Introduction to Web Design and User Experience drafted draft
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-18 | - |
| 2023-05-02 | - |
| 2023-09-26 | 2023-07-17 |
| 2024-01-16 | - |
Program Overview
Course overview
This five-week introductory course will teach you how to build websites from the ground up using HTML and CSS, and how to make your websites compatible with all devices.
Through a combination of on-campus lab and online work, you'll be taught the fundamentals of responsive web design and development by Goldsmiths lecturer
Nick Hine
, a specialist in technology and people.Whether you’re a small business owner or creative professional wanting to stand out in a competitive market or someone looking to gain additional professional skills to enhance your career prospects, this course will be tailored to suit your needs.
You'll begin by exploring the design process, defining the story and communication a website is intended to support, and learn how to design an accessible website that meets those requirements. Using the two foundational web design languages: HTML and CSS, you will explore how to define the format of content, controlling the style, layout, positioning and presentation of content, and how to build pages and change the appearance of your website.
Building a website that isn’t adaptable to different devices, means the user experience is hampered. It leads to pictures being wrongly formatted and important messages becoming lost. In this course, you'll learn to build responsive websites from scratch which will help you alleviate these issues, allow you to use readily available web tools & platforms, and to create a welcoming and adaptable spaces for your audiences.
Course structure
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, you'll:
Program Outline
Course content
The LLM in Competition Law Programme has three specialist pathways:
Satisfactory completion of three modules qualifies you for the PgCert. If you complete six modules you will gain the award of PgDip. To qualify for the LLM you must additionally submit a dissertation of 15,000 words on an approved topic.
Semester 1
Semester 2
Compulsory modules
Legal Research
This offers general assistance for postgraduate legal study and to better equip you for other modules in your Masters degree and postgraduate diploma.
It covers legal research, the use of digital library resources and legal writing, as well as completing a dissertation.
Competition Law
This class will focus on developing an understanding of the rationale for EU competition law and policy, the substantive rules and the processes of enforcement.
Elective modules
Financial Regulation and Compliance
This course will examine select topics in capital markets, regulation and economic theories underpinning them. This includes the law and economics of disclosure, regulation of market abuse (insider dealing and market manipulation), and the function and regulation of the market for corporate control.
The World Trading System: Law and Policy
This class will provide you with advanced instruction in the law of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). You will explore the core rules of non-discrimination and most-favoured nation treatment, which underpin many of the legal agreements comprising the WTO. You will also look in detail at the operation of the WTO dispute settlement system.
The analysis will then move on to more specialised WTO agreements. You'll also look at how the WTO disciplines the grant of governmental subsidies to domestic industries.
Intellectual Property (online)
You will be introduced to the general principles, theories and substantive laws that provide the framework for the international, European and national intellectual property systems for the protection of copyright, trademark and patent.
Elective modules
Please note that you must select
at least one
of the first three modules listed below, each focusing on a different aspect of Competition Law. The module taken is aligned with the name of your specialist pathway.Competition Law & the Digital Economy (compulsory for the relevant specialism)
The digitisation of the global economy is an obvious and rapidly expanding trend. Big Tech companies, which did not even exist 15-20 years ago, are now the biggest in the world. Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Facebook — all of them have changed our consumer behaviour and our way of life in general. All these companies are being placed under very tough scrutiny of competition law. This class will provide students with advanced knowledge of ex ante and ex post competition rules in the area of the digital economy.
Competition Law & the State (compulsory for the relevant specialism)
This class aims to expand students' knowledge about how competition law regulates the behaviour of state-owned companies and private companies on whom the state confers exclusive rights when they operate in the marketplace in different countries around the world.
Competition Law & Private Enforcement (compulsory for the relevant specialism)
The class is designed to provide students with a full awareness of all potential aspects of competition litigation and the private enforcement context, focusing on the UK and EU, but also from a comparative perspective with particular emphasis on aspects of private enforcement in the US.
There will be particular consideration of mechanisms of collective redress and how consumers can recover damages in relation to losses suffered by society as a result of competition law infringements.
Additional elective modules available in Semester 2:
The Law of International Business
This class will introduce students to the concepts underpinning the regulation of businesses. It will explain the different types of business entities and introduce students to company and corporate law concepts.
Financial Crime and Sanctions
This class seeks to examine a variety of difficulties and subject matters in the area of financial crime, such as money laundering, insider trading, and fraud. Students will be encouraged to consider why activities are criminal, the wider social context, and the various/best means by which to regulate, in order to combat these crimes.
Students will also consider the shifting nature of financial crime, and how technological innovation provides new difficulties for regulators to address.
Business and Human Rights
This class will examine the relationship between business and human rights and will include an introduction to the international human rights framework, the role of business entities as global actors and the identification of the legal challenges that business presents for the international legal system.
E-commerce
This module considers the law governing all forms of online commercial activity.
It focuses on two areas of particular importance:
The constraints on contracting in an online environment are central to most e-commerce activities and are therefore of great importance to the growth of e-commerce.
Cybercrime and Society (online)
Cybercrime is a highly topical area within the broad theme of internet law and policy. Learning about the laws and legal framework that address transnational cybercrime with a specific focus on internet content crimes such as illegal pornography as well as online contact offences. By studying the class students should be able to develop a detailed understanding and knowledge of the relevant areas of cybercrimes and analyse the various social, legal, criminological and policy aspects and responses to cybercrime.
Privacy, Crime and Security (online)
This module introduces you to the core ideas and legal regimes governing privacy and data protection online, as well as looking at the global issues concerning transnational data flows.
It covers regulation of spam, cookies and spyware; targeted advertising; and other venues for commercial collection of data.
Telecommunications Law (online)
This class familiarises you with telecommunications law in its national, European and international contexts.
The course begins with an overview of the technical and historical development of telecommunications infrastructure, as well as expanding upon the principles of deregulation, market liberalisation and economic policy that led to the current market structure.
Human Rights & Digital Technologies
The shift towards automated decision-making and algorithmic regulation generates significant concerns for the protection of human rights. At the same time, there is a pressing need to study these technologies’ beneficent effects on human rights.
This module aims to assess the suitability and relevance of existing human rights law in the digital age, and to evaluate conceptual, cross-disciplinary frameworks, which analyse how digital technologies shape developments in human rights law.
Academic staff
Assessment
Modules for this programme tend to require individual class assignments, but more detail regarding assessment requirements can be found in each individual class descriptor.
Careers
The programme we are offering provides a thorough academic background in the area of international competition law and policy. Graduates will be in employment in leading law firms in different jurisdictions, in international cooperation, in competition agencies around the world, in relevant Governmental bodies, and in academia.
Entry requirements
| Academic requirements |
First or second-class Honours degree, or overseas equivalent, in a related discipline. Other qualifications may be accepted where the applicant has relevant work experience.
Please note: a law degree is not a prerequisite for entry to this course. |
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| English language requirements |
Please check our English language requirements before making your application. |
Pre-Masters preparation course
The Pre-Masters Programme is a preparation course held at the University of Strathclyde International Study Centre, for international students (non EU/UK) who do not meet the academic entry requirements for a Masters degree at University of Strathclyde. The Pre-Masters programme provides progression to a number of degree options.
Upon successful completion, you'll be able to progress to this degree course at the University of Strathclyde.
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