This module provides comprehensive coverage of the main features of railway engineering and operations, including topics ranging from system planning through to the impacts of noise and vibration. During the module students will develop an appreciation of the distinctive features of engineering in the railway context, while also making links with more general engineering and transport planning practice. The module will combine theoretical analysis with practical applications to allow students to understand how railway engineering and operational principles are used in the real world. The module takes advantage of the University of Southampton’s substantial experience and expertise in railway research, and will make use of case studies based on recent and ongoing research projects.
This module is about exploring English education and the changes that lead it to exist in its current form. In studying this module, you will develop your skills in identifying and discussing the impact of the different changes in English education. Within the module, you will explore policy reforms and curriculum changes, historical context, pedagogical shifts, innovative teaching practices and more.
This module explores issues at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics, focusing on questions about the relevance of preference and wellbeing for government decision-making. What are preferences? How might they be relevant to good government decision-making? What is wellbeing? How might it be relevant to good government decision-making, and how might it connect with, or compete with, considerations to do with our preferences? What other considerations feed into government decision making that might compete with, or even undermine, these considerations? We will explore these questions both in the abstract, but also with concrete test cases - these will vary from year to year but might include topics such as overall tax rates, inheritance tax, public health interventions, and questions about healthcare spending priorities.
This module will explore some central issues about rationality, responsibility, and ethics. Questions we shall consider may include: What is it to act? Are all actions motivated by desire? Do we act only in pursuit of what we deem good? What is involved in acting rationally, or for a good reason? Do all, some, or none of our reasons depend on our desires? Do moral considerations necessarily provide reasons for action, or is there sometimes most reason to be immoral? What is it to act for the right reasons? What makes our actions worthy of praise or blame? When does ignorance excuse?
The module will develop concepts related to reaction engineering and the design of reactors. Reaction engineering is at the heart of chemical engineering and one of the main requirements of chemical engineers is to design equipment where reactions take place in the most affordable, safe, and efficient way.
The course introduces an array of chemical reactions that facilitate carbon-to-carbon bond formation and functional group interconversions.
Chemical industries have transformed the quality of human life rapidly by the chemical and physical transformation of ecological goods and services to higher economic value products, mostly without considering if those transformation routes or methods were sustainable. Reactors Design and scale up is at the hart of chemical processing and have applications in many low carbon and sustainable technologies including energy conversion (fuel cells, metal-air batteries, fuel production, electrolysers and flow batteries), catalysis (chemical and electrochemical synthesis), carbon capture/sequestration/conversion and fermentation based chemical production.in energy conversion, pharmaceutical & cosmetics, and food& beverage processing This module provides an introduction to the chemical, biochemical and mathematical principles underpinning reactor design, scale up and operation. Students will develop a working knowledge of reactors through carbon capture, catalysis and energy conversion case studies.
The culmination of your history degree at Southampton will be the completion of your final year independent research dissertation (HIST3021 for History programmes or HIST3210 for Ancient History programmes). In this module you will learn how to apply the analytical and research expertise that you have been developing through your degree to your own individual research project and its conceptual framework. You will choose from a series of workshops according to the broad areas of historical interest that will inform your dissertation, chronological, geographical and thematic. You will work as a member of a group with a specialist workshop leader for each of the interest areas to explore the key literature and historiographical developments relevant to your field. You will be expected to engage critically with influential texts and you will be asked to review one of these texts for the first assessment. Your discussions will enable you to understand how the writing of history needs to be historicized and in particular to consider how this relates to the subject area that you intend to investigate in your dissertation. You will receive feedback on your research project through a presentation and a historiographical essay. The module is supported by a wide range of lectures and online materials; you are encouraged to engage widely with all the resources on offer to learn about the research process and how to be an historian, but you will also be able to identify and concentrate on those areas that will be most pertinent to your own research project.
This module provides students with the practical foundations for designing and planning the empirical research for their final year dissertation. It does this supported by research insights and examples from staff from their own research experience. The module is a full module delivered in the first 6 weeks of Semester 1 involving a package of interactive lectures and workshops. This concentrated focus on research design aims to provide a high level of support with designing dissertation research and plenty of opportunities for discussing research ideas and getting feedback from staff and peers.
This module gives a broad introduction to development of real-time and embedded systems
Welcome to the “Realising Success” module. This is where you are going to learn how to create a successful future and make the most of opportunities at university to maximise success and get yourself in a competitive position. The module is designed to ensure that by the end of Year One, you will have the confidence and knowledge to navigate your future career. By the end of the MANG1016 Realising Success, you as a Southampton Business Student will have the edge over the competition when applying for summer internships, year-long placements, and other work opportunities. You will identify with what sort of sectors you might want to work in, whether it be Marketing, Sales, Finance, Procurement and how to succeed in an increasingly competitive market. This module will help to support you in making the most of the opportunities available to you during your studies. The module has been created with insight from top employers and is run by the Placements Office in Southampton Business School due to our industry expertise.
One of the main reasons the study of Philosophy is valued by employers is that it develops an ability that is invaluable in all sorts of contexts: the ability to reason rigorously and correctly. All Philosophy modules aim indirectly to develop this skill, but Reason and Argument is directly concerned to develop it. The module is all about how to tell the difference between good and bad arguments, how to use language precisely, how to identify weak arguments and misleading uses of language in the writings of philosophers, politicians and others whose job it is to persuade us to believe what they want us to believe. The module focuses on arguments in ordinary language and aims to give you the concepts and skills you need to identify the tricks commonly used to disguise bad arguments as good ones and to develop your own skills in constructing valid arguments.
The aims of this module are to introduce you to the turbulent sequence of rebellions which took place during the Tudor period, to encourage you to ponder on the causes and consequences of those uprisings, and to help you to understand why previous historians have written about them in the way that they have.
The first century CE saw the rise of a new world religion that was to have an ever changing and at times turbulent history up to today. This module will explore the historical origins of Christianity and the contexts from which it emerged. In particular, we will examine Jewish society in the Graeco-Roman world, which produced the first Christians, and the Palestinian scene under Roman rule at the time. We will investigate reactions to early Christianity in Graeco-Roman and Jewish literature and histories, including how its members were viewed as a rebellious minority and perceptions of their ideas as ‘excessive superstition’ and a ‘contagion’ (Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.96-97). We will also look at the search for identity and recognition amongst the earliest Christians, particularly in relation to the Jewish people, as they began to establish, develop and expand their new religion. The module will invite you to assess and debate the historical origins of one the key religions that has shaped the modern world.
This module examines aspects of Jewish experience in the aftermath of the Holocaust. It explores refugee experiences in the aftermath of war; it explores Jewish debates over post-Holocaust futures, in Europe, in Israel, elsewhere; it examines attempts to re-establish Jewish communities in areas where they had been destroyed; it examines dialogues between Jews and others in the post-war world, and the presence of the Holocaust in those. Its emphasis is on the ways in which the suffering of the Holocaust did not simply end with the moment of liberation. Rather, it explores how, from the initial struggles in Displaced Persons camps and other sites of liberation through emigration, the rebuilding of shattered lives, conflicts over restitution and (in cases) renewed experiences of antisemitism and persecution the lives of Jews and their interlocutors remained shaped by the events of the Holocaust for decades after.
This module aims to enhance the quality of instrumental or vocal study, developing your technical resources and repertory leading to the presentation of a concert
Reflective practice is a standard of good practice for helping professions. It is becoming routinely used in homelessness services. This module will provide an introductory understanding of reflective practice models and its application to practice.
This module introduces the student to practical as well as reflective aspects of teaching and learning. One-to-one instrumental teaching and workshops are designed to enhance the students' understanding of teaching strategies, established methods, and learning processes, and the ways these might be applied in a range of music teaching situations. A focus on critical reflection is aimed towards enhancing skills as both a teacher and learner.
This module will provide an overview of statistical methods for linear and logistic regression. Pre-requisite for: STAT6087, STAT6089, STAT6090, STAT6102 and STAT6103 One of the pre-requisites for STAT6091
To provide an understanding of i) the regulation of transcription in eukaryotic organisms; ii) post-transcriptional regulation; iii) the structure, formation and function of microRNAs; iv) how the process of translation is controlled.
To provide an understanding of i) the regulation of transcription in eukaryotic organisms, ii) post-transcriptional regulation, iii) the structure, formation and function of microRNAs, iv) how the process of translation is controlled
This module builds on your learning from Part 1. Complementing Principles of Physiotherapy Practice 2 by focusing on rehabilitation across the lifespan and within specific patient groups, it aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to address the complex and evolving needs of individuals and diverse patient groups. You will develop your critical appraisal and evidence-based practice skills building on the teaching from Research methods for Physiotherapy.
The purpose of this module is to provide you with knowledge and understanding of the core concepts related to Adult Auditory Rehabilitation including principles of health psychology and signal processing as well as technical and psychosocial aspects of the rehabilitation process. As an Audiologist or Hearing Aid Dispenser this will help you to assess the needs of adult patients with hearing loss and provide patients with accurate and up to date information in order that they can make informed decisions about their management and treatment including devices, equipment and features.
