This optional module for students will enable you to develop their skills in data analytics, and how such methods may be applied to increasingly smart built...

Data Analytics in the Smart Built Environment (BENV0145)

This optional module for students will enable you to develop their skills in data analytics, and how such methods may be applied to increasingly smart built environments. It builds on the basic statistical knowledge of introductory modules, such as the “Introduction to Smart Energy data and Statistics”, targeting students aspiring to a role in the energy industry involving data analysis, and those with a special interest in more advanced methods in data management, analytics and programming.

This module will introduce a range of statistical methods, including machine learning, that can be applied to better understand energy and the built environment. The methods will be applied to smart energy data using RStudio to investigate topical issues, such as the use of data for technological (e.g. control) purposes, economic drivers (cost optimisation) and health issues (identifying potentially unhealthy environments).

This course examines the currents of thought developed by Black intellectuals and activists in the twentieth century ‘Black Atlantic’. Ranging from...

Race and Resistance in Black Atlantic Thought (AMER0077)

This course examines the currents of thought developed by Black intellectuals and activists in the twentieth century ‘Black Atlantic’. Ranging from the Pan-Africanist movement of the early twentieth century to the anti-systemic critique offered by Rastafarianism in the 1960s and 1970s, the course explores key issues that animated thinking about the condition of the Black diaspora in the modern world. These include themes of individual and collective identity; colonialism and anti-colonialism; capitalism and socialism; racism and discrimination; and the relationship with Africa and the wider ‘Third World’. The course pays attention to the transnational dynamics stimulating the development of political thought in the Black diaspora, as well as the differences and tensions that fragmented unitary visions of global solidarity. Sources for the course include the key texts and speeches of the authors, and, where relevant, audio-visual sources (recorded speeches, documentary and music), State Department and FCO files.

 

INDICATIVE TOPICS:

The Black Atlantic and the Black Intellectual Tradition

W.E.B. Du Bois

Garvey and Garveyism

Blues Women

Claudia Jones

Négritude

Frantz Fanon

Global Black Power

Black feminisms

Reggae and Rastafari