United Kingdom - England

This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of innovation and its dynamics. It explores the determinants of innovation, drawing on theories to examine how and why innovation occurs, and the types of innovation that may emerge from different political economy perspectives and institutional frameworks. Part of the course involves examining policy evaluation and design, specifically discussing how to provide policy advice that considers the complex societal ecosystem, including societal hopes and fears.

In this course, learn about fundamental principles in cell and molecular biology. Extending to workshops in R, you’ll cultivate essential research skills. Learn about advanced techniques such as CRISPR and qPCR through laboratory sessions. Participate in journal clubs and collaborative student presentations, refining critical employability skills. Enjoy lectures on contemporary research topics such as RNA vaccines in oncology and ethical considerations in AI, delivered by industry experts. With interactive teaching and learning approaches, industry visits, workshops, seminars, and active learning methodologies, this course gives students an employability-focused, current research-led course.

This course introduces biodiversity of life on earth, and key principles of ecology and conservation. The emphasis is on learning through field classes which will take place in the South Downs National Park. The University is in the heart of the South Downs National Park so students have the opportunity for experiential learning on the key themes: biodiversity, ecology and conservation. Students also learn survey and identification skills through these field trips. The course develops an understanding of conservation and applied ecology in relation to real-world problems, through topics including biodiversity, community ecology, and practical land management for conservation. An example of this is the mowing of grasslands to help maintain grass cover, encourage re-growth, and productivity.

The course introduces the basic concepts of discrete mathematics needed for the study of computer science. Student learn to work with sets, relations, functions, recursive structures, graphs, trees, basic combinatorial principles, discrete probability, finite automata, and regular languages. 

This course introduces students to a variety of philosophical thinking from around the world. It prompts students to explore some key questions and concepts in philosophy across different religious traditions and time periods. The religious traditions to be explored in this course may include, but are not limited to: Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.  

Intellectual history of antiquity and the Middle Ages is typically conducted with sparse attention to women authors, and women thinkers whose works are not preserved. This course challenges that approach, by focusing on the achievements and contributions of female thinkers spanning a period from classical antiquity, with figures like Aspasia and Diotima, down to Christine de Pizan at the dawn of the European Renaissance. Some attention is paid to other cultural traditions, especially India and the Islamic world, though the richest materials are to be found in the Greek and Latin textual traditions. Many of the figures covered are, in a broad sense of the term, “philosophers,” but figures more usually described as “mystics,” such as Rabia and Hildegard of Bingen are also included.

The course covers different theories of human communication and utterance comprehension are discussed, including Gricean, neo-Gricean, and relevance-theoretic approaches. The specific topics and data discussed vary from year to year but are taken from the following list: referring expressions and speaker’s reference, conversational implicatures, pragmatic enrichments of explicit content, word meaning modulation, unarticulated constituents, indexical saturation, and non-literal uses of language (metaphor, hyperbole, metonymy, irony).

This course looks at the industrial, technological, and cultural changes in serial television and explore the themes, narratives, and aesthetics of contemporary long-form television. Students are introduced to key conceptual approaches to serial television as an artform and a production practice, examining seriality and long-form storytelling; notions of complexity; discourses of quality, taste, and cultural value; questions of authorship; innovations in visual style and sound design; the rise of streaming services such as Netflix; new viewing practices and habits (such as "binge-viewing"); and issues of gender equality and ethnic diversity on- and off-screen.

The course provides an introduction to a particular aspect of sonic practices with the moving image. It focuses on a particular film sound context or approach defined chronologically, generically, or by composer (where appropriate). The exact content of the course varies from year to year, but might include one or more of the following: the sounds of early cinema; narrative film music and Hollywood; contemporary theory and analysis of music and the moving image; • auteur film music; the Hollywood musical; the sounds of television; music and animation; the sounds of video games; recontextualized music; opera and screen; European film music; and Hindi film.