Description

This module is about the geography of social change in Africa. It is designed to build on the second year course Development Geography, but there...

Postcolonial Geographies of African Development (GEOG0054)

The module gives a wide perspective of networks and serves as an introduction to the other MSc modules in the communications programmes. ITN introduces the...

Introduction to Telecommunications Networks (ITN) (ELEC0085)

The module gives a wide perspective of networks and serves as an introduction to the other MSc modules in the communications programmes. ITN introduces the basics of communication systems and networks. A review of signal properties and of propagation channels from wired to wireless and optical is covered and then followed by the structure of communication systems and signals. Telecommunication networks are introduced with concepts of circuit and packet switching and with a focus on packet network technologies and Internet components and architecture and technologies. Telecommunication networks applications are illustrated with lectures on multimedia systems and the Internet of Things (IoT). The material is delivered to give a wide understanding of the field and is taught with minimal mathematical analysis.

Our lives are situated within global webs of interconnection, where individuals’ experiences are influenced by large-scale structures, and yet local...

Global Issues: Interconnections and Dislocations (EDPS0236)

Our lives are situated within global webs of interconnection, where individuals’ experiences are influenced by large-scale structures, and yet local events have global consequences. This module tackles social and political issues through the notion that they are to be understood at the nexus between global, national and local, for example, climate change and environmental risks and sustainability, migration, the role of technology and related networks, the impact of global pandemics, and how these issues are managed through neo-liberal and biopolitical frames of governing. The module will enable students to learn about their drivers, causes and effects, their interconnections, dislocations and to understand how they are influenced by global processes, international governing structures and as local contexts. It will also explore how global homogenising forces can be disrupted via local and group action and responses which may, in turn, become more transformative processes that pose challenges to capitalist societies.