University of London, Royal Holloway

Topics include contemporary debates on sex work, sexual, and emotional labor, trafficking, and sex tourism as well as debates of the sex industry and sociological questions concerning structure and agency, and the articulation of gender, race, and class and globalization.

This course allows students to identify research papers relevant to a health psychology topic, summarize and evaluate published evidence, relating to a health psychology topic, apply health psychology theory to a practical problem, and describe and think critically about a number of health psychology theories, models, and concepts. 

This course examines aspects of the historical and contemporary development of film form. In the first half of the term, it looks at crosscutting and continuity editing in films by D.W. Griffith, Alfred Hitchcock, and Christopher Nolan. In the second half it studies discontinuity and montage in various films, including work by Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, and Isiah Medina. Students are also introduced to basic editing software and the final assessment is in the form of a video essay.  

This course gives an overview of the contributions from applied cognitive, social, forensic psychology, and criminal psychology to the understanding of witness and criminal behavior. It examines the evidence from child witnesses and impact of crime on victims of sexual offences and provides an understanding of the implications of forensic psychology in the justice system. Students are expected to demonstrate awareness of current theories and research related to witness and criminal behavior. Students discuss issues related to the current state of knowledge on criminal behavior current incidents, research, and media influences.

This course analyzes discourses of multiculturalism and interculturalism, and their significance to theatre. It explores ethnicity, and its theatrical representation through casting, as an area of fierce debate: performances that investigate ethnicity frequently find themselves at the center of controversial debates, even street protests; at the level of casting decisions. Drawing upon literature from the social sciences, post-colonialism, and gender studies, the course explores the power relationships that shape the production and reception of ethnicities through casting, and examine a selection of case studies where issues around representation in casting have exploded into the views.