University of London, Queen Mary

This course helps students put their studies and the law into context. The course supports students to feel comfortable studying law, knowledgeable about the global context of current legal education along with "laws" history of hierarchies, colonialism, and ecological violence. The course inculcates greater confidence in their personal capital and helps develop professional skills that they need to be successful after university. Students learn about study skills such as research and drafting; values such as professional legal ethics and reflective practice; and aspects of the profession such as the use of tech in law, and the complexity of seeking access to justice.

This course offers an introduction to the ways in which migration and diaspora shape cultures across a range of transnational and country contexts. Through reference to multiple sources, such as selected literature, blogs, film, and photography, the course familiarizes students with key issues relating to migration and diaspora, offering both a comparative view across cultural specificities and an understanding of transnational cultural dynamics. Topics covered include migration, places and times; (im)mobilities, borders and policies; religion, rituals and diasporic communities; home and homeland; food, family and memory; digital technologies and transnational connections; inventing memory and identities across generations. A range of sources, including fiction, documentary film, photography, blogs and music are analyzed to explore these topics.

This course introduces students to a broad range of theoretical and critical approaches to cinema, and teaches them how to apply these approaches to a variety of films. Students gain an understanding of classical film theory, including semiotics, auteur theory and psychoanalysis, as well as of contemporary developments such as audience studies, interest in issues of race and ethnicity, and in issues surrounding the advent of new cinematic technologies. Students also gain an appreciation of the historical and cultural contexts in which given theoretical approaches have emerged. These approaches are illustrated with reference to a range of Hollywood and European films.

How has race become a method for categorizing and ordering humanity? How has the politics of anti-racism sought to dismantle both racial orders and the categories they rely on? In this course, students grapple with these questions by exploring the diverse intellectual voices have sought to understand and theorize racism and anti-racism. These thinkers include those who were engaged in struggles against imperialism and colonialism, in addition to contemporary forms of racial domination.

This course introduces students to the style, history, politics, and controversies of modernism. Students read central modernist texts, alongside a selection of modernist and modern writers, critics, journalists and intellectuals. Students explore how modernism developed in the 1910s and 20s, and examine a range of contexts for its stylistic experiments in narrative and point of view, in urban life, war, sexual emancipation, and psychology.

This course provides an overview of ethnography of communication, a theoretical and methodological approach to analyzing and understanding a wide range of communicative patterns and language uses as they occur within social and cultural contexts. Students also apply ethnographic insights and methodologies to fieldwork activities and projects in the local community, investigating the range of practices that constitute ethnographic research, aiming for an integrative and holistic understanding through discussion of class members' fieldwork activities.

This course starts off by investigating whether montage appears as a general artistic principle across the arts approximately at the same time or whether we can identify a single art medium as its birthplace. Drawing on pinnacles of modernist art including futurist and dada collages and photomontages, film city symphonies, and city novels the course analyzes stylistic, narratological, and perceptual aspects of montage in different media and their relations to broader cultural formations such as urban modernity and radical politics.

This course explores current theoretical approaches and research in the area of language development and cognition in neurodiverse populations. These topics are included: Theoretical and methodological issues in the study of neurodiversity and language difficulties in childhood, including dyslexia, developmental language disorder, reading comprehension impairment; autism spectrum disorders; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; assessment and intervention for developmental difficulties in speech and language acquisition.

In this course students learn about the sources and determinants of economic inequality. Students begin by thinking about how we should understand top income and wealth concentration: The fact that rich people are so much higher than the rest (the so-called "1%." New and old theories of income and wealth concentration are studied. Students then think about what generates overall inequality. Is it luck? Higher education? Having rich or better educated parents? Finally, the course discusses how income inequality manifests itself, specifically whether income differences are mostly driven by education level, industries, or occupations.

From Amazon.com to the Mall of America - some of the world's most sophisticated selling technologies emerged in the United States. In fact, some have called consumption America's true national pastime. But how did this culture of consumption take shape? And what does it mean for a global community today? Surveying the transformation of America's consumer culture, this course explores what power the consumer has commanded in American society. The course examines how critiques of consumption shaped the course of American politics, economics, and social order.