Goldsmiths, University of London Study Abroad Prospectus 2012 entry 107 years as part of the University of London 15 minutes by train from central London Over 23% of our students come from outside the UK 6 graduates who have won the prestigious Turner Prize 15 academic departments 5,805 undergraduates 3,422 postgraduates 1,519 staff
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About Goldsmiths > Contents 03 Contents
About Goldsmiths Music 53
Introducing Goldsmiths ...... 0 4 Politics and Economics 60 Location ...... 0 6 Social life ...... 0 8 Politics ...... 60 Accommodation ...... 01 Economics ...... 6 2 Course information ...... 12 Studying at Goldsmiths ...... 14 Professional and Community Education (PACE) 63 Contact us ...... 16 How to get to Goldsmiths ...... 18 Art Psychotherapy ...... 63 Cultural and Social Studies ...... 63
Courses Psychology 66
Anthropology 24 Sociology 68
Art 28 See also Professional and Community Education ...... 6 3
Art History Visual Cultures 74
See Visual Cultures ...... 74 Associate Studentships 76
Art Psychotherapy Associate Graduate Studentship ...... 7 6 Associate Research Studentship ...... 7 6 See Professional and Community Education ...... 63 Information Communication Studies 29 Facilities ...... 80 Computing 31 Applying ...... 82 Immigration ...... 8 4 Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship 35 Costs ...... 85
Cultural and Social Studies Additional information ...... 86 Support at Goldsmiths ...... 8 6 See Professional and Community Education ...... 63 Healthcare in the UK ...... 86 Students with specific learning difficulties and/or disabilities ...... 8 6 Design 36 Equality and diversity ...... 87 Terms and conditions ...... 8 7 Drama and Theatre Arts 38 Index ...... 9 0
Economics Application form ...... 93 Accommodation application form ...... 95 See Politics and Economics ...... 6 0
Educational Studies 40
English and Comparative Literature 44
History 47
History of Art
See Visual Cultures ...... 74
Languages 50
English Language ...... 5 0 Study Abroad plus English for non-native speakers ...... 50 Evening Language courses ...... 51
See also English and Comparative Literature ...... 4 4 04 About Goldsmiths > Introducing Goldsmiths Introducing Goldsmiths
Why study abroad at Goldsmiths?
Spending a period of time experiencing a different culture at Goldsmiths could have many benefits. It could:
— develop your professional and vocational skills: Goldsmiths is renowned for the promotion of enterprise and entrepreneurship
— widen your academic experience, at an institution known for its excellence in creative and cultural studies
— clarify your understanding of your subject and reinforce your commitment to focus on your studies
— improve your cultural awareness, and help you to broaden your horizons and develop a global outlook
— encourage you to become more flexible in your approach to life and study
— help you become more independent and mature
— help you develop lasting international friendships and a network of contacts that could enhance your future life and career About Goldsmiths > Introducing Goldsmiths 05 Unique Whoever you are, and however you’ve made your way here, Goldsmiths will transform the way you look at yourself and the world around you. We look at subjects in creative and unconventional ways, but everything we do is based on the highest academic standards of teaching and research. And we’ve been part of the internationally recognised University of London for more than a century, so your degree will help you stand out from the crowd.
Committed to investing in you Why choose Goldsmiths?
“I hold the title of ‘Warden of Outlook Goldsmiths’, so I have the Our distinctive approach to learning encourages you to explore ideas that important job of providing you challenge and push preconceived boundaries, meaning that you’ll be stretched with an official welcome to intellectually and creatively to investigate fresh new ways of thinking. Goldsmiths. It’s a grand title that may not have an equivalent in Location everyday life, but all you need to Our South East London location will give you a unique perspective on know is that I truly believe in the UK’s capital, providing plenty of opportunities for a well-rounded Goldsmiths and the student university experience. It’s close to the centre of things, but offers lots of experience we provide. local hidden gems.
I know that considering joining Employability the Study Abroad programme The skills and attributes you’ll develop at Goldsmiths will provide an at Goldsmiths is an important excellent platform from which to build your career. We’ll work with you to step for you. We’re proud of the ensure you’re able to identify and capitalise on these qualities. We are international experience we offer particularly good at promoting enterprise and entrepreneurship in our our students – the opportunity students – a significant proportion of our graduates start their own to study in a culturally rich global businesses or work freelance, and we offer professional development and city, and to work with staff and workshop programmes that can help you think creatively about your fellow students from a variety of future and the impact you’d like to make. backgrounds across the world. Diversity We also have a strong heritage of Over 23% of our students come from outside the UK, and 53% of innovative thinking, and of the undergraduates are classified as mature students, helping to create the highest standards of research, diverse student population of which we are so proud. You’ll meet and work teaching and practice. The with students and staff from varied backgrounds and will be able to learn transferable skills you will develop from their experiences and perspectives. here stand for something special, and we are committed to investing Community in you and your future employability. At Goldsmiths you’ll find almost everything together on one site, so there’s We have a team of specialists a strong campus feel to life here: we’re big enough to offer some fantastic offering proactive services, facilities, but not so big that things seem impersonal and unfriendly. including our Careers Service, the Students’ Union, the Student Experience Services team and your lecturers. The active social scene at Goldsmiths means that there are lively events to cater to everyone’s tastes – from performances and concerts to exhibitions We do all we can to offer you and shows. And our fantastic Students’ Union offers you the opportunity high quality core campus services. to get even more involved, through award-winning volunteering placements As a direct result of feedback or working on the student magazine or radio station, for example. from students who came before you, the Library has received Excellence huge investment and is almost We have a reputation for excellence in the subjects that we offer, with unrecognisable from how it was a feedback from the National Student Survey showing that our students’ few years ago. Our New Academic satisfaction levels are good, particularly in relation to the teaching they Building – the newest addition to receive. Our research is also highly rated – in the 2008 Research Assessment the campus – opened its doors last Exercise we were placed 9th in the UK for world-leading research (shown summer, offering splendid facilities by the top 4* grade), meaning that you’ll be taught by academics with to match the exemplary teaching diverse specialisms who are leaders in their fields. and research that takes place on our campus. Quality We are committed to offering you high quality teaching and learning The future of Goldsmiths is yours opportunities during your time here. In 2009 the Quality Assurance Agency to shape. Come with an open audited the College and announced their ‘confidence’ – the best result a mind, a drive to invest in yourself university can get – in the management of both academic standards and and create the future you want, student learning opportunities. Student feedback given at twice yearly and I will be proud to welcome forums informs and enhances the quality of learning opportunities, allowing you to the Goldsmiths community.” students to play an active part both in monitoring quality and standards in their departments, and in developing their programmes of study. Patrick Loughrey Warden, Goldsmiths, University of London 06 About Goldsmiths > Location Location
Deptford Marbles, Deptford High Street About Goldsmiths > Location 07 Distinctive Goldsmiths is in New Cross, South East London. Vibrant, urban and with great travel connections to Central London, it’s an ideal low-cost base for experiencing and enjoying the UK’s Capital.
London is an amazing place to be a student, because there’s so much Lewisham to see and do here. The resources and opportunities are endless – the Lewisham is another local place where you’ll find a well-stocked market. museums, galleries, theatres, festivals, live music, nightlife, shopping, It’s just a short bus ride away from Goldsmiths, and also features a large restaurants, and green spaces will provide plenty of exciting places to shopping centre with many high street stores, as well as independent explore. Cosmopolitan and bustling, it was recently announced as the shops, plus lots of green space in the area’s many parks. world’s largest Fairtrade City. And with the Olympics taking place here in 2012, London really is the place to be. Brockley & Forest Hill Nearby Brockley and Forest Hill are primarily residential areas, but they London, with a difference boast lovely open green spaces and some great pubs and bars. The Brockley Jack Theatre (which also hosts music, comedy and other live Goldsmiths is in travelcard zone 2, with Central London just 15 minutes events) and Horniman Museum are also popular. away by train. New Cross has excellent public transport links (bus, train, London Overground and Docklands Light Railway [DLR]), including a Other areas to investigate good network of reliable night buses – especially useful if you’re planning Other places local to Goldsmiths include Peckham (Rye Lane has plenty an evening out. of character and energy, containing shops selling goods from around the world), East Dulwich (trawl the bars and eateries on Lordship Lane, and New Cross and the surrounding areas are very distinctive parts of London. investigate the weekend market on North Cross Road), Camberwell (with Here’s an idea of what’s on offer locally: its cool bars and clubs), London Bridge (where you can wander to the South Bank and attractions like Tate Modern and Shakespeare’s Globe New Cross Theatre), and Canary Wharf (where you’ll find two shopping centres and Around New Cross itself you’ll find an eclectic mix of coffee shops, pubs, lots of bars and restaurants, many beside the Thames). and places to eat, plus a large Sainsbury’s supermarket not far from New Cross Gate station (New Cross station is just a few minutes away in the London on a budget opposite direction). The area is a hub of creative talent, and has a thriving music scene, with places like the Amersham Arms holding acclaimed London doesn’t have to be an expensive city to enjoy – it’s possible to live live events. on a budget and still have fun. Lots of things like galleries, parks, street entertainment, festivals, carnivals, lunchtime concerts and some museums Deptford are free, and you can often find cheap restaurants and cafés off the Deptford is less than a 10-minute walk from Goldsmiths, down New Cross beaten track, especially away from tourist hotspots. Student cards and Road. It’s a former royal docks area, and buildings like Laban – a centre flyers can help to make nights out affordable, and your NUS card also for contemporary dance that organises events and performances – and entitles you to discounts in some shops and cinemas. converted warehouses sit alongside meandering creeks and inlets. Bustling Deptford market is the perfect place to stock up on fresh fruit 18+ Student Oyster Card and vegetables, while the high street has been voted the best in the An 18+ Student Oyster photocard offers students the opportunity to capital for its vibrant and diverse mix of independent shops. There’s a spend less on travel in and around London. Photocard holders are entitled growing artistic community in the area, with the Deptford X festival to a 30% discount on many tickets. Visit www.tfl.gov.uk for further details. providing an annual opportunity for local artists to showcase their work, and for visitors to explore studio spaces. The Albany, a performing and digital arts venue, is also worth a visit.
Greenwich With its strong maritime connections and status as a world heritage site, Greenwich – just a short bus ride or 20-minute walk from New Cross – has history and beauty galore. Famous sights like the Cutty Sark and National Maritime Museum sit side-by-side with contemporary bars, a brilliant market, a cinema, the Up the Creek comedy club, and restaurants offering international cuisine, while its setting along the bank of the River Thames offers many picturesque spots to eat or drink overlooking the water. It’s also home to Greenwich Park, the oldest enclosed royal park in the UK, which stretches for 183 acres. From the top of the park, next to the Royal Observatory, you get an excellent panoramic view of the stunning London cityscape, stretching from the London Eye in the West to Canary Wharf and the Thames Barrier in the East. Also visible is The O2 (formerly the Millennium Dome), an entertainment centre featuring a 20,000-capacity arena with regular music and sports events, a smaller venue for more intimate gigs, plus restaurants, bars, clubs, and an 11-screen multiplex cinema. 08 About Goldsmiths > Social life Social life About Goldsmiths > Social life 09 Rewarding Being at university isn’t just about studying. At Goldsmiths, and around London, you’ll find a rich variety of resources to use, things to do and people to meet.
Students’ Union University of London Union
The Goldsmiths Students’ Union (www.goldsmithssu.org) provides a range As a Goldsmiths student you’ll also be able to use the facilities offered of services and student development opportunities including clubs, societies, by the University of London Union (ULU) in Central London. The building volunteering opportunities, sports facilities, student media, representation, features a café, restaurant/bar and club, all at student prices, plus shops, advice, meeting rooms, and entertainment. It plays a big part in life at a gym, swimming pool, weights room and sports hall. Find out more at Goldsmiths, providing opportunities for exciting extracurricular experiences www.ulu.co.uk. whatever your interests. Our bar has a late licence several nights each week, and is a great value and friendly place to meet people. The Union holds a Eating and drinking varied selection of events too, including regular quizzes, gigs, student society nights, and the fabulous weekly Club Sandwich night, a Goldsmiths institution! There are a variety of catering facilities on campus, including Loafer’s Café, The Union is affiliated to the National Union of Students (NUS), and you a refectory, The Natura Café, shops, and eating and drinking areas in the automatically become a member when you enrol. Here’s a sample of what Students’ Union. you can get involved in at the Union: Get involved at Goldsmiths Societies You might decide to join one of our many cultural, political and performance In addition to everything the Union has to offer, Goldsmiths is a hive of groups – they’re an excellent way to meet like-minded people. activity, and has lots to keep you occupied. Varied events take place on a weekly basis, from recitals and shows to workshops and discussions. Volunteering and student development You can even join the Goldsmiths Chorus or Sinfonia, or find out about This is a major focus of the Union’s activities, and a great chance to get some a different subject by taking a course from another degree. You might experience, open up your horizons, and really make a difference. You might decide to sign up to our reasonably priced part-time classes – subjects find yourself mentoring local children, engaging with the local community, include creative writing, journalism, performing arts and languages. or trying some campaign and committee work. A number of the volunteer If you decide to learn or develop a language, a Goldsmiths Certificate schemes are award-winning. in Foreign Language Competence will be awarded for each grade you pass – something that will look impressive on your résumé! Sports The Union offers a diverse range of sporting clubs and classes – everything Contacts from football (soccer) and hockey to swing dance and capoeira. Goldsmiths Students’ Union Club Pulse +44 (0)20 8692 1406 A fitness centre on campus provides a large range of exercise [email protected] equipment and regular fitness classes at affordable prices. http://goldsmithsstudents.org Find out more at www.gold.ac.uk/clubpulse. University of London Union Smiths Magazine www.ulu.co.uk Our Guardian award-winning student magazine is published throughout the year, and is always keen to hear from potential contributors. Something for everyone Leopard Newspaper “The Students’ Union plays a key The new student newspaper, your first stop for all things Goldsmiths! role in improving student life on campus by offering a wide range of Wired Radio services that cater to the diverse Goldsmiths’ long-running student radio station is based on campus, needs and interests of our students. with an on-air and off-air suite. The Union exists for all students and there are many ways to get involved; Campaigning we’re proud to say that international Goldsmiths has one of the most active campaigning Unions in the country, students here join or start clubs with a rich tradition dating back to the 1980s. The Union has a dedicated and societies, participate in Union full-time Campaigns Officer, and any student can get involved in lots of democracy and decision-making, ways. Whatever you feel passionately about, make sure you get involved! run events, organise campaigns, use our confidential and independent Advice and representation advice service, write for the The Students’ Union Advice Centre provides professional, independent magazine and volunteer – there is advice on issues relating to academic programmes. In addition, the Union something for everyone!” has a Welfare and Education Officer, elected by Goldsmiths students to represent you on academic and pastoral issues. All the elected officers James Haywood are here to support you and represent you on an individual level. Students’ Union President 2011-12 10 About Goldsmiths > Accommodation Accommodation
Loring Hall About Goldsmiths > Accommodation 11 Independent As you’ll soon find out, there’s more to being a student at Goldsmiths than lectures, essays and assessments. During your time here, you’ll have the opportunity to meet many people and make friendships that you will keep for the rest of your life. London is a vibrant, diverse, multicultural city and Goldsmiths reflects this, with students from all over the world and with extremely varied backgrounds.
All visiting students are entitled to accommodation in our halls of Costs residence, providing certain application deadlines are met. Living in halls provides a great opportunity to really immerse yourself in life Accommodation fees include all the costs of heating and lighting, here at Goldsmiths. meaning that budgeting becomes relatively simple. The fees for 2012-13 weren’t available when this Prospectus went to print, so the fees for The majority of our students coming for short stays of one or two terms 2010-11 are shown to give you an idea of costs: are housed in Loring Hall (see the map on page 19, reference 09). This hall is on campus and houses a total of 387 students. It is self-catered and Cost (per person, per week): arranged into flats/apartments of between four and eight students. You Single room, self-catering £91.50 to £124.00, depending on facilities. will have your own study bedroom with en suite bathroom facilities and Studio flats/apartments range from £161.35 to £202.02 per week. You can will share a kitchen/dining room with the other students in your flat/ contact the Accommodation Office after May 2012 to find out the latest apartment. costs.
If you are coming to Goldsmiths for a full year you will be housed with Please note that variable rates apply for Study Abroad students if your other undergraduate students – this may be in one of our other halls period of study is on a short-term basis (ie one or two terms only). located very close to Loring and just a two-minute walk from the campus. Please see our website, as below, for the latest information on current Similarly to Loring, you will have your own study bedroom with en suite accommodation fees. bathroom facilities and will share a kitchen/dining room with the other students in your flat/apartment. To see our current brochure, visit www.gold.ac.uk/accommodation. Or contact the Accommodation Office, tel +44 (0)20 7919 7130, All of our halls have the facility to connect to the internet. In most rooms fax +44 (0)20 7919 7269, e-mail [email protected]. this is hard wired and you will need to bring, or purchase, an Ethernet cable before you can connect to our network. Our virtual tours let you take a closer look at some of Goldsmiths’ accommodation. www.gold.ac.uk/virtual-tours Wherever possible, we try to integrate our visiting students into flats/ apartments with full year students to help you gain a broader picture of British university life and to meet and make friends with students from different programmes. However, please be aware that because of the shorter contract lengths, there are occasions when we have to house visiting students together.
Although we cannot provide Goldsmiths housing for Study Abroad students’ families, our Accommodation Office can give you information on accommodation in the local area through the University of London Housing Service (ULHS), http://housing.london.ac.uk/cms. There’s plenty of accommodation available in South East London, much of it close to Goldsmiths; an added bonus is that it’s one of the cheaper areas in London to rent. Other resources available in addition to the University of London Housing Services are accommodation agencies, local newspapers and shops, and Goldsmiths noticeboards. Individual room rents currently range from around £90 to £125 per week in the private sector. 12 About Goldsmiths > Course information Course information
Our Study Abroad programme gives international students the Autumn, Spring and Summer semester options opportunity to live, study and socialise with Goldsmiths undergraduate students for one or two terms, or the full academic year, and offers students from different educational systems the opportunity to study Autumn semester September-December and gain academic credit from a British university. You can also be admitted as a graduate student. Autumn & Spring semester September-March
You can come for the full year abroad, which lasts from September-June, Spring semester January-March or choose one of the shorter sessions. We also offer Study Abroad plus English for non-native speakers, which runs from April to June, for up to Spring & Summer semester January-June 15 months. Full year September-June Full year abroad
This is aimed at students mainly from the United States of America, Japan, South Korea, Mexico or Brazil – but is open to all students who have a For international students who are unable to study abroad for a full good enough command of English to study at Level II or III of an honours academic year, these options offer the possibility of study for a shorter degree. period of time from a more limited range of modules.
The full year abroad is one academic year (nine months) of study, The Autumn option runs for 12 weeks from late September to late from September to the beginning of June in the following calendar December, while the Autumn & Spring option runs from September to year. Usually it consists of three terms: two teaching periods of 12 weeks March. The Spring option begins in January and runs for the 12 weeks to each – the Autumn and Spring terms – and a third six-week period of late March, while the Spring & Summer option runs from January to examinations – the Summer term. mid-June. It is not possible to register for the Summer term alone: registration for Summer must include the Spring term. This option is the most flexible and opens up the choice of many undergraduate degree modules at Goldsmiths, depending on timetabling Study Year Abroad plus English for non-native speakers and prerequisites. You can compile a study programme from a range of disciplines or take a more focused approach by choosing to specialise This is for students who require intensive English language preparation in a single major discipline. for integrated study at a British university. The programme is especially designed to meet the needs of students from countries such as Japan Course load where the academic year begins in April. It also offers a shorter You will usually take four classes of 4 credits each per semester programme to enable students to return home for the crucial job-hunting (Autumn or Spring) and two classes of 2 credits each per summer season, which often starts in January. For more information see the semester. For more information on credits please see page 82. Languages section on page 50.
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses About Goldsmiths > Course information 13
Undergraduate year Description In most cases, you can identify the level of a course, and the department that teaches it, from its course code. For example: Year 1 a course for which you do not need any previous experience The fourth character usually indicates the year of the course Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience in this area or have already followed a similar academic course Literature of the Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the English Renaissance practical data or a willingness to engage in responsible individual study under EN52227A tutorial guidance First two letters of course code indicate the Department. 4 credits [September-December] For example, EN=Department 4 credits [January-March] of English and Comparative 2 credits [April-June] Literature Key An introduction to multiple forms of writing, from the mid-16th to the PACE Courses taught by our Department late 17th century, providing detailed of Professional and Community analysis of selected texts considered Education (PACE) in their social and intellectual contexts. Topics of special interest include Elizabethan lyric poetry, PM PACE courses taught in the evening Renaissance humanism, non- between 6pm and 9pm Shakespearean drama, metaphysical poets, and the Civil War.
Please see page 82 for advice on choosing your courses. VO Almost all of the courses available to Study Abroad students are taught and integrated alongside full degree The course listings were correct when this Prospectus went to print students. Courses marked with this in August 2011. Copies of this Prospectus are available from the symbol are taught to Study Abroad International Partnerships and Developments Team. students only. We prefer you to take a maximum of two VO courses per term. Or check the online version, www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad, which will show any changes made to courses after August 2011.
International Partnerships and Developments Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 14 About Goldsmiths > Studying at Goldsmiths Studying at Goldsmiths
Ben Pimlott Building About Goldsmiths > Studying at Goldsmiths 15 Transforming
Studying at Goldsmiths will give you the chance to develop your individuality, to look beyond preconceived ideas, and to explore creative and radical approaches to your subject. For more than a century, we have been part of the University of London, a federation of institutions renowned for the highest standards of teaching, research, and scholarship. Goldsmiths is also a member of the prestigious 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.
Learning, teaching and assessment Assessment methods vary according to the purpose of the assessment and the nature of the individual programme. On most programmes you Goldsmiths aims to maintain and enhance the quality and standards of will usually have some timed examinations, but you may also find different learning, teaching, assessment and support mechanisms through its forms of written exams such as open-book exams (where you can use learning and teaching strategies. We aim to provide our students with an reference books in the exam), objective tests, and papers that you can enriching learning experience that is concerned with knowledge, skills and write outside the examination hall, again with access to reference materials. self-discovery through creative, radical and rigorous learning practice. We support students in achieving diverse skills, attributes and characteristics. Many programmes include a substantial proportion of continuous assessment, which means that some or all of the work you do during the We aim to offer exciting and innovative curricula based on our academic programme (eg essays, seminar papers, reports on practical and project strengths, which reflect the varied interests and qualities of our diverse work) counts towards your final marks. Informal assessment of your student population and which meet the wider needs of society. In progress can take place throughout the year, but formal assessment parallel with developments across the higher education sector we are normally takes place at the end of the year. committed to increasingly student-centred approaches to learning and teaching. We support students to become self-motivated learners, Looking ahead enabled to take responsibility for, and control of, their learning whilst at Goldsmiths and beyond. When you finish your studies here, you’ll have something in common with thousands of former Goldsmiths students in all walks of life. You’ll find our How you will learn graduates in the arts, the media, education, music, politics, and business. At Goldsmiths you can expect to learn through a variety of teaching methods and styles that ensures programmes are lively and Goldsmiths alumni include: art and design: Lucian Freud, Antony participative, including lectures, tutorials, seminars, project work Gormley, Damien Hirst, Margaret Howell, Gary Hume, Steve McQueen, and practical assignments. Mary Quant, Bridget Riley, Yinka Shonibare, Sam Taylor-Wood, Tang Da Wu, Gillian Wearing, and Jane and Louise Wilson; music: Alex James, —Lectures Graham Coxon, Martyn Brabbins, John Cale, John Illsley, Brian Molko, and Delivered by one of Goldsmiths’ academic staff, or sometimes by Malcolm McLaren; theatre: Moira Buffini and Ian Rickson;cinema: David specially invited experts in the field, lectures present information and ideas, Tattersall; entertainer, Julian Clary, and writers, Linton Kwesi Johnson, often from a variety of viewpoints. There is usually an opportunity to ask Hisham Matar, Colin Welland, and Lijia Zhang. questions and discuss some of the points raised.
—Tutorials Tutorials are more two-way in style than lectures, and allow you to receive feedback on how your work is progressing. They also allow you to discuss with your tutors any difficulties you may be experiencing.
—Seminars Held in small groups, these provide an opportunity for a student to introduce a given topic and to lead a group discussion on that topic. The free flow of ideas produces a stimulating learning environment.
—Team activities Working on projects or tasks in small, self-managed teams provides valuable experience of teamwork, itself a highly transferable skill.
—Project work Projects can be individual or team-based.
—Practical work In creative subjects, you will be expected to explore issues through a range of media appropriate to your subject specialism. In scientific and technological subjects, conducting tests and experiments will help you to develop and practise skills, as well as test theoretical propositions.
How you will be assessed Like teaching, assessment is also conducted in a range of styles. This approach has a number of benefits for students, offering the fairest possible means of assessment. 16 About Goldsmiths > Contact us Contact us About Goldsmiths > Contact us 17 Welcoming
To find out more about the Study in London programme for Study Abroad Recruitment events in your country and Exchange students, please get in touch: Goldsmiths representatives take part in recruitment events throughout the International Partnerships and Developments Team world – visit www.gold.ac.uk/international/recruitment-trips to find out if Goldsmiths, University of London we’re coming to a city near you. New Cross London SE14 6NW United Kingdom telephone +44 (0)20 7919 7700 fax +44 (0)20 7919 7704 e-mail [email protected] www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad
There is general information for international students at www.gold.ac.uk/international
Other programmes at Goldsmiths
Programme Description Further information Web Publication
Undergraduate We offer undergraduate International Partnerships www.gold.ac.uk/ug Undergraduate programmes degrees in a wide range and Developments Team Prospectus of subjects.
Postgraduate [Graduate] Taught Master’s degrees International Partnerships www.gold.ac.uk/pg Postgraduate Prospectus programmes and research (MPhil/PhD and Developments Team and MRes) programmes.
English Language Programmes in academic Centre for English www.gold.ac.uk/eap Academic English programmes English for international Language and Programmes booklet students. Academic Writing e-mail [email protected]
Associate Graduate This is for graduate or International Partnerships www.gold.ac.uk/ Postgraduate Prospectus Studentship research students carrying and Developments Team studyabroad out postgraduate work at See page 76 their home institution who would like to do part of their study in the UK, or for former Study Abroad students as a preparation for further graduate study. Graduate students choose courses from the taught Master’s programmes at Goldsmiths.
Associate Research Research students Ask the International www.gold.ac.uk/ Postgraduate Prospectus Studentship undertake independent Partnerships and studyabroad research on a topic of their Developments Team for See page 76 choice with the guidance of a Postgraduate Prospectus a tutor. or contact them with an outline of the research or graduate courses that interest you. 18 About Goldsmiths > How to get to Goldsmiths How to get to Goldsmiths Goldsmiths is in New Cross, South East London, five miles from Central London.
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Courses 24 Programmes > Anthropology In the Summer term you can choose to do 2 additional credits of project Ethnography of a Anthropology work related to courses studied Selected Region I – in the Spring term. This work Africa is negotiated individual study supported by some tutorial The Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths is one of the most guidance. You should inform your AN51007B consistently innovative in the UK. It has played a significant role in the home university and the 4 credits [September-December] development of new fields and directions in the discipline, such as the International Partnerships and anthropology of Europe and the anthropology of media. Anthropology Developments Team at Goldsmiths This is an introduction to at Goldsmiths has above all a contemporary orientation, and contributes of the agreed topic once it has anthropological studies on both to the development of the academic discipline and to the world been confirmed. When you tell societies and cultures in sub- outside it. your International Liaison tutor the Saharan Africa. Ethnographic case topics you are interested studies from different parts of This happens through policy-oriented research and advocacy in a range of in studying, they can consider Africa are used to address some of areas – from health to community work, from development to music and art, appropriate tutorial guidance the major themes that have been from urban planning to brain imaging – in which anthropology is active and arrangements. You should aim to explored in Africanist ethnography relevant in public domains in the UK and elsewhere. confirm these details by week 6 and to ask how, in past and of the Spring term. present anthropology, empirical Undergraduate year Description research is related to methodology See also Professional and and theorising. Particular emphasis Year 1 a course for which you do not need Community Education: Cultural and is placed on issues of historical any previous experience Social Studies (page 63) for other change, spatial mobility, power and courses in this subject. social conflict, but also on the Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience relations of people in Africa to in this area or have already followed a similar other continents and the academic course Year 1 sociopolitical uses of the category ‘African’. A comparative approach to these issues raises important Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the Introduction to practical data or a willingness to engage epistemological questions. in responsible individual study under Social Anthropology tutorial guidance AN51001A Ethnography of Lowland South America 4 credits [September-December] 10 credits [September-June] There’s lots to do in London AN51010A Not suitable for Anthropology majors. 4 credits [September-December] without spending money: You study the basic anthropological This course introduces you to concepts of kinship, politics, the land, people and history of economics and religion, using Amazonia. It draws on specific diverse ethnographic material. ethnographies of the region to there are 17 National There is also a survey of the explore key anthropological different theoretical schools themes, such as the relationship of anthropology. between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’, gender, violence, ethics and the Museums and Galleries with impacts of colonialism and globalisation. The course gives Anthropological particular emphasis to the ways Methods in which indigenous Amazonian free entrance, including the people today are organising AN51003A politically in response to various threats to their environment and British Museum, National 4 credits [January-March] way of life. Learn how anthropologists conduct their research. You undertake an exercise in participant observation, Anthropology Today Gallery, Tate Modern, and and learn about a range of data collection techniques. AN51015A V&A Museum. 4 credits [September-December] Ethnographic Film What is anthropology’s role in public life? How have anthropologists past AN51004A and present contributed to some of the most pressing debates of the 4 credits [September-December] day? This course examines anthropology’s unique position and Your study focuses on film as a form methodologies for exploring issues of anthropological knowledge. You such as environmental politics, new look at a series of documentary technologies, war, conflict, racism, films, and discuss and analyse them cognition and the nature of social in the light of debates within both experience. New course: subject anthropology and film theory. to validation.
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Anthropology 25 anthropology as a discipline, we Anthropology start by considering what is at Anthropology Anthropology of Art I in London stake when one begins to theorise of Religion ‘otherness’, how one identifies a AN53015A AN51016A society or culture as ‘other’ (and AN52009A why), and the methods employed 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] for doing this. It then observes 4 credits [September-December] You study key issues in the how anthropology and its 10 credits [September-June] anthropology of art. The course London, with its complex past and practices have evolved through You study religion, magic and includes: conflicting definitions thriving multicultural present, offers time. While some schools and symbolism in relation to social of art and aesthetics; modes of a unique vantage point from which theories seem to have become institutions, bodily inscription, seeing within and across cultures; to study important historical and redundant, you are encouraged to nationalism and fundamentalism, creativity, inspiration and the contemporary issues alongside the pursue how some ideas and models as well as perspectives on selected category of the artist; the body as production of anthropology. Learn return and/or persist in other guises. world religions including art; issues of gender and ideology; about issues such as the international The point is to understand the Christianity and Islam. the politics of the ownership and slave trade, globalisation, circumstances and presumptions display of non-Western art works; cosmopolitanism, post-colonialism, that underpin different schools of imaging nationality and ethnicity migration, commemoration, identity thought, so as to be better Year 3 through art; primitivism and the politics and transformations through equipped to critically analyse the construction of the other. visiting museums, galleries, streets theory that is currently mobilised and markets in a course which in anthropological analysis. History and combines readings in anthropology Anthropology with field trips in the city. New Anthropology and course: subject to validation. Ethnography of AN53005B the Environment I (Post)-Socialism 4 credits [January-March] AN53021A Year 2 2 credits [April-June] AN52007A 4 credits [January-March] You look at new anthropological 2 credits [April-June] Ethnography 4 credits [January-March] history and historical anthropology; of the Caribbean II 2 credits [April-June] sources and methods (eg archives, You consider ethnobiology; landscapes; art and the environment; You develop an understanding of oral history, paintings, maps, the country and the city; ecological the main issues of the anthropology artefacts); fact and fiction; myth and AN52003B traditions in anthropology; the of socialism and after. The memory; cross-cultural categories politics of ecology; indigenous 4 credits [September-December] course also covers the recent of time and space; and different peoples and resource management; anthropological research and ways of talking about the past. eco-discourse and new social You explore the Caribbean as a literature on post-socialism, looking movements; developmentalism; socio-cultural area; cultural heritages particularly at new nationalisms, indigenous rights; and Non- and culture-building; race, class and changing economic formations, Anthropology Governmental Organisations gender; kinship and religion; rural religion, and gender relations. development and urban life; and the of Health I (NGOs). Please contact the Caribbean diaspora. International Partnerships and AN53008A Developments Team to confirm Anthropology that the course Politics, Economics and the Visual I 4 credits [September-December] is running. and Social Change You examine key themes in medical AN52008A anthropology, ranging from ideas about healing to social inequality The Anthropology AN52004A 4 credits [January-March] and the ‘new biology’. The course 2 credits [April-June] of Development 4 credits [September-December] addresses issues of biomedicine 10 credits [September-June] The body has been a major object in the UK alongside alternative AN53023A of visual attention and theoretical therapies and explanations of You examine the scope and and ethnographic investigation in health/illness in different parts of 4 credits [September-December] approaches of economic and anthropology. It features as: a key the world, and approaches to the political anthropology, including metaphor in anthropological political economy. Specific You study the history of theories of social change; theory; a cultural artefact; a medium sessions include the application development and its institutions comparative study of First and of performance; the template for of medical anthropology, ‘new’ – from NGOs to the World Bank and Third World development; agrarian a range of associated material diseases and technologies. IMF, while considering diverse case structure; peasant societies; artefacts and practices; an object studies from around the world. You multinational corporations; of obsessive representation in a will also explore the historical role dependency theory and nationalism wide variety of media; a model for Urban Anthropology I of anthropology’s involvement in and ethnicity. non-human forms; and a medium development, as official mediators between ‘the West and the rest’ for thinking about the boundaries AN53013A and limitations of the body. This through imperial conquest, colonial administration and a post-war General Principles of course offers you the opportunity 4 credits [January-March] development industry. Social Anthropology to conduct your own piece of 2 credits [April-June] visually oriented research, combining text and images. You You study the changing use of AN52005A work in small groups to devise a different urban spaces at different Anthropology project on some aspect of the body. times, and examine the following: and Gender Theory 4 credits [September-December] how cities are represented; ideas 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] of order and disorder; public and domestic places; ideas of AN53026B control and resistance through Offers an overview of the intellectual 4 credits [September-December] history of anthropology. Beginning carnival; informal economies; well before the establishment of and kinship networks. This course aims to explore the
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 26 Programmes > Anthropology interrelationships of gender, sexuality and the body by bringing together Myth and Ritual ideas from contemporary Western social/cultural theory (including AN53043A psychoanalytic, feminist and queer theories), detailed ethnographic and 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] historical case studies, and some classic anthropological theories and There was a time when myth issues. In doing this, we explore the and ritual were seen as products ways in which the body, gender and of the childhood of humankind, sexuality have been produced/ before the arrival of science. imagined in different ways. Anthropologists now tend to assume myth and ritual are aspects of all human societies; Anthropology of Rights however, they can’t agree on the reason for this. What do myth and AN53039A ritual actually do? Are they ways of resolving existential dilemmas? 4 credits [January-March] Or reflecting on the fact they 2 credits [April-June] can’t be resolved? Are they ways of establishing unquestionable You critically engage with the authority? Forms of artistic full spectrum of rights discourses, self-expression? Media for political considering not only the language action? Or some combination of of Human Rights found in these? This course will explore international law, but also the some of these questions, by way cross-cutting – and often competing of concrete case studies. – claims made in the name of gender and child rights, indigenous rights, cultural property, intellectual property, bioethics, customary law Indian and Peasant and cosmopolitan law. Politics in Amazonia
AN53072A Anthropology 4 credits [January-March] and the Visual: 2 credits [April-June] Production Course This course looks at Amazonian societies from pre-history to the AN53040A present – indigenous, peasant, colonial, developmentalist – 4 credits [January-March] and includes discussion of This is a practically based course modern social movements in which you explore the techniques (Landless Peoples Movement) of video making/photography. as well as classic themes of Lévi-Strauss’s ‘world on the wane’, human ecology and Anthropology extractivist economies. and the Visual 2
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This course explores the role of visual representation in anthropology, in terms of both the history of its use within the discipline and the potential it holds for new ways of working. It looks at work in a wide range of media – photography, film/video, performance – and the ways in which they might be used in an anthropological context. This involves looking at work from outside anthropology such as photojournalism and contemporary art, as well as the work of visual anthropologists.
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Anthropology 27 28 Programmes > Art Art Fine Art Critical Studies FA51012A The parallel Critical Studies September-December element of the course is designed Goldsmiths’ Department of Art has an international reputation for 5 days per week to support your practical work in 16 credits creativity and innovation which attracts students from a diversity of the studios. The lectures and nationalities and backgrounds. Our particular expertise is helping artists, January-March seminars introduce and develop writers and curators reflect on the demands of individual practice in 5 days per week key issues which inform diverse relation to the wider visual culture; and to scrutinise the discourses which 16 credits art practices and encourage you define the nature of contemporary visual culture and the importance of to extend your critical faculties particular visual images and seminal representations to that culture. September-March and develop your ability to discuss, 5 days per week write about, analyse and judge 32 credits Our facilities enable students to work in metal, casting, wood, fine art contemporary art. This element printmaking, digital media, photography, video, stitch and fabric, January-June utilises the huge range of constructed textiles and print and dye; you will also be able to make 5 days per week opportunities London offers use of Goldsmiths resources including Media Services and the Library. 20 credits for direct engagement with art in museums and galleries. It is See also Visual Cultures (page 74). September-June delivered through a combination 5 days per week of tutor-led visits to relevant 36 credits Practice-based courses museums, galleries and temporary Fine Art is only available as a full exhibitions – reflecting develop- course-load subject, so you may ments in contemporary art If you are applying to study on any of the practice-based courses in practice as they occur – together Art, you must include with your application appropriate documentation not study it alongside courses in other subjects. with lectures and seminars offering showing your current art work and study. Please include documentation you a space for exploring and of 12 examples of your work as slides, photographs or videos (PAL examining the historical and critical format); we can also accept DVDs and CDs in Mac format, with each Prerequisites: if studying Studio Practice, you must take Critical context in which art is made, seen file no larger than 800k. Mark your work clearly with your full name, full and understood. postal address, a contact telephone number, and an indication of the size Studies (right). You will usually and media of each piece. We also recommend you to include notes to have undertaken at least one year clarify the content of your work, as well as any other information you of studio-based art practice at think might be relevant. Please ensure that you pack everything securely, university level, as either a major as the College cannot accept responsibility for the loss or damage of or minor component of your work submitted with your application. Do not send originals. Please see degree. If you have maintained ‘Returning your work’ on page 83. an independent fine art practice outside your degree, you are Please note: it is likely that you will have to pay for some materials during welcome to apply. the course. All the staff on the course are practising artists, curators and writers here to respond to the London is a very green city: work that you make and to help you to understand how it contributes to and challenges, the critical debates that exist in green spaces make up about the study area and beyond. You will be taught through individual tutorials in your studio, group tutorials, and studio practice 30% of the city. There are presentations.
The Studio Practice element of the course enables you to over six million trees, and develop your own art work through exploring selected media and approaches, including: 39 public parks. drawing, painting, film, installation, performance, photography, printed and constructed textiles, printmaking, sculpture, and video.
Studio teaching is enhanced by technical support, which introduces you to techniques relevant to the practical development of your work. All students are fully integrated with the full degree students on the BA in Fine Art.
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Communication Studies 29 media texts in order to examine Year 1 the ways in which they make Communication meaning. Issues concerning Media History narrative, realism, stars and image, Studies fiction and documentary are and Politics examined with the aim of The Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths is at the developing skills in the analysis forefront of developments in cultural theory and practice in the UK. MC51002A of a range of media texts. With excellent production facilities, and specialisms in many areas, our empirical work has brought us national and international recognition 4 credits [September-December] as one of the leaders in our field. You consider the historical Year 2 development of the British media, Undergraduate year Description their role in the development of modern Britain, and changes in the Communications, Year 1 a course for which you do not need any previous experience content and structure of the media Psychology and in relation to social and political Experience change. You also examine, in an Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience historical context, some key debates in this area or have already followed a similar about the relationship of the media MC52003B academic course to society. 4 credits [September-December]
Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the This course examines the place practical data or a willingness to engage Culture and of ‘experience’ in thinking about in responsible individual study under our self-formation. It extends the tutorial guidance Cultural Studies usefulness of the concept of subjectivity for exploring certain MC51005A themes and issues. These might Key include: personality and the 4 credits [January-March] rise of celebrity culture, the psychologisation of everyday life, VO Almost all of the courses available to Study Abroad You are introduced to the debates students are taught and integrated alongside full surrounding the term ‘culture’, emotional branding and promotional degree students. Courses marked with this symbol culture, mental health and the are taught to Study Abroad students only including questions of ‘high’ and ‘mass’ culture and the development media, make-over culture, and how of British cultural studies. You study to begin to understand the complex the ‘moment’ of cultural studies relationships between sexuality, Not all Year 3 courses (course codes beginning with MC53) will run each and the ways in which ideas of class, race and gender in relation year: a selection are offered each year, depending on staff research leave. ‘resistance’ and hegemony to the performative force of developed out of work on communication practices such as See also Professional and Community Education: Cultural and Social subcultures. You also explore magazines, film and television. Studies (page 63) for other courses in this subject. understandings of culture based on experiences of gender, age and race and you begin to examine Culture, Society audience-based approaches to and the Individual cultural activity.
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Media Studies This course focuses on the formation of subjectivity in the MC51006B context of huge social and political change and the growth of 4 credits [January-March] individualisation. In particular it This course focuses on important examines the consequences of debates concerning media power individualisation: what kind of and mediated identity, and examines ‘subjects’ are we now becoming? the different traditions and How does the ethos of disciplines that have contributed to individualisation operate in the media analysis in this area. It looks context of globalisation? What at the roles played by ideology, does the term ‘precarious lives’ politics and audiences in the making mean? What are the unequal of meaning, and requires you to consequences of individualisation take a critical perspective in the for women, for young people, for analysis of specific media texts and ethnic minorities? Who are the media events. winners and the losers of the ‘network society’? The course moves between sociology and cultural and media studies, Representation and providing plenty of opportunity Textual Analysis to examine case studies in more depth and to engage with new research in these areas. MC51007A
4 credits [September-December]
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International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 30 Programmes > Communication Studies skills appropriate to screen drama American and international Intellectual Foundations production. As part of a small political systems. Themes covered Public Culture of Social Theory group, you experience the creative include: public opinion and the and Everyday Life development and production of a public sphere, controlling and MC52014A 1-3 minute cinematic-led drama. managing news agendas, political MC53036B marketing, spin, propaganda and 4 credits [September-December] persuasion, war and the media, 4 credits [September-December] Writing for Film, TV celebrity politics and e-democracy. Investigates central issues in social Familiarises you with a range of theory as they relate to questions and Radio (fiction) influential cultural theorists whose of media, communication and Media Audiences and work allows fuller understanding of culture. The course provides a MC50003A current forms of cultural practice, theoretical map on which to locate Media Geographies across the arts, in writing and fiction, some of the key issues confronted 4 credits [April-June] as well as in popular culture, and in media, communication and MC53023B whose work also enlarges our cultural studies. Each session VO understanding of key social and addresses a specific cultural or 4 credits [January-March] This practical course develops your political issues of the day. By looking media-related phenomenon that is skills in creating, rewriting and in detail at key thematics in the work connected to the sociological topic This course reviews interdisciplinary editing short screenplays and radio of writers including Adorno, under discussion. We therefore perspectives on the study of media plays. You examine key topics Benjamin, Gilroy, Bourdieu, Jameson, investigate a range of issues, audiences and on the role of the including creativity theory, story, Butler, Hall and Bhabha, the course including ‘McDonaldisation’, media in constructing the characterisation, dialogue, structure encourages an approach which branding, reality television, postmodern geography of our and theme and are guided through considers the importance of theory contemporary music, celebrity world. The first section takes a the process of developing an idea in understanding everyday life, and spectacle, and the formation macro perspective and offers a brief into a 10-minute screenplay or radio social and cultural change, of the nation state. view of contemporary models and play. Workshop sessions focus on processes of sexual differentiation, approaches to the study of media processes of racialisation and how to give and take constructive audiences, media effects, media editorial suggestions. aspects of visual culture. The following three courses are powers and patterns of cultural available in April-June only. In consumption. The second section order for these courses to run, addresses questions concerning Music as Communication they need to have a minimum Year 3 the specificity of different media number of students. Please and their micro-contexts and and Creative Practice conditions of consumption. The contact the International Political Economy Partnerships and Developments third section examines the role MC53038A Team for details. of the Mass Media of communications media in constructing the geography of our 4 credits [September-December] postmodern electronics landscapes. MC53003A Media Production – Focusing on music and sounds as 4 credits [January-March] forms of communication, this course Journalism Media, Ethnicity emphasises how musical meanings are conveyed and understood, and This course looks at different and Nation MC50001A perspectives on the relationship how this is mediated through the between ideological and economic cultures and technologies of 4 credits [April-June] power, with reference to mass MC53031A production, recording and media. It compares culturalist consumption. We consider how VO interpretations with studies 4 credits [January-March] music communicates mood and emphasising the role of the state, meaning, not only through This course introduces the practice This examines how ‘ethnicities’ and media ownership, advertising and associated imagery and lyrical of contemporary journalism. You ‘nations’ are constructed within the market structures as forms of content, but as sound. We think gain experience in information media. Our aim is to analyse how media control. We examine media about the processes that link gathering, analysis and the media construct ‘ethnicity’ and representations in relation to production, circulation and communication in print journalism ‘nations’ over time; to reflect on the debates over the construction consumption, as well as exploring and a wide range of professional role of the media in shaping nations and mediation of meaning and the ways that music connects with areas. You also learn about creative and ethnicities; and to explore the audiences’ response to these. individual and collective identities. and critical expression within the ways in which formations of conventions of journalism. ethnicity and nationhood affect practices. The course introduces key Structure of concepts in Black Cultural Studies Embodiment Introduction to Screen Contemporary Political and Postcolonial Studies, including: and Experience Drama Production Communication colonial discourse, colonial fantasy, othering, hybridity and diaspora. MC53039A We look at the intersection between MC50002A MC53021B race, ethnicity and other social 4 credits [September-December] relations, including gender, sexuality 4 credits [April-June] 4 credits [January-March] and class. Examines the place of the ‘body’ in contemporary social and cultural VO This course examines contemporary theory, taking a number of case political communication through the studies as examples. In recent You develop your understanding of mass media, in its national and years across a range of academic the inter-relationship of audio-visual international contexts. Lectures disciplines, from sociology, elements in the construction explore the history of political anthropology, cultural studies and of screen narrative. You gain communication, looking at psychology there has been a move proficiency in the application of questions of media ownership away from approaching the body as technologies and working practices and regulation, party political and a pre-given biological entity, to relevant to single camera DV drama election broadcasts, news bias explore the ways in which cultural shooting and post production. You and the agenda-setting role of the signs and codes mediate our further develop your organisational, media. These issues are illustrated relationships to our bodies. This problem solving and collaborative by examples from the British,
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Computing 31 work has emerged for example in relation to debates about Media Rituals cyberspace, eating disorders, Computing transexuality, health and illness, MC53048A the emotions, and new forms of spirituality. This course reviews these 4 credits [September-December] debates to explore the extent to Goldsmiths’ Department of Computing focuses on the advancement Explores how the media operate which we need to talk about of computing in many different technological areas including artificial as a focus of ritual action, symbolic embodiment rather than the body intelligence, biology and genetics, cognitive science, computer games hierarchies, and symbolic conflict, in any fixed way. and entertainment, computer music, computer vision, design, digital arts, introducing a range of theoretical archaeology and architecture, and haptics, as well as in computer science perspectives and applying them to itself. We are one of the leading departments in Europe for the combination specific themes from public life. of mainstream computing research, and its creative and innovative Cinema and Society Begins with a general introduction application in key interdisciplinary areas. to debates on the media’s social MC53045A impacts. Key theoretical concepts See also Music (page 53) for courses in music computing. are then outlined: sacred and 4 credits [January-March] profane, symbolic power, ritual, boundary, and liminality. Specific This course looks at the rise of themes relating to the media’s visual culture from the inception of contribution to public life and public cinema to the present. Beginning space are explored: celebrity and London has eleven with the historic screening of ordinariness; fandom and media Lumière’s Arrival of a Train in 1895, pilgrimages; media events and public and ending with a study of the place ritual; mediated self-disclosure professional football of popular film today, we explore (from talk shows to the Webcam); the ways in which the moving image ‘reality’ television and everyday has affected consciousness. We surveillance; and the media and study theorists such as Epstein, symbolic protest (total six lectures). (soccer) teams: Arsenal, Benjamin, Kracauer, Eisenstein and Bazin. Inquiry into technologies of sound, sex, and race guides us through a look at cinema in our Screen Cultures Brentford, Charlton Athletic, ever-changing situation. The screening of a classic film each MC53049A week aids our understanding of film history and aesthetics. 4 credits [January-March] Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Screens are now a dominant presence and interface in culture. Media, Law and Ethics First, public space is characterised by Fulham, Leyton Orient, screens of information, advertising MC53046A and surveillance. Second, the spectacular scale of the cinematic 4 credits [September-December] screen is giving way to the micro Millwall, Queens Park screens of a personalised and This course provides the knowledge mobile lifestyle. Third, the discrete and skills needed to avoid identity of media objects is transgressing defamation, contempt increasingly lost to a convergence Rangers, Tottenham Hotspur, and other media laws in the UK, within the computer terminal. This the USA and Australia. It gives you course explores our relationship to an ability to apply principles of these transformations, the ways in West Ham United. ethical conduct in all fields of the which our bodies are re-positioned media; a critical understanding of by screens, our modes of expression the cultural, social and political and communication are affected, context of media law-making and our experience of time and and professional regulation; and a space is reworked. New course: critical appreciation of alternative subject to validation. methods of media law and factors contributing to self-regulation by media practitioners.
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 32 Programmes > Computing In the Summer term you can choose A discussion of the fundamentals areas of sound, music, still image, two related courses (Audio-Visual to do 2 additional credits of project of computer organisation (physical video, gaming, internet and digital Computer Information Systems work related to courses studied in design) and architecture (logical arts. You are presented with a and Creative Audio-Visual the Spring term. This work is design). We look at machine level broad range of exemplar Computing). You implement a negotiated individual study representation of data, memory approaches, and are encouraged number of small pieces of software supported by some tutorial system organisation and to begin developing your creative based on the above topics. guidance. You should inform your architecture, system connection, practice in web, video, interactive home university and the memory, input/output, instruction media, sound, music and gaming. International Partnerships and sets, CPU structure, functions and Creative Audio-Visual Developments Team at Goldsmiths the control unit operation and of the agreed topic once it has computer networks. We cover Computing Spectrum Computing been confirmed. When you tell relational databases and web your International Liaison tutor the languages such as HTML, XHTML IS51017A topics you are interested in and XML. IS51014A 4 credits [January-March] studying, they can consider 4 credits [September-December] appropriate tutorial guidance 8 credits [September-March] Prerequisite: introductory knowledge of arrangements. You should aim to Introduction to Processing or Java languages. confirm these details by week 6 of Computing in Business Composed of two main streams the Spring term. that can be taken individually Examines the technical (4 credits each) or together fundamentals of computing IS51010B (8 credits). Stream one is based on techniques used in contemporary Computer Science and Information Year 1 4 credits [January-March] creative practice, with a focus on Systems and Technology, and sound/music computing and stream two is based on Creative Provides an introduction to computer graphics. This has a Mathematical Modelling Computing and Reflective Practice. computers in business and their stronger focus on creative uses of You are given a flavour of our three for Problem Solving deployment within organisations digital media than the two related main undergraduate degrees: that conduct business using courses (Audio-Visual Computer Computer Science; Computing and IS51002C internet technologies. It analyses Information Systems and Information Systems; and Creative the technologies and business Audio-Visual Computing). You Computing. You are introduced to 4 credits [January-March] theories designed to enable the implement small pieces of reflective practice – the ability to effective application of computing software that demonstrate audio analyse your own work critically. This course introduces the basic in today’s businesses. We also processing and graphics. When applying, please indicate mathematical tools, both discrete examine success stories that which stream(s) you have chosen. and continuous, for supporting illustrate the effective application computational and algorithmic of computers in businesses. Music Computing 1 inquiry. We pay particular attention to notions of experimentation, Computer Science MU51047A reasoning, and generalisation. Audio-Visual We explore number systems, IS51015A 4 credits [September-March] sets and subsets, logic, sequences Information Systems and series, relations and functions, 4 credits [January-March] Introduces the overarching themes graphs and trees. IS51012C of music computing: how An introductory course in the basic computers listen and analyse 4 credits [January-March] concepts essential sound and music, how they can in computer science: a brief generate musical and sonic Introduction Prerequisite: introductory knowledge introduction to logic, set theory, processes and structures, and how to Programming of Processing or Java languages. type theory, graph theory, they can render these patterns as algorithms and recursive function Covers the technical fundamentals sound and music. You develop an IS51008B theory, complexity and formal of computing techniques used in understanding of the origins and language theory. The practical side digital media, especially sound/ development of computer-aided 4 credits [September-December] involves simple programming in a 8 credits [September-March] music computing and computer composition and computer-based functional language to which the graphics. This has a stronger focus electronic music, presented in a course has introduced you. You are introduced to on business uses of digital media short series of repertoire-based programming through the than the two related courses case studies. Processing programming language (Audio-Visual Computing and (a variant of Java) to develop Creative Audio-Visual Computing). Audio-Visual Computing interactive graphical applications, You implement small pieces of Year 2 including games. No previous software that demonstrate audio IS51016A programming knowledge is processing and graphics, and assumed. Topics include: drawing analyse the use of digital media 4 credits [January-March] Programming with on screens, interaction with mice and digital content pipelines in a Object Orientated and keyboards, simple statements, business setting. Prerequisite: introductory knowledge of Processing or Java languages. Data Structures and variables and conditionals, for and while loops, loops within loops, Algorithms Covers the technical fundamentals arrays, functions, objects and Introduction to Creative of computing techniques used in classes, and inheritance. Computing Practice digital media, with a particular IS52014C focus on sound/music computing 4 credits [September-December] and computer graphics. Examines IS51013B Data Representation a range of topics such as: MIDI, Prerequisite: introductory knowledge and Architecture 4 credits [January-March] sound waves and their properties, of a programming language as Java Modelling sound synthesis, mathematical or similar. You are expected to have some methods (eg vectors, matrices, interest in graphics and/or sound, trigonometry), 2D Computer You learn to use and create IS51009B moving image and games. You are graphics, image processing, appropriate data structures, and to interactive graphics and sound. provide solutions to programming 4 credits [September-December] introduced to a wide range of industry standard tools for This has a stronger focus on the problems in an object oriented generating and handling content in fundamental algorithms than the language. In particular you learn to
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Computing 33 read and effectively use the API of knowledge of human perception problems (eg shortest-path, programming and web-based documentation in an object and of signal processing to the travelling salesman). On applications, and will be able to oriented language, to choose construction of multimedia completion you will be able to understand why web-based appropriate data structures from databases and retrieval of explain in terms of established applications are needed, and the the API documentation, and to information from collections of (OSI, TCP/IP) models the structure importance of dynamic web-based develop your own data structures multimedia. of modern computer networks, applications and their interaction suitable for various problems. to explain the routing algorithms with database servers. underlying the Internet Protocol. Data Modelling Algorithms and Programming Complexity Theory IS52021B Internet and Distributed User Interfaces Programming 4 credits [January-March] IS52017B IS52028A Prerequisite: introductory knowledge IS52025A 4 credits [January-March] of Computing. 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [September-December] Prerequisites: introductory knowledge Focuses on relational database Prerequisite: introduction of computer programming. to programming. systems, mainly from a Prerequisite: introductory knowledge of programming. development perspective, Aims to provide a rigorous basis You will learn to use and create emphasising issues related to for algorithm design and analysis, You will learn to use and create programmes with event-driven optimised data modelling and and an introduction to applications which communicate user interfaces in an object database implementation in SQL. computational complexity theory. with each other and with other oriented programming language. You learn how to implement You develop knowledge of classes processes across a network in an In particular you will learn how appropriate representations of of computational problems and object oriented programming event-handling works, and develop data in a Relational Database typical corresponding data language. In particular you will detailed knowledge of a graphic Management System, how to structures and algorithms. You are acquire the ability to understand user interface package in a high perform appropriate queries to exposed to a formal basis for the need for concurrency when level object oriented programming extract particular information from analysing algorithms with a view to doing network and distributed language. You will also learn to data, and how to manage the estimating the resources programming, to understand the plan a graphical user interface and integrity and security of database (processing time and storage) need for synchronisation, and the write complex systems with a systems. required for their execution, and to problems (eg deadlock and sophisticated feature-rich a formal basis for classifying starvation) in concurrent systems. graphical user interface. computational problems in terms You will also be exposed to of their inherent difficulty Creative technologies supporting (independently of the algorithms Computing Practice applications running in browsers. Music Computing 2 used). IS52023B Information Systems MU52047A Software Engineering 4 credits [September-December] for E-Business 4 credits [September-December] and Development 8 credits [September-March] 8 credits [September-March] An introduction to a wide range of IS52026A Introduces advanced concepts in IS52018C industry standard tools for music computing as applied to 4 credits [September-December] generating and handling content in analytic study and creative 4 credits [September-December] 8 credits [September-March] areas of sound, music, still image, practice. Methods, concepts and video, gaming, internet and digital Focuses on Computing and wider implications of music This course aims to provide a arts. You are presented with a Information Systems mainly from a information retrieval and structured view of the process of broad range of exemplar business perspective. It provides computer-based musicology are software development, and to approaches, and are encouraged you with a detailed understanding explored with reference to notated equip you with the knowledge and to begin developing your own of Computing and Information scores, MIDI data and audio. We skills required for the completion creative practice in web, video, Systems theories and techniques also explore the application of of a software development interactive media, sound, music of business systems analysis, artificial intelligence (AI) to music, process, from requirements and gaming. You engage with design and implementation improvised performance and live gathering to the final validation of contemporary theoretical and through the comparative analysis DSP. You develop your expertise in the implemented system. aesthetic ideas in your own project of business software development, a music programming language, work, whilst developing an database design, systems thinking, and learn how to interface audio understanding of project business process re-engineering, systems with AI modules. A key Perception and development and management business computing ethics, concern is the interaction between concepts. Multimedia Computing electronic commerce, and users and performers and organisational behaviour and computer music systems in a real-life setting. You develop an IS52020B management. Network Models understanding of practical and 4 credits [September-December] aesthetic issues in the production and presentation of such work. 8 credits [September-March] IS52024A Web Programming You learn the essentials of 4 credits [September-December] perception: how the physical IS52027A phenomena of light and sound are Introduces the theoretical 4 credits [January-March] related to our experiences of underpinnings of networks, colour, motion, melody, harmony using these to explain the Prerequisite: introductory knowledge and rhythm. You are taught a implementation of computer of programming. programming language suited to networks and the characteristics the signal processing domain in of Web-based social networks. You learn to create simple order to treat images and sounds, You learn to convert between interactive websites based on and to implement transformations representations of directed and specific user requirements. In and filters as linear systems. You undirected graphs, to execute particular you study the then go on to see the application algorithms to solve graph differences between conventional
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 34 Programmes > Computing data, programmes, sound, images, covered are: depth-first search, Year 3 graphics and multimedia, you Electronic Commerce breath-first search, iterative broaden your knowledge in IT deepening, bidirectional search, hill Neural Networks and enhance your skills in problem IS53013A climbing, and adversarial search. solving and programming. Topics Guidelines are provided for include: minimum redundancy 4 credits [September-December] implementing practical expert IS53002A coding, data compression and Prerequisite: basic knowledge systems, planning systems, and 4 credits [September-December] information theory, adaptive of Computing. empirical learning systems with Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, version spaces using the candidate Prerequisite: basic knowledge statistical modelling, dictionary- Aims to familiarise you with current elimination algorithm. of Computer Science. based compression, image and emerging electronic commerce compression, audio compression technologies using the Internet. Introduces the theory and practice and video compression. You are equipped with a detailed Advanced Audiovisual of neural computation. Covers the understanding of the major issues principles of neurocomputing with regarding the deployment of Processing artificial neural networks widely Language, Design Internet technologies within and used for addressing real-world between organisations. Topics IS53027B problems such as classification, and Implementation include Internet technology for regression, pattern recognition, business advantage, managing 4 credits [September-December] data mining, time-series prediction. IS53011A electronic commerce funds transfer, We look at supervised and Prerequisite: introductory knowledge reinventing the future of business of Computing including a programming unsupervised learning. We study 4 credits [September-December] through electronic commerce, language such as Java or C. supervised learning using linear business opportunities in electronic perceptrons, and non-linear Prerequisite: average knowledge of a programming language. commerce, electronic commerce Aims to enhance skills and models such as probabilistic neural website design, and business plans experience in the development of networks, multilayer perceptrons, You are introduced to principles for technology ventures. The software for the creation and and radial-basis function networks. and techniques for construction of course aims to educate a new manipulation of sounds and Unsupervised learning is studied programming language processors. generation of managers, planners, images in real and non-real time. It using Kohonen networks. We The course offers algorithms for the analysts, and programmers for extends the principles of creative provide contemporary training design of language compilers and electronic commerce. engineering for use in arts, games techniques for all these neural interpreters. We cover the following and more general interaction networks, and knowledge and fundamental topics: language scenarios so that you can develop tools for the specification, design, definition, lexical analysis, syntax your own projects through the use and practical implementation of Data Mining analysis, code generation and code of computational approaches to neural networks. optimisation. We look at regular audiovisual processing. The course IS53023B and context-free language details the key similarities and grammars, top-down and 4 credits [September-December] differences between sound and User Interface Design bottom-up parsing. There is an image signal processing through emphasis on the pragmatics of Prerequisite: general knowledge of the exploration of combined IS53008A compiler construction: syntax- Computer Science, including Java audiovisual approaches, with directed translation, automatic programming language. particular reference to audiovisual 4 credits [September-December] code generation and strategies perception and cognition. Content for machine-independent code Provides you with theoretical is delivered through programming Prerequisite: none. improvement. A one-pass language knowledge of basic and advanced languages including MaxMSP/Pure compiler in Java is demonstrated. machine learning algorithms and Data, Java, C and C++. The success of a computer system statistical techniques utilised in the often depends on how easily the process of discovery of hidden user can learn to use the interface. patterns in potentially large One of the most important current Computer Security volumes of data. Practical data Physical Computing developments is using good mining will be introduced through design to enhance the ability of IS53012A both algorithm implementation in IS53030A the non-expert to understand the Java and data mining software interface of desktop computers, 4 credits [September-December] utilisation for knowledge discovery 4 credits [September-December] laptops, PDAs, mobile phones, and in data from various fields of Prerequisite: introductory knowledge so on. This course focuses on how Prerequisite: basic knowledge activity. of Computer Science. of a programming language such as to design and evaluate effective Java or C. interfaces covering functional Provides a broad overview of and technical issues as well as topics in securing computer-based Artificial Intelligence Physical Computing is of increasing psychological and human aspects. resources, especially the interest to artists, musicians, choreographers and other creative information stored on hardware IS530024A and controlled by software. We practitioners for the creation of Data Compression explore core concepts of computer 4 credits [September-December] novel artworks and for forms of security, including attacks and computational interaction between Prerequisite: general knowledge of these objects and people. The focus IS53010A control, and various techniques for the protection of computer-related Computer Science, including Java is the interface between the digital programming language. 4 credits [September-December] assets. Covers topics including and the analogue. It encompasses basic physics, electronics, computer security, attacks and Introduces the essential principles Prerequisite: basic knowledge control, elementary cryptography, programming and software of Computer Science. of artificial intelligence as part of engineering. The practical objective cryptosystems, security control computer science. The emphasis is models, security problems and is the development of skills for You are presented with important on heuristic problem solving designing and building interactive issues of data compression, and protection in operating systems, in methods. Material includes: databases and data mining, and in physical devices. Taught through have the opportunity to learn a heuristic search techniques, seminars and practical sessions variety of data compression networks, security management knowledge representation, and administration, legal and oriented around the Arduino chip techniques commonly used for rule-based systems for deductive and development environment. multimedia, conventional computers ethical issues: patents, copyrights problem solving, search-based and networks. By studying and trademarks, and prosecution. planning, and inductive machine compression algorithms for symbolic learning. The heuristic techniques
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4 credits [September-December] Goldsmiths’ Institute for Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE) provides enterprise education to the creative and cultural sectors, and Prerequisite: introductory knowledge supports research into new approaches to business and financial models of Processing or Java languages. in the creative economy. It offers a range of academic programmes, and presents activities and events to promote an environment in which Covers advanced methods used in creative and cultural entrepreneurship can flourish. Our approach is to current state-of-the-art graphics integrate entrepreneurship within the development of creative practices, and animation systems, including and to take a creative approach to the development of new businesses the mathematical foundations, and the infrastructure that supports them. computational techniques and their use in creative practice. The ICCE believes that entrepreneurship is the creation of social, aesthetic course covers major contemporary or financial value, and that when entrepreneurial activity is strong these graphics and animation three strands are interwoven. techniques. You are given the mathematical foundations of the subject, as well as other theoretical Key foundations such as perceptual theories. These theoretical aspects VO Almost all of the courses available to Study Abroad students are taught and integrated alongside full are taught in the context of their degree students. Courses marked with this symbol practical use. You are introduced are taught to Study Abroad students only to some industry standard graphics software tools, but the main focus is on programming graphical software. Years 2 and 3 Social Enterprise London Natural Language Creative London IC53211A Processing IC53210A 4 credits [April-June] or 2 credits [April-June] (tutorial course) IS53036A 4 credits [January-March] or 2 credits [April-June] (tutorial course) VO 4 credits [September-December] VO Prerequisite: basic programming ability. Explores the rise and success of Creative London looks at one of social enterprises in recent history: Combines a critical introduction to the world’s most important centres their origins, aims and ambitions; key topics in theoretical linguistics for culture and creativity. The course how and what difference they have with hands-on practical experience explores the work of some of the made to society, the community of developing applications to city’s key galleries, theatres, arts and the culture of London. The process texts and access linguistic organisations and events. We course includes a broad range resources such as Corpora. Topics examine their background, looking of site visits and practical case covered include part-of-speech to the major social, cultural and studies of organisations. This will tagging, syntax and parsing, and political factors that have influenced allow you to experience first hand information extraction. Uses the their change and development, the range, breadth and quality of Python language but assumes no leading to their place and role in social enterprise work that London previous knowledge of this. today’s creative economy. There organisations produce, and to are site visits to theatres, exhibitions, place their subject studies in an arts organisations and events. historical and cultural context.
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 36 Programmes > Design Design Course groupings Design B Design A 16 credits [January-March] Prerequisite: completing ‘Design A’ first The Department of Design represents a unique combination of 16 credits [September-December] is preferable. knowledge and skills including interdisciplinary design, design futures, This set of courses includes Design eco-design and design education in schools. Our programmes address This set of courses includes: Design Practice (8 credits), Design Methods both the understanding and the practice of design in the educational, Practice (8 credits), Design Methods and Processes with Technical social, technological, and economic development of people, environments and Processes with Technical Studies (4 credits), and Design and communities. Studies (4 credits), and Design Context (4 credits). Context (4 credits). The Department has a suite of general manufacturing workshops for See right for details of Design modelling and making, in a broad range of rigid, flexible and mouldable See right for details of Design Practice, and Design Methods and materials (including a laser cutter and a starch modeller). There is a Practice, and Design Methods and Processes with Technical Studies. dedicated computing suite enabling 2D, 3D, media, multimedia and CAD/ Processes with Technical Studies. Design Context 1 is a set of two CAM design works. All students also have studio space. Design Context is a set of two lecture series from the Autumn lecture series from the Spring term options; see the Autumn term term; see the Spring term course Undergraduate year Description course descriptions, right, for descriptions, right, for more detail. more detail. Year 1 a course for which you do not need any previous experience Combined Design A
Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience and Design B in this area or have already followed a similar academic course 16+16 credits [September-March]
Design B builds on the skills Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the developed in Design A. We would practical data or a willingness to engage in responsible individual study under encourage you to do both, but if tutorial guidance you only pick one set, it is preferable to select Design A.
Practice-based courses
If you are applying for a practice course in Design, you must include with your application appropriate documentation showing your current art or design work (including sketchbooks). We advise you to send a digital portfolio that could consist of the following: Powerpoint slides, photographs, DVDs and CDs, in both Mac and PC formats. Mark your work clearly with your full name, full postal address, a contact telephone number, and an indication of the size and media of each piece. We also recommend you to include notes to clarify the content of your work as well as any other information you think might be relevant. Please ensure that you pack everything securely, as Goldsmiths cannot accept responsibility for the loss or damage of any work submitted with your application. Please see ‘Returning your work’ on page 83.
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Design 37 Individual courses Autumn term Design Context Spring term (Autumn) 2 Design Practice I Design Context Design Context (Autumn) 1 DS51012B (Spring) 1 DS51009B 4 credits [September-December] 8 credits [September-December] DS51012B DS51012C 8 credits [January-March] This is a set of two lecture series: 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] Design Practice is a studio-based Society and Culture activity. You will need to want to This is a set of two lecture series: You focus on what is meant by This is a set of two lecture series: work conceptually in a variety of ‘society and culture’. The concepts media. Your work will focus on Design and Meaning (Part 1) of society, culture and technology Histories and Theories developing your creative processes, In the Autumn term you study are developed through the study This course provides a thematic which can be applied to many areas Context and Psychology, which of ‘Robots, Superheroes and outline of the development of of design. The course helps students examines ideas of the self and Science Fiction’. design from the 19th to 21st from different areas – including develops issues of cognitive and centuries. You study the history graphic communication, three- creative development whilst Material Culture of design in terms of its changing dimensional and interaction design exploring concepts of the individual. This course introduces you to the principles, foundations, ideas and – appreciate other disciplines as well Through a series of lectures and idea of design activity in relation context for design. You consider as developing their own thinking. practical exercises you are to everyday culture. It demonstrates the major theories that have been The projects invite you to question encouraged to explore the ways in how design is fundamentally advanced in order to explain the current notions of design and to which semiotics can play a critical connected to the social and political development of design practice. develop new levels of problem role in your work. context within which it operates, solving, idea generation and rather than being an autonomous Design and Meaning (Part 2) realisation. You will produce a Ecology and Design sphere of activity. The course In this course you study semiotics broad-based conceptual portfolio in This course draws from a wide range concentrates on a branch of and examine a number of formal which you present the scope as well of disciplines to provide insights anthropology that has become elements and structures that as the depth of your thinking. into the complex and far-reaching known as the study of ‘material influence the grammar of visual environmental and social culture’. It comes from an design and the nature of material implications of design decisions. understanding of design that draws culture. Through a series of lectures It places this work in the context upon a number of interconnected and practical exercises you are Methods and Processes of the industrial economy and academic disciplines, including encouraged to explore the ways in emerging ideas related to sociology, philosophy, linguistics, which semiotics can play a critical DS51015A sustainable design. Various critiques psychology, and anthropology. role in your work. of current development paths are 4 credits [September-December] examined, and alternatives discussed. Concepts of eco design Design Context This is a series of practical and are explored in detail and you are reflective sessions in the studio and encouraged to find new ways (Spring) 2 workshop, available only to those of working which consider the students who opt for full term sets environment and the ability of DS51012C of courses in Design. Sessions cover present and future generations areas including drawing and to meet their material needs. 2 credits [January-March] sketching in the design process, research methods for designers, Ethics and Sustainability modelling ideas in paper and card, This lecture series asks why the and the study of creative methods ethical stances of designers, the and processes. There is also a set moral features of the design of practical workshops that develop process, and the value-laden nature your skills to use in design, from of various objects and images, are working in our workshop to important in design. The course uses using design software. These a number of critical perspectives workshops vary depending on to investigate the complex nature current requirements. of these stances and features, and it examines how they feed into practice. Though a series of lectures and practical exercises you are encouraged to explore the ways in which your personal ethical beliefs play a critical role in your work. This course also explores how design can contribute to sustainable development. It examines in detail a range of core sustainable design principles based on current research and practice.
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 38 Programmes > Drama and Theatre Arts In the Summer term you can choose to do two additional credits in any British and American Drama and Theatre Arts of the non-practical areas through Musical Theatre a negotiated individual study supported by some tutorial DR50004A guidance. Your area of study Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths focuses on theorised practice. must be confirmed by the 4 credits [September-December] We carry out our research as much through practice-based projects as International Partnerships and 4 credits [January-March] through theorisations of performance and explorations of textual practice. Developments Team. You must We aim to make work in a variety of media that reflects on and also tell the International Liaison VO contributes to innovation in contemporary production and performance Tutor what topics you are This course aims to explore the practice. Our own theatre has seating for 160 and is used for both interested in so that appropriate musical as the predominant form teaching and public performances. We also have three performance tutorial guidance can be arranged of popular theatre in the 20th studios; scenic, sound and costume workshops; and design studio facilities. and agreed. Your study should be century. Background lectures and confirmed by Week 6 seminars introduce you to the Visual design, sound and video courses are taught in our own studios, of the Spring term. supported by the College’s excellent editing facilities. The Department’s history and aesthetics of the form. By examining and reviewing a academic staff are assisted by a team of four experienced technicians. Where 4+4 credits is indicated, you selection of shows in detail, you cannot study the course for the learn to analyse and assess the Spring term only. Where ‘full year Undergraduate year Description contribution of various artists to only’ appears in the course the success of a show and to the description, you must be enrolled for Year 1 a course for which you do not need evolution of the genre as a whole. any previous experience the whole year to study that course.
Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience Performance Analysis: in this area or have already followed a similar Year 1 academic course Contemporary London Theatre Performance in London Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the practical data or a willingness to engage in responsible DR50005A individual study under tutorial guidance DR50001A 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [January-March] Key 2 credits [April-June] VO VO PACE Courses taught by our Department of Professional In this course you develop your and Community Education (PACE) You are introduced to the wide awareness of – and critical diversity of theatre in London from responses to – cutting-edge contemporary performance in VO Almost all of the courses available to Study Abroad the major subsidised companies, students are taught and integrated alongside full through the commercial West End London in a range of scales from degree students. Courses marked with this symbol to smaller fringe venues and large stage to intimate/site-specific. are taught to Study Abroad students only productions. Weekly visits to new You are introduced to a rich and or recent events in the capital are wide range of new theatre, both introduced with a critical context UK-grown and international: new and are discussed the following writing, visual theatre, dance week within seminar groups. theatre and Live Art both within London attracts over our international festivals and in our seasonal programming. Theatre visits are critiqued in seminars using Shakespeare’s London Performance Analysis tools derived 27 million overnight visitors from a range of contemporary DR50003A critical theories. In addition, the work of some prominent 4 credits [September-December] international researchers and each year, making it the 4 credits [January-March] practitioners is accessed via VO the Department’s Performance Research Forum. world’s most popular You undertake a thorough, practical and critical examination of selected plays from the Shakespearean Analytic Vocabularies city destination. canon and the work of his contemporaries, looking at theatre DR51003A visits and videos as examples of Shakespeare on the stage and in 4 credits [September-December] film. There are visits to sites of 4+4 credits [September-March] relevance to Shakespeare’s work in London and Stratford. You explore methods of performance analysis, examining some of the significant theoretical frameworks for the analysis of Western performance. Using critical tools, you identify creative processes and outcomes in the light of the theories of key practitioners. You evaluate performance texts from different media, and distinguish
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Drama and Theatre Arts 39 how history and culture influence each week and present your work contemporary theatre-making. Theatre Making: Process Theatre Making II in a final workshop performance at and Performance the end of term. Through the study DR52018B of plays currently in production Theatre Making I DR51011A on the London stage, you are 10 credits [Full year only] encouraged to explore 4+2 credits [September-March] contemporary issues of cultural You focus on the acquisition and DR51012B [Full year only] and political significance unique to development of performance- the UK. Acting in London provides 4 credits [April-June] making skills in this practical You are introduced in practical ways you with an artistic and academic course. You develop your ability to the principles and techniques challenge related directly to your Prerequisite: Theatre Making: Process in areas such as: performing, and Performance, DR51011A. of theatre-making. This practical experience of living in a foreign scenographic design, lighting course introduces you to the city. This course is taught by our design, sound design, stage The Summer term project is an processes of performance and Department of Professional and management, and dramaturgy. opportunity for you to explore direction, and examines various Community Education. theatre making in a creative and approaches to working with space, This course starts in week 7 of the inventive fashion, within defined composition, rhythm, texts, and autumn term and enables you to develop these skills for the rest parameters and a constructively improvisation. Culture and critical framework. You work in of the year, working towards the groups, prepare performance creation of a performed event Performance: projects and present your work Year 2 in the Summer term. Critical Cultural Theory to other students. This project develops work you have done in Please state your preferred area DR53033A DR51011A, and takes on the quality Performance Theory of interest on your application. of a festival. and Practice 4 credits [September-December] Modernisms and You approach the study of DR52016A Space-body-spectator Postmodernity A+B performance within a culturally 4 credits [September-December] diverse society. Lectures and 4+4 credits [September-March] seminars introduce you to a range DR51007B DR52019A+DR52020A of art practices and theoretical 4 credits [September-December] In this combined lecture/seminar/ 10 credits [Full year only] issues in the field of multi-cultural 4+4 credits [September-March] laboratory course, you investigate performance, including cross- the major forms of 20th-century In the Autumn term, you are culturalism, interculturalism, You are introduced to the three Western theatre performance. provided with an introduction to key interchange and globalisation. This essential elements of performance You explore ways in which aspects of modern and postmodern course is a prerequisite for Culture – space, body and spectator – various practices have been thought, culture and theatre. The and Performance: Options. via theory and practice. You focus theorised and, conversely, the way course aims to explore the historical on the body in intensive workshop performance theories have been and cultural contexts of its topic training sessions and frame this translated into practice. Recently while at the same time examining Culture and study in theoretical lectures and taught eight week options include: the theoretical and cultural ideas seminars. You develop your Psychological Realism; Physical and practices which have been Performance: Options own performance material for Action; Theatre for Change; seen as modernist and postmodern. assessment using the methodologies Brechtian Theatre; The Play DR53034A introduced, giving short theatre- Principle; Queer & Feminist In the Spring term, you choose based performances in the Autumn Performance; Visual Language; one 10-week option course. These 4 credits [January-March] term and working on site-specific and Presence of Mind. options are designed to extend Prerequisite: Culture and Performance: group projects in the Spring term. the study of modernism and/or Critical Cultural Theory, DR53033A. Teaching approaches draw on postmodernity through a sustained European and non-Western sources. Elements of engagement with a particular You choose a 10-week seminar Theatre History range of material. To give you option which contextualises the examples, recent specialist topics theories and discourses studied Theatre Making: were: Postcolonial Theatre; Brecht in Culture and Performance A. Scenography and DR52017A and Political Theatre; the Artistic For example, options offered Avant Garde, and Contemporary recently were: Art and Japan; Technologies 4 credits [September-December] Women Practitioners. Options are 4 credits [January-March] Voicing the Margins; and likely to change from year to year, Translation across languages, DR51010C You develop an understanding of depending on staff availability and cultures and genres. the relationship between a work research interests. 4 credits [September-December] and its historical – social, cultural, intellectual – context. There is You are introduced in practical ways a wide range of options from Year 3 to the principles and techniques of which you choose a 10-week theatre-making. The course gives course of study. These options you a practical introduction to could include such subjects as: Acting in London two of the following areas: lighting Ancient Greek Theatre; African design, sound design, scenography, Theatre; Polish Theatre; Irish DR50002A and stage management. Theatre and Politics; American Theatre; and Shakespeare and 4 credits [September-December] Renaissance Drama. Options 4 credits [January-March] may change from year to year, PACE / VO depending on staff availability and research interests. This practical course develops your acting skills and introduces you to methods of actor-training and modes of performance in the UK. You meet for an intensive session
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The Department of Educational Studies is one of the largest in the College ED51006A ED52021A and plays a major part in life at Goldsmiths. The preparation of teachers is 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] central to the origins and early history of Goldsmiths and the Department 8 credits [September-March] 8 credits [September-March] proudly continues this tradition. However, ‘education’ is about so much more than teacher education, and the Department’s portfolio of courses You explore the key concepts You explore and locate education from undergraduate through to doctoral level reflects this. The size of the of culture and identify their within the wider socio-political Department has enabled a team of staff to be assembled, which is diverse relationship to spheres of influence structure of different societies by in both its areas of expertise and its research interests, and a significant in contemporary society, such as studying educational theories and number have international reputations in their fields. schooling, the law and the media. the thinking of key theorists. You explore the impact educational Goldsmiths’ commitment to engagement with its wider community is theory has on current government reflected in individual members of staff’s involvement with creative and The Curriculum: education policy in the UK. The social projects beyond the lecture and seminar rooms. course examines issues and Historical and tensions in implementing policy Undergraduate year Description Philosophical with reference to cultural and Perspectives societal influences. Year 1 a course for which you do not need any previous experience ED51007A Visual Arts Practice Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience 4 credits [September-December] in Education and in this area or have already followed a similar 8 credits [September-March] academic course Community Settings You examine how the curriculum is a means to educating the type of Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the ED52022A practical data or a willingness to engage person society deems desirable. It in responsible individual study under explores how this has changed over 4 credits [September-December] tutorial guidance time and how it varies in different 8 credits [September-March] societies today. The philosophical issues underpinning these You combine theoretical differences are explored. You are perspectives on creativity, learning, encouraged to reflect on what and art and design processes in education is and what it means to education with extended London has around be educated in a democratic society. opportunities for personal and practical creative work. Through a series of practical workshops you are challenged to develop your own the same number of Learning and Thinking artistic skills and subject knowledge and understanding of visual art, ED51008B and to reflect on traditional and developing practice in education. international students 4 credits [September-December] You engage in work which explores 8 credits [September-March] a variety of materials, processes and ideas central to the visual arts You are introduced to the central curriculum. You are encouraged as New York and concepts of learning and thinking to develop your own ideas and and the ways these have been undertake self-directed artwork. constructed historically, You are also encouraged to geographically and culturally. develop pedagogical knowledge, Sydney combined. You are also introduced to theories reflecting on how art activities of learning which encompass an might be planned, resourced and introduction to the key debates taught or facilitated. around cognition.
Language and Literacy in the Early Years
ED52023A
4 credits [September-December] 8 credits [September-March]
You consider how young children’s language develops in a range of contexts, and examine literacy as a socially constructed phenomenon. You have the opportunity to consider how theoretical understandings of language and literacy development have influenced educational policy. This is achieved through an
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Educational Studies 41 examination and exploration of and edit a short moving image and and exclusion in relation to issues language, language diversity, texts, study some theoretical aspects of such as people who are refugees Language, Power literacy and learning, and film making. Elements related to a and asylum seekers; those and Identity educational policy developments. variety of contemporary media and concerned with faith and religion; creativity are studied, as well as language and plurilingualism; ED53021A educational aspects of these. gender and sexuality and Autism/ Early Childhood in Asperger’s Syndrome. The 4 credits [September-December] course includes opportunities for 8 credits [September-March] a Diverse Society Performing Arts discussions with people working in some of these areas. You will examine in depth the ED52024A in the Community relationship between language, culture and identity. You develop 4 credits [September-December] ED52027A a critical understanding of the 8 credits [September-March] Year 3 influence that shapes our sense 4 credits [September-December] of self and particularly the pivotal You explore current ideas and 8 credits [September-March] Digital Media Cultures role of language in constructing contrasting theoretical approaches identities and determining potential as well as policy developments You explore the Performing Arts in opportunities and constraints. You affecting young children and their relation to both the plastic arts (eg ED53019A have the opportunity to consider families. You examine different sculpture, painting and writing) and the nature of language; language aspects of young children’s learning. 4 credits [September-December] issues of culture, community and 8 credits [September-March] development; home and There is a focus on children’s identity. The course examines the community practices; standard personal, social and emotional complex and contested terms You consider the issues raised english/accent/dialect; school learning, as well as on cultural and ‘performance’ and ‘community’ in the previous course-unit New practice; language and gender; linguistic development and the role across a range of disciplines within Media Technologies and Learning bilingualism and bi-literacy and the of play in their learning. You also the social sciences and the arts. at a higher level. This involves representations of these through a have an opportunity to become You examine the influence of the engaging with concepts from a range of media and policy issues. more familiar with different performing arts on everyday life. wide range of disciplines. There is approaches to curriculum and The course takes a broad view of an examination of literature around policy, and to explore the legacy of the performing arts but media output and multi-modal International different traditions and approaches concentrates on theatre, music and discourse. The current discourse to young children and learning in dance. This includes an overview of around creativity and new Perspectives on the UK and beyond. the history of performance and an technology is described and Early Childhood examination of the main theories of explored within the context of 20th-century drama practitioners. digital media. The manner in which ED53023A Culture and the You consider the relationship new media texts may have the Construction of Identity between performance and play and potential to address differing 4 credits [September-December] ritual, and its potential for subversion learning styles in different 8 credits [September-March] and creating alternative viewpoints. educational contexts is considered. ED52025A This is considered in relation to You explore the developing range of provision for under-eights, 4 credits [September-December] creativity as an aspect of human Introduction to activity and cognition. In turn, this and the divergence in provision 8 credits [September-March] between the regions of the United Teaching English argument is developed in the light You are given the opportunity to of work on social psychology, Kingdom. The course will also examine a range of theories on as Foreign Language communities of practice, culture explore the different curriculum culture and identity drawn from a to Adults and identity. approaches and types of provision range of disciplines. The particular for under-eights in Europe, Scandinavia, New Zealand and focus of this course is the use of ED52031A autobiography and life histories as Perspectives on Current North America. The course will methods for exploring cultures and evaluate critically the reliability, 4 credits [September-December] validity and significance of identities. The aim of doing this is to 8 credits [September-March] Educational Policy provide you with the theoretical instruments designed as measures lens through which to investigate You are introduced to the theoretical ED53020B of quality in international studies of complex issues – such as diaspora, background to Second Language early childhood services. You will syncretism, masculinities and Learning with particular reference 4 credits [September-December] be able to reflect on the impact 8 credits [September-March] femininities – which are central to to English. You develop an overview of theory and practice on the of how language operates, and provision of services for under- the notions of culture and identity. You will explore issues that have of learning and teaching theory eight’s in a range of contexts, The process of identity construction been touched on in previous and how it is related to the and able to make an informed is explored in relation to education modules such as consumer choice classroom, with particular reference argument for a set of guiding policy and practice, and the course in education and the involvement to communicative and post- principles for provision for also addresses the interrelationship of the private sector. Taking the communicative approaches under-eights in one country between the child’s identity and 1988 Education Reform Act as a to teaching. within or outside the UK. the culture of the school. starting point, the course will examine policies that reflect particular dominant discourses New Media Technologies Studies in Exclusion which have been taken up by and Learning and Inclusion people in contested and contradictory ways. Typical areas of focus will be educational ED52034A ED52026A leadership, initial teacher 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] education, school choice, the 8 credits [September-March] 8 credits [September-March] teaching of creationism in science, and special educational needs. You study how movies are made, This course takes a case study These will be in the English context focusing on all the different aspects approach to key theoretical ideas in but will include some international which combine to create the inclusion and exclusion, with a focus comparative perspectives. viewer’s experience. You spend on the experiences of young people. time working in a group to create You explore the context of inclusion
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ED53024A ED53028A
4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] 8 credits [September-March] 8 credits [September-March]
You will experience sustained You explore the education policy practice in art production in an of the European Union and other agreed area of personal interest. transnational organisations, and Through first-hand experience you compare patterns of educational will develop your own practice provision in different countries, within the social context of studio including England, France, Spain, working. Seminar explorations of Germany and Italy: is education critical theory will inform the in these countries increasingly interpretations undertaken coming to follow a common model, or are national differences still important? You explore the Education and relationship between education and economic and social change, Empowerment: and consider the impact of various Creating Change forms of privatisation on national education systems, the conflicts ED53026A surrounding the implementation of new models of policy, and the 4 credits [September-December] positions taken by ‘social actors’ 8 credits [September-March] such as student and youth movements, and educational You will examine both macro and trade unions. micro level policies and practices that can lead to educational empowerment. The main areas of focus will be the ‘funds of knowledge’ that are engendered by the family and its role in supporting learners; education in citizenship and social justice which has brought awareness of rights (and responsibilities) and the complexities of concepts such as identity, community and belonging. Initiatives such as restorative justice in schools will also be examined and the encouragement of pupil voice that can be utilised to facilitate access and engagement with education.
Visit www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Educational Studies 43 44 Programmes > English and Comparative Literature In the Summer term you can choose to do 2 additional credits Year 1 English and of project work related to courses studied in the Spring term. This Explorations Comparative Literature work is negotiated individual study supported by some tutorial in Literature The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths guidance. You should inform your combines research strengths in English Studies and European Studies. home university and the EN51001A Consequently, staff in the Department are able to share their research International Partnerships and interests in programmes spanning English, European and American Developments Team at Goldsmiths 4 credits [September-December] literatures. Staff are working on diverse topics such as literature and of the agreed topic once it has 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] politics, literature and photography, satire, and biographical and been confirmed. Once you have autobiographical writings. decided on topics you are You are introduced to a wide range interested in studying, your of works of poetry, prose and drama, Undergraduate year Description International Liaison tutor can help from Homer (in translation) through make the appropriate arrangements to late 20th-century writing. Close Year 1 a course for which you do not need for tutorial guidance. You should aim reading in seminars supports a series any previous experience to confirm these details by week 6 of background and critical lectures. of the Spring term. Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience The following is a list of in this area or have already followed a similar Approaches to Text academic course representative courses offered by the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Most, EN51002A Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the though not all, will be offered in practical data or a willingness to engage 2011-12. In addition to the full-year 4 credits [September-December] in responsible individual study under courses listed, the Department 4 credits [January-March] tutorial guidance 2 credits [April-June] also offers a number of half-year courses at Year 3 level. Different This is an introduction to the skills subjects are addressed from required in the analysis of literary year to year, and the schedule texts. Through a series of London has four UNESCO for 2012-13 will not be set until interrelated lectures and seminars, the spring of 2012. Half-courses you explore different ways of offered in recent sessions understanding what a ‘text’ is, what (though not in the summer significance it might have, and what World Heritage Sites: term, April-June) have included: aspects of a text are interesting or Language and Gender useful to investigate. (EN53362A), The Outsider in Shakespeare (EN53376A), Writing Maritime Greenwich, Kew the European City (EN53379A), The Classic Fairy Tale (EN53381A), The Short Story and American Crime Fiction (EN53383A). Visit www.gold.ac.uk/ EN51004A Gardens, the Tower of studyabroad for up-to-date information on available courses. 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] London, and the Palace See also Professional and Community Education: Cultural You study short stories and tales and Social Studies (page 63) for from various literatures and periods. other courses in this subject. You examine examples of the of Westminster. Language Proficiency courses importance and development of the (English, French, Spanish) are genre through the study of texts on pages 51. taken from different national traditions. You also study classical sub-genres such as the tale of terror; consider the uses of the short story in diverse areas of 20th-century literature; undertake single-author studies of masters of the short story such as Edgar Allan Poe and Jorge Luis Borges; and evaluate examples of how to analyse short narrative texts.
Engaging Poetry
EN51007B
4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June]
This course introduces a range of poetic forms in English from the early modern period to the present. Chronological issues blend with
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > English and Comparative Literature 45 more individualised approaches to the reading and understanding of Old English Literature of the Drama and poetry. The course consolidates English Renaissance Transgression. your engagement with both the EN52209A From Prometheus critical and practical appreciation EN52227A of poetry and is supported by the 4 credits [September-December] to Faust 4 credits [January-March] participation of the Department’s 4 credits [September-December] creative practitioners. 4 credits [January-March] EN52273C This is an introduction to the 2 credits [April-June] language and literature of the 4 credits [September-December] Anglo-Saxons, with consideration An introduction to multiple forms 4 credits [January-March] Year 2 of a variety of themes and genres, of writing, from the mid-16th to the including history, lyric, mythology, late 17th century, providing detailed We will examine a selection of poetic elegy and romance. analysis of selected texts considered dramatic text which not only Literature of the Later in their social and intellectual negotiate the significance of Middle Ages: Society contexts. Topics of special interest conflicts between protagonists and the Individual Shakespeare include Elizabethan lyric poetry, (male and female) and the divine Renaissance humanism, non- or the state in ways that are typical of key stages in the European EN52211A Shakespearean drama, metaphysical EN52201A poets, and the Civil War. history of ideas, but also handle the attempts by women to achieve 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [January-March] independence of spirit and 2 credits [April-June] Varieties of English freedom of action in patriarchal An introduction to English literature societies. of the later Middle Ages within a A chronological exploration of broad historical and cultural context. Shakespeare’s works, studied EN52230A Selected texts are used to map shifts through close reading of the texts. Year 3 Reference is made to the works’ 4 credits [September-December] in literary technique, genre, attitudes 4 credits [January-March] to women, and the uses of Arthurian social and intellectual contexts, myth. Literary topics include the and comparisons are developed You explore how and why language Modern nature of allegory and satire, and between different works and is used differently in a variety of American Fiction the beast fable as genre. groups of works. contexts. You examine language in relation to region, gender, ethnicity, EN53308A age and social class. You study The Victorians Restoration and various examples of spoken and 4 credits [September-December] Eighteenth-Century written language, and examine the 4 credits [January-March] role of literature and the media in 2 credits [April-June] EN52203A Literature representing language variation. A study of selected works from the 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] EN52225A 1930s to the present, considered in 2 credits [April-June] Inventing the Nation: their historical and cultural contexts. 4 credits [September-December] The course includes some of the You study typical literary forms and 4 credits [January-March] American Literature recognised landmarks of American leading writers of the Victorian in the Mid-19th Century fiction and drama, along with more period (1837-1901). Major issues This course covers the prose, poetry ‘marginal’ works, reflecting the of the period include the condition and drama of the Restoration and diverse voices of American cultures EN52238B of England, faith and doubt, social eighteenth century, with emphasis and subcultures. change and reform, and the conflict on the Restoration comic stage, English satire in prose and verse, 4 credits [September-December] between science and religious faith. 4 credits [January-March] the rise of the novel, and the poetry You consider these through works 2 credits [April-June] Aspects of the Novel by Brontë, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy of nature and imagination. Writers and others. include Behn, Rochester, Swift, The main aim of this course is to Pope, Fielding and Sterne. cover one of the most productive EN53312B and significant periods in American 4 credits [September-December] literature. Major authors of the Moderns 4 credits [January-March] Sensibility and period are situated in the context Romanticism: of key themes in political, social, You discuss selected novelists from EN52204A intellectual and cultural history. Cervantes to Calvino, and study Revolutions in You look at some of the important representative landmarks of realism 4 credits [September-December] intellectual and literary movements 4 credits [January-March] Writing and Society as well as later modernist and 2 credits [April-June] of the period, including extended postmodernist novels. You study of Transcendentalism, slave EN52226A consider theoretical problems of The course develops your literature by both black and white narrative voice, strategy, character understanding of the literature and 4 credits [September-December] writers, women’s writing and and mimesis. culture of the Modern period from 4 credits [January-March] literature of the West. 1920, and strengthens your abilities 2 credits [April-June] in literary analysis. Through a close reading of representative texts you You explore representative poems, explore the historical and critical novels and non-fictional prose of contexts within which modern the late 18th and early 19th centuries, writers strove to ‘make it new’ involving the literature of Sensibility, in poetry, fiction and drama. the Gothic novel, Romantic poetry and its contemporary criticism.
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 46 Programmes > English and Comparative Literature of the Second World War; a period Caribbean that saw mass immigration and Studies in Literature Language Women Writers urban growth, the crash of 1929 and Film and the Media and the Great Depression. Through EN53317A a selection of poetry and fiction, the EN53344A EN53371A course traces some major themes: 4 credits [September-December] the literary and cultural move from 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] Naturalism to Modernism, the 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] Harlem Renaissance, American 2 credits [April-June] 2 credits [April-June] Feminism, Expatriate writers and You focus on the work of the cult of the Lost Generation, You explore the close relationship This course introduces you to a Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean Regionalism, Documentarism and between literature and film in the semiotic approach to the analysis of women writers. By way of the emergence of an American 20th century. You study literature media texts, and to a multi-modal comparison you also refer to the poetic vernacular. The course is and film from a range of perspective on the analysis of writings of black women around lecture- and seminar-based; perspectives, both separately and communication. You compare and the world. In your coursework you lectures examine the relation of in relation to each other, with an analyse media and literary genres. can choose to develop this visual arts, music and cinema to emphasis on cultural and historical The course develops your critical comparison with a non-Caribbean literature of the period. criticism. You also examine the awareness of a variety of linguistic black or other ethnic minority particular characteristics of techniques for analysing media woman writer. both literature and film and the discourse types and genres, and cross-connections between them enables you particularly to Postcolonial Literatures through a detailed study of selected understand the relationship in Oedipus: Myths, in English poems, plays, essays, experimental specific media discourses/genres films, and feature films. Texts between text and context. Tragedies and Theories are drawn from a range of EN53342A national literatures and cinemas. EN53318A 4 credits [September-December] Foreign literary texts are studied English Renaissance 4 credits [January-March] in translation. 4 credits [September-December] Theatre 4 credits [January-March] An analysis of the literature and 2 credits [April-June] culture produced in the aftermath Modernism and Drama EN53384A of, and in response to, the end of This course explores the myths, European colonialism. You address (1880-1930) 4 credits [September-December] dramas and theories surrounding representations of colonialism and 4 credits [January-March] Oedipus and Antigone. The first decolonisation, and the experience 2 credits [April-June] term is devoted to versions of the EN53345A of postcolonial societies and Oedipus myth produced in classical Beginning with the court comedies diasporic peoples. Attention is paid 4 credits [September-December] Greece and Rome and in England of John Lyly and the public theatre to the issues of form, ethnicity, 4 credits [January-March] before the 20th century; the second plays of Christopher Marlowe, class and gender in postcolonial 2 credits [April-June] term focuses on post-Freudian the course carries through to the literatures, the claims of nativist adaptations of the legend in the Whilst modernist drama on the Jacobean and Caroline playwrights ideologies and cosmopolitan 20th century, on stage and screen. European continent is characterised (John Webster, John Ford) and theories of ‘hybridity’. by anti-realist tendencies, modern the closing of the theatres in English drama continues the 1642. Attention will be given Modern Poetry tradition of Realism. The course to contextual matters – the Literature in Question: explores the main contrasts and playhouses, companies, audiences, affinities between these modernist court – as well as to close analysis EN53333A Writing since World War II and realist trends, focusing in the of language. 4 credits [September-December] Autumn term on varieties of 4 credits [January-March] modernist drama, and in the 2 credits [April-June] EN53343A Spring term on major innovative Shakespeare and approaches to Realism from Modern Poetry in Britain and 4 credits [September-December] 1880-1930. Through a close reading the Early Modern America traces the diverse course 4 credits [January-March] of representative texts, you are 2 credits [April-June] of post-war poetries from these introduced to a range of dramatic EN53385A countries. The first term focuses on You study issues explored by forms and techniques of the period. 4 credits [September-December] Britain and includes study of Auden, post-war literature, starting from Examples from expressionist film Larkin, Hughes, Heaney, Dunn, acquaint you with questions 4 credits [January-March] the debate initiated by Sartre’s 2 credits [April-June] McGuckian, Nichols, Muldoon, Duffy ‘What is Literature?’ and looking related to performance, stage set, and Johnson. The second term at literary and theoretical texts. and lighting. Looks at the role and development focuses on America and includes You discuss how the role, scope of major early modern thinkers Williams, Stein, McKay, Olsen, and status of literature have been and writers within the context of Creeley, Ginsberg, O’Hara, Ashbery, re-assessed within literary texts and Decadence Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Plath, Baraka, and Hejinian. by other disciplines. The course Drawing on a range of philosophy, addresses the relationships between EN53349B literature, religious writing and literature and philosophy, literature political thought, we explore The Emergence of and ethics, literature and history, 4 credits [September-December] the ways in which Shakespeare Modern America: literature and science; it studies how 4 credits [January-March] stages some of the major concerns generic boundaries and literary of his day within the context of American Literature forms come under pressure and This course explores the literature intellectual innovations across 1890-1940 are re-defined; and it discusses of decadence in France and Europe c1400-1600. authenticity, individual and national England in the 19th century. The identity, the role and status of principal themes of decadence – EN53339A language, the literary canon and degeneration, disease, sex, death 4 credits [September-December] the possibility of originality, and – are explored in the work of 4 credits [January-March] the relationship between gender various writers, and understood 2 credits [April-June] and writing. in the context of contemporary cultural anxieties and controversies. Covers the period from the closing of the frontier in America to the eve
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > History 47 Most of our Year 2 and 3 courses 4 credits [January-March] run in alternate years, and their 6 credits [January-June] History availability depends on staff commitments. The primary purpose of this course is to explore the complex social, cultural and political history of The History Department fosters enthusiasm for the study of history Years 2 and 3: full units Africa through the prism of illness through a focus on encounters and exploration, ideas and identities. Our and healing. From investigating emphasis on encounters addresses the interplay of religious, political and Italy Since 1870 colonial attempts at preventing cultural differences across time and place. We use innovative, malaria and sleeping sickness to interdisciplinary approaches to encourage the exploration of issues, HT52059A/HT53059A exploring the social and economic controversies, and themes rather than chronological periods. By impact of the current HIV/AIDS examining the development of ideas and identities, we draw upon the 4 credits [September-December] epidemic, this course uses case past to illuminate the conflicts and challenges of modern life. 8 credits [September-March] studies from Africa in order to 4 credits [January-March] highlight various aspects of the History at Goldsmiths promotes intellectual curiosity and independent 6 credits [January-June] history of infectious diseases and of health in African society. critical thinking. We offer flexible and challenging programmes of study Covers the political, social and, at undergraduate level featuring carefully developed teaching invigorated The focus of this course is not to a lesser extent, economic on disease itself but rather on by current research. The geographical range of our courses includes Asia, history of Italy from unification to Africa, Eastern and Western Europe,and the Middle East. how disease and health were the present. The manner in which understood and managed, and unification occurred – primarily by how these reveal the history of Description Undergraduate year war and diplomacy rather than a place and a people. through popular insurgency – Year 1 a course for which you do not need shaped the course of the nation any previous experience state’s subsequent history. This history was marked by a wide Heresy, the Occult and Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience gap between the masses and the the Millennium in Early in this area or have already followed a similar political elite, so an emphasis will academic course be placed on popular movements Modern Europe and the subaltern classes. The HT52079A/HT53079A variety of political regimes that Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the practical data or a willingness to engage ruled Italy over this period dictates 4 credits [September-December] in responsible individual study under a broadly chronological treatment. 8 credits [September-March] tutorial guidance However, topics such as Church/ 4 credits [January-March] State relations, the changing role 6 credits [January-June] of women and the enduring influence of the Mafia will be The course examines collective Key investigated in a more thematic and individual thoughts ordinarily fashion considered to be outside the VO Almost all of the courses available to Study Abroad parameters of the doctrines of the students are taught and integrated alongside full established church from 1500 to degree students. Courses marked with this symbol 1750. Subjects include: the Bible, are taught to Study Abroad students only The Crusades Apocrypha and extra-canonical texts; the Apocalypse; Prophecy; HT52061A/HT53061A Heresy and Blasphemy; Judaism and Islam; Witchcraft; the theology 4 credits [September-December] of the ancients; Magic; Astrology; 8 credits [September-March] Alchemy; Angels; Numerology; 4 credits [January-March] 6 credits [January-June] Hermetism, Gnosticism and Neoplatonism; Kabbalah; Christian In this course you will study the mysticism. You consider the cultural, religious and military conceptual and ideological conflicts between Christian relationships between belief and Western Europe and the Islamic authority, between heterodoxy world of the middle ages. You will and orthodoxy, and between social look at primary sources from the power and cultural change. You European and the Arabic tradition also look at the central issues of to analyse how and why these how historians have understood conflicts were so significant in and interpreted religion and the middle ages, and you will religious change. discuss how each ‘side’ in this longstanding conflict viewed its opponents. You will also look at France since 1870: the modern historiography of the crusades, to see how historians in Fascism, Communism the modern world have dealt with and Democracy such concepts as holy war, justification of violence, and HT52098A/HT53098A religious persecution. 4 credits [September-December] 8 credits [September-March] 4 credits [January-March] Health, Healing 6 credits [January-June] and Illness in Africa Covers the political, social and to a lesser extent, economic HT52076A/HT53076A history of France from 1870 to the present. Throughout this 4 credits [September-December] period, French politics and society 8 credits [September-March]
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 48 Programmes > History have been characterised by deep collaboration in the Second World the political economy of the divisions originating from the clash War; communist takeover; colonial state, ideologies of Visual and Material between revolutionaries and Tito-Stalin conflict of 1948; colonial governance, and the Culture in Early counter-revolutionaries in the Yugoslav road to socialism; social and cultural histories of Modern Europe 1790s. You will examine the extent dissent and opposition; cultural the governed. to which these divisions reflected developments during socialism; the gulf between the towns and political and economic crisis of HT52109A/HT53109A the countryside. In the 20th the 1980s; disintegration and Medieval 4 credits [September-December] century the older divisions were wars of the 1990s; international 8 credits [September-March] overlaid by those between a more intervention. Throughout the Islamic Empires 4 credits [January-March] class-based right and left, which course, you will be encouraged 2 credits [April-June] in the wake of the First World War to think about the centrality of HT52104B/HT53104B and the Russian revolution, often images and artefacts to the This course examines the visual 4 credits [September-December] and material culture of Europe took the form of Fascism and making of history and develop 8 credits [September-March] Communism. These movements critical approaches to past and 4 credits [January-March] between 1450 and 1700. It will be given particular attention. present. 6 credits [January-June] investigates the role of images and artefacts in art and in daily This course examines the history life focusing on the complex ways Germany since 1870: Mediterranean of Islam as it spread across Arabia in which they acquired meanings to Persia and India in the east, from their producers and Nationalism Versus Encounters: Venice and through the Levant to the outskirts consumers. Considering paintings Democracy the Ottoman Empire of Vienna in the north and through and architecture along with North Africa to Spain in the west. tapestries, prints, everyday You begin by exploring the high furnishings, clothing and food, the HT52099A/HT53099A HT52102B/HT53102B point of Islamic expansion under course explores visual and material 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] the Umayyad and Abbasid empires objects in the context in which 8 credits [September-March] 8 credits [September-March] and then focus on the period of they were created, and looks at the 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [January-March] transition and fragmentation that social relationships between their 6 credits [January-June] 6 credits [January-June] followed. Topics include the makers, sponsors and users. The proliferation of different sects and course offers an introduction to Covers the political, social and to Examines the connected history of the two most powerful states branches of Islam as well as a survey the theories and methods of visual a lesser extent, economic history of the major dynasties including and material culture, and addresses of Germany from 1870. You pay in the early modern Eastern Mediterranean, the Venetian and Safavid Persia; Mughal India; a wide range of issues including particular attention to the Weimar Al-Andalus and Spain and the the marketplace and the birth of Republic, the German Revolution of the Ottoman Empires, from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 Ottoman Empire. Finally, we consumer culture; religion, politics. 1918, the Social Democratic and consider the contribution of Communist parties between 1918 to the occupation of Venice by Napoleon in 1797. You will focus Islamic thought and philosophy and 1933, and the extent to which to the modern world. division on the left paved the way on the Republic of Venice and Medieval Monsters: for Hitler. You investigate the Nazi the complex web of its economic, Foreigners and Other state and the relative importance political and cultural relations with Oddities in the Medieval of the party, state bureaucracy, the the Ottomans. Through a range Nationalism, Democracy armed forces, big business, the SS, of textual and visual sources, and Dictatorship Imagination and Hitler himself in determining the you explore a variety of topics: in 20th-Century policies of the Third Reich. You the Venetian-Ottoman wars; the Code to be confirmed circulation of people, goods and Eastern Europe evaluate the impact of defeat in 4 credits [September-December] the Second World War, and the ideas; cultural and artistic transaction; religious coexistence 8 credits [September-March] outbreak of the Cold War and HT52106A/HT53106A 4 credits [January-March] the extent to which the Federal and antagonism; the formation 6 credits [January-June] Republic and the GDR were of pre-modern identities; the 4 credits [September-December] moulded by external factors. genealogies of orientalism. 8 credits [September-March] In this course you will study 4 credits [January-March] the development of a European 6 credits [January-June] identity in the middle ages, Modern South Asia, Introduces some of the main and the way that identity was Yugoslavia: History constructed in opposition to a and Disintegration 1857-Present debates about the origins of nations and nationalism in the variety of ‘others’, internal and external. You will explore the HT52101A/HT53101A HT52103A/HT53103A 19th century in Eastern Europe. You discuss the meanings and relations between western 4 credits [September-December] definitions of Eastern Europe and Christian Europe and outsiders 4 credits [September-December] including Vikings, Magyars, Arabs 8 credits [September-March] 8 credits [September-March] study the main developments in 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [January-March] and Turks, as well as mythical 6 credits [January-June] the 20th century: the First World 6 credits [January-June] War and post-war settlements; the outsiders, using a variety of historical and fictional sources, This course focuses on a small emergence of ‘New Europe’ in the This course examines the history 1920s; failure of democracy and including visual materials. You will of Yugoslavia and former Yugoslav but significant period in the be encouraged to visit Galleries history of South Asia: the history rise of dictatorships in the interwar peoples and places the recent period; occupation, resistance and and museums in London as an wars in a historical context. of colonialism on the subcontinent important contribution to your and the subsequent creation of collaboration in the Second World You will be introduced to the War; the Holocaust; Communist research. background of the medieval three independent nation-states: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. takeovers in the aftermath of the history of the region and the war; Tito-Soviet split; Hungarian legacy of the medieval states. You will have the opportunity to engage in some of the revolution; Soviet invasion of You will investigate the emergence Czechoslovakia; Solidarity; of South Slav nationalisms in historigraphic literature and assess the contentious debates Perestroika and Glasnost; the 19th century including the revolutions of 1989 and fall of Yugoslav Idea; the First World concerning periodisation, religious and cultural identities and the communism; disintegration and War and creation of Yugoslavia; war in Yugoslavia; political, political and cultural history of nature of nationalism in a colonial and post-colonial context. You economic and social transition; the interwar Yugoslav kingdom; EU enlargement. occupation, resistance and will address questions regarding
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > History 49 on race and identity, and the documents, written by men and Years 2 and 3: half units relationship between religion, women, placing them in their The Birth and Rebirth resistance and the state. specific cultural contexts and of Yugoslavia, 1918-1948 Half units run either from considering different forms of September-December or writing as historical evidence. HT52118A/HT53118A January-March. Most of our Early Modern Year 2 and 3 courses run 4 credits [September-December] or 4 credits [January-March] in alternate years, and their European Philosophy London History availability depends on staff Examines history of Yugoslavia commitments. HT52087A/HT53087A HT52114A/B/HT53114A/B between its unification in 1918 4 credits [September-December] Autumn (A) and Spring (B) and its re-emergence as an or 4 credits [January-March] independent state following Imagining Africa: 4 credits [September-December] the Second World War and Ideology, Identity The course examines a rich 4 credits [January-March] the Tito-Stalin split. It begins period of philosophic thought 6 credits [January-June] by providing a background 2 credits [May-June] and Text in Africa in European history through the to the medieval history of and the Diaspora work of the ideas and arguments VO the region. Other main topics of these philosophers and see how include: emergence of South Slav HT52082A/HT53082A they engaged with the important Provides an introduction to nationalisms in the nineteenth debates of their day. In addition, the cultural and social history of century; the Balkan Wars, the 4 credits [September-December] students will gain an awareness London. Through the exploration First World War and creation of or 4 credits [January-March] of how early modern European of primary and secondary source Yugoslavia as the Kingdom of philosophy is both a continuation Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; the This course considers how ideas material, along with offsite visits, and a departure from earlier international recognition at the of Africa (its people, environment, you will gain an understanding schools of thought, as well as Paris Peace Conference; political history) were expressed through of the development of the of how modern scholars have and cultural history of the interwar the writings of both prominent and historiography of the city. By engaged with these important Yugoslav kingdom; the Croatian lesser-known figures in Africa and focusing upon contemporary texts. Question; occupation, resistance the diaspora. Through examination understandings of London and collaboration in the Second of texts – ranging from slave through the interrogation of World War; communist takeover; narratives to autobiographies, contemporary writings and Tito-Stalin conflict of 1948. speeches, essays and novels – London’s History documents, you will be able to you explore how those ideas Through Literature assess the relationship between took shape within their particular these and current perceptions of the urban environment. A key historical and regional contexts. HT52089A/HT53089A Health and Empire: You also consider how particular aspect is the idea of simultaneity: Disease, Medicine and forms of writing lent themselves 4 credits [September-December] that past and present London to particular expressions of or 4 credits [January-March] and Londoners develop, grow Race in Colonial Africa identity, race and place. and are built on top and alongside The course examines London’s each other. You will gain an Code to be confirmed history through the work of understanding of this idea through writers who have lived in London, the exploration of the city with 4 credits [September-December] ‘Of Revelation and who have written about the city, site-specific visits. or 4 credits [January-March] or who have used London as Revolution’: A Social This course is primarily concerned the background or setting for with the colonial period, from and Political History their work. As well as secondary Aspects of the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. of Twentieth Century literature on the city’s develop- You will look at indigenous ment, there will be a range of Modern South Asia South Africa perceptions of illness as a way primary texts from Shakespeare of examining African society in to Orwell. By the end of term, HT52117A/HT53117A HT52083A/HT53083A historical perspective, in particular students will have a good 4 credits [September-December] the relationship between belief 4 credits [September-December] knowledge of London’s history, or 4 credits [January-March] systems and health. You will or 4 credits [January-March] and appreciation of the works of consider 18th- and 19th-century a number of important writers, This course provides an overview traveller and missionary accounts This course examines key social, a sense of different historical of the history of formal colonial of disease in order to understand economic and political periods, and a knowledge of the rule in India, from the time of the how Europeans first perceived developments in the history of variety of locations that go to revolt of 1857 to the transfer of Africa. You will look at colonial 20th century South Africa. make up the textual map of power and the establishment of attempts at disease control as Beginning with an analysis of the London. the two independent states of a window onto larger colonial mining industry at the turn of the India and Pakistan in 1947. Some 20th century, this course traces the efforts to segregate and control key topics include responses to the populace. You will examine evolution of the labour migrant colonial rule, including religious system, the development of Gender in Text how Western biomedicine revivalism; rise of communalism; intersected, and sometimes racial segregation and its and History the emergence of radical politics eventual transformation into clashed with, African healing 18th-19th Centuries in the 1930s and its impact on the practices as a way of uncovering the system known as apartheid, freedom movement; the Quit India the rise of Afrikaner and African emerging models of cultural HT52100B/HT53100B Movement and Partition. We will adaptation and political change. nationalism, and the eventual address questions regarding the collapse of apartheid in 1994. 4 credits [September-December] political economy of the colonial or 4 credits [January-March] You will also consider the transition state, ideologies of colonial to democracy, and assess the governance, and the social and An introduction to some of the challenges and triumphs of the cultural histories of the governed. ‘new South Africa’. You examine major developments in thinking the transformation of South about gender and the construction African society in the context of masculinities and femininities of its political history, focusing on between the late-eighteenth and the role of urbanization, changing late-nineteenth centuries. We will gender roles and household examine predominantly British structures, the effect of apartheid literary texts and historical
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 50 Programmes > Languages There are several routes, which are designed to support students at Languages different levels of English proficiency:
TOEFL (IBT) IELTS English course
65 5.0 April-September + study abroad period English Language The Centre for English Language and Academic Writing (CELAW) at Goldsmiths has more than 20 years’ experience in teaching English for 72 5.5 May-September + study abroad period Academic Purposes to both international and UK students. Whatever your standard of English and academic level (undergraduate or postgraduate), we provide programmes and courses which will help you 81 6.0 July-September + study abroad period reach the point where you can operate with confidence in the UK university system as a successful and independent student. The study abroad period that follows your English course can be either: A wide variety of media sources, up-to-date topics and methodologies, and sophisticated language-learning facilities are used to deliver —a full year the teaching. —September-December —September-March Other languages —January-March Languages other than English at Goldsmiths are taught by our —January-June. Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE). The Goldsmiths Pre-sessional Programme offers the best possible preparation for study at Goldsmiths, or on any other degree that focuses Undergraduate year Description on culture, society or the arts. The course is unique because it not only Year 1 a course for which you do not need covers the key academic English language skills – such as listening to any previous experience lectures, note taking, guidance in academic writing and reading – but does so by focusing on the kind of academic content you are likely to meet on your degree. In Phases 3 and 4, for instance, there is a series of Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience lectures on key contemporary postmodern thinkers such as Foucault, in this area or have already followed a similar Baudrillard, and Butler, whose work features in a number of different academic course degrees. There is also a choice of second lecture, either Contemporary Art History or Film Studies. At the end of the pre-sessional, you write an Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the extended academic essay which combines theory and analysis, and practical data or a willingness to engage provides excellent training for your future studies. in responsible individual study under tutorial guidance The focus on content means that you will learn not only general academic English, but also key vocabulary and concepts at the same level of complexity as on a degree. We therefore strongly recommended that international students attend the Pre-sessional even if they have already Study Abroad plus English obtained the language entrance requirements for their degree. The for non-native speakers Pre-sessional will also familiarise you with Goldsmiths and with how you are expected to behave in a British academic context – for example, This programme is an ideal option if you come from a country where speaking in seminars and interacting with academic staff. the academic year begins in April or May. You can take up to six months of intensive English Language study on the Goldsmiths Pre-sessional Work on degree programmes is intensive, so it is a very good idea to take Programme before entrance to our academic courses which start the Pre-sessional Programme before you start. Afterwards it is difficult to in September. learn your subject and improve your English at the same time!
Study Abroad plus English has three main aims: The Pre-sessional is hard work, but you will also have fun, make friends and learn a lot. As one previous student commented: “It’s so much more — To enable you to develop your knowledge and command of English so than just a language course!” To get more of an idea of what we do, visit that you will be well equipped to follow your academic courses in the Centre’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), at https://learn.gold. English, and to socialise with other students. ac.uk, where you will find course outlines, typical lecture content and an example of a weekly timetable. — To provide you with an exciting opportunity to study academic subjects of your choice in classes with European and other international students. Key features of the programme: — Two academic lectures per week in phases 3 & 4 (from July), in subjects — To introduce you to the study skills required by British university which are directly relevant to studying at Goldsmiths. students, such as note-taking and seminar preparation. — Training in key academic skills such as listening to lectures and note-taking, academic reading, discussing academic topics and giving This programme goes further than just developing your English Language academic presentations. skills by building your understanding of British culture before beginning a — Training and practice in writing academic essays, including how to compile programme of study in the Autumn Term. The programme is intended for a bibliography, reference properly and avoid plagiarism. Please note that students with a broad interest in contemporary cultural studies, whose we teach you how to write academic essays in the style of Goldsmiths first language is not English. and the University of London, not the 250-word IELTS style of essay. —Language development classes to improve your grammar and academic vocabulary. — Regular tutorials with a personal tutor who will monitor your progress, and give advice on how to make improvements. —Familiarisation with all aspects of university life and UK culture in general. — Students with conditional offers who successfully complete the Pre-sessional move automatically on to their chosen degree at Goldsmiths.
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Languages 51 improve speaking, reading, writing Arabic and listening skills. Choose this Evening level if you have a recent GCSE in language courses Level 1 Beginners French. [Wednesday evenings].
AR41030A Level 4 Goldsmiths level ‘Common European Description 4 credits [September-December] Framework of 4 credits [January-March] Reference for FR41004A Languages’ level This course is ideal for beginners. 4 credits [September-December] You’ll learn to introduce yourself, 4 credits [January-March] and to give and understand basic Level 1 A1-A2 Beginner information in everyday Arabic, Higher intermediate level. as well as starting to master This is a course for those who the Arabic script. An excellent have good French with several Level 2 A2-B1 Elementary opportunity to take up this rich years’ experience, and want rusty GCSE and fascinating language, which is to consolidate and gain more spoken by more than 150 million fluency. Choose this level if you people across many countries, and have a recent A-level in French Level 3 B1-B2 Intermediate embedded in a culture and religion or higher studies. [Wednesday recent good GCSE pass/ A- or AS-level that are so important to our evenings]. 21st-century world. [Thursday Level 4 C1 Higher intermediate/advanced evenings]. recent good A-level pass German French Level 5 C2 Advanced/fluent speaker Level 1 Beginners
Level 1 Beginners GR41001A
FR41001A 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] Beginners. This level is for you if you are just starting out, or For near beginners. This level have just a few basic phrases is for you if you are starting of the language. You’ll learn to out, or have just a few basic introduce yourself, and to give phrases of French. You’ll learn to and understand basic information, introduce yourself, and to give and get to grips with basic and understand basic information, German grammar through a as well as building up your basic fun, communicative approach. French grammar in a lively and You’ll also get some insight interactive way. [Wednesday into German-speaking culture. evenings]. [Tuesday evenings].
Level 2 Italian
FR41002A Level 1 Beginners 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] IT41001A
Elementary to Pre-Intermediate 4 credits [September-December] level. This is for you if you have 4 credits [January-March] studied the basics of French, or are very rusty (eg. studied for GCSE Beginners. This level is for you if years ago). You’ll consolidate your you are just starting out, or have grammar and your basic language just a few basic phrases of Italian. skills, plus learn more about French You’ll learn to introduce yourself, culture. [Thursday evenings]. and to give and understand basic information, as well as learning something more about this wonderful country and its Level 3 culture. [Tuesday evenings].
FR41003A
4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March]
Intermediate level. This is for you if you have already studied French for a couple of years and are fairly confident of your basic verb tenses. You’ll gain confidence and
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 52 Programmes > Languages Japanese Spanish
Level 1 Beginners Level 1 Beginners
JP41001A SA41101A
4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [January-March] Using a communicative approach to Japanese, this ever-popular For complete beginners or near- course is for complete beginners. beginners. This level is for you if You’ll learn the basic Hiragana you are just starting out, or have characters as well as working on just a few basic Spanish phrases, speaking and listening skills, and and have decided that it’s time you Japanese grammar. You’ll also find got closer acquainted with this rich out how the Japanese language and eloquent language, spoken connects with Japanese culture. by around 400 million people [Thursday evenings]. worldwide. Somewhere near you right now, Spanish is being spoken! You’ll learn to introduce yourself, Mandarin Chinese and to give and understand basic information, as you build up your basic Spanish in a lively and Level 1 Beginners interactive way. [Tuesday evenings].
CH41001A Level 2 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] SA41102A
A course in Mandarin Chinese 4 credits [September-December] for complete beginners. More 4 credits [January-March] and more people are taking up this challenging but fascinating Elementary to Pre-Intermediate language intimately linked with a level. This course is for you if you culture that has lasted thousands already studied about a year of of years and a country that is now Spanish and have mastered the one of the key players in the 21st basics. You’ll consolidate your century.You’ll learn to introduce grammar and your basic language yourself, and to give and skills, plus learn more about understand basic information, as Spanish and Latin American well as building up your basic cultures. [Tuesday evenings]. knowledge of the script. [Wednesday evenings]. Level 3
Portuguese SA41003A
4 credits [September-December] Level 1 Beginners 4 credits [January-March]
PG41001A Intermediate level. You will have already been speaking Spanish for 4 credits [September-December] a couple of years and be fairly 4 credits [January-March] confident of your basic verb- tenses. You’ll improve speaking, For complete beginners or those reading, writing and listening skills, with just a few phrases. Maybe and gain more confidence in you are particularly interested in expressing yourself and extending Brazil and its amazing and vibrant your understanding of spoken and culture, and in communicating written Spanish. You’ll also be able with Brazilian speakers. Maybe to extend your knowledge of you are more interested in Spanish and Latin American Portugal or one of the other cultures. [Thursday evenings]. countries where Portuguese is spoken. Either way, you’ll soon learn to introduce yourself, and to give and understand basic information, as well as building up your basic grammar in a lively and interactive way. [Wednesday evenings].
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Music 53 Prerequisites: for all Year 2 courses on roots of popular style in US and there is a general prerequisite of European folk music, stressing the Music two years’ college-level study of importance of orality, song form, music. You should have studied interaction/improvisation, modality, both theory and practice. For standard progressions, rhythm and popular music courses you should the role of social processes in Goldsmiths’ Department of Music, with its varied academic interests, be familiar with Jazz and Popular shaping music. Terms two and three active performing tradition, and proximity to London’s resources, offers Music traditions both through focus on the creative concepts a stimulating environment for students. Performance opportunities practical and academic study. For at the heart of 20th-century range from the symphony orchestra and choir to specialist groups for all other courses you should have popular music in the Western contemporary music, jazz and world music; performers and composers paid major attention to the Western world – for example, riffs, repetition, are strongly encouraged to become involved in departmental concerts. Classical tradition and be able to cycle of fifths, fragmentation, The Department has many varied facilities, including fully equipped read and write musical notation. recycling/sampling, lyrics and composer-studios, workstations with music software, a recording studio, use of new technologies. performance analysis equipment, a Recital Room with video recording In the Summer term you can facilities, and a networked computer room with Sibelius music software. choose to do 2 additional credits of project work related to courses Analytical and Undergraduate year Description studied in the Spring term. This work is negotiated individual study Contextual Studies Year 1 a course for which you do not need supported by some tutorial in Pop Music any previous experience guidance. You should inform your home university and the MU51017A International Partnerships and Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience in this area or have already followed a similar Developments Team at Goldsmiths 4 credits [January-March] academic course of the agreed topic once it has been confirmed. When you tell This course looks at three key your International Liaison tutor the issues: the social, cultural and Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the topics you are interested in musical contexts within which practical data or a willingness to engage studying, they can consider music is made; the musical past in responsible individual study under tutorial guidance appropriate tutorial guidance and its legacies (and how we arrangements. You should aim to understand various histories); and confirm these details by week 6 of different approaches to analysis, the Spring term. criticism and writing about music. Key Case studies focus on significant genres and artists in the history PM Department of Professional and Community Year 1 of popular music. You will be Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening encouraged to evaluate the between 6pm and 9pm significance of various artistic Department of developments whilst acquiring an understanding of the conceptual Music courses frameworks and cultural contexts within which such changes have Some of the world’s most been understood. London – the World’s Musical Capital famous albums have been Practical Popular MU51026A Music Studies 4 credits [September-December] produced in London. 4 credits [January-March] MU51018A This course engages you in music 4 credits [September-December] making in London, arguably the 4 credits [January-March] 10 credits [September-June] This includes Abbey Road most active and diverse musical city in the world. You are introduced Practical Popular Music Studies to a range of musical activities, from allows you to develop your practical the O2 Arena to the wealth of skills in the broadest sense via a by the Beatles, recorded musical events on London’s South weekly performance class and Bank, as well as a number of smaller individual vocal/instrumental alternative venues. Visits to events lessons. It provides instruction in at Abbey Road Studios, in the city are discussed and put all areas of practical musicianship in context in seminar groups in the including aural skills, transcription, following week. New course: subject sight-reading and improvisation to validation. as well as ensemble playing and St John’s Wood. performance. You will be given supporting classes in performance Folk and Urban Musics technology (how to use PA, Mics etc) and other issues relating to MU51016A rehearsal, practice and presentation.
4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] 10 credits [September-June]
This course provides a foundation for understanding the key creative elements common in many forms of popular music. Term one focuses
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 54 Programmes > Music computer-based production practices we employ today; [e] Composition and sequencing. You will develop the evidence, investigative methods Year 1 a basic working knowledge and value systems that have induced MU51019A of three software packages, us to construe the musical past in Department of acquiring core skills in computer particular ways. 4 credits [September-December] music and furthering your Professional and 4 credits [January-March] 10 credits [September-June] understanding of its potential Community Education practical applications. You will also Approaches to courses This course allows you to develop have the opportunity to work in an understanding of 20th/21st- a recording studio, developing a 20th-century Music century compositional techniques, knowledge of good practice in this and to apply them in your own environment, including an ability MU51024A Music and Culture original creative work. Creative to collaborate effectively. strategies actively explored include 4 credits [January-March] MU41048A experimental notation, visualisation The aim of this course is to and improvisation. You consider 4 credits [September-December] Tonal Harmony introduce you to the skills you 4 credits [January-March] a range of structural methods as and Form will require, the repertoire you will 2 credits [April-June] evidenced in music from the early encounter and the debates you 20th century onwards (such as PM MU51022A will need to consider when studying serialism, isorhythm, block form, musics of the twentieth century. This course comprises a broad process-based form). You explore Via concrete examples and case 4 credits [September-June] look at music in contemporary a number of techniques with respect studies it introduces the specific culture, and investigates music to pitch (linear/harmonic), rhythm Prerequisite: Some previous knowledge skills required for analysing music, both in terms of style and genre and texture. You work individually of musical theory. engaging in critical reasoning, and as a cultural phenomenon. It on three projects; a set of brief conducting research and presenting focuses mainly on popular music technical experiments, and two The course aims to consolidate written arguments, along with an but includes perspectives on compositions (for duo and small and extend your understanding awareness of the key issues of classical, traditional and global ensemble). You also participate of tonal harmony and to introduce debate in contemporary musicology. music. Through listening, lectures, in a group assessed project. you to historical and analytical The course encourages you to seminars and discussions it explores study of music c1750-c1830, gain an understanding of the music and its cultural processes concentrating on sonata form perspectives, methods and and promotes an understanding Performance and movements and their context. orientations of musicologists. The first half of the course uses of musical expression in a range Critical Listening the music of JS Bach to focus of contemporary societies study of chord identification, and subcultures. MU51020A harmonic progressions, cadences, Popular Music: History, melodic structure and the simple Style, Technique 4 credits [September-December] tonal forms (binary, ternary and Songwriting Workshop 4 credits [January-March] rondo). The second half focuses on 10 credits [September-June] MU51025B the music of the common-practice MU41052A This course seeks to develop not period through a study of sonata 4 credits [September-December] only practical performance skills form and its development from 4 credits [September-December] but also critical listening and Haydn to Beethoven. Issues Through discussion of issues related 4 credits [January-March] interpersonal skills. It begins covered include the understanding to the performance, recording, 2 credits [April-June] with four weeks of lectures on of formal, thematic and tonal production, composition and PM performance-related issues structures in sonata form, and their documentation of Western popular relationship to theoretical and music, this course aims to enhance (‘performance anxiety’, ‘critical A workshop for aspiring and more listening’ etc). You are given the cultural conceptions of the nature critical listening skills. It aims to and meaning of the form. provide a foundation for skills and seasoned songwriters wanting to opportunity for a short solo learn more about what makes a performance in term 1, with understanding developed later in the programme, introducing topics good song, and wanting to hone feedback provided by the course skills and try out ideas. You will learn leader and the student peer group. Western Art Music: such as: standard song forms and structures; instrumental and vocal about hooks, bridges and middle In term 2 you are divided into Development and 8s, the right mood, tone and groups and use the resources tone, texture and style; approaches Repertoire to recording and production; structure and, most important of available to put on a concert all, how to make your songs ring of chamber music. The projects/ genres and generic markers; the role of arrangement. true. The workshop includes demo concerts are performed and MU51023A performances with expert guidance assessed, with marks awarded and constructive feedback. according to performance 4 credits [September-December] competence and overall Music Computing 1 contribution. The aim of this introductory survey course is to familiarise you with significant and varied examples of MU51047A Western Art Music, presented in 4 credits [September-March] Introduction to chronological order. It also develops Music Technology a critique of the ways in which Introduces the overarching themes traditions are constructed and works of music computing: how MU51021A become canonised. Through a study computers listen and analyse of particular works you will come sound and music, how they can 4 credits [September-December] to understand: [a] the range of generate musical and sonic 4 credits [January-March] languages and techniques available processes and structures, and how 10 credits [September-June] in the Western art-music tradition; they can render these patterns as [b] why music was composed and This is an opportunity for you to sound and music. You develop an performed differently in past understanding of the origins of become familiar with a range of communities; [c] patterns of music technology applications, computer-aided composition and influence and points of innovation computer-based electronic music, including score processing, in the development of music; analogue-digital recording, presented in a short series of [d] the origins of the musical repertoire-based case studies.
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Music 55 making has been understood in Year 2 theoretical debates. Composition: Music Aesthetics Creative Strategies Department of MU52026A Music courses Russian Music Traditions MU52023A 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] MU52018A Considers the problems of defining Musical Style and Prerequisite: Previous experience of music and of its ability to express 4 credits [January-March] composition. and be ‘meaningful’. The main aim Historical Culture of the course is not to settle on the Examines Russian music from This course encourages you to ‘right’ answers (they may not the 16th century onwards with a MU52013A experiment with a number of exist), but to help you think in logical particular emphasis on the 19th creative and technical strategies and consistent ways about the 4 credits [September-December] century, including areas such as for composition and sound art principles by which you might begin the legacy of folk music, sacred practice. You undertake a series of to negotiate and evaluate the many An exploration of musical styles music, music education and theory, creative tasks to explore different present (and future) musics of and their relation to historical and the political and social contexts strategies for making work, whether the world. cultures, institutions and in which all of these were found. technical or intuitive. Examples communities. You learn about The unique archive collections of include: pitch/rhythmic organisation, specific historical musical networks, the Centre for Russian Music at the graphic notation, working with Composition such as those existing in 16th- College, and the special collection images/text-based/aural sources, century London, Renaissance room, will be made available for and working with chance operations and Performance Venice, or late 19th-century Vienna. students, allowing you to engage and performer choice. You also consider the difficulties in with some of the primary sources MU52027A relating particular musical styles to relevant to the study of Russian complex cultures, and the potential music of this period. 4 credits [January-March] distinctions between shared Studio Techniques musical styles and shared Prerequisite: competence in musical techniques. Music, Communication MU52024A composition. and Identity 4 credits [September-December] For this course you compose two works, one for soloist and one for Music and Modernism Prerequisite: competence in a small ensemble. Your solo piece MU52020A composition using music technology. is written for a student taking the MU52014A 4 credits [September-December] Classical Performance module. This course enables you to acquire His/her performance of your piece fundamental skills in the use of 4 credits [September-December] For many years music has been is assessed in Term 3. Your ensemble studio equipment and software associated with different social piece is written for a group of your which are relevant to experimental This course explores the groups and specific cultural own choosing, including members electronic music and electroacoustic development of musical trends in identities: from the close of this course group. You have composition. These include the first half of the 20th century, connections between the emergent opportunity to present this piece recording techniques, sound editing and considers their relationship bourgeoisie and the critical in a Composers’ Forum concert in and mixing, digital audio processing to the modernist ideas evolving appreciation and canonisation of Term 3. Contemporary techniques and use of MIDI. You will also be in Western culture at this time. absolute music in the eighteenth are explored, with consideration of introduced to a range of Particular attention is given to the and nineteenth century, through timbre, texture and structure, as well experimental electronic/ music of Debussy, Stravinsky and the importance of blues, jazz, soul as the possibilities of ‘real-life’ electroacoustic repertoire the composers of the Second and hip hop for changing notions performance settings. and associated compositional Viennese School. of black identity up the present approaches. Maximum of day. Composers, songwriters and five students. musicians have quite consciously Studio Composition Culture, Media and used their art to communicate a sense of individual and collective the Music Industries MU52028A experience. The course examines Music, Technology how music has been used to affirm and Production 4 credits [January-March] MU52016A a sense of collective identity and as a means of asserting difference. Prerequisite: competence in 4 credits [January-March] MU52025A composition using music technology. 4 credits [September-December] The central concern of this course Following Studio Techniques is the commodification of music. Music and (MU52024A, left), this course Drawing from political economy, Prerequisite: competence in music Postmodernism technology. explores the experimental creative sociology and business studies, possibilities of the studio. Historical it provides an introduction to key MU52022A Highlights a range of recording and current directions in computer issues and debates, and the role of techniques and music technology, music and sonic art are considered, various industries and technologies 4 credits [January-March] focusing on sequencing, sampling, including acousmatic music, in music making. It discusses: the multi-track recording, use of a phonography, text-sound This course examines how certain occupations, work, structures and mixing desk, audio and digital composition, algorithmic music of the 20th and 21st centuries dynamics inside record companies; effects and microphones. The composition and plunderphonics, developed in the context of the range of different businesses course also introduces the key with reference to aesthetic issues, particular postmodernist trends. that have a vested interest in music aesthetic concepts which underlie historical and cultural contexts and The period between 1960 and making; the way music has become contemporary production most importantly compositional the present provides the focus for ever more significant for corporate techniques and emphasises the techniques. You are introduced to the course, which pays particular promotion and branding; the creative importance of recording non-real time software for analysing attention to the music of importance of copyright and the and technology in popular music. and transforming sound, including composers such as Berio, Cage, legal regulation of rights, identities Maximum of five students. Audio Sculpt, Sound Hack and Kagel, Adams and Zorn. and authorship; the global relations Metasynth. You are encouraged to of popular music production and develop your understanding and circulation; the way music technical skills in the production of
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 56 Programmes > Music one substantial composition and a of harmony, tonality and thematic this time, and examine issues of conventions, lyric writing, strategies reflective commentary about one structure in this repertoire. You will transcription from piano music to and sources for inspiration, sound pivotal work by an established produce analyses of a range of orchestra. It also aims to provide and identity. The course explores composer/sound artist. 19th-century works, demonstrating a foundation of knowledge in differences in the work of your insight into and understanding orchestration technique that composer-songwriters and of the structures and meaning of might later be applied in your singer-songwriters, together with History of Performance these works. own composition work. You will related issues such as the influence complete a portfolio of short of commerce, authorship, and preliminary exercises, alongside interpretation. You have the MU52031A Language of Jazz transcriptions for orchestral forces opportunity to ‘show and tell’ 4 credits [January-March] of a short piano piece. drafts of songs in workshops, and to present your work live at MU52036A This course encourages you to the end of the course. examine changing performance 4 credits [September-December] Arranging: Jazz and contexts for Western music Commercial Music since the Middle Ages. This is This course provides an introduction Music of Africa and Asia undertaken in two ways: through to the harmonic and melodic MU52040A the interpretation of historical vocabulary of jazz and commercial MU52046A documents and artefacts music. It studies: tonality, standard 4 credits [January-March] (including musical sources, chord progressions, chord/scale 4 credits [January-March] treatises and instrument) and via relationships, modes, extended Prerequisite: competence in jazz the analysis of recordings. Some chords, dissonance and harmony. The course introduces the diverse consideration will be given to the reharmonisation. You are also musical traditions of Africa and ‘period-instrument’ movement and instructed in the conventions of This course introduces you to a Asia. It concentrates on traditional to the broader issues that this has jazz and popular music notation, range of techniques common in musical practices, although some raised concerning the role of the including the presentation of lead jazz and commercial music, and attention is also given to newly performer. Although the course sheets and full scores. provides an opportunity to apply created styles. Geographical areas does not require you to perform, harmonic knowledge acquired in covered include Southern Africa, you are encouraged to bring your Language of Jazz (left). You will West Africa, North Africa, Central own practical experience to bear Music in Film gain an understanding of standard Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia on their study. brass and reed instrumentations, (mainland and island), Oceania and conventional scoring and chord East Asia. You are expected to MU52037B voicing techniques, and standard become familiar with the sounds approaches to arrangement of the music of these areas, and Classical Performance 4 credits [January-March] structure. You will be expected to understand something of their Prerequisite: competence in to complete some preliminary underlying structural principles and MU52032A composition using music technology. exercises before the completion the social and cultural contexts in 4 credits [September-December] of a fully scored arrangement for which they are performed. 4 credits [January-March] This course explores the use of a medium to large ensemble. 10 credits [September-June] music for film and other media using both theoretical and creative Music Computing 2 Prerequisite: instrumental or vocal skills approaches to sound and image. It Performance: Ensemble in classical performance. contains a brief historical survey of film music since the ‘silent’ era and MU52047A Builds on the musical performance introduces a variety of analytical MU52041B skills acquired at Year 1 level, 4 credits [September-December] approaches that examine its 4 credits [September-December] 8 credits [September-March] and develops not only practical semantics. This theoretical performance skills but also critical background then provides the Prerequisite: performance proficiency in Introduces advanced concepts in listening skills and interpersonal foundation for practical sessions popular music (instrument or voice). skills. Individual tuition is provided music computing as applied to that explore the craft of writing for analytic study and creative by expert visiting staff. You will give film. You are expected to make an Guides you through a range of several unassessed performances practice. Methods, concepts and analysis of how music functions in repertoire to develop enhanced wider implications of music as part of Tutor-led performance a film of your choice, through an stylistic awareness and both seminars, as well as assessed information retrieval and annotated cuesheet and an essay, individual and group musicianship computer-based musicology are mid-term and end-of-year recitals. and, in the second half of the skills. By participating in a weekly You will also work with a composer explored with reference to notated module, to compose a set of ensemble class, you experience a scores, MIDI data and audio. We during the second term on a new exercises to accompany short variety of learning situations from work for your instrument or voice, also explore the application of film clips. full notation and lead sheets to artificial intelligence (AI) to music, the premiere of which will also form working purely by ear or verbal part of your assessment. improvised performance and live instructions. In addition, you will be DSP. You develop your expertise in Classical Orchestration encouraged to evolve performance a music programming language, in the broadest sense, developing and Arrangement and learn how to interface audio Romanticism and awareness of the effects of systems with AI modules. A key Musical Structures personal physicality, how to use concern is the interaction between MU520039A the performance space, and other users and performers and issues of presentation. computer music systems in a MU52034A 4 credits [January-March] real-life setting. You develop an 4 credits [September-December] Prerequisite: knowledge of music understanding of practical and theory. Songwriting aesthetic issues in the production This course takes a primarily and presentation of such work. analytical approach to music from This course aims to familiarise you MU52043A Beethoven to Brahms. The major with the principles of orchestration analytical techniques employed found in scores from the Classical 4 credits [September-December] will be those developed by Schenker period through to the turn of the and Schoenberg, since these remain 20th century. The course will discuss This course explores many the most appropriate and how instrumentation and techniques dimensions of songwriting, including penetrating tools for the analysis of orchestration developed over standard (and non-standard) song
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Music 57 Year 2 Musicianship for Analysis for Unplugged – Classical Music Composition Songwriting Workshop Department of MU41052A Professional and MU41014A MU41024A 10 credits [September-June] 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] Community Education 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [January-March] courses PM PM This course takes as its basis the This course covers the study of study of short works from the A workshop for songwriters harmony, counterpoint and analytic 20th-century repertoire, and aims Performance Ensemble wanting to learn more about what technique. Aural training is an to relate technical and aesthetic (Jazz and Pop) makes a good song. and wanting essential aspect of the course matters arising from this to your to hone their skills and try out and this class aims to develop own compositional development. ideas. You will learn about hooks, the recognition and dictation of Issues of line, counterpoint, Pop/Rock/Blues bridges and middle 8s, the right rhythmic, melodic and harmonic harmony, rhythm, texture and form mood, tone and structure and, musical events. are explored from a number of MU40009A most important of all, how to stylistic viewpoints. Teaching is make your songs ring true. mainly by seminar, with regular 4 credits [September-December] The workshop includes demo workshops and the possibility of Composing and performances with expert PM individual tutorials. At the end of guidance and constructive Arranging for Jazz and the course, there is the opportunity feedback. Contemporary Styles to hear your work performed by Latin Rhythm professional musicians. MU41022B Latin Piano MU40010A 4 credits [September-December] Piano Performance 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [January-March] Workshop MU41071A PM This course studies the theory 4 credits [January-March] behind jazz and popular music’s MU41027A This is an ideal opportunity to use of harmony: scales, extended PM perform a wide variety of rock and chords, chord progressions and 4 credits [September-December] This course develops a practical, popular music with groups in mixed substitutions. It also covers 6 credits [January-June] working knowledge of the main line-ups. The course covers the aspects such as instrument ranges PM Latin styles as applied to the piano. practical application of arranging, and transpositions, rhythm section Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian composing skills, rhythm section/ notation and score layout. A piano course designed to styles are covered, including Salsa, horn section interaction, ensemble The course culminates with enhance your performing skills, Samba and Guajira as well as the playing and improvisation. It is the completion of your own develop repertoire and increase Argentinian Tango. You do not need arranged in two 10-week terms arranging project. your confidence as a player in much knowledge of theory and covering two general styles and/or an informal workshop situation. harmony, as the course concentrates influences: popular/rock/blues and You are encouraged to explore on rhythm, style and interpretation. Latin rhythm. Performance repertoire in a wide range of styles Ensemble in discussion with the tutor and according to your individual needs. Musicianship for Jazz Plugged In (Jazz & Pop MU41023A/B/C and Popular Music Performance Ensemble) 4 credits [September-December] Contemporary 4 credits [January-March] MU40012A Jazz Piano Pop/Rock/Blues An ideal opportunity for 10 credits [September-June] MU41076A instrumentalists and singers to MU41046A PM perform in a wide array of genres, 4 credits [September-December] from the Renaissance to the present 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] This course develops your day. We initially focus on achieving PM musicianship skills and creative authentic, quality performances of PM techniques. It aims to give you a the historic idioms (eg madrigals, thorough grounding in the broad sonatas, Concerti grossi, arias and One of the longest running and Latin Rhythm range of skills required for work as recitatives, Lieder, wind and string most acclaimed jazz piano courses a professional musician. The course quartets to octets) as employed by in London, this course covers the MU41076B includes repertoire, practical aural composers from Monteverdi to technical, historical and expressive training, theory, tonal, popular and Schoenberg. You also participate in basis of contemporary jazz piano 4 credits [January-March] jazz harmony, rhythmic studies, the performance of contemporary over the past 60 years. The practical score reading, dictation and music, such as the experimentalism approach, using two pianos for duet PM transcription skills, keyboard skills, of John Cage, aleatorism of as well as solo playing, will enable arranging, scoring and composing. Lutosławski, minimalism of Steve you to start or (if you already Reich, American and European Jazz improvise) develop as a creative Jazz (from Swing to fusion) and popular contemporary jazz pianist. music from around the world. MU41076C
2 credits [April-June]
PM
Open to both instrumentalists (any instruments) and singers, this is an ideal opportunity to perform a
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 58 Programmes > Music wide variety of jazz and popular in which your piece is rehearsed, at various times throughout the music with groups in mixed Year 3 recorded and discussed. Please course; you receive feedback both line-ups. You should be competent note: these workshops will take from the tutor and your peers on on your instrument and/or voice Department of place outside of the timetabled these performances. Each performer and have reasonable fluency in slot for this course. also presents a lunchtime or evening reading melody and bass lines and Music courses recital (unassessed) throughout the chord charts. The course covers course. You will be paired with ‘an the practical application of Phonography assistant’, or a ‘concert manager’ arranging, composing skills, Minimalism and (a fellow student), who should also rhythm section/horn section Postminimalism review your concert, and upload interaction, ensemble playing and MU53018A the review on learn.gold’s Concert improvisation. It is arranged in 4 credits [September-December] Review webpage. three 10-week terms covering MU53009A three general styles and/or 4 credits [September-December] Prerequisite: experience of using music influences: popular/rock/blues, technology. Aesthetics of latin rhythm, and jazz. You can Assesses the history, techniques and Performance enrol for all three terms or each aesthetics of musical minimalism The art of phonography is regarded term individually. in the context of contemporary by some as a recent phenomenon. cultural practice. The period covered However, the recording, editing and MU53030A ranges from its prehistory in the juxtaposing of ‘real world’ sounds 4 credits [January-March] Compose and Perform 2 output of composers such as Satie, within an artistic context can be through its early maturity in the claimed to be as old as the technology it utilises. There are as This course engages with ideas and MU41135A work of Young, Riley, Reich and approaches established within Glass, to some of the manifestations many aesthetic approaches to working with such materials as there music aesthetics and applies them 4 credits [September-December] of their heritage in the music of are composers working within this to issues of musical performance. 4 credits [January-March] younger composers such as Pärt, First, it will examine the justification Branca and Skempton. genre. This compositional course PM creatively explores the domain of for having a separate category of field recording, including the use of so-called performing arts, and ask The course explores a variety of recorded sounds in documentary, whether performances can be musical techniques and concepts, Soviet Music acoustic ecology and sound art. It works of art. Second, it will look at with the emphasis on their practical and Beyond theoretically and practically tackles the identity and status of ‘transient’ application through exercises and the salient issues and simultaneously musics that appear to exist only in more extended compositions. builds up the technical skills required performance. Third, it will consider MU53012A Regular workshops give you the in the practice of phonography. the complex relationship between musical texts and the strategies of opportunity to hear your work and 4 credits [September-December] gain experience in part-preparation, the performer. Fourth, it will explore direction, and so on. The course also This course offers lectures on Soviet Analysis and New Music possible modes of performance and aims to develop aesthetic and and post-Soviet developments in the notion that ‘performativity’ critical awareness, and you will Russian music, and on current issues might be an end in itself. Finally, be invited to respond to a wide in Russian culture and history. MU53024A it will consider the evaluation of performances, and the ethical and range of music, as well as bringing The main areas discussed are the 4 credits [January-March] your own music for discussion. impact of State control on Soviet artistic responsibilities of performers. The course is also open to artistic output and life, and the This course explores music from non-performers. developments after Stalin’s death c1970 to c2000, considering issues in 1953. There is a focus on in structure and interpretation of Narrative, prominent composers such as a range of styles and composers, Representation Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schnittke Music History including Boulez, Stockhausen, and Popular Song and Analysis and Gubaidulina. Ferneyhough, minimalism, Andriessen, Cage, Birtwistle, Carter, and Rihm. Some popular MU53033A MU42005A Composition for music styles may also be studied. Because appropriate analytical 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] Visiting Ensemble techniques are elusive for much 4 credits [January-March] This course aims to engage with of this music, you are encouraged 2 credits [April-June] theories of representation and MU53017B to develop and apply analytic narrative in order to understand PM approaches suitable to individual how the popular song uses words 4 credits [September-December] works, drawing on models and music to convey information This course develops your skills in presented to you in lectures. Prerequisite: competence in about, comment upon and tell aural and visual recognition, and in composition. analysis of the styles, structures and stories about the world. It will be concerned with fiction as much as compositional techniques of music This course offers you the Advanced Classical realism; social intervention as much from the western classical tradition. opportunity to compose a work for as imaginative escapism. The course Techniques such as fugue and the Department’s Visiting Ensemble. Performance combines theoretical reflection with structures such as sonata form will The course structure consists of one detailed case studies. The main be examined from works including lecture and two seminars in which MU53026A focus is on songs composed over Corelli trio sonatas and Haydn’s you study recent relevant repertoire, the past seventy years, but it will string quartets. alongside appropriate technical 4 credits [September-December] also consider various historical compositional strategies. These 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] legacies. The course is concerned sessions are followed up with with analysing how lyrics and individual tutorials to discuss the Prerequisite: high-level skills in classical music work together, and you development of your composition. performance. will be expected to draw from A workshop is organised during This course seeks to further develop theoretical perspectives including the course for you to meet the practical performance skills, critical discourse theory, music semiotics, ensemble and hear your work-in- listening skills and interpersonal musicology, literary theory and progress. There is a further skills. You are given the opportunity theories of realism. workshop in the following term, for several (unassessed) short solo once your composition is complete, performances in tutor-led seminars
Visit www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Music 59 Mozart’s Operas: Improvisation Advanced History through Sources/ MU53040A Documents 4 credits [September-December]
Prerequisite: Previous experience of MU53034A music improvisation.
4 credits [January-March] This course deals with creativity in performance. By engaging Provides an opportunity for you to with some of the key ideas on develop musicological skills by improvisation, from the highly exploring an aspect of music history technical to the purely spiritual, not only through secondary sources you are introduced to the concepts – such as modern textbooks and of spontaneous creativity. Lectures printed scores – but also by and workshops present reviewing the primary historical improvisation in many forms – sources and documents on which from completely free improvisation modern accounts and editions are to creativity housed within more based. The course demonstrates restricted musical parameters. how documents from the past You can choose to focus on one might be used to write narrative style of improvisation on which and explanatory types of history, to be assessed. and the kinds of decisions and assumptions that make such processes possible. Psychological Approaches to Music Applied Composition PS53036A and Songwriting 4 credits [September-December] MU53037A This is an introduction to the study 4 credits [September-December] of music psychology. Lectures focus on the perception, cognition Prerequisite: previous experience of and neural basis of musical composition or songwriting courses. understanding, the perception of musical structure, and emotions The course allows you to produce and theories about music’s a portfolio of work in either evolutionary roots. The scientific mixed-media composition or methods used in research are songwriting, providing an explored in a lab-based class. opportunity to apply and extend Student evaluation is done on techniques and understanding the basis of a written assignment acquired in Year 2 courses in selected from a pool of questions. Songwriting and Film Music. The This course is offered in collaboration course is taught through lectures/ with the Department of Psychology. seminars on techniques and approaches arising out of case study examples, and there are creative assignments from which you construct a short portfolio of songs or pieces, submitted in recorded form.
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 60 Programmes > Politics and Economics In the Summer term you can the discipline of International choose to do 2 additional credits Relations (IR) since the end of the Politics and Economics of project work related to courses Second World War. It situates those studied in the Spring term. This paradigms in the historical context work is negotiated individual study in which they were developed, supported by some tutorial and critically examines both their The Department of Politics at Goldsmiths looks at the areas of government, guidance. You should inform your contribution to our understanding political theory and the cultures and conflicts of politics, from a perspective home university and the of world politics and their which encourages crossing boundaries within the field of politics and International Partnerships and shortcomings. In the second term, between politics and other disciplines. Our staff specialise in the comparative Developments Team at Goldsmiths the course critically examines how and historical analysis of problems and policies. We provide a lively base of the agreed topic once it has the three main IR paradigms sought for study in a range of fields including Chinese politics, international relations, been confirmed. When you tell to respond to the new post-Cold local government, European politics, British politics, modern political and your International Liaison tutor the War world, in particular to social thought, Marx and Marxism, postcolonialism, the politics of health, topics you are interested in American power, globalisation political sociology, democratisation, and public administration. studying, they can consider and regionalism, climate change, appropriate tutorial guidance terrorism and the financial crisis. arrangements. You should aim to Undergraduate year Description confirm these details by week 6 of the Spring term. There are no Ideas, Ideologies Year 1 a course for which you do not need regular lectures or seminars during any previous experience the summer term. and Conflicts
See also Professional and PO51012B Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience in this area or have already followed a similar Community Education: Cultural academic course and Social Studies (page 63) for 4 credits [September-December] other courses in this subject. 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the practical data or a willingness to engage Aims to give you an introduction to in responsible individual study under Politics political theory and show why tutorial guidance central political ideas and concepts Year 1 influence our understanding of the world around us. Explores key concepts, principles and ideologies UK and European such as the state, political On an average day in Comparative representation and democracy, rights, power and authority, Governance and Politics conservatism, liberalism and socialism. London, there are 66 plays, PO51009B
4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] Year 2 33 musicals, 19 operas and 2 credits [April-June] The main institutions of British Modern Political Theory government are introduced, as well 16 dance performances. as the policy making process within PO52002A British government. You examine the constitutional framework, the 4 credits [September-December] core executive, the civil service, 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] Parliament, local government, territorial government and the role Prerequisite: college-level political of the judiciary, and discuss the science or philosophy. policy making process within Whitehall and Westminster. The In this course you examine the course also introduces you to the modern tradition of political history and politics of post-1945 thought. You are introduced to Europe through a study of the the major figures in this tradition: politics, political cultures and English thinkers such as Hobbes, institutions of the Federal Republic Locke and Mill – and continental of Germany and Italy. thinkers such as Rousseau and Marx. Through these thinkers, you explore key themes and concepts World Politics such as sovereignty, justice, human nature, rights, liberty, democracy and equality. PO51010B
4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] Comparative 2 credits [April-June] European Politics This course introduces you to the study of world politics, emphasising PO52004A that there are different and competing perspectives on how to 4 credits [September-December] approach the subject. The course 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] introduces the three dominant paradigms (Realism, Pluralism and Prerequisite: college-level Structuralism) that have defined political science.
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Politics and Economics 61 You investigate the evolution of imperialism, inequality and 4 credits [January-March] enterprise and the sub-field of risk European politics since 1945. insecurity, transatlantic relations, 2 credits [April-June] politics gives you the opportunity Starting with an historical overview, nuclear states and terrorism, and to consider the ways in which the course is divided into five discusses both their different Traces the trajectory of Japan from politics, economics, legal studies, sections: the political cultures of theoretical underpinnings and their its emergence as a modern social psychology, media studies Europe, the political ideologies of practical implications. nation-state in the 1860’s through and sub-disciplines in the natural Europe, West European party and its fraught wartime history, up to sciences, such as toxicology, inform electoral systems, West European its emergence as a major global each other. constitutions and parliaments, Chinese Politics economic power in the late and centre and periphery – local twentieth century. The course and central government in seeks to approach questions of Public Policy Analysis Western Europe. PO52013A politics through a very expansive definition of the term, and to 4 credits [September-December] demonstrate that cultural forms PO53017A 4 credits [January-March] and practices can often provide a 2 credits [April-June] Themes and Issues in unique perspective through which 4 credits [September-December] to understand politics. The course British Politics since 1945 The empirical history of the Chinese This course is a systematic analysis revolution, as it unfolds into a series focuses on literature, cinema, animation, manga and a variety of of the various stages of policy PO52010A of problems around defining friend making, from initiation to and enemy is of enormous import popular cultural forms and practices to demonstrate that implementation, examining the role 4 credits [September-December] for politics and political theory of various actors, ideas and interests 4 credits [January-March] generally. This basic thesis underpins political anxieties and concerns, 2 credits [April-June] even where not articulated in at each stage. The problems faced this subject. Beginning in the 1920s, by policy makers, especially the the subject explores the power of political debates, are often given The course will bring an historical voice through these media. issues of implementation and perspective to key issues in British ‘the political’ to drive people to evaluation, are investigated in light politics from the end of the Second revolution and into excess. It of the limitations to perfect World War to the present day. It examines Mao attempts to harness administration in the real world. The will do that by examining themes and re-channel the power of the Year 3 focus is on the nature and the role such as the post-1945 political political, how it comes to frame of policy analysis, the concept of governmental institutions and, in ‘consensus’, the move from Empire Beyond All Reason the policy cycle, and the ways in to Europe, and the subsequent rise the Cultural Revolution, how ‘the which government and other actors of Thatcherism. It will also focus on political’ gains new intensity with shape public policy. We examine the specific policy issues such as the discovery of a new enemy. PO53011B prominent models of policy making – pluralism, corporatism and other education, health and the 4 credits [September-December] environment, examining the belief-system models analysing development of political debates Africa in the Global Politics is often conceived as the concepts such as rationality, from 1945 to the present. The course Political Economy attempt to rationally control our bounded rationality, incrementalism will include close examination of collective life. Yet so much of and mixed scanning. the politics of ‘New Labour’. PO52014B human existence seems irrational: intercommunal violence and civil 4 credits [September-December] conflict, genocide, social inequality Discourse, Contemporary 4 credits [January-March] and environmental degradation. 2 credits [April-June] Power, Politics International Relations: For all its hopes of a rational politics, modern life since the Enlightenment Examines Africa’s role in the Theory and Practice has often seemed to be beyond all PO53018B making of the modern global reason. Can politics be rethought to political economy, and the 4 credits [September-December] embrace the limits of rationality, to PO52012A significance of colonialism, face up to human destructiveness? imperialism and neo-colonialism to Much of Western political theory 4 credits [September-December] If so, can it avoid succumbing to Africa’s postcolonial condition. The is based on Enlightenment ideas 4 credits [January-March] irrationality? How then might we course starts by examining Africa’s about reason, and in particular on 2 credits [April-June] cope with the possibility of enmity role in the historical development a paradigm of the autonomous, and violence? This course surveys It is possible to take the course in of the modern world, from the rational individual derived from efforts to conceptualise the political January-March only, but we prefer you transatlantic slave trade to liberalism. However, a number and its relationship to Reason and to have also taken it in September- struggles for independence. In of contemporary thinkers in December. unreason from Kant to Arendt. January, the course explores the Continental tradition have various dimensions of Africa’s challenged these preconceptions, Prerequisite: college-level political showing that we also have to take science, ideally including some postcolonial condition, such as coverage of international relations. authoritarian rule; structural Risk and Politics: account of certain external, and adjustment and neoliberal order; Theory and Practice often ‘irrational’ forces – such as This course builds on World popular resistance and struggles; language, the unconscious, ideology Politics (PO51010B), with the violence, conflict and insecurity; and power relations – that often first term consolidating some of and the discourse about ‘failed PO53015A shape our perception of the world and our place in it. The course the discussion on the classical states’ in Africa. The course is 4 credits [September-December] theories of international relations centrally informed by a critical examines some of these alternative (realism/neorealism, liberalism/ reflection on the politics of The course is for those who want approaches to the political, neoliberalism and Marxism) with knowledge about Africa, the to know more about the relationship exploring themes such as discourse, new interpretations of these problem of eurocentrism, and the between politics and the power, subjectivity, passion, theories, and introducing a writings of African scholars. assessment, communication and resistance – as well as contemporary series of critical approaches to management of risk. It invites you approaches to radical politics. international relations through to explore the ways in which the theories of constructivism, An(other) Japan: discussion of risk has become one post-modernism, gender studies of the most pressing concerns in Politics and Welfare and aesthetics, and IR. The second Politics and Popular contemporary politics and to term introduces a number of Culture consider the leading role ideas PO53019A contemporary thematic concerns about risk play in shaping public within the study of international PO52016B debates and the formulation and 4 credits [January-March] relations, such as democratisation, evaluation of public policy. The human rights, just and unjust wars, 4 credits [September-December] study of risk is a multi-disciplinary This course is focused upon current
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 62 Programmes > Politics and Economics controversies, issues and vernacular concerns. Utilising developments in social welfare Nationalist Conflict contemporary social, political, Year 3 policy including controversy about and International cultural and postcolonial theory, the nature of social exclusion and Intervention the course is designed to Political Economy of the existence of an underclass, the simultaneously show the value of need for rationing access to health theory yet also problematise it by the European Union services, the development of service PO53024A showing its cultural limitations. In PO53007A frameworks for social care and the 4 credits [September-December] so doing, it opens onto a very relationship between economy, different view of China and also a 4 credits [September-December] taxation and social welfare. The Since the end of the Cold War, most more ‘enchanted’ view of politics. course will be particularly concerned 4 credits [January-March] conflicts in the world have been 2 credits [April-June] with inviting students to consider internal – often resulting from and critically examine different nationalist grievances and policies. Economics Prerequisite: one year of college-level views about the scope, organisation This course examines the causes economics (micro-economics and/or and role of social welfare in of nationalist conflicts, as well as macro-economics), plus one term in contemporary society. the tools and policies adopted by Year 1 European politics (or equivalent), ideally including some coverage of international actors towards them. the European Union. After an overview of the two main Political Economy Anarchism scholarly approaches to nationalist and Public Policy This course allow you to familiarise conflict (primordialism/perennialism yourself with the central traits of the and modernism), we focus on the PO53022A economic architecture of the structural, cultural, political and PO51011B European Union (EU); to explore 4 credits [January-March] economic causes of such conflicts recent economic integration; to 4 credits [September-December] and on the forms of international analyse the consequences that this intervention employed to resolve 4 credits [January-March] This course focuses on the history, 2 credits [April-June] economic and political integration politics and ideology of anarchism them – from ‘co-operative’ process is having on politico- from its origins in the nineteenth approaches such as mediation and The course is team-taught by two economic governance in the century to 1939. There is a peacekeeping to ‘coercive’ measures lecturers and is divided into two member states; and to explore discussion of anarchism in the like economic sanctions and military segments. In the first component, some of the policies generated by post-1945 period but the main intervention. We also assess the you are introduced to the central the EU in fields such as labour and aim is to trace the origins and debates surrounding international theories and core concepts in the social policy (eg migration, development of anarchist ideology ‘state-building’ projects and field of political economy, namely competition policy, environmental (Godwin, Proudhon, Stirner, Bakunin, partition, as well as post-conflict economic liberalism, economic policy, and industrial policy). You Kropotkin, Malatesta, Goldman) justice and reconciliation. realism and mercantilism, and also analyse the main varieties of and associated social and labour Marxism. A succinct introduction capitalism underpinning member movements in Europe and the is then provided to two state economies, and the Americas. Substantial time is Rhetoric and Politics macroeconomic theoretical challenges they experience as a devoted to anarchist-type approaches that have thoroughly result of internal factors and the movements and ideas which globalisation of production and PO53028A influenced policy-making in the developed throughout the world 20th century, Keynesianism and financial markets. before 1800 and as well as a 4 credits [January-March] monetarism, as well as some of discussion of the ‘ism’, anarchism, the issues at stake in the realm of its reception and interchange with Rhetoric is the art of speech and international economics. The second New Radical thinkers, ideas, and movements in persuasion. In classical Greece and component helps you apply these Asia and Africa. Rome, rhetoric held a central place concepts to the study of public Economy in politics. To speak and argue well policy issues in Britain. was an integral part of being a PO53010A Party Systems and citizen. In modern, democratic societies, speeches and arguments Year 2 4 credits [September-December] Electoral Systems remain a primary source in political 4 credits [January-March] life. But we have become more PO53023A Prerequisite: college-level economics. suspicious of what we hear, and Political Economy 4 credits [January-March] perhaps less attentive to the ways This course gives you an we are being persuaded. This course PO52007A understanding of key issues in Party systems vary across polities examines the techniques of contemporary radical political and have important political, social rhetorical analysis and applies 4 credits [September-December] economy. The course critically 4 credits [January-March] and economic consequences. It these to the study of contemporary evaluates orthodox economic political speeches. 10 credits [September-June] is therefore important to study the 2 credits [April-June] approaches to globalisation as characteristics and determinants of well as challenges from the party systems, and the nature of Prerequisite: one year of college-level anti-capitalist movement. Marxist, electoral competition. This course An(other) China: economics (micro-economics and/or autonomist and green economics includes a study of the prominent macro-economics). are examined and criticised. The theories of the party systems and Streetscenes of Politics course looks at the effects of global electoral competition. The course The aim of this course is to capitalism on poverty, equality and examines the size and the PO53029A familiarise you with the key environment sustainability. competitiveness of party systems, theoretical propositions, concepts Alternatives to the market and state focusing on the institutional and 4 credits [January-March] and issues of political economy, regulation of economic activity such sociological explanations. We also and to demonstrate their application as commons regimes, open source investigate different electoral rules An(other) China takes theory for a to practical issues in everyday walk down the backstreets of a and social sharing are also put and formulas such as majoritarian policy-making processes. You under the microscope. and proportional representation, Chinese city and into the daily lives, become familiar with the main and their effects on party systems. loves and indiscretions of the theoretical approaches to political The course will use empirical everyday. From Mao badges to economy, and you are encouraged analysis from the UK, the USA, personnel files, from everyday life to analyse and explore your insights France, Germany, India and Canada to government regulation, from into the volatile and shifting to provide a comparative markets to gifts, this course raises boundaries between public and perspective on the subject. a set of theoretical concerns that private sphere, government and circle around concrete objects and market, and state and individual.
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PO53030A (PACE) Art Therapy Workshop 4 credits [September-December] The Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) brings AT50001A/100255A Net immigration levels to Europe together the disciplines of several programmes from within Goldsmiths, 4 credits [January-March] have increased dramatically since including cultural and social studies, community and youth work, counselling 2 credits [April-June] the fall of the Iron Curtain. This has and therapy, social work, and art psychotherapy. It consolidates Goldsmiths’ spawned pressing questions about expertise in Continuing Professional Development and in education and This course is structured to give you national identity, multiculturalism, training for the local community and beyond. By establishing PACE, an opportunity to make and explore integration and assimilation, the role Goldsmiths renewed its fundamental commitment to continuing and art in a group setting. It will enable of religion, language and symbolic community education, and to lifelong learning. you to challenge your ideas of marks of common representation. self-expression through art. By the While pragmatic policy-makers are end of the course you will have increased your understanding rediscovering the benefits of labour Undergraduate year Description migration, parties from the Far Right of how art-making relates to the are making electoral inroads based Year 1 a course for which you do not need processes of an art therapy group. on radical measures stopping or any previous experience You will work with the links between even reversing immigration. the visual, the spoken and the Humanitarian channels of migration, written, and you will keep an art Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience journal or visual diary. There will be especially asylum, are facing a in this area or have already followed a similar somewhat uncertain future. This academic course at least one gallery visit. Towards the course examines the politics and end of the course you will present economic of immigration throughout a visual display, and produce a Europe and beyond. Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the 1,000-word written account of your practical data or a willingness to engage experience. In order for this course in responsible individual study under to run, there must be a minimum tutorial guidance number of students.
Key The Practice and Experience of PM Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the Art Therapy evening between 6pm and 9pm
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4 credits [January-March] London’s Heathrow 2 credits [April-June] This course introduces you to the practice of art therapy through seminars exploring the history of art Airport handles more therapy, case study presentations and discussion, and a visit to a relevant exhibition. There is some art-making in a group that will give international passengers you some experiential understanding of how art-making relates to the group processes, and how you can make links between the spoken than any other airport and the visual and explore how these might be examined. in the world. Cultural and Social Studies
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International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 64 Programmes > Professional and Community Education (PACE) Year 1 processes and institutions in the range of methods for analysing and 4 credits [September-December] UK: the constitution, elections, studying film. It is aimed at anyone 4 credits [January-March] political parties, interest groups, with a keen interest in film, but with Practical Journalism the media, globalisation and the no previous knowledge of film PM nation-state, the European Union studies as a field of study. It aims to and sovereignty, local politics, stimulate critical thinking about the This interdisciplinary course CU51007A participation and exclusion. cinema as a popular medium of critically examines some of the key representation, as an art form and frameworks through which ideas of 4 credits [September-December] the modern were formulated in turn 4 credits [January-March] an entertainment industry. We will 2 credits [April-June] Writing Fiction explore the history and development of the century Europe. This involves of cinema, applying concepts of film study of philosophical egoism and PM (Beginners) analysis to a wide range of films ideas of ‘mass’ culture; sciences from different periods of cinema (the cultural impact of Freud, Designed for people who want CU51015A and from different parts of the world. Bergson, Einstein and eugenics); and to write non-fiction news reports Marxist interventions (with particular and articles for newspapers and 4 credits [September-December] reference to Lukács). You study magazines. You examine how to find 4 credits [January-March] cultural movements associated ideas, interviewing techniques and 2 credits [April-June] Introduction to Contem- with Modernism, such as Decadence, personality profile writing, various porary Journalism Vorticism, and Futurism, with feature writing styles, and leisure PM particular reference to such writers and entertainment reviews. You also CU51023A as Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, look at how to approach editors to This course is suitable for beginners. Gertrude Stein and Oscar Wilde. sell your work. It is a practical course After looking at ‘how to get started’, 4 credits [September-December] and you are expected to produce you cover the basic technical 4 credits [January-March] articles. Feedback and comments aspects of writing, exploring ways of 2 credits [April-June] Body, Gender, Culture based on group discussion is a releasing your imagination and what feature of the course. to do when inspiration fails. You have PM the support of the group throughout CU52004A and the opportunity to share your You cover all aspects of journalism work. The course is structured and with the aim of encouraging and 4 credits [September-December] Understanding Society practical, and by the end you can assisting you to write confidently 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] expect to have completed several and to get published, if you wish. You explore ways of saying what CU51010A short stories and perhaps to have PM embarked on a novel. you want to say clearly through 4 credits [September-December] reporting, interviewing and feature This course is concerned with 4 credits [January-March] writing; emphasis is put on looking 2 credits [April-June] theorising the body and gender at potential markets for written in an interdisciplinary way. Models Creative Writing work. Although the course PM discussed include: scientific (Beginners) concentrates on journalistic understandings of the body; This course draws on the distinct writing, we examine other aspects cultural understandings of the approaches of both anthropology CU51016A of media. You are encouraged to body; and the social construction and sociology, and also focuses on develop your own style through of gender and sexuality. Specific the common ground between the 4 credits [September-December] hands-on writing exercises, both areas considered may include: two disciplines. You are introduced 4 credits [January-March] creative and journalistic. 2 credits [April-June] body beauty; cosmetic and other to the subjects’ key theorists and surgeries; age and ageing; illness, the historical development of both PM disability and eating disorders. anthropology and sociology. Areas Script and Screen you study include: religion, health, If you haven’t decided in which form sex and gender, family and kinship, you want to write, this course is for CU51025A International Relations language, class and caste, race, you. You consider short stories, novel and culture and identity. writing, poetry, drama and writing 4 credits [September-December] for television. Each class offers the 4 credits [January-March] CU52005A 2 credits [April-June] opportunity to read out your work 4 credits [September-December] and receive feedback. The tutor then People and Power: PM 4 credits [January-March] Introducing Politics discusses forms of writing, and 2 credits [April-June] there is a practical writing task. You focus on the writing of screen PM Information is given on finding an drama for cinema and TV, and CU51014A agent/publisher, marketing, and participate in lectures, viewings contract and copyright laws. You International relations is the study 4 credits [September-December] and practical exercises. You consider of how political, economic, security are expected to be supportive and visual narrative, creating premises, 4 credits [January-March] practical in your criticism of others’ and cultural systems all interact 2 credits [April-June] structure, characterisation and work. By the end of the course, you on a global scale. You explore the rewriting. You are asked to bring evolution of international society by PM should have a clear idea of what your own ideas in progress to looking at the work of international writing form you want to pursue. classes for tutor comment or class The underlying theme of this course institutions. You address the practical reading, and you are encouraged implications of familiar themes is power. What is power? Who has to write directly for production. power? How is power exercised? By Introduction and concepts such as sovereignty, examining these questions, with the balance of power, diplomacy, reference to contemporary political to Film Studies international law, security, processes and institutions in the UK, Year 2 nationalism and national interest. you gain a critical introduction to CU51021A You examine the application of concepts such as dependency, the study of politics. The first part The Making of of the course looks at different 4 credits [September-December] neo-colonialism, foreign policy conceptions of power, key political 4 credits [January-March] Modernity: Late 19th analysis, and trade relations in the 2 credits [April-June] concepts and ideas such as the and Early 20th-Century 20th century, and consider live debates and practical case studies state, democracy and freedom, PM and different political ideologies. Concepts of the Modern on topics such as diplomacy These concepts and ideas are then This course is designed as an between states, regionalism, applied to contemporary political accessible introduction to a broad CU52003A protectionism and globalisation.
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Professional and Community Education (PACE) 65 develop your writing skills. The of representation in relation to Writing the Self course combines sharing work for Space, Place and popular culture and helps you supportive, constructive feedback Identity: Diasporas develop writing and research skills. CU52006A with dynamic in-class projects, in the Modern World The course looks at different including experiments with theories of popular culture (for 4 credits [September-December] narrative techniques and ways of example, mass culture theory; CU53002A PM tempting the imagination to take culture industry, semiotics, popular creative leaps. You take part in 4 credits [September-December] culture and the carnivalesque; Examining the writing of memoir formal technical sessions, and 4 credits [January-March] postmodernism) in the context of and autobiography in the receive advice on marketing your 2 credits [April-June] the popular novel, the musical and development of the literary voice, work. By the end of the course, you television culture. this course offers a forum through can expect to have written several PM which personal experiences can short stories and/or made significant In this course you examine how be explored and shared and will progress on a novel. You become boundaries between societies have Writing Culture 2 demonstrate how converting these more confident in your voice, your become increasingly blurred over into language can transform both style and direction as a writer. Apart recent decades. You critically CU53009A individual and collective experience. from in-class projects, you determine what/when/how much you write. examine the recent wealth of new literature on how our notions of 4 credits [January-March] space have radically altered due 2 credits [April-June] Writing for Performance to technology, migrations and the PM Film and Anthropology media. You chart the emergence CU52007A of international capital and the Building on the skills, techniques CU52018A migrations that followed in its and methodologies explored in 4 credits [September-December] wake, and the consequent new 4 credits [September-December] Writing Culture, you will have the forms of cultural identity that have opportunity to explore your PM 4 credits [January-March] been born from the relocation of 2 credits [April-June] ancestral and cultural heritage people in complex new social and This module aims to develop your and, as a result of your explorations, political settings. potential as a writer in the field of PM to develop a sustained piece of live performance. Classes are narrative prose. You must have You look at both anthropology concerned with techniques and successfully completed Writing through film, and film through approaches to the organisation of Surrealism in the Cinema Culture to take this course. anthropology. This course is material, and with developing your intended to appeal to anyone knowledge of new writing practice interested in film, anthropology CU53005A and furthering your original work. and/or communication studies, Writing the Self 2 There are collaborative sessions 4 credits [September-December] or in wider issues related to with performance students to 4 credits [January-March] representation generally. It is in two CU53010A generate and experiment with 2 credits [April-June] parts. In the first part, theoretical dramatic material. issues related to representation are PM 4 credits [January-March] considered, concentrating on the 2 credits [April-June] use of visual imagery. The focus Surrealism is one of the most Building on the skills, techniques Writing Culture is on how imagery imparts important influences on the and methodologies acquired in knowledge and how this is development of film, but study of Writing the Self, this course perceived in different contexts. The this influence has had a very narrow CU52008A continues to explore the writing question of power and resistance is focus, concentrating on the films of memoir and autobiography and 4 credits [September-December] a central theme. In the second part, made by the surrealists during the the development of the literary the representation of witchcraft in twenties. This course aims to open voice. Please note: you must have PM film is taken as a case study. out debates around surrealism in the cinema, showing how they have successfully completed Writing Exploring the craft of writing, the mutually informed one another. the Self to take this course. power of personal testimony and It looks at the development of construction of selfhood and Year 3 surrealism, noting the significant identity through language, this contributions made to film by Egyptology course reflects on the genres of life surrealists in terms of film practices history and life story, autobiography Race and Representation and theories. It considers the CU53020A and memoir and the literature of in ‘Popular’ Culture development of the film medium, testimony which view the role of and brings attention to later 4 credits [September-December] witnessing in our times as a key CU53001A developments of surrealist 4 credits [January-March] form of approaching and theories and their importance 2 credits [April-June] transforming reality. 4 credits [September-December] for contemporary directors. 4 credits [January-March] PM 2 credits [April-June] A systematic study of ancient Writing Fiction PM Popular Culture Egypt’s rich heritage, focusing (Advanced) in Practice on aspects of its culture, namely, The roles of race and representation its history, institutions, industries, in the construction of identity in CU52017A inhabitants, language, religion, ‘popular’ culture are explored in this CU53008A technical development and art. course. These roles are examined 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] Explores how history is constructed 4 credits [January-March] in an interdisciplinary manner, 4 credits [January-March] through the analysis and 2 credits [April-June] focusing on music, fashion, 2 credits [April-June] interpretation of archaeology and advertising and various types of cultural data. Examines ancient Prerequisite: previous writing mass media. The course takes a PM Egyptian institutions, languages experience. critical approach to the cultural and literature. Investigates ancient Examines the important area of PM politics of images of culture and Egyptian culture through African, identity, and how they influence cultural theory, which deals with Near-Eastern and Mediterranean You are encouraged to improve our contemporary social identities. popular culture, cultural value, and sources. Includes museum visits. your work in progress and to cultural identities. It explores issues
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 66 Programmes > Psychology In the Summer term you can choose to do 2 additional credits Information Processing Psychology of project work related to courses and Cognition studied in the Spring term. This work is negotiated individual study PS51007A supported by some tutorial Our psychology courses develop your understanding of the processes guidance. You should inform 4 credits [September-December] influencing how people think, feel, behave, and interact, addressing a wide your home university and the 4 credits [January-March] range of conceptual and research issues in contemporary psychology. The International Partnerships and 2 credits [April-June] courses deal with the broad themes of cognition, individual differences, Developments Team at Goldsmiths biological and evolutionary issues, social functioning, and life-span of the agreed topic once it has You examine aspects of perception; development. At undergraduate and postgraduate levels, we aim to equip been confirmed. When you tell models of short-term memory and our students with a thorough knowledge and critical appreciation of your International Liaison tutor long-term memory; retrieval of psychological theory and research, and to develop analytical skills that the topics you are interested in information from long-term will enable them to pursue successful careers both within the profession studying, appropriate tutorial memory; learning in theory: and outside it in other fields. Our BSc (Hons) in Psychology and MSc in guidance arrangements can be classical and operant conditioning; Occupational Psychology are accredited by the British Psychological Society. considered. You should aim to and cognitive learning. confirm these details by week 6 of the Spring term. Undergraduate year Description Year 2
Year 1 a course for which you do not need Year 1 Prerequisite: all Year 2 courses any previous experience require some college-level study Prerequisites: none. of psychology. Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience in this area or have already followed a similar academic course The Psychology Biological Substrates of the Person of Behaviour Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the practical data or a willingness to engage PS52001A PS51005A in responsible individual study under tutorial guidance 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] 2 credits [April-June]
You explore concepts and theories This course covers six major areas Around 750,000 runners of human development; methods of biological psychology: of studying individual differences; hormones, sexual motivation and test administration; stability and sex differences; sleep and arousal; change in behaviour; inheritance eating and body weight regulation; have completed the and environment; attitudes and sexual selection and mate choice; attitude measurement; liking and brain evolution and development; attraction; and group processes. and emotions and stress. You consider these topics in terms of London Marathon since neurological, neurophysiological, physiological, biochemical and Biological and genetic substrates. Comparative it began in 1981. Approaches to Psychology Personality and Psychopathology PS51006A PS52002A 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [September-December] 2 credits [April-June] 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] The course covers theoretical, ethological and comparative The course looks at the identification perspectives; basic neuroanatomy and measurement of individual and neurophysiology; relationships differences in temperament; between brain and behaviour; biological and environmental chemical communication in the contributions to individual brain and in the body; and genes, differences; theories of personality; chromosomes and the inheritance and the relation between of behaviour. psychopathology and personality.
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PS52003A Prerequisite: all Year 3 courses PS53020B PS53030A require two years’ college-level 4 credits [September-December] study of psychology. 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [January-March] 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] 2 credits [April-June] 2 credits [April-June] Developmental You consider the relationship The course covers current issues You examine concepts, theories between psychology and in psychology and law selected and empirical research related Cognitive Neuroscience parapsychology, which involves from interviewing suspects, false to attitudes and attitude change; a discussion of the distinction confessions, detection of norms, conformity and social PS53002C between science and pseudo- deception, interviewing witnesses, influence; attribution theory; science. The course also involves eyewitness identification, false person perception; non-verbal 4 credits [September-December] critical evaluation of various claims memories, interviewing children, social behaviour; introduction to which – if valid – would have offender profiling, CCTV, and jury the study of social interaction; and This course focuses on two main profound implications for decision making. interpersonal attraction. areas of research: perceptual, mainstream psychology motor and cognitive development (including claims derived from in infancy and childhood; and astrology, psychoanalysis, Neurodevelopmental The Psychology attachment and peer relationships. alternative therapies, etc). Various In each area, recent empirical and psychological processes which Disorders of Life-Span theoretical advances are discussed. underlie belief in such claims are Development discussed, and non-paranormal PS53031A accounts of supposedly paranormal 4 credits [September-December] PS52004A Psychopathology experiences (for example, precognitive dreams, sightings of You explore issues relating to 4 credits [September-December] PS53008A UFOs, out-of-body experiences) 4 credits [January-March] are evaluated. diagnosis, ethics and research 2 credits [April-June] 4 credits [January-March] methods in connection with 2 credits [April-June] a broad range of neuro- You explore concepts and theories developmental disorders. You of development; the course of Four major forms of Organisational increase your understanding of development from infancy to psychopathology are considered Behaviour and Health atypical neural functioning from old age; adolescence as a (depression, anxiety and related a developmental perspective. developmental period; midlife, disorders, schizophrenia, and PS53021B Consideration is given to the and the effects of ageing. addiction) with a focus on: [a] implications of theories of neuro- clinical description, [b] theoretical 4 credits [September-December] developmental disorders for explanations from cognitive/ understanding normal cognitive Cognitive Psychology behavioural perspectives, and [c] This course explores psychological functions. Specific topics include principles and evaluations of theories and research that question autism, dyslexia, specific language psychological interventions. how both organisational and impairment, developmental PS52006A individual characteristics affect coordination disorder, sensory 4 credits [September-December] productivity and mental health. impairments, ADHD and 4 credits [January-March] Attention, Perception, Topics include: organisational Williams syndrome. 2 credits [April-June] development and change, the Awareness and Action design of work, counselling The course examines major topics in the workplace, and the Behavioural Genetics in the area of cognitive psychology PS53019B determinants of occupational including attention; visual object stress and performance. recognition; written language 4 credits [September-December] PS53032A processing; working memory: The focus of the course is on 4 credits [January-March] long-term memory and acquired Topics in 2 credits [April-June] memory problems; everyday the scientific investigation of memory; and representation attention, a highly topical aspect Neuropsychology You explore issues relating to of knowledge. of human cognition. You examine the use of behavioural genetics experimental, neuropsychological, PS53024A techniques, including twin and and cognitive-neuroscientific adoption measures, imaging approaches to attention. 4 credits [January-March] genomics and multivariate 2 credits [April-June] questions such as comorbidity, This course explores developments development and heterogeneity. in understanding the neuro- Consideration is given to the psychology of both normal and associations between genetic and abnormal human functioning. environmental influences as well Specific topics include methodology as ethical issues. in neuropsychology and cognitive neuropsychology; main techniques of investigation in neuropsychology; cognitive impairments following brain injury: dysfunctions of perception, language, memory, consciousness, executive processes and voluntary movements; dementia; and neuropsychological assessment; and rehabilitation.
International Partnerships and Development Team, Goldsmiths, University of London tel +44 (0)20 7919 7700 e-mail [email protected] 68 Programmes > Sociology Origins of Human Human Relationships in Nature: Comparative Lifespan Perspective Sociology and Evolutionary Approaches PS53035A 4 credits [September-December] Goldsmiths’ Department of Sociology is one of the largest in the UK. PS53033A We have an established reputation for our contribution to contemporary This course provides an sociological thought, and offer a vibrant and expanding research culture. 4 credits [September-December] understanding of the nature We have a wide range of staff who lead research in their specialist fields, and development of human a lively mixture of students, and excellent facilities. The aim of this course is to explore relationships, including types of the origins of human intelligence. relationships, basic principles, and Undergraduate year Description You consider two major theories: an understanding of relationship the technical intelligence hypothesis processes. The first half of the Year 1 a course for which you do not need and the social intelligence course focuses on parent-child any previous experience hypothesis. In terms of technical and peer relationships in infancy, intelligence, you look at topics childhood, and adolescence. The such as complex foraging, causality, second half focuses on romantic Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience and tool-use and tool-making. In in this area or have already followed a similar relationships in adulthood, and academic course terms of social intelligence, you relationships in old age. consider topics such as theory of mind, deception and social learning. Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the You also learn about aspects of practical data or a willingness to engage technical and social intelligence Psychological in responsible individual study under in modern groups of human Approaches to Music tutorial guidance hunter-gatherers. PS53036A Addictive Behaviour 4 credits [September-December] At a height of 135 metres, This is an introduction to the study PS53034A of music psychology. Lectures focus on the perception, cognition 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] and neural basis of musical the London Eye is understanding, the perception of You are introduced to psychological musical structure, and emotions and neurobiological theories of and theories about music’s the largest Ferris wheel addiction, and you consider and evolutionary roots. The scientific evaluate the extent to which methods used in research are behaviours commonly described explored in a lab-based class. This as ‘addictive’ (including not only course is offered in collaboration in Europe, and the most dependence on drugs and alcohol, with the Department of Music. but also excessive engagement in behaviours such as gambling and shopping) are motivated by popular paid tourist similar outcomes and reflect the involvement of similar processes. You also study the efficacy of different treatment approaches. attraction in the UK.
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Sociology 69 To take a course in April-June, you the Enlightenment project with nature of society. It does this must already have been studying its concern with reason, freedom, through exploring different Sociology of Culture the course in January-March. progress and the individual, approaches to two central concerns, and Communication in order to consider the ‘Place, Space and Agency’ and In the Summer term you can consequences of this project for ‘Freedom, Power and Identity’. The SO52004B choose to do 2 additional credits other forms of society outside first block introduces you to issues of project work related to courses Western modernity. concerning relationships between 4 credits [January-March] studied in the Spring term. This place, space self and movement. 2 credits [April-June] work is negotiated individual Building on some of this work we study supported by some Culture and Society go on to explore questions of The first part of the course discusses tutorial guidance. freedom, sexuality, power and the conceptual and historical discipline in relationship to Marx, background to some key terms (in You should inform your home SO51004A Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault. particular modernity, modernism, university and the International postmodernity and postmodernism) 4 credits [September-December] and looks at the relation between Partnerships and Developments 10 credits [September-June] Team at Goldsmiths of the agreed The Making of the structural and cultural differentiation topic once it has been confirmed. This course is primarily concerned and division in large-scale, with the relations between culture Modern World structurally complex and culturally When you tell your International and social processes, and heterogeneous contemporary Liaison tutor the topics you are approaches these in a number SO52002A societies. The second part interested in studying, they can of ways: by outlining various introduces two important consider appropriate tutorial sociological uses of ‘culture’, 4 credits [September-December] approaches to conceptualising and guidance arrangements. You by identifying the role of culture analysing the relations between The course builds on material should aim to confirm these details in examples of macrosocial culture and other social and already introduced in the by week 6 of the Spring term. phenomena (eg education, economic processes through the Foundation year, and provides consumption, the city), and works of Jeffrey Alexander and additional perspectives for the See also Professional and by discussing microsociological Norbert Elias. The third part looks historical analysis of modernity. Community Education: Cultural analyses of the role of culture at influential approaches to the There is a growing consensus in and Social Studies (page 63) in social interaction. analysis of the world of cultural for other courses in this subject. contemporary scholarship on texts and objects, and places these stressing the interdependence and in their appropriate contexts. The complexity of the processes which final sessions explore the impact Researching Society contributed to the distinctiveness of globalisation on the sociological Year 1 and Culture IA+IB of modern societies, rather than understanding of cultural processes. assigning primacy to any one factor or process – whether economic, Critical Readings: SO51005A/6A political, cultural or social. This Culture, Representation The Emergence of 4 credits 5A [September-December]/ course places an emphasis on Sociological Rationality 4 credits 6A [January-March] historical reflexivity: it aims to show and Difference 2 credits [April-June] that historical processes, however multiple and complex, are not SO52040A SO51002A This course is lecture- and simply ‘given’ as historical objects workshop-based and introduces 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] but reflect the adoption of 10 credits [September-June] you to the methods that particular perspectives that are sociologists have developed to themselves historically specific. The course explores the problem You are introduced to sociology’s analyse societies and to produce of cultural identity in terms of the key thinkers by focusing on extracts sociological knowledge. You also complex relations between subjects from their writing. You concentrate develop core skills in methods of Philosophy and and representational and discursive on key texts in sociology and are research by being introduced to practices. We draw on work from expected to learn to read critically the practice of sociological research. Methodology of cultural studies, sociology and social – that is, to think carefully about, Methods are introduced in relation Social Science theory in order to think about the analyse, compare, make links to key sociological topics and importance of culture in the research traditions, so you can construction of modern self-identity. between, identify the arguments SO52003A of, identify problems with, and confront methods as real practices Across the course, examples will be taken from advertising, mass formulate your own ideas and rather than abstractions. 4 credits [September-December] arguments about what you read. media, fashion, photography, You are expected to develop the This course aims to introduce you tattooing and other cultural forms. ability to approach and analyse Year 2 to critical debates about knowledge texts with greater confidence. and method within sociology and related social sciences, and to Democracy and Central Issues in examine how these debates have Domination: Concepts Modern Knowledge, Sociological Analysis shifted over the history of the discipline. The objectives of the in Political Sociology Modern Power course are: to develop your SO52001A understanding of classical SO52078B SO51003A 4 credits [January-March] approaches to sociological 4 credits [September-December] 2 credits [April-June] knowledge, and to introduce 4 credits [September-December] important recent contributions 10 credits [September-June] This course helps you to develop to these debates. To examine the This is an introduction to status of sociology as a social contemporary debates in political The course introduces you to the your understanding of sociological ‘science’. To trace the connections sociology and cultural studies of ‘sociological imagination’ in the analysis through considering its between theory and methodology politics. You examine the politics work of classical social thinkers. origin in the classical tradition as within social research. To critically of class and new social movements; You examine different structures well as exploring more recent examine the forms of knowledge privatisation and Thatcherism; and relations of power in a modern developments. It aims to produced by sociologists in relation globalisation and anti-globalisation; context, and how key sociological demonstrate the way in which to issues of values, politics, environmentalism and the politics thinkers have analysed these. You different kinds of sociological subjectivity and difference. of science; urban politics; regulation examine the roots of sociology in explanation are grounded in different assumptions about the and political economy. You are
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The course as a mode of normalisation and between their specific concerns aims for a balance of theory and regulation, a promise of liberation, Contemporary Society and more general debates about case study – in this way it anchors an acclaimed site of pleasure and/ politics in social and cultural theory. discussions of social theory to the or desire as well as a centrepiece SO53021A actualities of particular social and in debates on censorship and historical situations. representation. While the course 4 credits [September-December] is structured by different thematic Contemporary Classical social theory developed areas such as sexology, HIV/AIDS, in the 19th and early 20th centuries Cultural Theory public/private rulings on intimacy Leisure, Culture during a period of immense and sexual citizenship, it includes change. Many of the social and SO52079B and Society considerable attention to the economic forms which emerged theoretical contributions of or were consolidated in the 19th 4 credits [September-December] SO52092A Foucault, Queer and Feminist theory. century still exist today, yet there This course provides you with 4 credits [January-March] are clear differences between an understanding of the relations 2 credits [April-June] contemporary societies and the between state, society and culture Formations of Class, industrial societies of the late 19th in the context of cultural studies This course examines the Gender and Value century. This course examines the (Gramscian to post-Foucauldian). interconnections between leisure, implications of such changes for culture and society. Entitled ‘leisure social theory. It considers You also apply, develop and SO52099A question some of these analyses and the commodity form’, the first questions such as: to what extent in relation to an increasingly part of the course examines 4 credits [January-March] do changes in social, political and ‘networked’ society. The analytical capitalist development and the 2 credits [April-June] economic life demand new forms tools and perspectives of cultural development of leisure. The process of sociological theorising? In what studies are considered alongside of capitalist industrialisation The course examines how social ways have contemporary social notions such as the ‘new economy’, transformed leisure from a collective life is organised through class and theorists distanced themselves from the ‘information society’, ‘post- activity, embedded in occupational gender relations. Its specific focus classical social theory in an attempt Fordism’ and ‘actor-networks’. communities, into market-based is how person-value is produced – to comprehend society today? activities compatible with the that is, when a person moves dictates of the workplace. Several through social space they carry Researching Society additional links between leisure, value with them. The course Issues in Contemporary culture and society are made within examines this approach to and Culture 2A & 2B this course. You then examine the value (as opposed to traditional Social Theory Frankfurt School and the seminal economic or moral analysis) SO52083A/SO52084A analysis of the ‘culture industry’. looking at how people can gain, SO53022A retain and lose value through 4 credits 83A (2A) [September- inhabiting relations of class and 4 credits [January-March] December] The Body: Social Theory gender. It draws upon a range of 2 credits [April-June] 4 credits 84A (2B) [January-March] sociological approaches to class 2 credits [April-June] You focus on recent debates in and Social Practice and gender, and then develops social and cultural theory. Main these through specific case studies This methods course aims to help themes include Marxism and SO52093A of value production. It aims to you to make the transition from modernity; ethics and identity; show what an analysis of class consuming sociological texts to identity and difference; the body 4 credits [January-March] and gender through a value prism designing and doing your own in social theory; science and 2 credits [April-June] can reveal about social relations. social research. It combines lectures technology; recent debates that focus on the theory and This course explores a selection in feminist theory; ‘race’ and rationale behind different of approaches to the sociological contemporary social theory; methodological approaches with study of the body, as well as Creative Cities: modernity and post-modernity, workshops in which you learn substantive problem areas where Politics and Practice and ‘postmodern sociology’. different approaches and the body has become an important techniques through discussion and focus of research. We look at how SO52100A hands-on experience. The course is the relationships between the Knowledge, Science designed in two halves: the first half individual and the social body, 4 credits [January-March] concentrates on providing you with or between the control of bodily 2 credits [April-June] and Nature the skills necessary to practise function and the nature of the research methods. The second half social order, have been theorised This course is concerned with the SO53129A aims to provide you with the and researched. The course economic, social and aesthetic tools necessary to design your discusses how the body figures in role of art in urban social life. It 4 credits [January-March] own research. identity politics, and illustrates the provides an overview of 2 credits [April-June] construction and power of bodily contemporary theoretical This course explores some of the norms in fields such as psychiatry debates on the role of the arts implications of science, progress and criminology, and discusses the Nationalism, and the creative economy in urban and the domination of nature within body as an object of consumption. Fundamentalism renewal. The overall intention is Western culture. You look at how not just to study texts but also and Cosmopolitanism the distinction between reason and to examine the ways in which nature was important to the Sexuality ‘the city’ is operationalised as an 17th-century scientific revolutions SO52091A organising theme, a focus of study and the Enlightenment, and the SO52094A and a site of policy and practice. implications of the dualities between 4 credits [January-March] The course introduces you to nature and culture, body and mind, 2 credits [April-June] 4 credits [January-March] cultural theory with a focus on 2 credits [April-June] reason and emotion for issues of the cultural politics of taste and gender, ‘race’ and sexuality. You This course explores sociological aesthetics, and invites you to think theories of nationalism, This course approaches sexuality also consider the different ways critically about the ways that art ecological movements view nature, fundamentalism and as a historically and culturally is used in regeneration. cosmopolitanism by looking at case constructed object through which
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Sociology 71 and their implications for identity studies, such as cultural objects Is there a human rights movement? and belonging. and cultural identity, might be Does the enforcement of human Making Data Matter empirically researched. rights increase democracy? Are human rights structured so that SO53049A they necessarily privilege certain Philosophy, Politics 4 credits [September-December] and Alterity Childhood Matters: groups as human? Society, Theory This course offers a new approach to understanding social research SO53063A and Culture Global Development through data analysis. It avoids 4 credits [September-December] and Underdevelopment formalistic presentations of statistics SO53043A and qualitative data analysis This course considers the work of techniques. Instead it asks questions 4 credits [September-December] SO53046A contemporary cultural theorists in about central sociological concerns about class gender and race and relation to questions of alterity You approach childhood as a 4 credits [January-March] then sees how the resources of the (difference). It aims to give you a sociohistorically constructed 2 credits [April-June] UK data archive and the ESDS sense of the political spaces and concept, with material, technological You develop a critical and historical qualidata archive can be mobilised problematics that have been and political dimensions and understanding of the issues which to answer these questions. The opened up as the certain key consequences. Through a mixture inform contemporary debates on course draws on knowledge gained thinkers chosen for the course of theoretical readings and globalisation. You consider the in other research methods units deal with questions of the self, issue-based discussions, you fields of development studies and to support the application of this subjectivity and difference, in explore the regulated constitution sociology of development, focusing knowledge to a particular particular gender, sexuality and of childhood and its changing mainly on political economy substantive research project. A key racialised difference. parameters. You have the chance and institutions. You look at: concern is how theoretical insights to look at significant aspects of modernisation and its critics: the can be applied and developed in the contemporary childhood. Some of sociology of development; the context of empirical social research. Race, ‘Racism’ the main areas you explore include: development of underdevelopment changing household patterns from and Social Theory and world systems; culture and the child’s perspective, child sexual development; and contemporary abuse, infancy and foetal life, and Marxism and anti-globalisation movements. SO53149A children’s literature. Social Theory 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] SO53053A Law, Identity and Ethics Animals and Society You examine the emergence of 4 credits [September-December] modern ideas of ‘race’ and racism, SO53047A SO53044A and their development as social An introduction to basic concepts 4 credits [September-December] and political forces. You look 4 credits [January-March] developed from Marxist theory at them from the theoretical 2 credits [April-June] that are now ubiquitous elsewhere – perspectives of sociology, This course is concerned with such as class, value, alienation, feminism, and social and cultural You explore key theories of the the role of animals in modern exploitation, and fetishism. Each theory. The course considers the relationship between identity and western societies, and begins with week focuses on a basic concept; changing manifestations of race the law. You consider accounts of an overview of the key western starts with its original source, and racism during transatlantic identity and law by examining philosophical debates about the explains, contextualises, and traces slavery, systems of plantation important debates in legal and nature of the animal and the human. its development and critique as it slavery in the Caribbean and the social theory, from Kant to critical Historical changes in the ways progresses through social theory USA, colonialism in south Asia and race theory. You explore concepts in which animals have been and sometimes into popular uses. central Africa, later processes of of law and identity in early modern represented, in animals’ symbolic Each concept is interrogated forced labour, the emergence of debates, how they shaped role, and in the relations between then developed in relation to National Socialism from the 1920s, contemporary questions, and then humans and animals are then contemporary issues, exploring and the impact of the Holocaust. examine contemporary debates presented. The changing role of its significance and explanatory You consider a range of theoretical concerning the subject, the legal animals in representing particular power as a critical sociological approaches that have attempted and the just. You consider these virtues and vices, animals’ changing tool. A seminar follows each lecture. to account for the impact of ‘race’ different approaches using case economic function, and the This is an intense close-reading in contemporary social and studies such as legal concepts of shifting interpersonal relations course: you need to read the political processes. ‘the person’; sexual assault; asylum between humans and animals will original text and the secondary law; citizenship; transitional be explored over the course of commentary for each week. democracy; and human rights. classical and medieval periods, the Enlightenment and modernity, and Researching Culture: into late modernity. Case Studies Citizenship and
SO53042A Human Rights
4 credits [September-December] SO53045A
This course engages you in a range 4 credits [January-March] of research methods for the analysis 2 credits [April-June] of culture in its many forms and contexts. The course is workshop This course is concerned with based and provides you with the history, theory and politics of hands-on experience of different citizenship and human rights. You methods. You are introduced consider the historical development through a series of case studies to of the nation-state and the textual analysis, ethnography and international state systems that audience analysis, and you are produced the social and political encouraged to consider how some conditions of citizenship and human of the more complex theoretical rights. You discuss questions such questions addressed in cultural as: are human rights cosmopolitan?
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4 credits [January-March] SO53073A 2 credits [April-June] 4 credits [January-March] 2 credits [April-June] This is an introduction to design’s culture and ways of thinking for This course addresses the relations sociology students. There has been between vision, visuality, and the an increasing use of sociological production of truths and research methods (particularly knowledges in Euro-American ethnography and the video culture. It approaches these issues interview or observation) in the by outlining various sociological design world, as designers try arguments about the socially and to develop products and services historically specific character of that incorporate ‘user-centered’ vision and visuality; by exploring the perspectives. The course consists relation between vision, truth and of a ‘live’ design brief in knowledge through an analysis of consultation with an external a variety of visual technologies organisation. You explore how (perspective, camera, digital sociological knowledge can be technology); and by examining applied in commercial and the different ways that vision non-commercial contexts, such as and visuality contribute to the the development of new consumer production and reproduction devices. Particular attention is paid of individual and group identities to translation mechanisms that across a range of domains transfer knowledge between (colonial archives, contemporary researchers and designers, film, medicine, law). including visual representations, graphic models of human experience, and physical prototypes.
Visit www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/studyabroad for up-to-date information on courses Programmes > Sociology 73 74 Programmes > Visual Cultures Visual Cultures All years Year 2 London Art Worlds Museums, Galleries, Exhibitions: Framing Art We specialise in the histories and theories of modern and contemporary VC53006A visual practices from around the world. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, 4 credits [January-March] HT52040A we look at ways in which art engages with urgent social, cultural and political issues in the world. Therefore we explore visual culture within a framework VO 4 credits [September-December] of critical theory, philosophy and cultural studies. Included are issues of 4+4 credits [September-March] 10 credits [September-June] cultural difference, performativity, visual display, aurality, encounters with London Art Worlds explores the audiences and the production of subjectivities. Our approach to learning, histories and current dynamics of You focus on the theoretical and teaching and research at all academic levels is exploratory and innovative, art practice and exhibition within ideological foundations of museums yet rigorous. London. It addresses the different and their critiques. You analyse how ways in which artists, curators and the museum has evolved from an See also Art (page 28). galleries are aided and challenged object-centered educational by old and new technologies and institution to an idea-oriented site Undergraduate year Description multiple encounters in a diverse for the production of experiences. urban context, and questions The course proposes typologies to Year 1 a course for which you do not need where London’s art communities understand the framework defining any previous experience register on the global scale. The the museum: the meaning of the course introduces international ‘museum object’, the institutional students not only to the city but modalities for the production of Year 2 assumes that you have had some experience also to alternative and innovative in this area or have already followed a similar ‘knowledge’, the celebration of academic course methods of viewing and ‘cultural and national diversity’ and experiencing modern and the importance of museums in the contemporary art in particular ‘leisure industries’. Curatorially, we Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the socio-political environments. You practical data or a willingness to engage concentrate on how permanent will create a research portfolio collections have been displayed. in responsible individual study under using visuals, texts and/or audio, tutorial guidance We explore how critiques of the and there are visits to, for example, museum have shaped its roles. Trafalgar Square and Whitechapel Teaching involves museum visits, Gallery in the East End. student presentations and Key discussions of key texts.
VO Almost all of the courses available to Study Abroad students are taught and integrated alongside full degree students. Courses marked with this symbol Cities of Modernity: are taught to Study Abroad students only Urban Space in the 20th Century
HT52055A
4 credits [September-December] 4+4 credits [September-March] 10 credits [September-June]
From the point of view of architectural history and urban history, this course asks: what is the cultural space of a city? You address the role of the urban environment in the emergence of visual cultures in the 20th century. By examining architecture, painting, film, photography and installation art we think of how visual culture has explored, articulated, and theorised modern urban spaces. Themes related to sexuality, class, ethnic cultural difference as well as legal, demographic, technological and aesthetic changes are considered. The aim is to examine how artists, critics and cultural commentators have visually imagined urban space, contributed to the formation of urban space and themselves been formed by urban space.
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HT52056A HT52070A VC52057A
4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] 4 credits [September-December] 4+4 credits [September-March] 4+4 credits [September-March] 4+4 credits [September-March] 10 credits [September-June] 10 credits [September-June] 10 credits [September-June]
Questions concerning perception, Cyborgs and Nomads, Simulations This course has evolved from the cognition and spectatorship are and Virtualities, Machinics and field of Postcolonial study, but is crucial to the study of art history Rhizomatics: postmodernity concerned with all forms of and visual culture. This course is encapsulates a bewildering array difference as negotiated by the philosophical and creative/ of new technologies, practices and visual realm and thus incorporates experimental in approach. It paradigms. This course aims to gendered, raced, classed and provides a critical introduction to introduce some of them – and queered discourses. Through a the diverse theories, understandings to explore what we mean by varied and interdisciplinary study and experiences of perception and postmodernity and postmodernism. of cultural texts, including film, of the perceptual world that have Beginning with an exploration contemporary art, theory, popular been influential from the early from an historical perspective (the culture and literature, you negotiate modern period onwards. Focusing crisis in modernism), the course this difficult terrain intended to on key cultural artefacts and goes on to engage critically with challenge your own subject perceptual scenarios/practices, Post-structuralism, at the same positions as consumers and we consider what notions of time exploring the postmodern. producers of texts. The course reality, possibility and impossibility The course does not intend to is student-centred and loosely have been produced, proposed be an historical narrative or a structured around four key themes and/or critically engaged with, theoretical overview. Case studies – Performativity, Narrative, Image and what implications these might are used in exploring the terrain Politics and Space – tackling have for us today. Texts include beyond modernity – and beyond notions such as Drag, Spectacle, works by Descartes, Borges, modernism – relating specifically Whiteness, Authorship, Identity Heidegger, Bataille, Merleau-Ponty, to art and visual culture. and Hybridity. Foucault, Barthes, Virilio, Dussel, Trinh T Minh-Ha and Avital Ronell. Beckett and Aesthetics
The Moving Image VC52037A
HT52063A 4 credits [September-December] 4+4 credits [September-March] 4 credits [September-December] 10 credits [September-June] 4+4 credits [September-March] 10 credits [September-June] You explore the concept of aesthetics through the prose, You are introduced to various theatre, radio and film work of theoretical approaches to the Samuel Beckett in conjunction moving image, ranging from the with the work of a range of visual, melodrama to the documentary, aural and performance artists such experimental cinema and video as Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, art, through both historical and John Cage, Helen Chadwick and contemporary examples. Readings Janet Cardiff. You examine the and discussions are informed by philosophical foundations for a key film theoretical writings as contemporary understanding much as by critical theory, of aesthetics. You address key postcolonial theory, feminist theory, debates in contemporary art cultural studies and anthropology, concerning the body and the while questions of realism, the sublime, questioning the ways in political and cultural differences which issues such as originality, are given priority. One aim of the appropriation, transformation and course is learning to look at and representation function within the work with formal aspects of screen literary and visual arts. works and develop analytical skills towards your own informed and creative ways to write about and with moving images.
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Associate Graduate Studentship
This is a ‘tailor-made’ postgraduate-level programme where you select a portfolio of courses from our Master’s programmes and effectively create your own programme content. This allows you to spend from three months up to a year following classes and studying under the supervision of a tutor at Goldsmiths. You may simply wish to explore a topic at a graduate level or you might be registered at another university and want to specialise your study and research as part of a wider study plan.
You choose courses – from one or more departments – which run during the terms you are at Goldsmiths and add up to the correct number of credits for your period of study. Goldsmiths’ academic year works on a three-term system – Autumn, Spring and Summer – term dates for 2012-13 are on page 83. You are expected to undertake a full course load for your period of study.
If you intend to follow this course as a part of another programme at another university, you will need to check with your home university the courses you may be required to take to obtain credit, and provide suitable alternatives to your first choices. It is not always possible to offer you your first choice of course because of limits on numbers, or timetabling. Your performance is examined or assessed on each course, and a grade is awarded under the British grading system. Your transcript also records Goldsmiths’ advice as to the number of credits you have taken, but the interpretation of these credits is a matter for your home university or college. There are set requirements for each course which you will be expected to meet. No classes can be taken by audit.
Associate Research Studentship
We invite you to submit an application, with an indication of the courses you wish to follow and the time period you wish to attend. You are supported by the academic structure of the relevant department, which includes tutorial contact and lectures and seminars.
Entrance requirements Normally a Bachelor’s (undergraduate) degree or the equivalent in a relevant subject, or a proven record or professional/work experience in the subject.
How to apply Please complete the postgraduate taught applications form, available at www.gold.ac.uk/apply. Please provide a list of the individual courses you would like to follow, and indicate the dates you would like to spend at Goldsmiths. Please send your application to the International Partnerships and Developments Team, as on page 17.
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Information 80 Information > Facilities Facilities Information > Facilities 81 Cutting edge Goldsmiths has a wide range of facilities that will help you make the most of your time here, enabling you to develop your understanding of your chosen subject and investigate areas of interest beyond your studies.
Rutherford Building Language-learning facilities Whether you’re interested in learning a new language, studying a language The Rutherford Building (RB) at Goldsmiths provides a modern, flexible as part of your degree, or keen to build on existing language skills, the learning space with numerous facilities for group and individual study, Languages Resource Centre in the RB can help you achieve your goals. giving you access on one site to library books, journals, computer Facilities include bookable video viewing rooms, computers with software workstations, language-learning resources, extensive multimedia and for computer assisted language learning, listening facilities, a large open audio-visual facilities, and computer-based teaching rooms. Long access area where you can view video broadcasts, and foreign language opening hours mean that you can be flexible in terms of when you periodicals. A comprehensive collection of foreign language documentaries choose to study. The building stays open until midnight seven days and feature films will aid your progression in this area, and staff at the a week during term time and Christmas and Easter vacations. Language Advisory Desk can guide you through the materials available.
Library Ben Pimlott Building Our library is well equipped with an extensive collection of printed and electronic resources, as well as special collections and archives covering The Ben Pimlott Building has state-of-the-art facilities that reflect a range of 20th-century creative and performing arts, and social sciences. Goldsmiths’ famous interdisciplinary approach to higher education, You can take a virtual tour of the library online at www.gold.ac.uk/library. housing facilities for the Department of Art, the Centre for Cognition, You’ll be given a library tour and information skills training when you Computation and Culture, and the Goldsmiths Digital Studios. arrive at Goldsmiths. Departmental facilities —University of London Library and other libraries As a Goldsmiths degree student you’re able to borrow books from the Many of the academic departments within Goldsmiths have special University of London Library, Senate House. You will also be able to use facilities designed to aid and enhance the learning experience of their the libraries of other UoL institutions to consult specialised materials not students. These facilities include: nine specialist research laboratories available in the library at Goldsmiths. in the Department of Art (casting; constructed textiles, digital media and video; fine art printmaking; metalwork; photography; print and dye; IT facilities stitch and fabric; woodwork); extensive workshop facilities covering —Computing facilities production processes, modelling for mass production, and a computing Computer workstations within the RB comprise a mixture of PCs and suite enabling 2D and 3D media, multimedia and CAD in Design; Apple Macs. In addition to Microsoft Office, PCs have software for statistical a 160-seat theatre and three performance studios in the Department analysis, bibliography, graphics and web authoring, while Mac systems of Theatre and Performance; and a photography studio, radio studio, have similar software but with more emphasis on industry-standard TV studio, editing suites and video animation facilities in Media and graphics, desktop publishing, and multimedia. All computers have e-mail Communications. facilities, and provide access to the internet, and to central shared resources such as course and training materials. We also have scanners, Bank specialist equipment for video editing, and rooms for computer-based class teaching. Help Desk staff are available to answer your queries. A NatWest bank on campus is open every weekday, providing a range of banking facilities and a cash point machine (ATM). A Student Liaison The wireless network at Goldsmiths will enable you to bring your own Officer is available to offer help and advice, and to answer any questions. laptop onto campus and benefit from access to the web, your College shared files, and e-mail. There are dozens of wireless hotspots across the Contacts campus, including the Library, the Students’ Union and on the back field. Three halls of residence provide network access from student rooms, IT Services while a further two have access from communal areas. +44 (0)20 7919 7550 [email protected] Our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), learn.gold, is a highly interactive website where lecturers can provide students with course materials, Languages Resource Centre practice assessments, and learner support. Students can also start their +44 (0)20 7919 7180 own website, wiki or blog. [email protected]
—Media facilities Library The Digital Media Suite (DMS) in the RB provides materials, facilities, +44 (0)20 7919 7150 support and services to help you with all your media requirements from [email protected] video to audio, and from photography to photocopying. If you need assistance when preparing for a project in a particular audio-visual medium Media Services (including DMS) then it’s the place to come. The Centre offers various do-it-yourself creative +44 (0)20 7919 7622 and production facilities including digital video editing (adding special [email protected] effects, titles, and so on), video copying, making stills from videos, downloading digital stills, copying images from books or artwork to digital University of London Library camera or 35mm slide or print, and sound copying and recording. A Copy +44 (0)20 7862 8500 Centre provides self-service photocopying, and binding and laminating [email protected] facilities, and a Media Equipment Centre in the Richard Hoggart Building www.ull.ac.uk provides an equipment loan service. 82 Information > Applying Applying
How to apply English Language The majority of classes are taught in English. If English is not your first Please complete and return the application form at the back of this language, you must satisfy us that your English is of a high enough Prospectus if you are applying for Study Abroad status, or you are standard. You will need one of the following: an Exchange Student – a student at a university with which Goldsmiths has an exchange agreement. To apply for an Associate Graduate or — IELTS: a minimum score of 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.0 in the written Associate Research Studentship, please see page 76. element and no individual element lower than 5.5)
Agencies — TOEFL iBT: 92 in the internet based test (with minimum scores of Goldsmiths has co-operative agreements with several organisations listening 21, reading 22, speaking 23 and writing 21) which assist in the counselling and placement of American students in British universities and colleges, typically for all or part of their Junior — Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic): An overall score Year. The organisations include: of 58 with no individual element lower than 51.
Arcadia University, The College of Global Studies Our Centre for English Language and Academic Writing runs a number Glenside, PA 19038, tel (215) 572 2901 of English Language courses, which you can take before you begin your programme of study. You can contact them on +44 (0)20 7919 7402, Council on International or e-mail [email protected]. Visit www.gold.ac.uk/eap for more details. Educational Exchange (CIEE) 7 Custom House Street, 3rd Floor, Prerequisites Portland ME 04101, tel 1-800 40-STUDY In some cases, there are prerequisites for courses, or groups of courses Cultural Experiences Abroad (CEA) (eg Year 2 Politics courses). These are clearly indicated either underneath 2005 W 14th Street, Ste 113, the course titles or at the start of each course section. Please make sure Tempe, AZ 85281-6977, tel 1-800-266-4441 that you read and understand all requirements before choosing courses.
InterStudy/USA You must meet any prerequisites before you arrive at Goldsmiths, and we 63 Edward Street, Medford, MA 02155, make offers of places on the condition that you will meet them. You do tel (800)663 1999 or (781)391 0991. not need to have met these requirements before you apply.
The time in the UK is five hours later than EST. If you have any questions about prerequisites, please contact us: [email protected] Alternatively, check at your home university’s Study Abroad office, as you may be eligible to apply direct to Goldsmiths, or petition How do I choose my courses? to undertake your study with us. You choose courses – from one or more departments – which run during Entrance requirements the terms you are at Goldsmiths and add up to the correct number of credits for your period of study; please see below. Goldsmiths’ academic College requirements and GPA year works on a three-term system – Autumn, Spring and Summer – and Normally, you must: term dates for 2012-13 are shown on the next page.
— have completed two years of college-level study before beginning You cannot choose to study courses for the Summer term only, unless your programme at Goldsmiths this is specifically stated. The start of the academic year is in September and below each course title there is a guide to show the term(s) in which and the course is taught, and the credit weighting for each term’s work.
—be in good standing at your home university or college. You are expected to undertake a full course load for your period of study. You must choose courses that add up to the following minimum number If you are applying from an American-system college or university, you of credits: should have achieved a GPA of at least 3.0. If you have a lower GPA we may still consider you, particularly if you want to concentrate on a decided major and have an adequate GPA in previous work in that subject. Full academic year 36 credits
September-December 16 credits
September-March 32 credits
January-March 16 credits
January-June 20 credits
You will need to check with your home university the courses you may be required to take to obtain credit, and provide suitable alternatives to your Information > Applying 83
first choices. It is not always possible to offer you your first choice of course You are advised to keep a copy of your completed form for your own because of limits on numbers, or timetabling. We cannot guarantee that records before submitting this copy to the College. you will be able to make changes on arrival. It may be possible to make this application form available in a large print Your performance is examined or assessed on each course, and a grade format – please contact us on +44 (0)20 7919 7700. is awarded under the British grading system. Your transcript also records Goldsmiths’ advice as to the number of credits you have taken, but the Application deadline interpretation of these credits is a matter for your home university or college. There are set requirements for each course which you will be expected to meet. No classes can be taken by audit. Entry date Application deadline
Application procedure September 2012 1 June 2012
Please use the application form at the back of this Prospectus. If January 2013 15 October 2012 you need additional copies, either download it at www.gold.ac.uk/ studyabroad or contact the International Partnerships and Developments Team (see page 17). Offers of places After you have accepted our offer of a place, you will be sent a confirmation You must fully complete all sections of the application form and return letter together with an Acceptance Sheet which you must sign and return it to the International Partnerships and Developments Team at Goldsmiths, to Goldsmiths to secure your place. Since Goldsmiths receives more together with any additional documentation requested. Please write applications for Study Abroad status than it can accept, submission of clearly, using block capitals. Unreadable or incomplete applications cannot an application is not a guarantee of acceptance. be processed. Please check your application carefully, as mistakes will cause delay. Term dates
You will need to send the following documents with your application: Autumn term 24 September 2012-16 December 2012 —a reference Spring term —a copy of your academic transcripts or exam results 7 January 2013-22 March 2013
— a portfolio of your work if applying for practice-based art Summer term or design courses. 22 April 2013-14 June 2013
Returning your work Welcome programme Please ensure you pack your portfolio securely as Goldsmiths cannot accept You will attend a welcome programme before beginning your period of any responsibility for any loss or damage; do not send originals. If you’d study. The programme introduces you to Goldsmiths’ facilities and services like us to return your work, please enclose a suitable self-addressed return and the local area, and gives general advice about life in the UK. You should envelope, together with the appropriate reply-paid coupon or postage not make any other arrangements during the welcome period. We will stamps. We cannot return your work if you do not do so; in such cases, assume that you have attended this programme and that the information you must arrange collection of your work by the end of the first week of provided is known to you. The welcome programme for students starting October 2012 – Goldsmiths will arrange automatic disposal after this date. their studies in the Autumn term will take place in the week beginning 17 September 2012. The provisional date for the Spring term welcome Application form guidance notes programme is 5-6 January 2013; please contact the International Partnerships and Developments Team for confirmation of the date. We will use the information you provide in sections 4, 6 and 7 of the application form to assess your suitability and eligibility for the courses. Other information will be used for statistical and planning purposes, and for seeking to make arrangements for disabled students who are admitted. If you become a student at Goldsmiths as a result of this application, information which you provide on this form will become part of your student record. If you do not, it will be destroyed, normally approximately one year after your proposed entry date.
If there is not enough space for your entry on any section of the form you should add separate sheets and note on the relevant section of the form that you have done so. Read your entries on the form before you send it to us and remember that we only have the information you provide and cannot consider an incomplete application. 84 Information > Immigration Immigration
UK Immigration control affects everyone who is not a British National Employment – unless you already have no limit or restriction on your stay in the UK. EU, EEA and Swiss Nationals can live, work and study in the UK with very As an international student it is important to check your visa before few restrictions. All other nationals who want to come and study in the seeking employment, as you may not be permitted to work in the UK. UK must first obtain entry clearance as a Tier 4 student (that is, they must obtain a Tier 4 student visa). This can sometimes take several weeks to You must not work if your passport sticker or identity card says ‘No work’ complete, so you are advised to get the process started as soon as or ‘Work prohibited’ as this would be a breach of your immigration possible. For more information, contact the British Embassy or High conditions, and a criminal offence. Commission in your home country or visit www.ukvisas.gov.uk. Tier 4 students are allowed to work part-time during term time —Do not enter the UK without entry clearance as a Tier 4 student (ie, a (either 10 or 20 hours per week; please note that this includes both paid Tier 4 student visa) if you intend to study an English Language course for and unpaid work), and full-time during vacations and for up to four more than 11 months or any other course for more than six months. You months after the end of their course. The number of hours you are may be refused entry, and you cannot switch to ‘student’ status later allowed to work during term time will depend upon when you made within the UK. your most recent immigration application and the level of course you are studying. For more information, please visit www.ukcisa.org.uk/ If you are aged over 18 and you are coming to study on a course of student/info_sheets/working_during_studies.php. Please note that six months or less (or an English Language course of 11 months or less), postgraduate students remain restricted to 20 hours per week during you may hear that you can come to the UK as a ‘Student Visitor’, instead the long summer vacation as this is when you will be working on your of as a Tier 4 student. However, if you choose to come as a ‘Student dissertation. Visitor’, you will be much more restricted than if you come as a Tier 4 student. You will not be allowed to do any work (paid or unpaid), you Tier 4 students must not engage in business, be self-employed, provide will not be allowed to apply to extend your stay in the UK, and it is not services as a professional sports person or entertainer, or pursue a career possible to switch from ‘Student Visitor’ to Tier 4 student from within the by filling a permanent full-time vacancy. UK. It is therefore not usually appropriate to come to the UK as a ‘Student Visitor’. We even recommend Study Abroad students to avoid ‘Student If you are found in breach of the restrictions it is very serious and can lead Visitor’ status. to expulsion from the UK.
—Do not enter the UK as a ‘General Visitor’ if your intention is to study. Remember that when applying for entry clearance you will need to show The immigration rules prohibit those with ‘General Visitor’ immigration UK immigration authorities that you can pay your fees and living costs permission from studying, and you cannot switch from ‘General Visitor’ without needing to work. You cannot claim welfare benefits. to ‘student’ from within the UK. Goldsmiths has trained advisers on campus to offer immigration and For information on the process of applying for entry clearance employment advice – see www.gold.ac.uk/student-services/advice. as a student please visit www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en/howtoapply/infs/ For further information about working during your studies, please visit inf29pbsstudent. www.ukcisa.org.uk/student/working_during.php.
UKCISA produce a helpful information sheet called ‘Making a student immigration application in your home country’ which provides advice on the immigration requirements for students planning to study in the UK: www.ukcisa.org.uk/student/info_sheets/applying_home_country.php.
The Immigration Rules Part 3 set out the requirements for those who want to come to the UK as a ‘student’: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/ policyandlaw/immigrationlaw/immigrationrules/part3. It can take some time to obtain entry clearance as a student, so you should apply as soon as possible.
Please be aware that under new Home Office rules if you do not come to or complete your enrolment, fail to attend satisfactorily, or subsequently withdraw from your programme of study, Goldsmiths is obliged to inform the Home Office that you are not meeting the requirements of your Tier 4 student visa.
Please note that this information refers to the UK Immigration System at the time of writing. Please check regularly for updates on the UK Visa Service Section website, www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en. Information > Costs 85 Costs
Study Abroad and Exchange Students pay full-cost fees, whatever their Opening a bank account country of origin. Financial support from the UK Government is only available to undergraduate students who can satisfy conditions related It is advisable that you open a UK bank account once you arrive in the UK. to the length and purpose of their residence in the UK, and who have no You can open a student account at any high street bank. Goldsmiths has restrictions on living in the UK. a branch of NatWest on campus, and Citibank are able to offer you an account that enables you to transfer money between a UK and US Fees and living expenses Citibank account. See www.gold.ac.uk/international/regions/usa/ —Tuition fees citibankaccount for more information on opening a Citibank account. See www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for the latest information. A similar facility may be available in other countries.
Fees (2012-13) Fees (2012-13) Foreign exchange control
Standard High cost It is very important that you make arrangements for the transfer of funds to pay your fees and maintenance costs before you come to the UK. This Autumn term £5,000 £6,390 is a particular problem in countries with strict exchange control regulations, September-December such as Nigeria and Iran. Remember that your fees are due at the beginning of your period of study, and you will not be allowed to attend classes unless you can make satisfactory arrangements for payment. Spring term £5,000 £6,390 January-March Banker’s draft The cheapest way of bringing money into the UK, for fees etc, is to get a banker’s draft in pounds sterling drawn on a bank in the UK. It will be more expensive to get a pounds sterling cheque drawn on a foreign bank outside Autumn & Spring terms £9,990 £12,780 the UK, due to extra bank charges levied by the banking system here. September-March International currency transfer If you choose to send money through a bank in your home country [an Spring & Summer terms £7,330 £9,380 ‘International currency transfer’], indicate that you will pay all bank and January-June agent’s charges; this may help you to avoid further bank charges when the money reaches Goldsmiths’ bank. You should keep a copy of the transaction note to bring with you. Full year £11,100 £14,200 September-June Other methods of payment If you choose to pay by any other method, you will have to pay extra bank charges levied by the banking system, which is outside the control High cost programmes are those with a major studio or laboratory content, of Goldsmiths’ management and bank. or which mainly involve Art Practice, Communication Studies, Computing, Design, Drama, Music or Psychology – or any majority combination of Please note: if you are transferring money directly into Goldsmiths’ account, these subjects. It is likely that Art students will have to pay for some please add £20 sterling to cover bank charges and ensure your name is materials during their course; you will be sent a materials list with details clearly stated on the payment instruction. of costs. Further advice on the costs of study is given to you when you accept our offer of a place. Please note that Goldsmiths, University of London will never ask you to send your bank details by e-mail. We will only e-mail you from an address —Living expenses ending in @gold.ac.uk. If you receive an e-mail asking you for your bank London can be an expensive city, but Goldsmiths is situated in a relatively details, do not reply or forward any money: please contact us immediately inexpensive area. We estimate that as a single undergraduate you will need by e-mailing [email protected]. at least £800 per month for your living and accommodation expenses. This figure does not include international flights.
Exchange students Exchange students do not have to pay tuition fees, but other costs are estimated at £800 per month. 86 Information > Additional information Additional information
Support at Goldsmiths Goldsmiths Medical Officers will see all students here for less than six months at no charge, but you will have to pay for medications and any International Partnerships and Developments Team other NHS treatment. If you are staying in the UK for more than six Our dedicated International Partnerships and Developments Team can months, you should register for medical treatment on arrival, either with offer advice on all aspects of being an international student, including the Goldsmiths Medical Centre or a local doctor. Those staying for shorter English Language, finance and accommodation guidance. The Office will periods cannot register, but can obtain treatment from the Medical Centre be the main point of contact for any queries you have. On arrival at under the terms stated above. Before coming to the UK, you are also advised Goldsmiths you will be given a welcome programme, which introduces to have your eyes and teeth examined, and to have appropriate immunisation you to the College and the local area and gives you general information including BCG (tuberculosis), Meningitis C and Mumps vaccinations. about life in the UK. The Office also organises a programme of social events that will help you get to know your fellow students. For more information about health and healthcare in the UK, visit www.ukcisa.org.uk/student/info_sheets/keeping_healthy.php. Student Advice In additional to practical, non-academic and general welfare issues, the Students with specific learning difficulties and/or disabilities Advice Team can offer specific advice to international students. If you have any queries regarding visas or related immigration issues, the Team Goldsmiths welcomes applications from students with specific learning can advise you. difficulties and/or disabilities (SpLDD). The term ‘specific learning difficulty’ refers to a problem with particular aspects of learning. The most common Careers Service ones are dyslexia, dyspraxia, attention deficit disorder (ADD), dyscalculia, The Goldsmiths Careers Service is part of The Careers Group, University and dysgraphia; Asperger’s Syndrome may also be covered. of London, and has a wide range of facilities that will help you plan your future effectively. Whatever your age or career background when you We are committed to a policy which allows, as far as reasonably possible, come to Goldsmiths, we encourage you to make full use of the Service for equality of opportunity and access to higher and further education. from the time you start right through to graduation. Even after leaving If you declare on your application form that you have a disability, we will you can continue to receive careers support through subscription to write to you to ask for more information to help us assess how we can GradClub, which enables you to get extended careers advice and arrange any support you may need. This is independent of your academic services. assessment and will only be taken into account once you are to be offered a place on a programme of study. International Students House (ISH) Support can include: enabling access to personal support if appropriate; As a Goldsmiths student you’ll get free automatic membership of arranging specific, non-subject based tutorial support if you have a International Students House, a social, cultural and recreational centre in specific learning difficulty; providing access to special examination Central London open all year round. Your membership gives you access arrangements; and organising where possible for teaching to take place to ISH facilities and events, making it an ideal place to meet and make in accessible accommodation. Some areas of the campus are not fully friends. Visit www.ish.org.uk for more information. accessible to people with mobility difficulties, so if you have such difficulties we recommend that you visit the campus so that we can show you around Healthcare in the UK and discuss appropriate solutions.
Unless you are entitled to free healthcare under the National Health Disability Team Service (NHS), you must organise health insurance before you come Goldsmiths has a Disability Team who are the main point of contact for to the UK. You are entitled to hospital treatment under the NHS free students with specific learning difficulties and/or disabilities. The Disability of charge if either Team can assist in the organisation of any support that you might need and give general advice on issues related to disability. They are the point —your course lasts longer than six months of contact for any queries you have before you submit your application. or Assistive Technology Centre (ATC) The ATC is an open access computer workstation/study room for the use — you come from a country which has reciprocal health agreements of all students with a disability, specific learning difficulty or health-related with the UK. problem that makes studying difficult. The computers in the ATC have access to the usual software available elsewhere, plus some specialist If you are not from a country which has reciprocal health agreements with software that you might find useful, including TextHELP, Inspiration, the UK and are staying for less than six months, you must carry health Kurzweil 3000, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Luna, and Jaws. insurance sufficient for your needs. A stay in a hospital could easily cost thousands of pounds in addition to charges for treatment. You should Contacts take out insurance at home rather than on arrival. Please note: many insurers will not cover the costs of pregnancy or of pre-existing conditions. Disability Adviser +44 (0)20 7717 7467 All students should note that outside the hospital system, treatment is www.gold.ac.uk/disability subject to fixed charges even if you receive treatment or medication under the National Health Service. Medication provided through a doctor is Disability Co-ordinator currently charged at about £7.20 per item. Treatment which is regarded +44 (0)20 7717 2292 as cosmetic is not available under the National Health Service. Contraceptive [email protected] advice and supplies are free of charge under the NHS. Information > Additional information 87
Equality and diversity Terms and conditions
At Goldsmiths you’ll find an environment committed to and supportive All students are subject to Goldsmiths’ Regulations (published at www. of diversity, the free exchange of ideas, tolerance and equal opportunities. gold.ac.uk/regulations). When you accept an offer to study at Goldsmiths We work to raise aspirations and widen access to higher education. you undertake to comply with these Regulations, with Goldsmiths’ Charter, Statutes and Ordinances (www.gold.ac.uk/governance/ No applicant or student receives less favourable treatment on the grounds ordinances and www.gold.ac.uk/governance/charter-statutes), with the of gender identity, marital status, religion, or belief, race, colour, nationality, Statutes and Regulations of the University of London (available from the disability, age, sexual orientation, parental status, class, or ethnic or national University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU), origins, or is disadvantaged by requirements which cannot be shown to and with relevant legislation in force at the time. Please note that a be justifiable. student who has not received the official written offer of a place from the Goldsmiths Admissions Office (or UCAS, GTTR or SWAS as appropriate) Goldsmiths welcomes all applications for admission from applicants who may not be admitted to, or enrolled on, a programme of study. may have a disability, specific learning difficulty or a long-term physical or mental health-related issue. All applications are considered purely on Obligations of Goldsmiths the basis of their academic qualifications and/or suitability for the degree. Goldsmiths undertakes all reasonable steps to provide educational Sub-boards and Joint Sub-boards of Examiners ensure that students, services including teaching, examination, assessment and other related once registered on a programme, are fairly treated in respect of their services, set out in its prospectuses and programme literature academic progress. (‘Educational Services’). However, except where otherwise expressly stated, Goldsmiths regrets that it cannot accept liability or pay any The College has a Disability Co-ordinator who liaises with those who have compensation where the performance or prompt performance of its administrative responsibility for applicants and students who have declared obligations to provide Educational Services is prevented or affected by to College that they have a disability and/or learning difficulty to ensure that ‘force majeure’. ‘Force majeure’ means any event which Goldsmiths could information is passed to appropriate members of staff in a timely manner. not, even with all due care, foresee or avoid. Such events may include (but are not limited to) war or threat of war, riot, civil strife, terrorist The College will make reasonable adjustments in order to accommodate activity, industrial dispute, natural or nuclear disaster, adverse weather any additional needs relating to any student’s/applicant’s disability. conditions, pandemic flu, interruption in power supplies or other services The College will take appropriate advice when determining reasonable for any reason, fire and all similar events outside our control. adjustments. In the unlikely event that the College is unable to accommodate adjustments required by the student, or if the student disagrees with the reasonable adjustments offered, a brief written report will be submitted to the Director of Student Services giving the reasons for the recommendations.
If you feel you have been the subject of discrimination or harassment by Goldsmiths, or by one of its members of staff or students, you should report the matter to the Director of Student Services, who will take appropriate action under Goldsmiths’ Code on Equality and Diversity.
Visit www.gold.ac.uk/equal-opportunities for more information. “I decided to come to Goldsmiths for a number of reasons. Its creativity is on top of the list. Studying with creative and stylish mates with their tight pants and nose rings, I am impressed by their innovative ideas in this cross-cultural environment.”
Koon Lam Yip Hong Kong “As a student, it is good to go out and have fun without spending a lot of money. I can assure you that you never get bored of living in London!”
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Accommodation ...... 10 Facilities ...... 81 Additional information ...... 86 Family accommodation ...... 10 Agencies ...... 82 Fees ...... 85 Alumni ...... 15 Fine Art ...... 28 Anthropology ...... 24 French ...... 51 Applying ...... 8 2 Arabic ...... 51 G Art ...... 28 Art History ...... 74 German ...... 51 Art Psychotherapy ...... 6 3 GPA ...... 8 2 Assessment ...... 15 Graduate students ...... 76 Associate Graduate Studentship ...... 76 Associate Research Studentship ...... 76 H
B Halls of residence ...... 10 Healthcare ...... 86 Ben Pimlott Building ...... 81 History ...... 47 History of Art ...... 74 C Housing ...... 10 How to get to Goldsmiths ...... 18 Careers ...... 8 6 Choosing courses ...... 82 I Communication Studies ...... 29 Computer facilities ...... 8 1 IELTS ...... 82 Computing ...... 31 Immigration ...... 84 Contact us ...... 1 7 Italian ...... 51 Contents ...... 0 3 Costs ...... 85 J Course information ...... 1 2 Courses ...... 12 Japanese ...... 52 Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship ...... 3 5 Credits ...... 1 2 L Cultural activities ...... 09 Cultural and Social Studies ...... 6 3 Language-learning facilities ...... 81 Languages ...... 50 D Learning, teaching and assessment ...... 15 Learning difficulties ...... 86 Design ...... 3 6 Leisure ...... 09 Directions to Goldsmiths ...... 18 Library facilities ...... 81 Disabled students ...... 86 Living expenses ...... 85 Disclaimer ...... 92 London ...... 0 7 Drama and Theatre Arts ...... 38 M E Mandarin Chinese ...... 5 2 Economics ...... 6 2 Maps ...... 18 Employment ...... 84 Media and Communications ...... 29 English ...... 44 Media facilities ...... 81 English and Comparative Literature ...... 44 Medical Centre ...... 86 English Language ...... 50 Music ...... 53 English Language programmes ...... 17 English Language requirements ...... 82 Entrance requirements ...... 82 Equality and diversity ...... 87 Information > Index 91
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Performing Arts ...... 38 Politics ...... 6 0 Postgraduate programmes ...... 17 Prerequisites ...... 82 Professional and Community Education ...... 6 3 Psychology ...... 6 6
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Research courses ...... 17 Residences ...... 10 Rutherford Building ...... 81
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Social life ...... 0 8 Societies ...... 0 9 Sociology ...... 6 8 South East London ...... 5 1 Spanish ...... 52 Sports ...... 0 9 Students with specific learning difficulties and/or disabilities ...... 8 6 Students’ Union ...... 0 9 Study Abroad students ...... 12 Study facilities ...... 81 Studying at Goldsmiths ...... 14 Support at Goldsmiths ...... 86
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Teaching methods ...... 15 Term dates ...... 8 3 Terms and conditions ...... 87 Textiles ...... 28 Theatre Arts ...... 3 8 TOEFL ...... 8 2 Transport ...... 18 Travel information ...... 18
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Main switchboard +44 (0)20 7919 7171 Visiting and Exchange students Application form 2012-13
Please complete and return this form to: [email protected] or Please print the information you write in black ink. Please see the application form International Partnerships and Developments Team, Goldsmiths, University of guidance notes on page 83. Where there are boxes, please tick a as appropriate. London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK. See www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for the latest course information.
1 Personal details Family name Forename(s) Underline preferred first name
Date of birth (day/month/year) Title eg Miss, Mr Gender Female Male
2 Nationality / domicile If dual nationality put both. Stateless persons should put their travel document number. Please also attach a photocopy of your passport with the passport number clearly visible. Nationality as on passport Nationality as on passport
3 Contact details Current country of residence Home country
Correspondence contact details Eg where you currently live. Tell us immediately if these change Home contact details [eg parental address] Address You are responsible for satisfying yourself that your next of kin have given their consent to this information being given. Address
Postcode/zip code Postcode/zip code
Home telephone Mobile/Cell telephone Telephone Mobile/Cell telephone
E-mail E-mail
4 Proposed period of study 5 Name and address of University/College you currently attend Tick the period(s) of your proposed study
Full academic year Welcome programme 24 September 2012-14 June 2013 starts 19 September 2012
Autumn Welcome programme 24 September 2012-16 December 2012 starts 19 September 2012
Autumn and Spring Welcome programme 24 September 2012-22 March 2013 starts 19 September 2012
Spring Welcome programme 7 January 2013-22 March 2013 starts 5 January 2013
Spring and Summer Welcome programme 7 January 2013-14 June 2013 starts 5 January 2013
6 List the courses you would like to study at Goldsmiths, with alternatives in a related subject area Courses should be as listed in the current edition of the Study Abroad Prospectus; see www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for the latest information. The total number of courses listed should not normally exceed 36 credits for a whole year, 16 credits for Autumn or Spring and 20 credits for Spring and Summer. For all choices, please give alternative courses in a related subject area.
Course code Course title Number of credits Period (eg Autumn) Code of alternative course 7 References and transcripts Please tick as appropriate: Your application will not be dealt with unless you give us a reference and an up-to-date transcript of your grades. Your reference should be written by someone who has taught you recently, or by an academic adviser at your current institution. I enclose my transcript with my application or
My transcript will be sent separately I enclose a reference
8 Disability and/or specific learning difficulties Goldsmiths welcomes applications from students with disabilities and/or specific learning difficulties. If you indicate on this form that you have either or both of these we may send you a questionnaire asking for more information. The purpose of this is to establish whether or not you might need additional support whilst on your programme. Where possible we will do all that we can, in consultation with you, to accommodate your requirements, and will pass the information you provide to anyone in the College who needs it in order to ensure that this service can be provided. Please be assured that this will have no bearing on your academic assessment.
Please tick one or more of the following boxes if you consider yourself to have a disability and/or specific learning difficulty.
No known disability (00) Dyslexia (01) Blind / partially sighted (02)
Deaf / hearing impairment (03) Wheelchair user / mobility (04) Personal care support (05)
Mental health difficulties (06) Unseen disability, eg diabetes, epilepsy (07) Multiple disabilities (08)
A disability not listed (09) Autistic Spectrum Disorder (10)
The Disability Co-ordinator [tel +44 (0)20 7717 2292, e-mail [email protected]] is available to discuss disability issues with applicants. Students and potential students providing disability information to the Disability Co-ordinator are able to specify that it should not be shared with other members of staff, although they should be aware that this may limit the support that can be provided. If you require any special arrangements, please give details here.
9 Next of kin and UK emergency contact Next of kin UK emergency contact Address You are responsible for satisfying yourself that your next of kin have given their consent to this information being given. Address
Postcode/zip code Postcode/zip code
Home telephone Mobile/Cell telephone Telephone Mobile/Cell telephone
E-mail E-mail
10 Fees Please give the name and address of the person responsible for paying your tuition fees, etc. If you are personally responsible for them write ‘self’.
11 Declaration YOU MUST READ AND SIGN THIS DECLARATION I hereby certify that the information I have given on this form is correct and complete, Applicant’s signature and I agree that, if admitted to Goldsmiths I will abide by the Charter, Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of the College. I have read and understood the instructions relating to the completion of this form, and have noted any details particular to the programme for which I am applying. I understand that: • I may be asked to provide documentary evidence in support of any statement made on this form Date • information I have given, or will give, in connection with this application, will be processed according to the Data Protection policy shown on the College’s website at www.gold.ac.uk/data-protection designed to comply with current UK legislation • that if offered a place I will be required as a condition of enrolment to acknowledge receipt of a statement (text available in advance from the College website at the URL above) informing me of the ways in which Goldsmiths routinely processes Where did you hear about Goldsmiths? student data • that the College is unable to accept liability for the suspension and/or cancellation of programmes and courses, although it will inform students of changes as soon as possible. For Office use: Application received: Student ID Number: Deposit required?
Hall offered: Yes No
Study Abroad programme
Accommodation Please staple application 2012-13 a recent passport Please complete and return this form immediately to: photograph here International Partnerships and Developments Team, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK Or you can scan the completed form with a passport size photograph attached and e-mail to [email protected]
1 Personal details Family name Forename
Date of birth (day/month/year) Title eg Miss, Mr Gender Female Male
Nationality Current country of residence
Home contact details Correspondence contact details Tell us immediately if these change Address Address
Postcode/zip code Postcode/zip code
Mobile/Cell telephone Home telephone (including country code) Mobile/Cell telephone Correspondence telephone (inc country code)
E-mail E-mail
Tick the name of university or agency Year of study First Second Third Fourth through which you applied in your current programme
Arcadia Muhlenberg Level Undergraduate I am a Visiting an Exchange of study Student Student CEA Northeastern Postgraduate CIEE University of Pennsylvania
Do you have a disability or medical condition Denver St Norbert Yes No which we should know about or which has specific accommodation requirements? If yes, please give Kalamazoo Other (please state) details on the back of the application form
Area preferences Period of study Please note: we cannot guarantee to accommodate your stated preferences Tick the period of your proposed study
Would you prefer to live in an area which is: Full academic year Spring 24 September 2012-14 June 2013 7 January 2013-22 March 2013 Mixed sex Single sex No Preference Autumn Spring and Summer 24 September 2012-16 December 2012 7 January 2013-14 June 2013 Autumn and Spring 24 September 2012-22 March 2013
Completion of this form does not guarantee you a place in Hall, nor the Hall of your We will not retain your details longer than is prescribed by Goldsmiths, choice. Under the terms of the accommodation agreement, acceptance of a Hall University of London. place is for the full period of your study. Refunds of deposits or fees may not be paid in the event of an early departure. Your signature indicates that you understand Applicant’s signature and agree to these conditions.
The above information is true and correct. I understand that the personal data which I have provided on this form may be stored in paper and/or electronic form in accordance with Goldsmiths policies on Data Protection (available at www.gold.ac.uk/ Date data-protection) and with the provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998). I also understand that under the Data Collection Notice Policy of Residences, Catering & Conference Services I accept the way in which my personal data is going to be handled as detailed at www.gold.ac.uk/accommodation. Please state your disability
What are your specific requirements?
Please note that we will try to meet your requirements wherever possible but this cannot be guaranteed, especially for late applicants.
For Office use
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