University of Manchester

This course provides an extensive introduction to the study of literary modernism by asking the following questions: What is modernism? When was modernism? How did it begin? What have been its effects? Our aim is to think about how modernism emerged, how it is defined and how it was manifested in a variety of different literary genres and forms. Major modernist writers are discussed, including James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot, in addition to less canonical texts. Students are encouraged to engage very closely with these texts and reflect on formal experimentalism, complexity, and ambiguity. At the same time, they have the opportunity to reflect on their critical practice and situate their readings in the context of major critical and theoretical debates within and about the field. 

This course explores the discipline of clinical psychology and the ways in which clinical psychologists work to reduce distress and improve psychological well-being of clients. It covers the core principles and features of contemporary theory, and evidence-based approaches and how they are applied to facilitating change in people with a range of physical, intellectual, and mental health problems. Students learn basic therapeutic skills used in everyday clinical practice and discuss the effectiveness of treatments in clinical practice for a range of problems common in people accessing clinical psychology services. The course critically analyzes the strengths and limitations of clinical psychology and equips students with an awareness of the reciprocal links between theory, research, and clinical practice in the development and evaluation of psychological work.

The course provides a toolkit of concepts or discursive operations for contemporary students of art history. These concepts might include mimesis, iconography, space, biography/autobiography, the author, beauty/taste, the sublime, dialectic, the fetish, animism, the uncanny, aura, the sign, coloniality, race, gender, sexuality, globalization, neoliberalism, and ecology.