Molecular biological methods have provided exciting insights into the way that marine organisms work. This module will give students access to a foundation in marine molecular biological research and introduce molecular key tools, using hands-on and application-oriented approaches.
This module is one of the core units of the MSc International Banking and Financial Studies. It is also the module that is most directly focusing on banking, as opposed to financial market or accounting and finance-related courses otherwise on offer. Students learn the ‘micro’ side of banking, including , the lending activities, the interaction between banks and financial markets, bank investment activities , bank liquidity and money creation, bank risk, bank performance, as well as bank regulation.
The module examines the way in which culture has interrogated the relationship between money and America. It explores a wide range of novels, short stories, films and art works: from Frank L. Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Diamond as Big as the Ritz' to recent Science Fiction and NFTs. It reads all of these texts through ongoing debates about what money is and what money does. It explores how money facilitates modernity, freeing us from the constraints of time and space. It also explores the ways in which money creates an atomized and uneven social sphere. The module starts with the first 'Gilded Age' of America and ends in our own moment, a time of bitcoins and golden elevators.
Moral philosophy is concerned with questions of right and wrong, good and bad, virtue and vice. Such questions are familiar: can it be right to lie to someone to avoid hurting their feelings? Is it okay to favour my friends and family, or should I be impartial in all my decisions? Should I give a portion of my income to charity? Is happiness all that ultimately matters, or might achievements, friendship, or understanding matter for their own sake too? What does it mean to have good character? This module focuses on normative ethics, which explores the prospects for general principles about what is right and wrong, good and bad, virtuous and vicious. For instance, might the fundamental moral principle be that we should always bring about the best outcome? Or that we should always treat people in ways that they could not reasonably reject? Or that we should always act as a virtuous person would? Is it always worse to bring about harm than to allow harm? Do the intentions with which we act bear on whether we did the right thing? Or might there be no general principles about morality?
This module will arm you with the skills and experience to examine and evaluate empirical psychological research on morality. We will examine classic and modern research examining questions like how people decide what is right and wrong, what motivates people to help others, blame others, punish others, and reward others, where morality comes from, and how people resolve moral conundrums. You will consider, critique, and integrate perspectives from psychology, philosophy, biology, neuroscience, development, and other fields that speaks to these timeless questions. You will also develop advanced scientific writing and communication skills. This undergraduate version covers similar topics as the graduate version but involves a shorter and less in depth final paper.
This module will arm you with the skills and experience to examine and evaluate empirical psychological research on morality. We will examine classic and modern research examining questions like how people decide what is right and wrong, what motivates people to help others, blame others, punish others, and reward others, where morality comes from, and how people resolve moral conundrums. You will consider, critique, and integrate perspectives from psychology, philosophy, biology, neuroscience, development, and other fields that speaks to these timeless questions. You will also develop advanced scientific writing and communication skills. This graduate version covers similar topics to the undergraduate version but requires a longer and more in depth final paper.
The module provides an introduction to the history and archaeology of ancient Egypt. The module provides a broad sweep of Egyptian history from the Predynastic through to later periods. It introduces aspects of death, burial and commemoration, compares and contrasts these topics through the different Egyptian time periods, and places them into broader social view. Specific focus is placed upon Abydos and Amarna and their relative importance in the history of Egypt. Comparisons are also made between the Egyptological records developed from historical texts and papyri with those derived from other branches of archaeology. In addition, the module locates ancient Egypt within the wider world – both in terms of the present day and the past, but also in relation to neighbouring geographic areas. The impact and representation of ancient Egypt on the modern world is also considered in terms of Egyptianising of architecture, Egyptomania and museum development.
The first part of the module focuses on Newton’s laws of motion, potentials, conservation of energy, momentum and angular momentum, projectiles, circular motion, gravity and simple harmonic motion including damping. The second part of the module is an introduction to Special Relativity, including time dilation, length contraction, Lorentz transformations, relativistic kinematics and the relation between mass and energy.
The Capstone project for MPA students.
Students in the synoptic exam will be expected to display a broad knowledge and understanding of the core first, second and third year courses, to understand the inter-relations between those courses and to display problem solving skills in novel problem environments. Students’ studies will be supported by revision lectures - each week one of the lecturers of the core first, second and third year courses will lead the session. Problem solving sessions will also be included. The course work involves setting your own Synoptic exam questions which will hopefully give new insights into the material taught and the examination process.
In this module, students undertake a research project which extends over both semesters of the final year. Students normally work in pairs, in close collaboration with a member of staff.
This module provides two-thirds of the content for the MRes in Advanced Biological Sciences programme. Each student undertakes an extensive research project which is laboratory and/or fieldwork based, depending on the specialisation chosen: • Biodiversity, Ecology and Ecosystem services • Biotechnology • Developmental Biology • Microbiology • Neuroscience • Molecular and Cellular Biosciences • Plant Biology Each student is assigned to an appropriate supervisor who will advise on and direct the project and the preparation of a written dissertation.
This module provides two-thirds of the content for the MRes in Big Data Biology programme. Each student undertakes an extensive research project. Research projects will incorporate computational and data-driven approaches in areas including: - Computational and Systems Biology - Biotechnology - Developmental Biology - Microbiology - Neuroscience - Molecular and Cellular Biosciences - Plant Biology - Biodiversity, Ecology and Ecosystem services Each student is assigned to an appropriate supervisor who will advise on and direct the project and the preparation of a written dissertation.
You will undertake a substantive piece of independent work. This is designed to demonstrate your ability to manage your own learning, to draw together information for a variety of sources and to make use of a range of concepts and techniques at the postgraduate level. At the end of this module, you should be familiar with the concept of independent research. You should be able to compose an extended piece of writing, in which an argument is developed in response to a central question (thesis), supported by evidence you have acquired through research, which you are required to analyse, and which supports or contradicts the various perspectives explored in the course of that argument.
This module provides two-thirds of the content for the MRes Evolution programme. During it you will develop research skills, as you work closely with a University of Southampton supervisor, working on evolutionary questions, to propose a detailed methodology for your research project. You will then have the unique experience of undertaking that extensive research project in a UoS School/Department, or at an affiliated institution, in the UK or abroad. During this process you will have the opportunity to become part of an existing and dynamic team of practicing evolutionary researchers.
This module provides two-thirds of the content for the MRes Wildlife Conservation programme. During it you will develop research skills, as you work closely with a Marwell Conservation Biologist and University of Southampton supervisor to propose a detailed methodology for your research project. You will then have the unique experience of undertaking that extensive research project at one of Marwell Wildlife’s conservation sites, in the UK or abroad. During this process you will have the opportunity to become part of an existing and dynamic team of practicing conservation biologists.
