University of London, Royal Holloway

The course considers the contribution made by ten films directed by women to feature film making. Do these films deal with female experience in a different way than their male-directed counterparts? Are their women characters always presented positively? How do they portray male characters and masculine settings? How do they represent (or not represent) sexual behavior and desire? How do they represent violence, poverty, and social restrictions? 

In this course, students learn about the management of international enterprises and which cross-border challenges that need to be taken into account when firms consider internationalizing. The course also covers the impact of different formal economic, political, and legal institutions, as well as more informal institutions, such as culture, religion, and language that must all be considered by an internationalizing enterprise. The course also identifies the implications concerning business ethics and sustainability.

In this course students develop an understanding of the major pathways for electron transfer and energy conversion in living systems. Students look at how energy is utilized in biosynthesis, and the role of enzymes, coenzymes and metabolic intermediates. Students examine the principles of flux control and metabolic regulation and the mechanisms that balance the activity of key pathways to physiological demands. Students also consider the main features of human energy metabolism and their relationship to obesity and diabetes, and analyze the importance of protein glycosylation and how protein glycans are biosynthesized.

The course engages with the self-legitimizing and framing of agency and identities —ethnic, gender, socio-economic— in the works of a range of early modern writers some of whom did not live in accordance to the contemporary expectations of their biological gender— from diverse locations across Hispanic territories in Europe and the Americas. Materials can include letters, novellas, drama, poetry, autobiography, chronicles and historical records from canonical authors as well as previously marginalized voices. Students explore the early modern Hispanic world from metropolitan, colonized and colonizing perspectives and engage with questions of (self-)representation within artistic, social and political structures in the early modern world. The study of various genres allows students to consider the multiple ways and implications of creating, defending, and circulating notions of identity as well as recording agency in this period.

This course provides students with an understanding of the wider social and environmental determinants of health and how the determinants impact health attitudes, behaviors, and health outcomes. This also addresses strategies and interventions at the individual, community, national, and global levels.

This course develops students' physical skills as actors through the training practices of Beijing Opera. In China, the word for "theater" also means "sport’" revealing how performance has long been viewed as a mixture of drama, dance, circus-style street theatre, acrobatics, and even martial arts. This course provides students with an opportunity to participate in basic training, but the aim is not to turn students into a Beijing Opera performer. Rather, the course explores how students utilize and conserve energy as actors, and how, in a virtually empty space, students can use their bodies to describe complex narratives. Students learn how to complete basic circus "tricks" and how to stage a fight with sticks. 

This course examines together a group of major and minor 16th and 17th century plays which reflect the contemporary European witchcraft craze. Related phenonema like diabolic possession and ‘high’ magic, as represented in the theatre, are also included when they are relevant to the literary texts. The course challenges students to relate dramatic texts to history while retaining a primary literary focus. 

This course investigates adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays for cinema in theory and practice. Students examine approaches to screening Shakespeare considering the playwright’s iconic status and changing cultural and social contexts around the globe. Students also watch versions of different dramas representing a full range of the adaptation/appropriation spectrum and a variety of film genres. Drawing on these explorations, students work on filming short versions of Shakespeare adaptations, focusing on acting, camera work, and original interpretation of the dramatic script. 

This course explores, thematically and conceptually, a crucial stage in the development of Europe. The period c.1000–1300 in Europe saw some of the farthest-reaching changes in the continent’s history; changes that shape the world we live in today. The frontiers of western Europe expanded in almost every direction through conquest and settlement; the powers of both secular and ecclesiastical authorities increased through the growth of governments and state bureaucracies; there was rapid growth in the economy and in the power of those who controlled production; the emergence and development of new and diverse forms and expressions of religious life and devotion; and the establishment of an international European culture in the worlds of learning and the arts. At the same time, this period saw the birth of the Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and other religious minorities such as the Jews, and of perceived sexual deviants; increasingly effective state oppression of political dissent; and growing corruption in institutions. The approach of the course is firmly comparative, and the geographical scope is wide: from the British Isles to the Crusader States. 

This course introduce students to the basics of personality and social psychology. It starts with an introduction to key dynamic personality theories of Freud, followed by Jung. Students learn about theories and research on aggression, pro-social behavior, and conformity. In addition, key fundamental topics in social psychology, attitudes and values, are introduced, as well as cross-cultural psychology and leadership. Topics include selected dynamic personality theories (e.g., Freud), leadership, attitudes values, and cross-cultural psychology.