United Kingdom - England

This course gives students insights into the dynamics and effective leadership and management of teams within organizations. It provides students with the knowledge, skills, and analytical capabilities needed to practice teamwork in modern organizations and to lead teams to achieve successful outcomes. It explores the nature of teamwork in terms of how individuals effectively build agreement to shared goals and courses of action and facilitate organizational movement toward the achievement of these goals. In particular, it highlights theory and research that accounts for the characteristics, issues, and contexts of teams. Students make note of individual differences that contribute to team behavior and examine the situations that determine the salience of these differences. 

This course provides a thorough grounding in current themes and debates in Environmental Anthropology in the present period of accelerated environmental and climatic change that has been termed the Anthropocene. The course introduces a range of ideas and approaches, both historical and contemporary, in the anthropological study and theorization of human-environmental relationships. Students receive a detailed introduction to the field of Environmental Anthropology, and its place within the history of the discipline of Anthropology. The course explores classical approaches such as cultural ecology and ecological anthropology, before moving on to broach more contemporary approaches including environmental anthropology, political ecology, and the anthropology of nature, as well as recent attempts to incorporate nonhuman actors into anthropological analysis in more experimental ways. 

This course introduces students into the riches of the Latin literary tradition. It is designed in such a way as to cater primarily for the immediate needs of students coming up to university without any background knowledge of ancient literature and aims to offer a chronologically laid out, broad survey of periods, genres and best known authors of Roman literature and thought.

This course explores the role of cultural, creative, and media industries in shaping individual and collective memories of history. It examines the construction, manipulation, mediation, and transmission of personal, national, and transnational memories through various forms of media, including mobile and social, film, literature, the visual arts, performance, and participatory art. It explores how such mediated memories play a crucial role in the formation of individual and collective identities. The course introduces key theories of media memory studies and examines international examples of mediated memories of colonialism, war and activism, social, political, and technological change. It examines how mediated memories travel and change over time and how they are articulated differently within geopolitical and socioeconomic contexts and through different mnemonic technologies.

This course explores the significance of James Joyce's epic novel Ulysses and places it in its historical and cultural context. The course begins with two classes considering Joyce's work before its publication (specifically Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man). The remaining eight weeks are devoted entirely to Ulysses. Through this study students will gain an awareness of the work's significance within the critical discourses of modernism and realism. The course assumes no prior knowledge of Irish history or culture but students will be expected to engage with these contexts as the module progresses. Recommended reading will be made available before each seminar.

This course examines the ideas, policies, and practices surrounding education and learning with children and young people outside of formal school-based settings. The couse looks at diverse approaches to informal education, including youth work, play work, social action, social pedagogy, and educational work in other settings such as museums, libraries, science centers, and outdoors. What these approaches have in common is a child-centered or youth-centered ethos; a holistic approach to learning; a central focus on anti-oppressive practice; and a high value placed on respectful and trusting relationships between learners and staff. The course considers what out-of-school practices offer to children and young people, reflects on the vital role of informal educators in such settings, and discusses how policy can support and/or create challenging conditions for learning out of school.

This course explores gender, sex, and sexuality in a cross-disciplinary environment that promotes a dialogue between both students and academics from different faculties. Teaching sessions comprise combinations of lectures and seminars that juxtapose different approaches to related subtopics, for example by pairing a science-based lecture with a seminar on the representation of gender or sexuality in the arts. These sessions are framed by reflective exercises aimed at identifying areas of overlap as well as gaps and contradictions within these approaches. 

This course focuses on the experiences of children and young people living in "troubled times." Through consideration of case studies - for example, the lives of child soldiers or the case of unaccompanied child migrants – students explore the ways in which adversity and crises, such as armed conflict, affect the everyday lives, education, and mental and physical health of children and young people. Students consider how well normative theories of childhood enable us to understand the lives of children and young people. Particular attention is paid to children and young people's vulnerability in such situations and their need of protection, as well as their agency: their ability to shape their lives and those of their communities in incredibly difficult situations.

This course provides an introduction to the study of International Political Economy (IPE). IPE is a field of research that combines the study of politics and economics, exploring both domestic and international factors that impact preferences, behaviors, and policies relating to economic globalization. The course covers major topics of inquiry within IPE such as the politics and policies relating to international trade, international investment, and international finance. Students are introduced to theoretical and empirical research analyzing each topic covered. 

This course introduces students to the key ideas in the study of language in society, with a focus on sociolinguistic phenomena which are observable in London. The course takes a survey approach, ensuring that the breadth of sociolinguistic scholarship is explored. The course is research driven, and students are exposed to the range of methodologies used in the discipline; students have the chance to carry out a project on dialectology and language attitudes within class sessions, and are taken a field trip to photograph the linguistic landscape in Brick Lane, China Town, and Camden.