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This course provides an overview of ethnography of communication, a theoretical and methodological approach to analyzing and understanding a wide range of communicative patterns and language uses as they occur within social and cultural contexts. Students also apply ethnographic insights and methodologies to fieldwork activities and projects in the local community, investigating the range of practices that constitute ethnographic research, aiming for an integrative and holistic understanding through discussion of class members' fieldwork activities.

In this course, students explore a range of contemporary performance practices and develop their own original devised performance material. Students experiment with a range of approaches that might include working with: text-based improvisation, movement-based performance, creative technologies, adaptation, and found or verbatim texts. The course advances students' knowledge of a range of contemporary theatre and performance makers who are producing devised theatre and performance. Through this exploration of a range of approaches to devising, students build a toolkit for making original theatre/performance and identify techniques and approaches that are of particular interest to students as practitioners. 

This course provides an overview of graphics hardware, basic drawing algorithms, 2-D transformations, windowing and clipping, interactive input devices, curves and surfaces, 3-D transformations and viewing, hidden-surface and hidden-line removal, shading and color models, modelling, illumination models, image synthesis, computer animation. 

This course introduces the fundamental accounting principles and processes involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). It focuses on how financial information is used to evaluate potential acquisition targets and the subsequent accounting required after a merger. The course emphasizes practical applications of accounting data, helping students understand its role in strategic decision-making within the M&A context. Key topics include financial statement analysis, basic valuation methods, and an overview of the due diligence process. The course also touches on the legal aspects that influence accounting practices in M&A transactions.

The course is concerned with the close analysis of works of art out on site rather than in the seminar room, along with the physical, cultural, and social contexts in which art is produced and consumed. It provides students with an introduction to the rich and diverse opportunities available to study art in situ that Brighton and the surrounding area provides. The course is structured around a series of specific case studies, selected both to highlight some of Brighton’s main resources and to represent broader issues central to the study and understanding of Art History. The course takes in a wide selection of sites, ranging from those specifically designed to house and present works of art, such as museums and galleries, to buildings and spaces that serve alternative functions, such as churches and houses. The course also pays close attention to art’s relationship to the built environment, looking at issues relating to architecture and planning.

This course starts off by investigating whether montage appears as a general artistic principle across the arts approximately at the same time or whether we can identify a single art medium as its birthplace. Drawing on pinnacles of modernist art including futurist and dada collages and photomontages, film city symphonies, and city novels the course analyzes stylistic, narratological, and perceptual aspects of montage in different media and their relations to broader cultural formations such as urban modernity and radical politics.

This course covers the key elements of private credit within the alternative asset class. Private credit has become a significant component of alternative investments and an important source of financing for companies that may not have access to public capital markets or large institutional loans. The course emphasizes the importance of aligning financing solutions with the specific needs and risk profiles of middle-market companies as well as the investment options of investors in this alternative asset class. Prerequisites FINA1310: Corporate Finance

This course introduces architecture of digital systems, emphasizing structural principles common to a wide range of technologies. Topics include Multilevel implementation strategies; definition of new primitives (e.g., gates, instructions, procedures, and processes) and their mechanization using lower-level elements. The course includes analysis of potential concurrency; precedence constraints and performance measures; pipelined and multidimensional systems; instruction set design issues; architectural support for contemporary software structures.

This pioneering course combines academic instruction with industry collaboration, featuring training delivered by a professional Alibaba Cloud instructor and preparation for an industry-recognized cloud computing certification. The course introduces the use of information technology with an emphasis on entrepreneurship, covering fundamental cloud computing concepts and their application in entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial contexts. Topics include key business processes, challenges, risks, and rewards, with a focus on developing digital business projects grounded in real-world technology industry examples and suitable for presentation to stakeholders, including potential investors.

This course cover the analytical and programming skills required for applying standard optimization algorithms to engineering and AI problems. It covers basic topics on optimization including the theory of unconstrained and constrained optimization, dual optimization tasks, linear programming, convex optimization, line search methods, trust-region methods, gradient descent, and Newton's method. Pre-requisite: ENGG1120 or ENGG1130 or ESTR1005 or ESTR1006 or MATH1510. Not for students who have taken AIST3010 or ESTR3112 or ESTR3114.