University of Glasgow

This course provides the opportunity to analyze works representing different types of hero: classical, tragic, popular, traditional, comic, anti-heroes, and others; explore the notion of heroism, its absence in our lives and our longing for it as this finds expression in various historical contexts and cultures; deal with the notion of masculinity as a cultural and historical construct; apply the analytical skills students have gained to a wide range of problems which may confront them in different situations and contexts in later life; and allow students to explore the features of a number of literary/cultural forms, providing a framework of ideas and methodologies appropriate to specific genres, ideas which students apply to the comparative study of texts.

The course introduces students to the key terminologies, concepts, and applications of acrylic painting. Students receive one to one tuition on the choice of subject matter, the rendering of their drawing, the application of paint, and their approach to layering paint.

This course combines a critical historical overview of arts criticism with its practical application. It enables students to build a portfolio of different forms of critical writing, tailored to different potential readerships and a variety of publication formats across different media, e.g., in print or via the web. It also encourages students to engage critically with a broad range of live performance.

The course demonstrates the reasons for the collapse of the communist system in the Soviet Union and its consequences, with a specific focus on Russia and the Baltic states; the geopolitical consequences of the demise of the Soviet Union, and the subsequent reordering of global economic and geopolitical space; the nature of socio-economic changes in the region in the 1990s, and how different social groups responded to them; cultural change, with a focus on identity politics, gender and ethnicity; the political management of ethno-culturally diverse territories, and the renegotiation of national and ethnic identities; and the importance of the region for Europe as a whole, including a focus on Russia and the Baltic states' relations with the new enlarged Europe.

The course explores key conceptual and empirical issues in evolutionary biology. It combines pattern-oriented approaches, such as phylogenetics, with process-oriented developments in population genetics, developmental biology, and molecular ecology.

This course examines a range of key contemporary problems at the interfaces between biology and the environment, health, and society. It helps students consolidate and develop skills including data analysis and presentation, making ethical judgements, and interpretation of data and statistics. It covers issues such as Measurement of Self, One Health, Forensics and Excess Mortality. 

This course introduces students to some of the main changes in human prehistory and history which have contributed to creating the world as we know it. It achieves this by focusing on 20 different "things" (e.g. pots, metals, houses, burials, and more), which can be expanded outwards to understand societies, whole periods, and key episodes of social and political change. The course takes a broadly chronological structure, stretching from the Neolithic to Medieval periods, and covers an area encompassing Europe, the Mediterranean, and Western Asia.

This course provides an overview of key theoretical and practical issues and debates relating to the creation, maintenance, and circulation of film archives, including topics such as collection policies and management, cataloguing access, etc. The course introduces students to a range of seminal writings in relation to the study of archives, with an emphasis on moving image archives, and draws from texts from art history, media and film theory, and archival studies. The course also explores a wide variety of practical and creative engagements with film archives, including its use by researchers, curators, festivals, filmmakers and artists, taking into account relevant practical considerations such as access, ethics, and copyright. 

The course focuses on close examination of movement of and in the frame. The first part of the course considers the emergence of mobile vision in the 19th century and its adoption by early cinema as well as review theoretical approaches to movement in film. The second part considers narratives of travelling and displacement (travel films, road movies, exilic and diasporic cinema) and the movement of film (as a cultural object and as a commodity) across national borders.

The course introduces students to a wide variety of different films and filmmaking techniques under the category of "animation."  Students view and analyze both drawn animation, "model" animation (stop motion animation) as well as computer generated animation.