University of St Andrews

This course reviews key theoretical and practical aspects of Information Security Management. The course content covers higher-level technical and theoretical issues as well as management issues such as organizational, planning, certification, auditing, and governance.  The course introduces students to a topical field of business and IT concern via varied learning styles and in-depth consideration of current issues, standards, and scenarios.

This course explores the wide range of functions and representations of illness and disease in a variety of European literary and theoretical texts, primarily from the 20th and 21st centuries, but drawing on works from earlier periods for contextual framing. It considers how the metaphorical employment of illness can reflect changing beliefs related to individual identity, socio-cultural codes, narrative construction, and the possibilities and limitations of language itself. Students start with a series of approaches to illness and literature, including a brief theoretical overview of modern canonical writings on illness by Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, which provide an introduction to common tropes of mythologizing and metaphorizing illness as well as the linguistic challenges to its representation; the field of disability studies; and the representation of plague through time. They then move on to focused thematic explorations of disease via close comparative readings of texts, considering both what literature can tell us about illness, and what the use and representation of illness can tell us about literature.

This course is dedicated to thinking about film as a physical material. Students explore what "film" (aka celluloid, film stock, or raw stock) is made from and how its materiality has informed the production, distribution, and consumption of the medium. Although often conceived as a medium of light, film is in fact produced from a host of raw ingredients (such as cotton, silver, and gelatin) that imbricate its production within networks of industrial agriculture, extractive mining, weapons manufacture, and the global chemical industry. Throughout this course, students therefore consider how the material demands of making and accessing film stock have informed the aesthetics of cinema and the politics of its consumption. They examine specific films that have been shaped by these material concerns and also look in detail at artists and filmmakers who engage with questions of materiality directly in their work.