Aims: The modern world is truly interconnected and most social and economic challenges do not stay within national boundaries but are global. This module will...

Aims: The modern world is truly interconnected and most social and economic challenges do not stay within national boundaries but are global. This module will provide a largely non-technical introduction to the basic concepts and methods used by economists to understand and explain the features of the world economy today.

Suitable for: Students taking ECON0002 concurrently and 1st year Economics and Statistics (LG13) students.

Prerequisites: No previous knowledge of economics is necessary.

Assumed knowledge: We assume students coming into the course are interested in the following: globalisation of trade and finance; the emergence of global value chains and the rise of China and India; winners and losers of globalisation within rich and developing economies.

This course will explore three principal sets of questions in relation to a number of twentieth-century fictional texts which represent grief of different...

This course will explore three principal sets of questions in relation to a number of twentieth-century fictional texts which represent grief of different sorts. The first is that of tragedy itself: why are writers drawn to inventing grief? Secondly, what are the implications of fictionalizing a painful experience? Thirdly, while grief, as an intense emotion, is primarily considered an intimate, personal matter, what are the political implications of inscribing it in a public sphere? Using textual analysis informed by psychoanalytical theories of mourning and theories of tragedy, the course will seek to understand what is at stake in fictional mourning.

Aims - This module aims to provide a grounding in the theoretical foundations of statistical inference and, in particular, to introduce the theory underlying...

The aims of the module are to give students familiarity with a range of methods for informing the design and guide the evaluation of systems (including robots)...