The semester and academic year curriculum offers a wide selection of courses.
Courses are held at London South Bank University (LSBU).
KEI students are integrated with British students in the classes.
A typical course is 60 contact hours, the equivalent of 4 semester credits at most universities in the USA.
Program transcripts are issued by LSBU or KEI's university of record (accredited in the USA).
Academic Terminology
The curriculum at LSBU is based on the British system.
As such, some of the academic terminology is different from that used in the USA.
Below are some examples.
BRITISH SYSTEM
USA SYSTEM
Unit
Course
Subject
Units belonging to an academic concentration. (Ex. business, communications, etc.)
Course
Degree program. (Ex. BA in business)
Faculty
Academic department, school or college. (Ex. faculty of business)
Course Selection
The typical academic load for British students is 4 courses per semester.
KEI program participants may enroll in five course, with permission from KEI and LSBU, although it is not recommended.
The London: City of Change is required, serves as the foundation course for the program and includes field trips and activities in London.
COURSES & DESCRIPTIONS
LSBU offers a wide selection of courses through its Faculties of Arts and Human Sciences (AHS); Business, Computing and Information Management (BCIS); and Engineering, Science and Built Environment (ESBE).
Courses listed on this page have been pre-approved for study abroad students.
Additional courses are available but require approval from KEI and LSBU.
Click on a course title to view the description and download the syllabus (when available).
Additional descriptions and syllabi will be added as they become available.
In the meantime, contact KEI if you need syllabi for credit approval at your home university.
When reviewing course syllabi, please disregard information about "credits" as this term has a different basis in the British educational system.AHS: Required Course London: City of Change (required)
This is the core course (unit) for the study abroad program.
It is required of all undergraduate students.
Note, the unit may be waived under certain conditions (contact KEI for more information).
This unit is an inter-active and inter-disciplinary introduction to London and the UK.
Students are required to participate in a series of guided walks and place visits, in addition to scheduled lectures and seminar workshops delivered by a teaching team from English Studies, Social and Political Studies, Film Studies, and Urban and Leisure Planning.
The unit focuses on London as a world city from 1845 to now, examining its changing character in relation to historical, cultural, literary, and political contexts.
Students read from a range of London-set literary texts (fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama); view selected London-based films; and undertake visits to relevant locations (National Theater, Globe Theater, Borough Market, Tate Modern, Greenwich and British Library).
AHS: English Studies & Creative Writing Drama in the 20th Century (Fall)
This module introduces students to the essential skills and techniques of the creative writing process. Reading, analysis and discussion of both relevant methodology and literature will allow students to develop the necessary critical and theoretical skills that will enable them to begin producing their own creative work. The module will focus on the development of specific writing skills (building/broadening vocabulary, deciphering tone, using grammar/punctuation effectively, avoiding overused expressions, structuring ideas and revising drafts), and the promotion of productive writing strategies and methods. Class sessions will use interactive workshops, peer review exercises, oral presentations and directed writing activities to encourage successful creative writing practice. Students will also produce a range of creative works, including pieces of short fiction and short drama. These documents will form part of a portfolio that will constitute part of the student's assessment for the unit.
Tragedy 1: to the English Renaissance (Spring)
This unit aims to 1) introduce a representative range of examples of tragic drama to the English Renaissance, 2) introduce the theoretical discussion of the concept of tragedy, 3) examine possible continuities and differences between Greek and English Renaissance plays, and 4) develop students' understanding of dramatic form and performance theory.
Shakespeare: Text and Performance (Spring)
This unit offers students the chance to engage with a selection of Shakespeare's drama, on the page, on stage, and on film.
Shakespeare's range as a dramatists will be conveyed by moving from the early to the late plays, and exploring different generic categories such as comedy, history, and tragedy.
AHS: International Politics & Social Policy Politics, Decision Making and Democracy (Spring)
This unit is concerned with the institutions and central processes of British politics. It looks at the framework and dynamics of the British system and aims to promote an understanding by students of contemporary politics in the United Kingdom.
Issues in Contemporary Sociology (Fall)
This unit explores issues in contemporary society related to the effects of globalization. It covers key themes in sociology and addresses issues such as migration and 'race', gender and class. The focus throughout the unit is how inequalities are reinforced through the changing nature of citizenship, sexualities, religion and mass media.
International Politics in the Global Sphere (Fall)
This unit explores key processes, tendencies and dynamics of global politics whose interrelations shape the contemporary world order. It uses elements of international political economy, strategic studies, international history, international relations and political theory to ’ develop a deeper understanding of a range of empirical evidence, issues and developments. Study of the situations in the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific, enables students to enhance their understanding of the world order and international politics.
Politics and Protest (Spring)
The course will examine forms of social and political conflict characteristic of contemporary western society. The main focus will be on understanding social movements and forms of political contentions in the changing social structure of these societies. Although it has a contemporary western focus the course will situate discussion also in the context of historical and comparative material on social movements The emphasis throughout however will be on examining the ability of social and political theory to understand the nature of political identity and its forms of expression.
Social Policy in an International Perspective (Fall or Spring) AHS: Law & Criminology
International Protection of Human Rights (Fall)
Introduction to Criminal Law (Fall) Law I (Fall)
This unit is an introduction to the structure and operation of the English legal system.
Introduction to Evidence (Spring)
The unit introduces non-law students to the function and operation of the law of evidence in the context of criminal matters. It concentrates on the concepts of relevance and judicial discretion, and teaches the students which types of evidence attract rules of admissibility and why. Students are required to watch a criminal trial in one of the many crown courts in London or their local area to give them a context for the operation of the rules, and are taught a logical approach to analyzing hypothetical problems relating to the admissibility of evidence.
Cities, Politics and Democracy (Fall)
The unit focuses on urban issues both in the United Kingdom and the USA. The emphasis is on political processes and policy areas. The unit looks at the relationship between the private and public sectors in urban policy. The functioning and effectiveness of local democracy in the United Kingdom and the USA is analyzed. There is also a focus on the sustainability agenda at the national, state and local level in the USA and the United Kingdom.
Cities, Politics and Crime (Spring)
The unit examines the issues of crime, urban politics and urban trends in England. The unit also examines the politics of crime and urban policy development in the USA. The overall aim is to examine interrelationships between urban systems, crime and crime control in a historical, economic and political context.
Crime, Disorder and Community Safety (Fall or Spring)
This unit examines the changing relation and significance of crime, disorder and community safety. Beginning from a review of the nature of crime and explores the processes by which crime is constructed, In order to fully examine the meaning of crime the unit examines the dimensions to construction by drawing on the ‘square of crime’ model as developed by realist criminologists. This involves some consideration of victimization, public opinion and the role of official enforcement agencies. In relation to this deconstruction process the unit will go on to examine the growing concerns withy disorder, anti-social behavior and community safety, particularly with reference to the recent decline in crime. Finally, the unit will explore and reflect on these developments through an examination of two selected case studies: robbery and street prostitution.
AHS: Media Arts, Film & Game Culture Bollywood (Fall)
This unit has been designed as an introduction to popular Indian cinema which charts the development of what has been coined as "Bollywood". The unit explores how and why Bollywood has had an impact on markets and cultures globally. Despite the almost non-recognition in film studies or by academics, Bollywood and popular Indian cinema have managed to enter the western psyche. The challenge of understanding popular Indian cinema requires students to explore Indian history, culture, art, politics, and social issues such as gender, sexuality, caste and religion. Throughout the unit references will be made to these aspects by using examples from films. There will be screenings throughout the unit as preparation for the analysis of films.
The City, the Subject & the Digital Image (Spring)
This unit aims to 1) introduce a representative range of examples of tragic drama to the English Renaissance, 2) introduce the theoretical discussion of the concept of tragedy, 3) examine possible continuities and differences between Greek and English Renaissance plays, and 4) develop students' understanding of dramatic form and performance theory.
Ethical Media (Fall)
This unit examines ethical issues surrounding media practice. It covers topics such as the journalist’s role in society, media and responsibility, privacy, the relationships between media laws and codes of ethics, the public interest and issues of freedom of speech, censorship, incitement to violence and incitement to racial hatred.
Significant Others (Fall)
The first section of this unit examines the ways in which the media construct 'the real'. It will look at the history and theory of documentary film and television programs. The unit questions the concept of 'the real', raising questions of narrative, ideology, knowledge and power.
Media Orientations (Fall) Real Lives (Fall)
The first section of this unit examines the ways in which the media construct ‘the real’. It will look at the history and theory of documentary film and television programs. The unit questions the concept of ‘the real’, raising questions of narrative, ideology, knowledge and power.
Cultural Industries (Fall)
The unit offers an introduction to British media, including a historical evolution, economic and regulatory conditions, and its significance in contemporary British culture.
Writing Popular Culture (Fall)
The unit investigates the theory and practice of popular journalism. Students will be introduced to the popular culture media, learn to understand how the popular culture media functions, and encouraged to put their theocratical understanding into practice in class work and in practical assessments.
Global Cultures (Spring)
Global cultures will address questions of citizenship and identity, as well as democracy and history in relation to debates about globalization, localization, conflict, humanitarian aid, tourism and the nature of urban experience. In addition to these areas, the unit will draw on and develop your understanding of theoretical concepts such as multiculturalism, citizenship, Westernization, cultural migration, otherness, displacement, acceleration and mediated conflict.
Cultural Memory (Spring)
The aim of this unit is to critically examine cultural construction and consumption in relation to the idea of cultural memory. We will explore theories of memory (with a focus on the relationship of identities to memory) and apply these theories to case studies exploring film and memory, photography and memory, digital memory, Empire and slavery and memory and the Holocaust and memory. The unit will explore people's processes of identification with dominant and subaltern discourses of history, memory and the nation articulated within and by three dimensional and virtual spaces, focussing on museums, digital technologies, film and advertising.
AHS: Psychology, Sociology & Social Communities Approaches to Social Policy (Fall or Spring)
This unit provides an introduction to social policy in the context of social welfare.
Making the Modern: Economics, Politics and Culture
This course examines major materials and intellectual processes that together have defined the period since the late 19thC as the modern era. The unit examines both the conditions of and the consciousness of this phenomenon through an examination of some key political, cultural and economic movements. There will be an emphasis throughout the course on the implications of the major modernizing processes for the cultural life of urban societies in the modern age.
Youth Crime and Delinquency (Spring)
This unit provides an introduction to the issues of juvenile delinquency and youth crime in a social policy context, and examines the care and control systems set up to deal with young offenders.
Race, Culture & Identity (Fall or Spring)
The unit addresses the centrality of race and ethnicity to social relations. It provides an overview of race and ethnicity within a changing scholarship and demonstrates how these concepts have been influential in the shaping of public policy. The unit provides an analysis of ‘race’ through historical, cultural, political and theoretical systems.
Education Policy (Fall or Spring)
The unit will focus on key points in the development of education in the post-1944 era, but will also provide a historical backdrop to contemporary developments. It will examine landmark pieces of legislation affecting schools, and explore their impact.
Researching Social Life (Fall or Spring) Introduction to Politics & Society (Fall or Spring)
The unit provides an introduction to the study of politics and society through an examination of key concepts and approaches to the subject. Examples are drawn from a range of states in order to assist students to understand British politics and society within a wider context. The unit also develops academic literacy and higher education skills through a series of weekly workshops.
The Volunteering Sector and the State (Spring)
The unit will explore the historical and contemporary role of the voluntary sector in the delivery of social welfare. The unit is divided into two parts. Part one will explore and chart the development of charity and philanthropic provision in the late 19th century to the development of social work as a profession. The second part identifies the role of voluntary sector after welfare state formation and particularly identifies ways in which voluntary sector organizations identified and filled gaps in the welfare state. This part also explores contemporary developments with a particular focus on mixed markets and the promotion of the voluntary sector in the delivery of social welfare.
Introduction to Biological and Cognitive Psychology (Spring)
This unit provides students with the opportunity to explore a selection of the major concepts, theories, models, and methods encountered in key areas of Cognitive and Social Psychology which pertain to Investigative Forensic Psychology. The unit will explore both classic and contemporary themes in Cognitive and Social Psychology but will focus more on contemporary debates. For example in Cognitive Psychology students will consider basic processes and structures involved in human memory. In Social Psychology students will study Social Cognitive accounts of social behavior and also more critical accounts of Social Psychological processes and interactions. This unit provides the necessary introduction to units such as Witness Psychology, Psychological Aspects of Investigation, Vulnerable Witnesses and Suspects, and Decision Making in the Forensic Context.
AHS: Sustainable Communities & Urban Planning Environmental Policy and Sustainability (Fall)
A social science unit, centered about a residential field study visit, which examines contemporary environmental issues along with policies that seek to plan for sustainable development.
Environmental Management Policy (Fall or Spring)
This unit introduces students to the background of current environmental issues, providing students with basic subject knowledge of contemporary environmental problems and resource issues. The unit explores how different environmental policy and management regimes operate in an international, European, national and local context. It also introduces students to environmental planning and to related policy issues and to the different perspectives on sustainability.
From Poverty to Social Exclusion (Fall)
This Unit introduces students to the changing concept of poverty in British Society from the early twentieth century up to the present. The Unit explores the way in which the State viewed and measured poverty and assesses the introduction of welfare reforms aimed at reducing the level of poverty in Britain. The Unit also provides a critical analysis of how research on poverty is carried out and the various factors which influence poverty, for example, gender and age. Students will be encouraged to engage with both contemporary and secondary sources in order to develop their skills in research and writing.
Transport and Land Use (Fall or Spring)
Reducing the impact of transport by reducing the need to travel will be one of the key planning issues for the next millennium. The unit's primary concern is the dynamic interaction of transport and other land uses in general. The study of transport will be set in the context of transport economics, sustainability, policy making and implementation.
Contemporary Urbanism (Fall or Spring)
This unit explores the ways in which cities are being conceptualized in the 21st Century and the cultural origins of the idea of the modern city. It examines contemporary theories and looks at historical ideas about the role and functions of the city. The extent to which intervention is possible and desirable is discussed.
Equality, Social Justice and Social Policy (Fall or Spring)
This unit explores the concepts of equality and social justice within a social policy context, focusing on a variety of political, economic, and social perspectives, legal frameworks and current practice.
Neighborhood Management and Renewal (Fall or Spring)
The unit will examine the background, context and practice of neighborhood management and urban renewal in the UK, drawing out key themes, concepts and issues. Using a case study approach through field visits to current initiatives, students will develop a critical analysis of current policy and practice.
Urban Change and Policy The Development Process (Fall or Spring)
The Unit provides an introduction to the organization of the housing development process. The emphasis will be upon different steps in the housing development process and in the role played by the various professions involved in the production of housing development. This will include the role of the developer and the speculative house builder as well as the local authorities, housing associations and other key professionals. A view of the role of town planning in the development process is considered as well as the broader context in which the development process occurs.
Evolution and the Scope of Town Planning (Fall or Spring)
This unit provides a basic introduction to the history, evolution and current scope of the UK planning system, with a focus on England. It covers the underlying rationale for having a planning system and the range of powers and policies. Also, how the planning system interacts with the use and development of land and property. It will be of interest and relevance to students on a wide range of degree and diploma courses.
BCIM: Accounting Accounting Fundamentals (Spring)
This unit introduces the basics of financial accounting and assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. It is directed at the understanding of accounting statements and the mechanics of their preparation. It also provides the foundation for later accounting units.
Essentials in Management Accounting Corporate Governance and Ethics
The syllabus assumes essential technical skills and knowledge acquired at earlier levels where the core technical capabilities will have been acquired, and where ethics and corporate governance, will have been introduced in a subject-specific context.
The Corporate Governance and Ethics syllabus begins by examining the whole area of governance within organizations in the broad context of the agency relationship. This aspect of the syllabus focuses on the respective roles and responsibilities of directors and officers to organizational stakeholders and of accounting and auditing as support and control functions. The syllabus also examines the whole area of identifying, assessing, and controlling risk as a key aspect of responsible management. Finally, the syllabus covers personal and professional ethics, ethical frameworks and professional values as applied in the context of the accountant's duties and as a guide to appropriate professional behavior and conduct in a variety of situations.
Business Taxation and Finance
BCIM: Business Information SystemsBusiness Systems: An Introductory Management Perspective (Spring)
The unit covers interrelated areas concerning information systems and technology and their importance in now and the future business world. The emphasis will be on the importance of systems, MIS, decision support systems, expert systems in a business environment, business information systems hardware and software and their appropriateness in a particular business. Office automation and the Internet, Data Protection Act and Computer Misuse Act, software licensing and data and access security. The unit also concentrates on extensive use of some industry standard software applications to solve business, management and accounting related problems.
Information Systems in Business (Spring)
The unit covers some interrelated areas concerning the way that information is organized, stored and processed by modern business systems, viewed from the interests of business users. The emphasis will be on aspects of business systems that relate to the development of a business database. Those aspects include familiarization with database types and models, the groundwork for the database design such as entity modeling, entity relationships & normalization and using MS Access 2003 database. Data warehousing and data mining. The role of databases in search engines (like Google/Yahoo) and websites.
Language and the Business Environment (Spring)
Research Methods for Business Students (Spring)
Communications and Media (Spring)
Website Design: a business focus (Fall)
e-Business (Spring)
Design and Implementation of Business Systems (Spring)
BCIM: Economics Business Economics (Fall)
The unit examines primarily micro-economics from a business perspective. It is designed to enable students to understand the economic forces, primarily micro, operating on business decision makers, and some of the techniques and theories available to them. The course is aimed at first year students who require an initial grounding in economic theory and the techniques and practices used by businesses. It provides a keystone for a subsequent study in economics and the other disciplines of business.
Macroeconomic Environment in Business (Spring)
This unit examines macroeconomics, and attempts to set it in a business and policy perspective. It is designed to enable students to understand the macroeconomic forces that operate in the economy. It allows students to analyse these forces using a number of techniques and theories available to them. The course is aimed at second year students who require a developing knowledge of economic theory and the techniques and practices used by policy makers. It provides a keystone for subsequent study in the third year of economics and other related disciplines of business. Students are encouraged to increasingly research their own sources of data and evidence to support the growing complexity in economic analysis at level 2.
Personal Finance (Fall) Financial Institutions (Fall)
This introductory business finance unit intended to provide students of bsiness studies with a basic foundation in the principles of financial decision making. Three major financial decisions making areas are covered, namely financing, investment and distribution decisions.
Investment Analysis (Spring)
BCIM: Human Resource Management Ethical Practice (Fall)
This unit adopts an experiential personal inquiry approach to understanding ethical theory. In this way learners are facilitated towards developing and enhancing their ethical consciousness as appropriate to manage in the 21st century. The unit is, therefore, aimed at those learners who desire to better understand themselves and how they can be the change they want to be.
HRD for Diversity (Fall)
This unit introduces learners to critical HRD theories and thinkers in order to broaden their understanding of how diversity can be effectively utilized in organizational life. In the process learners gain insight into how the HRD process can be used as a mechanism for promoting individual growth and social justice in organizations in a multicultural society. Through a range of reading seminars challenges are presented to the on-going rationale for HRD as being to better pursue competitive advantage or to fulfill the needs of business strategy. Learners are given the opportunity to develop their critical thinking abilities by addressing these concerns. The unit seeks to develop learner awareness of the dangers of uncritically supporting a technocratic approach whereby individual skills and organizational capabilities are developed merely to operate in ways that have serious human and ecological consequences. Instead students explore ideas of how to make diversity work for them/their organizations.
Understanding the Business Context (Fall)
Organizational Behavior & HR (Fall)
Planning in the Business Context (Spring) Management Skills (Fall)
This Unit is concerned with developing the critical, interpersonal and organisational skills needed by a manager, or aspiring manager, to function effectively in the internal and external organisational environment. It achieves this by adopting an activitybased approach to learning. Students are expected to reflect on the experiences they have in the facilitated workshops and to consider how they need to develop their own skills in order to prepare for the move into the workplace. Central themes of the unit are the management of change and continuing personal and professional development it is therefore relevant both to students who have little work experience and also to those who have already gained some work experience before choosing to study further.
Principles of HRM (Fall) Work Life Balance(Spring)
The Unit examines a key R issue of contemporary business - the achievement of work/life balance and considers the emergence of the issue as a contemporary problem and the cause of imbalance. It examines the consequences of imbalance and the stratagies available for combating it.
Self Development (Spring) Organizations and Decisions (Fall)
The content of this unit concerns the ways in which people within and representing organisations take decisions. The tenets of the rational actor model are delineated and its implications and techniques are explored. But the bulk of the unit suggests that these tenets are an inaccurate description of the ways decisions are actually taken at the individual, group and organisational levels.
BCIM: Management Quantitative Methods (Fall)
The Unit examines a range of ways of handling, analyzing and presenting numerical information.
Particular emphasis will be placed on dealing with financial information annuities, gilts, investment
appraisal & portfolio analysis. An introduction to the basic concepts of probability and their application is also included.
Quantitative Models for Managers (Spring)
The Unit examines some of the techniques of Management Science and uses them to solve a range of problems typically needing to be solved by managers who need to make decisions. The techniques used include linear programming, the use of appropriate probability models and a variety of decision-making criterion.
Quantitative Literacy (Spring)
The Unit examines a range of ways of handling, analyzing and presenting numerical information. The underlying theme is to look at numerical data in a variety of forms, to determine the 'story' that this data is telling and to tell that 'story' to others.
Business Forecasting (Fall)
BCIM: Marketing Introduction to Marketing (Fall)
The unit introduces students to the theories and practices of marketing. It is aimed at students, across the University, specifically requiring an underpinning in the subject of marketing for further studies at levels 2 and 3. It acts as an introduction to the basic principles of marketing from which other units can develop. These principles include the marketing environment, marketing mix, marketing research and buying behavior.
Marketing Management and Strategy (Fall)
For most organizations, marketing is the single most important determinant of success. Marketing is a management philosophy. It recognizes that the success of an organization depends on meeting customers' present and future needs & wants more effectively than its competitors. Today's business environment is changing faster than ever, and the stream of new product available is becoming a torrent. Building on the foundations of Year One Introduction to Marketing this unit is intended to provide and demonstrate the tools and techniques needed to compete successfully in such a business environment. It consolidates and builds analytical ability and disciplined strategic thinking within the marketing framework, through lectures, seminars, and the use of case studies and current issues.
B2B Marketing (Spring)
This unit provides students with a firm grounding in B2B marketing by identifying the distinctive characteristics of the business market, exploring the way in which organizations make buying decisions and isolating the requirements for marketing strategy success. This framework provides students with the necessary knowledge and understanding of their likely role within business to business marketing departments.
Retail Marketing (Fall or Spring)
This is an optional unit exploring the marketing functions of retail organizations building upon the knowledge gained in the Service Marketing Unit. It will provide the student with an understanding of the integral nature of marketing within the retail sector by focusing on current industry practices. Retail marketing influences our daily lives in our roles as consumers and shoppers. Its study therefore encompasses a wide range of activities such as environmental analysis; retail marketing research; consumer analysis; merchandise planning; distribution planning; promotional planning; pricing planning; and retail marketing management. The role of retail marketing tends to change in each new retailing situation. The formal study of retail marketing therefore requires an understanding of the definition of marketing; its importance, scope and functions, as well as the evolution of marketing and the marketing concept. Since retail marketing is the application of marketing concepts and philosophy relating to retail operation, a clear definition of marketing will be a good starting point for better understanding of this subject.
Electronic Resources for Marketing (Fall or Spring)
The use of electronic resources is becoming increasingly central to the marketing function. This unit allows students to develop an understanding of how to integrate electronic resources into the marketing process with an emphasis on database management and online communication channels. The internet will be studied as a research tool, an exposure tool and as a customer contact and feedback vehicle.
Consumer & Buyer Behavior (Fall or Spring)
The field of consumer behavior is a dynamic discipline, which many regard as an applied social science. Universities, manufacturers, retailers, museums, advertizing agencies and government employ consumer researchers. Given the diversity of the approach and levels it is important that students are encouraged to apply the principles of marketing rather than just synthesise information. This application of theory is of particular importance as major consumer behavioral and organizational buyer changes are underway not least because of the development of the e-commerce marketing channel and globalization as they influence marketing activities and impact upon consumer perceptions, values and beliefs.
Services Marketing (Fall or Spring)
The unit will provide an introduction to the principles and practices of services marketing, expanding on the Introduction to Marketing unit to concentrate on the rapidly expanding services sector of most economies.
BCIM: Software Development Global Communication Techniques (Fall or Spring)
With the increasingly wider availability of the Internet, it is becoming commonplace for all types of business, large or small, to transmit and receive many kinds of data, information and knowledge world wide. In particular, retail, banking and insurance services are now available using the World Wide Web. This, together with many other applications, means that it is increasingly important that professionals have an understanding of the technology used and its implications for business and society.
Concepts of Software Development (Fall)
A knowledge of Software Development is crucial in most areas of IT. If you are not doing it yourself, you will be working with colleagues who are. Software is the product that defines the computer industry and an understanding of the processes by which software is developed is an essential requirement for anyone who hopes to work in the computer industry Software Development is a difficult and complex process and learning how to develop software can be equally difficult and complex. The Software Development in this unit is both an academic body of knowledge and a practical skill. Just like other practical skills, such as riding a bicycle or driving a car, it is not possible to learn the skill by reading how to do it.
BCIM: Tourism & Hospitality
The Tourism Industry (Fall)
The Hospitality Industry (Spring)
Organizational Behavior (Fall)
Tourism Issues & Impacts (Spring)
Tourism Markets and Marketing (Spring)
E-Tourism (Spring)
Destination Planning (Fall)
Destination Management (Spring)
Retail and Enterprise Tourism (Fall)
International Tourism Development (Spring)
Food and Beverage Concepts (Spring)
Food and Beverage Management (Fall) Marketing Strategy and Communications (Spring)
This is a core management skills unit that requires the students to understand and apply the concepts of marketing strategy to the tourism industry, and to be able to communicate with an identified market using an appropriate suite of marketing tools and techniques. It is a practical unit in terms of its skills (see coursework assignment) yet embeds these firmly within theory (see weekly programme). The relationship between theory and practice will be explored in class and tested via the coursework assignments.
Current Issues in Tourism (Fall)
Food and Society (Fall)
ESBE: Biological Science Biological Science (Spring)
This unit aims to: 1) develop the student's understanding of elementary principles of biology, and 2) enable students to become competent in interpretation of biological data.
Biomechanics 1 (Fall)
The focus of this unit is to introduce basic concepts in biomechanics and their applications in sports science. The unit includes linear and angular kinematics, linear and angular kinetics and fluid mechanics and provides an opportunity to learn these and other mechanical principles and appreciate their applications in sports events.
ESBE: Forensic Science Dangerous Properties of Materials (Spring)
This unit introduces you to the properties of materials, their chemical nature or physical form which under the right circumstances may endanger life or be potentially lethal.
Introduction to Evidence for Forensic Science (Spring)
The unit introduces non-law students to the function and operation of the law of evidence in the context of criminal matters. It concentrates on the concepts of relevance and judicial discretion, and teaches the students which types of evidence attract rules of admissibility and why. Students are required to watch a criminal trial in one of the many crown courts in London or their local area to give them a context for the operation of the rules, and are taught a logical approach to analyzing hypothetical problems relating to the admissibility of evidence.
Explosion and Fire (Fall)
Introduction to Forensic Chemistry (Spring)
Scene of Crime Investigations 1 (Fall) Skills for Forensic Science (Fall)
This unit guide is designed to help you to structure your learning by providing an indicative structure and content for the unit. It is a guide and not a definitive statement of what you will be taught. We will try to follow this published schedule as far as possible, but there may be some variation as the unit develops and as we try to match the pace of our teaching to student needs.
ESBE: Engineering
Manufacturing Technology 1 (Fall) Principles of Separation and Reaction (Spring)
The seperation processes part of the unit covers the basic concepts and principles underlying the physical seperation of ideal binary liquid mixtures. It also covers the design of stage-wise and differential distillation and gas absorption processes for the seperation of ideal binary mixtures. The reactors part of the unit covers the basic principles of reaction equilibrium, reaction kinetics and reactor design.
Introductory Engineering Mathematics (Fall)
This unit guide is intended to provide a general idea of the teaching content and assessment criteria for the unit entitled Introductory Engineering Mathematics. This is a long thin unit, which is taught in Semesters one and two. It is delivered as a two-hour lecture every week. Tutorials take place once a week. The unit covers the mathematical and theoretical foundations for the BEng scheme. Together, they allow students to assimilate related material over the whole academic year.
ESBE: Architecture, Built Environment & Civil Engineering Forensic Engineering & Conservatism (Spring)
This unit uses mainly case studies to develop the principles introduced in first year design and mechanics units by looking at the influence of failures on the evolution of professional practice. It teaches students an understanding of holistic design applications, conservation, and the role of regulations. It teaches, develops and assesses observational, deductive, creative and communications skills.
Institutions and the Urban Environment (Fall)
The unit introduces the roles and importance of the key Professional Institutions, the leading Unions and Employers Associations, together with the key government and trade organizations engaged in research and in setting standards. The role of the political and legal institutions of England are broadly introduced. Housing policy and the work of the Housing Corporation and the Housing Associations is considered.
Strength of Materials (Spring)
This Unit builds on and extends the work covered in the Mechanics Unit at Level 1. Methods of calculating the section properties are taught. Students are introduced to the concept and calculations of stresses and strains arising from a combination of load applications – axial, shear, bending and torsion. The state of two-dimensional stress at a point is covered here, together with the calculations of principal stresses. Also covered will be the analysis of three pin frames.
Environmental Engineering (Fall or Spring)
This unit takes the principles of environmental engineering and applies them to practical applications of analysis and design. The student will develop an understanding of the hydrological cycle, apply these principles to the calculation of runoff and reservoir yield, and consider risk factors in the design and construction of engineering works. The student will be introduced to consequences of urbanization, will learn how to design both foul and stormwater sewers, and consider sustainability issues. The student will also investigate the problem of contamination in groundwater and prepare a risk assessment.
Environmental Science (Fall)
This unit focuses on building environmental performance and develops an understanding of how buildings perform in the areas of acoustics, heat and moisture transfer, lighting, thermal comfort, ventilation and air conditioning design. The underlying principles of each topic is covered, together with more advanced applications, enabling the student to demonstrate an understanding of building performance to other professionals within the industry.
Heating, Ventilation and Water Systems 1 Thermofluids 1 (Fall or Spring)
This is a basic and fundamental course, which introduces the concepts and governing principles in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics. An introduction to aspects of Heat Transfer is also provided.
Thermal Environment 1
ESBE: Petroleum Engineering Petroleum Geoscience (Spring)
This unit will provide 2nd year undergraduate students of Petroleum Engineering with a basic understanding of Petroleum Geoscience. It will provide grounding in the disciplines which may be pursued in more detail at Masters level for a career in the Petroleum Geosciences.
Statics (Fall)
This unit offers the first introduction to statics of structures. Fundamentals of statics are explained and numerous worked examples are used to complement the understanding of statics. Students are introduced to structural element and associated load types, the various support types and the calculation of structural section properties. Also covered are the axial, shear and bending load distributions in simple determinate structures. The determination of member forces in trusses and the determination of displacements are also covered. Three pin frames are considered for the determination of reactions and bending moments. Finally, students are subjected to a demonstration session of using a structural analysis computer program.
Fundamentals of Petroleum Engineering (Fall)
This unit is a broad introduction to petroleum engineering. It introduces simple concepts of petroleum geology, with an initial study of reservoirs. Also covered are process principles, system design and computer-aided engineering within the contest of the petroleum industry.
Introduction to Reservoir Engineering (Fall)
This unit is concerned with application of simple Petroleum Engineering methods using one or more small projects. The emphasis is on building a reservoir engineering background and then apply this knowledge to the analysis and modeling of the required petroleum system; a taught course covers some basic principles and modeling techniques and use of a computer package such as Integrated Production Modeling (IPM). By taking the unit students become familiar with more open-ended projects, as a preparation for the Petroleum Engineering design project to be taken in the following year.
Thermodynamics (Fall)
Thermodynamics is concerned with the study of heat and work, and the transfer of energy from one form to another in physical and chemical transformation. An understanding of thermodynamics is important in many industrial processes. This unit provides a study of the basic chemical and power thermodynamics.
Drilling (Fall)
This unit is intended to equip level 2 students with an understanding of the scientific principles underlying the production and processing of petroleum and petroleum products. These principles include chemistry, safety in production and processing, fundamentals of drilling and evaluation of formation. The unit will establish a basic knowledge in these scientific principles to prepare for a career in petroleum engineering, and may be studied in greater details at a postgraduate level.
Internships are available on a limited basis to qualified students.
Previously, students interned at BMW, Lloyds TSB, Accenture Plc., Air France, Working Titles Films and other companies in London.
Actual placement may be different, depending on your interests, needs and availability of positions.
Internships may be organized in the following professional fields.
management
finance
accounting
human resources
law
international relations
public service
psychology
art
media development
software development
information technology
science research
hospitality & tourism
engineering
architecture
interior design
medicine/health
education
built environment
media & journalism
London is an internship culture.
Many students are required to complete an internship during their academic studies.
In addition, fewer companies are seeking interns due to the current economic recession.
This, in turn, means that competition for placement is quite stiff.
Internships take time to organize and most companies require an in-person interview.
For these reason internships in London can not be guaranteed.
As an intern in London, you should expect to straddle the line between a student and a professional.
Interns are expected to function independently, often with little guidance.
You should be aware of the differences between English and American corporate/professional culture, and be able to articulate these differences when they become concrete realities for you.
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