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This module familiarises students with central concepts and findings in decision theory. It will explore in detail how decisions should be made, introducing normative benchmarks such as rationality and consistency, and will present how decisions are made, using both empirical and experimental findings and theoretical arguments. The module will illustrate the concepts by examining decision-making in a variety of economic contexts and environments, and discuss possibly implications for economic policies in these contexts. These contexts include decisions under risk and uncertainty and over time.

To explain the mathematical techniques needed to analyse linear and simple non-linear electrical and electronic circuits.

To explain the mathematical techniques needed to analyse linear and simple non-linear electrical and electronic circuits.

Death comes to us all, yet we have become reluctant to address it. The Victorians of nineteenth-century Britain very different, with an elaborate set of rituals and conventions, referred to as Christian "art of death". Today we tend to find this unsettling, evidence of a morbid fascination, even as we admire the carefully-designed "garden cemeteries" or cities of the dead that the Victorians left behind. In this module we will explore how the Victorians understood the concept of a "good death", and how that model came under pressure around 1900 and collapsed in the wake of the First World War. In order to do this we will employ approaches taken from architectural history, gender/social history and the history of material culture. In addition to hands-on sessions in Hartley Library Special Collections handling condolence letters and mourning jewellery we will undertake site visits to a cemetery, crematorium and war shrine in Southampton. Assessments will include writing a museum label and an information board.

Death comes to us all, yet we have become reluctant to address it. The Victorians of nineteenth-century Britain very different, with an elaborate set of rituals and conventions, referred to as Christian "art of death". Today we tend to find this unsettling, evidence of a morbid fascination, even as we admire the carefully-designed "garden cemeteries" or cities of the dead that the Victorians left behind. In this module we will explore how the Victorians understood the concept of a "good death", and how that model came under pressure around 1900 and collapsed in the wake of the First World War. In order to do this we will employ approaches taken from architectural history, gender/social history and the history of material culture. In addition to hands-on sessions in Hartley Library Special Collections handling condolence letters and mourning jewellery we will undertake site visits to a cemetery, crematorium and war shrine in Southampton. Assessments will include writing a museum label and an information board.

The City Infrastructure Design Project module builds on what you have learned from the Liveable Cities module and focuses on developing an engineering project within the city that contributes towards a specific vision (accessibility to water, waterfront development, city gateway). Three big, bold, and high impact physical engineering intervention ideas are already pre-defined throughout the city of Southampton, an interchange station, a bridge, and a waterfront leisure hub. You will work towards the development of one of these interventions by envisioning a concept, design it and generating a deployment plan. This will integrate aspects of sustainability, structural design, and project management.

The City Infrastructure Design Project module builds on what you have learned from the Liveable Cities module and focuses on developing an engineering project within the city that contributes towards a specific vision (accessibility to water, waterfront development, city gateway). Three big, bold, and high impact physical engineering intervention ideas are already pre-defined throughout the city of Southampton, an interchange station, a bridge, and a waterfront leisure hub. You will work towards the development of one of these interventions by envisioning a concept, design it and generating a deployment plan. This will integrate aspects of sustainability, structural design, and project management.

This module presents knowledge and skills specific to civil/environmental engineering, in three areas: Environmental Sustainability and Geology for Geomechanics and in Construction. It complements the more general engineering science knowledge and understanding covered in the modules FEEG1002 and FEEG1003, and the civil engineering specific skills and knowledge with focus on design in the module CENV1026 in the first year of the civil and environmental engineering degree programmes.

The skills and knowledge gained in this module are applicable across many areas of the programme, in modules involving design/manufacture and in individual and group research and development projects.

In construction, students are first introduced to surveying, becoming conversant with modern surveying and construction techniques and develop surveying and setting out skills based on practical tasks undertaken around the campus. These skills will then be applied as a very important element of the construction of structures during the Constructionarium, which is a week-long residential field course activity in the final teaching week of semester 2. This tests awareness and knowledge of engineering processes in solving a series of practical construction tasks using the common civil engineering materials, steel, timber and reinforced concrete. Preparing for the Constructionarium is a major activity in semester 2, in which students work in groups to develop project plans, method statements and formwork/temporary works designs. A parallel activity in Semester 2 uses knowledge gained in the Mechanics, Structures and Materials module on the theoretical behaviour of structures to undertake numerical calculations to assess the performance of the Constructionarium structures, through a structural design exercise that includes sketching of load paths and structural form and understanding of loading, structural stability and structural element behaviour.

This module presents knowledge and skills specific to civil/environmental engineering, in three areas: Environmental Sustainability and Geology for Geomechanics and in Construction. It complements the more general engineering science knowledge and understanding covered in the modules FEEG1002 and FEEG1003, and the civil engineering specific skills and knowledge with focus on design in the module CENV1026 in the first year of the civil and environmental engineering degree programmes.

The skills and knowledge gained in this module are applicable across many areas of the programme, in modules involving design/manufacture and in individual and group research and development projects.

In construction, students are first introduced to surveying, becoming conversant with modern surveying and construction techniques and develop surveying and setting out skills based on practical tasks undertaken around the campus. These skills will then be applied as a very important element of the construction of structures during the Constructionarium, which is a week-long residential field course activity in the final teaching week of semester 2. This tests awareness and knowledge of engineering processes in solving a series of practical construction tasks using the common civil engineering materials, steel, timber and reinforced concrete. Preparing for the Constructionarium is a major activity in semester 2, in which students work in groups to develop project plans, method statements and formwork/temporary works designs. A parallel activity in Semester 2 uses knowledge gained in the Mechanics, Structures and Materials module on the theoretical behaviour of structures to undertake numerical calculations to assess the performance of the Constructionarium structures, through a structural design exercise that includes sketching of load paths and structural form and understanding of loading, structural stability and structural element behaviour.

Political and military tumult would not seem an ideal backdrop for contemplation, but out of China’s Warring States period emerged a rich variety of philosophical thought; indeed, this period became affiliated with the ‘Hundred Schools of Thought’. Some of these traditions, like the Confucian and Daoist traditions, would go on to shape China and indeed East Asia in ways that can still be felt today, not only intellectually but also culturally. Other traditions, like that of the Mohists, would not retain direct influence beyond the classical period, but can be said to have played a crucial role in shaping the overall trajectory of Chinese and East Asian thought. This module surveys some of these traditions not only to illuminate the history of the intellectual development of a large portion of the world, but also to assess to what extent these ancient traditions provide solutions to current problems.