University of Manchester

This course examines a range of American literary texts from the late 19th century to the late 20th century, including fiction, poetry, and drama. Students look at some major American writers including Henry James and William Faulkner, as well as the evolution of 20th-century American literary history in relation to the political and social upheavals at the time. During the course students encounter Native American literature, African American, and Chicano/a literature. The course also explores the aesthetic and generic developments of 20th-century American literature from realism and modernism to postmodernism in the context of key political and cultural developments, such as the two World Wars, Vietnam, the civil rights movement, second wave feminism, late capitalism, and neo-liberalism.

This course enables students to understand the need for a holistic approach to international management and leadership in a global business environment. Students learn to recognise key aspects of management theory in an international context, and gain a developed understanding of planning for international business and the need for responsible business behaviour around the world. They also examine theories of change, and implementing and managing change in an international context, and learn to demonstrate communication, analytical and critical skills in relation to case studies of international organizations. Finally, students assess and evaluate management and leadership theories and concepts, and their relationship to international organizations, including a global leisure context.

In this course, students achieve an advanced understanding of criminology's historic complicity and silence in genocide studies, applying advanced criminological theory to instances of mass violence. Students synthesize and apply complementary ideas from psychology, sociology, and penology and critically assess the nature and worth of the criminological gaze.

This course examines American literature and social criticism from 1900-present day. Students examine the texts in this time period and how the text is constructing a reader. The course covers works by Arthur Miller, James Baldwin, Angela Davis, Junot Díaz, Zora Neal Hurston, and others.

"The Biology of Being Human is an interactive distance learning module delivered from Stony Brook University, Long Island USA. You will study evolutionary theories of animal social behavior and the application of these theories to humans. You will be regularly interacting online with tutors and with other students on the course, both in Manchester and in the USA." Online Course-- no direct contact hours. There are approximately 4 hours of recorded lecture per week.

This course introduces the discipline of social psychology, including the knowledge of central topics and key areas of research inquiry in this field. The course covers a series of fundamental topics in this area, including prejudice, stereotyping and social cognition, group processes, inter-group conflict, the self, and social influence. To reflect the breadth and depth of social psychological research currently carried out in the UK and worldwide, the course draws upon studies across different approaches and traditions, highlighting current research and classic studies that illuminate the nature of social thinking and behavior.

This course explores some of the contributions made to the social sciences by social and cultural anthropology. Students explore key insights of the discipline and the perspectives that are offered by anthropologists on a range of themes. This course addresses the anthropological notion of the social construction of human realities, including many that are commonly experienced as natural. Using case studies on topics related to culture, power, and language, students relate those to theoretical developments, central concepts, and schools of thought in anthropology.

This course looks at the various inequalities in contemporary Britain and examines its society through a sociological lens. Throughout the semester, demographics and their differences, as well as processes including: globalization, class, education, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and ageism are discussed and examined in order to be understood in regard to how they are used as present day inequalities in the society of contemporary Britain.

This course covers key sociological dimensions of activities and interactions related to the leisure industries. It focuses on sociological concepts, meaning, structure, and functions in leisure and work. These concepts include the notions of leisure participation, why it is that leisure participation is not evenly or randomly distributed within the population, and what models might help explain that. It investigates key scholars and schools who have advanced thinking in this field, including Pierre Bourdieu, who theorized how tastes are socially acculturated, and the Leicester School, whose work focused on understanding the phenomenon of football hooliganism.