
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take BIO116 or take SNU213 or take BMD116 or take BMD115 or ( take BIO111 and take BIO163 )

Description: This module is only available to students who enter under the Biomedical Sciences (B990), Medical Genetics (C431), Pharmacology & Innovative Therapeutics (B211), and with Forensic programmes. This module will define neoplasia, describe the macro and microscopic appearance of range of specific tumours and current ideas on the molecular and genetic basis of their pathogenesis. Specifically, the causes of the transformation from normal to malignant tissue will be described together with the manner in which tumours grow and spread. The module will end with an overview of tumour diagnosis and general methods of treatment (pharmacological, radiotherapeutic and surgical).

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (3 hours)
• Item 2: 20% Short written work
• Item 3: 30% Essay

Molecular Basis of Personalised Medicine

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Angus Cameron

Description: This module will build on basic information on the pathological processes and cancer biology provided in other modules to provide an in-depth analysis of the tools available to analyse heterogeneity in disease (gene expression arrays, SNP analysis, next generation sequencing), and how these can be used to stratify disease and then exploited to develop individualised treatment. It will examine strategies being developed to refine treatment programmes and also investigate how such analyses can be used to predict risk and so develop preventive strategies. It will be lecture based, delivered by experts in the field, and supplemented with seminar sessions describing approaches to analysing data and interrogating the literature.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Examination (3 hours)
• Item 2: 40% Coursework essay
• Item 3: 10% Practical

Biomedical Sciences Research Project

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Ms Joanne Littlefair

Description: 30-unit research projects require prior SBCS approval. All students wishing to graduate with a degree from the School of Biological and Chemical sciences must undertake a project in their final year of study. In the case of biology related projects, students have three choices: a research project (worth 30 credits), which can encompass laboratory based experimental investigations, field studies, field experiments and so on; an investigative project (worth 15 credits), which can include analysis of previously acquired epidemiological data, nutritional surveys and analysis, mathematical modelling of biological processes and so on; as an alternative, students can take the Project skills in the life sciences module (worth 30 credits).

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Laboratory Work
• Item 2: 20% Oral presentation
• Item 3: 60% Final Project Report (10000 words)

Project: Engaging the Public with Science

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Dr Andrew Durham

Description: How can we convey the importance of science and research to people who haven't studied scientific subjects? Why is it vital to do so? What is the difference between communicating science and involving the public in science?
In this module you will explore different approaches to engaging the public in science, with an emphasis on biological and medical sciences. You will look in detail at a range of examples of public engagement such as museums, broadcasts, social media and schemes that involve patient groups in medical research. You will critically assess who they are designed for and how well they work for different audiences. Examples will include some of the unique public engagement activities offered by QMUL. Based on what you have learned you will then develop and undertake a public engagement object/activity yourself. Teaching for the module will include face-to-face sessions, online resources and site visits. Assessment will be through coursework.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 5% Lay abstract (500 words)
• Item 2: 20% Presentation of novel engagement object (10 min)
• Item 3: 10% In course reflection
• Item 4: 20% Engagement activity participation
• Item 5: 45% Public engagement placement report (5000 words)

Research Project in Neuroscience

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Dr Ping Yip

Description: The aim of this module is to provide students with the opportunity to conduct an original research project in the field of neuroscience. This is a practical-based module wherein students conduct original research supervised by an academic member of staff through the academic year. Students are required to explore the background of the research and its rationale, construct hypotheses to be tested, learn necessary skills with which to conduct the work, compile results and analyse them. They will write a dissertation including critical analysis of literature, reporting of experimental design and results as well as their evaluation.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 60% Dissertation (8000 words)
• Item 2: 20% Supervisor's Mark
• Item 3: 20% Oral Presentation (10-15 minutes)

Research Project in Pharmacology

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Dr Sadani Cooray

Description: An experimental investigation involving laboratory work, normally resulting in a piece of original research in the area of pharmacology and therapeutics. 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 student also gives a short oral presentation on their work. This is a compulsory module of 30 credits and will be presented as a report not exceeding 6000 words.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 60% Dissertation (8000 words)
• Item 2: 20% Supervisor mark
• Item 3: 20% Research methods (10-15 minutes)

MSc Biomedical Sciences Experimental Project

Credits: 105.0
Contact: Dr Christoph Engl

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 15% Poster Presentation
• Item 2: 15% Oral presentation with questions
• Item 3: 70% Dissertation (10,000 words)

MSc Biomedical Sciences Literature Review

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Christoph Engl

Description: 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).

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Literature Review & Research Proposal (2500 words)

Fundamentals of Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Ms Lisa Morrison
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS107

Description: This module introduces students to the purpose, operations and implications of management by exploring the contexts within which management takes place. We reflect on management in relation to the social, economic, technological and legal conditions within which it operates, and analyse political and environmental consequences. We often think of management as trying to manage flows of energy, finance and labour, but it increasingly is required to confront changing social and political structures on a world scale, and challenging environmental conditions as well.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Presentation
• Item 2: 80% Assignment (1500 words)

Operations Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Roman Matousek

Description: This module has been designed to provide students with a clear understanding of the most important issues in OM (such as process design, quality planning and control, supply chain management, inventory management) through a blend of theoretical approaches and seminar-based activities. However, students are also encouraged to analyse the relationship between process design in services and manufacturing and the reproduction of technical and managerial knowledge, and the implications of such a relationship in terms of governance and strategic decisions.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Individual Report (2000 words)

Research Methodology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Fadi Safieddine

Description: Business and Management research methodologies with different epistemological and methodological perspectives introduce: * Academic literature review to identify interesting questions for quantitative and qualitative research * Data collection/analysis * Consideration of scientific, political and cultural underpinnings * Research topic identification for an independent study * Sensitivity to issues of outcome validity and reliability. Seminars emphasise feedback on the independent research project by using data analysis software (e.g. SPSS) to help with assessments.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Presentation
• Item 2: 80% Project (2500 words)

Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Darryn Mitussis

Description: This module provides a broad overview of the key marketing concepts that underpin marketing practice. The module introduces students to buyer behaviour, marketing research, segmentation, targeting and positioning through marketing mix activities. Along the way, the social consequences of marketing practice are considered.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Portfolio (3000 words)

Human Resource Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mod Reg Dept Contact - Dept Of Business Management

Description: The module introduces students to the key processes concerned with the management of people within organisations. It is pitched at non-specialist level, so it explores concepts, procedures and regulations that any manager with direct reports is likely to need to know in order to handle effectively their staff.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Case Analysis
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Economics for Business

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Ravshonbek Otojanov
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS137

Description: This module introduces the most relevant concepts of economics from the perspective of business decision making. The first part of the module (on microeconomics) will cover supply and demand, elasticity, firm behavior, pricing and market structures. The second part (on macroeconomics) will include aggregate demand and aggregate supply, unemployment, inflation and fiscal, monetary and supply-side policies.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% In-class Test (30 mins)
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Financial Accounting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Ishani Chandrasekara Mudiyanselage

Description: The module will provide students with an understanding of the nature of accounting practices with respect to financial accounting. In this respect, the format of the module is designed to show the fundamentals and principles of financial accounting and the many uses of accounting data. The focus then moves to decision-making through examples such as the `double entry equation¿, and from an output (the primary financial statements) perspective.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination

Managerial Accounting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Chandres Tejura

Description: The module critically assesses key aspects of management accounting in the context of planning, control, decision making and governance: *Enable students to make use of management accounting tools in critical decision making process *Provide students the opportunity to appreciate the global impacts of management accounting in decision making.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Report (2000 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Fundamentals of Management (for Science & Engineering)

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Ms Lisa Morrison
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS107

Description: This module introduces students to the purpose, operations and implications of management by exploring the contexts within which management takes place. We will reflect on management in relation to the social, economic, technological and legal conditions within which it operates, as well as reflect on its political and environmental consequences. We often think of management as trying to manage flows of energy, finance and labour, but it increasingly is required to confront changing social and political structures on a world scale, and increasingly challenging environmental conditions as well.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Presentation
• Item 2: 80% Assignment (1500 words)

Entrepreneurship

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Xue Zhou

Description: This module introduces the processes and management of emerging businesses concentrating upon early entrepreneurial learning activity by introducing key perspectives on the recognition and nature of entrepreneurial opportunities, resource evaluation, and creativity/legitimation processes. Objectives of the module are to develop competencies, skills and creativity to understand effectively what entrepreneur is about and critique key entrepreneurial concepts and approaches. Case studies aim to stimulate students' imagination to generate ideas.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Group presentation and written report (2800 words)
• Item 2: 50% Examination (2 hours)

Project Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Evangelos Markopoulos

Description: Project management (PM) techniques encouraging the use of incremental delivery for complex outcomes in the context of high uncertainty are examined. Grounding in traditional PM techniques in enterprise projects focus on projects that conclude to a clear specification within a prespecified time frame. The assessment report supports students¿ ability to evaluate complex projects and recognise how future PM efforts can be improved. The final examination applies project management techniques in different and broader situations than the examples covered in the class.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 50% Individual report (2000 words)
• Item 2: 50% Examination (2 hours)

Business Analytics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Zeynep Gurguc Farooqui

Description: The focus of the module will be on business analytics methods and applications from existing businesses in which students will learn how data is collected and aggregated, how resulting data is analyzed and how the insights obtained are passed on and influence business decisions. Furthermore, the module will provide an overview of business analytics applications and the ways in which they have impacted different business areas and functions.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% In-class Test (30 mins)
• Item 2: 30% Group Report (800 words)
• Item 3: 40% Individual Report (2000 words)

Introduction to Marketing and Communications

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mod Reg Dept Contact - Dept Of Business Management

Description: This module provides an outlook on marketing as a sub-discipline of management studies. The course assumes no previous knowledge of marketing and will give students 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, students will work on a segmentation project for a real product throughout the course.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Individual Project (3000 words)

Accounting for Business

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Androniki Triantafylle
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS139

Description: The module provides insights into how accounting is embedded in a socio-economic, political and cultural context and how accounting is shaped by this context and in turn shapes this context. Adopting this broader perspective the module elaborates accounting concepts in the context of decision-making, control and governance. Key concepts and methods of accounting are discussed by focusing on the reporting of the financial position and financial performance of business organisations, the analysis of the financial statements produced by business organisations and the use of accounting information by management for planning, decision making and control purposes.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-class Test (Online) (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Business and Society

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Gerard Hanlon
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS130
Corequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take BUS001

Description: This module examines the relationship between business and society. It investigates how the relationship is not fixed, but rather the result of particular historical changes in which this relationship was contested. It explains how this results in particular roles for business, the state and individuals today, which in turn effects how resources, goods and services are produced and distributed within and across societies. It examines how this relationship is changing at present, and how this might reconfigure business and society.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 15% Group Presentation
• Item 2: 15% Group Mindmap
• Item 3: 70% Individual Essay (1500 words)

Economics for Business and Society

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Ravshonbek Otojanov

Description: This module introduces the most relevant concepts of micro- and macro-economics. We will consider the perspectives of consumers, individual businesses and society. Our focus is on the insights of economics for business decision making. The module will cover mostly microeconomic topics such as supply and demand, elasticities, firm behaviour, pricing and market structures, market failures, and consumer behaviour. The second part, devoted to macroeconomics, will study aggregate demand and aggregate supply, inequality, unemployment, inflation, and fiscal, monetary and supply-side policies.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Work and Employment

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Ahu Tatli
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS132

Description: The module aims to provide an introduction to the study of the world of work and employment by giving insight into relevant conceptual and theoretical approaches. The course takes a multi-level approach to understanding work and employment. This means that work and employment relations will be explored at macro-societal, meso-organisational and micro-individual levels.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Essay (3000 words) Essay (3000 words) Essay (3000 words) Essay (3000 words) Essay (3000 words)

Applied Economics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Georgios Kavetsos

Description: This module introduces the most relevant concepts of economics from the perspective of business and management. The microeconomic part of the module covers: supply-demand, elasticities, firm behavior, pricing and market structures, and behavioural economics. The macroeconomics part includes: aggregate demand/supply, unemployment, inflation and fiscal, monetary and supply-side policies.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Business in Social and Historical Context

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Gerard Hanlon

Description: This module examines the relationship between business and society. It investigates how the relationship is not fixed, but rather the result of particular historical changes in which this relationship was contested. It explains how this results in particular roles for business, the state and individuals today, which in turn effect how resources, goods and services are produced and distributed within and across societies. It examines how this relationship is changing at present, and how this might reconfigure business and society.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 15% Group Presentation
• Item 2: 15% Group Mindmap
• Item 3: 70% Individual Essay (1500 words)

Work and Employment in Context

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Ahu Tatli
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS124

Description: The module aims to provide an introduction to the study of the world of work and employment by giving insight into relevant conceptual and theoretical approaches. The course takes a multi-level approach to understanding work and employment. This means that work and employment relations will be explored at macro-societal, meso- organisational and micro-individual levels.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Essay (3000 words)

Organisation Studies

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Mustafa Ozturk

Description: Organisation Studies explores how organisations and the work contained within them are structured, and how they variously remain stable and evolve over time. Organisational behaviour is complex, and constituted by multiple stakeholders, systems, and processes. Thus, we approach organisational behaviour by studying phenomena at the intersection of three levels of analysis: individual, group, and organisation. For example, at the individual level, we study employee personality; at the group level, we consider teamwork, and at the organisation level, we examine culture.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Assignment (2500 words)

Quantitative Analysis for Business

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Thomas Kemeny

Description: This module aims to develop an appreciation of the role and practice of quantitative research methods, both in business and in research about business, and to prepare students for subsequent project work. It provides a first understanding of statistics and statistical inference, and develops skills in presentation of quantitative information. A subsidiary aim is to enhance student's familiarity with the use of statistical software.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Project (2000 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Marketing Principles

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Darryn Mitussis

Description: BUS136 is the first module in marketing and available only for students on the BSc Marketing and Management. BUS136 introduces students the areas of research and practice that need to be understood by every marketing practitioner and researcher: buyer behaviour, market segmentation, marketing strategy, marketing mix management (including pricing, distribution and communication), marketing research and ethics. The module is taught with a mix of big and small group seminars.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Individual Portfolio (3000 words)

Economics for Business Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mrs Caterina Gennaioli
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS017

Description: This module introduces the fundamental concepts and principles of micro- and macro-economics. The focus is on the insights of economics for business decision-making. The first part of the module (on microeconomics) covers supply and demand, elasticities, firm behaviour, pricing and market structures, and market failures. The second part (on macroeconomics) includes aggregate demand and aggregate supply, unemployment, inflation, international trade and exchange rate, and economic policies.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% In-class Test (30 mins)
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Introduction to Financial Accounting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Androniki Triantafylle
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS106

Description: This module will be offered at Level 4 as a compulsory module and will provide the necessary foundation for the level 5 modules. The module provides insights into key conventions and methods of accounting by focusing on the measuring and reporting of the financial position, the financial performance and cash flow of business organisations, and the analysis of the financial statements produced by business organisations.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-class Test (Online) (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Introduction to Management Accounting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Chandres Tejura

Description: This module will be offered at Level 4 as a compulsory module and will provide the necessary foundation for the level 5 BUS239.The module provides insights into how accounting is embedded in a socio-economic, political and cultural context and how accounting is shaped by this context and in turn shapes this context. Adopting this broader perspective the module elaborates accounting concepts in the context of decision-making, control and governance. It is intended to help students to understand the essentials of management accounting.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 10% Learning Participation Diary
• Item 2: 30% In-class Test (1 hour)
• Item 3: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Fundamentals of Management Studies and Skills

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Andromachi Athanasopoulou

Description: The module will cover a wide range of topics which will introduce students to management studies. Students will learn about key theories on the nature of managerial work and on key management skills. These skills range from working effectively in groups to developing self-awareness and from how to effectively motivate and empower others to how to manage power and conflicts. A core part of the module involves learning to recognise the responsibility implications in applying these skills in various contexts.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 10% CV Writing Exercise
• Item 2: 30% Mid-term MCQ
• Item 3: 60% Reflective Essay (1200 words)

Contemporary Legal Issues in Business Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Fernando Barrio
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS143

Description: The module introduces the contexts in which law operates, shapes and is shaped by business. It encourages critical thinking about the intersections of law and key business themes. Topics will include law and: corporate governance (e.g. share/stakeholder theories), business strategy (e.g. outsourcing, IP), industrial organisation (e.g. global value chains), competition (e.g. mergers/acquisitions), regulation standard setting (e.g. private standards), sustainable development. The operation, structures and functions of international legal systems with differing economic levels and historical trajectories of legal development are examined via case studies.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% News Portfolio (900 words)
• Item 2: 70% Essay (2000 words)

Professional and Academic Development (PAD)

Credits: 0.0
Contact: Dr Nikolaos Tsitsianis

Description: This NCM (Non-Credit Module) aims to enhance and develop certain aspects which are essential for the academic journey. The NCM will assist with the written academic work, practical problems with academic development (structure, plagiarism, collusion, etc). It also touches another aspect of professional development which is the familiarization with computerized analytical skills in the labs. Moreover classes on skills development, employability, appreciation of labour market trends, exam strategy, personal development, use of University resources are offered.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% 3 Items of Evidence of Participation in Specified Career Activities

Capital Markets and Securities

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Tara Velez

Description: This module will introduce students to the fundamental concepts of interest rates, capital markets and securities, and will develop an understanding of how capital markets operates in the financial system. It will briefly introduce various rate of returns and their differences used in valuing cash flows. Given the importance of capital markets in the highly integrated financial markets and the global economy, it is necessary to know the functioning of various capital markets and financial instruments that are traded in the markets.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% In-class Mid-semester Exam (1 hour)
• Item 2: 70% Final Examination (2 hours)

Foundations of Finance

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Chunling Xia

Description: This module will introduce students to the fundamental concepts of finance, and will develop an understanding of why the finance function is crucial for a business organization. It will briefly introduce the currency exchange rates and explain why the value of money depends on the time when receiving or paying cash flows. Given the importance of finance in the highly integrated financial markets and in the global economy, it is necessary to understand the functioning of financial markets and financial instruments that are traded in the markets.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% In-class Mid-semester Exam (1 hour)
• Item 2: 70% Final Examination (2 hours)

Introduction to Business Studies

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Didem Gundogdu

Description: This module will introduce students to business studies and research and help them develop a set of valuable skills such as critical thinking, data interpretation and presentation, problem solving, numeracy skills, report writing, and effective written and oral communication, which will prepare them for more advanced study. The module aims to enhance students' digital literacy through completion of various tasks throughout the module. The module will cover the following topics: Business Calculations and Logical Thinking in Numeracy Skills, Research and Analytical Skills, Obtaining and Managing Data using FAME and Osiris, Quantitative Data Collection Techniques (Bloomberg), Business Communication, Presentation Techniques, Learning and Working in Groups, Handling the Assessment Process, Critical Analysis & Problem Solving, Creativity and Case Studies, Assessment Awareness and Strategy.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Individual Presentation (10 mins)
• Item 2: 80% Portfolio (2500 words)

Accounting Skills

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Ishani Chandrasekara Mudiyanselage

Description: This module aims to increase students' knowledge of the technical skills and theory of accounting and its relevance to the study of accounting practise. The module develops knowledge of year one accounting modules and complements the material covered in the second year modules in Financial Reporting. In addition, some of the theoretical material covered in Accounting Skills will provide links to modules in Management Accounting. More specifically, this module is to demonstrate fundamental technical skills that are very important for an accountant to have.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Skills Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Coursework (1500 words)

Current Challenges in Business and Management I

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Matteo Mandarini
Corequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take BUS157

Description: Current Challenges in Business and Management I is the first of a pair of modules that provide a foundation for success in the BSc Business Management programme, and in work. A problem-based approach, focused on SBM¿s core values (social justice, sustainability, corporate governance) is used. It examines a range of organisations that make up the modern economy (for-profit businesses, third sector, state and international institutions) and considers their historical, current and possible future roles.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 15% Group Presentation
• Item 2: 15% Group Presentation
• Item 3: 70% Individual Essay (2000 words)

Current Challenges in Business and Management II

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Georgy Petrov
Corequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take BUS156

Description: BUS157 Current Challenges in Business and Management II is the second of two Year 1 modules that support incoming students in the BSc Business Management programme in achieving two aims: (1) building student understanding around current issues related to social justice, sustainability, and corporate governance, which are explicit foundational values at SBM; and (2) developing core student competencies that will enable their success throughout their degree. The module is compulsory for BSc Business and Management students. It will not be available to students on other programmes. BUS1XC builds on BUS1XB by engaging in greater depth in content in the three themes introduced in Semester A.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 15% Group Presentation
• Item 2: 15% Group Presentation
• Item 3: 70% Individual Essay (2000 words)

Fundamentals of International Business

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Dr Eleni Lioliou

Description: This module aims to provide students with a thorough understanding of the issues pertaining international business. Students will learn about the economic, political and social forces shaping various advanced and developing economies and delve into the challenges of operating and competing internationally.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Group Presentation
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Fundamentals of Quantitative Research Methods and Data Analytics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Michel Haddad

Description: The module will provide an overview of quantitative methods in management research and international business. Following a revision of descriptive statistics, probability and inference, the focus will be on fitting models, synthesising and communicating the results. The module will introduce students to a range of modern quantitative methods to deal with different types of data applications relevant to international business. Emphasis will be placed on the use of statistical software such as R, with practical examples and interpretation of results.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% In-class test (30 min)
• Item 2: 70% Individual assessment (2000 words)

Introduction to Statistics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Michel Haddad

Description: This module aims to introduce students to some of the fundamental numerical skills required to succeed in the digital age. The course provides a first understanding of probability, statistical inference and modelling, and develops skills in presentation of quantitative information. A secondary aim is to enhance student¿s familiarity with R.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% In-class test (30 min)
• Item 2: 70% Individual report (2000 words)

Managing and Leading Community Projects

Credits: 15.0
Contact: To Be Confirmed

Description: This module enables students to understand a foundational structure for the workings of managing and leading in the community for project delivery. The module incorporates interactive workshops, group work and assignments. Theoretical and practical concepts and techniques for management and leadership studies are applied to real-time project development issues.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 80% Report (2000 words)
• Item 2: 20% Group Presentation (30 mins)

Community Project

Credits: 15.0
Contact: To Be Confirmed

Description: This module enables students to apply and deliver a structure for the workings of community project consulting and delivery. This module has been developed for participants who are likely to deliver a project in the community and for those with a foundational understanding of the management principles and leadership skills as understood in the Managing and Leading Community Projects module. The module incorporates interactive workshops, group activities, and assignments. The module provides an opportunity to apply theoretical concepts to practice for skills required for effective project management and delivery.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 80% Report (2000 words)
• Item 2: 20% Group Presentation (30 mins)

Financial Institutions

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Mohammed Kasbar

Description: This module will define the financial system and discuss the functioning of financial institutions. The module will also analyse why the central bank is crucial for financial system and how financial institutions operate in the financial markets. This module will be offered to Joint Programme students as a compulsory module in Year 2, Semester 1 and to Associate undergraduate students as an elective module.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% In-class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 70% Examination

Business Law

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Fernando Barrio

Description: This module provides an understanding of the English legal system, the principles of the law of contract and of the tort of negligence as they apply to business. It also explains the relationship between law and business, and the role that the legal system plays in enabling the conduct of business generally, its regulation, and the achievement of commercial aims.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Self-reclective Journal (1600 words)
• Item 2: 60% Essay (2400 words)

Microeconomics for Managers

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Ravshonbek Otojanov

Description: Microeconomics in problems confronting general managers is explored focusing on markets, prices and market structure in two different situations: a) generally competitive large impersonal anonymous markets, and b) markets which identities matter. Large firms in which the identities of competitors, suppliers, and sometimes customers matter, and more personal economic relations such as that between employer and customer in which identities always matter, are discussed. Analysis of markets in which identities matter involves a focus on topics such as information, reciprocity, credibility, reputation and transactions costs.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination

Advertising

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Alexis Wearmouth

Description: This module explores advertising as an evolving category of social communication within a convergent media landscape. A strategic managerial perspective is taken to generate insight into the development of advertising and the roles and processes so entailed. The consumer perspective is also considered in the light of advertising¿s role as a vehicle for cultural meaning. Media consumption issues are also important to consider given the rapid growth in expenditure on digital (especially mobile) advertising communication. The module takes a multi-disciplinary approach drawing on socio-cultural, psychological and anthropological perspectives.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Applied Report (2000 words)

Advanced Accounting for Business

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Sukhvinder Sian

Description: This module builds on the foundation provided by BUS106 Accounting for Business in Year 1. In the area of Financial Accounting, the proposed module focuses on Financial Reporting by companies and the impact of company law and accounting standards. In Management Accounting the module looks at different approaches to costing, and the concept of identifying relevant costs for management decision-making; the appraisal of investment opportunities (capital budgeting) and accounting as a control mechanism.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Persuasive Strategies in Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Timothy Edkins

Description: This module investigates the theory behind techniques adopted by professionals in marketing, sales, public policy as well as general business negotiation environments in order to change stakeholder behavior and attitudes, influence outcomes, and gain compliance. Students will explore, compare and integrate a variety of theories of persuasion grounded in research from the fields of psychology and marketing.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Examination

Organisational Learning in the Workplace

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Stephen Fox

Description: The module addresses the following topics: [A] Theories of organisational learning (OL) 1) Definition of workplace OL 2) OLW early practical approaches 3) OL and managerial & organisational cognition 4) Cognitive vs socially situated learning theory [B] OL studies in different areas of business and management practice. OL and: 5) innovation practices 6) strategy-as-practice 7) change management 8) knowledge management [C] Wider contexts of OL 9) Postmodernity knowledge society 10) Recent OL concepts 11) OL futures

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Report (3000 words)
• Item 2: 60% Essay (2500 words)

International Corporate Reporting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Didem Gundogdu

Description: The module will commence with a consideration of financial reporting systems and environment, and the Conceptual Framework for financial reporting. Corporate governance, sustainability and ethics will follow. Preparation and interpretation of financial statements and reporting performance will be covered in subsequent weeks. Then, the module will explore the accounting treatment of revenue from contracts with customers in accordance with IFRS 15. Finally, calculation and presentation of earnings per share (EPS) concludes the module.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Corporate Finance and Strategy

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Chunling Xia

Description: This module will develop students¿ understanding of the nature of corporate finance in terms of the sources of finance and nature of internal calculations that are employed to allocate financial resources into strategic investment projects. Students will discuss how the techniques of financing and allocation of financial resources have evolved. This understanding will be blended with an analysis of the strategic management literature on how financial resources are deployed strategically to both create and capture value.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Strategic Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: To Be Confirmed

Description: This module gives an overview over strategic marketing issues. Strategic marketing includes activities of firms that deal with the analysis of the corporate situation and the formulation and implementation of market-oriented strategies and programmes. The module provides a systematic approach that focuses on real-world applications to enable students to relate theoretical insights to marketing strategy, improve the ability to analyse business cases, and to prepare students for the possible pursuit of a career in marketing and/or a master in marketing/management.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Essay (3000 words)

International Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Jieke Chen

Description: International marketing requires leaving behind the assumptions of the domestic market. Firms frequently struggle to adapt to the social and economic practices that shape markets outside their sphere of experience. Firms' internationalisation also can influence the nature of those practises (for better and for worse). This module examines the nature of the problems and theory that guides developing solutions.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Essay (2500 words)

Creative Industries

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Paula Serafini

Description: This module explores the foundational concepts and theories of the creative industries. Courses typically focus on theory mainly. Too often, little attention is paid to issues of business practice and administration. This module, seeks to address this gap and to provide the student 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay (2500 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Corporations and Social Responsibility

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Sadhvi Dar

Description: This module will provide a complete introduction to the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). CSR is an area of corporate self-regulation that integrates sustainability and business-ethics into the business model. 'Greening' waste management, reducing the corporation's carbon footprint and protecting the rights of workers, are all aspects of CSR management that corporations are involved in and voluntarily self-regulate. In this module you will engage with business-ethics theories and a number of real world case studies to bring the issues to life.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Examination (2 hours)

International Financial Accounting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Jan Duesing

Description: This module extends the financial accounting component of BUS139 Introduction to Financial Accounting (or BUS106 Accounting for Business) in Year 1 (Level 4) to introduce the preparation and analysis of corporate financial statements. The content includes the function and content of the main published statements under UK company law and International Financial Reporting Standards, the analysis of these statements to assess company performance, and discussion of a number of key reporting issues and the relevant Standards.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Management Accounting for Decision Making

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Homaira Semeen
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS216

Description: The module explores key aspects of Management Accounting in the context of its key pillars planning, control, internal decision making and governance. Students will be able to understand the interaction of Management Accounting with organization/business and society. Learners will appreciate the manner by which Management Accounting is embedded in a socio-economic, political and cultural context within an organisation. Students will critically blend professionalism with intellectualism in Management Accounting practices to ensure broad-based Management Accounting education and the enhancement of learning required in any modern organisation.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Services Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Yuansi Hou

Description: The services sector accounts for over three-quarters of GDP and employment in many economies. In light of the growing importance of services in local and global economies, it becomes crucial to study and understand the functionality of service offerings. This module will explore the distinctive characteristics of services and explain how these characteristics affect the marketing approaches used by firms - including challenges involved in controlling service quality, managing customer experience, and synchronising demand and supply.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Individual Project Essay (2000 words)

Corporate Financial Reporting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Ishani Chandrasekara Mudiyanselage

Description: Accounting standards and the contribution of pan national organisations (e.g. EU and International Accounting Standards Board IASB) are explored to include statements of changes in equity and comprehensive income. Topics include the evolution of accounting standards, financial instruments, fair value reporting and debates on accounting conceptual frameworks. Changes in regulation and corporate governance arrangements, added remuneration reports, chairman's statements and new demands for integrated corporate reporting (e.g. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Reporting) are analysed in light of external consultants/actuaries influencing corporate reporting.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Examination (2 hours)

Responsible Leadership

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Ms Szilvia Mosonyi

Description: This module covers concepts and practices of Responsible Leadership. It introduces students to elements of ethical decision-making at individual level. Core leadership theories are discussed from leader and follower perspectives linking to (ir)responsible practices. The module builds on current responsible leadership literature, while covering related theories of authentic, servant, ethical, and spiritual leadership. The module concludes by looking into how responsibilities of leaders and followers translate at a corporate level and investigating related corporate social responsibility practices.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Presentation (15 mins)
• Item 2: 80% Essay (2500 words)

European Business Context

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Stella Ladi

Description: 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 structural characteristics 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 and monetary union. Students will also be engaged in discussions over Europe's place in the world and future structural changes.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Group Presentation (15 mins)
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Introduction to Finance

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Tara Velez

Description: The function of where finance fits within a business organisation is introduced through a critical review of the time value of money in relation to the current state of the global economy where financial markets are highly integrated. The functioning of financial markets and institutions and different financial instruments being traded are examined using theoretical approaches in determining financial securities value as well as assessing risk.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 80% Examination (2 hours)

Managing Under Regulation

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Perri 6

Description: This qualitative module introduces students to the management skills of ensuring that organisations comply with regulatory rules. All industries are regulated by generic regulators for health and safety, environment, information privacy, accounting standards, patenting, equality and diversity including physical access, etc. Many have industry-specific ones too. This module compares industries to enable you to understand regulators, what inspectors do, how internal compliance units work, and how to manage across countries¿ national regulatory systems and within global business regulatory frameworks.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Essay Outline (750 words)
• Item 2: 80% Essay (2000 words)

Taxation

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Andrew Wade

Description: This module introduces to the subject of taxation and provides the core knowledge of the underlying principles and major technical areas of taxation as they affect the activities of individuals and businesses. The students are introduced to the rationale behind the functions of tax systems. The syllabus then considers the separate taxes that an accountant would need to have a detailed knowledge.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Written Examination (2 hours)

Governance and Regulatory Environment

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Lilian Ngozi Schofield

Description: This module is one of three 15-credit Level 5 compulsory work-based modules in the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (Social Change) programme. The module will introduce management degree apprentices to the concept of governance in the voluntary and non-profit sector(s), including the history, current key themes, and key components of effective governance. Students will also develop an enhanced appreciation of the constraints and opportunities offered by the changing governance frameworks, which affect voluntary organisations. The module will enable management degree apprentices to gain a broad understanding of the legal framework within which the law and regulation of charities and charitable activity in England and Wales is set and understand regulatory requirements for charities and charitable companies, and the reporting and accountability obligations in regard to statutory accounts and reports. The module will enable management degree apprentices to explore the advantages and disadvantages of different legal forms, the nature of their constitutions.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Presentation (30 mins) Presentation (30 mins)
• Item 2: 80% Work-based Report (2500 words)

Politics, Advocacy and Influencing Change

Credits: 15.0
Contact: To Be Confirmed

Description: This module is one of three 15-credit Level 6 compulsory work-based modules in the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (Social Change) programme. The module introduces degree apprentices to the major forms of political lobbying that aim to influence changes in policy relevant to the voluntary and non-profit sector. The module aims to develop a critical understanding of lobbying as a phenomenon and a critical and evaluative insight into its processes, as undertaken by both commercial and non-governmental organisations.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 35% Essay (1000 words)
• Item 2: 65% Essay (2500 words)

Politics, Advocacy and Influencing Change

Credits: 15.0
Contact: To Be Confirmed

Description: This module is one of three 15-credit Level 6 compulsory work-based modules in the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (Social Change) programme. The module introduces degree apprentices to the major forms of political lobbying that aim to influence changes in policy relevant to the voluntary and non-profit sector. The module aims to develop a critical understanding of lobbying as a phenomenon and a critical and evaluative insight into its processes, as undertaken by both commercial and non-governmental organisations.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 35% Essay (1000 words)
• Item 2: 65% Essay (2500 words)

Volunteering and Social Action - Theory and Learning

Credits: 15.0
Contact: To Be Confirmed

Description: This module will enable management degree apprentices to critically appreciate the historical development and contemporary debates around societal volunteering and social/community activism. The module will make extensive use of national and international case studies to develop understanding of the range of the roles and practices of societal volunteering and activism, with application to own employer. The module will cover the historical development of key modern social and political movements, the professionalisation of social activism, contemporary grassroots activism and digitally-driven forms of activism.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 80% Work-based Report (3000 words)
• Item 2: 20% Presentation (30 mins)

Quantitative Analytics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Eun-Seok Kim

Description: This module aims to improve students¿ ability to apply modern decision-making techniques and statistical methods to decision making. While this module provides an underpinning and understanding of advanced analytical and computational methodologies, it is also a practical module which uses Excel to illustrate how to apply the methodologies introduced. This module is multidisciplinary with links to accounting, economics, finance, marketing and operations management.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% In-class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 70% Individual Report (2500 words)

Fundamentals of Financial Accounting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Didem Gundogdu

Description: The module will provide students with an explanation of the nature of accounting practices with respect to financial accounting. In this respect, the format of the module is designed to show the fundamentals and principles of financial accounting and the many uses of accounting data. The focus then moves to decision-making through examples such as the `double entry equation¿, and from an output (the primary financial statements) perspective.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Skills Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Working with Business Data

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Xue Zhou

Description: The module will provide an overview of contemporary approaches to working with and interpreting data in business and management research. Students will further their competence in descriptive statistics and inference, followed by practical applications on applying data models and communicating the results. The module will then discuss different types of data before advancing on more contemporary issues of data applications and their novel sources (e.g. open datasets, application programming interfaces). Emphasis will be placed on the use of statistical software with practical examples and interpretation of results.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 10% Individual Reflection (500 words)
• Item 2: 30% Group Presentation
• Item 3: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Corporate Strategy and Environmental Change

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Liam Campling

Description: 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 prevailing business models and systems of provision in sectors that are foundational to societies and economies across the planet (e.g. food, energy, transport). By examining these industries students will evaluate current consumption and production patterns and their environmental effects and critically appraise a range of public and private interventions to build liveable futures based on intergenerational justice.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Group Portfolio (2000 words)
• Item 2: 70% Individual Essay (2000 words)

Organisational Behaviour

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Mustafa Ozturk

Description: Organisational behaviour is a multi-level subject based on three levels of analysis: individual, group, and organisation. In this module, we will consider individual-level topics such as attitudes and job satisfaction, personality, and perception. As group-level phenomena, we will explore teamwork, communication, power and politics. The organisation-level analysis will review organisational structure, organisational culture, and change. Acknowledging wider social realities shaping organisational behaviour, we will also incorporate issues of social justice, sustainability and good governance into our analysis throughout the module.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 75% Individual Report (1500 words)
• Item 2: 25% Reflective Essay (750 words)

Financial Institutions Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: To Be Confirmed

Description: The Financial System offers a unique analysis of the risks faced by investors and savers, governments and companies interacting through financial markets, as well as strategies that can be adopted for controlling and managing risks. The special emphasis is put on new areas of operations in financial markets and their characteristics, and how the participants in these markets manage risks and maximize their perceived utility.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Mid-semester Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Shoutong Thomas Zhang

Description: This module integrates the theory and practice of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. This module has been organised as a capstone course, to be taken in the final semester of the business and management undergraduate programme. The module will draw together learning from several functional areas that students will have already covered within the programme ¿ marketing, human resources, strategy, finance etc. ¿ and place these within the larger context of innovation and entrepreneurship in organisations.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Group Presentation
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Organisation and Identity

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Rowland Curtis

Description: This module takes up questions regarding the significance of dimensions of identity and meaning for dynamics of managing and organizing. The module also concerns itself with associated questions regarding knowledge and learning and their role in management education and wider organizational life. In pursuing these interests we draw upon an eclectic and innovative range of theory, literature and other media, including novels and films, as means by which to open up and explore the experiential and `existential¿ dimensions that structure and deconstruct modern work organization.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Essay (3000 words)

International Business

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Lutao Ning

Description: This module offers a broad overview of the process of economic `globalisation¿ and changes in international business over time. The focus is on the multinational firm set in the context of trends in the world economy. It provides a critical, strategic and comparative perspective on the nature and scope of international business, its origins, development, and theories. These issues will be illustrated through in-depth analytical case studies.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Presentation
• Item 2: 80% Examination (2 hours)

Managing Diversity

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Maria Adamson

Description: Workforce diversity has become widely recognised in all sectors. The background and context of this debate provides an opportunity to explore contemporary contexts, concepts, policies and practices. Theories of equality, diversity and labour market occupational segregation/segmentation are analysed. Dimensions of gender, race, disability, age, religion and sexual orientation are considered in organisational processes, which produce and reinforce inequalities of outcome among diverse social groups. UK/European legislative frameworks, policy approaches and implications at organisational level are reviewed.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Presentation (5 mins)
• Item 2: 80% Examination (2 hours)

Financial Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Thomas Mcdermott
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take ECN226 or take MTH6156

Description: The module introduce students to the fundamental issues of financial management and to the quantitative techniques used to address them. The issues that are of importance to a financial manager operating in a global market, in particular, the application of the theories of valuation to practice, will be discussed. Some of the key financial management issues that will be discussed are: investments (whether or not a capital project adds value to business), financing (the acquisition of funding by companies and how to determine their value) and evaluating the cost of capital.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 80% Examination

Business Management Dissertation

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Dr Georgios Kavetsos
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS364
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you should gain an average mark of between 65 and 100 from BUS007

Description: The dissertation is an important part of the assessment of the BSc Management Programmes, carrying a weighting of 30 credits, the equivalent of 2 modules. The dissertation requires a demonstration of a student¿s ability to carry out an original investigation into an area of interest. As such, the process should reflect skills of formulating research questions, collecting and analysing data, drawing insights and conclusions, and written communication.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Dissertation (10000 words)

Organisational Change and Development

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Elena Doldor

Description: Organisational change and development critical thinking is achieved by interrogating perspectives dealing with core problems related to business transformation. External drives of organisational change and contrasting planned/emergent approaches are explored. Focus is on micro-level topics and applied behavioural science to understand how transformation processes in organisations are shaped by individual differences, interpersonal/group dynamics and cultures. The meaning, purposes and interests underlying processes of change and development, along with theories of power-politics-resistance, are examined with the roles of different change agents and required interpersonal skills.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Case Study (2500 words)

Consumer Psychology

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Eric Levy

Description: A deep understanding consumers is critical for businesses that wish to meet and satisfy consumer needs. The module will help students to gain an in-depth understanding of what makes consumers buy some products and not others, how various psychological characteristics influence our consumer behaviours, how companies can best try to meet consumers' wants and needs, among other interesting topics. Building on a general understanding of marketing, this course develops a useful, conceptual understanding of psychological theories relevant to the study of consumer behaviour.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Project (2000 words)

Employment Relations

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Mark Williams

Description: Theoretical approaches to work and employment relations, the meaning of work, the role of power and nature of employment relationship are developed. Employment relations key actors (unions, employers, etc.) are examined. Work organisation patterns and forms of control (e.g. impact of automation, artificial intelligence, gig economy and non-standard/precarious forms of employment) affecting the quality of employment relationships are analysed. Employment relations and employer strategies in non/union firms (e.g. collective bargaining and negotiation, conflict/strikes and dispute resolution) are reviewed.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 80% Essay (2000 words)
• Item 2: 20% Group Presentation (5 mins)

Business and Social Approaches to Social Media - Opportunities and Issues

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Yasmin Ibrahim

Description: This module `Business and Social Approaches to Social Media (SM) ¿Opportunities and Challenges' examines social media as a platform for social and commercial activities analysing the opportunities and challenges it presents for organisations, marketers, societies and humanity. It seeks to advance the understanding of SM as part of a wider economy where labour, markets and regulatory practises are shifting constantly with convergent technologies. In so doing, it aims to deconstruct the wider economic, social, legal and ethical implications for society.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Group Presentation
• Item 2: 70% Case Study (3000 words)

The Management of Human Resources

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Rowland Curtis

Description: Organisations often claim that their most valuable resources are their employees, but one of the most difficult tasks of management is to ensure that employees feel valued. This module examines the main theories, concepts and processes that are considered central to the management of human resources. The course combines theoretical analysis with examples of practical application to encourage students to think critically about the management of people.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Examination (2 hours)

Global Supply Chains

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Elena Baglioni

Description: The study of global supply chains is vital to understand the global dimension of business. This module investigates firms` outsourcing strategies and their management, i.e. their growing practice to parcel out some activities from foreign suppliers. The module critically examines what value creating activities firms tend to outsource, how, why and to whom they outsource, and with what implications. Outsourcing is understood in a broad context characterised by multiple players, e.g. global institutions, states, consumers, trade unions and social movements.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Project
• Item 2: 80% Examination

Corporate Law and Governance

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Min Yan

Description: This module aims to cover some of the main issues and fundamental principles which underlie corporate law and governance. The module examines the nature of the company and its legal personality; what goes on behind the corporate veil; the function of different company organs; constitutional matters; corporate management; directors¿ duties; shareholders' remedies with particular emphasis on minority shareholders¿ protection; and the main theories and principles of corporate governance. The focus is UK company law.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Macroeconomics Modelling and Policy

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Description: In this course we will focus on theories and applications of economic growth and income inequality, unemployment and inflation and tested using modern applied econometrics methods. Students will be able to address questions popular in the new empirical macroeconomic literature such as what causes a nation¿s economic activity to fluctuate, what causes unemployment, what are the new empirics of global income inequality, inflation, and unemployment, and what are the spatial distributions of economic growth and inequality across the world?

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Examination

Company Valuation

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Zhe Li

Description: This module identifies and explores challenges and issues facing global managers and corporate consultants as they operate in a global world requiring them to know what an asset is worth and what determines its value. The postulate for sound investing is that a manager does not pay more for an asset than it is worth. In a global world and under competition managers¿ assessments of value should relate to realistic estimates of cash flows and uncertainties faced.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Individual Coursework (3000 words)

Corporate Governance and Accountability

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mod Reg Dept Contact - Dept Of Business Management

Description: This module will commence with the evolution of corporate governance and its central focus on the risk management and agency gap, which theoretically and practically explores the differences between the demands of investors and behaviour of senior management. This narrow concept of corporate governance for 'investors' will be contrasted with a broader perspective which focuses on how to reconcile managerial interests with a wider group of stakeholders. Students will consider how corporate governance regulation and legislation has evolved and explore the differences between rules and principles-based systems of corporate governance.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Report (2000 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Business to Business and Relationship Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mod Reg Dept Contact - Dept Of Business Management

Description: BUS335 is a compulsory module for students on the BSc Marketing and Management and is not available to students on other programmes. The module continues to develop students' knowledge and understanding of marketing theory and practice, but specifically those that relate to organisationals rather than consumers. Three themes are considered: organisational buying, industrial services and relationship marketing. By the end of the module, students will be able to work with all three themes and analyse problems using material from all three themes.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Essay (2000 words)
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Business Computing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos

Description: This module will explore the impact of computing applications on organisations and individuals. Traditional themes in information systems management will first be examined such as the role of information and how it relates to decision making, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), e-business, e-government, IT planning, development and evaluation. The module will then cover more contemporary aspects such as business intelligence, data analytics, mobile computing and the crowd economy.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Essay (2000 words)
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Firm Governance and Strategy in the Institution Context

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Martha Prevezer

Description: This is an elective third year module for undergraduates enrolled in the BSc Business and Management, BSc Accounting and Management, BSc Marketing and Management. It introduces students to the concepts of governance and institutions and to the coevolution of governance, firm strategy and institutions. It explores this theme for both developed countries and emerging markets, and over the historical period of the twentieth century to the present day.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Report (10 slides, notes and individual reflection)
• Item 2: 80% Case Study (2500 words)

Financial Markets and Institutions

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Ni Peng

Description: 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. As increasingly complex relation between financial institutions and financial markets has evolved over a period of time, 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Corporate Financial Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mod Reg Dept Contact - Dept Of Business Management

Description: This module will help students to develop an understanding of the nature of corporate finance in terms of the sources of finance and the internal calculations that are employed to allocate financial resources into strategic investment projects. Students will appreciate how the techniques of financing and allocation of financial resources have evolved. This understanding will be blended with an appreciation of the strategic management literature on how financial resources are deployed strategically to both create and capture value and how this impacts on risk, equity valuations and bond financing.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Examination (2 hours)

Startups and Incubators

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Joanne Zhang

Description: Sometime in your lives, many students will be involved in managing an entrepreneurial venture either within an existing business (intrapreneurship) or through a start-up (entrepreneurship). This module introduces concepts, theories and practices that are shaping our thinking about creating and building new ventures in a fast-moving environment. It addresses strategic (what kind of business model do we need) and practical issues (how to write a business plan designed to win funding and prepare the enterprise for launch).

Assessment:

• Item 1: 80% Individual Coursework (2500 words)
• Item 2: 20% Group Presentation (20 mins)

Mentoring and Coaching

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Patrick Mcgurk

Description: This module is a theoretical and practical introduction to coaching and mentoring. With roots in human resource management, leadership, psychology, philosophy and sports, coaching and mentoring are increasingly important interventions to develop individuals and organisations in personalised and sustainable ways through guided questioning and active listening techniques. The module will enable students to develop a critical understanding of mentoring and coaching as a contemporary management practise, and will also contribute to students¿ own development as potential coaches, mentors and leaders.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Coaching or Mentoring-Related Scenario
• Item 2: 70% Essay (1500 words)

Digital Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Dimitrios Dousios

Description: The module takes a (broadly) Relationship Marketing (RM) approach and focuses upon the ways in which digital, interactive media can be used to build, maintain, and evolve dialogue between stakeholders in the marketing system. Students will explore the marketing potential of email, web commerce, mobile communications, social networking sites, search engine optimisation (SEO), forums, blogs, and viral messaging through critical engagement with the marketing thinking behind them and the practical details of their implementation.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Group Presentation
• Item 2: 70% Essay (2500 words)

Social Network Analysis

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Pietro Panzarasa

Description: The module focuses on the structure and dynamics of a variety of networks (e.g., the World Wide Web, online social networks, collaboration networks). The aim is to uncover the network foundations of innovation, information diffusion, cultural fads, financial crises, and viral marketing. Special emphasis will be placed on the hub-dominated "scale-free"" networks and the ""small-world"" networks showing the ""six degree of separation"" phenomenon. The module will combine current research on social networks with contributions from relevant organisational and sociological literature."

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% In-Class Test (MCQ)
• Item 2: 75% Group Project (4 x 2000 words)

Creative Brand Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Dimitrios Dousios

Description: ¿Creating a true brand is one of the most powerful things any company can do to enhance its market power¿ (Elliott and Percy, 2007, preface). When a product-commodity becomes a brand, its use value is imbued with symbolic value that consumers deploy in constructing and maintaining their identities. The module draws on a diverse set of theories to understand current issues in brand management rather than merely relying on the cognitive, information-processing approach to branding.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Group Presentation (15 mins)
• Item 2: 70% Individual Coursework (2000 words)

Gender at Work

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Chidozie Umeh

Description: This module examines how gender impacts on management and work, resulting in men¿s and women¿s differential participation across occupations and in senior positions in the private and public sectors. It critically analyses modern workplaces and the assumptions we carry into work from an intersectional and feminist perspective. The module will discuss theory as well as empirical evidence, seeking to explain persistent inequalities in relation to pay and representation.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Essay (1000 words)
• Item 2: 70% Essay (2500 words)

New Product Development

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Giuliano Maielli

Description: The module analyses the relationship between product/process innovation and the emergence of technological platforms. Drawing on current theories concerning open innovation and organisational ecologies, the module will provide students with frameworks for a systematic analysis of innovation in large firms as well as tart-up organisations. Students will analyse case studies concerning traditional industries, as well high-tech organisations engaging with the development of digital ecosystems, smart devices, smart organisations and the Internet of things.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Project
• Item 2: 80% Essay (2000 words)

International Financial Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Sushanta Mallick
Corequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take BUS306

Description: This module helps students learn how the fundamentals of corporate finance relate to multinational firms, covering a segment that is usually excluded in a basic financial management module. Managing international risks (including country risks) forms an important component. Upon completion, students will gain understanding of following topics: overview of international financial management; international monetary & financial systems including foreign exchange market; international parity relationships; opportunities in international FX investments & currency risk diversification; relevance of hedging in currency risk management.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Audit and Assurance

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Andrew Wade

Description: This module introduces students to the nature, purpose and scope of audit and assurance engagements both internally and externally, including the statutory audit, its regulatory environment, governance and professional ethics. It then leads into planning the audit and performing a risk assessment. The syllabus also covers the audit of financial statements, including the scope of internal control. These include, evaluating internal controls, audit evidence, and a review of the financial statements. In addition to final review procedures, it also concentrates on the form and content of the independent auditor¿s report.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Mid-term Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Volunteering and Practical Social Action

Credits: 15.0
Contact: To Be Confirmed

Description: This experiential module will enable management degree apprentices to develop real experience of volunteering and practical skills of social action. Apprentices will work in teams to develop, implement and evaluate a social action project, and be facilitated to reflect critically on their experience and own development.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 80% Work-based Report (3000 words)
• Item 2: 20% Presentation (30 mins)

Contemporary Strategic Analysis

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Eleni Lioliou

Description: BUS359 focuses on the organisation as a whole rather than the perspective of a single function taking the perspective of those people responsible for long-term organisational health, not just part of it. We explore models and frameworks used by management teams and apply them in a variety of industrial settings paying particular attention to a critical awareness of the strengths and weakness of these analytical and conceptual tools. The aim is to develop the ability to use these skills in different contexts.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Group Report (2000 words)
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Gary Schwarz
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS204 or take BUS222

Description: This module will introduce important strategic management concepts that enable an organisation to analyse its external environment and to create the internal resources and capabilities necessary to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Students will apply competitive, corporate, international, collaborative and digital strategy frameworks and examine them critically. Throughout the module, case studies from diverse geographical and organisational contexts that demonstrate the important role that leaders play in formulating and implementing strategy will be discussed.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Essay (2500 words)

Principles of Evidence-Based Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Robert Briner
Overlap: In taking this module you cannot take BUS242

Description: The ultimate goal of evidence-based practice is to help practitioners become more effective through providing a framework for making decisions and taking actions which incorporate the best available evidence from multiple sources. This module will focus on evidence-based practice in management and to provide participants with hands-on experience of how to use different types of evidence and information including organisational/company data and scientific findings both to identify real management problems and their potential solutions.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% In-class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 70% Shortened Version of a Critically Appraised Topic (2500 words)

Social and Environmental Accounting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Claudine Grisard

Description: This module aims to combine both traditional accounting skills and perception of the sustainability accounting. The content of the module is drawn from the areas considered peripheral to traditional accounting but issues very relevant to day-to-day lives. The topics include external reporting; environmental accounting ¿ management systems; social accounting; theoretical frameworks in social and environmental accounting; sustainable development; social auditing; social financial reporting; non-financial reporting; ethical reporting; history of social and environmental accounting; international comparative reporting on social and environmental accounting.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Portfolio
• Item 2: 80% Individual Essay

Contemporary Issues in Accounting and Ethics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Claudine Grisard
Corequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take BUS363

Description: This module will follow-on from some of the content taught at Social and Environment Accounting 1 module. More specifically, students will investigate the current issues in accounting including recent financial collapse in the past few decades, corporate scandals, stock market crashes, financial crises, human rights violations within corporations, incidences of bribery and corruptions, and neglect of business ethics and their implications, all resulting in losses of billions of funds for investors and society as a whole in more recent times.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Portfolio
• Item 2: 80% Individual Essay

Marketing Dissertation

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Dr Darryn Mitussis
Prerequisite: Before taking this module you should gain an average mark of between 65 and 100 from BUS007

Description: The Marketing Dissertation is for BSc Marketing and Management students and enables students to develop their understanding of an area of marketing through 30 credits of supervised research. The dissertation will usually, but does not need to, include empirical research. Relevant areas of research include, but are not limited to, consumer and organisational buying behaviour, marketing strategy, product development, distribution, pricing and marketing communications.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Marketing Dissertation (10000 words)

Quantitative Research Methods

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Guven Demirel

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 25% In-Class Test 1 (1 hour)
• Item 2: 25% In-Class Test 2 (1 hour)
• Item 3: 50% Group Project

Comparative Employment Relations

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mod Reg Dept Contact - Dept Of Business Management

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Presentation
• Item 2: 80% Essay (3000 words)

Managing Diversity

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Nelarine Cornelius

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Presentation
• Item 2: 80% Essay (3000 words)

The Global Economy

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Roman Matousek

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% PC-based Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% PC-based Individual Assessment (2 hours)

Brand Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Yasmin Ibrahim

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Group Project
• Item 2: 70% Essay (3000 words)

Multinationals and Global Business

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Thomas Kemeny

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 15% Group-led Seminar Activity
• Item 2: 15% Seminar Reading Log x 6
• Item 3: 70% Essay (2500 words)

Corporate Finance for Managers

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Sushanta Mallick

Description: 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

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Mid-Semester In-Class Test
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Corporate Finance for Managers

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Sushanta Mallick

Description: 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

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Mid-Semester In-Class Test
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

International Macroeconomics and Finance

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Brigitte Granville

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 60% Problem-Solving Based Coursework (2 hours)
• Item 2: 40% Group Essay (1500 words)

International Reward Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Maria Koumenta

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Report (1500 words)
• Item 2: 70% Essay (3000 words)

Managerial Economics

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mrs Caterina Gennaioli

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Case Study (2000 words)

Financial Reporting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Mohammed Kasbar

Description: 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).

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay (2500 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Understanding Consumer Behaviour

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Eric Levy

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Project Report (2500 words)

Understanding Consumer Behaviour

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Eric Levy

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Project Report (2500 words)

International Accounting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mod Reg Dept Contact - Dept Of Business Management

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Integrated Group Presentation (15 mins)
• Item 2: 70% Essay (2500 words)

Corporate Governance

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Didem Gundogdu

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay (2000 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Contemporary Issues in Accounting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mod Reg Dept Contact - Dept Of Business Management

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay (2000 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Advanced Management Accounting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mr Chandres Tejura

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay (2500 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Organisational Behaviour

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Patrizia Kokot-Blamey

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay (1800 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Organisational Behaviour

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Patrizia Kokot-Blamey

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay (1800 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Accounting for Business Models

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Colin Haslam

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay (2000 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Accounting and Value Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Sukhdev Johal

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay (2000 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Financial Markets and Institutions

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Ni Peng

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 30% Group Project (3500 words)
• Item 3: 50% Examination (2 hours)

Economics of Development

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Roxana Belinda Gutierrez-Romero

Description: This course introduces contemporary theories and the empirical literature of the economics of developing countries with specific reference to public policy delivery. The course will address the problems with public policy delivery in developing countries and what solutions and strategies have been identified in the literature. The course will deal with debates such as centralised and decentralised delivery methods, political economy issues of corruption and state capture, and the role of incentives among politicians and bureaucrats in service delivery.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Data Assessment (No word limit)
• Item 2: 30% Essay 1 (1500 words)
• Item 3: 50% Essay 2 (2500 words)

New Product Development and Business Ecosystems

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Giuliano Maielli

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Project
• Item 2: 80% Individual Essay (2500 words)

Behavioural Finance and Decision Making

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Yaz Muradoglu

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Individual Coursework (3000 words)

Strategic Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Yasser Bhatti

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Essay (3000 words)

Strategic Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Yasser Bhatti

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Essay (3000 words)

International Business Strategy

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Lutao Ning

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Presentation
• Item 2: 80% Examination (2 hours)

World Economy and Development

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mod Reg Dept Contact - Dept Of Business Management

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 15% Seminar Reading Log x 5
• Item 2: 15% Group Presentation (5 mins)
• Item 3: 70% Essay (2500 words)

Introduction to Marketing Theory and Concepts

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Arash Valipour

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Group Project (2000 words)
• Item 2: 70% Individual Essay (3000 words)

Introduction to Marketing Theory and Concepts

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Arash Valipour

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Group Project (2000 words)
• Item 2: 70% Individual Essay (3000 words)

Relationship and Network Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Jie Sheng

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Group Project (2000 words)
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Relationship and Network Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Jie Sheng

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 30% Group Project (2000 words)
• Item 2: 70% Examination (2 hours)

Research Methods for Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Yuansi Hou

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Research Proposal (3000 words)

Research Methods for Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Yuansi Hou

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Research Proposal (3000 words)

Digital Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Dimitrios Dousios

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Individual Project (3000 words)

Digital Marketing

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Dimitrios Dousios

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Individual Project (3000 words)

Dissertation for Management

Credits: 60.0
Contact: Dr Lilian Ngozi Schofield

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Dissertation (10000 words)

Dissertation for Management

Credits: 60.0
Contact: Dr Lilian Ngozi Schofield

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Dissertation (10000 words)

Dissertation for International Financial Management

Credits: 60.0
Contact: Dr Deven Bathia

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Dissertation (10000 words)

Dissertation for International HRM & Employment Relations

Credits: 60.0
Contact: Dr Maria Adamson

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Dissertation (12000 words)

Dissertation for International Business

Credits: 60.0
Contact: Prof Brigitte Granville

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Dissertation (10000 words)

Dissertation for Accounting and Management

Credits: 60.0
Contact: Dr Evisa Mitrou

Description: 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+.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Dissertation (10000 words)

Dissertation for Marketing

Credits: 60.0
Contact: Dr Yuansi Hou

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Dissertation (10000 words)

Dissertation for Marketing

Credits: 60.0
Contact: Dr Yuansi Hou

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Dissertation (10000 words)

Financial Analysis and Management Accounting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Androniki Triantafylle

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay (2500 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Financial Analysis and Management Accounting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Androniki Triantafylle

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay (2500 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Leading Organisational Change

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Stefan Krummaker

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Examination (2 hours)

Leading Organisational Change

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mod Reg Dept Contact - Dept Of Business Management

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 100% Examination (2 hours)

Human Resource Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Mod Reg Dept Contact - Dept Of Business Management

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Project (2500 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Applied Empirical Methods

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Roxana Belinda Gutierrez-Romero

Description: 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).

Assessment:

• Item 1: 10% Quiz (No word limit)
• Item 2: 40% Group Project (1500 words)
• Item 3: 50% In-class Test (1 hour)

Corporate Reporting

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Evisa Mitrou

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

International Business Analysis

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Nikolaos Tsitsianis

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay (2500 words)
• Item 2: 60% Digital Examination (2 hours 30 mins)

International Finance

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Deven Bathia

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 20% Group Project
• Item 2: 20% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 3: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Management Control

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Nikolaos Tsitsianis

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% In-Class Test (1 hour)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Risk and Crisis Management

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Prof Perri 6

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Essay (2000 words)
• Item 2: 60% Examination (2 hours)

Group Project in Business Analytics

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Mod Reg Dept Contact - Dept Of Business Management

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 40% Group Project
• Item 2: 60% Report (4000 words)

Masterclass in Business Analytics

Credits: 30.0
Contact: Dr Guven Demirel

Description: 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.

Assessment:

• Item 1: 15% Quiz
• Item 2: 15% Presentation
• Item 3: 70% Essay (5000 words)

Complex Networks and Innovation

Credits: 15.0
Contact: Dr Zeynep Gurguc Farooqui

Description: 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.