This module will outline fundamental biochemistry of plants, microbes and environmental processes.
This course explores the use of mathematics as a toolbox for engineers to calculate, model, visualise and design physical systems. The focus is on solving physical problems via equations, both analytically and numerically using computation, along with developing representations and visualisations as a way of presenting solutions and designs.
This module will introduce the student to key topics within control and signal processing, developing understanding through a combination of theoretical content and practical application. The theoretical content is focussed in a number of key themes within the areas of system identification and control, encompassing fundamental theory together with application examples and case-studies. Emphasis is placed on guided background reading using supplied references and worked examples, to broaden and expand underlying knowledge, and enable students to apply it to practical situations. The second component of the module involves working in small groups to apply these techniques to real-world systems, and is supported through core material related to real-time hardware and the practical implementation of signal processing and control schemes. Each group will be given a practical control problem which will require design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of the theoretical approaches studied. This motivates and stimulates deep understanding of the theory through direct practical experience, and allows students to directly come into contact with and address issues related to real-world implementation. In the final component of the module, each group will present details of their practical work in a seminar to their peers, describing the experimental design process, additional theoretical content, implementation issues encountered, and the experimental results gained. This will enable them to critically evaluate the approaches of others.
The module will enable you to apply statistical and econometric techniques to the estimation and testing of economic models and for causal inference. It will thereby provide you with the skills necessary both to undertake your own empirical studies and to evaluate empirical work in the published literature.
The module shows economic analysis at work in a number of areas of policy concern and develops simple and more advance models and empirical methodologies that help us both to understand central problems of economic policy analysis and evaluate alternative policy options.
This module introduces and develops the knowledge in fundamental electromagnetism for second year Electrical and Electronic Engineering students. The course presents the basic concepts of electromagnetic theory from a physical and application points of views. The vector algebra used in electromagnetic theory is introduced in the electromagnetic field context. The course concentrates on applications of the theory to practical problems, so that students gain a better understanding of the electromagnetic field theory through problem solving exercises.
In both public and private life, we face difficult and pressing ethical questions every day. Should we give a proportion of our wealth to those in developing countries? Should we allow doctors to perform abortions or euthanasia and, if so, under what circumstances? How should we respond to the threat climate change poses to future generations? And so on. In many cases these questions are inescapable—we cannot sit around and hope that the issues they concern will go away. Our answers to them make a difference to our lives and to the lives of others. Unfortunately, the heated debates surrounding such questions can appear intractable. The aim of this module is to offer you the chance to reflect on certain real world ethical questions and the issues they raise, and to discuss those issues in a dispassionate and informed way.
This module will provide students with the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills required for developing their own GIS-based projects, either as standalone analysis or as part of a larger piece of work for both environmental and social applications. Students will be encouraged to plan and conduct spatial analysis using GIS (both ArcGIS and QGIS) and understand the challenges and strengths of this method, as well as the range of data sources available. Working in groups, potential challenges in project planning and management will be identified, and students will present the problems and proposed solutions in small groups. Students will then use their own idea or select a topic from a predefined list to plan and complete a project which uses GIS as the primary means of analysis, practising the application of their spatial analysis skills in preparation for employment or further education in GIS. A complementary module, Advanced GIS focuses on advanced geospaitial analysis.
The Applied Knowledge 1 (AK1) module is a highly contextualised and integrated course in which the application of knowledge and understanding, clinical concepts and professional practice applicable to medicine are learned through clinical topic weeks. This module focuses on the “application of knowledge and understanding applicable to medicine”. However, it is not a stand-alone module and should be recognised by teachers and students alike as part of the whole course which is achieved by this module alongside the other “Applied Knowledge”, “Health Improvement”, “Personal and Professional Development “, “Clinical Practice” and “Research as Applied to Medicine” modules. Assessments will focus on assessing an integrated understanding of the principles studied in all of these modules. Teaching is through lecture-based material, small group tutorials, and practical sessions. Further details will be provided on Blackboard.
The Applied Knowledge 2 (AK2) module is a highly contextualised and integrated course in which the application of knowledge and understanding, clinical concepts and professional practice applicable to medicine are learned through clinical topic weeks. This module focuses on the “application of knowledge and understanding applicable to medicine”. However, it is not a stand-alone module and should be recognised by teachers and students alike as part of the whole course which is achieved by this module alongside the other “Applied Knowledge”, “Health Improvement”, “Personal and Professional Development “, “Clinical Practice” and “Research as Applied to Medicine” modules. Assessments will focus on assessing an integrated understanding of the principles studied in all of these modules. Teaching is through lecture-based material, small group tutorials, and practical sessions. Further details will be provided on Blackboard.
The Applied Knowledge 3 (AK3) module is a highly contextualised and integrated course in which the application of knowledge and understanding, clinical concepts and professional practice applicable to medicine are learned through clinical topic weeks. This module focuses on the “application of knowledge and understanding applicable to medicine”. However, it is not a stand-alone module and should be recognised by teachers and students alike as part of the whole course which is achieved by this module alongside the other “Applied Knowledge”, “Health Improvement”, “Personal and Professional Development “, “Clinical Practice” and “Research as Applied to Medicine” modules. Assessments will focus on assessing an integrated understanding of the principles studied in all of these modules. Teaching is through lecture-based material, small group tutorials, and practical sessions. Further details will be provided on Blackboard.
The Applied Knowledge 4 (AK4) module is a highly contextualised and integrated course in which the application of knowledge and understanding, clinical concepts and professional practice applicable to medicine are learned through clinical topic weeks. This module focuses on the “application of knowledge and understanding applicable to medicine”. However, it is not a stand-alone module and should be recognised by teachers and students alike as part of the whole course which is achieved by this module alongside the other “Applied Knowledge”, “Health Improvement”, “Personal and Professional Development “, “Clinical Practice” and “Research as Applied to Medicine” modules. Assessments will focus on assessing an integrated understanding of the principles studied in all of these modules. Teaching is through lecture-based material, small group tutorials, and practical sessions. Further details will be provided on Blackboard.
As part of our programme review, we are updating this module. The Applied Knowledge 5 (AK5) module is a highly contextualised and integrated course in which the application of knowledge and understanding, clinical concepts and professional practice applicable to medicine are learned through clinical topic weeks. This module focuses on the “application of knowledge and understanding applicable to medicine”. However, it is not a stand-alone module and should be recognised by teachers and students alike as part of the whole course which is achieved by this module alongside the other “Applied Knowledge”, “Medical Humanities”, “Personal and Professional Development 2", “Clinical Practice 2” and “Research as Applied to Medicine 2” modules. Assessments will focus on assessing an integrated understanding of the principles studied in all of these modules. Teaching is through lecture-based material, small group tutorials, and practical sessions. Further details will be provided on Blackboard.
As part of our programme review, we are updating this module. The Applied Knowledge 6 (AK6) module is a highly contextualised and integrated course in which the application of knowledge and understanding, clinical concepts and professional practice applicable to medicine are learned through clinical topic weeks. This module focuses on the “application of knowledge and understanding applicable to medicine”. However, it is not a stand-alone module and should be recognised by teachers and students alike as part of the whole course which is achieved by this module alongside the other “Applied Knowledge”, “Medical Humanities”, “Personal and Professional Development 2", “Clinical Practice 2” and “Research as Applied to Medicine 2” modules. Assessments will focus on assessing an integrated understanding of the principles studied in all of these modules. Teaching is through lecture-based material, small group tutorials, and practical sessions. Further details will be provided on Blackboard.
