English

This course considers objects and places from the medieval world that have accumulated multiple meanings over time. Challenging the narrative of a "clash of civilizations" between Islam and Christianity, it focuses on the entangled histories of art and architecture in the medieval Mediterranean, examining through case studies the mediatory role of art, material culture, and architecture from the 10th to 15th centuries. 

In this course students participate in an individual program of supervised research within the School of Biomedical Sciences, or elsewhere within the faculty, at a research institute or overseas institution in which the student contributes to the design of a research project, in consultation with a supervisor; conducts the research; and presents the findings of the project. The project may be self contained or form a component of a larger research program. 

This course examines the medium of comics both as a visual language and as a means of communication. Beginning with a history of comics, the course considers a variety of storytelling techniques, ranging from comics journalism to graphic medicine, from activism to indigeneity, as well as superheroes, the underground, and manga.

The course introduces students to the role of drama in the second-level school classroom as a structured learning experience and also as an art form. It equips students with the appropriate skills and confidence necessary to use drama in the teaching of a variety of subjects and provides students with practical experiences of using the art form collaboratively to enrich and extend the study of other subjects. This course plans and evaluates learning episodes for students arising from meaningful engagement with the art form in applied settings. It also enables students to engage in reflective practice about the teaching of drama at secondary school level.  Students enact drama as a cross curricular pedagogy, through participation in and experience of practical drama-based workshops. They create, plan for, and deliver effective episodes using drama for their own teaching needs. Students focus on applying innovative practice in the area of arts in education and display leadership in future school planning in arts in education. This course teaches students how to identify and synthesize the skills and competencies to engage in a wide range of dramatic activity in interdisciplinary contexts. 

Through an exploration of the complex and contradictory relationships between the global, local, regional, and national, this course focuses on the key issues and scholarly debates in the field of global media studies. Students explore a broad range of media as case studies to understand the relationship between location, culture, and identity. This course equips students with a broad-ranging and comparative understanding of the many ways in which media are produced, consumed, distributed, and circulated across the globe and their impact on our imaginations of a global world.

This course examines basic individual and group processes, as they affect people in organizations. Major theories and models in key areas of organizational behavior will be examined; including group dynamics, motivation, ethics, culture, communication, conflict, power and change management. 

Students are introduced to the political, social, and economic history of ancient Greece during the the "Classical" period, c. 480-323 BC. This era spans from the Greco-Persian Wars to the death of Alexander the Great. This course explores sources and methods that modern historians use to study ancient Greek culture, including literary texts that are read in translation and artefacts from the ancient world.

This course provides a hands-on study of directors' pre-visualization and mise-en-scene, the art of adaptation, experimental filmmaking, animation, writing the documentary and working with actors. 

This course examines new and emerging challenges and opportunities in health and social services, and immerses students in areas of innovation and change including partnerships with services users, responding to increasing demand in mental health services and opportunities afforded by digital health and emerging technologies.

This course examines how the idea of sustainable development has emerged as an effort to redirect economic growth to produce more socially just and environmentally benign outcomes. It covers how human-environment interconnections, across different scales and in different contexts, come together to demonstrate how environmental issues are situated in, and shaped by political and economic contexts.