This module is designed to develop the intellectual, practical and transferable skills needed to study law and to allow you to see how these skills can be employed both elsewhere in your degree and in some aspects of legal practice. It builds on the legal knowledge acquired in the first semester to develop key skills such as issue spotting, legal research and constructing a legal argument.
This module is designed to develop the intellectual, practical and transferable skills needed to study law generally, and to allow you to see how these skills can be employed in legal practice. It builds on the legal knowledge acquired in the first semester and considers how some of these legal rules and principles are utilised in practice to determine various types of legal dispute. It particular, it develops your key skills in legal research and argumentation by asking you to regularly advise 'clients' on a variety of fictional scenarios which raise multiple legal issues that often intersect a number of discrete areas of law.
Legal System and Reasoning is a predominantly skills-based introduction to studying the legal system of England and Wales, its institutions and practices, in the context of a more general understanding of law, legal theory and legal reasoning. It is designed to provide you with knowledge, understanding and skills that are foundational to your whole degree.
This version of Legal System and Reasoning is provided for you if you are studying the LLB JD Pathway or the LLB Accelerated programme. It is a predominantly skills-based module focusing on the legal system of England and Wales, its institutions and practices, in the context of a more general understanding of law, legal theory and legal reasoning. It is designed to provide you with knowledge, understanding and skills that are foundational to your whole degree programme.
This version of Legal System, Skills and Reasoning is provided for you if you are studying the LLB JD Pathway or the LLB Accelerated programme. It is a predominantly skills-based module focusing on the legal system of England and Wales, its institutions and practices, in the context of a more general understanding of law, legal theory and legal reasoning. It is designed to provide you with knowledge, understanding and skills that are foundational to your whole degree programme.
The interaction of law and technology has traditionally been understood as a one-way relationship whereby law and regulation facilitate technological innovations and restrain their excesses; think automobiles, planes, satellites, electronic banking, telecommunications, or biotechnologies. This course shows that the interaction of law and technology is in fact two-way: technology also impacts and disrupts law, legal practice and regulatory choices, and does so in significant ways. The course introduces you to recent technological developments - like generative and predictive AI - that are disrupting the legal profession, legal services and the regulator. It discusses the modus operandi of these technologies, their application to legal, judicial or regulatory tasks – and, importantly, their practical, theoretical, ethical and legal limitations.
Are we really alone in the Universe? That's a question that has been asked across the centuries and is always evolving. The course will discuss all the environmental circumstances that seem to encourage the start of any life form and investigate the current state of our knowledge of life outside of the earth. To investigate this exciting possibility you will first look at your own world and how life evolved; drawing on areas of biology, chemistry, geology and palaeontology. Once you have understood what is required to support life, we can begin looking at other planets, such as Mars, to search for evidence of places that could or have sustained life. The course is designed for students who do not have an A-level in physics or maths.
The course provides an introduction to modern optical physics to arm students with a basic knowledge of light-matter interactions, electro-optics and nonlinear optics. It aims to provide a fundamental base for understanding the techniques and technologies of photonics and experimental quantum optics, while also drawing together and developing many more basic and beautiful aspects of physics.
This module develops methods for conducting inference about parametric statistical models. The techniques studied are general and applicable to a wide range of statistical models, including simple models for identically distributed responses and regression models, as well as many more complex models which may be encountered in other modules.
Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics focused on linear equations, their solutions, and many topics naturally connected to these, such as matrices, vector spaces, inner products, and more. Physicists use linear algebra to describe an enormous number of phenomena, including some of the most important and fundamental, like normal mode oscillations, particle collisions, stability analysis, and more. This module covers the aspects of linear algebra used most commonly in physics, with examples from mechanics, electricity and magnetism, relativity, and more. The aim of the module is to provide students with an expanded skill set for solving problems in physics, and in the process, to reveal the deep and profound connections between different areas of physics.
Linear maps on vector spaces are the basis for a large area of mathematics, in particular linear equations and linear differential equations, which form the basic language of the physical sciences. This module restricts itself to the vector space R^n to build an intuitive understanding of the concepts of linear algebra and tools for calculations. We begin with the geometry of lines and planes in R^3 and R^n looking at the intuitive concept of vectors on the one hand, and with systems of linear equations on the other. This leads us to matrix algebra, and in particular the inversion of matrices. One of the pre-requisites for MATH1049, MATH1057, MATH1058, MATH1060, MATH2013, MATH2045, MATH3087, MATH3033 and MATH3090
Building on the intuitive understanding and calculation techniques from Linear Algebra I, this module introduces the concepts of vector spaces and linear maps in an abstract, axiomatic way. In particular, matrices are revisited as the representation of a linear map in a specific basis. We furthermore introduce the concept of bases of vector spaces and study diagonalisation of linear maps. We apply the abstract theory both in the context of Rn (as seen in Linear Algebra I) and in the context of function spaces; these are particularly important in the study of linear differential equations and hence for instance in physical sciences; for example we look at the derivative operator on the space of polynomial functions. One of the pre-requisites for MATH2003, MATH2014, MATH2045, MATH3033, MATH3076 and MATH3090
The global industries shaping contemporary literary cultures are diverse, dynamic and rapidly changing. They incorporate children’s literature, graphic novels, plays and poetry, site-specific and experimental writing, popular genre fiction, as well as the canonical works of the heritage industry. This module will give you a critical understanding of these innovative industries and the skills needed to engage and develop them. It particularly focuses on literature’s digital revolution and the ways in which new media has radically transformed the meaning and processes of writing, publishing, editing, adapting, reading and reviewing. Issues to be examined on the module include the use of interactive writing platforms, the role of literary narrative in gaming, the adaptations of fiction into film, television, hypertexts and immersive experiences, the use of locative technologies in writing and reading. The module concludes with in-depth case studies that allow students to read literary texts through their complex cultural and economic contexts. These case-studies allow you to look at specific examples of the issues involved in the marketing, selling, copyrighting, adapting, translating, reading and interpreting of influential, often ground-breaking, cultural practices.
Why have some stories gripped the imagination of writers, musicians, and artists across cultures and centuries? And what does the emergence and constant re-emergence of such stories tell us about ourselves and others, past and present? What do readers and audiences continually find compelling about these translations, adaptations and transformations? How do writers reshape the stories they retell to meet the needs of their own times. In this module, you will trace, analyse, theorise and compare the inventions and reinventions of a classic narrative across history and through genres, from poetry to novels, and from song to paintings and film.
This optional module provides an advanced introduction to the relationship between literature, culture and social change. The course focuses on key points of intersection between the arts and activism through a range of historical and contemporary social movements in the ‘Long 20th Century’. These may include, but are not limited to: feminism, migration, climate crisis, BLM, 1968, oil, Human/Animal Rights. In these contexts, you will consider how writers and artists question the status quo, give voice to marginalized perspectives and inspire others to take action. You will evaluate theoretical and creative interventions into social change contexts, drawing on multiple genres and forms, including memoir, testimony, literary essay, visual media, manifestos and declarations.
Cities are continually evolving in response to economic, social and environmental drivers. Globalisation is accelerating this process and cities which are unable to respond may quickly lose their purpose and vitality. In a UK context, many cities have areas that developed during the Industrial Revolution or post World War II to deliver activities that are no longer relevant at such a physical scale. These areas are now opportunities for regeneration or change of use, in essence ‘rezoning’. Whilst globalisation can be considered as the major disruptor to the vitality of a city it is by no means an isolated event. There are an ever increasing number of smaller, often technology-led disruptors that have emerged following the expansion of the Internet such as UBER, Airbnb, Deliveroo, Amazon and Netflix. In parallel, cities need to accommodate an ageing population and address the predicted climate change led challenges such as greater intensity and frequency of flooding and heatwaves. Civil engineering delivers the hard infrastructure such as transport which may lock a city into a defined path for decades. An important skill therefore for the modern civil engineer is the ability to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist at the city scale and use this understanding to develop contextual solutions (systems design). This sits at the core of Liveable Cities, how do we shape cities to create the places people want to live, work and play in? How do we ensure cities are inclusive for all, meeting various needs and circumstances?
The Living Well with Long-Term Conditions (MLTC-M) module explores the prevention, diagnosis, and management of MLTC-M, equipping you with the knowledge and skills to support people living with multiple long-term conditions. This module focuses on identifying and addressing the needs that matter most to those living with multiple health conditions through shared decision-making, personalised care, interdisciplinary collaboration, and evidence-based interventions.
The towns in which the Romans lived are some of the most familiar features of the Roman world. Although they seem to look and feel like modern towns, they actually worked in quite different ways, a reflection of the fact that ancient Roman society was distinct to our own. This module introduces you to archaeology of towns from across the Roman world between the 3rd century BC and the 6th century AD. You will learn of the very different ways in which the Romans thought about towns and how they were organized. In particular, you will be introduced to the vibrant political and commercial life of towns in the Roman towns and provinces, and their links with Rome itself. You will also gain an appreciation of how Roman towns actually worked from day to day and their roles within the broader empire, and will also discover why there were very marked differences between towns in different parts of the Mediterranean, northern Europe and north Africa and the Middle East. You will also venture out into the countryside surrounding the towns, and learn something of their links to villages, farms and villas. Following this module, in short, will introduce you to some breath-taking archaeological sites and provide you with a fascinating glimpse into a key part of our European cultural heritage.
