University of Glasgow

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.

This course has two aspects. The first is to increase students' understanding of more technical issues of geospatial data management and the underpinning geospatial databases necessary for GIS to be useful. The second is to develop practical skills and understanding of GIS by using it in a more extensive applied project, which takes the form of a work-based task (a "virtual placement") where students assist a virtual company to respond to client requirements for GIS analysis.

This course offers an exploration of radical film and television in French Surrealism, Soviet Montage, Hollywood, and Third Cinema. It explores how cinema and television have provided a space for the representation of both radical ideas and radical aesthetics; introduces students to a wide range of radical texts from French Surrealism to Soviet Montage, from Hollywood to Third Cinema, analyzing feature films, documentaries, and television drama, and examines what is at stake in the attempt to challenge mainstream aesthetic norms and political ideologies.