University of London, Royal Holloway

The course explores populist and "official" meanings and images of crimes, provide students with a basic appreciation of the differing perspectives and models used by criminologists to understand crime, and explore the influence of criminological ideas on state intervention in the criminal justice system. The course comprises a combination of weekly lectures and related seminars. The seminar, held directly after the lecture, is designed to deepen students' knowledge of the topic under discussion that week. These sessions give them the chance to develop your ideas through specific exercises and class discussion. The course also comprises a set of study skills tutorials. 

The course develops a broad range of innovative, practical, creative, and collaborative musical skills. It promotes student initiative and creativity, while developing focused, critical, technical, and context sensitive perspectives on selected musical repertoires/traditions/genres. It seeks to explore, reflect upon, extend and/or challenge specific musical performance conventions. 

This course examines the parameters of the youth crime "problem" and the function of the Youth Justice System, while introducing a range of theories examining why young people engage in delinquent behaviors. Lectures explore key issues associated with young people, such as drug use, anti-social behavior, and gang membership.

This course examines dance, theater, performance, and visual arts practices that are located within a feminist re-imagining of the body. Through a series of case studies drawn across geographic, historical, and cultural contexts, students engage with the varied histories, techniques, and creative processes of a feminist praxis. The course puts diverse art forms that investigate activism, gender equality, and feminist politics in dynamic conversation. Students consider different cultures of feminism, modes of feminist practice, and what it means to be a feminist spectator. Students cover a wide range of cultural, textual, and performative genres including plays, dance, and physical theater performances, films, graphic novels, and music videos.