United Kingdom - England

This course provides students with a broad overview of violence and harm as committed by individuals or groups within society. Several forms of violence are examined within the course including but not limited to intimate partner violence, stalking, sexual violence, and elder abuse. In addition to examining the nature and prevalence of violence and harm, the course also examines the ways in which violence and harm are assessed, managed and communicated by professionals who work with perpetrators and victims of violence. Concepts related to violence or the prevalence and nature of violence such as psychopathy and gender are also examined. 

This course delves into the process of language acquisition. The course looks at different models and theories that have arisen from the different schools of thought. It explores the different processes of first language acquisition and stages of development (phonological, lexical, syntactical), before moving onto the cognitive framework of language processing (parsing). The next area of focus is bilingualism and second language acquisition. Students are introduced to different forms of bilingualism and the issues raised in second language acquisition. They are also introduced to language in the brain, speech pathologies, and other communication systems.

This course offers students a unique opportunity to spend a whole semester reading one single poem, albeit a very large one: John Milton’s PARADISE LOST (1674). One of the greatest works of English literature, this epic consists of twelve books, most of which we will devote a whole week to reading and talking about. Taking in a range of issues including love, marriage, religion, politics, education, freedom of speech, and the rights of rulers and citizens within a free commonwealth, students see why Milton still has so much to say to us. 

This course is about the security of networks of computers and their communications. It describes network fundamentals, and the security of Internet protocols, including wired, wireless, and mobile communication networks. It also describes network attacks and countermeasures, particularly focusing on intrusion detection and prevention systems.

This course requires students to put theory into practice by cultivating a sense of the history and theory of documentary alongside the chance to make a short documentary film. The first part of the course requires students to produce a short documentary film. The second part of the course charts the historical development of documentary filmmaking through the examination of a number of case studies ranging from the early 20th century to the present day, giving further opportunity to examine the inter-relatedness of theory and practice in the work of well-known documentarists.

This course explores the fluctuating significance of racial slavery for the development of American and African American literary tradition. It departs from investigation of the idea that particular approaches to selfhood, writing, and freedom arose from the institution of slavery and in particular grew with the slaves’ forced exclusion from literacy and their distinctive relationship with Christianity. Using Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a central point of reference, students look at the development of abolitionist reading publics and the role of imaginative literature in bringing about the demise of slavery. That controversial text also provides a means to consider the relationship of sentimentalism to suffering and identification as well as the problems arising from the simultaneous erasure and re-inscription of racial categories, as oppression and as emancipation. When formal slavery ended, new literary habits emerged in response to the memory of it and the need imaginatively to revisit the slave past as a means to grasp what the emergent world of civic and political freedoms might mean and involve. Other issues covered include the disputed place of imaginative writing in the educational bodies that were created for ex-slaves and their descendants, the issues of genre, gender, and polyvocality in abolitionist texts, the problems of representation that arose in the plantation’s litany of extremity and suffering, and the contemporary significance of slavery in the culture of African American particularity.

This course develops an intersectional understanding of gender and media research, examining the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Interrogating a broad range of media forms, it introduces key concepts within gender and media scholarship and equips students with the theoretical and methodological tools for undertaking independent research projects. Responding to key debates and events in current popular media culture, topics can include the shifting constructions of femininity, masculinity, transgender, and LGBTIQ+ subjectivities; feminist approaches to media production; industry appropriations of empowerment ideals and "woke capitalism"; and emerging trends of celebrity feminisms. 

This course focusses on the imbrications between culture and politics in the 20th and 21st centuries. Moving beyond élite forms of culture and across different contexts, students ask, firstly, how nation-states have attempted to mobilize culture to gain legitimacy and consolidate power at home and abroad. Secondly, students ask how a wide cast of characters – artists, writers, athletes, activists, doctors and others – have resisted the efforts of nation-states (as well as of institutions above, below and beyond the state) to marshal and co-opt them. Thirdly, students consider how cultural and political forms have moved across borders, and how these have been adopted, adapted and reforged in these histories of export and circulation.

This course introduces students to relevant concepts to provide an understanding of the business environment. It sets the scene and provides a platform for future study as well as helping students to appreciate the interconnected nature of business organizations, the environment in which they operate, and the people involved. Through collaborative team-based activities, students show an ability to engage in a critical discussion of issues affecting contemporary business and analyze a selected organization’s approach to a selected managerial process. Topics and concepts may include – Organizational Structure, Management Theory, Corporate Social Responsibility and the culture and ethics of business organizations. The course help students contextualize the study of organizations and should give students the capability to analyze organization and management issues in a contemporary setting. Students also work collaboratively in team-based activities providing networking opportunities throughout the module. This module may include in-class simulations, where students evaluate the success of a selected organization’s market performance.

Throughout the 20th century, economics became more mathematical as a discipline and now requires sophisticated mathematical tools and techniques to solve problems arising in economics. The course provides students with some of the necessary mathematical background to study economics more effectively and more rewardingly.