Studying this module, you will focus on the speculative property developer, identified as one of the most significant clients.

It will demonstrate to you how...

The Economics of Speculative Construction Development (BCPM0006)

Studying this module, you will focus on the speculative property developer, identified as one of the most significant clients.

It will demonstrate to you how property developers operate and then embrace strategic decision-making, land acquisition, raising finance, predicting demand and managing risk. You will learn how to undertake investment project financial appraisals, sensitivity analyses and scenarios.

The lecture and seminar titles you will attend are as follows:

Introduction: Types of speculative developer including actors, roles and relationships in the development process. Simple methods of calculating investment returns and residual land valuations
	Project investment appraisal using net present value (NPV). Risk and uncertainty. Where do positive NPVs ‘come from’? Are property markets ‘efficient’?
	Required return under risk: market risk, Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and beta coefficient (beta).
	Managing risk and uncertainty: financial risk, unique risk and market risk.
	Group presentations; case studies of firms and projects.

Module Content

This course provides training in the use of digital media and provides students with an introduction to quality documentary filmmaking. The...

Documentary Film Making - Intermediate Practical Skills (ANTH0085)

Module Content

This course provides training in the use of digital media and provides students with an introduction to quality documentary filmmaking. The course will develop the students’ critical skills of film analysis through the practical application and experience of creating a short film and manipulating digital media and equipment to that end. The course responds to the growing wish among UCL students to use digital media as a tool in research. This course contributes to students’ intellectual formation by opening new ways of reading and understanding visual ethnographies achieved through a practical appreciation of the craft of documentary.

Learning Outcomes

Students will acquire:

The technical skills needed to complete a video project to a high production standard using digital video cameras and editing software.
	Practical, analytical and intellectual skills in using moving image and sound recording equipment and begin to understand how new technologies create new methodologies.
	An introductory level insight to the representational capacity of digital video.
Delivery Method

One 2 hour and one 3 hour seminar per week.

Additional Information

Throughout the course you will work in pairs of two. Who you will work with on the final film will be decided as the course progress and ideas for the final film are developed. It is preferable if you form your own working pairs.