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Real Analysis

Real Analysis is the area of mathematics dealing with real numbers and the analytic properties of real-valued functions and sequences. It studies concepts such as continuity, differentiation and integration and it can be roughly described as rigorous calculus with real numbers. In this course we

Qualitative Research Methods

This course presents the fundamentals of qualitative research methods. It covers the classic sources of qualitative data: interviews, focus groups, participant observation and documentary and historical work. It also discusses the challenges and opportunities of new media including visual images

Politics and Society of China and Chinese Language

This combined language and politics course enables students to study Chinese language alongside a comprehensive introduction to Chinese politics and society. Students will undertake one of two levels of Chinese language; Beginners Chinese (level 1) is designed for ab initio learners and does not

NGOs and Social Movements: The Politics of Protest and Change

The massive expansion of the NGO sector around the world since the 1980s is widely recognised. At the same time, the emergence of neoliberalism has directed the shift from public to private sector-led development, including the 'privatisation' of aid. NGOs have been a vital part of this shift, with

Multiple Correspondence Analysis for the Social Sciences

This course offers an introduction to MCA, which is a method that allows researchers to observe the patterning of complex data sets through representing categorical variables as points in N-dimensional space. Although it was developed from the later 1960s, MCA has not previously had a large

Legal Systems of Africa and Asia

This course offers in part one a theoretically focused introduction to the methodologies of transnational law and legal pluralism and then applies these methods in parts two and three to a comparative study of major traditional and modern laws and legal systems of Asia and Africa. The discussions

Law, Multiculturalism and Intercultural Human Rights

This course focuses on an interdisciplinary socio-legal study of the interactions of English law and various ethnic minorities who tend to import their own cultures on their own terms. Initial conceptual and theoretical sessions on migration history, assimilation/integration, legal pluralism,

Jawi and the Malay Manuscript Tradition

Jawi is the adapted Arabo-Persian script used from the sixteenth century to the early twentieth century across Indonesia and the Malay world. Materials written in Jawi include indigenous chronicles and romances, Sufi poetry, letters between rulers of the archipelago and European traders and

Introduction to the Legal System of the European Union

In this course participants learn about how governance of the European Union is organized and the common principles that bind together the twenty-eight member states. This introduction to EU law will explain how the main institutions and bodies of the European Union cooperate with each other in the