Study Abroad | London
Fall 2024: Academics

Course Code: 6ACCN007W

Instruction Language: English

The module will emphasise why accounting theory can be used to understand issues such as accounting measurement, accounting information, accounting methods and capital markets reaction to accounting information. This module will provide a balanced perspective of financial accounting theory and practice including numerical calculations for group accounts. Students will be expected to critically discuss the theories for and against regulation of financial accounting and others that explain different types of voluntary reporting decisions. Because the module provides a balanced perspective of alternative and conflicting theories of financial accounting, the module can provide basis for students’ contemplating research in different areas of financial accounting.Learning activities include directed lecture, seminar and workshops which will include case study scenarios. The workshops will be used to engage students in debate and use of sources from real-life companies and contemporary events to illustrate financial accounting in practice. Assessment: Essay (25%), Examination – closed book (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4ACCN012W

Instruction Language: English

In this module, you will gain a fundamental grounding in a wide range of accounting and financial issues. You will also have the opportunity to develop decision-making skills that are essential for managers through the analysis and interpretation of financial information. You will appreciate this module because you will gain a desirable skill set recognised by employers including analytical skills using a variety of techniques that will keep you interested and engaged throughout the module. Assessment: Multiple-Choice Question Test (25%), Coursework (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5ARAB001W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-requisite: 4ARAB002W The Arabic World and the Word 2 or equivalent Students will be required to attend a testing session upon arrival to confirm eligibility. Second-year post-beginner students of Arabic will learn a range of language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to enable them to function with an intermediate level of linguistic and cultural autonomy in Arabic-speaking environments. Language and culture are taught through task-based and enquiry-based approaches with special emphasis on the promotion of intercultural understanding. Students will achieve levels B1; cultural elements focus on key events and ideas that have shaped the contemporary Arab world. Assessment: Portfolio (30%), In-Class Test/Assignment exam conditions (30%), Essay (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4ARAB001W

Instruction Language: English

Beginners and false beginners of Arabic will learn a range of language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to enable them to function with a limited degree of linguistic and cultural autonomy in Arabic-speaking countries and the learning environment. Language and culture are taught in an integrated way through task-based and enquiry-based approaches to learning. Students will achieve levels A1 to lower A2 on the CEFR; cultural elements focus on key concepts of study from the Arab world. Assessment: Portfolio (60%), Essay (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4ELIT010X

Instruction Language: English

This module is an introduction to the visual culture of London, including painting, architecture, photography and contemporary media. Students will visit the major art galleries to examine how art works exhibitions and cultural organisations can be understood within wider social contexts. The sessions also include museums and historical sites, such as the British Museum and St Paul’s Cathedral, as well as art galleries. The classes will explore how these institutions reveal the complex cultural identity and history of London. The module develops students’ skills in visual analysis and critical thinking about culture. Assessment: Essay (75%), Presentation (25%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6BIOL001W

Instruction Language: English

This module will explore the environmental, social and economic foundationsof sustainability and the influence of policy, governance and design on them. You will identity innovative biological solutions that can be used to mitigate challenges to local, regional and global sustainable development and design your own solution to a named problem. Assessment: Coursework (60%), Presentation Group (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4BIOL001W

Instruction Language: English

A study of how molecular bioscience can help solve biological problems encountered by human beings. The theme followed molecular bioscience will start with a consideration of how sequencing the human genome and bioinformatic analysis has led to the incarnation of personal medicine. It will consider how human diseases and conditions are being treated in the 21st Century: the development of new antibiotics the use of stem cell biology and the science of tissue regeneration. Specific studies will be made of cancer and neuro-degeneration to show how modern molecular biochemical and biophysical techniques are being used by Bioscientists to study these diseases. In addition the wider applications of molecular science in agriculture forensic science and biotechnology will be explored. Assessment: Coursework (40%), Coursework (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4BIOM004W

Instruction Language: English

The emphasis for this module is to develop an understanding of how the structural organisation of different cell types within a tissue/organ enable and support the tissue/organ’s normal function. For every tissue/organ studied, the functional role of that tissue/organ in the whole body, as covered in Human Physiology, will be studied. A significant component of the module will be evaluating the impact of pathological processes on whole body physiology and integrity. Assessment: Multiple-Choice Question Test (40%), Coursework (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5BIOM009W

Instruction Language: English

The pathogenesis of human parasitic diseases; case histories will be used to demonstrate the principles and practice of parasitology. Life cycles and control of insect, worm and protozoan parasites including malaria, schistosomiasis, trypanosomiasis and nematode infections. The failures and successes of control programmes will be reviewed. Other topics covered will be the impact of HIV/AIDS, the effect of parasitic infections on nutrition and the importance of insects as vectors of parasitic diseases. Assessment: Coursework (30%), In-Class Test/Assignment exam conditions (40%), Coursework (30%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5BICH001W

Instruction Language: English

This module provides a comprehensive overview of modern biochemistry. Topics include major pathways for the degradation and / or biosynthesis of carbohydrates, fatty acids & amino acids, respiration & oxidative phosphorylation, the role of enzymes in metabolic processes, all underpinned with a stress on underlying thermodynamic principles. The module will also provide a thorough overview of various strategies (e.g. enzyme regulation, cell signaling, etc.) employed by organisms to regulate their metabolism and maintain homeostasis. Finally, the module will also examine a number of important metabolic disorders and diseases in order to allow students to integrate and apply what they have learnt throughout the module. Assessment: Presentation (40%), Multiple-Choice Question Test (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5BICH003W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-requisites: Previous study in Biochemistry This module will build on fundamental principles covered at level 4 about DNA and gene expression to introduce concepts about epigenetic and microRNA gene regulation. The module will discuss polymorphisms and their inheritance. A range of molecular techniques will be covered which include DNA isolation from a range of starting sources, amplification of specific regions of DNA, separation of DNA fragments, cloning, recombinant DNA expression and sequencing. Assessment: Multiple-Choice Question Test (30%), Presentation Group (30%), Coursework (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5BIOM003W

Instruction Language: English

This module comprises lectures and tutorials designed to give students an understanding of molecular and cellular therapeutic strategies available for the treatment of inherited and acquired diseases. As the field is progressing rapidly the contents are upgraded annually to introduce cutting edge current concepts and opinions. Modern molecular and gene therapies, immunotherapy,bacteriophage-based therapies, clinical trials and associated ethical issues are discussed. Assessment: Coursework (60%), Multiple-Choice Question Test (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6BIOM005W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-requisite: 5BIOM008W Infection and Immunity or equivalent Detection, identification and characterization of pathogenic microorganisms. Pathogenesis, transmission and epidemiology of infectious diseases; treatment and prevention of infectious with emphasis on diseases of current and emerging importance. Also covered are: laboratory automation, antibiotic resistance; microbial genomics and bioinformatics: public health measures used for disease control. Assessment: Coursework (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5PHYM001W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-requisite: Previous study in Physiology or Biochemistry Using student-centred enquiry based learning, which allows students to become co-creators of their own knowledge in a small group format, students will be required to integrate and synthesize material covered in this module with learning from both Physiological Biochemistry and Physiological Networks in order to further their understanding of how the different body systems are regulated and how one system influences another. Clinical disorders will be used to demonstrate the consequence(s) of disruption to normal function in one system on another system/other systems. Assessment: Portfolio (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4BUIS016W

Instruction Language: English

This module introduces the important roles of information and analytics in the business decision making context. It takes the student on a journey through responsible acquisition, analysis, presentation and preservation of information. Digital business software and its practical applications in finding, analysing and communicating data and information will be explored. Understanding of information flows within organisations and the management and operations functions and the systems needed to support decision making securely and ethically will be developed by a mix of hands on, classroom based learning and self-directed study. Assessment: Presentation Group- submissions only (25%), Portfolio (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4HURM010W

Instruction Language: English

The module is designed to facilitate understanding of the behaviour of others in organisations and to improve self-insight.??It draws on the theory and literature of Organisational Behaviour to stimulate awareness of the key challenges and factors that affect behaviour in organisations.??The module promotes a challenging and critical perspective, drawing on organisational examples and personal experiences, to help you to develop essential skills for your future success. Assessment: Coursework (25%), Essay (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6DIBU001W

Instruction Language: English

The business environment is increasingly characterised by the impact of technology and technology led innovations; however, this has several facets. Leading to innovations in how products and services are consumed, especially by technology enabled customers, consumers; who also present complex and evolving expectations.This is further supported by innovations that appear from what is ‘left field’; not from the industry, sector or geographic region that is the historic expectation. This module endeavours to increase awareness of the opportunity for innovation and the understanding to significantly contribute to digital business innovation either leading or responding to external innovation. Assessment: Coursework (50%), Film/Video (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6BDIN005W

Instruction Language: English

The module is aimed at students interested in developing their project and programme management skills and knowledge. This module will provide an overview of the fundamentals of project management and will then explore challenges of strategic and international project/programme management Assessment: Coursework (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4BICH001W

Instruction Language: English

Students of Life Sciences need to be comfortable with the chemistry and biochemistry of the molecules of life and the processes in which these molecules are vital components.This module will enable students to explore the diversity and function of a broad range of biological molecules, combining a range of learning and teaching methods (lectures, practicals and tutorials) to support the student through this challenging subject. It is essential that students be given the opportunity to develop laboratory skills, and as such the a number of formative practical exercises will be undertaken, in line with the theoretical content of the module. Students will be assessed both formatively and summatively, giving them the opportunity to improve on their skills and to prepare them for higher levels of study. Areas covered are: properties & reactions of biological molecules; biomolecular processes; energy for life’s processes and laboratory techniques for biochemistry and molecular biology. Assessment: Coursework (25%), Lab-Based Practical (25%), Multiple-Choice Question Test (50%), Coursework (25%), Lab-Based Practical (25%), Multiple-Choice Question Test (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5CHIN001W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-requisite: 4CHIN002W The Chinese World and the Word 2 or equivalent Students will be required to attend a testing session upon arrival to confirm eligibility. Second-year post-beginner students of Chinese will learn a range of language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to enable them to function with an intermediate level of linguistic and cultural autonomy in Chinese-speaking environments. Language and culture are taught through task-based and enquiry-based approaches with special emphasis on the promotion of intercultural understanding. Students will achieve levels B1 or B2 (depending on entry point); cultural elements focus on key events and ideas that have shaped the contemporary Chinese world. Assessment: Portfolio (30%), In-Class Test/Assignment exam conditions (30%), Essay (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4CHIN001W

Instruction Language: English

There are two pathways to this module – students can either be at beginner or intermediate level. Students will be required to attend a testing session upon arrival to confirm the correct pathway. Beginners and false beginners of Chinese will learn a range of language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to enable them to function with a limited degree of linguistic and cultural autonomy in Chinese-speaking countries and the learning environment. Language and culture are taught in an integrated way through task-based and enquiry-based approaches to learning. Student will achieve levels A1 to lower A2 (beginners and false beginners, or upper B1 (intermediates) on the CEFR; cultural elements focus on key concepts of study from the Chinese world. Assessment: Portfolio (60%), Essay (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5MECM012W

Instruction Language: English

IELTS 6.5 with 6.0 in Writing and Speaking Portfolio required. This module introduces students to the challenges of an increasingly complex world where design thinking, and processes can contribute to more positive, inclusive and sustainable outcomes. This course encourages students to think critically about their circumstances and their responsibilities as communicators to serve the best interests of the future of our planet. As communicators and citizens, we must assume a greater role in rethinking, pursuing, creating and achieving smarter, more practical, and less wasteful approaches to our practical needs. Assessment: Presentation Group (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4MECM003W

Instruction Language: English

An overall IELTS score of 6.5 is required with a minimum 6.0 in Writing and Speaking. This module introduces key debates concerning the social, political, economic and technological significance of the changing digital media industries.It aims to provide an understanding of the relationship between society and digital media. By exploring key concepts such as structure, agency, power, representation and communication this module will question how digital media shape our interactions and experiences, how they change institutions (both social and industrial) and what the effects of this are on the changing digital media landscape. We will equip students with knowledge and critical understanding of the key features of contemporary digital media environments. Assessment: Practical Coursework (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4LANS003W

Instruction Language: English

The module provides students with an introduction to the relevant theories of interpersonal and global communication. By exploring these theories and linking them to practical everyday situations, students will have the opportunity to reflect on how these apply to their own communicative contexts. Focus will be placed on gaining practical strategies for enhancing their own competences as communicators. Assessment: Coursework (35%), Essay (40%), Portfolio (25%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4MEST001W

Instruction Language: English

Portfolio required. This module establishes the interrelationship between media theory and practice by introducing social and conceptual frameworks that underpin creativity in the contemporary media industries. This interconnectedness is reflected in the assessment structure, comprising a Written Essay (30%) to be chosen from a series of questions, followed by a Visual Essay (70%) based on the themes and debates addressed across the module. As such, the module also develops both key academic and creative skills for critical research and analysis. Assessment: Practical Coursework (70%), Essay (30%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5COSC020W

Instruction Language: English

This module provides solid knowledge and skills in the area of database systems, SQL and XML. It covers the logical design of a relational schema. It also covers the implementation of the database in a major DBMS and the manipulation of the data using SQL. Subsequently, it considers the transformation and rendering of XML documents using XSLT and the extraction of elements from XML documents using XPath and XQuery. Finally, it explores issues related to NoSQL databases and XML databases.

Course Code: 4COSC001W

Instruction Language: English

An introduction to computer programming in a high-level programming language. The module concentrates on teaching the fundamentals of programming and algorithm design. Basic coding structures such as sequence, selection, and iteration will be covered. There will be an emphasis on practical exercises to develop programming experience and confidence. Assessment: Coursework (50%), In-Class Test/Assignment exam conditions (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5MEST002W

Instruction Language: English

The module explores key critical theories of media and culture, and their impact upon current media practices. You will consider ideas applicable across current media, and will then work within media specific lecture and seminar strands (typically moving image, photography and interactive media) to develop an informed critical response to your own practice, principally the Media Frontiers Project. Assessment: Essay (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5MEST001W

Instruction Language: English

Portfolio required. The frontiers of contemporary media practice increasingly disregard the distinctions between traditional media disciplines, and this module aims to engage you in exploring these frontiers. Intermediate and advanced workshops in all course media will be offered to support your projects. You will be asked to identify your own production methods in relation to this spread of media. Assessment: Project (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5MEST006W

Instruction Language: English

Portfolio required. Portfolios should consist of written work in script or creative writing mode. This module enables you to gain practical experience and a theoretical understanding of the processes involved in writing a short script for film, and by extension for wider audio-visual media. The role of the writer and these writing processes are placed within a professional framework and the specific practices of writing for media differentiated from other forms of writing (e.g. journalistic, literary). Assessment: Coursework (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5MEST005W

Instruction Language: English

Portfolio required. This module allows you to engage with the methods and concerns of wider media traditions associated with courses in the Transmedia Cluster. You select one area to explore in depth, with choices reflecting current practices in core disciplines from the cluster, as well as some related disciplines. You work with the selected media, applying also your prior skills and experience from your own discipline. Assessment: Project (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6CREW004W

Instruction Language: English

This module examines contemporary and traditional theory concerning life writing, whilst introducing students to the skills needed to explore forms such as narrative non-fiction, autobiography, biography, memoir, auto-fiction. The demands of print and on-line platforms will both be addressed. Assessment: Portfolio (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5CRIM004W

Instruction Language: English

designed to encourage students to critically reflect on the contribution of feminist theories to criminology; to understand the significance of gender in understanding crime, victimisation and criminal justice; and to analyse the role of the law, criminal justice and discourses about crime in the reproduction of gender relationships; considers current social policy in this area and consider issues of gender in an international context. Assessment: Essay (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5CRIM002W

Instruction Language: English

International trends in crime and justice, and relationship to globalisation and its implications for the discipline of criminology; case studies of national and transnational crime and justice, including urban crime and policing in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the ‘cocaine trail’ from Latin to North America, to the perils faced by African migrants being smuggled across borders into ‘fortress Europe’ Assessment: Coursework (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4CRIM002W

Instruction Language: English

Critical examination of major institutions of justice; roles played Parliament in producing criminal law to the roles played by the police, prosecution, probation and prison service in law enforcement and punishment; roles of courts in adjudicating, sentencing and rectifying miscarriages of justice. Particular attention paid to the consequences of British membership of the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights. Assessment: Coursework (50%), Presentation Group (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5CRIM003W

Instruction Language: English

Critical examination of racial differences in criminal justice practice; possible explanations from perspectives of criminological theory; socio-legal accounts of criminal justice process, social policy and critical race theory. External guest speakers help to inform students about current developments. Assessment: Presentation (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6CRIM004W

Instruction Language: English

Introduces students to the theory, practice and scope of civil liberties and human rights in a global context; enables students to explore adequacy of legal protections afforded to individuals and groups, and examine consequences when such freedoms are denied; focus is on framework for civil liberties and centres on specific freedoms and rights: freedom of expression; freedom from discrimination; the right to privacy. Assessment: Presentation (25%), Essay (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6CRIM007W

Instruction Language: English

State a ‘protector’ against or perpetrator of crime? Informed by critical criminological theoretical perspectives, module interrogates such issues and explores the extent to which state formations engage in or facilitate crime; nature of state crime and human rights violations via range of contemporary case studies: poses question whether harms committed by states are more serious and widespread consequences than ‘everyday crime’. Assessment: Portfolio (10%), Coursework (90%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6CRIM006W

Instruction Language: English

The relationship between the media and crime is a topic of lively debate and research. This module provides a critical exploration of the field and offers students the opportunity to study media representations of crime, criminality and criminal justice across a range of media forms; from newspaper crime reports and television news to reality crime television, film, television drama, literature and video games and websites. Assessment: Presentation (50%), Artefacts and practical designs (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5MECM007W

Instruction Language: English

IELTS 6.5 with 6.0 in Writing and Speaking This module helps students develop a critical understanding of the consumer as a key figure in capitalist society, by drawing on different analytical approaches including political economy, cultural studies and feminist theory. The module analyses themes such as choice, surveillance, resistance, consumption management, and self-policing. It aims to make sense of the function that promotional industries (advertising, marketing communications, PR) play within late capitalist democracy, and in the context of global and national crises (environmental, financial, social, political). It introduces the student to key theoretical ideas from social and critical theory, political economy and political philosophy, and encourages the student both to reflect on their personal and professional experience, and to apply ideas discussed in the module to real world problems and examples. It aims to develop the student’s ability to critique the function, practices and dominant narratives of promotional communication. Assessment: Presentation Group (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5MECM003W

Instruction Language: English

IELTS 6.5 with 6.0 in Writing and Speaking This module provides a conceptual and practical understanding of the development, significance and contemporary uses of social media, and grounds these within histories of the internet and internet cultures. It encourages learners to engage in both critical analysis and reflective practice in the networked digital media environment. Learners will critically engage with key ideas surrounding internet technologies and industries, and with the social and cultural dimensions of internet use in the social media environment. Assessment: Presentation (15%), Portfolio (35%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5ELIT007W

Instruction Language: English

This module introduces students to the key debates and concepts that have been central to the formation of current understandings of memory, and its relationship to culture, history, and representation. Sample topics include slavery and its contemporary legacies; the Holocaust; and 9/11. Assessment: Presentation (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6MEST009W

Instruction Language: English

An overall IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent is required with a minimum 6.0 in Writing and Speaking. An examination and analysis of the media policy issues and dilemmas which are currently being debated – from privacy, censorship, press regulation and the BBC’s future to convergence, media ownership, net neutrality, and the policy implications of digital and social media – which will shape media industries and media output over the coming years in the UK and around the world. Assessment: Essay (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6MEST014W

Instruction Language: English

An overall IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent is required with a minimum 6.0 in Writing and Speaking. This module enables students to gain a critical understanding of the main theories and debates on race, multiculturalism, representation, citizenship, and the political and social contexts of reporting on or discussing diversity. It builds on key concepts from social, political and media theory. Taking both a theoretical and historical approach, the module investigates why certain groups in the society were included in, or excluded from the mainstream, demonised or praised and what the role of institutions, opinion leaders and media of all sorts was in these societal developments. The module offers an innovative mix of theory and practice and not only looks at traditional and digital media but also other cultural forms (the syllabus may at times include campaigning, advertisements, film, and even museums), to discuss how various cultural products impact the understanding of diversity. Recent political developments and case studies will be discussed. The seminars mostly feature interactive and creative tasks that stimulate multi-perspective, problem-based learning and students will be assessed via practical media work as well as a more traditional academic essay. Assessment: Coursework (40%), Essay (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5MECM017W

Instruction Language: English

IELTS 6.5 with 6.0 in Writing and Speaking Portfolio required. This module introduces students to the knowledge, skills and techniques needed to be a specialist writer/reporter and looks more generally at the role of specialist journalism in the modern media. It is designed to build on the basic storytelling and content creation skills students gained at Level 4 and the more specific journalistic skills developed in the first half of Level 5. Students build on the latter in particular to develop the more specific techniques required to cover different ‘beats’. The module allows students to explore different specialist areas – Fashion Journalism, International News, Travel Journalism, Arts and Entertainment Journalism, Finance and Business Journalism and Sports Journalism. Students choose to specialise in one of the areas and learn about the different story types and formats of particular specialist beats. They are introduced to the different sources specialist journalists work with – in particular PRs and press offices. They learn about the way online technologies and social media have changed the work of specialist journalists. They also consider the changing markets for specialist writing. Assessment: Portfolio (30%), Portfolio (70%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6ECON007W

Instruction Language: English

The aim of this module is to develop an understanding of the present state of microeconomic and macroeconomic policy and its application to the UK and the global economy. In order to understand the policy framework, the theoretical background and institutional context are covered with reference to contemporary problems faced by the UK and global economy. The microeconomic coverage focuses on the issue of market failure, and the problems created by government intervention in the economy. Assessment: Essay (25%), Coursework (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6ECON003W

Instruction Language: English

This module will cover a range of different methods, techniques and applications of econometric analysis. It has a strong applied emphasis. The E-views software is used for data analysis. The module provides students with the opportunity to improve their ability to make inferences from data. By the end of the module, students will be able to set up an econometric model, estimate it, and interpret the results. Assessment: Practical Coursework (40%), Set exercises and test (not exam conditions) (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5ECON003W

Instruction Language: English

This module aims to provide students with a deeper understanding of how macroeconomic policy can be used to critically evaluate recent developments in the international macroeconomic environment. This module seeks to build on and extend the theoretical foundations introduced in first year macroeconomics and use them to explore a range of real-world macroeconomic experiences. Assessment: Coursework (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5ECON002W

Instruction Language: English

This module applies microeconomic tools and techniques to business and management decision making. It starts by presenting the microeconomic behaviour of firms under different market structures (monopoly, monopolistic competition, duopoly and oligopoly) and demonstrates how economic forces affect organisations. It describes the economic and social consequences of managerial behaviour, relating this to the ownership and governance of organisations. It introduces instruments to analyse strategic behaviour in markets, including pricing practices, and analyses the consequences of market failure, specifically in terms of public intervention. Assessment: Coursework (25%), Essay (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5BUSS015W

Instruction Language: English

Cities of the world with their growing economies and populations are the arena of turbulent and contradictory interplay between drivers influencing profitable business opportunities, social equity and environmental stability. This module uses cities as a ‘field of enquiry’ for exploring both global and local issues of urban development and sustainability in the context of varied socio-economic, political and natural environments. Module introduces both theory and practice of managing ‘profit-people-planet’ conundrum using case studies from different parts of the world. Assessment: Coursework (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6ECON001W

Instruction Language: English

This module provides students with the opportunity to apply the core principles and theories of microeconomics to different public policy issues. The module has a focus on applying and communicating economic analysis in both technical and non-technical terms, in writing and in face-to-face discussions. The intention is to show how economic techniques of investigation can support the development of effective policy in government and the relevance of this for business and management more broadly. Assessment: Essay (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6ECON009W

Instruction Language: English

The module explores the shifts and patterns within the global economy, analyzing the impact on global businesses. Various theories of globalization will be analysed along with the role of transnational corporations, the institutions of the global economy and the problems of global governance in the context of global economic crisis and the role of corporate social responsibility. The environmental impact and ethical considerations of big business is also evaluated. Students will learn about the role and impact of external global forces on businesses and some of the strategies used to minimize risk within a changing external global environment. Assessment: Practical Coursework (25%), Coursework (25%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5MNST008W

Instruction Language: English

Decision making is about making choices, often with incomplete or uncertain information and with competing goals. The ability to make effective decisions is a key management requirement which comprises a range of different skills. These skills are highly valued by employers because they are required across many business areas – from everyday tasks through to more complex projects or unforeseen situations. This module offers a practical introduction to decision-making concepts and techniques that are commonly used in organisations to make business decisions. It looks at the ‘psychology’ of choice – how intuition, analysis and judgement affect both individual and group decisions – and how to use a range of models and ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ decision making skills to choose between different courses of action. Assessment: Presentation (25%), Coursework (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5ENGL002W

Instruction Language: English

The module aims to provide students with the necessary tools to analyse both historical and current texts in terms of the lexical and morphosyntactic features they exhibit. Texts are analysed as products of discourse; that is, examples of language that are situated in, and takes significance from, particular times and places, and are constructed with particular purposes. Assessment: Essay (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5CREW002W

Instruction Language: English

The core value of this module is that of apprenticeship, combining practical skill and critical judgement in the work of progressive re-drafting. There are three strands representing the forms of dramatic writing, poetry and prose fiction and students elect to follow two of the three throughout the year. The module provides an opportunity for the student to work on producing substantial pieces in their chosen forms with guidance and support from the tutor. Assessment: Portfolio (50%), Portfolio (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits

Course Code: 5ENGL004W

Instruction Language: English

This module focuses on the role of the reader to the process of textual interpretation. Students are introduced to topics in cognitive poetics to examine the ways in which readers combine their real-world knowledge and their understanding of characters to create discourse worlds, and how they respond to cues in texts to build an understanding of text worlds. Assessment: Presentation (20%), Essay (80%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6ELIT005W

Instruction Language: English

The first part of this module addresses a range of current socio-cultural issues that will be explored through readings from key theorists and commentators. Indicative topics include mass culture, privilege and intersectionality, cultural appropriation, public culture, bodies in public, digital culture, surveillance, national culture, citizenship and immigration, and working culture. These will be examined as they manifest themselves in everyday life as well as contemporary art, film, literature, music, and popular culture. The final part of the module will support students in developing an individual project consisting of a critical analysis of a cultural issue and object of their choice, assessed through an interlinked presentation and essay. Assessment: Presentation (25%), Essay (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6FAMN003W

Instruction Language: English

Many students possess entrepreneurial characteristics such as: vision; energy; confidence and self-reliance. This module will develop student’s natural abilities as entrepreneurs as well as providing a framework for exploring a viable business plan. A series of lectures will analyse the theory and practice of enterprise, the processes involved and the skills required. Industry experts will provide specialised knowledge. Case studies will also be applied to discuss success and failure in Industry. The module will discuss all elements of launching a business venture, from business plan projections, through to sales and marketing strategies and key performance indicators used to pursue strategic goals. Assessment: Presentation (20%), Coursework (80%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5FMST001W

Instruction Language: English

IELTS 6.5 with 6.0 in Writing This module takes an intersectional approach to race, ethnicity, gender and class in film and TV. The module will pay attention to the interconnected nature of these identities. We will look at how they shape lived experiences of people and how moving images participate in this process. We will explore how film reproduces or subverts existing norms and privileges, and discuss topics such as gender, sexuality, diversity, agency, tokenism, LGBTQI representation, critical race theory and whiteness. These terms will be discussed in relation to each other rather than mutually exclusive debates. We will also think about the film form during our classes. Examples we will be looking at will include variety of approaches to the question of identities but also different genres, including discussion on essay film. Discussions on essay film help students formulate their responses in a video essay format. Our emphasis will be on close textual analysis of films in relation to theoretical debates while paying close attention to social and historical contexts where relevant. Assessment: Coursework (40%), Coursework (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5FNCE003W

Instruction Language: English

The module aims to develop a thorough understanding of key topics and concepts in corporate finance. Students will develop skills and in-depth understanding of corporate finance themes through the knowledge and practical application of theoretical concepts, while using a variety of learning resources. A major objective of this module is to develop a thorough understanding of corporate finance from the perspectives of financial managers who are responsible for making significant investment and financial decisions. Assessment: Coursework (25%), Coursework (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6ACCN008W

Instruction Language: English

This module is intended to develop the student’s ability to critically appraise corporate treasury management decisions using an appreciation of the relevant theories of financial management and strategy. The module will enable the students to evaluate long-term and short-term financing decisions, with an emphasis on expansion and market maintenance strategies, as well as providing them with an understanding of the importance of working capital management. The module will demonstrate how decisions are made regarding proper pricing of assets in merger and acquisition situations and the appropriateness of the various methods of valuing securities. The module also considers the effects of corporate reorganisation and capital reconstruction schemes. Assessment: Presentation (25%), Coursework (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6FNCE009W

Instruction Language: English

This module is designed to prepare students with an interest in investment management with a thorough grounding in the issues facing investment managers and professionals involved with investment decisions. Assessment: Coursework (25%), Project (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4FIAR001W

Instruction Language: English

Portfolio required. An introduction to the practical & critical challenges of producing contemporary fine art. Using proposed starting points as triggers to self directed enquiry, the aim is to provoke a process of practical and critical enquiry across a range of media. Students consider context and content via presentations and through a journal. A programme of technical workshops and on-going tutorial support, screenings and seminars provide additional impetus alongside an on going diet of recommended exhibitions and events. Assessment: Coursework (80%), Coursework (20%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5FRNC001W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-requisite: 4FRNC002W The French World and the Word 2 or equivalent Students will be required to attend a testing session upon arrival to confirm eligibility. Second-year post-beginner and post-intermediate students of French will learn a range of language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to enable them to function with an intermediate to good level of linguistic and cultural autonomy in French-speaking environments. Language and culture are taught through task-based and enquiry-based approaches with special emphasis on the promotion of intercultural understanding. Students will achieve levels B1 or B2 (depending on entry point); cultural elements focus on key events and ideas that have shaped the modern and contemporary French and Francophone world. Assessment: Portfolio (30%), In-Class Test/Assignment exam conditions (30%), Essay (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4FRNC001W

Instruction Language: English

There are two pathways to this module – students can either be at beginner or intermediate level. Students will be required to attend a testing session upon arrival to confirm the correct pathway. Beginners, false beginners and intermediate students of French will learn a range of language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to enable them to function with a limited to moderate degree of linguistic and cultural autonomy in French-speaking countries and the learning environment. Language and culture are taught in an integrated way through task-based and enquiry-based approaches to learning. Student will achieve levels A1 to lower A2 (beginners and false beginners, or upper B1 (intermediates) on the CEFR; cultural elements focus on key concepts. Assessment: Portfolio (60%), Essay (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5HIST005W

Instruction Language: English

Slavery and sectionalism; secession and Civil War; Reconstruction; Jim Crow; Great Migration; black experiences of the Spanish-American War and World War I; race riots; 1920s Nativism; the rise of the Ku Klux Klan; the Harlem Renaissance; early civil rights movements and activists; Great Depression; army segregation in World War II and desegregation in Korean War; white suburbia and the black ghetto; Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s & 1960s; Federal and State responses. Assessment: Coursework (40%), Coursework (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4HIST007X

Instruction Language: English

This module examines London as the historical setting for monarchy and national ceremonial. As such the module considers Royalty’s central place in British life and examines how its purpose and function have changed over the centuries. It also investigates Royalty’s influence on British history and society and its impact on government, culture and science. Finally the module will consider how the monarchy has adapted – and continues to adapt – to changing times and how critics react to it. Assessment: Presentation (40%), Coursework (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6HIST002W

Instruction Language: English

Fall of Berlin Wall; collapse of communism; the rise of China; genocide in Africa and/or the Balkans; terrorism; the rise of political Islam; Ukraine, Russia and the world; the Arab Spring and Middle East conflict; the impact of the AIDS epidemic and LGBTQ rights; globalization and the rise of populism; sustainable development and the road to the SDGs; the impact of the Internet and AI. Assessment: Portfolio (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5HIST001W

Instruction Language: English

The World in 1914; World War One; the Russian Revolution and the rise of communism; the League of Nations and Internationalism; interwar economics and politics; global rise of fascism; the Spanish civil war; the interwar refugee crisis; World War Two; origins of the Cold War; Stalinism; Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain; China; Algerian war; decolonisation; Korean war and Vietnam war; 1968 revolutions; Cambodian genocide; European Integration; end of the Cold War. Assessment: Presentation (30%), Essay (35%), Coursework (35%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5HIST010W

Instruction Language: English

he World in 1914; World War One; the Russian Revolution and the rise of communism; the League of Nations and Internationalism in the 1920s; interwar economics and politics; global rise of fascism; the Spanish civil war; the interwar refugee crisis; World War Two. Assessment: Presentation (40%), Essay (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4BUSS008W

Instruction Language: English

The module offers students the opportunity to learn how the global economies work and the general context in which the business organisations operate. The students will analyse the purpose, structures and ethical and environmental constraints faced by organisations across different industries. At the same time students will study the cultural differences within and between business organisations and as part of learning process will develop research, team work and communication skills. Assessment: Portfolio (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4PIRS003W

Instruction Language: English

This module provides an in-depth introduction to the multi-disciplinary field of development studies. It introduces students to key debates in development theory and to the history of development policy and practice. The course encourages students to think critically about what development is, about how it is carried out and what it can achieve. We will explore the ‘grand’ development theories and approaches such as modernisation, dependency, neo-liberalism and alternatives. The module gives students the opportunity to consider the role of these approaches in assisting or hindering progress in a globalised world, whether in terms of distribution of wealth, political change or human rights; and further to assess the relevance of various development policies to the everyday lives of people living in the global south. Assessment: Coursework (25%), Presentation Group (25%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4PIRS009W

Instruction Language: English

This module introduces students to both the issues and phenomena covered by International Relations and the concepts, tools and skills needed to study contemporary global politics. The module examines core concepts of international relations (International Society, Sovereignty, Anarchy, Power, the State, and Legitimacy) as well as addressing enduring problems in global politics (war, co-operation, capitalism, hierarchies of power and privilege, justice and human rights). The module also considers the post-Cold War context and evaluates narratives of the rise and fall of a liberal world order. Assessment: Portfolio (30%), Essay (50%), Coursework (20%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5MECM006W

Instruction Language: English

IELTS 6.5 with 6.0 in Writing and Speaking Portfolio required. This module is an introduction to core journalism skills that students will use wherever they end up working in the media but particularly if they build careers as journalists. It develops the journalistic skills students gain at Level 4 but focuses on research, reporting, writing and storytelling news in particular. The demands of particular platforms are considered – the differences between online (web and mobile), broadcast and print for example – but overall the module focuses on similarities across formats and on story types and genres that work across platforms. Students learn how to identify and find news stories, how to research and report them, how to fact check and verify material. They will develop interviewing skills and learn how to work with press offices, PRs and official sources. Lessons cover both online research and fieldwork and introduce students to the legal and ethical constraints which inform their work as journalists. The core of the module will focus on writing – from short form breaking news and social media updates to longer news pieces. Assessment: Coursework (30%), Portfolio (70%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW014W

Instruction Language: English

This module will allow students to develop a deeper understanding of criminal law. Students will study a variety of areas of criminal law starting with the theoretical approaches to criminalisation. The theories and processes of punishment will also be explored as well as the enforcement of criminal law and the causes and rectification of miscarriages of justice. The module then looks at different aspects of the criminal law and focuses in particular on how the criminal law acts in both a regulatory context and a social context. These areas include how the law regulates areas of social control such as public order, health care choices such as the right to die, sexual autonomy, and immigration. It then looks at criminal law in a social context including areas such as drugs and crime, domestic crime, and hate crime. The module then takes a more international focus looking at interntional criminal law and organised crime. The module looks at the law underpinning these areas but it also takes a broad criminological view setting these areas of law in the context of the political, policy and societal influences on them. Assessment: Coursework (30%), Essay (65%), Coursework (5%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW002W

Instruction Language: English

This module provides an opportunity to consider the role of the law in relation to commercial transactions and the ways in which the law intervenes and regulates commerce, trade and business. It will examine the purposes of commercial law and the way it facilitates the commercial practices of the business community. The law will also identify the substantive law in key areas, consider its development and application to contracts for the sale of goods, insurance of goods and methods of payment, security and finance of contracts of sale. Assessment: Examination – online (40%), Project (55%), Coursework (5%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW004W

Instruction Language: English

The module explores the concept of legal personality as applied to companies registered under the Companies Act 2006.The rules relating to companies are analysed from legal, practical, historical, economic, sociological and political perspectives. Distinguishing between companies and partnerships.Types of companies, harmonisation and European Union directives. Corporate legal personality, the constitution of the company. Promotions, introduction to corporate finance, directors and other company officers, directors’ powers, duties and liabilities. Shareholders, the conduct of company meetings. Insider dealings, introduction to company insolvency, liquidation. The operations of stock markets, corporate governance and Corporate Social Responsibility. The module also introduces students to company accounts and financial statements, as well as key aspects of corporate taxation. Assessment: Essay (40%), Examination – online (55%), Coursework (5%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW019W

Instruction Language: English

The module will consider the way in which crimes are investigated, prosecuted and tried in England and Wales. It will consider in detail the rules circumscribing police powers and the admissibility of evidence at an adversarial trial. It will examine the underlying policies affecting the development of these rules and their practical implications. It will provide an opportunity to apply those rules to factual scenarios. Assessment: Essay (20%), Project (75%), Coursework (5%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5LLAW002W

Instruction Language: English

This module will enable students to understand and evaluate the legislative and judicial structure and functioning of European Union institutions, the fundamental characteristics of EU law, its methods and procedures. This knowledge is applied to selective areas of law which may include examples such as the economic and social law of the internal market, social policy and competition law. The module shows how European Union law has been influenced by its historical, political, economic and social contexts. Assessment: Coursework (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW033W

Instruction Language: English

This module provides an opportunity to consider the role of the law in relation to commercial transactions and the ways in which the law intervenes and regulates commerce, trade and business. It will examine the purposes of commercial law and the way it facilitates the commercial practices of the business community. The law will also identify the substantive law in key areas, consider its development and application to contracts for the sale of goods, insurance of goods and methods of payment, security and finance of contracts of sale. Assessment: Examination – online (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW022W

Instruction Language: English

The module explores the concept of legal personality as applied to companies registered under the Companies Act 2006.The rules relating to companies are analysed from within a legal, practical, historical, economic, sociological and political perspectives.Distinguishing between companies and partnerships.Types of companies, harmonisation and European Union directives. Corporate legal personality, the constitution of the company. Promotions, introduction to corporate finance, directors and other company officers, directors’ powers, duties and liabilities. Shareholders, the conduct of company meetings. Insider dealings, introduction to company insolvency, liquidation. The operations of stock markets, corporate governance and Corporate Social Responsibility. The module also introduces students to company accounts and financial statements, as well as key aspects of corporate taxation. Assessment: Coursework (80%), Coursework (20%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW023W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-requisite: Criminal Law This module looks at the process by which the criminal law is enforced. It encompasses an examination of the rules of evidence and the practical application of these rules. The emphasis is on issues of theory and principle rather than on technical details. Students will consider in detail both statutory provisions and the wealth of case law, including decisions from the European Court of Human Rights. In addition to critically appraising current developments, students will consider proposals for reform. Assessment: Essay (30%), Essay (70%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW026W

Instruction Language: English

The module examines in detail some elements of employment rights that exist in the workplace within the framework of both British Industrial Relations and domestic and European Law. It considers both the individual and collective elements that constitute modern Employment Law. Assessment: Practical Coursework (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW024W

Instruction Language: English

This module provides students with an opportunity to undertake an interdisciplinary study of the interaction between religion, law and society. It looks at the controversial place of religion in the 21st century and considers the evolving interaction between religion and the state and the extent to which the state and the law can/should interfere with religious affairs. The first part of the module lays the foundations by providing students with some historical, legal and theoretical background to the field of law and religion, and the second part focuses on key legal issues within religion law such as manifestation of belief in the public sphere, religious symbols at school, religious architecture and community building, hate speech etc. The third part introduces religious law and its interaction with State law while the last part looks beyond a purely legal approach to law and religion and looks at how and why other disciplines such as sociology and psychology can inform our understanding of religion. The module takes an interdisciplinary, international and comparative approach to the issue of religion, law and society. Weekly discussion groups will allow students to participate in debates about current issues and recent court decisions on the topic. Assessment: Coursework (20%), Essay (80%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW031W

Instruction Language: English

This module explores the practical protection of human rights at two different levels – regional and domestic – and through different lenses – legal, political and philosophical.With the emphasis on practical protection, the module offers students the opportunity to engage with civil society actors in the field of human rights protection, along with the opportunity to identify and consider the broader legal, political and philosophical context of human rights protection in a more traditional academic setting. The module promotes a critical awareness of the role and importance of law in the protection of human rights by way of, for example, considering the political and philosophical dimensions of human rights protection. Assessment: Essay (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW029W

Instruction Language: English

This module explores sources, theories and principles of public international law, and the role of international law in regulating relationships between states, and between states and other actors in the international legal system. The module incorporates traditional and critical perspectives on international law, examining the subject in its historical and contemporary political context. Throughout the module, over-arching themes are explored, including legitimacy, the relation between international and domestic law, and contemporary challenges to the traditional framework of international law. The focus is on foundational aspects and principles of international law, using case studies to explore themes and issues. Assessment: Coursework (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW027W

Instruction Language: English

This module enables students to consider the nature of intellectual property law in relation to specific rights and in the context of contemporary issues, as well as its important role in trade and commerce. The underlying legal and economic philosophy of intellectual property law is examined. Students will consider topics and themes from a variety of rights, issues and perspectives which may include: confidence, patents, copyright, design law, trademarks and passing off. Students will be expected, with support, to develop their own piece of individual research in an area agreed with a course tutor. Assessment: Coursework (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW030W

Instruction Language: English

This module is designed to familiarise students with the rights and obligations of the exporter and importer in an international sales transaction.It will enable students to recognise the complexities of international trade and identify the essential elements of such transactions. It will stress competing perspectives and explore the principles and concepts that underpin the theoretical framework of international trade.It will assist students to appreciate and analyse the many contracts (i.e. contract of sale, contract of insurance, contract of carriage and documentary credit) involved in international commerce and the contextual dimension of the subject. Students will apply a wide range of developed research skills and demonstrate writing skills with minimal supervision. Assessment: Coursework (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW032W

Instruction Language: English

This module provides students with an opportunity to undertake an interdisciplinary study of the interaction between religion, law and society. It looks at the controversial place of religion in the 21st century and considers the evolving interaction between religion and the state and the extent to which the state and the law can/should interfere with religious affairs. The first part of the module lays the foundations by providing students with some historical, legal and theoretical background to the field of law and religion, and the second part focuses on key legal issues within religion law such as manifestation of belief in the public sphere, religious symbols at school, religious architecture and community building, hate speech etc. The third part introduces religious law and its interaction with State law while the last part looks beyond a purely legal approach to law and religion and looks at how and why other disciplines such as sociology and psychology can inform our understanding of religion. The module takes an interdisciplinary, international and comparative approach to the issue of religion, law and society. Weekly discussion groups will allow students to participate in debates about current issues and recent court decisions on the topic. Assessment: Presentation (60%), Coursework (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW005W

Instruction Language: English

This module is concerned with the regulation of Industrial Relations and the rights of the employee in the workplace. It includes some limited historical analysis of the position of different Governments and the theoretical approaches to the subject. There is specific analysis of the major collective and individual rights including unfair dismissal, redundancy, sex discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, race discrimination, religion and belief discrimination, disability discrimination, age discrimination, equal pay, support for collective bargaining, the rights of trade union members and the lawfulness of industrial action. The creation and enforcement of contractual rights is also a central tenet. Assessment: Practical Coursework (45%), Project (50%), Coursework (5%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW007W

Instruction Language: English

This module is concerned with both theoretical and practical elements of the entertainment business. It will identify the ideas, principles and concepts that underpin the theoretical framework of the specialist area of Entertainment law and explore competing perspectives Entertainment is given a broad definition and includes sport, music and other leisure and recreational activities. Students will deal with a variety of issues including contracts, copyright and licensing.There are elements of civil, criminal and, increasingly, European law.Students will be expected, with support, to develop their own piece of individual research in an area agreed with the course tutor. Assessment: Presentation Group (30%), Coursework (30%), Coursework (35%), Coursework (5%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW001W

Instruction Language: English

The module will provide an opportunity to consider the role of the law in relation to the family and how it shapes notions of family justice. It will explore the ways in which the state and the law intervene in and regulate private and family life, and whether such intervention and regulation is justifiable.The module will also identify the substantive law in key areas, consider its origins and development, and consider its application to solve factual problems. After a core component of family law study it will allow students to make an in-module choice about an area of family law and/or family justice which they wish to explore in greater depth.These areas will involve a range of private and public law topics, the opportunity to undertake comparative law research, and the option to participate in the University Student Law Clinic advising clients with family law issues (where space allows) Assessment: Coursework (40%), Project (55%), Coursework (5%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW013W

Instruction Language: English

This module explores the practical protection of human rights at two different levels – regional and domestic – and through different lenses – legal, political and philosophical.With the emphasis on practical protection, the module offers students the opportunity to engage with civil society actors in the field of human rights protection, along with the opportunity to identify and consider the broader legal, political and philosophical context of human rights protection in a more traditional academic setting.Key issues in human rights protection are also identified and explored, such as terrorism, refugee protection, and gender, with an emphasis on the interaction between the regional and national systems of protection.The module promotes a critical awareness of the role and importance of law in the protection of human rights by way of, for example, considering the political and philosophical dimensions of human rights protection Assessment: Coursework (50%), Coursework (45%), Coursework (5%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW006W

Instruction Language: English

The module explores sources, theories and principles of public international law, and the role of international law in regulating relationships between states, and between states and other actors in the international legal system. The module incorporates traditional and critical perspectives on international law, examining the subject in its historical and contemporary political context. Throughout the module, over-arching themes are explored, including legitimacy, the relation between international and domestic law, and contemporary challenges to the traditional framework of international law. The first part of the module considers foundational aspects and principles of international law. In the second part of the module students may opt to focus on particular substantive areas and issues in international law. Options may include: peace, security and conflict; third world approaches to international law, and human rights. Assessment: Essay (45%), Project (50%), Coursework (5%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5LLAW001W

Instruction Language: English

Assessment: Examination – online (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW008W

Instruction Language: English

This module is designed to familiarise students with the rights and obligations of the exporter and importer in an international sales transaction.It will enable students to recognise the complexities of international trade and identify the essential elements of such transactions. It will stress competing perspectives and explore the principles and concepts that underpin the theoretical framework of international trade.It will assist students to appreciate and analyse the many contracts (i.e. contract of sale, contract of insurance, contract of carriage and documentary credit) involved in international commerce and the contextual dimension of the subject. Students will apply a wide range of developed research skills and demonstrate writing skills with minimal supervision. Assessment: Coursework (45%), Project (50%), Coursework (5%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW015W

Instruction Language: English

This module provides students with an opportunity to undertake an interdisciplinary study of the interaction between religion, law and society. It looks at the controversial place of religion in the 21st century and considers the evolving interaction between religion and the state and the extent to which the state and the law can/should interfere with religious affairs. The first part of the module lays the foundations by providing students with some historical, legal and theoretical background to the field of law and religion, and the second part focuses on key legal issues within religion law such as manifestation of belief in the public sphere, religious symbols at school, religious architecture and community building, hate speech etc. The third part introduces religious law and its interaction with State law while the last part looks beyond a purely legal approach to law and religion and looks at how and why other disciplines such as sociology and psychology can inform our understanding of religion. The module takes an interdisciplinary, international and comparative approach to the issue of religion, law and society. Weekly discussion groups will allow students to participate in debates about current issues and recent court decisions on the topic. Assessment: Presentation Group (40%), Project (55%), Coursework (5%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6LLAW017W

Instruction Language: English

This module enables students to consider the nature of intellectual property law in relation to specific rights and in the context of contemporary issues, as well as its important role in trade and commerce. The underlying legal and economic philosophy of intellectual property law is examined. Students will consider topics and themes from a variety of rights, issues and perspectives which may include: confidence, patents, copyright, design law, trade marks, passing off, the creation and internationalisation of intellectual property law, biotechnology, technology, databases, the internet, personality and remedies. Students will be expected, with support, to develop their own piece of individual research in an area agreed with a course tutor. Assessment: Coursework (25%), Portfolio (10%), Project (60%), Coursework (5%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4LING001W

Instruction Language: English

This module provides a core introduction to the field of linguistics on this degree and focuses on language as a formal system, and language as behaviour. In terms of form, the module provides a foundation in the cross-linguistic structure of words (morphology) and sentences (syntax), whilst considering different types of languages around the world (typology). With respect to language as behaviour, the module introduces the study of language in society (sociolinguistics) and the way in which language is used in conversational situations (pragmatics). Assessment: Coursework (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4TRSL001W

Instruction Language: English

Please note that this module is for French or Spanish speakers only. This module introduces students to the practical and conceptual foundations of the translation process. In addition to weekly translation classes that focus on real-world texts of a mostly factual and explicit nature, students will be introduced to basic theoretical concepts as a means of identifying, understanding and resolving translation issues in a practical way. Additionally, students will be introduced to a range of translation-specific IT skills that will serve as the foundation for further training in subsequent modules. Assessment: Coursework (25%), Coursework (25%), Examination – open book (50%), Coursework (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4ENGL003W

Instruction Language: English

This module investigates how language works in texts, and how texts produce their effects through examination of writers’ lexical and grammatical choices. Students analyse how writers’ linguistic choices indicate the attitudes of characters and narrators, and represent characters as powerful or passive. Students discover how analysing the language of literary texts differs from the approaches taken by literary scholars. Assessment: Essay (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4ELIT005W

Instruction Language: English

This module samples a generic mix of Shakespeare’s plays and provides a broad introduction to contemporary Shakespeare study. The specific forms of Shakespearean drama are explored not only in their early modern contexts, including the performance practices of the time, but also in terms of other key approaches and topics in current Shakespeare performance, criticism and theory. Assessment: Coursework (30%), Essay (70%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4ELIT003W

Instruction Language: English

The module encourages students to think about two related things: what we mean by literature or the literary; and why, for any literary work, a particular form has been chosen in which to address the reader. The module achieves this aim through an historical mapping of developments in the forms of poetry, prose and drama. The texts are chosen from various periods in order to focus the questions above and to promote informed, critical attempts to answer them. Assessment: Essay (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6MNST006W

Instruction Language: English

The Strategic Management module integrates key strategic concepts and enables participants to develop a range of strategic management skills. Learners will be able to practice their ability to design, develop, implement and evaluate effective and sustainable business, corporate and / or international level strategies. Students will be introduced to the strategy process by analysing the internal environment of an organisation and the broader competitive environment of today’s turbulent economy. Moreover, together we will explore the importance of strategic leadership in organisations that aim to be successful in complex and unpredictable environment a long term. Assessment: Portfolio (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5DIBU002W

Instruction Language: English

This module explores how to effectively manage the range of operations functions drawing from the traditional and digital perspectives. It considers the business process; the supply chain; operational strategic alignment; systems integration; and the management of information, quality, demand, capacity and resources. It covers aspects of electronic and mobile services, commerce and business; sustainability; innovation and design in products and services; and developments in technology and systems. Assessment: Portfolio (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4HURM007W

Instruction Language: English

This module is intended to prepare students for supervisory and managerial roles and, as such, deals with the core skills involved in management. These include delegation, managerial & leadership styles, motivation; chairing meetings, workplace counselling, staff development, identifying and managing conflict and negotiating skills. The module aims to help students identify how people become managers, what the role of the manager is and how to maximise their effectiveness in that role. Real-life examples are offered throughout, with the variations in styles of management and leadership required by different organisations and different cultures taken into consideration. Assessment: Coursework (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6MARK001W

Instruction Language: English

This module explores the key concepts that underpin the management of a firm’s marketing activities in a digital age. It builds on the fundamentals of marketing knowledge developed at levels four and five and will provide students with a deeper and practical understanding of the analytical and strategic approach to marketing decisions. Students will develop advanced proficiency with key marketing tools and employability skills including interpreting market data to identify business threats and opportunities, evaluating marketing performance and designing strategic marketing plans. Assessment: Presentation (25%), Coursework (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4MARK005W

Instruction Language: English

This module is rich in theory from consumer studies, psychology and sociology explaining why consumers behave the way they do and how marketers can use this information. Both customer and organisational decision-making processes are explored. Assessment: Presentation Group (25%), Essay (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5MARK020W

Instruction Language: English

This integrated module aims to provide students (as customers) with essential tools to understand their actions as consumers and to know how to explore consumer feelings, attitudes and behaviours. Thus, the module will introduce students to some key consumer theories and frameworks as well as research techniques from both client (organisation / brand) and agency perspectives.This knowledge will enable the design, execution and interpretation of basic consumer insights to make valid marketing decisions in a constantly evolving digital environment. Assessment: Presentation Group (25%), Coursework (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4MARK011W

Instruction Language: English

This module aims to provide students with an introduction to the role of marketing in the organisation and the key concepts that underpin the activities of the marketer. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the marketing environment and the importance of gathering appropriate information to inform marketing decision-making. It considers the marketing process; examining consumer behaviour and decision-making and understanding the marketing mix and its application and adaptation within different marketing contexts to be able to satisfy customer needs and business goals in a constantly evolving environment. Assessment: Presentation Group (25%), Portfolio (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6MARK010W

Instruction Language: English

This module provides the theoretical and practical foundations of marketing communications by considering their role and function within business organisations in terms of competitive, customer and internal influencers on communications campaign design. Students consider marketing communications from both the consumer and organisational perspectives gaining insight into the analysis of marketing communications dynamics as a prelude to planning and execution. The module examines the importance and benefits of integrated marketing communications and how organisations interact with media agencies. It highlights the importance of understanding communications from a contextual basis. Assessment: Presentation (50%), Film/Video (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4MUPR007W

Instruction Language: English

This module will enable students to gain confidence in using digital tools by learning the fundamentals of music production and developing an individual creative practice & sound. Students will be required to produce industry-standard productions employing bold and innovative methods. Overall, the module will develop digital skills, critical thinking and listening and technical, discipline-related competencies designed to foster creative practice in music. Assessment: Practical Coursework (25%), Practical Coursework (75%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5HMNT002W

Instruction Language: English

5HMNT002W: Principles of Human Nutrition Applied Nutrition introduces students to the inter-disciplinary applications of human nutrition. The module will use fundamental concepts of dietary assessment and nutritional intake estimation to introduce students to the interplay of related scientific disciplines, through an appraisal of their interactions within food systems. A life-course approach is used as a framework in the module, with reading sessions designed to encourage students to reflect on the utility (or not) of methods described within the context of differing socio-demographic, cultural and lifestyle-based factors. Assessment: Practical Coursework (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6PHYM001W

Instruction Language: English

5PHYM001W Medical Physiology (or equivalent) This module will explore human physiological adaptations which occur in response to a range of common pathological, pharmacological, physiological and environmental triggers or events. The module will focus on the physiological adaptations which occur to the human body as a result of these events using a student-centred enquiry based learning approach, which allows students to become co-creators of their own knowledge in a small group format. By discussing adaptations to normal human physiological systems it will be necessary for students to explore the normal physiological mechanisms which occur in healthy humans in detail. This module will continue to build on taught physiology modules at Levels 4 & 5. Assessment: Portfolio (40%), Coursework (40%), In-Class Test/Assignment exam conditions (20%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4IMAG011X

Instruction Language: English

This module is concerned with an investigation of the city as represented through historical and contemporary photography. Through a series of lectures, workshops, photo walks and gallery visits students gain a critical perspective on the city as a social, cultural, architectural and artistic phenomenon. Through a research and development process they focus on an aspect of the city to represent through their own photographic project. Assessment: Project (30%), Project (70%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4IMAG002W

Instruction Language: English

The module will ground students in the origins of photography, its spread through culture as both science and art, and the beginnings of Modernism. The module will follow an approximately linear timeline: the first weeks explore the period prior to 1900 and the subsequent weeks concentrate on later developments up to around the 1940s and ‘50s. The trajectory is broadly European/North American – a grounding that is then challenged and expanded in Semester 2. Assessment: Essay (40%), Essay (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4PIRS010W

Instruction Language: English

In politics, the most used concepts (such as freedom, equality, power, democracy) are the most contested. Hence, the very meaning of political concepts is the subject of political dispute. What, for example does it mean to be equal? What does it mean to be free? What role, if any, does the state have in judging these ideals or in helping us to achieve them? In Political Ideas in Action, we explore a range of possible answers to these questions as given by political thinkers and actors today and in the past. In doing so, the module facilitates the development of your critical thinking skills and judgement. The module demonstrates and teaches methods of constructing political and academic arguments through an examination of the historical foundations of liberal democracy, the competing ideologies that operate within and sometimes against it, and the ways in which political power is allocated, won and lost. Assessment: Portfolio (40%), Essay (10%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6PIRS003W

Instruction Language: English

Sovereignty is a core principle that structures international relations, both as a discipline and as a field of study. Sovereignty however, remains contested in how it is enacted in a postcolonial and globalized world. Significant transnational issues shape sovereignty, such as neocolonial relations, global finance, and counterinsurgencies. Sovereignty is distributed unevenly and hierarchically, and many sub-state nations struggle for representation, justice and recognition. Through an exploration of a range of case studies this module provides students with a critical understanding of sovereignty. We will explore communities that straddle various territories, such as the Kurds, we will explore how border communities shape state security politics, such as the Uyghurs and struggles over land and recognition in settler-colonial spaces, such as Palestine and Canada. This module provides students with a global and decolonial understanding of sovereignty, as a principle that has always been contested and enacted unevenly in international relations. Assessment: Essay (40%), Coursework (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6PIRS007W

Instruction Language: English

The module introduces students to contemporary debates in political theory. It focuses on justice, equality and citizenship – the three key concepts of current theorising – and it traces their intellectual trajectory. At the same time, the module explores the application of the concepts in the domestic and international realms and it assesses their continuing relevance. Assessment: Portfolio (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5PIRS005W

Instruction Language: English

This module introduces and explores the concept of Geopolitics and examines its significance for understanding the contemporary international order. The relationship between geography and politics has been a central concern for scholars of International Relations, and this module explores the geopolitical dimensions of International Relations through historical, political and geographical perspectives. It surveys the geopolitics which underpins contemporary dominant power structures, including those at the heart of the (post-) liberal international order, and those which frame the ‘war on terror’. It considers the conceptual assumptions behind geopolitics and explores critical geopolitics as a way of dismantling dominant representations of people, place and space. Assessment: Portfolio (10%), Coursework (40%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5PIRS008W

Instruction Language: English

The module offers a thematic introduction to governance practices in European countries and the European Union (EU). It covers constitutional and institutional resources of governance in a multi-level Europe and explores the executive, legislative and judiciary powers; elections and electoral behaviour; interest representation, and new governance challenges. The module is placed in a contemporary context and developments of topical relevance are explored, including EU enlargement, the rise of populism, economic governance; and relations between Europe and the wider world. Assessment: Presentation Group (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5PIRS006W

Instruction Language: English

International Political Economy (IPE) is the study of political and economic interaction, involving a multiplicity of actors, across borders in world affairs. It looks at international political economy through a set of concepts and issues. The module offers a critical overview of major perspectives in political economy and employs them to evaluate certain policies and institutions, nationally and internationally. Assessment: Coursework (40%), Essay (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6PIRS013W

Instruction Language: English

The module will offer students an advanced engagement with postcolonial perspectives to the study of politics at local, national, regional, international and global levels. How have various thinkers from different parts of the world sought to question the eurocentrism of the dominant theories and concepts in Politics and in International Relations? What are the various ways in which we can understand the pluralist, asymmetrical and inconsistent experiences of different cultures, societies, and polities in contemporary post-colonial times? Does postcolonial theory offer different ways of looking at the core concepts of politics – say, nationalism and democracy – relevant for the majority world? What does postcolonial politics actually imply? Key concepts and issues of politics and IR will be examined from different critical perspectives while highlighting the structuring role of ideas and practices of imperialism, colonialism, orientalism and resistance. Assessment: Presentation Group (25%), Coursework (25%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6PIRS016W

Instruction Language: English

Security and surveillance represent an increasingly important aspect of western governance, to the extent that western democracies are now sometimes characterised as ‘surveillance states’. Through the lens of ‘internal’ security, this module addresses the changing relationship between state and society in contemporary politics. It applies new concepts of security, state and society to contemporary case studies of key themes. These will vary from year to year according to contemporary relevance and the availability of resources. Examples may include: counter-terrorism and approaches to radicalisation; cyber-security and governance; the policing of border control; social and individual perceptions of risk, etc. Drawing on varied literatures including internal security, civil society and behavioural psychology and sociology, the module offers an opportunity for students to reflect on the nature of legitimacy, control and freedoms under conditions of globalisation and electronic communication. Assessment: Group Practical (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6PIRS017W

Instruction Language: English

Social and political movements – the main, even only, way that many people ‘do’ politics – are established features of contemporary societies. They bring new ideas into public discourse and challenge the practices of governments and states. The module analyses a representative sample of contemporary movements, in the developed world and in other regions; studies the wide range of factors, national and transnational, shaping movement birth, development and decline; and evaluates the main theories used in social movement scholarship. Assessment: Essay (40%), Essay (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5PIRS017W

Instruction Language: English

Through the study of a selection of classical texts and exploration of contemporary approaches to the study of politics and international relations, this module offers students the chance to enrich their disciplinary knowledge and understanding. By exploring the points of contact and departure between political thought and theories of international relations students gain an understanding of the diversity of theory and its role as a key source of innovation. Assessment: Portfolio (10%), Coursework (40%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6PSYC008W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-req: 5PSYC002W Brain, Mind & Behaviour or 1PSY502 Psychobiology & Clinical Neuroscience or equiv Focusing on the theory and practice of clinical psychology, a critical approach is taken towards the diagnosis and classification of mental illness, current aetiological theories and a range of clinical interventions used by clinical psychologist and other mental health professionals.Psychological disorders and conditions considered include: depression, suicidal behaviour, the psychoses, personality disorders, eating disorders, dissociative disorders and anxiety. Assessment: Coursework (40%), Coursework (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4PSYC002W

Instruction Language: English

The study of “thinking” and how people process the world around them and interact with it forms a core topic in psychology, namely cognition.This module provides students with a broad overview of the key themes in Cognitive Psychology, including memory, attention, sensation and perception (including object recognition, imagery), learning theory, language and problem solving. Teaching will include both formal lectures and hands on activities to provide insight into how research into cognition is carried out. Assessment: Portfolio (50%), Group Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5CRIM006W

Instruction Language: English

concerned with psychological aspects of the criminal justice process; aligned with investigative and criminological psychology: applying psychological theory to criminal investigation and understanding psychological problems associated with criminal behaviour; exploration and critical engagement with range of topics in forensic criminal psychology and approaches to criminal/offender profiling. Assessment: Coursework (55%), Presentation Group (35%), Portfolio (10%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4PSYC006W

Instruction Language: English

Considers topics in the field of psychological individual differences, e.g. personality, psychological testing, intelligence, cognitive style, emotion, motivation, mood, mental health, gender and ethnicity. There is a focus on topics, models and issues currently seen as well supported by empirical evidence, important in the field, and for applied practice. Teaching and learning methods include lectures, practical workshops, seminars and independent study. Assessment: Portfolio (50%), Presentation (30%), Multiple-Choice Question Test (20%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5PSYC003W

Instruction Language: English

The module provides an in depth understanding of the cognitive and neuronal mechanisms that underlie a range of mind-body therapeutic interventions, e.g. mindfulness, focusing, yoga, cognitive behavioural therapy, neurofeedback. We will use an evidence-based approach to explain and evaluate how the connection between mind and brain can be modulated to bring about positive outcomes in specific conditions, groups and populations.While this will include a historical context and the traditional therapeutic application of these interventions, we will also explore the breadth of ways in which they can be applied to other populations and settings, for example in schools, or for creative artists. Assessment: Coursework (60%), Presentation – submissions only (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4HMNT004W

Instruction Language: English

Modern health professionals require a broad, inclusive and diverse understanding of the factors that can influence health and wellbeing. This module aims to help students explore both the psychological and sociological factors that can influence and impact health and wellbeing. Contemporary, current and relevant issues related to health will be examined at individual, community and population levels. Learners will explore the topic from a variety of positions and frameworks. The module will encourage students to examine and academically interrogate the complexity of health and wellbeing. They will also gain an understanding of how policies, practices and behaviours impact health and disease in real-world scenarios. Students will have the opportunity to gain an understanding of the impact interventions have on societies health, well-being and the economy. They will gain study the nature of volitional behaviour and explore the role and responsibility that governance and leadership have in promoting sustainable community, societal and global health outcomes. Learners will also consider the possibilities of intervention strategies to improve behaviour-related health at a variety of life stages. Assessment: Coursework (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6PSYC013W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-requisite: 4PSYC004W Developmental Psychology and Research Methods experience or equivalent This module aims to explore how psychological theory and research has been applied to teaching and learning in formal settings from pre-school to university.Key topics include: Theories of teaching and learning, assessment, schooling, literacy, inclusion, bullying, motivation, educational neuroscience and critical pedagogy. The module will address how the work of educational psychologists, speech and language therapists and teachers is informed by empirical research. Assessment: Coursework (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4PSYC001W

Instruction Language: English

This module provides a broad introduction to social psychology and the study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context. Topics include an introduction to the nature of social existence, social perception, social influence and social relationships. Students will be taught how to conduct interviews and will collect data suitable for content and thematic analysis in other modules. Students will be introduced to the ethics of research and the module will be the home for the departmental research participation scheme. Assessment: Essay (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5PSYC008W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-requisite: 4PSYC003W Biological Psychology or equivalent The first part of this module examines the general principles of neuronal communication at a more detailed level than when initially encountered in Biological Psychology. This knowledge is then related to the brain’s ability to adapt, to learn and to commit to memory and also to the complex circuits involved in specific sensory functions, such as vision and audition. Plasticity is a theme that runs throughout the module and we also consider the role of genetics in neuroscience Assessment: Presentation (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6PHYM004W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-requisite: 5PHYM003W Experimental and Therapeutic Pharmacology The module offers a comprehensive overview of the different phases of the drug discovery and development process, from initial concepts through to pre-clinical stages and clinical trials. Existing and novel ‘pipeline’ drugs, acting on the immune system will act as exemplars, given the recent growth of this increasingly important area. Usage of these drugs in the treatment of inflammatory disease states, and identification of novel therapeutic targets for their treatments, will be covered. Assessment: Coursework (40%), Coursework (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5BIOM010W

Instruction Language: English

The module covers essential elements of research methods, data analysis (as relevant to the Biosciences) and provides the students with key laboratory techniques. On completion of the module successful students will have developed the expertise to extract and interpret scientific information from peer-reviewed original sources, have used this information to produce a literature review of a specific area in the biosciences, prepared a design for their final year research project as well undertaken a skill-based evaluation of their competencies (PPP 5.3). Assessment: Coursework (50%), Portfolio (25%), Portfolio (25%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6SOCL002W

Instruction Language: English

This module is an exploration in contemporary social theory. It introduces poststructuralist perspectives, and engages with an eclectic range of sociological theories and debates that provide new and exciting ways of thinking about life in the twenty-first century. Students are shown how theories can be used to explore, explain and understand contemporary social issues, problems or concerns. Assessment: Coursework (20%), Essay (80%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5SOCL006W

Instruction Language: English

Emotions are not just a private matter. This module explores the centrality of emotions to interpersonal and social life such as love and anger. It examines theories which challenge our assumptions that emotions are solely psychological cognitive states. It will offer alternative models which make the case that emotions emerge out of the social relations in which they are experienced. Assessment: Essay (60%), Coursework (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 6SOCL011W

Instruction Language: English

Education shapes pupil identities through the structure, policies, curriculum, culture and psycho-social dynamics of schooling. Using gender as the lens, and an intersectional analysis to evaluate other differences e.g., class, ethnicity, religion, sexuality and disability, this module examines identity work at school. Students will employ autobiographical methods to evaluate how they negotiated their educational identities at school. Assessment: Essay (100%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5SOCL001W

Instruction Language: English

This module explores the development of social theorising in the 20th Century. It considers the continuities and discontinuities in social theorising in the context of rapid social change and it is concerned with the exploring how the core concepts of classical theory have been adapted, reworked or discarded in response to changing times. Theories including Western Marxism, the Frankfurt School, symbolic interactionism and feminism will be studied. Assessment: Coursework (40%), Essay (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4SOCL001W

Instruction Language: English

This module is an introduction to how classical sociological theory has explained social structures and divisions in society. The work of Marx, Durkheim and Weber is introduced to explain the transition from traditional to modern society. Drawing on key features of contemporary society the module also questions and critiques the classical theorists’ applicability to 21st century global society. Assessment: Essay (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5SPAN001W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-requisite: 4SPAN002W The Spanish World and the Word 2 or equivalent Students will be required to attend a testing session upon arrival to confirm eligibility. Second-year post-beginner and post-intermediate students of Spanish will learn a range of language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to enable them to function with an intermediate to good level of linguistic and cultural autonomy in Spanish -speaking environments. Language and culture are taught through task-based and enquiry-based approaches with special emphasis on the promotion of intercultural understanding. Students will achieve levels B1 or B2 (depending on entry point); cultural elements focus on key events and ideas that have shaped the modern and contemporary Hispanic world. Assessment: Portfolio (30%), In-Class Test/Assignment exam conditions (30%), Essay (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4SPAN001W

Instruction Language: English

There are two pathways to this module – students can either be at beginner or intermediate level. Students will be required to attend a testing session upon arrival to confirm the correct pathway. Beginners, false beginners and intermediate students of Spanish will learn a range of language skills, cultural competencies and critical abilities to enable them to function with a limited to moderate degree of linguistic and cultural autonomy in Spanish-speaking countries and the learning environment. Language and culture are taught in an integrated way through task-based and enquiry-based approaches to learning. Student will achieve levels A1 to lower A2 (beginners), or upper B1 (intermediate) on the CEFR; cultural elements focus on key concepts. Assessment: Portfolio (60%), Essay (40%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5MECM013W

Instruction Language: English

IELTS 6.5 with 6.0 in Writing and Speaking There is widespread agreement that we have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene: an epoch where the speed and scale of human industrial activity has led to unparalleled consequences for our planet, most of which we still don’t understand. Public awareness around the climate emergency has risen sharply – helped by extensive media coverage of activists like Greta Thunberg and movements like Extinction Rebellion. This module introduces students to the concept of the Anthropocene as well as the issues it describes (from the impact of industry and lifestyle choices to politics and gender issues on climate crisis). It investigates the role of the media in shaping public consciousness around the climate emergency and gives students the opportunity to develop produce a media project on a climate-related issue of their choice. Assessment: Essay (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5EVMN004W

Instruction Language: English

The module with provide students with theoretical and practical knowledge in live communication production. Students will be taught about the event conceptualisation process and the implementation of production elements – lighting, sound, audio-visual, props and staging – to deliver successful events. Other types of production and event delivery technology such as Auto CAD and various software types in use byindustry will be covered too. There will be opportunities to apply the practical skills learned on the module by producing one complex and four simple events. Assessment: Group Coursework (50%), Coursework (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4ELIT011X

Instruction Language: English

This module provides an introduction to the institutions and trends of London’s contemporary theatre. Diverse performance types and genres in different kinds of venues/institutions are examined, with a focus on reviewing theatre productions from an informed perspective. Visits to the theatre, tours of relevant sites, review sessions, workshops and talks with theatre practitioners outline the processes of producing and staging theatre, with particular reference to current productions in London. Assessment: Presentation (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5TOUR003W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-requisite: Previous tourism studies background required. This module will introduce students to a distinctive and important sector of the tourism industry with the objective of developing an understanding and appreciation of the fundamental role which heritage attractions, and the heritage environment, play in successful destination development and planning. The focus of the module is on the tourist-historic city, and makes full use of London as a unique urban heritage destination. The breadth of the subject means that the module has had to be selective in the areas covered but it provides a pathway to the understanding of other modules such as Cities and Consumption. Assessment: Presentation Group (30%), Coursework (70%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 5EVMN001W

Instruction Language: English

Pre-requisite: Previous tourism studies background required. This module considers the principles of marketing in the context of tourism and event services. It considers how the marketing mix is applied in practice to tourism and events, for example the components of the product, traditional and digital marketing communications, and how people and process are used effectively in different tourism and event contexts A range of practical activities are incorporated into teaching and learning sessions to engage students in marketing activities in practice and these will be tailored to the focus of each course Assessment: Presentation Group (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4EVMN001W

Instruction Language: English

This module explores the events industry, examining the historical role played by events in society and the structure of the event industry today. Supply and demand issues are assessed by studying key categories of the event industry: – corporate events, cultural festivals and sporting events. It considers the impacts of the events industry and responses to ameliorate problems caused when hosting events. It also explores the changing market for events and the introduction of technology to enhance their success. Assessment: Presentation Group (30%), Essay (70%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4CTAD001W

Instruction Language: English

This module provides induction and understanding of creative research practice, assessment processes and group working required for in creative practice subjects. Students will be challenged to experiment individually, undertaking contextual and practical research, which will contribute to a significant group project where students will be allocated creative roles in groups working collaboratively. This will introduce students to the peer assessment framework required for future collaborative projects. Assessment: Project (40%), Project (60%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.

Course Code: 4TVPR006W

Instruction Language: English

IELTS 6.5 with 6.0 in Writing Level of English required for non-native English speakers: IELTS equivalent of 6.5 From advertisements to reality formats to binge-worthy dramas, we are bombarded by television ‘texts’ on a day-to-day basis, and ‘reading’ them has a significant impact on how we understand ourselves and the world around us. Drawing on a range of television examples, this module introduces some of the key ways in which television texts and genres are created, used and studied. For those interested in making television content, it is important also to understand how the language and grammar of television works to generate meanings and pleasures for viewers. This module will help students to understand the ‘nuts and bolts’ of television texts and genres: how they are constructed and how they can be taken apart and analysed. Assessment: Coursework (50%), Essay (50%) *All transcripts are issued in UK credits.