1. Introduction 2. Engineering applications of materials 3. Making of materials 4. Making of glasses 5. Characterisation of amorphous solids 6. Structure and properties of metallic glasses 7. Introduction to thermodynamics of solids 8. Modelling the structure and predicting the properties of amorphous solids 9. Elastic properties of metallic glasses 10. Plasticity of metallic glasses 11. Fracture 12. Creep and visoelastic behaviour