This module supports students in actively building conceptual insights relevant to the diversity of urban contexts across the globe. It will involve students...

For the last 16 years, every region of the world has become less democratic and more authoritarian. In the rest of the world, more countries are turning away...

For the last 16 years, every region of the world has become less democratic and more authoritarian. In the rest of the world, more countries are turning away from the Western model of liberal democracy and tilting toward Chinese state-controlled capitalism. In the West, confidence in democracy is plummeting. Authoritarian-style populists have won elections in Poland, Hungary, the Philippines, Turkey, the United States, Brazil, Venezuela and Russia. Only about a third of people born in the 1980s in most Western countries now say that it is 'essential' to live in a democracy, compared to nearly 8 in 10 who were born in the 1930s and 1940s. Why is democratic decay occurring in a variety of different regions simultaneously? Is democracy now outdated? And can it be saved with reform, or is more radical change required? This course will explore the global crisis of democracy and the resurgence of authoritarian populism.

This course looks at how speakers of English use language directly and indirectly to achieve communicative goals, and introduces you to the main theories of...

This course looks at how speakers of English use language directly and indirectly to achieve communicative goals, and introduces you to the main theories of pragmatics, different approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness Theory, as well as topics ranging from forensic linguistics to world Englishes.

You will develop the skills to apply corpus analysis tools to investigate and describe pragmatic and discourse phenomena, and to relate what is studied to real-world examples of language in use.

Radio Frequency|Circuits|Microwaves|Wireless|Amplifier Design|Noise Measurement|Impedance Matc

To give students a good grounding in a range of RF devices including the fundamentals of device physics, RF circuits, system architectures and noise...