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Introducing Goldsmiths_02 Study Abroad with us_06 London life and how to get to Goldsmiths_10 Social life_14 Accommodation_16 Knowledge, skills and self-discovery_18 How to use this prospectus_21

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Anthropology_24 Art_27 Chinese Studies (Confucius Institute)_28 Communication Studies_30 Computing_33 Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship_37 Design_38 Educational Studies_40 English and Comparative Literature_42 English Language and Academic Writing (English for non-native speakers)_46 History_50 Management_53 Music_54 Politics and Economics_60 Psychology_65 Social and Cultural Studies_68 Sociology_70 Theatre and Performance_74 Therapeutic Studies_77 Visual Cultures_79 Associate Studentships_81

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Introducing Goldsmiths Committed to investing in you Patrick Loughrey Warden, Goldsmiths, Whoever you are, and however you’ve University of London made your way here, Goldsmiths will transform the way you look at yourself and the world around you. We look at subjects in creative and unconventional ways, but everything we do is based on the highest academic standards of teaching and research.

Goldsmiths is all about the freedom to experiment, to think differently, to be an individual, and we’ve been part of the internationally recognised University of London for more than a century, so your degree will help you stand out from the crowd.

Why study at Goldsmiths? Location and community Students’ Union clubs and rated, meaning that you’ll be “I hold the title of ‘Warden of Goldsmiths’, so I have the important job Goldsmiths is in south-east societies are available for you to taught by academics with diverse of providing you with an official welcome to Goldsmiths. It’s a grand We offer a transformative London. It is a campus-based join. See page 14 for more about specialisms who are leaders in title that may not have an equivalent in everyday life, but all you need experience, generating university in the heart of New the Students’ Union and the social their fields. We are committed to to know is that I truly believe in Goldsmiths and the student knowledge and stimulating Cross, with all your classes, social life for students at Goldsmiths. offering you high quality learning experience we provide. self-discovery through creative, activities and accommodation and teaching. In the most recent radical and intellectually in one place, giving it a strong Over 26% of our students come audit by the Quality Assurance I know that considering joining the Study Abroad programme rigorous thinking and practice. community feel. We have the from outside the UK, and over Agency, the College received their at Goldsmiths is an important step for you. We’re proud of the Our distinctive approach to space for all the sorts of facilities half of our undergraduates are ‘confidence’ – the best result international experience we offer our students – the opportunity learning encourages you to you’d expect from a leading classified as mature students, a university can get – in the to study in a culturally rich global city, and to work with staff and explore ideas that challenge university and a friendly, helping to create the diverse management of both academic fellow students from a variety of backgrounds across the world. and push preconceived personal atmosphere. The student population of which we standards and student learning boundaries, meaning you’ll location will give you a unique are so proud. You’ll meet and opportunities. Students are actively We also have a strong heritage of innovative thinking, and of the highest be stretched intellectually and perspective on the UK’s capital: work with students and staff involved in monitoring standards standards of research, teaching and practice. The transferable skills you creatively to investigate fresh it’s close to the centre of things from varied backgrounds and and enhancing the quality of will develop here stand for something special, and we are committed ways of thinking. and offers lots of local hidden will be able to learn from their learning opportunities in their to investing in you and your future employability. We have a team of gems. See page 10 for more experiences and perspectives. departments, and in developing specialists offering proactive services, including our Careers Service,  We’re in the world’s top 100 about London and the local area. With around 150 Study Abroad their programmes of study. the Students’ Union, the Student Services team and your lecturers. and the UK’s top 20 universities students from numerous for the arts and humanities The active social scene at locations, you will fit into our Life after Goldsmiths We do all we can to offer you high quality core campus services. As “Goldsmiths is provocative – it’s a  We’re ranked ninth in the UK Goldsmiths means that there are wider student body of 5,000 We’ll work with you to ensure a direct result of feedback from students who came before you, the community that encourages creativity and for world-leading 4* research events and activities to cater to undergraduate students. you identify and capitalise on the Library has received huge investment and is almost unrecognisable freedom of thought. It’s a place to be heard  Our unique academic everyone’s tastes. And our fantastic skills and attributes you develop from how it was a few years ago. Our New Academic Building – the approach owes a lot to the Students’ Union offers you the Quality and excellence at Goldsmiths to set you on your newest addition to the campus – offers splendid facilities to match and to initiate change.” interaction of 15 academic opportunity to get even more We have a reputation for creative career path. Goldsmiths the exemplary teaching and research that takes place at the College. Jane, undergraduate student departments to promote involved, through award-winning excellence in the subjects that we actively promotes enterprise and interdisciplinary learning volunteering placements or offer. Our students’ satisfaction entrepreneurship in our students The future of Goldsmiths is yours to shape. Come with an open mind,  You will improve your cultural working on the student magazine levels are good, particularly – a significant proportion of a drive to invest in yourself and create the future you want, and I will awareness and develop a or radio station, for example. As in relation to the teaching they our graduates start their own be proud to welcome you to the Goldsmiths community.” global outlook a Study Abroad student, all the receive. Our research is also highly businesses or work freelance.

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Facilities  computer workstations IT facilities and Digital internet access. The Digital Departmental facilities media studio for video and for mass production, fabrication advice for misunderstandings or  language-learning resources Media Suite Media Suite (DMS) provides As well as the lecture theatres sound editing, and specialist spaces, foundry, casting and long-running disputes between We want you to make the most  multimedia and audio-visual The Rutherford Building is well materials, facilities, support and teaching rooms used by technicians on-site for support. finishing areas; a computing students and Goldsmiths, the of you time here, and so have facilities equipped for IT facilities. It and services to help you with the whole College, many of the Media and Communications: suite enabling 2D and 3D media, advice service is there to help. in place the facilities you need to  computer-based teaching includes PCs and Apple Macs all your media requirements academic departments within housed in the New Academic multimedia and CAD; textile develop your understanding of rooms fitted with software including from video to audio, and from Goldsmiths have special facilities. Building, this department studio; dark room; electronics for Welfare: The Students’ Union your subject, as well as interests  special collections and Microsoft Office, statistical photography to photocopying. Art: nine specialist research boasts: a digital and analogue prototyping circuits. As with Art, can provide advice ranging beyond your studies. archives analysis, bibliographies, graphics In the Rutherford Building there laboratories (casting, acquisition for time-based media all design students have their from the checking of housing and multimedia. There you are self-service photocopying, constructed textiles, digital and photography; radio and TV own dedicated studio space. contracts to help with budgeting Library Long opening hours mean that can access your email and the binding and laminating facilities; media, fine art printmaking, studios; photography studios; and hardship loans. We have The Goldsmiths library (in the you can be flexible in terms of internet, and shared resources and further specialist and metalwork, photography, digital video and audio editing; Students’ Union Services a confidentiality room where Rutherford Building) is a modern, when you choose to study. The such as course and training production services are available print and dye, stitch and fabric, ENPS facility; animation and you can talk to someone if flexible learning space, with building stays open 24 hours a materials. You can also from our Design and Print woodwork); and a yarn store. image manipulation software See page 14 for information on things are getting too much plenty of facilities for group and day, seven days a week during use scanners and specialist Services team. You can borrow Studios are mixed across and hardware; traditional the great entertainment, sports and an extensive library individual study. On one site term time and Christmas and equipment for video editing. cameras, microphones, year levels to encourage peer darkrooms; computer rooms and clubs the Union offers. covering welfare issues. There you’ll find: Easter vacations. Our campus wireless network projectors and other useful gear group learning. for student production. is a dedicated Welfare and  over a quarter of a million books enables you to access the at the Media Equipment Centre. Theatre and Performance: four Design: extensive workshop Academic advice: From Diversity Officer.  an extensive collection of web, your College shared files, performance studios, 160-seat facilities with wood, metal and guidance on switching courses audio-visual and electronic and email from your own laptop. theatre, scenography workshop, plastic specialities, covering and help with accusations Nursery: One of the best local resources All halls of residence have wardrobe and props stores, production processes, modelling of plagiarism to support and nurseries and reasonably priced.

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Study Options Level 1, 2, or 3 programmes Study Abroad with us Welcome from Joe Lewis Our Study Abroad classes are offered at all three years of our You can come for the full year abroad, which lasts from September- undergraduate degree, so please consider whether you meet the June, or choose one of the shorter sessions. We also offer Study criteria to be able to study at this level: Abroad plus English for non-native speakers, which runs from April Our Study Abroad programme gives to June, for up to 15 months. Year 1: A course for which you do not need any previous university level experience international students the opportunity Full year abroad Year 2: Assumes that you have had some experience in this area to live, study and socialise with This is aimed at students mainly from the United States of America, or have already followed a similar academic course. Goldsmiths undergraduate students for Japan, South Korea, Norway, Mexico or Brazil – but is open to all Year 3: Assumes a specialist knowledge of the practical data students who have a good enough command of English to study at or willingness to engage in responsible individual study under one or two terms, or the full academic Bachelors level. tutorial guidance. year, and offers students from different The full year abroad is one academic year (nine months) of study, English Language requirements educational systems the opportunity from September to mid June in the following calendar year. Usually If English is your native language you may not need to prove English to study and gain academic credit it consists of three terms: two teaching periods of 12 weeks each – Language competency. For further guidance you can refer to the the Autumn and Spring terms – and a third six-week period when UKBA website www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk or you can contact us from a British university. you may sit examinations or you may take new summer classes – here at Goldsmiths [email protected]. the Summer term. “Hi, I'm Joe Lewis and I am the Goldsmiths Study Abroad Coordinator. If English is not your native language you will need to demonstrate I’ve worked here at Goldsmiths for over 15 years specialising in This option is the most flexible and opens up the choice of many the required level of English competence to enrol on our Study Abroad. undergraduate degree modules at Goldsmiths, depending on programmes. Students wishing to take classes at level 1, 2 or 3 will timetabling and prerequisites. You can compile a study programme need to show the following levels of English Language proficiency: Throughout my many years I have enjoyed working with our Study from a range of disciplines or take a more focused approach by Abroad students and partner universities. It’s my role to ensure that choosing to specialise in a single major discipline. IELTS: 6.5 (with minimum of 6.5 in the written element and your experience goes as smoothly as possible. From your first email no individual element lower that 6.0). See page 33 for Computing. enquiring about courses, to receiving your application and eventually Course load TOEFL: 92 in the internet-based test (with minimum scores issuing you with a Goldsmiths transcript, I am here to see that your You will usually take four classes of 4 credits each per semester of listening 21, reading 22, speaking 23 and writing 23). time at Goldsmiths is everything you hope it could be. (Autumn or Spring) and two classes of 2 credits each per Summer PTE: A score of 58 overall with at least 58 in the written element semester. For more information on credits please see page 82. with no individual element lower than 51. When you are reading through this prospectus and contemplating IGCSE: Grade C. making the big life decision to move to London, please be assured that Assessments Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English Level 5: Grade C. I and the rest of our team here at Goldsmiths will welcome you. Your Most Goldsmiths Study Abroad classes will assess students by a final Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency of English Level 4: Grade B. time in London will be one that will stay with you for many years to paper due at the end of the term. Some practical classes, such as come. I still receive updates from students who studied with us many music, theatre and performance and design may also include some Eligibility years ago and they all say how coming to London to study has shaped project work throughout the term. Only students who attend a class You will need a certain level of competency in English to study at their lives in ways they never expected. A number of our students have for a full academic year can expect to sit a final examination. Goldsmiths but we can offer pre-sessional programmes to help even returned to Goldsmiths to study at Masters level. you prepare. Level Zero options are equivalent to foundation level Autumn, Spring and Summer term options classes. Graduate students may apply (see page 81). If you have any questions regarding Study Abroad please do contact me. I look forward to welcoming you to our campus in the near future.” Autumn term September-December Where you will live Autumn & Spring term September-March You can live in our Goldsmiths student accommodation, which is Best wishes, Joe Spring term January-March either on or a few minutes walk from the campus, or you can find Spring & Summer term January-June your own private accommodation. You also have the option to live Full year September-June with a UK family. See page 16 for more information. Flexible study: terms, classes and credits Costs  You can begin your study in either September or January, and you For international students who are unable to study abroad for a See page 86 for direct enrolment prices or clarify costs with offices can study for one, two or three terms (see page 82). full academic year, these options offer the possibility of study for at your home university or agency, if enrolling through them.  You can take up to four classes per term in a variety of subject a shorter period of time from a more limited range of modules. areas. You can choose as wide or narrow a combination of subjects Applying as you want, and earn grades and credits towards your course at The Autumn option runs for 12 weeks from late September to late To apply, please download a copy of the application form from your home university. December, while the Autumn & Spring option runs from September the Goldsmiths website by going to www.gold.ac.uk/media/study-  In the majority of classes you will be studying alongside full-time to March. The Spring option begins in January and runs for the abroad-2013.pdf. If you’re applying through your home university Goldsmiths students. There are some specialist classes developed 12 weeks to late March, while the Spring & Summer option runs from or an agency, you may also need to fill in their application form too. just for Study Abroad students, and these are clearly marked January to mid-June. It is not possible to register for the Summer throughout the prospectus with a SA symbol. term alone: Registration for Summer must include the Spring term.  You will be studying at Goldsmiths undergraduate level and assessed as such. If you’d like to transfer your Goldsmiths grades into your home university transcript, please contact your home university regarding transfer criteria.

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Pre-sessional English Goldsmiths offers pre-sessional English training. This intensive Student insight programme is for international students about to start full-time study Micah, USA at Level 1, 2 or 3. It covers English Language, academic study skills, cultural background studies, and critical analysis. You must be at least “When American students travel, it’s 18 years old when you start the programme. usually a backpacking trip with friends Full-time Dates Entrance requirements Fees or a very sanitised term abroad with American peers. My experience has 18 weeks 22 Apr – 5.0 IELTS or equivalent £4,570* been quite different. I didn’t know full-time 6 Sep 2013 14 weeks 20 May – 5.5 IELTS or equivalent £3,670* a single soul at Goldsmiths and was full-time 6 Sep 2013 completely immersed in authentic 9 weeks 8 Jul – 6.0 IELTS or equivalent £2,340* English culture. Even as I continue full-time 6 Sep 2013 5 weeks 5 Aug – 6.0 IELTS or equivalent; £1,340* to be amazed by it, Goldsmiths and full-time 6 Sep 2013 you must have a minimum London life have afforded me more of 6.0 in the writing test life-changing experiences and relationships than I could have * £300 deposit when you accept our offer of a place Please note that the deposit will not be returned but will count asked for.” towards your tuition fee when you begin the programme.

Level Zero English requirements Our Level Zero programmes are taught with a combination of English for Academic Purposes courses (EAP) and general academic classes. Students will usually take two EAP classes and two general classes per term. Depending on your current level of English Language you can enter our Level Zero at different stages. (see table below)

Level Zero options Cost Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun

Option 1: £5,27050% & EAP 50% SpringTerm. generalcourse IELT S 5.0.IELTS options TOEFL IBT 68. P TE 46.PTE Option 2: £5,270 50% EAP & 50% general Autumn Term. course options IELTS 5.0. TOEFL IBT 68. PTE 46. Option 3: £11,100 50% EAP & 50% general 50% EAP & 50% general course 9 month course. course options options IELTS 5.0. TOEFL IBT 68. PTE 46 Option 4: £11,100 + Preparatory 50% EAP & 50% general 50% EAP & 50% general course 12 month Course. £2,340 English. course options options IELTS 4.5. Improve TOEFL IBT 55. from IELTS PTE 41 4.5 to 5.0+ Option 5: £11,100 + Preparatory English. Improve 50% EAP & 50% general 50% EAP & 50% general course 15 month course. £4,570 from IELTS 4.0 to 4.5+ course options options Students with IELTS 4.0. TOEFL IBT 42. PTE 36

Tuition fees are those of 2013-14. Please refer to the Goldsmiths website for current tuition fees www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad

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Studying at Goldsmiths London life gives you access to the best of the city, such as the National Gallery (left), but also the local treasures like Telegraph London is an amazing place to be Hill Park (top right) a student. We have world-famous galleries, museums, theatres, festivals and parks for you to explore – many of them for free. Come to Goldsmiths and enjoy living the true London life.

London is one of the greatest Square. One of London’s newest Tucked away in a square near the Greenwich Park. But for a New Cross: Around New Cross Greenwich: With its strong Other areas to investigate: London on a budget cities in the world, but there’s spaces showing art is the DRAF British Museum (another must) real hidden beauty spot, head itself you’ll find an eclectic mix maritime connections and status Nearby Lewisham, Brockley London doesn’t have to be no use us telling you all about in Camden, an enormous is the home of the great architect up the hill behind Goldsmiths of coffee shops, pubs and places as a World Heritage Site, and Forest Hill are primarily an expensive city to enjoy – the Tower of London, The Tate building that is the new home and collector, and it feels as to Telegraph Hill Park, known to eat. Declared by The New Greenwich has history and residential areas, but they boast it’s possible to live on a budget galleries and Hamleys. Any old of the David Roberts Arts though everything he owned is amongst locals for the great café York Times to be a hub of beauty galore. Just 15 minutes’ lovely green spaces and some and still have fun. Lots of things guide book can do that. Our Foundation. The foundation on display. Visit the house and and as a great spot to see some creative talent, it has a thriving walk from campus, its famous great places to socialise. Every like galleries, parks, street guess is if you are considering has a massive collection and has pick your way around everything of the best sunsets in town. music scene, with places like sights like the Cutty Sark and Saturday foodies flock to entertainment, festivals, carnivals, coming to Goldsmiths then ambitious plans for sharing it. from The Sarcophagus of Seti I, www.thehill.org.uk/park the Amersham Arms holding National Maritime Museum sit the weekly Brockley market, lunchtime concerts and some you are interested in something Check out its latest show when to bronzes from Pompeii. acclaimed live events. side-by-side with bars, brilliant Brockley Jack Theatre hosts museums are free, and you a little different. So here’s our you are in London. www.soane.org Keeping it local markets, a theatre, cinema, music, comedy and other can often find cheap restaurants guide to the famous and not so davidrobertsartfoundation.com With all that’s on offer in town, Deptford: Deptford is less comedy club and restaurants. live events and the Horniman and cafés off the beaten track, famous sights of the city. Parks don’t miss out on the delights than a 10-minute walk from You can take in the river Museum is a gem for all south especially away from tourist Museums London has hundreds of parks of the place on your doorstep. Goldsmiths. There’s a growing Thames or take the foot tunnel Londoners with its eclectic hotspots. Student cards and Galleries You could join the tourists and where you can relax and hang New Cross and the surrounding artistic community in the area, underneath. It’s also home to collection that includes an flyers can help to make nights The National Gallery and go to the great museums of out with your friends. Green areas are very distinctive parts with many artists and makers Greenwich Park, where the aquarium, 8,000 musical out affordable, and your NUS National Portrait Gallery in Kensington at the V&A, Science Park, St James’s and Hyde Park of London each with their own filling the studios that sit beside Olympic equestrian events were instruments and a stuffed card also entitles you to discounts Trafalgar Square, and the two Museum and Natural History all sit in central London and offer characters and delights to Deptford Creek, the old docks. held. From the top of the park, walrus. Peckham, Camberwell in some shops and cinemas. Tate galleries on the Thames Museum. To be fair, no visit an oasis from the crowds if you discover. Exploring nearby will The real London is on show at next to the Royal Observatory, and East Dulwich also have are free to visit, and full of classic to London would be complete are in town. For true green give you a view of the ‘real’ Deptford market, where you’ll you get an excellent panoramic plenty of character and energy, Find out more and modern masterpieces. For a without visiting them. But for expanses (there’s even enough London, where Londoners live, find stalls selling fruit and veg view of the stunning London containing shops selling goods Watch our video about look at the latest in the art scene something off piste, why not try room for deer) head out west to work and socialise. Here’s just from all corners of the world cityscape, stretching from the from around the world, and south-east London at head east – the most famous the Sir John Soane’s Museum, Richmond or Bushy Park. We do a flavour of what’s on offer, sitting outside small art galleries. London Eye in the west to busy bars and eateries. And vimeo.com/channels/selondon galleries being the Whitechapel which many Londoners have not have one of the best Royal Parks because there truly is too much Look out for some fantastic Canary Wharf and the Thames we haven’t even scratched the Visit London Gallery and White Cube Hoxton been lucky enough to discover. on our doorstep (see right) in to squeeze on one page: murals while you are shopping. Barrier in the east. surface of south London. visitlondon.com

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Getting around Contacts tate tower Goldsmiths olympic National Rail Enquiries modern bridge Campus stadium Goldsmiths is in New Cross, (for rail enquiries) which has excellent access to +44 (0)845 484950 the heart of London. We are in www.nationalrail.co.uk travelcard zone 2, and you can travel around by bus, train and Transport for London London Overground, including (for bus, DLR, Underground a good network of reliable night and Overground enquiries) buses – especially useful if you’re +44 (0)20 7222 1234 planning an evening out. www.tfl.gov.uk

Goldsmiths is five minutes’ walk Oyster Card: Oyster cards are from both New Cross and New plastic smartcards you can top Cross Gate stations, which are up with money and use instead on the main rail network and the of paper tickets. They are the London Overground network. cheapest way to pay for single These stations have a direct line journeys on bus, tube, tram, to London Bridge train station. DLR, and train services in The trains run every 15 minutes London. One advantage of and take six minutes to reach coming to Goldsmiths is that London Bridge. These trains all your classes take place on are not on the tube map but you campus, so you won't have to can see timetables and maps by spend anything on travelling visiting: www.tfl.gov.uk. around town between lectures. Goldsmiths is also served by the East London Line, which you can 18+ Student Oyster Card: An see on the London Tube map. 18+ Student Oyster photocard offers students the opportunity The traditional red London to spend less on travel in bus is an iconic figure and also and around London. Photocard a reliable mode of transport. holders are entitled to a 30% Goldsmiths has many bus routes discount on many tickets. You that run past the campus – many can apply for a Student Oyster operating a 24-hour service. Card if you are studying full-time for more than six months. The DLR is somewhat a cross Visit www.tfl.gov.uk for between a subway and a further details. monorail. The ride through the centre of London’s financial 16-25 Railcard: When travelling district on this train is quite an by train in the UK, students experience. The nearest DLR under 25 can buy a 16-25 station to Goldsmiths is Railcard (commonly known as Deptford Bridge, just a 10 minute a Young Person’s Railcard) from walk away. all major train stations. This can save you up to one third on the Visitors with mobility difficulties cost of each journey. Please notify the person you are visiting at Goldsmiths in advance so that arrangements can be made for you. goldsmiths

When travelling by tube, the stations that offer mobility assistance are indicated by this sign.

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Eating, meeting and Great nights out nearby and nationally, or recreationally, culture and identity, political and Campaigns Social life Entertainment New Cross is the home of the through regular training. Qualified campaigning and even cheese There are many active campaigns Samson Osun renowned Venue club, which coaches run all sessions, and and wine clubs AND training that you could get involved with On campus attracts people from a wide Goldsmiths will support you to is available to enable you to start on a local and national level, and President, The Students’ Union is a hub of area and has bands on most train to be a coach or official. The a new society. if there’s something you feel Goldsmiths Goldsmiths is a hub of extra-curricular activity night or day. During the weekends. It specialises in cover annual Varsity matches against passionate about that’s not Students’ Union activity and you’re sure to find like- day the common room on the bands. Nearby Amersham the University of the Arts, London Media already represented, why not start first floor offers a place to relax Arms hosts club night ‘Whip It’ are always hotly contended. Goldsmiths is known for its your own campaign? The Union 2012-13 minded people to share your passions, and unwind. You can buy food every Friday. There are a number Victories have been won in recent dedication to creativity and is involved in demonstrations, either by joining an existing club, or non-alcoholic drink from Café of ‘underground’ club nights years in volleyball, cheerleading, cultural research. Sharing your hosting discussions and debates NATURA, although you don’t happening in New Cross. Look jujitsu and netball and the views and knowledge through and aims to defend and protect group or society, or setting up one have to buy anything to use the out for posters advertising them. university has competed at a high student media is very much in student rights. of your own. Whether your interests space. There are comfy chairs, level in athletics, judo and karate. keeping with its ethos. ‘Smiths’ books and magazines available, A short journey on the London is an eclectic publication on the Student representatives are political, cultural, sporting or plus occasional entertainment. Overground will give you access We have a gym on campus, Club web and in print and encourages Why not become a Departmental social, Goldsmiths students will have It’s an ideal place to relax to venues in Shoreditch and Pulse, which has state-of-the-art the submission of creative ideas Student Co-ordinator and between classes. Dalston. Renowned as much fitness equipment and a variety and articles, and design represent the views of the them covered. for cutting-edge fashions as the of classes on offer at affordable contributions. ‘Leopard’ covers students to your department to During the evening, the focus music scene, these areas play prices, from group cycling subjects related to student life provide a positive impact on your switches to the Stretch – the host to a number of club nights aerobics and yoga, to street and is full of information and programme of study, or join the Union’s bar and venue. It hosts boasting renowned and dance and capoeira. debate. Wired is the university Student Assembly to influence Prize Night Goldsmiths holds diverse events organised by up-and-coming bands and DJs. radio station relaunched in 2012 key policies that shape the a glamorous awards night full-time entertainments staff, You can also use the tennis and in a refurbished studio. It is a Union? There are also democratic every year to celebrate students and external promoters. The Rivoli Ballroom in Brockley is netball courts, and play rugby platform for the involvement of elections of student the achievements and With a combined capacity of one of the few remaining original and football on the back field. students of all abilities, representatives, some of whom “The Students’ Union is proud activities of its students and to reward and 1,000, the Stretch is fully dance halls and it is worth a visit We also have a larger sports experience and genre interests. have a seat on key Goldsmiths of its diversity and its ability to recognise volunteers equipped with the latest sound just to have a look at the old style facility in Sidcup, which has decision-making committees attract students from different and societies. and lighting equipment making ballroom. The Rivoli holds provision for three football RAG and take the students’ views to backgrounds. Students are at it a great venue for gigs, club various events from club nights teams, and one rugby team Raise and Give is the charitable national forums of debate. the heart of everything we do, nights or anything else that to Latin and ballroom dancing. in the winter season, and a side of the Students’ Union. from representation as elected takes your fancy. The Stretch cricket square in the summer. A RAG week is held every year, Contact Us officers, providing part-time bar recently won silver at the Get Involved where students are encouraged work for our student staff National NUS Best Bar Clubs and societies to raise money for charities in Goldsmiths Students’ Union and in terms of our range of None competition. Make the most of your time at Meet with like-minded people, creative ways. +44 (0)20 8692 1406 different societies. We have Goldsmiths. Grow and develop, try new things and share your [email protected] a vegan café, a bar that can The university also boasts make new friends and enhance enthusiasm! Many of the societies Shape Your World www.goldsmithssu.org be used for evening and day Loafer’s Café, food-hall-style your skills for life after university. and clubs organise events and University of London Union events. Students also have the eating in The Refectory and trips, such as the Drama Society’s Goldsmiths Students’ Union www.ulu.co.uk opportunity to volunteer and coffee on the go at The Pod. Sports trip to the Edinburgh Fringe will give you the opportunity National Union of Students get heavily involved in our And there are many eclectic All sports groups are student led, Festival. There are all sorts of to change the world in which www.nus.org.uk decision-making processes independent cafes locally for whether at a competitive level, clubs at the university, including you live, through direct action, and campaigns.” you to explore. where teams take part in leagues, language clubs, music, art, academic representation, cups and competitions locally photography and film clubs, student assembly and elections.

sports clubs

 Athletics  Basketball  Cheerleading  Cricket  Dance  Football  Hockey  Ju-Jitsu  Karate  Kung Fu & Kickboxing  Netball  Womens Rugby  Mens Rugby  Ski & Snowboard  Tennis  Volleyball  Yoga. Why not start your own?

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All visiting students are entitled to Loring, and just a two-minute Although we cannot provide Accommodation to accommodation in our walk from the campus. You will Goldsmiths housing for Study halls of residence, providing have your own study bedroom, Abroad students’ families, certain application deadlines some with en suite bathroom our Accommodation Office are met. Living in halls provides facilities, and will share a kitchen can give you information on As you’ll soon find out, there’s more a great opportunity to really with the other students in the accommodation in the local immerse yourself in life here flat/apartment. area through the University of to being a student at Goldsmiths than at Goldsmiths. London Housing Service (ULHS), lectures, essays and assessments. All of our halls have the facility to www.housing.london.ac.uk. You’ll have the opportunity to meet The majority of our students connect to the internet. In most There’s plenty of accommodation coming for short stays of one or rooms this is hard wired and an available in south-east London, many people and make life-long two terms are housed in Loring ethernet cable will be provided much of it close to Goldsmiths friendships. London is a vibrant, diverse, Hall. This hall is on campus and upon your arrival to halls. (an added bonus is that it’s one houses a total of 387 students. It of the best value areas in London multicultural city and Goldsmiths is self-catered and arranged into Wherever possible, we try to to rent). Individual room rents reflects this, with students from all flats/apartments of four to eight integrate our visiting students currently range from around £90 students. You will have your own into flats/apartments with to £125 per week in the private over the world and with extremely study bedroom with en suite full-year students to help you sector. Other resources available varied backgrounds. bathroom facilities and will share gain a broader picture of British in addition to the University of a kitchen with the other students university life and to meet and London Housing Services are in your flat/apartment. make friends with students from accommodation agencies, local different degrees. However, newspapers and shops, and If you are coming to Goldsmiths please be aware that because Goldsmiths notice boards. for a full year you will be housed of the shorter contract lengths, with other undergraduate there are occasions when we Costs for halls students – this may be in one of have to house Study Abroad Accommodation fees include all our other halls located very close students together. the costs of heating, lighting and security, meaning that budgeting becomes relatively simple. The fees for 2013-14 weren’t available when this prospectus went to print, so here are the fees for 2012-13 to give you an idea of costs:

Cost (per person, per week): Single room, self-catering £97 to £130, depending on facilities.

Please note that variable rates apply for Study Abroad students if your period of study is on a short-term basis (ie one or two terms only). Further information can be found at www.gold.ac.uk/ accommodation/visiting. Go to this page for the latest information on current accommodation fees and to apply for Goldsmiths housing.

The majority of Study Abroad students stay in Loring Hall (right)

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For more than a century, we to receive feedback on how your Knowledge, skills and have been part of the University work is progressing. They also of London, a federation of allow you to discuss with your Join a When you finish your studies here, Yinka Shonibare, Sam Taylor- self-discovery institutions renowned for the tutors any difficulties you may you’ll have something in common Wood, Tang Da Wu, Gillian highest standards of teaching, be experiencing. prestigious with thousands of former Wearing, and Jane and Louise research, and scholarship. list of alumni Goldsmiths students in all walks of Wilson; music: Katy B, James Goldsmiths is also a member of Seminars are held in small life. You’ll find our graduates in the Blake, Alex James, Graham Coxon, Coming to Goldsmiths will give you the the prestigious 1994 Group of groups, and provide an arts, the media, education, music, Martyn Brabbins, John Cale, John research-intensive universities. opportunity for you to introduce politics, and business. Illsley, Brian Molko, and Malcolm chance to develop your individuality, to a given topic and to lead a group McLaren; theatre: Moira Buffini look beyond preconceived ideas, and Although we are part of these discussion on that topic. The aim Former Goldsmiths students and Ian Rickson; cinema: David explore creative and radical approaches eminent groups we try to come of the free flow of ideas is that it include: art and design: Lucian Tattersall; entertainer, Julian Clary, at subjects from a different produces a stimulating learning Freud, Antony Gormley, Damien and writers, Linton Kwesi Johnson, to your subject. angle. We aim to offer exciting environment, where you actively Hirst, Margaret Howell, Gary Hisham Matar, Colin Welland, and innovative courses based share your ideas and listen to the Hume, Steve McQueen, Mary and Lijia Zhang. on our academic strengths. ideas of others. Quant (pictured), Bridget Riley, We want to reflect the varied interests and qualities of our Team activities are included diverse student population and in many courses, where work meet the wider needs of society. on projects or tasks is carried We want to support you to out in small, self-managed become a self-motivated learner, teams. This provides valuable enabled to take responsibility experience of teamwork, itself for, and control of, your learning a highly transferable skill. while at Goldsmiths and beyond. Practical work in creative What style of teaching subjects will allow you to can you expect? explore issues through a range of media appropriate to your At Goldsmiths, we aim to provide subject specialism. In scientific you with an enriching learning and technological subjects, experience that is concerned conducting tests and with knowledge, skills and experiments will help you self-discovery through creative, to develop and practise skills, radical and rigorous learning as well as test theoretical practice. We support you in propositions. achieving diverse skills, attributes and characteristics. Each Study Abroad student is assigned an International You can expect to learn through Liaison Officer (ILO) for each a variety of teaching methods department they are registered and styles that ensure courses with. The ILO is available to are lively and encourage you students to provide academic to participate. Your courses assistance and guidance. will probably include lectures, tutorials, seminars, project work How you will be assessed? and practical assignments. Study Abroad students studying Lectures are delivered by one for a term will usually be of Goldsmiths’ academic staff, assessed by a written essay for or sometimes by specially each class, due in at the end of invited experts in the field. They term. Practical subjects such as present information and ideas, Art, Design, Music, Theatre and often from a variety of Performance and Computing viewpoints, and there is usually may also include some practice- an opportunity for you to ask based assessment, which will questions and discuss some of contribute to the final grade. the points raised. Those studying a class for a Tutorials are more two-way in full year will be assessed by a style than lectures, and allow you final exam.

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In this prospectus you will find a full list of courses (additional courses How to use this prospectus may also be listed online after this prospectus goes to print - please check). You can select up to four classes at 4 credits per semester. The maximum number of credits you can achieve per semester is 16.

Classes can be selected from a variety of departments. When making your choices, please check that the class you want is offered in the semester you are applying for. As you select which level you think you should apply for, please consider that in England students usually study one subject, so level 2 and 3 can be quite intensive. Our academics will also review your application to confirm your level.

Once you have chosen your four classes, please also select four alternatives and complete the application form at the end of this prospectus.

In most cases, you can identify the level of a course, and the department that teaches it, from its course code. For example:

First two Literature of the English letters of course Renaissance code indicate the Department. EN 5 2 227A For example, 4 credits [September-December] EN=Department of English and 4 credits [January-March] Comparative 4+2 credits [January-June] Literature An introduction to multiple forms of writing, from the mid-16th to the late 17th century, providing detailed The fourth character analysis of selected texts usually indicates the year of the course considered in their social and intellectual contexts. Topics of special interest include...

Some courses have a symbol above them:

PM This means the course is taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm. Almost all of the courses available to Study Abroad sa Student insight students are taught and integrated alongside full degree Oscar, Norway students. Courses marked with this symbol are taught to Study Abroad students only. We prefer you to take a “I currently live in halls in Batavia maximum of two SA courses per term. Mews, which is much fun. Twenty people in two kitchens – a big happy family! There Please see page 82 for advice on choosing your courses. are so many resources at Goldsmiths that one can take advantage of, and I’m sure The course listings were correct when this prospectus went to print in March 2013. Copies of this prospectus are available from the I’ve only yet to tap the surface of what International Partnerships and Developments Team. my possibilities are at this diverse and resourceful university.” Or check the online version, www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad, which will show any changes made to courses after March 2013. More information about how to apply can be found at www.gold.ac.uk/ studyabroad/apply.

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Courses

International Partnerships and Developments, +44 (0)20 7919 7700, [email protected] 24 Programmes > Anthropology 25 key fact Year 1 uses of the category ‘African’. Year 2 the recent anthropological You’ll have the Anthropology A comparative approach to research and literature on post- opportunity to investigate anthropology in relation to AN51001A these issues raises important AN52004B socialism, looking particularly politics, religion, knowledge, Introduction to Social epistemological questions. Politics, Economics and at new nationalisms, changing philosophy and psychology, Anthropology Social Change economic formations, religion, and to investigate universal 4 credits (Sep-Dec) AN51015A 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and gender relations. issues – including questions We are one of the most consistently of power, ethnicity and innovative anthropology 10 credits (Sep-Jun) Anthropology Today 4 credits (Jan-Mar) gender identity – in You study the basic 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) AN52008B societies throughout departments in Britain, and have anthropological concepts What is anthropology’s You examine the scope and Anthropology and the Visual I the world. been instrumental in developing new of kinship, politics, economics role in public life? How have approaches of economic and 4 credits (Jan-Mar) and religion, using diverse anthropologists past and present political anthropology, including 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) fields and directions in the discipline, ethnographic material. contributed to some of the theories of social change; The body has been a major including visual anthropology and There is also a survey of the most pressing debates of the comparative study of First object of visual attention and different theoretical schools day? This course examines and Third World development; theoretical and ethnographic the anthropology of media. of anthropology. anthropology’s unique position agrarian structure; peasant investigation in anthropology. Not suitable for Anthropology and methodologies for exploring societies; multinational It features as: a key metaphor majors. issues such as environmental corporations; dependency theory in anthropological theory; a Undergraduate year Description politics, new technologies, war, and nationalism and ethnicity. cultural artefact; a medium of AN51003A conflict, racism, cognition and performance; the template for Year 1 a course for which you do not need any Anthropological Methods the nature of social experience. AN52005A a range of associated material previous experience 4 credits (Jan-Mar) General Principles of artefacts and practices; an object Year 2 assumes that you have had some Learn how anthropologists AN51016A Social Anthropology of obsessive representation in experience in this area or have already conduct their research. Anthropology in London 4 credits (Sep-Dec) a wide variety of media; a model followed a similar academic course You undertake an exercise 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) for non-human forms; and a Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the in participant observation, London, with its complex 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) medium for thinking about the practical data or a willingness to engage and learn about a range of past and thriving multicultural Offers an overview of boundaries and limitations of in responsible individual study under data collection techniques. present, offers a unique the intellectual history of the body. This course offers you tutorial guidance vantage point from which to anthropology. Beginning well the opportunity to conduct your AN51004A study important historical and before the establishment of own piece of visually oriented Ethnographic Film contemporary issues alongside anthropology as a discipline, research, combining text and You’ll have the opportunity to investigate anthropology in relation 4 credits (Sep-Dec) the production of anthropology. we start by considering what images. You work in small groups to politics, religion, knowledge, philosophy and psychology, and to Your study focuses on film Learn about issues such as is at stake when one begins to to devise a project on some investigate universal issues – including questions of power, ethnicity as a form of anthropological the international slave trade, theorise ‘otherness’, how one aspect of the body. and gender identity – in societies throughout the world. knowledge. You look at a series globalisation, cosmopolitanism, identifies a society or culture of documentary films, and post-colonialism, migration, as ‘other’ (and why), and the AN52009A The following is a list of representative courses offered by the discuss and analyse them in commemoration, identity politics methods employed for doing Anthropology of Religion Department of Anthropology. For more information on the the light of debates within both and transformations through this. It then observes how 4 credits (Sep-Dec) department, and for an up-to-date list of classes, please go to anthropology and film theory. visiting museums, galleries, anthropology and its practices You study religion, magic and www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/anthropology streets and markets in a course have evolved through time. While symbolism in relation to social AN51007B which combines readings in some schools and theories seem institutions, bodily inscription, Please note: in the Summer term you can choose to do two Ethnography of a Selected anthropology with field trips to have become redundant, you nationalism and fundamentalism, additional credits of project work related to courses studied in the Region I – Africa in the city. are encouraged to pursue how as well as perspectives on Spring term. This work is negotiated individual study supported 4 credits (Sep-Dec) some ideas and models return selected world religions including by some tutorial guidance. You should inform your home university This is an introduction to AN51017A and/or persist in other guises. Christianity and Islam. and the International Partnerships and Developments Office at anthropological studies on Anthropological Ideas The point is to understand the Goldsmiths of the agreed topic once it has been confirmed. When societies and cultures in sub- 4 credits (Jan-Mar) circumstances and presumptions Year 3 you tell your International Liaison tutor the topics you are interested Saharan Africa. Ethnographic The course is designed to that underpin different schools in studying, they can consider appropriate tutorial guidance case studies from different parts introduce you to the discipline's of thought, so as to be better AN53005B arrangements. You should aim to confirm these details by week 6 of Africa are used to address intellectual history and to equipped to critically analyse the History and Anthropology of the Spring term. some of the major themes that key ideas and thinkers that theory that is currently mobilised 4 credits (Jan-Mar) have been explored in Africanist have had significant impact in anthropological analysis. 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) ethnography and to ask how, in on the discipline. It will focus You look at new anthropological past and present anthropology, on a particular sub-field and AN52007A history and historical empirical research is related will explore in depth the ways Ethnography of anthropology; sources and to methodology and theorising. that different theoretical and (Post)-Socialism methods (eg archives, oral Particular emphasis is placed methodological approaches 4 credits (Jan-Mar) history, paintings, maps, on issues of historical change, are developed in one specific 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) artefacts); fact and fiction; myth spatial mobility, power and social area of research and writing. You develop an understanding and memory; cross-cultural conflict, but also on the relations of the main issues of the categories of time and space; of people in Africa to other anthropology of socialism and and different ways of talking continents and the sociopolitical after. The course also covers about the past.

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AN53008A AN53021A AN53039A AN53043A Practice-based courses contributes to and challenges, Anthropology of Health I Anthropology and the Anthropology of Rights Myth and Ritual Art the critical debates that exist 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Environment I 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) If you are applying to study in the study area and beyond. You examine key themes in 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) on any of the practice-based You will be taught through medical anthropology, ranging 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) You critically engage with the full There was a time when myth courses in Art, you must include individual tutorials in your from ideas about healing to You consider ethnobiology; spectrum of rights discourses, and ritual were seen as products The Department of Art at Goldsmiths with your application appropriate studio, group tutorials, and social inequality and the ‘new landscapes; art and the considering not only the of the childhood of humankind, documentation showing your studio practice presentations. biology’. The course addresses environment; the country and language of Human Rights found before the arrival of science. has an international reputation for current art work and study. issues of biomedicine in the UK the city; ecological traditions in international law, but also the Anthropologists now tend to excellence, and is an inspiring and Please include documentation The Studio Practice element alongside alternative therapies in anthropology; the politics cross-cutting – and often assume myth and ritual are of 12 examples of your work as of the course enables you and explanations of health/ of ecology; indigenous peoples competing – claims made in the aspects of all human societies; dynamic place in which to study and slides, photographs or videos to develop your own art work illness in different parts of the and resource management; name of gender and child rights, however, they can’t agree on the develop an artistic practice. (PAL format); we can also accept through exploring selected world, and approaches to the eco- discourse and new social indigenous rights, cultural reason for this. What do myth DVDs and CDs in Mac format, media and approaches, political economy. Specific movements; developmentalism; property, intellectual property, and ritual actually do? Are they with each file no larger than including: drawing, painting, sessions include the application indigenous rights; and Non- bioethics, customary law and ways of resolving existential The following is a list of representative courses offered by the 800kb. Mark your work clearly film, installation, performance, of medical anthropology, ‘new’ Governmental Organisations cosmopolitan law. dilemmas? Or reflecting on the Department of Art. Most, though not all, will be offered in 2014-15. with your full name, full postal photography, printed and diseases and technologies. (NGOs). Please contact the fact they can’t be resolved? For more information on the department, and for an up-to-date address, a contact telephone constructed textiles, printmaking, International Partnerships and AN53040A Are they ways of establishing list of classes, please go to www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/art number, and an indication of the sculpture, and video. AN53013A Developments Team to confirm Anthropology and the Visual: unquestionable authority? Forms size and media of each piece. We Urban Anthropology I that the course is running. Production Course of artistic self-expression? Media See also Visual Cultures for history of art courses also recommend you to include Studio teaching is enhanced 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) for political action? Or some notes to clarify the content of by technical support, which You study the changing use AN53023A This is a practically based course combination of these? This your work, as well as any other introduces you to techniques of different urban spaces at The Anthropology of in which you explore the course will explore some of these information you think might relevant to the practical different times, and examine Development techniques of video making/ questions, by way of concrete be relevant. Please ensure that development of your work. the following: how cities are 4 credits (Sep-Dec) photography. It is centered case studies. key fact you pack everything securely, All students are fully integrated represented; ideas of order and You study the history of around the development of your Since 1990 Goldsmiths as the College cannot accept with the full degree students graduates have been disorder; public and domestic development and its institutions own individual practical visual or AN53072A nominated for the Turner responsibility for the loss or on the BA in Fine Art. places; ideas of control and – from NGOs to the World Bank sound project and seeing that Indian and Peasant Politics Prize more than 30 times damage of work submitted with resistance through carnival; and IMF, while considering through to completion. As such in Amazonia and have been awarded the your application. Do not send The parallel Critical Studies prize on six occasions. informal economies; and diverse case studies from the contact hours are mostly 4 credits (Jan-Mar) originals. Please see more about element of the course is kinship networks. around the world. You will made up of one-to-one tutorials, 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) returning your work on page 83. designed to support your also explore the historical role although there will be some This course looks at Amazonian practical work in the studios. AN53015A of anthropology’s involvement sessions when we meet as a societies from pre-history to the Please note: it is likely that The lectures and seminars Anthropology of Art I in development, as official whole group particularly to review present – indigenous, peasant, you will have to pay for some introduce and develop key 4 credits (Sep-Dec) mediators between ‘the West work in progress. Above all else, colonial, developmentalist – and materials during the course. issues that inform diverse art You study key issues in the and the rest’ through imperial the course requires you to engage includes discussion of modern practices and encourage you anthropology of art. The course conquest, colonial administration in a process of practical social movements (Landless Prerequisites: You will usually to extend your critical faculties includes: conflicting definitions and a post-war development production, to develop and refine Peoples Movement) as well as have undertaken at least and develop your ability to of art and aesthetics; modes industry. a project through all the various classic themes of Lévi-Strauss’s one year of studio-based discuss, write about, analyse of seeing within and across stages and forms necessary for ‘world on the wane’, human ecology art practice at university level, and judge contemporary art. cultures; creativity, inspiration AN53026B its successful completion. and extractivist economies. as either a major or minor This element utilises the huge and the category of the artist; Anthropology and component of your degree. range of opportunities London the body as art; issues of gender Gender Theory AN53042A AN53044A If you have maintained an offers for direct engagement and ideology; the politics of 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Anthropology and the Visual 2 Anthropology of Violence independent fine art practice with art in museums and the ownership and display of This course aims to explore the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) outside of your degree, you galleries. It is delivered through non-Western art works; imaging interrelationships of gender, This course explores the role This course examines a variety of are welcome to apply. a combination of tutor-led visits nationality and ethnicity through sexuality and the body by of visual representation in anthropological approaches to the to relevant museums, galleries art; primitivism and the bringing together ideas from anthropology, in terms of both study of violence, ranging from FA51012A and temporary exhibitions – construction of the other. contemporary Western social/ the history of its use within the evolutionary explanations for male Fine Art reflecting developments in cultural theory (including discipline and the potential it aggression to studies of changing Student insight (Sep-Jun), 5 days per week, contemporary art practice psychoanalytic, feminist and holds for new ways of working. American attitudes toward Abri, South Africa 36 credits as they occur – together with queer theories), detailed It looks at work in a wide range terrorism in the aftermath of the Fine Art is only available as a full lectures and seminars offering ethnographic and historical of media – photography, film/ 9/11 attacks. It looks critically at The experience of now attending Goldsmiths course-load subject, so you may you a space for exploring and case studies, and some classic video, performance – and the the theoretical, methodological is still tinged with the surreal – I am constantly not study it alongside courses in examining the historical and anthropological theories and ways in which they might be and ethical questions raised in surprised by the dedication and talent of other subjects. critical context in which art issues. In doing this, we explore used in an anthropological the studies of violence through my peers, the commitment to political integrity, is made, seen and understood. the ways in which the body, context. This involves looking at enthnographic case studies from All the staff on the course are gender and sexuality have work from outside anthropology around the world. radical research, and the drive to find fresh practising artists, curators and See also been produced/imagined in such as photojournalism and cultural articulations. writers here to respond to the  Studio Pracice: Visual Arts, different ways. contemporary art, as well as the work that you make and to p41 work of visual anthropologists. help you to understand how it

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The newly opened Confucius Institute for Dance and Performance at Goldsmiths is the first in the world to use professional arts platforms to promote Chinese language, dance, arts and culture.

The following is a list of representative courses offered by the Confucius Institute. For more information on the Institute, and for an up-to-date list of classes, please go to www/gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/chinese-studies

The language classes listed below run for 8 hours a week, Monday to Friday, often in the evening. In addition to the classroom contact hours, some individual tutorials will be available by appointment and students will be expected to spend at least 8 hours a week studying outside class. Assessment is through a combination of termly oral and written examinations and continuous assessment.

CI51001A The main objective is to continue simple descriptions, narrations a familiar topic and organise a characters. (The course is Code tbc Mandarin 1 to work on basic sentence on your personal experiences or piece of writing in well-formed equivalent to HSK 5). Chinese Etiquette 4 credits (Sep-Dec) patterns, grammar and ways on familiar topics. (The course is sentences. (The course is credits tbc (Sep-Dec) key fact This beginner's level course of expressing, develop listening, equivalent to HSK 3). equivalent to HSK 4). CI53002A Among all the aspects of There are currently over 300 (equivalent to HSK 1) will speaking, reading and writing Mandarin 6 Chinese culture, etiquette is Confucius Institutes around introduce you to a basic level skills, to gain greater knowledge CI52002A CI53001A 4 credits (Sep-Dec) one of the most exuberant. the world. Ours was founded of the language. The teaching of Chinese society, and to Mandarin 4 Mandarin 5 4 credits (Jan-Mar) From business meetings to in collaboration with the Beijing Dance Academy. includes listening, speaking, practise writing techniques in 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) This is an advanced class. The dining, greeting to giving gifts, reading, and very basic Chinese Chinese characters. You will This is an intermediate language 4 credits (Jan-Mar) teaching will be in the classroom the essence of Chinese art and writing. After this course, you learn about 770 Chinese words course, designed to develop The teaching content includes and in tutorial format. This stage culture is hidden in a simple should have a basic command and expressions. (The course your comprehensive reading listening, speaking, reading, centres on the performance of nod or bow. This course will be of Chinese, and know 325 is equivalent to HSK 2). skills and to expand your and Chinese writing, including language skills, especially in for people interested in visiting words and expressions, and vocabulary to about 1,800 understanding different genres reading and writing. You will learn China, doing business or work 244 Chinese characters. CI52001A Chinese words. By the end of text and learning the cultural to understand songs, radio and relating to China, or just people Mandarin 3 you will be able to converse in differences between Chinese news, use correct Chinese tone who would like to learn more CI51002A 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Chinese to a degree suitable for and English of the organisation and expressions, read research about Chinese culture. During Mandarin 2 This is a lower intermediate level daily life and study in China and of a text. You will be able to papers and write summaries, the course, you will be taught: 4 credits (Jan-Mar) of language course. It will teach will be capable of independent read Chinese newspapers and letters and abstracts for academic the basic history behind certain This course will be offered to you about 1,200 Chinese words study of Chinese sentence magazines, enjoy Chinese films papers. By the end of the course rules of etiquette, practical students who have completed and by the end you will be able composition. The objective is and plays, and give a full-length you will have a good command knowledge on how to properly a beginners’ class and have a to comprehend basic language for you to be able to engage in speech in Chinese. By the end of around 3,000 Chinese words conduct yourself socially and in good command of around 300 material that is related to conversation on general topics, of the course you will achieve and expressions. (The course is business, and greater awareness Chinese words and expressions. everyday life or work, and write give an oral presentation on a working knowledge of 2,500 equivalent to HSK 6). of Chinese culture.

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Year 1 narrative, realism, stars and MC52014A role of the media. These issues race, ethnicity and other social Communication Studies image, fiction and documentary Intellectual Foundations of are illustrated by examples relations, including gender, MC51002A are examined with the aim of Social Theory from the British, American and sexuality and class. Media History and Politics developing skills in the analysis 4 credits (Sep-Dec) international political systems. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) of a range of media texts. Investigates central issues in Themes covered include: public MC53036B Study in one of the UK’s leading You consider the historical social theory as they relate to opinion and the public sphere, Public Culture and development of the British Year 2 questions of media, controlling and managing Everyday Life media and communications media, their role in the communication and culture. news agendas, political 4 credits (Sep-Dec) departments; you’ll be taught by development of modern Britain, MC52003B The course provides a theoretical marketing, spin, propaganda Familiarises you with a range and changes in the content and Communications, Psychology map on which to locate some and persuasion, war and the of influential cultural theorists some of the leading names in the structure of the media in relation and Experience of the key issues confronted media, celebrity politics and whose work allows fuller discipline and benefit from close to social and political change. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) in media, communication and e-democracy. understanding of current forms links to the media industry. You also examine, in an historical This course examines the place cultural studies. Each session of cultural practice, across the context, some key debates of ‘experience’ in thinking about addresses a specific cultural or MC53023B arts, in writing and fiction, as about the relationship of the our self-formation. It extends media-related phenomenon that Media Audiences and well as in popular culture, and media to society. the usefulness of the concept is connected to the sociological Media Geographies whose work also enlarges our Undergraduate year Description of subjectivity for exploring topic under discussion. We 4 credits (Jan-Mar) understanding of key social Student insight MC51005A certain themes and issues. These therefore investigate a range of This course reviews and political issues of the day. Kenya, USA Year 1 a course for which you do not need any Culture and Cultural Studies might include: personality and issues, including ‘McDonaldisation’, interdisciplinary perspectives By looking in detail at key previous experience 4 credits (Jan-Mar) the rise of celebrity culture, the branding, reality television, on the study of media audiences thematics in the work of writers I found out about Year 2 assumes that you have had some You are introduced to the psychologisation of everyday contemporary music, celebrity and on the role of the media including Adorno, Benjamin, Goldsmiths from my experience in this area or have already debates surrounding the term life, emotional branding and and spectacle, and the formation in constructing the postmodern Gilroy, Bourdieu, Jameson, home university. I chose followed a similar academic course ‘culture’, including questions of promotional culture, mental of the nation state. geography of our world. The Butler, Hall and Bhabha, the to study here because Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the ‘high’ and ‘mass’ culture and the health and the media, make- first section takes a macro course encourages an approach practical data or a willingness to engage development of British cultural over culture, and how to begin Year 3 perspective and offers a brief which considers the importance some older students in responsible individual study under studies. You study the ‘moment’ to understand the complex view of contemporary models of theory in understanding that had studied abroad tutorial guidance of cultural studies and the ways relationships between sexuality, MC53003A and approaches to the study everyday life, social and cultural previous years strongly in which ideas of ‘resistance’ and class, race and gender in relation Political Economy of the of media audiences, media change, processes of sexual recommended it and hegemony developed out of work to the performative force of Mass Media effects, media powers and differentiation, processes of it was the best school The following is a list of representative courses offered by the on subcultures. You also explore communication practices such 4 credits (Jan-Mar) patterns of cultural consumption. racialisation and aspects of Department of Media and Communications. For more information understandings of culture as magazines, film and television. This course looks at different The second section addresses visual culture. in London for my major, on the department, and for an up-to-date list of classes, please based on experiences of gender, perspectives on the relationship questions concerning the Communication Studies. go to www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/communicationstudies age and race and you begin MC52005B between ideological and specificity of different media MC53038A I love the way that the to examine audience-based Culture, Society and economic power, with reference and their micro-contexts and Music as Communication and approaches to cultural activity. the Individual to mass media. It compares conditions of consumption. Creative Practice subject is taught here 4 credits (Jan-Mar) culturalist interpretations with The third section examines 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and I find it much MC51006B This course focuses on the studies emphasising the role the role of communications Focusing on music and sounds more useful than my Key Debates in Media Studies formation of subjectivity in of the state, media ownership, media in constructing the as forms of communication, home university, with 4 credits (Jan-Mar) the context of huge social and advertising and market geography of our postmodern this course emphasises how the practice aspect This course focuses on important political change and the growth structures as forms of media electronics landscapes. musical meanings are conveyed debates concerning media of individualisation. In particular control. We examine media and understood, and how of it. It's more hands power and mediated identity, it examines the consequences representations in relation to MC53031A this is mediated through the on, less stressful, and and examines the different of individualisation: what debates over the construction Media, Ethnicity and Nation cultures and technologies of I think that you end traditions and disciplines that kind of ‘subjects’ are we now and mediation of meaning and 4 credits (Jan-Mar) production, recording and up learning necessary have contributed to media becoming? How does the ethos audiences’ response to these. This examines how ‘ethnicities’ consumption. We consider how skills that will benefit analysis in this area. It looks of individualisation operate in and ‘nations’ are constructed music communicates mood you in the real world. at the roles played by ideology, the context of globalisation? MC53021B within the media. Our aim is to and meaning, not only through politics and audiences in the What does the term ‘precarious Structure of Contemporary analyse how the media construct associated imagery and lyrical When I graduate I making of meaning, and requires lives’ mean? What are the Political Communication ‘ethnicity’ and ‘nations’ over content, but as sound. We hope to work in the you to take a critical perspective unequal consequences of 4 credits (Sep-Dec) time; to reflect on the role of think about the processes that in the analysis of specific media individualisation for women, This course examines the media in shaping nations link production, circulation marketing aspect of the texts and media events. for young people, for ethnic contemporary political and ethnicities; and to explore and consumption, as well as film industry, maybe minorities? Who are the winners communication through the the ways in which formations of exploring the ways that music I'll even come back to key fact MC51007A and the losers of the ‘network mass media, in its national and ethnicity and nationhood affect connects with individual and We regularly host industry London to intern. I love debates and talks by Representation and society’? The course moves international contexts. Lectures practices. The course introduces collective identities. it that much! international figures in media Textual Analysis between sociology and cultural explore the history of political key concepts in Black Cultural and cultural research; recent 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and media studies, providing communication, looking at Studies and Postcolonial Studies, guests have included Danny Boyle, Gurinder Chadha and Focuses on the formal address of plenty of opportunity to examine questions of media ownership including: colonial discourse, Noel Clark. media texts in order to examine case studies in more depth and and regulation, party political colonial fantasy, othering, the ways in which they make to engage with new research in and election broadcasts, news hybridity and diaspora. We look meaning. Issues concerning these areas. bias and the agenda-setting at the intersection between

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MC53039A Year 1 IS51013B Embodiment and Experience Computing Introduction to Creative 4 credits (Sep-Dec) IS51002C Computing Practice Examines the place of the ‘body’ Mathematical Modelling for 4 credits (Jan-Mar) in contemporary social and Problem Solving You are expected to have some cultural theory, taking a number We are one of the leading 4 credits (Sep-Dec) interest in graphics and/or sound, of case studies as examples. This course introduces the basic moving image and games. You In recent years across a range departments in Europe for the mathematical tools, both discrete are introduced to a wide range of academic disciplines, from combination of mainstream and continuous, for supporting of industry standard tools for sociology, anthropology, cultural computational and algorithmic generating and handling content studies and psychology there computing research and its inquiry. We pay particular in areas of sound, music, still has been a move away from creative and innovative application attention to notions of image, video, gaming, internet approaching the body as a pre- in key interdisciplinary areas. experimentation, reasoning, and digital arts. You are presented given biological entity, to explore and generalisation. We explore with a broad range of exemplar the ways in which cultural number systems, sets and approaches, and are encouraged signs and codes mediate our subsets, logic, sequences and to begin developing your creative relationships to our bodies. This series, relations and functions, practice in web, video, interactive work has emerged for example graphs and trees. media, sound, music and gaming. in relation to debates about Undergraduate year Description cyberspace, eating disorders, IS51008B IS51015A transexuality, health and illness, Year 1 a course for which you do not need any Introduction to Programming Computer Science 1 the emotions, and new forms of previous experience 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) spirituality. This course reviews Year 2 assumes that you have had some 8 credits (Sep-Mar) An introductory course in these debates to explore the experience in this area or have already You are introduced to the basic concepts essential extent to which we need to talk followed a similar academic course programming through the in computer science: a brief about embodiment rather than Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the Processing programming introduction to logic, set theory, the body in any fixed way. practical data or a willingness to engage language (a variant of Java) to type theory, graph theory, in responsible individual study under develop interactive graphical algorithms and recursive MC53045A tutorial guidance applications, including games. function theory, complexity Cinema and Society No previous programming and formal language theory. 4 credits (Jan-Mar) knowledge is assumed. Topics The practical side involves simple This course looks at the rise of to apply principles of ethical relating to the media’s course explores our relationship The following is a list of representative courses offered by include: drawing on screens, programming in a functional visual culture from the inception conduct in all fields of the media; contribution to public life to these transformations, the the Department of Computing. For more information on the interaction with mice and language to which the course of cinema to the present. a critical understanding of the and public space are explored: ways in which our bodies are department, and for an up-to-date list of classes, please go to keyboards, simple statements, has introduced you. Beginning with the historic cultural, social and political celebrity and ordinariness; re-positioned by screens, www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/computing variables and conditionals, for screening of Lumière’s Arrival of context of media law-making fandom and media pilgrimages; our modes of expression and and while loops, loops within IS51016A a Train in 1895, and ending with and professional regulation; media events and public ritual; communication are affected, If English is not your first language you must satisfy us that your loops, arrays, functions, objects Audio-Visual Computing a study of the place of popular and a critical appreciation of mediated self-disclosure (from and our experience of time and English is of a high enough standard. For Computing courses you and classes, and inheritance. 4 credits (Jan-Mar) film today, we explore the alternative methods of media talk shows to the webcam); space is reworked. should have IELTS minimum score of 6.0 total, with no element Prerequisite: introductory knowledge of ways in which the moving image law and factors contributing ‘reality’ television and everyday *New course: subject to validation. below 5.5. Please see page 7 for details of the other English language IS51010B Processing or Java languages. has affected consciousness. to self-regulation by media surveillance; and the media qualifications that we accept. Introduction to Computing Covers the technical fundamentals We study theorists such as practitioners. and symbolic protest (total See also in Business of computing techniques used Epstein, Benjamin, Kracauer, six lectures).  Practical Journalism, p68 In the Summer term you can choose to do two additional credits of 4 credits (Jan-Mar) in digital media, with a particular Eisenstein and Bazin. Inquiry into MC53048A  Creative Writing (Beginners), project work related to courses studied in the Spring term. This work Provides an introduction to focus on sound/music computing technologies of sound, sex, and Media Rituals and MC53049A p68 is negotiated individual study supported by some tutorial guidance. computers in business and their and computer graphics. Examines race guides us through a look Contemporary Cultures Screen Cultures*  Script and Screen, p68 You should inform your home university and the International deployment within organisations a range of topics such as: MIDI, at cinema in our ever-changing 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Jan-Mar)  New Media Technologies Partnerships and Developments office at Goldsmiths of the agreed that conduct business using sound waves and their properties, situation. The screening of a Explores how the media operate Screens are now a dominant and Learning, p41 topic once it has been confirmed. When you tell your International internet technologies. It analyses sound synthesis, mathematical classic film each week aids our as a focus of ritual action, presence and interface  Hollywood Cinema, p43 Liaison tutor the topics you are interested in studying, they can the technologies and business methods (eg vectors, matrices, understanding of film history symbolic hierarchies, and in culture. First, public space  Studies in Literature and consider appropriate tutorial guidance arrangements. You should theories designed to enable trigonometry), 2D Computer and aesthetics. symbolic conflict, introducing a is characterised by screens Film, p44 aim to confirm these details by week 6 of the Spring term. the effective application of graphics, image processing, range of theoretical perspectives of information, advertising  Language and the Media, computing in today’s businesses. interactive graphics and sound. MC53046A and applying them to specific and surveillance. Second, p45 We also examine success stories This has a stronger focus on Media, Law and Ethics themes from public life. Begins the spectacular scale of the that illustrate the effective the fundamental algorithms than 4 credits (Sep-Dec) with a general introduction cinematic screen is giving application of computers the two related courses (Audio- This course provides the to debates on the media’s way to the micro screens of a in businesses. Visual Computer Information knowledge and skills needed to social impacts. Key theoretical personalised and mobile lifestyle. Systems and Creative Audio- avoid transgressing defamation, concepts are then outlined: Third, the discrete identity of Visual Computing). You contempt and other media sacred and profane, symbolic media objects is increasingly implement a number of small laws in the UK, the USA and power, ritual, boundary, and lost to a convergence within pieces of software based on the Australia. It gives you an ability liminality. Specific themes the computer terminal. This above topics.

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to a formal basis for classifying Focuses on relational programming, and different in a music programming key fact We regularly invite industry computational problems in database systems, mainly from ways to understand its impact. language, and learn how to experts to deliver lectures terms of their inherent difficulty a development perspective, You experiment with a wide interface audio systems with AI and talks, including (independently of the emphasising issues related to variety of social media tools modules. A key concern is the people from the BBC, ITV, mainstream games algorithms used). optimised data modelling and as well as methods for analysis interaction between users and companies, and high database implementation in SQL. and visualisation. You have the performers and computer music profile computer artists IS52018C You learn how to implement opportunity to understand systems in a real-life setting. and filmmakers. Software Projects appropriate representations through practice how to apply You develop an understanding of 4 credits (Sep-Dec) of data in a Relational Database your skills in computer science to practical and aesthetic issues in 8 credits (Sep-Mar) Management System, how the world of social technology. the production and presentation The course takes students to perform appropriate of such work. through the entire software queries to extract particular IS2028A production process, from information from data, and how Principles and Applications Year 3 proposal development to to manage the integrity and of Programming implementation and evaluation, security of database systems. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) IS53002A with a particular focus on The course also introduces 8 credits (Sep-Mar) Neural Networks user-centred design. Software the theoretical underpinnings Prerequisite: introductory knowledge of 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Engineering (SE) is about of networks, and uses these a programming language such as Java. Prerequisite: basic knowledge of designing, implementing, and underpinnings to explain in You learn fundamental data computer science. modifying software so that it detail the implementation of structures and algorithms, and Introduces the theory and is of high quality, affordable, computer networks and the perform object-orientated practice of neural computation. maintainable, and fast to build. observed characteristics of design and implementation Covers the principles of It is a systematic approach to web-based social networks. It of applications by using specific neurocomputing with artificial the analysis, design, assessment, includes practical work related libraries. You study general neural networks widely used for implementation, test, to programming client server features of programming addressing real-world problems maintenance and re-engineering web applications utilising back languages eg type, abstract such as classification, regression, of software, that is, the end databases. data types, the memory model, pattern recognition, data application of engineering virtual machines, scope etc, mining, time-series prediction. to software. IS52025A and specific language features We look at supervised and Internet and Distributed eg primitive and reference unsupervised learning. We study IS52020B Programming types class and instance supervised learning using linear Perception and Multimedia 4 credits (Jan-Mar) variables, overloading, string perceptrons, and non-linear Computing Prerequisite: introductory knowledge of manipulation, input and output models such as probabilistic 4 credits (Sep-Dec) programming. streams, serialisation, internet neural networks, multilayer 8 credits (Sep-Mar) You will learn to use and create connectivity, error handling, perceptrons, and radial-basis You learn the essentials of applications that communicate generics, threads, and memory function networks. Unsupervised perception: how the physical with each other and with other management. In addition, learning is studied using phenomena of light and sound processes across a network in you learn advanced software Kohonen networks. This course are related to our experiences of an object oriented programming techniques eg concurrency, will provide contemporary IS51018A will cover both technical issues its impact. They will experiment Year 2 colour, motion, melody, harmony language. In particular you will internet programming, GUI and training techniques for all Introduction to Web of programming with media, with social media tools and look and rhythm. You are taught a acquire the ability to understand event-driven programming, these neural networks, and Programming and contextual topics of project at different ways to analyse and IS52017B programming language suited to the need for concurrency when patterns, MVC, etc. knowledge and tools for the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) management and the design understand its effects. Algorithms and Complexity the signal processing domain in doing network and distributed specification, design, and This course is an introductory of applications to a particular Theory order to treat images and sounds, programming, to understand MU52047A practical implementation of course in the basic concepts commercial or other brief. MU51047A 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and to implement transformations the need for synchronisation, Music Computing 2 neural networks. essential in the design and Music Computing 1 Prerequisites: introductory knowledge and filters as linear systems. You and the problems (eg deadlock 4 credits (Sep-Dec) implementation of client-side IS51020A 4 credits (Jan-Mar) of computer programming. then go on to see the application and starvation) in concurrent 8 credits (Sep-Mar) IS53011A web-based applications. Introduction to Social Introduces the overarching Aims to provide a rigorous of knowledge of human systems. You will also be Introduces advanced concepts Language, Design and The course will cover a basic Computing themes of music computing: basis for algorithm design and perception and of signal exposed to technologies in music computing as applied Implementation introduction to the Web, followed 4 credits (Jan-Mar) how computers listen and analysis, and an introduction processing to the construction supporting applications running to analytic study and creative 4 credits (Sep-Dec) by more detailed lectures and This course will explore how the analyse sound and music, how to computational complexity of multimedia databases and in browsers. practice. Methods, concepts Prerequisite: average knowledge of a labs on current best practice such affordances of social technology they can generate musical and theory. You develop knowledge retrieval of information from and wider implications of programming language such as Java. as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. enable both digital culture and sonic processes and structures, of classes of computational collections of multimedia. IS52026B music information retrieval and You are introduced to principles social impact. Through lectures and how they can render these problems and typical Social Computing computer-based musicology and techniques for construction IS51019A and workshops, students patterns as sound and music. corresponding data structures IS52027A 4 credits (Sep-Dec) are explored with reference of programming language Introduction to Digital Media will develop a critical and You develop an understanding and algorithms. You are exposed Databases, Networks and 8 credits (Sep-Mar) to notated scores, MIDI data processors. The course offers 4 credits (Sep-Dec) constructive approach to social of the origins and development to a formal basis for analysing the Web You develop a critical and and audio. We also explore algorithms for the design This course will give a broad computing. They will gain insight of computer-aided composition algorithms with a view to 4 credits (Sep-Dec) constructive approach to social the application of artificial of language compilers and introduction to the creation in to the diversity of social media, and computer-based electronic estimating the resources 8 credits (Sep-Mar) media and social computing. intelligence (AI) to music, interpreters. We cover the of digital media and rich media its basis in programming, and music, presented in a short series (processing time and storage) Prerequisite: introductory knowledge of You gain insight in the diversity improvised performance and live following fundamental topics: websites and applications. It different ways to understand of repertoire-based case studies. required for their execution, and computing. of social media, its basis in DSP. You develop your expertise language definition, lexical

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The course aims of computing including a programming of processing or Java languages. 4 credits (Jan-Mar) of social enterprises in recent emphasis on the pragmatics of to educate a new generation language such as Java or C. Covers advanced methods Creative London looks at one history: their origins, aims compiler construction: syntax- of managers, planners, Aims to enhance skills and used in current state-of-the-art Goldsmiths’ Institute for Creative of the world’s most important and ambitions; how and what directed translation, automatic analysts, and programmers for experience in the development graphics and animation systems, centres for culture and creativity. difference they have made to code generation and strategies electronic commerce. of software for the creation including the mathematical & Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE) The course explores the work society, the community and the for machine-independent and manipulation of sounds foundations, computational provides enterprise education to of some of the city’s key galleries, culture of London. The course code improvement. A one- IS53023B and images in real and non-real techniques and their use in theatres, arts organisations includes a broad range of site pass language compiler in Java Data Mining time. It extends the principles creative practice. The course the creative and cultural sectors, and events. We examine their visits and practical case studies is demonstrated. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) of creative engineering for covers major contemporary and supports research into new background, looking to the major of organisations. This will allow Prerequisite: general knowledge of use in arts, games and more graphics and animation approaches to business and financial social, cultural and political you to experience first hand IS53012A computer science, including Java general interaction scenarios techniques. You are given the factors that have influenced their the range, breadth and quality Computer Security programming language. so that you can develop your mathematical foundations of models in the creative economy. change and development, leading of social enterprise work that 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Provides you with theoretical own proj through the use the subject, as well as other to their place and role in today’s London organisations produce, Prerequisite: basic knowledge of knowledge of basic and of computational approaches theoretical foundations such creative economy. There are site and to place their subject computer science. advanced machine learning to audiovisual processing. as perceptual theories. These visits to theatres, exhibitions, arts studies in an historical and Provides a broad overview of algorithms and statistical The course details the key theoretical aspects are taught organisations and events. cultural context. topics in securing computer- techniques utilised in the process similarities and differences in the context of their practical based resources, especially the of discovery of hidden patterns between sound and image use. You are introduced to some Undergraduate year Description information stored on hardware in potentially large volumes of signal processing through industry standard graphics and controlled by software. data. Practical data mining will the exploration of combined software tools, but the main Year 1 a course for which you do not need any We explore core concepts of be introduced through both audiovisual approaches, focus is on programming previous experience computer security, including algorithm implementation in with particular reference to graphical software. Year 2 assumes that you have had some attacks and control, and various Java and data mining software audiovisual perception and experience in this area or have already techniques for the protection of utilisation for knowledge cognition. Content is delivered IS53034A followed a similar academic course computer-related assets. Covers discovery in data from various through programming languages Interaction Design Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the topics including computer fields of activity. including MaxMSP/Pure Data, 4 credits (Sep-Dec) practical data or a willingness to engage security, attacks and control, Java, C and C++. Prerequisite: average programming in responsible individual study under elementary cryptography, IS530024A ability. tutorial guidance cryptosystems, security control Artificial Intelligence IS53030A This course provides an models, security problems 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Physical Computing understanding of the theoretical and protection in operating Prerequisite: general knowledge of 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and methodological issues that SA Study Abroad Only systems, in databases and data computer science. Prerequisite: basic knowledge can be applied to the design mining, and in networks, security Introduces the essential of computing. and evaluation of interactive management and administration, principles of artificial intelligence Physical computing is of computer-based systems. legal and ethical issues: patents, as part of computer science. increasing interest to artists, copyrights and trademarks, The emphasis is on heuristic musicians, choreographers and IS53036A and prosecution. problem solving methods. other creative practitioners for Introduction to Natural Material includes: heuristic the creation of novel artworks Language Processing IS53013A search techniques, knowledge and for forms of computational 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Electronic Commerce representation, rule-based interaction between these Prerequisite: average programming 4 credits (Sep-Dec) systems for deductive problem objects and people. The focus ability. Prerequisite: basic knowledge solving, search-based planning, is the interface between the Combines a critical introduction of computing. and inductive machine learning. digital and the analogue. It to key topics in theoretical Aims to familiarise you with The heuristic techniques covered encompasses basic physics, linguistics with hands-on current and emerging electronic are: depth-first search, breath- electronics, programming practical experience of commerce technologies using first search, iterative deepening, and software engineering. developing applications to the internet. You are equipped bidirectional search, hill The practical objective process texts and access key fact with a detailed understanding climbing, and adversarial search. is the development of skills linguistic resources such as ICCE believes that of the major issues regarding Guidelines are provided for for designing and building Corpora. Topics covered include entrepreneurship is the the deployment of internet implementing practical expert interactive physical devices. part-of-speech tagging, syntax creation of social, aesthetic technologies within and between systems, planning systems, Taught through seminars and and parsing, and information or financial value, and that when entrepreneurial organisations. Topics include and empirical learning systems practical sessions oriented extraction. Uses the Python activity is strong these three internet technology for business with version spaces using the around the Arduino chip and language but assumes no strands are interwoven. advantage, managing electronic candidate elimination algorithm. development environment. previous knowledge of this. commerce funds transfer, reinventing the future of business

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Practice-based courses workshops to using design Design software. These workshops If you are applying for a practice vary depending on current key fact course in Design, you must requirements. We are a top 10 university for Art and Design include with your application (2013 Guardian University The Department of Design represents appropriate documentation n/a league table). showing your current art Design B a unique combination of knowledge or design work (including 16 credits (Jan-Mar) and skills including interdisciplinary sketchbooks). We advise you Prerequisite: completing ‘Design A’ first to send a digital portfolio that is preferable. design, design futures, eco-design could consist of the following: This set of courses includes and design education in schools. Powerpoint slides, photographs, Design Practice (8 credits), DVDs and CDs, in both Mac Design Methods and Processes and PC formats. Mark your with Technical Studies (4 credits), Undergraduate year Description work clearly with your full and Design Context (4 credits). name, full postal address, See below for details of Design Year 1 a course for which you do not need any a contact telephone number, Practice and Design Context. In previous experience and an indication of the size addition to these courses you will Year 2 assumes that you have had some and media of each piece. We also study Design Methods and experience in this area or have already also recommend you to include Process with Technical Studies followed a similar academic course notes to clarify the content of (described above) and a week Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the your work as well as any other intensive lecture programme practical data or a willingness to engage information you think might Ecology and Design. in responsible individual study under be relevant. Please ensure that This course draws from a wide tutorial guidance you pack everything securely, range of disciplines to provide as Goldsmiths cannot accept insights into the complex and responsibility for the loss or far-reaching environmental and The following is a list of representative courses offered by the damage of any work submitted social implications of design Department of Design. For more information on the department, with your application. Please see decisions. It places this work and for an up-to-date list of classes, please go to more about returning your work. in the context of the industrial www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/design economy and emerging Course groupings ideas related to sustainable design. Various critiques of Individual courses Autumn term perspectives to investigate the and context for design. You n/a current development paths complex nature of these stances consider the major theories that Design A are examined, and alternatives DS51009B DS51012B and features, and it examines have been advanced in order 16 credits (Sep-Dec) discussed. Concepts of eco Design Practice I Design Context (Autumn) 1 how they feed into practice. to explain the development of This set of courses includes: design are explored in detail 8 credits (Sep-Dec) 2 credits (Sep-Dec) Though a series of lectures design practice. Design Practice (8 credits), and you are encouraged to find 8 credits (Jan-Mar) Design and Meaning and practical exercises you are Design Methods and Processes new ways of working which Design Practice is a studio- In the Autumn term you study encouraged to explore the ways DS51012C with Technical Studies (4 credits), consider the environment based activity. You will need to Semiotics and Psychology, which in which your personal ethical Design Context (Spring) 2 and Design Context (4 credits). and the ability of present and want to work conceptually in examines ideas of the self and beliefs play a critical role in your 2 credits (Jan-Mar) See below for details of Design future generations to meet their a variety of media. Your work develops issues of cognitive work. This course also explores Material Culture Practice and Design Context. In material needs. will focus on developing your and creative development how design can contribute This course introduces you to addition to these courses you will creative processes, which can be whilst exploring concepts of the to sustainable development. the idea of design activity in also study Design Methods and n/a applied to many areas of design. individual. Through a series of It examines in detail a range relation to everyday culture. It Process with Technical Studies. Combined Design A The course helps students lectures and practical exercises of core sustainable design demonstrates how design is A series of practical and and Design B from different areas – including you are encouraged to explore principles based on current fundamentally connected to the reflective sessions in the studio 16+16 credits (Sep-Mar) graphic communication, three- the ways in which semiotics can research and practice. social and political context within and workshop, available only Design B builds on the skills dimensional and interaction play a critical role in your work. which it operates, rather than Student insight to those students who opt developed in Design A. We design – appreciate other Spring term being an autonomous sphere of Rabhi, Thailand for full term sets of courses would encourage you to do both, disciplines as well as developing DS51012B activity. The course concentrates in Design. Sessions cover but if you only pick one set, it is their own thinking. The projects Design Context (Autumn) 2 DS51012C on a branch of anthropology The way of teaching is superior. If learning by areas including drawing and preferable to select Design A. invite you to question current 2 credits (Sep-Dec) Design Context (Spring) 1 that has become known as the doing is the best way, you will definitely learn by sketching in the design process, notions of design and to develop Ethics and Sustainability 2 credits (Jan-Mar) study of ‘material culture’. It the heart here. Cultural diversity is also another research methods for designers, new levels of problem solving, This lecture series asks why the Histories and Theories comes from an understanding advantage of being in Goldsmiths as you will meet modelling ideas in paper and idea generation and realisation. ethical stances of designers, This course provides a thematic of design that draws upon card, and the study of creative You will produce a broad-based the moral features of the design outline of the development of a number of interconnected a lot of people from around the world and learn methods and processes. There is conceptual portfolio in which process, and the value-laden design from the 19th to 21st academic disciplines, including how to work with them in a team. also a set of practical workshops you present the scope as well as nature of various obj and images, centuries. You study the history sociology, philosophy, linguistics, that develop your skills to use the depth of your thinking. are important in design. The of design in terms of its changing psychology, and anthropology. in design, from working in our course uses a number of critical principles, foundations, ideas

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Year 1 education policy in the UK. ED52024A focusing on all the different refugees and asylum seekers; ED53024A Educational Studies The course examines issues and Early Childhood in a aspects which combine to those concerned with faith Studio Practice: Visual Arts ED51006A tensions in implementing policy Diverse Society create the viewer’s experience. and religion; language and 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Culture and Identity with reference to cultural and 4 credits (Sep-Dec) You spend time working in plurilingualism; gender and 8 credits (Sep-Mar) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) societal influences. 8 credits (Sep-Mar) a group to create and edit a sexuality and Autism/Asperger’s You will experience sustained Our programmes will encourage 8 credits (Sep-Mar) You explore current ideas short moving image and study Syndrome. The course includes practice in art production You explore the key concepts ED52022A and contrasting theoretical some theoretical aspects of film opportunities for discussions in an agreed area of personal you to develop an understanding of of culture, and identify their Visual Arts Practice approaches as well as policy making. Elements related to a with people working in some interest. Through first-hand how concepts of education, culture, relationship to spheres of in Education and developments affecting young variety of contemporary media of these areas. experience you will develop society and identity are constructed influence in contemporary Community Settings children and their families. You and creativity are studied, as well your own practice within society, such as schooling, 4 credits (Sep-Dec) examine different aspects of as educational aspects of these. ED52036A the social context of studio and analysed from a variety of the law and the media. 8 credits (Sep-Mar) young children’s learning. There Multilingualism and Education working. Seminar explorations different perspectives. You combine theoretical is a focus on children’s personal, ED52027A 4 credits (Sep-Dec) of critical theory will inform ED51007A perspectives on creativity, social and emotional learning, as Performing Arts in the 8 credits (Sep-Mar) the interpretations undertaken. The Curriculum: Historical and learning, and art and design well as on cultural and linguistic Community We will consider psycholinguistic, Philosophical Perspectives processes in education with development and the role of 4 credits (Sep-Dec) sociolinguistic and educational ED53029A Undergraduate year Description 4 credits (Sep-Dec) extended opportunities for play in their learning. You also 8 credits (Sep-Mar) aspects of multilingualism and Theorectical and Practical 8 credits (Sep-Mar) personal and practical creative have an opportunity to become We shall take a broad view of the look at language ideologies, Aspects of Special Educational Year 1 a course for which you do not need any You examine how the curriculum work. Through a series of more familiar with different performing arts but concentrate language variation and the Needs (SEN) previous experience is a means to educating the practical workshops you are approaches to curriculum on the various aspects of spread of global languages. The 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Year 2 assumes that you have had some type of person society deems challenged to develop your and policy, and to explore the theatre (giving particular focus aim of the course is for students 8 credits (Sep-Mar) experience in this area or have already desirable. It explores how this own artistic skills and subject legacy of different traditions to community theatre and its to become familiar with current You will look at the theory and followed a similar academic course has changed over time and how knowledge and understanding and approaches to young function as a tool for social thinking and practices in relation history of special educational Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the it varies in different societies of visual art, and to reflect children and learning in the UK change). This will also include to multilingualism in a variety of needs, including how doctors practical data or a willingness to engage today. The philosophical on traditional and developing and beyond. an overview of the history of spaces and contexts. developed the ‘clinical in responsible individual study under issues underpinning these practice in education. You performance and an examination gaze’; how madness came tutorial guidance differences are explored. You engage in work which explores ED52025A of the main theories of the 20th- Year 3 to replace leprosy as a way are encouraged to reflect on a variety of materials, processes Culture and the Construction century practitioners. to control communities; and what education is and what and ideas central to the visual of Identity ED53023A how Montessori developed The following is a list of representative courses offered by the it means to be educated in a arts curriculum. You are 4 credits (Sep-Dec) ED52028A International Perspectives approaches to supporting Department of Educational Studies. For more information on the democratic society. encouraged to develop your 8 credits (Sep-Mar) Introduction to Teaching on Early Childhood children with SEN that also department, and for an up-to-date list of classes, please go to own ideas and undertake You are given the opportunity English as Foreign Language 4 credits (Sep-Dec) challenged social deprivation. www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/educationalstudies ED51008B self-directed artwork. You are to examine a range of theories to Adults 8 credits (Sep-Mar) You will develop an Learning and Thinking also encouraged to develop on culture and identity drawn 4 credits (Sep-Dec) You explore the developing understanding of SEN and think 4 credits (Sep-Dec) pedagogical knowledge, from a range of disciplines. The 8 credits (Sep-Mar) range of provision for under- about approaches to support 8 credits (Sep-Mar) reflecting on how art activities particular focus of this course You are introduced to the eights, and the divergence in different types of SEN, and you You are introduced to the might be planned, resourced is the use of autobiography theoretical background to provision between the regions of will be consistently challenging central concepts of learning and taught or facilitated. and life histories as methods Second Language Learning with the United Kingdom. The course deficit models. Topics will and thinking and the ways for exploring cultures and particular reference to English. will also explore the different include Asperger’s Syndrome, these have been constructed ED52023A identities. The aim of doing You develop an overview of curriculum approaches and dyslexia, hearing impairment, historically, geographically Language and Literacy in the this is to provide you with the how language operates, and of types of provision for under- social and emotional behavioural and culturally. You are also Early Years theoretical lens through which learning and teaching theory and eights in Europe, Scandinavia, difficulties, Tourette’s Syndrome, introduced to theories of 4 credits (Sep-Dec) to investigate complex issues how it is related to the classroom, New Zealand and North and mental health issues. You will learning, which encompass an 8 credits (Sep-Mar) – such as diaspora, syncretism, with particular reference America. The course will evaluate also look at SEN in global cultural introduction to the key debates You consider how young masculinities and femininities – to communicative and post- critically the reliability, validity contexts and how SEN are around cognition. children’s language develops which are central to the notions communicative approaches and significance of instruments approached in France, England, in a range of contexts, and of culture and identity. The to teaching. designed as measures of quality California, Australia, and China. Year 2 examine literacy as a socially process of identity construction in international studies of early constructed phenomenon. You is explored in relation to ED52034A childhood services. You will See also ED52021A have the opportunity to consider education policy and practice, Studies in Exclusion be able to reflect on the impact  Contemporary Approaches Knowledge and Power how theoretical understandings and the course also addresses and Inclusion of theory and practice on the to the Theory and Practice 4 credits (Sep-Dec) of language and literacy the interrelationship between the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) provision of services for under- of Psychotherapy and key fact 8 credits (Sep-Mar) development have influenced child’s identity and the culture of 8 credits (Sep-Mar) eight’s in a range of contexts, Counselling, p77 The Department of Educational Studies is one You explore and locate educational policy. This is the school. This course takes a case study and able to make an informed  Theories of Individual of the largest in the College education within the wider socio- achieved through an examination approach to key theoretical argument for a set of guiding Development, p77 and plays a major part in life political structure of different and exploration of language, ED52026A ideas in inclusion and exclusion, principles for provision for under-  Pathologies of the Modern at Goldsmiths. A significant societies by studying educational language diversity, texts, literacy New Media Technologies with a focus on the experiences eights in one country within or Self, p78 number of the staff in the department have theories and the thinking of and learning, and educational and Learning of young people. You explore outside the UK.  Psychology and Education, international reputations key theorists. You explore policy developments. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) the context of inclusion and p67 in their field. the impact educational theory 8 credits (Sep-Mar) exclusion in relation to issues has on current government You study how movies are made, such as people who are

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Year 1 legacy of Romanticism as well EN52211C non-Shakespearean drama, Lawrence, Waugh, Holtby Year 3 English & as the origins of modernism. Shakespeare metaphysical poets, and the and Orwell. EN51001A Most crucially, the literature 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Civil War. EN53308A Comparative Literature Explorations in Literature is the site of debate: about 4 credits (Jan-Mar) EN52273C Modern American Fiction 4 credits (Sep-Dec) morals, politics, religion, science, 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) EN52230A Drama and Transgression: 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) sexuality, gender, nationhood, A chronological exploration of Varieties of English From Prometheus to Faust 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) empire, and (at its very basis) Shakespeare’s works, studied 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) Our courses develop your analytical You are introduced to a wide about the nature and function through close reading of the 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) A study of selected works range of works of poetry, prose of literature itself. texts. Reference is made to the 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) from the 1930s to the present, and imaginative skills, and familiarise and drama, from Homer (in *New course: subject to validation. works’ social and intellectual This course explores how and We will examine a selection of considered in their historical and you with thematic and genre- translation) through to late 20th- contexts, and comparisons are why language is used differently dramatic texts which not only cultural contexts. The course century writing. Close reading Year 2 developed between different in a variety of contexts. You negotiate the significance of includes some of the recognised based approaches to literary and in seminars supports a series of works and groups of works. examine language in relation conflicts between protagonists landmarks of American fiction cultural studies. background and critical lectures. EN52201A to region, gender, ethnicity, (male and female) and the and drama, along with more Literature of the Later EN52225A age and social class. In addition, divine or the state in ways that ‘marginal’ works, reflecting EN51002A Middle Ages: Society and Restoration and 18th-Century you study various examples are typical of key stages in the the diverse voices of American Undergraduate year Description Approaches to Text the Individual Literature of spoken and written language, European history of ideas, but cultures and subcultures. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and examine the role of literature also handle the attempts by Year 1 a course for which you do not need any 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) and the media in representing women to achieve independence EN53312B previous experience 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) language variation. of spirit and freedom of action The Art of the Novel Year 2 assumes that you have had some This is an introduction to the An introduction to English This course covers the prose, in patriarchal societies. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) experience in this area or have already skills required in the analysis of literature of the later Middle Ages poetry and drama of the EN52238B 4 credits (Jan-Mar) followed a similar academic course literary texts. Through a series within a broad historical and Restoration and 18th century, Inventing the Nation: EN52291A 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the of interrelated lectures and cultural context. Selected texts with emphasis on the Restoration American Literature in the Hollywood Cinema You discuss selected novelists practical data or a willingness to engage seminars, you explore different are used to map shifts in literary comic stage, English satire in Mid-19th Century 4 credits (Sep-Dec) from Cervantes to Calvino, and in responsible individual study under ways of understanding what technique, genre, attitudes prose and verse, the rise of the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) study representative landmarks tutorial guidance a ‘text’ is, what significance it to women, and the uses of novel, and the poetry of nature 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) of realism as well as later might have, and what aspects Arthurian myth. Literary topics and imagination. Writers include 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) An analytical overview of some modernist and postmodernist of a text are interesting or useful include the nature of allegory Behn, Rochester, Swift, Pope, The main aim of this course is to of the major areas of Hollywood novels. You consider theoretical The following is a list of representative courses offered by the to investigate. and satire, and the beast fable Fielding and Sterne. cover one of the most productive Cinema and its connection to problems of narrative voice, Department of English and Comparative Literature. For more as genre. and significant periods in the wider cultural landscape strategy, character and mimesis. information on the department, and for an up-to-date list of classes, EN51007B EN52226A American literature. Major of the United States. Topics please go to Engaging Poetry EN52204A Sensibility and Romanticism: authors of the period are situated include: the rise of cinema and EN53333A www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/englishandcomparativeliterature 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Moderns Revolutions in Writing in the context of key themes in modernity, narrative cinema, Modern Poetry 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and Society political, social, intellectual and melodrama, Noir, Westerns 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Please note: in the Summer Term you can choose to do two additional 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) cultural history. You look at some and comedy, auteur and 4 credits (Jan-Mar) credits of project work related to courses studied in the Spring Introduces a range of poetic 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) of the important intellectual genre theory, spectatorship 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) Term. This work is negotiated individual study supported by some forms from the early modern The course develops your 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) and literary movements of the and reception, semiotics, Modern Poetry in Britain and tutorial guidance. You should inform your home university and the period to the present. understanding of the literature You explore representative period, including extended study psychoanalysis and feminity/ America traces the diverse International Partnerships and Developments office at Goldsmiths Chronological issues blend and culture of the Modern period poems, novels and non-fictional of Transcendentalism, slave masculinity as spectacle. course of post-war poetries of the agreed topic once it has been confirmed. Once you have with more individualised from 1920, and strengthens prose of the late 18th and early literature by both black and from these countries. The decided on topics you are interested in studying, your International approaches to the reading your abilities in literary analysis. 19th centuries, involving the white writers, women’s writing EN52292A first term focuses on Britain Liaison tutor can help make the appropriate arrangements for tutorial and understanding of poetry. Through a close reading of literature of Sensibility, the and literature of the West. Literary London* and includes study of Auden, guidance. You should aim to confirm these details by week 6 of the The course consolidates your representative texts you explore Gothic novel, Romantic poetry 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Larkin, Hughes, Heaney, Dunn, Spring Term. engagement with both the the historical and critical and its contemporary criticism. EN52248A 4 credits (Jan-Mar) McGuckian, Nichols, Muldoon, critical and practical appreciation contexts within which modern Post-Victorian English 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) Duffy and Johnson. The second In addition to the full-year courses listed, the Department also offers of poetry and is supported writers strove to ‘make it new’ EN52227C Literature In the course of the 19th century, term focuses on America and a number of half-year courses at Year 3 level. Different subjects are by the participation of our in poetry, fiction and drama. Literature of the English 4 credits (Sep-Dec) London easily outstripped all includes Williams, Stein, McKay, addressed from year to year, and the schedule for 2014-15 will not be creative practitioners. Renaissance 4 credits (Jan-Mar) other contenders as the largest Olsen, Creeley, Ginsberg, set until the spring of 2014. EN52209A 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) and most vibrant metropolis O’Hara, Ashbery, Plath, Baraka, EN51011A Old English 4 credits (Jan-Mar) Examines selected literary works in the world, and this course and Hejinian. Literature of the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) across several genres in the focuses on representations of the Victorian Period* 4 credits (Jan-Mar) An introduction to multiple period 1901-36, concentrating city by a range of writers living 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) forms of writing, from the mid- upon English-based writings and working there. Inevitably, 4 credits (Jan-Mar) This is an introduction to 16th to the late 17th century, in the non-modernist tradition. the city provided a vital milieu 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) the language and literature providing detailed analysis Topics include responses to for the broad transition from This course is based on writing of the Anglo-Saxons, with of selected texts considered social change and warfare, and the Romantic to the Victorian in Britain between 1837 and consideration of a variety of in their social and intellectual new conceptions of Englishness sensibility, and thence to the new 1901, a period during which themes and genres, including contexts. Topics of special and modern sexuality. Authors departures associated with the literature is marked above all by history, lyric, mythology, interest include Elizabethan lyric include Hardy, Forster, Brooke, close of the century. its diversity. Here we have the poetic elegy and romance. poetry, Renaissance humanism, Owen, Graves, Mansfield, *New course: subject to validation.

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key fact Our series of guest speakers has included major Student insight names in literature, including Alan Bennett, Germaine Emmanuel, Ghana Greer and Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney and I chose to attend Goldsmiths because there Doris Lessing is a different atmosphere around Goldsmiths compared to other universities. I think it is the feeling of strong community among the students and staff. There isn’t a day that goes by on campus where someone doesn’t hold doors or engage in small acts of kindness for others and that is what makes Goldsmiths different. Also I chose Goldsmiths because of its international reputation and the uniqueness of the programmes that are offered here to students as well as its uniqueness in terms of different cultures among the student community.

EN53318A of poetry and fiction, the course EN53343A EN53344A tendencies, modern English contemporary cultural anxieties the public theatre plays Oedipus: Myths, Tragedies traces some major themes: the Literature in Question: Studies in Literature and Film drama continues the tradition and controversies. of Christopher Marlowe, See also and Theories literary and cultural move from Writing since World War II 4 credits (Sep-Dec) of Realism. The course explores the course carries through  Creative Writing (Beginners), 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Naturalism to Modernism, the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) the main contrasts and affinities EN53371A to the Jacobean and Caroline p68 4 credits (Jan-Mar) Harlem Renaissance, American 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) between these modernist Language and the Media playwrights (John Webster,  Script and Screen, p68 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) Feminism, Expatriate writers and 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) This course explores the and realist trends, focusing on 4 credits (Sep-Dec) John Ford) and the closing of the  Writing the Self, p69 This course explores the myths, the cult of the Lost Generation, A study of issues explored by relationship between literature varieties of modernist drama, 4 credits (Jan-Mar) theatres in 1642. Attention will  Writing Culture, p69 dramas and theories surrounding Regionalism, Documentarism post-war literature, starting from and film in the 20th century. and then on major innovative 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) be given to contextual matters  Writing Fiction (Advanced), Oedipus and Antigone. The and the emergence of an the debate initiated by Sartre’s You will look at texts and films approaches to Realism from Here you are introduced to – the playhouses, companies, p69 first term is devoted to versions American poetic vernacular. ‘What is Literature?’ and looking from various national traditions, 1880-1930. Through a close a semiotic approach to the audiences, court – as well as to  Writing Culture 2, p69 of the Oedipus myth produced at literary and theoretical texts. to examine the particular reading of representative analysis of media texts, and to close analysis of language.  Writing the Self 2, p69 in classical Greece and Rome EN53342A You discuss how the role, scope characteristics of literature texts, you are introduced to a a multi-modal perspective on  The Fictional 19th Century, and in England before the 20th Postcolonial Literatures and status of literature have and film as they respond to range of dramatic forms and the analysis of communication. EN53385A p52 century; the second term focuses in English been re-assessed within literary one another, and to establish techniques of the period. You compare and analyse media Shakespeare and the on post-Freudian adaptations 4 credits (Sep-Dec) texts and by other disciplines. the precise nature of the cross- Examples from expressionist and literary genres. The course Early Modern of the legend in the 20th century, 4 credits (Jan-Mar) The course addresses the connections. The first term film acquaint you with questions develops your critical awareness 4 credits (Sep-Dec) on stage and screen. 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) relationships between literature explores how film has responded related to performance, stage of a variety of linguistic 4 credits (Jan-Mar) An analysis of the literature and philosophy, literature and to the challenge of literature set, and lighting. techniques for analysing media 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) EN53339A and culture produced in the ethics, literature and history, and the second, how modern discourse types and genres, This course looks at the role The Emergence of Modern aftermath of, and in response literature and science; it studies and contemporary writers have EN53349B and enables you particularly to and development of major America: American Literature to, the end of European how generic boundaries responded to the challenge Decadence understand the relationship in early modern thinkers and 1890-1940 colonialism. You address and literary forms come under of film. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) specific media discourses/genres writers within the context 4 credits (Sep-Dec) representations of colonialism pressure and are re-defined; 4 credits (Jan-Mar) between text and context. of Shakespeare’s plays and 4 credits (Jan-Mar) and decolonisation, and the and it discusses authenticity, EN53345A 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) poems. Drawing on a range of 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) experience of postcolonial individual and national identity, Modernism and Drama This course explores the EN53384A philosophy, literature, religious Moving from the closing of societies and diasporic peoples. the role and status of language, (1880-1930) literature of decadence in The English Renaissance writing and political thought, the frontier in America to the Attention is paid to the issues the literary canon and the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) France and England in the 19th Theatre we explore the ways in which eve of the Second World War, of form, ethnicity, class and possibility of originality, and the 4 credits (Jan-Mar) century. The principal themes 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Shakespeare stages some of this is a period that saw mass gender in postcolonial literatures, relationship between gender 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) of decadence – degeneration, 4 credits (Jan-Mar) the major concerns of his day immigration and urban growth, the claims of nativist ideologies and writing. Whilst modernist drama on disease, sex, death – are explored 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) within the context of intellectual the crash of 1929 and the Great and cosmopolitan theories the European continent is in the work of various writers, Beginning with the court innovations across Europe Depression. Through a selection of ‘hybridity’. characterised by anti-realist and understood in the context of comedies of John Lyly and c1400-1600.

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English Language and as BBC radio shows. Students LS50004A prepared. The lecture content that situate their work within different circumstances? Are English Language & Academic Writing are exposed to a range of Images and Representation is applicable to studies beyond modernity and postmodernity; the nationalisms of the non- challenging and interesting 4 credits (Sep-Dec) the media and introduces you concentrations on case studies Western world repetitions of Academic Writing LS50001A recordings related to the arts, 8 credits (Sep-Mar) to a range of approaches to will yield fundamental skills an original template, or are they Academic Reading and Writing current affairs, media, education The intention of this introductory analysing various texts. As an of reading and thinking the fundamentally different? 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and aspects of British culture. unit is to provide you with some integrated skills course, it allows visual. The second half then 8 credits (Sep-Mar) Many of the recordings are of the basic tools available in you to make practical use of the shifts attention to spaces of EN50009A These programmes have been The course covers the key relevant to subjects studied at interpreting the kinds of images skills developed in the Academic exhibition and display, whilst Introduction to aspects of writing an essay. Goldsmiths, for example race and that surround us in our everyday Speaking and Listening and also introducing you to wider Literary Criticism designed as introductory level These include features of ethnicity, representation, identity life. As such, it is relevant and Reading and Writing courses. topics such as (inter)nationalism 4 credits (Jan-Mar) Zero classes for students looking academic style, the planning and culture. Where possible, adaptable to many of the and its impact on contemporary This course introduces a range process, structuring an the recordings are exploited disciplines you will go on to LS50006A theory. Importantly, by laying of works from 1800 to the for classes with 50% English argument, summarising, for vocabulary development. study in both the humanities Introduction to Cultural Studies these specific foundations, present day. The emphasis Language tuition and 50% academic paraphrasing techniques, To develop speaking skills, and social sciences. The course 4 credits (Jan-Mar) Contemporary Art Worlds is introducing you to reading content. These classes give you the referencing, avoiding plagiarism, you will have to research and will have both a practical and This course is offered as an will prepare you for the first primary texts in the way in and drafting and editing. give seminar presentations a theoretical approach. For option in the Media, Culture year of the BA History of which undergraduates study opportunity to develop your English Emphasis is given to the logic and lead the class through example, you will be asked to and Society pathway in Art programme. literature. The lecture/seminar language, become familiar with UK underlying Western academic discussion of a topic of your examine advertisements such the Spring term. It introduces format encourages you to writing conventions, rather choosing. You will receive input as those advertising women’s you to Cultural Studies as VC50002A consider contrasts and dialogue academic culture, and explore some than simply looking at the on effective seminar techniques perfume, and to consider what a discipline, with particular London: Arts Capital between texts. Cohesion is also of our academic departments and procedural aspects. This is and functional language. There ‘myths’ they represent in terms reference to Western cultural 4 credits (Sep-Dec) supplied by the fact that many supported by work on the main is also ongoing feedback on of power relations in Western production. The main content This course explores London as of the texts articulate literal the degree programmes they offer. areas of English grammar, with students' presentations. culture. You will also be actively is delivered in first year Media a diverse and vibrant capital of and metaphorical ‘explorations’, a particular focus on improving encouraged to bring in and and Communications lectures, the arts. You will be introduced quests and searches. grammatical range and accuracy Arts, humanities and discuss advertisements and which you audit. As you will to a range of musical, theatrical The classes take place in the Centre for English Language and in students’ writing. Reading social sciences images from your own culture have to attend and understand and visual art activities taking ED50003A Academic Writing (CELAW) and within our academic departments. skills are also developed. to consider the connotations lectures on their undergraduate place in well-known institutions, Identity, Movement CELAW offers a variety of language development, academic Textual analysis enables you LS50003A of such images. The concept of degree programmes, this course as well as in smaller alternative and Change literacy and study skills courses. Classes taught within our to learn about cohesion, extend Globalisation ‘myths’ relates to the theoretical enables you to audit a real venues. Visits to events in the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) departments allow you to get a taste of the different disciplinary your vocabulary, read for gist 4 credits (Sep-Dec) work of Roland Barthes, a key undergraduate lecture course city are put in context in follow- This is a multi-disciplinary approaches and degrees at Goldsmiths whilst being supported with and specific information, infer 8 credits (Sep-Mar) and influential thinker on the and supports this with structured up discussions. course that examines key issues English Language tuition. meaning, as well as develop Globalisation is one of the science of signs and systems pre-reading and feedback in relation to migration in the summary skills. The texts most far-reaching and widely of representation. Further texts classes. This is so that you can HT50008A 21st century. You will begin Students with a score of 5.0 in IELTS (with no individual element less generally focus on a background discussed phenomena of will be drawn from the work of learn to get the most out of Nations and Nationalisms to consider the reasons why than 4.0) may apply for any of the classes listed below. See page 8 for to Western thought and culture, modern times. It affects all our the well-known cultural theorist, your lectures, and so the content 4 credits (Sep-Dec) people migrate and the impact more information on the Pre-sessional English classes and the Level taking into account ancient lives, and has an impact on all Stuart Hall. is properly contextualised and This course, jointly offered by of movement on their language Zero entry requirements. Greeks and Romans, the areas of study. The course will you are prepared. The lecture the Politics and the History and cultural identities and Renaissance, the Enlightenment give you an overview of the main LS50005A content is relevant to social Departments, is an examination life courses. You will have the and the influence of modernity, theories regarding globalisation, Approaches to Textual Analysis sciences in general and provides of the continued salience of opportunity to explore issues feminism and Marxism. There and you will consider how it 4 credits (Sep-Dec) you with a broad awareness of nationalism and the nation- of power, status and equality is an emphasis on how to use influences your own country, This course is offered as an developments in contemporary state form in the modern world. in relation to the migratory reading in writing: to learn from your academic subjects and option in the Media, Culture Western culture. As an In the 18th and 19th centuries, experience and develop critical other writers’ styles and using the world at large. By taking and Society pathway in the integrated skills course, it allows many thinkers expected the engagement with concepts their points as evidence for this course, you will be able Autumn term. It introduces you to make practical use of the nation-state to be superseded related to identity, 'race', class your arguments. to develop your English in a themes and approaches that are skills developed in the Academic by more ‘universal’ forms of and gender. Throughout the genuine academic setting, and fundamental to studies in media. Speaking and Listening and political organisation. As recent course, reference will be made to LS50002A you will practise the key skills The central content is received Reading and Writing courses. history demonstrates, however, contemporary research and you Academic Listening of reading academic texts, through the auditing of first year that expectation has been will be encouraged to reflect on and Speaking researching and writing essays, Media and Communications VC50001A dramatically falsified. Indeed, your own experiences in relation 4 credits (Sep-Dec) listening to lectures, discussing lectures. As you will have to Contemporary Art Worlds the nation and nationalism, to theoretical frameworks. 8 credits (Sep-Mar) theory and giving academic attend and understand lectures 4 credits (Jan-Mar) once exclusively European To enhance listening skills, presentations. You will also on your undergraduate degree By embarking directly into phenomenon, became globalised SO500001A the course makes use of a wide develop vital study skills such programmes, this course the complex and colourful in the course of the 19th and Urban London range of texts, drawing firstly as evaluating the strengths enables you to audit a real landscapes of present-day 20th centuries. Through a series 4 credits (Jan-Mar) on commercially produced of competing arguments and undergraduate lecture course practices, this course aims of case studies that introduce This is a visual urban sociology EAP materials to help students discussing your project proposal and supports this with structured to familiarise you with the you to a variety of nationalisms, course conducted on the acquire the skills of listening in tutorial with the supervisor. pre-reading and feedback vocabularies and context of this course asks why that streets of London rather than for gist and specific information classes. This is so that you can visual culture as it has developed was so. What are the distinctive in a Goldsmiths classroom. You and taking useful notes. Later, learn to get the most out of your from art history. The first half features of nationalism, should only consider taking it the course moves on recordings lectures, and so the content is focuses on particular artists and why has it proved so if you are happy exploring with from Goldsmiths library as well properly contextualised and you and the various inflections resilient and so adaptable to the lecturer as a guide, in small

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It complements the bottom- DS50002A Music specialism) in order to help you up tendency of the syntax Making Drawings develop your performance skills. based Programming course by Making Design MU50004A providing a top-down view of 2 credits (Sep-Dec) Musicianship I: MU50006A programming. It is expected that 4 credits (Sep-Mar) Harmony and Composition Western Art Music in Context this will increase your interest in This course will introduce you 2 credits (Sep-Dec) 2 credits (Sep-Dec) and understanding of algorithms, to a series of methods and 4 credits (Sep-Mar) The course introduces you to and clarity and efficiency techniques that will enable you This course equips you with the development of Western when programming, which are to realise your ideas. You will foundational skills in tonal art music in historical and fundamental when pursuing a be guided through a number harmony and composition, cultural context. It presents a career in computing. of exercises that will include developing an understanding general survey of music in the sketching, drawing (various of basic stylistic and formal West from the late Renaissance IS50005A types), paper modelling, wire features of standard practices to the present day. It focuses Foundations of modelling, foam modelling and in Western Art Music. The focus upon the stylistic/formal Computer Programming proto-typing. is on a range of compositional changes in music and particular 4 credits (Sep-Dec) techniques, which will include attention is given to the 8 credits (Sep-Mar) DS50003A the practices of Baroque and establishment, transformation This course aims to introduce Sketchbooks and Classical styles (using models and disintegration of tonality. computer programming to Reflective Journal from JS Bach, Mozart, Haydn, As part of the course, you foundation year students 2 credits (Sep-Dec) and Beethoven). You will will be expected to develop with no prior knowledge of 4 credits (Sep-Mar) also explore short forms in your understanding and aural programming. The course This course is designed to run creative composition within perception of musical style, and aims to provide you with the concurrently with the What a style of your choosing, to develop your ability to read necessary background to is Design? course. Over the considering topics such various types of scores. use a computer to develop duration of the course you will as melody and harmony, and execute simple software have to keep a sketchbook and a variation, accompaniment, MU50007A programs in a manner that reflective journal. The journal will and arrangement. Topics in Music Studies will prepare you for the be an ongoing (predominantly 2 credits (Jan-Mar) programming courses in the first text-based) diary to record/ MU50005A The course is designed to year of a computing degree. capture your thoughts and Musicianship II: develop your understanding of processes occurring during Performance Studies music studies and to introduce See also the projects, workshops, crits, 2 credits (Sep-Dec) you to a series of established  Computing p33 trips, exhibitions and feedback 4 credits (Sep-Mar) musical works that have acquired sessions. It will be an important The course aims to develop importance in Western culture. piece of assessment evidence musical skills in performance The works will be chosen to Design that is submitted at every and listening, and to increase demonstrate a variety of forms, tutorial and project hand in. This awareness of musical performance forces, styles DS50001A document must be written in characteristics and aesthetic and cultural functions. Also What is Design? English and allow you to develop judgements. This includes the course will require you to 4 credits (Sep-Dec) a design/creative vocabulary. developing understanding of reflect on why these works have 8 credits (Sep-Mar) The sketchbook will be a more musical topics and issues such become accepted in the way This course is specifically for visual record of your research as structure, instrumentation, they have, and whether things those who are interested in and design process and will texture, genre, thematic links, might have been otherwise. design and can demonstrate contain drawings, sketches, style and traditions, performance As an integrated part of this groups with fellow students Computing algebra, logic, series, symbolic IS50003A through a portfolio a range of images/photographs, modelling challenges and decisions etc. course, you will be expected and maybe sometimes on your manipulation, equation Foundations of Problem skills and knowledge associated etc relating to the set projects After an introductory series of to develop your English skills own, with a camera. You can IS50002A solving (linear, quadratic and Solving with Programming with some form of post-16 and your developing body lectures, the course will consists to the standard appropriate use your phone camera and no Foundations of Mathematics simultaneous), functions, co- 4 credits (Sep-Dec) arts and design education or of work. of practical seminars in which for entry to the BMus course special equipment is needed. for Computing ordinate geometry, trigonometry, 8 credits (Sep-Mar) appropriate work experience. some students will perform by writing and speaking about As this course extends through 4 credits (Sep-Dec) matrices, and probability. It will This course aims to provide This course introduces you to See also pieces they are currently learning music in a coherent, informed late February and March you 8 credits (Sep-Mar) also introduce you to algorithms basic problem-solving different design disciplines and  Design p38 while the others will be asked to way. At the end of the course, will need warm and waterproof The purpose of this course is to with reference to simple sorting, strategies relevant to computer their different definitions. In term comment critically/constructively you are expected to hand in a clothing and footwear you equip you with the mathematical packing and searching methods. programming, by controlling the one, you will undertake a series upon their performances. The research project on a topic of are able to walk in for several tools and understanding that While studying you will gain definition and use of algorithms of design briefs that will enable solo performances of students your choice as the result of the hours at a time. Think of it as will be essential to the study an appreciation of fundamental to control data and achieve you to acquire knowledge and will be assessed and you will also learning process. ambulatory sociology with a of Computing at degree level. aspects of mathematical a task. This course is designed skills appropriate to different be required to attend concerts camera. You will be learning It's aimed at students with representation, modelling to be taught concurrently with forms of design: 2D, graphics/ and submit reviews of these See also Sociological Theory especially little or no recent experience and programming. the Foundations of Computer typography/photography, 3D, concerts. As part of the course,  Music p54 as it relates to cities, but on the of mathematics. The course Programming course to students product/furniture/craft/textile, you will receive individual, streets and through five walks aims to familiarise you with with little or no experience 4D and web/video. one-to-one tuition (vocal/ around London. the fundamentals of arithmetic, with computer programming. instrumental according to your

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Years 2 and 3: full units HT52098A/HT53098A HT52101A/HT53101A visual sources, you explore a History France since 1870: Fascism, Yugoslavia: variety of topics: the Venetian- HT52061A/HT53061A Communism and Democracy History and Disintegration Ottoman wars; the circulation of The Crusades 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) people, goods and ideas; cultural 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 8 credits (Sep-Mar) 8 credits (Sep-Mar) and artistic transaction; religious The Department of History 8 credits (Sep-Mar) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) coexistence and antagonism; 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 6 credits (Jan-Jun) 6 credits (Jan-Jun) the formation of pre-modern promotes intellectual curiosity and 6 credits (Jan-Jun) Covers the political, social and to This course examines the identities; the genealogies independent critical thinking. We use In this course you will study the a lesser extent, economic history history of Yugoslavia and former of orientalism. innovative approaches to the subject, cultural, religious and military of France from 1870 to the Yugoslav peoples and places conflicts between Christian present. Throughout this period, the recent wars in a historical HT52198A/HT53198A encouraging you to explore issues, Western Europe and the Islamic French politics and society have context. You will be introduced Utopian Visions: The Soviet controversies and themes, rather than world of the middle ages. You been characterised by deep to the background of the Experience through the Arts will look at primary sources divisions originating from the medieval history of the region 4 credits (Sep-Dec) chronological periods. from the European and the clash between revolutionaries and the legacy of the medieval 8 credits (Sep-Mar) Arabic tradition to analyse how and counter-revolutionaries in states. You will investigate 4 credits (Jan-Mar) and why these conflicts were the 1790s. You will examine the the emergence of South Slav 6 credits (Jan-Jun) so significant in the middle extent to which these divisions nationalisms in the 19th century This course examines the ages, and you will discuss how reflected the gulf between the including the Yugoslav Idea; the history of the Soviet Union each ‘side’ in this longstanding towns and the countryside. In the First World War and creation of through the lens of the visual conflict viewed its opponents. 20th century the older divisions Yugoslavia; political and cultural arts, literature, film, and music. You will also look at the modern were overlaid by those between history of the interwar Yugoslav You will look at major examples historiography of the crusades, a more class-based right and kingdom; occupation, resistance of this artistic production and to see how historians in the left, which in the wake of the and collaboration in the Second will acquaint yourselves with modern world have dealt with First World War and the Russian World War; communist takeover; selected techniques for analysing such concepts as holy war, Revolution, often took the form Tito-Stalin conflict of 1948; them, techniques developed justification of violence, and of Fascism and Communism. Yugoslav road to socialism; in such neighbouring disciplines Undergraduate year Description religious persecution. These movements will be given dissent and opposition; cultural of history as literary criticism particular attention. developments during socialism; and art history/visual studies. Year 1 a course for which you do not need any HT52076A/HT53076A political and economic crisis You will also place this artistic previous experience Health, Healing and Illness HT52097A/HT53097A of the 1980s; disintegration and production in its political, social, Year 2 assumes that you have had some in Africa Germany since 1870: wars of the 1990s; international and other contexts. While the experience in this area or have already 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Nationalism Versus Democracy intervention. Throughout the chronological emphasis is on the followed a similar academic course 8 credits (Sep-Mar) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) course, you will be encouraged 1920s and the Stalin era (1929- Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 8 credits (Sep-Mar) to think about the centrality 1953), you will also spend time on practical data or a willingness to engage 6 credits (Jan-Jun) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) of images and artefacts to the the post-Stalin and post-Soviet in responsible individual study under The primary purpose of this 6 credits (Jan-Jun) making of history and develop (since 1991) periods. tutorial guidance course is to explore the complex Covers the political, social and to critical approaches to past social, cultural and political a lesser extent, economic history and present. HT52200A/HT53200A history of Africa through the of Germany from 1870. You Modern South Asia: Disease, The following is a list of representative courses offered by the prism of illness and healing. From pay particular attention to the HT52102B/HT53102B Medicine, Empire and Nation Student insight Department of History. Most will be offered in 2014-15, although investigating colonial attempts at Weimar Republic, the German Mediterranean Encounters: c.1600-1947 Amandas, Singapore availability does depend on staff commitments. For more information preventing malaria and sleeping Revolution of 1918, the Social Venice and the Ottoman 4 credits (Sep-Dec) on the department, and for an up-to-date list of classes, please go to sickness to exploring the social Democratic and Communist Empire 8 credits (Sep-Mar) I settled on Goldsmiths because of the favourable www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/history and economic impact of the parties between 1918 and 1933, 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) accounts I had encountered, as well as its unique current HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the extent to which division 8 credits (Sep-Mar) 6 credits (Jan-Jun) location. My departments (Anthropology/Media Each course has two codes – the first for Year 2 and the second for this course uses case studies on the left paved the way for 4 credits (Jan-Mar) This course will introduce you and Communications) and my fellow schoolmates Year 3. Please use the appropriate code when you apply. from Africa in order to highlight Hitler. You investigate the Nazi 6 credits (Jan-Jun) to South Asian history, from the various aspects of the history of state and the relative importance Examines the connected history height of Mughal power through have been incredibly helpful as well in creating infectious diseases and of health of the party, state bureaucracy, of the two most powerful states to Partition and Independence. a friendly and conducive atmosphere for learning. in African society. The focus the armed forces, big business, in the early modern Eastern It will do this through the I have also had the opportunity to meet with of this course is not on disease the SS, and Hitler himself in Mediterranean, the Venetian and lens of medicine, disease and reputable staff members who are often pioneers itself but rather on how disease determining the policies of the the Ottoman Empires, from the imperial encounters in both the in their respective fields. I would recommend the and health were understood Third Reich. You evaluate the fall of Constantinople in 1453 Subcontinent and ‘metropolitan’ and managed, and how these impact of defeat in the Second to the occupation of Venice Britain. An examination of ‘Goldsmiths education’ to anyone who is interested reveal the history of a place and World War, and the outbreak by Napoleon in 1797. You will some of the diseases that had in being a learner for life. a people. of the Cold War and the extent focus on the Republic of Venice a specific impact on imperial to which the Federal Republic and the complex web of its rule, including plague, venereal and the GDR were moulded by economic, political and cultural disease and malaria, will be external factors. relations with the Ottomans. interwoven throughout. Through a range of textual and

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HT52122A/HT53122A (Autumn) The new Institute of Management Studies (IMS) combines innovative key fact HT52122B/HT53122B (Spring) and world-renowned research from a UK top 20 creative university Our thematic approach to History at Work Management with the expertise of leading academics to teach the science the discipline means that you could investigate histories 4 credits (Sep-Dec) of management. The IMS is the result of a unique interdisciplinary of the body, madness and 4 credits (Jan-Mar) collaboration, drawing on the teaching of diverse yet complementary emotions, alongside more (Only available to students with subjects, designed to equip you with the skills, knowledge and traditional subjects. Studies Tier 4 visa) creativity to develop your talent and potential in management, This half unit will be based innovation and leadership. on work experience. You will spend one day per week Design Strong cross-sector industry links and guidance from leading (day to be negotiated with academics in subjects ranging from Psychology and Design to the individual institution) over Computing and Economics will mean that courses offered are one term working with the Innovate firmly rooted in cutting-edge theory, research, and practice, chosen institution on a relevant ensuring that the skills you learn and apply are always underpinned project, which might involve by expert knowledge. archiving, conservation, building an exhibition, responding to Influence IMS will run courses such as: public enquiries or developing  Psychology of Advertising and Marketing a public engagement project.  Organisational Behaviour and Health Partner institutions for 2014 Manage  Workplace Coaching and Counselling will be announced in due course.  Consumer Behaviour and Behavioural Economics In 2012-13 partner institutions were Lewisham Local History For the latest information, including course dates and credits, visit and Archives Centre, Wellcome Lead www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/IMS Library, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, London Transport Museum, Museum of Childhood, London Metropolitan Archive, St Paul's Cathedral, Goldsmiths Library Special Collections. The students taking this module will have regular meetings with the Goldsmiths supervising tutor.

Years 2 and 3: half units HT52197A/HT53197A HT52199A/HT53199A See also Scandal: Sex and Sexual The Fictional 19th Century  The Making of Modernity: Half units run either from Identity in 19th-Century Britain 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Late 19th and Early 20th- September-December or 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) Century Concepts of the January-March. Their availability 4 credits (Jan-Mar) This course will examine the Modern, p69 coming soon depends on staff commitments. While popular myth holds that use of fiction as a historical Courses available to Study the Victorians were so sexually source through exploration of Abroad students HT52087A/HT53087A repressed that even their table- the way in which key issues in Early Modern European legs had to be covered, sex British history during the long Philosophy was, in fact, a constant topic 19th century were portrayed in 4 credits (Sep-Dec) of public debate throughout fiction. Focusing each week on or 4 credits (Jan-Mar) the 19th century. This course a selected novel we will consider The course examines a rich traces changing ideas about, themes such as industrialisation period of philosophic thought and attitudes toward, sex and and the Condition of England, in European history through the sexual identity in Britain during the Poor Law, the Woman work of the ideas and arguments the 19th and early 20th centuries Question, slavery, radicalism, of these philosophers and how and legislative attempts to religious dissent, anti-Semitism, they engaged with the important control sexual behaviour. and domestic service. The debates of their day. In addition, Topics will include illegitimate course will conclude with a students will gain an awareness motherhood, prostitution, consideration of ‘neo-Victorian’ of how early modern European social purity, the sexual double fiction (modern historical fiction philosophy is both a continuation standard and the Contagious set in the 19th century) and the and a departure from earlier Diseases Acts, pornography, extent to which the themes and schools of thought, as well male homosexuality, lesbianism, approaches selected by modern as of how modern scholars sexology, spiritualism, eugenics authors coincide with fiction have engaged with these and contraception. The course written during the period. important texts. will include a museum visit.

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Year 1 focus on significant genres and MU51020A MU51022A MU51024A based electronic music, Music artists in the history of popular Performance and Tonal Harmony and Form Approaches to presented in a short series of MU51026A music. You will be encouraged Critical Listening 4 credits (Sep-Jun) Contemporary Music repertoire-based case studies. London: the World’s to evaluate the significance of 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Prerequisite: Some previous knowledge 4 credits (Jan-Mar) Musical Capital* various artistic developments 4 credits (Jan-Mar) of musical theory. The aim of this course is to Year 2 We encourage ambition and help 4 credits (Sep-Dec) whilst acquiring an 10 credits (Sep-Jun) The course aims to consolidate introduce you to the skills you 4 credits (Jan-Mar) understanding of the conceptual This course seeks to develop and extend your understanding will require, the repertoire you MU52013A you think about the kind of musician This course engages you in music frameworks and cultural not only practical performance of tonal harmony and to will encounter and the debates Musical Style and you want to be. Our facilities include making in London, arguably the contexts within which such skills but also critical listening introduce you to historical you will need to consider Historical Culture most active and diverse musical changes have been understood. and interpersonal skills. It begins and analytical study of music when studying musics of the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) composer-studios, a recording studio, city in the world. You are with four weeks of lectures on c1750-c1830, concentrating 20th century. Via concrete An exploration of musical performance analysis equipment, introduced to a range of musical MU51018B performance-related issues on sonata form movements examples and case studies it styles and their relation to a recital room with video recording activities, from the O2 Arena to Practical Popular Music Studies (‘performance anxiety’, ‘critical and their context. The first half introduces the specific skills historical cultures, institutions the wealth of musical events on 4 credits (Sep-Dec) listening’ etc). You are given of the course uses the music required for analysing music, and communities. You learn facilities, and a computer room with London’s South Bank, as well as 10 credits (Sep-Jun) the opportunity for a short of JS Bach to focus study of engaging in critical reasoning, about specific historical Sibelius music software. a number of smaller alternative Practical Popular Music Studies solo performance in term one, chord identification, harmonic conducting research and musical networks, such as venues. Visits to events in the city allows you to develop your with feedback provided by the progressions, cadences, melodic presenting written arguments, those existing in 16th-century are discussed and put in context practical skills in the broadest course leader and the student structure and the simple tonal along with an awareness of London, Renaissance Venice, in seminar groups in the following sense via a weekly performance peer group. In term two you forms (binary, ternary and the key issues of debate in or late 19th-century Vienna. You Undergraduate year Description week. class and individual vocal/ are divided into groups and rondo). The second half focuses contemporary musicology. also consider the difficulties in *New course: subject to validation. instrumental lessons. It provides use the resources available to on the music of the common- The course encourages you relating particular musical styles Year 1 a course for which you do not need any instruction in all areas of put on a concert of chamber practice period through a to gain an understanding of to complex cultures, and the previous experience MU51016B practical musicianship including music. The projects/concerts study of sonata form and its the perspectives, methods and potential distinctions between Year 2 assumes that you have had some Folk and Urban Musics aural skills, transcription, sight- are performed and assessed, development from Haydn to orientations of musicologists. shared musical styles and shared experience in this area or have already 4 credits (Sep-Dec) reading and improvisation with marks awarded according Beethoven. Issues covered musical techniques. followed a similar academic course 4 credits (Jan-Mar) as well as ensemble playing to performance competence include the understanding MU51025B Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the 10 credits (Sep-Jun) and performance. You will be and overall contribution. of formal, thematic and tonal Popular Music: MU52014B practical data or a willingness to engage This course provides a given supporting classes in structures in sonata form, and History, Style, Technique Music and Modernism in responsible individual study under foundation for understanding the performance technology (how MU51021B their relationship to theoretical 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) tutorial guidance key creative elements common to use PA, Mics etc) and other Creative Music Technology and cultural conceptions of the Through discussion of issues This course explores the in many forms of popular issues relating to rehearsal, 4 credits (Sep-Dec) nature and meaning of the form. related to the performance, development of musical trends in music. Term one focuses on practice and presentation. 4 credits (Jan-Mar) recording, production, the first half of the 20th century, The following is a list of representative courses offered by the roots of popular style in US and 10 credits (Sep-Jun) MU51023B composition and documentation and considers their relationship Department of Music. For more information on the department, European folk music, stressing MU51019A This is an opportunity for you to Western Art Music: of Western popular music, this to the modernist ideas evolving and for an up-to-date list of classes, please go to the importance of orality, song Composition become familiar with a range of Development and Repertoire course aims to enhance critical in Western culture at this time. www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/music form, interaction/improvisation, 4 credits (Sep-Dec) music technology applications, 4 credits (Sep-Dec) listening skills. It aims to provide Particular attention is given to modality, standard progressions, 4 credits (Jan-Mar) including score processing, The aim of this introductory a foundation for skills and the music of Debussy, Stravinsky Prerequisites: for all Year 2 courses there is a general prerequisite rhythm and the role of social 10 credits (Sep-Jun) analogue-digital recording, survey course is to familiarise understanding developed later and the composers of the of two years’ college-level study of music. You should have studied processes in shaping music. This course allows you to computer-based production you with significant and varied in the programme, introducing Second Viennese School. both theory and practice. For popular music courses you should Terms two and three focus develop an understanding of and sequencing. You will develop examples of Western Art Music, topics such as: standard be familiar with Jazz and Popular Music traditions both through on the creative concepts at the 20th/21st-century compositional a basic working knowledge presented in chronological order. song forms and structures; MU52016B practical and academic study. For all other courses you should have heart of 20th-century popular techniques, and to apply them of three software packages, It also develops a critique of instrumental and vocal tone, Musicians, Commerce paid major attention to the Western Classical tradition and be able music in the Western world – for in your own original creative acquiring core skills in computer the ways in which traditions are texture and style; approaches and Commodification to read and write musical notation. example, riffs, repetition, cycle of work. Creative strategies actively music and furthering your constructed and works become to recording and production; 4 credits (Jan-Mar) fifths, fragmentation, recycling/ explored include experimental understanding of its potential canonised. Through a study of genres and generic markers; The central concern of this course sampling, lyrics and use of new notation, visualisation and practical applications. You particular works you will come the role of arrangement. is the commodification of music. technologies. improvisation. You consider will also have the opportunity to understand: [a] the range Drawing from political economy, a range of structural methods to work in a recording studio, of languages and techniques MU51047A sociology and business studies, MU51017A as evidenced in music from developing a knowledge available in the Western art- Music Computing 1 it provides an introduction to key Analytical and the early 20th century onwards of good practice in this music tradition; [b] why music 4 credits (Sep-Mar) issues and debates, and the role Contextual Studies (such as serialism, isorhythm, environment, including an ability was composed and performed Introduces the overarching of various industries and 4 credits (Jan-Mar) block form, process-based to collaborate effectively. differently in past communities; themes of music computing: technologies in music making. It This course looks at three key form). You explore a number of [c] patterns of influence and how computers listen and discusses: the occupations, work, issues: the social, cultural and techniques with respect to pitch points of innovation in the analyse sound and music, how structures and dynamics inside musical contexts within which (linear/harmonic), rhythm and development of music; [d] the they can generate musical and record companies; the range of music is made; the musical past texture. You work individually origins of the musical practices sonic processes and structures, different businesses that have a and its legacies (and how we on three projects; a set of brief we employ today; [e] the and how they can render these vested interest in music making; understand various histories); technical experiments, and two evidence, investigative methods patterns as sound and music. the way music has become ever and different approaches to compositions (for duo and small and value systems that have You develop an understanding more significant for corporate analysis, criticism and writing ensemble). You also participate induced us to construe the of the origins of computer-aided promotion and branding; the about music. Case studies in a group assessed project. musical past in particular ways. composition and computer- importance of copyright and the

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legal regulation of rights, and 21st centuries developed including acousmatic MU52031B identities and authorship; the in the context of particular key fact music, phonography, Performance Practice: global relations of popular postmodernist trends. The There are professional and text-sound composition, Past, Present and Future student-led recitals, concerts, music production and circulation; period between 1960 and the workshops and other music algorithmic composition and 4 credits (Jan-Mar) and the way that music making present provides the focus for events taking place every plunderphonics, with reference This course encourages you to has been understood in the course, which pays particular week, with opportunities to to aesthetic issues, historical examine changing performance theoretical debates. attention to the music of perform both at Goldsmiths and cultural contexts and most contexts for Western music and in public venues. composers such as Berio, Cage, importantly compositional since the Middle Ages. This is MU52018A Kagel, Adams and Zorn. techniques. You are introduced undertaken in two ways: through Russian Music Traditions to non-real time software for the interpretation of historical 4 credits (Jan-Mar) MU52023A analysing and transforming documents and artefacts Examines Russian music from Composition: sound, including Audio Sculpt, (including musical sources, the 16th century onwards with Creative Strategies Sound Hack and Metasynth. You treatises and instrument) and a particular emphasis on the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) are encouraged to develop your via the analysis of recordings. 19th century, including areas Prerequisite: Previous experience understanding and technical Some consideration will be such as the legacy of folk music, of composition. skills in the production of given to the ‘period-instrument’ sacred music, music education This course encourages you to one substantial composition movement and to the broader and theory, and the political and experiment with a number of and a reflective commentary issues that this has raised social contexts in which all of creative and technical strategies about one pivotal work by concerning the role of the these were found. The unique for composition and sound an established composer/ performer. Although the course archive collections of the Centre art practice. You undertake sound artist. does not require you to perform, for Russian Music at the College, a series of creative tasks to you are encouraged to bring and the special collection explore different strategies for MU52029C your own practical experience room, will be made available for making work, whether technical Media Composition to bear on their study. students, allowing you to engage or intuitive. Examples include: 4 credits (Jan-Mar) with some of the primary sources pitch/rhythmic organisation, The course develops the MU52032A relevant to the study of Russian graphic notation, working awareness acquired in the Classical Performance music of this period. with images/text-based/ course ‘Music in Film’ on 4 credits (Sep-Dec) aural sources, and working music’s function in relation to 4 credits (Jan-Mar) MU52020A with chance operations and other media, through practical 10 credits (Sep-Jun) Music, Communication performer choice. composition work. It will Prerequisite: instrumental or vocal skills and Identity introduce a number of technical in classical performance. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) MU52024B and creative approaches to the Builds on the musical For many years music has Sonic Art Techniques composition of music for media performance skills acquired at been associated with different 4 credits (Sep-Dec) such as film, video, games, Year 1 level, and develops not social groups and specific Prerequisite: competence in working with music technology only practical performance cultural identities: from the composition using music technology. software including Logic and skills but also critical listening close connections between This course enables you to Sibelius. This will include an skills and interpersonal skills. the emergent bourgeoisie and acquire fundamental skills in the overview of core concepts such Individual tuition is provided the critical appreciation and use of studio equipment and as the role of synchronisation by expert visiting staff. You Student insight canonisation of absolute music software which are relevant to Highlights a range of recording is not to settle on the ‘right’ and illustration, awareness will give several unassessed April, USA in the 18th and 19th centuries, experimental electronic music techniques and music technology, answers (they may not exist), of genre, and how elements performances as part of tutor- through the importance of and electroacoustic composition. focusing on sequencing, sampling, but to help you think in logical combine in multimedia forms, as led performance seminars, as Studying at Goldsmiths was recommended to me blues, jazz, soul and hip hop These include recording multi-track recording, use of a and consistent ways about the well as of composition strategies well as assessed mid-term and by an alumni of the university. I knew I wanted for changing notions of black techniques, sound editing and mixing desk, audio and digital principles by which you might in creating music for other media end-of-year recitals. You will also to be in London, but I was clueless as to where. identity up the present day. mixing, digital audio processing effects and microphones. The begin to negotiate and evaluate – for example, using thematic work with a composer during Composers, songwriters and and use of MIDI. You will course also introduces the key the many present (and future) organisation, role models, the second term on a new work Goldsmiths ended up being the perfect location. musicians have quite consciously also be introduced to a range aesthetic concepts which underlie musics of the world. orchestration/arrangement/ for your instrument or voice, New Cross has a beat of its own. With university used their art to communicate a of experimental electronic/ contemporary production production, and when working the premiere of which will also activities and events in the local area, plenty sense of individual and collective electroacoustic repertoire techniques and emphasises the MU52028B to tight instruction. Case form part of your assessment. of things go down in New Cross to keep you experience. The course examines and associated compositional creative importance of recording Sonic Art Practice studies will be drawn from a entertained. It is far enough to escape the bustle of how music has been used approaches. Maximum of and technology in popular music. 4 credits (Jan-Mar) number of prescribed films MU52034A central London, but close enough to be a part of it to affirm a sense of collective five students. Maximum of five students. Prerequisite: competence in and works. The course will be Romanticism and identity and as a means of composition using music technology. delivered through alternating Musical Structures when you want to. Both the students and tutors are asserting difference. MU52025B MU52026A Following Sonic Art Techniques lectures and group seminars/ 4 credits (Sep-Dec) very top class – helpful, welcoming and friendly. Popular Music Production Music Aesthetics (MU52024B, above), this course workshops, built around a set of A primarily analytical approach There is so much raw talent in the student body. MU52022B 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) explores the experimental practical exercises, from which to music from Beethoven to The students work hard, and party twice as hard, Music and Postmodernism Prerequisite: experience (educational Considers the problems of creative possibilities of the a portfolio/showreel is to be Brahms. The major analytical making it the perfect university experience. 4 credits (Jan-Mar) and/or professional) of studio recording defining music and of its ability studio. Historical and current prepared for final submission, techniques employed will be This course examines how and Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) to express and be ‘meaningful’. directions in computer music accompanied by an explanatory those developed by Schenker certain music of the 20th techniques is required. The main aim of the course and sonic art are considered, and reflective essay. and Schoenberg, since these

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You will produce Prerequisite: competence in jazz with the sounds of the music of in composition. and the developments after issues and simultaneously builds and approaches established 4 credits (Jan-Mar) analyses of a range of 19th- harmony. these areas, and to understand Stalin’s death in 1953. There is a up the technical skills required in within music aesthetics and Provides an opportunity for century works, demonstrating This course introduces you to a something of their underlying Year 3 focus on prominent composers the practice of phonography. applies them to issues of you to develop musicological your insight into and range of techniques common in structural principles and the such as Prokofiev, Shostakovich, musical performance. First, it skills by exploring an aspect of understanding of the structures jazz and commercial music, and social and cultural contexts MU53009A Schnittke and Gubaidulina. MU53024A will examine the justification for music history not only through and meaning of these works. provides an opportunity to apply in which they are performed. Minimalism and Analysis and New Music having a separate category of secondary sources – such harmonic knowledge acquired in Postminimalism MU53017B 4 credits (Jan-Mar) so-called performing arts, and as modern textbooks and MU52036B Techniques in Jazz and Popular MU52047A 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Composition for This course explores music ask whether performances can printed scores – but also by Techniques in Jazz and Music (above). You will gain Music Computing 2 Assesses the history, techniques Visiting Ensemble from c1970 to c2000, be works of art. Second, it will reviewing the primary historical Popular Music an understanding of standard 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and aesthetics of musical 4 credits (Sep-Dec) considering issues in structure look at the identity and status sources and documents on 4 credits (Sep-Dec) brass and reed instrumentations, 8 credits (Sep-Mar) minimalism in the context Prerequisite: competence in and interpretation of a range of ‘transient’ musics that appear which modern accounts and An introduction to the harmonic conventional scoring and chord Introduces advanced concepts of contemporary cultural composition. of styles and composers, to exist only in performance. editions are based. The course and melodic vocabulary of voicing techniques, and standard in music computing as applied practice. The period covered This course offers you the including Boulez, Stockhausen, Third, it will consider the demonstrates how documents jazz and commercial music. approaches to arrangement to analytic study and creative ranges from its prehistory opportunity to compose a work Ferneyhough, minimalism, complex relationship between from the past might be used to It studies: tonality, standard structure. You will be expected practice. Methods, concepts in the output of composers for the Department’s Visiting Andriessen, Cage, Birtwistle, musical texts and the strategies write narrative and explanatory chord progressions, chord/scale to complete some preliminary and wider implications of such as Satie, through its early Ensemble. The course structure Carter, and Rihm. Some popular of the performer. Fourth, it types of history, and the kinds of relationships, modes, extended exercises before the completion music information retrieval and maturity in the work of Young, consists of one lecture and two music styles may also be will explore possible modes of decisions and assumptions that chords, dissonance and of a fully scored arrangement computer-based musicology Riley, Reich and Glass, to some seminars in which you study studied. Because appropriate performance and the notion that make such processes possible. reharmonisation. You are also for a medium to large ensemble. are explored with reference of the manifestations of their recent relevant repertoire, analytical techniques are elusive ‘performativity’ might be an end instructed in the conventions of to notated scores, MIDI data heritage in the music of younger alongside appropriate technical for much of this music, you in itself. Finally, it will consider MU53040A jazz and popular music notation, MU52043A and audio. We also explore composers such as Pärt, Branca compositional strategies. are encouraged to develop the evaluation of performances, Improvisation including the presentation Songwriting the application of artificial and Skempton. These sessions are followed and apply analytic approaches and the ethical and artistic 4 credits (Jan-Mar) of lead sheets and full scores. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) intelligence (AI) to music, up with individual tutorials to suitable to individual works, responsibilities of performers. Prerequisite: Previous experience of Prerequisite: experience of writing, improvised performance and live tbc discuss the development of drawing on models presented music improvisation. MU52037B performing live and recording original DSP. You develop your expertise Creative Orchestration your composition. A workshop to you in lectures. MU53033A This course deals with creativity Music in Film songs is required. in a music programming and Arrangement is organised during the course Narrative, Representation in performance. By engaging 4 credits (Sep-Dec) This course explores many language, and learn how to 4 credits (Sep-Dec) for you to meet the ensemble MU53026A and Popular Song with some of the key ideas Introduces perspectives on the dimensions of songwriting, interface audio systems with Prerequisite: knowledge of music theory. and hear your work-in-progress. Advanced Classical 4 credits (Sep-Dec) on improvisation, from the use and function of music in including standard (and non- AI modules. A key concern is the This course will familiarise you There is a further workshop Performance This course aims to engage with highly technical to the purely (primarily) narrative film. This will standard) song conventions, interaction between users and with standard principles of in the following term, once your 4 credits (Sep-Dec) theories of representation and spiritual, you are introduced to include: an overview of practices lyric writing, strategies and performers and computer music orchestration and arrangement composition is complete, in 4 credits (Jan-Mar) narrative in order to understand the concepts of spontaneous from the so-called ‘silent era’ sources for inspiration, sound systems in a real-life setting. You as found in various forms of late which your piece is rehearsed, 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) how the popular song uses creativity. Lectures and through to contemporary and identity. The course explores develop an understanding of 20th-century music drawing recorded and discussed. Please Prerequisite: high-level skills in classical words and music to convey workshops present improvisation mainstream Hollywood cinema, differences in the work of practical and aesthetic issues in from diverse source material note: these workshops will take performance. information about, comment in many forms – from completely and to those in world cinemas; composer-songwriters and the production and presentation – concert composition and place outside of the timetabled This course seeks to further upon and tell stories about free improvisation to creativity a discussion of technological singer-songwriters, together of such work. orchestral transcription, film slot for this course. develop practical performance the world. It will be concerned housed within more restricted developments and how this with related issues such as scoring, and jazz/popular music skills, critical listening skills with fiction as much as realism; musical parameters. You can influenced film music practice; the influence of commerce, MU52061A studio arranging. It will examine MU53018B and interpersonal skills. You social intervention as much choose to focus on one style distinctions between the authorship, and interpretation. Techniques of the idiomatic use of orchestral Phonography are given the opportunity for as imaginative escapism. The of improvisation on which to deployment of dramatic scoring You have the opportunity to Contemporary Composition instruments and instrumental 4 credits (Sep-Dec) several (unassessed) short course combines theoretical be assessed. and pre-existing musics/songs/ ‘show and tell’ drafts of songs 4 credits (Jan-Mar) groups, standard techniques Prerequisite: experience of using music solo performances in tutor- reflection with detailed case recordings; the position of music in workshops, and to present The course teaches techniques of orchestration and orchestral technology. led seminars at various times studies. The main focus is on See also in film’s narrative apparatus; your work live at the end of of contemporary composition transcription, and offer creative The art of phonography is throughout the course; you songs composed over the past  Music as Communication and the interaction between the course. through a varied set of resources for arrangement. You regarded by some as a recent receive feedback both from the 70 years, but it will also consider and Creative Practice, p31 music and other elements of elementary and fundamental will also develop the conceptual phenomenon. However, tutor and your peers on these various historical legacies.  Psychological Approaches the ‘soundtrack’. Key concepts MU52046A technical composition studies. and analytical tools to ‘reverse the recording, editing and performances. Each performer The course is concerned to Music, p67 and theorists in film music Music of Africa and Asia You take part in formative engineer’ techniques of juxtaposing of ‘real world’ also presents a lunchtime or with analysing how lyrics and and film sound scholarship are 4 credits (Jan-Mar) and summative assessment, orchestration and arrangement sounds within an artistic context evening recital (unassessed) music work together, and introduced, and the course is The course introduces the working to gain a better in scores and recordings. can be claimed to be as old throughout the course. You will you will be expected to draw supported by significant articles diverse musical traditions of hands-on understanding of as the technology it utilises. be paired with ‘an assistant’, or from theoretical perspectives to supplement each lecture. Case Africa and Asia. It concentrates the processes and methods MU53012A There are as many aesthetic a ‘concert manager’ (a fellow including discourse theory, music studies are drawn from a range on traditional musical practices, involved in composition. The Soviet Music and Beyond approaches to working with student), who should also review semiotics, musicology, literary of nominated films, taken from although some attention is also three focuses of this course are: 4 credits (Sep-Dec) such materials as there are your concert, and upload the theory and theories of realism. across the history of cinema. given to newly created styles. Musical Time – the constituent This course offers lectures composers working within this review on learn.gold’s Concert Geographical areas covered parts of musical time, ie rhythm, on Soviet and post-Soviet genre. This compositional course Review webpage. include Southern Africa, West tempo, metre and bar; Pitch – the developments in Russian creatively explores the domain Africa, North Africa, Central generation of pitch structures music, and on current issues of field recording, including

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Politics: Year 1 PO51012B Politics: Year 2 Europe, and the subsequent PO52013A discourse about ‘failed states’ Politics & Economics Ideas, Ideologies and Conflicts rise of Thatcherism. It will also Chinese Politics in Africa. The course is centrally PO51009B 4 credits (Sep-Dec) PO52002B focus on specific policy issues 4 credits (Sep-Dec) informed by a critical reflection UK and European Comparative 4 credits (Jan-Mar) Modern Political Theory such as education, health and 4 credits (Jan-Mar) on the politics of knowledge Governance and Politics 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) the environment, examining the 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) about Africa, the problem of Politics at Goldsmiths focuses on three 4 credits (Sep-Dec) This course will explore key 4 credits (Jan-Mar) development of political debates On the first line of the first eurocentrism, and the writings 4 credits (Jan-Mar) ideas such as political authority, 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) from 1945 to the present. page of the first volume of of African scholars. key themes: conflicts, cultures and 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) democracy and freedom; Prerequisite: college-level political Mao Zedong’s Selected Works crossing boundaries. We offer a number This unit introduces you to major political ideologies such science or philosophy. PO52021B he states that the key question PO52016B the comparative approach to as socialism, liberalism and In this course we examine the Contemporary International of the revolution is who are An(other) Japan: of exciting specialisms including Asia, politics and government, as conservatism; as well major modern tradition of political Relations Theories our friends and who are our Politics and Popular Culture Africa, and postcolonialism, as well as well as building a foundation theoretical and political conflicts thought. You will be introduced 4 credits (Sep-Dec) enemies. This would be the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) political theory and British and understanding of the politics and around issues such as the role to the major figures in this Prerequisite: college-level political question that would drive the 4 credits (Jan-Mar) governance of four key members of the state, the rights of the tradition – English thinkers such science, ideally including some coverage revolution. Yet this division of the 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) European politics. of the European Union: the UK, individual and the operation as Hobbes, Locke and Mill – of international relations. world into friends and enemies This course begins by looking Germany, Italy and France. The of power. The course works on and Continental thinkers such This course introduces students is not unique to China. Indeed, at contemporary popular first half of the course is focused the assumption that politics is as Rousseau and Marx. Through to some of the latest theoretical in Western political theory culture in Japan as a particularly Undergraduate year Description on the UK and also considers not something that is confined these thinkers, we will explore interventions in International this friend/enemy distinction significant site for understanding the EU as an institution, while to formal political parties and key themes and concepts such Relations (IR) and looks at has becomes one of the most contemporary political concerns. Year 1 a course for which you do not need any the second half concentrates on institutions, but something as sovereignty, justice, human how they challenge classical powerful definitions of ‘the It traces the trajectory of Japan previous experience the other three countries at the that is practised at all levels of nature, rights, liberty, democracy theories and approaches and political’. Understood in this from its emergence as a modern Year 2 assumes that you have had some course’s core. You will not only society and which can be seen and equality. reshape our thinking about the way, the empirical history of the nation-state in the 1860s, experience in this area or have already build an essential foundation for in conflicts over identity, gender, ‘international’ today. Amongst Chinese revolution, as it unfolds through its fraught wartime followed a similar academic course studying the politics of the UK/ rights, the environment and PO52004A these interventions are the into a series of problems around history, up to its emergence as a Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the EU polity in which we live, but the organisation of social and Comparative European Politics rise of the Copenhagen school defining friend and enemy is major global economic power in practical data or a willingness to engage will also develop your skills in economic life. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and the new realism, neo- of enormous import for politics the late 20th century. The course in responsible individual study under comparative methods. 4 credits (Jan-Mar) conservativism, constructivism, and political theory generally. seeks to approach questions of tutorial guidance PO51013B 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) post-modernism, gender studies This basic thesis underpins politics through a very expansive PO51010B Politics of Other Cultures Prerequisite: college-level political or new feminism, theories of this subject. definition of the term, and to World Politics 4 credits (Sep-Dec) science. justice and exceptionality, and demonstrate that cultural forms The following is a list of representative courses offered by the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) This course investigates the aesthetic interventions in IR. PO52014B and practices can often provide Department of Politics. For more information on the department, 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) evolution of European society The course discusses how these Africa in the Global a unique perspective through and for an up-to-date list of classes, please go to 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) This course aims to provide since 1945. Starting with an interventions are significantly Political Economy which to understand politics, www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/politicsandeconomics This course will introduce you you with an understanding of historical overview, the course reshaping the discipline of IR 4 credits (Sep-Dec) a perspective not available to the study of world politics, the importance of colonialism is divided into five sections. The and the impact that they have 4 credits (Jan-Mar) through a study of political emphasising that there are and imperialism, and resistance historical overview and topics will on policy making practices 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) institutions alone. different and competing to these, in the shaping of include: national policy-making domestically and abroad. The course examines Africa’s perspectives on how to our world. It treats ‘culture’, and economic performance; the role in the making of the PO52019A approach the subject. In the including forms of ‘art’, as political cultures of Europe; West PO52017A modern global political Life: A User's Manual first term, it will introduce central to politics. The course European party and electoral An(other) International economy, and the significance 4 credits (Jan-Mar) you to the three dominant considers non-Western forms systems; parliaments and Relations of colonialism, imperialism and This course sets out to analyse, paradigms (Realism, Pluralism of politics, civilisation and culture governmental bureaucracies; 4 credits (Jan-Mar) neo-colonialism to Africa’s critique and experiment with and Structuralism) and situate prior to colonial domination; West European welfare states; Prerequisite: college-level political postcolonial condition. The first the politics of everyday life. It them in the historical context and it explores the forms of centre and periphery – local science, ideally including some coverage part of the course examines starts from the position that in which they were developed, political, cultural, aesthetic and and central government in of international relations. Africa’s role in the historical the study of daily life (or of what critically examining both ideological interaction, and Western Europe. This course aims at interrogating development of the modern the French call le quotidian) their contribution and their change, engendered in the the blind spots and avoidances world, from the transatlantic provides a necessary concrete shortcomings. In the second course of the colonial encounter. PO52010A of disciplinary International slave trade to struggles for specificity with which to address, term, the course will critically A related aim of the course is to Themes and Issues in British Relations (IR) in an effort to ask independence. The second part engage with, or resist a range examine how these paradigms introduce you to a range of types Politics since 1945 the question: what would an IR explores various dimensions of of important issues. The course sought to respond to the of reading material and sources, 4 credits (Sep-Dec) of the South look like? It will look Africa’s postcolonial condition, offers an experimental working key fact new post-Cold War environment, beyond the conventional first 4 credits (Jan-Mar) at traditional IR in terms of what such as authoritarian rule; environment within which you We take a distinctive focusing in particular on the year text book. 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) subjects are deemed acceptable, debt, structural adjustment can explore the web of forces approach to the subject, extending beyond the phenomena of globalisation, The course will bring a historical what counts as evidence, who and neoliberal order; the role and powers that operate in conventional boundaries of the rise and potential decline perspective to key issues in has the right to speak (and for of the IMF and World Bank, ‘everyday’ environments. To the discipline. We don’t think of American power, the British politics from the end of whom)? At the same time it Western donor agencies and this end, you work dialogically that politics is simply what emergence of new wars, the rise the Second World War to the will look at new materials and Non-Governmental Agencies; in small groups in order to happens in parliament, but also what happens on the in global poverty and challenges present day. It will do that by new methodologies coming the rise of the ‘informal sector’; develop group projects that test streets, in art galleries, of failed states, the financial examining themes such as the out of the global South for conditions of everyday life in out, interrogate and challenge and in the non- crisis, climate change, terrorism post-1945 political ‘consensus’, explaining and understanding the neoliberal economy; the different facets of ‘ordinary Western world. and the media. the move from Empire to the International. expansion of slums; and the life’. Throughout the course,

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This subject is built around political’ politics. the government and politics of Risk and Politics: PO53018B anarchism chiefly from its origins glimpses of, and insights into, several European nation-states. Theory and Practice Discourse, Power, Politics in the 19th century to 1939. PO53024A the lives of ordinary Chinese PO52020A 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) There were will be a discussion Nationalist Conflict and people and the rules and rituals Politics of Vision PO52024A The course is designed to Much of Western political theory of anarchism in the post-1945 International Intervention that govern their existence. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Europe Since 1945 stimulate and reward the is based on Enlightenment period but the main aim of the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) You will discuss the ways This course is concerned with 4 credits (Sep-Dec) curiosity of those who want ideas about reason, and in course is to trace the origins This course will examine the everyday life was governed the visual and its discursive This course investigates the to know more about the particular on a paradigm of the and development of anarchist causes of nationalist conflicts, under socialism and the ways political effects. It starts from history of European society since relationship between politics and autonomous, rational individual ideology (Godwin, Proudhon, as well as the various tools and that control is now breaking the premise that vision is not 1945. This historical overview the assessment, communication derived from liberalism. However, Stirner, Bakunin, Kropotkin, policies adopted by international down with the emergence of merely a neutral way of seeing is divided into four thematic and management of risk. It a number of contemporary Malatesta, Goldman etc) and actors towards them. After a consumer culture, enabling the world, but rather is intimately sections of several lectures invites you to explore the thinkers in the Continental the associated social and labour providing an overview of the two a close scrutiny of the politics bound up with the political. As each: Cold War and Post- ways in which the discussion tradition have challenged these movements in Europe and the main scholarly approaches to of everyday life. Picking up on such, the course is interested Cold War Europe; The Great of risk has become one of preconceptions, showing that Americas. But there will also be nationalist conflict (primordialism themes as diverse and quirky as Student insight in unpacking the political nature Economic Boom and the Rise the most pressing concerns we also have to take account a substantial time devoted to and modernism), we will focus Mao badge fetishists, hoodlum Stine, Norway of how we code and construct of Globalisation: Keynesianism, in contemporary politics and of certain external, and often anarchist-type movements and on the structural, cultural, slang, and taboo’s and tattoos, the world through vision, the Neo-Liberalism and the Welfare to consider the leading role ‘irrational’ forces – such as ideas that developed throughout political and economic causes of the subject examines the way I found out about position that art and imagery State; End of Empires West ideas about risk now play in language, the unconscious, the world before 1800 and such conflicts and on the forms a range of people not only Goldsmiths through play in subject formation and and East: Decolonisation and shaping public debates and ideology and power relations – as well as a discussion of the of international intervention live but resist dominant social the University of knowledge construction, as well the Rise of Multicultural Europe; the formulation and evaluation that often shape our perception ‘ism’, anarchism, its reception employed to resolve them. discourse. This subject also Oslo. What caught my as investigating the relationship European Integration and the of public policy. The study of the world and our place and interchange with thinkers, We will also assess the debates employs an array of new critical between ‘seeing’ and ‘doing’ Reconstruction of the European of risk is a multi-disciplinary in it, therefore influencing ideas, and movements in Asia surrounding international thinking from Western social attention was the focus more broadly in terms of Nation-State. The themes reflect enterprise and the specialist the way we do politics. This and Africa. ‘state-building’ projects and theorists to highlight these on students being able surveillance, control and power. the unique changes in Europe sub-field of risk politics affords course examines some of these partition along ethno-national themes. Students will therefore to further their own In studying these issues, the since 1945 that still make this you a rewarding opportunity alternative approaches to the PO53023A lines and methods applied to gain a grounding not only in the opinions in an open course will explore topics as a valid periodisation today. to consider the ways in which political, exploring themes such Party Systems and achieve post-conflict justice politics of everyday life in China educational environment. diverse as aesthetics, censorship, politics, economics, legal studies, as discourse, power, subjectivity, Electoral Systems and reconciliation. Throughout but also in Western theoretical The fact that students surveillance, documentary Politics: Year 3 social psychology, media studies passion, resistance – as well as 4 credits (Jan-Mar) the course students will be engagements with the everyday. and blockbuster film making, and sub-disciplines in the natural contemporary approaches to Party systems vary across encouraged to focus on a case are included in mapping and cartography, PO53011B sciences, such as toxicology, radical politics today. polities and have important study of their own choosing PO53032A discussions during pornography, torture and the Beyond All Reason inform each other. political, social and economic and to apply the more general Politics of the African City lectures and seminars visual elements of class politics. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) PO53019A consequences. It is therefore, theoretical and policy debates 4 credits (Jan-Mar) is something I’ve always Politics is often conceived PO53017A Politics and Welfare important to study the to their specific case in the This course focuses on the missed back home PO52022A as the attempt to rationally Public Policy Analysis 4 credits (Jan-Mar) characteristics and determinants weekly discussions and in their African city as a specific site Chinese Politics: control our collective life. Yet 4 credits (Sep-Dec) This course is focused on of party systems, and the nature assessed coursework. to explore politics in various in Oslo. The Reform Era so much of human existence This course is a systematic current controversies, issues and of electoral competition. This dimensions and expressions. The My stay here has really 4 credits (Jan-Mar) seems utterly irrational: inter- analysis of the various stages developments in social welfare course includes a study of PO53028A course considers the precolonial, This will be a general survey communal violence and civil of policy making, from initiation policy including controversy the prominent theories of the Rhetoric and Politics colonial and postcolonial been worth it. I have course beginning with the conflict, genocide, social to implementation, examining about the nature of social party systems and electoral 4 credits (Jan-Mar) African city as a concrete site enjoyed a great 3rd Plenum of the 11th central inequality and environmental the role of various actors, ideas exclusion and the existence competition. It examines the size Rhetoric is the art of speech and which hosts and is shaped educational environment, committee of the Communist degradation. For all our hopes and interests at each stage. of an underclass, the need and the competitiveness of party persuasion. In classical Greece and reshaped by changing met people from all Party meeting in December of a rational politics, modern The problems faced by policy for rationing access to health systems, focusing on institutional and Rome, rhetoric held a central and contradictory power over the world, and 1978 through until today. life since the Enlightenment has makers, especially the issues of services, the development of and sociological explanations. place in politics. To speak and relations, ideologies, struggles, last but not least had often seemed beyond all reason. implementation and evaluation service frameworks for social The institutional explanation will argue well was an integral part economies and cultures. The PO52023A But can politics be rethought to will be investigated in light care and the relationship focus on Duverger’s Law, which of what it meant to be a citizen. course considers a variety of the opportunity to European Politics embrace the limits of rationality, of the limitations to perfect between economy, taxation and states that the ‘simple-majority, In modern, democratic societies, case studies and contexts such live in one of the most 4 credits (Jan-Mar) to face up to the horrors of administration in the real world. social welfare. The course will single-ballot system favours speeches and arguments as Maputo, Johannesburg, beautiful cities in This is a course in comparative human destructiveness? If The focus of the course will be particularly concerned with a two-party system’. We also remain a primary source in Kinshasa, Dar Es Salaam, Nairobi, the world. European politics. This course so, can it avoid succumbing to be on the nature and the role inviting students to consider and investigate different electoral political life. But we have become Accra, Lagos, Dakar. With is divided into five sections: The irrationality? How then might of policy analysis, the concept critically examine different views rules and formulas such as more suspicious of what we the help of urban theory and I will always remember Political Cultures of Europe; The we cope with the possibility of of the policy cycle, and the about the scope, organisation majoritarian and proportional hear, and perhaps less attentive postcolonial theory as well as my semester at Political Ideologies of Europe; enmity and violence? This course ways in which government and role of social welfare in representation, and their to the ways we are being the literature on African cities, Goldsmiths, University European Electoral and Party surveys efforts to conceptualise and other actors shape public contemporary society. effects on party systems. The persuaded. This course examines we explore themes such as the of London. Systems; European Constitutions politics and reason in modern policy. We will examine the sociological explanation will the techniques of rhetorical politics of urban space and the and European Governmental philosophy. It examines prominent models of policy focus on the role of social analysis and applies these to spatial articulation of power; Institutions; Centre and classic ideas of freedom and making – pluralism, corporatism cleavages in determining the the study of contemporary African and Western cultures Periphery: Local, Regional community, power, critique and and other belief-system nature of party systems. The political speeches. of planning and organisation

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Our psychology courses offer a 4 credits (Jan-Mar) selection and mate choice; brain African film, novels and art. The 4 credits (Jan-Mar) questions and issues in global Marxist, autonomist and green 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) evolution and development; final seminar explores Africa’s 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) political economy. economics will be examined scientific approach to the study of You explore concepts and and emotions and stress. You presence in this postcolonial city This course provides an and criticised. The course will human behaviour. They’ll develop theories of human development; consider these topics in terms of of London. introduction to the main theories Economics: Year 3 look at the effects of global methods of studying individual neurological, neurophysiological, and concepts in economics as capitalism on poverty, equality your understanding of the processes differences; test administration; physiological, biochemical and PO53034A well as important problems and PO53007A and environmental sustainability. influencing how people think, feel, stability and change in genetic substrates. Britain and Europe questions in the field and to Political Economy of the Alternatives to the market and behave and interact. behaviour; inheritance and 4 credits (Sep-Dec) debates about major issues in European Union state regulation of economic environment; attitudes and PS52002B This course examines the impact public policy that are informed 4 credits (Sep-Dec) activity such as commons attitude measurement; liking and Personality and of European integration on by economic analysis. As an 4 credits (Jan-Mar) regimes, open source and social attraction; and group processes. Individual Differences British politics, policymaking introductory course it aims to 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) sharing will also be put under Undergraduate year Description 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and political culture since the acquaint students with key issues Prerequisite: one year of college-level the microscope. PS51006A 4 credits (Jan-Mar) middle of the 20th century. in economics and familiarise economics (micro-economics and/or Year 1 a course for which you do not need any Biological and Comparative 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) It will examine the effect the them with central tenets and macro-economics), plus one term in PO53033A previous experience Approaches to Psychology This course will provide an legacies of British Great Power theorems. Previous knowledge European politics (or equivalent), ideally European Union and Year 2 assumes that you have had some 4 credits (Sep-Dec) understanding of issues relating and imperial status upon of economics (at the standard including some coverage of the Immigration: The Contours, experience in this area or have already 4 credits (Jan-Mar) to individual differences, the area its relationship to European of the ‘A’ level in economics) is European Union. Politics and Economics of a followed a similar academic course 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) of psychology concerned with integration. Whilst this course recommended, but not required. This course allows you to New Policy Domain Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the The course covers the study of how and why people will examine the interaction of However, it is expected that familiarise yourself with the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) practical data or a willingness to engage theoretical, ethological and differ, and what implications successive British governments you will acquire a good working central traits of the economic Immigration is rapidly emerging in responsible individual study under comparative perspectives; those differences have. Lectures and the dynamics of party knowledge of the most pivotal and political architecture as one of the key concerns for tutorial guidance basic neuroanatomy and will focus on different constructs politics in the shaping of concepts in macroeconomics of the European Union (EU), public policy makers in the 21st neurophysiology; relationships on individual differences, European policy, it will also over the course of the year and explore recent milestones in century in Europe and beyond. between brain and behaviour; including personality, anxiety employ a broader sociological gain a thorough understanding closer economic integration, Net immigration levels to Europe The following is a list of representative courses offered by chemical communication in disorders, schizophrenia, and historical perspective to of the forces at play in the analyse the ramifications that have increased dramatically the Department of Psychology. For more information on the the brain and in the body; and creativity and cognitive abilities. determine whether or not Britain interaction between markets and this economic and political since the fall of the Iron Curtain. department, and for an up-to-date list of classes, please go to genes, chromosomes and the was a ‘reluctant European’ the state. integration process is having This has spawned pressing www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/psychology inheritance of behaviour. PS52003A before joining the EEC in 1973 on the contours of politico- questions about national identity, Social Psychology I and an ‘awkward partner’ ever Economics: Year 2 economic governance in multiculturalism, integration and PS51007B 4 credits (Sep-Dec) since it has joined. the member states, and assimilation, the role of religion, Information Processing 4 credits (Jan-Mar) PO52007A explore some of the policies language and symbolic marks and Cognition 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) PO53035A Political Economy generated by the EU in fields of common representation. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) You examine concepts, theories Technology and 4 credits (Sep-Dec) such as labour and social This course examines the politics 4 credits (Jan-Mar) and empirical research related Political Mobilisation 4 credits (Jan-Mar) policy, migration, competition and economic of immigration 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) to attitudes and attitude change; 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 10 credits (Sep-Jun) policy, environmental policy, throughout Europe and beyond, You examine aspects of norms, conformity and social This course provides a historical 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) and industrial policy. The exploring actors, symbols, perception; models of short-term influence; attribution theory; overview of the role that different Prerequisite: one year of college-level course also aims to provide politics and policies that coalesce memory and long-term memory; person perception; non-verbal technologies – from the invention economics (micro-economics and/or an analysis of the key events to form a complex pattern of retrieval of information from social behaviour; introduction of writing, to the printing press, macro-economics). and institutions shaping the regulation of one of the most long-term memory; learning to the study of social interaction; radio, television, transport The aim of this course is to European integration process. politicised policy domains. in theory: classical and operant and interpersonal attraction. technology, cellphone familiarise you with central There will also be a debate about conditioning; and cognitive technologies and more recently theoretical propositions, future challenges facing the See also learning. PS52004B internet-based technologies – key concepts and core issues EU, including past and future  People and Power: Developmental Psychology have played in different forms of political economy and rounds of enlargements and Introducing Politics, p68 Year 2 4 credits (Sep-Dec) of political organisation and demonstrate their application the formulation of a common  International Relations, p69 4 credits (Jan-Mar) mobilisation. Focusing in to practical issues in everyday security and defence policy.  Structure of Contemporary key fact Prerequisite: all Year 2 courses require 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) particular on a series of key policy-making processes. The Political Communication, You’ll learn in a some college-level study of psychology. This course provides an overview historical as well as contemporary course thus enables you to PO53010A p31 department hosting of human developmental excellent specialist and moments surrounding popular gain familiarity with the chief New Radical Economy PS52001A psychology. You will first general purpose research uprisings, riots, revolutions, theoretical approaches to the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) laboratories, including Biological Substrates gain an understanding of the elections and wars, the course field of political economy and 4 credits (Jan-Mar) an EEG suite for brain of Behaviour different methods and models will reflect on the promises and encourage you to explore the Prerequisite: college-level economics. research, an infant lab, and 4 credits (Sep-Dec) used to study development. a visual perception and limits of technology as well as insights incurred from the This course will provide you with 4 credits (Jan-Mar) You will learn about the major attention laboratory. its impact on the redistribution adoption of their analytical an understanding of key issues 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) developmental changes that of power in society. lenses to the ongoing in the field of contemporary This course covers six major occur in a number of domains

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(sensorimotor, cognitive and behavioural perspectives, and both organisational and Consideration is given to the evaluate the extent to which practice can inform education. social development). You will [c] principles and evaluations individual characteristics affect implications of theories of behaviours commonly described The course includes an overview also consider what can be of psychological interventions. productivity and mental health. neuro-developmental disorders as ‘addictive’ (including not of how psychology and gained by studying atypical Topics include: organisational for understanding normal only dependence on drugs education can interact, and will development. Throughout PS53019C development and change, cognitive functions. Specific and alcohol, but also excessive consider how the latest findings the course you will be Applications of the design of work, counselling topics include autism, dyslexia, engagement in behaviours such and theory might be applied to encouraged to think about the Attention Research in the workplace, and the specific language impairment, as gambling and shopping) are the classroom and education underlying factors contributing 4 credits (Sep-Dec) determinants of occupational developmental coordination motivated by similar outcomes policy. You will be encouraged to to development, including 4 credits (Jan-Mar) stress and performance. disorder, sensory impairments, and reflect the involvement develop your applied psychology biological and neurological, 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) ADHD and Williams syndrome. of similar processes. You also skills including critically and the role of social information This course will provide PS53024A study the efficacy of different evaluating available literature in learning. detailed study of the scientific Topics in Neuropsychology PS53032B treatment approaches. and begin to formulate ideas investigation of attention, 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Behavioural Genetics for working with children with PS52006A a highly topical aspect of 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) PS53036B special educational needs. Cognitive Psychology human cognition that plays 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) Psychological Approaches 4 credits (Sep-Dec) a fundamental role in our This course explores You explore issues relating to to Music PS53040A 4 credits (Jan-Mar) experience of the world. developments in understanding the use of behavioural genetics 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Social Moral Development 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) Students will be introduced to the neuro-psychology of techniques, including twin and 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) The course examines major current theories of attention and both normal and abnormal adoption measures, imaging 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) You will be given a thorough topics in the area of cognitive their application to other fields of human functioning. Specific genomics and multivariate This is an introduction to the grounding in how the psychology including attention; psychological enquiry including topics include methodology questions such as comorbidity, study of music psychology. development of social and moral visual object recognition; written cross-cultural psychology, in neuropsychology and development and heterogeneity. Lectures focus on the understanding in childhood language processing; working social psychology, individual cognitive neuropsychology; Consideration is given to the perception, cognition and neural and adolescence underlies the memory: long-term memory differences, and emotion. main techniques of investigation associations between genetic basis of musical understanding, emergence of prejudice, social and acquired memory problems; in neuropsychology; cognitive and environmental influences the perception of musical inclusion and exclusion, peer everyday memory; and PS53020C impairments following as well as ethical issues. structure, and emotions relationships and bullying. You representation of knowledge. Anomalistic Psychology brain injury: dysfunctions of and theories about music’s will study the development 4 credits (Jan-Mar) perception, language, memory, PS53033A evolutionary roots. The scientific of social category awareness, Year 3 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) consciousness, executive Origins of Human Nature: methods used in research group identity and social-moral You consider the relationship processes and voluntary Comparative and are explored in a lab-based reasoning from infancy, through Prerequisite: all Year 3 courses between psychology and movements; dementia; and Evolutionary Approaches class. This course is offered early childhood to late childhood require two years’ college-level study parapsychology, which involves neuropsychological assessment; 4 credits (Sep-Dec) in collaboration with the and adolescence. of psychology. a discussion of the distinction and rehabilitation. 4 credits (Jan-Mar) Department of Music. between science and pseudo- 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) See also PS53002C science. The course also involves PS53030B The aim of this course is to PS53038A  Communications, Developmental Cognitive critical evaluation of various Psychology and Law explore the origins of human Self and Relationships Psychology and Experience, Neuroscience claims which – if valid – would 4 credits (Jan-Mar) intelligence. You consider two 4 credits (Jan-Mar) p30 4 credits (Sep-Dec) have profound implications 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) major theories: the technical 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) for mainstream psychology The course covers current issues intelligence hypothesis and the This course will examine self 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) (including claims derived from in psychology and law selected social intelligence hypothesis. processes in interpersonal Student insight This course focuses on astrology, psychoanalysis, from interviewing suspects, In terms of technical intelligence, settings, drawing primarily Dima, Jordan two main areas of research: alternative therapies, etc). false confessions, detection you look at topics such as on recent research from social perceptual, motor and cognitive Various psychological processes of deception, interviewing complex foraging, causality, and psychology and personality. I heard a lot about Goldsmiths through development in infancy and that underlie belief in such witnesses, eyewitness tool-use and tool-making. In The course will introduce how acquaintances who happened to study here childhood; and attachment and claims are discussed, and identification, false memories, terms of social intelligence, you interpersonal relationships years ago. When I checked out its programmes, peer relationships. In each area, non-paranormal accounts interviewing children, offender consider topics such as theory affect self-concept, identity, I became more convinced that this is the kind recent empirical and theoretical of supposedly paranormal profiling, CCTV, and jury of mind, deception and social self-regulation, and subjective advances are discussed. experiences (for example, decision making. learning. You also learn about well-being, as well as discuss of school I would like to go to, especially after precognitive dreams, sightings of aspects of technical and social how self-processes, including hearing all the good feedback from graduates PS53008B UFOs, out-of-body experiences) PS53031A intelligence in modern groups individual differences, in after returning. Psychopathology are evaluated. Neurodevelopmental Disorders of human hunter-gatherers. turn affect the dynamics 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) of self other interaction and College atmosphere is welcoming in every way 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) PS53021B 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) PS53034B relational processes. and there's always a seminar to attend, a film Four major forms of Organisational Behaviour You explore issues relating to Addictive Behaviour to watch or a group discussion that you can psychopathology are and Health diagnosis, ethics and research 4 credits (Sep-Dec) PS53039A simply join! considered (depression, 4 credits (Sep-Dec) methods in connection with 4 credits (Jan-Mar) Psychology and Education anxiety and related disorders, 4 credits (Jan-Mar) a broad range of neuro- 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) schizophrenia, and addiction) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) developmental disorders. You You are introduced 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) with a focus on: [a] clinical This course explores increase your understanding of to psychological and This course aims to provide description, [b] theoretical psychological theories and atypical neural functioning from neurobiological theories of an insight into how the latest explanations from cognitive/ research that question how a developmental perspective. addiction, and you consider and psychological theory and

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Year 1 political concepts and ideas such Year 2 themes and concepts such to take creative leaps. You take CU53008A Social & Cultural Studies as the state, democracy and as sovereignty, the balance of part in formal technical sessions, Popular Culture in Practice CU51007A freedom, and different political CU52003B power, diplomacy, international and receive advice on marketing 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Practical Journalism ideologies. These concepts The Making of Modernity: Late law, security, nationalism and your work. By the end of the 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and ideas are then applied to 19th and Early 20th-Century national interest. You examine course, you can expect to have 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) Undergraduate year Description 4 credits (Jan-Mar) contemporary political processes Concepts of the Modern the application of concepts such written several short stories and/ Examines the important area 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) and institutions in the UK: the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) as dependency, neo-colonialism, or made significant progress of cultural theory, which deals Year 1 a course for which you do not need any Designed for people who want constitution, elections, political 4 credits (Jan-Mar) foreign policy analysis, and trade on a novel. You become more with popular culture, cultural previous experience to write non-fiction news reports parties, interest groups, the This interdisciplinary course relations in the 20th century, confident in your voice, your value, and cultural identities. It Year 2 assumes that you have had some and articles for newspapers media, globalisation and the critically examines some of and consider live debates style and direction as a writer. explores issues of representation experience in this area or have already and magazines. You examine nation-state, the European Union the key frameworks through and practical case studies Apart from in-class projects, in relation to popular culture followed a similar academic course how to find ideas, interviewing and sovereignty, local politics, which ideas of the modern were on topics such as diplomacy you determine what/when/how and helps you develop writing Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the techniques and personality participation and exclusion. formulated in turn of the century between states, regionalism, much you write. and research skills. The course practical data or a willingness to engage profile writing, various feature Europe. This involves study protectionism and globalisation. looks at different theories in responsible individual study under writing styles, and leisure and CU51016A of philosophical egoism and Year 3 of popular culture (for example, tutorial guidance entertainment reviews. You Creative Writing (Beginners) ideas of ‘mass’ culture; sciences CU52006A mass culture theory; culture also look at how to approach 4 credits (Sep-Dec) (the cultural impact of Freud, Writing the Self CU53001A industry, semiotics, popular editors to sell your work. It is 4 credits (Jan-Mar) Bergson, Einstein and eugenics); 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Race and Representation in culture and the carnivalesque; These courses are offered by the Department of Educational Studies. a practical course and you are 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) and Marxist interventions (with Examining the writing of ‘Popular’ Culture postmodernism) in the context expected to produce articles. The course is structured to give particular reference to Lukács). memoir and autobiography in 4 credits (Sep-Dec) of the popular novel, the musical Feedback and comments based you a start in writing poetry, You study cultural movements the development of the literary 4 credits (Jan-Mar) and television culture. on group discussion is a feature short fiction and drama, together associated with modernism, voice, this course offers a 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) of the course. with a grasp of the different such as Decadence, Vorticism, forum through which personal The roles of race and CU53009A requirements of the three genres. and Futurism, with particular experiences can be explored and representation in the Writing Culture 2 CU51010A You'll have the opportunity to reference to such writers as shared and will demonstrate how construction of identity in Prerequisite: Writing Culture Understanding Society share your work for supportive Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, converting these into language ‘popular’ culture are explored 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) feedback from the group and Gertrude Stein and Oscar Wilde. can transform both individual in this course. These roles are 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) tutor, and to discuss the work and collective experience. examined in an interdisciplinary Building on the skills, techniques 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) of established writers. By the CU52004A manner, focusing on music, and methodologies explored This course draws on the end of the course you will have Body, Gender, Culture CU52008A fashion, advertising and various in Writing Culture, you will distinct approaches of both a portfolio of completed original 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Writing Culture types of mass media. The course have the opportunity to anthropology and sociology, and work, a clearer sense of yourself 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) takes a critical approach to the explore your ancestral and also focuses on the common as a writer, and have decided 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) Exploring the craft of writing, cultural politics of images of cultural heritage and, as a ground between the two which of the genres you wish to This course is concerned the power of personal testimony culture and identity, and how result of your explorations, to disciplines. You are introduced take further in the future. with theorising the body and and construction of selfhood they influence our contemporary develop a sustained piece of to the subjects’ key theorists gender in an interdisciplinary and identity through language, social identities. narrative prose. and the historical development CU51025A way. Models discussed include: this course reflects on the of both anthropology and Script and Screen scientific understandings of the genres of life history and life CU53002A CU53010A sociology. Areas you study 4 credits (Sep-Dec) body; cultural understandings story, autobiography and Space, Place and Identity: Writing the Self 2 include: religion, health, sex 4 credits (Jan-Mar) of the body; and the social memoir and the literature of Diasporas in the Modern World Prerequisite: Writing the Self and gender, family and kinship, 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) construction of gender and testimony that view the role 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) language, class and caste, race, You focus on the writing of sexuality. Specific areas of witnessing in our times as 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) and culture and identity. screen drama for cinema and considered may include: body a key form of approaching and 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) Building on the skills, techniques TV, and participate in lectures, beauty; cosmetic and other transforming reality. In this course you examine how and methodologies acquired CU51014A viewings and practical exercises. surgeries; age and ageing; illness, boundaries between societies in Writing the Self, this course People and Power: Introducing You consider visual narrative, disability and eating disorders. CU52017A have become increasingly continues to explore the writing Politics creating premises, structure, Writing Fiction (Advanced) blurred over recent decades. of memoir and autobiography 4 credits (Sep-Dec) characterisation and rewriting. CU52005A Prerequisite: previous writing You critically examine the and the development of the 4 credits (Jan-Mar) You are asked to bring your own International Relations experience. recent wealth of new literature literary voice. 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) ideas in progress to classes for 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) on how our notions of space The underlying theme of this tutor comment or class reading, 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) have radically altered due to course is power. What is power? and you are encouraged to 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) technology, migrations and the Who has power? How is power write directly for production. International relations is the You are encouraged to improve media. You chart the emergence exercised? By examining these study of how political, economic, your work in progress and to of international capital and questions, with reference to security and cultural systems develop your writing skills. The the migrations that followed contemporary political processes all interact on a global scale. course combines sharing work in its wake, and the consequent and institutions in the UK, you You explore the evolution of for supportive, constructive new forms of cultural identity gain a critical introduction to the international society by looking feedback with dynamic in-class that have been born from study of politics. The first part at the work of international projects, including experiments the relocation of people of the course looks at different institutions. You address the with narrative techniques and in complex new social and conceptions of power, key practical implications of familiar ways of tempting the imagination political settings.

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Year 1 analyses of the role of culture in SO52002A SO52004B SO52078C communities, into market-based Sociology social interaction. The Making of the Sociology of Culture Social Change and activities compatible with the SO51002A Modern World and Communication Political Action dictates of the workplace. Critical Readings: SO52083A/84A 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Several additional links between The Emergence of Researching Society and The course builds on material The first part of the course This is an introduction to leisure, culture and society are We have one of the largest and most Sociological Rationality Culture 2A+2B you should already be familiar discusses the conceptual and contemporary debates in political made within this course. You 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits 83A (Sep-Dec) with, and will provide additional historical background to some sociology and cultural studies of then examine the Frankfurt innovative sociology departments in 10 credits (Sep-Jun) 4 credits 84A (Jan-Mar) perspectives for the historical of the key terms that will be politics. You examine the politics School and the seminal analysis the country: we’ve been rated joint You are introduced to sociology’s 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) analysis of modernity. There used throughout the course of class and new social of the ‘culture industry’. top in the UK for research excellence, key thinkers by focusing on Lecture and workshop- is a growing consensus in (in particular modernity, movements; privatisation and extracts from their writing. based, this methods course contemporary scholarship on modernism, postmodernity and Thatcherism; globalisation and SO52093A and have an excellent reputation for You concentrate on key texts aims to help you to make the stressing the interdependence postmodernism) and looks at anti-globalisation; The Body: Social Theory and the quality of our teaching. in sociology and are expected transition from reading about and complexity of the processes the relation between structural environmentalism and the politics Social Practice to learn to read critically – that to designing and doing your which contributed to the and cultural differentiation of science; urban politics; 4 credits (Sep-Dec) is, to think carefully about, own sociological research. The distinctiveness of modern and division in large-scale, regulation and political economy. This course explores a selection analyse, compare, make links first half of the course provides societies, rather than assigning structurally complex and You are expected to read both of approaches to the sociological Undergraduate year Description between, identify the arguments you with the skills necessary to primacy to any one factor culturally heterogeneous sociological texts and more study of the body, as well as of, identify problems with, and practice research methods and or process – be it economic, contemporary societies. The popular analyses of contemporary substantive problem areas Year 1 a course for which you do not need any formulate your own ideas and culminates in an assessment political, cultural or social. second part introduces two politics; you are encouraged to where the body has become previous experience arguments about what you read. involving the use of a chosen This course places an emphasis important approaches to focus on specific examples and to an important focus of research. Year 2 assumes that you have had some You are expected to develop the research method. You will be on historical reflexivity: it will conceptualising and analysing make links between their specific We look at how the relationships experience in this area or have already ability to approach and analyse given feedback on a draft of your seek to illustrate that historical the relations between culture concerns and more general between the individual and followed a similar academic course texts with greater confidence. coursework, which constitutes processes, however multiple and other social and economic debates about politics in social the social body, or between Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the a non-assessed assignment. and complex, are not simply processes through the works of and cultural theory. the control of bodily function practical data or a willingness to engage SO51003A The second half of the course 'given' as historical objects but Jeffrey Alexander and Norbert and the nature of the social in responsible individual study under Modern Knowledge, provides you with the tools to reflect the adoption of particular Elias. The third part examines SO52091A order, have been theorised tutorial guidance Modern Power design your own research. There perspectives that are themselves structuralism and narrative Nationalism, Fundamentalism and researched. The course 4 credits (Sep-Dec) is one formal assessment item: historically specific. analysis. The fourth part looks and Cosmopolitanism discusses how the body figures 10 credits (Sep-Jun) the design of a research study. specifically at the impact of 4 credits (Sep-Dec) in identity politics, and illustrates The following is a list of representative courses offered by the The course introduces you to This is supported by a non- SO52003A information and communication This course explores the construction and power of Department of Sociology. For more information on the department, the ‘sociological imagination’ assessed exercise in producing Philosophy and Methodology technologies and considers sociological theories of bodily norms in fields such as and for an up-to-date list of classes, please go to in the work of classical social an annotated bibliography. of the Social Science how sociologists might adjust nationalism, fundamentalism psychiatry and criminology, and www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/sociology thinkers. You examine different 4 credits (Sep-Dec) their thinking on culture and cosmopolitanism by looking discusses the body as an object structures and relations of power Year 2 The first block of lectures and communication in light at case studies drawn from of consumption. Please note: to take a course in April-June, you must already have in a modern context, and how is concerned with questions of pervasive digital technology. the conflicts that followed the been studying the course in January-March. In the Summer term you key sociological thinkers have SO52001A of the relationship between break-up of Yugoslavia, the SO52094B can choose to do two additional credits of project work related to analysed these. You examine Central Issues in science and social analysis. SO52040A anti-apartheid struggle in South Sex, Drugs and Technology courses studied in the Spring term. This work is negotiated individual the roots of sociology in the Sociological Analysis We begin with questions Culture, Representation Africa and the Israel/Palestine 4 credits (Jan-Mar) study supported by some tutorial guidance. Enlightenment project with its 4 credits (Jan-Mar) about the ‘scientific’ character and Difference conflict. The course aims for 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) concern with reason, freedom, This course aims to develop of sociology, for example: Is 4 credits (Jan-Mar) a balance of theory and case This course approaches sexuality progress and the individual, the introduction to sociological sociological knowledge similar 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) study – in this way it anchors as a historically and culturally in order to consider the theory that you have already to the knowledge produced by The course explores the problem discussions of social theory constructed object through consequences of this project for received, whilst also preparing the natural sciences, and should of cultural identity in terms of to the actualities of particular which we presume to know or other forms of society outside you to engage with critiques social science seek to adopt the complex relations between social and historical situations. not know ourselves and others. Western modernity. and most current developments similar methods? The second subjects and representational It begins with a historical for future study. It will help you block engages the relationship and discursive practices. SO52092A perspective on how sexuality SO51004A to develop your understanding between epistemology in terms We draw on work from cultural Leisure, Culture and Society has come to function as a mode Culture and Society of sociological analysis through of the production of knowledge studies, sociology and social 4 credits (Jan-Mar) of normalisation and regulation, 4 credits (Sep-Dec) considering its origins in the and processes of social theory in order to think about 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) a promise of liberation, an 10 credits (Sep-Jun) classical tradition as well as evaluation that seeks to account the importance of culture in This course examines the acclaimed site of pleasure and/ This course is primarily concerned discussing contemporary for the forms of understanding the construction of modern interconnections between or desire as well as a centrepiece with the relations between culture approaches. We will explore developed by sociologists within self- identity. Across the course, leisure, culture and society. in debates on censorship and and social processes, and some of the most influential and the research process. It begins examples will be taken from Entitled ‘leisure and the representation. While the course key fact It’s a lively interdisciplinary approaches these in a number most distinct approaches to by exploring the relationship advertising, mass media, fashion, commodity form’, the first is structured by different department that covers of ways: by outlining various social analysis and their central between understanding and photography, tattooing and part of the course examines thematic areas such as sexology, a wide range of interests, sociological uses of ‘culture’, concerns. Through this, we prescription within social science. other cultural forms. capitalist development and HIV/AIDS, public/private rulings including human by identifying the role of culture will examine the way in which the development of leisure. on intimacy and sexual citizenship, rights, visual sociology, globalisation, and art in examples of macrosocial different kinds of sociological The process of capitalist it includes considerable attention and literature. phenomena (eg education, explanation are grounded in industrialisation transformed to the theoretical contributions consumption, the city), and by different assumptions about leisure from a collective activity, of Foucault, Queer and discussing microsociological the way the social world works. embedded in occupational Feminist theory.

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SO52101A SO52104A modernity; ethics and identity; SO53046A class gender and race and technological developments cause, value and fact. We gain (c) the relations between vision Art and Society Marxism identity and difference; the Global Development then sees how the resources do not stand alone, but form the an historical perspective on and other senses. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) body in social theory; science and Underdevelopment of the UK data archive and the focus for a rapidly expanding how these dichotomies informed This course introduces key This course will introduce and technology; recent debates 4 credits (Jan-Mar) ESDS qualidata archive can legislative environment, the the construction of (bio)medical SO53149A themes and authors in the students to basic concepts in feminist theory; ‘race’ and 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) be mobilised to answer these production of new and amended knowledge and sociological Race, ‘Racism’ and sociology of art. You will developed from Marxist contemporary social theory; You develop a critical and questions. The course draws forms of expertise and the approaches to health and illness. Social Theory learn to develop a critical theory that are now ubiquitous modernity and post-modernity, historical understanding on knowledge gained in other swift generation of means of In this framework, subjectivity 4 credits (Jan-Mar) understanding of key classical elsewhere such as class, value, and ‘postmodern sociology’. of the issues which inform research methods courses assessment (to cover everything can point to the experience 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) and contemporary approaches alienation, exploitation, and contemporary debates on to support the application of from the legality of a system to of illness as distinct from the You examine the emergence to the subject. You will engage fetishism. Each week will focus SO53042A globalisation. You consider the this knowledge to a particular its value for money). factuality of disease, and to the of modern ideas of ‘race’ and with key issues in the sociology on a basic concept; start with Researching Culture: fields of development studies substantive research project. A ways in which this experience racism, and their development of art and how they have been its original source, explain, Case Studies and sociology of development, key concern is how theoretical SO53057A can disrupt (or inform) the as social and political forces. You conceptualised differently within contextualise, and trace its 4 credits (Sep-Dec) focusing mainly on political insights can be applied and Digital Cities construction of selves. look at them from the theoretical traditions of sociological analysis. development and critique as it This course engages you in a economy and institutions. You developed in the context of 4 credits (Jan-Mar) perspectives of sociology, progresses through social theory range of research methods for look at: modernisation and empirical social research. 4 + 2 credits (Jan-Jun) SO53063A feminism, and social and cultural SO52102A and sometimes into popular the analysis of culture in its many its critics: the sociology of This is a course on the sociology Philosophy, Politics theory. The course considers the Organisations and Society uses. Each concept will be forms and contexts. The course development; the development SO53055A of urban informatics. The and Alterity changing manifestations of race 4 credits (Jan-Mar) interrogated then developed in is workshop based and provides of underdevelopment and Sociologies of notion of urban informatics is 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and racism during transatlantic 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) relation to contemporary issues, you with hands-on experience world systems; culture and Emerging Worlds a relatively recent invention This course considers the work of slavery, systems of plantation This course explores the role exploring its significance and of different methods. You are development; and contemporary 4 credits (Sep-Dec) designed to conceptually contemporary cultural theorists slavery in the Caribbean and of organisations in social life explanatory power as a critical introduced through a series of anti-globalisation movements. You will critically engage a new register that we now live under in relation to questions of alterity the USA, colonialism in south through a range of theorectical sociological tool. case studies to textual analysis, generation of post-globalisation circumstances where the well- (difference). It aims to give you Asia and central Africa, later approaches and case studies. ethnography and audience SO53048A literature that focuses on the worn ontological distinction a sense of the political spaces processes of forced labour, You will learn about the role Year 3 analysis, and you are encouraged Visual Explorations of The remaking of historical diasporas, between ‘a space of places’ and and problematics that have been the emergence of National of organisations in shaping to consider how some of the Social World trade circuits, and geopolitical ‘a space of flows’ is no longer opened up as the certain key Socialism from the 1920s, and the world. You will make links SO53021A more complex theoretical 4 credits (Jan-Mar) alignments in the Global South. sustainable. It is the study of how thinkers chosen for the course the impact of the Holocaust. You between important debates Theorising Contemporary questions addressed in cultural This course is intended as an You will engage with ideas and information and urban systems deal with questions of the self, consider a range of theoretical in political life and the tools Society studies, such as cultural objects advanced introduction to the discourses reflecting new forms are meshing in order to produce, subjectivity and difference, in approaches that have attempted and findings of the sociology 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and cultural identity, might be exploration of sociological issues of social space (eg digital space) what for some is, a distinctive particular gender, sexuality and to account for the impact of of organisations. Classical social theory developed empirically researched. and themes with the camera and a global perspective on social ontology that demands a racialised difference. ‘race’ in contemporary social and in the 19th and early 20th lens. It combines a basic level social processes. You will reflect major rethinking of sociological political processes. SO52103A centuries during a period of SO53043A training in black and white as on the emerging interrelationship practice. The theoretical SO53073B London immense change. Many of the Childhood Matters: well as digital photography with between Africa, the Middle East, resources the course draws Sociology of Visuality See Also 4 credits (Jan-Mar) social and economic forms which Society, Theory and Culture an intellectual training in spatial and Asia. upon are diverse – deriving from 4 credits (Sep-Dec)  Understanding Society, p68 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) emerged or were consolidated in 4 credits (Sep-Dec) analysis and its application in cultural studies, design theory, This course is about seeing, This is a visually oriented urban the 19th century still exist today, You approach childhood as interpreting specific aspects SO53056A human geography as well as vision and visuality. Broadly sociology course. You will yet there are clear differences a sociohistorically constructed of urban landscape in areas Privacy, Surveillance sociology, and will include, inter speaking, it considers visuality learn to closely observe urban between contemporary societies concept, with material, with which you are familiar. We and Security alia, the recent writings of Dave to be a ‘force’ comparable space in broader context and and the industrial societies of technological and political strongly encourage you to focus 4 credits (Jan-Mar) Beer, Mike Crang, Martin Dodge, to other social forces. It are required to work through the late 19th century. This course dimensions and consequences. your eyes and lens on London 4 + 2 credits (Jan-Jun) Stephen Graham, Katherine asks: how do historically and a combination of photography examines the implications of Through a mixture of theoretical and, where applicable, the Recent years have seen a Hayles, Rob Kitchin, Bill Mitchell, culturally specific ways of seeing and writing. You will learn about such changes for social theory. readings and issue-based New Cross area. The underlying huge growth in demands for: Bruce Sterling and Nigel Thrift. shape knowledges, truths key themes in sociology – class, It considers questions such as: discussions, you explore the rationale for this course is certainty in the verification and practices? What are the ethnicity, space, time, social to what extent do changes in regulated constitution of to develop your analysis of of identity; accountability of SO53058A epistemological, methodological inequalities, social change – social, political and economic childhood and its changing space and understanding of individual and organisational Subjectivity, Health and ethical demands that are through active engagement with life demand new forms of parameters. You have the chance the organisation of racialised activity; and mechanisms and Medicine made upon sociology in its the London urban environment. sociological theorising? In what to look at significant aspects and ethnicised difference and designed to accumulate 4 credits (Jan-Mar) encounters with the visual and It combines classroom lectures ways have contemporary social of contemporary childhood. interaction in London, visually. knowledge of what individuals 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) other senses? What are the with observations, workshops theorists distanced themselves Some of the main areas you and groups may do in the near You will explore subjectivity relations between vision, visuality and other activities embedded from classical social theory explore include: changing SO53049A future. Across Europe and the through a thematic focus and power? The course will in urban walks. Unlike other in an attempt to comprehend household patterns from the Making Data Matter United States, these demands engaging with questions around address these questions across courses it is short and intensive: society today? child’s perspective, child sexual 4 credits (Sep-Dec) have been incorporated health, disease, illness and a diverse range of topics, all of it takes place over five four- abuse, infancy and foetal life, This course offers a new into, amongst other things, medicine, thereby developing which will critically examine one hour sessions grouped together SO53022A and children’s literature. approach to understanding increasing numbers of CCTV an understanding of one of or more of the following key at the end of the second term Issues in Contemporary social research through data cameras, forms of biometric the most important concepts themes: (a) the privileging of the (February/March). Social Theory analysis. It avoids formalistic identification, enhanced in social theory. Subjectivity visual as a means to knowledge 4 credits (Jan-Mar) presentations of statistics border crossing security, implies a reference to the and a way of establishing ‘truth’ 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) and qualitative data analysis more frequent use of profiling subject/object dichotomy that in Western philosophy and You focus on recent debates in techniques. Instead it asks and categorising techniques has traditionally been mapped culture (b) the relations between social and cultural theory. Main questions about central and a growth in automated, onto the distinctions between vision, power and ethics in social themes include Marxism and sociological concerns about algorithmic surveillance. These mind and body, meaning and life and in social research and

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Year 1 SA key fact Theatre & Performance DR50005A You’ll benefit from SA Performance Analysis: our excellent on-campus DR50001A Contemporary Performance facilities, including a 160-seat theatre, three London Theatre in London performance studios, Study in a dynamic, outward-looking 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) scenic workshop 4 credits (Jan-Mar) 4 credits (Jan-Mar) and open-access learning environment, and benefit 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) In this course you develop media suite. from our distinguished staff and You are introduced to the wide your awareness of, and critical diversity of theatre in London responses to, cutting-edge dedicated facilities. You’ll enjoy from the major subsidised contemporary performance a balanced mix of theoretical and companies, through the in London in a range of scales practical work from an interdisciplinary commercial West End to smaller from large stage to intimate/ fringe venues and productions. site-specific. You are introduced and intercultural perspective. Weekly visits to new or recent to a rich and wide range of events in the capital are new theatre, both UK-grown introduced with a critical context and international: new writing, and are discussed the following visual theatre, dance theatre Undergraduate year Description week within seminar groups. and Live Art both within our international festivals and Year 1 a course for which you do not need any SA in our seasonal programming. previous experience DR50003A Theatre visits are critiqued in Year 2 assumes that you have had some Shakespeare’s London seminars using Performance experience in this area or have already 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Analysis tools derived from a followed a similar academic course 4 credits (Jan-Mar) range of contemporary critical Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the You undertake a creative and theories. In addition, the work practical data or a willingness to engage critical examination of selected of some prominent international in responsible individual study under plays from the Shakespearean researchers and practitioners is tutorial guidance canon and undertake a number accessed via the Department’s of theatre visits to watch related Performance Research Forum. productions. There is also a visit

SA Study Abroad Only to The Globe theatre on the DR51003A South Bank. Analytic Vocabularies 4 credits (Sep-Dec) The following is a list of representative courses offered by the SA 4+4 credits (Sep-Mar) Department of Theatre and Performance. For more information DR50004A You explore methods of on the department, and for an up-to-date list of classes, please British and American performance analysis, examining go to www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/theatreandperformance Musical Theatre some of the significant 4 credits (Sep-Dec) theoretical frameworks Where 4+4 credits is indicated, you cannot study the course for 4 credits (Jan-Mar) for the analysis of Western the Spring term only. Where ‘full year only’ appears in the course This course aims to explore performance. Using critical tools, description, you must be enrolled for the whole year to study the musical as the predominant you identify creative processes that course. form of popular theatre in the and outcomes in the light of the 20th century with background theories of key practitioners. You lectures and seminars evaluate performance texts from groups, prepare performance the body in intensive workshop DR51013A teaching, student-led work, introducing you to the history different media, and distinguish projects and present your work training sessions and frame Questions of Scenography and practical application. You and aesthetics of the form. The how history and culture influence to other students. This project this study with theoretical 4 credits (Jan-Mar) are introduced in practical ways course takes advantage of the contemporary theatre-making. develops work you have done lectures and seminars. You The course aims to introduce you to two of the following areas: vibrant musical theatre scene in Questions of Dramaturgy/ develop your own performance to the fundamental principles lighting design, sound design, in the capital by including four DR51012B Questions of Scenography, and material for assessment using of scenography, stressing the scenography, costume design theatre visits. By examining Theatre Making I: takes on the quality of a festival. the methodologies introduced, way the space could be used or and production management. and reviewing these (and Summer Term Project giving short theatre-based interpreted as a complex system At the end of the course you also key fact other) shows in detail, you will 4 credits (Apr-Jun) DR51007B performances in the Autumn of dramaturgical signs. The submit a written essay. Our graduates have won learn to analyse and assess the Prerequisite: Questions of Dramaturgy Space-body-spectator term and working on site-specific focus is on ‘theatre making’, and prestigious awards as playwrights, directors, contribution of various artists course. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) group projects in the Spring you will be asked to experiment DR51013A creators of new work, and to the success of the show and The summer term project is an 4+4 credits (Sep-Mar) term. Teaching approaches with the idea of the space as a Questions of Dramaturgy cultural leaders in the UK to the evolution of the genre as opportunity for you to explore You are introduced to the draw on European and non- dramaturgical driving-force and 4 credits (Sep-Dec) and internationally. a whole. theatre making in a creative and three essential elements of Western sources. self-initiate your own analysis/ This is a practice-based course inventive fashion, within defined performance – space, body research on scenographic that aims to introduce you to parameters and a constructively and spectator – via theory topics. The course is comprised the principles of dramaturgy, critical framework. You work in and practice. You focus on of practical and theoretical training and experimentation.

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The course stresses collaborative contexts of its topic while at SA creating your own material. You Year 1 context, considering Foucault, work and the development of the same time examining the DR50002A will be encouraged to watch live Therapeutic Studies feminist and intercultural critiques. effective group dynamics. The theoretical and cultural ideas and Acting in London storytelling performance and CU51036B main focus of this course is on practices that have been seen as 4 credits (Sep-Dec) recordings as well as to read Contemporary Approaches CU51037B dramaturgy, understood in the modernist and postmodern. In 4 credits (Jan-Mar) theoretical and creative texts. to the Theory and Practice of Theories of Individual widest sense as the discipline the Spring term, you choose one This practical course develops You will be guided through Develop your understanding Psychotherapy and Counselling Development that organises performance 10-week option course. These your acting skills and introduces research and improvisation 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) events in space, and within a options are designed to extend you to methods of actor-training exercises to explore the act of psychosocial studies, including The course introduces the The course addresses human specific time-frame (ie rhythm, the study of modernism and/or and modes of performance of telling. Finally, you will write counselling and psychotherapy core theoretical principles development across the lifespan. pace, dynamics, organisation postmodernity through a in the UK. You meet for an your own story to tell, live. You of contemporary theory and The individual is not a static of the time-based media). The sustained engagement with a intensive session each week will also write reflective/critical practices, and their social and practice of psychotherapy entity but subject to changes course will introduce students particular range of material. and present your work in a comment that contextualises cultural contexts. and counselling have changed that occur from infancy to to processes of directing, Recent specialist topics were: final workshop performance your choices in approaching markedly in the past 30 years. old age and experiences that devising and performing; Postcolonial Theatre; Brecht and at the end of term. Through the task. The emphasis is on the During this time, many forces affect later development. These examining various approaches Political Theatre; the Artistic the study of plays currently in relationship between form and Undergraduate year Description have converged, leading to major changes apply to different to working with space, objects, Avant Garde, and Contemporary production on the London stage, content, style and performance alterations in the therapeutic domains of human development composition, rhythm, voice, Women Practitioners. Options are you are encouraged to explore delivery. This course will help you Year 1 a course for which you do not need any landscape. The scope of the that will be explored, for texts and improvisation. The likely to change from year to year. contemporary issues of cultural develop your creative writing, previous experience course encompasses history, example, biological, cognitive, aim of the course is to gain and political significance unique communication skills, literary Year 2 assumes that you have had some theory, practice, trends and emotional, moral, psychoanalytic a basic understanding on Year 3 to the UK. Acting in London critical ability, performance experience in this area or have already research in psychotherapy and and social. Growing older is theatre-making methodologies, provides you with an artistic confidence, and help you ‘find followed a similar academic course counselling at the beginning a process marked by important compositional strategies for DR53033A and academic challenge related your own voice’. Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the of the 21st century. Like every transitions, transformations performance and performance Culture and Performance: directly to your experience of practical data or a willingness to engage human practice or set of beliefs, and milestones in the individual's training. Students undertake Critical Cultural Theory living in a foreign city. See also in responsible individual study under psychotherapy has its own life, while different phases a practical assessment and also 4 credits (Sep-Dec)  Performing Arts in the tutorial guidance particular historical context of the lifespan make different write an essay based on their You approach the study of DR53038A Community, p41 forged by major traditions in psychological demands on work in the course. performance within a culturally Performing Shakespeare  Modernism and Drama, p44 the field such as psychoanalytic, the individual. This course diverse society. Lectures and 4 credits (Sep-Dec)  The English Renaissance The following is a list of representative courses offered by the cognitive-behavioural, investigates the nature of those Year 2 seminars introduce you to Approached as a research Theatre, p45 Department of Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies. humanistic and existential. At the psychological demands and a range of art practices and exercise, you are introduced For more information on the department, and for an up-to-date same time, therapeutic cultures the way individuals respond to DR52017A theoretical issues in the field to the theory and practice of list of classes, please go to will be placed within a critical them, taking into consideration Elements of Theatre History of multi-cultural performance, Shakespearian verse-speaking www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/therapeutic-studies socio-political and philosophical research conducted in the field. 4 credits (Sep-Dec) including cross-culturalism, by close examination and 4 credits (Jan-Mar) interculturalism, interchange interpretation of texts as You develop an understanding of and globalisation. This course performance material. By learning the relationship between a work is a prerequisite for Culture the construction, imagery, and its historical, social, cultural, and Performance: Options. language, alliteration, rhythm and and intellectual context. There meaning of chosen text(s) you will is a wide range of options from DR53034A study an appropriate monologue which you choose a 10-week Culture and Performance: and develop this to an off-the- course of study. These options Options page performed presentation. could include such subjects as: 4 credits (Jan-Mar) You will write a critical and Ancient Greek Theatre; African Prerequisite: Culture and Performance: analytic evaluation that Theatre; Polish Theatre; Irish Critical Cultural Theory. contextualises your process Theatre and Politics; American You choose a 10-week seminar within an appropriate academic Theatre; and Shakespeare and option that contextualises the frame of reference. This course, Renaissance Drama. Options theories and discourses studied taught by actors and directors may change from year to year, in Culture and Performance A. who have worked with the RSC, depending on staff availability For example, options offered will help you develop both your and research interests. recently were: Art and Japan; acting ability and intellectual Voicing the Margins; and understanding of Shakespeare’s DR52019A+DR52020A Translation across languages, plays from a contemporary Modernisms and cultures and genres. Options perspective. Postmodernity A+B may change from year to year, key fact 10 credits (Full year only) depending on staff availability DR53039A We’ll encourage you to develop your imagination, In the Autumn term, you are and research interests. How the Story is Told creativity, and risk-taking provided with an introduction 4 credits (Jan-Mar) ability, and will promote the to key aspects of modern and This is an introduction to some importance of challenging postmodern thought, culture of the fundamental key theorists orthodoxy and theatre. The course aims to of story-structure and story- explore the historical and cultural telling, as a foundation for

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All years re-engaging with the question Visual Cultures of utopia, through an encounter SA Student insight with the writings of Paul VC53006A Scheerbart and Fredric Jameson, Daniela, Brazil London Art Worlds Michel Foucault, Louis Marin and I am loving the rich experience of studying here. We specialise in the histories and 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Jacques Rancière among others. 4 credits (Jan-Mar) I have been able to explore many subjects and theories of modern and contemporary London Art Worlds explores the HT52032A issues that are expanding my knowledge and visual practices from around the histories and current dynamics Practising Theory: vision of the world. It will be fundamental to my world, looking at ways in which art of art practice and exhibition Contemporary Art and future career plans. within London. It addresses Art Writing engages with urgent social, cultural the different ways in which 4 credits (Sep-Dec) The atmosphere of the College is great, I have and political issues. artists, curators and galleries 4+4 credits (Sep-Mar) been in touch with people from all over the world are aided and challenged by 10 credits (Sep-Jun) and this diversity is amazing. And London is a old and new technologies and Is there only one way to fantastic city, with so much to do, to see, with easy multiple encounters in a diverse write about art? This course urban context, and questions explores the possibilities for access to any part of the UK. My favourite city in Undergraduate year Description where London’s art communities contemporary forms of writing the world. register on the global scale. The about the visual arts. It works Year 1 a course for which you do not need any course introduces international to familiarise you with the previous experience students not only to the city historically diverse ways in Year 2 assumes that you have had some but also to alternative and which writing has been located experience in this area or have already innovative methods of viewing in relation to art, and provides followed a similar academic course and experiencing modern and a discursive context in which Year 3 assumes a specialist knowledge of the contemporary art in particular critical, historical and other practical data or a willingness to engage socio-political environments. You forms of writing about art can in responsible individual study under will create a research portfolio be interrogated as practices tutorial guidance using visuals, texts and/or in their own right. The course audio, and there are visits to, is a response in part to recent for example, Trafalgar Square shifts within contemporary

Year 2 involved in making art and practice with a variety of client range of settings in the public SA Study Abroad Only and Whitechapel Gallery in the forms of critical writing in which negotiating meaning are populations that describe the sector. It also includes a practical East End. historically entrenched binaries CU52020A facilitated by sharing work and nature of the profession. It will element, namely an experiential of the artist and the writer, the Pathologies of the Modern Self discussion. You will work with include a practical element, Art Psychotherapy group The following is a list of representative courses offered by the Year 2 creative and the critical etc. have 4 credits (Sep-Dec) the links between the visual and namely an experiential Dance where learning is through doing Department of Visual Cultures. For more information on the become blurred. It attempts The course addresses notions of the verbal, the spoken and the Movement Psychotherapy group in an ‘as if’ experience of the department, and for an up-to-date list of classes, please go to VC52007A to provide a space for debate, the ‘abnormal’ and ‘pathological’ written. The course involves the where learning is through doing therapeutic process. www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad/visualcultures Art/Nature/Utopia discussion and the production and introduces you to a range keeping of an art journal, visual in an ‘as if’ experience of the 4 credits (Sep-Dec) of creative encounters with art of diagnostic categories. Of diary or sketch-book. At the end DMP process. 4+4 credits (Sep-Mar) through writing. concern is a range of questions: of the course you will present 10 credits (Sep-Jun) How has the notion of the your sketch-book to others and 100005A The course sets out to explore VC52037A ‘normal’ arisen? How are we produce a 1,000-word written Art Psychotherapy Foundation the ways in which the concepts Beckett and Aesthetics to understand the changes in account of your experience, 4 credits (Sep-Dec) of nature and utopia have come 4 credits (Sep-Dec) diagnostic classification which illustrated using the sketch book. The course has been offered as to form a critically important 4+4 credits (Sep-Mar) have occurred over the last an introduction to art therapy constellation in modern and 10 credits (Sep-Jun) 40 years or so? What kinds 100127A for those who wish to learn contemporary art and aesthetic You explore the concept of of ‘selves’ do counselling and Dance Movement about the profession and who theory. Beginning with Kant's aesthetics through the prose, therapy promote? Psychotherapy Foundation may want to go on to train understanding of natural beauty, theatre, radio and film work of 4 credits (Sep-Dec) as art psychotherapists. The it goes on to examine the varied Samuel Beckett in conjunction Year 3 The course gives a practical course offers a practical and and often paradoxical images with the work of a range of and theoretical overview of the theoretical overview of the of nature developed across post- visual, aural and performance AT50001A/100255A theory and practice of Dance theory and practice of Art key fact Enlightenment critical theory, artists such as Jasper Johns, Art Therapy Workshop Movement Psychotherapy in Psychotherapy in Britain. Its We’ll introduce you to the materialist presentations Bruce Nauman, John Cage, visual culture, including 4 credits (Jan-Mar) the UK. It will describe how it curriculum focuses on how Art of natural life associated with Helen Chadwick and Janet artefacts you might see 4+2 credits (Jan-Jun) developed from the work of Psychotherapy has developed in museums and art the writings of Georges Bataille, Cardiff. You examine the This course introduces you to dancers and dance/movement from the work of artists and galleries and those that Roger Caillois, and Georges philosophical foundations for Art Therapy by providing an teachers and has now developed psychoanalysts interested in make up our everyday Canguilhem, and the political a contemporary understanding environment: architecture, opportunity for art making in into a recognised profession the art of psychiatric patients city and landscapes, ecologies developed by Félix of aesthetics. You address key a group setting. Experiential that is regulated by the Health to the current theories and adverts, TV and film, Guattari and Bruno Latour. The debates in contemporary art understanding is stressed, and Professions Council. It will practices of state-registered websites, the body, course then turns to address concerning the body and the exploration of the processes include exploration of clinical practitioners working in a wide and street style. the political function of art by sublime, questioning the ways in

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Exhibitions: Framing Art Whiteness, Authorship, Identity 4 credits (Sep-Dec) VC52056A and Hybridity. See also Associate Graduate Studentship Associate Research Studentship 4+4 credits (Sep-Mar) Patterns of Perception  Visual Arts Practice in 10 credits (Sep-Jun) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) VC52063A Education and Community This is a ‘tailor-made’ postgraduate-level programme where you This is a high-level 'tailor-made' programme with a clear emphasis You focus on the theoretical 4+4 credits (Sep-Mar) The Moving Image Settings, p40 select a portfolio of courses from our Masters programmes and on independent study. You negotiate the content with the relevant and ideological foundations 10 credits (Sep-Jun) 4 credits (Sep-Dec)  Art courses, p27 effectively create your own programme content. This allows you to department. This allows you to spend up to a year undertaking of museums and their critiques. Questions concerning 4+4 credits (Sep-Mar) spend from three months up to a year following classes and studying research and study under the supervision of a tutor at Goldsmiths. You analyse how the museum perception, cognition and 10 credits (Sep-Jun) under the supervision of a tutor at Goldsmiths. You may simply wish You might want to explore a topic in depth or to further your has evolved from an object- spectatorship are crucial to You are introduced to various to explore a topic at a graduate level or you might be registered at research as part of a programme of study at your home institution. centered educational institution the study of art history and theoretical approaches to the another university and want to specialise your study and research as to an idea-oriented site for the visual culture. This course is moving image, ranging from the part of a wider study plan. We invite you to submit an application and proposal outlining the production of experiences. philosophical and creative/ melodrama to the documentary, development of your research and the relevant critical enquiries. The course proposes typologies experimental in approach. It experimental cinema and video You choose courses – from one or more departments – which run If we accept this proposal, you are provided with appropriate to understand the framework provides a critical introduction art, through both historical during the terms you are at Goldsmiths and add up to the correct supervisor, and have access to Goldsmiths facilities. You are defining the museum: the to the diverse theories, and contemporary examples. number of credits for your period of study. Goldsmiths’ academic supported by the academic structure of the department, which meaning of the ‘museum object’, understandings and experiences Readings and discussions are year works on a three-term system – Autumn, Spring and Summer. includes tutorial contact and possibly lectures and seminars – the institutional modalities for of perception and of the informed by key film theoretical You are expected to undertake a full course load for your period depending on the agreed path of your research. This academic the production of ‘knowledge’, perceptual world that have been writings as much as by critical of study. and/or technical support leads to the realisation of the aims and the celebration of ‘cultural influential from the early modern theory, postcolonial theory, objectives outlined in your proposal. and national diversity’ and the period onwards. Focusing on key feminist theory, cultural studies If you intend to follow this course as a part of another programme at importance of museums in the cultural artefacts and perceptual and anthropology, while another university, you will need to check with your home university Entrance requirements ‘leisure industries’. Curatorially, scenarios/practices, we consider questions of realism, the political the courses you may be required to take to obtain credit, and Normally a Bachelors (undergraduate) degree or the equivalent we concentrate on how what notions of reality, possibility and cultural differences are given provide suitable alternatives to your first choices. It is not always in a relevant subject, or a proven record or professional/work permanent collections have and impossibility have been priority. One aim of the course is possible to offer you your first choice of course because of limits on experience in the subject. been displayed. We explore produced, proposed and/or learning to look at and work with numbers, or timetabling. Your performance is examined or assessed how critiques of the museum critically engaged with, and formal aspects of screen works on each course, and a grade is awarded under the British grading How to apply have shaped its roles. Teaching what implications these might and develop analytical skills system. Your transcript also records Goldsmiths’ advice as to the Please complete the postgraduate taught applications form, involves museum visits, student have for us today. Texts include towards your own informed and number of credits you have taken, but the interpretation of these available at www.gold.ac.uk/media/goldsmiths-postgrad- presentations and discussions works by Descartes, Borges, creative ways to write about and credits is a matter for your home university or college. There are set taught-pack.pdf. Please provide a list of the individual courses of key texts. Heidegger, Bataille, Merleau- with moving images. requirements for each course, which you will be expected to meet. you would like to follow, and indicate the dates you would like Ponty, Foucault, Barthes, Virilio, No classes can be taken by audit. to spend at Goldsmiths. Please send your application to the VC52055A Dussel, Trinh T Minh-Ha and VC52070A International Partnerships and Developments Team. Contact Cities of Modernity: Urban Avital Ronell. Post-Modernities details are on page 90. Space in the 20th Century 4 credits (Sep-Dec) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) VC52057A 4+4 credits (Sep-Mar) 4+4 credits (Sep-Mar) Visualising Difference 10 credits (Sep-Jun) 10 credits (Sep-Jun) 4 credits (Sep-Dec) Cyborgs and Nomads, From the point of view of 4+4 credits (Sep-Mar) Simulations and Virtualities, architectural history and urban 10 credits (Sep-Jun) Machinics and Rhizomatics: history, this course asks: what This course has evolved from postmodernity encapsulates is the cultural space of a city? the field of postcolonial study, a bewildering array of new You address the role of the but is concerned with all forms technologies, practices and urban environment in the of difference as negotiated paradigms. This course aims emergence of visual cultures in by the visual realm and thus to introduce some of them the 20th century. By examining incorporates gendered, – and to explore what we architecture, painting, film, raced, classed and queered mean by postmodernity and photography and installation discourses. Through a varied postmodernism. Beginning art we think of how visual culture and interdisciplinary study with an exploration from an has explored, articulated, and of cultural texts, including film, historical perspective (the crisis theorised modern urban spaces. contemporary art, theory, in modernism), the course goes Themes related to sexuality, popular culture and literature, on to engage critically with class, ethnic cultural difference you negotiate this difficult Post-structuralism, at the same as well as legal, demographic, terrain intended to challenge time exploring the postmodern. technological and aesthetic your own subject positions as The course does not intend

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Returning your work Application deadline Applying Please ensure you pack your portfolio securely as Goldsmiths cannot accept any responsibility for any loss or damage; do not send Entry date Application deadline originals. If you’d like us to return your work, please enclose a suitable self-addressed return envelope, together with the appropriate reply- September 2014 1 June 2014 How to apply Prerequisites paid coupon or postage stamps. We cannot return your work if you January 2015 15 October 2014 In some cases, there are prerequisites for courses, or groups of do not do so; in such cases, you must arrange collection of your Please complete and return the application form at www.gold.ac.uk/ courses (eg Year 2 Politics courses). These are clearly indicated either work by the end of the first week of October 2014 – Goldsmiths will media/study-abroad-2013.pdf if you are applying for Study Abroad underneath the course titles or at the start of each course section. arrange automatic disposal after this date. Offers of places status, or you are an Exchange Student – a student at a university Please make sure that you read and understand all requirements After you have accepted our offer of a place, you will be sent a with which Goldsmiths has an exchange agreement. To apply for an before choosing courses. Application form guidance notes confirmation letter together with an Acceptance Sheet, which you must Associate Graduate or Associate Research Studentship, please see We will use the information you provide in sections 4, 6 and 7 of sign and return to Goldsmiths to secure your place. Since Goldsmiths the previous page. You must meet any prerequisites before you arrive at Goldsmiths, and the application form to assess your suitability and eligibility for the receives more applications for Study Abroad status than it can accept, we make offers of places on the condition that you will meet them. courses. Other information will be used for statistical and planning submission of an application is not a guarantee of acceptance. Agencies You do not need to have met these requirements before you apply. purposes, and for seeking to make arrangements for disabled Goldsmiths has co-operative agreements with several organisations students who are admitted. If you become a student at Goldsmiths Term dates that assist in the counselling and placement of American students in If you have any questions about prerequisites, please contact us: as a result of this application, information that you provide on this Autumn term British universities and colleges, typically for all or part of their Junior [email protected] form will become part of your student record. If you do not, it will 22 September 2014 – 12 December 2014 Year. The organisations include: be destroyed, normally approximately one year after your proposed Spring term How do I choose my courses? entry date. 12 January 2015 – 27 March 2015 Arcadia University, The College of Global Studies You choose courses – from one or more departments – which run Summer term Glenside, PA 19038, tel (215) 572 2901 during the terms you are at Goldsmiths and add up to the correct If there is not enough space for your entry on any section of the form 27 April 2015 – 19 June 2015 number of credits for your period of study; please see below. you should add separate sheets and note on the relevant section of Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Goldsmiths’ academic year works on a three-term system – Autumn, the form that you have done so. Read your entries on the form before Welcome programme 300 Fore Street, Portland ME 04101, Spring and Summer – and term dates for 2014-15 are shown on the you send it to us and remember that we only have the information You will attend a welcome programme before beginning your period tel 1-207-553-4299 next page. you provide and cannot consider an incomplete application. of study. The programme introduces you to Goldsmiths’ facilities email [email protected] and services and the local area, and gives general advice about You cannot choose to study courses for the Summer term only, You are advised to keep a copy of your completed form for your own life in the UK. You should not make any other arrangements during Cultural Experiences Abroad (CEA) unless this is specifically stated. The start of the academic year is in records before submitting it to the College. the welcome period. We will assume that you have attended this 2999 N.44th Street, Suite 200, Phoenix, AZ, 85018-7248 September and below each course title there is a guide to show the programme and that the information provided is known to you. tel 480-557-7900 term(s) in which the course is taught, and the credit weighting for The application form is available in a large print format – please contact The welcome programme for students starting their studies in the email [email protected] each term’s work. us on +44 (0)20 7919 7700. Autumn term will take place in the week beginning 17 September 2014. The provisional date for the Spring term welcome programme The time in the UK is five hours later than EST. You are expected to undertake a full course load for your period Please note: applications received prior to the deadlines are is 3-4 January 2015; please check the Study Abroad website or of study. You must choose courses that add up to the following guaranteed consideration; those received after the deadline are only contact the International Partnerships and Developments Team for Alternatively, check at your home university’s Study Abroad office, minimum number of credits: considered if there are still vacancies. confirmation of the date. as you may be eligible to apply directly to Goldsmiths, or petition to undertake your study with us. Full academic year 36 credits September-December 16 credits Entrance requirements September-March 32 credits For entry to Level 1 courses, students will normally be enrolled at a January-March 16 credits university/college. To apply to Level 2 and 3 courses you will normally January-June 20 credits have completed one year of university/college level study.

For entry to Level Zero courses, students will normally have completed secondary school/high school and be registered to study at undergraduate level in the coming year. You will need to check with your home university the courses If you are applying from an American-system college or university, you may be required to take to obtain credit, and provide suitable you should have achieved a GPA of at least 3.0. If you have a lower alternatives to your first choices. It is not always possible to offer GPA we may still consider you, particularly if you want to concentrate you your first choice of course because of limits on numbers, or on a decided major and have an adequate GPA in previous work in timetabling. We cannot guarantee that you will be able to make that subject. changes on arrival. Please visit www.gold. English Language Your performance is examined or assessed on each course, ac.uk/studyabroad/ The majority of classes are taught in English. If English is not your and a grade is awarded under the British grading system. Your apply for further first language, you must satisfy us that your English is of a high Goldsmiths Certificate also records Goldsmiths’ advice as to the details of how to apply and links to the enough standard. Please see pages 7-8 for information on English number of credits you have taken, but the interpretation of these application form. Language competence requirements and for details of English credits is a matter for your home university or college. There are Language courses that you can take before you begin your set requirements for each course that you will be expected to programme of study. meet. No classes can be taken by audit.

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Please note that this Immigration information refers to the UK Immigration System at the time of writing. Check regularly for updates on the UK Visa Service Section website, www.ukvisas.gov.uk.

UK Immigration control affects everyone who is not a British National Passport with ‘Student Visitor’ rather than ‘General Visitor’ so that unconditional offer to study in the UK and evidence of your finances. Employment – unless you already have no limit or restriction on your stay in the you don’t face any difficulties during your time in the UK. You will have to show these documents to the Border Force Officer As an international student it is important to check your visa before UK. EU, EEA and Swiss Nationals can live, work and study in the UK on arrival at the Port of Entry. Even if you have already obtained seeking employment, as you may not be permitted to work in the with very few restrictions. All other nationals who want to come and For information on the process of applying for entry clearance as a Entry Clearance as a Student Visitor before travelling to the UK, UK. You must not work if your passport sticker or identity card says study in the UK usually obtain entry clearance as a Tier 4 student student please visit www.ukvisas.gov.uk. it is a good idea to carry with you all documents that you submitted ‘No work’ or ‘Work prohibited’, as this would be a breach of your (that is, they must obtain a Tier 4 student visa). This can sometimes with your immigration application, since a Border Force Officer may immigration conditions and a criminal offence. take several weeks to complete, so you are advised to get the process The UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA) has request these. started as soon as possible. For more information, contact the British produced a very helpful information sheet, to help you apply for Tier 4 students are allowed to work part-time during term time Embassy or High Commission in your home country or visit a Tier 4 visa in your home country. You can find that here: Student Visitors wishing to come to the UK for up to 11 months to (either 10 or 20 hours per week; please note that this includes both www.ukvisas.gov.uk. www.ukcisa.org.uk/student/info_sheets/immigration_uk.php study an English Language course must apply for Entry Clearance paid and unpaid work), and full-time during vacations and during regardless of whether they are a visa national or a non-visa national. extra time you are given on your visa, after your studies have ended. If you intend to study a course lasting more than six months, or UKCISA also produces an information sheet for students wanting Please note that unlike a Tier 4 visa, Entry Clearance as a Student The number of hours you are allowed to work during term time an English Language course lasting more than 11 months, you should to come to the UK as Student Visitors: www.ukcisa.org.uk/student/ Visitor can be applied for from within any country outside of the UK. will depend upon when you made your most recent immigration enter the UK as a Tier 4 (General) Student. It is usually very difficult, info_sheets/immigration_student_visitor.php. This information application and the level of course you are studying. For more and sometimes impossible, to switch to Tier 4 once you are in the UK, sheet also outlines the procedure and requirements for making an Part 6A of the Immigration Rules, paragraphs 245ZT-245ZY set out information, please visit www.ukcisa.org.uk/student/info_sheets/ if you enter using a different type of visa. application as a Student Visitor. the requirements of making a Tier 4 application: working_during_studies.php. Please note that some courses do www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/policyandlaw/immigrationlaw/ not have traditional ‘vacation periods’, and so for some postgraduate If you are aged over 18 and you are coming to study on a course of six Students applying for Student Visitor Visas who are nationals of immigrationrules/part6a students, you can only work full-time during your vacation period, months or less (or an English Language course of 11 months or less), certain countries may need to apply for their visa before they travel. if your department are happy to confirm that it is your vacation time. you can come to the UK as a ‘Student Visitor’, instead of as a Tier 4 If you are a ‘visa national’ you would need to apply in advance of Please be aware that under new Home Office rules, if you do not student. A Student Visitor visa is less flexible that a Tier 4 visa. If you your trip to the UK. If you are a ‘non-visa national’ it is possible to come to or complete your enrolment, fail to attend satisfactorily, or Tier 4 students must not engage in business, be self-employed, come to the UK as a Student Visitor, you would be unable to work, obtain your Student Visitor Visa at the port of entry, but we would subsequently withdraw from your programme of study, Goldsmiths provide services as a professional sports person or entertainer, or whether paid or unpaid, you couldn’t undertake a work placement, recommend you apply in advance, so that you are fully prepared is obliged to inform the Home Office that you are not meeting the pursue a career by filling a permanent full-time vacancy. If you are you cannot extend your stay in the UK and you would be unable to before you come to the UK. For a full list of ‘non-visa national requirements of your Tier 4 student visa. found in breach of the restrictions it is very serious and can lead to switch to any other immigration category during your stay, including countries’ please see the UKBA webpages: www.ukba.homeoffice. expulsion from the UK. Tier 4. gov.uk/policyandlaw/immigrationlaw/immigrationrules/ appendix1 Remember that when applying for entry clearance you will need to It is very important that you do not enter the UK as a General Visitor, show UK immigration authorities that you can pay your fees and living because the Immigration rules do not allow you to study as a General It is also important that if you are a non-visa national and intend costs without needing to work. You cannot claim welfare benefits. Visitor. It is not possible for General Visitors to switch to Student to apply for permission to enter the UK on arrival, you carry in your Visitor, or Tier 4 when they are in the UK. If you are coming as a hand luggage all documents required to support your application Goldsmiths has trained advisers on campus to offer immigration and Student Visitor, make sure your Immigration Officer stamps your to enter the UK as a Student Visitor. This includes evidence of your employment advice – see www.gold.ac.uk/student-services/advice.

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Study Abroad and Exchange Students in a relatively inexpensive area. We estimate that as a single undergraduate you will need at least £1,000 per month for your pay full-cost fees, whatever their living and accommodation expenses. This figure does not include country of origin. Financial support international flights. from the UK Government is only Exchange students available to undergraduate students Exchange students do not have to pay tuition fees, but other costs who can satisfy conditions related are estimated at £1,000 per month. to the length and purpose of their Opening a bank account residence in the UK, and who have It is advisable that you open a UK bank account once you arrive no restrictions on living in the UK. in the UK. You can open a student account at any high street bank. Citibank are able to offer you an account that enables you to transfer money between a UK and US Citibank account. A similar facility may be available in other countries. Check with your local bank as soon as possible.

Foreign exchange control

It is very important that you make arrangements for the transfer of Fees and living expenses funds to pay your fees and maintenance costs before you come to the UK. This is a particular problem in countries with strict exchange Tuition fees control regulations, such as Nigeria and Iran. Remember that your See www.gold.ac.uk/studyabroad for the latest information. fees are due at the beginning of your period of study, and you will not be allowed to attend classes unless you can make satisfactory High cost programmes are those with a major studio or laboratory arrangements for payment. content, or which mainly involve Art Practice, Communication Studies, Computing, Design, Theatre and Peformance, Music or Banker’s draft Psychology – or any majority combination of these subjects. It is The cheapest way of bringing money into the UK, for fees etc, is likely that Art students will have to pay for some materials during to get a banker’s draft in pounds sterling drawn on a bank in the UK. their course; you will be sent a materials list with details of costs. It will be more expensive to get a pounds sterling cheque drawn on Further advice on the costs of study is given to you when you accept a foreign bank outside the UK, due to extra bank charges levied by our offer of a place. the banking system here.

Please note: the fees for 2014-2015 had not been finalised at the International currency transfer time of going to print, so as a guide we’ve included details of the If you choose to send money through a bank in your home country 2013-2014 fees. (an ‘International currency transfer’), indicate that you will pay all bank and agent’s charges; this may help you to avoid further bank Fees (2013-14) Fees (2013-14) charges when the money reaches Goldsmiths’ bank. You should keep Standard High cost a copy of the transaction note to bring with you.

Autumn term £5,270 £6,750 Other methods of payment September-December If you choose to pay by any other method, you will have to pay extra Spring term £5,270 £6,750 bank charges levied by the banking system, which is outside the January-March control of Goldsmiths’ management and bank. Autumn and Spring terms £10,530 £13,500 September –March Please note: if you are transferring money directly into Goldsmiths’ Spring and Summer terms £7,730 £9,900 account, please add £20 sterling to cover bank charges and ensure January-June your name is clearly stated on the payment instruction. Full year £11,700 £15,000 September-June Also note that Goldsmiths, University of London will never ask you to send your bank details by email. We will only email you from an address ending in @gold.ac.uk. If you receive an email asking Living expenses you for your bank details, do not reply or forward any money: please London can be an expensive city, but Goldsmiths is situated contact us immediately by emailing [email protected].

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Support at Goldsmiths medication under the NHS. Medication provided through a doctor is currently charged at about £7.65 per item. Treatment that is regarded International Partnerships and Developments Team as cosmetic is not available under the NHS. Contraceptive advice and Our dedicated International Partnerships and Developments Team supplies are free of charge under the NHS. can offer advice on all aspects of being an international student, including English Language, finance and accommodation guidance. Goldsmiths Medical Officers will see all students here for less than The Office will be the main point of contact for any queries you have. six months at no charge, but you will have to pay for medications On arrival at Goldsmiths you will be given a welcome programme, and any other NHS treatment. If you are staying in the UK for more which introduces you to the College and the local area and gives than six months, you should register for medical treatment on arrival, you general information about life in the UK. The Office also either with the Goldsmiths Medical Centre or a local doctor. Those organises a programme of social events that will help you get to staying for shorter periods cannot register, but can obtain treatment know your fellow students. from the Medical Centre under the terms stated above. Before coming to the UK, you are also advised to have your eyes and teeth Student Advice examined, and to have appropriate immunisation including BCG In additional to practical, non-academic and general welfare issues, (tuberculosis), Meningitis C and Mumps vaccinations. the Advice Team can offer specific advice to international students. If you have any queries regarding visas or related immigration issues, For more information about health and healthcare in the UK, visit the Team can advise you. Email [email protected] for www.ukcisa.org.uk/student/info_sheets/keeping_healthy.php. an appointment. Equality and diversity If you feel you have been the subject of discrimination or harassment by Disabled students (including students with specific learning At Goldsmiths you’ll find an environment committed to and Goldsmiths, or by one of its members of staff or students, you should Careers Service difficulties and/or long-term health conditions) supportive of diversity, the free exchange of ideas, tolerance and report the matter to the Director of Student Services, who will take The Goldsmiths Careers Service is part of The Careers Group, University Goldsmiths welcomes applications from disabled students. If you equal opportunities. We work to raise aspirations and widen access appropriate action under Goldsmiths’ Code on Equality and Diversity. of London, and has a wide range of facilities that will help you plan your disclose on your application form that you have a disability, we will to higher education. future effectively. Whatever your age or career background when you write to you to ask for more information to help us assess how we Visit www.gold.ac.uk/equal-opportunities for more information. come to Goldsmiths, we encourage you to make full use of the Service can arrange any support you may need. This is independent of your No applicant or student receives less favourable treatment on from the time you start. Even after leaving you can continue to receive academic assessment and will only be taken into account once you the grounds of gender identity, marital status, religion, or belief, Terms and conditions careers support through subscription to GradClub, which enables you are to be offered a place on a programme of study. race, colour, nationality, disability, age, sexual orientation, parental All students are subject to Goldsmiths’ Regulations (published at to get extended careers advice and services. status, class, or ethnic or national origins, or is disadvantaged by www.gold.ac.uk/regulations). When you accept an offer to study Support can include: personal support if appropriate; non-subject requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable. at Goldsmiths you undertake to comply with these Regulations, with Healthcare in the UK based tutorial support if you have a specific learning difficulty; Goldsmiths’ Charter, Statutes and Ordinances (www.gold.ac.uk/ Unless you are entitled to free healthcare under the National Health adjustments to examination arrangements; and organising where Goldsmiths welcomes all applications for admission from applicants governance/ordinances and www.gold.ac.uk/governance/charter- Service (NHS), you must organise health insurance before you come possible for teaching to take place in accessible accommodation. who may have a disability, specific learning difficulty or a long- statutes), with the Statutes and Regulations of the University of to the UK. You are entitled to hospital treatment under the NHS free Some areas of the campus are not fully accessible to people with term physical or mental health-related issue. All applications are London (available from the University of London, Senate House, Malet of charge if either mobility difficulties, so if you have such difficulties we recommend considered purely on the basis of their academic qualifications and/ Street, London WC1E 7HU), and with relevant legislation in force at that you visit the campus so that we can show you around and or suitability for the degree. Sub-boards and Joint Sub-boards of the time. Please note that a student who has not received the official  your course lasts longer than six months discuss appropriate solutions. Examiners ensure that students, once registered on a programme, written offer of a place from the Goldsmiths Admissions Office or are fairly treated in respect of their academic progress. (or UCAS, GTTR or SWAS as appropriate) may not be admitted to,  you come from a country that has reciprocal health agreements Disability Team or enrolled on, a programme of study. with the UK. Goldsmiths has a Disability Team who are the main point of contact The College has a Disability Co-ordinator who liaises with those for disabled students. The Disability Team can assist in the organisation who have administrative responsibility for applicants and students Obligations of Goldsmiths If you are not from a country that has reciprocal health agreements of any support that you might need and give general advice on issues who have declared to College that they have a disability and/or Goldsmiths undertakes all reasonable steps to provide educational with the UK and are staying for less than six months, you must carry related to disability. They are the point of contact for any disability- learning difficulty to ensure that information is passed to appropriate services including teaching, examination, assessment and other health insurance sufficient for your needs. A stay in a hospital could related queries you have before you submit your application. members of staff in a timely manner. related services, set out in its prospectuses and programme literature easily cost thousands of pounds in addition to charges for treatment. (‘Educational Services’). However, except where otherwise expressly You should take out insurance at home rather than on arrival. Please Assistive Technology Centre (ATC) The College will make reasonable adjustments in order to stated, Goldsmiths regrets that it cannot accept liability or pay note: many insurers will not cover the costs of pregnancy or of pre- The ATC is an open access computer workstation/study room. The accommodate any additional needs relating to any student’s/ any compensation where the performance or prompt performance existing conditions. computers in the ATC have access to the usual software available applicant’s disability. The College will take appropriate advice when of its obligations to provide Educational Services is prevented or elsewhere, plus some specialist software that you might find useful, determining reasonable adjustments. In the unlikely event that the affected by ‘force majeure’. ‘Force majeure’ means any event which Proof of health insurance is something that could be requested upon including TextHELP, Inspiration, Kurzweil 3000, Dragon Naturally College is unable to accommodate adjustments required by the Goldsmiths could not, even with all due care, foresee or avoid. Such entering the UK by UKBA. Please check the regulations before you Speaking, Luna, and Jaws. student, or if the student disagrees with the reasonable adjustments events may include (but are not limited to) war or threat of war, travel – www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas-immigration. offered, a brief written report will be submitted to the Director riot, civil strife, terrorist activity, industrial dispute, natural or nuclear Contacts of Student Services giving the reasons for the recommendations. disaster, adverse weather conditions, pandemic flu, interruption in All students should note that outside the hospital system, treatment +44 (0)20 7717 2292 power supplies or other services for any reason, fire and all similar is subject to fixed charges even if you receive treatment or www.gold.ac.uk/disability events outside our control.

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