Following on from Composition Workshop (MUSI 2093/3100), this module will explore more technical devices, formal procedures and ways of thinking about composition. You will study key compositional approaches and techniques that have developed during the second-half of the twentieth century and twenty-first centuries, focussing particularly on composers who created new musical ‘languages’ and ‘logics’ , as well as composers who created scores using unconventional notational means. As with Composition Workshop, musical style is not prescribed in this module; you may incorporate the compositional techniques and issues we explore into the musical idiom of your choice.
At the heart of the module lies a sequence of practical projects intertwined with lectures, knowledge acquisition and mapping seminars, group critiques, and workshops. Diverse knowledge exercises will offer a creative platform for students to experiment with newfound knowledge, paving the way to activate your own areas of study as we approach the Final Project. New activities focus on structured principles of iteration, testing, and feedback, emphasizing the production of intricate communication design assets and practices for amplifying content through diverse avenues of experimentation and action.
This module explores various aspects of the French language from the perspective of modern linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and lexis
We understand that few students have had the previous opportunity to study social and cultural anthropology. In this introductory module you will consider questions like: What is anthropology? What do anthropologists study? What is it like to do anthropological research, often living in a community for a long period of time, learning their language and participating in their daily lives? How did anthropology originate? How have other cultures been represented in accounts written about their lives? What is the significance of anthropology and understanding other ways of life in the contemporary global world? We explore these issues through using different examples from across the world. We learn more about people's everyday lives, about their families, their relationships, their beliefs and their livelihoods. We investigate how people from different cultural backgrounds make decisions, how they choose their leaders, and whether gender makes a difference to how people are perceived. In summary, we explore the many different ways of what it means to be human.
This module introduces students to field-based Physical Geography research and includes an overseas field component. It gives students hands-on experience at collecting data and the opportunity to practice techniques to analyse and present the data collected.
The module will revise and extend the study of protein architecture, interactions and enzyme function. During the module we explain common concepts using specific systems. The case studies include studies of membrane ion channels, enzymes such as proteases, a number of blood proteins including haemoglobin, and antibodies. We also describe how proteomics can be used to characterise and quantitate multiple proteins in parallel, using extremely sensitive analytical techniques, and how this information can be used to obtain clues about the biological roles of proteins.
The module introduces you to relevant issues and topics of contemporary Spanish linguistics and establishes the basis for future application of linguistic principles.
Education is closely connected to some of the most profound questions of the human experience and social life more broadly. In this module you are invited on an exciting journey to explore the ethical assumptions, truth claims, and purposes that underlie education. You will develop the ability to engage in philosophical reasoning and debate, as well as actively applying your understanding to democratic and social challenges within and beyond the University.
This module gives an introduction to Economics as a Social Science, focusing on economic behaviour and decision-making in social situations, that is, where own behaviour affects other parties and vice versa.
The module provides thematic examples of the theories and practices of visual presentation and display explored through interdisciplinary and critical contexts appropriate to the MA pathways. It offers a number of critical “tools”, enhanced through references to fundamental critical theories, which will diversify, and contextualise the individual expertise accrued within the different pathways. These tools will help you expand the scope of your work, assess its impact and relevance across a number of fields and arenas, and generate the confidence to present creative material informed by relevant contextual analysis. Critical discourses drawn from art and design history, fashion and textile theory, sociology, anthropology, institutional critique and media analysis will be evaluated and applied in this module. In addition examples from film, literature and popular culture will illustrate and emphasise models of presentation and display. In short the module will aim to equip the student with the ability to recognize, interrogate and utilize strategies of display encountered in retail, art and design spaces.
Explorers visit and observe different places in order to further understand the physical and cultural phenomena they encounter. This module will introduce you to methods enabling you to explore physical and human environments, in order to collect data which will allow you to make sense of those environments. Taking a practical approach from the outset, you will engage in hands-on sessions including both computer labs and field sessions, as well as interactive seminars and workshops. You will learn how to collect primary data in the field, as well as using secondary online data sources - ranging from traditional reports and statistics to “big data” sources. Follow up sessions will teach you how to approach analysing and presenting the data using quantitative, qualitative, and spatial methods.
As a Project Management (PM) MSc student, you have developed your understanding of the fundamental areas of PM through your two compulsory modules in the first semester: i.e. MANG6310 and MANG6311 and are learning more through MANG6312 and MANG6143 in second semester. Now, you should have a clearer idea of whether you would like to be a project professional (e.g., project analyst, planner, coordinator, …); a project manager, leader, executive or alternatively use your gained PM knowledge as a skill set in another profession (e.g., in marketing, finance, …) and/or for launching your own business. You should have also developed a good appreciation of the areas you are more interested in (e.g., planning or leading a project) or like to focus in your future career. This module provides an opportunity for you to extend your PM knowledge by learning a wider range of concepts, tools and techniques for other PM areas. It could be of interest to all PM students, though perhaps more essential if you would like to work in project field and more specially in roles such as project manager, project executive or project consultant in contemporary project-based environments.
The External Projects module builds upon your experiences in Part 2 of the programme by providing an industry based focus through which you can begin to synthesise your skills, ideas and working methods into ambitious outcomes. An emphasis will be on analysis and evaluation of your practice so that you can acquire the specific skills necessary to further your work in relation to professional standards. An increasingly thorough application of critical thinking will also help you recognise the strengths of what you are producing in relation to, and in challenge of, audience expectations. You will become aware of the importance of detail and refinement within your visual presentations and outcomes. Alongside this exposure to, and input from, a range of industry professionals will contribute to the process of professionalising your working practices further.
Each student undertakes an independent research investigation using, for example, a collection at a museum, or similar. The research includes both literature survey and practical components. The literature component will consist of a critical review of work relating to the proposed practical component of the project. The research work is related to the appropriate degree programme and will vary accordingly. Each student is assigned to an appropriate supervisor who will advise on and direct the project and the preparation of a written report. The aim of this module is to allow students to carry out an intensive research-based project on a special topic related to his/her main area of study, and to complete a literature survey on a topic related to this area of research, with an external scholarly institution.
The modules Facilitating Effective Auditory Rehabilitation 1 and 2 cover the scientific and clinical foundations of adult audiological assessment and rehabilitation. They build on Professional and Clinical Practice in Audiology 1and Biopsychosocial Basis of Audiology from Part 1 of the programme, in which you learnt the scientific rationale and the practical skills for basic audiological procedures, and they support Professional and Clinical Practice in Audiology 2, in which you will be consolidating and extending your practical and professional skills. Facilitating Effective Auditory Rehabilitation 1 introduces you to the areas of otology, speech science and hearing devices and explores how these themes influence appropriate assessment, clinical decision making and rehabilitative management options.
The modules Facilitating Effective Auditory Rehabilitation 1 and 2 cover the scientific and clinical foundations of adult audiological assessment and rehabilitation. They build on Professional and Clinical Practice in Audiology 1 and Biopsychosocial Basis of Audiology from Part 1 of the programme, in which you learnt the scientific rationale and the practical skills for basic audiological procedures, and they support Professional and Clinical Practice in Audiology 2, in which you will be consolidating and extending your practical and professional skills. Facilitating Effective Auditory Rehabilitation 2 examines the wider impact of HL and tinnitus and explores interactions with known comorbidities. It considers the entire patient journey evaluating a range of non-technical rehabilitative tools and approaches and how these might be utilised. It introduces specialist technologies such as implantable devices and assistive listening devices.
In this module, the emphasis moves away from alloy development and design, and focuses on the performance of structural materials in a range of engineering applications. The lectures draw on examples from applications of ceramics, steel, Al, Ti and Ni based alloys, and compares this with the performance of composites: polymer matrix, metal matrix and ceramic matrix systems. Engineering assessment of each failure problem is described and the associated micromechanical failure modes, understanding of which allows improved materials design and selection for a wide range of service environments.
