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Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Ulla Blumenschein
Description: Following an introductory rehearsal of special relativity, particle scatterings and decays, the module focuses on theoretical foundations and experimental aspects of modern elementary particle and nuclear physics. It covers modern particle accelerators and radiation detectors, conservation laws, the three fundamental forces and their unification, modern neutrino physics, various nuclear models and their implications, radioactive decays, fission and fusion. Higher-level theoretical concepts are introduced from first principles where needed. The course also includes discussions of contemporary discoveries and advances in the field.
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Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Timothy Clifton
Description: This module starts with mathematics and principles required to formulate general relativity, before moving on to consider how the theory describes empty space, black holes, and the generation of gravitational waves. The motion of particles and the propagation and observation of rays of light is discussed. The module covers both strong gravitational fields (as found near black holes), and weak gravitational fields (as found in the solar system). The module ends with a discussion of the detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Francesco VolponiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SPA7010P
Description: "Galaxies are the building blocks of the universe and deserve the extensive study they now enjoy. This course applies basic physical ideas to astronomical observations, exploring the properties of galaxies themselves and the evolution of structure in the universe."
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Elham RezasoltaniPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA4122
Description: In this module some advanced mathematical techniques are developed in the context of solving real physical problems. Computer algebra (MAPLE) is used in the practical classes to enable you to learn a professional physicists approach to real problem-solving.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Jonathan Hays
Description: This module develops professional and computational skills that are fundamental to the discipline, enable student engagement with employers, and expand student networks. Students develop introductory computational skills including using and writing computer programs to model physical systems, analyse quantitative data, and solve problems. These computational skills are applicable to any role that requires quantitative analysis and evidence-based decision making. Students will become proficient in preparing professional quality documents including scientific project reports, presentations and job application materials.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Christopher Chen
Description: "A plasma is an ionized gas where the magnetic and electric field play a key role in binding the material together. Plasmas are present in almost every astrophysical environment, from the surface of pulsars to the Earth's ionosphere. This module explores the unique properties of plasmas, such as particle gyration and magnetic reconnection. The emphasis is on the plasmas found in the Solar System, from the solar corona and solar wind to the outer reaches of the heliosphere and the interstellar medium. Fundamental astrophysical processes are explored, such as the formation of supersonic winds, magnetic energy release, shock waves and particle acceleration. The module highlights the links between the plasmas we can observe with spacecraft and the plasmas in more distant and extreme astrophysical objects."
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Natalie Shoham
Description: This module will introduce students to the aetiology, diagnosis and management of conditions typically seen in secondary mental healthcare. We will cover the full lifespan, beginning with a general overview of key issues, controversies and uncertainties. Sessions will include: mental illness in pregnancy and the postpartum period, mental illness in childhood / adolescence, psychosis, bipolar affective disorder, personality disorders, eating disorders, and mental illnesses presenting in older people, including the impacts of delirium and dementia. Teachers will be clinicians and researchers with experience of working with people with serious mental illnesses.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Richard Nelson
Description: The module is a broad survey of Astronomy aiming to acquaint you with evolution of the universe and its constituents. A particular theme is the role played by the known laws of physics in understanding astronomical observation. You will: (i) gain a familiarity with the constituents of the observed universe; (ii) appreciate, and be able to explain, the important part played by the laws of physics in designing observations, and in interpreting and understanding them; (iii) be able to explain the different types of information obtainable from observations across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from gamma rays to radio waves.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Daniele D'Alvia
Description: The chosen topics should relate to a relevant specialisation within the academic fields of Regulations and Compliance.The particular subject area is the student's own choice, guided and agreed by their supervisor. It is expected that students will undertake primary research and/or secondary research based in the sources where the data has not been already subjected to a relevant analysis.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Andrea Palinski
Description: This module provides students with major theories of different schools of thought and paradigms within psychology, such as the Psychoanalytic Paradigm, the Sociocultural Paradigm, the Trait Paradigm, the Learning Paradigm, the Evolutionary Paradigm and the Existential-Humanistic Paradigm. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the history of psychology and the nature of psychopathology. This module also touches upon branches of philosophy such as epistemology, rationalism and empiricism and explores how contemporary philosophers, such as Kuhn's and Popper's view of science.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Filip Saranovic
Description: Dissertation - independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Eric Heinze
Description: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 tells us that `the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world¿. But on what grounds? What counts as `dignity¿ and what makes it `inherent¿ to human beings? What counts as equality and what makes human rights the `foundation¿ of freedom, justice and peace? Many governments throughout history have promised various goods, but do human goods mean the same thing as human rights? If not, then what turns goods into rights? Given the historically recent concept of human rights must we conclude that societies lacking the concept necessarily lack freedom, justice and peace?
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prerequisite: Before or while taking this module you must take SOLM075
Description: The module introduces students to fundamental problems and concepts pertaining to intellectual property rights, with an emphasis on copyright law, in digital environments. The module focuses on the divergent interests of various stakeholders, such as authors, exploiters, consumers and creators that challenge law making today, and addresses topics ranging from the protection of software and databases, exclsuive rights and limitations, technological protection measures, the relationship between IP and fundamental rights, and online enforcement amongst others. A further emphasis will be placed on the role of the European Court of Justice and the interface between international norms and market integration.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Francesco VolponiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SPA7010U
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Alan DrewPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA4103
Description: This course aims to illustrate some important aspects of physics through experimental measurements. The course will be marked by continuous assessment of student laboratory notebooks, which will not be allowed to be removed from the laboratory. Students will perform a number of experiments over the term and will then have to write a scientific paper on one of the experiments that they have performed. The experiments are: Alpha particle spectroscopy; Thermal equation of state and critical point of ethane, Hall effect measurement of germanium; Building a Helium Neon Laser; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; Building a Michelson Interferometer and measuring the magnetostriction of metals and the refractive index of air; X-ray diffraction spectroscopy; The Zeeman effect.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Noam Shemtov
Description: This module seeks to take a holistic approach and treat software based products and services as a distinct subject matter and consider its protectability throughout its various life-cycle phases, from inception, through development, to launch and commercialization, the relevance and application of distinct IP rights (including trade secrets) in each of these phases, highlighting key protectability milestones and the unique considerations that they may entail. The module will examine the relevant issues primarily from a European and US perspective.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Christopher ClarksonPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA6311 and take SPA6308. Before or while taking this module you are advised to take SPA7019U
Description: This module covers advanced concepts of modern cosmology, and in particular will introduce the student to cosmological perturbation theory. It discusses the observed structure of the universe, how these structures formed, and how they can be used to test our theories and models of the universe. The module will also discuss recent and upcoming experiments and large scale structure surveys and their relevance for cosmology.
Credits: 60.0Contact: Dr Filip Saranovic
Description: Dissertation ¿ independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Theodora Dallas
Description: The module maps out both classic and contemporary work in mental health and relates theory to practice, particularly in psychotherapy. Research is drawn from a number of different therapeutic treatments, such as psychoanalysis, CBT, group and family therapy and 3rd wave therapies. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the effectiveness of each method and how these are used to treat a range of mental illnesses such as Psychosis, Depression and Personality Disorders. Students will be also submitting a reflective piece based on their clinical placement.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Eleni Kaprou
Description: The digital environment is developing rapidly bringing forward new opportunities for business and challenges for regulators. This is an exciting time for consumer law with many changes underway as the regulation of the digital environment has become a priority. This module examines the latest developments in the UK and in other jurisdictions, such as the EU. From dark patterns to regulation of very large online platforms to online contracts, this module aims to get students to critically engage with the latest digital business practices and the regulatory responses.
Credits: 15.0Contact: To Be Confirmed
Description: This module provides a highlevel overview of the regulations and legislation pertaining to the electricity sector. It will provide an overview of the electricity value chain, including transmission, distribution, generation, supply as well as wholesale trading and discuss models of electricity market design and regulations, with emphasis on electricity pool models and bilateral trading arrangements in both pre-liberalised and liberalised energy economies. The module will analyse the impact of new technology such as battery storage (BESS) on both electricity market organisation and regulation and consider the role and impact of renewable energy (including support regimes for the same) in electricity markets and wider society. Regulatory concequences of the changes in the energy mix due to the increase of renewable forms of electricity generation, such as capacity markets and the current market reforms considered in GB and the EU will also be analysed. The model will also give students the opportunity to engage with different forms of power purchase agreements and their regulatory context (eg, REMIT and MiFID II).
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Matthew BuicanPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA6413Corequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take SPA7018U
Description: This course introduces core concepts in supersymmetry that can be applied to quantitatively understand a broad variety of physical systems and is a complement to the AQFT and FMQFT modules. Starting with supersymmetric quantum mechanics as a toy model, the course covers the supersymmetry algebra, its representations, the Witten Index, and the resulting constraints on quantum dynamics. We then move on to introduce supersymmetric field theories in three space-time dimensions consisting of scalars and fermions while giving a basic introduction to symmetry currents, the classical and quantum Wilsonian renormalization group flow, moduli spaces, spurions, and non-renormalization arguments. The course culminates in a study of simple dualities in three-dimensional supersymmetric abelian gauge theories. We conclude with a discussion of supersymmetry in four space-time dimensions and, time permitting, the embedding of our constructions in string theory.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Christopher Clarkson
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Gabriele TravagliniPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA5304 and take SPA6325 and take SPA5218. Before taking this module you are advised to take SPA7027U
Description: Relativistic wave equations for particles of various spins will be derived and studied, and the physical interpretations of their solutions will be analysed. After an introduction to classical field theory, and the role of symmetries in field theory (including the beautiful Noether's theorem) students will learn the fundamental concepts of quantum field theory, including the quantisation of the free Klein-Gordon and Dirac fields and the derivation of the Feynman propagator. Interactions are introduced and a systematic procedure to calculate scattering amplitudes using Feynman diagrams is derived. We will also compute some explicit tree-level scattering amplitudes in a number of simple examples.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Dr David MulrynePrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA4601
Description: Career Plans and Gathering Evidence for CV; CV and Cover Letter writing; Developing and Recognising Graduate Attributes; Scientific literacy and plagiarism.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof David Burgess
Description: "Research in astrophysics builds on a vast body of literature and archived data. This module is an introduction to research methods which exploit existing information sources in astrophysics. The module serves as preparation for the research project which forms a major part of the MSc programme. In this module students will learn how to review and evaluate with critical insight, the current state of research of a chosen area in astrophysics. They will receive training in writing academic reports in an appropriate style, and will learn how to convey research material in a presentation. Additional topics will be included so that students are prepared for project work at an advanced level. These can include specific exercises in using astronomical data archives, scientific word processing, mathematical skills, using mathematical and data analysis packages, project planning, etc."
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr David VeghPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA7018U
Description: "This module gives a broad exposition of the modern frame work for the unification of special relativity and quantum theory -- relativistic quantum field theory (QFT). Lagrangian formulation and canonical quantisation of free fields with spin = 0, 1/2, 1 are revised. The construction of interacting quantum field theories is devoloped with special focus on phi^4-theory and quantum electrodynamics (QED). Perturbation theory in terms of Feynman diagrams is developed systematically, and important concepts such as regularisation and renormalisation are introduced. These tools are applied to the calculation of simple tree-level and one-loop S-matrix elements and cross-sections in phi^4 theory and QED, corrections to the electron magnetic moment and the running coupling. The course will also touch on more advanced topics such as anomalies, non-Abelian gauge theories, and modern methods for the calculation of S-matrix elements. "
Description: Dissertation ¿ independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field.
Credits: 45.0Contact: Dr Aisah Aubdool
Description: An experimental investigation involving laboratory work, 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.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Eram Rizvi
Description: Practical work in the laboratory serves to illustrate basic concepts in physics, and the processes of carrying out experiments and interpreting their results. You will be taught techniques of measurement and the use of instruments and computers. There are some lectures on statistics and data analysis, which are applied to the laboratory measurements. There is no final examination. All assessment is by coursework and laboratory reports.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Rosa LastraOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SOLM155
Description: The module on 'Select Public International Law Issues in Energy' examines the application of public international law to inter-state energy activities.States have long taken responsibility for satisfying domestic demand for energy. Traditionally, this could largely be done at the local or, at times, regional level. Over the last fifty years, however, increasing demand for energy and, in part as a result, the progressive exhaustion of traditional energy sources has led to a more extensive interdependence between mineral resource-rich and mineral resource-scarce countries and cooperation in the energy sector. This, in turn, has led to state regulation of these activities and the emergence of a complex web of inter-state norms and practices. These norms have also evolved significantly as a result of the climate emergency and Russia's invasion of Ukraine which has led to a recent energy crisis. Part I of the module provides the foundations of public international law concepts and principles applicable to energy activities, as well as covering the actors engaged in these activities, with a strong focus on states as the primary actors initiating and endorsing energy activities. Part II covers plurilateral and bilateral treaties governing energy activities, including treaties on the joint exploitation of common offshore oil and gas deposits, treaties on the joint exploitation of international watercourses, treaties on cross-border transportation of hydrocarbons, and energy cooperation treaties. This Part also cover the interplay between these treaties and custom. Part III examines how public international law deals with the decommissioning of energy installations.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Karen WattonOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SOLM213 or take SOLM307
Description: In this practical module, students will work in teams to solve a problem for a real client using a Legal Design approach. Legal Design is a creative problem-solving framework used by lawyers and legal innovators to help them adapt for the future of legal practice. Students will learn the theory and practice of Legal Design and apply their legal knowledge to develop and deliver a prototype solution to the client. Students will engage with the client and external lawyers in addition to the teaching team.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Eliza Tamsin Platts-MillsOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SOLM213 or take SOLM308
Description: The Public Legal Education for Start-Ups module gives students hands on experience preparing commercially aware, engaging and accessible legal education videos and other resources for UK start-ups and entrepreneurs. Module students will be trained and supervised in the preparation and delivery of legal education resources covering UK commercial, corporate, intellectual property, data privacy and employment law. Students learn through inter-active class discussions and exercises during the classes and are supervised in their legal education work by qLegal staff and UK practicing solicitors.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Matthew BuicanOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take INK7090PCorequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take SPA7018P
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Tarek AnousPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA6308Corequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take SPA7018U
Description: The aim of this course is to complement the core Relativistic Waves and Quantum Fields (RWQF) module by providing the student with some advanced tools essential for research in modern Theoretical Physics. Using the same starting point as RWQF, Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, we will focus on the Lagrangian formulation of the two most prominent theories of our time: Yang-Mills (gauge) theory and gravity. The alternative notation of differential forms will be explored and the geometric aspects of gauge theory emphasised. Building on this, and introducing elements from group theory and fibre bundles we will introduce classical solitons as localised, finite energy solutions to the classical field equations in various dimensions (kinks in 2d, vortices in 3d, monopoles in 4d, instantons in Euclidean 4d) and discuss their properties, including the existence of zero-modes, associated collective coordinates and moduli spaces.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Craig AgnorPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA4121 and take SPA4122 and take SPA4401 and take SPA4402 and take SPA4210
Description: This module provides a general introduction to numerical problem solving with the programming language Python. Scientific computing provides an inherently interdisciplinary approach to problem solving; one that combines aspects of applied mathematics, computer science, and software engineering with concepts and models from the physical sciences.In this module basic aspects of scientific computation, including computer number representations, machine precision, discretisation of equations, error and uncertainty, will be discussed. The mathematical underpinnings of numerical methods of problem solving will be developed, including numerical integration and differentiation, searching, data fitting, interpolation, matrix computing, and solving differential equations.These theoretical topics will be put into practice during weekly computational laboratory exercises where computer programs will be written that utilise a variety of numerical techniques to solve problems. Authentic examples from the physical sciences and industry and will be explored.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Matthew Buican
Description: "This course aims to introduce the fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics from the beginning. By studying applications of the principles of quantum mechanics to simple systems the course will provide a foundation for understanding concepts such as energy quantisation, the uncertainty principle and quantum tunnelling, illustrating these with experimental demonstrations and other phenomena found in nature. These concepts are introduced and applied to systems of increasing (mathematical) complexity: (i)Infinite 1-D quantum wells. (ii)Finite 1-D quantum wells (introducing graphical solutions of transcendental equations). (iii)LCAO methods for modelling ions. (iv)Simple Harmonic oscillators (introducing Hermite polynomials and applying energy solutions to molecular vibrational spectra). (v)Beams of free particles, probability flux and reflection/transmission in stepwise varying potentials. (vi)Finite potential barriers and tunnelling, Tunnelling through arbitrary potential barriers (the Gamow factor), field emission and Alpha decay and tunnelling. The Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM). (vii)The solution to the Hydrogen atom, including separation of variables, spherical harmonics, the radial equation and electronic energy levels and the quantum numbers n, l, ml and ms and resulting degeneracy. (viii)The treatment of angular momentum in quantum mechanics, its magnitude and projection along an axis. (ix)Introduction to first order, time independent, perturbation theory."
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Timothy CliftonPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA6308
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Gabriele Travaglini
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Marcella BonaPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA4122Corequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take SPA5666
Description: In this module, you will develop a broad range of skills in the practical analysis of real-world data. This will cover all of the major steps of data analysis, including the cleaning and pre-processing of datasets, initial analysis and visualisation techniques, the selection of appropriate methods to perform in-depth analyses and make statistical inferences from them, the fitting of meaningful physical models in the presence of imperfections and noise in the data, and the estimation of uncertainties and how they affect the conclusions that can be drawn. This module has an emphasis on the hands-on application of data analysis techniques using the Python and R programming languages, and is taught partly through lectures and partly through computer-based lab projects.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nicola Mcconkey
Description: This module covers the dramatic developments in physics that occurred in the early twentieth century, introducing special and general relativity and quantum theory. In relativistic mechanics we will study special relativity; the Lorentz transformation; length contraction and time dilation; the clock paradox; relativistic kinematics and dynamics; general relativity and its tests and consequences; and black holes and galactic lenses. In quantum theory, we will study descriptions of the evidence for particle-like properties of waves, and wave-like properties of particles, followed by their consequences and their formal expression in physical law: topics include Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Schrodinger's equation and elementary quantum mechanics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr David VeghPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA7018P
Description: This module gives a broad exposition of the modern framework for the unification of special relativity and quantum theory - relativistic quantum field theory (QFT). Lagrangian formulation and canonical quantisation of free fields with spin = 0, 1/2, 1 are revised. The construction of interacting quantum field theories is devoloped with special focus on phi^4-theory and quantum electrodynamics (QED). Perturbation theory in terms of Feynman diagrams is developed systematically, and important concepts such as regularisation and renormalisation are introduced. These tools are applied to the calculation of simple tree-level and one-loop S-matrix elements and cross-sections in phi^4 theory and QED, corrections to the electron magnetic moment and the running coupling. The course will also touch on more advanced topics such as anomalies, non-Abelian gauge theories, and modern methods for the calculation of S-matrix elements.
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Credits: 30.0Contact:
Description: This module offers students an introduction to key contemporary social/poltical issues through weekly lectures and seminars, supplemented by external site visits. All teaching is in English. Assessments will be set and marked in English but students have the possibility to write in French.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Guido Westkamp
Description: Independent research. An advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of law: the chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Theodora Dallas
Description: This module provides students with practical application of Applied Research Methods. The general aim is to equip students with transferable skills that can be either used towards completing an empirical project or conducting a systematic review. There is no taught component in this module, except for 4 hours of tutorial sessions delivered on alternate weeks. These 4 sessions will be complementary to 5 tutorial sessions delivered in Semester 2 for Psychological Therapies:Paradigms and Systems and Psychological Therapies: applications and Effectiveness. The aim of these 4 tutorial sessions is to provide academic support for their completion of their Pilot study.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Dimitrios Kalogiros
Description: This module provides a wide range of introductory object-oriented programming, data analysis and data visualisation skills. The main focus is the powerful programming languages of Python, R, Matlab and visualisation tools of Tableau, Google Charts, Microsoft Power BI and JupyterR. The weekly interactive learning sessions will be supplemented by weekly computer laboratory/coding drop-in sessions allowing students to acquire the hands-on and on-screen experience they need in exploring the landscape of data science. Students will work collaboratively to draw conclusions and extract useful information from available datasets. They will gain the invaluable skills on how to interpret and report their analysis and results in ways that are informative and appropriate to varied audiences including internal and external stakeholders for informed decision making purposes.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Rosa Lastra
Description: This module will analyze the law of international financial institutions, in particular the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and regional development banks such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. It will also consider the law and institutions of the Economic and Monetary Union and examine the law of the European Central Bank and the law of the euro, as well as the pillars of the Banking Union: the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM); the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) and the proposed European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS).
Credits: 60.0Contact: Dr Ava Kanyeredzi
Description: This module is designed for students undertaking a research project in their chosen area of mental health. Although this module is predominately independent study, students are expected to complete a set of formative assessments and have regular contact with their supervisor in order to monitor progress.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mr Carlos Bellorin Nunez
Description: Petroleum laws and contracts are the ultimate manifestation of policy and are the result of lengthy negotiation processes and have an unusual dynamic. According to the World Bank, between 1999 and 2010 more than 30 countries revised their petroleum contracts and made major amendments or completely changed their petroleum legal and fiscal framework. Several more countries have done the same since the 2014 oil price downturn in order to adapt themselves to the changes in the industry. This module will examine the main type of contracts used in the upstream petroleum industry (Production Sharing Agreements, Concessions and Service Agreements) and their most important legal and fiscal mechanisms and the reasons why these are so frequently changed. This course will also focus on the study of these contracts dynamics within the so-called energy transition, risk mitigation strategies in order to avoid the most common forms of legal and political risks: expropriations and contract renegotiation.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Devis Di Tommaso
Description: The ML in Materials Discovery module is designed to help you understand how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be applied to the domain of materials science for materials discovery and help you attain a deeper understanding of ML methods applied to real scientific datasets to refine your practical skills. In this module you will learn the basics of modern chemical informatics, and how AI and ML methods can be exploited to study material properties. Then you will apply these computational methods to design new materials, and to model and predict their properties. You will have the opportunity to apply these techniques to specific cutting-edge examples.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Tarek AnousCorequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take SPA7018P
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Thomas James HaworthOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SPA7006U
Description: Radiative transfer describes the emission and propagation of light. In this course students will learn how we use radiative transfer to infer the properties and evolution of distant objects from light alone. They will also learn how light influences the temperature and motion of matter. Light also affects the composition of astrophysical systems which naturally links the course to an introduction to astrochemistry. This module provides a key toolkit for most observational and theoretical astrophyiscs.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Ian Walden
Description: This module examines the law and regulation of the telecommunications sector in the European Union and at an international level. In particular, the course will concentrate on the licensing and authorisation of the provision of equipment, networks and services; the various obligations imposed upon all operators and those with market dominance, such as universal service; the building of international networks and the regimes established under the International Telecommunications Union and the agreements under the World Trade Organization; as well as regulatory issues in developing countries.
Description: This module provides students with the opportunity to study the relevant laws pertaining to the theatre industry and aspects of the performing arts. The module covers key aspects of productions, including development and rights acquisition and management, co-productions, financial and licensing considerations, censorship, exploitation and streaming. Various creative contributions will also be examined, including set and prop design, makeup and costume design, music and musicians, choreography, and performance. Some aspects of performance art will also be considered.
Description: The Cloud computing in AI module is designed to familiarise yourself with the latest Cloud computing and decentralised applications technologies in the context of data management and AI and ML applications. This module will allow you to build working knowledge of the fundamentals of data management and data processing and then to explore network concepts, types of devices and data center functions. You will learn about services provided on the top 'Big Clouds' and practice on how to combine these services to support AI analyses and modelling. You will acquire confidence in applying all the tools learned in your master programme to the widest range of computing and business environments.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Antigoni-Aikaterini Lykotrafiti
Description: Air transport is one of the most heavily regulated sectors of the economy. For passengers and goods to be transported safely, regularly, economically and efficiently, a dense web of rules is governing aspects such as the use of airspace, safety, security, air navigation, airports and the environment. This module examines the international, supranational and national rules that make aviation pride itself on being the safest and most innovative mode of transport, as well as the industry that has globalised the world, contributing to peace and economic growth. It also examines critically the lack of uniformity in the international regulatory framework and its implications for the industry and the economy at large.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Miriam Goldby
Description: Specialist dispute resolution mechanisms catering to specific industry needs are popular in international commerce, and arbitration has emerged as the dominant industry choice for resolving shipping disputes, in particular charterparty disputes. Indeed important maritime arbitration centres have long been established in London and New York, and more recently others have started to emerge in countries such as Russia, China and Singapore. London remains a leader in this field with a large number of disputes being decided each year through arbitration in accordance with the terms of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association. The module will tackle questions such as: What is special about maritime arbitration and what distinguishes it from general commercial arbitration? What are the features of maritime arbitration that make it particularly popular? Is arbitration by its nature more suited to the resolution of disputes arising in connection with certain types of shipping contracts (e.g. charterparties) rather than others (e.g. contracts of carriage contained in bills of lading)? Why? What are the implications of widespread use of arbitration for the continued development of shipping law?
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Craig Agnor
Description: Students will use their skills and knowledge acquired at both BSc and Masters level to carry out an advanced independent open- ended research project in the area of physics or astronomy. This involves planning, executing and reporting the results of an experiment, theory or modelling at a level substantially exceeding the BSc course and involving a considerable degree of originality and independence. Each project is open-ended and performed in collaboration with a specialist supervisor.Regular supervisor meetings are supplemented with tutorials that develop key skills such as understanding advanced research problems; effective reading and note taking; how to search existing specialist literature using Web of Science and other resources; conceptualising research; and effective showcasing of project and student skills.The tutorials will also equip students with core employability advice and skills to prepare them for taking confident next steps into industry/academia after the end of their studies.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Thomas James HaworthOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SPA7006P
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Francesco Volponi
Description: "Stars are important constituents of the universe. This module starts from well known physical phenomena such as gravity, mass conservation, pressure balance, radiative transfer of energy and energy generation from the conversion of hydrogen to helium. From these, it deduces stellar properties that can be observed (that is, luminosity and effective temperature or their equivalents such as magnitude and colour) and compares the theoretical with the actual. In general good agreement is obtained but with a few discrepancies so that for a few classes of stars, other physical effects such as convection, gravitational energy generation and degeneracy pressure have to be included. This allows an understanding of pre-main sequence and dwarf stages of evolution of stars, as well as the helium flash and supernova stages."
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Anne Flanagan
Description: The security of important data, including personal, is of considerable concern to governments around the world as is the safety of critical infrastructure assets, systems, and networks (both public and private) that are considered so vital that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety. Concerns about former have led to growing legal obligations to ensure the security of information and the systems that transmit and store it. Whether as part of personal data protection regimes, sector-specific regulations (e.g., healthcare, banking and finance) private law or company law obligations, these present a growing source of potential corporate liability. Concerns about the latter have produced frameworks to enable oversight and cooperation needed to manage and mitigate risks to critical infrastructure. This course examines various EU and US legal frameworks
Description: Internet technologies have enabled new ways of committing crimes and have moved 'old' crimes such as fraud online - this has created interesting challenges to substantive criminal law. These challenges concern both the interpretation of traditional criminal law (common law and statute based) and potential new crimes where there is a need to develop the law to close legal gaps. This Module examines substantive criminal law(s) of different jurisdictions (using the UK and the US as the main comparators) from a comparative and international perspective. It also looks at international harmonization efforts such as the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime and the EU framework for the harmonization of the law in the fields of cybercrime. The Module looks at definitions and categorisation of cybercrime; the relationships between cyberterrorims, cyberwarfare and cybercrime; content related cybercrime (such as child sex abuse images; pornography; IP infringement; terrorism propaganda (glorification and encouragement); hate speech); communication offences and harassment; online fraud and forgery; computer misuse (hacking; malicious code; interception) and illegal devices and malicious marketplaces. It will also examine the jurisdictional aspects of such criminality.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Abigail Waldron
Description: The research methods module is designed to help you attain the relevant skills to assess, understand, and visualise data and to undertake your research project. This includes essential skills such as communication and organising information from the literature, through to being able to extract information on data science methods from a multidisciplinary environment and report writing. A strong emphasis will be placed on enabling you to engage with complex information from seminars and to discuss that information to explore how it relates to material studied on your programme. Discussion sessions will be a key part in helping you develop as a data scientist and enhance transferable skills that will benefit you in the rest of your degree and future employment.
Description: This module introduces students to a broad range of theoretical critiques of conventional (doctrinal) legal scholarship. The course begins with liberal political theory (Aristotle, Locke and Hobbes). It then considers more specific liberal critiques of law (Economic analysis, Rule of Law critique, and Mill¿s harm principle). The last section of the course looks at Foucault, Feminist legal theory, and Critical Legal Theory.
Description: Marine insurance is a fascinating and important area of international shipping law. Shipping has always been perilous - adverse sea conditions, piracy, accidents and pollution at sea, deterioration of goods during transportation - and both owners of vessels and cargo have increasingly sought, over the years, to protect themselves in the event of loss. This module deals with the law of marine insurance. This module will examine, among other issues, the definition and formation of a marine insurance contract (including the duty of disclosure and insurable interest), the parties to the contract and the various risks covered (as well as those excluded), what constitutes evidence of the contract and its terms, claims under the contract, assignment, subrogation and contribution, the rule of proximate cause, and the diverse forms of loss that a vessel or cargo owner might suffer.
Credits: 60.0Contact: Dr Karim Malik
Description: The MSc project involves a critical review of a chosen topic in modern astrophysics, and may include some original research. Students write a dissertation summarising current research in that chosen field and the extent of their own investigations.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Edward Gillen
Description: "Ever since the dawn of civilization human beings have speculated about the existence of planets outside of the Solar System orbiting other stars. The first bona fide extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main sequence star was discovered in 1995, and subsequent planet searches have uncovered the existence of more than one hundred planetary systems in the Solar neighbourhood of our galaxy. These discoveries have reignited speculation and scientific study concerning the possibility of life existing outside of the Solar System. This module provides an in depth description of our current knowledge and understanding of these extrasolar planets. Their statistical and physical properties are described and contrasted with the planets in our Solar System. Our understanding of how planetary systems form in the discs of gas and dust observed to exist around young stars will be explored, and current scientific ideas about the origin of life will be discussed. Rotationally supported discs of gas (and dust) are not only important for explaining the formation of planetary systems, but also play an important role in a large number of astrophysical phenomena such as Cataclysmic Variables, X-ray binary systems, and active galactic nuclei. These so-called accretion discs provide the engine for some of the most energetic phenomena in the universe. The second half of this module will describe the observational evidence for accretion discs and current theories for accretion disc evolution."
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Angelos Dimopoulos
Description: This module examines the different public policy interests that guide regulation of international investments. It explores theories on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), how the law deals with FDI and in particular what is the role and objectives of international investment law. Moreover, this module examines how different legal instruments balance investment promotion and protection objectives with other regulatory interests, such as human rights and environmental protection. The aim is to enable students to critically reflect on the objectives of investment regulation and whether existing rules offer an appropriate balance of (conflicting) public policy interests.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Enrico Camporeale
Description: The AI in Astrophysics and Space Science module is designed to help you understand how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be applied to the astrophysics and space-science domains and help you attain a deeper understanding of ML methods applied to real scientific datasets to refine your practical skills and to help prepare for your independent study research project irrespective of the specific problem domain of that. In this module you will learn about data preparation and pathologies related to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, you will apply the methods you have studied in your other AI and ML and your Deep Learning modules, and you will explore knowledge-guided machine learning.
Credits: 120.0Contact: Dr David Vegh
Description: Students will develop design, experimental, computational or analytical skills through the independent study of a problem in physics. They will learn to write a scientific report summarising results of an independent investigation, placing them in a physics context, and detailing the methods used and the results obtained. The project will run through both semesters and will involve a report and an oral presentation.
Credits: 60.0Contact: Dr David Vegh
Description: The MSc Research Project is at the heart of the MSc programme. It is an independent project undertaken by the student within a working research group in the School. The project runs over three semesters in order to allow for the student to both design their project (using available literature etc.), be trained in the relevant techniques and carry out a reasonably substantial piece of research based on an actual (real) research problem.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Anne Flanagan
Description: This module examines EU data protection laws and examples of the regulatory frameworks established in the Member States. It explores the key debates surrounding and commercial and other implications under the new regime of the General Data Protection Regulation, the Policing and Criminal Justice Data and the E Privacy framework, including the challenges of particular developments, such as telecommunications, cloud computing and the Internet of Things.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Ashley Roughton
Description: The module covers information technology transactions, contracts and licences in a variety of areas, such as: system procurement contracts, commercial software licensing, outsourcing, cloud computing and free and open source software.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Craig Agnor
Description: You will examine a specialised area of physics by directed reading and independent study. You will learn to use scientific research literature databases. You will develop the skill of writing a scientific review summarising current knowledge in a field of physics. You may enrol for this project only with the permission of the Module Organiser for MSci projects. Open only to 3rd year MSci students.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Maksymillan Del Mar
Description: This course is an advanced introduction to common law reasoning. We will examine key issues and debates over the character of common law reasoning, including: is the common law a system of rules? What is the binding content of precedent? What is the place of policies in common law reasoning? What is analogy and how important is it to common law reasoning? And, how is common law reasoning affected by transnational and global forms of legal reasoning?
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Kathryn Leader
Description: This module examines civil and common law jurisdictions in the area of criminal justice in different cultural contexts (i.e. Europe, Asia, Australasia, North America) and addresses possible conflicts of interests when having to work together internationally and trans-nationally. It traces the evolution of civil and common law criminal justice systems, assesses similarities of legal doctrines, theories and application of punishment, prison systems and legal aid provision. The first half of the module will provide an overview of different types of criminal justice systems around the globe, including the assessment of similarities and differences in substantive criminal law. The second half of the module will consider criminal procedure, the trial process, legal aid, penalties, prison systems and rehabilitation programs in different cultural contexts and how judicial cooperation between the systems can by hampered by differences in criminal procedure requirements.
Credits: 60.0Contact: To Be Confirmed
Description: The students work on research topics in one of the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Science set by their project supervisors. Computational work is the principal component of the projects. The work also involves critical evaluation of previously published results. A dissertation is prepared.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Andrew Danos
Description: The module covers fundamental concepts of machine learning with emphasis on the development of practical skills required for the selection and application of machine learning methods to defined problems. Topics include data representation and preparation, unsupervised learning methods, regression and classification methods, artificial neural networks and performance evaluation. Face-to-face teaching will be combined with extensive hands-on sessions in the computational lab.
Description: Astrophysics has been revolutionized by the advent of large accessible data sets and public domain software for accessing that data and also for modelling astrophysical systems. This module will introduce a range of data analysis and modelling methods used in astrophysics, such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo fitting and N-body simulation. Students will develop practical skills with hands-on experience of modern software packages and data from observatories and space missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope, Kepler and the Parker Solar Probe. Minimal programming background is assumed, but students should be familiar with using computers and mathematics at a level commensurate with BSc in Physics (or equivalent).
Description: The module will cover essential aspects of the law relating to carriage of goods by sea (mandatory international law regulating carriage of goods contracts, international standard terms, functions of documents such as bills of lading, waybills and delivery orders, as well as electronic alternatives to these documents, detailed discussion of logistics services and multimodal transport).
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr David MulryneOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SPA6305
Description: "The module considers in detail the basic physical processes that operate in galaxies, using our own Galaxy as a detailed example. This includes the dynamics and interactions of stars, and how their motions can be described mathematically. The interstellar medium is described and models are used to represent how the abundances of chemical elements have changed during the lifetime of the Galaxy. Dark matter can be studied using rotation curves of galaxies, and through the way that gravitational lensing by dark matter affects light. The various topics are then put together to provide an understanding of how the galaxies formed."
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Ian Walden
Description: Internet technologies have enabled new ways of committing crimes and have moved "old"" crimes such as fraud online- this has created interesting challenges to the investigation, prosecution and enforcement of the criminal law. Internet technologies are borderless and have enabled an increase in transnational crime. This Module will examine the legal procedural issues arising from transborder online crime: international co-operation, mutual assistance, extradition; the role played by private actors/industry in the enforcement of cybercrime (payment intermediaries; hosting providers (eg cloud computing); internet access providers; domain name registries and registrars etc); the relationship between public and private enforcement; the national and international powers of collecting intelligence & evidence (including surveillance); the law of evidence and admissibility; computer, device and network forensics."
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Angelos DimopoulosOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SOLM048
Description: This module offers a comprehensive treatment of international law governing foreign investments. It identifies and analyses the sources of international investment law, such as Bilateral Investment Treaties and their content, examining the international law rules that determine investor-State relationships, and discussing their application in practice. It looks into the standards of investors¿ treatment and protection, such as Fair and Equitable Treatment, and assesses their application in arbitral practice. The aim is to familiarise students with the complexities of international investment law, enabling them to give advice about the application of investment law in specific cases.
Description: Students will use their skills and knowledge to carry out an independent research project in the area of physics or astronomy. This involves planning, executing and reporting the results of an experiment or investigation. Each project is open-ended and performed in collaboration with a specialist supervisor.Regular supervisor meetings are supplemented with tutorials that develop key skills such as understanding research problems; effective reading and note taking; how to search existing literature; conceptualising research; and effective showcasing of project and student skills.The tutorials will also equip students with core employability advice and skills to prepare them for taking confident next steps into industry/academia after the end of their studies.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Abigail WaldronOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take ECS708U or take MTH786U
Description: Machine learning influences modern life through many different avenues and is silently revolutionising the way we live and work. We can see the influence of machine learning algorithms in social media, web search engines, mobile device spell checkers and self-driving cars. This module provides an introduction to machine learning using the Python programming language and the TensorFlow (TM) programming toolkit from Google (TM). Minimal programming background is assumed, however students wishing to take this module should be familiar with using computers, and mathematics at a level commensurate with a BSc in Physics or equivalent degree (calculus and linear algebra).
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Andreas Brandhuber
Description: This module is both an introduction and revision, followed by an extended exposition of the basic principles and applications of quantum mechanics. Topics include: Operators and the general structure of quantum mechanics, observables, orthonormality of eigenstates, expansion theorem, commuting operators, theory of measurement; The harmonic oscillator; Angular momentum theory, the rigid rotator and applications to rotation-vibration spectra of diatomic molecules; Spin in quantum mechanics illustrated with spin1/2: matrix representations, Stern-Gerlach experiments and measurement theory exemplified; Indistinguishable particles in quantum mechanics: Bosons and Fermions; Spherically symmetric potentials and the Hydrogen atom.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Maxi Charlotte SchererPrerequisite: This module is only suitable for students with prior experience in international arbitration (i.E. For those who are studying those topics during their llm at qmul or those who have studied or worked in the field in the past).
Description: International arbitration proceedings in the energy sector have seen an important increase in recent years, both in terms of their numbers and their economic and political importance. This module provides students with the basis for understanding the particular issues of disputes in the energy sector, both in international investment and commercial arbitration. It gives students aiming to work in the arbitration area an important qualification in a very competitive market.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Norah Gallagher
Description: This course covers US energy regulation and policy including the impact of pending climate change legislation and proposed Environmental Protection Agency climate change rules and regulations. The US has been a market leader in energy regulation and privatization since World War II. This module looks at how this was achieved in the electricity markets, oil a& gas including unconventional resources and more recently the renewables market. The work of the FERC (Federal Energy Regulaiton Commission) and the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) are also considered.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Abigail WaldronOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take ECS708P or take MTH786P
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Congkao WenCorequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take SPA7018P
Description: The module will cover the basics of string theory, and provide an introduction to the perturbative formulation of string theories. The topics that we will cover include the classical physics of strings, and the quantisation of bosonic and superstrings, perturbative aspects of D-branes, duality symmetries, and two-dimensional conformal field theory and its application to string theory. A brief discussion on some advanced topics in string theory will be given towards the end of the module.
Description: The module will cover all areas of the so-called 'wet' shipping law; i.e., all legal issues that might arise while a vessel and its cargo are at sea arising from various unfortunate incidents. The module will cover in detail collisions at sea, the law of salvage, the problematic area of wreck removal, the complex area of marine pollution, incidents of piracy at sea including the modern employment of armed guards; and the importance and computation of general average adjustments.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Filip Saranovic
Description: The module will examine all aspects of charterparties, being contracts of vessel hire between the relevant parties. More specifically, the module will cover the stage of negotiating a charterparty, the basic principles underlying all such contracts, different types of charterparties (including voyage, time, hybrid and demise charters), various charterparty forms and their practical application, the effect of charterers' orders on the operation of charterparties, and the charters' discharge (including issues of breach, frustration and damages).
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr David MulryneOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SPA6305P
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Kamala Dawar
Description: The module examines the fundamental principles of the law of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Topics covered include sources of WTO law, the relationship between WTO law and international and domestic law, the WTO dispute settlement system, and substantive rules on market access (tariffs and non-tariff barriers), non-discrimination (national treatment and most-favoured nation treatment) and rules aimed at balancing free trade and non-trade concerns. The module provides students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the regulatory framework underpinning the multilateral trading system. On completion of the module, students should be able to advice public authorities, private companies or civil society organisations on the consistency of market access restrictions and discriminatory measures affecting international trade with WTO Law and on the remedies available for breaches of WTO Law.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Andreas BrandhuberPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA5218 and take SPA5319
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof James Dallas
Description: This module will cover all of the legal and policy issues relating to renewable power generation. There are a range of renewable energy sources available from solar to wind, biomass to geothermal. Students will learn how the energy transition will impact the renewable sector as the world moves towards low-carbon energy. This module will consider this move towards reducing Green House Gas emissions and the growing international, regional and national laws that require States to encourage green investment. China, Denmark, Germany and the Middle East will be used as case studies.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Claudia Lemus
Description: Competition law has witnessed an impressive increase in significance and geographical scope during the last two decades or so. From the situation which existed in the 1980s ¿ when there were only a few systems of competition law in the world ¿ we have moved to a new one where currently there are about 145 jurisdictions in which some form of competition law has been introduced with many others seeking to develop the process. It is anticipated that this remarkable geographical expansion of the law will increase in the future.With this unprecedented increase in significance and remarkable geographical expansion of the law (as well as other significant developments such as the process of globalisation), it has become important to examine the role and place of competition law and policy in a globalised economy. The course will aim at such an examination. The course is designed to include 'comparative' elements, covering, among other things, developed competition law systems (EU competition law, US antitrust law, German competition law and the Japanese competition law system), and the newer competition systems such as those of BRICS nations. The origins, structure, major provisions and the enforcement mechanisms of these systems will be discussed. In the light of the globalisation of markets, this module will focus on the different elements of various competition law systems. Starting with an introduction to competition law and economics, we will then proceed with discussing different regimes in a comparative perspective.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Tibisay Morgandi
Description: The International Energy Law and Ethics module is concerned with legal and ethical issues arising in the energy sector. It aims to provide both a theoretical and practical approach to the analysis of these issues.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mr Richard Walters
Description: The module will provide an introduction to the UK system of taxation, both personal and business. It will also allow students to gain an understanding of the key concepts of tax law from a UK perspective. It will cover the basic principles of the taxation of individuals in the UK on their earnings, gains and wealth. The rationale for various types of taxes will be explored, in particular the UK inheritance and capital gains taxes. Much discussed issues such as tax avoidance, sin taxes and zero hour employment contracts will also be considered. The international perspective will be included and comparisons will be made with taxes in other jurisdictions.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Tibisay MorgandiPrerequisite: Before or while taking this module you must take SOLM192 or take SOLM189. Prerequisite applies: students must take one of two modules SOLM189 and SOLM192 in semester 1 - academics will advise students which module applies to them during selection process
Description: This module offers the unique opportunity to work on a real legal project on international economic law of practical importance to a beneficiary. The module is conducted as a legal clinic running over semesters 2 and 3. Students will be grouped in project teams each consisting of a maximum of four students and assigned a project to work on specific questions posed by real beneficiaries who are seeking legal advice on specific problems in international economic law. Under the supervision of an academic supervisor and with the support of professional mentors, each team will prepare written legal memoranda on the assigned problem and present it to the beneficiaries at the end of semester 3. The bulk of the module consists on students' independent work on the project along with meetings with academic supervisors, mentors and beneficiaries as well as workshops on professional skills.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Sucheen Patel
Description: This module seeks to give students a thorough grounding in the essentials of regulatory and compliance environment. To prepare students for issues likely to arise in the application of regulatory framework in various economic and business environments . No previous knowledge of the subject is required. In addition, the module does not require prior knowledge of regulatory framework . The module takes a very practical approach with a number of case studies and always with an eye to the real world implications. Guest lecturers will provide their practical experience and the challenges they face.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Malgosia Fitzmaurice
Description: This course focuses on international legal and institutional arrangements concerning the management of the environment. It examines both theoretical and practical dimensions of these arrangements. This course explores some of the most salient aspects of the expanding area of international environmental law. It examines, in particular, global environmental issues that have risen to the top of the international law and policy agenda in the wake of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio Conference) and the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development and 2015 UN Goals . It deals with the fundamental questions of IEL : the precautionary principles ; polluter pays principle, environmental impact assessment. The notion of sustainable development occupies an important place in this course. It provides an acknowledgment that environmental law needs to be considered at the same time as social and economic dimensions of development The module is linked with human rights law and economic law (WTO).
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Linda CremonesiPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA5666 and take SPA5131
Description: In this module, you will learn about cutting-edge developments in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and how they are being used to solve difficult or previously intractable problems. The aim is to give you an appreciation and background knowledge of what machine learning techniques are capable of, what the most powerful current techniques are, how they work, how they can go wrong, and how you can implement them to solve problems yourself. This module is taught through a combination of lectures on the theory and operation of modern machine learning and AI techniques, and computer lab projects where you will implement such methods as random forests, support vector machines, convolutional neural networks, and generative adversarial networks to solve problems in physics and related fields that would be difficult to address using more traditional analysis techniques.
Description: The purpose of this module is to examine the regulation of non-bank financial institutions and markets, in particular securities firms, insurance companies, fund managers, financial derivatives, financial infrastructures, clearing and settlement. The module also considers the sources and evolution of international financial regulation and the competing demands between prudential regulation and financial services liberalisation.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Sean Mcconville
Description: The study of punishment in the period 1750 -1950 provides a number of fruitful encounters with political and social theory, evolving legal doctrine and concurrent economic and social developments. It requires and imparts versatility and flexibility in the identification of core issues. Handling this and related material can supplement and enrich broader legal studies. Full of human interest and controversy, it is challenging, engrossing and illuminating. Debates range from theories such as moral agency and culpability, to varieties of determinism to consideration of the powers, prerogatives and duties of the state.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Kamala Dawar
Description: The module examines the law that governs international economic relations between states and between states and non-state actors. It provides an overview of international agreements and organizations concerned with state conduct affecting trade, foreign investment, finance and monetary stability. It also considers less formal means of international economic governance such as standards, principles and guidelines. The study of the relevant law is informed by pressing development, environmental and financial stability concerns arising from the globalisation of the world economy and shifts in global economic power. The module aims to provide the foundation and context for further exploration of specific areas of international economic law covered by other modules offered by this programme. The knowledge and skills gained on this course are suitable for careers in government, international organizations, law firms and NGOs concerned with international trade, investment, finance and development.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Ms Emily Gould
Description: The module will enable students to learn about state regulation of art, art transactions and transfers of art. In particular, it will examine four areas of state regulation of art: criminal law provisions related to art, import and export controls on art, the impact of competition law on art acquisitions and transactions and the taxation of art. Coverage of criminal law issues will include the handling of stolen art, art fraud and forgery, the treatment of obscene artworks, trade in artefacts from war zones and treasure offences. The module will also cover how states control the cross-border movement of cultural treasures, competition law as it relates to agreements prevalent in the art industry and the direct and indirect tax regimes governing art and dispositions of art.
Description: The module will have four general sessions in which all the students will study together advanced cases in Compliance. The course covers advanced topics in compliance. Then the students will be split into specialist groups as specified above for another four sessions. For the final sessions the students will get together for a conclusion of the module.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mr Andrew Pitt
Description: "This module looks at the relationship of terrorism, human rights and migration. Among the key questions will be the relationship of foreigners to threat, the treatment of suspected terrorists through immigration laws, the entitlement of foreigners to protection against return to persecution and torture (as refugees) and the transformation of the technologies around movement of people across international borders which are driven by terrorism related concerns. The module is designed to provide students with an overview of the law around terrorism and how it intersects with migration and border crossing issues. The module will include: an introduction to the course from citizens to foreigners including Human Rights, Political Violence, Terrorism and Extradition. We will examine the issues around refugees, political violence/terrorism and the principle of non-refoulement and how they interact with the prohibition on torture in the context of terrorism allegations. The question of the political issue of diplomatic assurances and legal obligations of protection will be examined as well as the convergence of terrorism, criminal law and refugee protection. The use of digital means by state authorities to counter terrorism and the use of the personal data of foreigners will also be part of the reflections of this course. Students will have an opportunity to present in class their research."
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Noam Gur
Description: Common law adjudication often appears like a patchwork of decisions with limited overall coherence. Are there any fundamental theoretical principles that can help us gain a deeper understanding of the common law and its workings, both as legal scholars and as practitioners? The central aim of this module is to identify such principles, use them to critically evaluate the common law, and examine how they operate in court cases. The module consists of three parts, as follows. The first part looks at the common law from the perspective of political and legal theory concepts such as the rule of law, democracy, separation of powers, and social utility and change. It discusses questions such as: Do common law judges make policy? Is the common law undemocratic? Is the common law able to provide the certainty required for modern commercial life? The learning will include, inter alia, a case study, whereby students will have the opportunity to apply the above themes to a court case of their choice.The second part looks at the common law¿s operation in a colonial context. Here the common law will be discussed, e.g., as an arena of struggle for emancipation from colonial power, and special attention will be given to the delicate interface between the common law and local norms (such as customary and religious laws) in colonies or former colonies. The third part turns the spotlight onto private law as a central area of common law adjudication. It explores questions such as: Is there a unifying theory that can hold together different areas of private law, such as tort, contract, and property law, and, if so, what is that theory? Should common law judges use private law as an instrument for advancing of policy goals, such as social utility or more equitable distribution of wealth, or should they focus solely on correcting wrongs? Graduates of this module will gain a theoretically-informed insight into the common law, which would benefit their work as practitioners and scholars alike.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Norah GallagherOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SOLM309
Description: This module provides students with an overview of the energy sector. It identifies the sources of energy law from international treaties to soft law guidelines for example the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Energy is the largest sector globally and is one of the most heavily regulated. Students will learn about the evolution of the energy sector and the difficulties for the future as the sector adapts to the energy transition. There are many interested parties in the energy sector from hosts states, international oil companies, national oil companies, NGOs, IGOs as well as service providers. The different interests of the main actors can be addressed in contracts, national laws or international obligations for example the Nationally Determine Contributions of each State under the Paris Agreement 2015.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Uma Suthersanen
Description: The tragedy of the commons doctrine argues that humans are locked into a system whereby our pursuit of self-interest erodes the commons. But according to a different view, human society is fully capable of managing the commons in ways that protect the commons and benefits us all. Continuous trade and economic growth may eventually lead to an exhaustion of environmental resources. But this is not inevitable and trade relations can be managed in sustainable and mutually beneficial ways. One means to combat this is to accept that institutional intervention and technical progress should be focused so that resources are continuously directed towards environmental improvement. Moreover, the regulation of the environment (as in food, traditional genetic resources, green technologies) affects the trading patterns of both large and small producer countries. This module explores these concerns by studying the interrelation between : (i) the environment (as in food, agriculture, climate, bio-prospecting, and other ancillary rights such as human rights, Nagoya Protocols on climate and biodiversity rules, access and benefit sharing); (ii) trade (as in regulations within the EU, US and WTO, and other UN organisations), and (iii) IPRs (as in patents, plant variety rights, utility models, trade marks, geographical indications and technology transfer).Our environment is of fundamental importance. Activities that derive from our environment (including agriculture, fishing, consuming natural resources) matters more than almost any other productive human activity. Our environment supplies our most basic human needs, and it employs vast numbers of people. Human activities have a transformative effect on the biosphere. Indeed, it has arguably done more than any other activity to give rise to a new era in the Earth¿s history: the Anthropocene. One example is the commercial agricultural sector where farmers are supplied with inputs such as seeds and agrochemicals and advanced new technologies produced by high-tech corporations like Monsanto and Syngenta. The processing of food and other products that are grown or reared by farmers and pastoralists is carried out by transnational corporations. These products are delivered to customers by retailers that may be small and local or are massive operations. The vital role of small-scale farmers especially in the developing countries needs to be acknowledged but all too rarely is. Along all parts of the value chain there is much pressure to innovate and intellectual property rights are an essential feature of the way businesses and markets operate, how investment choices are made and where innovative activities do (and do not) take place. Thus, this module will analyse the legal regulation of such resources from national and international levels, with reference to technology, intellectual property, agricultural and climate policies, and human rights vis-a-vis the global industries. The module is intended to complement substantive modules on the protection of intellectual property. Therefore, students are assumed to have a basic understanding of intellectual property rights.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Peter Alldridge
Description: "The treatment of tax evasion in the UK, including the alternatives to prosecution and the developing regime for dealing with evasion. It will then turn to the national and international law of corruption, dealing with misconduct in public office. The treatment of bribery will include its history and theory, the developing international régime and the trend towards greater negotiation with persons suspected1 of bribery and placing greater duties in respect of enforcement and reporting on the private sector. There will be detailed case studies of corruption in sports and of the Trump Presidency. "
Description: This module will examine the various rules of domestic and international private law that can impact the art trade, from the sale and purchase of artworks by private individuals, to acquisitions by other private law means, such as gift and exchange, and loans and other bailments involving museums, galleries and other cultural institutions. Beyond this, the module will also consider the impact of statute: one notable example being the statutory immunity of certain loaned cultural objects from seizure. Owing to the high value and irreplaceable nature of the art being traded, the issue of insurance is an important one. This section will consider both private cover and public insurance. Finally, the module will look at the law of auctions. Auctions are of course a favoured forum to buy and sell art, and the law that applies to the auction is different from the law of the open market.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Ms Ellen Allde
Description: This module examines the international law dimensions of protecting refugees and other categories of forced migrants. It provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts and workings of international law, in general, and international refugee and human rights law, in particular, as they relate to the phenomenon of forced displacement. While international refugee law forms the backbone of the course, the module will also cover aspects of international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and the law of the sea as these apply to refugees and other forced migrants. The module will start by studying the historical origins and development of refugee law up to its codification in the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol. The institutions tasked with overseeing the implementation of these instruments will also be examined, with particular focus on UNHCR and its evolving role through time. The study of substantive law, including State practice and case law of national and international courts and Treaty bodies, will follow thereafter, following ten thematic blocs: 1) the refugee definition (inclusion, exclusion, and cessation of refugee status); 2) the status of Palestinian refugees; 3) non-refoulement and complementary forms of protection; 4) status determination procedures; 5) the content of international protection and other 'durable solutions'; 6) access to asylum; 7) war and displacement; 8) 'climate refugees'; 9) poverty, destitution and 'survival migration'; 10) and the ethical roots of refugeehood, to be taught in 3-hour blocs from Week 2 to 11.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Berna Akcali Gur
Description: The objective of the course will be to examine the sources and fundamental principles of Space Law and the role of international law and multilateral organizations in space governance. The topics covered will include the exploitation and sustainability of space resources ¿ emphasis on commercialization of space activities, space debris mitigation and space traffic management, communication satellites and space, the convergence of cybersecurity and space security, environment and space, and the liability regime for damage caused by space activities. References will be made to relevant regulations of space-faring nations to establish the relationship between international and national law in this area of law.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Laura EdgarOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SOLM284
Description: The evolving area of AI and Robotics gives rise to many ethical and legal questions over the status of robots, the rights and responsibilities arising from their use and liability for any harm caused. The module will explore the issues of legal personhood, the protection of robots through IP, the responsibilities arising from data use and the various approaches to allocating responsibility and liability. The module covers both embodied artificial intelligent systems (robots) and non-embodied ones (intelligent agents). Distinction is also made between the behaviour of robots as tools of human interaction, and robots as independent agents in the legal arena and its legal ramifications.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Mairi Mitsi
Description: Sport is now big business which means there is more at stake when sporting disputes arise between athletes and sports organisations. In 2021, over 900 cases where filed with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which conducted over 250 hearings that year.This course examines: the organisation and politics of international sport; how sports regulations are made; the legal and binding nature of sports regulations on all participants; the various forms of sports regulation (ie. 'doping', 'integrity', 'eligibility', 'selection', 'conduct' (on and off field), 'game-rule', 'sports governance' and more recently, 'gender-sex issues in sport'); how sporting disputes are determined in an international arbitral framework; the role of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (and other sports tribunals) in the determination of sporting disputes; and the means of challenging sports arbitration awards.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Apostolos Chronopoulos
Description: This module deals with advanced topics in trade mark law, theory and practice, including current developments in European jurisprudence and policy. The module will also provide students with an in-depth knowledge of the laws and procedures governing the acquisition, maintenance and enforcement of European Union Trade Marks (EUTMs), as well as substantive trade mark law and practice, policy and theory.This module will be taught intensively over a period of 1 week in semester 3. Sem 3 is the final teaching semester taught early June to early July.
Description: This course focuses on the relations of the EU with other countries, focusing on particular on international economic relations. It discusses a vital component of the European edifice, that is the international economic agreements the EU concluded in the framework of EU external relations law. The EU is an active player globally and participates in manifold international agreements. Trade and Investment policy has always been one of the most important areas where the EU has been active in relations with third countries. After the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the EU has acquired the much-needed and long-awaited institutional and substantive instruments to implement a comprehensive, consistent and effective external action in this field . The module provides a thorough analysis of the relevant legal framework and offers a critical review of its efficacy. It deals with the basic constitutional foundations of EU External Relations law and engages in a detailed analysis of the EU¿s substantive policy on international economic matters.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Bernard Schneider
Description: The module is designed to enable students to understand a range of legal issues that arise in connection with the organisation and operation of tax administrations and the design and implementation of tax procedures. In particular, it will consider organisational models for and core functions of tax administrations, legal design of tax procedures, tax procedure and taxpayer rights, and tax dispute resolution and prevention mechanisms. It will also examine case studies of tax administration and tax procedure reform.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Christiana Hjipanayi
Description: This module provides students with an understanding of EU tax law, with an emphasis on EU corporate tax law. Sources of EU corporate tax law (legislative instruments, soft law and case law) are examined. A number of corporate topics are covered, including parent-subsidiary relationships, permanent establishments, passive income, reorganisations, anti-abuse provisions, proposed directives (CCCTB, FTT) etc. The module also examines recent developments and high-profile debates in the intersection of international tax law and European tax law. Topics such as international tax avoidance, corporate social responsibility, good tax governance, harmful tax competition, state aid and tax treaty abuse are considered from the angle of EU tax law and international tax law. The interaction of the OECD/G20's BEPS project with the European Commission's measures to fight tax fraud and tax evasion is also considered.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof David Whyte
Description: This module is about crime committed by corporates and states and it explores the definition and nature of crime that causes harm to the environment in criminological, legal and political discourse. The module aims to develop a critical understanding of the nature and the scale and type of crimes committed by companies, states and their agents that damage the environment and ecosystems. There will also be an exploration of resistance tactics, from law-fare to civil society censure of environmental harm. Consisting of lectures, seminars and film, the following list is indicative (but not exhaustive) of the subjects that will be covered: corporate environmental crime, food insecurity, state and state-corporate environmental crime, CSR and 'green' business practice, the economy of environmental protection, the power of civil society to resist planet degradation, the genocide-ecocide nexus, corruption, agribusiness, toxic waste dumping and land grabbing. The course will also feature visiting leading scholars, and representatives from key NGOs.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Miss Hannah Polakowski
Description: Climate Change Law and Policy Application focuses on specific aspects of international, regional and national law in relation to climate change: Human Rights, international and national litigation, state responsibility, non-state actors and participation, capacity building and trade and climate change. There is also an overview of the core principles of the UNFCCC regime , including the Paris agreement and principles of international environmental law applicable to climate change, both of which are examined in depth in Climate Change Law.
Description: Introductory, History of Financial Crime, Corporate Liability and procedural and evidential issues in financial crme, Criminal vs Regulatory Justice, AML/CTF - the International Framework, UK regulatory framework, The substantive UK criminal offences , Art Crime, Kleptocracy, Confiscation (UK), Civil actions, Non Conviction based Seizure
Description: The module covers WTO rules and principles on domestic regulations (technical standards, rules on services, intellectual property protection) and on trade remedies to protect domestic industries against both fair and unfair trade (safeguards, anti-dumping duties and countervailing duties). It examines how WTO rules, as interpreted by adjudicators, seek to balance the tensions between free trade obligations and the right to regulate in pursuance of national policy objectives and free trade and unfair trade. On completion of the module, students should be able to advice public authorities, private companies or civil society organisations on the consistency of trade defence measures and domestic regulations affecting international trade with WTO Law and on the remedies available for breaches of WTO Law. Students which are not familiar with WTO law are strongly advised to take SOLM192 WTO Law: Fundamental Principles.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
Description: "This module introduces the main philosophical and ethical debates concerning border control, citizenship, migration and refugee/asylum-seeker status. It sets out the arguments for and against ¿open borders¿, the political theory of citizenship and the nation state, and the relationships between citizens¿ rights and universal human rights. As well as matters of general philosophical principle, we will look at the ethics of border control practices, from identity cards and entry controls to surveillance and access to public services, detention and repatriation. We will also consider the cultural dimensions of migration control, in particular the relationship between discourses of security, citizenship, and race/ethnicity/cultural difference."
Description: This module will cover all of the legal and policy issues relating to nuclear power generation. It is one of the most heavily regulated sectors of the energy industry. The course will consider the policy aims of Governments in building nuclear power plants to comply with their obligations to transition to clean energy. Nuclear power provides a stable, secure and efficient clean base load of power. The course will also review of all of the international treaties and standards applicable to the nuclear industry from safety and liability to transportation of highly active waste material. Nuclear power is not without its challenges including time and expense of contruction, security concerns post Fukishima, wast management and decommissioning.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Noam ShemtovOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take CCLF002
Description: This module seeks to introduce an economic approach to understanding intellectual property. It will present the main branches of intellectual property as economic categories and will explain their economic characteristics, functions, impacts and conditions for efficiency. Each type of IP will be analysed as an income generating asset. The module will review the complex value chain, the opportunities that the exploitation of the asset generates and the specifics of its management. The module will examine the relevant issues from a global perspective providing perspectives from developed and developing economies.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Vasiliki Koukoulioti
Description: The module will focus on tax and technology. It will provide an introduction to domestic and international tax provisions that are important to owners of intellectual property, with a particular focus on domestic incentives to encourage investment and to attract foreign direct investment, as well as the international perspectives around harmful tax competition by countries. The module will also consider the current debates regarding a digital services tax.This module will be taught intensively over a period of 1 week in semester 3. Sem 3 is the final teaching semester taught early June to early July.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Eyad Dabbah
Description: The Module EU Competition Law (along with the co-requisite Module EU Competition Law and Practice) aims at a comprehensive study of the basic provisions of European Union (EU) competition law. The Module will provide participants with a flavour of the economic and market context in which EU competition law, especially Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) is applied. The Module will aim to consider an important business phenomenon in the market namely anti-competitive agreements. It is hoped that by the end of the Module participants will gain a solid understanding of the relevant competition rules of the EU whilst developing a good business and market perspective and practical approach in order to help them identify situations in which such phenomenon may arise and how should this phenomenon be addressed.EU competition law is based on the rules contained in Articles 101-109 of the Treaty on The Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and upon subsequent secondary legislation. The focus of the Module will be however on Articles 101 TFEU; as well as a number of block exemption Regulations, notably those dealing with: Vertical Restraints; Technology Transfer; and Horizontal Research and Development and Specialisation Agreements. The Module will however consider where relevant and appropriate other provisions of EU competition law, especially Article 102 TFEU.EU competition rules are applied by the Directorate General (DG COMPETITION (COMP)) of the European Commission, the Directorate in charge of competition matters; there is also shared competence with designated national competition authorities (NCAs) in relation to the application of Articles 101 (and 102) TFEU. Decisions of the Commission are the principal means of enforcement in competition cases. The Commission¿s decisions are subject to review by the General Court of the EU (GCEU) (formerly the Court of First Instance (CFI)) and the Court of Justice of the EU/European Court of Justice (CJEU/ECJ). This has created an extensive case-law in competition law matters and reference will be made to this case law. In addition to considering substantive issues, the Module will also deal with relevant procedural mechanisms, such as cartel leniency and settlement mechanism.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Gaetano Dimita
Description: Esports law focuses on the legal, contractual, commercial and regulatory issues that affect competitive video gaming. The module recognises the magnitude of the phenomenon and delineates the legal and commercial parameters under which esports industries operates.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Duncan Matthews
Description: Patents are exclusive rights granted for the protection of an invention that offers a new and inventive technical solution or way of doing something. This module compares the process of obtaining and enforcing a patent under the provisions of the European Patent Convention (EPC) with special reference to the Unified Patent Court (UPC).
Description: Patents provide, for a limited time, the right to exclude others from acts of making, using, selling, keeping or importing products containing the patented invention. Under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement) WTO Members, in particular developing countries, face challenges in meeting their obligations to provide patent protection and related rights. The module will assess the extent to which these obligations derived from international law impact on access to healthcare treatments, traditional knowledge, biological diversity, farmers' rights, food security and human rights.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Clemence TanziPrerequisite: Before or while taking this module you must take SOLM209 or take SOLM222
Description: This module offers a practical legal learning experience in data protection law compliance. It will be based on various compliance scenarios and activities that a data protection officer or in-house privacy counsel would likely face in assisting the processor or controller for whom they work to meet the requirements of the relevant legal framework in their ongoing personal data processing activities of the data . Although this module will primarily focus on the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation, the skills and knowledge acquired from the course materials and learning exercises will be relevant to most data protection legal frameworks and data protection compliance practice.
Description: Who is liable if a flight is cancelled? Are air passengers compensated if their flight is delayed? Do air passengers need to take special insurance against loss or damage to their baggage? Can pilots deviate from the instructions given by air traffic controllers? How do airlines pay for their glamorous, but also costly aircraft? Is it legal to fly a drone? This module will set out to explore the regime of domestic and international liability in aviation, namely the liability of air carriers towards passengers and shippers (Warsaw and Montreal Conventions), as well as for surface damage (Rome Convention), the liability of air traffic controllers, airports, aircraft manufacturers and government bodies; the regime governing aircraft financing and aircraft nationality (Geneva and Cape Town Conventions); EU consumer protection law (Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 on compensation for denied boarding, cancellation and delay of flights and relevant jurisprudence), and last, the nascent law on unmanned aircraft systems (drones).
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Richard Walters
Description: The module is designed for students who wish to gain an understanding of tax avoidance from a UK perspective. The module approaches tax avoidance firstly from a historical viewpoint and distinguishes it from both evasion and mitigation. The responses of both courts and the UK Parliament to the perceived problem are examined from the viewpoint of both individuals and businesses. Apart from judicial approaches, the General Anti-Abuse Rule will be examined as will other anti-avoidance measures, including the Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes rules. The international perspective will be explored, including the use of transfer pricing, controlled foreign companies and tax havens. The penalties that tax authorities wish to impose will also be discussed.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mr Gavin Sutter
Description: The content of the proposed module will cover the content of both current modules SOLM217 and SOLM218. This includes: - Ownership & Control of the Media - Press Regulation - EU Broadcasting Law & the shift to regulation of online, streaming content - UK Broadcasting Law & the shift to regulation of online, streaming content - Advertising Regulation - Article 10, Freedom of Speech and the reasonable limits thereon with a view to protecting the Article 6 right to a fair trial, in the context of media reporting the courts - Contempt of Court and the media - filming and livestreaming the courts, contempt by publication - Reporting restrictions and the media - including identification of victims of serious crimes, statutory restrictions on reporting proceedings involving children and vulnerable adults, discretionary judicial orders, the media's right to representation and to appeal orders. - Protection of journalists sources & materials, including digital resources and communications, from undue state / police interference.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Thomas Macmanus
Description: This module is about crime committed by governments and it explores the definition and nature of state crime in criminological and political discourse. The module aims to develop a critical understanding of the nature of the state and the scale and type of crimes committed by governments and their agents. The definitional processes involved in labeling states acts as criminal are explored, as are the forces which explain why and how states enter into deviant or criminal practices. Consisting of lectures, seminars and film, the following list is indicative of the subjects that will be covered: Torture, State-corporate crime, counter-terrorism and human rights, Natural Disasters, Asylum Policy as state crime, War Crimes, Genocide, Resisting State Crime: the power of civil society, corruption, state crime denial, comparative genocides, and forced evictions. The course will also feature visiting leading scholars, and representatives from key NGOs.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mrs Joy Svasti-Salee
Description: The module will provide students with knowledge of transfer pricing and the various principles and standards developed to deal with it. There will be a historical overview of the issues followed by an analysis of the evolution of principles leading to the BEPS Action Plan and the updated 2017 Transfer Pricing Guidelines. The module will consider major current transfer pricing issues around intangibles, business restructuring, the digital economy, services and financing. It also examines issues such as transfer pricing documentation and dispute resolution (both arbitration and litigation). The intersection of transfer pricing with EU law will also be considered and the case law on state aid and APAs will be reviewed in detail. The course is not jurisdiction specific; rather it offers a holistic approach to the topic with cameos of the different approaches of countries to it.
Description: Statistical Data Analysis teaches the fundamentals of probability and statistics, data analysis, and machine learning, as applied to discovering, classifying, and measuring new phenomena. It draws on examples from a wide range of applications, within physics and far beyond. Students will learn to perform statistical calculations, to understand statistical usage in scientific research papers, and to apply practical programming techniques for more advanced analyses.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Scott MelvillePrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA5219
Description: Starting from the atomic and quantum descriptions of matter the module uses statistical principles to explain the behaviour of material in bulk. It thus relates microscopic to macroscopic quantities and provides a microscopic explanation of thermodynamics. It provides the bridge between microscopic quantum physics and the behaviour of matter as we know it daily.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Maxi Charlotte Scherer
Description: International Arbitration is a specialized area of law requiring certain skill sets. In this module, students will learn the practical skills needed to become a successful arbitration lawyer. Oral and written advocacy is central to the arbitral process. Students need to know about the main issues dealt with by a Tribunal starting with Procedural Order 1. This module will explain how to make persuasive submissions - both written and oral - to an international Tribunal. It is also important to understand different cultural legal backgrounds as the international arbitral community is diverse. Students will take part in practical exercises, stepping in to the shoes of arbitrator, counsel or clients. Applying the theoretical concepts of international arbitration in practice, students will learn the fundamental skills that will given them an important qualification in a competitive legal market.
Description: The module will provide a set of skills that will enable participants, through a series of taught activities, to enhance research that focusses upon powerful institutions, namely governmental organisations and profitmaking corporations. It will introduce students to a range of innovative methodological techniques capable of generating novel data. The module will instruct students to uncover hidden aspects of the ways that powerful organisations `talk¿ and `act¿ in order to produce original case study materials.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Lilian Moncrieff
Description: This module is about crime committed by corporates and it explores the definition and nature of corporate crime in criminological, legal and political discourse. The module aims to develop a critical understanding of the nature of the corporation and the scale and type of crimes committed by companies and their agents. The definitional processes involved in labeling corporates acts as criminal are explored, as are the forces which explain why and how corporates enter into deviant or criminal practices. Consisting of lectures, seminars and film, the following list is indicative of the subjects that will be covered: corporate manslaughter, State-corporate crime, business and human rights, the power of civil society, corruption, corporate crime denial, and land grabbing. The course will also feature visiting leading scholars, and representatives from key NGOs.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Karen Watton
Description: A course will be taught by leading practitioners in legal engineering and design, combining both academic and hands-on practical experience using some of the latest legal tech. This module will examine the theory and application of technology to legal practice and procedures It will consider how machine learning and AI has been, and could be, deployed within the legal sector to provide substantive legal advice, procedural risk analysis, the provision of legal services and contract and practice management. The interaction of technology and legal design will be examined, as well as the practical, legal and ethical issues that legal tech raise.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Maria Ioannidou
Description: We live in a world of unprecedented technological change. The way we live our lives today, with the most essential services being only a click away, has radically transformed our existence as consumers. On the face of it, markets are performing well, as the prices for services have radically decreased - or are even provided for 'free', that is, without monetary payment ¿ through the use of online platforms. We can shop for less money, compare products in real time, search virtually any question, hail a cab on our mobile phone, order any kind of food in an instant ¿ the list is seemingly endless. As such, these technological advancements have transformed consumers¿ choice, yet they have simultaneously created new causes of concern about competition in the marketplace and the role of consumers within it. This course will critically examine how big data, algorithms and AI are transforming market dynamics, challenging the foundations of competition law enforcement and raising new challenges for competition authorities, regulators, businesses and consumers.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Daniele D'Alvia
Description: This module introduces complex concepts in finance at a level that is appropriate for law students to master them . The focus of this course is on the analysis of valuation models, their application in different economic situations, and the benefits/consequences when investing or conducting business, both locally and globally. Tools and basic models that help in understanding the appropriate usage of different valuation models as used in different situations will be introduced and examined in order to assess risk and be able to manage it appropriately. Through the course analysis, students will develop a thorough understanding of the models that influence and eventually determine the relationships between risk and return when evaluating assets. Legal cases are used to analyze actual situations and explore different possible solutions when dealing with risk and other financial concepts, facilitating an acceptable legal determination as to the best selection for various risk exposure. The module will be taught on the assumption that the students have no prior knowledge of finance.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Prakash Shah
Description: This module provides coverage of a number of domains within the sphere of minority and group rights at international law and in comparative laws. It includes theories of minority rights, the development of minority protection, self-determination, legal pluralism, regulation of racism and racial discrimination, cultural rights, religious freedom, regulation of Islamophobia, regulation of caste, and linguistic rights.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Guan Hong Tang
Description: The module will introduce the structure of the Chinese legal system, its cultural and political background and historical development. With these in mind, it will then cover major business and commercial law areas, including company, contract and trade law; taxation; financial regulation; and dispute resolution and litigation, with a particular focus on their application to foreign businesses, investors and individuals. The module will provide students with an understanding of the principles and rules of the Chinese business and commercial law regimes. It will also provide them with the knowledge and skills to study the Chinese business and commercial legal system in greater depth. No knowledge of Chinese is required to take the module, but students will be expected to become familiar with the relevant Chinese business and legal terms.
Description: This module introduces complex concepts in finance at a level that is appropriate for law students to master them . The first part of the course introduces the student to basic understanding of financial models and concepts as it relates to valuation in a legal context. This knowledge forms the basis of analysis for the more complex and broader concept of derivatives. The focus eventually turns to the analysis of ¿derivative¿ instruments, their application in different economic situations, and the benefits/consequences of helping clients set up contracts employing them when investing or conducting business, both locally and globally. Derivative instruments will be analyzed from two separate points of view: speculative and hedging. Tools and basic models that help in understanding the appropriate usage of different derivatives in different situations will also be introduced and examined. Through the course analysis, students will develop a thorough understanding of the models that influence and eventually determine the relationships among different derivative instruments. Legal cases are used to analyze actual situations and explore different possible solutions using financial models and derivatives, facilitating an acceptable legal determination as to the best selection for every particular exposure. The course will be taught on the assumption that the students have no prior knowledge of these financial instruments.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Rebecca Bates
Description: The international legal regime relating to natural resources is complex and multi-dimensional. It is found in many places, based on doctrines of public international law, regional and local laws as well specific treaty obligations. It is also a dynamic area of international law as changes in technology and environmental awareness of the impact of such developments have led to further changes in legal regime. Concepts in Natural Resources Law: Climate, Energy and Water intersects and supports the study of other disciplines including international environmental law, energy law, as well as international investment law and international economic law. Concepts in Natural Resources Law: Climate, Energy and Water examines the area of International Natural Resources Law from a multi-dimensional perspective with a particular emphasis on climate, energy and water resources. The impact of globalisation and international legal rules on activities in the natural resources sector will be explored throughout the unit.
Description: Competition law has witnessed an impressive increase in significance and geographical scope during the last two decades or so. From the situation which existed in the 1980s - when there were only a few systems of competition law in the world ¿ we have moved to a new one where currently there are about 120 jurisdictions in which some form of competition law has been introduced and 30 others seeking to develop the process. It is anticipated that this remarkable geographical expansion of the law will increase in the future. With this unprecedented increase in significance and remarkable geographical expansion of the law (as well as other significant developments such as the process of globalisation), it has become important to examine the role and place of competition law and policy in a globalised economy. The course will aim at such an examination. The course is designed to include 'international' elements (comparative elements will then be addressed in the Comparative Competition Law course in semester 2), looking at, among other things, issues such as, the process of internationalisation of competition law and policy; the role of international organisations and multinational enterprises (MNEs) in this process; the extraterritorial reach of the competition rules of the EU, the USA and those of other jurisdictions; and the relationship between competition and trade policy.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Gaetano Dimita
Description: This module will examine the interplay between art and intellectual property, in particular copyright, including digital issues. The module will involve a comparative approach, looking in depth at the protection of intangible rights in the UK, before comparing this with the regimes of other countries (namely France and the United States). the module will focus on the related intellectual property rights that impact the art trade: moral rights and the artists' resale right. The module will then look specifically at museum and gallery practice to see the effect of the 2014 UK copyright changes. This will cover the two 'orphan works' schemes, extended collective licensing and the new copyright exceptions, many of which are aimed specifically at the museum and heritage sector
Credits: 30.0Contact: Ms Norah Gallagher
Description: This module looks at the international legal regimes relating to climate change and consider how this will directly impact the energy sector. There is a fundamental shift in the energy industry away from fossil fuels (non renewable sources) to clean energy (renewable sources). This transition and how it will take place over the coming years will be discussed. This module will also consider emissions trading (ETS) and its effectiveness, the NDC (nationally determined contributions) of states to achieve climate change goals. In addition, it will consider the polluter pays principle as well as the growing number of climate change disputes and assess how these might impact future energy regulation, at an international and national level. The focus is climate change exclusively from the perspective of the energy sector. This module will consider new technologies (such as CCUS and hydrogen), renewable projects and emissions trading and its effectiveness.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Gavin Sutter
Description: Media Law: Reputation Management covers the key areas of law used by those who seek to build and protect a media 'brand' for commercial gain. The module will open with a detailed consideration of libel law and how that protects the public image of an individual (or, indeed, an entity with legal personhood). Whereas perhaps three decades ago the law in this area seemed well settled, the challenges of the internet combined with much of the Defamation Act 2013 remaining to be refined through interpretation by the courts makes this an important and ongoing focus for study by the commercial media lawyer. The second aspect of law which the module will look at is the developing area of privacy. While traditionally English law has not offered direct protection for privacy, a wide range of las have been used in effect to prevent or at least compensate individuals aggrieved by private elements of their lives being published to the masses. Sometimes this has simply been about the privacy of an individual, while in other circumstances it has been about the protection of a direct commercial relationship (such as that between the Douglases and OK Magazine in Douglas v Hello). The development of the tort of Misuse of Private Information, a result of the application of the Human Rights Act 1998, has arguably created a de facto common law privacy protection which continues to explore new nuances at the discretion of the courts. The continued existence of the tabloid press, the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal, and the apparently unending appetite on the part of the general public for 'celebrity' gossip indicates that this is an area of law which will continue to see development for some time to come. The final area of law to be covered in this module focuses on intellectual property in a media context, in particular the use of IP in personality rights and, more broadly, as a means of controlling an individual's brand. As of yet, English law does not recognise personality rights, instead protecting only those who choose to actively merchandise themselves via a form of passing off ('false endorsement'). The course will open up the debate on this issue and consider the potential for this to be expanded, as well as other ways in which IP may be used to protect personal reputation (or not - see, for instance, application of HUbbard v Vosper in this regard). Although English law will be the primary context in which this module will be taught, it is intended that this will provide more a 'case study' context in which the issues raised will be debated rather than a course solely about English law per se. Laws in other jurisdictions (such as, for example, the ongoing debate on defamation reform in Scotland and Northern Ireland) will be raised and discussed where appropriate.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal
Description: The module covers the various procedures available in cases of reorganization and insolvency of corporations; the relationship between the general law of property, obligations and insolvency; and, the law of credit and security issues in the context of distress scenarios. The module will have a transactional focus with actual case studies and will also analyse general principles of international financing techniques.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Laura Edgar
Description: This module examines the law relating to online commercial transactions (bearing in mind that there is much commercial activity which is, ostensibly, 'free' - Facebook and Google are prime examples). It focuses on the law which governs a range of online transactions, including contracting, signatures and online marketplaces. Because e-commerce is a global activity we don¿t examine the law of one country alone (though we will inevitably look at more UK and EU law than that of anywhere else). Our focus is on the underlying principles which are common to all jurisdictions, and the differences in some areas - the theory is that if you understand these, you will be able to analyse any particular national law and apply it to the particular e-commerce activity in question.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Debbie De Girolamo
Description: This module will explore the many ways in which art disputes can be resolved including litigation and alternative processes to litigation. It will examine specifically the public processes of litigation in national courts, administrative tribunals and international tribunals, and also private processes such as arbitration, mediation and other alternative processes. In so doing, it will consider the nature of the art dispute, the appropriate methods to resolve the disputes, and the remedies and solutions available. This will be led in seminar style, with lecture and interactive participation from students through exercises and dialogue.
Description: The module examines matters relevant to the resolution of all commercial transactions before national courts. It looks into general principles of International Commercial Litigation and Private International Law, and focuses in particular on issues related to Jurisdiction of National Courts, Conflicts between Jurisdiction of National Courts and International Tribunals and Recognition and Enforcement of National Judgments. The approach taken is international and comparative, although particular emphasis is given on the European regime and legal framework. Thus, sources relevant to the course include the EC 44/2001 Regulation on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr David Pope
Description: This module offers the opportunity to learn about advocacy from an experienced English commercial barrister. The module begins by examining the role and nature of advocacy in commercial disputes. It then considers the theory of persuasion, a subject that is - surprisingly - rarely taught to law students. The rest of the module investigates the key skills of professional advocates, including oral and written submissions, and cross-examination. The module draws on a range of materials, from the rhetoric handbooks of classical antiquity to videos of recent hearings in the UK Supreme Court.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Constantina Lazaridou
Description: "This module is concerned with the legal framework for cross-border trade in the European Union. The module provides an in-depth study of the economic and commercial aspects of the 'four freedoms' (free movement of goods, services, establishment and capital) in the EU single market and discusses the various approaches to regulating the single market adopted by EU institutions. Indicative list of topics that might be covered would include: the concept of the Single Market - market integration in the EU vs other forms of international trade liberalisation; non-tariff barriers: non-discrimination and market access; locating and relocating in another EU Member State - freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services for companies ¿ regulatory competition; tariff and fiscal barriers to free movement - free movement of capital; regulating the Single Market: harmonisation policy - governance of the Single Market"
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Joan Serna
Description: This course covers different topics of economic analysis of regulation and compliance. The first part of the course focuses on the economic theory of regulations. The second part of the course investigates different regulated industries: environment, energy, telecom, and financial sector. Finally, the course discusses the economics of compliance and what happens when industries are deregulated.
Description: The Regulation and Compliance Clinic is the opportunity for students to apply the skills and knowledge they acquire about regulation and compliance to a real life setting. In this this module, students will work with partners to (1) develop and hone their oral presentation skills; (2) develop and hone their written professional skills; and (3) understand and replicate how entities deal with regulatory issue. The Clinic blends problem based approach with hands-on experience.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Hedi ViterboOverlap: Students who studied their llb at qmul and took the undergraduate module LAW6468 (children and the law) cannot take SOLM270 or SOLM271 without prior approval from the module convenor.
Description: This module engages with legal and moral debates relating to children, at both the international and national levels. It examines a wide range of child-focused issues, such as those concerning colonialism, racialisation, sexuality, state regulation of the family, and children¿s voices. Students are introduced to relevant theories and studies, among which are theories of children's rights, postcolonial and anti-racist scholarship, queer theory, criticisms of child development theories, and writing about risk and 'moral panic'.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Theodora Christou
Description: The central question which this module will address is how Transnational law impacts on the future of law-making, supervision and enforcement of rules in a globalised world of transnational business and markets. Globalisation and polycentrality are phenomena that influence every aspect of the world society and challenge the efficiency and validity centralized law-making by the states. In a globalised world where business is mostly done at transnational level coupled with the pace that both economic and technology change, traditional national law-making is proving ineffective and as a result we have witnessed alternatives appearing, including from regional and international organisations but also from private transnational market actors too. The law has emerged from its national setting and presents itself as transnational which has important ramifications for policy making. A weekly topical issue related to Transnational Law will be discussed in depth. The discussions are based on readings and will follow a presentation of the readings. Potential issues which could be covered include: Is Transnational Law, Law?; The World Justice Forum Index; the Cape Town Convention; Climate Change as a Transnational Legal Order; private law-making in the diamond trade and financial markets; and Transnational lawyering.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Ms Maria Fanou
Description: This is an introductory module on the law and practice of international commercial arbitration. This one-semester module is aimed at students who do not specialise in dispute resolution and therefore does not require prior knowledge of the subject. However, the module may still be suitable for those not specialising in dispute resolution, but have some knowledge of the topic and would like to explore it in some further detail. This module will consider most of the key themes covered in the specialist arbitration modules but in less detail.
Description: This module examines the broad and ever-expanding field of international child law. It looks at how international child law relates to various contexts, such as armed conflict, migration, criminal justice, education, and labour. Discussions in the module draw on a rich array of theoretical sources, including historical and anthropological studies of childhood, critical scholarship on international law and human rights, and criticisms of international children¿s rights law in particular.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mr Etta Ojong-Okongor
Description: The module covers the fundamental characteristics of international contracts for the sale of goods and to a lesser extent, the key ancillary contracts for the financing of trading activities, transportation of goods to their place of destination and insurance of the cargo. When traders sell or buy goods or commodities on the international markets, that transaction is composed of several contracts: the goods are sold under a contract of sale, transported under a contract of carriage, insured under a contract of insurance and frequently have payment assured through a letter of credit. The purpose of this module is to examine primarily the regulation of the sale contract under CISG, English Sales law and other international law instruments and standards. The regulation of peripheral contracts to the contract of sale will be examined too but in less detail as this is now considered in depth by more focused specific modules (e.g., on the shipping of goods, marine insurance etc). The module will also place emphasis on the practical problems, which arise in the international commercial arena and consider ways in which these may be addressed in the future.
Description: This module will examine the function of art and other cultural objects as financial assets. This involves seeing historic and artistic chattels from the point of view of wealth management (via investment, capital appreciation and leasing potential) and as collateral for transactions that are otherwise unrelated (art pledges, mortgages and charges). Since the investment in and taking of security over such assets necessarily involves questions of title, title warranties and title retention terms will also be examined. The module will also consider the treatment of art and cultural property in times of financial turmoil and insolvency. The main question here will be whether such cultural objects can be protected during corporate restructuring or insolvency, or indeed governmental/state financial difficulties. The module will end by considering the new area of art financing and alternative funding models for the acquisition of art.
Description: Within the field of competition law, merger control has attracted special attention. The reason for this attention can be found in the special nature of mergers as a business phenomenon, especially when compared with other business phenomena, such as abuse of dominance by firms or cartel activities. The process of relentless globalisation which has been developing since the 1990s has meant that merger operations can produce an effect on the conditions of competition in more than one jurisdiction. This means that, quite inevitably, regulatory approval in more than one jurisdiction may need to be sought. Such a consequence - as is widely accepted ¿ can give rise to uncertainty for the firms concerned and cause huge expense and significant delay. Those who are involved in advising business firms in a merger situation are also not immune from the uncertainty when merger operations have to be notified to more than one competition authority. Often legal advisors have to answer extremely difficult questions in merger cases, such as whether notification of the merger to the competition authorities in one or more jurisdictions is necessary or mandatory or even desirable; which authorities need to be notified; what is required for this purpose and how to go about notifying the authorities concerned; and how will the authorities assess the merger, including any relevant time framework within which they will operate and ultimately reach a decision in a given case. The Module will aim at a thorough examination of the highly important phenomena of international mergers and their regulation worldwide. The focus of the Module will be on special topics including: government intervention and national champions; the treatment of conglomerate effects from practical perspective, merger remedies among others. The Module will be taught in a very practical manner, to reflect the very nature of the topic. A highly interesting range of case studies and the knowledge and expertise of practitioners in the field will be a key aspect of the course. The Module should prove to be attractive for students attending other competition law courses and those with an `international¿ dimension in other areas of commercial orientation on the LLM.
Description: This module (along with the prerequisite module 'EU Competition Law') aims at a comprehensive study of the basic provisions of European Union (EU) competition law. The Module will provide participants with a flavour of the economic and market context in which EU competition law, especially Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and EU Merger Regulation 139/2004 are applied. The Module will aim to consider an important business phenomena in the market namely abusive dominance and mergers. It is hoped that by the end of the Module participants will gain a solid understanding of the relevant competition rules of the EU whilst developing a good business and market perspective and practical approach in order to help them identify situations in which such phenomena may arise and how should these phenomena be addressed.EU competition law is based on the rules contained in Articles 101-109 of the Treaty on The Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and upon subsequent secondary legislation. The focus of the Module will be however on Article 102 TFEU and Regulation 139/2004. The Module will however consider where relevant and appropriate other provisions of EU competition law, especially Article 101 TFEU. EU competition law is based on the rules contained in Articles 101-109 of the Treaty on The Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and upon subsequent secondary legislation. The focus of the Module will be however on Article 102 TFEU and Regulation 139/2004. The Module will however consider where relevant and appropriate other provisions of EU competition law, especially Article 101 TFEU. EU competition rules are applied by the Directorate General (DG COMPETITION (COMP)) of the European Commission, the Directorate in charge of competition matters; there is also shared competence with designated national competition authorities (NCAs) in relation to the application of Articles 102 (and 101) TFEU. Decisions of the Commission are the principal means of enforcement in competition cases. The Commission¿s decisions are subject to review by the General Court of the EU (GCEU) (formerly the Court of First Instance (CFI)) and the Court of Justice of the EU/European Court of Justice (CJEU/ECJ). This has created an extensive case-law in competition law matters and reference will be made to this case law. In addition to considering substantive issues, the Module will also deal with relevant procedural mechanisms, sanctions etc. Particular attention will be given to questions of practice under Regulation 1/2003.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Debbie De Girolamo
Description: This module will examine the cultural values and ethical considerations that guide both the public and private treatment and management of art and cultural property. This extends down from the values accepted in widely followed internationals conventions like the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, into national law, and finally into the ethical guidelines and codes of museums and other cultural institutions. The approach will also be sensitive to non-Western approaches to 'cultural property' and will consider the alternative conceptions of cultural dominion, guardianship and responsibility. Finally, the module will address the issues stemming from requests and claims for restitution and repatriation of cultural objects.
Description: This module will examine the theory and practice of public affairs advocacy. Public affairs advocacy concerns how organizations try to influence the development of public policy and its resultant implementation through laws, regulations and related measures. Such advocacy may occur at a national, regional or international level, and is an increasingly important area of practice for lawyers. With technological disintermediation culling many functions of traditional legal services, a premium is placed on the very human skills of political advocacy - the ability of legal counsel to help their clients and organizations navigate the external world to influence and effect positive changes.
Description: Within the field of competition law, merger control has attracted special attention. The reason for this attention can be found in the special nature of mergers as a business phenomenon, especially when compared with other business phenomena, such as abuse of dominance by firms or cartel activities. The process of relentless globalisation which has been developing since the 1990s has meant that merger operations can produce an effect on the conditions of competition in more than one jurisdiction. This means that, quite inevitably, regulatory approval in more than one jurisdiction may need to be sought. Such a consequence ¿ as is widely accepted ¿ can give rise to uncertainty for the firms concerned and cause huge expense and significant delay. Those who are involved in advising business firms in a merger situation are also not immune from the uncertainty when merger operations have to be notified to more than one competition authority. Often legal advisors have to answer extremely difficult questions in merger cases, such as whether notification of the merger to the competition authorities in one or more jurisdictions is necessary or mandatory or even desirable; which authorities need to be notified; what is required for this purpose and how to go about notifying the authorities concerned; and how will the authorities assess the merger, including any relevant time framework within which they will operate and ultimately reach a decision in a given case. The Module will aim at a thorough examination of the highly important phenomena of international mergers and their regulation worldwide. Different merger control regimes worldwide and their operation will be an important part of the focus in the Module. The Module will be taught in a very practical manner, to reflect the very nature of the topic. A highly interesting range of case studies and the knowledge and expertise of practitioners in the field will be a key aspect of the course. The Module should prove to be attractive for students attending other competition law courses and those with an `international¿ dimension in other areas of commercial orientation on the LLM.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Jeremmy Okonjo
Description: Regulation covers virtually all significant aspects of modern life. It is here to stay but it remains as controversial as ever. This is an advanced foundational course on regulation. The module examines problems that are common to the regulation of a wide range of industries and fields and considers how these problems are (or fail to be) treated. In particular, the module considers the nature of regulation and its relationship with law, economics and politics, the regulation of risk, standard setting, compliance and enforcement strategies, the issues of accountability and legitimacy and the rise of multi-level governance and transnational regulation. Being `problem-solving sensitive¿ but 'industry neutral', this module is an ideal complement to more narrowly-focused modules irrespective of choice of LLM Specialism.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Christopher Reed
Description: "This module examines the theoretical basis of the legal and regulatory framework within which online commercial transactions have to be undertaken (bearing in mind that there is much commercial activity which is, ostensibly, 'free' ¿ Facebook and Google are prime examples). It does this through the lens of legitimate authority, asking the fundamental question: 'Why should an e-commerce business accept this particular law and comply with it?' This question arises because of the regulatory and legal difficulties involved in e-commerce as a cross-border activity. The proposition that an e-commerce business must obey all the laws of the world is, simply, both unrealistic in practice and unsustainable in theory. The first part of the module examines jurisprudential theory in some depth, and the second part applies this theory to particular areas of e-commerce activity to explain how law and regulation there works (or, often, doesn¿t work). Because e-commerce is a global activity it doesn't examine the law of one country alone, but focuses on the underlying principles for regulation, how they differ between jurisdictions, the justifications for and limits on national lawmaking, and how e-commerce businesses respond to regulation. This module uses elements of lawmaking and regulatory theory to illuminate how e-commerce regulation operates in practice."
Description: This module will provide a critical understanding of the intersection between culture and mental health within a global context. Students will be introduced to social science theories from disaplines such as anthropology and sociology which have been used to inform psychological and psychiatric understandings of mental illness and its treatment. Topics discussed will include the links between culture and mental processes, variations in the manifestation and interpretation of mental illness across cultures, challenges of assessment and treatment of mental illness within multicultural contexts and the impact of intersecting inequalities on the mental health of minority populations . Students will be encouraged to reflect on the impact of culture on both mental disorder and mental healthcare treatment at both local and global levels.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Edward MacaulayPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA4210
Description: The course covers electromagnetic wave theory, and its relationship with classical and quantum optics. Topics include Maxwell's equations and its wave solutions (including the concepts of Poynting vector and intensity); discussion of group and phase velocities for wavepackets; reflection and transmission at interfaces (including the Fresnel equations); waveguides and their modes; polarisation and birefringence; interference and diffraction; lenses and optical devices (e.g. telescopes and microscopes); simple two-level quantum systems and lasers.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Loukas Mistelis
Description: "The aim of this course is to establish students' knowledge and critical understanding as well as provide an insight into the practice of international commercial arbitration as an independent comparative law subject. The subject is first examined generically, without any reference to any national laws, arbitration rules or international instruments; and then various national and institutional approaches are presented. The focus is on selected issues of applicable law(s) and procedures. In particular, in the first section the classes will explore the role of arbitral institutions as regulators of arbitration and classes will also discuss issues of legitimacy and how concerns users may have can be best addressed. In the second section of the course the focus will shift to applicable law issues. In particular, classes will discuss how applicable laws are being determined (and by whom) before looking at specific applicable substantive laws and rules as well as the role of lex mercatoria and transnational commercial rules. There will also be specific discussion of the impact of mandatory rules or law as an issue of methodology and practice. In the third section of the courses the classes will discuss they key (f)actor of arbitration: the arbitration tribunal. In particular, classes will cover the selections, status, rights and duties of arbitrators, how arbitrators are being appointed and the main duties of independence and impartiality. In this context the classes will also address liability and/or immunity of arbitrators. In the penultimate and longer section the classes will explore issues of procedure and evidence in international arbitration, ranging from the law governing the procedure (`lex arbitri¿), the classification of procedural issues, the organisation and management of procedure. Then the classes will look at provisional and interim measure as well as emergency arbitration and will also cover multi-party, multi-contract and multi-action arbitration. Issues of evidence, such as evidentiary means (witnesses, documents and document production, experts) and regulation of evidence will also receive specific attention. Finally, we will discuss efficiency as a driver of arbitration micro-regulation. Depending on the class size we may also endeavour a simulation of an arbitration process."
Description: The growth of international commercial transactions, including infrastructure and investment projects, financial and IP transactions, has been accompanied over the last four decades by the increasing use of arbitration to settle disputes. Arbitration is now established as the preferred method of international dispute resolution as it provides for the neutrality and flexibility commercial parties seek. In the last ten years more than 5,000 arbitration cases have been recorded annually in London alone. This module examines the fundamental theoretical concepts and legal framework for international commercial arbitration. The teaching approach taken for this module is international and comparative, drawing on the laws of all major legal systems (including England, France, Switzerland, the USA, Model Law Countries, Singapore, China and Hong Kong) as well as the most important institutional and ad hoc arbitration rules (including the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, the UNCITRAL Rules, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre). Particular focus is also given to the 1958 United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention) which has a central importance in international commercial arbitration.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Ava Kanyeredzi
Description: This module provides students with essential knowledge and skills about Applied Research Methods. The general aim is to equip students with transferable skills that can be either used towards completing an empirical project or conducting a systematic review.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr David Mulryne
Description: This course provides an introduction to the basic laws of electromagnetism and electrostatic phenomena: electric force and field; electric potential and energy; capacitance; electromotive force; magnetic force and field; the Lorentz force; electromagnetic induction; mutual and self inductance; magnetic energy; RC circuits; Maxwell's equations; introduction to electromagnetic waves; applications in science and engineering.
Description: This module equips students with knowledge of core skills employed by Mental Health professionals in their workplace. The module maps out both classic and contemporary work in mental health settings and relates theory and research to practice, particularly in psychotherapy. Theory and research are drawn from a number of distinct areas, such as clinical and counselling psychology with a review of core mental health skills, such as assessment, diagnosis and formulation.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Ava Kanyeredzi
Description: This module provides students with knowledge about how mental health can be viewed in different contexts. From causal and protective factors to prevention, stigmatization, rehabilitation and social integration. It is also aimed at addressing contemporary issues, such as the impact of digital technology on mental health and the extent to which world crises can affect the onset and prognosis of mental illness. This module aims at enhancing critical thinking skills by giving the opportunity to reflect on the reciprocal relationship between the context and the individual. Issues or health inequalities, continuity of care and accessibility to mental health care are also addressed.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Constantinos PapageorgakisOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take INK7002UPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA5218Corequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take SPA6413
Description: The module will give you a grounding in the more formal and axiomatic approach to quantum mechanics and introduce you to the application of these tools in the quantum mechanical description of symmetries in particle physics. Topics include: Dirac notation; Hilbert space; linear operators; formal axioms of quantum mechanics; Schoedinger and Heisenberg pictures; harmonic oscillator; raising and lowering operators; time independent perturbation theory; transformation operators; translations and rotations of coordinates; conservation laws and good quantum numbers; rotation operators; angular momentum operators.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Elham Rezasoltani
Description: By the end of this course, a student would be expected to be able to: understand and use basic complex analysis into solving complex equations; have a familiarity with double and triple integrals, polar and spherical coordinates, line and surface integrals and coordinate transformations; use and understand the meaning of scalar and vector quantities, vector differential operators, div, grad and curl and properties; comprehend matrices, their order and type, operations, inverse and transpose, symmetry, orthogonality, Hermiticity and unitarity, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, use in solving linear systems of equations; be able to solve simple, linear first and second order differential equations.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Karim MalikOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SPA7005U
Description: "This module covers the essential concepts of modern cosmology, and in particular introduces the student to what has become known as the ""cosmological standard model"". It discusses the structure and properties of the universe as we observe it today, its evolution and the the underlying physical concepts, and the observations that formed our understanding of the universe."
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Craig AgnorPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA4121 and take SPA4122 and take SPA4401 and take SPA4402
Description: "Ever since the dawn of civilisation human beings have charted the paths of the planets across the night sky and speculated about their nature. Indeed the word planet has its origin in the ancient Greek term `planete' meaning wanderer. Used in its modern scientific context the word planet refers to an object which orbits about a star, but which itself is not a star. Planets have a special philosophical significance since they are the bodies on which life itself is expected to come into existence. This course provides an in depth description of our current knowledge and understanding of the planets in our Solar System, and of the planetary systems now known to orbit around stars other than the Sun and the extrasolar planets. The properties of individual planets and their satellites will be described and contrasted, and basic physical principles will be used to explain their orbits and physical features. Our understanding of how planetary systems form will be explored, and current scientific ideas about the origin of life will be discussed."
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Sanjaye RamgoolamPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA5218. Before taking this module you are advised to take SPA5304
Description: "The module will cover advanced techniques in mathematical physics and will consist of three parts. The first part will cover topics in the general area of analysis such as Fourier Transforms, differential equations, special functions, asymptotic series, complex analysis. The second will cover groups, algebra and representations. The third will cover elements of gepmetry, differential forms, homology, topological invariants."
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Ricardo Monteiro
Description: This course presents the essential concepts of both special and general relativity. The emphasis is on the physical understanding of the theory and the mathematical development is kept simple, although more detailed treatments are included for those who wish to follow them; space-time diagrams being are used extensively. The course includes discussion of the big bang and black holes.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Jan MolPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA4121
Description: Thermal and Kinetic Physics is a course designed as an introduction to the notion of energy and its transformations. The thermodynamic methodology that is constructed, largely through the paradigm of the ideal gas, is widely applicable throughout the realm of physics. We begin by developing a language capable of dealing with the thermodynamic method and this requires that concepts of equilibrium and temperature are disentangled before work and heat are described in detail en route to the First Law of Thermodynamics. With the First Law many things become readily accessible to an analytic approach previously unavailable including; engines, refrigerators and heat pumps. Entropy will then make a natural appearance as a macroscopic thermodynamic variable in the build up to the Second Law of Thermodynamics with a brief look at its microscopic origins. New thermodynamic potentials including the Gibbs potential and the Helmholtz free energy, and their applications, are discussed in order to generalise further the thermodynamic method. Phase changes for simple systems are briefly covered and the Third law of Thermodynamics described. Finally an introduction to the kinetic description of gases in equilibrium and of phenomena such as diffusion and heat conduction will complete the module.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Anthony Phillips
Description: This module reviews the classical understanding of space, time and motion. We will study kinematics and dynamics; rotational motion (including the gyroscope); gravity and planetary orbits. In the second part of the module, we focus on oscillatory phenomena and wave motion. Topics will include the 1D wave equation; free, damped, forced and coupled oscillations; resonance and driven simple harmonic motion; interference, beats and standing waves; simple diffraction phenomena; and the Doppler effect in sound and light.
Description: "This course presents the essential concepts of both special and general relativity. The emphasis is on the physical understanding of the theory and the mathematical development is kept simple, although more detailed treatments are included for those who wish to follow them; space-time diagrams being are used extensively. The course includes discussion of the big bang and black holes."
Description: This module develops the mathematical techniques that will be used and built upon throughout the rest of Physics and Astronomy. Topics include vectors and their operations (addition, subtraction, scalar multiplication, dot / cross products); functions of a single variable; single variable calculus (including integration and differentiation); functions of many variables and partial differentiation; Taylor series (including the binomial expansion, and for functions of two variables); Fourier series; proof by induction; properties of complex numbers; hyperbolic functions; integration techniques (e.g. substitution, by parts, partial fractions); applications of integration (e.g. averages of functions, volumes of revolution); multiple integration with applications; Fourier transforms.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Ms Andrea Palinski
Description: The module links theory to practice, providing an overview of culturally competent approaches to the assessment, treatment and prevention of mental illness in local and global contexts. Students are introduced to research evaluating cultural competency at different levels of service delivery including culturally adapted psychological therapies, culturally appropriate assessment tools, clinical and organizational strategies to improve accessibility of mental health services, cultural competency training frameworks as well as strategic approaches to equitable global mental health care. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the importance and effectiveness of these different approaches and how they are used to enhance and improve available psychological interventions and systems of service delivery to treat a range of mental illnesses across diverse populations. Students will be also submitting a reflective piece based on their work/clinical placement.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Christopher White
Description: This module provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts in modern condensed matter physics. Topics include bulk properties of matter (e.g. elastic moduli and thermal expansion coefficients); crystal structures and interatomic potentials; diffraction of waves through crystals and determination of crystal structures; dynamics of crystal lattice vibrations (including phonons and the heat capacity); dynamics of electrons in solids; the origin of conductors, insulators and semiconductors; quasiparticles and holes; properties of magnetic materials.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Heli Johanna Hietala
Description: "Stars are a vital building block in the Universe: forming out of interstellar gas and dust, and themselves being a major component of galaxies. They are also vital for providing the nuclear reactions that create the elements from which planets and even ourselves are formed. This course describes how the fundamental properties of stars are related to observations. Temperatures and densities in the centre of stars reach values that are unattainable in the laboratory. Yet the application of basic physical principles can help us determine much about the internal structure and evolution of stars, from their formation to their ultimate end states in such exotic and spectacular objects as white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes."
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr David VeghPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SPA4401Corequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take SPA5218
Description: Introduction to Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of Newtonian mechanics. Origin of Conservation Laws and their relation to symmetry properties. Rotational motion of rigid bodies, Euler's equations, principal axes and stability of rotation, precession. Small vibration approximation, normal modes
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Karim MalikOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SPA7005P
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal
Description: Primarily the course aims to contribute to a critical understanding of the subject matter through the combined study of theories of regulation in general and the corporate dynamics in particular, with a special focus on the different stakeholders involved in international corporate finance. The module will focus on providing an introduction to the different corporate financing options, methods and techniques, with special emphasis on the use of debt and equity. The course is strongly committed to presenting a global and comparative perspective highlighting the contemporary principles and international trends of corporate finance rather than the pointillist and ephemeral details of national rule books.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Mairi MitsiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SOLM189
Description: "The aim of this course is to establish students' knowledge and critical understanding as well as provide an insight into the practice of international investment arbitration at the juncture of dispute resolution and public international law and policy. The focus will be on BITs, FTAs and other International Investment Agreements, Investor Protection and State Defences. There are a number of reasons why a course on substantive protection of investors through investment arbitration is important at this time. Indeed, recent and rapid changes in investment arbitration prompted by globalisation and widespread foreign investment. There are also debates about legitimacy crisis and further debates about the negotiation and drafting of new generation treaties - so-called mega-regionals. The course is divided into three main topics: (1) Major Treaty Systems - Fragmentation and new Regionalisation, (2) Case Law of and case studies relating to Substantive Protection, (3) Specific Policy issues and State Perspectives to Investment Arbitration and ISDS. The classes will address the content and negotiations of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and Multilateral Treaties (Energy Charter Treaty, NAFTA, CAFTA, ASEAN, CETA, TPP (CPTPP) and TTIP). The discussions will focus on substantive protection and the evolution of such protection as well as policy considerations associated with BITs and MITs. The second section of the class will focus on substantive protection as developed through jurisprudence of international tribunals. The classes will cover (1) expropriation, (2), fair and equitable treatment, (3) umbrella clauses and fork-in-the-road, (4) full protection and security and (5) MFN clauses. The third section of the course will discuss balancing interests - public interest, public policy and regulatory chill and typical state defences raised in investment disputes (including corruption and admissibility defences). Specific attention will also be paid to treaty Shopping, Transparency and Third-Party-Funding and assessment of damages by investment tribunals."
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof George Walker
Description: The purpose of the course is to examine the principal markets and main professional documentation used in more specialist international finance and capital markets. International finance markets are key drivers in national and international economies and the new global economy. The City of London remains one of the key financial centres in the world for all of these markets and activities. The course examines the nature, function, structure, operation and importance of all of the key financial markets involved. This is essentially a private law, contract or transactional and documentation course which provides professional preparation in designing, structuring and executing all of the principal separate financial contracts involved. The course can be taken with International Finance Law or as a free standing module.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Uma Suthersanen
Description: What is intellectual property? Who benefits from these laws? What types of subject matter are protected in the global perspective under patent, copyright, trade mark, etc. laws? What are the main I.P. treaties and conventions? What is the connection between trade (WTO-TRIPS) and intellectual property law? What are the main justifications and criticisms in relation to IP law? By looking at national and global IP laws, the course gives a fundamental grounding in patents, copyright, trade marks, as well as international hybrid rights such as geographical indications, plant and seed protection, utility model, design, and unfair competition protection. The module also examines the global nature of intellectual property law and policy as it is affected arising from emerging technologies, and the consequential impact on the rights and obligations of peoples and corporations. Concentrating on the jurisprudence of major countries, including the EU and US, the course also examines the conflicting positions adopted as to the propertisation of (i) drugs, biological organisms and gene technologies; and (ii) traditional knowledge and cultural heritage. The module further examines the controversial clashes which have emerged between IPRs and international norms in various fora including competition law, human rights, development and environmental agendas.
Description: The course will explore negotiation through various theoretical approaches including strategic bargaining, cognitive theories, processual analysis, for example. The focus will be on the lawyer as negotiator and the intent is to blend theoretical analysis with practical application. Lectures will be delivered in combination with role-play simulations and exercises. Students will be expected to participate in exercises and simulated roleplays each class. This module is very well suited to a three hour weekly lecture due to the experiential nature of its delivery.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prosir Bernard Rix
Description: In an era of globalisation English contract law governs many international transactions between commercial parties and is essential to energy, shipping, commodities and the construction industry. This course will introduce students to the making, breaking, interpreting and disputing of contracts. It covers a range of subjects including contract interpretation, frustration, breach, termination, misrepresentation and fraud, and some of the special problems of insurance, shipping, and sale of goods law. It will also provide them with insights into the procedural aspects of commercial law; and into the different ways in which good faith may be approached in the common and civil law. In doing so, we consider typical problems concerning contract law, private and public international law, and procedure, which are encountered by commercial lawyers in negotiation, litigation, arbitration and mediation. Do you interpret contracts as a literalist goat or as a purposive sheep? When does a breach of contract destroy a contract? What are the modes and dangers of terminating a significant contract? What is the role of an ¿international commercial court¿? What is the role of private and public international law in commercial law? How does ¿good faith¿ differ in the common and civil law? Would you advise a client to arbitrate or litigate or mediate? It will give students and practitioners the ability to answer these questions and apply contract law to complex commercial disputes. It will teach them to be lawyers in business and pragmatists in law.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mrs Joy Svasti-SaleePrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SOLM119
Description: The module focus is on how multinational enterprises are structured and operate. In particular, the module will cover how groups finance their business, structure their operations and own and protect their intellectual property. There will also be some consideration of the impact of mergers, acquisitions, disposals and reorganisations. The module will also look at the challenges created by new forms of technology and new ways of doing business. The module will discuss these issues from the viewpoint of the enterprise and of the relevant revenue authorities.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Alan Dignam
Description: The module aims to inform and educate students as to the field of law that governs UK corporations. The course is a UK focused Company law course covering: Meaning of Corporate Personality and distinction between incorporated and unincorporated associations. The nature, types and functions of companies. Historical development of the modern business company. The consequences of incorporation and its practical advantages and disadvantages. The corporate entity principle and exceptions to it. The ultra vires doctrine and the Articles of Association. The company's organs and agents and the liability of the company for their acts. Formation and flotation of companies. The module also aims to highlight future directions and trends in the regulation of companies.
Description: The module provides students with a broad understanding of the importance of conducting business activities (both financial and non-financial) with fairness and integrity and how this is reflected in EU and UK law and supervisory powers. By making reference to real case studies, the module investigates the legal framework pertaining to bribes, market manipulation, and other malpractices and critically analyses its effectiveness taking also into account the deterrence effect, or lack thereof, of the sanctioning and prosecution regime. It then covers corporate social responsibility and sustainable/responsible investment to analyse if and how this can nudge change. The module will also touch upon the efficacy of the organizational requirements companies are obliged to have in place to prevent unethical conduct from happening and/or spreading.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Karen WattonOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SOLM308 or take SOLM307
Description: Entrepreneurship Law Clinic is a unique opportunity to learn and reflect on the legal issues that face entrepreneurs. In this module you will have the opportunity to (i) develop a number of professional skills and your professional identity; (ii) understand the practical legal issues that are faced by entrepreneurs and how to respond to those issues; (iii) interview and draft advice for a client; (iv) develop and practice public speaking and presentation skills; (v) work within a team and network closely with legal experts and entrepreneurship specialists in London's Tech City. Students must adhere to the Legal Advice Centre's practices and procedures including the signing of a confidentiality agreement and student contract.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Duncan MatthewsCorequisite: In the same year as taking this module you must take SOLM292
Description: The establishment of a Unified Patent Court is the most significant change to patent law and practice in Europe since the early 1970s. The module will provide advanced knowledge of EU Regulation 1257/2012 on the creation of unitary patent protection, detailed knowledge of the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court, and advanced knowledge of procedures, litigation and practice before the Unified Patent Court.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Johanna Gibson
Description: This module deals with intellectual property and the international film industries, including the transformative environment of digital technology and user-generated content, through a consideration of protection and commercialisation in key jurisdictions and markets. Topics include the development of a film prospectus, ancillary rights, financing and alternative funding (including crowdfunding models and fan-based theories), development and production, distribution, merchandising and co-branding, film franchises and adaptations, censorship, titles and credits, cast and performers.
Credits: 30.0Contact: To Be Confirmed
Description: International construction contracts have by their nature special features, which affect the methods of resolving disputes arising from them. The module, conducted through series of seminars, examines in detail the nature of international construction contracts, the typical clauses included in the standard form of FIDIC conditions, the parties to construction contract (and in particular the role of the Engineer and the Contractor), their structure, and the types of disputes that arise under them.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Theodora Christou
Description: The central question this module discusses is the application and implication of Transnational law, its formation, supervision, and enforcement process in the context of the transnational business community and globalised markets. This module will take a series of case studies from different areas of law to provide examples of how governance can be conducted in a globalised world. The focus will be on the role and functioning of transnational law in a globalised world. Guest lecturers will be invited to talk about the impact of globalisation on their specialism and a Transnational Law solution.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Lilian Moncrieff
Description: The module aims to inform and educate students as to the issues affecting both the business community and the wider societal effects of the debate on corporate governance. As such the module will focus on the systems by which companies are or should be directed and controlled, particular emphasis will be given to: self regulatory systems and their provenance, the UK Corporate Governance and associated Codes, Hostile Takeovers, and Case studies of extreme Corporate Governance failure eg. Enron and The financial crisis 2008 onwards. As such, students will have an enhanced knowledge of the issues surrounding various corporate governance industry and state regulatory perspectives on corporate governance. The module also aims to highlight future directions and trends in corporate governance.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Eva Nanopoulos
Description: "This module explores the history, theory and politics of international human rights. It will explore both traditional and revisionist accounts of the philosophical and historical foundations of international human rights. It introduces the students to the main critiques of rights, from the early critiques of natural rights, including the Marxist critiques of rights, to feminist and post-colonial critiques, exploring the different strands within each of these schools of thought, all of which have generated considerable debates. Through these different lenses, it aims to engage the students with the ambivalence of international human rights, both as a concept, and as a contemporary praxis and ideology. The course closes by putting these theoretical insights and foundations into practice by looking at two contemporary phenomena that illustrate the ambivalence of the human rights project, namely the war on terror and the advent of neoliberalism. "
Description: This module brings together an interdisciplinary perspective on behaviour science, welfare, economics, and law in order to introduce students to a range of legal and welfare issues arising through the use of animals in media, culture and entertainment. The module will deal with both domesticated and wild animals, considering animals in film and television, advertising, fashion, zoos and conservation, circuses, and sport. Students will also explore a range of critical questions and specific episodes on animals and creativity, including the animal as performer and the animal as author, analysing the significance for sentience and welfare, and gaining important insight into creativity and intentionality in other areas of the law (including intellectual property).
Description: The module will inform and educate students as to the issues affecting both the business community and the wider societal effects of the debate on corporate governance. As such the module will focus on the systems by which companies are or should be directed and controlled, particular emphasis will be given to the legal and extra-legal rules/systems governing internal corporate accountability and the legal and extra-legal rules/systems governing the corporations accountability to the external world. As such students will gain an enhanced knowledge of the issues surrounding various corporate governance theories that seek to explain the position of, and relationship between, the company as a metaphysical entity and its members, managers and other interested constituencies (i.e.`stakeholders¿) and the different theoretical and industry perspectives on corporate governance. The concept of shareholder primacy will be critically examined and contrasted with alternative approaches. The module also aims to highlight future directions and trends in corporate governance.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Bernard Schneider
Description: The module is designed to cover the structure, principles, rules and application of the US international tax system. In particular, it will cover the US tax principles and rules that apply to US and foreign entities and individuals engaged in cross-border operations and transactions. Coverage will include jurisdictional principles, the inbound and outbound regimes, income tax treaties and the treatment of corporations and shareholders. The module will also cover the taxation of trusts, estates and gifts, reporting requirements and tax administration and procedure, all with a focus on the cross-border context. The module will examine how the system operates in practice and also consider US tax policy in these areas.
Description: The module is designed for students who wish to gain an understanding of the key concepts of international tax law and of how multinational enterprises are taxed on their profits. It is also designed to equip students to participate in International Tax Law in Practice, for which it is a prerequisite. The module covers the basic principles of jurisdiction to tax, the factors used by countries in imposing taxes and the issues governing major types of income. It looks at how conflicts lead to international double taxation, the problems this creates for international trade and solutions provided for in double taxation treaties. The taxation of multinational enterprises has become a political issue, with the G20 and the OECD undertaking substantial work to address Base Erosion and Profit Shifting. This work has progressed rapidly and features prominently in the module.
Description: This module is a corporate law and financial regulation module analyzing transactions using sophisticated methodologies. The module will focus on issues such as: due diligence, purchase sale agreements and contractual governance; the role of the board of directors in an acquisition/financing transaction; the permissibility and regulation of takeover defenses in the UK, the US and the EU; the protection of minority shareholders in common law and civil law jurisdictions; the protection of other constituencies such as employees affected by control transactions; and financial assistance regulation in the UK, US and the EU. The course is strongly committed to presenting a global and comparative perspective highlighting the contemporary principles and trends of corporate finance rather than the pointillist and ephemeral details of national rule books.
Description: The purpose of the course is to examine the nature and content of private banking law at the UK, European and international levels. Banking Law is concerned with the private law aspects of banks and banking including both Commercial Banking and Investment Banking. Banks are among the most important financial institutions within any economy, nationally and internationally, and the City of London is one of the foremost financial centres of the world. This module examines all aspects of the law governing the structure, operation and function of banks and banking markets from a UK as well as European and international perspective. The course is essentially private law based although it also examines recent areas of significant law reform especially following the recent financial crises in banking markets.
Description: Parties, attorneys, and arbitrators come to international arbitral proceedings different jurisdictions and with often distinctive legal cultures and ethical assumptions. As a result, many ambiguities exist about what rules apply to their professional conduct and often parties and counsel from different jurisdictions effectively play by different ethical rules. This module, which is to be offered as an option at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, will address these issues.
Description: This module introduces students to skills in reading film and intellectual property critically and analytically. Students will undertake interdisciplinary evaluation of film protection and commercialisation using film theory, fan and cultural studies, and intellectual property. Studying key jurisdictions and markets, topics include history of film and its protection, film theory and intellectual property, film theory and creative practice, authorship and film practice, audience and reception, sound and intellectual property, adaptation and genre.
Description: The module will seek to provide an understanding of the various dispute resolution processes available to parties in dispute, and to understand the necessity of considering the process which best suits the dispute. The module will cover such topics as the nature of conflict, the emergence of disputes, the history of the ADR movement with its attendant debate between informalism and formalism, the adjudication process, the nature of negotiation and their strategies, the mediation process and approaches, the continuum of dispute resolution processes, the relationship between ADR and institutes such as courts, the English Courts and within the EU. ADR is a vibrant area of scholarship; it is impossible to give 'yes' or 'no' answers to most of the issues arising in scholarship. Therefore the module will employ a critical thinking and open discussion approach. It is expected that students will be willing to share the results of their analysis, research and supported opinions,and be involved in active discussion of all issues.
Description: The module will consider the tax policy, system design and technical issues involved in the taxation of individuals. It will look at a range of issues in the design of an individual income tax system, including the construction of the tax base, tax rates and deductions and incentives. It will also look at options for the taxation of savings and wealth. The increasingly important area of cross-border taxation of both income and wealth will also be examined.
Description: The purpose of the course is to examine the nature and content of banking law and regulation at the international, European and UK levels with reference to US law as well. Banking markets are key drivers in any national, regional or global economy with banks carrying out a number of essential services without which no economy could operate. Banking markets are nevertheless unstable and prone to significant crisis and collapse which was confirmed by the severity and damaging impact of the recent financial crises in global, European and national financial markets. Many difficult problems still arise with regard to the causes of the crises and most appropriate responses going forward. All of the relevant issues that arise in this exciting area are examined in this course.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Ruth Fletcher
Description: This module will analyse the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), the legislation that provides the framework in England and Wales for assessing capacity and making decisions on behalf of those who lack capacity to decide, and its application in the context of medical and social care. This module is recommended for those interested in issues of consent in health and social care. The question that will guide this module is whether the law in England and Wales strikes a good balance between respecting the autonomy of individuals and protecting their welfare. It will also discuss the compatibility between the MCA and human rights law (in particular, the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities). Therefore, even though this course will focus on England and Wales, students interested in comparative and human rights approaches to mental health and the law are strongly encouraged to apply. The cases that students will discuss in this module include, for instance, the force-feeding of anorexia patients, the withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration from people in a minimally conscious state, deprivation of liberty in hospitals and care homes, and the reproductive choices of people with learning disabilities.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr John Hull
Description: Every intellectual property right starts life as a trade secret. Trade secrets and related intellectual assets are viewed as critical to the success of many businesses. But they are also uniquely fragile rights and so their protection under different legal systems requires close assessment. This module complements other IP modules by providing an opportunity to study the economic and legal foundations of these important rights.This module will be taught intensively over a period of 1 week in semester 3. Sem 3 is the final teaching semester taught early June to early July.
Description: "The aim of this course is to establish students' knowledge and critical understanding as well as provide an insight into the practice of international investment arbitration at the juncture of dispute resolution and public international law and policy. The course is divided into three main topics: (1) International Investment Disputes Out-of-Court: Principles and Historical Evolution; (2) ICSID - Jurisdiction and Procedure; and (3) Bilateral Investment Treaties - Jurisdiction and Procedure. The classes will explore, first by way of integration, international trade and investment disputes out of court and the evolutionary process of their institutionalisation. Then, we discuss the related regulatory and institutional framework, and the basic principles of dispute settlement with reference to investment with focus on sovereign immunity, arbitrability and applicable laws (domestic and international). The following lectures will address ICSID Jurisdiction (ratione materiae, ratione personae, temporal) and consent to jurisdiction. These classes will be followed by classes on ICSID Procedure, including annulment of awards and enforcement of awards. The next set of classes will explore jurisdiction based on Bilateral Investment Treaties (with focus on umbrella clauses, parallel proceedings and MFN clauses)."
Description: Interactive Entertainment Law analyses some of the legal, commercial, contractual and regulatory issues that the Games and Interactive Entertainment industry faces in. It delineates and analyses the legal parameters within which developers and publishers operate and in which players create and consume content, providing students with an in-depth analysis of the industry from the development to the commercialisation of interactive entertainment products.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Apostolos Chronopoulos
Description: The module covers all legal issues that might arise from the very moment someone decides to apply to register a sign as a trade mark. Covered topics include: what may constitute subject matter eligible for trade mark protection?; absolute grounds for refusal and invalidity; relative grounds for refusal and invalidity; distinctiveness acquired through use; trade mark infringement; invalidity; revocation; defenses; parallel imports; the concept of the trade mark functions; economic justifications for trade mark protection; trade mark protection against dilution; the free-riding theory of trade mark protection.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Andrea Benucci
Description: To provide psychology MSc conversion students with a scientific overview of the brain and its function emphasizing concepts relevant to behaviour and its study.This compulsory module supports psychology as a natural and experimental science and introduces you to the notion of psychology as a branch of the biological sciences (e.g., that behaviour is the end product of whole organism biology), a core aspect of accredited undergraduate degrees.It will also introduce you to principles of neuroscience and the integrative scientific thinking skills required to study subsequent psychological topics.You will be introduced to empirical findings and will critically evaluate the range of methods in the field.The topics covered include basic cell biology, principles of communication, regulation of gene expression, protein synthesis, andhuman neuroanatomy. The involvement of these and other cell biological processes in the control of behaviour will be illustrated.
Description: "The module aims at providing the students with a thorough account of the main legal theories of unfair competition in various jurisdictions with a particular focus on US, EU, UK, French and German law in light of the binding European and international legal frameworks. Legal problems are approached from a comparative perspective. At the same time, emphasis is placed on the practical problems that arise in the context of disputes that involve claims of unfair competition."
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Maria Tzanakopoulou
Description: "This course explores the institutional and legal foundations of the post-WW2 framework for international human rights law protection, as well as a number of key rights and topics in contemporary international human rights law and practice. The first part examines the core institutions and legal regimes that together constitute the core of international human rights law. The second part of the course 'samples' a number of substantive rights, such as the right to life, the prohibition on torture and inhuman and degrading treatment, and the right to housing. It also explores the international human rights regimes from the perspective of different subjects or groups, such as women and labour, paying particular regard to the possibilities and limitations of human rights as a truly universal and emancipatory project. "
Description: The module considers tax system design and tax policy issues relevant to emerging and developing economies. It examines tax policy and design issues regarding the choice of taxes, expanding the tax base, expanding the tax net, encouraging taxpayer compliance and strengthening administrative capacity. In this context it considers the political economy of direct and indirect taxes, the incidence of taxation, fiscal federalism and the impact of tax treaties. It will also look at options for reform of existing systems and for improving tax administration and collection in emerging and developing economies.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Shalini Perera
Description: The module aims to inform and educate students as to the field of law that governs UK corporations. The course is a UK focused Company law course covering: Minority protection. Capital, The duties of directors and of the controlling majority and the enforcement of these duties. Shareholder Remedies and Liquidation of companies. The module also aims to highlight future directions and trends in the regulation of companies.
Description: The module covers the structure, principles, rules and application of a selection of taxes from a multi-jurisdictional and comparative perspective. In particular, the module looks at the taxation of individual income and wealth, the taxation of corporations and indirect taxation, as well as taxation at the sub-national level and tax administration. This is crucial not only for an understanding of specific domestic tax systems and the options available in designing domestic tax systems, but also to an understanding of the international tax system, which is determined by the interaction of national tax systems.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaCorequisite: Before or while taking this module you must take RUS4203
Description: Reading Contemporary Russia consists of reading comprehension and content analysis of simple texts on contemporary Russia. The main focus of the class is to introduce students to current cultural, social, and political issues, using books, newspaper articles,journals, TV and radio broadcasts, and web sources from Russia. Selected readings and films will familiarize students with culture and features of everyday life.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS5046Prerequisite: In taking this module you must have basic knowledge of russian
Description: In the second semester of each academic year the Russian department prepares a play for performance in Russian. This is a unique opportunity for shared close analysis, examination, and realisation of a Russian text. The actors and directors are selected from among the students. Numbers will be limited by the size of the cast, but there is no obligation whatsoever for everyone participating to register for the module In addition to participating in the performance, students registering for the module write a supervised essay-project on a theme associated with the play performed and supported by three formal supervisions. The language of the presentation and essay is English.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Gail EvansOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SOLM092
Description: The module begins with an explanation of the principles of intellectual property, contract and competition law as they relate to licensing contracts. The body of the module will be concerned with the character, structure and drafting of licensing agreements for the major forms of intellectual property to include patent, trade mark and copyright licensing. The module will examine in light of statute and case law, the key terms common to such licensing agreements including: ownership; grant of intellectual property; territorial exclusivity; invention improvement; sublicensing; royalties; warranties; indemnities and dispute resolution. The module will discuss current issues in the field of licensing including trade marks and selective distribution agreements; standard essential patents and FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) licensing; as well as copyright licensing, news aggregation; and technological self-help measures including blockchain technologies.
Credits: 60.0Contact: Dr Gwen Brekelmans
Description: This module allows you to conceive, design and carry out a substantive, original empirical study in an area of psychology independently. You work on approved research topics set by project supervisors. Experimental or theoretical work is the principal component of the project. The work also involves critical evaluation of data previously published in the literature. A consideration of ethical issues is also required. A dissertation is prepared. This module will teach you to work on original scientific research topics and consolidate quantitative research skills, communication and critical evaluation. It will enhance yourunderstanding of psychology in a broader context and will provide you with experience of working in a research environment. Research project topics are varied to reflect the breadth of psychological and biologically motivated psychological research in the Department, ranging from how parental attachment styles affect students learning to how mice learn to navigate new environments.
Description: This module focuses on the most fundamental elements of the law of treaties. It is based on the analysis of the text of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the law of Treaties. It relies on the case law of international courts and tribunals and the theory of international law. Anyone who wants to study or practice international law should take this module, as giving an invariable analysis of the law of treaties, which is the pillar of international law. This module deals with such important issues as the definition of the treaty in international law; consent to be bound; interpretation of treaties; reservation s to treaties.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Sevasti FokaPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take PSY253 and take PSY211 and ( take PSY209 or take PSY109 )
Description: This module builds on themes developed in level 4 and 5 psychology modules. It will consider areas of psychology which are the subject of active research in the SBCS Department of Psychology.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ashley Roughton
Description: Innovation, recognized as critical to growth of national economies, is often cited as a primary justification for the grant of intellectual property rights and the varying periods within which these `monopolies¿ can be exercised. It is sometimes claimed, therefore, that there is a tension between competition law that might be viewed as `antimonopoly¿ and intellectual property law that grants exclusive rights that might be viewed as monopolistic. This, however, is not the case. Although competition law has, in some cases, restricted intellectual property rights, e.g., those that are exercised beyond their lawful scope, competition law and intellectual property law often have similar objectives, including to further consumer interest through a competitive market place offering innovative products and services. However, in some competition cases against companies engaged in innovation such as Microsoft, Google, Intel, Apple, etc., that are rooted in intellectual property principles, the balance between applying competition principles and IP principles is not always clear or uncontroversial. While the European courts have sought to draw a distinction between the existence of IP rights and their exercise within the specific subject matter of the right that, in principle should not be affected by competition law, the distinction does not provide a safe harbour for IP rights. This is because the ECJ has also considered abusive practices that fall within the scope of the ¿specific subject matter¿ of the IP right in certain 'exceptional circumstances'. The Court also gives a broad definition to the term ¿exercise¿, thus keeping an important discretion as to the scope of the application of competition law. The course aims at exploring in detail the relationship between competition law and intellectual property law.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Neve Gordon
Description: This module is concerned with the rules of international law that govern the conduct of military operations in situations of armed conflict. Since these rules are largely intended for the protection of the civilian population, they apply irrespective of the legality or illegality of war. In the literature, the issues studied in this module are variously referred to as humanitarian law, jus in bello, or the law of war. The module will examine the core principles of humanitarian law , in particular, the centrality of the principle of distinction between civilians and combatants; rules for assessing the proportionality of military operations and their impact on targeting decisions; means and methods of warfare including the prohibition of weapons of mass destruction. The module will also consider the law applicable to situations of military occupation in light of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS4046Prerequisite: In taking this module you must have basic knowledge of russian
Description: In the second semester of each academic year the Russian department prepares a play for performance in Russian. This is a unique opportunity for shared close analysis, examination, and realisation of a Russian text. The actors and directors are selected from among the students. Numbers will be limited by the size of the cast, but there is no obligation whatsoever for everyone participating to register for the module. In addition to participating in the performance, students registering for the module write a supervised essay-project on a theme associated with the play performed and supported by three formal supervisions. The language of the presentation and essay is English.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS4204Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must have gcse or equivalent knowledge of russian
Description: The module is aimed at associate students who have completed at least one semester of Russian language at home university. It has been designed to provide students with a sound knowledge of essential Russian grammar and vocabulary and to develop four key language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. This module presents and covers all the basic elements of the Russian language, including pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. The course is well balanced between the presentation of the main grammatical concepts by the tutor in grammar classes and by activity-based grammar tutorials, mixed-skills revision and oral and reading classes.
Description: In this module, students will engage directly with industry and commercial fashion practice through workshops and enterprise development, gaining specific insight into design practice, fashion media, merchandising, branding, and retail curation. Seminars will cover a range of topics in commercial fashion enterprise and will consider in detail practical examples in management and innovation, allowing students to gain a comprehensive insight into building a fashion brand identity and an understanding of commercial and artistic practice in fashion and design.
Description: This module addresses the major creative industries, the way they operate and their impact on the national global economy, with a particular focus on the interplay between intellectual property protection and the industries' business environment. This module will analyze various contentious issues in the law surrounding the creative industries with a focus on intellectual property. A number of specific creative industries will be examined as well as famous' persons rights over their name and image and the commercialization of such rights. The module is international in scope, looking at a variety of jurisdictions according to significance and relevance to particular industries.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Claudia Lemus
Description: The Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission states that a cartel is a group of similar, independent companies which join together to fix prices, to limit production or to share markets or customers between them. Instead of competing with each other, cartel members rely on each others' agreed course of action, which reduces their incentives to provide new or better products and services at competitive prices. As a consequence, their clients (consumers or other businesses) end up paying more for less quality. This is why cartels are illegal under the competition legislations of a vast number of jurisdictions and why competition authorities impose heavy fines on companies involved in a cartel. Since cartels are illegal, they are generally highly secretive and evidence of their existence is not easy to find. The 'leniency policy' encourages companies to hand over inside evidence of cartels to competition authorities. This results in the cartel being destabilised. In recent years, most cartels have been detected by competition authorities around the world after one cartel member confessed and asked for leniency, though the authorities also successfully continue to carry out its own investigations to detect cartels.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nathan Emery
Description: This module will present contemporary research on play in animals, children and adults, focusing on psychological theories, especially during development. The module will also utilise an applied approach to studying how different psychological mechanisms may underlie playing different games, such as board, role-playing and video games, achieved by playing and discussing games in class. You will debate societal issues related to games, such as the role of video games in violence or game addiction, but also the positive effects of games.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS4201Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must have a-level or knowledge of russian equivalent to cefrl level b1
Description: Translation from and into Russian. Comprehension of, and conversation in, spoken Russian. Compulsory for students specialising in Russian.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Neve Gordon
Description: The course will follow on from the material covered in Human Rights of Women - Feminist Legal Theory by covering the general international human rights legal framework before moving on to the gender specific international human rights framework. This will include assessing provisions such as CEDAW and the ECHR. The course will then move on to examine and assess international law and policy on a number of substantive areas such as violence against women, prostitution, trafficking, the veiling of women etc. In any given year the precise subjects to be studied will vary according to the provenance of the members of the class and other factors.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Emma Stewart
Description: This module builds on Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology Part I in Semester A and introduces advanced statistics necessary for independently conducting psychological research at the level for the research project. It also introduces additional methods psychologists use in research. The course will combine lectures and practical sessions covering computerised statistical analyses using a relevant statistical software package.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Alena Galilee
Description: This module introduces fundamental skills in experimental design, statistical analysis and other methodologies necessary for conducting research in psychology. You will learn understand and critically appraise the different research methods commonly using in psychology research, with a particular focus on qualitative methods, and understand issues critical to experimental design such as sampling, validity, and reliability. The course will combine lectures and practical sessions covering computerised statistical analysis using a relevant statistical software package.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Sophie Pettit
Description: Have you ever wondered what influences our perceptions, emotions, thoughts, and behaviours? This module in Social Psychology will allow you to engage with the classic and contemporary scientific theories and methods used to address how other people and different contexts can shape these processes. Topics covered will include the self, social cognition, attitudes and attitude change, social influence, group processes, and stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Cristina Cioffi
Description: This module will focus on further developing the key skills required to conduct interdisciplinary research in the mental health sciences. It will provide further support for students during the data collection phase of their projects and semester B modules. It will also provide support in career development to boost students¿ employability on graduation. We will invite speakers from industry, academia and/or the public sector to give careers talks and provide workshops on career planning and job applications, including how to develop a funding application for PhD positions.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Paraskevi Argyriou
Description: In this module, we will address the concept of vulnerability within three contexts: (1) Humanitarian, focusing on war affected children/youth groups and forcibly displaced families, (2) Educational, focusing on students with mental health risks and their families, (3) Workplace, focusing on minority employees. We will discuss theoretical perspectives around vulnerability, case studies outlining the factors shaping vulnerability and the needs of vulnerable groups, and the current trends in psychological practice and policies to support those groups.
Description: The aim of this course is to introduce students to the legal framework regulating the use of force in international affairs. It examines in detail the content of the prohibition on use force in a historical context , as well as the self-defence and collective security exceptions that were explicitly provided for. The course will also examine in detail the effect of threats from terrorists and rogue states on the development of the law. Particular attention will be paid to the impact of human rights norms on the law on use of force and whether international law recognises a distinct right of humanitarian intervention. It is will also consider arguments advanced in support of a general responsibility on States to intervene militarily in support of those facing mass atrocity.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Florian Koempel
Description: The Music industry contracts module analyses the contracts between the various parts of the music industry. On the creative side it looks at the contracts between composers and music publishers; performers/ producers and record companies as well as other players such as music managers. A key aspect of the creative side of the music value chain concerns the activities of Collective Management Organisations and the module analyses the membership agreements of PRS for Music, MCPS and PPL respectively.The module we also look at the relation of music industry players with users such as broadcasting organisations and online platforms. The course will show how copyright is applied in practice on the example of the music industry. The music industry has been at the cutting edge of legal and commercial developments dealing with new business models throughout the years. The course will look at the main markets for music such as US and UK. Experiences in the field of music are transferable to all creative sectors such as audio visual and book publishing.
Description: Translation from and into Russian. Comprehension of, and conversation in, spoken Russian. Compulsory for students specialising in Russian. Native speakers of Russian should register for RUS060N.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS4201A or take RUS4201BPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must have a-level or knowledge of russian equivalent to cefrl level b1
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne
Description: This module provides an in-depth analysis of a central area of psychology known variously as 'individual differences' or 'differential psychology'. We will build on several key areas of psychology that show substantial individual differences including personality, psychopathology, intelligence, and cognition. We will then explore the proposed causes and effects of these individual differences drawing from research using approaches from psycho-dynamics to behavioral genetics. Finally, we will explore the evidence behind several key controversies in individual differences including the continuumbetween personality and mental heath, the nature vs nurture debate, race differences in intelligence and genetic determinism.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Bosiljka Milosavljevic
Description: This module surveys developmental psychology, covering human development across the whole life span but with a more detailed focus on development in the early years (infancy/childhood). The aim of the module is to introduce the key questions, theories, concepts, methodology, studies and research findings within developmental psychology, regarding different domains of psychological functioning including social, emotional, cognitive, cultural and behavioural development. The module will also cover the prenatal period, physical, motor, and sensory development, learning theory, moral development, and development of the self (identity). Where appropriate we will focus on the roles of culture and/or geography in development as well as considering novel stressors that can affect associated processes (e.g., war, displacement).
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Gary Britton
Description: This module will focus on developing the key skills required to conduct interdisciplinary research in the mental health sciences. You will learn about the different genetic, social, cognitive, behavioural and neuroscientific approaches to mental health research, how to read and critically evaluate the literature and how to translate clinical findings to basic science questions. A key outcome of this module is to learn how to review the literature and identify a research question focusing on an aspect of psychiatric disorders or psychological wellbeing that can be investigated from a social, cognitive, behavioural, neuroscientific, or genetic perspective.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Giorgia Michelini
Description: This module will focus on the genetic underpinnings of mental health and illness. Students will learn about the variety of genetic approaches that have been developed to understand the genetic risk for psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions, such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, autism and ADHD. Drawing on the wealth of research studies in this field, we will explore novel clinical applications that integrate genetic information, discuss the way genetic predispositions interface with the environment and are manifested in cognitive and brain phenotypes, and highlight key strengths and limitations and future directions for genetic studies.
Description: This interdisciplinary module brings a range of perspectives to the analysis of intellectual property law in the fashion and design industries, including business sociology and knowledge management, art history and fashion theory, fan theory and fashion tribes, and economic and cultural aspects. Students will understand and analyse fundamental interactions between protection frameworks, the creative process, and the fashion customer, analysing critically the social, political and legal aspects of the industry and its interaction with other cultural forms. The course equips students with the skills to identify and manage intellectual property in fashion practice and to analyse critically policy aspects of the fashion industries and the interaction with the law.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mr Florian Koempel
Description: "Copyright, the legal foundation of the creative industries, is by its modern nature international and comparative This module will offer students a solid basis for understanding the essential elements of copyright law ,its philosophical and legal basis, the international Copyright Treaties, and the different approaches adopted in major civil and common law countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the United States. We further focus on the growth of EU copyright law with its distinctive flavour, which incorporates civil law doctrines in a pragmatically common law precedent-based approach. Where relevant, reference is also made to well-known decisions on certain topics in Australia, Canada and India. This interactive course will explore copyright principles by considering and discussing crucial topics, namely, the types of protected works, copyright ownership, beneficiaries, term, nature of rights, exceptions and limitations, collective management, enforcement and user rights - from national and international perspectives. The course also looks at current international copyright policy discussions such as new Treaties and Trade Agreements. The module will enable students to embark on more specialised and in-depth courses. "
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Lucie Charles
Description: This module considers the cognitive functions and properties of the human mind. The material covered include the history of cognitive psychology, visual and multimodal perception, attentional processes, memory mechanisms, language and knowledge representation, problem-solving and expertise, and decision making and reasoning. The relationships and links between processes will be covered, as well as the implications of cognitive psychology research in the real life and other scientific fields (e.g., the dialogue between all cognitive sciences including linguistics and computer science will be embedded across the module; critical discussions about the impact of research in memory on eyewitness testimony will be prompted). Theoretical approaches, experimental paradigms and empirical studies in cognitive psychology will be discussed throughout.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Gwijde Maegherman
Description: This module will focus on developing the skills required to conduct cognitive and neuroscientific studies of mental illness. A variety of different methods will be covered in-depth, including EEG, fMRI, and psychophysiology. The lectures will cover the theoretical basis of each method and its application to mental health research, and accompanying workshops will teach students how to analyse and interpret neuroimaging data.
Description: This module explores the national and international institutions that are available for the enforcement of international criminal law. Beginning with the international criminal tribunal at Nuremberg, it traces the evolution of international criminal tribunals in a historical perspective. It considers in detail the Chapter VII powers of the Security Council and their use in the setting up of ad hoc tribunals. The jurisdiction, competence and contribution of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and the International Criminal tribunal for Rwanda are considered in detail. The continuing relevance of ad hoc mechanisms of accountability is considered in light of the jurisprudence of the Special Tribunals in Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Cambodia. A large part of the course will be devoted to the Permanent International Criminal Court. The final part of the module explores whether accountability through criminal processes is mandatory or permissive, and the extent to which accountability can be achieved in non-judicial forums such as Truth and Amnesty Commissions.
Description: This module introduces students to the professional field of Sport and Exercise Psychology. It will address the psychological techniques used for improving athletic performance, team cohesion, athlete wellbeing, etc., and the psychological benefits and risks associated with exercise.The content builds on your previous knowledge about cognitive, clinical and health psychology, and applies this knowledge to real-life problems in the form of case studies.You will build a portfolio of case studies, covering various types of problems and intervention techniques.You will learn how theoretical concepts of cognition, emotion, motivation, attachment and psychological interventions can be applied to real-life problems relating to individual and team sports.
Description: This module introduces cognitive behavioural therapies (CBT) and their use across healthcare settings. CBT is the mostresearched form of psychotherapy, and the recommended psychological intervention for most mental health symptoms.Students will learn how CBT is applied in understanding psychological problems, by examining the evidence-based cognitive behavioural models for different mental health conditions, such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive and trauma disorders. You will be introduced to the theory and the practice of 'doing CBT', critically examining a broad range of therapeutic skills and treatment protocols for addressing specific disorders. Case studies will be used throughout to promote thetranslation of theoretical knowledge into practical applications and vice versa, and to achieve in-depth understanding.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mr John HullOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take SOLM078
Description: Getting intellectual property rights is relatively easy. It's what you do with them that's difficult. And since 80% or more of a business's value is made up of IP (sometimes called "Intellectual Assets"), understanding how a business, a research charity or a university puts its IP to profitable use is fundamental to understanding how modern commercial life works.This module, which is one of few such modules in UK universities, is focused on how IP is created, owned and commercialised (or "monetised"). It is taught by a practising lawyer with extensive experience in all aspects of IP. Guest speakers with front-line experience of IP commercialisation are a key part of this module, allowing students to understand how commercial transactions take place in real life.
Description: The module is aimed at associate students who hold the equivalent of GCSE in Russian language. It has been designed to provide students with a sound knowledge of essential Russian grammar and vocabulary and to develop four key language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. This module presents and covers all the basic elements of the Russian language, including pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. The course is well balanced between the presentation of the main grammatical concepts by the tutor in grammar classes and by activity-based grammar tutorials, mixed-skills revision and oral and reading classes.
Description: This module explores the evolution of International Criminal Law in a historical perspective. It examines the sources of international criminal law in both treaty and custom, as well as the main principles of interpretation. It seeks to provide students with an understanding of the concept of international crime, and the distinction maintained in international law between regimes of individual and state responsibility. It is especially concerned with the substantive crimes within the jurisdiction of international tribunals such as genocide, war crimes, aggression, torture, and crimes against humanity.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Margherita MalanchiniPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take PSY117 and take PSY121 and take PSY233 and take PSY253
Description: This module provides an in-depth analysis of a new, rapidly evolving, and often controversial area, of psychology and psychiatry. We will build on several key areas of psychology introduced in previous modules including social, biological and abnormal psychology to explore how genetic and environmental factors come together to cause mental illnesses such as major depression, schizophrenia and autism. Drawing on the most recent research from quantitative and molecular genetics we will explore the evidence behind several key controversies in the field including the continuum between traits and disorders, the nature vs nurture debate, genetic determinism and the ethical implications of genetic research of mental illness.
Description: Reflecting the growing importance of Chinese developments in IP, and its vital role in the current and future global market economy, this module is designed to provide an insightful study of Chinese IP law and its relevance to the international community. The seminar based module looks into China's current copyright, trademark and patent, the law, policy and enforcement in the context of trade, and identifies the diverse approaches to effective management for IP in China.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Laura CrucianelliPrerequisite: There may be additional rules for this module depending on your programme of study. Please consult your School.Corequisite: There may be additional rules for this module depending on your programme of study. Please consult your School.
Description: The aim of this module is to give students a thorough understanding of the theoretical approaches in cognitive and affective neuroscience, where we will evaluate evidence from both behavioural and neuropsychological studies. We will explore how normal cognitive functioning takes place and how this can be elucidated by looking at brain damaged patients and neuroimaging studies. The lecture series will include an introductory lecture on the overall aims and objectives of cognitive neuroscience followed by a series of lectures looking at attention, perception, memory and movement. Subsequent lectures will focus on affective neuroscience, looking at neuroscience of empathy; neural basis of emotional reactivity, including attentional processes, biases and emotion regulation; and neuroscience of different emotions such as fear, anger, or disgust.
Description: This module introduces you to the fundamental concepts in the psychological study of crime. The areasintroduced include: the forensic psychologist, the study of crime, psychological explanations of crime, psychological explanations of the criminal mind, psychological explanations of specific crime types (for example, crimes of a sexual nature), the role of criminal and forensic psychologists in detection and investigation, and psychology in prison.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS4204A or take RUS4204BPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must have gcse or equivalent knowledge of russian
Description: The module is aimed at students who hold GCSE or equivalent in Russian language. It has been designed to provide students with a sound knowledge of essential Russian grammar and vocabulary and to develop four key language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. This module presents and covers all the basic elements of the Russian language, including pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. The course is well balanced between the presentation of the main grammatical concepts by the tutor in grammar classes and by activity-based grammar tutorials, mixed-skills revision and oral and reading classes. The module is intended primarily for Russian language specialists and for other students following programmes within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS4203
Description: The module is aimed at associate students with either no or very little previous knowledge of the Russian language. It has been designed to provide students with a sound knowledge of essential Russian grammar and vocabulary and to develop four key language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. This module presents and covers all the basic elements of the Russian language, including the alphabet, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. The course is well balanced between the presentation of the main grammatical concepts by the tutor in grammar classes and by activity-based grammar tutorials, mixed-skills revision and oral and reading classes.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS4202Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must have native or near-native proficiency in russian
Description: This module will provide you with a broad overview of the major childhood and adolescent neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions, including epidemiology and development, risk and protective factors and interventions. You will learn about the current research in childhood and adolescent psychopathology and how to critically appraise the evidence base for interventions. The module will also explore the role of societal changes (e.g., digitalisation, family structure), and broader context (e.g., loneliness, bullying, academic pressure) on adolescent psychological wellbeing and mental health. Finally, you will explore the role of broader psychosocial factors and culture in our understanding of childhood and adolescent psychopathology.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Sylvia BroughtonPrerequisite: Requires knowledge of a language offered in the module
Description: This module introduces you to language teaching at school. It includes French, German, Spanish, and Russian. The module can count for a degree in those languages. It also includes English but for exchange students only.It is the first of two 15 credit modules, and it focuses on the theoretical aspects of language teaching - whereas the other one (SML6212 which runs during the second semester) focuses on practical matters. Through the completion of this module, you will gain an understanding of key aspects of Applied Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. You will focus on theoretical aspects of second/ foreign language acquisition and their implications for teaching approaches and the design of teaching materials. This will involve planning, producing and delivering teaching materials. This module will also enable you to develop a range of transferable and professional skills such as organisational skills, communication skills, team-work, time management and problem-solving skills.Important: If you are planning to attend the module SML6212 (Languages in the Classroom 2: Teaching and Reflective Practice) in semester 2, you will be required to complete a placement in a local school and will therefore require clearance from the UK's Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). towards the end of the first semester. Please contact the module organiser for further information.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Annemieke Apergis-SchoutePrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take PSY100 and take PSY124 and take PSY125
Description: This module provides an in-depth analysis of a central area of psychology known variously as "individual differences" or "differential psychology". We will build on several key areas of psychology introduced in previous modules that show substantial individual differences including personality, psychopathology, intelligence and cognition. We will then explore the proposed causes and effects of these individual differences drawing from research using approaches from psycho-dynamics to behavioral genetics. Finally, we will explore the evidence behind several key controversies in individual differences including the continuum between personality and mental heath, the nature vs nurture debate, race differences in intelligence and genetic determinism.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Angus NichollsPrerequisite: Students are not allowed to take more than one research project module and before taking this module you must have a 60 average mark from years 1 & 2
Description: Entry to this module will not be automatic. All students wishing to take this module must meet the entry requirements, present an approved topic and have an agreed supervisor. It is designed to enable suitably qualified final-year students to pursue a sustained piece of individual or group research on an agreed topic which may not necessarily be covered in the taught modules. Introductory group sessions on research methods will be followed by individual supervision. You should note that failure to provide evidence of satisfactory progress will lead to de-registration.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Sharon TurnerPrerequisite: There may be additional rules for this module depending on your programme of study. Please consult your School.Corequisite: There may be additional rules for this module depending on your programme of study. Please consult your School.
Description: This module addresses communication skills for scientists and engineers, and also seeks to reinforce other generic skills of a more technical nature. Topics covered include study skills, academic writing, data presentation and analysis, information retrieval, and oral communication skills. SEFP students who are non-native English speakers and who do not have at least IELTS 6.5 or equivalent must register for SEF009 in Semester 1, and then take this module in Semester 2.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS4202A or take RUS4202BPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must have native or near-native proficiency in russian
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Isabelle Mareschal
Description: This module explores key topics in mental health, from both historical and contemporary contexts, including in-depth analyses of current issues in the field. Key themes may include the role of mental health services, the importance of evidence-based practice and evidence-based psychological treatments. This module encourages you to view and reflect on mental health through different lenses and to consider the point the view of practitioners, scientists, and clients. It aims to advance critical reasoning skills through the analysis of empirical research, debates in the literature, and the discussion of the broader contexts of the mental health sciences.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Rachael Bedford
Description: This module takes a developmental science approach to understanding mental health conditions. It will introduce common mental health conditions which typically emerge during childhood and adolescence and discuss the underlying developmental pathways and precursors. It will consider, compare, and contrast psychological, social, and (neuro)biological perspectives on child and adolescent mental health. This module will also have an applied perspective, discussing clinical interventions and evaluating their empirical basis.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Jessica Blais
Description: This module investigates the role of social and environmental factors on psychopathology and psychological wellbeing across the life span. Prenatal influences, the immediate social context (i.e., parenting, family structure), the socio-economic context, the wider social context (i.e., neighbourhood quality, green spaces), adverse life events such as exposure to war and displacement, as well as cultural factors, will be covered. This module will also have an applied perspective: reviewing social and environmental interventions that have been developed to address adverse mental health outcomes and promote positive development.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Sharon Turner
Description: Reading and study skills, lecture comprehension and seminar skills, and an introduction to academic writing in English. This module is intended for students, primarily from overseas, whose first language is not English and who do not already have IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Gary BrittonPrerequisite: It is recommended that students taking this module have previously studied introductory-level psychology and research methods in psychology
Description: This module provides an in-depth analysis of a central area of psychology known variously as 'individual differences' or 'differential psychology'. We will build on several key areas of psychology that show substantial individual differences including personality, psychopathology, intelligence and cognition. We will then explore the proposed causes and effects of these individual differences drawing from research using approaches from psycho-dynamics to behavioral genetics. Finally, we will explore the evidence behind several key controversies in individual differences including the continuum between personality and mental health, the nature vs nurture debate, race differences in intelligence and genetic determinism.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS6200A or take RUS6200BPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take RUS5200 or take RUS5202
Description: Tuition in spoken Russian aimed at enhancing communication abilities in the language. Translation from English into Russian and from Russian into English, complemented as appropriate by free composition, comprehension, précis, and exercises. Achievement of a high level of competence in the language. Compulsory for students specialising in Russian. Native speakers of Russian should register for RUS084N.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Jeremy Hicks
Description: "Through the analysis of films produced since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and creation of Russia, this course aims to equip students to be able to comment on contemporary Russian films as they are released. Teaching and assessment focuses on identifying key industrial, thematic and genre trends and issues in contemporary Russian cinema, with a focus on the intersection of the national and transnational. Those without Russian will be able to participate fully in this course by taking the FLM version, although a reading knowledge can be useful for working on less well-known films. The secondary reading is in English, and all key films are subtitled."
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Gwen Brekelmans
Description: This 15-credit module provides students with advanced-level training in research techniques appropriate for postgraduate research projects. It includes lectures on key research principles and research methodology, as well as practical workshops focused on developing skills in data analysis.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Stephanie Echols
Description: This module allows you to conceive, design and carry out a substantive, original empirical study in an area of psychology independently. You will work on approved research topics set by project supervisors. Experimental or theoretical work is the principal component of the project. The work also involves critical evaluation of data previously published in the literature. A consideration of ethical issues is also required. A dissertation is prepared. This module will teach you to work on original scientific research topics and consolidate quantitative research skills, communication and critical evaluation. It will enhance your understanding of psychology in a broader context and will provide students with experience of working in a research environment.
Credits: 60.0Contact: Dr Alasdair King
Description: Dissertation
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Xumeng Xie
Description: This module provides an overview of academic debates centred around evolving gender and sexual politics in contemporary China, which manifests as a unique area for studying the expansion of neoliberal economy, digital technologies as well as its socialist legacies. Bringing together significant theoretical insights and empirical research, teaching of this module will be facilitated through case studies of emerging forms of cultural representation, production, consumption and resistance. Topics will be covered include fandom and the popularity of online literature, influencers and gender performativity, feminist and LGBTQ+ activism and the creation of queer media, in the light of the Chinese context of censorship and governance.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Rachel Randall
Description: Labour in Latin American Culture enables students to explore representations of different forms of paid work in the region throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The module addresses cultural texts including visual artworks, films and literary testimonies (testimonios) from a range of countries. The course opens by examining portrayals of industrial work and later focuses on representations of reproductive labour, such as domestic work. It enables students to examine the links between these depictions and different labour movements.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Georgina HosangPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must ( take PSY124 and take PSY125 ) or take BMD161
Description: This module is designed to give you a scientific overview of psychopathology based on related theoretical frameworks and empirical findings, and to critically evaluate the range of approaches in this field. In this course, you will focus on the history of the classification and diagnosis of common mental health disorders, and on key common mental disorders including mood disorders (depression & bipolar disorder), anxiety disorders and schizophrenia. Psychological therapies will also be discussed. You will develop an understanding of the symptoms and diagnoses across the mental disorders as well as the risk factors and treatments used for common mental disorders.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Maria ChekhonadskihOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take COM4006
Description: This course will introduce students to a wide range of texts (literary and visual), concepts, ideas, theories and practices, both historical and contemporary, and the skills they need to analyse them. It will be divided into four 5-week blocks, devoted to topics such as, for example, Reading Literary Texts, Visual Cultures, Culture and Society, Linguistics. Each block will be taught by a combination of lectures laying the ground work and seminars devoted to specific examples.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS4203Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take RUS4203A
Description: The module is aimed at associate students who have completed the equivalent of one semester of Russian language at their home university. It has been designed to provide students with a sound knowledge of essential Russian grammar and vocabulary and to develop four key language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. This module presents and covers all the basic elements of the Russian language, including pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. The course is well balanced between the presentation of the main grammatical concepts by the tutor in grammar classes and by activity-based grammar tutorials, mixed-skills revision and oral and reading classes.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS4203A or take RUS4203B
Description: This module is aimed at students with either no or very little previous knowledge of the Russian language. It has been designed to provide students with a sound knowledge of essential Russian grammar and vocabulary and to develop four key language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. This module presents and covers all the basic elements of the Russian language, including the alphabet, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. The course is well balanced between the presentation of the main grammatical concepts by the tutor in grammar classes and by activity-based grammar tutorials, mixed-skills revision and oral and reading classes. The module is intended primarily for Russian language specialists and for other students following programmes within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Gwijde MaeghermanPrerequisite: It is recommended that students taking this module have previously studied introductory-level psychology and research methods in psychology
Description: This module introduces and critically discusses an area of special interest to applied psychologists, namely, psychology as applied to health behaviour. The course covers the central models and evidence bases concerning the relationship between psychological processes and health and illness. Topics covered by this module will include health promotion and public health; health behaviour models; illness maintenance and treatment adherence; chronic illness; and health through the lifespan.
Description: This module introduces theory and research in cognitive psychology, the study of the human mind and mental processes. Key theories and research in cognitive psychology will be discussed, including visual and multi-modal perception, attention, memory, language, reasoning, and decision-making. Experiments and studies from classical and modern cognitive psychology will be provided and discussed critically throughout to illustrate these concepts. This module will demonstrate the essential role of that cognitive psychology plays in everyday life.
Description: This module invites students to analyse and compare recent documentary films from countries who were part of the Soviet Union until 1991. Topics include memory and reflection on the Soviet legacy and enduring Russian influence, migration and exile, revolution and conflict. Students will place the films in the context of the possibilities of the documentary form and the historical, social and political issues the films address, drawing on theoretical perspectives from memory studies, postcolonial theory and gender.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Parvati Nair
Description: The module introduces students to the study of photography, questions of environmental degradation, photography as activist practice and questions of environmental justice. By way of the work of several leading environmental photographers, students will gain a good understanding of how visual culture lends itself to the building of environmental awareness and to the struggle for environmental justice.
Description: The workplace is a dynamic place, constantly changing, evolving and adapting in the face of global changes in new technologies, new ways of working and changing social, economical and political norms. In order to keep a workplace running like a fine tuned machine, it often takes the efforts of many individuals. In many ways, this is where organizational psychology comes in place, which is the branch of psychology studying the workplace environment in all its liveness by promoting effective practices to maximize the benefits for both the organizations and their employees. In this module, you will be introduced in key issues in organizational psychology and how they apply in the workplace. Topics will include employee selection and training, team-work, leadership, fairness and well-being in the workplace, and organizational change and development.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS5202
Description: This is the second-year Russian language module for associate students who started their degree in Russian 'ab initio'. It offers further intensive instruction in the Russian language. This module completes the presentation of basic Russian grammar. Apart from grammar, oral practise of the spoken language, aural comprehension and translation from and into Russian are also addressed.
Credits: 60.0Contact: Dr Cristina Cioffi
Description: In this module, students will conduct an in-depth research project focusing on an aspect of psychiatric disorders or psychological wellbeing from a social, cognitive, behavioural, neuroscientific, or genetic perspective. Students will be assigned to a supervisor and start developing a project proposal as part of Semester A module `Academic Skills in Mental Health Sciences I¿ and under the guidance of their supervisor. Students will complete their ethics application, begin designing their experiment and collecting data in semester B. In semester C they are expected to focus solely on the analysis, interpretation, and write-up of the dissertation.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Falco PfalzgrafPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take SML6211. In taking this module you must have dbs clearance
Description: This module introduces students to language teaching at school. It includes French, German, Spanish, and Russian. The module can count for a degree in those languages. It is the second of two 15 credit modules, and it focuses on the practical aspects of language teaching - whereas the other one (SML6211 which runs during the first semester) focuses on theoretical issues.Through the completion of this module, and building up on the theoretical knowledge which you have acquired in SML6211, you develop practical knowledge of how to design and deliver materials for the purpose of teaching foreign languages. You focus on practical aspects of second/ foreign language acquisition and their implications for teaching approaches and design of teaching materials. You complete a teaching placement in a local primary or secondary school, where you have an opportunity to apply the theoretical knowledge gained in SML6211 in the actual teaching and learning context. This involves planning, producing and delivering teaching materials. The module also enables you to develop a range of transferable and professional skills such as organisational skills, communication skills, team-work, time management and problem-solving skills.Important: As you are required to complete a placement in a local school, you will have to provide clearance from the UK's Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) towards the end of semester 1 BEFORE this module in semester 2. Please contact the module organiser for further information.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Emilie Oleron EvansPrerequisite: Students are not allowed to take more than one research project module
Description: In the Research Project in Translation, final-year students will acquire the background knowledge and skills to produce the translation of a previously untranslated text from one of the languages studied within their degree into English, and a commentary addressing their overall approach and strategy for rendering into appropriate English a source emanating from a different culture. A series of workshops will provide training in the relevant methodologies and theories, to enable students to implement meaningful translation choices. Students must approach a supervisor and agree on the text to be translated prior to enrolling in the module.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Elisabetta VersacePrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take PSY117 and take PSY121 and ( take PSY124 or take PSY125 )
Description: As for other species, many abilities and behaviours that we take for granted - from perception to learning, communication, handedness and sexual preferences - are the result of our evolutionary history. Our history has shaped our psychology and influences our daily behaviour. Are we the only species that is deceived by visual illusions? Who is the most intelligent species? Are we the only ones that exhibit handedness? Which are the mechanisms of learning? To understand what makes as human, we have to look at ourselves from a broader perspective. In this module we will explore differences and similarities between humans beings and other species. We will learn how to access and compare the mind and behaviour of individuals that do not possess language such as human neonates, newly-hatched chicks and other models currently used in understanding of healthy and pathological behaviour.
Description: This module introduces students to arithmetic beyond the integers and rational numbers: modulo arithmetic, and the arithmetic of polynomials, and matrices. Applications of these concepts in probabilty, logic and relational algebra will also be covered.
Description: The module provides an introduction to engineering through the application of scientific principles to solve practical engineering problems. It includes discussions on applications in the engineering field and the standardisation of units through key engineering principles, engineering calculations, mechanical applications, material behaviour and stress analysis. Key engineering topics will be covered, such as, forces and static systems; equilibrant forces and maintaining equilibrium; stress-strain behaviour of materials; structures under load and structural design; tensile, compressive and shear forces; bending stresses in beams; power transmission systems; internal combustion engines (I.C.)
Description: This module will introduce you to the basic principles of the biological sciences. Through this module you will explore key themes that underpin many aspects of biology such as genetics, disease, cells, and whole organism biology. This will be done through interactive hands on learning as well as practical classes. This module is suitable for those going on to study; Biology, Zoology, Medical Genetics or Biomedical Sciences.
Description: The module will allow students to learn about the different conceptualisations of emotion both in terms of historical developments as well as contemporary theoretical models of emotions. The module will also consider the biological basis of emotions in the brain and the body, how emotions are expressed and perceived in faces, bodies, voice and music. The relationship between emotions and cognitions will be considered, including emotion regulation and individual differences in emotions. Finally, cultural differences and disorders of emotion will be discussed.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Maria ChekhonadskihOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take COM6069
Description: This module engages with a canon of Russian novel and minor literature of the 19th century within the broader theoretical perspectives and questions of postcolonialism. Offering comparative case studies of literary and theoretical texts, it traces continuities and discontinuities between the imperialist politics of Russia and the literary themes of centre and periphery, people and power, geography and land, Westernisation and progress, Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment, tradition and nationalism.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Stephanie Echols
Description: The extended essay is intended to give you an opportunity to study in-depth a topic of particular interest to you within the subject of Psychology. The essay will not entail you conducting empirical research.You can choose to do the Extended Essay rather than PSY600 Psychology Research Project but will need to take another 15-credit module in your final year. The Extended Essay module is intended to provide an opportunity for you to write substantively, critically and independently about a selected and approved area of Psychology than is possible in a tutorial essay. The work also involves significant evaluation of theoretical issues relevant to the topic under investigation and you are expected to use original research articles. The assessment comprises a substantive written dissertation.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Valdas Noreika
Description: Consciousness is one of the greatest remaining mysteries in all of biology: the ability to experience the world is one of the key considerations of what makes us human. This module will delve into the psychology and neuroscience of consciousness, reflecting the most recent progress in the field. It will explore ethical considerations in the study of consciousness, and consider the implications of diminished consciousness in psychiatric and neurological conditions, such as depression and dementia.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Stephanie EcholsPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take PSY211 and take PSY215 and take PSY223
Description: This is an advanced, interactive seminar on social development from infancy to early adulthood. We will explore this topic from an interdisciplinary perspective, and discuss empirical research and theoretical perspectives on social development from neuroscience and developmental, cognitive, social, and evolutionary psychology. We will explore topics such as the emergence of personality and the self-concept, the development of empathy and moral reasoning, the importance of parental, peer, and group influences, and atypical social development.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Adrian Armstrong
Description: From boy bands to Valentines, our ways of expressing sexual love were first formulated in the Middle Ages. This module traces the early history of the language of love, through poetry and songs composed between the 12th and 15th centuries. With the help of English translations, you will explore different types of poetry in various languages: Spanish, French, Catalan, Galician-Portuguese, and the Occitan language of southern France. You will develop your ability to analyse complex poems, and to understand and respect cultural differences, through a range of activities including creative rewriting of translations.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr James Eastwood
Description: Violent conflict and the use of force remain salient issues in contemporary international relations. While some have theorised that the advent of globalisation and spread of liberal democracy would make the use of force and violent conflict less relevant to the world, war and conflict have remained an integral part of the international system, as well as forming an obstacle to providing stability and security for many states. The module offers an examination of the ways in which violent conflict and the use of force impact on international relations, how force is used by states and other actors, and how force is managed in world politics. The module surveys a variety of perspectives on the causes of war and peace in order to better examine the roots of violent conflicts and security problems in the present day. A major theme is looking at war in a global context, not only in terms of integrating contemporary concerns with globalisation, but also by looking at interconnections between north and south, and war and society. Additionally, the responses of the international community to violent conflict will also be explored, looking broadly at the contested notion of the "Just War", international law, and the role of the United Nations. Overall, the module gives a broad perspective on the place of armed force in contemporary international relations.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Anum Khalid
Description: In Semester 1 the module reviews mathematical notation, basic principles of arithmetic and algebra including ideas of accuracy and precision, coordinate geometry and trigonometry; and demonstrates how these principles may be applied to solve problems in science and mathematics. In semester 2, the knowledge on topics such as algebra and geometry and further complemented by knowledge on functions and vectors as well as seeing an introduction to the two key areas, calculus and statistics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS5200
Description: Tuition in spoken Russian aimed at enhancing communication abilities in the language. Translation from English into Russian and from Russian into English, complemented as appropriate by free composition, comprehension, précis, and exercises. Native speakers of Russian should register for RUS212.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Layli UddinPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take POL319
Description: This module gives you the chance to take a deep dive into the politics or international relations of a particular South Asian country or province. With academic guidance, you will choose a research question of significance for understanding South Asia today. Over the semester you will carry out your own self-directed but supervised study of the topic. We will hone your analysis through seminar discussions, presentations, and written assignments with detailed feedback. By the end of the module you will have developed your own substantive interpretation of a key contemporary South Asian issue and built up practical research skills.
Description: The purpose of the module is to examine the principal markets and main professional documentation used in the international finance and capital markets. International finance markets are key drivers in national and international economies and the new global economy. The City of London remains one of the key financial centres in the world for all of these markets and activities. This course examines the nature, function, structure, operation and importance of all of the key financial markets involved. This is essentially a private law, contract or transactional and documentation course which provides professional preparation in designing, structuring and executing all of the principal separate financial contracts involved.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS5202A or take RUS5202B
Description: This is the second-year core language module for students who started their degree in Russian 'ab initio'. It offers further intensive instruction in the Russian language, and by the end of the module you should be at a level comparable to those who have taken Russian II. This module completes the presentation of basic Russian grammar. Apart from grammar, oral practise of the spoken language, aural comprehension and translation from and into Russian are also addressed.
Credits: 120.0Contact: Dr Christopher Bray
Description: This module involves an extended placement in a professional workplace and is a core module on the 'Year in Industry/Research' programmes in the field of Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry and Psychology offered by SBCS.Students are helped to secure a work placement through a range of employability-initiatives that are already in place at the SBCS. The placement will normally be a 10-12 months in duration (and must not be less than 6 months in length). This is accommodated within a BSc programme extended to four years duration.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS6200Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take RUS5200 or take RUS5202
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Madeleine Davis
Description: Socialism, described by Albert Einstein as humanity's attempt 'to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development', has historically provided the most important ideological and political alternative to capitalism and liberalism. This module examines some core ideas in the history of socialist thought through a close reading of selected primary texts. Themes to be addressed (which may vary from year to year) include: utopia; community; class, ownership and control; equality; democracy. The second part of the course examines the post-war reformulation of socialist thought in response to perceived challenges around class, culture and identity, and asks: is socialism still relevant to contemporary problems?
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Rebekah VinceOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take COM6052
Description: 'Afropean' is a term coined by Belgian music artist Zap Mama to encompass being both African and European, not as a contradiction but as an expression of plurality and site for creativity. Beyond identity politics, though acutely aware of racism as manifested across European contexts, Afropean writers acknowledge the dark histories of slavery and colonialism while uniting around cultural memories and contemporary activist movements. Students will analyse literary texts including essays, poems, novels, and short stories. They will engage with race critical theory and Afropea as a utopian concept, as well as positioning themselves in relation to local Afropean history and culture.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS6201Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take RUS5201
Description: Tuition in spoken Russian aimed at enhancing communication abilities in the language. Translation from English into Russian and from Russian into English, complemented as appropriate by free composition, comprehension, précis, and exercises. Achievement of a high level of competence in the language.
Description: Introduction to atomic structure: electrons, protons and neutrons, mass and atomic numbers, isotopes The electronic structure of atoms: Bohr's model of the atom, quantum numbers and introduction to the concept of orbitals and orbital shape, electron configurations, Aufbau principle, Hund's rule and the Pauli exclusion principle, valence and core electrons.Stoichiometry and concentrations: empirical and molecular formulae, balancing chemical equations, the concept of moles and molarity.Chemical bonding: ionic, metallic and covalent bonding, polarisation of bonds, bond strengths and lengths.Properties of gases, liquids and solids: Interatomic and intermolecular forces and the ideal gas law.Introduction to organic chemistry: identification of functional groups and classes of organic compounds, organic nomenclature, the hybridisation approach to rationalising bonding and isomerism.Acids and bases: Brønsted¿Lowry theory of acids and bases, strong and weak acids, acid-base pairs, pH and pKa, buffers solutions, Lewis acids and basesRevision of some basic topics: units, significant figures; moles, molarities and dilutions.Chemical equilibria: equilibria as a dynamic phenomenon, definition of Kc and Kp, calculation of equilibrium concentrations, Le Chatelier's principle, relation between free energy changes and the equilibrium constant.Organic chemistry: specific examples of the structure and reactivity of selected organic compounds
Description: Study techniques and theories (including DDS), Presentation of STEM subjects. Analysis of job market, CV building and Skills reflection.Understanding uses and implications of AI in Higher Education.Careers in STEM (showcase of endless possibilities).Computer science bases and common software used in STEM with practice.Health and Safety in the Laboratory.Chemistry lab techniques and apparatuses.Biology lab techniques.Excel data analysis (students on Math A) or symbolic integration computer lab (students on Math B).Physics lab techniques.Engineering lab techniques.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Martin Barge
Description: This module is designed as an introduction to the application of technology, specifically web technology, in language education. Providing a balance of theory and practice, it equips students with the knowledge and skills to make enhanced use of computers in their studies and research activities. The module covers key concepts in the use of digital technologies for language learning, as well as providing practical experience in the creation of web-based materials using a variety of computer applications, including elementary coding in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Rowan Lubbock
Description: This module provides an introduction to the theoretical foundations of the contemporary analyses of advanced capitalism. How have thinkers within politics and economics theorised and analysed the relationship between the two disciplines? Is it even possible to analytically distinguish between the two? The aim of this module is to answer these two questions by reference to the major theories within the field of political economy. The module analyses both classical and contemporary theories of political economy, and explores their continued relevance to understanding the development of advanced capitalism. Towards the end of the module we will consider some heterodox approaches brought to the fore by the onset of the ongoing financial and economic crisis and consider their relevance.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Corina Lacatus
Description: This module will examine the key concepts, debates, actors and processes within international public policy in the contemporary period. Concepts explored include cooperation, international law, globalisation and governance, and regionalism. The module will explore the role of various agents, including states, international organisations, regiobal organisations, private authorities and NGOs in the processes of international public policy-making. The course also examines these issues through a series of case studies, including climate change negotiations, the global financial crisis, human rights regimes, European policy-making and the International Criminal Court.
Credits: 120.0Contact: Dr James Vigus
Description: This core module is specifically for students undertaking the four year English programmes with a year abroad. These students are the only students eligible for this module. Students must pass the ssessments set by the partner institution in accordance with the requirements noted on the programme specification in order to progress to year 4 of the programme. If a student fails the module they will be transferred to the equivalent three year programme. This module will be zero-weighted. Students will study the majority of modules in their core subject, developing their skills while witnessing how the discipline istaught in another context. They can take modules outside their subject-area, expanding their horizons and providing for future development.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Richard Johnson
Description: This module studies the politics of the United States through the lens of its racial divisions. The module will help students understand why race, particularly the black-white divide, has been and continues to be central to American political life and development. In the module, students will gain a deep theoretical and historical understanding of racial formation in the United States before moving on to apply these insights to current debates about the role of race in American democracy and public policy.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Jozef Huysmans
Description: This module examines contemporary security practice through the methods they use. It introduces students to (a) the security life of methods -- how methods shape contemporary security situations -- and (b) the political controversies about their use -- the political life of methods. The module will cover a range of controversial methods, for example: the deployment of anthropological knowledge and methods in counter-insurgency, the role of algorithms in surveillance, the rise of big data in security governance, the use of visual methods in security practice and their political contestation, the rise of forensic methods in criminal investigations of war, and scenario planning and foresight in anticipating catastrophes. Students will be expected to gain an understanding of security methods and their limits, and evaluate their political and social effects.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Lubna Shaheen
Description: This module covers mathematical topics such as algebra, functions, geometry and trigonometry, and aims to provide students with a more extensive knowledge of calculus (especially in techniques of integration) and an introduction to complex numbers, numerical methods, differential equations, vector analysis and power series. It is appropriate for those students progressing onto degree programmes in mathematical sciences, and those degree programmes in physical science and engineering which require a more thorough and comprehensive grounding in mathematics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Luisa Marti Martinez
Description: Are some languages harder to learn than others? Are double negatives illogical? Do children lack grammar? Do dialects lack grammar? Did your parents teach you your mother tongue? In this module we explore commonly held views on human language from a contemporary, comparative perspective. The module is of interest to anyone studying for a language degree.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Georg Loefflmann
Description: This module will consider the principal forms in which US foreign policy has been practised and interpreted since the foundation of the Republic. Amongst these are American Exceptionalism and Anti-Americanism, spheres of influence, liberal interventionism and protectionist isolationism, Cold War containment, the War on Terror following 9/11, and the strains on unipolarity in the early 21st century. Amongst the case studies linked to these themes, we shall consider the role of Native Americans and immigration, the war of 1898, gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean, the ideas of Woodrow Wilson, the Vietnam War, the consequences of the 9/11 attacks, and the challenges posed by China.
Credits: 120.0Contact: To Be Confirmed
Description: This core module is specifically for students undertaking the four year Drama programmes with a year abroad. These students are the only students eligible for this module. Students must pass the ssessments set by the partner institution in accordance with the requirements noted on the programme specification in order to progress to year 4 of the programme. If a student fails the module they will be transferred to the equivalent three year programme. This module will be zero-weighted. Students will study the majority of modules in their core subject, developing their skills while witnessing how the discipline istaught in another context. They can take modules outside their subject-area, expanding their horizons and providing for future development.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Maria Chekhonadskih
Description: This module navigates across European art movements, highlighting an intensive exchange and collaboration between German and Russian artistic and intellectual circles involved in the radical avant-garde practices after the First World War and the October Revolution (1917-1930). Covering debates on the artistic strategies of intervention in society, politics, everyday life, mass media and urban planning, each session focuses on a theoretical response to a specific problem and a case study of artistic practices across various media and forms, including fine art, architecture, cinema, literature and theatre.
Description: Tuition in spoken Russian aimed at enhancing communication abilities in the language. Translation from English into Russian and from Russian into English, complemented as appropriate by free composition, comprehension, précis, and exercises. Native speakers of Russian should register for RUS5201A.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper
Description: The module explores the nature of civil society and the political role of civil society actors - at local, national, and global levels. Civil society's traditional role as a third-sector between the state and the market will be critically examined by considering both theories of civil society and empirical case studies of democratic activism and social change. The module will cover the contested meaning of `civil society¿, attending to its historical and cultural variation. Empirical case studies will consider a variety of social movements and, where possible, include meetings with activists and other practitioners. The module will enable students to critically evaluate the changing role of contemporary civil society and develop a practical understanding of how civil society actors pursue social change, along with why they fail and why the succeed. This module is a prerequisite for POL301 Civil Society Internship.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Layli Uddin
Description: South Asia is home to almost one in every four people alive today. It is the world's fastest-growing region and boasts the world's largest democracy. Yet it also contains one-third of the world¿s poor, and societies divided by religion, caste, class, language, gender, and region. This course will provide an in-depth survey of the politics, political economy, and international relations of the major South Asian countries: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. By the end of the course, students will be able to contribute to key debates on democratization, economic development, identity politics, and nuclear-armed conflict in the region.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS5201
Description: This module is for native speakers of Russian only. Tuition is aimed at improving students' ability to communicate in Russian, and to translate from Russian into English, and particularly from English into Russian.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS6201A or take RUS6201BPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take RUS5201
Description: Tuition in spoken Russian aimed at enhancing communication abilities in the language. Translation from English into Russian and from Russian into English, complemented as appropriate by free composition, comprehension, précis, and exercises. Achievement of a high level of competence in the language. Compulsory for students specialising in Russian.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Emilia Simison
Description: Students will survey the major theoretical approaches to understanding Latin American politics and political economy. The course will be designed to provide an introduction to the region from the end of the Second World War until the present day. The course aims to put the politics of Latin America in the broader perspective of comparative politics, international relations, and international political economy. It will help students to develop a broad understanding of how contemporary Latin America has evolved since 1945 and to identify and examine the key issues dominating politics in the region and its relationship to international politics and the global political economy. It will deal with major contemporary themes such as neoliberalism and 'post-neoliberalism', social movements, gender and ethnicity, the rise of the new Latin American Left, regional integration, and the relationship between Latin America and the US, as well as other emerging world powers.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Yunyun Zhou
Description: This module looks at the theory and practice of politics from a gendered perspective. It considers feminist debates concerning women¿s and men¿s role in the public and private spheres and notes the repercussions of gender imbalances in politics. It then looks at gender differences in involvement in politics and considers a range of explanations as to why women are under-represented, and possible solutions. It considers diversity and difference amongst and between women and men. The course offers new perspectives on the political process, both formal and informal, and sheds light on the way that power is unevenly distributed within society.
Description: This module offers an introduction to the ways in which migration and diaspora shape cultures across a range of transnational and country contexts. Through reference to multiple 'texts,' such as selected literature, blogs, film, and photography, the module will familiarize students with key issues relating to migration and diaspora, offering both a comparative view across cultural specificities and an understanding of transnational cultural dynamics. Topics covered include migration, places and times; (im)mobilities, borders and policies; religion, rituals and diasporic communities; home and homeland; food, family and memory; digital technologies and transnational connections; inventing memory and identities across generations. A range of 'texts,' including fiction, documentary film, photography, blogs and music will be analysed to explore these topics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Falco PfalzgrafOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LIN4208
Description: Students considering a Foreign Language Assistantship, or any other English language teaching activity such as private English lessons or tuition, during their Year Abroad or after graduation, are recommended to choose this module. We would advise you to do this level 5 module in your second year, just before your year abroad. The module is especially recommended if you have little or no knowledge of English Linguistics. The module covers all main areas of English Linguistics which are relevant for the teaching of English: English phonetics; word classes and phrases (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, particles); the role of English in the world; development of English; English usage / prescription and description. Please note that this module is not available for students with prior knowledge of English Linguistics.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS5200A or take RUS5200B
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Joseph Hoover
Description: This module examines critical traditions in American political thought , with specific authors and themes varying from year to year. Central themes will include the promise and betrayal of freedom from the founding of the nation to the present day, the tension between radical individualism and contested notions of community, and the constant struggle to maintain faith in the possibilities of democratic government and culture. The module will focus on close reading of primary texts, while also incorporating reflections on American literature, music, and film.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Tamara Popic
Description: Welfare states are about life, death and money. They aim to cover for risks occurring during individuals' life course, such as unemployment or sickness, and by doing so they consume considerable portion of public budget of the contemporary states. The module will be based on research-led teaching and will provide students with systematic understanding of the policy and politics of welfare from a global comparative perspective. The module will also offer sustained engagements with debates surrounding the politics of welfare across five major welfare sectors - education, healthcare, unemployment, family and pension policy.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Kimberly Hutchings
Description: This module examines debates across the field of Global Ethics. It introduces students to frameworks for thinking about global moral questions concerning for example: the global distribution of wealth, the appropriate meaning of human rights in a multi-cultural world, environmental sustainability, migration, development aid, conflict-resolution and transitional justice. Students will be expected to evaluate different approaches to ethical judgment and to apply them to real world dilemmas.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Nadezda BraginaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take RUS5201A or take RUS5201B
Description: This module is for native speakers of Russian only. Tuition is aimed at improving students' ability to communicate in Russian, and to translate from Russian into English, and particularly from English into Russian. Compulsory for second year students of Russian who are native speakers.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Daniel GoverPrerequisite: Before taking this module you are advised to take POL373
Description: This module is designed to give those who take it a view of British parliamentary politics from the inside out. Students will spend two days per week between January and April working for a parliamentarian - in either the Westminster or constituency office, or both - or in a similar parliamentary setting. They will be assessed through written work directly related to the placement, including a reflective journal of their day-to-day experiences. A parliamentary placement is an intensive and demanding exercise, but should provide a formative experience and useful skills for those interested a career in politics or politics-related fields.Contingency plans are in place should placements fall through due to factors beyond our control, such as the wider political environment. In such cases, the module will be assessed through alternative arrangements.
Description: The module begins with basic physical concepts, such as Units, Physical Quantities, and Vectors;Kinematics in one, two and three dimensions; Momentum, work, energy and Newton¿s laws, with extension to rotational motion. Equilibrium and elasticity are defined and basic concepts of matter and phases.The concept of fields in physics is introduced and its relationship to forces and potentials on examples of gravity and electrostatics. Wave motion is then defined and corresponding maths and examples in sound and light. Circuit theory and solutions, are introduced, including meters (examples include comparing hydraulics, battery-resistor networks, people flow through stations, etc.). Finally, Basic Quantum Mechanics is introduced using the Feynman approach as well as Relativity from Einstein's train to black holes and basic Cosmology.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Christopher Phillips
Description: This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to study the Middle East from within the discipline of International Relations (IR). As such, students will take the analytical tools of IR and apply them to the region. In so doing, students will be asked to familiarise themselves with these tools but also to question their applicability beyond the global North. This understanding will be based on seeing the states of the region as vulnerable to external intervention, to sub-state movements of ethnicity and sect as well as supra-state identities. Students will then be asked to examine relations between the region itself and the wider international system, looking at how the Middle East itself was a product of the `late colonialism¿ of the inter-war period. Students will then study the causes and effects of the quasi- or neo-imperial interventions of the Cold War and post-Cold War era.
Credits: 45.0Contact: Dr Rowan Lubbock
Description: The final-year Dissertation module allows students to study in depth and at length a topic of their own choosing, under the personal supervisor of an academic. Students begin to formulate their research focus before the end of their second year, and undertake formative preparatory work during the summer vacation. In-year assessment involves a Research Proposal, Presentation, and 10,000-word dissertation. Support is provided through personal supervisions and training workshops, but the emphasis is predominantly upon students' individual research.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper
Description: How has race become a method for categorising and ordering humanity? How has the politics of anti-racism sought to dismantle both racial orders and the categories they rely on?In this course, we will grapple with these questions by exploring the diverse intellectual voices have sought to understand and theorise racism and anti-racism. These thinkers will include those who were engaged in struggles against imperialism and colonialism, in addition to contemporary forms of racial domination.
Description: This module is only available to students who enter under the C1C8 programme. This module builds upon themes developed in level 4 psychology modules and considers specific cognitive functions and properties of the human mind. The material covered will include traditional cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience and cognitive neuropsychology (the understanding of normal cognitive processes through unique case studies of human brain damage). Cognitive functions examined will include visual, object and spatial perception, psychophysics, memory processes, complex reasoning, language, face processing and the relationship between emotion and these processes. Experiments and studies from classical and modern cognitive psychology will be provided throughout.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Jean-Francois Drolet
Description: "This module will introduce students to some of the most important intellectual debates concerning political violence and late modernity as a principle of socio-historical formation. More specifically, the course will draw on literature from various fields such as political theory, philosophy, sociology and international relations to consider the relationship between political violence and the changing nature and consequences of structural phenomena associated with the process of 'liberal modernisation' since the end of the nineteenth century (e.g. secularisation, societal rationalisation, technology, the transnationalisation of production and exchange, decolonisation, the constitutionalisation of the global order, the criminalisation of war etc.). The themes covered include state violence, civil war, revolution, imperialism, genocide, ethnic cleansing, humanitarian warfare and terrorism/counter-terrorism. "
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof David Williams
Description: The module is designed to give students a good command and understanding of key concepts and theoretical traditions in International Relations and their relevance for understanding contemporary themes in world politics.The module seeks to provide students with a more nuanced understanding of the various social forces and processes shaping world politics including the co-constitutive relationship between the theory and practice of international relations. The module also aims at developing the students' capacity to reflect critically about the main claims, strengths and weaknesses of theories in international relations.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Jamie Matthews
Description: Today humanity faces a multidimensional environmental crisis, as we breach safe 'planetary boundaries' for climate change, chemical pollution, freshwater use, biodiversity loss, and more. Yet too often effective and sustained policy solutions have failed to materialize. This module will analyse how ideas, interest groups, and institutions shape environmental politics around the world, from the global to the local level. Together we will develop theoretically informed understandings of the crucial drivers of and obstacles to environmental action.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Georg Loefflmann
Description: The United States plays a powerful role in contemporary international relations. Therefore understanding its place in the international system and how its foreign policy is made are of crucial importance for every student of international relations. The module broadly focuses on the theme of American power in the world, through three areas: the historical development of US foreign policy, the institutional background, and current expressions of American power. Knowledge of these areas will give a solid overview and understanding of US foreign policy in the contemporary world.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Peter Brett
Description: Africa has consistently been ignored by many of the major social science disciplines. Many of the major theoretical traditions treat Africa as either irrelevant to great power politics, or as simply an effect of great power or class domination. This module aims to introduce students to Africa's international relations, African-centric perspectives which challenge traditional academic approaches and seeks to locate Africa's fate not merely in processes of imperial domination but also in African social and class configurations themselves. This is a distinct approach which centres the teaching of Africa on the continent itself, rather than exclusively on what external actors are doing to it. This is not to dismiss the influence of external actors and processes, but to reveal the many cases of where this distinction between the external and internal in Africa has limited utility in explaining events and processes on the continent.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Sophie Harman
Description: Why do people die of preventable diseases? Are global health threats the biggest security concern of contemporary world politics? It is politics rather than science and medicine that limits disease eradication? Is Bill Gates more powerful than the US President? This module engages with these questions as it explores the key components of the global politics of health and disease: health security, global health governance, inequality and political economy of health. Over 11 weeks students will be encouraged to develop their own interests in global health in collaboration with the module leader. The lectures will focus on the broad themes of global health politics e.g. actors in global health, right to health, equality; and the seminars will provide a space for lively discussion around contemporary global health issues such as Ebola, Zika, and HIV/AIDS. Class learning will be supplemented by independent learning by students and voluntary attendance at a range of global health events in London (e.g. film screenings, talks, careers events). The module is for any student with a keen interest in this specialised area of International Relations and wants to develop their knowledge and learning in a new field of study. While there are no module pre-requisites, students are encouraged to be familiar with the main theories of International Relations and Global Governance.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Rachel Humphris
Description: Contemporary life is hardly imaginable without mobility - of capital, things, ideas, and images and people. At the same time, some forms of mobility such as international migration, are often thought to undermine modern political forms, such as the nation-state, as well as threaten the polities associated with them. This module will investigate the relationship between mobility, modern political forms and different conceptions of belonging and membership. It will pay attention to some of the crucial tensions of the current historical moment - for example, the tension between the principle of freedom of movement and nation-state sovereignty. It will also ask whether and how practices of mobility open possibilities for imagining organization of collective life beyond the currently predominant political forms.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Diego De Merich
Description: This module will provide a structured introduction to key issues and concepts in policy analysis. The module will give students a solid grounding in theories of the policy-making process while enabling students to apply those insights to practical case-studies of policy formulation and implementation in the real world. The module will also provide students with background on the key traditions and approaches to public administration and policy-making in countries around the world, both developing and developed countries. Issues to be covered on the module will include the nature of public policies; the policy context: institutions and actors; theoretical approaches to the policy process; policy problems and agenda-setting; decision-making; implementation/new public management; evaluation; governance; public policy beyond the nation-state; policy change and policy convergence; future challenges for policy-makers.
Description: The module provides students with a detailed examination - and critique - of theories of globalisation and assessment of contemporary globalising processes, and how these particularly influence the developing world. It examines these influences through detailed analysis of contemporary manifestations of globalisation, including neo-liberalism, US hegemony and contemporary imperialism, capital flows, global commodity chains, state-market relations, patterns of global inequality, international institutions, and questions of cultural homogenisation/imperialism. The module also examines the ways in which globalisation is resisted, focusing on the rise of transnational social movements and NGOs, and the politics of anti-globalisation, and how this relates to an ostensibly post-development era. In addressing these issues, the module concludes by asking the most important question: how do we think of development in an era of globalisation, US hegemony, neo-liberalism and imperialism?
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Javier Sajuria
Description: Is it often said that democracy requires governments and representatives that are responsive to citizen's needs, and that are accountable for their actions. However, citizens are also often depicted as apathetic, uninformed, and easily influenced by demagogues and misinformation. This module will allow students find out if these theories are relevant to understand democracy, and how are people's political views formed and modified. From there, the module will equip them with a critical understanding of what can be done to improve democratic representation. We will study how people think about political issues, how do they form those opinions, and how political decisions (such as voting) are made.We will also discuss some specific questions, such as: what drives ideological positions? Do people hold stable political opinions over their lives? How is gender related to political preferences? Can media change people's minds? Can elites? Is social class relevant to understand political behaviour? Do people really hold politicians to account during elections? What are our preferences in terms of political representation?
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Lasse Thomassen
Description: What does it mean to be radical today? Where do we find examples of radical politics in the contemporary world? This module combines two things: we study important contemporary radical thinkers such as Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau & Chantal Mouffe; and we study concrete examples of radical politics such as the Occupy protests, the Alter-Globalisation Movement and the Zapatistas. Doing so, we examine the dilemmas faced by students and practitioners of radical politics and the theoretical and political issues that divide them.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Raymond Kiely
Description: The module provides students with a detailed examination - and critique - of theories of globalisation and assessment of contemporary globalising processes. It examines these influences through detailed analysis of contemporary manifestations of globalisation, including the study of global production and commodity chains, state-market relations, the nature and direction of capital flows, patterns of global inequality, international institutions and global governance, questions of cultural homogenisation/imperialism, the US state and globalisation and East Asia and globalisation, and anti-globalisation. The module aims to provide students with a well-rounded understanding of the globalisation debate, and how this relates to contemporary international and global political issues.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Giulia Carabelli
Description: The module introduces students to more than human politics at an advanced UG level. We look at different scales of politics from the personal to the global/planetary to explore human and nonhuman entanglements. Specifically, we discuss the roles of nonhuman actors in scholarly and activist debates about advanced capitalism, histories of colonialisms, gender and racialised hierarchies to reflect on the possibility of growing liveable worlds.As part of this module, students grow plants on campus with the aim to reflect on their personal experience of human/ nonhuman entanglements and to appreciate the links between everyday practice and theory. Together we interrogate the roles of nonhuman agents in world-making and the future.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mrs Frances GoodinghamPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take POR5200 or take POR5201
Description: This module is for students who have completed Portuguese II Intensive. The focus will be on fluency, expansion of vocabulary, grammatical accuracy, advanced oral and reading comprehension, and development of writing skills.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Richard Saull
Description: Far right forms of politics have emerged as a significant political current in recent years - be it the dominance of Viktor Orban's Fidesz party in Hungary to the election successes of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in India. Much of the popular commentary on these developments has tended to ignore the longer-term presence and historical significance of this form of politics or reduce any historical reference to inter-war fascism. However, the far right has a longer historical pedigree - beyond that of (European) historical fascism - and can be seen to reflect a significant subaltern, if reactionary, ideo-political current in popular, mass and democratic forms of politics across a range of different if connected geopolitical locales from the late nineteenth century onwards. This module examines how and why a distinct far right and 'anti-Conservative' form of politics emerged and, in particular, how and why the changing character of international relations - as revealed in the structures of geopolitics and capitalist world economy - have shaped the evolving ideo-political character of the far right. The module will do this through an examination of several historical and contemporary case studies encompassing different expressions of the far right north/south and east/west.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Rosa Lastra
Description: The module provides an overview of monetary and financial regulation drawing on a comparative study of the law in relevant financial centres in the US, UK, EU and Japan as well as on the increasing corpus of international financial `soft law¿ (such as the Basel capital rules) and considers the dynamics of financial regulation in emerging economies. The module goes beyond the description of the black letter law and explains the underlying economic and political forces which bring that law into being, analysing the interaction between law and finance. Focus is on regulatory issues, and not on contractual or transactional aspects.
Description: This course aims to provide a critical overview of the theory and practice of two of the crucial 'end' stages of the policy process: delivery and evaluation. The module will examine how governments and public agencies around the world have sought to upgrade their delivery and evaluation capacity in recent decades. The course will explore the development of theoretical and empirical academic literature and provide opportunities for students to apply this material to selected case studies relevant to the group. Practitioners will be encouraged to reflect on their practices and experiences.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Stijn Van Kessel
Description: Brexit, Trump, Bolsonaro, Le Pen...due to the recent prominence of supposed populist parties, politicians and events, populism has become a much-debated theme. Populism is also a problematic concept, as its use is often pejorative and imprecise. This module focuses on the concept of populism and instances of populism in the real world across time and space. What does populism mean? Is it always associated with xenophobic politics? How can support for populism be explained? What are its implications? And is populism a threat to democracy?
Description: This module is intended for students studying BSc Psychology (C800) and its variants. This module introduces you to qualitative research methods in Psychology. You will understand and critically appraise the different qualitative research methods commonly used in psychology research and understand issues critical to research design and analysis such as data collection protocols, sampling, and researcher positionality. Through interactive lectures and practical sessions, you will learn how to select the best data collection protocol from a range of methods to answer a research question.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mr Karl Pike
Description: This course aims to provide a critical overview of the theory and practice of two of the crucial 'end' stages of the policy process: delivery and evaluation. The module will examine how governments and public agencies around the world have sought to upgrade their delivery and evaluation capacity in recent decades. Lectures will be given by staff and leading practitioners who have front-line experience and knowledge. The course will explore the development of theoretical and empirical academic literature and provide opportunities for students to apply this material to selected case studies relevant to the group. Practitioners will be encouraged to reflect on their practices and experiences.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Ksenia Northmore-Ball
Description: With the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia has defied expectations of international allies and adversaries. This module focuses on understanding how Russia¿s contemporary competitive authoritarian regime works. We examine the regime¿s evolution since the Soviet collapse and its continued resilience considering the role of leaders, parties, regionalism, protest movements, popular support and national identity. This module enables students to analyse and assess the political challenges Russia faces today and how domestic politics inform Russia¿s role in current geopolitics.
Credits: 60.0Contact: Prof Christopher Phillips
Description: The Masters' Dissertation is an independent programme of study of an approved topic within the field of Politics completed over the summer months (May-August) of your degree programme. It is a compulsory element of your degree amounting to sixty credits (providing one-third of the credits for your degree). It is designed to enable students to undertake independent research and, through this, allow them to develop a specialised knowledge in an area of the Politics discipline which is of particular interest to them. Thus, it may draw upon, and develop an existing topic or issue associated with a module that they have studied in the earlier part of their programme, or emerge out of a student's specific research interest in an area not covered by other module modules. Although the dissertation is meant to be an exercise in independent research and writing, each student will be offered guidance and support through the assigning of a supervisor within the department who will oversee the progress of the dissertation.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Daniel Gover
Description: Every democracy has a legislature which performs a number of key functions, most obviously representation, scrutiny, and of course law-making. This module focuses on how ¿ and how effectively ¿ the UK parliament performs these functions. With input from parliamentary staff, it is designed to combine rigorous academic analysis of parliament with a solid practical understanding of how the legislature works. It will look, among other things, at how laws are made, executive-legislative relations, executive scrutiny, representation and composition, constituency representation, select committees, and the House of Lords. It is intended to be a highly practical, hands-on module that may serve as a springboard for those considering a professional career in or around politics.
Credits: 60.0Contact: Dr Diego De Merich
Description: The Masters Dissertation: Project in International Public Policy is an independent programme of study of an approved topic within the field of International Public Policy. It is designed to enable students to undertake independent research and, through this, allow them to develop a specialised knowledge in an area of International Public Policy which is of particular interest to them. The topic will draw upon, and develop an existing topic or issue in international public policy associated with one of the modules that they have studied in the earlier part of their programme. The format of the project can differ according to the topic, ranging from traditional research dissertation to an applied public policy implementation or evaluation report. Although the dissertation is meant to be an exercise in independent research and writing, each student will be offered guidance and support through the assigning of a supervisor within the School who will oversee the progress of the dissertation.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Jaakko Heiskanen
Description: The demise of the nation-state and the disappearance of nationalism have been predicted on many occasions, yet they stubbornly stick around. This module explores the past, present, and possible futures of nationalism through an interdisciplinary approach that brings together insights from sociology, history, political theory, and international relations. During the module, students will acquire an advanced understanding of the sources of nationalism, the role of nationalism in the making of the international order, and the multifaceted ways that nationalism continues to shape society and politics today.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Karl PikePrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take POL350
Description: The aim of the module is to give students the opportunity to engage more systematically and rigorously in major debates about the public policy process by undertaking their own independent study. The course will require students to prepare draft policy advice for a major policy-making institution, NGO or civil society organisation. This structured exercise will require students to consider not only the content of advice but how to articulate policy advice clearly and concisely to an audience that may have limited technical knowledge of a particular policy problem or issue.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Janelle JonesPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take PSY107 and take PSY121
Description: Have you ever wondered what influences our perceptions, emotions, thoughts, and behaviours? This module in Social Psychology will provide an overview of the classic and contemporary scientific theories and methods used to address how other people and different contexts can shape these processes. Topics covered will include the self, social cognition, attitudes and attitude change, social influence, group processes, and stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Daniel Bor
Description: This module builds introduces an area of special interest to applied psychologists, and one where the College has research strengths; health psychology or psychology as applied to health and medicine. The module covers the central models and evidence base concerning the relationship of psychological processes to health maintenance, treatment adherence, professional-patient interactions, stress and immune system function. Topics covered by this module include models and theories of health behaviour and their explanatory power; psychology & health promotion; adherence to treatment, health professional and patient interactions; research methods in health psychology; psychological issues in clinical trial design; personality, health and lifestyle; psychoneuroimmunology; cardiovascular disease; sexual health behaviours; and coping with chronic & terminal conditions.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Prof Kimberly Hutchings
Description: This module enables students to place their research on an aspect of human mobility within a broader political, legal, geographical, and historical context and prepare them for ontological, epistemological, and methodological challenges of doing original research on human mobility. The module is convened by School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR) but is taught as an interdisciplinary module with contributions from Politics, International Relations (IR), Psychology, Law, Geography, Linguistics, History, Economics, Finance and Business Studies.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Karl Pike
Description: The aim of this module is to examine the theory and practice of policy-making in modern liberal democratic political systems. The module explores the way in which public issues and problems are triggered, defined and constructed, how policy agendas are set, how decision making takes place, and how policies are implemented. The module is comparative in scope and focuses primarily on case studies from the UK and USA.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Paul Copeland
Description: The European Union has developed from a narrow organisation that sought the peaceful cooperation of certain industries into a supranational political system with executive, legislative and judicial institutions. Over the last three decades the process of European integration has made rapid progress withe the deepening of the Single Market, the creation of a currency union, successive rounds of enlargement . On the other hand, recent setbacks and crises (such as Covid-19, the War in Ukraine, the Eurozone crisis, the 'migratory crisis', Brexit and the grow euroscepticism) have rekindled debates concerning the legitimacy, speed and direction of the European project. The module explores the governance of policy areas in the EU to understand the current challenges within the EU project and the drivers of these crises.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Jozef Huysmans
Description: This module equips students with the necessary analytical tools to navigate a complex world that is constantly challenging borders and boundaries. It highlights the interconnectivity between local and global processes, as well as the intricate relationship between human societies, technology and nature. Through this module, students will develop a critical understanding of the value and limitations of International Political Sociology as a transdisciplinary field. They will gain fresh perspectives on current international, global, and planetary conditions, which will enable them to engage with pressing world political issues in creative and meaningful ways.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Richard Johnson
Description: US politics attracts high levels of attention around elections, but far less notice afterwards. In order to understand the politics of the United States, we must study not only who holds power but also how power is exercised. Public policy is the marshalling of public resources and legal power to shape individual and collective outcomes. This module explores the US policy-making process before examining a wide range of domestic and foreign policy competences, such as education, housing, trade, and immigration.
Description: This module is intended for students studying BSc Psychology. This module is structured around three main key areas:(1) Acquiring Essential Skills for Academic Psychology. Through means of lectures and regular tutorials, the module will support you in acquiring a variety of key skills such as experimental report and essay writing, data and information handling, oral and written communication skills and appropriate use of referencing and citations in psychology. You will also be introduced to the critical evaluation skills that will be necessary for your success during further study.(2) Considering the role of Psychology in the 'real world'. Through class activities and a series of talks from professional Psychologists, you will be encouraged to consider the role of psychology in an applied context and gain a more global perspective of your discipline.(3) Exploring Career Pathways. You will be given an opportunity to explore various career choices, to reflect on your own career aspirations and to meet with professional Psychologists.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Elke Schwarz
Description: Technology is ubiquitous. And as such it takes on an ever-more significant role as a form of power in socio-political contexts. This module examines the relationship between politics, technology and war in politics and international relations. It explores the impact of new technologies in the 21st century on world politics with a specific focus on technology¿s impact on politics, society and war on a theoretical and practical level. The module aims to provide students with an introduction to the key contemporary technologies that will shape our political and military landscape in the years to come and the challenges technologies pose for society, politics and warfare in the 21st century and beyond. It will begin with an overview of the role of technological developments in politics and society and will discuss key technological innovations - digital networks, social media, robotics, Artificial Intelligence, automated and autonomous weapons systems, etc. - before engaging with the political and ethical challenges these fast-paced technological developments pose for domestic and international political governance. In this, the module introduces students to the complexity behind new technological systems, the role of political agency in shaping technology and the role of technology in shaping politics, society and warfare.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Sophie PettitPrerequisite: Before or while taking this module you must take PSY124
Description: This module builds upon PSY124 Exploring Psychology I by extending the introduction of basic concepts, theories, methods and research findings in psychology. The areas introduced include the core and interdisciplinary fields in psychology. Lectures for exploring psychology II will include an introductory lecture followed by lectures on specific topics in psychology.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Alena GalileePrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take PSY107 and take PSY121 and take PSY124 and take PSY125
Description: This module surveys developmental psychology, covering human development across the whole life span but with a more detailed focus on development in the early years (infancy/childhood). The aim of the module is to introduce the key questions, theories, concepts, methodology, studies and research findings within developmental psychology, regarding different domains of psychological functioning including social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioural development. The module will also cover the prenatal period, physical, motor, and sensory development, learning theory, moral development, and development of the self (identity).
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Weini HuangOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take MTH6139P
Description: This module will present methods for time series analysis.These will allow the student to understand better how to use and extract information from historical business data series. In particular, the student will learn how to extract the pivotal concepts of time series data, including the trend and cyclic components of a data series, calculate the autocorrelation, learn about autoregressive and moving average models, and cointegration.The module will develop the notions around realistic business examples and an implementation of the methods will be provided using the statistic software R..
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Christopher Phillips
Description: This module gives students the opportunity to study the international relations of the Middle East through the lens of contemporary conflict. The Middle East is often characterized as the most conflict-ridden region of the world. This module seeks to explore firstly if that is an accurate assessment and secondly why so many conflicts have occurred in this region. Focusing on the contemporary Middle East, while also discussing recent history, `conflict¿ is broadly defined to mean not just wars, but also contested politics. Exploration of these conflicts will be framed by international relations theory and the theories of civil conflicts. The module will first consider the key state (and non-state) actors involved in many of these conflicts, whether regional (Turkey, Iran, Saudi, Israel, UAE/Qatar) or international (US, Russia, China). Thereafter, we will explore different conflict case studies each week in which these rivalries have play out and interacted with domestic politics: Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Kurdistan, Palestine and Libya.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mrs Frances Goodingham
Description: This module is designed for students with little or no previous knowledge of the Portuguese language. Successful students will complete Level A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Language (CEFRL). The module provides basic competence in all four main language skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing). Teaching materials are selected with a view to providing a panoramic view of the history and culture of the Portuguese-speaking countries in four continents. Students are expected to actively participate in and contribute to the learning process in the classroom. They must attend five hours of teaching per week and expect to spend a further five hours per week on private study.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Arthur Guillaumin
Description: This module introduces modern methods of statistical inference for small samples, which use computational methods of analysis, rather than asymptotic theory. The techniques covered in the module include non-parametric tests, bootstrap, and cross-validation. Most of these methods are now used regularly in modern business, finance, and science. Finally, the module includes the implementation of all the proposed methods with the statistics software R.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Rani Moran
Description: This module aims to provide you as psychology students with a scientific overview of biology, emphasizing concepts relevant to behaviour and its study. This supports the distinctiveness of QMUL psychology as a natural and experimental science and introduces students to the growing notion of psychology as a branch of the biological sciences (e.g., that ¿behaviour¿ is the end product of whole organism biology).It will also introduce you to the integrative scientific thinking skills required to study subsequent psychological topics. You will be introduced to empirical findings and will critically evaluate the range of methods in the field.Topics covered include basic cell biology, genetics, cell signaling, development, and principles of evolution as related to behaviour.
Description: This module is intended for students studying BSc Psychology. This module introduces students to data analysis and statistics in Psychology. Students will learn basic principles of numeracy, data management, probability theory, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics using real-world examples of psychology research. The course will combine lectures and practical sessions including computerised statistical analysis using SPSS.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Maria Cristina Juverdeanu
Description: This module provides an introduction to the study of international relations. Specifically, we focus on four main themes that will allow you to grasp the complexities of the contemporary global order: capitalism, (post)colonialism, security, and development. You will also become acquainted with the analytical tools that are needed to think critically about international relations through these themes: a historical sensibility (i.e. how situations have elements of both continuity and change), an understanding of political-economy (i.e. why the economy is political), an understanding of the security-development nexus (i.e. how the quest for security - freedom from fear -and development - freedom from want -are contentiously linked), and the importance of resistance and "situated knowledges" (i.e. your understanding of international relations might be different depending on where and how you are situated in the world). Empirically, we will explore the Cold War and the post-Cold War global orders - their similarities and differences.
Description: Violent conflict and the use of force remain salient issues in contemporary international relations. While some have theorised that the advent of globalisation and spread of liberal democracy would make the use of force and violent conflict less relevant to the world, war and conflict have remained an integral part of the international system, as well as forming an obstacle to providing stability and security for many states. This module will engage with these issues.
Description: The Masters' Dissertation is an independent programme of study of an approved topic within the field of Politics. It is designed to enable students to undertake independent research and, through this, allow them to develop a specialised knowledge in an area of the Politics discipline which is of particular interest to them. Thus, it may draw upon, and develop an existing topic or issue associated with a module that they have studied in the earlier part of their programme, or emerge out of a student's specific research interest in an area not covered by other course modules. Although the dissertation is meant to be an exercise in independent research and writing, each student will be offered guidance and support through the assigning of a supervisor within the School who will oversee the progress of the dissertation.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Sevasti Foka
Description: This module introduces and develops basic concepts in the philosophy of science and its relevance to psychology as a discipline. A biological framework for psychological science is also provided. It then introduces basic cognitive science/psychology, social psychology, differential psychology and an introduction to brain and behaviour relationships.
Description: This course will consider the principal forms in which US foreign policy has been practised and interpreted since the foundation of the Republic. Amongst these are American Exceptionalism and Anti-Americanism, 'spheres of influence', liberal interventionism and protectionist isolationism, Cold War containment, the `War on Terror' following 9/11, and the strains on unipolarity in the early 21st century. Amongst the case studies linked to these themes, we shall consider the role of Native Americans and immigration, the war of 1898, gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean, the ideas of Woodrow Wilson, the Vietnam War, the consequences of the 9/11 attacks, and the challenges posed by China.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Sebastian Del Bano Rollin
Description: This module will provide an introduction to programming in a commercial environment including:- Advanced use of Microsoft Excel for data analysis- Usage of Macros to automate common tasks- Introduction of Visual Basic for applications programming language (VBA)- Writing custom Excel functions and subroutines using VBA- Design of databases in Microsoft Access- Querying data with Microsoft Access- Externally loading data to Microsoft Access- Using ActiveX Data objects - The SQL query language
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mrs Frances GoodinghamOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take FLM5034
Description: Why would a Brazilian director depict not the guerrilla Che Guevara but the young doctor developing his social awareness? Walter Salles's Motorcycle Diaries will set the tone for the discussion of Brazil's emphasis on the social agenda as its major contribution to world cinema. This course will approach the evolution of this genre, beginning with Cinema Novo, the shift towards the commercial film (Pixote, Central Station), the development of a new aesthetics (City of God) and of recent radical experimentations such as prisoners and favela (shantytown) inhabitants making their own film. Discussions will include the tensions between aesthetics and ethics, the achievement of the commercial film and of the documentary as social action, and film as a tool for the empowerment of the marginalized.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr John Apergis-Schoute
Description: The module will allow you to learn about the different conceptualisations of emotion both in terms of historical developments as well as contemporary theoretical models of emotions. The module will also consider the biological basis of emotions in the brain and the body, how emotions are expressed and perceived in faces, bodies, voice and music. The relationship between emotions and cognitions will be considered, including emotion regulation and individual differences in emotions. Finally, cultural differences and disorders of emotion will be discussed.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Felix Fischer
Description: Each MSci Financial Mathematics student is required to complete a 30 credit project dissertation. Projects and supervisors will be allocated by the Programme Director at the start of the academic year, taking into account each student's particular interests, as far as is possible. A typical MSci project dissertation consists of 20 to 30 word-processed pages, securely bound, covering a specific research-level topic in financial mathematics, usually requiring the student to understand, explain and elaborate on results from one or more journal articles. Students will also be expected to give a short presentation of their work to other students on the programme.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Arthur GuillauminPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take MTH5120
Description: This module introduces modern methods of statistical inference for small samples, which use computational methods of analysis, rather than asymptotic theory. Some of these methods such as permutation tests and bootstrapping, are now used regularly in modern business, finance and science. The techniques covered in the module are implemented with the statistics package R.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Fatima BatoolModule Convenor: Dr Mirko Palestrino
Description: This module will provide you with the necessary numerical skills and tools to investigate a variety of problems in mathematical finance. It is based on C++, the programming language of choice for many practitioners in the finance industry. You will learn about basic concepts of the C part of C++ such as loops, arrays, functions, and branching statements, and then be introduced to the object-orientated programming part of C++. As an application you will deal with binomial trees in C++ and the pricing of various types of options in this context.
Description: The course provides students with a detailed examination - and critique - of theories of globalisation and assessment of contemporary globalising processes, and how these particularly influence the developing world.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Mark Walters
Description: This module will present the basics of optimisation techniques employed in business. It will be based around exercises and realistic business case studies. The topics to be covered are multiple variables, optimisation with constraints, linear programming, convex optimisation and the review of one variable case.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Hong Qi
Description: Quantitative Business Intelligence refers to the general application of quantitative techniques to business insight generation or the business decision process. This module builds on the Data Analytics module by increasing the level of sophistication of the techniques employed.Students will use SAS to solve business problems related to hypothesis testing, correlation and linear regression. The module will also present techniques related to cleaning of noisy data, detection of outliers, filling in blanks which are key to any industry implementation.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mrs Frances GoodinghamPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must have a-level or equivalent knowledge of portuguese
Description: This module is offered only to students who have A-Level or equivalent in Portuguese or who are heritage speakers of Portuguese. Basic grammatical structures are revised and reinforced. Practice in comprehension and composition is given using a wide variety of source material in contemporary Brazilian and European Portuguese, designed to develop appropriateness and accuracy in the spoken and written language. The language of instruction is predominantly Portuguese. Successful students will reach Level B1(+) of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL).
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Maria Cristina Juverdeanu
Description: The module provides you with advanced research skills, including the ability to select and use relevant resources effectively and to devise research questions appropriate for postgraduate research. You will develop the capacity to undertake independent guided research at postgraduate level.
Description: This module will provide students with a general understanding of current applications of Data Analytics to the Finance and in particular to derivatives and investment banking.It will revolve around problems that will be explained as part of the module delivery such as volatility surface management, yield curve evolution and FX volatility/correlation management.It will provide students with a overview of some standard tools in the field such as Python, R, Excel/VBA and the Power BI Excel functionality.Students are not expected to have any familiarity with coding or any of the topics above as the module will develop these from scratch.It will provide students with the understanding of a field necessary to boost their careers in finance in roles such as trading, structuring, management, risk management and quantitative positions in investment banks and hedge funds.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Sebastian Koehler
Description: Why some countries are democracies and others are dictatorships? Why are ethnic groups politicized in some countries but not in others? Why some countries have many political parties and others just a few? How governments form and what determines the type of government that take office? How can we explain patterns of representation? This module analyses some of the most relevant contemporary questions by looking at political structures, individuals and collective actors and processes through the lens of Comparative Politics. In this module we are set not just to find out about other countries, but to broaden and deepen our understanding of important and general political processes within these countries. The course first analyses the main concepts, theoretical and methodological approaches in comparative political science then applies their insights to the analysis of institutions, economic development, regime stability and change, social movements, representation, national identify, religion, ideology and more.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Dudley Stark
Description: This module covers a number of advanced topics in the pricing and risk-management of various types of derivative securities that are of key importance in today's financial markets. In particular, the module covers models for interest rate derivatives (short-rate and forward-curve models), and looks at the multi-curve framework. It then considers credit risk management and credit derivatives (both vanilla and exotic). Finally, it also discusses credit valuation adjustment (CVA) and related concepts.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nicola Perra
Description: This module will introduce you to some of the most widely-used techniques in machine learning (ML). After reviewing the necessary background mathematics, we will investigate various ML methods, such as linear regression, polynomial regression, neural networks, classification with logistic regression, support vector machines and decision trees. The module covers a very wide range of practical applications, with an emphasis on hands-on numerical work using Python. At the end of the module, you will be able to formalise a ML task, choose the appropriate method to process it numerically, implement the ML algorithm in Python, and assess the method's performance.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Lei Fang
Description: Data Analytics refers to the use of statistics and machine learning in inferring information from data sets, with the ultimate goal of gaining insight and aiding decision-making. This module introduces statistical modelling, regression analysis, and machine learning, and the use of the R software environment in analyzing data.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Michael Phillips
Description: This module gives students a basis in probability theory needed for modelling asset price dynamics. You will start with a brief review of basic probability theory and then you will be introduced to stochastic processes that underlie many models in finance, such as random walks, Brownian motion, geometric Brownian motion, and Poisson process. You will also get an overview of Ito stochastic calculus and its applications to finance. By the end of this introductory course, you will have achieved a sufficient level of competence in mathematical methods to facilitate further studies in Mathematical Finance.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Shreyaa Bhatt
Description: This module serves as an introduction to a politics degree and the ideas, skills, methods and knowledge required to succeed in your studies of politics. You will be trained in a range of study and research skills, from enhancing your ability to write analytically to learning how to interpret a wide variety of political texts. You will also have the opportunity to interact with your personal tutor and conduct a small, independent research project. The module is taught through lectures and seminars, as well as through direct contact with your personal advisor.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Niharika Pandit
Description: This module provides students with an introduction to central themes and concepts in Sociology, and applies them to particular cases. You will gain an understanding of what is distinctive about a sociological imagination of contemporary and historical concerns. The module helps you to see how our individual lives are connected to global developments such as climate change, migration, and the advancement of digital technology. You will also be introduced to how class, gender, race, identity, and religion organise relations in an era of globalisation. The overall aim is to introduce you to particular concepts that help you to understand how social relations are formed and change and to enhance your understanding of social change and continuity through a focus on particular issues, themes and cases.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Jaakko Heiskanen
Description: This is the core second-year module for International Relations students. Through deep, careful and critical engagement with primary texts, it introduces students to key thinkers in and the main currents of International Relations theory: liberalism; realism; the English School; constructivism; Marxism; post-structuralism; post-colonialism; and feminism. The module covers the most fundamental questions in international politics: why do war and suffering persist? Can we hope for a better future? If so, how can we get there? If not, what should we do instead?
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Jean-Francois Drolet
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Timothy Edkins
Description: This module embeds students in the School of Politics and International Relations¿ learning community by teaching them to: consider how research interests, questions and projects are formulated and pursued in the disciplines of Politics and International Relations, and the real-world impact that this research has; research political issues that are effecting East London communities and shaped by politics and international relations; construct cumulative evidence-based arguments orally and in writing; explore, and take the first steps towards, graduate work career paths.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Ksenia Northmore-Ball
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Innocent Ncube
Description: China is now arguably the most influential actor in the Global South. The methods that China has used in establishing itself as a global actor and the accompanying controversies surrounding its growing stature are critical learning points for every student of contemporary international relations. The module focuses on what China is doing in the Global South, how it is perceived and what this means. These themes will be analysed through an exciting survey of China's engagement in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the South Pacific.
Credits: 60.0Contact: Dr Oscar Bandtlow
Description: Each MSc student is required to complete a 60 credit project dissertation. Project selection takes place in Semester B with work on the project starting thereafter and continuing through the summer. An MSc project should help prepare students for independent practical work and PhD research. A typical MSc project dissertation consists of about 30¿50 word-processed pages covering a specific research-level topic in pure or applied mathematics. The work usually requires the student to understand, explain and elaborate on results from research articles or analyse a dataset and may also involve programming and computation.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Ilya Goldsheid
Description: This module establishes the probability and statistics background required for students applying techniques or doing other advanced statistics Modules. The Module begins by covering the essential theoretical notions of probability and the distributions of random variables which underpin statistical methods. It then describes different types of statistical tests of hypotheses and addresses the questions of how to use them and when to use them. This material is essential for applications of statistics in psychology, life or physical sciences, business or economics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Michael PhillipsPrerequisite: Before taking this module, you must take MTH790P if you do not already have previous experience of c++ up to the level taught in that module. Furthermore, a knowledge of financial mathematics up to the level taught in MTH771P is required.
Description: This is a follow-up course of 'Computational Methods in Finance'. Your knowledge of C++ will be further enhanced and further topics of interest in mathematical finance will be numerically investigated. An important topic for this module is the use of Monte Carlo simulations for pricing various types of options. The Black-Scholes theory and its connection with PDEs will be revisited in a numerical context. Moreover, at the end of this course you will also investigate models beyond the Black-Scholes theory, based on stochastic volatility, which touches current research.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Colm Murphy
Description: This module introduces students to different ways of understanding 'the economy': how it does and does not work for people. Through learning theories and concepts in political economy, students will broaden their understanding of economic inequality, what makes 'the economy', how politicians perceive `economic constraints¿, and different visions of a 'good' society. Students will study postwar Britain, from an expanded welfare state to `neoliberalism¿ and privatisation; from so-called 'postwar consensus' policies to the global financial crisis and austerity; and from the fallout of Brexit to the legacy of fossil fuel dependence. This module will be of particular interest to students who studied British Politics, Modernity or Comparative Politics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Alexander Shestopaloff
Description: The module aims to introduce you to the Bayesian paradigm. The module will show some of the problems with frequentist statistical methods and demonstrate that the Bayesian paradigm provides a unified approach to problems of statistical inference and prediction. In the Module you will learn to make Bayesian inferences in a variety of problems, and apply Bayesian methods in real-life examples.
Description: This course aims at providing students with Machine Learning skills based on the Python programming language as it is currently used in industry. Some of the presented methods are regression and classification techniques (linear and logistic regression, least-square); clustering; dimensionality reduction techniques such as PCA, SVD and matrix factorization. More advanced methods such as generalized linear models, neural networks and Bayesian inference using graphical models are also introduced. The course is self-contained in terms of the necessary mathematical tools (mostly probability) and coding techniques. At the end of the course, students will be able to formalize a ML task, choose the appropriate method in order to tackle it while being able to assess its performance, and to implement these algorithms in Python.
Description: This module builds on the analysis of concepts and ideologies begun in POL110. It enables students to follow through key ideas and debates about equality, power, revolution, democracy, identity and politics in modern political thought. It covers a range of thinkers from exemplars of Liberalism and Marxism to their anarchist, feminist, postcolonial and postmodern critics. The module focuses on thinkers from the mid- to late-C20th, such as Fanon, Gandhi, Beauvoir, Habermas, Rawls, Foucault (the thinkers may change from year to year).
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Hong QiPrerequisite: Before or while taking this module you must take MTH786P
Description: This module builds on the earlier module 'Machine Learning with Python', covering a number of advanced techniques in machine learning, such as different methods for clustering, dimensionality reduction, matrix completion, and autoencoders. Although the underlying theoretical ideas are clearly explained, this module is very hands-on, and you will implement various applications using Python in the weekly coursework assignments.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Niharika Pandit
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Aurora Ganz
Description: This module takes five key thinkers whose work emerges from experiences/histories of colonialism and racism to ask how international order(ing) has been understood by those standing outside of or in conversation with the Western canon, thinking globally. Thinking globally means thinking seemingly disparate socio-political phenomena and forces together and in connection (I.e., capitalism, racism, patriarchy, colonialism, etc.). This is a defining feature of the intellectuals and thinkers that will be explored on the module, who include Edward Said, Houria Boutjelda, Suzanne Cesaire and Cedric Robinson.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Mirko Palestrino
Description: This module provides students with an introduction to social sciences methodologies. The lead questions are: How do we know and research the social and political world? What is the relation between knowledge and power? How do different research questions and methods make different aspects of social and political life legible? By taking a familiar site (e.g. a street, one¿s home, Queen Mary University), event (e.g. an election, a festival), or artefact (e.g. a pamphlet, a statue, a picture), the module explores different ways of developing sociological and political knowledge and the role of methods in doing so.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Aurora Ganz
Description: This module takes ten key thinkers whose work emerges from experiences/histories of colonialism and racism to ask how international order(ing) has been understood by those standing outside of or in conversation with the Western canon, thinking globally. Thinking globally means thinking seemingly disparate socio-political phenomena and forces together and in connection (I.e., capitalism, racism, patriarchy, colonialism, etc.). This is a defining feature of the intellectuals and thinkers that will be explored on the module, who include Edward Said, Houria Boutjelda, Suzanne Cesaire and Cedric Robinson.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Felipe Rincon PabonOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take MTH5112Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take MTH4115 or take MTH4215
Description: This module covers concepts in linear algebra and its applications. The ideas for two- and three-dimensional space covered by the appropriate first year module will be developed and extended in a more general setting with a view to applications in subsequent pure and applied mathematics, probability and statistics modules. There will be a strong geometric emphasis in the presentation of the material and the key concepts will be illustrated by examples from various branches of science and engineering.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Subhajit JanaPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take MTH4104
Description: This module considers fundamental problems in number theory, related to the distribution of prime numbers and integer solutions to Diophantine equations. Students will learn the core concepts in number theory such as the existence of primitive roots modulo a prime, quadratic reciprocity and solving Pell's equation. Additionally, students will learn how to develop and implement algorithms to efficiently solve computational questions which arise in number theory.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Eftychia SoleaCorequisite: Before or while taking this module you must take MTH5120 and take MTH5129
Description: This module builds on the statistical theory of the Level 5 modules Probability and Statistics II and Statistical Modelling I. It begins with estimation of population parameters and a study of exploratory data analysis, in particular measures of correlation. It then introduces concepts from Bayesian Statistics and uses them to calculate Bayesian estimators. Finally, we study topics on generalised linear models (GLMs), including that of fitting a GLM to a dataset and interpreting its output.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Christopher Sutton
Description: The lengths of peoples lives is of crucial importance in the Insurance and Pensions industry so models for survival must be studied by trainee Actuaries. This module considers a number of approaches to modelling data for survival and mortality. These include parametric and non-parametric statistical approaches and methods developed by actuaries using age-specific death rates. Tests of the consistency of crude estimates with a standard table using a number of non-parametric methods is also studied.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Lennart Dabelow
Description: This module introduces you to the Python programming language. After learning about data types, variables and expressions, you will explore the most important features of the core language including conditional branching, loops, functions, classes and objects. We will also look at several of the key packages (libraries) that are widely used for numerical programming and data analysis.
Description: This module will provide you with an introduction to important concepts from probability theory and stochastic processes that are useful in modelling asset price dynamics. The introduction of more advanced tools will be preceded by a brief review of basic probability theory. Important stochastic processes that underlie many models in finance, such as random walks, Brownian motion, geometric Brownian motion, and the Poisson process, are discussed. An informal overview on Ito stochastic calculus and its application in finance will be given. By the end of this introductory course you will have achieved a sufficient level of competence of selected mathematical methods to facilitate further studies in Mathematical Finance.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Shreyaa Bhatt
Description: This module builds on the analysis of concepts and ideologies begun in POL110. It enables students to follow through key ideas and debates about equality, power, revolution, democracy, identity and politics in modern political thought. It covers a range of thinkers from exemplars of Liberalism and Marxism to their anarchist, feminist, and anti-racist critics. The module focuses on thinkers from the latter part of the C19th to the early C20th, such as Marx, Dewey, Du Bois, Goldmann, Luxemburg and Sorel (the thinkers covered may change from year to year).
Description: The module introduces the rules that govern the relationships between individuals, being physical persons or moral persons. It provides an introduction to the sources of French private law, the court system in France, and the basic principles, procedures, and values that govern contractual and non-contractual obligations. The module will be taught in French.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Ali Abdul Hussain AlmalekiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6050 or take LAN6052 or take LAN6055
Description: The module is suitable for students with an Intermediate level (CEFR level B2) in Modern Arabic. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a higher intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a wide range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at C1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read complex and challenging texts in Modern Arabic (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at a higher intermediate level.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Yang LiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6080 or take LAN6085 or take LAN6086 or take LAN6181 or take LAN6186
Description: The module is suitable for students with a low intermediate level (CEFR level B1) in Mandarin Chinese.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency in speaking, accuracy in written expression, and growing mastery of Chinese characters. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal relatively comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level (CEFR B1/B2) with the language required to cope with a wide range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus which reflects the attainment criteria Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read complex and challenging texts in Mandarin (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at a higher intermediate level.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Miss Orlane BarlesOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6010 or take LAN6015 or take LAN6111 or take LAN6011 or take LAN6016
Description: The module is suitable for students with an Intermediate level (CEFR level B2) in French. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a higher intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a wide range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2+ level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read complex and challenging texts in French (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at a higher intermediate level.
Description: The module introduces the students to the rules that govern the organisation, the functioning and the attributions of the French political and administrative entities, as well as the relationship between citizens and state institutions. Based primarily on an analysis of French constitutional law and administrative law, this module should provide the students with an in depth introduction to the institutions and sources of law that are at the heart of French public law. The module will be taught in French.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Ms Rosa MartinOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6050 or take LAN6051 or take LAN6055
Description: The module is suitable for students with an Intermediate level (CEFR level B2) in Modern Arabic. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a higher intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a wide range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2+ level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read complex and challenging texts in Modern Arabic (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at a higher intermediate level.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Dr Noelia Diaz-VicedoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6020 or take LAN6025 or take LAN6022
Description: The module is suitable for students with an Intermediate level (CEFR level B2) in Spanish. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a higher intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a wide range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at C1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read complex and challenging texts in Spanish (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at a higher intermediate level.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Wayne Morrison
Description: This module will cover:Introduction to Criminology and Criminal Justice; Defining crime; Rhetoric and reality of crime; Policing and prosecution of crime; Punishment of crime.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Wayne Morrison
Description: Sociological and psychological approaches to the aetiology of criminal behaviour; questions of criminal justice policy-making. Topics include: the aims and values of the criminal justice system; the definition of crime both in a theoretical and a practical sense; studies of particular types of crime (eg 'white collar' crime and crimes of the powerful, juvenile crime); penal policy with regard to particular types of crime; crime and public opinion; crime and the mass media; police organisation; prisons and the penal crisis; the role of victims of crime. The module focuses on the contemporary British context but adopts historical and comparative perspectives where relevant.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Dr Noelia Diaz-VicedoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6020 or take LAN6025 or take LAN6121 or take LAN6021 or take LAN6026
Description: The module is suitable for students with an Intermediate level (CEFR level B2) in Spanish. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a higher intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a wide range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2+ level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read complex and challenging texts in Spanish (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at a higher intermediate level.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mr Rupert Seal
Description: This module will cover:Fundamental concepts; Contracts relating to land; Adverse Possession; Leases/Licences; Mortgages; Co-ownership and the family home; Freehold covenants; Easements; Protection of interests in land: registered land and unregistered land.
Description: Main currents of modern Western legal thought: natural law theory (classical and modern forms); legal positivism (Austin, Bentham and the legal theory of sovereignty; Hart's concept of law; Kelsen's pure theory of law); classical social theory and law; aspects of legal realism an critical legal studies; Dworkin's interpretative theory and law as integrity; punishment; corrective justice, civil disobedience; rights; feminist legal theory; economic analysis of law; legal autopoiesis.
Description: This dissertation-based module requires students to design and conduct an independent research project within one of the disciplines of the constituent disciplines of Liberal Arts or an interdisciplinary topic. Supported by both research workshops and an academic supervisor, you will devise a research proposal, present on that topic, and then deploy suitable research methods and modes of analysis. You will present your findings in the form of an 8,000-word (or equivalent) research project.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Ms Frances Ridout
Description: Students will learn about the importance of public legal education in the context of access to justice, the rule of law and human rights. The module encourages students to question the value of laws if the communities they bind cannot actively engage in them. Street Law is essentially a teaching methodology which is interactive, participant-centered, and grounded in social justice. Recognised throughout the world, Street Law sees Law students facilitate interactive workshops with community groups like school students and prisoners to increase legal literacy and raise awareness of important social justice values. This module will train QMUL Law students in the theory and delivery of public legal education and Street Law, which will enable them to facilitate three public legal education and / Street Law projects to member of the community during the duration of the module. Additionally, students consider how legal design, professional legal ethics, and open access resources can all be used to support access to justice.This module is run by the Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre. It will require students to be willing to undertake a criminal record check (DBS) and may count towards Qualifying Work Experience as part of the SQE (TBD).
Credits: 30.0Contact: Yang LiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6085 or take LAN6081 or take LAN6086 or take LAN6082 or take LAN6087 or take LAN6181 or take LAN6186
Description: The module is suitable for students with a low intermediate level (CEFR level B1) in Mandarin Chinese.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency in speaking, accuracy in written expression, and mastery of Chinese characters. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal relatively comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level (CEFR B2) with the language required to cope with a wide range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus which reflects the attainment criteria Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B1/B2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read complex and challenging texts in Mandarin (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at a higher intermediate level.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Rosa MartinOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6055 or take LAN6050 or take LAN6056
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Ali Abdul Hussain AlmalekiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6050 or take LAN6051 or take LAN6056 or take LAN6052 or take LAN6057
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Koray Guven
Description: The module focuses on the substantive law of copyright and related rights in the United Kingdom. It covers (i) the subsistence, ownership and term of copyright, (ii) exclusive economic rights and infringement (iv) exceptions and limitations to infringement and (v) moral rights. Particular attention will be paid to areas of current controversy in the law.
Description: This module explores the concept of 'climate justice' from a range of legal, social and political perspectives, tracing in detail how the concept has been underpinned by a wide range of traditions in human thinking. The module will introduce students to the growing significance of a concept of climate justice in contemporary political and policy debates, and show how our understanding of the concept varies widely across different historical and cultural contexts. Topics covered will include:Climate justice in policy and politics (exploring historical development and the uses of the concept in UN, NGO and national government contexts).Climate justice and racial justice (exploring the concept of climate justice in anti-colonial, post-colonial and anti-racist ideas).Climate justice and economic production (exploring the concept of climate justice in the critique of industrial capitalism and eco-socialism).Climate justice and social reproduction (exploring the concept of climate justice in feminist theory and in the critique of androcentric accounts of climate change).Climate justice and indigenous epistemologies (exploring the contemporary significance of pre-colonial and pre-industrial concepts of climate justice).
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Ali Abdul Hussain AlmalekiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6055 or take LAN6050 or take LAN6057
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Maria Ioannidou
Description: The purpose of this module is to teach you the basic provisions of both EC and UK competition law. The module will provide you with a flavour of the economic and market context in which EC and UK competition law is applied. The module will aim to consider important business phenomena in the market such as anticompetitive agreements, abuse of market dominance and mergers between firms. It is hoped that by the end of the module you will gain a good understanding of the competition rules of the EC and the UK in order to help you identify situations in which such phenomena may arise. The module is taught on the basis of on one-and-a-halfhour lecture each week and one-and-a-half-hour tutorials held biweekly. In addition, the module includes several case studies based on real cases. You will be asked to prepare the case studies beforehand and be ready to discuss them in the class. The case studies will give you a taste of what competition law in practice is really like. They will also provide an excellent guidance on how to approach competition law problems in the examination room and beyond.
Description: The principles of modern Company Law including the formation of companies, the corporate constitution, the protection of persons dealing with a company, corporate financing, management, the duties of directors, corporate governance, the protection of minority shareholders and insolvency.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mr Ali Abdul Hussain AlmalekiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6055 or take LAN6051 or take LAN6056 or take LAN6052 or take LAN6057
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Cristofol Tripiana TraverOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take CAT5200 or take LAN5095Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take CAT4200 or take LAN4095
Description: The module is suitable for learners with a lower intermediate level in Catalan. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Catalan (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Description: This is an introductory module in Public International Law. The broad aim is to introduce students who have not studied international law before to its core principles, including methodology, sources and techniques of legal reasoning.
Assessment:Level: 6
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Stephen Allen
Description: This module will cover:Express trusts: The three certainties in the creation of trusts; The beneficiary principle and unincorporated associations; Formalities in the creation of trusts; Dispositions of equitable interests; The duties of trustees; Breach of trust; Resulting trusts; Trusts of homes, including proprietary estoppel; Constructive trusts: Proprietary constructive trusts; Personal liability to account for dishonest assistance and knowing receipt;Tracing and equitable proprietary claims; Restitution of unjust enrichment.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Rosa MartinOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5050 or take LAN5055 or take LAN5057
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Arabic Language and Cultures. The module emphasises the global importance of Arabic language and Arabic speaking cultures and is intended for students with an intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Arabic language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Ms Ayumi KumagaiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5045 or take LAN5041 or take LAN5046 or take LAN5042 or take LAN5047 or take LAN5141 or take LAN5146 or take LAN5142 or take LAN5147
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Japanese Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Japanese language and Japanese speaking culture and is intended for students with a lower intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Japanese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Merris Amos
Description: This module concerns the interpretation and application of the Human Rights Act 1998 and other important issues concerning the legal protection of human rights in the United Kingdom. There will be a significant focus upon procedural issues including victims, respondents and remedies. Two substantive Convention rights will also be considered in detail - the right to life and freedom of expression.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Shalini PereraCorequisite: Before or while taking this module you must take LAW6036
Description: The global financial crisis heightened interest in and increased calls for efficiency with respect to insolvency procedures, the insolvency aspects of the taking of security, rescue mechanisms, the accountability of decision makers in the context of insolvency, and the structuring of transactions involving credit and security. The aim of this course is to analyse from a UK perspective the different aspects of the insolvency and/or debt restructuring of corporations. To achieve this aim, the module covers the various procedures available in cases of insolvency and restructuring, the relationship between the general law of property and obligations and insolvency, the law of credit and security issues in the context of distress scenarios, and corporate rescue mechanisms. The course would enable students to identify common aspects in the dynamics, techniques and mechanisms to deal with distress scenarios and discover innovative trends in a continuously developing area.
Description: The objectives of the module are twofold. First, to give students a good grounding in the main principles of a key components of commercial law¿namely, the law of sale; secondly, to introduce students to a topic of growing importance, namely, consumer law. The module aims to build on skills and knowledge which will already have been acquired during the study of other subjects, in particular, contract and property law.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Mario MendezPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take LAW4001
Description: This course will examine from a comparative perspective the legal structures and concepts typically found in constitutions, including constitution-amending & constitution-making; constitutional interpretation and judicial review; the distinction between legislative and executive authority; federalism and subsidiarity; rights controversies (e.g. free speech); the relationship between the domestic constitution and international law. Throughout our study of specific topics, it will consider questions such as: What separates "constitutional" law from other domestic law? What is the role, if any, of comparative constitutional law in domestic constitutional law adjudication? How does our study of comparative constitutional law adapt to a global society? A wide range of constitutional systems will be engaged with in relation to specific themes including: the UK; Australia; Canada; EU & ECHR; Finland; France; Germany; Hungary; India; Japan; New Zealand; Poland; South Africa; Spain; Sweden; United States
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
Description: The content of the dissertation is determined by the student, with limited guidance by a supervisor.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Ms Amber Marks
Description: In the medico-legal field, medicines regulation has, until recently (E.Jackson, Law and the Regulation of Medicines (Hart, 2012)) received relatively little scholarly attention, and drug offences have been largely neglected in undergraduate courses on criminal law. These two areas of law (medicines regulation and recreational drug use ) are rarely considered together despite both being concerned with pharmacology and its impact on consumers, and despite raising similar ethical questions (autonomy, paternalism, the role of the state in public and private health) and facing similar threats from those seeking to maximise profit. The purpose of the module will be to identify and critically evaluate normative frameworks in this area, in search of theoretical coherence. The course will identify relevant legal and theoretical frameworks and regulatory agencies. The focus will be on UK law but will also include international treaties and European law. The module will combine domestic and comparative jurisprudence, and will also adopt a law-reform flavour given the evolving nature of science and law in this area . The module may particularly interest those students who are studying medical law, those propose to enter into a practising law career, a law, regulatory or policy-reform role, or who may enter into associated fields such as consumer lobbying and activism, or governmental legal offices.Questions to be considered will include: What are the normative implications of a shift in regulatory perspective in relation to recreational drugs from the criminal to the public health model? How tenable is the distinction drawn in law between medicinal drugs and recreational drugs? What are the regulatory implications of a product¿s classification as medicinal? What is the role and nature of the harm/benefit nexus in the design of regulatory measures?In the second semester students will explore several case-studies, including novel psychoactive substances, cannabis law reform and nicotine replacement therapy before proceeding to research and make oral presentations on their own chosen topics for the coursework element, for which they will receive supervision.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Cristofol Tripiana TraverOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take CAT5200 or take LAN5096 or take LAN5097Prerequisite: Before taking this module you must take CAT4200 or take LAN4095
Description: The module is suitable for learners with a lower intermediate level in Catalan. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B1/B2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Catalan (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Description: This is an introductory module in Public International Law. The broad aim is to introduce students who have not studied international law before to its core principles, including methodology, sources and techniques of legal reasoning. Topics covered include: The nature and purpose of international law; subjects of international law; state jurisdiction and immunity, including diplomatic immunity and jurisdiction in criminal matters; the law of treaties; the law of the sea; implementation and enforcement; international law and the individual; state responsibility; state succession, the law of international organizations including United Nations Law; the settlement of disputes; international law and national legal systems especially the municipal law of the United Kingdom.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Eleni Kaprou
Description: This module will cover:Sale of goods: Nature of a sale of goods contract; Terms implied into the contract of sale by the Sale of Goods Act;Passing of property and risk in goods; Liability of a seller without the right to sell; Delivery obligations; Remedies of the buyer; Remedies of the seller.Consumer Credit: Classification of credit agreements under the Consumer Credit Act; Formalities for making regulated agreements; Liability of the creditor/credit broker /supplier to the debtor; Liability of the debtor to the creditor; Termination of regulated agreements; Judicial control of regulated agreements.Agency: Definition of agency; The agent's authority to bind his principal; The agent's rights and duties; Contractual relationships between the principal, agent, and third party; Termination of the agency.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Isobel Roele
Description: Law Stories examines the attraction and construction of narratives about the law in popular fiction and non-fiction across a variety of media including film, TV, novels, short stories, memoirs, true crime writing, and journalism. The analysis of these cultural products informs a closer attention to the way legal institutions and processes use story-telling and produce narratives in the form of case reports, reform proposals, and public inquiries. For example, the law reform story of the decriminalisation of homosexuality after the Wolfenden Report of 1954), or the revelation of institutional racism in the police force in the MacPherson Report of 1999. The module will be taught across 10 seminars. Students will be able to choose at least two of the works we study each year. The total number of works covered will vary from year to year depending on the kind of work studied (e.g. a season of The Wire (HBO: David Simon, 2002-2008) will take longer to study than Orson Welles' film adaptation of The Trial (1962); by the same token, Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) will take more time to read than Lord Denning's judgment in Miller v Jackson [1977] QB 966, or a chapter in Rosemary Hunter's Feminist Judgments (Hart, 2010)The module is assessed by one 5000-word essay worth 100% of the grade. In order to prepare students for this assessed work, they will have the opportunity to submit and obtain feedback on a formative exercised.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Jonathan Griffiths
Description: The module focuses on the law of the United Kingdom (and the European Union) relating to those forms of intellectual property that are sometimes described as industrial property. It covers (i) patent law, (ii) the law of trade secrets, (iii) the law of registered trade marks and (iv) the tort of passing off. Particular attention will be paid to areas of current controversy in the law.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Elizabeth Barmes
Description: Students will learn about the essential building blocks of UK labour law in the law of the contract of employment, the right not to be unfairly dismissed and the employment tribunal system. The evolution in recent decades of law, practice and ideology relevant to the regulation of working life will be studied, with particular emphasis on whether current approaches are working to deliver justice in working lives.
Description: The objective of this module is to introduce you to the fundamental principles of taxation law in the United Kingdom. The policies underlying fiscal legislation, the budgetary process, and the place of tax within English legal structure all are considered. A background in mathematics is not a prerequisite for this module, as the module focuses on legal principles, policies and regulation. Included amongst the topics addressed are the taxation of trades and earnings, capital gains tax, corporation and inheritance tax, and the jurisprudence of tax avoidance. Tax law is taught in context. The module fosters the skill of handling complex legal material, and teaches you to write clearly and persuasively. More specifically, the abilities to read and interpret statutory material, to understand and interpret the structure of language, and to perceive varieties of meaning and nuance all are taught. These are vital skills for any lawyer - regardless of intended area of practice. You should develop an ability to apply the law as derived from the cases, statutes and other sources to a set of given facts which are similar but not identical to those encountered in the cases. The module should also improve your ability to read and distinguish between cases. The module is taught within the wider taxation programme at Queen Mary, and strong links exist between Revenue Law and postgraduate modules and teachers.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mrs Sanmeet Dua
Description: This module will explore the principal causes of action which comprise the subject of Torts, with a particular focus on tort law as it applies in the business context. A significant part of the module is devoted to the most-commonly pleaded cause of action in the common law world, the tort of negligence. The module will examine the general principles of negligence, negligent misstatement and the negligent provision of services (including financial services). Principles governing vicarious liability will also be covered, given their importance in business contexts. Finally, the module will examine some further areas of Tort Law which are particularly relevant in the business world, including consumer protection (via negligence and the Consumer Protection Act 1987), economic torts (e.g. conspiracy, deceit, interference with contractual relations) , defamation and privacy. Throughout the module, students will be challenged to think about how Tort Law applies in the business world, and the significance of Tort Law in modern commerce.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Miss Silvia LodiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5050 or take LAN5051 or take LAN5056 or take LAN5052 or take LAN5057
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level A2) in Modern Arabic.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in Modern Arabic (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Ayumi KumagaiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5040 or take LAN5045 or take LAN5046 or take LAN5141 or take LAN5146
Description: IDesigned for students who have an interest in Japanese Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Japanese language and Japanese speaking culture and is intended for students with a lower intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Japanese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Miss Eleanor Godwin
Description: This course situates the study of criminology in a global and inter-disciplinary context to destabilize state- and Euro-centric conceptions of crime, punishment and justice. It starts by proposing different beginnings for criminology that reveal that in some sense the discipline has always been global. We begin with anthropological studies of so-called 'primitive' societies. How are social transgressions conceptualized and dealt with in stateless settings? Is there a concept of 'crime' to begin with? What work does the concept of crime do in organizing society? Who is being protected and who is being disciplined? We then explore two formative contexts for criminal justice: slavery and colonialism. What is the relationship between modern police forces and slave patrols? How has the `colonial encounter¿ shaped penal and policing regimes in postcolonial and metropolitan states?After examining these `different beginnings¿, students will explore what it means to globalize crime and justice. What are we to make of 'international crimes' such as war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of aggression and genocide? Does it make sense to punish individuals for collective violence such as genocide in the same way as for murder? Should we reconcile, restore or transform rather than punish after mass violence?The final part of the course looks at the global production of new forms, discourses and constituencies of criminalization and how they exclude and include people from society. Criminal justice technologies and discourses, for example, are increasingly applied to exclude refugees and migrants while some LGBTQ+ subjects are provisionally accepted into the category of 'good citizens'. How can we make sense of these new forms of criminalization and the offenders and victims they produce? How do criminal states, multinational corporations, people smugglers, child soldiers, foreign fighters, female terrorists and victims of trafficking confound our categories of victim/perpetrator in a highly racialized and gendered context of global inequality?
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Hedi Viterbo
Description: A third of humanit--those under the age of 1--are generally defined under the law as children. The world's most widely ratified treaty is the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Other, wide-ranging legal instruments also focus on children, at the international level (such as the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, and the Child Marriage Convention), the regional level (such as the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, and the European Convention on the Exercise of Children¿s Rights), and the national level (such as the UK's various Children and Young Persons acts, as well as its various Children Acts). All of these are connected to broader legal instruments as well (such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilians in War). Moreover, the law regarding children also affects all adults in one way or another. For these and other reasons, this area of law is of enormous legal and social importance. This module explores issues and instruments concerning children across a variety of legal areas, ranging from constitutional, criminal, medical, and labour law to education, family, human rights, and international humanitarian law, among others. Our discussions draw not only on legal sources but also on sociological, anthropological, historical, and philosophical studies of childhood, as well as postcolonial, feminist, queer, and other critical schools of thought.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Josef MuellerOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5000 or take LAN5006 or take LAN5001 or take LAN5007 or take LAN5107
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level A2) in German.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in German (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr Mohsin Alam BhatOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAW6134
Description: The demand for international human rights law is growing and demands far exceeds supply. This Interantiona Human Rights law module aims to provide students with a unique and thorough practical and theoretical understanding of the subject. The module will also examine the effectiveness of the united Nations system of human rights protection as well as the European, Africa and Inter-American systems. International human rights law is challenging and will provide students with practical knowledge of how to use international human rights law and plead human rights cases. The module will also contribute to the development of a comparative and cross-cultural perspective on the basic rights and freedoms. The module will focus on civil and political rights and on economic, social and cultural rights. The protection will be analysed from the perspective of industrialised and developing states.
Description: Democratic government is commonly assumed to be essential to a just legal system. But is that assumption always correct? Do our traditions of active and vigorous legislation, zealous litigation, and professional lawyering guarantee justice? Are there ways in which they wholly undermine justice? What about public discourse, arts or the media? Do they always promote the kind of open, free society in which law and justice thrive? These questions receive sharp scrutiny in the writings of Plato. In this module, we examine how some classic ideas about justice and democracy, have shaped law and society for centuries.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mrs Shaomian DengOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5080 or take LAN5085 or take LAN5082 or take LAN5182 or take LAN5187
Description: The module is suitable for students with a CEFR level B1in Mandarin Chinese.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in Chinese Mandarin (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Miss Silvia LodiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5050 or take LAN5055 or take LAN5056
Description: This module is available under the 'QMUL Model'. It is designed for students who have an interest in Arabic Language and Cultures. The module emphasises the global importance of Arabic language and Arabic speaking cultures and is intended for students with a lower intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language and it's highly suitable for students following the QMUL Model. The QMUL Model builds on the existing QMUL Graduate Attributes, which include an aspiration that QM graduates should 'be able to operate in more than one language' alongside the aspiration to optimize the employability of our graduates. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Arabic language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Prof Rachael Mulheron
Description: The module delves into medical negligence by examining the principal difficulties associated with the common law cause of action, from the initial conundrums associated with proving a duty of care, and onwards through breach, causation, remoteness of damage, and finally to the defences available to a culpable healthcare professional.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Anjana BahlPrerequisite: Consult course convenor
Description: 1. The scope and function of family law in society2. Marriage/nullity/civil partnerships3. Divorce and divorce reform4. The parent and child relationship5. The Children Act 1989 and private disputes relating to children6. Family property rights7. Financial provision and property adjustment on divorce8. Domestic violence, abuse and molestation9. The Human Rights Act 1998
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Martyn EllisOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5020 or take LAN5025 or take LAN5022 or take LAN5122 or take LAN5127
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level A2) in Spanish.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in Spanish (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Miss Orlane BarlesOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5010 or take LAN5015 or take LAN5011 or take LAN5111 or take LAN5116
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level A2) in French.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in French (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Shubha Banerjee
Description: Students will learn about UK law on protecting working people with individual and human rights. The focus will be on understanding how individual rights, like that to the national minimum wage, and human rights protections, like the Right to Freedom of Association in the ECHR 1950, work in practice to address contemporary workplace issues and conflicts. The module will be assessed by an unseen exam.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Angelos DimopoulosOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAW4009
Description: This module introduces students to some fundamental characteristics of the law of the European Union. It is divided into three parts, concerned respectively with how EU law is made, how it is applied and enforced and finally what it is used for. We will consider the historical development of the European Union, its institutional structure and its legal instruments, the interaction between Union and national law and the role of national courts in enforcing Union Law, the rules relating to free movement in the internal market and the legal principles underlying the relationships between the EU and its neighbours.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Prof Ginestra Bianconi
Description: This module provides an introduction to the basic concepts and results of complex network theory. It covers methods for analyzing the structure of a network, and for modeling it. It also discusses applications to real systems, such as the Internet, social networks and the nervous system of the C. elegans.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Cristofol Tripiana TraverOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take CAT5200 or take LAN5095Prerequisite: Before or while taking this module you must take LAN5096
Description: The module is suitable for learners with an intermediate level in Catalan. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B1/B2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Catalan (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Description: Media law is the study of the regulation of the media, whether in traditional print form, the broadcast media, or in the online arena. Increasingly, media regulations must be, and are being, adapted to take account of new technological developments as the dividing line between online media and traditional forms becomes less pronounced. Primarily we will be using English law as our starting point with cross jurisdictional comparisons being discussed as and where appropriate. In general however the module is thematic in nature and English law should be considered as a case study exploring how certain themes may arise and be dealt with in practice, as opposed to the be all and end all of the module coverage. The broad themes which we will explore in the course include regulation of the distribution of material by the media - for instance, the regimes in place under the Data Protection Act 1998, or the Contempt of Court Act 1981 and how and in what circumstances those may restrict the information which the media is permitted to distribute. Information privacy and the media's right to withhold the identity of sources will be considered. Laws regulating media output on the basis of the actual content distributed will also be analysed, including defamation issues faced by the media, blasphemy, hate speech and obscenity. In addition to considering how the general law applies to the media, we will also consider sector-specific regulation (televisual broadcasting, advertising), as well as extra-legal measures such as the voluntary codes of conduct for print content administered by the Press Complaints Commission and the Advertising Standards Authority.
Description: Students will learn about the law in the UK on equality and anti-discrimination. They will be introduced to the legal rules through case studies in particular topical areas such as the legal profession, the judiciary, the legislature, education and gender segregation in society. Through these case studies the operation of the law in practice will be scrutinised and evaluated. The module will be assessed through research proposals, presentations of their chosen topic and a research essay of 4,000 words.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Ms Anjana Bahl
Description: This module will cover:The scope and function of family law in society; Marriage/nullity/civil partnerships; Divorce and divorce reform; The parent and child relationship; The Children Act 1989 and private disputes relating to children; Family property rights; Financial provision and property adjustment on divorce; Domestic violence, abuse and molestation; The Human Rights Act 1998.
Description: The Art of Law provides an introduction to a range of ways in which law and the visual arts come together now and in the past. The module will explore how law appears in artworks including painting, sculpture, photography, and film. It will also consider when, how and why works of art appear in state institutions like courthouses, Inns of Court, government buildings, and international organisations, and how state and international organisations make use of art work in their public outreach activities.Students will develop an understanding of basic art historical approaches and methods including psychoanalytic, feminist, Marxian, post- and anti-colonial, and queer, approaches. They will use these to navigate cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in the field of Law and the Arts. They will make their own art work, engage in class discussions, visit art galleries, watch films, and undertake an independent research project.For the creative project, students may choose between making a 5-minute film; an A2 poster; or 5-frame photo-essay.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Miss Orlane BarlesOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5010 or take LAN5015 or take LAN5012 or take LAN5112 or take LAN5117
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level A2) in French.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in French (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Miss Orlane BarlesOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6010 or take LAN6011 or take LAN6016 or take LAN6012 or take LAN6017 or take LAN6111 or take LAN6116
Description: The module is suitable for students with an Intermediate level (CEFR level B2) in French. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a higher intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a wide range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at C1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read complex and challenging texts in French (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at a higher intermediate level.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mrs Shaomian Deng
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level A2) in Mandarin Chinese.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in Chinese Mandarin (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Miss Silvia LodiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5050 or take LAN5055 or take LAN5051
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level A2) in Modern Arabic.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in Modern Arabic (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Ayumi KumagaiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5040 or take LAN5045 or take LAN5047 or take LAN5142 or take LAN5147
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Japanese Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Japanese language and Japanese speaking culture and is intended for students with an intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Japanese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Paloma LunaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5020 or take LAN5025 or take LAN5021 or take LAN5121 or take LAN5126
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level A2) in Spanish.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in Spanish (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Dr Noelia Diaz-VicedoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6020 or take LAN6021 or take LAN6026 or take LAN6022 or take LAN6027 or take LAN6121 or take LAN6126
Credits: 0.0Contact: Miss Orlane BarlesOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5010 or take LAN5011 or take LAN5016 or take LAN5012 or take LAN5017 or take LAN5111 or take LAN5116 or take LAN5112 or take LAN5117
Credits: 30.0Contact: Miss Silvia LodiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5055 or take LAN5051 or take LAN5056 or take LAN5052 or take LAN5057
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Arabic Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Arabic language and Arabic speaking culture and is intended for students with a lower intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Arabic language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Description: This module is a unique opportunity to develop your knowledge of substantive law and legal procedure while working with live clients and practicing lawyers from some of London's most reputable law firms and chambers. It is both academic and practical, requiring a great deal of commitment and flexibility. In return, this module provides each student with six live clients where they are the advising student lawyer with responsibility for the case (under supervision), as well as small seminar groups and active engagement with the Clinical Team.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Noelia Diaz-VicedoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5020 or take LAN5025 or take LAN5027 or take LAN5122 or take LAN5127
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Spanish Language and Cultures. The module emphasises the global importance of Spanish language and Spanish speaking cultures and is intended for students with an intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Spanish language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Paloma LunaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5025 or take LAN5021 or take LAN5026 or take LAN5022 or take LAN5027 or take LAN5121 or take LAN5126 or take LAN5122 or take LAN5127
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mrs Shaomian DengOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5080 or take LAN5085 or take LAN5087 or take LAN5182 or take LAN5187
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Mandarin Chinese Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Mandarin Chinese language and culture and is intended for intermediate learners. It develops students' ability to operate practically and effectively in the target language . The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated 'global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a growing foundation in Mandarin Chinese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Miss Orlane BarlesOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5010 or take LAN5015 or take LAN5016 or take LAN5111 or take LAN5116
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in French Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of French language and French speaking culture and is intended for students with a lower intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in French language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Tim LindemannOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5000 or take LAN5006 or take LAN5001 or take LAN5101 or take LAN5107
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level B1) in German.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2 level. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in German (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Nikola Georgiou
Description: 'From crime scene to court' is an undergraduate elective module that deals with the subject matter of forensic science evidence, through an exploration of the crime reconstruction process. The module gives undergraduate law students an opportunity to familiarise themselves with crime scene investigation strategies, as well as gain insights into the analysis and interpretation of traces found at the crime scene, and the eventual reporting and presentation of evidence in court. Students will be encouraged to adopt a critical interdisciplinary lens towards the crime reconstruction process and forensic science evidence, by examining the various associated sources of uncertainties and limitations, as well as their impact on criminal trials and the criminal justice system as a whole. Students will also gain through a series of workshops practical skills relating to crime scene investigation and cross-examination of expert witnesses.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mrs Shaomian DengOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5085 or take LAN5081 or take LAN5086 or take LAN5082 or take LAN5087 or take LAN5181 or take LAN5186 or take LAN5182 or take LAN5187
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Mandarin Chinese Language and Culture.The module emphasises the global importance of Mandarin Chinese language and culture and is intended for low intermediate learners. It develops students' ability to operate practically and effectively in the target language .The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated 'global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a growing foundation in Mandarin Chinese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Miss Silvia Lodi
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Arabic Language and Cultures. The module emphasises the global importance of Arabic language and Arabic speaking cultures and is intended for students with a lower intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Arabic language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Ms Ayumi KumagaiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5040 or take LAN5045 or take LAN5042 or take LAN5142 or take LAN5147
Description: The module is suitable for students with a CEFR level A2 / B1in Japanese.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in Japanese (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Philip FranceOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5010 or take LAN5015 or take LAN5112 or take LAN5012 or take LAN5017
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Ali Abdul Hussain AlmalekiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5050 or take LAN5055 or take LAN5052
Description: The module is suitable for students with a CEFR level B1 in Modern Arabic.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in Modern Arabic (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mrs Shaomian DengOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5080 or take LAN5085 or take LAN5081 or take LAN5086 or take LAN5186
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level A1/A2) in Mandarin Chinese.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A2/B1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in Chinese Mandarin (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Miss Hiroko MoriOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5040 or take LAN5045 or take LAN5142 or take LAN5042 or take LAN5047
Credits: 0.0Contact: Ms Ayumi KumagaiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5040 or take LAN5041 or take LAN5046 or take LAN5042 or take LAN5047 or take LAN5141 or take LAN5146 or take LAN5142 or take LAN5147
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level A2/ B1) in Japanese.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in Japanese (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Noelia Diaz-VicedoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6020 or take LAN6025 or take LAN6027
Credits: 15.0Contact: Miss Orlane BarlesOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5010 or take LAN5015 or take LAN5017 or take LAN5112 or take LAN5117
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in French Language and Culture.The module emphasises the global importance of French language and French speaking culture and is intended for students with an intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in French language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Miss Orlane BarlesOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5015 or take LAN5011 or take LAN5016 or take LAN5012 or take LAN5017 or take LAN5111 or take LAN5116 or take LAN5112 or take LAN5117
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in French Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of French language and French speaking culture and is intended for students with a lower intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in French language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Miss Orlane BarlesOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6010 or take LAN6015 or take LAN6017
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mrs Shaomian DengOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5080 or take LAN5085 or take LAN5086 or take LAN5181 or take LAN5186
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Mandarin Chinese Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Mandarin Chinese language and culture and is intended for low intermediate learners. It develops students' ability to operate practically and effectively in the target language . The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated 'global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a growing foundation in Mandarin Chinese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Jeevan HariharanPrerequisite: Before or while taking this module you must take LAW5001
Description: From apps activating the microphone on your smartphone, to the increasing use of digital monitoring in our homes and workplaces, new technologies have seen our privacy challenged in ways never seen before. In this module, we will undertake a detailed examination of the legal protection of personal privacy. We will explore the theoretical foundations of the concept of privacy and consider the key ways our privacy is legally protected (particularly through tort law and data protection legislation). We will also analyse ways in which privacy law can develop, considering topical issues such as image-based sexual abuse, the use of social media, and employee monitoring.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Miss Silvia Lodi
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Noelia Diaz-VicedoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5020 or take LAN5025 or take LAN5126 or take LAN5021 or take LAN5026
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Spanish Language and Cultures. The module emphasises the global importance of Spanish language and Spanish speaking cultures and is intended for students with a lower intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Spanish language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Philip FranceOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5010 or take LAN5015 or take LAN5111 or take LAN5011 or take LAN5016
Credits: 0.0Contact: Dr Noelia Diaz-VicedoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5020 or take LAN5021 or take LAN5026 or take LAN5022 or take LAN5027 or take LAN5121 or take LAN5126 or take LAN5122 or take LAN5127
Credits: 15.0Contact: Paloma LunaOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5020 or take LAN5025 or take LAN5026 or take LAN5121 or take LAN5126
Credits: 0.0Contact: Ms Ayumi KumagaiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5040 or take LAN5045 or take LAN5141 or take LAN5041 or take LAN5046
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level A2) in Japanese.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in Japanese (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ye HeOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5080 or take LAN5085 or take LAN5082 or take LAN5087 or take LAN5187
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Cristofol Tripiana TraverOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take CAT4200 or take LAN4096 or take LAN4097
Description: The module is suitable for beginners in Catalan. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Catalan (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Josef MuellerOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4070 or take LAN4075 or take LAN4077 or take LAN4172 or take LAN4177
Description: The module is suitable for beginners in Italian. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Italian (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Ms Ayumi KumagaiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4040 or take LAN4045 or take LAN4043 or take LAN4041 or take LAN4141 or take LAN4146 or take LAN4046
Description: The module is suitable for beginners in Japanese.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Japanese, they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Description: The digital world is playing an ever-more important role in our lives and creating novel challenges for law, markets and society. In order to conceptually capture these phenomena traditional legal techniques, need to be applied in innovative ways and often new legal mechanisms that better fit a new economic reality have to be developed. This module focuses on the regulation of online transactions between users and traders, whether it is for money or in exchange for personal data, and how businesses should comply to it.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Ms Ayumi KumagaiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5040 or take LAN5045 or take LAN5041 or take LAN5141 or take LAN5146
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Martyn EllisOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5020 or take LAN5025 or take LAN5122 or take LAN5022 or take LAN5027
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Martyn EllisOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5020 or take LAN5025 or take LAN5127 or take LAN5023 or take LAN5027
Description: This module is available under the 'QMUL Model'. It is designed for students who have an interest in Spanish Language and Cultures. The module emphasises the global importance of Spanish language and Spanish speaking cultures and is intended for students with an intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language and it's highly suitable for students following the QMUL Model. The QMUL Model builds on the existing QMUL Graduate Attributes, which include an aspiration that QM graduates should 'be able to operate in more than one language' alongside the aspiration to optimize the employability of our graduates. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Spanish language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Mr Josef MuellerOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4075 or take LAN4076 or take LAN4072 or take LAN4077 or take LAN4171 or take LAN4176 or take LAN4172 or take LAN4177
Description: The module is suitable for beginners in Italian.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Italian (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr David Rodriguez-VelascoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6020 or take LAN6025 or take LAN6026 or take LAN6121 or take LAN6126
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Josef MuellerOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5000 or take LAN5006 or take LAN5001 or take LAN5007 or take LAN5101
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Nadine BuchmannOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5000 or take LAN5006 or take LAN5105 or take LAN5002 or take LAN5005
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level A2) in German.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in German (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Viviane BlanchardOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6010 or take LAN6015 or take LAN6016 or take LAN6111 or take LAN6116
Description: The module is suitable for students with an Intermediate level (CEFR level B2) in French.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a higher intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a wide range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2+ level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read complex and challenging texts in French (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at a higher intermediate level.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Ms Viviane BlanchardOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6010 or take LAN6015 or take LAN6011 or take LAN6111 or take LAN6116
Credits: 0.0Contact: Ye HeOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4080 or take LAN4085 or take LAN4081 or take LAN4086 or take LAN4181 or take LAN4186 or take LAN4083
Description: The module is suitable for beginners in Mandarin Chinese.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Chinese Mandarin, they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Rosa MartinOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5010 or take LAN5015 or take LAN5117 or take LAN5012 or take LAN5017
Description: This module is available under the 'QMUL Model'. It is designed for students who have an interest in French Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of French language and French speaking culture and is intended for students with a lower intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language and it's highly suitable for students following the QMUL Model. The QMUL Model builds on the existing QMUL Graduate Attributes, which include an aspiration that QM graduates should 'be able to operate in more than one language' alongside the aspiration to optimize the employability of our graduates. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in French language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Ms Miyo KatagiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4040 or take LAN4045 or take LAN4046 or take LAN4141 or take LAN4146
Description: The module is suitable for beginners in Japanese. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Japanese (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Dr David Rodriguez-VelascoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6020 or take LAN6025 or take LAN6021 or take LAN6121 or take LAN6126
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Cristofol Tripiana TraverOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4095 or take CAT4200
Description: The module is suitable for participants with an elementary level in Catalan. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an elementary level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Catalan (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr Matthew GardnerPrerequisite: Before taking this module you must take LIN4208
Description: This module examines the socio-historical events that determined the shape and uses of the English language over time. Applying concepts from sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and general linguistic analysis, we will explore how English has changed over 1500 years, and how similar processes continue to operate on the language today. Lectures will focus on social and historical events, while seminars will involve close analysis of the structure of Old, Middle, Early Modern and Present-Day English.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Miss Hiroko Mori
Description: This module is available under the 'QMUL Model'. It is designed for students who have an interest in Japanese Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Japanese language and Japanese speaking culture and is intended for students with an intermediate user level. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language and it's highly suitable for students following the QMUL Model. The QMUL Model builds on the existing QMUL Graduate Attributes, which include an aspiration that QM graduates should 'be able to operate in more than one language' alongside the aspiration to optimize the employability of our graduates. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Japanese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Ye HeOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5080 or take LAN5085 or take LAN5182 or take LAN5082 or take LAN5087
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Josef MuellerOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4070 or take LAN4075 or take LAN4072 or take LAN4172 or take LAN4177
Credits: 30.0Contact: Miss Silvia LodiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4055 or take LAN4051 or take LAN4056 or take LAN4052 or take LAN4057 or take LAN4151 or take LAN4156 or take LAN4152 or take LAN4157 or take LAN4053
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Arabic Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Arabic language and Japanese speaking culture and is intended for students with a basic user knowledge of the language. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated 'global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Arabic language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Miss Silvia LodiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4050 or take LAN4055 or take LAN4056 or take LAN4151 or take LAN4156 or take LAN4053
Description: The module is suitable for false beginners in Modern Arabic. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Modern Arabic (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Philip FranceOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5010 or take LAN5015 or take LAN5116 or take LAN5011 or take LAN5016
Credits: 0.0Contact: Dr David Rodriguez-VelascoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4020 or take LAN4025 or take LAN4021 or take LAN4026 or take LAN4121 or take LAN4126
Description: The module is suitable for beginners in Spanish. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Spanish, they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Miss Orlane BarlesOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6010 or take LAN6015 or take LAN6012
Description: The module is suitable for beginners in Catalan. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Catalan (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Wan LiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4080 or take LAN4085 or take LAN4086 or take LAN4083 or take LAN4088 or take LAN4181 or take LAN4186
Description: The module is suitable for false beginners in Mandarin Chinese.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Chinese Mandarin (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Ayumi KumagaiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5040 or take LAN5045 or take LAN5146 or take LAN5041 or take LAN5046
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mrs Shaomian DengOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5080 or take LAN5085 or take LAN5081 or take LAN5086 or take LAN5181
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Josef MuellerOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4070 or take LAN4076 or take LAN4072 or take LAN4077 or take LAN4171 or take LAN4176 or take LAN4172 or take LAN4177
Credits: 0.0Contact: Dr Noelia Diaz-VicedoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5020 or take LAN5025 or take LAN5121 or take LAN5021 or take LAN5026
Credits: 30.0Contact: Ms Viviane BlanchardOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6015 or take LAN6011 or take LAN6016 or take LAN6012 or take LAN6017 or take LAN6111 or take LAN6116
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Ayumi KumagaiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4040 or take LAN4045 or take LAN4046 or take LAN4141 or take LAN4146
Description: This module is available under the 'QMUL Model'. It is designed for students who have an interest in Japanese Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Japanese language and Japanese speaking culture and is intended for beginner learners. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language and it's highly suitable for students following the QMUL Model. The QMUL Model builds on the existing QMUL Graduate Attributes, which include an aspiration that QM graduates should 'be able to operate in more than one language' alongside the aspiration to optimize the employability of our graduates. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Japanese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr David Rodriguez-VelascoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4020 or take LAN4025 or take LAN4021 or take LAN4026 or take LAN4121 or take LAN4126
Description: This module is available under the 'QMUL Model'. It is designed for students who have an interest in Spanish Language and Cultures. The module emphasises the global importance of Spanish language and Spanish speaking cultures and is intended for beginner learners. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language and it is highly suitable for students following the QMUL Model. The QMUL Model builds on the existing QMUL Graduate Attributes, which include an aspiration that QM graduates should 'be able to operate in more than one language' alongside the aspiration to optimize the employability of our graduates. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Spanish language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Description: The module is suitable for beginners in Italian.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Italian (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr David Rodriguez-VelascoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN6025 or take LAN6021 or take LAN6026 or take LAN6022 or take LAN6027 or take LAN6121 or take LAN6126
Credits: 0.0Contact: Ms Nadine BuchmannOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5000 or take LAN5006 or take LAN5102 or take LAN5002 or take LAN5005
Description: The module is suitable for students with a lower Intermediate level (CEFR level A2) in German.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at an intermediate level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at B2 level. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read more complex and challenging texts in German (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand longer and more challenging spoken texts and have a general discussion about a variety of topics at an intermediate level.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Dr David Rodriguez-VelascoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4020 or take LAN4025 or take LAN4027 or take LAN4122 or take LAN4127
Description: The module is suitable for beginners in Spanish. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Spanish (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Dr David Rodriguez-VelascoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4025 or take LAN4021 or take LAN4026 or take LAN4022 or take LAN4027 or take LAN4023 or take LAN4121 or take LAN4126 or take LAN4122 or take LAN4127
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Spanish Language and Cultures.The module emphasises the global importance of Spanish language and Spanish speaking cultures and is intended for beginner learners. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Spanish language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Mr Josef MuellerOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4070 or take LAN4075 or take LAN4072 or take LAN4077 or take LAN4177
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ye HeOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4080 or take LAN4085 or take LAN4081 or take LAN4086 or take LAN4181 or take LAN4186 or take LAN4088
Credits: 0.0Contact: Miss Silvia LodiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4055 or take LAN4051 or take LAN4056 or take LAN4052 or take LAN4057 or take LAN4151 or take LAN4156 or take LAN4152 or take LAN4157 or take LAN4053
Description: The module is suitable for beginners in Modern Arabic. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Modern Arabic (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Philip FranceOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4010 or take LAN4015 or take LAN4112 or take LAN4012 or take LAN4017
Description: The module is suitable for beginners in French. Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A2 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus. By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in French (particularly related to current affairs), they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Wan LiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4080 or take LAN4085 or take LAN4081 or take LAN4083 or take LAN4088 or take LAN4181 or take LAN4186
Credits: 30.0Contact: Wan LiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4085 or take LAN4081 or take LAN4086 or take LAN4083 or take LAN4088 or take LAN4082 or take LAN4087 or take LAN4181 or take LAN4186 or take LAN4182 or take LAN4187
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Mandarin Chinese Language and Culture.The module emphasises the global importance of Mandarin Chinese language and culture and is intended for beginner learners. It develops students' ability to operate practically and effectively in the target language .The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated 'global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Mandarin Chinese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Ayumi KumagaiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4040 or take LAN4045 or take LAN4146 or take LAN4041 or take LAN4046
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Japanese Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Japanese language and Japanese speaking culture and is intended for beginner learners. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Japanese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 0.0Contact: Mr Ali Abdul Hussain AlmalekiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4050 or take LAN4055 or take LAN4056 or take LAN4151 or take LAN4156 or take LAN4053
Description: The module is suitable for beginners in Modern Arabic.Students are exposed to listening and reading items to develop their understanding, and they are involved in speaking and writing activities designed to develop their fluency and accuracy in both media. The overall desired outcome is for learners to deal comfortably, confidently and competently at a basic level with the language required to cope effectively with a range of circumstances and situations. In order to do this, the course is based on a syllabus framework which reflects the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) descriptors at A1 level. These descriptors describe levels of language proficiency in such a way as to be easily understood by the layperson and specialist alike. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic and original recorded and textual material, designed to enhance the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.By the end of the module, students will be able to read simple texts in Modern Arabic, they will also be able to understand simple spoken texts and have a basic general discussion about a variety of topics.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Miss Silvia LodiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4050 or take LAN4055 or take LAN4056 or take LAN4151 or take LAN4156 or take LAN4053
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Arabic Language and Cultures. The module emphasises the global importance of Arabic language and Arabic speaking cultures and is intended for beginner learners. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Arabic language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Miyo KatagiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4040 or take LAN4045 or take LAN4046 or take LAN4141 or take LAN4146
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Japanese Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Japanese language and Japanese speaking culture and is intended for students with a basic user knowledge of the language. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Japanese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 30.0Contact: Ms Miyo KatagiOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4025 or take LAN4021 or take LAN4026 or take LAN4022 or take LAN4027 or take LAN4023 or take LAN4121 or take LAN4126 or take LAN4122 or take LAN4127
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Japanese Language and Culture. The module emphasises the global importance of Japanese language and Japanese speaking culture and is intended for students with a basic user knowledge of the language. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated 'global citizen'. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Japanese language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Credits: 15.0Contact: Ms Nadine BuchmannOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN5000 or take LAN5006 or take LAN5005 or take LAN5102 or take LAN5105
Credits: 30.0Contact: Dr David Rodriguez-VelascoOverlap: In taking this module you cannot take LAN4025 or take LAN4021 or take LAN4026 or take LAN4022 or take LAN4027 or take LAN4023 or take LAN4121 or take LAN4126 or take LAN4122 or take LAN4127
Description: Designed for students who have an interest in Spanish Language and Cultures. The module emphasises the global importance of Spanish language and Spanish speaking cultures and is intended for students with a basic user knowledge of the language. It develops the ability of students to operate practically and effectively in the target language. The challenge of learning a language develops the greater cultural and political awareness, which is a crucial aspect of being an educated `global citizen¿. The overall aims for this Module are to help students to develop a sound foundation in Spanish language alongside an ability to communicate in a confident and competent manner. The syllabus is liberally supplemented with authentic listening and reading material against a backdrop of a carefully designed and progressive grammar syllabus.
Description: The module is suitable f