This is an advanced module and designed for students who have studied management topics previously. The content will cover complex topics which are not suited to students with no prior knowledge of subjects related to the field.

This course is designed to develop core enterprise skills whilst providing an insight into how individuals and organisations create and capture value through entrepreneurial activity.

It is intended to provide the skills and knowledge work more entrepreneurially in a range of entrepreneurial contexts including established businesses as well as new start-ups.

The course focusses on innovation in the design and development of new products, processes and markets. In doing so it seeks to develop an understanding of how personal, technical and market factors influence successful outcomes along with strategies to secure the resources to move from idea to action.

The course aims at an introduction to combinatorial algorithms and to the theory of efficiency of algorithms. One main topic is network flows and extremal...

The course aims at an introduction to combinatorial algorithms and to the theory of efficiency of algorithms. One main topic is network flows and extremal problems on graphs, including minimum spanning trees, shortest paths, and maximum flows. Another main topic is the theory of combinatorial algorithms, including Turing machines and NP-completeness. Various examples will illustrate the difference between polynomial and exponential time algorithms.

This module gives an introduction to the history and culture of Yugoslavia. Created in a relatively small area, characterised by great geographic, religious,...

The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia (HIST0644)

This module gives an introduction to the history and culture of Yugoslavia. Created in a relatively small area, characterised by great geographic, religious, linguistic and cultural diversity after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman Empire, Yugoslavia’s political elites had throughout its existence struggled for a viable and lasting model for a common South Slavic country as desired by the great majority of its inhabitants. Their failure resulted not only in the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its reconstitution into yet more ‘nation-states’ but was also followed by bloody inter-ethnic wars. The module concentrates on the political history but also looks at economic, cultural, religious, linguistic and other related issues which influenced the history of Yugoslavia. The aim of the module is to give the student a framework for understanding modern Yugoslav history and culture and the reasons behind its two creations and collapses during the short twentieth century that historian Eric Hobsbawm famously called ‘The Age of Extremes’. Students with an interest in complexities of national identity and nationalism will have a chance to deepen their knowledge studying a specific country where these issues played the major role behind all recent historic development. There are weekly lectures and classes.