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This course analyzes a range of the most recent work from contemporary film directors from American, European, and world cinema. Students examine the films from a number of critical and theoretical perspectives and engage with key concepts and concerns such as nationalism and cinema, transnationalism, postmodernism, and audience reception.
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In 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development set out 17 Sustainable Development Goals which provide a roadmap for addressing the key global challenges that the world is facing including, poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, peace, and justice. In this course, students are introduced to the SDGs, the practical ways in which policy aims to address them, and how the success of these policies in progressing the Goals can be measured and evaluated.
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This course presents a thematic overview of the global intersections and relationships of Western visual and material culture across a range of historically located examples. Topics are explored in this course under the broad themes of appropriations and the "other" and cultural geographies. Through these lenses students explore topics as diverse as orientalism, photography and colonialism, and globalization and contemporary art, and what they reveal about cultural transmission through the ages.
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Students are introduced to theories and practices in film and screen media industries. Historical and cultural contexts of a variety of creative industries are examined. Detailed case studies of specific productions, from inception and funding/development to production and promotion, are analyzed. Practitioners from the film/screen media industry and from creative culture industries deliver a series of workshops to illuminate contemporary approaches and practices during the course.
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A hands-on theater course taught by practicing theatre professionals, emphasizing practical and performance-based skills, which develops those competencies acquired by students in previous years. The course exposes participants to a variety of different theater styles and genres, using classic and modern texts while ensuring that these texts are interrogated in a practical way. The course includes a theatrical production of a play, carefully selected to ensure appropriate distribution of roles, including backstage responsibilities.
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This course considers objects and places from the medieval world that have accumulated multiple meanings over time. Challenging the narrative of a "clash of civilizations" between Islam and Christianity, it focuses on the entangled histories of art and architecture in the medieval Mediterranean, examining through case studies the mediatory role of art, material culture, and architecture from the 10th to 15th centuries.
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The course introduces students to the role of drama in the second-level school classroom as a structured learning experience and also as an art form. It equips students with the appropriate skills and confidence necessary to use drama in the teaching of a variety of subjects and provides students with practical experiences of using the art form collaboratively to enrich and extend the study of other subjects. This course plans and evaluates learning episodes for students arising from meaningful engagement with the art form in applied settings. It also enables students to engage in reflective practice about the teaching of drama at secondary school level. Students enact drama as a cross curricular pedagogy, through participation in and experience of practical drama-based workshops. They create, plan for, and deliver effective episodes using drama for their own teaching needs. Students focus on applying innovative practice in the area of arts in education and display leadership in future school planning in arts in education. This course teaches students how to identify and synthesize the skills and competencies to engage in a wide range of dramatic activity in interdisciplinary contexts.
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Through an exploration of the complex and contradictory relationships between the global, local, regional, and national, this course focuses on the key issues and scholarly debates in the field of global media studies. Students explore a broad range of media as case studies to understand the relationship between location, culture, and identity. This course equips students with a broad-ranging and comparative understanding of the many ways in which media are produced, consumed, distributed, and circulated across the globe and their impact on our imaginations of a global world.
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Students are introduced to the political, social, and economic history of ancient Greece during the the "Classical" period, c. 480-323 BC. This era spans from the Greco-Persian Wars to the death of Alexander the Great. This course explores sources and methods that modern historians use to study ancient Greek culture, including literary texts that are read in translation and artefacts from the ancient world.
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The course highlights the ways in which economic and financial processes both shape, and are shaped by, space. In particular, the course focuses on understanding of how uneven development occurs, alongside exploring questions of how social inequalities arise and what causes economic and financial crises. In addition to this, the impacts of economic and financial processes on the environment and the climate crisis are considered. In doing so, the course engages with fundamental challenges facing contemporary societies and explores policy options to address them. Students gain a solid grounding in a number of theoretical approaches, concepts and debates pertaining to the economy, finance and space; explore economic and financial processes in the real world through case studies from a range of different contexts, including those in the Western capitalist core and (semi-)peripheries of post-socialist Eastern Europe; and debate policy options for the future.
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