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This course examines and teaches how to play popular guitar styles that have had widespread impact over the past century, including blues, rock and global folk styles.

The course is interdisciplinary, and will introduce commonly used models of work-related stress, as well as broadly applicable methods for measuring the physiological effects of stress on the body. 

The course provides a survey of human factors and ergonomics with particular reference to human functions in human-machine systems. The course considers basic human capabilities and the ways that these capabilities are taken into account in the design of human-machine systems and work environments.

This course offers a study of e-branding. Topics include: the concept of an eBrand and typologies; the functions of brands and the functional and emotional attributes of brands; brand personality and identity; monitoring perceptions and associations of brands; online brand crisis management.

The course introduces students to key arguments about the various ways that economics increasingly underpins the cultural sector and the creative industries. The module outlines broad concepts that provide the students with foundational knowledge about cultural economics, cultural markets, and cultural value. Recent changes, such as the digitization of culture are introduced which help students identify and understand how the economics of culture is subject to change. Students learn about the way cultural labor is valued and often de-valued and the structures of cultural economies which enable inequality. A wide variety of cultural sectors and products are examined including cultural heritage, festivals, and cities of culture. Students consider the impacts of cultural production on the environment and innovative ways to change the footprint of culture, media, and creative industries.

This course addresses the interdisciplinary applicability of phenomenology, including best practices, use and application in a non-philosophical context, what qualifies a discipline or practice as phenomenological, and the core commitments of phenomenology. The first third of the course offers an introduction to core ideas and figures in phenomenology. It makes clear how phenomenology, by offering an account of human existence where the subject is understood as an embodied, socially, and culturally embedded being-in-the-world, is not only addressing specific issues relevant to several disciplines from within the humanities and social sciences, but also contributing to the philosophy of the human sciences. The rest of the course looks at successful applications in qualitative research and psychology, in discussions of gender and race, in health care (primarily psychiatry and nursing), in cognitive science (primarily developmental psychology and neuroscience), and in the social sciences (including sociology, anthropology and political science). The course offers some reflections on what a phenomenological interview might look like and discusses how ideas from phenomenology can be used in corporations and private companies.