 I'm Valerie Amos, Director of SOAS. Thank you so much for the interest that you're showing in our school, particularly in our summer courses, which are now credit-bearing and which mean that you can offset them against your year's credit. These will be 15 credit, three-week intensive courses. You come and get the whole SOAS summer school experience and you get a credit you can take back to your home institution. Here, although we study global structures, global processes, the core to what we study is how they affect and are affected by things that happen in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. We have over 100 years of history of looking at those regions, particularly through a lens of culture and language. We have very strong history and tradition in the study and teaching of East Asian languages, both in Japanese and Chinese. We were the first institution in London to teach that language. We also have these summer intensive programs where people can enjoy a smaller slice of the offering that we have for East Asian languages at SOAS. We've had students from China, Korea, Brazil, Kenya, all over the world, Spain and that's one of the wealth in terms of student background. That then gives them the possibility to build their knowledge, not just from what we teach them in the course, but from the exposure that they have to international students in a unique summer course. There's a number of reasons why you should consider a credit-bearing course here at SOAS. First of all, it gives you the opportunity to own credits which you can take back into your studies elsewhere. Secondly, maybe it's an opportunity to look at our own SOAS courses here. So there's the MA Global Diplomacy which is an online program which you can take from wherever it is you may be. And equally, there's a residential campus-based program here called the MA International Studies and Diplomacy which you may like to come and join. I'm studying international relations and I'm in the classroom full of people from different countries. I've been talking to Japanese diplomats. She's taking my course, yeah. These opportunities and indeed others will be available to you through this credit-bearing mechanism. And then another course where we focus especially on sustainable development goals. We will embark into the discussion that especially developing countries are having to meet certain social sustainability standards or environmental sustainability standards and what are the constraints, the limitations from the financial side, from the organisation side that these countries have, how they can move away their policies from programmes of austerity to programmes of economic growth and how they can cope with emerging technologies especially in the area of a blockchain and distributed electronic ledgers. So another credit-bearing course that we're offering here at SOAS during the summer school will be understanding research methods and that revolves around thinking about what is a research question, how do you construct a piece of research, how do you situate it within various literatures, what do you mean by different qualitative and quantitative understandings of research, but equally to recognise that research is an impactful and, you know, people-led enterprise. It's not something that is just the preserve of theory. We will have lectures, tutorials, we will have guest speakers, so various forms of interaction in order to acquire knowledge and to develop their skills and their capabilities, whatever course they are taking. Well within global diplomacy there's certainly a great deal of focus on practice and the practitioner, so we'll take into account the views of practitioners based here in London as part of the diplomatic corps, but equally look at some of the informal diplomats and the ways that they construct and take part in the diplomatic practice. Whether you're preparing for an undergraduate dissertation, a PhD as a postgraduate student or indeed in a professional life, we can offer something to you. The summer school at SOAS is a very nice bridge-building measure between my BA and my MA. I'm considering doing postgraduate qualifications now and the summer school's really given me a flavour of what that might look like and secondly it's given me a whole new set of transferable skills I can take back into the workplace. So you'll leave here not just with a kind of energised passion to understand the world more but also a set of ways of thinking about things that will help you in any kind of job or we hope whether you come back here and do a master's degree or an undergraduate degree with us. SOAS is open to everyone so if you want to come to the SOAS summer school contact us, talk it over, we want as diverse a group of students as we can possibly get. There is nothing like a SOAS student and you know you have the opportunity to be one. Make sure you don't miss out, book your place today.