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AAP107 The Origins of Humanity AAP113 Revealing the Past 20.00 Credits AUTUMN 20.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: What do we understand about the Aims/Description: This module introduces core archaeological evoutionary history of our own species, Homo sapiens? What principles and field skills of survey, excavation and recording do the fossil and archaeological records tell us about our remote that students practice during a two-week field project embedded ape-like ancestors, or about the early modern human hunters and within a research project. The practical environment enhances gatherers that lived in the last 200 thousand years, or those learning of field skills, understanding of safe working, and immediately after the last ice age? How and when did the employability through a structured programme of interactive earliest farming populatons evolve? This module provides an classes introducing professional practice. Students complete a introduction to these and other questions about the origins of basic Skills Passport which can be developed in future field and humanity, and introduces the methods used by other practical experience.The majority of contact hours are set palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists who study fossil, in the field and laboratory, where students work collaboratively archaeological, and environmental evidence to investigate the on an original programme of archaeological research. Lectures climatic and environmental conditions under which humans and provide additional guidance on the methods employed and the our extinct ancesters lived up to the development of farming. context for the fieldwork.

Staff Contact: Kevin Kuykendall Staff Contact: Colin Merrony Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Fieldwork, Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Independent Study Assessments: Course work, Field work, Skills passport AAP108 World Civilisations AAP115 Emerging Europe: From Storage to 20.00 Credits SPRING Stonehenge & States Aims/Description: The popular image of archaeology is captured by the fictional Indiana Jones in his search for the lost 20.00 Credits AUTUMN secrets of ancient civilisations. This module explores some of the most famous early civilisations, including Mesopotamia, Aims/Description: 'Emerging Europe' explores debates Egypt, and classical Greece and Rome in the Old World, and the concerning the spread of farming, storage-based subsistence and Inca, Maya and Aztecs in the New World. Similarities and 'property' in southwest Asia to Europe; subsequent development differences in the development of these civilisations are of European society from first farming villages, through the evaluated, as are the contentious roles of colonisation, diffusion, early states and literate civilisations of Bronze Age southern trade and world systems. The classic civilisations are placed in a Greece, to Phoenician and Greek colonisation in the Early Iron wider context by looking at human cultures as diverse as Age Mediterranean and the associated developments in lithic, Zimbabwe, the Plains Indians and Easter Island. In conclusion, ceramic and metallurgical technology. The module also the module discusses the relationship between the decline of provides an introduction to the wide range of materials and European colonialism and changing understandings of what it methods that archaeologists use to study the past. The practical may have meant to be 'civilised'. laboratory-based classes provide 'hands-on' experience in basic identification, observation, recording and interpretation of Staff Contact: Hugh Willmott archaeological evidence. The lectures contextualise these Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study practical sessions by illustrating how information generated in Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work the laboratory contributes to the understanding of early human history. AAP110 Classical World and Its Legacy Staff Contact: Paul Halstead Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent 20.00 Credits SPRING Study Aims/Description: Greco-Roman classical civilisation Assessments: Formal Exam, Lab work (particularly the 'high' culture of art, architecture, literature and political institutions) has long been seen as the inspiration for, AAP116 Towards modernity: anthropology, and yardstick against which to judge, modern European culture. archaeology & colonialism The rich and varied evidence of modern archaeology is used to explore how this high culture was supported and experienced by 20.00 Credits AUTUMN ordinary people. The module will consider the nature of Early Aims/Description: This module explores how anthropoloogy Iron Age Greece and its Bronze Age background, the nature of and archaeology developed in early modern Europe, and how its colonies in the Mediterranean, and the development of the this development was shaped by, and mirrored, the cultural and Athenian Empire. The exploration of Italy will begin with the political history of Europe, through the Renaissance, Iron Age peoples of the Italian peninsula, following on to trace Reformation and especially European colonial expansion into the rise of Rome and her empire in the East and the West. The other contenents. Anthropology and archaeology developed to late Roman Empire will be examined with reference to the rise explore European encounters with the 'other' cultures of distant of Christianity and other eastern religions, and this will be places and times. These disciplines have widely served to traced through to the Early Medieval Period in Europe. The role legitimise European exploitation of other continents and to of Islam in the formation of Europe, and the dissemination of promote particular groups and causes within Europe, but latterly Islamic culture, will be considered. The module will conclude have also critiqued such trends. by exploring the place of the Classical world in both modern Europe and the New World. Staff Contact: Paul Halstead Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Staff Contact: Maureen Carroll Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work ACE1360 Ideas That changed The World 20.00 Credits Academic Year Aims/Description: This interdisciplinary module examines the ideas of innovative thinkers and movements within the List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One humanities and social sciences. It assesses the wider impact of their work upon contemporary understanding, behaviour and ACE1887 Exclusion and Inclusion in the society. The module explores periods of radical innovation, for Community example the Enlightenment thinking of the late eighteenth 20.00 Credits SPRING century or societal and cultural changes that came about in the 1960s through the civil rights and women¿s movements. In Aims/Description: This module looks at the social processes exploring these theoretical and practical forces for change that shape inclusions and exclusions in community life. Students (intellectual, social, political, cultural) it considers how different will consider the impact of oppression and marginalisation on approaches to the dissemination of knowledge can individuals and groups, making use of current discourse to fundamentally change our thinking and the ways that we interact identify the causes of unfair treatment and injustice and the with the world we live in. solutions that can be found for communities to transcend and succeed. Students are encouraged to take a critical view of the policy that impacts on inclusion and apply their reading to Staff Contact: Naomi Hetherington explain the experience of exclusion and the opportunities for Teaching Methods: Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Study greater inclusion within their own community context. Assessments: Course work, Oral Presentation 15 mins Staff Contact: Jo Mutlow ACE1361 Time and Humanity Teaching Methods: Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Study Assessments: Course work, Online group task revealed over 3 20.00 Credits Academic Year weeks with group discussions and agreement on a group Aims/Description: In this module, we explore how different summary (presented as a document) cultures have ordered, represented and experienced time, and consider how different approaches to time can be understood. APS119 Animal and Plant Physiology We trace how historical shifts from the agrarian to the industrial may have changed peoples¿ experience of time and the world 10.00 Credits SPRING we live in. We look critically at the ways humans have interpreted time and history through the creation and adaptation Aims/Description: This course is an introduction to the of language, texts and material culture. We also examine physiology of animals, plants and fungi. The course will imaginative representations of past and future time through compare and contrast the ways in which animals, plants and literary analysis, including narratives of the future such as fungi acquire and process energy, nutrients and water, with science fiction and dystopian/utopian fiction. particular attention paid to the relationship between structure and function. Staff Contact: Anthony Warde & David Vessey Staff Contact: Professor Richard Leegood Teaching Methods: Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Study Restrictions: This module cannot be taken in conjunction with Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work APS136 or APS137 Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent ACE1362 Understanding Contemporary Society Study, Assessment Assessments: Formal Exam 20.00 Credits Academic Year Aims/Description: This module interrogates assumptions, arguments and practices that underpin the study of society. We APS120 Reproduction, Development and consider questions such as what is society, how do we study the Growth social field, and how can we best describe and quantify different 10.00 Credits SPRING social phenomena? Students will develop a critical understanding of key assumptions inherent within social Aims/Description: This course is an introduction to the research, and consider how social scientists set out to understand reproduction, development and growth of animals, plants and `normality' or deviance from social norms. The module also fungi. The course will consider: mammalian reproduction, introduces students to the conduct of social research and fertilisation and embryonic development; differentiation and provides experience in developing tools for this research. development in plants; growth and development of fungal colonies; fungal-plant interactions. Staff Contact: Bishnu Pariyar Teaching Methods: Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Study Staff Contact: Professor A Fleming Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Restrictions: This module cannot be taken in conjunction with APS136 or APS137 ACE1813 Researching With Communities Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent Study, Assessment 10.00 Credits SPRING Assessments: Formal Exam Aims/Description: This module is concerned with the development of practical skills which will enable APS121 Evolution implementation of research action within the student's own 10.00 Credits AUTUMN community setting. It will consolidate understanding of community-based enquiry based on action research principles Pre-Requisites: A-Level Biology. and encourage students to critically reflect on aspects of their Aims/Description: This course presents evolution as the central own research practice. The module requires students to select unifying theme of modern biology. It begins with a brief an issue in their community setting to research and to plan, overview of the origin of life and important events in the early implement and evaluate improvements through an action history of life on earth. It goes on to explore evolutionary research approach. mechanisms¿essentially how evolution works. The course also introduces three case studies in evolution.

Staff Contact: Jo Mutlow Staff Contact: Professor Charles Wellman Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Fieldwork, Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent Independent Study, Short project report Study, Assessment Assessments: Project work Assessments: Formal Exam

List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

ontogeny of behaviour and (iv) the causation (or mechanisms) APS122 Biodiversity of behaviour. The course will introduce the major concepts and 10.00 Credits AUTUMN information on specific topics, including sexual behaviour, foraging behaviour and social behaviour in humans and non- Pre-Requisites: A-level Biology. humans. A central theme will be the extent to which animal behaviour can inform us about human behaviour and in Aims/Description: This course introduces the concept of particular the similarities and differences between the biodiversity - what it is and how we measure it. Biodiversity evolutionary approach to animal behaviour and evolutionary will be explored through two case studies: (i) the plant kingdom; psychology. (ii) the animal kingdom. Both kingdoms will be considered in terms of their characteristics, classification, evolutionary Staff Contact: Professor Tim Birkhead history, biodiversity and biogeography. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Fieldwork, Independent Study, Assessment Staff Contact: Professor Charles Wellman Assessments: Formal Exam Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Fieldwork, Independent Study, Assessment Assessments: Formal Exam APS136 Animal Physiology, Reproduction and Development APS123 Population and Community Ecology 1 10.00 Credits SPRING 10.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: This course is an introduction to the Aims/Description: This unit provides an introduction to the physiology, reproduction and development of animals. The ecology of individuals, populations and communities. The course will explore how animals acquire and process energy, ecology of individuals includes a consideration of resource nutrients and water, and will examine fertilisation in mammals acquisition, reproduction and life history trade-offs. Population and embryonic development in a range of vertebrates. ecology includes a consideration of population growth and regulation, and a suite of interactions between species and their Staff Contact: Dr Fiona Hunter environment. Community ecology is concerned with describing Restrictions: Students will not be allowed to take this module and understanding the interactions between and among species, in conjunction with either APS119 or APS120 including intraspecific competition, predation and predator-prey Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent interactions. It extends to pattern and process driving Study, Assessment biodiversity in, and the structure and stability of, ecological Assessments: Formal Exam communities This unit also considers aspects of applied ecology including: conservation principles and priorities; APS137 Plant Physiology, Reproduction and sustainable harvesting of populations; pest control and Development management. 10.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: Dr Andrew Beckerman Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Fieldwork, Aims/Description: This course is an introduction to the Independent Study, Assessment physiology, reproduction, development and growth of plants and Assessments: Formal Exam fungi. The course will explore: the ways in which plants and fungi acquire and process energy, nutrients and water; and how APS124 Ecosystems, Climate and plants and fungal colonies reproduce, grow and develop. Environmental Change Particular attention will be paid to the relationship between structure and function. 10.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: Dr Fiona Hunter Pre-Requisites: A-level Biology Restrictions: This module cannot be taken in conjunction with APS119 or APS120 Aims/Description: The module provides an introduction to Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent ecosystem development and processes, how these are impacted Study, Assessment by environmental change, and how ecosystems influence Assessments: Formal Exam climate. It uses examples of both British and globally important ecosystems to understand the effects of environment on vegetation change and succession. It describes the importance BMS106 Pathobiology of climate in the geographical distribution of terrestrial 10.00 Credits AUTUMN ecosystems, and the responses of ecosystems to disturbance. The prediction of the responses of ecosystems to global Aims/Description: This unit aims to introduce students to the environmental change is also explored. key mechanisms and their interplay that underlie the disease process. Students will learn about microbial pathogens that Staff Contact: Dr Gareth Phoenix cause infection, the inflammatory response and the role of the Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent immune system in fighting disease. Students will also gain Study, Assessment insight into the genetic and environmental basis of disease with Assessments: Formal Exam special reference being made to cancer. Teaching and learning will take place in a formal lecture environment and will be supported by web-based materials. Assessment will be by formal examination APS126 Behaviour of Humans and Other Animals Restrictions: Cannot be taken by BMS students Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study 10.00 Credits SPRING Assessments: Formal Exam Pre-Requisites: A-level Biology. Aims/Description: This unit will provide an introduction to behaviour, focussing on the four fundamental questions: (i) the evolution of behaviour; (ii) the function of behaviour, (iii) the List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

system (NS) and major anatomical regions; the cell types of the BMS107 Developmental Biology NS; functional development; the excitable membrane; synapses, 10.00 Credits AUTUMN transmitters and drugs; receptors and senses; motor control; neuroimaging and the cerebral cortex; memory; the diseased Aims/Description: This unit aims to provide students with a brain; sleep; the role of the hypothalamus in behaviours, e.g., general introduction to Developmental Biology. The approach eating/drinking. Teaching and learning will take place in a will be concept-based, with an emphasis on the importance of traditional lecture environment, and will be supported by cell-cell signalling and the regulation of gene expression in Internet-based materials. Assessment will be by formal generating cell differences in the embryo. The life cycles and examination. At the end of the module, students should have an embryology of the main animal model systems will be covered, appreciation of fundamental aspects of neuroscience. together with an introduction to key embryological, molecular and genetic techniques. The relevance of developmental Restrictions: Cannot be taken by BMS students biology to the study of human disease will be exemplified Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study throughout. Teaching will take place in a formal lecture Assessments: Formal Exam environment, supplemented by a modular tutorial. Assessment will be by formal examination BMS157 Principles of Molecular Biology Restrictions: Cannot be taken by BMS students 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam Pre-Requisites: At least grade A GCSE Biology or Combined Science. Co-requisites: APS125. BMS108 Physiology with Pharmacology Aims/Description: Modern biology is underpinned by advances 20.00 Credits SPRING in molecular biology; this module aims to provide students with Aims/Description: This unit aims to provide students with an a general introduction to genetics and molecular biology. The introduction to human physiology and pharmacology. Whilst content includes: structure of DNA, tools for investigating providing a system-based approach, it will emphasise that nucleic acids, DNA replication, mitosis, meiosis, genetic modern understanding of normal bodily functions and drug recombination, cell cycle control, organisation of genes, treatment requires an integrated understanding of cell and regulation of gene expression, eukaryotic transcription factors molecular biology combined with a basic knowledge of and tools for genetic manipulation. Teaching and learning will anatomical tissue and organ structure. It will also examne the be by lectures environment supported by Internet-based effects of disease and drugs on body function. Teaching and materials. Assessment will be by formal examination. At the learning will take place in a formal lecture environment and will end of the module, students should have an appreciation of be supported by web-based materials Assessment will be by fundamental principles of genetics and molecular biology. formal examination Restrictions: Cannot be taken with APS125 or MBB164. Restrictions: Cannot be taken by BMS students Cannot be taken by BMS students Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam Assessments: Formal Exam

BMS151 Cell Biology BMS158 Introduction to Cell Biology 20.00 Credits AUTUMN 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Cannot be taken with: BMS158, MBB157. Cannot be taken with: BMS151, MBB157. Pre-Requisites: Chemistry at GCSE grade A or higher. Pre-Requisites: Chemistry at GCSE grade A or higher. Aims/Description: This unit aims to provide students with a Aims/Description: This unit aims to provide students with a broad introduction to cell biology. The content involves: a broad introduction to aspects of cell biology. The content description of eukaryotic cell structure including the nature of includes: a description of eukaryotic cell structure including the biomembranes and organelles; the cytoskeleton; cell adhesion; nature of biomembranes; the cytoskeleton; cell adhesion; and the fundamentals of protein synthesis, modification and inter and intra-cellular communication. Teaching and learning secretion; cell metabolism; cellular development and will take place in lectures, supported by web-based materials. specialisation; inter and intra-cellular communication. Teaching Assessment will be by formal examination. At the end of the and learning will be by lectures, and will be supported by web- module, students should have an appreciation of the based materials. Assessment will be by formal examination. At fundamentals of eukaryotic cell biology. the end of the module, students should have an appreciation of Restrictions: Cannot be taken with BMS151. Cannot be taken the fundamentals of eukaryotic cell biology. by BMS students Restrictions: Cannot be taken by BMS students Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study

Assessments: Formal Exam COM160 Computer Problem Solving and BMS153 Neuroscience Object Oriented Design 20.00 Credits SPRING 20.00 Credits Academic Year Pre-Requisites: Students will require a minimum of a GCSE in Pre-Requisites: A-Level at grade C or above in Maths or Biology or Combined Science, grade A as the module content Science or prior knowledge of programming. assumes some prior knowledge of biology. Aims/Description: The first part of this module introduces Aims/Description: This module aims to provide students with a basic concepts of computer programming, through an general introduction to the study of human neuroscience. The introduction to problem solving and the development of simple content involves: a description of the use of model organisms in algorithms using the programming language Python. The neuroscience; a description of the divisions of the nervous module will stress the importance of good programming style List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One and good code design and will introduce how an object-oriented fluids, ideal flow and flow measurement, laminar and turbulent approach can help to achieve these aims. flow, boundary layer development and pipe flow, and the principles of heat conduction and convection. Material is The second part of this module introduces some of the illustrated using problems associated with chemical-engineering fundamental principles of object oriented programming and practice. software engineering using the Java Programming Language. In particular it covers the principles that underlie the structuring of Staff Contact: Dr G Priestman software and introduces models of real-world systems. Techniques for developing sound programming techniques are Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Laboratory introduced and applied. work, Independent Study Staff Contact: Dr M Hepple & Dr L Specia Assessments: Formal Exam, Lab work Restrictions: Not open to students from the Department of Notes Forms an integral part of a degree programme accredited Computer Science or students who are taking or have taken by the Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Institute of COM161 and COM162 Energy, and part of MChem and MEng degrees accredited by Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institution of Chemical Study Engineers. Assessments: Course work, Lab work, MOLE Quizzes Notes This unit forms part of an accredited degree programme EAS103 The History of Korea 20.00 Credits SPRING COM161 Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving Aims/Description: The module provides an overall view of Korean history from pre-historic times to the present. Although 10.00 Credits AUTUMN all periods of history will be considered, greatest attention will Pre-Requisites: A Level grade C or above in maths or science be paid to the last century. The student will become acquainted or prior knowledge of programming. with major political issues, social movements and key figures in Korean history. Aims/Description: This module introduces basic concepts of computer programming, through an introduction to problem Staff Contact: Dr J Cherry solving and the development of simple algorithms using the Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study programming language Python. The module will stress the Assessments: Course work importance of good programming style and good code design and will introduce how an object-oriented approach can help to EAS107C Japanese for Non-Specialists I acheive these aims. 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: Dr M Hepple Restrictions: Not open to students from the Department of Aims/Description: This course is designed for students who Computer Science or students who are taking or have taken have no prior knowledge of the Japanese language and is COM160 intended for students taking degrees other than Japanese Single Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent or Dual Honours, who wish to acquire practical skills in the Study Japanese language or the foundations for further study. Japanese Assessments: Lab work, MOLE quizzes script will be used throughout and focus placed on elementary Notes This unit forms part of an accredited degree programme structures and core phrases for basic communication. This version of the module (with the suffix C) is open to Level COM162 Object Oriented Design and 1 students only Programming with Java Staff Contact: Ms Yuki Kittaka 10.00 Credits SPRING Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam, Tests and assignments Pre-Requisites: Some programming skill in any language, ideally from COM161. EAS108C Japanese for Non-Specialists II Aims/Description: This module introduces some of the fundamental principles of object oriented programming and 20.00 Credits SPRING software engineering using the Java Programming Language. In Aims/Description: This module builds on EAS107, with an particular it covers the principles that underlie the structuring of emphasis on learning more basic structures and using them for software and introduces models of real-world systems. communication. A further 95 kanji (Sino-Japanese characters) Techniques for developing sound programming techniques are will be introduced as reading and writing tasks become more introduced and applied. complex. Staff Contact: Dr Lucia Specia This version of the module (with the suffix C) is open to Level 1 Restrictions: Not open to students from the Department of students only. Computer Science or students who are taking or have taken COM160 Staff Contact: Ms Yuki Kittaka Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Study Assessments: Formal Exam, Tests and assignments Assessments: Course work, Lab work, MOLE quizzes Notes This unit forms part of an accredited degree programme EAS110 East Asian Cinema 20.00 Credits AUTUMN CPE106 Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer Aims/Description: We will examine key film directors, 10.00 Credits SPRING cinematic movements and industry developments since 1945 Co-requisites: AMA157 or equivalent. from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China. This module will introduce you to some of the key Aims/Description: The unit introduces the fundamentals of cinematic theoretical frameworks such as national and global fluid mechanics and heat transfer. It includes the properties of cinemas, gender, spectatorship and will examine the ways in List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One which selected East Asian films and directors interact with the the economic policies of the Maoist era and the Cultural history and culture of their respective nations. This module is Revolution; the transition strategy adopted in the 1980s; China's designed to encourage students to critically examine both the opening up to foreign trade; the abandonment of socialism and text (the films themselves) and the context (the national the transition to capitalism; current economic problems. A wide environment) that surrounds any film work. range of development indicators such as GDP per head, inequality and human development are considered so the Staff Contact: Kate Taylor-Jones approach adopted in the course is not narrowly economic. Some Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study, prior knoweldge of basic economics is useful but is certainly not Film screening required to do well on this module. Assessments: Course work, Presentation Staff Contact: School of East Asian Studies Restrictions: None EAS118C Chinese for Non-Specialists I Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Cannot be taken with: EAS114. Aims/Description: This module aims to equip students with no EAS134 Japanese Literature prior knowledge of Mandarin Chinese to acquire basic practical 10.00 Credits SPRING language skills, in listening, reading, speaking and writing. On successful completion of the module students will; have a Aims/Description: The world's first novel was written by a vocabulary of about 250 words related to daily life, understand Japanese woman, Murasaki Shikibu, in the 11th Century. The simple sentences and classroom expressions related to daily Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to two Japanese activities, be able to obtain specific information from written authors: Kawabata Yasunari in 1968 and Oe Kenzaburo in 1994. and audio materials, be able to communicate with others Today, Murakami Haruki (The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, (making greetings, introductions and farewells, expressing Norwegian Wood) is a significant force in contemporary simple emotions and feelings, enquiring about time, personal literature and is widely read throughout the world. This module attributes and places); and be able to write ca. 140 characters in offers an introduction to Japanese literature from its beginnings simple sentences or forms. This version of the module (with the to the present day. Lectures introduce key works within their suffix C) is open to Level 1 students only. social and historical contexts. Seminars are student-led and offer opportunites to explore individual authors and their works Staff Contact: Mei Zhang in more depth. By the end of the course you will have read a Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study, Audio-visual selection of Japanese literature in English-language translation showings and gained a broad understanding of the range and diversity of fiction produced across several centuries. Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Staff Contact: Dr Angela Coutts Notes Numbers limited to maximum of 20 Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study EAS119C Chinese for Non-Specialists II Assessments: Course work, Seminar participation 10.00 Credits SPRING EAS135 Contemporary Chinese Politics Cannot be taken with: EAS115. 10.00 Credits SPRING Pre-Requisites: EAS118. Aims/Description: This unit discusses the major changes in the Aims/Description: This module aims to equip students with country's governance since the establishment of the People's some prior knowledge of Mandarin Chinese (ca. 250 Chinese Republic of China in 1949. Major topics discussed in this unit characters) with further practical language skills in listening, include the ideology of Chinese communism, the rise and reading, speaking and writing. On successful completion of the decline of Chinese communism, how the Chinese Communist unit, students will have mastered around 270 new words related Party governs China, how the central government and local to daily life; understand longer sentences and classroom governments work together, how Chinese leaders are selected, expressions related to daily activities; be able to obtain specific how the emergence of the middle class affects the relationship information from written and audio materials; be able to between the state and society, etc. communicate in making phone calls, asking directions, taking public transport, shopping, ordering food, describing things; be Staff Contact: Gosia Jakimów able to write around 160 new characters in simple sentences or Restrictions: None forms. This version of the module (with the suffix C) is open to Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study Level 1 students only. Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Presentation

Staff Contact: Mei Zhang EAS137 Japanese Politics Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study, Audio-visual 10.00 Credits AUTUMN sessions Aims/Description: This module will explore some of the main Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work questions asked by outsiders about contemporary Japanese Notes Numbers limited to total of 20 politics. It begins by providing the background of Japan's own political traditions. It will then introduce and examine a range of issues that the Japanese state and its people have been grappling EAS133 Chinese Economic Development with since 2000, including the leadership role of the prime 10.00 Credits SPRING minister, the rise of nationalism, Japan's remilitarisation and the triple disasters of 2011. Aims/Description: This module looks at the economic development of China between 1949 and the present day. Topics Staff Contact: Professor Hugo Dobson to be covered include economic performance during the 1950s; Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study the Great Famine of the early 1960s (which killed 30 million); Assessments: Course work List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Japan's economic development from the mid-19th century to the EAS138 Japanese History late 2000s and discuss then in detail major characteristics of 10.00 Credits AUTUMN industrial structure and management practices such as human resource management and corporate governance. Aims/Description: This module is a survey course of Japanese history and covers from the ancient period to the modern period Staff Contact: Dr Harald Conrad until WWII. Main issues include: the establishment, Restrictions: None transformation and demise of the centraised state in the ancient period; the power transition in the samurai military rule in the Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study medieval period; the establishment of sakoku and the opening of the country and fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the Edo Assessments: Formal Exam, Continuous assessment period; and Japanese imperialism in the modern period from the first Sino-Japanese War until WWII. Videos are often used to EAS160 Modern Chinese History assist students' learning. 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: Dr H Watanabe Aims/Description: This module aims to provide students with a Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study good understanding of China's modern history. It does this by examining the major developments that marked China's Assessments: Course work, Presentation twentieth century, from the fall of the last emperor, through intellectual ferment of the 1920s, war with Japan, and the EAS139 The Languages and Writing Systems coming to power of the Communist Party, to the Cultural of East Asia Revolution in the 1960s. Through a combination of lectures, seminars and film classes, students will be encouraged to 20.00 Credits SPRING develop a critical understanding of these events and their Aims/Description: This module introduces the distinctive influence; they will also be asked to consider the relative characteristics of the languages of East Asia and their writing significance of other changes that can not be linked to major systems. You don¿t have to know or to be learning an East events, in urban culture, in the status of women, or in mass Asian language to take it. You don¿t have to know any communication, from newspapers to propaganda posters. linguistics to take it ¿ although there is some linguistic theory, Staff Contact: Dr Marjorie Dryburgh the emphasis is on the languages rather than on the terminology and theory used by linguists to describe and explain them. The Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study, module covers Japan, China, Korea and (because linguistically it Film classes belongs to East Asia) Vietnam, as well as certain minority languages. I believe it is important to see the issues `in action¿ Assessments: Course work in specific languages, and so the seminar classes are dedicated to an introduction to the (very!) basics of two languages of the EAS168 Chinese Culture and Society region: the language that we deal with in the first half is Uyghur; the language of the second half is Shuri Okinawan. 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: Dr Nicolas Tranter Aims/Description: This module aims to provide students with a basic introduction to contemporary Chinese culture and society. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study It does this by exploring some of the key areas and themes which define culture and society in China today. These include Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Language tests national identity, values and beliefs, religious traditions, the family and education. Students shall also be introduced to some EAS142 Environment and Society in East Asia of the basic academic debates on Chinese culture and society (ranging from what it means to 'be Chinese' today, to the rise of 20.00 Credits SPRING consumerism in China over recent years), and shall discuss these Aims/Description: This unit will examine the interdependent during seminars. relationship between East Asian society and the natural Staff Contact: Gosia Jakimów environment. The course will be in three broad sections. The first will provide an overview of economic and social Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study development in East Asia and its globalisation. The second and third sections will look at the impact of that development on Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work bio-diversity and the Earth's climate. The unit will approach these topics through the development of key concepts in social EAS171C Korean for Non-Specialists 1 and environmental studies and the employment of a series of case studies. 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: Dr. Peter Matanle Aims/Description: This module aims to allow students with no prior knowledge of Korean to acquire basic practical language Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study skills, in listening, reading, speaking and writing. On successful completion of the module students will; have a vocabulary of Assessments: Course work about 250 words related to daily life, understand simple sentences and classroom expressions related to daily activities, EAS144 Japan's Economy and Management be able to obtain specific information from written and audio materials, be able to communicate with others (making 10.00 Credits SPRING greetings, giving and asking personal information and holding Aims/Description: Japan's rise to a global economic power is simple conversations); and be able to write in simple sentences one of the most fascinating stories in modern economic history. or forms. In roughly 100 years the country turned itself from a largely This version of the module (with the suffix C) is open to Level 1 agricultural society into an industrialized and technologically students only. highly advanced nation. This module focuses on the economic Staff Contact: Sukyeon Cho structures and management practices underlying this Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study development. The course will first give a historical overview of Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Speaking test List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

interplay between national contexts and globalised movements EAS172C Korean for Non-Specialists 2 in education. Topics will include: purposes and processes of a 10.00 Credits SPRING comparative approach to understanding education; the development of educational ideas, their values and practices; Aims/Description: This module aims to allow students with culture and education; and globalisation and education. some elementary knowledge of Korean to acquire further practical language skills, in listening, reading, speaking and Staff Contact: Dr Darren Webb writing. On successful completion of the module students will; Teaching Methods: Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Study have a vocabulary of about 400 words related to daily life, Assessments: Course work, presentation plus 2,000 word report understand and use the written forms of all the introduced core grammar patterns; EDU107 Child Psychology and understand selected simple spoken and written structures 20.00 Credits SPRING and be able to use them as spoken and written communication. This version of the module (with the suffix C) is open to Level 1 Aims/Description: This module explores the relationship students only. between psychological theory and educational policy and practice, considering some of the ways in which Education and Staff Contact: Sukyeon Cho Local Authority services have been influenced by ideas about children developed in psychological research. Some of the core Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study concepts of Psychology are introduced such as cognitive Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Speaking test psychology (intelligence, language and learning), behaviourism (including modification techniques), social and emotional development (including family and attachment, trauma) as well EDU104 Education, Power and Society: as the study of individual differences (with reference to Introduction to the Sociology of psychopathologies such as autism, attention deficit/hyperactivity Education disorder). 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: Darren Webb Aims/Description: This module explores the relationship Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent between educational institutions/cultures/systems and social Study inequalities. We focus on class, gender, ethnicity and disability and look at the ways in which education systems serve to tackle Assessments: Course work or reproduce patterns of inequality and relations of power. The module also evaluates different policy frameworks and goals. EDU108 Social and Historical Constructions of For example, whether the focus of education policy should be Childhood placed on nurturing active citizenship (and what this would look like) or whether the main priority should be to serve the needs of 20.00 Credits SPRING the economy (and how this might be achieved). Aims/Description: In this module students will explore how Staff Contact: Darren Webb childhood has been portrayed across different societies and at different times, and will examine how childhoods are shaped Teaching Methods: Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Study and influenced by the societies in which children live, learn and Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work are cared for. Through a series of lectures, group work and individual study tasks, students will think about the ways in which childhood has changed over time and how different views EDU105 Critical Curriculum Study and perspectives on childhood create different expectations of 20.00 Credits AUTUMN children. Through the study of historical and social constructions of childhood, students will develop a fuller Aims/Description: The curriculum is often taken for granted by understanding of how ways of working with children can be those who experience it, such as parents, students and teachers. shaped by external influences. This module poses questions about curriculum - what is it and who is it for? Different perspectives on curriculum are explored Staff Contact: Darren Webb to establish a framework for critical curriculum study. After Teaching Methods: Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Study examining school curriculum reform both in England and in international contexts, the module will focus in depth on a single Assessments: Course work case study curriculum in England. This focused study will be carried out from the perspective of curriculum history, policy Introduction to Electric and reform, analysis and implementation through research involving Electronic Circuits classroom-based curriculum development. EEE123 Staff Contact: Darren Webb 20.00 Credits Academic Year Teaching Methods: Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Study Aims/Description: This module introduces the concepts and analytical tools for predicting the behaviour of combinations of Assessments: Course work passive circuit elements, resistance, capacitance and inductance driven by ideal voltage and/or current sources which may be ac EDU106 Histories of Education or dc sources. The ideas involved are important not only from the point of view of modelling real electronic circuits but also 20.00 Credits SPRING because many complicated processes in biology, medicine and Aims/Description: This unit introduces students to cross- mechanical engineering are themselves modelled by electric cultural perspectives on education. It takes a comparative circuits. The passive ideas are extended to active electronic approach to understanding the development of educational components; diodes, transistors and operational amplifiers and ideas, systems and practices by drawing attention to different the circuits in which these devices are used. Transformers, cultural and historical contexts. In helping students question magnetics and dc motors are also covered. and challenge dominant ideas about education and its purposes, the module will use auto/biography, literary critique, policy analysis, case studies and country studies to examine the List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Staff Contact: R.C. Tozer learning, translation and composition. These activities are supported by weekly conversation classes/skills workshops run Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Laboratory by native speaking lectures. At the end of the first semester, work, Independent Study students take a written examination which consists of a Assessments: Formal Exam, Lab work translation from French into English and a grammar test. Staff Contact: * FRE107 French Studies I Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, continuos Pre-Requisites: FRE108. assessment in oral classes Co-requisites: Language and Communication Skills I and II. FRE110 Language and Communication Skills Aims/Description: This is the first of two linked consecutive II modules which provide an introduction to the study of French culture and society, constructed as a series of methodological 10.00 Credits SPRING questions about literature, cinema, theatre, politics, etc. (such as, Aims/Description: This module is the second of two linked How to read a film, or how to read postcolonialism). The unit consecutive modules on language and communication skills in functions to introduce students to the range of sub-disciplines French. As in Semester One, the module is taught in two one that make up French studies, and to equip them with skills in the hour critical analysis of those sub-disciplines, via case studies and set texts. It also presents students with a grounding in areas of seminars and focuses in particular on comprehension, more French studies that they can explore more thoroughly via advanced grammar classes module choice at levels two and three. The unit is team-taught and uses a combination of lectures and seminars. It is assessed and the skills required for writing compositions and résumés. by means of a 90-minute written exam. These activities are supported by weekly conversation classes/skills workshops run by native speaking lectures. At the Staff Contact: * end of the second semester, students take a written examination which requires them to write a résumé of a text in French and to Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study complete a grammar test, based on topics covered in class Assessments: Formal Exam during the semester. Staff Contact: * FRE108 French Studies II Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study 10.00 Credits SPRING Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, continuous Pre-Requisites: Students should normally have a grade B in assessment in oral classes French at 'A' level., FRE207. Co-requisites: Language and Communication Skills I and II. FRE111 French Critical Contexts I Aims/Description: This module is the second of two linked 10.00 Credits AUTUMN consecutive modules which provide an introduction to the study Aims/Description: This module will focus on two important of French culture and society, constructed as a series of French texts (with `text' taken in its largest sense of book, film, methodological questions about literature, cinema, theatre, art work, piece of music, cultural product, etc.). Each text will politics, etc. (such as, How to read a film, or how to read form the basis for a close reading, followed by analyses using postcolonialism). The unit functions to introduce students to the French cultural, historical, literary and critical theory range of sub-disciplines that make up French studies, and to approaches as well as adaptations into other media (such as film, equip them with the skills in the critical art and music) where appropriate. The module will be taught analysis of those sub-disciplines, via case studies and set texts. It and assessed in English, but the materials will be made available also presents students in both French and English, with French students required to use and cite the French materials. The aim of the module is to with a grounding in areas of French studies that they can explore introduce students to significant French texts and to illustrate more thoroughly via module and explore a range of possible critical approaches to them, including cross-media or intermedial reinterpretations. choice at levels two and three. The unit is team-taught and uses a combination of lectures and seminars. It is assessed by means Staff Contact: Dr Helen Abbott of a 90-minute written exam. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study Staff Contact: * Assessments: Course work Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam FRE112 French Critical Contexts II 10.00 Credits SPRING FRE109 Language and Communication Skills I Aims/Description: This module will focus on two important French texts (with `text' taken in its largest sense of book, film, 10.00 Credits AUTUMN art work, piece of music, cultural product, etc.). Each text will form the basis for a close reading, followed by analyses using Aims/Description: This module is the first of two linked French cultural, historical, literary and critical theory consecutive modules which develop language and approaches as well as adaptations into other media (such as film, communication skills in French, and which aim to ensure that art and music) where appropriate. The module will be taught students attain a good level of competence in both written and and assessed in English, but the materials will be made available spoken French. The module is taught in two one-hour seminars in both French and English, with French students required to use per week and combines communicative exercises, and cite the French materials. The aim of the module is to comprehension, presentations and debates with grammar introduce students to significant French texts and to illustrate List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One and explore a range of possible critical approaches to them, including cross-media or intermedial reinterpretations. GEO103 Region, Nation and World Staff Contact: Dr Audrey Small 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study Pre-Requisites: A-level or equivalent Geography (Human Geography). Assessments: Course work Aims/Description: The first part of this module describes the main elements and key issues involved in the global economic FRE113 Des Gaulois à de Gaulle: histoire system. In the second part the uneven development process pratique du français within the global economy is examined. In the third part it is 10.00 Credits AUTUMN shown how economic activities at the local level are similarly moulded by global influences. Aims/Description: This is an introduction to the history of the French language designed to explain how certain tricky aspects Staff Contact: Dr Desiree Fields of modern French, the past historic tense, spelling, Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study pronunciation, forms of the subjunctive, for example, came to be as they are, in order to help learners master them effectively; Assessments: Course work, Project work modern developments such as French SMS language and colloquialisms are also covered. It offers a complement to GEO108 Earth's Changing Surface formal study of linguistics, especially historical linguistics; it is taught in English, but course materials are provided in French, 10.00 Credits SPRING and emphasise throughout the practical application of knowledge acquired to increase competence in the French Aims/Description: Geomorphology is the science that language. investigates the landforms of the earth; mountains, valleys, slopes, river beds and dunes. All landforms have a beginning, a Staff Contact: Professor Penny Simons period of development and an end. When viewed in the framework of earth history they are essentially events in space Restrictions: NONE: this is an unrestricted credit module open and time which change during the course of their existence. This to anyone with appropriate qualification module introduces the fundamental principles of such landscape Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study development considering issues such as temporal and spatial Assessments: Class tests, using MCQ and short answer formats; scale, equilibrium and interaction between different landscape first test = 30% of grade, second = 70% processes and components. Staff Contact: Dr Rob Bryant

FRE114 The World of French Words Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study 10.00 Credits SPRING Assessments: Formal Exam Aims/Description: This module offers an introduction to the GEO112 Introducing Social and Cultural design and carrying out of an independent research project. Geographies Students work in small groups to devise their own investigation into a general area of French vocabulary, such as words for 10.00 Credits SPRING animals, food and drink, types of clothing or colours and patterns; each group produces a written report and contributes a Aims/Description: This module provides an introduction to presentation to a mini-conference held at the end of the social and cultural geography focusing on a range of key semester, organised jointly by the students and module leaders. concepts, current debates and contemporary issues. The module The module emphasises specific and transferable skills gained: outlines current geographical thinking about space and place; effective use of dictionaries, team-working, oral and written culture and nature; and social exclusion. Drawing examples presentation and project management. from around the world and at a variety of geographical scales, the module explores the contested nature of our social world and Staff Contact: Professor Penny Simons conflicting conceptions of our place in nature/culture. Restrictions: NONE: this is an unrestricted credit module open Staff Contact: Dr Megan Blake to anyone with appropriate qualification Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study, Organisation/participation in mini-conference Assessments: Formal Exam

Assessments: Group report (5000 words) 60% GEO164 Understanding and Managing Environmental Issues GEO101 Physical Systems At The Global Scale 10.00 Credits SPRING 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Aims/Description: This module will introduce students to a Aims/Description: This course is intended to provide an wide range of environmental issues facing the world today. introduction to the general principles of physical geography for Issues such as climate change, water resources, water quality, students with diverse backgrounds. Using a systems-based large-scale land use change, biodiversity loss and human approach to physical geography, four environmental systems vulnerability to natural hazards will be considered. The physical will be examined: the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the processes underlying these issues will be explored and different geosphere and the cryosphere. The final part of the course will management responses will be evaluated. In the final part of the consider the interactions between physical systems and also the module, students will have the opportunity to investigate a changes and consequences of systems change, such as climatic specific case study in detail. change, over time and space. Staff Contact: Dr Andy Dean Staff Contact: Professor Edward Hanna Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

means of lectures and tutorials on periods, thinkers and literary GEO165 New Horizons in Geography texts. 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: Dr Caroline Bland Aims/Description: Academic Geography is a wide and vibrant Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study field. Geographers contribute actively to new intellectual debates in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. And Assessments: Course work their work addresses some of the most pressing issues facing the modern world, from climate change to social inequality, GER106 German Studies - Aufbaukurs informing policy and practice. The module provides level 1 Geography students with a challenging but accessible insight 10.00 Credits SPRING into the cutting edge of contemporary geographical research and how it helps us understand our changing world. It therefore Pre-Requisites: A level German. serves as bridge between the general introductory modules of Co-requisites: GER105. the level 1 BA and BSc courses in Geography, and the more specialist modules taught at levels 2 and 3. Furthermore, it Aims/Description: This half-module completes the introductory provides an opportunity to see the difference that a geographical survey of modern German history and culture from 1789 to the perspective can make to our understanding of some of the present. Students will, upon completion, be equipped to make an largest challenges facing the world. Each year, a selection of informed choice from the modules offered at levels 2 and 3. topical issues in contemporary physical and human geography will be explored by academics actively engaged in cutting edge Staff Contact: Dr Caroline Bland research on those subjects. The course will be taught via lectures Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study and guided reading. Assessments: Course work Staff Contact: Dr Andrew McGonigle Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study GER107 Beginners Dutch 1 Assessments: Formal Exam 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Aims/Description: Dutch is a language that you can pick up GER103 Grundsprachkurs quickly, especially if you already have knowledge of German or another modern language. If you approach it with enthusiasm, 10.00 Credits AUTUMN you will find that you can reach a high level of competence in a Pre-Requisites: A-Level German (Grade B) or equivalent. relatively short time (A1 by the end of GER107 and A2 by the end of GER108). You do not need previous knowledge of Dutch Co-requisites: GER104. to take this course. In addition to the language hours there will Aims/Description: This half-module will extend and deepen the be one Dutch Studies seminar per week on Dutch and Flemish various language-skills of students with 'A' level or equivalent culture and history. The core material for the course is German. Nederlands in gang, which will be provided during the first week. The total cost will be about £25. Staff Contact: Dr Caroline Bland Staff Contact: Dr Henriette Louwerse Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study, oral classes Restrictions: Cannot be taken with GER110 Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Oral exams and class contributions Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study, oral classes GER104 Aufbausprachkurs Assessments: Formal Exam 10.00 Credits SPRING GER108 Beginners Dutch 2 Pre-Requisites: A level German (Grade B). 20.00 Credits SPRING Co-requisites: GER103. Aims/Description: This module is a continuation of Beginners Aims/Description: This will build upon the various language- Dutch 1. You will continue to build on your reading, speaking, skills taught in the 'Grundsprachkurs' module (GER103), writing and listening skills in Dutch. preparing students for the more advanced language work at levels 2 and 3. Staff Contact: Dr Henriette Louwwerse Staff Contact: Dr Caroline Bland Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study, oral classes Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study, oral classes Assessments: Formal Exam, oral examination Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Oral contributions in German GER110 Dutch Intermediate 40.00 Credits Academic Year GER105 German Studies - Basiskurs Cannot be taken with: GER107C, GER107H, GER107I, 10.00 Credits AUTUMN GER108C, GER108H, GER108I. Pre-Requisites: A level German or equivalent. Pre-Requisites: GCSE Level Dutch or equivalent proficiency. Co-requisites: GER106. Aims/Description: The module is designed for those students who choose to study Dutch at Level One and already have Aims/Description: This half-module introduces students to the acquired a basic knowledge of the language before coming to study of German history and culture from 1789 to the present by the University (GCSE level). The module will consist of two parts: General Language and Society. The General Language List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One sessions specifically concentrate on extending students' introduce students to salient aspects of German history, politics, vocabulary, increasing their insight into the more complicated literature, culture and thought since ca. 1870). grammatical patterns, and improving their oral skills and both their written and spoken comprehension. The Society hour Staff Contact: Dr Giles Harrington offers an introduction to the history, culture and structure of Restrictions: GER103, GER104 and GER105, GER106 Dutch Society. The approach is thematic and aims to provide a deeper insight into the history and society of the Dutch speaking Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Problem solving, areas. Independent Study Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work HCS113 Lifespan Communicative and GER114 Deutschsprachige Texte lesen und Cognitive Development verstehen 20.00 Credits SPRING 20.00 Credits Academic Year Aims/Description: This module aims to develop understanding Pre-Requisites: Elementary Word-Processing. of communicative development and change throughout the Aims/Description: A German-language-based course in which lifespan. This includes exploration of the relationships between German texts of different styles and registers are closely read for different levels of communicative competence and cognitive, contextual meaning as well as linguistic formulation. Texts will social and emotional issues. Students follow the developmental include novels, short stories, newspaper articles and progression of communicative changes from infants to the contemporary poetry. elderly, including theories of the language acquisition; grammar; phonology; and vocabulary and meaning. Staff Contact: Dr Nick Hodgin Staff Contact: Dr Tom Muskett Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Assessments: Course work Assessments: Formal Exam GER120 Beginners' German I HCS114 Introduction to Communication 20.00 Credits AUTUMN 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Aims/Description: GER120 and GER121 are two linked modules (Sem 1/2) that introduce a beginners' pathway to the Aims/Description: This module aims to introduce students to Germanic Studies Department's Honours German course, which the nature and scope of human communication, language and hitherto has had A-level or equivalent in German as a their impairments. It provides conceptual frameworks and a prerequisite. Henceforth, students with no German but A-level detailed elementary coverage of the following areas: the or equivalent knowledge of another modern foreign language communication chain, verbal and non-verbal communication, will be able to study German through to B.A. Hons level on our human and animal communication, speech, grammar, programmes. The modules applied for will be complemented vocabulary, language use, multilingualism, language variation, soon by Level 2 continuation modules. The new L1 modules language in society, and speech and language impairments. will have (a) an intensive ab initio German Language strand (4/5 Staff Contact: Dr Sandra Whiteside teaching hrs p.w., native speaker taught, using one of the following proprietory coursebooks: Menschen (hueber) or DaF Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Kompakt (Klett); and (b) a German Studies course (2 teaching hrs p.w., a lecture plus a small-group tutorial seminar, which Assessments: Formal Exam introduce students to salient aspects of German history, politics, literature, culture and thought since ca. 1870). HSS130 Spanish Advanced: Language and Culture I Staff Contact: Dr Giles Harrington 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Problem solving, Independent Study Cannot be taken with: HSS140C, HSS140H, HSS140M. Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Pre-Requisites: 'A'-Level Spanish Grade B or equivalent. Aims/Description: These linked modules HSS130 and HSS131 GER121 Beginners' German II develop and consolidate skills acquired at A-level in the 20.00 Credits SPRING reception and production of written and spoken Spanish, providing opportunities to improve accuracy and authenticity of Aims/Description: GER120 and GER121 are two linked language produced. Four full-length texts are studied (two in modules (Sem 1/2) that introduce a beginners' pathway to the each semester and which may include poetry, play, short story Germanic Studies Department's Honours German course, which and novel) to prepare students for core and optional modules at hitherto has had A-level or equivalent in German as a level 2. One lecture per week provides an introduction to the prerequisite. Henceforth, students with no German but A-level institutions and cultures of Spain and Latin America. or equivalent knowledge of another modern foreign language will be able to study German through to B.A. Hons level on our Tutorials held twice a semester support study of materials programmes. The modules applied for will be complemented covered in the larger classes. soon by Level 2 continuation modules. The new L1 modules Staff Contact: Dr Hayley Rabanal will have (a) an intensive ab initio German Language strand (4/5 teaching hrs p.w., native speaker taught, using one of the Restrictions: Cannot be taken with HSS140 following proprietory coursebooks: Menschen (hueber) or DaF Kompakt (Klett); and (b) a German Studies course (2 teaching Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent hrs p.w., a lecture plus a small-group tutorial seminar, which Study Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Oral assessment List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Assessments: Formal Exam, Oral assessment HSS131 Spanish Advanced: Language and Culture II HSS150 Introduction to Latin American 20.00 Credits SPRING History Cannot be taken with: HSS141C, HSS141H, HSS141M. 10.00 Credits SPRING Pre-Requisites: HSS130. Aims/Description: This module provides a survey of some of the major developments in Latin America since 1492. It covers Aims/Description: These linked modules HSS130 and HSS131, the European Conquest, the Colonial Period, the Slave Trade, develop and consolidate skills acquired at A-level in the Independence, the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions, US/Latin reception and production of written and spoken Spanish, American relations and key political, social and historical providing opportunities to improve accuracy and authenticity of dynamics since 2000. language produced. Four full-length texts are studied (two in each semester and which may include poetry, play, short story Staff Contact: Dr Peter Watt and novel) to prepare students for core and optional modules at level 2. One lecture per week provides an introduction to the Restrictions: This module cannot be taken by students institutions and cultures of Spain and Latin America. registered for HSS130, HSS131, HSS140 or HSS141 Tutorials held twice a semester support study of materials Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study covered in the larger classes. Assessments: Formal Exam Staff Contact: Dr Hayley Rabanal HSS151 Introduction to Spanish History 1808- Restrictions: Cannot be taken with HSS141 1975 Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Study Aims/Description: This module surveys the major Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Oral assessment developments in Spanish history from the outbreak of the War of Independence in 1808 to the death of General Francisco HSS140C Spanish Beginners: Language and Franco in 1975. It will examine changes in the political Culture I constitution of the Spanish state and outline the characteristics of each of the main historical periods. 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: Dr Anna Vives Cannot be taken with: HSS130. Restrictions: This module cannot be taken by students Pre-Requisites: A Level in a Modern Language, normally registered for HSS130, HSS131, HSS140 or HSS141 grade B. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study Aims/Description: These linked modules HSS140 and HSS141 are designed to introduce the major structures of Spanish, to Assessments: Formal Exam build basic vocabulary, and to develop elementary skills in the reception and production of both the written and spoken HSS180C Portuguese Beginners: Language and language. The language materials used provide an introduction Culture I to aspects of Hispanic culture and society. In addition to three hours of written language, students also receive one hour of oral 20.00 Credits AUTUMN tuition per week. Students will also study the culture and history of Spain and Latin America (I hour lecture per week). Cannot be taken with: HSS190. Staff Contact: Dr Pete Watt Pre-Requisites: A good grade in a Modern Language. Restrictions: Cannot be taken with HSS130 Aims/Description: The linked modules HSS180 and HSS181, Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study will focus on the acquisition of basic competences and Assessments: Formal Exam, Oral assessment grammatical principles of spoken and written Portuguese. Attention will be given to aural/oral skills through interactive HSS141C Spanish Beginners: Language and teaching. Study materials will be introduced relevant to the Culture II diverse dimensions of the Lusophone world (Portuguese, Brazil, Africa, Asia). 20.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: C Ramos Villar Cannot be taken with: HSS191C, HSS131. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Pre-Requisites: HSS140C. Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Oral assessment Aims/Description: These linked modules HSS140 and HSS141 are designed to introduce the major structures of Spanish, to build basic vocabulary, and to develop elementary skills in the HSS181C Portuguese Beginners: Language and reception and production of both the written and spoken Culture II language. The language materials used provide an introduction 20.00 Credits SPRING to aspects of Hispanic culture and society. In addition to three hours of written language, students also receive one hour of oral Pre-Requisites: HSS180C. tuition per week. Students will also study the culture and history of Spain and Latin America (I hour lecture per week). Aims/Description: The course builds upon HSS180 Portuguese Beginners: Language and Culture I. Its aim is to continue to Staff Contact: Dr Pete Watt focus on the acquisition of basic competences and grammatical principles of spoken and written Portuguese. Attention will be Restrictions: Cannot be taken with HSS131 given to aural/oral skills through interactive teaching. Materials Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study relevant to contemporary Lusophone culture and society will also be studied. List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study period witnessed the persecution of heresy as well as greater hostility to Latin Christianity's neighbours, most dramatically in Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Oral assessment the Crusades and other holy wars waged not only against Muslims but also against Greek Christians, pagans, heretics and HSS191C Catalan Beginners: Language and even the Church's political enemies. Culture Staff Contact: Prof Martial Staub 20.00 Credits Academic Year Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Aims/Description: This year-long module introduces the most Study important events in Catalan history for the formation of Catalan identity and politics, and presents some of the most significant Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Oral performance achievements of Catalan culture in the modern era through from seminars examination of key written, visual and musical texts. Topics covered may include, for example, Catalan cinema; the work of HST115 The Disenchantment of the European Antoni Gaudí; nationalism and sport (inc. FC Barcelona); 1714 World and the Catalan `Diada¿ (National Day); the consequences for Catalan language and culture of the Francoist dictatorship; the 20.00 Credits AUTUMN nineteenth-century `Renaixença¿; Pompeu Fabra and linguistic Aims/Description: This module explores the fundamental shifts `normativization¿; an introduction to language politics in the in mental attitudes and public behaviour that occurred in Europe Catalan context (and so on). between the age of the Reformation and the age of the Staff Contact: * Enlightenment. The central focus of the course will be the examination of the supernatural - religious beliefs, but also Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study witchcraft and magic. You will explore the changing ways in which beliefs impinged on people's lives at various social levels. Assessments: Course work You will also have an opportunity to study the impact on people's world views of such changes as rising literacy, HST112 Paths from Antiquity to Modernity urbanisation, state formation and new discoveries about the natural world. All these will be investigated in the institutional 20.00 Credits AUTUMN contexts of state and church and the ways in which they sought Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to introduce you to channel and mould beliefs and behaviour. This module to the broad structures of Western history from the end of the enables you to understand how the early modern period is Roman Empire to the present day. It provides students intending distinctive from and links medieval and later modern historical to take History Single or Dual Honours degree modules with a studies. common framework for the more detailed modules that you will Staff Contact: Dr George Newberry be studying at Levels Two and Three. At the same time, it provides non-historians with a fundamental appraisal of the Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent shape of the past, to which courses in other departments will Study readily relate. Our aim is to equip you with an understanding of the periodisation of western history and of the major transitions Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Oral performance in in the process of modernisation. In the process, you will become seminars more critically aware of the essential conceptual tools that modern historians readily use to analyse the past. The module HST117 The Making of the Twentieth Century aims to provide the essential training in the skills and methods needed for University level historical study. 20.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: Dr Andrew Heath Aims/Description: This course looks back at key developments in the political, social and cultural history of the twentieth Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent century. Its aim is to broaden students' views of twentieth- Study century history by highlighting the ways in which barbarism and civilising forces went hand in hand in forging twentieth-century Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Oral performance history. Rather than proceeding purely chronologically, this from seminars module focuses on a series of key themes that have shaped twentieth-century history, such as, for example, globalisation HST114 Pagans, Christians and Heretics in and fragmentation; revolutions; the political, social and cultural Medieval Europe history of war; and democracy and mass politics. Each topic is introduced by a series of four lectures given by a subject 20.00 Credits SPRING specialist. An accompanying seminar programme allows for the Aims/Description: One of the recurring themes in European in-depth discussion of specific issues and case studies. history between the 4th and 13th centuries is the relationship Staff Contact: Dr Caoimhe Nic Dhaibheid between power and religion. In the period 300 - 1000, the dominant issue was the conversion of societies from paganism a Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent term which covers a whole range of beliefs from the elaborate Study cults of the Roman Empire to the sacred trees of the German forests to Christianity, with its exclusive belief in one God and Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Oral performance in no other. The first part of this module aims to examine from a seminars comparative perspective how and why this fundamental transformation occurred, considering both missionary activity HST118 American History: From Settlements and responses to it and attempting to assess the impact of to Superpower Christianity upon the societies to which it spread. The second part of this course will examine the changing relationship 20.00 Credits SPRING between power and religion between 1000 and 1400, as the Aims/Description: This module aims to introduce students to Roman Church became the most powerful institution in Europe the main narratives, themes, and problems of North American and exerted an ever stronger influence over the lives of ordinary history, with a specific focus on the development of the U.S. people, and new religious orders and ways of life emerged. The Students will have the chance to explore a range of List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One historiographical and methodological approaches appropriate to Restrictions: GCSE level mathematics only. No A/S-level, A- the study of the American past across a broad chronological level or equivalent qualification. period. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Assessments: Course work Staff Contact: Dr Simon Middleton Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Study IPA1010 LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Oral assessment in Trans*) Studies seminars. 10.00 Credits AUTUMN INF105 Introduction to Chemoinformatics Aims/Description: This module introduces students to study of 10.00 Credits SPRING gender and sexuality, and LGBT stories, both historical and contemporary. It examines gender and sexuality in culture, Aims/Description: The module will introduce students to the media, and its academic study, as well as contemporary issues of different ways in which chemical structures can be represented inequality affecting sexual minorities in our society and global in computers and different database searching techniques that contexts. The module is team taught by experts in different are used to find information about compounds and their departments at the University of Sheffield, who will introduce properties. An overview of the drug discovery process will be students to a wide range of theoretical and methodological provided and chemoinformatics techniques will be introduced perspectives, such as history, social sciences, psychology, that enable predictions of the properties of compounds to be biology, health care, cultural studies, gender theory and critical made. The predictions are aimed at reducing the numbers of study of religion. The module is assessed by a coursework compounds that require experimental testing in drug discovery. portfolio. The module will also cover web authoring skills including the incorporation of a molecular viewer within a web page. The Staff Contact: Ida Kemp module consists of lectures and a large computer-based practical Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study component which will be used to demonstrate the principles Assessments: Course work

Staff Contact: Prof Val Gillet JNL107 Tabloid Journalism Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent Study 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Individual Report, Group Practical Exercises, Group Reflection Aims/Description: Tabloid Journalism introduces students to the lively and contentious debates concerning the development, character, social and cultural implications and political economy IPA1000 Interdisciplinary Research in Practice of the various forms of tabloid journalism in the UK. More 20.00 Credits SPRING specifically the module examines: (1) the historical emergence of this form of journalism; (2) the implications of tabloid Aims/Description: This module, designed by Arts and journalism for news in general; (3) the news values of tabloid Humanities students and staff, offers the opportunity to work on journalism; (4) tabloid genres; (5) the market and the media; (6) a meaningful contemporary research project, collaboratively case studies including the representation of nation, history, devised by students and staff. Academics from across the outsiders and gender. Faculty will lead seminar-focused and interdisciplinary classes in which enabling your research is the focus. The module will be Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study assessed by an individual portfolio, and will culminate in an Assessments: Formal Exam end-of-term symposium. If you've ever wished to explore new and stimulating approaches to study outside of your disciplinary areas or to gain a holistic Humanities education, this module is JNL109 Ethics and Journalism for you. 10.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: Ida Kemp Aims/Description: This lecture-only module provides an Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent introduction to ethics in relation to the practice of journalism, Study, Organised group work including ethical dilemmas, codes of conduct, and systems of regulation. Issues covered include privacy, objectivity, and the Assessments: Portfolio public interest. There is a focus on the UK although international examples will be included as appropriate. IPA1005 Where did those numbers come from? Staff Contact: Mr Tony Harcup : A guide to excel and real world mathematics Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study 10.00 Credits SPRING Assessments: Formal Exam Aims/Description: This applied mathematics module is designed to `top-up' mathematics from GCSE level for students JNL110 Current Debates in Broadcasting who want to augment their proficiency in this area. The module 10.00 Credits AUTUMN will cover practical elements of particular interest to History, Philosophy and Language students, although it is open to all Aims/Description: This module explores the role and students within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. It will responsibility of broadcast journalists in the twenty-first century. provide tuition in basic maths, statistics, functions & equations, It introduces some of the key political, cultural and social and probability to assist students in the arts curriculum to themes relating to the contemporary broadcast media and understand statistical analysis of data, presentation of various considers the implications of the process of digitalisation and its reports and other information presented in numerical or impact on the future of broadcasting. The module considers graphical formats. The module will be assessed primarily current broadcasting policy and addresses some of the debates through coursework and in-class exercise work rather than relating to particular types of broadcast output and their formal examination. regulation. Staff Contact: Ida Kemp Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Aims/Description: This module aims to reinforce students' MAS140 Mathematics (Chemical) previous knowledge and to develop new basic mathematical 20.00 Credits Academic Year techniques needed to support the engineering subjects taken at levels 1 and 2. It also provides a foundation for the level 2 Pre-Requisites: A level Mathematics or equivalent. mathematics courses in the appropriate engineering department. Aims/Description: This module is part of a series designed for Staff Contact: Dr Nils Mole particular groups of Engineers (see module title). Each module Restrictions: Unrestricted - only subject to availability aims to reinforce students' previous knowledge and to develop Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Independent new basic mathematical techniques needed to support the Study engineering subjects taken at levels 1 and 2. They also provide Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work a foundation for the level 2 mathematics courses in the appropriate engineering department. MAT1220 Introduction to Materials Properties Staff Contact: Dr G Vickers / Dr N Gurski 10.00 Credits SPRING Restrictions: Restricted to students studying H800(CPEU03), H8J8(CPEU07), H840(CPEU05), H8T9(CPEU09). Aims/Description: This unit considers materials properties as Unrestricted - subject to availability the link between what is done to a material and how the material Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study responds and hence discusses linking properties to devices and Assessments: Formal Exam, Assessed homework at end of structures. In particular: i) Magnetic Materials: Basics of Semester 1 magnetism; effect of magnetic fields on materials. Classification of magnetic materials (dia-, para-, ferro-, antiferro- and ferri- MAS151 Civil Engineering Mathematics magnetic). ii) Electrical Materials: Conductors, insulators, field gradient, resistivity. Insulators, semi-conductors, metals, mixed 20.00 Credits Academic Year conductors and solid electrolytes. iii) Optical Materials: Optical absorption & emission. Bulbs, fluorescent lamps & phosphors. Aims/Description: This module aims to reinforce students' Optical fibres for light, UV, IR. Transparent & translucent previous knowledge and to develop new basic mathematical materials. techniques needed to support the engineering subjects taken at levels 1 and 2. It also provides a foundation for the level 2 Staff Contact: Professor D C Sinclair mathematics courses in the appropriate engineering department. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Problem solving, Staff Contact: Dr Nils Molev Laboratory work, Independent Study Restrictions: Unrestricted - only subject to availability Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Independent Assessments: Formal Exam, Lab work, Problem Sheet Study Assessments: Formal Exam, assessed homework at end of MAT1410 Biomaterials I Semester 1 10.00 Credits AUTUMN MAS152 Essential Mathematical Skills & Aims/Description: This module introduces the human body Techniques from an engineering perspective; looking at it as a structure, a mechanism and a sensor. It then introduces both natural and 20.00 Credits Academic Year replacement biomaterials discussing properties in relation to Aims/Description: This module aims to reinforce students' function using Ashby charts. Finally, the course discusses previous knowledge and to develop new basic mathematical lessons that can be learnt from biomaterials by materials techniques needed to support the engineering subjects taken at engineers in general (biomimetics). levels 1 and 2. It also provides a foundation for the level 2 Staff Contact: Dr I U Rehman mathematics courses in the appropriate engineering department. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Laboratory Staff Contact: Fiona Maisey work, Independent Study Restrictions: Unrestricted - only subject to availability Teaching Methods: Problem solving, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam, Lab work Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work

MAT1411 Biomaterials I MAS153 Mathematics (Materials) 10.00 Credits AUTUMN 20.00 Credits Academic Year Aims/Description: This module introduces the human body Aims/Description: This module aims to reinforce students' from an engineering perspective; looking at it as a structure, a previous knowledge and to develop new basic mathematical mechanism and a sensor. It then introduces both natural and techniques needed to support the engineering subjects taken at replacement biomaterials discussing properties in relation to levels 1 and 2. It also provides a foundation for the level 2 function using Ashby charts. Finally, the course discusses mathematics courses in the appropriate engineering department. lessons that can be learnt from biomaterials by materials engineers in general (biomimetics). Staff Contact: Dr Nils Mole Staff Contact: Dr I U Rehman Restrictions: Unrestricted - subject to availability Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Independent Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Independent Study Study Assessments: Formal Exam, On-Line Assessment Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work MAT1600 Introduction to Structural Materials MAS156 Mathematics (Electrical) Engineering 20.00 Credits Academic Year 10.00 Credits AUTUMN List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Aims/Description: This lecture course focusses on materials for Staff Contact: Dr K Travis structural applications, and covers all the main classes of materials (ceramics, metals, polymers, natural materials and Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Laboratory composites), describing the properties that they show, the root work, Independent Study cause of their properties, the structure, and how we can affect Assessments: Formal Exam, Lab work, Vitual Lab (On-Line this by processing to get the properties we want. The course Assessment) will also introduce some ways that the best material for a purpose can be selected. Staff Contact: Dr Russell Goodall MAT1640 Introduction to Microstructure, Kinetics and Mechanical Properties of Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Laboratory Materials work, Independent Study 20.00 Credits Academic Year Assessments: Formal Exam, Lab work Aims/Description: This module introduces basic ideas of kinetics and their respective roles in determining the MAT1601 Introduction to Structural Materials microstructure of various materials. In kinetics, the module Engineering provides the definiation of rate laws and rate constants, discuss 10.00 Credits AUTUMN the principles of zeroth, first and second order reactions, and further study the effects of temperature on reaction rates. The Aims/Description: This lecture course focusses on materials for module then shows the relationships between phase diagrams structural applications, and covers all the main classes of and microstructures for a wide range of materials (metals, materials (ceramics, metals, polymers, natural materials and ceramics and polymers). The influence of interfacial energies, composites), describing the properties that they show, the root deformation, deformation, annealing and recrystallisation are cause of their properties, the structure, and how we can affect discussed. The module will also include further studies of this by processing to get the properties we want. The course mechanical properties to supplement MAT1630 focusing on will also introduce some ways that the best material for a Hookeian and non Hookeian elasticity; failure ¿ stress purpose can be selected. concentrations, dislocations, ductility, damage accumulation and Staff Contact: Dr Russell Goodall creep; accidents and design against failure. Here, the aim is to present key mechanical properties that relate more specifically Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Independent to aerospace applications. Study Staff Contact: Professor Panos Tsakiropoulos Assessments: Formal Exam, On-Line Assessment Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Independent Study MAT1610 Introduction to Materials Chemistry Assessments: Formal Exam, Lab work, 5% AUT Sem on-line 20.00 Credits Academic Year assessment; 5% SPR Sem on-line assessment Aims/Description: This module begins with the electronic structure of atoms and uses this to introduce the chemistry of the MAT1642 Introduction to Microstructure, periodic table. Crystal chemistry and crystal structures are then Kinetics and Mechanical Properties of considered, starting with simple metals and then moving to ionic Materials bonding and structures before considering glasses. The second half of the module introduces organic and polymer chemistry. 20.00 Credits Academic Year Functional group chemistry and molecular shape are discussed Aims/Description: This module introduces basic ideas of using simple models of bonding. We emphasise the importance kinetics and their respective roles in determining the of macromolecules, together with the larger-scale shape of microstructure of various materials. In kinetics, the module polymers. We discuss polymer synthesis and its relation to provides the definiation of rate laws and rate constants, discuss polymer properties some selected cases. This includes the principles of zeroth, first and second order reactions, and discussion of natural and biopolymers. further study the effects of temperature on reaction rates. The Staff Contact: Professor I M Reaney module then shows the relationships between phase diagrams and microstructures for a wide range of materials (metals, Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Laboratory ceramics and polymers). The influence of interfacial energies, work, Independent Study deformation, deformation, annealing and recrystallisation are discussed. The module will also include further studies of Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, Lab work, Problem mechanical properties to supplement MAT1630 focusing on Sheet Hookeian and non Hookeian elasticity; failure ¿ stress concentrations, dislocations, ductility, damage accumulation and MAT1630 Introduction to the Mechanics and creep; accidents and design against failure. Here, the aim is to Thermodynamics of Materials present key mechanical properties that relate more specifically to aerospace applications. 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: Professor Panos Tsakiropoulos Aims/Description: This module introduces the three states of matter concentrating on gases and solids. Gases are first Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Independent introduced through the empirical gas laws leading to the concept Study of the ideal gas and the ideal gas equation of state and progressing to more realistic gas equations of state. Basic Assessments: Formal Exam, On-Line Assessment thermodynamic concepts are covered such as work, heat, internal energy, specific heat, enthalpy, entropy and free energy. Solids are first introduced via their elastic properties moving MBB161 Biochemistry onto how modes of failure ¿ stress concentrations, dislocations, ductility and creep. Throughout the emphasis is on linking the 20.00 Credits Academic Year macroscopic properties with the microstructural and atomic Aims/Description: This unit examines the molecules that carry level. out and control all the chemical reactions in biological cells. The List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One basic chemical concepts underlying the structures of and translation are universal in living systems, mechanistic biomolecules are covered, together with the functions and differences between these processes in bacteria and in higher mechanisms of action of biomolecules and the interplay of organisms will be highlighted. The ability to manipulate genetic metabolic pathways. The regulation of these pathways is information is central to molecular biology research, and addressed as well as cellular signalling and the important role technologies involved in isolating, characterising and and structure of biomembranes. These processes are set in the functionally analysing genes will be reviewed. context of the molecular details of the cellular cytoskeleton and the energetics of the system through consideration of the Staff Contact: Dr Phil Mitchell thermodynamics and kinetics of enzyme driven reactions. The Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Independent molecular basis of cancer is introduced. Study Staff Contact: Dr John Rafferty Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Independent Study MDL103 Introduction to European Cinema Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work 20.00 Credits Academic Year Aims/Description: An overview of the theory and practice of MBB162 Genetics Cinema in European languages other than English from its 20.00 Credits Academic Year origins to the present day. The module will provide an introduction to film analysis and a general introduction to Pre-Requisites: A-level Biology grade C or equivalent cinematic technique and history from early silent cinema to contemporary film. Attention will be given to technical Aims/Description: This unit introduces the principles of developments, questions of genre and artistic movements, and genetics and considers the application of these principles to the relationship between cinema and socio-political diverse aspects of biology and human welfare. The genetic developments. Topics will include the Russian avant-garde, systems of higher organisms and microbes are described, German expressionism, the French New Wave and Latin including mechanisms of gene transmission and genetic American Cinema. exchange, mutation, and gene mapping. Human examples are stressed where appropriate. Applications include fundamental Staff Contact: Professor Craig Brandist studies in other biological disciplines, such as evolutionary and Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study developmental biology, as well as topics more directly Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work concerning human welfare, such as the genetic and biochemical bases of inherited disorders, prenatal diagnosis, genetic MDL104 Introductory Linguistics for Modern counselling, gene therapy, and the genetic basis of antibiotic Languages resistance in bacteria. 20.00 Credits Academic Year Staff Contact: Professor Roger Anderson Aims/Description: This module provides students with an Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Independent overview of key topics in the field of linguistics, with an Study emphasis on the structure of modern European languages and Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work the social contexts in which they are used. The module starts by introducing students to the structural aspects of language and then moves on to explore sociolinguistic topics. Attention will MBB163 Microbiology be given to sound systems, linguistic structures, language 20.00 Credits Academic Year variation, and the complex relationship between language and social life. Topics will include phonology, morphology, syntax, Pre-Requisites: A-level Biology grade C or equivalent semantics, language variation, pragmatics and sociolinguistics. Aims/Description: The unit is an introduction to the broad Staff Contact: Dr K Horner & Dr P O"Neill subject area of microbiology. Topics covered will include a comparison of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell structure; the Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study concept of the three domains of life; conventional and molecular Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work taxonomy; bacterial biodiversity; origin of life; environmental microbiology; fungi, bacteria, viruses as pathogens; antibiotic resistance; possible roles for microorganisms in cancer; MEC115 Design and Manufacturing diversity of viruses; metabolic diversity; eukaryotic 10.00 Credits AUTUMN microorganisms; microbial biotechnology. The final 20% of the unit will cover the principles of immunity, including cellular and Aims/Description: The module provides an introduction to the molecular components of the immune system and integration of methods and practice of engineering design. The students gain the immune system. experience of the design process through the design, build and testing of a device that fulfils a specified function. Provision is Staff Contact: Dr Jim Gilmour made for development of `hands-on¿ manufacturing skills. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Independent Understanding customer needs, marketing, and enterprise is also Study covered. Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Staff Contact: Dr. J Meredith Restrictions: Restricted to students registered for a programme of study within the Faculty of Engineering MBB164 Molecular Biology Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent 20.00 Credits Academic Year Study Assessments: Design Project: 70%, Marketing Project: 30% Aims/Description: This unit provides an introduction to Notes Part of the Accreditation by the Institution of Mechanical molecular biology, and is focused on how cells store and Engineers. express genetic information, together with the application of this knowledge to genetic engineering. Although the fundamental MEC119 Design Skills nature of the biological processes of replication, transcription List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

10.00 Credits SPRING MLT101B French Beginner 1 (SPR) Aims/Description: The course aims to provide an introduction 10.00 Credits SPRING to engineering design and material selection so as to avoid component failure. The approach taken is a product dissection Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide an through which the students gain hands-on experience of an introductory grounding in the practical language skills a learner engineering artefact/product, tightly integrated with a lecture would be likely to deploy during a brief visit to a foreign course on engineering design and materials. Students perform a country. Primary emphasis will be placed on understanding and functional analysis of all parts of their artefact (selected from a using the spoken language, but students will also be expected to micro-scooter, a tennis racquet and an electric drill). Supported perform straightforward reading and writing tasks, involving the by the lecture material and following introduction to the ability to comprehend simple notices and instructions, fill out Cambridge Engineering Materials Selector software, the short forms and make brief notes. Basic aspects of grammar students learn how to make the assumptions needed to conduct a will also be introduced and rehearsed. The module will simple analysis of potential failure through tension/compression comprise 33 hours of class contact (mainly in tutorial groups of and bending loads which their artefact would experience in use. 16-20). Students will be expected to undertake approximately Environmental considerations for the materials used are 67 hours of private study. Teaching will be delivered included, and the risk of failure is assessed using a Failure Mode predominantly in the foreign language. and Effects Analysis. The course concludes with preparation of Staff Contact: [email protected] a display board showing the dismantled product, surrounded by analysis of its construction, materials and potential failure Restrictions: For students with no previous knowledge of the points, and the students give a brief presentation on what they language. have learnt. Practical work is assessed on a group basis, while individual learning is assessed by exam. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Staff Contact: Prof. A Hodzic Assessments Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test

Restrictions: Restricted to students registered for Programmes MLT102 French Beginner 2 of Study in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and IPO 10.00 Credits SPRING Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent Study Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to develop the basic knowledge and practical communicative skills acquired in Assessments: Formal Exam, Lab work, Peer assessment 8%; MLT101. The main grammatical concepts, forms and structures Group exercise 10%; Online quizzes 2% will be introduced and rehearsed. Learners will acquire a Notes Part of the IMechE accredited course vocabulary of approximately 1,000 words, enabling them to communicate fluently in a variety of everyday situations. ************************************************* Learners will attain a level of linguistic proficiency approximately equivalent to that required to obtain a grade A at Please be advised that students must GCSE. On completing the course, they should be able to: talk meet any pre-requisites in order to about actions in the past and immediate future; ask for exactly what they want in shops, offices and hotels; express likes, take some MLT (Modern Languages) dislikes, emotions, and physical sensations; give simple modules. Pre-requisite requirements instructions; say what they can, must, or would like to do. The module will consist of 33 hours class contact (in tutorial groups are listed for any relevant MLT of 16-20) and learners will be expected to undertake a further 67 modules. hours of private study. MLT101A French Beginner 1(AUT) Staff Contact: [email protected] 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide an Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test introductory grounding in the practical language skills a learner would be likely to deploy during a brief visit to a foreign MLT103A Spanish Beginner 1 (AUT) country. Primary emphasis will be placed on understanding and using the spoken language, but students will also be expected to 10.00 Credits AUTUMN perform straightforward reading and writing tasks, involving the Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide an ability to comprehend simple notices and instructions, fill out introductory grounding in the practical language skills a learner short forms and make brief notes. Basic aspects of grammar would be likely to deploy during a brief visit to a foreign will also be introduced and rehearsed. The module will country. Primary emphasis will be placed on understanding and comprise 33 hours of class contact (mainly in tutorial groups of using the spoken language, but students will also be expected to 16-20). Students will be expected to undertake approximately perform straightforward reading and writing tasks, involving the 67 hours of private study. Teaching will be delivered ability to comprehend simple notices and instructions, fill out predominantly in the foreign language. short forms and make brief notes. Basic aspects of grammar will also be introduced and rehearsed. The module will Staff Contact: [email protected] comprise 33 hours of class contact (mainly in tutorial groups of Restrictions: For students with no previous knowledge of the 16-20). Students will be expected to undertake approximately language. 67 hours of private study. Teaching will be delivered predominantly in the foreign language. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Staff Contact: [email protected] Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Restrictions: For students with no previous knowledge of the language. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

MLT103B Spanish Beginner 1 (SPR) MLT105B German Beginner 1 (SPR) 10.00 Credits SPRING 10.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide an Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide an introductory grounding in the practical language skills a learner introductory grounding in the practical language skills a learner would be likely to deploy during a brief visit to a foreign would be likely to deploy during a brief visit to a foreign country. Primary emphasis will be placed on understanding and country. Primary emphasis will be placed on understanding and using the spoken language, but students will also be expected to using the spoken language, but students will also be expected to perform straightforward reading and writing tasks, involving the perform straightforward reading and writing tasks, involving the ability to comprehend simple notices and instructions, fill out ability to comprehend simple notices and instructions, fill out short forms and make brief notes. Basic aspects of grammar short forms and make brief notes. Basic aspects of grammar will also be introduced and rehearsed. The module will will also be introduced and rehearsed. The module will comprise 33 hours of class contact (mainly in tutorial groups of comprise 33 hours of class contact (mainly in tutorial groups of 16-20). Students will be expected to undertake approximately 16-20). Students will be expected to undertake approximately 67 hours of private study. Teaching will be delivered 67 hours of private study. Teaching will be delivered predominantly in the foreign language. predominantly in the foreign language. Staff Contact: [email protected] Staff Contact: [email protected] Restrictions: For students with no previous knowledge of the Restrictions: For students with no previous knowledge of the language. language. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test MLT104 Spanish Beginner 2 10.00 Credits SPRING MLT106 German Beginner 2 Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to develop the 10.00 Credits SPRING basic knowledge and practical communicative skills acquired in Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to develop the MLT103. The main grammatical concepts, forms and structures basic knowledge and practical communicative skills acquired in will be introduced and rehearsed. Learners will acquire a MLT105. The main grammatical concepts, forms and structures vocabulary of approximately 1,000 words, enabling them to will be introduced and rehearsed. Learners will acquire a communicate fluently in a variety of everyday situations. vocabulary of approximately 1,000 words, enabling them to Learners will attain a level of linguistic proficiency communicate fluently in a variety of everyday situations. approximately equivalent to that required to obtain a grade A at Learners will attain a level of linguistic proficiency GCSE. On completing the course, they should be able to: talk approximately equivalent to that required to obtain a grade A at about actions in the past and immediate future; ask for exactly GCSE. On completing the course, they should be able to: talk what they want in shops, offices and hotels; express likes, about actions in the past and immediate future; ask for exactly dislikes, emotions and physical sensations; give simple what they want in shops, offices and hotels; express likes, instructions; say what they can, must, or would like to do. The dislikes, emotions, and physical sensations; give simple module will consist of 36 hours of class contact (in tutorial instructions; say what they can, must, or would like to do. The groups of 16-20) and learners will be expected to undertake a module will consist of 36 hours of class contact (in tutorial further 64 hours of private study. groups of 16-20) and learners will be expected to undertake a Staff Contact: [email protected] further 64 hours of private study. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Staff Contact: [email protected] Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test MLT105A German Beginner 1 (AUT) 10.00 Credits AUTUMN MLT107A Italian Beginner 1 (AUT) Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide an 10.00 Credits AUTUMN introductory grounding in the practical language skills a learner Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide an would be likely to deploy during a brief visit to a foreign introductory grounding in the practical language skills a learner country. Primary emphasis will be placed on understanding and would be likely to deploy during a brief visit to a foreign using the spoken language, but students will also be expected to country. Primary emphasis will be placed on understanding and perform straightforward reading and writing tasks, involving the using the spoken language, but students will also be expected to ability to comprehend simple notices and instructions, fill out perform straightforward reading and writing tasks, involving the short forms and make brief notes. Basic aspects of grammar ability to comprehend simple notices and instructions, full out will also be introduced and rehearsed. The module will short forms and make brief notes. Basic aspects of grammar comprise 33 hours of class contact (mainly in tutorial groups of will also be introduced and rehearsed. The module will 16-20). Students will be expected to undertake approximately comprise 33 hours of class contact (mainly in tutorial groups of 67 hours of private study. Teaching will be delivered 16-20). Students will be expected to undertake approximately predominantly in the foreign language. 67 hours of private study. Teaching will be delivered Staff Contact: [email protected] predominantly in the foreign language. Restrictions: For students with no previous knowledge of the Staff Contact: [email protected] language. Restrictions: For students with no previous knowledge of the language. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

MLT107B Italian Beginner 1 (SPR) MLT109B Arabic Beginner 1(SPR) 10.00 Credits SPRING 10.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide an Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide an introductory grounding in the practical language skills a learner introductory grounding in the practical language skills a learner would be likely to deploy during a brief visit to a foreign would be likely to deploy during a brief visit to a foreign country. Primary emphasis will be placed on understanding and country. Primary emphasis will be placed on understanding and using the spoken language, but students will also be expected to using the spoken language, but students will also be expected to perform straightforward reading and writing tasks, involving the perform straightforward reading and writing tasks, involving the ability to comprehend simple notices and instructions, fill out ability to comprehend simple notices and instructions, fill out short forms and make brief notes. Basic aspects of grammar short forms and make brief notes. Basic aspects of grammar will will also be introduced and rehearsed. The module will also be introduced and rehearsed. The module will comprise 33 comprise 33 hours of class contact (mainly in tutorial groups of hours of class contact (mainly in tutorial groups of 15-20). 16-20). Students will be expected to undertake approximately Students will be expected to undertake approximately 67 hours 67 hours of private study. Teaching will be delivered of private study. predominantly in the foreign language. Staff Contact: [email protected] Staff Contact: [email protected] Restrictions: For students with no previous knowledge of the Restrictions: For students with no previous knowledge of the language. language. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test MLT110 Arabic Beginner 2 MLT108 Italian Beginner 2 10.00 Credits SPRING 10.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide an Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to develop the introductory grounding in the practical language skills a learner basic knowledge and practical communicative skills acquired in would be likely to deploy during a brief visit to a foreign MLT107. The main grammatical concepts, forms and structures country. Primary emphasis will be placed on understanding and will be introduced and rehearsed. Learners will acquire a using the spoken language, but students will also be expected to vocabulary of approximately 1,000 words, enabling them to perform straightforward reading and writing tasks, involving the communicate fluently in a variety of everyday situations. ability to comprehend simple notices and instructions, fill out Learners will attain a level of linguistic proficiency short forms and make brief notes. Basic aspects of grammar will approximately equivalent to that required to obtain a grade A at also be introduced and rehearsed. The module will comprise 36 GCSE. On completing the course, they should be able to: talk hours of class contact (mainly in tutorial groups of 10-12). about actions in the past and immediate future; ask for exactly Students will be expected to undertake approximately 64 hours what they want in shops, offices and hotels; express likes, of private study. dislikes, emotions and physical sensations; give simple instructions; say what they can, must or would like to do. The Staff Contact: [email protected] module will consist of 36 hours of class contact (in tutorial Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study groups of 16-20) and learners will be expected to undertake a further 64 hours of private study. Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Staff Contact: [email protected] MLT116A Latin Beginner 1 Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Aims/Description: The module is an introduction to Latin. The study of Latin will provide students with an opportunity to study MLT109A Arabic Beginner 1 (AUT) the language and elements of the culture and literature of ancient 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Rome. The module will simultaneously seek to generate in students an awareness of the workings of grammar and syntax, Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide an and an ability to manipulate the language fluently. It will also introductory grounding in the practical language skills a learner seek to awaken an insight into the grammatical usage and roots would be likely to deploy during a brief visit to a foreign of English and/or Romance languages. country. Primary emphasis will be placed on understanding and using the spoken language, but students will also be expected to Staff Contact: [email protected] perform straightforward reading and writing tasks, involving the Restrictions: For students with no previous knowledge of the ability to comprehend simple notices and instructions, fill out language. short forms and make brief notes. Basic aspects of grammar will also be introduced and rehearsed. The module will comprise 33 Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study hours of class contact (mainly in tutorial groups of 15-20). Students will be expected to undertake approximately 67 hours Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam of private study. MLT116B Latin Beginner 2 Staff Contact: [email protected] 10.00 Credits SPRING Restrictions: For students with no previous knowledge of the language. Aims/Description: The module is a continuation of Latin Beginner 1. The module continues with the study of the Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study language and elements of the culture and literature of ancient Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Rome. Students will deepend their awareness of the workings of grammar and syntax, and develop the ability to manipulate List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One the language fluently. The module will also continue to develop developing independent language and cultural learning skills knowledge and application of grammatical usage and the work through regular, semi-guided homework. Upon successful on derivations from Latin in English and/or Romance languages. completion of the module, students should be able to perform at level A2(Basic User) of the Common European Framework for Staff Contact: [email protected] Languages. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Staff Contact: [email protected] Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam Restrictions: For students with no previous knowledge of the language. MLT132 Portuguese Beginner 1 Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide an introductory grounding in the practical language skills a learner MLT151 French Post-Beginner 1 would be likely to deploy during a brief visit to a foreign country. Primary emphasis will be placed on understanding and 10.00 Credits AUTUMN using the spoken language, but students will also be expected to perform straightforward reading and writing tasks, involving the Aims/Description: Assuming some basic knowledge of the ability to comprehend simple notices and instructions, fill out language, this refresher/consolidation course reviews the general short forms and make brief notes. Basic aspects of grammar foundation in the language and culture acquired at Beginner will also be introduced and rehearsed. The module will level and expands on it to provide a solid basis for the next comprise 33 hours of class contact (mainly in tutorial groups of level, enabling learners to cope with a range of predictable, 16-20). Students will be expected to undertake approximately everyday communicative situations encountered when 67 hours of private study. Teaching will be delivered interacting at an elementary level with native speakers. predominantly in the foreign language. Assessment will Staff Contact: [email protected] through class tests. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Staff Contact: [email protected] Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Restrictions: For students with no previous knowledge or with grade D/E at GCSE Portuguese. MLT152 French Post-Beginner 2 Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study 10.00 Credits SPRING Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Aims/Description: Assuming some basic knowledge of the language, this refresher/consolidation course reviews the general MLT133 Portuguese Beginner 2 foundation in the language and culture acquired at Beginner 10.00 Credits SPRING level and expands on it to provide a solid basis for the next level, enabling learners to cope with a range of predictable, Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to develop the everyday communicative situations encountered when basic knowledge and practical communicative skills acquired in interacting at an elementary level with native speakers. MLT103. The main grammatical concepts, forms and structures will be introduced and rehearsed. Learners will acquire a Staff Contact: [email protected] vocabulary of approximately 1,000 words, enabling them to Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study communicate fluently in a variety of everyday situations. Learners will attain a level of linguistic proficiency Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test approximately equivalent to that required to obtain a grade A at GCSE. On completing the course, they should be able to: talk MLT153 Spanish Post-Beginner 1 about actions in the past and immediate future; ask for exactly what they want in shops, offices and hotels; express likes, 10.00 Credits AUTUMN dislikes, emotions and physical sensations; give simple instructions; say what they can, must, or would like to do. The Aims/Description: Assuming some basic knowledge of the language, this refresher/consolidation course reviews the general module will consist of 36 hours of class contact (in tutorial groups of 16-20) and learners will be expected to undertake a foundation in the language and culture acquired at Beginner¿s further 64 hours of private study. level and expands on it to provide a solid basis for the next level, enabling learners to cope with a range of predictable, Staff Contact: [email protected] everyday communicative situations encountered when interacting at an elementary level with native speakers. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Staff Contact: [email protected] Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in class test Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study MLT147A Italian Beginner Accelerated Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test 20.00 Credits AUTUMN MLT154 Spanish Post-Beginner 2 Aims/Description: The module is intended for students with a sound and practical experience of second-language acquisition 10.00 Credits SPRING wishing to start learning Italian in an intensive manner for educational, professional and recreational purposes. With five Aims/Description: Assuming some basic knowledge of the language, this refresher/consolidation course reviews the general contact hours per week, the module aims to provide students with a solid foundation in the basic grammatical structures of foundation in the language and culture acquired at Beginner¿s the target language and to develop the essential communicative level and expands on it to provide a solid basis for the next level, enabling learners to cope with a range of predictable, competence and cultural knowledge required to operate effectively at an elementary level when interacting orally or in everyday communicative situations encountered when writing with native speakers. Particular emphasis is set on interacting at an elementary level with native speakers List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Staff Contact: [email protected] better) A level result. The course will also seek to make students aware of contemporary developments in the culture and Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study society of the target language. The specific needs and interests Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test of students from different Faculties will be taken into account in selecting course topics and materials. On completing the module, students should be able to: make formal written MLT155 German Post-Beginner 1 inquiries; recount events and describe processes in writing, 10.00 Credits AUTUMN express probability and hypothesis; make extended telephone calls; send e-mail and faxes. The module will comprise 36 Aims/Description: Assuming some basic knowledge of the hours of class contact (in tutorial groups of 16-20) plus a further language, this refresher/consolidation course reviews the general 64 hours of monitored private study. foundation in the language and culture acquired at Beginner¿s level and expands on it to provide a solid basis for the next Staff Contact: [email protected] level, enabling learners to cope with a range of predictable, Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study everyday communicative situations encountered when interacting at an elementary level with native speakers Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Staff Contact: [email protected] MLT203 Spanish Intermediate 1 Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Aims/Description: This module aims to enable learners who are already fluent practical communicators to apply their language MLT156 German Post-Beginner 2 skills with greater accuracy and sophistication. Awareness of 10.00 Credits SPRING and ability to use key aspects of grammar (e.g. the perfect tense, direct and indirect object pronouns) will be consolidated and Aims/Description: Assuming some basic knowledge of the developed, and a range of complex grammatical forms and language, this refresher/consolidation course reviews the general structures will be introduced (e.g. the imperfect and future foundation in the language and culture acquired at Beginner¿s tenses, relative and demonstrative pronouns) On completing the level and expands on it to provide a solid basis for the next module, learners should be able to: recount and describe actions, level, enabling learners to cope with a range of predictable, experiences and events in the past; report the speech of others; everyday communicative situations encountered when plan future actions and discuss future events; obtain information interacting at an elementary level with native speakers. by telephone and leave recorded messages; make comparisons and express preferences. The module will comprise 33 hours of Staff Contact: [email protected] class contact (in tutorial groups of 16-20) and learners will be Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study expected to undertake a further 67 hours of monitored private study. Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Staff Contact: [email protected] MLT201 French Intermediate 1 Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Aims/Description: This module aims to enable learners who are already fluent practical communicators to apply their language MLT204 Spanish Intermediate 2 skills with greater accuracy and sophistication. Awareness of 10.00 Credits SPRING and ability to use key aspects of grammar (e.g. the perfect tense, direct and indirect object pronouns) will be consolidated and Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to develop further developed, and a range of complex grammatical forms and the linguistic proficiency and communicative competence structures will be introduced (e.g. the imperfect and future acquired in MLT203. Grammar coverage will include complex tenses, relative and demonstrative pronouns) On completing the and formal verb tenses (e.g. conditional and conditional perfect), module, learners should be able to: recount and describe actions, the use of the present participle, the passive and the subjunctive. experiences and events in the past; report the speech of others; On completing the course, learners should be able to plan future actions and discuss future events; obtain information demonstrate knowledge and skills equivalent to those required by telephone and leave recorded messages; make comparisons to obtain a good (grade C or better) A level result. The course and express preferences. The module will comprise 33 hours of will also seek to make students aware of contemporary class contact (in tutorial groups of 16-20) and learners will be developements in the culture and society of the target language. expected to undertake a further 67 hours of monitored private The specific needs and interests of students from different study. faculties will be taken into account in selecting course topics and materials . On completing the module, students should be Staff Contact: [email protected] able to: make formal written enquiries; recount events and Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study describe processes in writing; express opinions about events or the actions of others; express probability and hypothesis; make Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test extended telephone calls; send e-mails and faxes. The module will comprise 36 hours of class contact (in tutorial groups of 16- MLT202 French Intermediate 2 20) plus a further 64 hours of monitored private study. 10.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: [email protected] Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to develop further Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study the linguistic proficiency and communicative competence Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test acquired in MLT201. Grammar coverage will include complex and formal verb tenses (e.g. conditional), the use of the present participle, the pasive and the subjunctive. On completing the course, learners should be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills equivalent to those required to obtain an good (grade C or List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Staff Contact: [email protected] MLT205 German Intermediate 1 Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Aims/Description: This module aims to enable learners who are already fluent communicators to apply their language skills with greater accuracy and sophistication. Awareness of and ability to MLT208 Italian Intermediate 2 use key aspects of grammar (e.g. the perfect tense, direct and 10.00 Credits SPRING indirect object pronouns) will be consolidated and developed, and a range of complex grammatical forms and structures will Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to develop further be introduced (e.g. the imperfect and future tenses, relative and the linguistic proficiency and communicative competence demonstrative pronouns). On completing the module, learners acquired in MLT207. Grammar coverage will include complex should be able to: recount and describe actions, experiences and and formal verb tenses (e.g. conditional and conditional perfect), events in the past; report the speech of others; plan future the use of the present participle, the passive and the subjunctive. actions and discuss future events; obtain information by On completing the course, learners should be able to telephone and leave recorded messages; make comparisons and demonstrate knowledge and skills equivalent to those required express preferences. The module will comprise 33 hours of to obtain a good (grade C or better) A level result. The course contact (in tutorial groups of 16-20) and learners will be will also seek to make students aware of contemporary expected to undertake a further 67 hours of monitored private developments in the culture and society of the target language. study. The specific needs and interests of students from different faculties will be taken into account in selecting course topics Staff Contact: [email protected] and materials. On completing the module, students should be Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study able to: make formal written enquiries; recount events and describe processes in writing; express opinions about events or Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test the actions of others; express probability and hypothesis; make extended telephone calls; send e-mail and faxes. The module MLT206 German Intermediate 2 will comprise 33 hours of class contact (in tutorial groups of 16- 20) plus a further 67 hours of monitored private study. 10.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: [email protected] Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to develop further the linguistic proficiency and communicative competence Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study acquired in MLT205. Grammar coverage will include complex Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test and formal verb tenses (e.g. conditional perfect), the use of the present participle, the passive and the subjunctive. On completing the course, learners should be able to demonstrate MLT209 Arabic Post-Beginner 1 knowledge and skills equivalent to those required to obtain a 10.00 Credits AUTUMN good (grade C or better) A level result. The course will also seek to make students aware of contemporary developments in Aims/Description: The module is a continuation of Arabic the culture and society of the target language. The specific Beginner 2. The module continues with the study of the needs and interests of students from different faculties will be language and elements of the culture of Arabic. Students will taken into account in selecting course topics and materials. On deepen their awareness of the workings and syntax, and develop completing the module, students should be able to: make formal the ability to manipulate the language fluently in written and written enquiries, recount events and describe processes in oral modes. Students will use IT as an integral part of their writing; express opinions about the events or the actions of foreign language study, for example using the Internet to extend others; express probability and hypothesis; make extended reading and writing skills in Arabic; have a raised awareness of telephone calls; send e-mails and faxes. The module will Arabic culture, further developing intercultural competence. The comprise 36 hours of class contact (in tutorial groups of 16-20) module will comprise 33 hours of class contact (in tutorial plus a further 64 hours of monitored private study. groups of 12-20) plus a further 67 hours of monitored private study. Staff Contact: [email protected] Staff Contact: [email protected] Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test MLT207 Italian Intermediate 1 MLT210 Arabic Post-Beginner 2 10.00 Credits AUTUMN 10.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: This module aims to enable learners who are already fluent practical communicators to apply their language Aims/Description: The module continues with the study of skills with greater accuracy and sophistication. Awareness of Arabic languages and elements of the culture, begun in the and ability to use key aspects of grammar (e.g.the perfect tense, Autumn module. Students will continue to widen their direct and indirect pronouns) will be consolidated and knowledge of grammar and syntax, and develop the ability to developed, and a range of complex grammatical forms and manipulate the language fluently. On completing the course, structures will be introduced (e.g. the imperfect and future leaners should be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills tenses, relative and demonstrative pronouns) On completing the equivalnet to those required to obtain a good (grade C or better) module, learners should be able to: recount and describe actions, GCSE level result. Students will use IT as an integral part of experiences and events in the past; report the speech of others; their foreign language study, for example using the Internet to plan future actions and discuss future events; obtain information extend reading and writing skills in Arabic; have a raised by telephone and leave recorded messages; make comparisons awareness of Arabic culture, further developing intercultural and express preferences. The module will comrise 33 hours of competence. The module will comprise 36 hours of class contact class contact (in tutorial groups of 16-20) and learners will be (in tutorial groups of 12-20) plus a further 64 hours of expected to undertake a further 67 hours of monitored private monitored private study. study. Staff Contact: [email protected] List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study MLT225 French Higher Intermediate 1 Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test 10.00 Credits AUTUMN MLT2116 Latin Post-Beginner 1 Aims/Description: The course aims to enable students to consolidate their understanding of contemporary aspects of the 10.00 Credits AUTUMN target language country through reading and listening to Aims/Description: The module continues with the study of the authentic texts. Students¿ communication skills will be language and elements of the culture and literature of ancient developed through speaking and writing. This will be supported Rome, covered in the beginners 1 course. Students will deepen by study of advanced grammatical structures. The course also their awareness of the workings of grammar and syntax, and aims to strengthen the communicative competence of learners, develop the ability to manipulate the language fluently. The through study of texts based on contemporary social issues. module will also continue to develop knowledge and application Much of the material will focus on contemporary social of grammatical usage and the work on derivations from Latin in developments. English and/or Romance languages. Staff Contact: [email protected] Staff Contact: [email protected] Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam MLT226 French Higher Intermediate 2 MLT2117 Latin Post-Beginner 2 10.00 Credits SPRING 10.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: The course aims to enable students to Aims/Description: The module is a continuation of Latin Post- consolidate their understanding of contemporary aspects of the Beginner 1 (Autumn). The module continues with the study of target language country through reading and listening to the language and elements of the culture and literature of ancient authentic texts. Students¿ communication skills will be Rome. Students will deepen their awareness of the workings of developed through speaking and writing. This will be supported grammar and syntax, and develop the ability to manipulate the by study of advanced grammatical structures. The course also language fluently. The module will also continue to develop aims to strengthen the communicative competence of learners, knowledge and application of grammatical usage and the work through study of texts based on contemporary social issues. on derivations from Latin in English and/or Romance languages. Much of the material will focus on contemporary social developments. Staff Contact: [email protected] Staff Contact: [email protected] Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test MLT215 Spanish Higher Intermediate 1 MLT247 Italian Intermediate Accelerated 10.00 Credits AUTUMN 20.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: The course aims to strengthen the communicative competence of learners, through study of texts Aims/Description: This module is intended for students with a based on contemporary social issues. Students will consolidate sound and practical experience of second-language acquisition their understanding of contemporary Spain and Latin America wishing to develop their proficiency in Italian beyond GCSE- through reading and listening to authentic texts. Students' level (or equivalent) in an intensive manner for educational, communication skills will be developed through speaking and professional and recreational purposes. With five contact hours writing in Spanish. This will be supported by study of advanced per week, the module builds on previously acquired linguistic grammatical strucures. Much of the material will focus on competence and cultural knowledge to enable students to start contemporary social developments. communicating in a fairly spontaneous and accurate way with native speakers in a range of familiar yet more advanced oral or Staff Contact: [email protected] written situations, including, for instance, expressing one's opinions on current social issues or negotiating meaning. Upon Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study successful completion of the module, students should be able to Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test perform at level B1 (Independent User) of the Common European Framework for Languages. MLT216 Spanish Higher Intermediate 2 Staff Contact: [email protected] 10.00 Credits SPRING Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Aims/Description: The course aims to develop further the Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test communicative competence of learners, through study of texts based on contemporary social issues. Students will consolidate MLT253 German Higher Intermediate 1 their understanding of contemporary Spain and Latin America through reading and listening to authentic texts. Students' 10.00 Credits AUTUMN communication skills will be developed through speaking and writing in Spanish. This will be supported by study of advanced Aims/Description: The course aims to enable students to grammatical structures. Much of the material will focus on consolidate their understanding of contemporary aspects of the contemporary social developments. target language country through reading and listening to authentic texts. Students' communication skills will be Staff Contact: [email protected] developed through speaking and writing. This will be supported by study of advanced grammatical structures. The course also Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study aims to strengthen the communicative competence of learners, Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test through study of texts based on contemporary social issues. List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Much of the material will focus on contemporary social Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study developments. Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Staff Contact: [email protected] Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study MLT262 Spanish Advanced 1 Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Aims/Description: The aim of the course is to provide initial MLT254 German Higher Intermediate 2 preparation for a study visit or work placement in the country of the target language. Language skills will be developed in 10.00 Credits SPRING conjunction with the study of contemporary society, culture, Aims/Description: The course aims to enable students to science or technology, in the country. Topics dealt with include consolidate their understanding of contemporary aspects of the everyday life, education and the social infrastructure. Extensive target language country through reading and listening to use will be made of authentic materials taken from the print and authentic texts. Students' communication skills will be electronic media of the country. The course will concentrate developed through speaking and writing. This will be supported initially on the revision of complex grammatical forms and by study of advanced grammatical structures. The course also structures (eg complex tenses, use of subjunctive), making aims to strengthen the communicative competence of learners, appropriate use of available CALL software. Emphasis will also through study of texts based on contemporary social issues. be placed on developing listening and speaking skills, using role Much of the material will focus on contemporary social play and simulation, pair and group work. On completion of the developments. course students will be able to: express and defend opinions; disagree without giving offence; identify and express Staff Contact: [email protected] advantages and disadvantages; understand and take notes on a talk of social, cultural, scientific or technical interest; summarise Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study written texts of social, cultural, scientific or technical interest. Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Staff Contact: [email protected]

MLT260 French Advanced 1 Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test

Aims/Description: The aim of the course is to provide initial MLT263 Spanish Advanced 2 preparation for a study visit or work placement in the country of the target language. Language skills will be developed in 10.00 Credits SPRING conjunction with the study of contemporary society, culture, science or technology in the country. Topics dealt with will Aims/Description: The aim of the course is to further prepare include everyday life, education and the social infrastructure. learners for a study visit or work placement. There will be an Extensive use will be made of authentic materials taken from the increasing focus on contemporary social, scientific or print and electronic media of the country. The course will technological developments and on the world of work, using concentrate initially on the revision of complex grammatical authentic documents from the print and electronic media. In forms and structures (eg complex tenses, use of subjunctive), language study, growing emphasis will be placed on the analysis making appropriate use of CALL software. Emphasis will also of register and style, both in speech and writing. Writing skills be placed on developing listening and speaking skills, using role will be developed using appropriate IT applications (eg email). play and simulation, pair and group work. On completion of the On completing the course, students will be able to: give short course students will be able to express and defend opinions; presentations (10 mins); discriminate - in understanding and use disagree without giving offence; identify and express - between differing styles and registers; make predictions; take advantages and disadvantages; understand and take notes on a and hold the floor; write short essays on aspects of talk of social, cultural, scientific or technical interest; summarise contemporary society, culture, science and technology written texts of social, cultural, scientific or technical interest. Staff Contact: [email protected] Staff Contact: [email protected] Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test MLT264 German Advanced 1 MLT261 French Advanced 2 10.00 Credits AUTUMN 10.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: The aim of the course is to provide initial Aims/Description: The aim of the course is to further prepare preparation for a study visit or work placement in the country of learners for a study visit or work placement. There will be an the target language. Language skills will be developed in increasing focus on contemporary social, scientific or conjunction with the study of contemporary society, culture, technolgical developments and on the world of work, using science or technology in the country. Topics dealt with will authentic documents from the print and electronic media. In include everyday life, education and the social infrastructure. language study, growing emphasis will be placed on the analysis Extensive use will be made of authentic materials taken from the of register and style, both in speech and writing. Writing skills print and electronic media of the country. The course will will be developed using appropriate IT applications (eg e-mail). concentrate initially on the revision of complex grammatical On completing the course, students will be able to: give short forms and structures (eg complex tenses, use of subjunctive), presentations (10 mins); discriminate - in understanding and use making appropriate use of available CALL software. Emphasis - between different styles and registers; construct clearly marked will also be placed on developing listening and speaking skills, and convincing arguments; make predictions; take and hold the using role play and simulation, pair and group work. On floor; write short essays on aspects of contemporary society, completion of the course students will be able to express and culture, science and technology. defend opinions; disagree without giving offence; identify and express advantages and disadvantages; understand and take Staff Contact: [email protected] notes on a talk of social, cultural, scientific or technical interest; List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One summarise written texts of social, cultural, scientific or technical Staff Contact: [email protected] interest. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Staff Contact: [email protected] Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Notes Dependent on numbers. Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test MLT272 Portuguese Intermediate 1 MLT265 German Advanced 2 10.00 Credits AUTUMN 10.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: This module is intended for students Aims/Description: The aim of the course is to further prepare wishing to develop their proficiency in Portuguese beyond learners for a study visit or work placement. There will be an GCSE-level (or equivalent) for educational, professional and increasing focus on contemporary social, scientific or recreational purposes. With three contact hours per week, technological developments and on the world of work using including a lab hour, the module builds on previously acquired authentic documents from the print and electronic media. In linguistic competence and cultural knowledge to enable students language study, growing emphasis will be placed on the analysis to start communicating in a fairly spontaneous and accurate way of register and style, both in speech and writing. Writing skills with native speakers in a range of simple, mostly predictable will be developed using appropriate IT applications (eg email). situations, including, for instance, expressing one's opinions on On completing the course, students will be able to: give short common topics or negotiating meaning. Particular emphasis is presentations; discriminate - in understanding and use - between set on developing independent language and cultural learning differing styles and registers; make predictions; take and hold skills through regular, semi-guided homework. Upon successful the floor; write short essays on aspects of contemporary society, completion of the module, students should be able to perform at culture, science and technology. level A2 (Basic User) / B1- (Independent User) of the Common European Framework for Languages. Staff Contact: [email protected] Staff Contact: [email protected] Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Restrictions: Excluded units: HSS180, HSS280, HSS282, Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test HSS382.

MLT266 Italian Advanced 1 Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test

Aims/Description: Language skills will be developed in MLT273 Portuguese Intermediate 2 conjunction with the study of contemporary society, culture, science or technology in the country. Topics dealt with will 10.00 Credits SPRING include everyday life, education and the social infrastructure. Extensive use will be made of authentic materials taken from the Aims/Description: This module is intended for students print and electronic media of the country. The course will wishing to develop their proficiency in Portuguese beyond an concentrate initially on the revision of complex grammatical excellent GCSE-level (or equivalent) for educational, forms and structures (eg complex tenses, use of subjunctive), professional and recreational purposes. With three contact hours making appropriate use of available CALL software. Emphasis per week, including a lab hour, the module builds on previously will also be placed on developing listening and speaking skills, acquired linguistic competence and cultural knowledge to using role play and simulation, pair and group work. On enable students to start communicating in a fairly spontaneous completion of the course students will be able to: express and and accurate way with native speakers in a range of familiar yet defend opinions; disagree without giving offence; identify and more advanced oral or written situations, including, for instance, express advantages and disadvantages; understand and take expressing one's opinions on current social issues or negotiating notes on a talk of social, cultural, scientific or technical interest; meaning. Particular emphasis is set on developing independent summarise written texts of social, cultural, scientific or technical language and cultural learning skills through regular, semi- interest. guided homework. Upon successful completion of the module, students should be able to perform at level B1 (Independent Staff Contact: [email protected] User) of the Common European Framework for Languages. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Staff Contact: [email protected] Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Restrictions: Excluded units HSS181, HSS281, HSS283, HSS381, HSS383. Notes Dependent on numbers. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study MLT267 Italian Advanced 2 Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test 10.00 Credits SPRING MLT310 French Higher Advanced 1 Aims/Description: There will be an increasing focus on contemporary social, scientific or technological developments 10.00 Credits AUTUMN and on the world of work, using authentic documents from the print and electronic media. In language study, growing Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide initial emphasis will be placed on the analysis of register and style, language preparation for students wishing to undertake an both in speech and writing. Writing skills will be developed extended study exchange or work placement in the country using appropriate IT applications (eg email). On completing the whose language they are learning. Their understanding of the course, students will be able to: give short presentations; foreign country will be enhanced by the investigation of specific discriminate - in understanding and use - between differing aspects of its language, culture, society and economy. An styles and registers; make predictions; take and hold the floor; indicative list of topics covered includes: contemporary culture, write short essays on aspects of contemporary society, culture, the media and the commercial and industrial environment. On science and technology. completing the module students will be able to: understand authentic spoken discourse delivered at normal speeds; give a List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One structured spoken presentation of an aspect of the country whose understanding of the country by enabling them to analyse language they are studying; write a critical assessment of a critically a problematic aspect of its language, culture, society or second aspect of the country in question; defend and develop in economy. An indicative list of topics taught includes discussion with peers the views expressed in their written and immigration and racism, employment and unemployment, oral work. housing and homelessness, gender and sexuality. On completing the module, learners will be able to: analyse the Staff Contact: [email protected] validity and significance of authentic spoken discourse, Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study delivered at normal speeds; discriminate - in understanding and use - between a range of written styles and spoken registers; Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test present in speech or writing a range of views on a controversial aspect of the society of the country whose language they are studying; evaluate critically and constructively the views of MLT311 French Higher Advanced 2 others; compare controversial or problematic aspects of two or more contemporary cultures, societies and economies. 10.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: [email protected] Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to complete the language preparation of students wishing to undertake an Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study extended study exchange or work placement in the country Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test whose language they are learning. It will further enhance their understanding of the country by enabling them to analyse critically a problematic aspect of its language, culture, society or economy. An indicative list of topics taught includes MLT314 German Higher Advanced 1 immigration and racism, employment and unemployment, 10.00 Credits AUTUMN housing and homelessness, gender and sexuality. On completing the module, learners will be able to: analyse the validity and Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide initial significance of authentic spoken discourse, delivered at normal language preparation for students wishing to undertake an speeds; discriminate - in understanding and use - between a extended study exchange or work placement in the country range of written styles and spoken registers; present in speech or whose language they are learning. Their understanding of the writing a range of views on a controversial aspect of the society foreign country will be enhanced by the investigation of specific of the country whose language they are studying; evaluate aspects of its language, culture, society and economy. An critically and constructively the views of others; compare indicative list of topics covered include: contemporary culture, controversial or problematic aspects of two or more the media and the commercial and industrial environment. On contemporary cultures, societies and economies; participate in completing the module students will be able to: understand assessing the contribution to the course of their peers. authentic spoken discourse delivered at normal speeds; understand authentic written texts in a range of styles and Staff Contact: [email protected] registers; give a structured spoken presentation of an aspect of Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study the country whose language they are studying; write a critical assessment of a second aspect of the country in question; defend Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test and develop in discussion with peers the views expressed in their written and oral work. MLT312 Spanish Higher Advanced 1 Staff Contact: [email protected] 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide initial Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test language preparation for students wishing to undertake an extended study exchange or work placement in the country whose language they are learning. Their understanding of the foreign country will be enhanced by the investigation of specific MLT315 German Higher Advanced 2 aspects of its language, culture, society and economy. An 10.00 Credits SPRING indicative list of topics covered includes: contemporary culture, the media and the commercial and industrial environment. On Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to complete the completing the module students will be able to: understand language preparation of students wishing to undertake an authentic spoken discourse delivered at normal speeds; extended study exchange or work placement in the country understand authentic written texts in a range of styles and whose language they are learning. It will further enhance their registers; give a structured spoken presentation of an aspect of understanding of the country by enabling them to analyse the country whose language they are studying; write a critical critically a problematic aspect of its language, culture, society or assessment of a second aspect of the country in question; defend economy. An indicative list of topics taught includes and develop in discussion with peers the views expressed in immigration and racism, employment and unemployment, their written and oral work. housing and homelessness, gender and sexuality. On completing the module, learners will be able to; analyse the Staff Contact: [email protected] validity and significance of authentic spoken discourse, Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study delivered at normal speeds; discriminate - in understanding and use - between a range of written styles and spoken registers; Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test present in speech (10-15 mins)or writing a range of views on a controversial aspect of the society of the country whose language they are studying; evaluate critically and MLT313 Spanish Higher Advanced 2 constructively the views of others; compare controversial or problematical aspects of two or more contemporary cultures, 10.00 Credits SPRING societies and economies. Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to complete the Staff Contact: [email protected] language preparation of students wishing to undertake an extended study exchange or work placement in the country Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study whose language they are learning. It will further enhance their Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

adapt communicatively to a range of demanding social MLT316 Italian Higher Advanced 1 situations. 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: [email protected] Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to provide initial Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study language preparation for students wishing to undertake an extended study exchange or work placement in the country Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test whose language they are learning. Their understanding of the foreign country will be enhanced by the investigation of specific aspects of its language, culture, society and economy. An MLT351 French Proficient 2 indicative list of topics covered includes: contemporary culture, the media and the commercial and industrial environment. On 10.00 Credits SPRING completing the module students will be able to: understand authentic spoken discourse delivered at normal speeds; Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to complete the understand authentic written texts in a range of styles and language preparation of students wishing to work in the country registers; give a structured spoken presentation (10-15 mins) of of the target language. Using a variety of task-based an aspect of the country whose language they are studying; write simulations, it will further develop the skills necessary for a critical assessment of a second aspect of the country in learners to operate successfully in social and professional question; defend and develop in discussion with peers the views environments related to their chosen area of academic study or expressed in their written and oral work. career. Aspects of culture and current affairs will also be investigated. An indicative list of topics taught includes: the Staff Contact: [email protected] political system, the commercial and industrial environment, labour relations and the new technologies. On completion of this Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study module students will be able to: present in speech (20-25 mins) Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test and writing (approx. 1,500 words) a range of views on a controversial aspect of the working environment; perform all the tasks associated with job applications, using appropriate styles and registers; perform a range of spoken and written tasks (e.g. MLT317 Italian Higher Advanced 2 correspondence) relevant to their intended working 10.00 Credits SPRING environment; take part successfully in a job interview; meet the bureaucratic demands of the target language country. Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to complete the language preparation of students wishing to undertake an Staff Contact: [email protected] extended study exchange or work placement in the country Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study whose language they are learning. It will further enhance their understanding of the country by enabling them to analyse Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test critically a problematic aspect of its language, culture, society or economy. An indicative list of topics taught includes . immigration and racism, employment and unemployment, MLT352 Spanish Proficient 1 housing and homelessness, gender and sexuality. On completing the module, learners will be able to: analyse the 10.00 Credits AUTUMN validity and significance of authentic spoken discourse, delivered at normal speeds; discriminate- in understanding and Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to prepare use- between a range of written styles and spoken views on a students for the workplace in the country of the target language. controversial aspect of the society of the country whose It will make significant use of task-based simulations to equip language they are studying; evaluate critically and learners with the skills necessary to operate successfully in constructively the views of others; compare controversial or professional environments related to their chosen area of problematic aspects of of two or more contemporary cultures, academic study. Aspects of culture and current affairs will also societies and economies. be explored. An indicative list of topics taught includes: the political system, the commercial and industrial environment, Staff Contact: [email protected] labour relations and the new technologies. On completion of this module students will be able to: give a structured spoken Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study presentation to an expert audience, handle feedback and Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test questioning; take an active role in interviews, negotiations, discussions and meetings; produce written reports associated with their proposed area of work; perform a range of relevant written and spoken tasks, using appropriate styles and registers; MLT350 French Proficient 1 adapt communicatively to a range of demanding social 10.00 Credits AUTUMN situations. Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to prepare Staff Contact: [email protected] students for the workplace in the country of the target language. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study It will make significant use of task-based simulations to equip learners with the skills necessary to operate successfully in Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test professional environments related to their chosen area of academic study. Aspects of culture and current affairs will also MLT353 Spanish Proficient 2 be explored. An indicative list of topics taught includes: the political system, the commercial and industrial environment, 10.00 Credits SPRING labour relations and the new technologies. On completion of this module students will be able to: give a structured spoken Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to complete the presentation to an expert audience, handle feedback and language preparation of students wishing to work in the country questioning; take an active role in interviews, negotiations, of the target language. Using a variety of task-based discussions and meetings; produce written reports associated simulations, it will further develop the skills necessary for with their proposed area of work; perform a range of relevant learners to operate successfully in social and professional written and spoken tasks, using appropriate styles and registers; environments related to their chosen area of academic study or career. Aspects of culture and current affairs will also be List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One investigated. An indicative list of topics taught includes: the MPY 101 Physics of Living Systems 2 political system, the commercial and industrial environment, labour relations and the new technologies. On completion of this 10.00 Credits SPRING module students will be able to: present in speech and writing a Aims/Description: The aim is to introduce biomechanical range of views on a controversial aspect of the working descriptions of the human body. We look at its structure and its environment; perform all the tasks associated with job performance as a physical machine. The structural applications, using appropriate styles and registers; perform a characteristics of human bones and tissue are investigated, range of spoken and written tasks (e.g. correspondence) relevant together with the mechanical functions of the skeleton and to their intended working environment; take part successfully in musculature. Simple fluid dynamic characteristics of the body a job interview; meet the bureaucratic demands of the target are introduced, including descriptions of blood-flow in the language country. arteries and veins and air-flow in the lungs. Staff Contact: [email protected] Staff Contact: Dr John Fenner Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Problem solving, Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work MLT354 German Proficient 1 Notes Physics or Mathematics 'A' Level or equivalent is advisable 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to prepare MUS109 Composition students for the workplace in the country of the target language. 10.00 Credits AUTUMN It will make significant use of task-based simulations to equip learners with the skills necessary to operate successfully in Aims/Description: Through a preliminary analysis of examples professional environments related to their chosen area of drawn from mainstream and contemporary musical literature academic study. Aspects of culture and current affairs will also students will be introduced to strategies for generating and be explored. An indicative list of topics taught includes: the shaping musical materials. In addition there will be some political system, the commercial and industrial environment, exploration of the technical and practical capabilities of musical labour relations and the new technologies. On completion of this instruments. Students will be required to produce coherently module students will be able to: give a structured spoken structured small-scale pieces which can be performed by presentation to an expert audience, handle feedback and members of the group. questioning; take an active role in interviews, negotiations, discussions and meetings; produce written reports associated Staff Contact: Alison York with their proposed area of work; perform a range of relevant Restrictions: A level Music and/or Grade V theory or written and spoken tasks, using appropriate styles and registers; equivalent adapt communicatively to a range of demanding social situations. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study Staff Contact: [email protected] Assessments: Portfolio of compositions Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study MUS117 Popular Music Studies Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test 10.00 Credits SPRING MLT355 German Proficient 2 Aims/Description: This module provides an introduction to the study of popular music. The changing definitions of 'popular 10.00 Credits SPRING music' are explored in relation to their socio-cultural context, Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to complete the and major issues and debates in popular music studies are language preparation of students wishing to work in the country investigated. Classes involve lectures, group discussions and in- of the target language. Using a variety of task-based class tasks. Assessments include a 1500 word essay choosing a simulations, it will further develop the skills necessary for piece of popular music, examining its significant features and learners to operate successfully in social and professional discussing what, and how, it communicates to the listener. environments related to their chosen area of academic study or Additionally a student will give a 15 minute group presentation career. Aspects of culture and current affairs will also be drawing on the major themes of the module to analyse an artist investigated. An indicative list of topics taught includes: the or album. political system, the commercial and industrial environment, Staff Contact: Alison York labour relations and the new technologies. On completion of this module students will be able to: present in speech and writing a Restrictions: A level Music & Ability to read Western musical range of views on a controversial aspect of the working notation environment; perform all the tasks associated with job applications, using appropriate styles and registers; perform a Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study range of spoken and written tasks (e.g. correspondence) relevant Assessments: Course work, 15 minute group presentation to their intended working environment; take part successfully in a job interview; meet the bureaucratic demands of the target MUS119 Introduction to Studio Techniques language country. 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: [email protected] Aims/Description: This unit equips students with the Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study fundamental knowledge and problem solving skills necessary to Assessments: Coursework, Formal Exam, Speaking in-class test use a wide variety of music technology software and hardware in areas such as composition, (ethno-)musicology, music psychology, performance and music analysis

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Staff Contact: Alison York harmony and counterpoint with understanding; and musical leadership skills. The module will also deal with musical Restrictions: Computer literacy nomenclature and terminology, and stylistic and formal Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study elements of music. These will be taught against the broad musical context of the Department and in order to prepare Assessments: Cubase composition (60%) Sonic Problems using students for concurrent and future modules. It is a continuation Pure Data (40%) of Musicianship A and will build on topics introduced in the first module, developing skills to a higher level. MUS121 Sound and Science Staff Contact: Alison York 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Restrictions: A level Music and/or Grade V theory or Aims/Description: This module aims to give musicians an equivalent awareness of the characteristics of scientific explanations and Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study the problems and benefits of approaching music from a scientific perspective. It explores scientific approaches to music Assessments: Formal Exam, Portfolio of Exercises and through selected topics in music psychology, such as takeaway exam paper psychoacoustics and music perception, music¿s evolutionary origins, and considers the benefits and value of music making MUS125 Music of the World and listening. Teaching and learning takes the form of lectures, demonstrations, collaborative learning, group-working in 20.00 Credits AUTUMN written and spoken forms. Aims/Description: Lectures survey and discuss significant Staff Contact: Alison York examples of music from around the world, including traditional, Restrictions: A level Music and/or Grade V theory or popular and classical genres. After an initial focus on the equivalent concept of music itself, each lecture assesses the role of one Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study form of music in its cultural context or a new means of Assessments: Course work, scientific poster produced as part of analysing music. Student work includes a transcription and a small group analysis assignment and a final listening exam. Staff Contact: Alison York MUS122 Electroacoustic Composition Restrictions: Music A-level or theory grade V 10.00 Credits SPRING Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Aims/Description: This module aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to produce an electroacoustic Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work composition. It introduces students to some of key figures within the electroacoustic field, surveys some of numerous MUS126 History of Western Music musical traditions that feed into this diverse form of artistic practice and surveys a number of compositional methods and 20.00 Credits SPRING techniques typically used in the creation of electroacoustic music. Students will learn how to process and develop a range Aims/Description: This module considers key moments in the of recorded sound materials, before considering some of the history of Western music from the 1500s to the present day. various ways in which those materials may be used to compose Taking individual composers and works, it aims to introduce an electroacoustic piece. students to different approaches to the study of music history, Staff Contact: Alison York the development of particular musical genres, and the impact of Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent cultural, historical and geographical context on composers. In Study addition, the module will consider ways of writing about music, Assessments: composition with exercises and the use of primary and secondary sources for informing critical discussions of the subject. MUS123 Musicianship A Staff Contact: Alison York 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Restrictions: A level Music (or equivalent) advisable Aims/Description: This module addresses the core skills of Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study listening to music accurately and critically; writing melody, harmony and counterpoint with understanding; and musical Assessments: Course work leadership skills. The module will also deal with musical nomenclature and terminology, and stylistic and formal PHI103 Self and Society elements of music. These will be taught against the broad musical context of the Department and in order to prepare 20.00 Credits SPRING students for concurrent and future modules. Aims/Description: This course introduces students to central Staff Contact: Alison York questions in political philosophy: Do we need a state, and if so, must we obey its laws? What is freedom, and when are we free? Restrictions: A level Music and/or grade V theory or equivalent Is equality a moral value, and if so, what are its implications for how governments ought to act? Should states be organised Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study democratically? The course encourages students to think Assessments: Formal Exam, Portfolio of Exercises, Listening carefully and clearly about the relationship they have, qua Diary citizen, to each other and the state, and to develop their analytical and critical skills in the process. Readings will include influential, historical and contemporary discussions of MUS124 Musicianship B the state, freedom, justice, and democracy. 10.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: Sally Weston Aims/Description: This module addresses the core skills of Restrictions: No listening to music accurately and critically; writing melody, List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study ways of reasoning. These abilities will be instilled using the examination of a wide range of particular examples, and Formal Exam, Course work, micro essays: 8 @ 300 words students will be given the chance to consider and discuss such instances of argumentation both in the lectures themselves and PHI107 Philosophy of Religion in supplementary tutorials. 10.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: Dr Dominic Gregory Aims/Description: There are two large questions typically Restrictions: No considered by philosophers of religion. First, is there any good reason to believe that God exists? Second, are there reasons to Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study think that the concept of God makes no sense? In this course we Assessments: Formal Exam consider both questions. For the first question we look at two standard arguments for the existence of God: the Argument from Design and the First Cause Argument. As regards the PHI116 Elementary Logic second question, we consider the Problem of Evil: whether the 10.00 Credits SPRING existence of God, as generally conceived, is consistent with the existence of evil. Aims/Description: The course will provide students with a theoretical knowledge of the fundamental parts of formal logic. Staff Contact: Alison Bygrave It will also teach them a range of associated formal techniques Restrictions: No with which they can then analyse and assess arguments. In particular, they will learn the languages of propositional and Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study first-order logic, and they will learn how to use those languages in providing formal representations of everyday claims. They Assessments: Course work will also learn how to use truth-tables. Finally, students will learn how to prove things using that language. PHI113 Key Arguments Staff Contact: Sally Weston 10.00 Credits SPRING Restrictions: No Aims/Description: This module will allow students to identify a key argument in the development of Western philosophy, Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study understand its role and significance, analyse its structure, and Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work assess it. Students will work collaboratively in small groups of five or six to produce two presentations, one identifying the argument and justifying their choice, the other analysing and PHI118 History of Ethics assessing the argument. The module will emphasise enquiry 10.00 Credits SPRING and independent learning as well as the analysis and assessment of arguments. Aims/Description: This unit offers a critical introduction to the history of ethical thought in the West, examining some of the Staff Contact: Sally Weston key ideas of e.g. Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Bentham, Mill, Restrictions: Only available to students on BA Philosophy Nietzsche, Rawls and Gilligan. It thus provides a textual introduction to some of the main types of ethical theory; the Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study ethics of flourishing and virtue; deontology; utilitarianism; contractualism. The close interconnections between ethics and Assessments: Course work other branches of philosophy (e.g. metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics) will be highlighted, as will the connections between PHI114 History of Philosophy ethics and other disciplines (e.g. psychology, anthropology). Our main text will be Singer, P. (ed), 1994, Ethics, Oxford 10.00 Credits SPRING University Press. Aims/Description: This module will provide an overview of the Staff Contact: Sally Weston history of Western philosophy, and a more detailed picture of some part of that history, through collaborative enquiry and Restrictions: No assessment. Students will work in small groups of five or six to produce a website explaining some movement or era in Western Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study philosophy, and will assess the websites produced by other Assessments: Formal Exam groups. There will also be an emphasis on developing study skills appropriate to philosophy PHI119 Environmental Ethics Staff Contact: Sally Weston 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Restrictions: Only available to students within the department of Philosophy Aims/Description: This course will introduce you to the challenging moral and political issues raised by climate change: Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study how should the burden of reducing global emissions be shared among states? In what condition must we leave the world for Assessments: Course work future generations? Do individuals have duties to reduce their personal emissions in the absence of assurance that others will PHI115 Reason and Argument do likewise? What 'green virtues' might there be? What is the relative importance of action against climate change compared 10.00 Credits AUTUMN against other morally important goals? We'll cover a range of Aims/Description: This module aims to develop the student's ideas from different disciplines, and you'll learn both how to ability to analyse, criticise and construct arguments - chains of defend and criticize arguments relating to environmental reasoning in which reasons are offered for conclusions. These activism, and what actions might be required to mitigate climate are skills which are essential to philosphy, and to all other change. academic subjects and everyday life. The student will learn how Staff Contact: Sally Weston to identify arguments and how to spot various good and bad List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Restrictions: No developing skills of analysis and critical reasoning. Topics discussed will include: death; suicide; euthanasia; abortion; Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study animals; famine relief; and war. Arguments for and against Assessments: Formal Exam, 40% Individual reflection on group various positions on these questions will be looked at; and some work asssignment, 1000-1500 words and 10% Peer-assessment use will be made of moral theory to illuminate the issues. of group work assignment (average of other group members Staff Contact: Sally Weston assigned grades) Restrictions: No PHI120 Paradox and Plurality: Zeno to Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Aristotle Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work 10.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: This module will focus on a debate between PHI126 Mind, Brain and Personal Identity three ancient philosophers (Zeno of Elea. Democritus and Aristotle) concerning an intiguing set of paradoxes posed by 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Zeno around the middle of the 5th century BCE. Zeno's Aims/Description: This module provides an initial survey of a paradoxes challenge our common sense view of the world as a cluster of interrelated philosophical problems concerning the pluralityof different things in motion. They typically raise mind, free will, God and the nature of persons. We will discuss questions concerning infinity, individuality and identity. questions like: What kind of thing is the mind? Is it a non- Democritus (mid-5th to early-4th century BCE), was the physical thing, like a soul? Or is it nothing over and above the Western world's first atomist, and represents an influenctial line brain? What is free will? Are we free? Does God exist? Is there of response to Zeno's paradoxes. Aristotle (later 4th century an afterlife? What is a person? Do non-human animals have BCE, and surely one of the most influential philosophers in minds? Could they be persons? Could machines have minds or Western throught) vigorously opposed the views of Democritus. be persons? He offered subtle and detailed 'logical' resolutions of Zeno's paradoxes, and sought to restore our confidence in what he saw Staff Contact: Dr Stephen Laurence, Philosophy as our common sense view of the world. But Zeno's paradoxes Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials continue to fascinate, and the aim of this module is to encourage Assessments: Formal Examination, Coursework you to think about, and engage for yourself in, the issues they raise. PHI132 Death and Melissus, who can be taken as defenders and partisans of 10.00 Credits SPRING Parmenides' positions. These philosophers (known collectively as the Eleatics) will occupy us for the first half of the module. In Aims/Description: This module is mainly about death itself the second half of the module we will look at three philosophers [whereas PHI125 is mainly about killing}. What is death? What who responded, in different ways, to the arguments of happens to us when we die? Could there be an afterlife? Would Parmenides: namely Anaxagoras, Empedocles and Democritus. it be a good thing if there were? What is it about death that we dislike so much, or that makes it bad? Is it rational, or even Staff Contact: Sally Weston possible to fear death? What is the right attitude towards our Restrictions: No own death? Do we have moral duties towards the dead? The course will clarify these questions and attempt to answer them. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Readings will be taken from both historical and contemporary sources. Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Staff Contact: Anne-Marie Frisby PHI121 Knowledge, Justification and Doubt Restrictions: No 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study Aims/Description: This course is an introduction to Assessments: Formal Exam epistemology. We will consider 1) what knowledge is; 2) what it is for beliefs to be justified or warranted; 3) what knowledge or justified belief we can have; and 4) whether we can know PHY104 Introduction to Astrophysics anything at all . 10.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: Professor Christopher Hookway Pre-Requisites: Students should have competenence above or Restrictions: No at least equal to AS level in Physics and Mathematics. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Aims/Description: One of four half-modules forming the Level-1 Astronomy course, PHY104 aims to equip students with Assessments: Formal Exam a basic understanding of the important physical concepts and techniques involved in astronomy with an emphasis on how PHI125 Matters of Life and Death fundamental results can be derived from fairly simple observations. The module consists of three sections: 20.00 Credits AUTUMN (i) Basic Concepts, Fluxes, Temperatures and Magnitudes; (ii) Astronomical Spectroscopy; Aims/Description: What is so bad about death? Is life always a (iii) Gravitational Astrophysics. good? Is it always wrong for someone to take their own life? Parts (i), (ii) and (iii) each comprise some six lectures. The Would it be wrong to help someone die painlessly who was lectures are supported by problems classes, in which you will already dying of a painful illness? Is abortion ever, or always, learn to apply lecture material to the solution of numerical morally permissible? Do animals have rights which we infringe problems. by killing them or making them suffer? What, if anything, do we owe to the starving of the world? How, if at all, is killing in war- Staff Contact: Prof Paul Crowther time morally different from other forms of killing? This course is designed to encourage students to think carefully and Restrictions: Sudents must have Maths A Level constructively about a range of life-and-death moral dilemmas, List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Teaching Methods: Lectures, Problem solving, Independent 1 (physics with study in North America, Physics with study in Study Australasia, Theoretical Physics). Assessments: Formal Exam, class test 10%, Problem class Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study homeworks 10% Assessments: Course work Notes Basic algebra and calculus required. POL109 Comparing Modern Polities PHY106 The Solar System 20.00 Credits SPRING 10.00 Credits SPRING Pre-Requisites: Must have achieved 3 A Levels at grade B or Pre-Requisites: Above, or at least AS, or equivalent in physics above (or equivalent).. and mathematics, or equivalent. Aims/Description: This module examines the utility of the Aims/Description: One of the four half-modules forming the comparative approach to politics in an era of the proclaimed 'end Level 1 astronomy course, but may also be taken as a stand- of history' and 'global convergence'. It examines executives in a alone module. PHY106 covers the elements of the Solar System: number of political systems. It focuses on 'constitutional the Sun, planets, moons and minor bodies. What are their engineering' by examining the effect that electoral and party structures and compositions, and what dothey tell us about the systems have on the structure of executive authority and the formation and history of the Solar System? types of executive commonly used in political systems. These are presidential, prime ministerial and mixed systems. It Staff Contact: Dr Katherine Inskip considers what is meant by 'strong' and 'weak' executives. The Restrictions: Only to be taken by students with A Level maths cases examined are: US presidency, Brazilian presidency, UK and physics prime minister, German Federal Chancellor, Russian presidency Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study and the French presidential system. Assessments: Formal Exam, in class test 20% Staff Contact: Sarah Moga PHY111 Our Evolving Universe Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Aims/Description: The course provides a general overview of astronomy suitable for those with no previous experience of the POL115 Consensus, Crisis and Coalition: subject. The principal topics covered are (1) how we deduce Introduction to British Politics useful physical parameters from observed quantities, (2) the structure and evolution of stars, (3) the structure of the Milky 20.00 Credits SPRING Way, and the classification, structure and evolution of galaxies Aims/Description: Adopting a historical lens, this module in general, (4) an introduction to cosmology and (5) extrasolar introduces students to British politics, as experienced through plantets and an introduction to astrobiology. All topics are key leaders and events. The first key theme of the module is treated in a descriptive manner with minimal mathematics. `leadership¿. As this module shows, political leadership is fluid, Staff Contact: Dr Simon Goodwin not fixed. Some prime ministers were undoubtedly more powerful than others; yet nearly all experienced the waxing and Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study waning of their political capital during their time in office. The second theme is 'consensus'. The module commences with an Assessments: Formal Exam, 2 Multiple-choice progress tests (2 exploration of the post-war consensus and charts its impact on x 5%), 1 homework exercise (5%), 1 directed-reading exercise society, economy and successive governments, delineating the (15%) factors that resulted in its eventual abandonment in the 1970s.

PHY123 The Physics of Sustainable Energy Staff Contact: Sarah Moga 10.00 Credits SPRING Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study Aims/Description: The module will cover the physics of Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work sustainable energy. It includes discussions framed by the book `Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air' by D MacKay and will PSY105 Synthetic Psychology cover current energy requirements and what energy could potentially be provided by the various forms of renewable 10.00 Credits AUTUMN energy. The course will commence with a discussion of the Aims/Description: Traditional, analytic approaches in basic physics of energy, power and work and the conversion of psychology address the problem of the mind/brain by analyzing energy from one form to another. We examine in detail the existing intelligent systems (humans and animals) using history of global energy useage and how we produce and use controlled experiments. However, this difficult task has recently energy in the UK. We will then explore the impacts that this been complemented by synthetic approaches that operate in the energy use has on the biosphere and climate and the public opposite direction¿trying to understand the mind/brain by perception of such processes. The course will then focus on the building artificial systems, such as robots and computer energy contenet of objects and processes we take for granted programs, that exhibit intelligence of their own. Students will be and will then move on to means by which we can produce shown how these analytic and synthetic approaches can work energy using renewable technologies, such as wind, wave, solar, together to advance the understanding of the mind and brain. biofuels etc. We will also examine nuclear (fusion and fission) The course will be organised around the question of what energy and will discuss their principles and practical progress that has been made so far in the quest to build implementation. Finally, we will consider solutions to our humanoid robots that are able to match human perceptual, energy needs, including transportation, energy conservation, behavioural, cognitive and social abilities. Questions to be carbon capture and geoengineering. highlighted include: Can robots think? Could an artificial Staff Contact: Prof David Lidzey humanoid have feelings, consciousness, or free will? What can be learned by trying to answer these questions about the human Restrictions: Only available to students taking single honours mind and our own conscious experience? physics degrees and those not involving a second subject in year List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Staff Contact: Professor Tony Prescott PSY110 Essential Social Psychology Restrictions: Maximum of 40 students only. Cannot be taken with COM1070 10.00 Credits SPRING Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent Aims/Description: This module provides the first part of the Study main course of Social Psychology (to be completed in the linked PSY246 module). Assessments: Course work Objectives Following this module, students should be able to: PSY106 Memory, Skill and Everyday Life 1. Describe accurately the social psychological theories covered in the syllabus. 10.00 Credits SPRING 2. Critically evaluate social psychological research. Co-requisites: PSY104. The course comprises a review of four key topics in contemporary social psychology: Aims/Description: Have you ever been interviewed by the 1. Attribution Theory and Social Explanations - asks how people police? Have you ever given testimony in court? Do you think make sense of their social encounters; people as naive that young children should be allowed to testify against their psychologists seeking to understand the causes of their own and abusers? Do you forget half the things you are told? Do you others¿ behaviour know someone suffering from amnesia? Do you think you 2. Prosocial Behaviour - looks at the psychological and remember things and then find out they never happened? Do situational factors that determine when people are willing to you think that people who have better memories do better in help others. exams? Would you like a better memory? If so, how do you go 3. Intergroup Relations - examines the psychological basis for about getting one? Do you want to know how children can turn prejudice and conflict between groups. into world class performers? What are your strengths and how 4. Attitudes and Attitude Change - develops an understanding of can you work to them? This module will attempt to answer these the formation and function of attitudes and the ways in which questions for you. In the course of lectures and a practical class they change. we will be talking about how well children recall events they have experienced, how the courts in the UK assess the reliability Staff Contact: Abigail Millings of witnesses, what makes people fantasise, what makes people Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Laboratory work, forget, how people develop skills, and the best strategies for Independent Study recalling new information. Assessments: Formal Exam Staff Contact: Professor Rod Nicoloson Notes This module is part of a course accredited by the British Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Laboratory work, Psychological Society Independent Study

Assessments: Formal Exam REL101 Understanding the Old Testament Notes This module is part of a course accredited by the British 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Psychological Society Aims/Description: This module will introduce students to major issues within the study of the Old Testament/Hebrew PSY108 Neuroscience and Evolutionary Bible including the development of the canon, the nature and Psychology variety of the biblical books and the major themes which are 10.00 Credits SPRING presented and represented within them. The emphasis will be on the problems the texts present to the modern reader and Aims/Description: A series of lectures and a laboratory class strategies for dealing with these while also providing a will be used to show how particular aspects of normal and foundation of knowledge and skills for further study. abnormal behaviour can be understood in terms of underlying biological processes. Staff Contact: Alison Bygrave Following this module students should be able to: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study 1. understand the basic processes of axonal and synaptic Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work neurotransmission and how disturbances to these processes underlie particular neuropsychological disorders REL1013 Religion in Britain Today 2. understand the neural machanisams underlying funtional imaging signals 20.00 Credits SPRING 3. understand how behaviour can be influenced by basic Aims/Description: From faith schools to family values, from evolutionary processes. religious dress to religious wars, in 'secular' contemporary The course has three themes: (i) A discussion of how selected Britain religion is rarely out of the news. This module will look commonly experienced mental health problems can be at various aspects of religion in contemporary Britain, including understood in terms of specific disturbances of politics and war, sexuality and marriage, ritual and symbolism neurotransmission. (ii) A discussion of how the origins of many as well as providing an introduction to the contemporary behavioural interactions can be analysed from an evolutionary, religious map of Britain and the diverse religions that contribute sociobiological perspective. (iii) Biophysical underpinnings of to it. functional neuroimaging. Staff Contact: A Bygrave Staff Contact: Prof Paul Overton Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Laboratory work, Assessments: Course work Independent Study

Assessments: Formal Exam

Notes This module is part of a course accredited by the British Psychological Society List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

This module will explore these issues through an examination of REL102 Understanding the New Testament the presentation of the Bible in the media, including TV, film 20.00 Credits SPRING and newspapers. Aims/Description: An introductory module for students of any Staff Contact: Alison Bygrave subject and not just Biblical Studies, this module is a literary Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study and historical journey through the books of the New Testament. Using English translations, students will gain a sense of the 'big Assessments: Course work picture' foundational both for further study of the Bible and for study of English literature, which is full of biblical imagery and REL116 Understanding Religion allusions. This module will also introduce students to major issues within New Testament studies, including study of textual 20.00 Credits AUTUMN criticism, the development of the canon, and critical methods and approaches. Aims/Description: 'Religion' is fundamental to our understanding of humanity and has shaped the ways we live and Staff Contact: Alison Bygrave think. This module will provide students with an introduction to key concepts and topics in the critical study of religion through Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study social scientific methods (e.g. sociology, anthropology). Topics Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work will include: what is 'religion'; history and myth; identity and ethnicity; gender; purity; class; picturing God; conversion; sacred places; and sacred writings. While a range of REL107 Philosophy of Religion comparative examples will be provided, the focus will be on 10.00 Credits SPRING western traditions generally and biblical studies specifically. This module will provide a foundation for further study in Aims/Description: There are two large questions typically Religion, Theology and the Bible. Assessment will be a 2000 considered by philosophers of religion. First, is there any good word essay and a 2 hour examination. reason to believe that God exists? Second, are there reasons to think that the concept of God makes no sense? In this course we Staff Contact: Andrew Pearson consider both questions. For the first question we look at two Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study standard arguments for the existence of God: the Argument from Design and the First Cause Argument. As regards the Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work second question, we consider the Problem of Evil: whether the existence of God, as generally conceived, is consistent with the REL118 An Introduction to Islam existence of evil. 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: A Bygrave Aims/Description: The module will provide students with an Restrictions: No introduction and overview of the religion of Islam. It will Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study outline the formative life of the prophet Mohammed in his social, religious and cultural context as well as the early history Assessments: Course work of the Islamic faith and its central pillars of faith. It will sketch some of the major historical events and periods of Islam up to REL110 Hebrew A the present day and will introduce and explore the Koran and Hadith. Attention will also be paid to the history of Christian- 20.00 Credits SPRING Muslim relations and to the form and influence of Islamic art and architecture. Aims/Description: Hebrew can be fun! Designed for absolute beginners, this module introduces students to the original Staff Contact: Alison Bygrave language of the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament). Learning Hebrew is fundamental to the studying the Bible. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study Through interactive tutorials and problem-solving sessions, Assessments: Course work students will soon become familiar with the alphabet, vocabulary and grammar of a language whose literature has had an incalculable influence on the world's religious and REL120 Greek A intellectual history. Students learn at their own pace, and are 20.00 Credits AUTUMN encouraged to construct their own pattern of learning. By the end of the module, students will be able to read biblical passages Pre-Requisites: None, but some previous experience of in the original and will have an invaluable resource for their language learning is desirable. studies of the Bible. Aims/Description: This module introduces student to the Staff Contact: Andrew Pearson elements of New Testament Greek. Building on that foundation, this module equips the student with the understanding of Greek Restrictions: Not available to fluent or native speakers of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary necessary for reading the New Modern Hebrew Testament in the original language. Students will also be Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study introduced to essential tools and resources for reading the Greek New Testament. Students will thus be enabled on their degree Assessments: Formal Exam, Tests and quizzes course to approach text modules on the basis of the original text (an ability that is essential to further research beyond the BA in REL114 The Bible: Fact or Fiction? Biblical Studies). 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: A Bygrave Aims/Description: This is an introductory module for students Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study in any subject and not just Biblical Studies. Is the Bible fact or Assessments: Formal Exam, tests fiction? The Bible is often subject to sensationalist and controversial TV programmes or newspaper articles claiming that it is secret code, myth, history, creation science or fiction. List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

handled. By the end of this module, you should be able to read REL123 An Introduction to Early Judaism simple, unedited texts in Russian, converse in a range of 10.00 Credits AUTUMN everyday situations, write a short essay or letter and translate texts. You will also have a thorough knowledge of grammar that Aims/Description: This module will introduce students to some you can build on at Level 2. of the beliefs and practices of formative Judaism, from around the fourth century BCE to around the third century CE. Students Staff Contact: Mrs Linda Hanna will be introduced to: the historical and cultural contexts of Teaching Methods: Seminars, Problem solving, Independent different Jewish groups and individuals; Jewish sects (e.g. Study Pharisees); writings (e.g. Dead Sea Scrolls); and ideas (e.g. end times and apocalypse) and look at how different Jewish groups Assessments: Formal Exam, Departmental tests. Written, oral interacted with the wider Mediterranean world through the and listening comprehension following topics: cosmology and heavenly journeys; monotheism and the supernatural world; Torah and Law; magic, RUS105 Russian Language I exorcism and healing; death and afterlife; Temple and sacrifice; prophecy and banditry; and ethnicity and social interaction. 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessment will be one 2000 word essay. Cannot be taken with: RUS103. Staff Contact: Alison Bygrave Pre-Requisites: A-level Russian or equivalent. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study Aims/Description: To build on the language skills acquired at Assessments: Course work A-level by means of an integrated programme of language classes in Russian grammar, translation, comprehension, and REL124 Epics and Myths of the Ancient oral practice. To improve productive and receptive language World skills. 20.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: Ms Marianna Ivanova Aims/Description: This module examines epics and myths Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study from ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Persian, Israelite, and Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, oral Greek culture under three themes: creation myths; epic journeys; discussions of suffering and meaning. Students will study ancient classics such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's RUS106 Russian Language II Odyssey, the Egyptian `Book of the Dead', the biblical books of 10.00 Credits SPRING Genesis, Exodus, and Job, and even Plato's Phaedo. The module explores interpretative issues in each text and examines their Cannot be taken with: RUS104. relationship to religion, politics, ethics, and economics. The Pre-Requisites: RUS105. module will develop the critical reading and thinking skills necessary in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Aims/Description: To build on the language skills acquired at Staff Contact: Alison Bygrave A-level by means of an integrated programme of language classes in Russian grammar, translation, comprehension, and Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study oral practice. To improve productive and receptive language skills through exposure to texts in Russian. Assessments: Course work, creation of a ceramic vessel Staff Contact: Ms Marianna Ivanova RUS103 Russian for Beginners (I) Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work, oral Cannot be taken with: RUS105. RUS113 Czech I Aims/Description: The aim of the module is to provide you with a basic but thorough knowledge of Russian as used in 10.00 Credits AUTUMN everyday situations likely to be encountered on a visit to Russia. There will be lectures covering grammar, tutorials to practice Aims/Description: This module provides an introduction to contemporary standard Czech. You"ll have four hours per week the new structures, seminars that allow you to develop reading and writing skills and oral practice classes. of instruction. Students learn the Czech sound system and alphabet, and acquire basic reading, writing, listening and Staff Contact: Mrs Linda Hanna conversation skills. The module focuses on the fundamental grammar and vocabulary of the language, and by the end of the Teaching Methods: Seminars, Problem solving, Independent semester you'll be able to navigate through some basic Study conversational situations and talk about day-to-day life Assessments: Formal Exam, Departmental tests, written, oral (Common European Framework level A1). and listening comprehension Staff Contact: Mrs Linda Hanna Notes Some experience of foreign language learning advisable. Restrictions: Not available to students on programmes of study in the School of Languages and Cultures RUS104 Russian for Beginners (II) Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study 20.00 Credits SPRING Assessments: Formal Exam, Oral exam Cannot be taken with: RUS106.

Pre-Requisites: RUS103 or equivalent.

Aims/Description: The module builds on the skills acquired in Russian for Beginners (1) (RUS103) increasing the range of words and structures understood and the range of situations List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

will be encouraged to develop a critical approach to received RUS114 Czech II categories. 10.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: Professor Craig Brandist Aims/Description: This module continues an introduction to Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study contemporary standard Czech. You'll have four hours per week of instruction. Carrying on from RUS113, students learn Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work reading, writing, listening and conversation skills, master the basic grammar and vocabulary of the language, and by the end RUS118 Russian for heritage speakers of the year are able to talk about a variety of daily topics and express opinions (Common European Framework level A2). 40.00 Credits Academic Year Staff Contact: Mrs Linda Hanna Aims/Description: This module addresses the needs of students at B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference Restrictions: Not available to students on programmes of study for Languages (CEFR) and linguistically fulfils all the in the School of Languages and Cultures requirements of this level. It aims to offer students who already Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study have some knowledge of Russian (i.e. to heritage speakers) an opportunity to further develop their language skills. It will Assessments: Formal Exam, Oral exam address specific problems heritage speakers may have (cases, conjugation, etc.). Students are also introduced to key aspects of RUS115 Polish I Russian culture through a programme of readings in both English and Russian. Regular classroom work will develop their 10.00 Credits AUTUMN vocabulary and reading ability in the language and their knowledge of Russian culture, history and society. Co-requisites: RUS116. Staff Contact: Mrs Liudmila Nedialkova Aims/Description: To provide a grounding in Contemporary Standard Polish, concentrating on the language of everyday Restrictions: This course is designed for L1 students with situations. To develop simple productive and receptive skills in knowledge of Russian equaling to B1 at the CEFR scale; this speech and writing. By the end of Polish I and Polish II students will be tested with placement test before admitting the student to will be able to read a simple but unedited Polish text and to this course. conduct a simple conversation in Polish. In Polish I some of the principal grammatical constructions are introduced. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Problem solving, Independent Study Staff Contact: Dr Joanna Kowalska Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Restrictions: Not available to students on programmes of study in the School of Languages and Cultures RUS119 Polish Language and Culture for Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study heritage speakers Assessments: Course work 40.00 Credits Academic Year Aims/Description: In this module, you will consolidate and RUS116 Polish II build on Polish language skills previously acquired, typically in a family setting. You will extend your vocabulary and, on 10.00 Credits SPRING completion of the module, be able to deal with a wider range of Pre-Requisites: RUS115. texts and situations. The module will also introduce you to some aspects of Polish culture and contemporary life Aims/Description: To provide further grounding in Contemporary Standard Polish, concentrating on everyday Staff Contact: Dr Joanna Kowalska situations. To develop simple productive and receptive skills in Teaching Methods: Seminars, Problem solving, Independent written and spoken language. In Polish II most of the principal Study, oral practice classes grammatical constructions are introduced. Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work

Staff Contact: Dr Joanna Kowalska RUS120 Introduction to Russian Culture Restrictions: Not available to students on programmes of study 20.00 Credits Academic Year in the School of Languages and Cultures Aims/Description: This module provides an introduction to Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study major trends in Russian culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As well as a number of literary texts by major authors, Assessments: Course work the module covers film, the visual arts and the media; the relationship between popular culture and elite culture is also RUS117 The Soviet Union 1917-1991 considered. No knowledge of Russian is required. 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: Dr Adam Fergus Aims/Description: This module provides an overview of the Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study historical changes affected the territories of the former Russian Empire from the Revolutions of 1917. This includes the Assessments: Course work dramatic economic, political, demographic, institutional and ideological changes that occurred in the period. Attention will RUS121 Czech Language and Culture for also be paid to the multinational dimension of the USSR and to Beginners 1 the international context within which the USSR rose and declined as a power. Students will be introduced to some of the 20.00 Credits AUTUMN various theoretical approaches to the history of the USSR and Cannot be taken with: RUS307H, RUS307I. List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Aims/Description: This module provides an introduction to Pre-Requisites: RUS123. contemporary standard Czech, as well as to the history and culture of the Czech lands. You'll have five hours per week of Aims/Description: This module continues our introduction to instruction. Students learn the Czech sound system and alphabet, contemporary standard Polish (RUS123). Carrying on from the and acquire basic reading, writing, listening and conversation first semester of Polish, you increase the range of words and skills. The course focuses on the fundamental grammar and structures you can understand and use as well as the range of vocabulary of the language, and by the end of the semester situations you can handle. By the end of this module, you should you'll be able to navigate through some basic conversational be able to read simple, unedited texts in Polish, converse in a situations and talk about day-to-day life (Common European range of everyday situations, and write a short essay and a letter Framework level A1). Students also have a course of seminars to a friend. You will have a well-founded knowledge of Polish on history and culture delivered in English, which starts with the grammar that you can build on at more advanced levels. founding of the Czech nation and concludes with the beginning Staff Contact: Dr Joanna Kowalska of the Czech 'dark ages' in 1620. Restrictions: The course is intended for ab-initio students and Staff Contact: Mrs Linda Hanna assumes no previous knowledge of Polish. Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Problem solving, Assessments: Formal Exam, presentation and oral exam Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam, Oral presentation and exam RUS122 Czech Language and Culture for Beginners 2 RUS125 History of East-Central Europe I 20.00 Credits SPRING 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Cannot be taken with: RUS308H, RUS308I. Aims/Description: This module provides you with knowledge Pre-Requisites: RUS121. of the history and culture of Central Europe, especially with relation to the Czech lands and Poland; you choose which Aims/Description: This module continues an introduction to country you want to focus on. If you opt for the Czech Republic contemporary standard Czech. You'll have five hours per week you will have a course of staff- and student-led seminars on of instruction. Carrying on from RUS121, students learn history and culture delivered in English, which starts with the reading, writing, listening and conversation skills, master the founding of the Czech nation and concludes with the beginning basic grammar and vocabulary of the language, and by the end of the Czech 'dark ages' in 1620. If you opt for Poland you will of the year are able to talk about a variety of daily topics and participate in a course of workshops on the rich history and express opinions (Common European Framework level A2). culture of Poland in which you play an active role. By reading The course of history seminars, delivered in English, begins key texts and preparing student-led presentations you acquire with the Czech `national revival' and continues through the knowledge of the highlights of Polish history, starting with the founding of the modern Czech state to the present. founding of the nation in the 10th century and ending with the 19th century uprisings. Staff Contact: Mrs Linda Hanna Staff Contact: Mr Ludek Knittl Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam Assessments: Formal Exam, Presentation RUS123 Polish Language and Culture for Beginners 1 RUS126 History of East-Central Europe II 20.00 Credits AUTUMN 10.00 Credits SPRING Cannot be taken with: RUS309H, RUS309I. Aims/Description: This module provides you with knowledge of the history and culture of Central Europe, especially with Aims/Description: In this module, we introduce you to Polish relation to the Czech lands and Poland; you choose which language, history and culture. Our main aim is to provide you country you want to focus on. If you opt for the Czech Republic, with a basic but thorough knowledge of Polish as used in you will have a course of staff- and student-led history seminars, everyday situations likely to be encountered on a visit to Poland. delivered in English, beginning with the Czech 'national revival' There will be lectures covering grammar, seminars that allow of the late eighteenth century and continuing through the you to develop reading and writing skills and oral practice founding of the modern Czech state to the present. If you opt for classes, 3 hours in all. These give you a firm grounding for the Poland, you will participate in a course of workshops on the rich study of Polish at more advanced levels. in addition, you will history and culture of Poland in which you play an active role. take part in weekly workshops on the rich history and culture of By reading key-texts and preparing student-led presentations Poland in which you play an active role. By reading key-texts you acquire knowledge of the main events in 20th century and preparing student-led presentations you acquire knowledge Polish history. of the highlights of Polish history, from the founding of the nation in the 10th century up to the present day. Staff Contact: Mr Ludek Knittl Staff Contact: Dr Joanna Kowalska Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Problem solving, Assessments: Formal Exam, Presentation Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam, Oral presentation & exam RUS128 Beginners' Russian For All I RUS124 Polish Language and Culture for 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Beginners 2 Aims/Description: This course is intended for ab-initio students 20.00 Credits SPRING and assumes no previous knowledge of Russian. Cannot be taken with: RUS310H, RUS310I. Staff Contact: Mrs Linda Hanna Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study, tutorial List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One

Assessments: Formal Exam, Oral exam, plus listening including the `big three' of social class, gender and race, as well comprehension as sexuality, age, religion and disability. Major themes will be explored with a predominantly British- and policy-related focus, RUS129 Beginners' Russian For All II although global divisions and inequalities will also be included for consideration. 10.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: Maureen Howard Aims/Description: This course is intended for ab-initio students who have completed the Autumn Semester module RUS128. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study, drop-in The module aims to provide you with a basic but thorough surgeries knowledge of Russia as used in everyday situations likely to be Assessments: Formal Exam encountered on a visit to Russia. Classes will practise new grammatical structures and help you develop reading, writing and oral skills. SCS1005 Gender, Sexuality and Society Staff Contact: Dr Adam Fergus 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study, tutorial Aims/Description: This unit intends to address the following questions regarding gender and sexuality and their interaction Assessments: Formal Exam, Oral exam, plus listening with society: What do we mean by gender and sexuality? How comprehension do we do gender and sexuality? How do we see gender and sexuality? How do we control gender and sexuality? RUS130 Beginners' Polish Language For All I Staff Contact: Maureen Howard 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study, Drop-in Aims/Description: The course is intended for ab-initio students surgeries and assumes no previous knowledge of Polish. Assessments: Course work Staff Contact: Dr Joanna Kowalska SCS1007 Understanding Crime Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study, tutorial 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Formal Exam, Oral exam, plus listening comprehension Aims/Description: Crime is a major social problem in virtually all societies. In this module, sociological understandings of RUS131 Beginners' Polish Language For All II crime are discussed, often with reference to their implications for policy. The module will introduce you to major research 10.00 Credits SPRING about crime in contemporary Britain and help you to understand the contribution of sociology to its analysis. This module will be Aims/Description: This course is intended for ab-initio students of value to anyone thinking about a career in the criminal justice who have completed the Autumn Semester module RUS131. services, journalism, public service, the voluntary sector and The module aims to provide you with a basic but thorough anyone interested in understanding the significance of crime in knowledge of Polish as used in everyday situations likely to be contemporary British society encountered on a visit to Poland. Classes will practise new grammatical structures and help you develop reading, writing Staff Contact: Maureen Howard and oral skills. Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study, Drop-in Staff Contact: Dr Joanna Kowalska surgeries Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study, tutorial Assessments: Formal Exam, Oral exam, plus listening Assessments: Course work comprehension

SCS1009 Welfare Politics and the State SCS1001 The Sociology of Everyday Life 10.00 Credits AUTUMN 10.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: This module aims to introduce students to Aims/Description: This module introduces students to some of the material and theoretical concerns of social policy by basic sociological concepts, such as 'the sociological imagination', 'social interaction', 'social identity', 'deviance' and addressing the question - "What are social problems and how 'globalisation' and illustrate how these can be applied to do societies deal with them?". It considers collective responses to social problems in historical and contemporary context, and everyday life. Drawing on the work of key thinkers in sociology, a range of everyday life situations, such as mobile phone use, the effects of social change on the design and delivery of shopping and travel will be used as exemplary cases. welfare policies in economically advanced countries. It also explores changes in the ways that policy is made and presented, Staff Contact: Maureen Howard and the problems of funding and delivering welfare services in Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study, drop-in the twenty-first century. surgeries Staff Contact: Maureen Howard Assessments: Formal Exam Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study, drop-in SCS1003 Understanding Inequality surgeries 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Formal Exam Aims/Description: The aim of this unit is to explore a key concern of sociology to explain how and why material and SCS1011 Classical Sociological Theory symbolic rewards are distributed unequally. It will consider the unequal distribution of wealth, privilege and power and, in 10.00 Credits SPRING doing so, will question common-sense understandings of various Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to introduce inequalities in society. It will focus on various social divisions foundational theories in sociology. The lectures will describe List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One the ideas of leading theorists Durkheim, Marx, and Weber with reference to the social context in which they lived and wrote. SMI107 Introductory research project in Lectures will analyze the primary texts of sociological throught quantitative social science with reference to the social contexts in which they emerged. 20.00 Credits SPRING This will include a look at the concerns of the first generation of sociological thinkers, their understanding of changes in Aims/Description: This unit introduces students to the skills European societies at the time, and the way in which their ideas required for the effective design, execution and communication inform an understanding of issues and problems in the of a social science research project utilising quantitative contemporary world. methods. Students will construct their own research project aimed at answering a particular problem in social science, will Staff Contact: Maureen Howard identify, obtain and analyse the data necessary to answer that Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study, Drop-in question, and will present their findings both on a written surgeries project report and in a poster paper to be presented at a student conference. Assessments: Formal Exam Staff Contact: Ruth Bartles SCS1013 Globalisation and World Cultures Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Problem solving, Independent Study, participation in student conference. 10.00 Credits SPRING Assessments: Course work, Students will be assessed on a Aims/Description: This unit will take a social anthropological poster paper based on their research project which they will be approach towards understanding the concept of culture and the expected to present at a student research conference. ways in which it informs the organisation and practices of societies around the world - specifically in terms of their values and belief systems and traditional practices. From this basis, it SMI108 Survey Design and Data Collection will go on to not only examine the impact of social change and 10.00 Credits SPRING globalisation on different cultures, but also highlight the ways in which cultural ways of living continue to persist despite Aims/Description: This module introduces social science globalisation or have become more fundamental to societies as a students to issues of data collection and survey design. Topics result of globalisation. covered include: sampling theory; sampling methods; questionnaire design and delivery; research ethics and social Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study, drop-in science data; using secondary data sources and data archives; surgeries and how to document and curate data sets. Assessments: Course work As part of the module, students working in groups will design question modules for a general questionnaire survey, to be SMI105 Data Visualisation and Presentation delivered by the entire module. Ethical approval for the survey for Social Scientists will be sought through the SMI and University URECs prior to its being conducted: as one collective survey will be produced 10.00 Credits AUTUMN by the entire module, group approval will be sought. Aims/Description: This unit provides students with training in Staff Contact: Ruth Bartles and hands-on experience of data visualisation and presentation Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Laboratory work, techniques for social scientists. Students are introduced to Fieldwork, Independent Study exploratory data analysis, strategies for the design of effective Assessments: Portfolio of work consisting of 2000 words in graphics through which to present data quickly and accurately to total. non-specialist audiences, and to basic mapping and graphicacy skills. SNM130 Organisation of Modern Health Care Staff Contact: Ruth Bartles 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Laboratory work, Independent Study Aims/Description: This unit will explore the range of professional health care roles within the NHS. It will examine Assessments: Course work, Lab work how these individuals with different roles and responsibilities work together and deliver care to patients. The changing demands made on those professionals by both the government and patients are challenging traditional roles and SMI106 Introductory Quantitative Data responsibilities. An introduction will be made to the background Analysis for Social Scientists and theory of how organisations work, which will enable students to develop an understanding of the modern NHS in a 20.00 Credits AUTUMN wider context. In a rapidly changing NHS students will discuss Aims/Description: This unit provides students with training in, the current debates and the prospects for future professional and hands-on experience of, introductory quantitative data developments. analysis techniques for social scientists. Students are introduced Staff Contact: Amanda Cowan to descriptive statistics, data distributions, commonly encountered mathematical functions, principles of hypothesis Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study testing, principles of statistical inference, and methods for testing bivariate relationships. The course includes hands-on Assessments: Course work experience of some commonly used statistical methods. SNM133 Studying in Higher Education Staff Contact: Ruth Bartles 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent Study Aims/Description: The unit introduces students to study skills emphasising the responsibility of the student and support Assessments: Formal Exam, Lab work provided by the University. The students will be an introduced to different styles of teaching, learning and assessment and List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One become familiar with the Library information systems, resources Assessments: Formal Exam, Presentation (20 mins) & 10 mins and information technology skills. They will be made aware of questions the University and programme regulation and the penalties for breach of the regulations. SNM138 The Body in Health 2 Staff Contact: Lisa Bell 10.00 Credits SPRING Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Aims/Description: The course builds on the content of the Study Body in Health 1 unit to provide a more comprehensive Assessments: IT assessment, literature search , formative essay overview of human physiology and anatomy, relating structure and function. A number of bodily systems will be covered in detail including the respiratory, cardio-vascular, immune, SNM134 User expectations of health and social digestive and endocrine systems. A consideration of care reproduction and development leads into a final discussion of 10.00 Credits AUTUMN inheritance and human evolution. Aims/Description: This unit in user expectations of health and Staff Contact: Lisa Bell social care introduces students to the key theme of changing Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study expectations of care. Students are provided with opportunities to learn about recent policy drivers within the fields of health and Assessments: Formal Exam, Poster presentation social care which, to a greater extent than before, define `expertise' in health and social care as located within patients' SNM139 Health Promotion and carers' experience, rather than exclusively in medical knowledge. Both research-based evidence and first-hand 20.00 Credits AUTUMN accounts of users' expectations and experiences of health and social care are made available to students on this unit. Aims/Description: Health promotion is the process of enabling people to take control of, and improve, their own health (WHO, Staff Contact: Lisa Bell 2014). Health promotion is increasingly regarded as effective way to address the burden of chronic disease and widening Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent health inequalities. Study This year one undergraduate unit will introduce students to a Assessments: Course work range of contemporary issues in health promotion including, the politics and policy of health promotion, community engagement SNM136 Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Health and power, health literacy and understanding risk. Care The sessions are designed to enable students to develop a critical 20.00 Credits SPRING appreciation of the links between theory and practice in health and explore some of the socio-economic, cultural, political and Aims/Description: The course aims to provide students with a personal factors that influence our health beliefs and health background knowledge of basic legal principles and ethical choices. theory and the values which influence health care professionals when involved in ethical decision making.Case study Staff Contact: Jill Thompson discussions will provide students with an opportunity to apply these legal principles and ethical theory to current and Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Fieldwork, controversial ethical dilemmas. By the end of the course, Independent Study students will be able to participate in group discussions and Assessments: Course work, 50% poster presentation (15 mins demonstrate an awareness of the competing perspectives in with 5 mins Q's) health care ethics. Staff Contact: Lisa Bell SNM141 Health Inequalities Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Problem 10.00 Credits SPRING solving, Independent Study Aims/Description: There are significant inequalities in the Assessments: Course work ways in which different social groups and communities experience health and illness. This unit seeks to explore which SNM137 The Body in Health 1 groups are most likely to be affected by such health inequalities and consider reasons why this might be the case. Using 10.00 Credits AUTUMN lectures, tutorials and problem solving exercises, it explores the significance of socio-economic status, gender, ethnicity, age, Aims/Description: The course will provide a concise overview disability, lifestyle and healthcare provision on individuals of human physiology and anatomy, relating function to structure health experiences. as well as to underlying biological principals and processes. The initial sessions will cover the basics of anatomy and Staff Contact: Elaine Whitton homeostasis before examining the body's organisation on chemical, cellular and tissue levels. Specific bodily systems Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent such as the musculo-skeletal and nervous systems will then be Study considered in more detail. The `Body in Health 2' unit is Assessments: Course work designed to follow on from this to complete the overview. Detailed prior knowledge of the subject matter is not expected but some knowledge of the biological sciences would be SNM142 Making use of Information beneficial. 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Staff Contact: Lisa Bell Aims/Description: Making appropriate use of a range of Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study information sources is a skill which is pivotal to positive undergraduate outcomes. This year one undergraduate unit will provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary in the List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One retrieval, understanding and critical appraisal of evidence in the Staff Contact: Professor Craig Watkins health sciences literature. Taking a broad perspective of the term `research skills¿ the module will incorporate critical awareness Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study, Exam of the distinction between scientific and other types of preparation (24 hours), help sessions (3 x 2 hours) knowledge and the analysis of the quality of each of these Assessments: Formal Exam sources. The technical skills associated with information retrieval will also be developed. TRP108 Information and Communication Staff Contact: Tony Ryan Skills Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Fieldwork, Independent Study 10.00 Credits AUTUMN Assessments: Course work Aims/Description: The skills needed to be able to find, evaluate, summarise and critically evaluate information are all SNM143 Sociological Approaches to Health vital to success in an undergraduate degree programme, and are and Illness also key transferable skills. This module will provide training in a wide range of methods for information handling and 10.00 Credits SPRING communication. The teaching is largely in workshops, with Aims/Description: This module will introduce students to students expected to take more responsibility for their own social science approaches to health and illness. It will examine learning as the module progresses. Lectures provide basic the inter-relationship between health, illness, disease and society tuition in skills, whilst workshops and a range of exercises are through lectures, group work and seminars. The topics covered used to develop these skills. in the module include: introducing concepts of health illness Staff Contact: Dr Paula Meth from sociological and psychological perspectives, health and illness across the life cycle, changing patterns of health and Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study, Workshops illness and debates about the role of medicine and medical professionals in contemporary societies. Assessments: Course work

Staff Contact: Lisa Bell TRP109 Data Analysis and Presentation Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Independent 10.00 Credits SPRING Study Aims/Description: This module will serve as an introduction to Assessments: Course work quantitative research methods, with a specific focus on data sources, analysis methods and presentation techniques for policy TRP105 The Environmental Challenge analysis in social science. It will expose students to a wide variety of substantive issues surrounding the use of data in 10.00 Credits SPRING practice and enhance their understanding of methods used in the Aims/Description: Environmental and ecological challenges real world policy settings. Students will access and use a range are becoming increasingly important in socio-spatial regulation. of different datasets, covering demographics, property, and land This module introduces students to the main concepts and use. They will be required to demonstrate competence in theories that underpin environmental policy-making with accessing, analysing and presenting such data in order to gain a particular reference to the issues and examples at local, national deeper understanding of key issues. and global scales. This module has four main aims: (1) to Staff Contact: Dr Ed Ferrari examine the key environmental challenges facing human Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent societies; (2) to explore past, present and possible future Study, Help Sessions responses to those challenges; (3) to provide students with a Assessments: Formal Exam range of conceptual and analytical tools for analysing political and regulatory responses to environmental conflict and (4) to provide students with knowledge and understanding to assist in TRP111 Cities confronting environmental challenges. 10.00 Credits SPRING Staff Contact: Dr Liz Sharp Aims/Description: This module is all about cities, from a range Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study, of economic and social perspectives. It takes a global view and Help sessions includes material about cities in North America, Asia, the Assessments: Course work developing world and the UK. The module culminates by looking more closely at the city of Sheffield. As the world TRP107 Economics for Spatial Planning becomes an increasingly urban place, the aim of this module is to help students understand the economic and social importance 10.00 Credits SPRING of cities in a global context - and how cities shape society. The Aims/Description: This module provides an overview of both module is themed so that students spend two weeks looking at theoretical economics and the structure of the UK economy. six different topics over the course of one twelve week semester. The first part of the module will consider a number of Staff Contact: Professor Rowland Atkinson perspectives on the way an economy operates. Particular attention will be given to market exchange, as modelled by Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study orthodox economic analysis as well as looking at a number of alternative views of economic behaviour; for example, Assessments: Course work institutional economics and socioeconomics. The second part of the module will examine key characteristics of the UK TRP130 Housing, Home and Neighbourhood economy, including issues such as economic cycles, unemployment, land markets and the role of the public and 10.00 Credits AUTUMN voluntary sectors. Where appropriate, geographical and social Aims/Description: Housing and the homes and neighbourhoods differences in economic opportunities and outcomes will be that we live in are in the news every day. Whether this is over highlighted. concerns about housing shortages, affordability, housing bubbles, `generation rent¿, social housing, housing evictions, city-centre housing, DIY and `grand designs¿, or debates about List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One the domestic sphere, `home as a haven¿, `benefit streets¿, Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study flooding and shack settlements, housing is often at the centre of social science research. This module aims to introduce students Assessments: Formal Exam to this broad and diverse subject by drawing on the expertise of Notes Must be taken for accreditation by the Royal Town staff who research across these multiple themes. The module Planning Institute. focuses on contemporary concerns, while maintaining an appreciation of the impact of historical trends (e.g. the Global Financial Crisis of 2007/8). The module will make use of cases from the UK and abroad to illustrate trends, arguments and challenges. Staff Contact: Dr Ed Ferrari Teaching Methods: Lectures, Independent Study Assessments: Course Work

TRP131 The Making of Urban Places 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Aims/Description: The module provides an introduction to the history of urbanisation and the development of systems of town planning. The first part of the module covers the history of urbanisation from the very first settlements to the present day. Though much of this part focuses on urban development in Europe, it also covers American urbanisation and the problems of urbanisation in the developing world. The second part of the module deals with the emergence of measures to regulate urban development from the middle ages to the 20th century. It ends with the passing of the 1947 Town & Country Planning Act. Staff Contact: Professor John Flint Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study, Group work Assessments: Formal Exam Notes Must be taken for accreditation by the Royal Town Planning Institute.

TRP132 Planning Project 20.00 Credits AUTUMN Aims/Description: The aim of this module is to help you develop an understanding of what a planning problem looks like, and how to understand planning dilemmas in a real-life project context. The module will develop your skills of analysis for urban places and gain a basic knowledge of planning tools to address urban issues. You will also develop basic design and drawing skills. Staff Contact: Dr Andy Inch Restrictions: Restricted to students on TRPU103, TRPU105 and TRPU107 Teaching Methods: Lectures, Fieldwork, Independent Study Assessments: Course work Notes Must be taken for accredition by Royal Town Planning Institute.

TRP133 Development, Planning and the State 20.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: The module provides an introduction to state intervention into land and property development and to current planning law and practice. Having considered land-use patterns within an unrestrained market economy, the first part of the module covers the development of state machinery in the nineteenth century and the current structure of national, regional and local government. The central part of the module introduces the British planning system as an administrative tool and the final third of the module explores its application to matters of current concern including the accomodation of new housebuilding at the sub-regional scale, and urban conservation. Staff Contact: Mr Peter Bibby