This module covers energy conversion fundamentals and technologies whilst relating these elements to sustainability. This module looks at energy from social, environmental and economic perspectives.
This course explores how the key materials and elements that are essential to life are cycled through the biosphere and the Earth system.
An understanding of the physical, chemical and biological processes involved during contamination of air, water and soil is essential if society is going to effectively monitor and control the effects of pollution using modern technology and engineering practices. A huge range of pollutants may be released into the environment during everyday domestic, leisure, industrial and commercial activities and many of these contaminants are potentially harmful to human health and the environment. In this module, we will focus on the origins, pathways and consequences of anthropogenic pollutants in the environment as well as discussing the various approaches to pollution control and remediation. Students will use their knowledge and skills to complete assignments that will test the learning outcomes for the module. This module does not have any pre-requisites, but some background in chemistry and biology is preferred. Students will be required to perform mathematical activities.
Biological science tells us what items in our world are potentially edible, but culture decides what constitutes food. Culture informs us as to whether a specific item is appropriate, appetising, valued, desirable, prohibited, restricted, staple or medicinal. These and other qualities are products of culture not simply the ‘food’ itself. ‘You are what you eat’ illustrates the social dynamics through which identities, relationships, and hierarchies are created, performed and reproduced. This module examines cultural variation in what constitutes food, drink and medicine in contemporary societies and contexts. We will also look into changing patterns of food acquisition from prehistory into the present. In particular we will examine how our cultural definitions, discourses, values and practices concerning food act to build, sustain and nourish us as biological bodies, as individually specific persons, and as participants in specific social, cultural, ethnic, national and transnational groups.
The 10,000 years from the end of the last glacial to the emergence of Roman as a major European power were marked by dramatic changes in subsistence, social organisation, material worlds and cosmology. This module provides an introduction to the major themes that structure European later prehistory: from hunter- gatherer worlds to the spread of agriculture; the emergence of great ceremonial monuments and, in places, equally monumental settlements; the effect of the adoption of metallurgy, and the creation of extensive networks of contact and exchange; and the impact that Rome was to have on Iron Age societies in its broader hinterland. Through lectures and an individual project, a range of evidence will be explored. You will be introduced to current interpretive debates and the ways that archaeologists reconstruct prehistoric lifeways and world views.
This module introduces the students to the theory and practice of experimental methods in Social Sciences. It delivers an overview of prevalent approaches, specifically lab, field, and survey experiments, providing a solid introduction to experimental methodology and the practical skills to design, implement, analyse, and present experiments. Substantively it draws examples from a variety of disciplines including political science, economics, business and psychology. The target audience of the course are students approaching experimental methods for the first time and have limited or no knowledge of quantitative methods. The course does not require any previous knowledge of experimental design or statistics and is designed to help the students acquire basic statistical skills in a practical and engaging way.
This module is primarily concerned with familiarising you with the basic principles of film form and film style, as well as key methodologies of film analysis. The module introduces different formal and stylistic traditions and varied modes of filmmaking, including the specific form and style of the classical Hollywood cinema. As a whole, the module covers a diverse selection of films.
The module covers the history of European film from silent cinema to the present day, placing particular emphasis on the inter-war years, the post-war period and the contemporary moment. It examines national film cultures as well as the transnational elements of European film history.
This module will familiarise you with the basic principles of film form, narrative and style. It will introduce specialist terminology needed to describe formal elements of audio-visual language and foster your analytical ability in the interpretation of how narration, mise-en-scene, editing, cinematography and sound work together to create meaning. You will be introduced to different modes of filmmaking, including the specific form and techniques of the Classical Hollywood style. This module is designed for students who are not enrolled on the Film Studies degree and is taught intensively over 5 weeks. It is a co-requisite module for further study on film modules in years 2 and 3. (This module can be taken at the same time as a second-year film module with an FI code).
The “Introduction to Finance” module aims to offer a comprehensive introduction to Finance. You will learn various analytical tools to analyse the theory of choice, capital budgeting, asset pricing models, financial risk management, etc. You will also learn about the application of various risk management techniques and their associated implications. This module aims to bridge the gap between providing operational expertise in finance and applying the concepts of finance in practice.
This module introduces a novel area of Finance known as Financial Technology (FinTech). This module will explain what Blockchain is and what its applications in Finance and Business are. You will understand how the financial technologies are changing the landscape for financial institutions, businesses, banks and regulatory bodies. You will learn what the alternative sources of finance available to start the business are, such as crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending. This module aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to analyse the challenges and opportunities associated with the rapid expansion of Fintech. This module aims to explain the main types of Fintech and its impact on financial institutions and regulatory bodies. One of the main ambitions of this module is to explain Financial Technology in an easy accessible way using plenty of case studies and examples.
This module is designed to provide you with a broad introduction to the culture, history and language of France and Francophone countries. By studying various types of primary and secondary sources, you will become familiar with a wide range of themes, events and ideas from this region. All materials will be available in English, allowing students with little or no prior knowledge of the French language to engage with the module.
This module is designed to provide you with a broad introduction to the culture, history and language of Germany and other German-speaking countries. By studying various types of primary and secondary sources, you will become familiar with a wide range of themes, events and ideas from this region. All materials will be available in English, allowing students with little or no prior knowledge of the German language to engage with the module.
As the ice sheets retreated and the global climate began to stabilise at the beginning of the Holocene c. 12,000 years ago, humans began to create new ways of living. The story of our human past usually tells this tale as one of a move away from mobile hunter gathering ways of existence, towards settled, agricultural communities of the Neolithic: with an associated growth in property, centralisation, and hierarchy. The usual conclusion of this narrative is the exploitative, extractive and profoundly unequal ‘civilisation’ we live in today. But what do we mean by the term ‘civilisation’? Gordon Childe famously listed a number of key characteristics of a society that enabled it to be labelled as ‘civilisation’, including the use of writing and monumental architecture. This module offers a thematic exploration—and explosion—of some of these core narratives about the human past—including ideas of ‘progress’, ‘diffusion’, ‘power’, and the link between subsistence and social formation. Throughout, we will explore the diversity of prehistoric Holocene human societies across the globe and through time.
This module introduces the essential principles of the Graphic Communication programme and gives you the opportunity to understand and examine the key skills and working methods required for your studies at Higher Education. As well as engaging in practical activity you will learn how what you create is enhanced by critical thinking and contextual knowledge. You will be introduced to key techniques and processes and develop knowledge and understanding that will inform and underpin all learning communities in the programme. This will include learning skills in design, type, motion, illustrative and image practices. You are likely to develop new and exciting skills and knowledge in areas which you may not have previously explored. This module will also give you opportunities to gain critical and practical confidence as well as experience new ways of thinking through making.
This module introduces the essential principles of the Graphic Communication programme and gives you the opportunity to understand and examine the key skills and working methods required for your studies at Higher Education. As well as engaging in practical activity you will learn how what you create is enhanced by critical thinking and contextual knowledge. You will be introduced to key techniques and processes and develop knowledge and understanding that will inform and underpin all aspects the programme. This will include learning skills in design, type, motion and illustration. You are likely to develop new and exciting skills and knowledge in areas which you may not have previously explored. This module will also give you opportunities to gain critical and practical confidence as well as experience new ways of thinking through making.
This module will introduce students to the discipline of health psychology.
This module provides you with a deep understanding of the fundamental science and technology underlying clinical hearing assessment and rehabilitation. It will include a foundation in the epidemiology of hearing loss, the biology of the hearing system, the psychology of sound perception, the physics of sound, the principles of hearing technology and how those areas inter-relate. These subjects will be taught with a strong emphasis on their relevance to audiological assessment and rehabilitation. No assumptions are made about your background in these except that you completed maths and science at GCSE level or equivalent. This module works closely with Biopsychosocial Basis of Audiology, which provides you with a more general introduction to neurobiology, psychology and other relevant themes. This module also works with Biopsychosocial Basis of Audiology to provide you with a series of sessions on academic skills across the year in order to support you make the transition to undergraduate study in a scientific discipline.
In a common analogy where the c.4.5 billion years of Earth's geological history are equated to a 24-hour day - modern humans appearing only within the last 4 seconds - written human history begins only in the last 100 milliseconds. That time, though, saw major shifts in human behaviours. Archaeological investigation of societies that habitually read and write has its own characteristics and challenges: the presence of written records changes how scholars have engaged with the past, providing hugely detailed information across diverse spheres of activity, but also tending to devalue and undermine the autonomy of the material record. This module will introduce you to the archaeology of historical periods, and the range of human societies, with and without writing, that existed from the advent of text at the end of the 4th millenium BCE. We will critique the historical tendency to privilege written sources over material ones, and demonstrate the range and diversity of archaeology's contributions to our understanding of societies from the ancient world to the present day.
Explore the forces that shape our world by studying the structures, actors, and policy-making processes of international relations. This module equips students with the knowledge and skills to assess and apply competing theories of world politics, and to discuss great matters of international concern. Learning activities are designed to encourage students to propose and debate solutions to real-world problems related to security, human rights, global political economy, international development, the environment, war and peace, and migration. The module provides an opportunity for students to strengthen their research skills, to become critical thinkers, and to evaluate and advocate big ideas for changing the world.
