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This course situates an early Chinese understanding of the body within a cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary perspective. It trains analytical thinking and academic writing through bodily discussions. It introduces classical texts with contemporary theories from the fields of social epistemology, communication studies, social anthropology, disabled studies, and phenomenology. It shows students different ways of asking questions, finding evidence, forms of reasoning, and perspectives of discussions. Active and ethical engagement with AI reading and writing is also essential to this course.

The interwar years (1918-1939), while dealing with the aftermath of hitherto unknown mass destruction and the advent of totalitarian systems, were nevertheless characterized by an exceptional vibrancy across various fields of cultural activity - music, theatre, and the fine arts. This course discusses and evaluates these practices in various national contexts and in relation to a number of critical approaches. 

The course focuses on human skeletal morphology, and the study of physical evidence as a means to resolving issues involving criminal investigations, environment analyses, and assessment. How to identify skeletal remains, both whole and fragmentary, and how to estimate the age, sex, ancestry, and stature of an individual using laboratory and imaging techniques are learned.

This course examines the ways in which music contributes to well being and health. Students will learn about connections between music, well being and health through exploration of a range of practices across different cultural contexts and considering individual through to population perspectives. The well being and health affordances of music will be examined through integrated theory and research from interdisciplinary music and psychology perspectives. 

This course is intended for students whose work interacts with user interface issues in the design of social and software systems. The course stresses the importance of user-centered design and usability in the development of software applications and systems. Students will receive theoretical training on the analysis, design, and evaluation of user interfaces. They will also acquire hands-on design skills through a graphical user interface design project. The module takes into account contextual, organizational, and social factors in system design.

This course provides a survey of Baroque, Rococo, and Enlightenment art in Europe and beyond. Students begin with a study of 17th-century Italian art and architecture, discussing artists such as Gianlorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, Annibale Carracci, and Caravaggio. From Italy the focus shifts to Spain, Flanders, and Holland in order to explore portraiture, allegory, and historical painting looking at artists such as Velazquez, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Rembrandt. Students also touch upon issues of artistic identity and the status of women artists during the period. A number of lectures are then dedicated to the parallel tradition of Islamic art, and the baroque beyond Europe's borders. Following thematic lectures on collecting and printmaking, the focus shifts to art in France. The course ends with lectures on the classical tradition in British art and architecture and the Enlightenment. 

This course introduces students to the theory, methods, and applications of linear models. The theory of the general linear model is introduced, with an emphasis on widely used methods such as regression analysis, analysis of variance, etc. Applications in various fields are used to give students experience of applying the methods using a specialized statistical software package to analyze linear models.

The course provides students with an understanding of contemporary societal and policy debates around key energy policy challenges in the context of the transition towards sustainable and lower carbon energy systems. The course will take a distinctive Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (STIS) approach which equips students with the analytical tools necessary to critically evaluate key energy technology and policy debates in the UK, Europe, and globally.

The course examines music's various roles in society and the effects of the various ways in which societies are organized on the ways in which music itself is made, heard, and understood. It introduces students to the sociology and psychology of music and encourages them to think conceptually about their own musical activities. The course covers a wide range of musical practices - Western and non-Western, classical and popular, past and present - though it focuses on musical and social developments since the Industrial Revolution.

The course focuses on cultural and artistic interventions in urban spaces and how they actively re-think and reconfigure the city. It investigates how cities can be used as platforms where new notions of citizenship, community, and the public sphere are being performed. Using concepts and theories from performance studies, urban studies, and public sphere theory, the course discusses how power relations are performed in cities daily, and how these can be critically revealed and (temporarily) disturbed through artistic interventions in public space. Next to discussing a variety of specific cases of public space intervention in class, students design and execute a small-scale intervention in public space with a small group., work on a series of assignments, and write a paper on a particular strategy of intervention.