University of Bristol

This course examines core areas of social psychology as well as important interdisciplinary areas, including moral psychology, political psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and online behavior. Students explore real-world societal problems from a scientific perspective, discuss how research findings are disseminated, and examine the impact on policy that can follow. The course identifies scientific knowledge and research on social psychology and relevant interdisciplinary areas, and considers the role of empirical evidence in the formation of theory and how theory guides the collection and interpretation of empirical data..

This course examines younger children's emotional development and the kind of services, counseling, therapy, and direct work available to help those children who may develop emotional and behavioral problems in childhood and later life. It considers current and historical views and theories of how such problems develop, and draws on research and practice knowledge into ways of helping such children. The course includes input from practitioners and researchers in this area.

This course provides an introduction to computer programming using Python, a popular programming language accessible to students with no background in computer programming. The course explores the basic principles of sequential (procedural) programming, namely input/output, variables, data types, conditionals, iteration, exceptions, and functions. It also examines the principles of good programming practice, such as design and debugging.

The course examines the inter-relationships between nutrition and behavior and their implications for health and psychological well-being. Topics covered relate to appetite and weight control (including obesity and dieting); eating disorders; food preferences; dietary influences on mood and cognitive function; caffeine psychopharmacology; and food craving and “addiction.” An underlying theme is the interplay of biological, psychological, and social processes influencing behavior. The course provides a broad understanding of major topics in nutrition and behavior, and explores contemporary issues and emerging research in this field.

This course introduces students to the basic technologies and practices required for filmmaking, combined with a conceptual approach to the creative process of film production. The course includes cinematography, editing, and eound, while also covering essential related areas including health and safety and risk assessment. It also looks at approaches to film production records such as logshot logs, storyboards, and script breakdowns.

This course covers the essential techniques of orchestral writing. It examines the capabilities of the individual instruments, section by section, using practical demonstrations wherever possible. Students learn to blend instruments within their family groups and eventually to combine these groups into full orchestral textures. Examples used are drawn mainly from Classical and Romantic orchestral literature, together with some pieces from the early 20th century.

This course explores the figure of the child in English literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. The class discusses several questions including the following in order to examine this concept in further depth: How and for what purposes has the child been deployed in literature, both as a character and as an implied reader? How is the child (reader or character) constructed as different from the adult, and how does the advent of psychoanalytic models of subjectivity at the turn of the century affect the construction of childhood? How are child characters used to explore concepts such as innocence, nature, knowledge, goodness, and evil? How are implied child readers positioned in relation to adults, and in relation to ideology and the reproduction of cultural knowledge? What narrative and literary techniques are used to achieve this positioning?

This course explores scientifically validated strategies for living a more satisfying life. Throughout the course, students analyze the latest results from research in psychological science about how to be happier, how to feel less stressed, and how to flourish, even in a challenging environment. The course provides students with opportunities to put some of these strategies into practice in their own lives and to build some of the habits that will allow them to live more fulfilling lives.