University of Glasgow

This course addresses issues surrounding the Climate Emergency and Net Zero in the renewable and sustainable energy field, with an introduction to existing energy demand and provision in the UK and globally. This involves various energy technologies, resources and devices introduced to meet the potential energy gaps and mix for future demand and supplies.

For much of its recent history, the development speculative fiction has been driven - sometimes quietly, sometimes less so - by the pages of magazines. This course is about two interconnected things: the place of the short story in the history of science fiction and fantasy, and the place of science fiction and fantasy in magazine print culture of the last 140 years. Students read some of the most iconic short stories in the genre, and also the magazines in which they appeared, tracing the evolution of both genre and medium across the long twentieth century.

This course explores a range of films (popular genre movies and art cinema) from post-war Japan in relation to their historical background (national and international). It examines in particular the international circulation and understanding of Japanese cinema.

It is relatively easy to identify what we know about ourselves, others, our surroundings, or a given situation. But what are the processes through which we acquire and/or construct knowledge with which we operate as social actors? To answer this question, the course explores various sources of a) sociological theory and b) empirical social research on what certain groups of people know (also what they believe, what they doubt or reject) and how they know it. Cognition is discussed in a broad sense as social, cultural, mental, embodied, relational, and emotional.

This course allows for a close examination of the Caribbean's creole identity by assessing Caribbean literary and cultural works from the 20th- and 21st centuries. Film, music, religion, literature, and food are explored to specifically examine the influence of slavery on Caribbean culture.

This is a course for beginners in Gaelic, enabling students to acquire basic language skills in speaking, reading, writing and listening. Students will be introduced to the grammatical framework of the language and will develop appropriate vocabulary through the study of some Gaelic prose texts; an overview of the historical and sociolinguistic context of Gaelic and of the history of Gaelic literature. 

This course provides students an interdisciplinary introduction to climate change, using approaches from both the social sciences (history, sociology, geography, politics, economics), and the natural sciences (engineering, physics, biology). The course provides a brief look into historical and sociological causes of the climate crisis, followed by both the physical and human consequences. The course has a strong focus on potential solutions, drawing on ideas from engineering and science (renewable technology), and politics, sociology, and economics (social change).  This leaves students with a positive, action-based knowledge base on the context of the climate crisis, and current theories on how to act.

This course provides an opportunity to examine current youth policy debates and how they have been framed and organized in different cultures, particularly in East Asian and Western contexts. Students focus on various social problems and challenges experienced by young people, compare welfare systems and how they are shaped by different cultural values, and discuss policy measures and welfare organization in a range of topical youth issues, including housing, poverty and inequality, work and education, and social connections in the "digital age."