This module provides students with an introduction to management, accounting and law applicable to the operations of an engineering-based organisation. Emphasis is placed upon introducing managerial knowledge and skills required to apply effective management techniques to engineering projects. This is set within the context of ethical and environmental concerns and the entrepreneurial, financial, team development and legal processes determining sustainable success in business. Students are taught and assessed within groups to address managerial decisions, accounting for engineering decision-making, law in engineering, marketing, human resource management, entrepreneurship, leadership, teamwork, project management and project risk management. This module is linked to FEEG2001 Systems Design and Computing and SESS2016 Ship Structural Design and Production where group design projects provide the basis for assessing Project Management, Project Risk Management, Leadership and Teamwork skills. This supports the development of effective management and group working skills within the context of designing and delivering a challenging engineering project. Guest lecturers from industry are invited to discuss their current industrial practice and project management experience. Case studies are used to illustrate key principles and to provide examples.
This course explores the use of mathematics as a toolbox for engineers need in order to calculate, model, visualise and design systems. The focus is on solving physical problems via equations, both analytically and numerically using computation, along with the development of representation and visualisation as a way of presenting solutions and designs.
These weekly workshops are designed to help engineering students with their Mathematics work. Although designed for engineering students, these workshops are open to all students who are studying a Mathematics MATH module, but who are not studying a degree within the Mathematical Sciences department. There is no summative assessment for this module
This module offers an introduction to the scientific principles and methods of energy conservation and energy transport.
Do you want to find out how stem cells are being used to help treat disease and allow us to live better, for longer? And are you interested in the controversy surrounding them? Do you want to find out what tissue engineering is, and how scientists are building replacement organs in the lab? Are you fascinated by how engineering can help those who have lost limbs walk, and allow those who are deaf to hear again? And also how these same technologies may lead to ethical and legal questions concerning their correct use in society? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you will enjoy learning about this fascinating subject in this innovative module. No prerequisite knowledge is necessary, so don't be daunted by the science, engineering, ethics or legal aspects of this module. The module explores the potential of stem cells, engineered tissues and implanted devices in medicine, and how these technological advances may have an impact on law and ethics of our societies. The module will use a number of learning methods, including traditional lectures, interactive seminars, facilitated group discussion, a mock 'trial', a field trip to a medical device manufacturer, laboratory masterclasses, and design project work. During the module, you will both learn about the science underlying the new technologies in question, and you will be encouraged to discuss the impact of these emerging technologies on our societies in the future. Particular emphasis will be placed on the ethics of some of the technologies and how the use can be encouraged and their misuse prevented. This is an interdisciplinary module. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/cip/information_for_students/interdisciplinary_and_other_modules/index.page?
This module explores the rise of English to its current dominant status.
This module explores sociolinguistic and pedagogical dimensions of English Medium Education and CLIL classrooms around the world. EME/I is an umbrella term for multilingual education programmes where English is used as a medium of instruction to teach and learn content subjects. While the focus is often on learning content through English, many educational institutions are resorting to EME/CLIL to promote English language learning too. EMI education is spreading at significant rates in Higher Education settings all across the world, including countries like China or Spain where English is not spoken as a first language or is known to have postcolonial ties. Drawing from cutting-edge research on the subject, the course investigates the explicit and hidden motivations behind the spread of EMI (e.g. language learning, student recruitment); it examines the promises, opportunities and challenges associated to EMI policy-making and its implementation; and it scrutinises situated language practices, beliefs and outcomes emerging across a wide range of international HE settings. The course invites you to reflect on your own learning experiences and consider what pedagogical and linguistic choices you would make as an EMI/CLIL educator, without losing sight of the need for context-dependent analyses when approaching EMI.
Undertaking independent research into an aspect of literature or creative writing which particularly interests you is a cornerstone of your degree. A dissertation gives you the opportunity to study a subject in much greater depth than usual and, with guidance from a supervisor, you will rigorously explore your literary or creative topic, formulate a research question and develop a distinctive argument or creative project. A dissertation can also form a good basis if you wish to go on to study at postgraduate level.
This module allows you to undertake independent research, with guidance from a supervisor, to produce an in-depth, scholarly study of an aspect or body of literature which particularly interests you. Every student will have a supervisor appointed for the dissertation; though it is important that students recognise that the dissertation is an independent research project and they must take responsibility for its progress and for the final dissertation text. Advice on dissertations given during the supervisory process cannot be taken to guarantee a particular outcome for the piece of work, as this is determined by a separate and independent examination process.
This module has been designed to ensure that students have the specific English language skills needed to study as an undergraduate student. Students are also taught how to show the sources of the information they use in their work by referencing their work using the Harvard referencing convention.
The BA English Language and Literature Dissertation enables you to bring together the fruits of your studies in English Literature, Language, and Linguistics or to focus on one or the other field according to your interests. You may choose a topic within English Literature, within English Language and Linguistics, or combine these fields. You will independently develop a topic for study that pursues your interests, and develop it with the support of your supervisor(s). An optional joint supervision arrangement between English and Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics will enable you to access supervision in both disciplines and support you to bring linguistic, literary, and cultural studies approaches together, as appropriate to your chosen topic.
English has always been on the move. As a literary language, it has not only travelled from and back to England; lines of influence between texts, authors, publishers, editors, book technologies, and readers traverse the globe in multiple directions, between many places. Correspondingly, literary genres have always been mobile. They have taken shape and become significant in different ways across world cultures, and through encounters between different languages. This module gives you the opportunity to explore how ‘English’ as a literary language; as an overlapping range of imaginative genres; and as an academic discipline has always been in transit.
This module is aligned with your Final Major Project module, where you will be making a collection of specialist sustainable, luxury textiles. This module continues the research, analysis and conceptual idea generation you developed during semester one, your ethical luxury practice, professional planning skills and your innovative solutions based on market trends. In this module you will enhance and refine your conceptual idea’s into fruition through further advanced research, design development, technical experimentation and digital visualisations. This module will support and drive the outcomes of your final major project, whilst continuing to build your professional, employability and enterprise skills or consider further postgraduate study. You will be encouraged to look back at your previous years work, reflect on the knowledge and skills gained and remake, reuse, rework idea’s, materials, techniques and processes to further advance your practice and inspire creative idea’s. You will be expected to produce highly skilled digital visualisations and presentations and photographic lookbooks of your textile designs, product developments, storytelling and promotional marketing communication materials in preparation for your final exhibition and transition into employment. This module will require you to apply continuous critical reflection on your research methods, inspirations and influences, problem solving and project management, design and technical skills, and professional development work whilst creating your final collection throughout the semester.
This module builds upon the knowledge and skills base within the Additional care needs; Antenatal and Intrapartum module for you to be able to engage clinically with Enhanced Postnatal and Neonatal Care. This module also links with the Obstetric and Neonatal Emergencies module whereby you are encouraged to consider the impact on both neonatal and maternal complications and apply effective communication and compassionate care throughout. By the end of this module you will have the knowledge and skills to enable you to contribute effectively to the provision of safe and effective care for mothers and their neonates, with complex health challenges with a particular focus on the puerperium.
The CYP LI specialist workforce is proving invaluable in working with mild to moderate mental health conditions. This module aims to expand the scope and breadth of the conditions that CYP LI practitioners can work with. This module will therefore enhance competency across a range of early interventions and expand the breadth of low intensity support available for children, young people and families experiencing the impact of common mental health difficulties. Specifically, practitioners will develop an understanding of, and interventions for, advanced anxiety presentations, trauma informed practice principles and approaches and difficulties relating to school refusal. The practitioner will develop the knowledge and understanding of the key characteristics of these presentations before establishing and demonstrating clinical competency in delivering the appropriate, evidenced based early intervention support.
In this module students prepare one programme of instrumental, vocal, or mixed-ensemble music of their own choice, which is coached regularly by members of staff. There is an expectation that students, not staff, will independently organise an ensemble for this module. If a student does not have an ensemble pre-planned, they will be assisted by the module lead in joining one. NB: Ensembles must be made up of at least three performers and include at least two students who are assessed (students can only be assessed in one ensemble). Entry to this course is subject to approval of the appropriate Head of Performance and the module lead.
Ensemble performance is a crucial skill in any musician's portfolio, in addition to being one of the most rewarding aspects of musical life. In this module you will prepare a 15-18 minute programme of instrumental, vocal or mixed ensemble music of your own choice, which is coached regularly by specialist members of staff.
This module explores the entangled histories of France and Germany between WW1 and the end of WW2. Resentment over the Treaty of Versailles was central to the emergence of radical nationalism in Germany after 1918; conversely, solving the ‘German problem’ was at the heart of French concerns in the interwar years. The German occupation of France between 1940 and 1944 brought these histories to a head in the most fundamental way. Yet this shared history was not governed solely by the politics of national antagonism. Both societies had much in common, calling into question our conventional assumptions about democracy and dictatorship, Left and Right in twentieth century European history. Ultimately, the module questions the insularity and exceptionalism underpinning traditional national historiographies by exploring such entanglements
This module explores Franco-German history between the Fall of France (1940) and the end of the 1950s. The first half focusses on the German occupation of France, exploring aspects of everyday life, collaboration and resistance, violence and the Holocaust. The second explores defeat, reconstruction, reconciliation and war memory, culminating in the signature of the Treaty of Rome, the establishment of the post-war economic boom, and the end of the fourth French Republic. Throughout the module we foreground themes of transnational encounter, comparative methods, and the constantly entangled nature of Franco-German history.
The module provides practical insight into the workings of the corporate risk and insurance profession. Emphasising corporate risk management’s strong reliance upon corporate insurance programmes, it also introduces the broader range of risk retention and transfer options available today. The module is in two parts. The first part explores corporate risk management from the senior management/board supervisory standpoint of enterprise risk management. This serves to enable students to become familiar with corporate risk management processes and with closely linked internal control and governance issues in general. Furthermore the module’s concern with enterprise risk management development provides a critical perspective for contemplating improvements to corporate risk management, both generally and more particularly through nuanced understandings of what it can mean to integrate risk management within organisations. The second part of the module covers the practical knowledge which risk managers require of the insurance industry. While emphasising traditional insurance purchase and claims issues it also introduces broader risk financing options which corporate risk managers may use to control enterprise risk. Important principles guiding insurance practices and insurer-insured relationships are also elucidated using landmark insurance case law.
The module discusses key elements of new business venturing and provides a broad understanding of the entrepreneurship process.
