University of London, Queen Mary

This course examines trends in the depiction of European cities in literature and film from the 1980s to the present. It explores the relationship between aesthetic representations and social-cultural contexts, paying attention to traditions of literary and cinematic urbanism while also engaging with contemporary questions concerning urban identity and culture. The course provides students with the opportunity to pursue a substantial research project of their choosing, focusing either on one author's representation of more than one city, or on one city's representation by more than one author (/film-maker etc).

This course examines how Shakespeare has been adapted and appropriated in a variety of performance contexts. Students address and debate issues such as cultural and textual authority, authorship, gender, sexuality, national identity, ethnicity, adaptation, and appropriation. Possible topics, contexts and texts through which these issues are addressed may include, but are not limited to authorship; decolonization, postcolonial and settler cultures; queering Shakespeare; feminist performance; heritage and tourism; festivals; translation; popular culture; education. 

This course studies the diversity of microbial metabolisms. It looks at bacterial growth and replication, including organization and division of the chromosome, yield and responses to temperature, and nutrient availability. The course teaches photolithotrophy, photoorganotrophy, chemilithotrophy, and chemoorganotrophy; fermentation and anaerobic respiration; growth and extension metabolism of fungi; nitrogen transformations by microorganisms in free-living and mutualistic settings; microbiological standards in public health; clean water processing and waste-water treatment. Practical work covers prokaryote photosynthesis, bacterial fermentation, fungal digestion of wood and nitrogen transformations in sediments, and microbiological water quality. The course gives brief consideration to clean water processing and waste-water treatment.