Courses

Arabic

Arabic Literature in Transition: The Impact of Western Forms on Arabic Prose, Poetry, and Drama in the 20th Century

The module looks at the impact of western literary forms on the development of Arabic literature in the 20th century with special reference to the rise of the Arab novel, the impact of modernism on traditional poetic forms and the role of language in the development of contemporary Arabic theatre. 

• Subject: Arabic
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Contemporary Arabic Culture

This module aims to provide students with detailed knowledge and understanding of contemporary Arabic culture and social developments that have shaped it. A variety of examples of cultural production will be read or viewed, in translation or in the original, and analysed in the context of social change at local, national and international levels. 

• Subject: Arabic
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Culture and Society (Arab World) II: Literary and Cultural Studies

This module gives an introduction to literary and cultural analysis with special reference to contemporary Arabic literature and culture. 

• Subject: Arabic
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Arab Media and Culture

The module introduces the study of the media in the Arab world in a comparative perspective and will look at the analysis and interpretation of culture in the contemporary Arabic-speaking world. Choosing a comparative approach, students will read Arab Media reports in translation alongside English-language coverage of the same events to gain insight into the similarities and differences between Arabic and English-language media sources and an understanding of how social and cultural contexts impact on interpretative practice. The module examines a variety of forms of mass communication including the electronic media, the press and online material, and identifies major themes, audiences and methods of operation. The module aims to equip students with critical awareness of the social, cultural and political assumptions within which both the British and the Arab Media operate. The module also allows students to develop their language skills through the study of excerpts from primary documents in Arabic. 

• Subject: Arabic
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Architecture

Community Involvement in Urban Policy

This module explores the theory and practice relating to public involvement in policy-making and implementation. It discusses the democratic and political principles underpinning community engagement. It investigates the diverse needs of communities and the ways in which decisions concerning the built environment affect and address those needs. Techniques and methods used to involve the public in decisions affecting them are examined using case studies from a range of policy areas. Finally, issues related to local governance, ‘Big Society’, localism and community development will be fully explored. 

• Subject: Architecture
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Cultural Context 1B - Architectural Traditions

This module continues to develop the architectural students’ knowledge base and their critical skills by exploring the history of the architecture of Europe and other world cultures. In addition the group presentation gives an opportunity to develop skills handling various media and negotiating within a group. 

• Subject: Architecture
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Cultural Context 2B - Contemporary Issues in Architecture and Urbanism

This module is dedicated to the study of contemporary issues in architecture, and it is concerned with the study of a number of themes which are relevant to the current practice of architecture and urban design. Among the issues addressed are ‘sustainability’, ‘community’, ‘gender’, ‘identity and authenticity’, ‘consumerism’ and ‘globalisation’. The background context of the themes is considered along with the various theoretical positions associated with them and this material is tested against examples of contemporary architecture and urban settings. 

• Subject: Architecture
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Domestic Building Contruction

This module provides an introduction to the general concepts of domestic building construction and services, their performance, including sustainability and energy conservation issues. 

• Subject: Architecture
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Global Cities: An Introduction to the New Urban Sociology

Cities, global cities, globalisation.    

• Subject: Architecture
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Urban Regeneration and Development

This module will explore in depth the impact of the development process and a variety of theories of urban regeneration in differing contexts. In particular, the political, social, economic and physical aspects as well as the institutional framework will be evaluated using case studies. The role of the city and urban fringe as transition zones in urban development will be examined. 

• Subject: Architecture
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Arts

Animation 1: Visual Communication

This exciting module offers Animation students a number of opportunities to produce varied and challenging animation films. Working independently and in groups, students respond to a number of creative problem-solving briefs by experimenting with a number of diverse animation methods. This module would suit a student who is eager to explore the power of animation as a tool for releasing the imaginative potential. 

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 120
• Recommended Credits: 8
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Animation 2.2: Minor Project

Working either collectively or individually, students are invited to tackle the challenge of producing a short film. 

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 120
• Recommended Credits: 8
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Animation and Computer Generated Imagery Part 2

Following on from 2ANI506 (CGI part 1) this module gives a broader and deeper understanding of the practicalities of digital animation tools. Students normally work on a series of short exercises, culminating in a more ambitious project where they explore the potential of modern animation technology as an expressive tool. 

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Critical Perspectives of Illustration

To introduce students to key theoretical positions that have informed and influenced image culture and through this framework to identify and develop a specific enquiry supported by research which brings illustration into this critical discourse. 

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Drawing and Creative Development

This module develops drawing and visual communication through projects which foster different approaches to the visual development. Drawing is extended from a recording activity to one that gives form to creative and abstract thought, leading to the development of more sophisticated visual communication. The group project develops attributes in group working and project management. 

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 120
• Recommended Credits: 8
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Drawing, Design, and Dramatisation

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Fine Art Practice 1

Students embark upon individually negotiated studio work within a contemporary fine arts context. Disciplines potentially include painting, sculpture, moving image, sound, performance, print and photography. Students would need to have experience of having worked within the contemporary fine arts in the development of studio practice. 

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 120
• Recommended Credits: 8
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Introduction to Image Media

This module examines image media in relationship to industry and institutions; media texts; audiences; technology and the effect of new media on the consumption of culture. 

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to the Mass Media

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Modern Art in London

The module will introduce students to modern art in London, and explore work from the Impressionists to the present day. Topics will include study of the major developments in twentieth century art including Cubism, Surrealism, Pop Art, Conceptual arts etc. through to the Young Brit. Artists (Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin etc) the Tuner Prize, and the contemporary art scene in London. Teaching will be through gallery visits and lectures to discuss the work. 

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Practice and Enterprise

This module is concerned with the development and production of practice in context with industry led initiatives. These external initiatives may include national student awards, competitions, collaborative projects originated by industry. The module enables students to consider the professional contexts for their practice in light of emerging technologies cultural trends and industrial demand. Students have to develop and keep updating an online site for the promotion of their work and research. 

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 135
• Recommended Credits: 10
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Typography and Communication 1

This module aims to promote a joy and enthusiasm for the design and use of letterforms. It seeks to develop an awareness and sensitivity in the selection and manipulation of letterforms to create engaging and effective communications.
It serves to introduce the historical, cultural and technological developments that have impacted on, and have influenced, the vast array of forms available for the design and presentation of ideas and information through the visible word. 

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 120
• Recommended Credits: 8
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Typography and Communication 2

In this module you are invited to extend your understanding of the conventions, opportunities and constraints relating to the communication of ideas and information through the design and presentation of the visible word. Building on the awareness of letterforms gained at level four, you will have the opportunity to explore the use and application of typography within a variety of contexts, and through a variety of media. 

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 120
• Recommended Credits: 8
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Visual Narratives

This module provides an introduction to the various forms of visual storytelling. You will learn how ideas and information may be constructed and communicated through a variety of representational means and media.
Through practical workshops and project tasks, you will be invited to explore ways by which language, ideas and imagery may be presented through linear and non-linear narratives. 

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 120
• Recommended Credits: 8
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Business

Legal Aspects of Business

• Subject: Business
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Business Internship

Personal and Professional Development

Interested applicants should download and read the ‘Internship Programme’ information pack available on-line at: www.westminster.ac.uk/study/international/studyabroad/semester-school- study-abroad/what-can-i-study

• Subject: Business Internship
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must enroll in Study/Internship Programme

Chinese

Between Art and Politics: Chinese Literature and Art From May Fourth to June Fourth

The module looks at cultural production in China between 1919 and 1989 with particular focus on the dominant debate of this period regarding the function of literature and the arts in a changing society. 

• Subject: Chinese
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

From Mao to Market: Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art in Search of a New Identity

This final year module in the Chinese Area Studies series focuses on developments and changes that have occurred in China of the reform era in the field of literature. The central focal point of this module is the concept of ‘love’ and its different interpretations and roles as literary subject since the end of the Mao years. A wide range of authors and works from the late 1970s to the 2000s is studied in translation. Texts/excerpts in Chinese are made available for students who read Chinese. The module discusses how these different interpretations and meanings of ‘love’ reflect the changing social, economic and political landscape of post-Mao China. 

• Subject: Chinese
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Chinese Culture and Society II: Literature and Art

This module looks at the field of cultural production in Chinese culture. Relevant concepts will be introduced in order to study specific aspects of Chinese art and literature. The module is taught in English. 

• Subject: Chinese
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Chinese Media and Culture

The module introduces the study of the media in China in a comparative perspective and will look at the analysis and interpretation of culture in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world. Students will read Chinese media reports in translation alongside English-language coverage of the same events to gain insight into the similarities and differences between Chinese and English-language media sources. The module examines a variety of forms of mass communication including the electronic media, the press and online material, and identifies major themes, audiences and methods of operation. The module aims to equip students with critical awareness and an understanding of how social and cultural contexts impact on interpretative practice. The module also allows students to develop their language skills through the study of excerpts from primary documents in Chinese. 

• Subject: Chinese
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Computer Sciences

Computer Systems Security

This module examines the issues involved with recognising security threats to computer systems, their consequences and methods of dealing with such threats. In particular, it provides an overview of security issues for database, operating systems and networked systems, and discusses the relationship between computer forensics and computer security. 

• Subject: Computer Sciences
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must be confirmed by course leader

Fundamentals of (Computer) Animation

This module covers the basic principles and techniques for creating two dimensional (2D) animation using computers. It covers basic motion principles algorithmically (velocity, acceleration, friction, easing, and bouncing) and best techniques for simulating physical action with programming. It uses Adobe Flash as a software package to demonstrate the aforementioned concepts and to allow the creation of a prototype that contains animation, basic interactions and a simple game using basic animation programming algorithms. 

• Subject: Computer Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Human Computer Interface Design

This module introduces students to the theoretical aspects of human-computer interaction and user-centred interface design. It covers techniques for developing user-friendly and usable graphical user interfaces within a stand-alone system, mobile devices or on the Internet. This module also investigates cognitive issues, interaction design, requirements and task analysis methodology, usability, prototyping and evaluation techniques. 

• Subject: Computer Sciences
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must be confirmed by course leader

Image Processing

The movie industry uses a variety of image processing techniques to produce special visual effects. Unreal images and otherwise costly scenes are artificially produced using computer graphics and image processing. This module discusses the main image processing methods and algorithms such as morphing that are becoming increasingly common in advertising and motion pictures. 

• Subject: Computer Sciences
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Multimedia

The module discusses the theory, methods and tools of digital multimedia necessary for the creation, processing, and delivery of multimedia projects. Particular emphasis is given to the individual media assets, ranging from data representations for images, video, and audio to aspects of colour, compression, and multimedia applications. The module will use media- capture hardware and professional software for content acquisition and media manipulation.

• Subject: Computer Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Mobile Application Development

The module is intended to provide grounding in the design and implementation of server side processing used in contemporary web applications. The lectures provide a foundation and students are expected to develop new systems after working through additional examples from reference material. 

• Subject: Computer Sciences
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Native Programming

This module will give the necessary knowledge and practical experience to develop applications for native platforms. It will give the student the necessary skills to produce applications that take advantage of the underlying hardware features of contemporary devices such as multi-touch surfaces, location features, and natural gesturing though combination of accelerator and touch surfaces. The module will also give the student the necessary skills to transfer the knowledge gained in this module to other native platforms by emphasising good programming practice, design patterns and strict memory management. 

• Subject: Computer Sciences
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must be confirmed by course leader

Pervasive Computing and Interactive Platforms

This module is designed to give students a theoretical and practical background to the development of immersive environments for various platforms, using industry standard toolkits. Particular emphasis is given to the algorithms, theories and design of new digital media and their application to multi-platform environments such as mobile interfaces, pervasive games, interactive installations, interactive museum guides, virtual and augmented environments. Particular attention is given to the new contextual usage of this media in creative industries. 

• Subject: Computer Sciences
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must be confirmed by course leader

Real Time and Embedded Systems

This module covers the concepts of real-time systems and techniques used for their design and implementation. A practical application of the relevant concepts and techniques will be demonstrated and explored in the embedded system environment. 

• Subject: Computer Sciences
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must be confirmed by course leader

Software Development Principles (Java)

This module aims to develop techniques and confidence to design, code and test small scale programs and the ability to produce supporting documentation. The module develops awareness of the roles of data structures and algorithms in software development and introduces the concept and use of Abstract Data Types. Common algorithms will be used to explore the concepts of computational efficiency. Students will learn how to design data abstractions and implement them in an object-oriented programming language (C++ or Java). 

• Subject: Computer Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Software Engineering and Principles

• Subject: Computer Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

The Semantic and Social Web

This module discusses the new generation of the World Wide Web known as the Semantic and Social Web as the emerging platform for Web-based Information Systems and Search Engines. Particular emphasis is given to the convergence of the Semantic and Social Web with media technologies such as e-paper, geo-browsers, GPS, TV, etc., as well as to data and knowledge exchange and integration across all types of data (text, video, image, audio, etc.) and devices, e.g., handheld ones.

 

• Subject: Computer Sciences
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must be confirmed by course leader

Web Technology

This module provides a practical introduction to Internet programming in a variety of commonly used languages. The interaction of the different scripts with the Website will be introduced, together with other relevant aspects of the different languages used. Students will gain practical experience of appropriate program development and Web page design tools, and will be expected to write programs and Web pages conforming to given stylistic guidelines. The module will also introduce students to legislation relevant to web page content. 

• Subject: Computer Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Programming Methodology (Java)

Design/Fashion

Buying Cycle and Range Planning

Students will learn to establish the relationship between planning and the sequencing of events in the buying of a product, to understand and practice the work of a team in planning and completing a product range incorporating the different disciplines, identifying their talents and techniques, buying for divergent markets. 

• Subject: Design/Fashion
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Commercial Skills and Application

This module is centred on a business game that has been adapted to be appropriate to fashion merchandising students. This is an interactive computer simulation looking at the risks and opportunities attached to an international retail operation. In conjunction with the game there will be seminars that review key skills associated with making commercial decisions in a retail world. It is a team exercise where each team must make a series of decisions concerning the profitability and commercial running of their company. It is intended that a competitive element will enter the game. Each week the teams will input their decisions and the following week have results fed back. 

• Subject: Design/Fashion
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Consumer Behavior

Business of any sort must understand and stay connected to their customers in order to survive and increase profitability. Many companies have sophisticated approaches to understanding consumer behaviour in order to inform and direct their market strategies. The module explores the factors influencing consumer behaviour in order to give students the ability to solve marketing issues and address opportunities. 

• Subject: Design/Fashion
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Fashion in Society

The module will give students an understanding of the fashion industry within its post-war social and historical context, demonstrating that fashion is an interplay between historical and contemporary culture. Students gain an understanding of the range of factors involved in decisions about design. 

• Subject: Design/Fashion
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Can't be taken with Fashion Trend and Contemporary Culture

Fashion Trends and Contemporary Culture

• Subject: Design/Fashion
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Can't be taken with Fashion in Society

Supply Chain Management

By the end of the module you will be able to consider and propose strategic options for the Supply Chain Management of a product range, evaluate the advantages/disadvantages of decisions in relation to sourcing products and the nature of the impact on the total buying process to include planning, selection, costing, merchandising, profitability, lead times and technical aspects. In addition you will debate the ethical issues of the geographical sourcing strategies within the supply chain and become acquainted with the customs organisations, their functions, tariffs, current legislation and terminology. 

• Subject: Design/Fashion
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Visual Merchandising

The module covers the theory and practice of visual merchandising, product promotion and interior display. It enables you to understand and evaluate the visual strategies that retailers employ in order to communicate their brand message, promote their store image and increase sales. 

• Subject: Design/Fashion
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: CAD and Illustration

Economics

Development Economics

This module examines the characteristics of developing countries and the problems facing them in their bid to meet development goals and achieve sustainable development. The course teaches students how to evaluate government and international development policies. The module will explore the analytical approaches utilised by economists for dealing with development issues and will explore how the application of economic theories relates to the problems and prospects of developing countries. The module covers development measures, the contribution of agriculture, industry and trade to development. The module also covers the role of governance, international institutions and foreign resource flows. Gender and environmental issues will also be examined. 

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Principles of Economics

Development of Economic Analysis

This module provides students with an ability to participate in the revival of interest in the history of economic thought which is now occurring in response to the current financial and economic crisis. The topics are chosen with a view to relating the study of economic ideas of the past to current debates and discussions on the unfolding events of the present. 

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Business Context

Economics Information and the Internet

This module aims to investigate the economic significance of information in the global economy. The primary focus is on the effect that the internet and the world wide web has had on the value of information as a good. When information can be digitalised, separated from physical goods, and delivered over the Web (as is the case for music files) the market is transformed. 

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Business Context

International Economics

This module will broaden students' knowledge and extend their understanding of theoretical concepts in international trade, investment and finance. It will enhance students' understanding of the reasons for international specialisation, the implications of protection for economic welfare, and the effect of various macroeconomic policies on international markets. 

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Principles of Economics

Labour Economics

During the past twenty years the Human Resource Management profession has grown enormously, whilst the study of labour economics has stayed predominantly within academia, international organisations and/or national government departments. This module draws on the most up-to-date thinking within the relatively recent area of Human Resource Economics and the more established fields of Education Economics and Labour Economics. The focus is primarily micro-economic analysis. Within the discipline of economics, the study of labour markets is mainly concerned with the outcomes when individuals (who supply their labour services), firms (who demand these labour services) and governments (who attempt to regulate the labour market) interact. This is a typically ‘dry’ economic explanation and, whilst it does provide a good overall description, it does not give an idea of just how interesting this area of study can be. Thus, when one considers these ‘players’ in the labour market, we are faced with issues of discrimination, income inequality, unemployment and inactivity, immigration, ageing populations and a host of other social phenomena that impact upon our everyday lives. As you will see if you attend this module, even down to the issue of why people marry, economists have come up with interesting and insightful theories surrounding these highly divisive issues. 

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Principles of Economics, or Principles of Statistics

Making Management Decisions

This module offers an integrated and holistic approach to management decision making, drawing on and extending material from a variety of business disciplines, with the ultimate aim of improving student decision making skills. The sequence of topics aims to replicate the key steps in the decision making process. Thus we consider, in turn, decision identification and diagnosis; researching decision alternatives and choosing a course of action; analysing the likely impact of risk and uncertainty and its mitigation and how this can be best managed, and, finally, the issues and concerns that arise when decisions need to be implemented. 

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Professional Competencies or Business Context

Microeconomic Theory and Applications

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Analysis of the Economic Environment, or Business Context

Principles of Economics

The module allows students to study economics as a method of understanding the way economic agents interact in the process of exchange. Where possible, students will learn by the application of economics to real world issues. The module seeks to build on and extend the understanding gained in the introductory module BKEY402. Broad headings are: economic methodology; basis of market economies and alternatives; returns to factors of production; structure of markets; the economics of information; markets and efficiency; the economy as a system; the economy in the wider world; recurring economic problems. 

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Business Context

Property Economics

Macro and micro economic theory. The evaluation of property market data.    

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

The Business of Sport

Worldwide, the sports industry is estimated to be worth well over US$500 billion; in the UK, alone, it may be worth in excess of £15 billion. On any measure - whether in terms of turnover, profitability, employment, participation or media profile - sports business is big business. Using a blend of theory and practice, and case studies from a variety of competitive sports, this module examines the distinctive nature and context of sport and sport business. It draws on various functional areas in business - economics, finance, marketing, and law among others and practitioner knowledge - to build a profile of the sports industry. Finally, it considers contemporary issues of importance in the sports industry such as sponsorship and the media. 

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

The European Business Environment

The content of this module is designed to give a reasonably comprehensive, clear and up-to- date picture of the aims, progress and effects of the European Union (EU) and its policies. Single market; monetary unification; economic policy making in the EU. 

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Business Context

The Global Economy

The world is becoming increasingly integrated. This module extends student understanding of economic analysis and its application to issues affecting the global economy. Students are introduced to important theoretical issues such as the economics of integration, trade theories, the economics of climate change, migration and the causes and impacts of financial crises on different economies. It will select key, and currently ongoing issues, for students to develop their ability to research, analyse and problem solve. 

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Business Context

The London Economy

Using a series of case studies, this module explores some important features of the contemporary London Economy, including the city’s financial sector, labour market, art and cultural institutions, the tourist industry and transport. It uses economics as a framework of analysis, but is non-technical in approach and assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. 

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Engineering

Broadcast Media Systems

This module aims: to show how humans perceive and physiologically react to audio and visual information; to explain and derive broadcast standards, interfaces and systems; to discuss and demonstrate principles of digital representation, compression, capture, playback and processing of media sources; to explain the principles and development of video and television. 

• Subject: Engineering
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must be confirmed by course leader

Computer Networks and Communications

This module introduces students to the principles of radio communications, and the operation of computer networks. It covers the techniques used in digital serial communication interfaces and networks and surveys LAN and TCP/IP networking as preparation for more detailed treatments in later modules. It also builds skills in analysing communication systems and signals. 

• Subject: Engineering
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Data Communications and Networks

This module introduces you to the principles of radio communications and the operation of communication networks. It covers the techniques used in digital communication interfaces and networks, explores the trade-off between power and bandwidth, and surveys LAN and TCP/IP networking as preparation for more detailed treatments in later modules. Also it introduces probability theory and its uses in telecommunications and networks. 

• Subject: Engineering
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Digital Communications

Describes the elements of a digital wireless communications system, including the characteristics of communication channels, fields and waves in communication and the principles of radio wave propagation. 

• Subject: Engineering
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must be confirmed by course leader

Linear Systems Analysis

Provides an introduction to the theory of systems; explores practical applications of the theory in various engineering areas with special attention to electronics; teaches how to describe, analyse and simulate systems, and how to extract their vital properties using suitable mathematical tools (ordinary differential equations (ODE), Laplace transform, state space models) and software packages (Matlab, Simulink). 

• Subject: Engineering
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Multimedia Streaming

Multimedia streaming, both sound and video, is rapidly increasing its share of Internet traffic. This module covers the concepts underlying modern multimedia streaming and the practical techniques used to robustly deliver it in the presence of completing network traffic. Measurement and analysis of the effect of Quality of Service (QoS) policies on network traffic form the basis of laboratory work. 

• Subject: Engineering
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must be confirmed by course leader

Network Software Engineering

This module gives a thorough grounding in socket-level network programming, covering client server systems and common networked applications. 

• Subject: Engineering
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Real Time and Embedded Systems

This module covers the concepts of real-time systems and techniques used for their design and implementation. A practical application of the relevant concepts and techniques will be demonstrated and explored in the embedded system environment. Key words: real-time operating systems; scheduling; concurrent programming; inter-task communication. 

• Subject: Engineering
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must be confirmed by course leader

English and Literature

Cultural Criticism: The Popular and the Everyday

Through analysis of key texts, this module traces and interrogates the evolution of cultural criticism and theory from the early twentieth century to the present. It investigates, both chronologically and thematically, the work of a range of theorists, considering issues including ideology, materialism, the popular, the everyday, mass culture, and globalization. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Early Modern Identities in Renaissance English Literature

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have often been seen to be defined by ‘the discovery of the individual’ -- a new sense of the autonomy and complexity of the self. This module attempts to examine the nature of early modern subjectivity, firstly in the context of various historical factors – such as witchcraft, gender and ethnicity – but also in the light of a new language of selfhood that comes to fruition in the seventeenth century, particularly as shown in the writings of Donne, Milton and Marvell. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Fictional Writing

Research, planning, drafting and redrafting with reference to fiction and non-fiction. Workshop orientated discussion of produced work and demonstration through fictional and non-fictional writing a knowledge of appropriate conventions, features, strategies and audiences. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Poetry

This module will introduce students to a number of formal characteristics of poetry through a range of examples spanning the centuries. Students will consider contrasting theories of poetry, and will, more specifically, be asked to consider the influence of classical writers on the production and criticism of poetry. The module will consider the classification of metre, rhyme and rhyme schemes, as well as concepts of poetic language and poetic devices. A succession of seminars will concentrate on specific poetic forms and their historical development. There will be a discernible emphasis on poetry from the eighteenth century, though poetry from the Renaissance to the present day will be studied. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Theatre Studies: Text and Performance

This introductory course will emphasise the study and analysis of plays - both play texts and performances - using a range of plays. Students will be required to undertake at least one visit to the theatre to review a play of their choice. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Language and Gender in Interaction

This module aims to introduce you to language and gender during spoken interaction; gender differences in pronunciation and grammar; mixed-sex conversations; same-sex talk; women and men in talking in work settings and theoretical debates. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Language Teaching - From Theory to Practice

This module is rooted in theory but is focused on putting it into practice in the classroom. Students revise the theoretical principles of contemporary language teaching. Techniques in conformity with these principles are then explored for the teaching of vocabulary, conversation and grammar. Following this, students are supported in planning for, and in doing, two short pieces of teaching. The first involves teaching vocabulary and conversation and the second involves teaching grammar. After teaching each of these lessons students have to evaluate their own teaching. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: The Theory of Language Learning and Teaching

Literature and Psychoanalysis

The module offers a survey of ‘key’ themes in the development of psychoanalysis by concentrating on Freud, Klein and Lacan. It explores their relevance to the study of literary texts through appropriate case studies and shared preoccupations between literature and psychoanalysis such as narration, language, interpretation and the roles of writers and readers. There will be a group visit to the Freud museum as part of GIS week. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Other Worlds: Fantastic Narratives

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Post-Colonial Literature in English

This module examines a range of post-colonial texts of different forms and genres and encourages students to explore the main features and themes of these texts. Such themes include debates about language choice, various critical attempts to define the nature of post- colonial writing, discussions about the texts’ relationship to modernity and tradition and theories about ‘writing back’ to the colonial centre. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Professional Writing

The module focuses on the attitudes, knowledge and personal and professional skills that will support Creative Writing students in their future career and professional development. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Romantic Writings: 1770-1832

This module will introduce students to the wide range of writings of the Romantic period. We will be considering the work of the ‘Big Six’ – the canonical Romantic poets, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – as well as works, from a variety of genres, by other poets and prose writers of the period. Students will be encouraged to reflect critically upon the major themes of the work, the relation of the work to social contexts, and the applicability of the term ‘Romanticism’ itself to these writings. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

This module focuses on the drama of late 16th/early 17th century in England—the period of Shakespeare’s writings; on his plays and those of his contemporaries. It will make a study of dramatic genre: comedy, history plays, problem plays and tragedy as well as examining the new dramatic developments that took place at the time. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Studies in Modern Poetry

This module examines developments in poetry from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. It explores the linguistic and formal techniques of a range of poets as well as the social and intellectual contexts within which their works have been produced. Topics include the development of inherited forms, and engagement with the politics of class, race, nationality, gender and sexuality. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

The Rise of the Novel

This module will examine the evolution of the novel over the course of the eighteenth century, paying attention to its social, political, aesthetic and philosophical contexts. Theme studied will include travel and the representation of others, the construction of femininity, family and paternity, satire, and other narrative strategies in emergent fiction. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

The Theory of Language Learning and Teaching

This module is an introduction to the theory and practice of language learning and teaching and is designed for those with little or no teaching experience. It develops your language awareness and examines theories of language acquisition. You are introduced to major theories of language which have been influential in recent decades and invited to look at them critically. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Using English

This module focuses on: (i) developing effective spoken skills; (ii) learning the skills relevant to studying English at Westminster; and (iii) preparing the student for effective career management through raising awareness of learning styles, detailing skills and experience appropriately, and through guided research of the career market. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

World Varieties of English

This module examines English around the world as an international, intra-national, native, second and foreign language. It considers the distinctive features of these varieties and the social and cultural implications of English as a global language. British varieties of English may be referred to as examples in the introductory part of the course, but are not the main content or part of the assessment. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Writing London: Creative Writing about London

This module will allow you to respond creatively through writing in two main genres (drama and prose) to the experience of being in London as a student. Seminars are led by a professional writer and organised by workshops and will include theatre visits. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Writing Poetry

This module focuses on the writing of poetry through the study of specific poetic forms; the student's individual writing skills are developed through the examination of forms followed by the exercises and re-drafting of the student's own versions. 

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Environmental Science

Environmental Policy

The module introduces students to the concepts that underpin the management of the environment including urban/rural, natural/built, social/economic, environmental science/political science, biological/resource system, economic system/social system etc. To explore how different environmental policy regimes operate in an international, European and local context. 

• Subject: Environmental Science
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Film and Media Studies

Aesthetics of Popular Television

To analyse and explore the formal, generic and cultural complexities of television drawing from popular forms of the medium, both fictional and otherwise. To place these forms within a wider debate about the old models of TV (public service broadcasting in GB and the commercial, national networks in the USA) and the new models produced through the introduction of cable and satellite systems. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Applied Imaging 1

To provide an understanding of the properties of various illumination/radiation systems and their use in Applied Photography. To introduce the limits of visual perception, systems for data capture and instrumentation and standard representation. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Cinema; Dream and Fantasy

The module examines the intellectual and popular uses of the analogies made between cinema and dream and daydream and the changing permutations made between film, video and digitally manipulated image and fantasy. Psychoanalysis theory in film studies. Fred's theories of the unconscious, fantasy, dreams and daydreams. Voyeuristic and fetishistic structures. Surrealist and poetic traditions of film-making. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Contemporary Cultural Theories

Topics will be drawn from a range of subjects of current concern within visual culture and actual content of the module will vary according to contributors own research interests and the state of contemporary debates. The module looks at Kristeva's theory of abjection applied to contemporary art and photographic practice; Foucault's theory of surveillance and the role of lens-based media; Virilio and the militarisation of vision; Deleuze and Guattari on faciality, montrosity and the portrait; Judith Butler and the performance of masculinity; Zizek, popular culture and ideology; Bataille and the informe. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Contemporary Photographic Practices

In this module you are introduced to some of the main contexts for contemporary photographic practice through lectures and visiting practitioners working in a range of professional contexts (Art, Documentary, Editorial, Photojournalism, Fashion, Advertising, Book Publishing). You will produce a self-defined project for a clearly defined context and illustrated essay. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Convergent Media

Media industry practices increasingly demand multi-skilling. This module therefore engages in cross-media working in order to reinforce their identity as multi-disciplinary practitioners. It examines how media may be combined together, with an emphasis on hybrid forms, use of technology and content. It also further develops the ability to respond reflectively to thematic concerns. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Digital Photography

The modules introduces students to the production of digital images by gaining experiences of digital colour space and the digital workflow and by exploring the conventions of photographic realism and image manipulation. A series of images produced in response to a brief and acquired through the combined use of digital cameras and scanners will be processed and constructed in Photoshop and output to paper and screen. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Documentary Photography

The module is about producing a body of work within the genre of documentary photography. Students are introduced to contemporary documentary photographic practice, differences between analogue and digital processes, technical aspects and the manipulation of colour photography and to research methods involved in the planning and production of a project. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Documentary; History and Theory

To acquaint students with psychoanalytic interpretations of cinema; with avant-garde & experimental practices in film-making; with the theoretical bases for them & with the part played by the concept of ideology in establishing relations between the two fields. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Exhibition and Presentation

This module will develop skills of visual presentation of art and media work; give practical experience of creating a work for audiences and venues; broaden the context of placement and viewing of visual arts and raise technical awareness and skills of layout and communication in exhibition context. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Exploring Photography

The module is intended for students who wish to broaden their photographic experience. You will be introduced to a wide range of photographers and artists from whom you will be asked to find a genre of interest, which you can explore within the context of your own practice. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Interactive Animation

Enables students to gain experience of creating interactive animation using professional software tools. Students develop storyboarding, conceptual and web screen design skills, examining the rapid expansion of interactive animation on the web. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Intermediate Photographic Practice

This module involves a detailed exploration of various types of lighting, including electronic flash and camera formats by using digital and analogue studio equipment. Through the production of group and individual stages photographic projects, you will construct colour images and will be introduced to digital image processing (input and output) for different photographic genres, for example portraiture, editorial, fashion, advertising etc. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Introduction to Documentary Photography

This module involves an investigation into the major photographic genre of documentary. Through a series of workshops, you will be introduced to the basic techniques of 35mm colour photography for location shooting from exposure through to the final print and produce three photographic projects in response to set briefs. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Introduction to Drama and Documentary Production

This module explores fiction and nonfiction production. In the fiction exercise participants will investigate specific storytelling forms and the problems of structuring and producing a short film narrative. In the nonfiction exercise participants are introduced to the documentary representation of actuality and make appropriate decisions about style and structure in constructing a documentary. An investigation of creative collaborative production in two contrasting exercises. Production of a short, simple film narrative, using specific filmic means, expressive lighting and sound tracks depending on music. Analysis of dramatic sequences, intro to script development, storyboarding, production skills. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Introduction to Theories of Film

The module aims to introduce some of the basic concepts informing the principal critical debates around film and television and to lay the foundations for levels 2 and 3 theoretical and critical work. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Modernity and After

The module examines photographic and visual culture from the mid nineteenth century to the present day. It looks at the ways that artistic practices have confirmed to, and resisted cultural and historical shifts. Taking European modernity as a point of departure, the module looks at various positions that sustain or challenge its status quo. Using a range of historical and contemporary case studies, it demonstrates some of the ways that modernism excludes, undermines or opposes a range of cultural ideologies. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Photographic Languages

An introduction to the theories and use of photographic languages and conventions used by practitioners to convey meaning through images. Production of group and individual photographic projects informed by critical consideration of visual languages as they occur in a range of contexts. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Photography in Context

This module is about placing work before a wider audience. The display may take a variety of forms including exhibition, installation, print or electronic publication. You may choose to recontextualise or develop existing work or produce new work for a specific context and as a group organise, publicise, and document the exhibition, installation or publication. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Professional Launchpad

This module will enable students to compile a show-reel/portfolio of their practical work. To enable students to compile and adapt a CV, to introduce students to a range of public relations, marketing and networking skills, to encourage students to seek criticism of their work from professionals. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Scientific Photography and Biomedical Imaging

Imaging systems and applications used in clinical and biomedical contexts; Infra-red photography, thermal imaging, photogrammetry, radiography, computerised tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrasound, Endoscopy, Photomicrography, High-speed and time lapse imaging. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Scriptwriting for Media

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Sound Studies

Develops students' ability to produce sound, increases sensibility to formal & abstract sound, & sound history. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Space/Place: Text/Context

This module provides critical and analytical tools for the study of moving image, new media, photography and audio. Focusing on cities, we will examine representation of space and place, within the context of history, identity and geo-politics. 

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Finance

Auditing

This module is designed both for students who may wish to pursue a career in auditing and those wishing to broaden their financial and business skills by gaining an appreciation of this important business function. It is designed to provide students with an understanding of how auditing integrates the financial accounting studied within the Common Core into credible business reporting for the users of financial statements. The module seeks to test the student's ability to understand and apply auditing concepts and standards in accordance both with the requirements of the Companies Law and International Auditing Standards. A secondary purpose is to encourage critical analysis of how well auditing techniques and standards meet the demands placed on auditing professionals. 

• Subject: Finance
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Introduction to Accounting and Finance

Banking and Legal Compliance

The module will provide students with a broad knowledge of modern banking theories, the regulatory framework and compliance issues with an emphasis on the UK banking industry. It focuses on issues related to banking structure, operations and various regulations imposed on different categories of banks. The themes are addressed primarily from a national perspective, although important international issues will also be included, and will cover the recent developments within the banking industry, such as electronic banking, smart cards and digital cash. 

• Subject: Finance
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Corporate Finance

This module is a specialised final level undergraduate module designed to prepare students for a career in the accounting or finance world or to give students a thorough understanding of the finance decisions faced by organisations. The module introduces students to modern finance theory. It covers the areas of capital structure, traditional and Modigliani and Miller, Efficient Market Hypothesis, term structure of interest rates and the use of financial derivative securities, futures, forwards, options and swaps to manage the financial risks faced by modern business. 

• Subject: Finance
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Introduction to Accounting and Finance

Financial Information

The module provides fundamental accounting and financial knowledge, essential skills for any business manager. It focuses on the purpose and relevance of accounting in business management and the use of accounting and financial techniques, to enable an analysis of business financial performance. It provides an introduction to financial resource management and the role of capital markets. 

• Subject: Finance
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Financial Strategy

This module is intended to develop the ability to critically appraise corporate treasury management decisions using an appreciation of the relevant theories of financial strategy. The module will enable the students to evaluate long-term and short-term financing decisions, with an emphasis on expansion and market maintenance strategies, as well as providing them with an understanding of the importance of working capital management. The module will demonstrate how decisions are made regarding proper pricing of assets in merger and acquisition situations and the appropriateness of the various methods of valuing securities.

The module also considers the effects of corporate reorganisation and capital reconstruction schemes. 

• Subject: Finance
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Management Accounting

International Financial Management

The International Financial Management module is a final level undergraduate module that looks at the risks faced by business through trading internationally. Translation, transaction, economic and political risks are identified and analysed. The methods available to manage these risks are analysed. The module investigates the advantages to a company of raising finance through the international finance markets, both equity and debt, and the different rules and regulations covering these markets. The areas of transfer pricing, the dividend decision for international firms and methods of reducing taxes through the use of tax management are also investigated. 

• Subject: Finance
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Investment Analysis and Strategy

This module presents a detailed coverage of the role and practice of institutional investors in the UK including investment concepts, analysis of securities and portfolio theory. The coverage will have an international flavour, including the influence of the global capital markets and the developments of legislation especially securities regulations in the UK, US and Europe, and events which impact the decision making processes of investors in general. The intention is to ensure students have a comprehensive awareness of the language used in investment analysis and strategy, access data and information sources on the Net, be able to calculate the major models used in quantitative investment analysis, and critically evaluate the limitations of such models as well as identify and critically assess the assumptions made in various investment strategies. 

• Subject: Finance
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Public and Private Finance in Property

How to read and interpret accounts; how to construct accounts from basic principles; what is public finance and taxation, the comprehensive spending review, the annual budget cycle; how to understand the principles and practice of private finance. 

• Subject: Finance
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Quantitative Finance

This module teaches both quantitative methods applied to financial data as well as the use of mathematics in modern finance. It shows students how to apply both quantitative and mathematical techniques using real world financial data & problems. It covers a variety of statistical & mathematical tools & models used in modern finance, and simulation methods in finance, e.g. Monte Carlo simulation of stock markets and option replication. 

• Subject: Finance
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Essential Data Analysis

Strategic Financial Management

This module is designed to develop students’ understanding of Financial Management themes. It covers a series of topics on investment decisions and their financial implications as investment and corporate finance decisions interrelate and cannot be separated. It will provide students with sufficient knowledge to appraise, from a both domestic and international perspective, financial management strategies and risk limitation techniques in making commercial value added decisions. 

• Subject: Finance
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

French

French Identity and Difference Since 1945

The module looks at contemporary French and Francophone issues, texts and representations arising from the post-war and postcolonial world. The module aims to enable you to: build on the knowledge and develop methods acquired in the earlier stages of the Area Studies strand of the course, in order to study issues in contemporary French/francophone culture; debate, contextualise and critically analyse French and Francophone cultural and cross-cultural issues; demonstrate a high level of analytical and critical competence enhanced by the experiential knowledge of French/Francophone cultural practices acquired during the previous years. 

• Subject: French
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Modern French Culture and Society: Literary and Cultural Studies

This is an introduction to literary and cultural analysis. The module looks at issues in modern and contemporary French and Francophone literature and culture. 

• Subject: French
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Modernity and the City: Revolution, Spectacle, Representation in Art and Literature, Paris Capital of the Arts 1848-1918

This module aims to provide you with an introduction to innovation in various forms of European artistic and cultural production (the visual arts, the novel, poetry) in response to urbanisation and rapid technological change in the 19th and early-20th centuries. The main focus will be on French cultural life in Paris, but there will be comparative analysis of the exchanges with other urban centres, notably London. 

• Subject: French
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

German

Analysing Issues in Post-War German History and Politics

The module aims to provide students with an introduction to German culture through the application of a variety of theoretical and analytical approaches to literary texts and other forms of cultural production. It seeks firstly to allow students to understand and engage critically and contextually with ideas and concepts from and relating to German culture, and secondly to investigate specific issues in German culture (see Indicative Syllabus Content for details). In addition the module aims to enable students to acquire the reading, research and written skills needed to discuss these issues in an appropriate critical and analytical register. 

• Subject: German
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

History

Cosmopolis: London Since 1960

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Empires in the Age of New Imperialism: 1870-1939

The module aims to provide the student with detailed knowledge and a critical understanding of the New Imperialism, the burst of imperial expansion which occurred after 1870. More specifically, although this was a phenomenon in which the 'advanced' capitalist countries all shared, Britain was in the vanguard and will be the main case study in the module with he experience of other countries providing a comparative perspective. The module aims to enable students to understand the origins, course and consequences of the New Imperialism as well as the contemporary and subsequent theoretical perspectives that were and are utilised to explain it. The module therefore allows students to address methodological issues concerning the nature of historical study including the nature and use of evidence. The module will also provide a framework for critical analysis of the main schools of historiography of the New Imperialism and will allow students to develop the key historical skills of working with primary and secondary sources and of researching and writing history to a good standard. 

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Historiography and Research Methods

The aim of this module is to provide students with the opportunity to acquire and practise the skills and techniques of the working historian and to prepare for the independent research they will undertake for their dissertation or project in their final year of studies. It also allows students to consider the development of history as an academic discipline from the Rankean revolution of the nineteenth century to the post-modern challenge of the late twentieth century. The module is therefore primarily concerned with methodological issues and historical techniques but also allows students to practice the key historical skills of working with primary and secondary sources and of researching and writing history to a high standard. 

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: History majors only

Modern America: Social and Political Change 1850-1920

The module aims to provide students with an overview of the main social and political developments in the USA from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the First World War. It considers the emergence of political institutions in the United States since the Civil War, as well as the social forces that shaped the evolution of the United States as a modern society. 

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Public History: London, History, and Museums

London is home to one of the finest collection of museums and galleries in the world, purporting to 'tell the story' of the development of the capital and so much of the rest of history in the United Kingdom. Hundreds of thousands of visits are made annually by tourists, schoolchildren and members of the public with an interest in the past, and alongside 'popular' history on television, it is likely that these museums play a significant role in colouring the perceptions of the general public on the history of London and of the wider world. This module aims to allow students to investigate and evaluate the ways in which 'public history' is presented in London to the general public. It aims to provide insights into the role of the curator, the institution, the state and private and semi-public bodies, and into how (and how well) each plays its part in bringing the past to present publics. In addition, it aims to allow students to exercise their imaginative as well as their critical faculties, by allowing them the opportunity to propose their own exhibit or exhibition for a London museum. 

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

The Cinema as a Source for Historians

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the concept of cinema as a source for historians. The intention is not to provide a history of the cinema, but rather to explore the ways in which the cinema may be used by historians to gain insights into the nature of past societies. Cinema has been widely used as a means of entertainment but also of political indoctrination, and in both these guises it may provide important evidence to be utilised in historical analysis. Thus, the module gives due emphasis to the particular strengths, but also the methodological difficulties associated with the use to be made by historians of this uniquely fascinating source. It will allow students to develop the key historical skills of working with primary and secondary sources and of researching and writing history to a good standard. 

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

The End of Empire: Decolonization Since 1945

The module aims to provide students with detailed and comprehensive knowledge and a critical understanding of the main events in the decolonisation from the end of the Second World War, to the mid-1960s, by which time the end of formal colonial rule was almost complete. Students are expected to finish the module with a good understanding of the phenomenon of British decolonisation together with an awareness of the similarities and differences with the end of empire for other European states. In addition, by focusing in detail on a particular historical case study which continues to have contemporary relevance, the module allows students the opportunity to address a number of methodological issues concerning the nature of contemporary historical study. 

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

The Great Wen: London in the Age of the Victorians 1837-1900

'What is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called by the silly coxcombs of the Press, "the metropolis of the Empire?"' (Cobbett). The module aims to provide students with a good understanding of the growth of London in the nineteenth century, its population profile, and the causes and consequences of immigration. Students will be encouraged to understand the 'social history versus economic history' debates on the standard of living, drawing upon social investigation from Henry Mayhew to Charles Booth, contemporary literature and newspapers and periodicals, maps and parliamentary materials. The module also aims to explain class relations and the social geography of Victorian London, as well as the issues of health and poverty, vice, crime and policing. 

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

The Origins of the Second World War: Diplomatic History, 1919-1941

Diplomatic history; international relations; peace settlements; the League of Nations; revisionism, Fascism and Nazism; the 1930s international crisis: Spanish Civil War; Austria; Czechoslovakia; Poland; foreign policy and policymaking of: Nazi Germany; the Soviet Union; Fascist Italy; the United States; Japan; Britain.

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

The Russian Revolution 1917-1921

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

The Troubles: Britain and Northern Ireland 1968-1998

Understanding of the origins and development of 'the Troubles' and explains the repeated failures of British and Irish politicians to bring them to an end. Concerned with British politics as much as with politics and political violence in Northern Ireland itself. Focus on an historical case study which continues to inform and inflame political debate. History of Northern Ireland since 1968: the Troubles; the IRA; terrorism and political change; conflict resolution. 

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Women and Women's Movement, 1918-1970

Feminism and the women's movement between enfranchisement and women's liberation; construction of femininity through culture and social policy; the state and political containment of women's aspirations; women's experiences of family, work, education, sexuality; differences of class and ethnicity. 

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Information Technology

Advanced Topics in Databases

The importance of database technology has become apparent in recent years with the emergence of massive amounts of distributed data, continuously streaming data from satellites and other remote devices, and so on. Data objects are available typically distributed over large-scale heterogeneous systems. Database technology, while being employed in many types of businesses to date, has been found not to meet many of the demands of newly emerging application domains. Thus new technologies in industry as well as new directions of database research have emerged.

• Subject: Information Technology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must be confirmed by course leader

Business Intellect

This module delivers up-to-date conceptual frameworks, techniques, technologies for business intelligence and digital intelligence. It covers the concepts, theories, principles, methods, examples and case studies of data Warehousing, business analytics and data visualization, Web mining, Web metrics, Web analytics, business performance management, and advanced software tools such as artificial neural networks, expert systems and software agents for business intelligence. 

• Subject: Information Technology
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Business Mathematics

• Subject: Information Technology
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Database Design and Practice 2

To provide a thorough coverage of the database approach and the development of database technology including the current role of databases in today’s information society. 

• Subject: Information Technology
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must be confirmed by course leader

Information and Data Modeling

Students will be looking at systems, what are the components of a system and how to build one. They will also be looking at data modelling. Students will develop skills required for effective modelling and the language for communicating this activity to other practitioners. The vehicle for this is a modelling language, through which IS development practise across various problem domains is demonstrated. 

• Subject: Information Technology
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Knowledge Management

The module introduces the student to the concepts of knowledge management, its use in organisations and its impact on and value to organisations. The module aims to equip students with the knowledge and understanding to evaluate the impact of Knowledge Management (KM) on organisations today. It will give them an understanding of the roots of KM and possible future developments. The students will gain an understanding of how knowledge management systems are currently used in organisations. 

• Subject: Information Technology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Networked Enterprise

This module explains how modern enterprises can utilise computing networks and related software techniques to improve the efficiency of business processes. It introduces students to the most common models and forms of e-business. It gives an overview of Business to Business (B2B), Business to Customer (B2C) and Business to Government (B2G) e-business models. Students will learn the technological background and requirements to perform secure transactions on the Internet and will study techniques of e-business strategy formulation design and development. The module also explains the relationship between enterprise and e-business applications, and the role of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems in e-business. 

• Subject: Information Technology
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Statistical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Data mining, classification, clustering, association rules, knowledge rules discovery.    

• Subject: Information Technology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must be confirmed by course leader

Strategic Web Design

The purpose of the module is to provide students with a comprehensive insight of the strategic aspects of web design, and the knowledge and skills to design and develop an interactive commercial website. The module addresses legal aspects and security issues and emphasises how an organisation’s web presence is a strategic consideration that needs to be fully aligned with organisational strategy and business objectives. 

• Subject: Information Technology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Web Analytics

Web analytics is a new area within many organizations and an area of growth in many online- focused organizations. There is currently great employer demand for students’ with web analytics knowledge. Web analytics provides an understanding about how people interact with organizations’ online offerings. Web analytics is very useful for students’ with an interest in eCommerce/mCommerce/eMarketing. This module provides a foundation of knowledge that could be used to achieve a Web Analytics Association (WAA) professional qualification. 

• Subject: Information Technology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Web Authoring and Design

The purpose of this module is to provide students with the knowledge and range of skills required to design and create a basic commercial website. The module looks into the challenges posed by the rapid expansion of ecommerce and covers a wide range of topics including usability, accessibility, design and development, ecommerce marketing plans, project management, operational and financial planning issues. 

• Subject: Information Technology
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Web Development

This module provides an introduction to a range of topics associated with the effective design of web pages and the use of the web. In doing so it should enable students to avoid the most common errors associated with webpage design. Areas covered include html, page and site design, multimedia, usability, accessibility. 

• Subject: Information Technology
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Journalism

Advertising and Promotional Culture

This module will give a critical exploration of the advertising industry, its relationship to other persuasive industries and to the media and its economic, social and cultural role. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Arts and Entertainment Journlism

This module will give an overview of UK and London arts world. The module will look at economics of the arts; techniques and practices of arts and cultural journalism including reviewing various forms of artistic products including live performances, recording performances, gallery events etc. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Contemporary Issues in Media Policy

The module will examine the policy and public interest issues raised by recent developments in the media, looking in particular at case studies within print and broadcasting. It will concentrate specifically on issues which policy-makers are now addressing, and which are becoming more urgent in the light of new technology. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Creative Video Production

This module will concentrate on non-factual single camera productions. The aim is to learn how to shoot and edit for continuity, action and movement sequences. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Creativity

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Cultural Industries and Media Markets

Music, news, films and TV shows, newspaper and magazine articles: these cultural goods have economic features that differentiate them from other goods and serves that are bought and sold. The module explores how these features interact with the diversification of digital delivery platforms to affect supply and demand. It looks at film, broadcasting and the press, as well as file-sharing, interactivity, user generated content, pod casting and blogging. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Digital PR

The module explores how new digital media can be – and are – used to further PR goals. It develops a practical knowledge and understanding of the various ingredients and techniques required to produce high quality digital public communications. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Documentary Production

Working in small groups under supervision, you will see an idea through from pitching, research and shooting to post-production. You will learn about production management, necessary legal requirements and working within a team. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Fashion Journalism

Reviewing designer shows and fashion related products to give students a critical understanding of the fashion industry and evaluate the main sources of information available including the leading personalities.

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Further Radio Production Skills

This module aims to teach technical, editorial and creative skills needed to edit and mix a short radio feature, which includes several sources of sound arranged in overlapping layers, using Adobe Audition. This module will equip you with technical skills to edit and mix using SADiE. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

International Journalism

This module will give a comparative study of journalism practice and restrictions on press freedom by various regimes across the globe. The module will also give a critical review of how journalism connects with geo-politics and ecology and will look at the extent and scope of international coverage in the UK and US and the impact of digital technology and satellite transmission on journalism practice worldwide. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Issues and Challenges in Creative Practice

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Media Law and Ethics

The module will give you a basic understanding of the English legal system and how the legal context affects the rights and duties of media workers. You will gain a critical understanding of the key ethical problems and issues related to work in the media. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Multicamera Production

This module will introduce you to multicamera, vision mixed production in the studio or on location. This module will equip you to work in teams to tight deadlines and to understand and coordinate all the production roles within a conventional multicamera structure. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Multiculturalism and the Media

The module introduces you to different conceptualizations and practices of multiculturalism in media and cultural studies as well as in media policies, practices and the media industries. The module aims to give you an understanding of multiculturalism, the multiplicity of its manifestations and meanings with particular reference to its relationship with the media (media policies, practices and the media industries); to extend that understanding to cross- cultural, comparative contexts and to gain an understanding of the multicultural experiences relative to media industries. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Multimedia Journalism

An introduction to the writing skills and technical demands of online, audio and visual journalism. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Music Radio

This module will enable you to apply your existing radio production skills to produce a series of stimulated live broadcasts in which your all round programme-making skills and wider music knowledge will be reinforced, nurtured and assessed. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

News and Public Opinion

This module will examine both theoretically and empirically different aspects of the news creation, dissemination and reception process. The module will look at the relevance of different traditions in mass media research to the study of news and it will be based on a number of case studies. The module will focus mainly on contemporary practices, in both print and electronic media. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Promotional Shorts

This module will provide the opportunity for specialist shooting, graphics and editing. You will make several very short, largely visual items aimed at creating interest in a product. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Specialist Public Relations

The module builds on skills and learning acquired previously. It enables students to acquire, develop and reflect upon the skills required to devise and deliver pr work in a range of key specialist fields, refining and applying general principles previously studied. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Subject to prior knowledge

Sports Journalism

This module will explore the practice and mechanics of sports writing in newspapers, magazines or radio stations. 

• Subject: Journalism
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Languages

Grade 4 (All Languages)

These modules enable students to play a key role in a variety of work situations & function in the language at an appropriate level in their specialism. 

• Subject: Languages
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 110
• Recommended Credits: 7.5
• Prerequisites: None

Grade 1 (All Languages)

These modules are designed for absolute beginners and teach the basic structures of the language and the essential communication skills necessary to survive in the country/countries in which the language is spoken. 

• Subject: Languages
• Course Level: 100
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 110
• Recommended Credits: 7.5
• Prerequisites: None

Grade 2 (All Languages)

These modules consolidate and expand basic linguistic skills & enable students to function with greater autonomy in the country/countries in which the language is spoken. 

• Subject: Languages
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 110
• Recommended Credits: 7.5
• Prerequisites: None

Grade 3 (All Languages)

These modules enable students to communicate effectively in social & work-related situations & to acquire an awareness of the cultural background of the country/countries in which the language is spoken. 

• Subject: Languages
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 110
• Recommended Credits: 7.5
• Prerequisites: None

Grade 5 (All Languages)

These modules enable students to acquire a high level of linguistic competence in order to cope in a variety of work, social & academic situations in English. 

• Subject: Languages
• Course Level: 500
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 110
• Recommended Credits: 7.5
• Prerequisites: None

Law

Alternative Dispute Resolution

This module looks at the nature of disputes, including emergence and transformation; the variety of mechanisms for dispute resolution; adjudication (trial and arbitration) mediation, conciliation, negotiation and various hybrids. The module also looks at principles of negotiation and mediation, and the practice of these processes of dispute resolution; role of third party neutrals and of representatives, including lawyers, and the ethical considerations attaching to these roles. The nature of debates regarding the advantages of adjudication and alternative dispute resolution in civil disputes. The module gives consideration to the use of methods of dispute resolution in different situations (e.g. family, construction disputes). 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Alternative to Litigation: Arbitration and Other Forms of Dispute Resolution

The module will examine how various forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) allow parties to resolve conflicts separate from litigation proceedings within state-run court systems, as well as providing students with first-hand knowledge of the key issues, principles, rules, procedures, and parties involved in ADR. ADR offers an alternative process of dispute resolution separate from proceedings within state-run court systems. In both the national and the international business context, parties often prefer ADR as a means of dispute resolution because they are convinced it offers faster, more predictable and more economical results compared to litigation in the state-run court systems. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Company Law

This module is especially useful for those students who will be seeking exemptions in Company Law from UK professional bodies, but is also relevant for anyone who wishes to learn about the nature, function and place of company law in business. The module is concerned with the significance of the inter-relationship between shareholders, company directors, creditors, customers and members of the public and the role of the government and other institutions in company law. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Criminal Justice 1: Causes and Institutions

This module covers the following issues - the aims of the criminal justice policy; an overview of criminological theory; crime prevention; policing; criminal statistics; punishment and prisoners' rights. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Criminal Justice 2: Offenses and Issues

Lectures will address the issues of race and mental disorder. Why are some ethnic minorities disproportionately represented in mental illness statistics? Is psychiatry discriminatory? How does one explain the presence of significant numbers of mentally ill persons in prison? Should mentally disordered offenders be punished in prison or treated in hospital? 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Employment Law

This module introduces you to the rationales for employment law and employment protection, the institutions of employment protection and specific areas of employment law. The module should enable the student to understand the law relating to employment protection, the context of employment law in a modern market economy, the rationales for employment law, and protection and its goals. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Housing Law

This module is designed to explore the legal structure and rules that underpin the provision of rented housing in the UK and the interaction between legal processes, housing management and other issues. It will critically evaluate the role of dispute resolution, regulating and policing agencies in housing law. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Business Law

The module reviews elements of a valid contract, contracts covered by The Sale of Goods Act 1979, The Sale and Supply of Goods Act 1994, the Consumer Credit Act 1974 and The Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982. The module also looks at consumer protection, including the Consumer Protection Act 1987, the employment contract and an insight into company law. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Human Rights Law

This module provides a broad introduction to the legal protection of human rights at the national, regional and international level. It introduces students to the historical development of the legal protection of human rights protection along with introducing the legal frameworks for the protection of human rights in place at the national (UK), regional (Europe) and international (UN) levels. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Legal Practice

This module introduces you to essential elements of law in practice. It explains the application of English law and makes you familiar with the operation of legal rules and procedures in the main practice areas. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Rights and Law

This module provides a basic though broad introduction to rights. It covers the concept of rights and several categories of rights including animal rights, student rights and disability rights. It will also cover aspirational rights such as the right to privacy; right to use soft drugs and the right to public nudity. It will consider the role of law in relation to rights. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Issues in European Union Law

This module deals with the basic substantive law of the European Union. It familiarises you with free movement of goods and persons, equal pay and equal treatment, the basics of competition law and the problematic of integration by focusing on environmental law. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: For students of European Law

Law and Culture

The module explores, through case studies, the interplay between law and culture, here defined as including the way of life of a people and the body of arts and intellectual work of a society. This includes ‘popular culture’. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Law and Medical Practice

This module is designed to provide an understanding of the law relating to medical practice. The module will introduce medical ethics and proceed to consider the law on consent to medical treatment, both for adult and minor patients, confidentiality, disclosure of treatment information and the legal remedies and procedures available to the patient who suffers a medical injury including a clinical negligence claim. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: A background in the Law of Tort

Law of Agency

This is an introduction to the concepts of the law of agency and the part played by agents in commercial transactions. The establishment of legal relationships between principle and third parties is also covered. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: A background in the Law of Tort, and Law of Contract

Legal Reasoning

This module looks at communication, rules, logic and the concepts of judicial discretion, judicial subterfuge, justice, balancing interests, legal tradition, social change, morality and the role of the judge. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Mooting and Advocacy

A moot is the argument of the legal issues raised by a hypothetical case which takes place in the imaginary setting of a court of law. Students will be guided through the processes required to undertake a moot, by rehearsing and applying the law and developing confidence in advocacy. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Property and People

This module offers a fresh and innovative approach to property law. The development and classification of modern property law are considered from various perspectives; historical analytical and philosophical. The module can be studied on its own or may be a valuable introduction to several higher level modules including substantive property law subjects. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

The Portrayal of Law and Lawyers in Film

The Film and the Law module is concerned with the cinematic representations of law and legal personnel. You will view a number of films throughout the course in a number of distinct areas such as lawyers, miscarriages of justice, court martials, future law, judges and juries. Analysis of the films will be undertaken to determine whether there are key threads and themes running through the portrayals and to critically evaluate common characteristics. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Women and the Law

This module is an introduction to selected aspects of English Law as they relate to women. It takes women, rather than legal categories, as its starting point. It provides an opportunity to consider the treatment & portrayal of women in selected areas of the law & the legal system, the notion of equality & the pursuit of equality, & theories surrounding women and law. 

• Subject: Law
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Linguistics

Psycholinguistics

The module examines the psycholinguistic processes which underlie language comprehension and production; discusses psycholinguistic theories relating to speech perception, lexical access, sentence and discourse parsing and speech production. 

• Subject: Linguistics
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Phonetics I: Making Speech Sounds, Word and Sentence Structure

Syntax Theory

The module gives a comprehensive introduction to Chomsky's theory of principles and parameters and its application in the analysis of sentence structure in English and other languages. 

• Subject: Linguistics
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Translation Theory

This module provides insights from linguistics and computational linguistics and illuminates the processes involved in translation and, thereby, supplies participants with ways of monitoring and simulating their own translation practice so as to reveal the techniques they employ and the principles which underlie them. 

• Subject: Linguistics
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Word and Sentence Structure

This module builds on 1LIN401 (Introduction to Linguistics) and is concerned with a detailed description and analysis of the structure of words and sentences in English and other languages. It also discusses the similarities and differences between languages in terms of their morphology and syntax (in particular, word order). You will have the opportunity to work on data from a wide variety of languages including American Indian languages, Australian Aboriginal languages, African, Indian languages and South East Asian languages as well as French- and English-based pidgins and creoles. 

• Subject: Linguistics
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

London Studies

Art and Society

The module examines some of the main periods and movements in the history of the visual arts and architecture in Britain. It relates questions of stylistic development to cultural and social contexts. It develops your skills in the reading of visual texts and considers the role of London as a cultural capital - with regard to its historic buildings, public collections and its place in the contemporary international art market. The module includes visits to museums, galleries and architectural sites. 

• Subject: London Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Incurs an additional cost

Devising London

This module will include researching and reflecting on an aspect of contemporary London (social, cultural, historical and artistic and political aspects of London). This will include visits to sites of relevance to stimulate thinking about London. Secondly, the module will look at the translation of this research into performance, which will culminate in a devised piece of theatre (through the means of student collaboration within the context of teacher led workshops). This course will be of interest to both students with little or no background in performance, as well as those with a keen interest and some experience in the area. 

• Subject: London Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

London Theatre in Performance

The module aims to introduce you to the institutions, patterns and structures that make up London's Contemporary Theatre and to develop your ability to analytically review theatre productions from an informed perspective. London's theatre offers a wide variety of theatrical forms and genres in different types of institutions (West End Commercial Theatre, Subsidised Theatre, Fringe theatre) all of which will be examined during the course. The course will use visits to the theatre to both teach you how to review plays as performance and will develop your appreciation of the complexity of the staging process of a play. 

• Subject: London Studies
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Incurs an additional cost

Management

Corporate Social Responsibility

This module examines the theory and practice of corporate social responsibility in the modern business context. The module aims to help students develop their abilities to analyse theoretical and business approaches to corporate social responsibility, and consider the issues involved in implementing related policies. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Cultural Difference and People Management

The course aims to provide a useful base for working and managing in multicultural settings. It focuses on national cultural differences, particularly in relation to different ideas of management and organisations. It aims to draw on students’ lived experience of culture to make sense of the organisational literature on cultural differences. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Perspectives on Behavior in Organisations

Employee Reward

Reward is at the core of the relationship between employer and employee. Managers need to know the principles underpinning systems of reward and how to effectively implement them in practice. The increasing importance and relevance of the subject area is reflected in both the attention given to rewarding employees in the organisational environment and its key position in professional HRM programmes of study. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Organisational Behavior and Analysis

Employment: The European Dimension

This module examines EU policies on work and employment, considers issues of implementation and examines the stresses of national implementation. Students will relate theoretical approaches to the European labour market to current business issues and problems; develop clear lines of argument and evaluate attempts at the implementation of labour policies; and develop a critique of current policies on labour and evaluate attempts to develop them. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Enterprise Social Networks

The web 2.0 has manifested itself in the emergence of websites with a user-generated content. This rapidly growing phenomenon is seen in social networking technology that is attracting millions of users around the globe making it one of the most influential and fastest growing media in today’s online technology. The popularity of social networks has led to many companies adopting social media to gain visibility, add new ways to promote business, build new communication channels with customers and foster employee relationships. Social media enables enterprises to attract customers with minimum advertising costs and higher conversion rates thus eventually leading to increase in sales and revenues. The aim of the module is to explore the social networking tools and their impact on the strategic development of an enterprise. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Enterprise Strategy

This module will explore the exciting differences between traditional business strategy and the strategies required to gain the most from new technologies, enterprise management and eBusiness/eCommerce solutions. The module will explore and integrate the traditional and enterprise strategies together, enabling students to evaluate and make better use of strategies within a modern organization. This module will explore models for eMarketing Strategy, eProcurement strategies, Customer relationship management, Information strategies and ecommerce strategies. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Equality and Diversity in Employment

The module will explore the implications of inequality and difference for employment, and consider economic and social identity explanations for segregation and disadvantage in the labour market. It will investigate the impact of individual attitudes and behaviour and the role of organisational cultures in promoting or undermining equality and diversity. Students will investigate how organisations are tackling the issues and evaluate the policies and practices adopted in managing equality and diversity in the workplace. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Financial and Human Resource Management in Organisations

The module introduces students to the challenges of defining goals and assessing effectiveness in organisations, control and performance measurement and organizational and financial planning. Human Resource Management (HRM) models of assessment as well as accounting tools such as budgets used by managers to plan and control, and influences on metrics in organisations will be critically examined. The module draws on theory and practice from both Management Accounting and Human Resource Management. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Financial Information

Human Resource Development

The module highlights the critical importance of Human Resource Development (HRD) as a deliberate business process. It is therefore concerned with the management of individual and organisational learning to achieve business goals. The module combines theory, practice and the development of individual skills. The module aims to provide a clear and practical exposition of the theory and practice of HRD; to encourage students to reflect on the contribution that they could make as employees / managers to supporting and promoting learning in organisations; and to develop (HRD) practitioner skills, including self-directed learning. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Organisational Behavior and Analysis

Managing Airports

The module explores the role of airports within the air transport system. It considers the different forms of airport ownership and management and investigates commercialisation, privatisation and globalisation developments. The economic and service characteristics of airports are examined and the role of marketing is assessed. The relationship of the airport with airlines, passengers, retailers and other customers is evaluated. The airport’s impact on the economy and the environment is explored and the planning issues involved in airport expansion and development are considered. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Managing Change: A Human Resource Management Approach

This module is intended to provide students with an understanding of change management and provide approaches to analysing an organisation’s development and implementation of change. It will examine theories and practices of organisational change. It will contrast different models and approaches to understanding change and innovation in organisations and explore the managing of organisational change. In particular it will focus on the human aspects of change. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Online Entertainment Management

There is an increase in the use of online entertainment content in the entertainment industry (for example, YouTube, BBC iPlayer, iTunes etc.). This module investigates why there is an increase of online entertainment content, how online content is changing the business environment of the entertainment industry and how organizations in other industries can use this technology to gain competitive advantage. The module provides a lively and entertaining look at this exciting area. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Online Social Entrepreneurship

This module is about using the Internet and associated technologies, as well as e-commerce business models, to deliver social and/or environmental benefits. The module aims to enable students to understand the nature and importance of online social entrepreneurship today and in the foreseeable future; to highlight some of the technologies and applications which underpin online social entrepreneurship; to develop an appreciation of some of the current constraints and limitations of the underlying technology; and to develop an understanding of how to implement a simple online social enterprise. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Operations Management

The purpose of this module is to broaden students’ knowledge and extend their understanding of the central contribution operations management can play in ensuring competitiveness. The emphasis will be on the service sector. Students will be introduced to a range of management approaches used within organisations concerned with the creation of products and services. Students will be led to an understanding of the importance of a planned approach to the design of operations and will gain a general business awareness of operations. The range of business techniques introduced in the module can be used widely in a number of different sectors. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Organisational Analysis and Behavior

The module explores Organisational Behaviour and Analysis related topics, taking into account the economic, social and political context within which organisations operate. The aim of this module is to put organisational analysis at centre stage. The module will convey to students the importance of macro organisational processes for the experience of work of both managers and employees, taking into account constraining and enabling structures within the economic, social and political context. An analysis of the key theories, concepts and empirical evidence about contemporary work organisations will provide students with the basic analytical tools for understanding why the workplace is a domain of discord as much as harmony, of paradox just as much as rationality, and of frustration just as much as satisfaction. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Perspectives on Behavior in Organisations

The Reality of Work Cultures in the Modern Economy

This module looks at the realities of the relationship between work and social character in the modern economy. The module will enable students to examine and critically evaluate the reality of modern work and its effect upon working cultures and social character; and to critically examine whether modern work has undermined the implicit relationships between work and career and character. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

The Role of the Manager

This module is intended to prepare students for managerial roles and, as such, deals with the core skills involved in management. These include delegation, managerial style, chairing meetings, staff counselling, staff development, identifying and managing conflict and negotiating skills. The module aims to help students identify how people become managers, what the role of the manager is and how to maximise effectiveness in that role. Real-life examples are offered throughout, with the variations in styles of management required by different organisations and different cultures taken into consideration. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Understanding the Employment Relationship

relations and the potential for conflict to arise. Having established these key concepts, the course devotes significant time to critical analysis of the methods for avoiding and resolving conflict. The UK system of employee relations is utilised to demonstrate these concepts. This module provides the core concepts utilised in the level 6 module, ‘Managing the Employment Relationship’. 

• Subject: Management
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Marketing

Advertising

In a world where consumers are becoming more sophisticated and technology changes the way in which we communicate, advertising is exciting, challenging and evolving. The module focuses on the way in which media is utilised to create meaningful messages, build brands and stimulate sales. The module will aim to provide students with an in-depth awareness of the contemporary issues, standards and operating practices of advertising agencies in the industry; to introduce students to the concepts and theories of advertising; and to create an opportunity for students to participate in the creation of an advertising solution to a practical marketing communications problem. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Principles of Marketing

Brand and Branding

A key asset and source of competitive advantage to modern firms and organizations is the portfolio of brands that they own. This module provides students with a thorough grounding in branding, giving not only an understanding of the fundamental importance and role of brands in the modern business and marketing world but also a set of tools to help them extract the maximum benefit and enjoyment from their subsequent business and marketing studies. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Consumer Behavior

The behaviour of consumers and buyers in different contexts, cultures, consumption and usage situations, both individually, within and across groups. The application of consumer behaviour theory to marketing action in different market sectors. Students practice active learning, problem solving, and autonomy. Provides marketing knowledge and transferable skills required for professional marketers. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Cross Cultural Studies

This module examines how marketing managers must adapt to cultural diversity in international and increasingly in domestic marketing. Different cultural and sub-cultural contexts are explored alongside the implications for different functions within the marketing role. Students practice active learning, problem solving, and autonomy. Provides marketing knowledge and transferable skills required for professional marketers. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Principles of Marketing

Developing Practical Entrepreneurial Ideas

This module involves transferable soft and hard business skills focused on micro and small organisations. It will be based on Action Learning teaching methodologies. Specific transferable skills such as maintaining and developing cash flows, competitor analysis and using target markets to develop cost/benefited promotions will be critically developed. A wide range of transferable communication skills will be practiced in group work, individual work and where possible working with outside organisations. Various software and hardware programs and platforms will be used as appropriate. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Distribution and Retail

This module examines the distribution of products in both B2B and B2C with particular emphasis on the end of the B2C chain. The module examines the elements of the distribution channel, considerations and constraints in channel design, the role of information in logistics management and the differing considerations and requirements of different sectors. This is integrated with supply chain management considerations from the retailers’ point of view. This requires examination of the principles driving competitiveness in retail organisations in different retail sectors. The module also considers wider social, political, economic and environmental responsibilities of distributors and retailers (if any). 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Principles of Marketing, or Behavioral Aspects of International Business

Entrepreneurship Theory to Practice

This module involves a range of business theories that need to be applied in practical environments as appropriate. It also involves communication, research and use of IT skills. Students will required to research and suggest implementation practices in response to specific business scenarios using text, slide and verbal communication as appropriate. Action Learning techniques will be used through out. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

International Business

The Module explores the wider business environment and the significance of major global trends. The impact upon international businesses of the global trade institutions and of governments is studied for companies of various sizes and types. Major topics include, foreign direct investment; culture and management practice, assessing the attractiveness of markets, ethics and the management of risk internationally. The decisions and issues faced by international managers are studied from the perspective of various functions including Finance, HRM, Marketing and Operations. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

International Marketing Planning and Practice

Against the cultural, political and economic backdrops that influence international marketing decisions the Module will explores the development of international competitiveness. The module builds on student understanding of the drivers of international marketing and explores the issues arising from operating internationally. The effectiveness of marketing solutions employed by international companies is studied to derive best practice. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Principles of International Marketing

Market Planning and Strategy

A management consultant called Paul Dunn once famously said “Those that aim at nothing, usually hit it with surprising accuracy”, and so we need a plan! However, it is also said that planning is never straightforward. Whilst we may be able to predict the future to some extent, organisations are complex, meaning that accurate predictions are difficult to make, even after detailed research. The BMKT602 Marketing Planning and Strategic Choice module investigates issues that marketers in the real world have to deal with: identifying and analysing market trends; selecting and understanding target markets and the value required by each of them, creating superior value to competitors, prioritising marketing objectives and strategies, and finally assessing the possible financial consequences of actions taken. It is this planning process which focuses the minds of marketing managers and provides a framework which should be sufficiently flexible to allow for the unforeseen. In the words of General Dwight Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied forces at the time of the D- Day invasion in 1944: ‘Plans are nothing - planning is everything’. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Principles of Marketing

Marketing Communications

Marketing communications together are one of the four key ingredients of marketing strategy identified by Culliton (1948) to describe the role of a marketing manager. Borden (1953) called this the “marketing mix”, and McCarthy (1960) listed the ingredients of this mix as the Four Ps. The “P” that stands for Marketing Communications itself is further subdivided into the Marketing Communications Mix: as advertising, sales promotion, PR, personal selling, and direct marketing. This module covers these areas and more recent developments. It provides the theoretical and practical foundations of marketing communications by considering their role and function within business organisations; their evolution over the past ten to fifteen years; planning the marketing communications process; and the analysis of marketing communications dynamics as a prelude to planning and execution. It considers marketing communications from a consumer’s point of view as well as from an organisational perspective. It considers the importance and benefits of integrated marketing communications. It explains how organisations interact with media agencies. Finally the module presents models for measuring the success rate in evaluating the overall communication process and individual marketing communications programmes. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Principles of Marketing

Marketing Metrics and Analysis

Metrics are used by marketing decision makers. The skills involve knowing what to measure, where to find data and how to construct measures. This then continues with interpretation and the uses of given metrics. Cautions or warnings are also essential to avoid misuse or misapplication. This module inspects metrics associated with elements of the marketing mix (product, price, place, promotion) in theory and applied to industry sectors. Students practice active learning, problem solving, and autonomy. Provides marketing knowledge and transferable skills required for professional marketers. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Principles of Marketing

Personal Selling and Sales Management

The use of sales approaches in marketing management. The skills involved in selling and creating sales operations. The use of organisation, motivation and knowledge in different contexts. Students practice active learning, problem solving, and autonomy. Provides marketing knowledge and transferable skills required for professional marketers. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Principles of Marketing

PR and Sales Promotions

With media channels becoming more and more fragmented and consumers increasingly able to filter-out unwanted and intrusive advertising, the nature of marketing communications is changing. As we enter an era when manufacturers and consumers will have ‘dialogues’ and brand reputations will be formed on social networks, this module aims to provide students undertaking broad based business degrees or specialist marketing degrees with a detailed understanding of how public relations and promotional marketing (sales promotion) can be applied to communicate marketing messages across multi-channel media - whilst ensuring consistency and engagement with the consumer. This module provides students with an important understanding of how traditional theories of reputation management and models of consumer choice can be applied to aspects of brand management and how the rapidly changing media environment will see them play an increasingly important role. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Principles of International Marketing

This module provides an introduction to International Marketing, and a basic understanding of how International Marketing differs from Domestic Marketing. In particular, it will acquaint students with the various macro-environmental forces in the international domain, including cultural, sociological, economic and, political forces, and the implications of these for each the various marketing mix decision areas. The module is designed to provide the conceptual and contextual foundations of International Marketing for anyone wishing to undertake a career in the modern international business environment, as also those wishing to undertake further specialized studies in the area of International Marketing. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Perspectives on Behavior in Organisations, or Behavioral Aspects of International Business

Principles of Marketing

This module provides students with a broad introduction to marketing and its role in business and society today, providing students with an overview of the principles underpinning marketing activities. The role of marketing in responding to and shaping major social and environmental issues also will be examined. The module aims to introduce the key concept of marketing, an understanding of consumer behaviour, and an evaluation and application of marketing tools. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Can't be taken with Behavioral Aspects of International Business

Service Marketing

Although the basic principles are common, the marketing of services differs from that of goods and requires a distinctive approach with regard to the development and execution of marketing strategy. Marketers of services more so than those of goods must recognise the service aspects of their organisations and the ways in which service can be used as a source of competitive advantage. This will all be covered in the module. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Principles of Marketing

The Global Markets

This module examines the impact of globalization on business activity, consumer markets, and politico-economic developments. Identify the historical processes that contributed to globalisation. It will explore the impacts of globalisation, examining the role of political economy and the impact of international organisations such as the WTO and the EU on globalisation; explore the impact of FDI and other modes of entry on the expansion of businesses in host countries. Examine the role of differential culture and mass culture in global business; and explain and critically examine major issues in international business and global strategy. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Level 4 Business Module

Value Creation for Customer

The module will focus on the inter-relationships between a company’s market position, the nature of its products and services and the design and management of its operations. It explores the impact of marketing and operational decisions on financial performance. The concept of the Value Chain is a key tool used to aid student understanding. 

• Subject: Marketing
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Principles of Marketing

Music

Individual and Group Performance 2: Music and Narrative

In this module you will engage with the challenge of developing your instrumental and vocal ability. The group performance work explores its relationship with a range of performance opportunities that engage with narrative forms, including theatre, dance and media. Musicianship classes will reflect specific challenges that arise in the creation and performance of music narratives. 

• Subject: Music
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Music as Intellectual Property

• Subject: Music
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Musical Knowledge and Its Applications

There will be themed introductory sessions on music to accompany film, TV video games and advertising imagery; forensic musicology as used in copyright trials; the art and science of music therapy, and the cognitive psychology of music will form the main taught content of this module. This is followed by support sessions to facilitate the development of analysis of theoretical aspects of one of the above applications. 

• Subject: Music
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Style Tradition and Analysis

This module gives you a brief introduction into the nature and problems of the concept of music history. You will explore a range of key genres and styles of UK and US music from the 1920s to the 1980s, in order to understand two still-contemporary uses of musical core repertoire – cover versions, as reworked by musicians in a wide variety of disciplines; and sampling of pre-existing recordings by artists prevalent in Hip Hop and other dance music traditions. 

• Subject: Music
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Technologies for Music Performance

In this module you will be introduced to a range of computer based technologies and software packages such as Logic, Reason, Ableton Live, Director, Max/MSP, and Supercollider and explore ways in which these and other technologies may be used in live music performance. 

• Subject: Music
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Must submit a portfolio

Political Science

Diplomacy and International Relations

This module examines diplomacy in theory and practise. It traces the historical origins of diplomacy as a concept and a practise and explores its changing role and significance within the contemporary international system. The module explores how international actors use diplomacy to achieve their objectives in areas such as security, trade and finance, the environment and humanitarian affairs, and how morality and developments in technology and the media have impacted on diplomatic activity. 

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

European Foreign Policy

The module will chart the evolution of European Union foreign policy and identify competing conceptualisations of the European Union as a foreign policy actor. The European Union foreign policy making process and the impact of the European Union's foreign policy on the EU member states as well as third parties will be analysed with emphasis on the following areas: security, defence and conflict prevention, foreign economic policy (including trade), human rights, democracy and good governance, energy and organised crime. 

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

European Security

This module explores the changing geopolitical context, institutions, characteristics and providers of European security from the post-war construction of NATO to the European Union’s (EU) Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). It examines different aspects of contemporary European security including internal/external security and military/human security. It analyses Europe’s relations with key security actors including the US and Russia. It covers European participation in international security operations and Europe’s key concerns and debates on human security, including e.g. international terrorism; international crime such as arms and drugs trafficking; climate change and food/water/environmental security; illegal immigration; and fuel security. 

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Gender, Politics, and the State

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Globalisation, Power, and International Governance

This module will define and identify different conceptualisations and theories of Globalisation and outline the debates between them. It will place Globalisation in a historical context and explore its impact on (state) power and international governance, including international law and international organisation. It will attempt to determine how Globalisation has influences international security, wealth creation and distribution, the global environment and international order. 

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations: Morality, Human Rights, and the Use of Force

‘Humanitarian intervention’ is an issue of uniquely broad interest and importance which continues to be one of the dominant controversies of our time. Key events in the contemporary era, from the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, have reignited the debate regarding the rights and responsibilities the international community has to alleviate suffering abroad. While there is general consensus as to the importance of humanitarian intervention, it is also one of the most divisive issues in contemporary international relations. This module will examine the history of humanitarian intervention, its moral and philosophical basis and the primary sources of contestation such as its legal status, the question ‘who decides?’ and the balance between order and justice. 

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Immigration: The European Experience

This module examines the ways in which immigration affects the political identities, political systems, policies and societies of European 'host' states. It focuses on recent developments including the securitisation of immigration and attempts to control the numbers and characteristics of foreign incomers. It evaluates immigration policies both at the national level and at the level of the EU. 

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

International Security Studies

This module introduces students to International Security Studies by examining the debates, problems and issues surrounding the concept of international security.

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Political Analysis: Mind, Knowledge, and Reality

This course introduces students to the dynamics of political analysis. It explains the key components of various approaches to political science. This knowledge is then applied to current issues of politics and international relations, helping students develop a critical appreciation of ontological and epistemological dimensions of analysis and how in turn these factors impact on the choice of methodology for research and its outcome. 

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Political Ecology Today: Values, Power, Justice

This ‘inquiry based’ module will equip students with a critical understanding of political ecology, environmental justice, and various theoretical approaches to environmental governance and policymaking world-wide. Students will undertake enquiry based learning where they will design and carry out their own projects on a political ecology theme, culminating in a short academic paper. 

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Political Gaming and Simulations

This module examines the role and application of games and simulations to model political struggles and international conflicts. It provides a critical analysis of the different theories of gaming and the techniques required to build political simulations. 

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Power, Freedom, Justice: Explorations in Political Subjectivity

A critical exploration of the recent fertile cross-exchange between Continental and Anglo- America political theory concerning questions of how power, freedom and justice inform political subjectivity. The discussion will focus on the in-depth reading of selected texts by political theorists on these themes, and on the contextualisation of these writings in relation to social and political change in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. 

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Russia and Eastern Europe: The Politics of Transition

This module explores the phenomenon of ‘transition’ towards democracy as a political economic concept and process of change in Russia and Eastern Europe, since the end of communist authoritarianism. The main focus will be on investigating the different ‘paths’ taken by Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union, and Central and Eastern Europe towards democratisation: ‘managed democracy’, continued authoritarianism, or civil society- led democracy. The lectures aim to provide overviews of relevant analytical frameworks and an overview of the major research findings and debates about systemic transformation from communist authoritarianism to varying forms of democracy. The seminars illustrate and further elaborate these processes with examples of Central and Eastern (post-Soviet) European experiences on both sides of the EU external border as the ‘new Iron Curtain’. 

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Themes in the Global Politics of Energy

The course aims at introducing students to the key themes in the global politics of energy. It seeks to develop students’ familiarity with the wide range of actors that have shaped the politics of energy on the international, regional and local level. It examines the main approaches to the study of energy and demonstrates their relevance to today’s world. The course takes a long term historical perspective to the study of energy. It starts with the end of the coal era, imperialism, western domination and finishes with the rise of new actors on the world stage that are set to redefine the politics of energy as we know it. 

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 40
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Psychology

Clinical Psychology

This module considers diagnosis, assessment and approaches to intervention in the field of clinical psychology; a range of types of psychological disorders; paradigms and current issues. Classification and diagnosis - history of classification systems - medical behaviour, etc.; Psychiatric illness - causes, symptoms and mechanisms of disorders, ie. schizophrenia; Treatments and therapies - effectiveness of therapeutic interventions, including behaviour modification, cognitive therapies, etc.; Issues and Controversies - clinical versus statistical prediction, ant psychiatry, etc. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Individual Differences, or Psychobiology and Clinical Neuroscience

Cognitive Psychology

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Critical Psychology

Critical Psychology brings together a variety of theoretical, philosophical and empirical studies which aim to evaluate and reflect upon the nature, place and operation of psychological theories and practices within contemporary culture. Central to this work is an engagement with the social, cultural, moral, political and economic context of psychology along with scrutiny of the consequences of a wide variety of psychology practices including academic, educational, clinical, developmental and psychotherapeutic approaches. There is a particular emphasis on the role of psychology in both causing and alleviating the complexities of oppression and inequality in our contemporary present. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Introduction to Social and Developmental Psychology

Developmental Psychology

The module aims to consolidate and elaborate the concepts introduced at Level 4 in order to develop and extend the breadth and depth of student understanding and appreciation of human psychological development. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Introduction to Cognition, Learning, and Personality

Forensic Psychology

This module investigates the nature and scope of Forensic Psychology. Covers areas such as criminal investigations looking at police procedures and psychology as it relates to the courtroom setting. In addition criminal behaviour in terms of topics such as offender profiling and& sex offenders is discussed and biases in the legal system such as racism and sexism are explored. The module aims to introduce students to the expanding area of psychological research being undertaken under the banner of Forensic Psychology. The module aims to demonstrate the applications of psychological theory to the areas of crime investigation, criminal behaviour and legal processes. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Cognitive Psychology, or Social Psychology

Individual Differences

To familiarise students with the major theories and approaches to personality, intelligence and psychometric testing. Personality: factor theories, type and trait theories, attribution theories and psychoanalytic theory. Personality testing: psychometric techniques, standardisation, validity and reliability. Intelligence: theoretical models. Intelligence testing: personality - factor theories, type and trait, etc. Personality testing - psychometric techniques. Intelligence - theoretical models, factor analysis and group factors. Intelligence testing - group tests and individual tests, standardisation, etc. Origins of personality and intelligence - heredity and environmental influences, nature/nurture interaction, etc. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Introduction to Cognition, Learning, and Personality

Introduction to Cognition, Learning, and Personality

This module aims to: introduce a selection of core topics in the psychology of cognition, learning and individual differences; introduce and develop group work and presentation skills required in the student's degree programme. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Social and Developmental Psychology

This module aims to: introduce students to the nature of Social Psychology and its practical applications; lifespan developmental psychology and to develop the academic writing skills required in students' degree programme. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Psychobiology

Biological bases of human inheritance, development, behaviour and mental processes. Inheritance: Mendelian laws, pedigrees, sex and gender. Human life span: homeostasis, control and regulation. Brain and nervous system and principles of neuropharmacology. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Psychological and Psychoanalytical Aspects of Individual and Group Behavior

This module offers a critical appreciation of the psychological and psychoanalytic dimensions of individual and group behaviour, particularly in an organisational environment. The module aims to allow students to develop a critical appreciation of the value of psychological and psychoanalytic research and literature for working in, and managing, organisations; to gain knowledge of some of the psychological and psychoanalytical dimensions of individual and group behaviour in an organisational context; to develop a critical understanding of the nature of leader/follower relationships; to develop a critical understanding of anxiety and individual and group defences, informed by research studies in psychoanalysis; to gain knowledge of change and learning, health and wellbeing in the workplace, stress and emotions and happiness in work, through an examination of psychological literature; and to develop a reflective ability to draw on one’s own experience to make sense of the above-mentioned literature. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Organisational Behavior and Analysis

Psychology of Education

This module aims to explore psychological theory and research that has implications for education: Education and Society; the context of the school; aptitude for schooling; learning, social and personal development in school, learning to read, spell and do arithmetic; children with special educational needs; the role of the Educational Psychologist. The Social Psychology of the Classroom - interactions between pupil and teacher, etc.; Process of learning - approaches to learning and levels of understanding, etc.; Assessment and attainment - assess in education system, etc.; Disadvantage and education - concepts of disadvantages, etc.; Politics of education - school and classroom organisation, the National Curriculum and parental involvement, etc. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Introduction to Social and Developmental Psychology

Psychology of Prejudice

The module aims to develop in students an understanding of Psychology's contribution to the explanation of inter-group prejudice, primarily with respect to racism but including sexism, ageism and class prejudice; identify those aspects of inter-group behaviour which are enhanced by distinctive social-psychological perspective; depict levels of explanation at which theories of prejudice operate. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Social Psychology, or Developmental Psychology

Psychology of Sport, Exercise, and Performance

This module discusses relationships between psychological states and physical performance, mainly in sports and exercise settings. Some consideration will be given to other types of performance, however, for example in the arts or in adventure activities. The module aims to advance your knowledge of recent developments in the theory and application of sports and exercise psychology, to develop your ability to critically appraise and evaluate the sport and exercise psychology literature and to acquaint you with techniques for performance enhancement including visualisation, goal setting, and positive self-talk. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Introduction to Social and Developmental Psychology, Introduction to Cognition, Learning, and Personality, or a sports science module

Psychology of Women

This module considers psychological evidence or key gender-related issues that affect women throughout their lives; feminist theoretical perspectives offered by psychology. The emergence of gender differences - gender identification, sex, relationship between biology and behaviour; Sexuality - sexual behaviour and dysfunction, etc.; Pregnancy and childbirth - psychological correlates of pregnancy and postpartum period, motherhood, etc.; Women in mid-life and old age - biological and psychological reactions to menopause and ageing, etc.; Issues concerning women. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Introduction to Social and Developmental Psychology

Social Psychology

To develop in students a knowledge of the distinctive socio-psychological perspective on human behaviour and its relation to adjacent disciplines. Understanding the social world: social perception and cognition, person perception and attribution. Attitudes and attitude change: structure, functions and measurement and relation to behaviour. Attraction, pro- social behaviour, prejudice and racism. Understanding the social world - social and person perception, etc.; attitudes and attitude change; attraction - interpersonal relationships; pro- social behaviour - helping behaviour, altruism and intervention in emergencies; prejudice and racism - theories of prejudice, externalisation, socio-cultural, intergroup relations; development of racial attitudes, etc. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Introduction to Cognition, Learning, and Personality

The Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring

This module focuses upon the theory and applied practice of coaching and mentoring within an applied learning framework. It covers the principles, theories and models of mainstream coaching and mentoring, along with an understanding of the process issues connected to coaching and mentoring activities. The content of the module focuses upon the implications for coaching and mentoring from the perspectives of psychology and human resource management. This module is highly skills focussed and the content therefore reflects this practical aspect of becoming a skilled coach and mentor. This credit bearing module is suitable for those students who would like to develop practical coaching and mentoring skills and equally share valuable professional experiences with other university students. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Work Psychology

This module explores the different psychological theories and their application in organisational settings. It examines the main perspectives of psychology (Psychodynamic, Behaviourist, Humanistic, Cognitive and Trait and Type theory) and explains different methodological approaches to research and application of work psychology. It will examine the relevance of psychology in the workplace and show how use of theory can be applied to organisational situations, for example in: personality testing, discrimination in the workplace, career management, stress and well-being in the workplace, relationships at work and training and group decision making. 

• Subject: Psychology
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 300
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Sciences

Anatomy and Physiology

This module will teach you about the organisation and function of the human body, from basic chemical, molecular and cellular organisation to the arrangement of organs. You will cover the functioning of the major physiological systems and their role in maintaining homeostasis. A strong emphais is placed upon the development of your ‘touch’ skills, so that you can palpate and identidy various structures, including major bony landmarks, major muscles, nerves and organs, within the context of the care of the individual. This module also provides you with practice in information seeking, problem solving and team working skills gained from practical palpation sessions and laboratory practicals. 

• Subject: Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 120
• Recommended Credits: 8
• Prerequisites: None

Botany and Botanical Medicine

This module will provide you with an introduction to the herbal medicine materia medica with particular focus on selected medicinal plants and their constituents, pharmacological actions and therapeutic uses. You will have the opportunity to take part in practical sessions, and be trained in assessing quality of fresh and dried plant materials and making herbal medicines. This module will teach you about plant sciences with a focus on important medicinal plant families and selected medicinal species. There are opportunities for you to visit living plant collections and natural habitats to develop your skills in plant identification and an awareness of environemtnal issues in plant conservation and biodiversity. There is also practical instruction in medicinal plant horticulture. 

• Subject: Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 120
• Recommended Credits: 8
• Prerequisites: None

Chinese Medicine, Concepts, and Context

• Subject: Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 120
• Recommended Credits: 8
• Prerequisites: None

Exploring Your Mind and Body Through Yoga

This module will provide you with an introduction to the theoretical and conceptual framework for exploring the physical, mental, spiritual and social dimensions of yoga. You will be given the opportunity to personally experience the effects of yoga postures, breathing, relaxation and meditation techniques. The principles underlying the practices of yoga are considered and you will be encouraged to develop an awareness of safety in your practice. 

• Subject: Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Fundamentals of Bodywork

The fundamentals of bodywork module introduces you to some of the advanced soft tissue skills that can be used in manual therapy and rehabilitation for assessment and treatment of soft tissue dysfunction. The focus is on trigger points (TrP’s) as a major factor in myofascial pain and dysfunction. You will study the anatomy and physiology of soft tissue dysfunction. Theory and skills for working with the patients’ experience and therapist self-care strategies are covered. Techniques will include integrated Neuromuscular Inhibition technique (INIT), Muscle energy technique, Neuromuscular technique in both assessment and treatment mode.

• Subject: Sciences
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Therapeutic Massage or equivalent

Pathophysiology

This modules focuses on the mechanisms by which physiological systems communicate and integrate to maintain homeostasis through the physiological changes associated with disease states and developmental stages. You will explore growth patterns of cells in disease, the defence mechanisms of inflammation and hypersensitivity, pathogenesis and clinical symptoms. This module also aims to develop your critical thinking and debating skills using the language of disease surrounding issues in complementary medicine and science with a foundation in epidemiology. You will also be exposed to relevant laboratory investigations. 

• Subject: Sciences
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 120
• Recommended Credits: 8
• Prerequisites: Anatomy and Physiology

Pharmacology

This module provides an overview of the major classes of drugs and their administration and uses, and considers how nutritional and herbal treatments may combine with conventional drug treatment. You will learn about the principles of drug administration, distribution, absorption, metabolism and excretion considered for drugs and natural substances. Mechanisms and adverse effects of major drug groups will be explained and individual variables, such as age will be considered with the aim of enabling you to apply theoretical knowledge to the practice situation, and to be vigilant for possible adverse events and interactions. 

• Subject: Sciences
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 120
• Recommended Credits: 8
• Prerequisites: Anatomy and Physiology; Biochemistry and Phytochemistry

Therapeutic Massage

This is a suitable module if you are new to massage or where your training was some time ago or lacking depth. You will study the theoretical and practical aspects of massage including: patient care; applied anatomy and physiology; indications for and against treatment; the use of oils and lubricants; palpation and assessment and key massage techniques. The teaching and learning in the module also emphasises the development of self-care strategies, developing your physical and mental capacity to deal effecitively with your work as a practitioner. 

• Subject: Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Anatomy and Physiology

Social Sciences

Communication Between Cultures: Introduction to Cross-Cultural Studies

This module examines recent theories which try to define the skills that a person needs, apart from linguistic ones, if they are to be good at relating to people in other cultures. Amongst the skills research findings have emphasised are the ability to cope with uncertainty and to take risks, to listen and observe without judging, and the ability to see one’s own culture through the eyes of another culture. These theories are compared and evaluated and students are challenged to develop their intercultural skills systematically using them. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 100
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Conference Planning

The place of conferences in the business travel and tourism mix; buyers, intermediaries and suppliers in the conference market; the buyers’ decision-making process; venue-management issues; planning and managing ancillary services: interpreters, AV services, IT facilities, pre- and post-conference tours, guest programmes; contemporary trends in the supply of and demand for conference services; case studies. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Contemporary Issues in Tourism

This module presents a dynamic overview of current trends and issues in the tourism industry. The programme will be based around current affairs and topics that are discussed in the popular media, and aims to provide students with a deeper and more nuanced insight into the background and nature of these. The lectures will focus on the changing nature of the tourism industry (such as the emergence of new business models, destinations and markets) and on external factors that influence the tourism industry (such as climate technology and terrorism). The module will be designed to be highly dynamic in nature, allowing the lectures to reflect issues as they emerge and develop. Students will be encouraged to monitor current events in the tourism industry via trade publications and the general media. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Crime and the City

This module critically explores the relationships between crime and the city and the tensions within the city as a place of danger and excitement and fear and pleasure. Its main focus is on the social construction of dangerous places and dangerous people and the perception that crime is, to a great extent, an urban phenomenon. By critically exploring these constructions and perceptions it will consider issues such as the fear of crime, the relationships between urban culture and crime as well as emerging trends in social exclusion and social control in the city. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Crime in International Context

Reflects on recent theoretical and policy concerns, introduces international comparisons of crime and criminal justice policy and the growth of transnational/cross-border crime and crime control. Theoretical and methodological issues in comparative criminology are illustrated through consideration of crime rates and penal practice. Examples of transnational crime are examined. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Criminological Theory

Development in the Era of Globalisation: Area Studies

This module concentrates on global themes and issues such as the role of the state, the nature of economic globalisation, and the process of development. These are illustrated with detailed examination of financial and production systems, as well as an exploration of the effect of globalisation on development. It analyses the role played by international organisations in the social, economic and political context. Finally, it highlights the contested nature of many of the debates over globalisation and its impact by examining different less developed countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Gender, Crime, and Justice

Explores the significant challenges which feminism, in its various strands, has presented for criminology. Considers the specific issues raised by women's experiences of crime and justice, as offenders, victims and workers in the criminal justice system. Draws upon recent work on masculinities to examine the gender dimensions of crime, fear of crime, victimisation, the criminal justice system and law. Brings together criminological/socio-legal studies and feminist theory/sociology of gender. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Introduction to Criminology, or Introduction to Law

History and Crime

What is crime? Who are the criminals? How should society punish those who transgress the criminal law? What is criminal justice? These are all key conundrums in contemporary criminology. This module, which is aimed primarily at criminology students, aims to explore what studying these questions through the lens of history can tell us. In focusing on the period between 1750-1950 this module covers the period during which the 'modern world' was shaped and in which the key institutions of the criminal justice system were forged. By focusing on selected themes and case studies the background to contemporary debates will be critically explored. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Images of Crime: Explorations in Cultural Criminology

The media play a pivotal role in disseminating and interpreting the 'facts of crime' and 'the crime problem'. This module offers a critical perspective on how the major mass media (re)present relationships between crime, criminality, criminal justice and culture. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Leisure and Events

This module explores the realm of leisure and its historical development. It examines the trends in participation, the expansion of leisure opportunities and the changing expectations of participants. It considers the trends in provision, by the public, private and voluntary sectors and considers how technology is providing opportunities for new types of leisure activities. The module considers the realm of leisure events and considers the growth of the leisure events industry. This draws on a variety of event themes including festivals, carnivals, sports meetings and sports matches. The module considers the reasons for providing leisure events as well as their planning and management. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Introduction to Society in Developing Countries

This module is to review some aspects of social, transition, and their spatial implications (e.g. border disputes and identities,) of developing and ‘transition’ countries, or what has also been called the ‘Second World’ ‘Third World’ – from a ‘First World perspective. The course is not meant to be comprehensive. It rather aims to give students insight into selected, examples of the complex, inter-related structures and processes that underpin ‘development’ and ‘transition’. It focuses on the era of globalisation after the adaptation of the Millennium Development Goals after the 1980s. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Law, Politics, and the State

Introduce students to the relationship between Law and Politics. It seeks to ask whether law is an instrument of politics or whether it proves the normative framework within which politics can be conducted. The question is addressed through exploring the history of ideas in the classic texts of political thought.

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Oil, Globalisation, and Development in the Middle East

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Olympic Cities: Leisure and Regeneration

This module examines the role that leisure plays in society and the capital developed through the provision of and participation in leisure. It investigates the role of leisure in achieving regeneration in urban areas, both in contexts of physical and social change. It investigates the relationships between sport, tourism and leisure and considers the role that the Olympics (and other mega sporting events) can play in achieving lasting legacies. Specific consideration is given to the London 2012 Olympics, investigating both the development plans for the operation of the Olympics and the legacy plans to ensure future benefits. This will be contextualised through comparisons with previous Olympic cities. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Policing and Social Order

Study of policing and the police as important field of Criminology. Includes critical examination of the organisation and operation of the police service in England and Wales, with reference to issues such as accountability and discretion. Also recognises that policing can take a variety of forms and consideration is given to the social contexts in which particular forms of policing develop. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Political Economy of Development

This module uses Political Economy of Development (PED) to illuminate and critically evaluate development possibilities, constraints and outcomes. The module focuses on the debates relating to the relationship between political and economic change in the world economy, especially since the 1980s, and the debates on development. It examines case studies in order to analyse in which way developing countries have been incorporated into the world economy and how this has affected these countries’ economies, politics and society. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Punishment and Society

This module is designed to build upon students' learning at level four through application of philosophical, political, historical, sociological and cultural perspectives to the examination of the nature and purpose of penal punishment. Present day forms of punishment used in England and Wales are considered and evaluated in detail, with particular reference to the continuing importance placed on the use of imprisonment. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Social Issues of Tourism: A Case Study Approach

This module explores a number of social issues in tourism through the analysis of case studies. A social scientific perspective is used to investigate the areas of dark tourism, sex tourism, interactions between hosts and guests, gender relations in tourism and heritage tourism. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Tourism Development

This module explores economic and property development. It considers the rationale of state intervention in a market environment, applies that rationale to the tourism industry. The property development and the implications for the leisure industry are developed latter. There will be a brief introduction to the delivery of property via the development process. Some thought will be given to property market data analysis which lies behind the decision to develop. The module will then introduce the main methods of commercial property valuation. From these methods you will gain a basic understanding of how property values can be enhanced, maintained and improved. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Tourism Policy

This module focuses on tourism policy by examining concepts, theory and emerging discourses about the context within policies are formulated. A variety of tools to assist tourism policy making are explained and evaluated. Case studies are used to illustrate issues, challenges and opportunities in tourism policy making and the implementation of tourism policies and plans. 

• Subject: Social Sciences
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Sociology

Body and Society

This module explores the inter-relationship of our bodies to the identities we form and the relationship of the body to social orders through social practises such as diet, body building and gym. It considers how embodiment is accomplished and yet culturally and historically variable, how the organic and social interact and how the body refutes essentialist categories of gender and race.

• Subject: Sociology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Culture and Identity

Consumer cultures and new technologies; identity and patterns of social relationships; cultural analysis and identity, ethnicity, gender, class or sexual orientation; Orientalism and Postcolonialism. 

• Subject: Sociology
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Gender and Education

Schools teach gender through the curriculum, policies and organisation of social relations. The relationship between gender and education is assessed through policies, expectations and experiences of girls and boys. Debates on single-sex schools, achievement and the social construction of masculinity, femininity and sexuality will be discussed, and the role of schools in promoting gender equality. 

• Subject: Sociology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Globalisation and Britain

Examines the economic and cultural/communication explanations of "globalisation". Attention is given to the alleged 'collapse' of the cultural into the economic. Various levels of action and identity, and the relationship between them, are examined, including the global, national and the local. Population movement is examined in relation to labour, ethnic, gender and cultural issues. 

• Subject: Sociology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Globalisation and the Media

• Subject: Sociology
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Masculinities, Gender, and Change

Examines the emergence of different masculine identities mainly in the post-war period. The extent to which masculine attributes are biologically innate or socially constructed is discussed. The development of the men's movement, largely in response to feminism, and different types of masculinity are examined. The effect on established notions of masculinity of the gay movement and disability movement. 

• Subject: Sociology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Pleasures and Perils: A London Sociology of Leisure

Cities such as London, New York, Paris and Berlin have a long and rich history as sites for transgression, deviancy, and entertainment. This module explores the twin notions of pleasure and peril with London as its focus. We will explore the sociology of leisure and deviancy as well as contemporary accounts of embodiment, emotion and affect. Drawing upon recent scholarship in sociology, cultural studies and urban studies, the module asks how we might critically evaluate and understand the appeal and moral panic associated with practices such as gambling, night-clubbing, drinking, drug taking and the sex industry. London, and its various pleasures and perils, will be examined through literary and filmic texts as well as sites specifically developed for the pursuit of enjoyment and pleasure. 

• Subject: Sociology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Race and Ethnicity

This module develops students' understanding of rights, multiculturalism and citizenship. It requires students to examine the role and significance of representations of 'race' and ethnicity in high and popular cultures, and discuss their impact on contemporary identities, especially in relation to youth culture and subcultures. It requires students to develop their critical thinking regarding the relevance of 'race' and ethnicity as useful concepts for the analysis of inequalities in contemporary societies.

• Subject: Sociology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Sexualities

Sociological exploration of sexuality, historical and contemporary; the social construction of sexuality; theorising sexuality and desire; the sexological legacy; heterosexuality as an institution; diversity of sexuality; homosexuality; lesbians; queer theory; sexuality and the state; representations of sexuality; sexualised spaces; sexual storytelling, love and romance. 

• Subject: Sociology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Women's Studies

This module provides an introduction to Women's Studies as an interdisciplinary area of study. It examines the key concepts and debates in Women's Studies, its relationship with feminist theory and activism, and explores social, political and cultural issues affecting women from a feminist perspective. 

• Subject: Sociology
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Women, Family, and Social Policy

Explores social policy on aspects of family life such as housing, poverty, lone mothers, violence and citizenship/immigration. The impact of family policies on women is examined from feminist, anti-racist and political perspectives. The role of the state in British family policy will be compared historically and with reference to European policy and to future prospects. 

• Subject: Sociology
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Spanish

Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Culture

The module introduces you to literary and cultural analysis; introduction to the genres of the novel, film, theatre and poetry; issues in modern and contemporary Spanish and Spanish- speaking literature and culture. 

• Subject: Spanish
• Course Level: 200
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Spanish and Latin American Culture: Social Change and Revolution, 1900-1960

• Subject: Spanish
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Spanish and Latin American Culture: The Boom and Beyond, 1960-Today

The module aims to: introduce you to the culture of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world in the period 1960 to the present day, including the background of literary innovations of the 1950s and 60s, the boom of the Latin American novel, the emergence of new writers in Spain; introduce you to genres and styles that emerge as important during this period, including the magical-realist novel and the testimonial; contextualise a variety of examples of cultural production against the political and historical background of the period including dictatorships and other political regimes, the increasing socio-political presence of culturally underrepresented groups (indigenous peoples, women, regional communities); apply methods of literary and textual analysis to the chosen texts. 

• Subject: Spanish
• Course Level: 400
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None