University of Sussex

This course goes beyond conventional lecture-based instruction and to the heart of the research process. Through hands-on scanning, data analysis, literature exploration, and seminar participation, students learn how MRI and fMRI are used to investigate the human brain – and apply knowledge to design, conduct, and present neuroimaging projects. The course integrates foundational concepts in neuroimaging and clinical neuroscience through hands-on, research-based learning. Through this process, students gain practical experience with MRI hardware and scanning, experimental design, basic image processing, and scientific writing and presentation.

This course introduces the core principles of neuroscience and translation, including the core structural and functional principles of the brain. It provides a deep-dive into neurological disease from molecular, cellular, and clinical perspectives and with clinically oriented sessions offered including cadaveric anatomy, neuroimaging, and patient-facing skill building. It offers hands-on laboratory practical experience in molecular and cellular techniques, supported by focused workshops and seminars.

In this course, students are introduced to a range of practices from across the disciplines that are taught on the Media Production BA. Centered around a series of lectures from staff practitioners, students are introduced to the different approaches employed, whether by digital artists, designers, filmmakers, art-activists, or practice-research academics. Insights are given into multifaceted processes, how to find inspiration, explore themes and turn interests into final work and how to take action. The lectures are complemented by a number of seminars and smaller group sessions where students widen the scope of enquiry, to look at specific examples of contemporary media practice, identifying modes and methods. 

This course introduces students to a variety of ways of understanding a globalized society and the kinds of identities that it incorporates, produces or threatens. Indicative topics will range across language and its relation to identity; how global histories are mediated and how they live within us; the effects of decolonisation; borders and identity; gender and sexual identities; and regional identity in a globalised world. The course will explore representations of these topics in film, media, social media, historical accounts, world literature, and anthropological study. Teaching will be delivered by experts drawn from across a range of academic disciplines, creating a dynamic space where connections between arguments and ideas can come into view.

This course helps liberal arts students to develop their skills of analysis and understanding. Students do so both individually and in teams. Students focus on topical or real-life events and explore them using a wide range of methods and approaches linked to the arts, humanities and social sciences, including media analysis, statistical analysis, textual analysis and visual analysis. This course is built around a stake holder meeting, which explores a specific topic (potentially based on a recent real-world example). It involves the introduction to what a stake holder meeting is; introduction to case studies and modes of analysis; introduction to group work and team theory; introduction to presentation of argument and analysis in essay form.