University of Glasgow

This course explores how scholars and practitioners use musical data, both in audio and notated formats. Students are given the opportunity to develop skills in encoding, analyzing, categorizing, and curating music recordings and notated music. These skills are developed by encouraging an intimate understanding of the nature of different musical formats, an appreciation of their uses, and approaches to computational analyses of their electronic manifestations.

This course introduces the social, ethical, legal, and professional issues involved in the widespread deployment of information technology. It stimulates students to develop their own, well-argued positions on many of these issues.

Students think about the social and ethical implications of the widespread and sustainable use of IT; develop awareness of the laws and professional codes of conduct governing the IT industry; explore IT industry working practices, including the need for continuing professional development; develop information gathering skills; and adopt principled, reasoned stances on important issues in the topic area. 

This course explores the interconnected spheres of paid employment, unpaid labor, and care and welfare in order to understand the politics of contested UK reforms in international and comparative perspective.

Recent global and national emergencies, from austerity to COVID-19 and the current cost-of-living crisis, have presented significant challenges for young people, prompting a re-examination of key questions in the sociology of youth. This course enhances students' understanding of debates, concepts, and methodologies related to youth transitions and cultures, exploring their intersection with inequalities in the fields of leisure, culture, housing, employment at the intersections of class, gender, race, disability and sexuality. It also delves into methodological research, ethical considerations, and the role of policy in shaping young people's pathways and societal perceptions. 

This course offers an introduction to the chronology and material culture of the Neolithic of Britain with reference where relevant to Ireland. A series of themes which have emerged in recent years as major research areas are addressed, including the chronology and mechanisms of the beginning and end of the Neolithic; the significance of material culture and materiality; regionality and identity; and settlement and everyday life.

The course addresses the complex relationship between systems of education and the society in which these systems are located. Students study theories concerning the form and use of education systems. By studying historical and more contemporary examples, they are introduced to the varying social influences that shape school systems.

Both the melodrama and the film noir have attracted considerable critical attention and have been instrumental in the development of film theory. The course considers formal, ideological, political, and historical aspects of melodramas and noirs from around the world focusing on aspects of gender, space, and aesthetics.

This course focuses on why countries democratize, when democracy consolidates or backslides, and what drives these processes. It considers a variety of challenges to democracy at the national and international levels such as corruption, discontent, economic inequality, globalization, legitimacy, authoritarian contestation, technological change, polarisation or populism. The aims of this course are to introduce key concepts and theories in the study of democracy, to foster an understanding of broader processes such as democratisation, democratic consolidation and backsliding around the world, to develop analytical skills necessary to identify and scrutinize the contemporary challenges to democracy.

This course introduces students to the history and theology of Christian worship. It provides an understanding of the development of current forms of Christian worship, the nature of sacramental distinctions, and new sources and ecumenical confluences in 20th- and 21st-century worship. It provides perspectives which will underpin future study of worship practice and the development of advanced worship leading skills.