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This module is based partially on lectures and partially on the study of existing scores, together with listening tasks. It is understood that practical experience of hearing your arrangements is the best teacher of all: therefore there is an expectation that you will write for existing and active ensembles. A prior knowledge of notation software e.g. Sibelius or Finale, is also important.

This module is based partially on lectures and partially on the study of existing scores, together with listening tasks. It is understood that practical experience of hearing your arrangements is the best teacher of all: therefore there is an expectation that you will write for existing and active ensembles. A prior knowledge of notation software e.g. Sibelius or Finale, is also important.

This module is based partially on lectures and partially on the study of existing scores, together with listening tasks. It is understood that practical experience of hearing your arrangements is the best teacher of all: therefore there is an expectation that you will write for existing and active ensembles. A prior knowledge of notation software e.g. Sibelius or Finale, is also important.

This module focuses on organisation development (OD) and facilitation and provides you with a core body of knowledge necessary to understand and practice organisation development within contemporary organisations. You will be introduced to the underpinning theories and tools that are associated with state of the art practice of OD.

This module focuses on organisation development (OD) and facilitation and provides you with a core body of knowledge necessary to understand and practice organisation development within contemporary organisations. You will be introduced to the underpinning theories and tools that are associated with state of the art practice of OD.

Some of the key ethical challenges that arise in business stem from the fact that businesses are organisations, structured social arrangements of multiple individuals. For example, how can individuals hope to act ethically within an organisation, when their actions necessarily have consequences that are beyond their knowledge and control, and are bound by rules and roles which they often do not choose for themselves? Can organisations manage their workforce so as to make them behave morally? What then of the role of autonomy in moral action? And how do these issues affect businesses whose product cannot be measured in simple economic terms—such as information, health, and education? This module will explore some of these challenging issues that arise out of the fact that are our working lives are inevitably organised lives.

Some of the key ethical challenges that arise in business stem from the fact that businesses are organisations, structured social arrangements of multiple individuals. For example, how can individuals hope to act ethically within an organisation, when their actions necessarily have consequences that are beyond their knowledge and control, and are bound by rules and roles which they often do not choose for themselves? Can organisations manage their workforce so as to make them behave morally? What then of the role of autonomy in moral action? And how do these issues affect businesses whose product cannot be measured in simple economic terms—such as information, health, and education? This module will explore some of these challenging issues that arise out of the fact that are our working lives are inevitably organised lives.

This module will explore how climate change and other anthropogenic activities are affecting life on earth. It will detail scientific research spanning disciplines and allow students to form arguments and interrogate the primary literature for evidence to back up their claims.

The module begins by introducing how researchers detect biodiversity, from surveys and drones to sequencing environmental DNA. We then explore evidence that the climate is changing, and what the consequences are for animals and plants, both individually and as parts of networks and ecosystems. Building on this, we then investigate evidence that climate change and an increasing population are changing agriculture across the world, with implications for food security, a well as how researchers are trying to combat this challenge. We then wrap up the module thinking about how researchers have responsibilities to carry out ethical, inclusive and equitable research.

This module will explore how climate change and other anthropogenic activities are affecting life on earth. It will detail scientific research spanning disciplines and allow students to form arguments and interrogate the primary literature for evidence to back up their claims.

The module begins by introducing how researchers detect biodiversity, from surveys and drones to sequencing environmental DNA. We then explore evidence that the climate is changing, and what the consequences are for animals and plants, both individually and as parts of networks and ecosystems. Building on this, we then investigate evidence that climate change and an increasing population are changing agriculture across the world, with implications for food security, a well as how researchers are trying to combat this challenge. We then wrap up the module thinking about how researchers have responsibilities to carry out ethical, inclusive and equitable research.

In this module you will explore and explain patterns of global biodiversity over space and time, affecting a wide variety of lineages. We will begin as 18th century natural historians, considering the impact of new discoveries, due to the invention of the microscope and a growing fossil record, which led Charles Darwin to propose a tree of life and evolution through natural selection as the mechanism for descent with modification.

We will then consider the impact of the work of Mendel to explain the process of inheritance, followed by the discovery of the structure of DNA and the mechanism of genetic inheritance within the cell. This will allow us to consider biodiversity from the perspective of Neo-Darwinists, following the modern synthesis at the start of the twentieth century, with an appreciation of the effect of selection at different ecological levels, from cells to individuals to populations to communities to ecosystem level.

We will end as 21st century biologists, applying what we have learned about evolution and ecology to investigating and understanding the world around us, using the present to explain the past and the future. We will apply our knowledge of population and ecosystem level effects to explain longer term evolutionary ecology trends, including predicting future changes.