University of Sussex

In this course, students engage with fundamental principles of sound creation and manipulation though exploration of sound design practices in a range of contexts including game sound, virtual reality and other interactive media, film, TV, radio, theater, and live sound applications. By examining the work of influential sound design practitioners, students explore sound design methodologies and techniques. This includes field recording, synthesis, multichannel spatialization, Foley, and the manipulation of sound recordings using DAWs and analog recording devices to achieve a desired aesthetic.

In this course, students address the wider business and project management issues that affect the technological and engineering environment. Some of these issues include the business environment; principles of strategic management; portfolio, program, and project management; quality and control; organizational structure; cultural issues; and governance of project-based organizations and international projects.

This course provides an understanding of the principles of sustainable development and, in particular, an introduction to the role of science and technology in contributing to key sustainable development challenges. Students explore the origins of the concept of sustainable development and the core ideas that underpin it. The course also examines the ways in which sustainable development is interpreted by different interest groups, along with the assumptions made, and the contradictions that arise. These ideas are illustrated through a series of contemporary case studies, which highlight efforts to address sustainable development challenges from the local to international, and examine the role of science and technology within these contexts. 

The course provides an investigation of the relationship between organizations and their stakeholder groups, and the social accountability and responsibilities that a corporation holds towards different stakeholders. The course introduces students to concepts of corporate governance, socially responsible investment, and ethical issues relevant to contemporary business. 

Students learn how important it is for organizations to continuously develop new and improved products so they are not left behind in the market. Students explore why product development is a risky business and why many new products fail. You discuss the main issues faced by firms at each stage of the development process.

In this course, students explore the evolution, contemporary controversies, and ongoing validity of human rights.

Through a range of cases studies around gender, citizenship and migration, torture, the death penalty, development, and corporate abuses of human rights, the course outlines the rise of the human rights regime, analyzes whether we now live in a post-human rights world, and considers the implications for human rights in a post-human era. Students draw on international examples of human rights institutions and violations, including torture in Guantanamo Bay, the death penalty in the US and countries such as Saudi Arabia, and the treatment of migrants and asylum seekers in Europe.

In this course, students study complex factual and/or literary texts; learn to structure and present an argument, description, or narrative logically and clearly in Spanish; study complex language structures including specialized terms; and demonstrate in Spanish their knowledge of a special subject linked to their chosen field of study. This can include a case study, report, research project, or a creative project, such as, fiction writing, documentary, or web profile for professional purposes. 

On this course, students explore global history from a “global south” perspective, examining processes of global interaction from the perspective of societies in the majority world: Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Following introductory topics on the theories and methodologies of global history, students look at case studies from various regions as examples of how societies in the global south have shaped and experienced processes of global integration.

This course explores how labor economics informs the discussion of many social issues such as the causes of unemployment; how technological change is shifting the distribution of jobs and wages; the impact of immigration on wages and employment; the impact of social security on the incentive to work; and the causes of gender and racial wage and employment gaps.