University of London, Queen Mary

This course takes as its starting point the idea sleep isn't a "dead time" or an obvious biological fact, but is rich with meanings that change from culture to culture. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding these historical and contemporary cultures of sleeping. In particular it focuses on the intersection between medicine and performance in constructing our ideas about how and why we sleep. Students trace the history of slumber by focusing on the intimate and sometimes unexpected relationships between sleep medicine, literature, and theater. Alongside exploring primary and archival materials from sleeping's past, students investigate themes and issues arising from the interdisciplinary study of the history of medicine (an approach sometimes referred to as the medical humanities).

In this course, students develop, plan, manage, and control projects successfully in a business environment. This requires an awareness of general project management principles, methodologies, and the tools and techniques as applied within multi-disciplined projects, specifically to large IT projects. They also examine formal approaches to managing risk, opportunity, uncertainty, and value in these projects.

The course addresses the following topics: (1) theories of organizational learning (OL) (definition of workplace OL, OLW early practical approaches, OL and managerial/organizational cognition, and cognitive vs socially situated learning theory (2) OL studies in different areas of business and management practice (OL and innovation practices, strategy-as-practice, change management, and knowledge management (3) wider contexts of OL (postmodernity knowledge society, recent OL concepts, and OL futures).