The Future Artisan delves into the intersection of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary innovation within the sustainable luxury textile industries. This module builds on foundational knowledge to demonstrate how artisan communities can evolve by integrating new technologies, sustainable practices, promotional strategies, and ethical considerations. Through the disciplines of knitting, weaving, and printing, you will engage in collaborations, reinterpret traditional handicrafts, and develop products for fashion, interiors, and lifestyle industries. You will examine the role of communities in co-creating and shaping the future of artisanship. Emphasising sustainability, ethical production, and luxury markets, you will learn to align your work with the personal, cultural, and social values of today's consumers.
The Future Artisan delves into the intersection of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary innovation within the sustainable luxury textile industries. This module builds on foundational knowledge to demonstrate how ethnic artisan communities can evolve by integrating new technologies, sustainable practices, promotional strategies, and ethical considerations. Through the disciplines of knitting, weaving, and printing, you will engage in community collaborations, reinterpret traditional handicrafts, and develop market-ready products for apparel, interiors, and lifestyle industries. Drawing on social theory and psychology, you will examine the role of communities in co-creating and shaping the future of artisanship. Emphasizing sustainability, ethical production, and luxury markets, you will learn to align your work with the personal, cultural, and social values of today's consumers. By the end of this module, you will possess the skills and insights necessary to thrive as an artisan in a rapidly changing world.
Understanding consumer behaviour and the trends in consumer lifestyles and sub-cultures, is at the core of creative marketing and management strategy. Being able to anticipate new consumer tribes and changing consumer segments against a set of demographic and psychographic classifications for example, enables consumer-centric decisions to be made by fashion brands. The Future Consumer module will introduce you to the underlying theories and concepts that underpin change. New technologies and a fast-changing digital landscape are critically impacting consumer behaviour and motivations. You will learn to evaluate and challenge consumer segmentation approaches as well as the visualisation of consumer groups using primary research techniques.
It is a cliché to say that football is a global game. But in the West the ‘beautiful game’ is still commonly engaged with as a primarily Western sport, dominated by the comings and goings of the Bundesliga, La Liga and, in particular, the English Premier League. This module gives you the chance to engage with the global game as a global game. This module will focus on four global regions – Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia – and their interconnections with one another. The focus is firmly upon placing the development of football in its socio-political contexts. What explains the ways that football has been played, supported, and discussed in the twentieth and twenty first centuries? And what impact has football had on the societies that play, support, and discuss it? Through the consideration of class, gender, race, as well as colonialism, nationalism, globalisation, consumerism, and capitalism, football provides a fascinating insight into the specificities and generalities of the modern age and, hence, the modern world.
Governments everywhere encounter several challenges in carrying out their responsibilities and appear to be "stuck" in their delivery. Both wealthy nations and those in the Global South have difficulty implementing policies and providing for their citizens. Using evidence-based academic work, the module aims to provide students with a critical framework to understand and assess the main implementation difficulties that governments are currently confronting. We shall discuss the limits of the generalisability of the results to specific situations.
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations was an international exhibition which took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1st May to 11th October 1851. It was arguably the greatest of a series of international ‘expositions’ run throughout the nineteenth century, celebrating scientific and technological innovation, design aesthetic and the might of manufacturing. On show were some 13,000 objects from Britain, the Colonies and forty-four other nations. The Exhibition and the Crystal Palace which housed it became a British icon, symbolising free trade and national success. During its six month opening period, over six million people visited the Exhibition, turning London, in the words of the Illustrated London News, from ‘the capital of a great nation, [into] the metropolis of the world’. The effects of the Exhibition were enormous and felt well into the twentieth century and beyond. But why was the Great Exhibition so important? How did it become a turning point for the nation? And what exactly has its legacy been?
This module covers the background critical to understanding human interaction with the Earth, and particularly focused on the processes that affect the surface and upper 10s-100s of m of the subsurface
This special subject explores the development of the ‘precision ethos’ across the American military, and its representation within political rhetoric, cable news and print media, legal architecture, films, video games, and social media posts. Following the advent of airpower during WWI, strategists shared apocalyptic visions of bombers obliterating civilians as the traditional front lines of warfare were dissolved by verticality. Contra to this, a cadre of American strategists proposed an alternative vision — a precision ethos — through which a fusion of superior technology, intelligence, and training would bring military victory while sparing civilians and their environments. Part I explores the initial development of the concept of precision, tracing how the idea was formed and transmitted. Although the devastation of WWII and the subsequent conflicts of the Cold War reveal this idea failed to take root, this module examines how it only survived its initial rejection, but went on to evolve through the latter part of the twentieth century into a society-wide belief that became the foremost strategic, rhetorical, and legal framework through which the US and its NATO allies employed military force, as well as the primary lens through which Western citizens perceived warfare.
This special subject explores the development of the ‘precision ethos’ across the American military, and its representation within political rhetoric, cable news and print media, legal architecture, films, video games, and social media posts. Following the advent of airpower during WWI, strategists shared apocalyptic visions of bombers obliterating civilians as the traditional front lines of warfare were dissolved by verticality. Contra to this, a cadre of American strategists proposed an alternative vision — a precision ethos — through which a fusion of superior technology, intelligence, and training would bring military victory while sparing civilians and their environments. Part II explores the evolution of the precision ethos in the twenty-first century through the conflicts broadly labelled as the War on Terror. It considers how the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq challenged the precision ethos, raising debates about the strategic, political and legal requirements of balancing risk to combatants and civilians. It explores how the technology gave rise to a new phenomenon – the targeted killing of terrorists — which was accompanied by a special form of presidential media performance, and how the evolution of video game technology gave players the opportunity to engage in their own precision strikes against other online players, gamifying the precision ethos and embedding its tenets into a new generation of citizens.
Whether "living out" or "sitting in", Southampton students have been making their own history since the university was founded in 1862. In this module we will be bringing the stories of the young women and men who attended the University of Southampton to life, using a range of source materials that have never been looked at by historians before. Every week you will take part in a handling session at Hartley Library's Special Collections Department, working with original photograph albums, scrapbooks, letters and newspapers produced by Southampton students, from 1862 to today. Every week we will also be visiting buildings on and around campus, looking for traces left by earlier generations of students. What can the university's halls of residence, Student Union and other buildings tell us about changing ideas of the university? How have students' expectations of university changed over time? Have they come to Southampton hoping to "get ahead" in the world - or change it? To uncover these stories we will need to draw connections between our students' experiences and more familiar stories - of class and gender, war and protest. This module will be of particular interest to anyone interested in possibly working in the heritage or museum sector, as part of the course will involve hands-on experience of making original sources accessible to non-specialist audiences, as well as thinking about what buildings and spaces are worth preserving.
This module explores the origins of the Holocaust, the dynamics of Nazi persecution up to 1939 and the experience of Jews and other victims up to that point.
This module focuses on the implementation, experience and aftermath of the genocide of the Jews during the Second World War
This module explores the Holocaust as a problem of public pedagogy. It examines the establishment of Holocaust museums in both Jewish and non-Jewish communities between 1945 and the present. It treats questions of memorialisation and commemoration in a variety of different communities and case studies. It examines the Holocaust as a problem of education, in both schools’ settings and civil society initiatives. It explores the impact of the digital revolution on issues of communication, considering the evolution of Holocaust pedagogy and awareness in the post-survivor age. This module encourages students to develop their own communication activity.
This module examines both canonical and non-canonical representations of the Holocaust in the post-war world. It examines responses from survivor, victim and exile communities, from former perpetrator societies and from others; it explores the interplay of creative, affective, cultural, commercial and political logics in the evolution of such works after 1945; it asks after moments of controversy and conflict in relation to particular acts of representation. It stresses both the authenticity of survivors’ voices as they were articulated in various acts of testimony and the wider presence of political, institutional, cultural and other factors in shaping post-war understandings of the Holocaust that were always partial, anchored in their particular presents, and open to appropriation and misappropriation by others.
The module covers several major topics in genetics including the molecular principles of genetic variation, different patterns of Mendelian inheritance, epigenetics and genetic evolution within a disease setting. The module will introduce how model organisms can be genetically manipulated to model disease and investigate gene function. Genetic approaches to the development of therapies will be considered.
Most of current crises and conflicts have their roots in the history of empires – from the invasion of Ukraine by Russia to the wars in the Middle East. This module will introduce you to the ways in which empires shape our understanding of the ‘Other,’ through the example of the modern Jewish experience. It will enable you to understand the evolving political, socio-economic and legal position of Jews in the British and French colonial empires from the late 18th century to today. This module will provoke you to think about questions such as: How has otherness been constructed in Western Europe from the late 18th century to today? How did race and religion intersect in modern Western European empires? What was the interplay between antisemitism and colonialism? What role did Jews play as both agents and subjects of empire? How did colonisation and decolonisation impact past and present migration patterns? We will examine the construction of the imperial Other and Jewish responses to othering, including migration and Zionism. The module will also decentre narratives of the Holocaust and look at its non-western European context. We will analyse the complex relations between Jews, the imperial state and local populations, enabling you to gain a critical understanding of how contemporary debates on Muslim-Jewish relations in Europe emerged. By engaging with a wide variety of textual and visual sources – legal documents and press but also travelogues, films, petitions, caricatures, and art – we will unpack the relationship between Jews and empires and get acquainted with key concepts in the study of empires.
Most of current crises and conflicts have their roots in the history of empires – from the invasion of Ukraine by Russia to the wars in the Middle East. This module will introduce you to the ways in which empires shape our understanding of the ‘Other,’ through the example of the modern Jewish experience. It will enable you to understand the evolving political, socio-economic and legal position of Jews in the Russian and Soviet continental empires, from the late 18th century to its collapse. The module will provoke you to think about questions such as: How did the Russian empire and Soviet Union deal with religious and ethnic difference? How did modernisation interplay with imperialism and antisemitism? How did Jews negotiate their identity in the Russian and Soviet empires? We will examine the construction of the imperial Other and the way the Russian and Soviet power responded to the so-called ‘Jewish question’ from the end of the 18th century to Stalin. We will also analyse the Jewish responses to othering, including assimilation, migration and nationalisms. We will explore the complex relations between Jews, the imperial state and local populations, complicating your understanding of anti-Jewish violence and antisemitism in Eastern Europe. The module will decentre narratives of the Holocaust and look at its eastern European context. By engaging with a wide variety of textual and visual sources – legal documents and press but also petitions, films, petitions, caricatures, and art – we will unpack the relationship between Jews and empires and get acquainted with key concepts in the study of empires.
