University of Glasgow

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.

During the 19th century painting flourished in Scotland and its artists made a significant contribution to British artistic developments. This course traces the development of Scottish painting during this period and introduces students to the discipline of art history. Focusing on some of the major artists of the period, such as Raeburn, Nasmyth, Wilkie, Paton, Orchardson, McTaggart and the Glasgow Boys, the course highlights the principal characteristics and innovations of their art and the context in which it was created. The development of Scottish painting within the wider framework of European art are also be explored.

This course offers a timely reassessment of the practice of child acting in the early modern theatre. Exploring the output of companies such as the Children of the Chapel Royal alongside works by Shakespeare, Marlowe and Middleton, it questions the repeated use of child and adolescent actors to portray female and sexually marginalized characters on stage; and situates the strategies attendant on boy playing in relation to embryonic queer art-forms such as drag and punning cant.

This course provides students with the opportunity to gain an understanding and awareness of graphic design, the theory, and context associated with the subject. The course also provides the opportunity to explore a range of strategies applied effectively for recording and developing visual communication, exploring conceptual ideas to be documented in a sketchbook or visual research journal, supported by contextual secondary references where appropriate.