Module outline

The module introduces data analysis to students with some experience of research methods, but little (or no) experience of quantitative...

Understanding and Analysing Data (SESS0006)

Understanding and Analysing Data (SEES0107)

Biomechanics and Biostructures A (MECH0039)

This description relates to the full year version of the module. Only the topics and content that is taught in Term 1 will be covered in this module.

This module is intended to provide an introduction to the principles of biomechanics and the structures of biological tissues. It covers the basic anatomy and physiology of the human body, the hierarchical levels of the structures of biological tissues, the mechanical behaviour of the human body. It also discusses the structure and functional relationship in tissues, and the applications of stress and strain analysis applied to biological tissues.

Lecture topics include:

Structural Organisation of the Human Body
	Fundamental Mechanics
	Biomechanics of Bone
	Articular Cartilage
	Skeletal Muscle
	Spine, Friction/Lubrication/Wear at the Joints
	Biomechanics of Joint Replacement
	Basic Cell Biology
	Histology

The nature of the ancient economy has long been a matter of debate between radically opposed schools of thought, and this is especially true of the economy of...

The Economy of Archaic Greece (HIST0800)

The nature of the ancient economy has long been a matter of debate between radically opposed schools of thought, and this is especially true of the economy of the Greek city-states in the archaic period (750-450 BC). After an introduction to the theoretical questions involved, as well as a survey of scholarship on these questions, the course examines Hesiod’s Works and Days and a number of other key sources of information on economic matters. This is followed by a series of thematic classes on patterns of consumption, production and exchange. Throughout, the central problems to be addressed concern the nature of ancient economic motivation, the scale and organization of production and distribution, the relative autonomy of an economic sphere in ancient Greece, the extent to which we can see structural changes occurring during this periods, and the peculiarities of the available source material.