EXCHANGE STUDENTS' MODULE CATALOGUE
CONTENTS
Introduction ............................................................................................................... 2
How to Enrol on Modules from outside your Home School ...................................... 3
Ancient History Modules ........................................................................................... 5
Archaeology Modules.............................................................................................. 11
Business Modules ................................................................................................... 16
Chemistry Modules ................................................................................................. 17
English Literature Modules ..................................................................................... 18
European Studies Modules ..................................................................................... 28
History and Welsh History Modules ........................................................................ 30
Japanese Modules .................................................................................................. 41
Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Modules ................................................... 43
Language and Communication Modules ................................................................ 44
LEARN (Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning) Modules ......................... 49
Computer Module....................................................................................... 49
English Module ........................................................................................... 50
Environmental Studies and Science Communication Modules ................. 51
History Modules ......................................................................................... 53
Language Modules (European) ................................................................. 56
Language Modules (Non-European).......................................................... 65
Law Modules .............................................................................................. 67
Music Modules ........................................................................................... 73
Philosophy Modules ................................................................................... 76
Mathematics Modules ............................................................................................. 79
Physics and Astronomy Modules ............................................................................ 86
Physiology Module .................................................................................................. 96
Religious and Theological Studies Modules ........................................................... 97
Welsh Modules ...................................................................................................... 100
Appendix 1: Provisional Choices .......................................................................... 102
Index ................................................................................................................. 103
This catalogue was printed in July 2006 and simultaneously published on the world wide web where it
can be found at:
www.cardiff.ac.uk/enrolment
You should note that the web version will be updated as necessary to reflect any changes schools
have been obliged to make to the details in this catalogue between Mid July and Enrolment in
September 2006
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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to your period of study at Cardiff University.
About this Module Catalogue
This Catalogue provides you with details of modules available to exchange students whose "Home"
school permits the study of modules offered by other schools. Please read it in conjunction with the
Enrolment Information Sheet included in this pack. As you read through the Catalogue you may come
across some terms which are unfamiliar to you, these are defined below.
For ease of reference, the modules are arranged in alphabetical order by subject area (e.g.
Archaeology, Mathematics, Welsh, etc.). Details of the credit value, semester taught, a brief
description of the content and any special requirements for each module are provided to help you in
your choice. All module choices must be agreed with your "Home" school first.
Formal enrolment on these modules takes place at the Module Fair. Full details of the procedure for
registering for additional modules from other schools is provided on the following pages. Once you
have registered on a module, it may be possible for you to change your mind, but only within the first
three weeks of the Autumn semester (for those modules starting in the Autumn) and within the first
two weeks of the Spring semester (for those modules starting in the Spring). Your home school will
be able to advise you on the procedure to follow should you wish to amend your choice of modules.
Definition of Terms
Credit:
The value of a unit of study where each single module shall have a value
of ten credits.
Home School:
The school which has initiated the exchange.
Module Fair:
The event during Enrolment Week at which exchange students who are
permitted by their home school to study modules offered by other schools,
register for these additional modules.
Semester:
As determined by Council on the advice of Senate, a specified period of
study normally including any in-course assessment and/or class test(s).
Subject Area:
A group of related modules within one academic discipline.
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MODULE FAIR FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS
HOW TO ENROL ON MODULES FROM OUTSIDE YOUR HOME SCHOOL
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Notes of Guidance
Please note that all enrolment information, enrolment timetables and relevant forms that you
may need to download can be found at the Cardiff University Registry webpage
www.cardiff.ac.uk/enrolment .
Your central enrolment will take place from 8.45am to 11.00am on Wednesday 27 September
2006 in the Concert Hall, Music Building (map ref 23). Exchange students who are permitted
by their home school to take one or more modules from another school, should attend the
Exchange Student Module Fair being held at 9.45am to 11.00am on Thursday 28
September 2006 in the Concert Hall, Music Building. Formal registration procedures for
modules will be carried out within this Module Fair.
Please read these notes of guidance carefully before coming to enrolment so that you are
sure of how to enrol on additional modules. If you follow these instructions you should find
that your enrolment will run smoothly.
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Enrolment Week - Central Enrolment and Visit to Home School
Before attending the Exchange Student Module Fair, you must attend central enrolment
according to the times specified in your Enrolment Timetable found on the above website.
You should then visit staff in your Home school according to the instructions given in your
timetable, please make sure that you take your programme of study form along with you.
Your school will be able to provide further guidance on what would be an appropriate choice
of module(s) for you. It is important to note that any module(s) you choose must fit into your
overall teaching timetable. You will only be able to establish this at enrolment with your home
school. It is therefore advisable to select a number of modules as reserves in case you
are not able to register on your first choice(s). You might find it helpful to enter your
provisional choices on the form (Appendix 1) provided at the back of the catalogue.
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Venue and Opening Hours for the Exchange Student Module Fair
The Exchange Student Module Fair will be held in the Concert Hall, Music Building (reference
23 on the map enclosed) on Thursday 28 September 2006 from 9.45am to 11.00am.
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What You Will Need to Bring With You to the Module Fair
You must bring your programme of study form to the Module Fair. It is also advisable to
bring a note of the module(s) on which you wish to enrol (see Appendix 1).
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Method of Registering on a Module
Members of academic staff from the schools offering modules to exchange students will be
present in the Module Fair. Helpers will be on hand to assist if you are unsure where you
need to go.
Acceptance on the modules will be on a first-come, first-served basis, after students have
visited their home schools.
Inside the Concert Hall you should go to the desk of the school which offers the module(s) for
which you wish to enrol. To confirm admission you should be prepared to answer a few
questions so that staff present can be sure that you satisfy any entry requirements for the
module. If you are accepted onto the module, the member of staff will write the module code
and title onto your programme of study form and sign the form.
If you find that you cannot be accommodated on your first choice of module you should move
onto your reserves, remembering that it is essential that you only sign up for a module which
can fit into your teaching timetable.
Once you have successfully registered on the appropriate number of modules you are ready
to leave the Module Fair.
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On Leaving the Module Fair
When you have finished signing up for additional modules, a member of staff will collect your
programme of study form at the exit and give you a stamped yellow copy as proof of
enrolment.
Take your stamped programme of study form to the Students' Union (map ref 37) to collect
your NUS/University Identity Card. The opening hours are shown in the Enrolment
Information Sheet enclosed.
NB
Availability of Modules
All students are notified that the modules advertised or referred to in this catalogue are
liable to be changed or withdrawn both before and after selection, for any reason
including those set out below. Cardiff University accepts no responsibility for any such
change or withdrawals of modules and students select modules at their own risk.
Reasons that may cause the change or withdrawal of modules include the loss of any key
member of staff or insufficient take-up of modules by students; this list is not exhaustive.
SEMESTER DATES: SESSION 2006 - 2007
AUTUMN SEMESTER
Wednesday 27 September 2006 – Friday 26 January 2007
(Christmas Recess: Saturday 16 December 2006 – Sunday 7 January 2007).
SPRING SEMESTER
Monday 29 January 2007 - Friday 15 June 2007
(Easter Recess: Saturday 31 March 2007 – Sunday 22 April 2007).
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Ancient History
HS3101
INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
The Greeks invented democracy, and have profoundly influenced Western political thought, art,
philosophy and literature. This introductory double module studies three periods, with detailed
reference to the major historical sources. First it attempts to reconstruct early Greek history,
institutions and society, using the works of the first great epic poet, Homer, the "Iliad" and the
"Odyssey". Then it examines the emergence of the Greek city-states, the rise of tyranny, and the
conflict of east versus west through the perspective of Herodotus. Finally it focuses on the history of
Athens in the fifth century, considering the development of democracy, the acquisition of empire and
subsequent conflict with rival Sparta (detailed in Thucydides' history), and the social, economic and
intellectual life of the city (especially issues of gender and slavery).
METHODS OF TEACHING: Approximately 22 hours of lectures and 4 hours of seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 50% Written examination Spring and 50% Coursework.
HS3102
INTRODUCTION TO ROMAN HISTORY
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
The Romans had a profound influence on the political and cultural history of the Mediterranean lands,
particularly Europe. The languages, architectural styles, religions, legal and political institutions of
many countries are based on or influenced by Roman precursors. This double module provides an
introduction to Roman History and society, paying particular attention to two periods of change: the
late Republic and the transformation of the state to monarchy under Augustus; and the later Roman
empire, the adoption of Christianity and the creation of the institutions of early Medieval Europe.
Throughout the year, the course will focus on social and cultural values as well as political and military
events, with detailed reference to contemporary historical sources such as poetry, history, letters and
legal texts, and key architectural and artistic works.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Approximately 22 hours of lectures and 4 hours of seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 50% Written examination Spring and 50% Coursework.
HS3307
JULIAN THE APOSTATE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
The figure of Julian the Apostate, the last pagan emperor (361-363), provoked extreme reactions
within his own lifetime and beyond. This module examines his life, reign and thought within the context
of contemporary Roman politics and culture, and also considers his legacy and legend. Topics for
consideration are the nature of the sources for Julian and his reign; the family and empire of
Constantine the Great; Julian's early life, education and conversion; Julian's Caesarship and
usurpation in Gaul; his imperial style and policies: administrative, religious, military and civic; the
nature of Julian's writings and thought; and his legacy and legend.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 lectures and 2 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay (50%); one 1 hour examination (50%).
REQUISITES: HS3102 - Introduction to Roman History.
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HS3308
THE END OF ANTIQUITY
Single
Spring
10 credits
The terminal dates are the accession of Phokas and the deposition of the empress Eirene (AD 602802). The module considers: the sources and their nature; the emperor Heraclius and his dynasty; the
final conflict between the Roman and Persian empires; Muhammad and the birth of Islam; the rise of
the Arab empire; the death of the classical city; the development of the cult of icons and the reaction of
Iconoclasm; political and religious relations with the west, focusing especially on the development of
the papacy and the advent of a rival emperor, Charlemagne; the nature of Eirene's rule; the historical
significance of the period.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 lectures and 2 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay (50%); one 1 hour examination (50%).
REQUISITES: HS3102 Introduction to Roman History.
HS3309
GREEK VALUES
Single
Spring
10 credits
The central norma and values of the ancient Greeks had profound effects both on their society,
economy and politics, and on the nature of the documentary evidence they have left us. The module
traces the development of a number of these values and ideals (e.g. : those associated with
competition and excellence; honour and shame; self-control, piety and friendship) from the eighth to
the fourth century BC. Throughout, the module compares and contrasts ancient Greek values both
with modern Western and traditional Mediterranean cultures.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 Lectures and at least 2 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One piece of written work (50%); 1 one hour exam (Spring) (50%).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Module: HS3101.
HS3315
KINGDOMS, CITIES AND HELLENIZATION
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
The unresolved conflicts of the fifth century left the Greek states struggling to adapt to a more fluid
political landscape, while external powers exploited their divisions. Ultimately they lost their political
independence to Phillip II of Macedon. The astonishing career of conquests of his son Alexander won
a huge Greco-Macedonian Empire, which divided after his death into several large kingdoms, creating
complex patterns of Hellenization and cultural adaptation. The module explores these varied and
important themes, paying attention both to the characters and contributions of leading individuals and
to the major political, social and cultural transformations of the period across the Eastern
Mediterranean and the Near East. The module introduces students to a particularly wide-ranging
nature of the sources, including literary texts, inscriptions and papyri.
METHODS OF TEACHING: At least 33 1-hour lectures throughout the year, and 6 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay (35%); two class tests (best of three); one 2-hour
examination (Spring) (50%).
REQUISITES: Module HS3101 Introduction to Ancient Greek History.
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HS3316
CONQUEST AND CRISIS: THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
"There can surely be nobody so petty or so pathetic in his outlook that he has no desire to discover by
what means and under what system of government the Romans succeeded in less than 53 years in
bringing under their rule almost the whole of the inhabited world," (Polybius). Rome's aggressive
imperialist policies in the early Second Century BC brought her into conflict with states and tribes in
Greece and the East, Africa, Spain and Gaul, leading to the extraordinarily rapid creation of a
Mediterranean-wide empire. But these conquests and her expanding empire led to changes and major
upheavals within Roman Society. Tensions arose within the functioning of the Republican political
system, leading to internal unrest, a series of destructive civil wars and eventually the fall of the
Republic. This module examines the principal events of the period 202-31 BC; the motives for and
methods of Rome's expansion in the Mediterranean; the effects of empire on Roman political
institutions, the economy, religious and social values; the crises and conflicts of the late Republic
involving land tenure, distribution of wealth, the army, the senate, tribunes, urban discontent, and
power struggles amongst the elite, leading to the temporary domination of Julius Caesar and paving
the way for the establishment of the Empire.
METHODS OF TEACHING: At least thirty three 1-hour lectures throughout the year, and 6 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay (35%); two class tests (best of three); one 2-hour
examination (Spring) (50%).
REQUISITES: Module HS3102 Introduction to Roman History.
HS3421
READING LATIN 1
Double
Autumn
20 credits
An introduction to the Latin Language, involving the reading of relatively simple Latin texts.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 33 classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour unseen translation examination (Autumn) 50% and translation
exercises 50%.
CONDITIONS: Suitable for students studying at levels Two and Three only, subject to approval by the
relevant Board of Studies.
HS3322
READING LATIN 2
Double
Spring
20 credits
Further study of the Latin language, building upon the work of HS3421 Reading Latin I, and involving
the reading of more advanced Latin texts.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 33 classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour unseen translation examination (Spring) 50% and translation
exercises 50%.
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Module: HS3421.
CONDITIONS: Suitable for students studying at levels Two and Three only, subject to approval by the
relevant Board of Studies.
HS3423
READING GREEK 1
Double
Autumn
20 credits
An introduction to the Greek language, involving the reading of simple Classical Greek texts.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 33 classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Three 50-minute supervised coursework exercises in class.
CONDITIONS: Suitable for students studying at levels Two and Three only, subject to approval by the
relevant Board of Studies.
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HS3324
READING GREEK 2
Double
Spring
20 credits
Further study of the Greek language, involving the reading and understanding of more advanced
Classical Greek Texts.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 33 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour unseen translation examination (Spring) 50% and translation
exercises 50%.
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Module: HS3423.
CONDITIONS: Suitable for students studying at levels Two and Three only, subject to approval by the
relevant Board of Studies.
HS3343/3344
LATIN HISTORICAL TEXTS
Single
Autumn/Spring
10 credits
Students will study a selection of Latin texts, both historical and epigraphic (to a value of 25 OCT
pages) chosen with reference to the Ancient History modules studied in that term. Texts will be
chosen from a selection which might include, Livy, Virgil, Catullus, Tacitus Annals, Pliny Letters,
Cicero, and selected inscriptions. Texts will be studied for both grammatical structure, and their
importance to historical debates. Classes will involve translation and grammatical comment, as well
as discussion of the relevance of the chosen texts to particular periods of history. HS3343 runs in the
autumn semester, HS3344 in the spring.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 Classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Assessment of the course will be in the form of one TWO-HOUR
paper: passages will be set from the prescribed tests for translation and comment. [Dictionaries will
not be permitted in examinations.]
REQUISITES: Prerequisites: HS3421 Reading Latin 1 AND HS3322 Reading Latin 2, passed with a
grade of at least 60% (or a good A-Level in Latin, or equivalent qualification).
CONDITIONS: Suitable for students studying at levels Two and Three only, subject to approval by the
relevant Board of Studies and restrictions in numbers.
HS3345/3346
GREEK HISTORICAL TEXTS
Single
Autumn/Spring
10 credits
Students will study a selection of Greek texts, both historical and epigraphic (to a value of 25 OCT
pages) chosen with reference to the Ancient History modules studied in that term. Texts will be chosen
from a selection of authors which might include Herodotus, Thucydides, Euripides, Aristophanes,
Xenophon, Arrian and Plutarch, and selected inscriptions. Texts will be studied for both grammatical
structure, and their importance to historical debates. Classes will involve translation and grammatical
comment, as well as discussion of the relevance of the chosen texts to particular periods of history.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 Classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Assessment of the course will be in the form of one TWO-HOUR
paper: passages will be set from the prescribed tests for translation and comment. [Dictionaries will
not be permitted in examinations.]
REQUISITES: Prerequisites: HS3423 Reading Greek 1 AND HS3324 Reading Greek 2, passed with a
grade of at least 60% (or a good A-Level in Ancient Greek, or equivalent qualification).
CONDITIONS: Suitable for students studying at levels Two and Three only, subject to approval by the
relevant Board of Studies and restrictions in numbers.
HS3353
ROME & CARTHAGE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
Between c.350 to 202 BC Rome emerged first as the dominant power in Italy, and then as a major
Mediterranean power, after the lengthy wars with Carthage (First and Second Punic Wars). The
module explores and explains all these developments, with close attention to the main historical
sources, Polybius and Livy.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 lectures and at least 2 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One piece written work 50%, and one hour examination (Spring) 50%.
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Module: HS3102.
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HS3360
SLAVES, SERFS & FREEDMEN
Single
Spring
10 credits
All ancient societies made heavy use of dependent labour. This module examines the economic and
social issues involved, comparing the institutions of serfdom and chattel slavery, investigating the
economic importance of serfs, slaves and freedmen in different societies, social relations between
masters and dependants, justifications of the systems, and the changing conditions of dependent
labour in both Greece and Rome.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures (11 hours); Seminars (2 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 piece of written work (50%); 1 hour written examination (Spring).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Modules: HS3101 or HS3102.
HS3362
GENDER & SEXUALITY IN GREECE AND ROME
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
Greek and Roman societies can be seen to have ‘constructed’ their ideas of gender difference and of
sexuality, in ways markedly different from those currently the subject of assertion and dispute.
Dominant views in both societies saw male and female ‘natures’ as radically different, and the male as
in most ways superior to the female; these ideas had many interconnections with fundamental modes
of social and political organisation. These ideas also produced many contradictions, varied over time
and place, and were not unchallenged. Equally, it can be argued that more modern sharp divisions
between heterosexual and homosexual identities in individuals did not exist, or operated in very
different ways, in Greece and in Rome, and also that there were again many variations over time and
place. The module analyses these issues in depth, focusing especially on the following ancient
societies: Classical Athens and Classical Sparta; Hellenistic Greek societies, especially in Egypt;
Roman society in the Republic and early Empire.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 lectures and a minimum of 4 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination (Autumn) 50%, and one essay and one
sources exercises 50%.
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Modules: HS3101 and HS3102.
HS3368
DRAMA AND ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
The surviving Greek tragedies and comedies were produced at state-sponsored city festivals in
democratic Athens. They remain powerful plays, still regularly performed today and often seen as the
start of the long tradition of Western Drama; their interpretation and continuing meanings for different
cultures are endlessly disputed. This module focuses on the interpretation of a selection of the plays
of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes in their fifth-century BC contexts; on the
participation in the festivals of many Athenians, as performers, as financial backers and as the
audience; on how individual plays explore important political, social and moral issues affecting the
audience and may be seen as confirming or questioning central features of Athenian democratic
society; and, by means of study of modern productions, on their re-interpretation for modern
audiences. The module involves detailed study of the texts of the plays, the literary, archaeological
and iconographic evidence for their production and reception in fifth-century Athens, and examples of
modern productions.
METHODS OF TEACHING: At least 22 teaching sessions including: lectures, seminars; directed
reading; viewings of videos of productions; optional play readings and trips to see productions of
ancient Greek plays.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 essay and two source criticism exercises (50%), one two-hour exam
in Spring (50%).
REQUISITES: Prerequisites: HS3101 Introduction to Ancient Greek History.
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HS4356
HELLENISTIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
The years between the death of Alexander in 323 BC and the Battle of Actium in 31 BC saw the
spread of Greek culture all over the Mediterranean through the kingdoms of Alexander's successors
and, through its interaction with local civilisations, prepared the Hellenistic koine that would become
the cultural basis for the Roman Empire. Art and architecture were inevitably part of this process as
new dynasties staked their claim to power through their assumption of the art of Classical Greece,
steering art production away from the primarily communal civic and sacred projects of the Greek
poleis. The era is famous for its sudden widening in scope of the function and themes of art and the
demands on architecture of fiercely competitive patrons. Despite Pliny the Elder's dismissal of the
artistic achievements of the era, the art of the age was greatly stimulated by the new emphasis on self
display, both civic, as in the great Attalid monuments at Pergamum and Athens, and domestic, such
as wallpainting and mosaics, particularly as revealed at Delos.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 lectures and 2 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 hour written exam (Spring) (60%), 1 essay (40%).
HS4359
EARLY ROME: HISTORY AND LEGEND
Single
Spring
10 credits
The early history of Rome, from its legendary beginnings in the aftermath of the Trojan War to the first
years of the historical Republic. The module uses legendary, literary and archaeological material to
construct the story of Rome’s foundation, its emergence as a power in central Italy, the early
development of its political and social institutions, and the first indications of its traditional values and
ideology.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 lectures and 2 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 hour written examination (Autumn) 60%, Coursework 40%.
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Modules: HS3102 or HS2102.
HS4367
THE ROMAN ARMY
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
As one of the first professional standing armies in history, the Roman army has been the object of
much admiration and study. This module will cover the changing organization and role of the army
and it's fighting techniques from the mid Republic to later Imperial period, the lives of the soldiers who
served in the various branches of the army and it's effectiveness as a fighting force. Particular
attention will be paid to using archaeological and literary evidence in conjunction, and to local
resources and evidence for studying the Roman army.
METHODS OF TEACHING: At least 22 teaching sessions including: lectures, seminars; directed
reading; optional trips.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 essay and two source criticism exercises (50%), one two-hour exam
in Spring (50%).
HS4368
ART AND POWER IN ROME, 211 BC - AD138
Single
Spring
10 credits
Art and architecture were key weapons in the power struggles of the later Roman Republic and in the
establishment of the Principate. The first major influx of Greek art into Rome, after the sack of
Syracuse in 211 BC, created a tremendous impact, and led to efforts to create a Roman 'image' to
rival that of the more established Hellenistic powers. This module will use both literary and
archaeological evidence to examine how artistic commissions, prestigious public buildings and artcollecting played an important role in competition between the leading politicians of the second and
first centuries BC, and how the ultimate winner of this rivalry, Augustus, used art and architecture to
establish and legitimise his sole power and the succession of his family. The course will go on to
consider how Augustus and his successors created a new Imperial image, and stamped their authority
on Rome by remodelling the city centre with lavish new public buildings and palaces.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 lectures and at least 2 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 piece written work (50%), 1 hour examination (50%).
REQUISITES: Prerequisite: HS3102 Introduction to Roman History.
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Archaeology
HS2100
HUMAN ORIGINS, COMPLEXITY AND CIVILISATION
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course introduces students to world prehistory and to the fundamental questions of
archaeological investigation, chiefly those that concern human biological, social and cultural evolution,
the origins of sedentism and domestic economies, and the emergence of palace civilisations. Students
study the relationship between humans and other primates, the timescale of human evolution, the
emergence of ancient and modern humans, the development of sedentism, agriculture, and
monumental architecture, the rise of palatial civilisations in the Mediterranean (including Greece and
Egypt), and complex mobile communities of the Iron Age.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 weekly 1 hour lectures; 2 x 1 hour seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 hr examination (50%), an essay plan and essay portion (50%).
HS2102
ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE GREEK & ROMAN WORLD
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course will provide an introduction to some of the more important aspects of the archaeology of
the Greek and Roman World, including the archaeology of the ancient city and its buildings, religious
monuments and sanctuaries, art, agriculture and rural life, and the Roman army.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 weekly 1 hour lectures, 2 x 1 hour seminars/tutorials.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 hour examination (Autumn) (60%), 1 assessed essay (40%).
HS2103
BRITISH PREHISTORY
Single
Spring
10 credits
An examination of the archaeology of Britain in the 5000 years preceding the Roman conquest of
AD43. The course will focus on the agricultural societies of later prehistory. Issues discussed in detail
include the importance of monuments in the Neolithic, the development of elaborately defended
settlements in the Iron Age, the changing emphasis on death, the role of exchange on a local and
national scale and the importance of regional differences in the settlement record.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 weekly 1 hour lectures, 2 x 1 hour seminars/tutorials.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 hour examination (Spring) (60%), 1 assessed essay (40%).
HS2104
POST ROMAN & MEDIEVAL BRITAIN
Single
Spring
10 credits
An introduction to the archaeology of Britain in the period 400 to 1500, covering the Anglo-Saxon
settlement, the emergence of 'Celtic' and Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. The role of towns and nature of
rural settlement up to the 11th century. The relevance of medieval documentary evidence and in
particular Domesday Book. The Norman impact on England, castles, towns and rural settlement to
1500 AD.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 weekly 1 hour lectures, 2 x 1 hour seminars/tutorials.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 hour examination (Spring) (60%), 1 assessed essay (40%).
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HS2106
ENVIRONMENTAL & ECONOMIC ARCHAEOLOGY
Single
Spring
10 credits
How do archaeologists find out about the past? This module explores the 'forensic' role of bioarchaeology (plants and animals) and geo-archaeology (soils and sediments) archaeology in
reconstructing the changing environment of the past, and how humans have transformed and coped
with this environment. To do this we have to understand the environment today and how we use this
information to interpret ancient remains. It also is important to understand how sites are formed and
material preserved. We will consider the exploitation of soils, plants and other animals to produce
food, materials, labour over time. Finally we will explore the methods of directly examining human
remains in the past. The course consists of weekly lectures accompanied by practicals.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 lectures. Five 3-hr laboratory classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 essay (50%), Laboratory notebook (50%). (100% Coursework).
HS2117
GREAT DISCOVERIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed as an introduction to the development of archaeology as a discipline. In
showing the broad outlines of how the subject has developed up to and including the present, it aims
to show students the key theoretical shifts through time, as well as introducing them to the key figures
and key sites which have shaped the discipline.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures, one seminar.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 60% written 1 hour examination and 40% coursework.
HS2120
ANCIENT EGYPT: LANDSCAPE AND BELIEF
Single
Spring
10 credits
This free-standing module introduces students to ancient Egypt as its inhabitants saw it: as a
landscape intimately bound up with the activities of the gods and over which a living god presided.
The way in which writing was used to reinforce images of Egypt’s position in the world is
demonstrated, as is the position of the temple and tomb within the society and landscape of Egypt.
The Egyptian view of the afterlife, as being a still more perfect version of Egypt is also examined along
with the central concept of ma’at, a concept difficult to translate but which centres on living correctly.
The module provides the background to other courses on ancient Egypt offered by the Archaeology
Section of HISAR.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Teaching will be through a series of lectures, supported by extensive
images provided using Powerpoint. This will allow students to become familiar with terms derived from
another language (ancient Egyptian) and built up over the history of Egyptology. Questions from
students will be encouraged.
Classroom work will be supported by individual essay tutorials, during which the topic will be
discussed with the student as well as feedback given on writing style and referencing.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 hour examination (Spring) (60%), 1 assessed essay (40%).
HS2305
LATER BRONZE AGE BRITAIN
Single
Spring
10 credits
The Later Bronze Age in Britain marks a major transformation in the archaeological record. Patterns
of ritual behaviour, burial, settlement and artefact use all begin to change. This single module
explores these major transformations which see the establishment of settled life, agrarian landscapes
and the consolidation of social differentiation, especially in southern Britain. These themes are
investigated by individual case studies and related to the wider European context.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 lectures; 1 museum practical; optional field trip.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 essay (40%) and 1 examination (60%).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Modules: HS2103.
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HS2306
IRON AGE BRITAIN
Double
Autumn
20 credits
The Iron Age sees the transformation of the archaeological record and the eventual emergence of
Britain in the historical record. This double module is designed to provide students with a detailed
understanding of the archaeology of the British Iron Age focusing particularly on the nature and
causes of changes in the technology, settlements and monuments of the later first millennium BCE. It
sets out the evidence for Britain as it begins to come into contact with the expanding Roman Empire.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 21 lectures; 2 seminars; field trip.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 essay (40%) and 1 examination (60%).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Module: HS2103.
HS2307
EARLY ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
Single
Autumn
10 credits
The end of the Roman province of Britain and the creation of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms are two key
features of this formative period of British history. The apparent sharpness of the transition from
Roman to English worlds is a matter of intense modern debate. This module focuses on the
archaeological and, to a lesser extent, historical evidence for the Anglo-Saxons in the period AD
c.400-650.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 lectures; 1 seminar.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 essay (40%) and 1 examination (60%).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Module: HS2104.
HS2309
MIDDLE AND LATER SAXON ENGLAND
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module covers the archaeological evidence for the development of Anglo-Saxon England AD
650-1050. This is one of the crucial periods in the development of England with the emergence of a
few large kingdoms and then England's eventual unification. Major social and economic
transformations in rural settlements, towns, and artefacts help to delineate the scale of these changes.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 11 hours of teaching, 1 seminar.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 essay (40%) and one examination (60%).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Module: HS2104.
HS2311
NEOLITHIC EUROPE
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
The Neolithic marks the beginning of one of the most significant transformations in human behaviour
with the shift from small and transient hunter-gatherer populations to the emergence of settled and
growing populations. This single module introduces students to the wealth of evidence for the
neolithic period in Europe. By means of selected case studies, it investigates both the initial spread
and subsequent diverse development of Neolithic societies over a long time scale - the sort of study of
human behaviour which is only possible through archaeology.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 21 lectures; seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 essay (50%) and 1 examination (50%).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Module: HS2101.
HS2322
INTRODUCTION TO THE MUSEUM ENVIRONMENT
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course provides an introduction to the factors such as light, incorrect relative humidity and
pollutants which cause deterioration of museum objects. Students look at basic interactions of
artefacts with their surroundings and methods of environmental monitoring and control. Assessment
of the environment and development of methodology for collection care are discussed.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Eleven lectures and five, three hour practical sessions which may include
museum visits.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 essay (40%) and 1 examination (60%).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisites modules: HS2103
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HS2340
Double
POST-ROMAN CELTIC BRITAIN
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Examination: 60% (2 Hours), Coursework 40%.
HS2350
HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL THOUGHT
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
The development of ideas about the past and the emergence of a substantial body of archaeological
theory is of crucial importance to modern attempts to interpret the past. The module provides an
introduction to the major developments in archaeological theory, practice and interpretation from the
period of the first antiquarians to modern uses of structuralism, critical theory and post-modernism.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 20 one hour lectures, 2 one hour seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 essay (40%) and 1 examination (60%).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Modules: HS2101.
HS2387
AEGEAN BRONZE AGE: EMERGENCE TO COLLAPSE
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This module addresses the palace of civilisation of Minion Crete and Mycenaean Greece (1600-1150)
which were first revealed by the famous excavations of Schliemann and Evans and the decipherment
of the linear B tablets. These civilisations continue to provoke critical assessment of the archaeological
and documentary evidence to arrive at an understanding of the workings of the palace states and the
causes of their downfall. In this module students assess the nature of the Minion and Mycenaean
palace cultures in the Bronze Age. The formation of states and the emergence of 'civilisation' in the
early and middle bronze age Aegean are key topics of the module. The module uses a detailed
discussion of the relevant archaeological evidence as a case study of these general processes and
the emergence of complex societies.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 9 one hour lectures, 2 one hour seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 essay (40%) and 1 examination (60%).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Modules: HS2101 or HS2102.
HS2389
ART & ARCHAEOLOGY OF CLASSICAL GREECE
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
The archaeological, iconographic and artistic evidence is of fundamental importance for our
understanding of the nature of the classical Greek polis. The module assesses critically the evidence
for temple and civic architecture, burial practices, vase painting, fortification and the relation between
the city and its countryside, with special reference to Athens and Attica.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 21 one hour lectures, 2 one hour seminars for which students would have
to prepare in advance and a museum trip.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 essay (40%) and 1 examination (60%).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Modules: HS2102.
HS2391
COINAGE AND CURRENCY IN BRITAIN, C. 200 BC-AD
1300
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This module aims to study the appearance and development of coinage in Britain from the late Iron
Age to the early Medieval periods. It includes several key elements that, in combination, allow the
student to get to grips with the stimulating world of archaeological numismatics.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 21 Lectures, Practical classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 essay, 1 practical assessment (30 minutes), 40%, one 2 hour
examination, 60%.
REQUISITES: Prerequisite Modules HS2102 or HS2104.
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HS2397
ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
The module provides a detailed survey of approaches and concepts in environmental archaeology,
exploring in particular the past human impact on the natural environment, and the methods used to
investigate this impact. Human influences on ecosystems and the modification of the environment are
highlighted. Faunal, floral and soil evidence is examined by means of case-studies from Britain and
Europe. A significant element of the module is project work and laboratory work, undertaken singly or
in a small group.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures, fieldtrips, tutorials, practical classes, and directed learning.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Examination: 50% (Autumn) and Coursework: 50%.
HS2398
FORENSIC ARCHAEOLOGY
Single
Spring
10 credits
Forensic archaeology is the application of archaeological methods and principles within the constraints
and framework of the criminal justice system. Archaeological techniques are used to find, recover and
to analyse human skeletal remains and to aid in the crime scene interpretation. This course
introduces students to the range of methods used in forensic archaeology, from geophysics to human
bone analysis, and considers the role of forensic archaeologists can play in criminal investigations.
Visiting speakers will include personnel from the police/scientific services, as well as by archaeologists
with scene of crime experience. The module is assessed by coursework only, and includes a
presentation and two reports on forensic material.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures, Courtroom Presentation, Practical Classes, and Directed
Learning.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework: 100%.
HS2401
ARCHAEOLOGY OF ART AND VISUAL CULTURE
Double
Spring
20 credits
How do images mean? What is the power of the visual? Why, over 30,000 years have people chosen
to make pictures, drawings, sculptures, movies, and photographs? In this module students attempt to
answer these questions by examining art and visual culture. Students focus on issues of
representation, material culture, the politics of looking, and being seen, the power of the visual, the
social significance of masks and carnival. Case studies range widely from Iron Age drinking sessions,
to Neolithic women exposing themselves, to Palaeolithic pick-up lines and on to historical and modern
technological and political examples such as the origins of photography and digital imagery. This is a
20-credit module taught in the spring semester in a series of 11 lectures and 11 workshops-seminars.
Assessment is by a 3000-word essay and a two-hour written exam. Dr Bailey is the module
coordinator.
METHODS OF TEACHING: This module is taught though eleven, 50-minute lectures and eleven, 50minute workshop-seminars. Each lecture is linked to a workshop-seminar: lectures present information
on a major topic; workshop-seminars engage students in manifestations of that topic. Students learn
by reading required texts, by responding to questions during lectures, by leading and contributing to
seminar discussions, by examining and interpreting visual culture, by researching, planning and writing
a critical essay, and by answering in writing two exam questions.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 x 2 hour written examination (50%) and coursework (50%).
HS2413
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LATE ANTIQUITY
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
A thematic and regional introduction to the material culture of the Mediterranean world in the period of
Late Antiquity (c.300-800), examining the material remains within the context of the political and
cultural changes associated with the disintegration of the Roman Empire and the development of the
political and cultural groupings that were to endure into the Middle Ages.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 hour written examination (50%) (Spring) and coursework (50%).
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Business
Studies
The Business school may provide up to two modules for visiting students, provided that a
request has been submitted to the Socrates-Erasmus Co-ordinator John Bridge by the first
week in September.
Students arriving in the second semester, and who have not been present in the first semester,
will not be permitted to take modules within the Business School.
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Chemistry
Exchange students with a relevant chemistry background are welcome. For further details
please contact Professor Cameron Jones ext 74060, room 3.32 Main Building.
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English
Literature
Please note that LEARN also offers English modules. These are detailed on page 18.
SE2201
THE CANTERBURY TALES I
Double
Autumn
This module involves detailed study of a number of Canterbury Tales.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture and one seminar both of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Two essays of 1,600 words.
SE2202
20 credits
INTRODUCTION TO OLD ENGLISH
Single
Autumn
10 credits
An introduction to a range of texts illustrating Old English literature and culture around the year 1000.
Reading classes will cover selected original texts and one extended celebratory poem, which will be
studied in translation.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One class per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1½ hour examination (Autumn).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite modules: SE2105, SE2106, SE2107.
SE2204
SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES
Single
Autumn
10 credits
Drawing on recent critical approaches, this module aims to introduce students to some of
Shakespeare's major comic plays in the context of the culture from which they derived and to which
there were directed.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1½ hour examination (Autumn).
SE2208
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL 1847-53
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module will consider novels by the Brontes, Thackeray and Dickens in the context of the years
around 1850.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Teaching will be by one lecture a week. Each student will be encouraged
to write an unassessed essay, which will be returned promptly and individually with appropriate advice
and guidance on essay writing.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
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SE2210
CRITICAL THEORY I
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This introductory module is designed to offer a basic knowledge of literary theory. The module will
focus initially on the cultural politics of reading and teaching English Literature before moving on to a
discussion of key texts and concepts in modern literary theory.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Teaching will be conducted in a large seminar group. There will be one
seminar of 1 hour per week for one semester.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
SE2216
OLD NORSE LITERATURE
Single
Spring
10 credits
Further study of Old Norse-Icelandic literature including poetry. The module involves translation from
Old Norse and the study of selected texts in English translations.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture and one seminar per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: A 1½ hour examination.
SE2217
SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module offers students the opportunity to consider Shakespeare's Tragedies from a range of
critical perspectives.
METHODS OF TEACHING: There will be one class of 1 hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1½ hour examination.
SE2219
LOVE & DEATH IN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
Single
Spring
10 credits
The aim of this module is to encourage the close analysis of Renaissance texts by looking at two of
the central themes of the period.
METHODS OF TEACHING: There will be one class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1½ hour examination.
SE2223
THE MID VICTORIAN NOVEL 1854 - 1874
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module will consider novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy
in the context of mid-Victorian Britain.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Teaching will be by one lecture a week. In addition, there will be two
small-group seminars on close-reading and essay-writing skills. Each student will be encouraged to
write an unassessed essay, which will be returned promptly and individually with appropriate advice
and guidance on essay writing.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
SE2229
AN INTRODUCTION TO CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
Children's literature is one of the most entertaining and innovative of literary areas, as well as being
culturally and socially important. This module explores why and how we should study the subject from defining what it is (from the fairytale to metafiction), to how we should study it (what critical
methods are appropriate) and what we can do with it (literary/education/sociological applications).
These ideas are discussed with particular reference to a classic The Wind in the Willows, and to the
picture book.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Nine large-group lectures.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
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SE2240
CRIME FICTION
Single
Spring
10 credits
A study of the development, varieties and social contexts of crime fiction in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries.
METHODS OF TEACHING: This course will be taught through formal lectures, with the use of an
extensive course guide and through private consultations as appropriate when students are preparing
written work and examination.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
SE2245
SPENSER'S "FAERIE QUEENE"
Single
Autumn
10 credits
The module focuses on the first book of Spenser's poem, concentrating on a close reading of the text.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 1 hour seminar per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
SE2261
INTRODUCTION TO ROMANTIC POETRY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is to provide an introduction to three of the major poets of the Romantic period
(Wordsworth, Keats and Byron).
METHODS OF TEACHING: Teaching will consist of one 1 hour class per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: At the end of the course, students will sit a 1½ hour examination
(Autumn). Students will be allowed to take into the examination an unmarked copy of the set text.
SE2262
READING EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION
Double
Autumn
20 credits
This module seeks to introduce students to the formal and thematic concerns which characterise early
to mid eighteenth-century fiction.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture and one seminar of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 x 1600 word essays.
SE2268
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is concerned with the close reading of Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight together with the discussion of the critical issues it raises.
METHODS OF TEACHING: The module will be taught by one class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
SE2269
INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL DRAMA
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module provides an introduction to the dramatic and cultural significance of the religious drama of
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
METHODS OF TEACHING: This module is taught by one class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
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SE2277
AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITING 1900-1940
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is designed to introduce students to a range of texts within the African American literary
tradition produced during the period 1900-1940.
METHODS OF TEACHING: This module is taught by one class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
SE2279
MYTH AND SAGA
Single
Spring
10 credits
To arrive, through a study of representative texts in translation, at an appreciation of the range, and
quality of prose narratives produced in the unique social and historical context of medieval Iceland.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One class per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay.
SE2280
OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE
Single
Spring
10 credits
Further study of Old English literature involving translation from Old English and the reading of
selected texts in translation. The module will concentrate on study of the Old English elegies.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One class per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 1½ hour examination.
SE2283
FICTION OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT
Double
Spring
20 credits
This course will introduce students to Literature of the Indian subcontinent and will examine the
themes, gender relations, the relationship with the colonial past, the national present, and the
postmodern disconnection from the nation.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture and one seminar of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 x 1,600 word essays.
SE2284
CRITICAL THEORY II
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module introduces students to key notions in the study of 'second-wave' feminist literary criticism
and in the construction and representation of gender and sexual identities in literature and popular
culture.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One hour lecture per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
SE2289
JANE AUSTEN IN CONTEXT
Single
Autumn
10 credits
The aim of this module is to introduce students to close critical analysis of works by Jane Austen.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Teaching will be one class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
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SE2292
INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S POETRY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module aims to introduce students to a range of twentieth-century American women’s poetry.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1,600 words.
SE2293
AMERICAN FICTION IN THE 1920S
Single
Spring
10 credits
An exploration of American culture in the Twenties through some of its most widely-read texts. To
study fictional responses to American modernity, focussing on tensions between innocence and
hedonism, innovation and tradition, and elite and mass culture.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
SE2295
MEDIEVAL ARTHURIAN LITERATURE
Double
Autumn
20 credits
The module aims to introduce students to the major texts written in the medieval period dealing with
the tradition of King Arthur.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture and one seminar of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 3,200 words.
SE2296
INTRODUCTION TO ROMANTIC POETRY II
Single
Spring
10 credits
The module aims to consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding of Romantic Poetry in
its context.
METHODS OF TEACHING: There will be one class of one hour per week. Students will be expected
to contribute to the discussion and prepare weekly for the session.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
SE2297
WELSH FICTION IN ENGLISH
Double
Spring
20 credits
The module aims to introduce students to the range and variety of Welsh fiction in English in the
twentieth century, in novels and short stories, and to have an understanding of the ways in which
these varieties are related to the contexts in which the texts were produced.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture and one seminar a week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 3200 words.
SE2306
SHAKESPEARE'S HISTORIES
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module offers students the opportunity to consider Shakespeare's Histories from a range of
critical perspectives.
METHODS OF TEACHING: There will be one class of 1 hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay.
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SE2307
RENAISSANCE DRAMA I
Double
Autumn
20 credits
This module offers students an introduction to Renaissance plays from the period 1500-1640.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 2 x 1 hour classes per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Students will be asked to submit two essays, one shorter essay by the
end of week 6 and the second longer essay completing the course. The first essay will study in detail
one text, the second will require students to write on at least two texts.
SE2313
CHARLES DICKENS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module provides an opportunity for detailed consideration of two of Dickens' major novels.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 1 lecture or seminar per week. Each student will be encouraged to write
an unassessed essay, which will be returned promptly and individually with appropriate advice and
guidance on essay writing.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1,600 word essay at the end of the module.
SE2315
CHARLOTTE BRONTË: FICTIONS OF EMPIRE
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module examines questions of colonisation, race and empire across the full range of Charlotte
Brontë's literary production.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1,600 words.
SE2329
RENAISSANCE DRAMA II
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module deals with the issues of court politics and domestic sexual politics in Renaissance plays
from the period 1500-1640.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1,650 word essay.
SE2337
TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
Since 1914, children’s literature has developed as one of the most interesting and entertaining literary
areas. Between the world wars, a large number of characters who have become cultural icons
appeared - such as Biggles, Mary Poppins, the Swallows and Amazons and the Hobbits. After 1945,
children’s literature entered a second golden age with writers like Garner, Mayne and Dahl. This
module examines literary and cultural aspects of these characters, books and writers.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Nine large-group lectures. Optional small-group seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay 1,600 words.
SE2354
POSTMODERN AMERICAN POETRY
Double
Spring
20 credits
This module will explore some of the key figures of postmodern American poetry.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One two-hour class per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: A portfolio of two essays or one long essay of cumulative length.
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SE2359
SHAKESPEARE'S LATE PLAYS
Single
Spring
10 credits
The module considers Shakespeare's late plays, with particular reference to gender and genre.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Teaching will be by seminar, or the nearest approximation to that that
numbers permit.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1,600 word essay.
SE2363
POWER & POLITICS IN PRE-RAPHAELITE ART
Single
Spring
10 credits
The aim of this module is to develop students’ interpretative skills by introducing different ways of
reading Pre-Raphaelite pictures.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1,600 words.
SE2388
W. H. AUDEN
Single
Spring
10 credits
To study selected poems and other works by W.H. Auden in relation to some of his enduring interests
and concerns.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1600 words.
SE2390
NINETEENTH-CENTURY CRIME FICTION
Double
Spring
20 credits
This module will study major stages in the development of Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth Century in
order to clarify the nature and variety of the materials and to understand the social and generic
contexts in which Crime Fiction developed and the attitudes and ideologies produced in and
communicated through the materials.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and seminars - two hours per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework (two essays).
SE2393
CRITICAL THEORY III
Double
Autumn
20 credits
The students will be introduced to the definitions of and debates associated with this field of study.
They will also be taught how to read race, class, gender, sexuality and identities in texts through this
theoretical lens.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One two-hour class per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1,600-2,000 words plus four journals entries of 500-600
words each.
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite module:SE2250
SE2395
THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK
Double
Autumn
This module explores the relation between work and image in illustrated books.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One hour lecture and one hour seminar per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: A one hour class test and an essay of 1,600 words.
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20 credits
SE2396
SETTLER IDENTITY: FICTIONS OF OZ/NZ
Double
Spring
20 credits
This course will introduce students to the construction of settler identity in the Antipodes through the
fiction of Australia and New Zealand.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lecture and seminar for two hours every week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: A one hour test at midsemester (40%) and a final paper of 2,000
words.
SE2404
VIRGINIA WOOLF'S MODERNISM
Single
Spring
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the essays and fiction of Virginia Woolf.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture and one seminar per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1,600 words.
SE2405
10 credits
GOTHIC FICTION: THE ROMANTIC AGE
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module offers a close examination of four key Gothic novels published over a period of
approximately thirty years.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 1,600 essay.
SE2408
HARDY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module offers students the opportunity to study well-known and unfamiliar novels by Thomas
Hardy.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1,600 words.
SE2409
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module introduces students to the life and work of Christopher Marlowe in the contexts of postmodern theories of language, power, sexuality and desire.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1,600 words.
SE2410
CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL FICTION
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module will explore fictional methods of writing the past, the significance of memory and
nostalgia, and the ways in which historical fiction interrogates official historical narratives.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1,600 words.
SE2412
TWENTIETH-CENTURY WELSH POETRY IN ENGLISH
Single
Spring
10 credits
This course examines the development of English poetry in Wales during the twentieth century,
identifying the characteristic techniques, modes, and concerns of this vibrant and often challenging
body of work.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1,600 words.
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SE2508
INTRODUCTION TO OLD NORSE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
An introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic language, with close study of selected prose texts from
medieval Iceland in the original language.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Two classes per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: A 1½ hour examination.
SE2510
THE IRISH LITERARY REVIVAL
Single
Spring
10 credits
The course will examine the some of the key texts of this period, focussing on writings by J.M. Synge,
W.B. Years, Lady Gregory and James Joyce.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture and one seminar both of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1,600 words.
SE2511
SURVEYING MODERN DRAMA
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module explores a variety of developments in modern American and British drama, with particular
emphasis on drama written after 1940.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1,600 words.
SE2513
LITERATURE INTO FILM
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module offers a broad consideration of key critical issues in the study of film adaptation of
literature.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1,600 words.
SE2518
GOTHIC FICTION: THE VICTORIANS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module offers a close examination of four key Gothic novels and various tales, published during
the latter part of the nineteenth century.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 1,600 words.
SE2519
EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY
Double
Autumn
20 credits
The first half of the twentieth century was one of the richest periods of English poetry. The aim of this
module is to explore this richness and diversity through authors selected both for their intrinsic interest
and their influence on later writers and the wider culture.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Two classes of one hour each per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Two 1,600 words essays.
SE2520
KEATS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module offers students the opportunity to consider Keats’s poetry and other writings, and the
history of his reception.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One class of one hour per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 1,600 word essay.
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SE2521
CARIBBEAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Double
Autumn
20 credits
This module will focus on the Caribbean as a case-study of colonisation and the transition from
colonial to postcolonial literature.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One two-hour class per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 3,200 words.
SE2523
PLACES AND NOVELS
Double
Spring
20 credits
This module presents ideas of place through and within novels written in the Victorian period and by
contemporary writers.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One two-hour class per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 3,200 words.
SE2526
SENSATION FICTION
Double
Spring
20 credits
This module offers students the opportunity to consider the development, implications and significance
of sensation fiction in the nineteenth century.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One lecture and one seminar per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 3,200 words.
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European
Studies
EU1103
SPECIALISED LANGUAGE PROGRAMME
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
The module aims to improve the students hearing accuracy by means of exercises based on authentic
documents and speech practice.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 100% Coursework.
EU2255
INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN CULTURAL STUDIES
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This module offers ex-beginners an overview of the study of German and opens doors to deeper
enjoyment of the richness of this subject. Topics include: the Volkerwanderung, dialect differentiation,
and language development (with texts of identical content from different times and places, e.g. the
Lord's Prayer in Gothic and later dialects; use of relevant websites); characteristic literary writing of the
medieval (poetry, Niebelungenlied) and renatssance (Hans Sachs) periods and it's continuing
relevance Third Reich; Luther's translation of the Bible (first attempt to create a "national" German
language reaching beyond the small states which constituted Germany until 1871); major writers
(Goethe, Schiller) and the effect of the Enlightenment: literary texts of the twentieth century (with a
range of different genres, and illustrating contrasting attitudes in Austria, Switzerland and Germany
and the problems of identity/nationality for Germanophone writers.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Small seminars and tutorials to total 40 contact hours per student per
year.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 3 hour examination (Spring) (75%) and coursework (25%).
EU2343
IDENTITY AND GENDER IN GERMAN CULTURE
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This module aims to show how themes of identity, gender and race have been treated in German
literature and culture in the last two centuries. Areas of special interest include the construction of the
self at various periods in its relationship with the thought and the social conditions of the time, the
changing role of women in cultural life, and ideas of ethnic alterity.
METHODS OF TEACHING: one or two lectures per week plus, on average, one seminar per fortnight,
to total 35-40 contact hours per student per year. Students will be expected to contribute to discussion
in lecture hours also.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 3 hour examination (70%) and a 2,000-2,500 word essay (30%).
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EU2345
GERMAN CONSTITUTION/INSTITUTIONS
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This module introduces students to the constitutional system of the Federal Republic of Germany and
to familiarise them with its institutional landscape in the fields of politics, socio-economic interest
representation and the justice system.
METHODS OF TEACHING: One or two lectures per week plus, on average, one seminar per fortnight,
to total 35-40 contact hours per student per year, OR one or two seminars per week to total 35-40
contact hours per student per year.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Spring Examination (70%) and coursework (30%).
EU2352
Triple
THE GERMAN IDEA OF HISTORY: HISTORICAL
THINKERS TO THE PRESENT
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Spring Examination (60%) and coursework (40%).
EU7226
BRITISH SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Double
Spring
20 credits
An analysis of British society since 1945 including: press, devolution, Irish and Welsh politics,
education, local government.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 1 lecture per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 essays of 1,500 words each semester.
REQUISITES: Other prerequisites: Exchange Students Only.
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History and
Welsh History
Please note that LEARN also offers History modules. These are detailed on page 53.
HS1101
MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This module provides an introduction to the history of Europe during the Middle Ages. Topics include
the Carolingian empire and its break-up; the emergence of France and Germany; the permeability of
the frontiers of eastern Europe; the Byzantine world; the rise of Islam; changes in the environment
during the period 500-1050; technology, communication and transportation; mental horizons; the
towns and the professions; economic revolution 1000-1300; the investiture controversy; Benedictine
Monasticism and Cluny in the eleventh century; the Cistercians; the renaissance of the twelfth-century;
heresy and the Church's response; the Capetian kings of France; the English experience of monarchy;
the Medieval papacy; the Hohenstaufen family and western Europe; the Italian city states; the first
Crusade; the eastern Mediterranean; and medieval Spain.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Modules will be taught through a mixture of lectures, with seminars, field
trips and use of video film and documentary materials in certain modules.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: B grade at Advanced GCSE level.
HS1104
MODERN WALES
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This module confronts questions of national identity as they apply to modern Wales. Industrialisation,
largely taking place in South Wales, fundamentally reordered Welsh society and economy. A
considerable volume of internal migration was followed by substantial immigration, creating a new and
contested linguistic and national identity. Wales acquired a reputation for political radicalism which
has been nurtured well into the twentieth century. The Welsh experience has been interpreted
through fiction, poetry and film. It is now available for consumption as part of the 'heritage industry'.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Modules will be taught through a mixture of lectures, with seminars, field
trips and use of video film and documentary materials in certain modules.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: B grade at Advanced GCSE level.
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HS1105
THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD, 1750-1970
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
Through a global perspective, the module aims to impart historical knowledge and understanding of
the main political, economic, social and cultural factors that shaped the modern world. Individual
themes such as rebellion, the rise of industrialism, nationalism and revolution are explored the context
of several countries or regions of the world. This comparative approach will not only deepen your
understanding of why things happened the way they did, but also highlight the interconnected nature
of the development of societies and peoples in different locations. The geographical range - a
distinctive feature of this module - encompasses many countries of Western and Eastern Europe as
well as Asia.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Modules will be taught through a mixture of lectures, with seminars, field
trips and use of video film and documentary materials in certain modules.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: B Grade at Advanced GCSE level.
HS1106
EARLY MODERN ENGLAND AND WALES 1500-1700
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
As Wales and England were united as a political unit at this time, a comparative perspective is
essential to a study of the nature and scope of the Tudor and Stuart state and the lives of the people both rich and poor - who lived within it. You will explore the differences and similarities between
different social and cultural groups within both Wales and England as well as between national groups.
Topics include the household, oral and print culture, music, magic and superstition, poverty, riot,
crime, and political and religious radicalism, as well as events and processes concerning the Acts of
Union, the Reformation, the civil wars, and republican rule. Larger themes run through these topics:
the extent to which the early modern period experienced a transition from ‘tradition’ towards
‘modernity’; the extent to which a process of social and cultural polarisation occurred, separating the
better-off from the poor; and the nature of political, cultural, linguistic, and ethnic relationships within
the British Isles.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Modules will be taught through a mixture of lectures, with seminars, field
trips and use of video film and documentary materials in certain modules.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: B grade at Advanced GCSE level.
HS1710
HERESY AND DISSENT, 1000-1450
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
From 1000 onwards religious dissent became more prominent in Europe. Some religious movements
were seen as such a threat to social stability that the authorities went to great lengths to crush them,
resorting to crusades, inquisitions and burning those who refused to recant their beliefs. This course
will examine who became involved in such movements and explore reasons for their involvement.
Why were so many women attracted to heresy? Why did religious dissent become such a problem for
the authorities? The course will go on to look at certain large-scale movements such as the Cathars of
S. France and the Albigensian Crusade which set out to crush them; the Rhineland mystics; the
Lollards of England; the Hussites of Bohemia and the disastrously unsuccessful crusades launched
against them.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
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HS1715
BEFORE AND AFTER THE BLACK DEATH: ENGLAND IN
THE LONG FOURTEENTH CENTURY
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
The fourteenth century was an age of violent upheaval and change in almost all areas of life. It was a
century which saw not only the visitation of a devastating plague, but also social unrest and upheaval
culminating in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the deposition and murder of two kings, the opening of a
long-running war with France, the appearance of heresy in England, and major changes in the society
and economy of England which paved the way for the subsequent emergence of a capitalist economy.
It was the time when English displaced French as the major literary language and language of culture.
Many have seen the Black Death as the most momentous of all the forces of change in this period.
The module will open these and other areas of life to critical examination, often through primary
sources, and assess the role of the plague itself: was it the catalyst of change?
METHODS OF TEACHING: A mixture of lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
HS1717
THE NORMANS IN EUROPE C.900-1150
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This course focuses upon the foundation and development of the duchy of Normandy at the beginning
of the tenth century. It also deals with the great expeditions undertaken by Norman knights to every
corner of Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. As well as defeating the English king Harold in
October 1066, the Normans established a kingdom in Southern Italy, participated in the Spanish
reconquista, which gradually won back territory from the Muslim states then ruling what is now Spain
and Portugal, and provided a major contingent for the First Crusade. The course will also examine
Norman interaction with the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire and the establishment of a Norman
principality at Antioch in Syria during the crusade. Although the course will mention the invasion and
settlement of England in 1066, the main focus will be upon the Normans in Europe. The course will
introduce students to some of the primary sources for a history of the Normans and their adventures,
as well as considering aspects of their political, social and cultural METHODS OF TEACHING:
Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
HS1720
THE MONGOLS AND EUROPE
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
The Mongol empire of Genghis Khan and his successors was the largest the world had ever known.
Its phenomenal rise and then its fragmentation and decline is a major theme in world history in the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This course discusses the Mongol world and seeks to understand
how and why its conquests were achieved. The Mongols themselves would have thought of the
acquisition of China as their most significant achievement, but this course gives due emphasis to their
relations with Europe, in particular the incursions into eastern Europe in 1241, the domination of
Russia by the Golden Horde, and the Mongols and the crusaders in the Levant. The period of Mongol
domination in Asia was also the period when European merchants, travellers and missionaries
acquired first-hand knowledge of central Asia and the Far East and an appreciation of the writings of
men such as William of Rubruck and Marco Polo form an important part of this course.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
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HS1722
WALES, IRELAND & THE VIKING WORLD
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
Wales and Ireland have frequently been regarded by historians as marginal frontier regions on the
fringes of medieval Europe. This course will take a very different perspective and examine how the
Irish Sea region was at the heart of a dynamic maritime network linking communities around the North
Atlantic. During the ninth century pagan Scandinavian war bands began conducting brutal raids
around the coastal regions of Britain. However, within a few generations these Viking raiders had
settled in communities around the Irish Sea region and established vibrant towns and trading
networks. These settlers maintained a distinct identity but they did not remain aloof from the
indigenous Celtic populations. Indeed, they interacted, influenced and were influenced by the native
communities at almost every level. Taking a comparative approach this course will examine the
similarities, differences and interplay between Celtic and Viking society in this period. Employing an
interdisciplinary perspective, which encompasses history, literature, archaeology and anthropology, it
will explore issues such a social structure, warfare, trade, travel, kinship, gender construction, ethnicity
and religious beliefs. Moreover, it will seek to highlight how nationalistic sentiments and modern
mentalities have helped to shape the historical discourse of the region.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
HS1731
THE RISE OF THE WELSH GENTRY 1500-1760
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This module examines the most powerful group in early modern Welsh society: the Welsh gentry. It
investigates how this group rose from the disintegration of the kindred and feudal structures of the late
medieval period to dominate many aspects of Welsh life. Through examining topics such as feuds,
faction, electoral conflict and litigation, it explores the manner in which the Welsh gentry exercised
their enormous political power and influence. Additionally, the module also considers the Welsh
squires in their social and cultural contexts, for example exploring their domestic life, artistic patronage
and increasing alienation from the cultural and linguistic worlds of their social inferiors. Through its
focus on the activities and influence of the Welsh gentry, the module illuminates the seismic political,
social and religious changes which Wales experienced during the early modern period.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
HS1734
HOME & AWAY: WALES & THE WELSH 1914-1997
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
Between 1914 and 1997 Wales experienced a series of economic, political and social crises and
changes. They include the effects of two world wars, the years of savage depression, the decline of
the heavy industries and its social ramifications, the emergence and waning of a distinctive coalfield
culture, and the decline and late-twentieth century stabilisation of the Welsh language. Social,
economic and cultural change has been accompanied by political and governmental transformations,
among them the establishing of Welsh national institutions and a Welsh political system, the
emergence of the Labour party as the dominant political force and the more recent resurgence of
nationalism. This module examines the nature, interaction and impact of these forces and changes,
and seeks to increase understanding of them by studying them comparatively in relevant British and
European contexts. It also investigates Welsh experiences outside Wales during the same period in
order to integrate the transnational history of the Welsh in the twentieth century into studies of the
homeland itself.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
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HS1751
INDUSTRIALISATION IN BRITAIN 1750-1850
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This module will consider the nature, causes and consequences of the so-called industrial revolution in
Britain. The experience of Britain will be placed in a comparative European and global context and the
nature of social and economic change in particular regions, including South Wales, will be addressed.
Topics will include: population growth, agricultural change, wealth and poverty, taxation and militarism,
overseas trade, including slavery, living standards and consumption, urbanisation, social unrest,
crime, gender and family, as well as invention, innovation and changes in industry.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
HS1765
INDIA AND THE RAJ, 1857-1947
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This course is designed to provide a critical introduction to the political, economic, social and cultural
history of India from the assumption of direct rule by the Crown to independence. The module follows
a broadly chronological framework along major themes which include – the consolidation of British rule
after 1857; rebellion and resistance by Indians including subordinated groups; the emergence of the
colonial economy; changes in the role and status of women; socio-religious and revivalist movements;
the nationalist movement; the growth of communal identities and partition. The study of the Indian
economy, politics and society will be useful for students planning an in-depth study of the subcontinent in their final year. No prior knowledge of the subject is assumed.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
HS1775
EUROPE EAST AND WEST 1945-1995
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
The political, diplomatic, and socio-economic history of Europe from the end of the Second World War
to the present. The course begins with the immediate post-war era, examining Allied governance of
Germany and developments in Eastern Europe, which leads naturally to the Berlin crisis and the
outbreak of the Cold War. The decision of the Adenauer government to anchor Germany firmly in the
West and the creation of the European Economic Union complete the foundations of the postwar order
in Europe. The term ends with an analysis of the changing stature in the era of decolonisation of
Europe’s two remaining great powers, Britain and France, and the first crises within the Soviet Empire.
The second term covers various challenges to the established post-war order, beginning with the
authoritarian regime in Southern Europe, before examining the events and repercussions of the year
1968. It considers the attempts to lesson the impact of European division, leading up to the collapse of
the Soviet Empire. The course concludes with the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and its
implications for today’s Europe.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
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HS1777
REBELLION, REFORM, REVOLUTION AND REVERSAL:
THE SEARCH FOR A MODERN CHINA, 1800-2000
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This course explores issues of modernity, nationalism, state-building, imperialism, and revolution in
China. It seeks explanations for the successive failures of dynastic reformers and republican
nationalists to survive the social and political challenges mounted against them by their rivals to the
left. It explores the origins of China’s Communist revolution, both in China and the world, and the
causes and consequences of the Chinese Communists’ rise to power. It lays particular emphasis on
the way in which new contexts reshaped modern ideologies forged principally in Europe, and on the
contributions made by Chinese revolutionaries to the revolutionary world movement in the twentieth
century. It supplements the issues under review with matching documents contained in a companion
volume to the course’s main text, Jonathan Spence’s The Search for Modern China.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
HS1780
BRITISH EXPANSION OVERSEAS, 1870-1945
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This course discusses British imperialism and examines Britain’s struggle to remain a hegemonic
power during the era of great power rivalry and total war. It locates the mainsprings of British external
policy in the internal configuration of the State, examines the political and economic motivations for the
maintenance of Empire, providing case-studies of overseas expansion, and discusses Britain’s
exchange of Pax Britannia for the 1940s special relationship.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
HS1789
EUROPEAN HISTORY C.1900-1945
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This course examines a period that witnessed the development into structured mass movements of
many of the political ideologies and movements with which we are familiar today, such as fascism,
socialism, communism, nationalism and feminism, together with the adaptation to mass politics of
older types of ideology, such as liberalism and conservatism. The course is designed to deepen and
extend knowledge gained in HS1102, Themes in Modern History. It will cover the major themes in the
political history of Europe from a comparative point of view, and will include consideration of presentday historiographical debates about the course of European history in this period.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
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HS1790
THE DYNAMICS OF WITCHCRAFT, 1450-1750
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
The widespread belief in witchcraft and magic has been identified as one of the defining features of
early modern Europe, and has been approached by historians in a variety of different ways. This
Option explores the dynamics of witch beliefs and of accusations and prosecutions of witchcraft, as
well as of competing historiographies of witchcraft. The course is organised into five blocks. I. The
intellectual and popular foundations of witch beliefs. II. The structures of power—state, church,
Inquisition—that have been seen to define ‘from above’ the prosecution of witchcraft. III. The agency
of the protagonists: the accused witch, her or his accusers, and the victims of witchcraft. IV. The role
of misogyny. V. The decline of witchcraft in Europe. A range of topics will be covered within these
broad themes. These include: the medieval inheritance; the idea of the Devil and the Sabbath;
demonology and the learned debate; a ‘witch craze’ from above; witchcraft from below; witchcraft as a
power fantasy; love magic; demonic possession and exorcism; the midwife-witch and the wise woman;
witch-hunting as woman-hunting. During the course, we shall analyse some primary sources as well
as secondary literature.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
HS1805
THE MILITARY ORDERS, 1100-1320
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
The leading Military Orders were the Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights. These were
religious orders set up in the 12th century to defend the Christian pilgrim routes and holy sites in
Palestine. They rapidly acquired property all over Europe and became influential in royal courts and at
the papal curia, as well as being leading bankers and shippers. This course not only studies the
Military Orders' role in crusades, but also examines their activity in Europe, from which they drew
money, supplies and personnel for their wars in the East. It begins by examining the origins of the
controversial concept of the 'monk-knight' in the development of the ideals of knighthood, holy war and
monasticism. It goes on to follow the Orders' career in crusades in the Middle East, the Baltic and
Spain, and their economic activities, literature and relations with rulers. The course ends with a study
of the infamous trial of the Templars, in which the brothers of the most famous Military Order were
tried for heresy. A wide variety of source material will be examined, including chronicles, charters,
literature, art and archaeology.
METHODS OF TEACHING: This Module will be taught through a mixture of lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (35%) and one 3 hour examination (65%).
HS1810
THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH GENTRY
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This course examines the evolution of the English gentry from the late twelfth to the mid fifteenth
century and examines the pivotal role it came to play in English society. It will examine the structure
and the mentality of the gentry during the first centuries of its development. Attention will be focussed
not only on the gentry’s role in public life – in parliament, for example, in warfare and law and order –
but also their private concerns. Surviving letters – most spectacularly the Paston Letters – allow us to
understand their priorities and prejudices, their hopes and their fears. In addition to studying the
respective roles of the lord and the lady, marriage and the family and leisure pursuits, the course will
also cover the gentry’s relations with the crown, the higher nobility, the peasantry, urban society, and
the professions.
METHODS OF TEACHING: This Module will be taught through a mixture of lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (35%) and one 3 hour examination (65%).
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HS1812
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR 1035-1087
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This course will focus upon the career and achievements of William the Conqueror, who became duke
of Normandy at the age of eight in 1035, and King of England, after his victory over Harold at the battle
of Hastings on 14 October 1066. By tracing the Conqueror’s career, students will also examine the
relationship between the Norman aristocracy and the ducal/royal house, a relationship that was often
strained and sometimes violent. The course will also consider the impact of the Norman conquest and
settlement on , political, ecclesiastical, social, cultural and economic structures, not only in the AngloSaxon kingdom, but also in the Welsh Marches and the Anglo-Scottish borderlands. This course will
draw heavily upon the variety of primary source material that survives from this period, including
historical narratives such as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and the writings of William of Poitiers, William
of Jumièges and Orderic Vitalis. Students will also be introduced to other forms of literary and nonliterary sources such as writs and charters, military and ecclesiastical monuments, and other visual
representations of Norman history, including the Bayeux Tapestry, manuscript illumination and the
seals of individuals and corporations.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
HS1815
THE CRUSADER KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM 1099-1025
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
In 1099 the army of the First Crusade conquered Jerusalem. The crusaders then proceeded to
occupy a large part of what is now Israel, Lebanon and Syria until in 1187 Saladin conquered most,
but not all, of their territory. The Third Crusade of 1188-92 won back some of this land and left behind
a crusader presence in the East that lasted for a further century. This course examines the first
hundred years of the history of the kingdom founded by the crusaders. A major theme inevitably
centres on how the western settlers coped with almost constant conflict with their Muslim neighbours.
This in turn raises questions such as how the economy worked, how far the kingdom was dependant
on western Europe for support, and what sort of society developed under crusader rule. Underlying all
these topics is the question of why people in western Europe thought the Holy Land was worth fighting
for.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
HS1817
SLAVES, SERFS AND PEASANTS,500-1500
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This module examines the nature of freedom, slavery and serfdom in Western Europe from the Late
Roman Empire to the Late Middle Ages, a period of some 1000 years. During the Middle Ages a
variety of forms of servitude co-existed alongside the most prized, but typically threatened legal status,
freedom. The module will examine the significance of slavery for medieval societies and explore and
critique the arguments for the transition from slavery to serfdom. In addition, it will look at the legal,
socio-economic and cultural impact of various the forms of servitude and labour exploitation employed
by the medieval elites. It will also explore the role played by the ‘state’ in mediating social relations and
in controlling the symbols of power. There is a strong emphasis on understanding how past societies
constructed slavery and servility whilst accounting for the sources of changes in status and instances
of social protest.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
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HS1832
GERMANY'S NEW ORDER IN EUROPE 1933-1945
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
The module explores the political, diplomatic, military, and socio-economic history of the Third Reich. It
covers the period both chronologically and thematically, and provides an introduction of the major
historiographical interpretations of the Nazi dictatorship and its place in German and wider European
history.
METHODS OF TEACHING: A mixture of lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (35%) and one 3 hour examination (65%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1102 or HS1103 or HS1104.
HS1836
BRITAIN AND THE INTEGRATION OF EUROPE 1940-1975
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This course examines the dilemma posed by west European unification for postwar British
governments and analyses how the process of strategy formulation is influenced by domestic political
and economic choices. These themes will be illustrated by exploration, first, of Britain’s triangular
relationship with the Commonwealth, the USA and western Europe up to the 1975 referendum,
secondly, of the dwindling benefits to be gained from close association with the Commonwealth, and
thirdly, of the strategies developed by the two main political parties.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
REQUISITES: HS1101 or HS1104 or HS1105 or HS1106.
HS1841
CRIME AND DISORDER: ENGLAND & WALES 1500-1750
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This module explores the nature, practice and perceptions of deviance, crime and punishment in early
modern England and Wales. Activities such as treason, burglary, highway robbery, murder, infanticide,
witchcraft, unlawful sexual practices, religious nonconformity, smuggling, piracy, and many other forms
of unlawful behaviour will be examined. We shall also consider the rationale and practice of the range
of judicial punishments, which included hanging, burning at the stake, mutilation, whipping, shaming
rituals, excommunication from the church, and money fines. Were early modern England and Wales
as violent and malicious as some historians have supposed? What does a study of crime and
punishment tell us about wider social mores? In order to answer these questions, we shall analyse in
detail a range of primary sources – including trial pamphlets, witness testimony, legal treatises,
legislation, ballads, and social commentaries – in addition to a wide range of secondary historical
writing.
METHODS OF TEACHING: A series of formal lectures will introduce students to the main factual and
conceptual issues to be discussed and analysed during the course.
Seminar discussion of secondary historical literature will develop student understanding of these
issues, which discussions will be especially focused around key course themes.
Workshops in which key texts are analysed will enable students to further develop analytic skills.
Workshops in which primary sources are analysed will enable students to develop discipline specific
methods of approaching and analysing primary historical sources.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (35%) and one 3 hour examination (65%).
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HS1842
POLITICS, RELIGION AND IDENTITY: WALES 1558-1660
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This course will explore the role of Wales as a junior partner within the British state during the early
modern period. Questions of nationality, ethnicity and identity will be examined when considering how
the Welsh identified themselves closely with the English institutions of monarchy, church and the law
while retaining a potent sense of national pride and uniqueness. We will also look at how the Welsh
constructed their own self-image through myths and national histories, alongside the English view of
their Celtic neighbours in sources such as the plays of Shakespeare and the speeches of Oliver
Cromwell. The course will then go on to explore in some detail the period of the English Civil Wars and
Interregnum, when interactions between Wales and the other constituent parts of the British Isles were
particularly intense.
METHODS OF TEACHING: This module will be taught through a mixture of lectures, seminars and
document sessions.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (35%) and one 3 hour examination (65%).
HS1850
GENDER AND IMPERIALISM: INDIA 1829-1929
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This course will explore the changing position of Indian women and European women in India as well
as the impact of imperialism on gender relations under the Raj. It will do so by analysing such
developments as products of an interactive dialogue between Britain and India which involved
distinctive contributions by Western and Indian men and women. The different ways in which British
men and women were connected to the imperial project and how imperialism impacted on indigenous
women’s lives will be analysed through an examination of the gendered debates over race, class,
religion, sexuality, empire and nation. The course begins with the abolition of sati in 1829 and ends
with the passing of the Sarda Act of 1929. Students will map the inter-connections between
imperialism, feminism and nationalism through an in-depth study of selected primary source materials
in English and in translation, including memoirs, travel-writing, feminist and missionary tracts, novels
and official documents.
METHODS OF TEACHING: This module will be taught through a mixture of lectures, seminars and
oral presentations.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (35%) and one 3 hour examination (65%).
HS1865
CULTURE, SOCIETY AND IDENTITY IN WALES 1847-1914
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This course examines the growth of national awareness and the reformulation of notions of Welsh
national identity during the years between 1847 and 1914 under the impact of profound economic,
demographic, political, social and cultural changes. These themes will be illustrated by exploration,
first, of the influence of nonconformity and the construct of the 'nonconformist nation', the ascendancy
of the Liberal party, the ideology of the 'Gwerin', the defining of new notions of Welshness associated
with some popular cultural forms like rugby and choral singing. Second, the course will explore the
extent to which such developments were inclusive from a class and gender perspective, and third,
challenges to traditional and newly-defined notions of Welshness posed by the rise of labour, the
decline of the Welsh language, and certain aspects of popular culture.
METHODS OF TEACHING: This Module will be taught through a mixture of lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1,000 word assignment and one 2000 Assessed essay (35%) and
one 3 hour examination (65%).
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HS1873
SOCIALISM & NATIONALISM IN THE CHINESE
REVOLUTION 1921-1949
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
This module explores the relationship between socialism and nationalism in the Chinese Revolution
between 1921 and 1949. The approach is thematic rather than chronological. The module introduces
the chief issues and debates in Chinese politics and the dynamics of Chinese society in those years.
Although the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a central focus, the purview extends to the broader
historical setting and the political and social context within which the CCP emerged and rose to power,
as well as the international context as shaped by Russia, the Western Powers, and Japan. You will
become familiar with the main secondary literature and you will deepen your understanding of the
issues at stake by examining various primary sources, including documents, creative literature, and
films.
METHODS OF TEACHING:
The main issues and arguments will be introduced in lectures.
Some secondary literature will be discussed in seminars.
Key texts, ranging from stories and documents from the revolution to films, will be analysed in
workshops.
Analysis of primary sources will teach you the fundaments of historiographical method.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (35%) and one 3 hour examination (65%).
HS1876
BRITISH SOCIAL HISTORY, 1918 - 1951
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
The module will examine a period of rapid social change in the first half of the twentieth-century Britain
through themes such as leisure and entertainment, crime and punishment, consumerism, health and
welfare, the shifting role and status of women, work, identity, the environment, etc. It will also attempt
to establish the possibly more problematic elements of continuity. While not a primary objective, it will
increase students' awareness of the more recent historical context of current developments in British
society. The rich primary resources available on the period will afford them great opportunities to hone
their critical skills as historians.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: one assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
HS2406
ART AND VISUAL CULTURE (HISTORY)
Triple
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
How do images mean? What is the power of the visual? Why, over 30,000 years have people chosen
to make pictures, drawings, sculptures, movies, and photographs? In this module students attempt to
answer these questions by examining art and visual culture. Students focus on issues of
representation, material culture, the politics of looking, and being seen, the power of the visual, the
social significance of masks and carnival. Case studies range widely from Iron Age drinking sessions,
to Neolithic women exposing themselves, to Palaeolithic pick-up lines and on to historical and modern
technological and political examples such as the origins of photography and digital imagery. This is a
30-credit module taught in the autumn semester in a series of 11 lectures, 11 workshops-seminars,
and tutorials to discuss assessed work. Assessment is by two 2000-word essays, and a two-hour
written exam. Dr Bailey is module coordinator.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Minimum 20 lectures and 10 seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One assessed essay (25%) and one 3 hour examination (75%).
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Japanese
Note: Exchange Students will be accepted onto Japanese Language modules on a case-bycase basis, dependent upon knowledge of Japanese.
BS1590
JAPANESE LANGUAGE 1A
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This module introduces students to the grammar and writing system of the Japanese language.
METHODS OF TEACHING: There will be approximately 5 classes per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 x 2 hour examination (Spring) (80%), Continuous Assessment
(20%), weekly tests will be set.
REQUISITES: Co-requisite Modules: BS1591.
BS1591
JAPANESE LANGUAGE 1B
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This first year module provides students with a sound introductory knowledge of the spoken Japanese
language as well as practice in reading and writing Japanese, and translating from Japanese to
English.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Approximately 5 classes per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous Assessment (50%), One listening comprehension test
and one interview test will be held during the year. Examination (1½ hours) (Spring) (50%).
REQUISITES: Co-requisite modules: BS1590.
BS1596
JAPANESE HISTORY
Single
Spring
10 credits
This first year module provides students with a sound understanding of Japanese history up to the
Pacific War together with an awareness of the importance of Japanese history in understanding
modern Japanese society.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 2 hours per week for 11 weeks. Students will be asked to make nonassessed presentations.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Examination at the end of the spring semester (100%) (2 hours).
BS2595
MODERN JAPANESE SOCIETY
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This module provides students with a comprehensive understanding of Japan's modern political,
economic, educational and social systems. It aims to develop in students the ability to appreciate,
illustrate, differentiate and exemplify different explanations of how Japan functions, using established
theories, information gathered, and from personal experience gained in Japan.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Approximately 22 hours of classes. In classes student will be expected to
present and lead discussions.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One essay of 2,600 words (40%) to be submitted at the end of
Autumn semester; one interview (40%) one class presentation (20%).
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BS2596
JAPANESE LANGUAGE 2A
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This second year module builds upon the Japanese language modules taken in the first year by
continuing students' training in the core structures of the Japanese language. It introduces
intermediate level grammar and language use.
METHODS OF TEACHING: There will be approx. 88 hrs of classes, across the two semesters, with
lectures and classes covering reading, writing, speaking and listening. Students will be expected to
prepare before class, to participate actively in class.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 2 hour examination at the end of the Spring semester (70%) and
continuous assessment (30%). (Test at start of Spring semester 10% and test at end of Spring
semester 20%).
BS2597
JAPANESE LANGUAGE 2B
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
The aim of this second year module is to build on the Japanese modules taken in the first year, it will
develop and extend students' training in the comprehension, writing, and practical use of the Japanese
language.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Approximately four hours of lectures per week, covering reading,
translation, writing and oral/aural work. Students will be expected to prepare before class, to
participate actively in class.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 3 hour exam at the end of the Spring semester (50%) containing
translation and composition, continuous assessment (50%) consisting of a listening test (25%) and
speaking test (25%) in the spring semester.
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Journalism,
Media and
Cultural Studies
Exchange students with a relevant humanities background are welcome. For further details
please contact Ms Rebecca Harris ext 74156, Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue.
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Language and
Communication
SE1287
ACADEMIC WRITING IN ENGLISH 1
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module offers an opportunity to improve the quality of academic written work by raising
awareness about conventions in academic writing at various levels. Lack of awareness and
knowledge of correct referencing techniques, punctuation and grammatical control severely limit the
standard of academic writing. The module will also include strategies for planning and organising
written work.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and practical workshops. Self study and tutor feedback.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1½hr examination 50%. Coursework 50%.
SE1288
ACADEMIC WRITING IN ENGLISH 2
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module offers an opportunity to further improve understanding of good practice in academic
writing. Consideration will be given to the different functions of writing together with techniques for
self-improvement and understanding of a variety of assessment criteria.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and practical workshops. Self-study and Tutor feedback.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1½ hour examination (Spring) 50% and coursework 50%.
SE1289
ORAL SKILLS IN ACADEMIC CONTEXT 1
Single
Autumn
10 credits
Effective speaking and listening skills are becoming a more important and more frequently assessed
aspect of academic achievement. The ability to contribute and participate in seminars and tutorials is
a skill not to be underestimated. Oral presentations have recently become a valid and more popular
method of internal assessment. This module will improve both understanding and oral competence.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and practical workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 100% coursework.
SE1290
ORAL SKILLS IN ACADEMIC CONTEXT 2
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module will extend understanding and appreciation of the importance of oral/aural skills within an
academic environment. Practical sessions and useful feedback about different modes of presentation
skills will increase both confidence and competence in these areas.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lecture presentations and practical workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 100% coursework.
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SE1309
TEACHING LITERATURE THROUGH LANGUAGE
Double
Spring
20 credits
Why do we study literature and language as different subjects? How does ‘literary’ language differ
from ‘everyday’ language? How can we use linguistic models and theories to study literary texts? In
this course we answer these and other questions, using approaches from the study of language to
analyse different genres of literary texts.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 100% coursework.
SE1311
FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Double
Autumn
20 credits
This module is a vocationally orientated course for teachers or intending teachers of English as a
Foreign or Second Language. It is designed to raise awareness of historically critical issues as well as
current concerns, to enable greater theoretical awareness to inform classroom practice, and to
develop the ability to evaluate and apply existing approaches as appropriate.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures (20) and seminars (5). Assignments and guided reading (135
hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 100% Coursework.
SE1321
CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES IN COMMUNICATION
Double
Spring
20 credits
A descriptive and explanatory study of the interrelationship between language and culture and crosscultural patterns of language use; theories of verbal and non-verbal communication; role of language
in the construction of cultural, ethnic and national identities in multicultural societies; prejudice and
cultural stereotyping.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures (20) and seminars (5). Assignments and guided reading (135
hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework (50%); 2 hour written examination Spring (50%).
SE1327
LIFESPAN COMMUNICATION
Double
Spring
20 credits
To introduce and encourage evaluation of theories of human development, social identity, ageing and
age-prejudice, from a communication perspective. In these areas, students will critically evaluate
empirical studies of how language and social interaction reflect, consolidate and in other ways
influence human development itself. Also, to develop a critical understanding of social ageism in its
many sociolinguistic and cultural forms.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework (50%); written examination (50%).
SE1335
THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH
Double
Autumn
20 credits
A descriptive study of the consonants, vowels, word stress, rhythm and intonation of contemporary
English, in the context of language teaching, dialectology and public awareness of language (e.g.,
poetry, advertising and entertainment).
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures (20) and seminars (5). Assignments and guided reading (135
hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 100% coursework (practical tasks including class tests and
transcription exercises and an essay of approx. 1600 words).
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SE1342
COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
Double
Spring
20 credits
This module explores all forms of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) from the perspective of
text analysis and multimodality. CMC refers to any human-to-human communication that is mediated
by a computer. We will focus especially on Internet-based discourse, including e-mail messages,
discussion lists, chat, Web pages, and virtual communities. We will investigate the nature of CMC as
a Mode of Discourse, the way CMC uses a range of semiotic and linguistic resources, and the relation
between text, meaning and technology in CMC.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Twice weekly practical and theoretical lecture sessions and/or short video
presentations. Two practical seminar sessions and three online discussion meetings. Students will
also be expected to spend time online applying and extending their new skills and knowledge.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework (50%); examination (50%).
SE1344
COMMUNICATING IN RELATIONSHIPS
Double
Autumn
20 credits
This module is an introduction to the current theory and research in relational communication with a
focus on family and intergenerational communication across the lifespan. Students will become
familiar will emerging research on the significance and consequences of age stereotypes with respect
to teenagers and elders in a variety of relational contexts including the family. Several lifespan
relational transitions come under scrutiny such as the relationship between parents and adolescents
and the relationship between adults and aging parents. We use these relational contexts to examine
current literatures on social support and interpersonal conflict. We also consider the sensitive issue of
relational and termination including grief in response to relational loss.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework (50%) and an Examination (50%).
SE1361
MEDIA TEXTS
Double
Spring
20 credits
This module introduces students to a range of theoretical and practical approaches to the study of
different types of media texts. The term ‘text’ is used in its broad sense, to refer to both spoken and
written language use in media contexts. We look at a diverse range of such texts, from radio phoneins to political debates, from documentary to parody. Students will learn how to apply various analytic
models and design their own research project based on current media data.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Project work (50%); examination (50%).
SE1363
NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
Double
Autumn
20 credits
This module explores the wide-ranging aspects of nonverbal communication and behaviour in different
aspects of everyday life. It aims to raise students’ awareness in the observation, description and
interpretation of non-verbal signals and devices and to provide basic tools of describing and analysing
non-verbal behaviour with regard to the following areas of study: interpersonal communication, crosscultural communication, social construction of identity, in-group/out-group behaviour as well as public,
political and mediated communication. The module is illustrated with many photographic and video
examples of non-verbal behaviour drawn from various educational and non-educational sources. The
latter include: television drama, feature films, political documentaries, etc.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures illustrated by video. Seminars based on group discussions,
classroom demonstrations and (self-) evaluation tests.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 100% coursework (two 1600 word essays).
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SE1367
HEALTH COMMUNICATION
Double
Spring
20 credits
Health Communication identifies some of the main ways in which health care services and health
promotional campaigns are dependent on communication. Topics include doctor-patient and nursepatient talk, representations and narratives of illness, therapeutic discourse, and barriers to
communication effectiveness in health promotion.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly lectures and group discussions.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Examination 50%; Coursework 50%.
SE1369
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Double
Spring
20 credits
An overview of Sociolinguistics to provide a foundation knowledge of language variation. The module
includes the study of multi- and bi-lingual contexts (e.g. code-switching, pidgins and creoles);
language planning; language variation with respect to class, gender and other groups; language and
social relations.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures (20) and seminars (5). Assignments and guided reading (135
hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework (50%) and 2 hour written exam (50%).
SE1370
WORDS & MEANING
Double
Autumn
20 credits
This module sets out to explore the central role that words have in linguistic organisation and language
use. It will introduce approached to word meaning (lexical semantics), word behaviour and use as
observed from the investigation of large computer corpora of English, and how words, their meaning
and behaviour are accounted for both in general accounts of language and in contemporary
dictionaries. Students will develop your understanding of all aspects of lexis and will be given the
opportunity to explore and become familiar with the use of computer corpora for lexical research.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework (50%); 2 hour written examination (50%).
SE1371
PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION
Double
Autumn
20 credits
In this module, students gain an understanding of what is meant by ‘persuading’ people, and become
familiar with some of the main theories of persuasion. Students also gain a knowledge of some of the
research into the relative effectiveness of different approaches to persuasion. We consider
persuasion and persuasiveness in relation to interpersonal communication, communication in groups
and organisations, and mass communication. Coverage of media advertising includes aspects of
consumer advertising, but also extends to political advertising, charity appeals, public safety and
health campaigns, etc.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework (50%); examination (50%).
SE1373
VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Double
Autumn
20 credits
An interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of various forms of visual communication, including
(news) photographs, advertisements, cartoons, magazine covers and film.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Handouts, lectures and seminar sessions.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework (100%).
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SE1375
DESCRIBING LANGUAGE
Double
Spring
20 credits
This module presents a functional model of linguistic description – Systematic Functional Linguistics.
We explore the effects and consequences of particular lexical and grammatical choices on the
creation of meaning in a wide range of spoken and written texts, with the aim of better understanding
both the meaning potential available to speakers and how particular choices in meaning are
associated with different texts.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 50% coursework (5 seminar tasks x 10%); 50% examination.
SE1378
THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION &
LANGUAGE
Double
Spring
20 credits
This module will draw upon the most up-to-date research on language evolution conducted in the
fields of linguistics, biology, psychology, archaeology, anthropology, Artificial Intelligence and
primatology, to explore questions such as: What makes human language qualitatively different from
animal communication? Which features of human language must predate others? And How did
language ever get off the ground at all? It will offer insights into the nature of language, and into how
linguistic structure determines, and is determined by, our priorities in communication.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures; Seminars; Discussion, Essay and Examination.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (50%) and coursework (50%).
SE1379
CONFLICT & COMMUNICATION
Double
Spring
20 credits
This module will provide an introductory overview of current research and theory concerned with
interpersonal as well as intergroup conflict. Conflict in interpersonal or close relationships will be
examined as will more broadbased or widespread conflict such as national or international conflict.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework (50%); examination (50%).
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LEARN:
Computing
CE1112
INFORMATION PROCESSING
Single
Spring
10 credits
Based around the syllabus of the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL), this course will look at
how computer systems handle and process different types of digital information. Time will be spent
dealing with the integration of information to produce compound file types containing information which
is updatable from external sources. Topics covered: the concepts of information technology, using the
computer and managing files, word-processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentations, information
and communication. These topics align directly with the ECDL syllabus for anyone interested in taking
this optional qualification.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly three hour lectures and laboratory classes (36 contact hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: (i) coursework 40%. (ii) written test 60%.
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LEARN: English
Please note that English Literature also offers English modules. These are detailed on page 18.
CE3379
MYTH, LANGUAGE AND IDEOLOGY IN J.R.R. TOLKIEN’S
FICTION
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course examines Tolkien’s awareness of northern European mythologies and languages, as well
as other aspects of his scholarly background such as anthropology and archaeology, and how he used
them creatively in writing his fiction, mainly known by The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The
Silmarillion.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 1500 word essay demonstrating knowledge and understanding
of the subject.
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LEARN:
Environmental
Studies and Science
Communication
CE1593
INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module provides a background to a number of topical environmental issues. It shows how the
resolution of environmental problems, while based on sound science, needs to have regard for
economic, ethical, political and social considerations.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures/discussion groups (20 contact hours), plus a field excursion/day
school (5 contact hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework (50%). Written class test (50%).
CE2730
INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module examines topical infectious-disease issues from an environmental standpoint. It also
seeks to demonstrate that successful control measures need to be based not only on new discoveries,
but also on the proper application of certain long-established principles.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures, discussions and class exercises (20 contact hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework (50%). Written class test (50%).
CE2731
SCIENCE AND ITS COMMUNICATION
Single
Autumn
10 credits
Science features prominently in the news, and scientific discoveries enrich our lives on a daily basis,
but how is science communicated, and for what reasons? Our analysis of who is trying to
communicate with whom leads us to examine the novel ways in which people are attempting to
engage the public with science.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures, discussion groups and workshop activities (20 contact hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework (50%). Written class test (50%).
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CE3721
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: LAW AND POLICY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course offers the non-lawyer an overview of existing regulatory mechanisms for the protection of
the environment. It introduces students to the legal principles that govern the protection of the
environment, and examines the framework of national, European and international environmental laws
regulating matters such as land use, nature conservation, environmental assessment, the pollution of
water and air, and the disposal of waste on land. By the end of the course, students should be able to
identify the main instruments and policies used in addressing a range of environmental issues and be
familiar and comfortable with legal concepts, liabilities and terminology.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly lectures, consisting of teaching, discussion and interactive
exercises (presentations, role-play, problem-solving and academic debates) plus field trip.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation, completion of
reading tasks and interactive tasks, an in-class presentation, and an assignment demonstrating
knowledge and understanding of the subject.
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LEARN: History
Please note that History and Welsh History also offers History modules. These are detailed on
page 30.
CE3157
ANTURIAETHWYR, ARLOESWYR AC YMFUDWYR
Sengl
Gwanwyn
10 credyd
Bydd y cwrs hwn yn trin a thrafod profiadau’r Cymry dramor a’r modd y bu iddynt ddylanwadu ar y bobl
gartref. Trafodir sawl canrif, yn ymestyn o deithiau chwedlonol Madog hyd at yr ymfudo mawr gan
mlynedd yn ôl, a bydd y cwrs yn cynnwys hanes bywydau môr-ladron ac anturiaethwyr, arloeswyr,
aurchwilwyr a chowbois.
DULLIAU DYSGU: Deg darlith dwyawr yn cynnwys deunydd gweledol drwy ddefnyddio cyflwyniad
PowerPoint ac astudiaeth ffynonellau. Ceir rhywfaint o drafod a dadlau yn ystod y sesiynau (20 awr
gyswllt).
DULLIAU ASESU: Trwy ysgrif, beirniadaeth ffynonellau neu waith ysgrifenedig arall hyd at 1,500 gair
yn dangos gwybodaeth drylwyr o agweddau dewisol o’r cwrs a gwelliant mewn sgiliau casglu, crynhoi
a chyflwyno gwybodaeth.
CE3193
THE NORMANS IN BRITAIN 1066-87
Single
Spring
10 credits
Historians regard the Norman Conquest as one of the pivotal events in British history. This course will
examine William’s momentous invasion and explore the political, social and cultural impact of the
Conquest during his lifetime. Using a range of contemporary sources students will be encouraged to
question traditional historical interpretations.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2 hour lectures.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 1500 word essay.
CE3212
THE VIKINGS IN WALES, 850-1100
Single
Spring
10 credits
This course deals with the impact of the Viking raids and settlement in Wales. Using both
archaeological and historical evidence it will examine the complex cultural interplay between Celtic
and Viking society. It will also reveal how Wales was at the heart of a dynamic maritime network
during this period.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2 hour lectures.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 1500 word Essay.
CE3381
THE FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
The course will explore the demise of the Soviet empire that stretched from the Vladivostok to the East
German border. It will look at the ideological doctrine that held this empire together and assess the
chances to rebuild liberal democratic politics in the post-Soviet states.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2 hour lectures.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 1500 word Essay.
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CE3476
WELSH EMIGRANTS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES, 16001939
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course will explore the history of Welsh emigration over three centuries and on five continents. It
will look at the lives of Welsh pioneers, missionaries, economic migrants and settlers who ventured to
diverse locations across the globe and examine how their experiences impacted on the communities
back home.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2 hour lectures.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Two 1500 word essays.
CE3664
DOMINATION AND CONFLICT; WALES AND THE
BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH IMPERIALISM 1066-1189
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course examines the gradual English conquest of large regions of Wales, from the establishment
of the Norman marcher earldoms to the dramatic expansion of English power during the reign of Henry
II. It will explore the development of an imperialistic English ideology and assess the impact that this
had upon Welsh politics and culture.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2 hour lectures.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 1500 word essay.
CE3684
SELLING REBELLION; MUSIC, POLITICS AND
CULTURAL IDENTITY IN BRITAIN 1977 - 1997
Single
Autumn
10 credits
1977-1997 was a period of dramatic change in British society witnessing Thatcherism, the Miners’
Strike, race riots, the end of the Cold War and Globalisation. This course will examine this turbulent
period using popular music as a key source. It will explore the significant relationship between music
and expressions of political protest, ethnicity, gender and national identity.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2 hour lectures.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 1500 word Essay.
CE3705
GENDER & SEXUALITY IN ENGLAND, 1500-1700
Single
Autumn
10 credits
Gender history and the history of sexuality have grown increasingly popular in recent decades. This
module explores the construction of femininity and masculinity and their impact on understandings of
sexuality in early modern England. It will examine topics including medicine, religion, and politics, as
well as hermaphrodites and cross-dressers.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2 hour lectures.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 1500 word essay.
CE3732
REVOLUTIONS AND DEMOCRACY; COMPARATIVE
HISTORICAL APPROACHES
Single
Spring
10 credits
Revolutions have often created democracies in their wake but they have also destroyed democratic
institutions. This course will explore the relationship between revolutionary change and democracy
over the past 300 years. It will contrast and compare attempts to alter social and political life, including
the French and American revolutions, the Russian revolution and the fall of the Communist regimes.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2 hour lectures.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 1500 word Essay.
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CE3749
HEROIC QUESTS AND MYTHIC WORLDS: THEMES IN
FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY
Single
Spring
10 credits
Tales of wonder and ancient myth evoke images of heroic action, dragons, magicians and quests for
magic talismans. They are fundamental to literature and popular culture, and this course will examine
them in the light of art, literature, myth and folklore, to expand our understanding of important themes
and characters.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2 hour lectures.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: One 1500 essay and class work sheets.
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LEARN:
Language Modules
(European)
CE1091
FRENCH LANGUAGE A
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for students with no knowledge of the French language who wish to acquire
the basics of the language for social, survival or study purposes. The primary focus will be upon the
skills of speaking and listening, but some attention will be given to reading skills.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the audio
laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Oral end test 30%/Continuous Assessment
10%. iii) Aural end test 40%.
CE1092
FRENCH LANGUAGE B
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is designed for students with a little knowledge of French: perhaps one year at school or
module CE1091 French Language A. The primary focus will be upon the skills required for oral
communication in social, survival and study situations. Some attention will be given to reading skills
and basic writing skills will be introduced.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Oral end test 30%/Continuous Assessment
10%. iii) Aural end test 40%.
CE1093
FRENCH LANGUAGE C
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for students who have completed a course of study leading to "O"/GCSE
level or equivalent or who have completed French A and B (modules CE1091 and CE1092). A period
of revision of basic language skills and knowledge will be followed by training in the skills of speaking,
listening and reading.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including use of the audio
laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Reading comprehension 20% iii) Oral end
test 30% iv) Aural end test 30%.
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CE1094
FRENCH LANGUAGE D
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is designed for students who have completed an "O"/GCSE level in French, or equivalent
and who have maintained their language skills either by a stay in a French-speaking country or by a
course of study. The focus of this module is upon the applied use of the language in work or study.
The course provides an introduction to the language of business in French.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Reading comprehension 20% iii) Oral end test
30% iv) Aural end test 30%.
CE1095
FRENCH LANGUAGE E
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This post "A" level module offers a balanced syllabus of grammar and essential communication skills
(spoken and written) for everyday use of French language. The emphasis is on reinforcing main
grammar points studied previously and extending vocabulary. The course is entirely conducted in
French and is supported with authentic materials (digital French TV channels and on-line
newspapers). Open to students having completed French D (CE1094) or equivalent.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the audio
laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Reading comprehension 20% iii) Oral skills:
meeting (simulation) /interview 30% iv) Aural end test 30%.
CE1096
FRENCH LANGUAGE F
Single
Spring
10 credits
This post "A" level module offers a balanced syllabus of grammar and essential communication skills
(spoken and written) for everyday use of French language. It further develops student’s language skills
in the context of current affairs in the French speaking world.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including the use of the audio
laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities of LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Reading comprehension 20%. iii) Oral skills:
meeting/interview 30%. iv) Aural end test 30%.
CE2044
FRENCH LANGUAGE G
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for post "A" level students or equivalent or who have completed French E and
F (modules CE1095 and CE1096). Students will develop their business language skills and the
course will serve as a preparation module for the internationally recognised exam Le Diplôme de
Français des Affaires 1er degré from the Paris Chamber of Commerce and industry.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including use of the audio
laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Written test 40%, iii) Oral assessment 20%. iv)
Aural test 20%.
CE2045
FRENCH LANGUAGE H
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is aimed at students who have a good working knowledge of French, who wish to further
improve their knowledge of French business language to a very high standard. The module will be the
final stage of the preparation for Le Diplôme de Français des Affaires 1er degré from the Paris
Chamber of Commerce and industry.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including use of the audio
laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Written test 40%, iii) Oral assessment 20%. iv)
Aural test 20%.
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CE2091
GERMAN LANGUAGE A
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for students with no knowledge of the German language who wish to acquire
the basics of the language for social, survival or study purposes. The primary focus will be upon the
skills of speaking and listening, but some attention will be given to reading skills.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Oral end test 30%/Continuous Assessment
10%. iii) Aural end test 40%.
CE2092
GERMAN LANGUAGE B
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is designed for students with a little knowledge of German: perhaps one year at a school
or module CE2091 German Language A. The primary focus will be upon the skills required for oral
communication in social, survival and study situations. Some attention will be given to reading and
basic writing skills will be introduced.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Oral end test 30%/Continuous Assessment
10%. iii) Aural end test 40%.
CE2093
GERMAN LANGUAGE C
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for students who have completed a course of study leading to "O"/GCSE
level or equivalent or who have completed German A and B (modules CE2091 and CE2092). A
period of revision of basic language skills and knowledge will be followed by training in the skills of
speaking, listening and reading.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Reading comprehension 20%. iii) Oral end
test 30%. iv) Aural end test 30%.
CE2094
GERMAN LANGUAGE D
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is designed for students who have completed an "O"/GCSE level in German, or
equivalent and who have maintained their language skills either by a stay in a German-speaking
country or by a course of study. The focus of this module is upon the applied use of the language in
work or study.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Reading comprehension 20%. iii) Oral end
test 30%. iv) Aural end test 30%.
CE2095
GERMAN LANGUAGE E
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for post A level students or students who, although they may not have
completed an "A" level (or equivalent) have nevertheless maintained their language skills by an
extended stay in a German-speaking country or by courses of study. The module further develops the
language for work and study skills of German Language D (CE2094) or equivalent.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Reading comprehension 20% iii) Oral skills:
meeting (simulation)/interview 30%. iv) Aural end test 30%.
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CE2096
GERMAN LANGUAGE F
Single
Spring
10 credits
This is a post "A" level module for students who intend to use German for the purposes of work or
further study. In addition to developing these skills the student will develop a familiarity with current
affairs in the German-speaking world via up-to-date broadcast and written materials.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including the use of the audio
laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities of LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Reading comprehension 20%. iii) Oral skills:
meeting/interview 30%. iv) Aural comprehension 30%.
CE2041
GERMAN LANGUAGE G
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for post "A" level students or equivalent or who have completed German E
and F (modules CE2095 and CE2096). Students will further develop their business language skills
and the course will serve as a preparation module for the internationally recognised exam Das
Zertifikat Deutsch für den Beruf.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including use of the audio
laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Written test 40%, iii) Oral assessment 20%, iv)
Aural test 20%.
CE2042
GERMAN LANGUAGE H
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is aimed at students who have a good working knowledge of German, who wish to further
improve their knowledge of German business language to a very high standard. The module will be
the final stage of preparation for the Zertifikat Deutsch für den Beruf.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including use of the audio
laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Written test 40%, iii) Oral assessment 20%. iv)
Aural test 20%.
CE1678
GREEK FOR BEGINNERS I
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course aims to introduce students who have no knowledge of Greek to basic communication
skills. The emphasis will be on spoken Greek, but some written skills will be taught.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Aural test 40%, ii) Oral class participation 40%, iii) Coursework
20%.
CE1679
GREEK FOR BEGINNERS II
Single
Spring
10 credits
This course aims to introduce students who have a basic knowledge of Greek or who have completed
Greek for Beginners I, to simple communication skills. Speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
will be taught.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Aural test 40%, ii) Oral class participation 40%, iii) Coursework
20%.
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CE2216
GREEK FOR IMPROVERS I
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course is aimed at students who have completed a Greek for Beginners course or equivalent.
Students will further practise and improve their oral, aural, reading and written language skills.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Oral class participation 40%, ii) Coursework 20%, iii) Class test
20%, iv) Aural test 20%.
CE2217
GREEK FOR IMPROVERS II
Single
Spring
10 credits
This course is aimed at students who have some knowledge of the Greek language who wish to
further improve their language skills to an intermediate standard and at the same time learn more
about life and culture in Greece.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Oral class participation 40%, ii) Coursework 20%, iii) Class test
20%, iv) Aural test 20%.
CE2212
PORTUGUESE FOR BEGINNERS A
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This course is aimed at students with no previous knowledge of the language. Students will learn to
understand basic written and spoken texts, taking part in simple conversation and conveying simple
information in writing.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two-hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 40%, ii) End of class test 20%, iii) Aural class test
20%, iv) Oral class participation 20%.
CE2213
PORTUGUESE FOR IMPROVERS B
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This course is aimed at students who have studied Portuguese for one year part-time or equivalent.
Students will further improve their communication skills at a level which is sufficient to cope with
simple practical needs.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two-hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 40%, ii) End of class test 20%, iii) Aural class test 20%,
iv) Oral class participation 20%.
CE3050
RUSSIAN FOR BEGINNERS I
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course aims to introduce students who have no knowledge of Russian to basic communication
skills. The emphasis will be on spoken Russian, but some written skills will be taught.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Aural class test 40%, ii) Oral class participation 40%, iii)
Coursework 20%.
CE3051
RUSSIAN FOR BEGINNERS II
Single
Spring
10 credits
This course aims to introduce students who have a basic knowledge of Russian or who have
completed Russian for Beginners I, to simple communication skills. Speaking, listening, reading and
writing skills will be taught.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Aural class test 40%, ii) Oral class participation 40%, iii)
Coursework 20%.
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CE3277
RUSSIAN FOR IMPROVERS I
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course is aimed at students who have completed a Russian for Beginners course or equivalent.
Students will further practise and improve their oral, aural, reading and written language skills.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) written end of class test 20% ii) coursework 20% iii) oral class
participation 40% iv) Aural test 20%.
CE3278
RUSSIAN FOR IMPROVERS II
Single
Spring
10 credits
This course is aimed at students who have some knowledge of Russian, or who have completed
Russian for Improvers I.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) written end of class test 20% ii) coursework 20% iii) oral class
participation 40% iv) Aural test 20%.
CE3091
ITALIAN LANGUAGE A
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for students with no knowledge of the Italian language who wish to acquire
the basics of the language for social, survival or study purposes. The primary focus will be upon the
skills of speaking and listening, but some attention will be given to reading skills.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Oral end test 30%/continuous assessment
10%. iii) Aural end test 40%.
CE3092
ITALIAN LANGUAGE B
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is designed for students with a little knowledge of Italian: perhaps one year at school or
module CE3091 Italian language A. The primary focus will be upon the skills required for oral
communication in social, survival and study situations. Some attention will be given to reading skills
and basic writing skills will be introduced.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20% ii) Oral end test 30%/continuous assessment
10%. iii) Aural end test 40%.
CE3093
ITALIAN LANGUAGE C
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for students who have completed a course of study leading to "O"/GCSE
level or equivalent or who have completed Italian A and B (modules CE3091 & CE3092). A period of
revision of basic language skills and knowledge will be followed by training in the skills of speaking,
listening and reading.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20% ii) Reading comprehension 20%. iii) Oral end test
30%. iv) Aural end test 30%.
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CE3094
ITALIAN LANGUAGE D
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is designed for students who have completed an "O"/GCSE level course in Italian, or
equivalent and who have maintained their language skills either by a stay in Italy or by a course of
study. The focus of this module is upon the applied use of the language in work or study. The course
provides an introduction to the language of business in Italian.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%, ii) Reading comprehension 20%, iii) Oral end test
30%, iv) Aural end test 30%.
CE3095
ITALIAN LANGUAGE E
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for post A level students or students who, although they may not have
completed an "A" level (or equivalent) have nevertheless maintained their language skills by an
extended stay in Italy or by courses of study. The module further develops the language for work and
study skills of Italian Language D.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at the LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%, ii) Reading comprehension 20%, iii) Oral skills:
meeting (simulation)/interview 30%, iv) Aural end test 30%.
CE3096
ITALIAN LANGUAGE F
Single
Spring
10 credits
This is a post "A" Level module for students who intend to use Italian for the purposes of work or
further study. In addition to developing these skills the student will develop a familiarity with current
affairs in Italy via up-to-date broadcast and written materials.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including the use of the audio
laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities of LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Reading comprehension 20%. iii) Oral skills:
meeting/interview 30%. iv) Aural end test 30%.
CE4091
SPANISH LANGUAGE A
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for students with no knowledge of the Spanish language who wish to acquire
the basics of the language for social, survival or study purposes. The primary focus will be upon the
skills of speaking and listening, but some attention will be given to reading skills.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%, ii) Oral end test 30%/continuous assessment
10%, iii) Aural end test 40%.
CE4092
SPANISH LANGUAGE B
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is designed for students with a little knowledge of Spanish: perhaps one year at school or
module CE4091 Spanish Language A. The primary focus will be upon the skills required for oral
communication in social, survival and study situations. Some attention will be given to reading skills
and basic writing skills will be introduced.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%, ii) Oral end test 30%/continuous assessment
10%, iii) Aural end test 40%.
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CE4093
SPANISH LANGUAGE C
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for students who have completed a course of study leading to "O"/GCSE
level or equivalent or who have completed Spanish A and B (modules CE4091 & CE4092). A period
of revision of basic language skills and knowledge will be followed by training in the skills of speaking,
listening and reading.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%, ii) Reading comprehension 20%, iii) Oral end test
30%, iv) Aural end test 30%.
CE4094
SPANISH LANGUAGE D
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is designed for students who have completed an "O"/GCSE level course in Spanish, or
equivalent and who have maintained their language skills either by a stay in a Spanish-speaking
country or by a course of study. The focus of this module is upon the applied use of the language in
work or study. The course provides an introduction to the language of business in Spanish.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%, ii) Reading comprehension 20%, iii) Oral end test
30%, iv) Aural end test 30%.
CE4095
SPANISH LANGUAGE E
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for post A level students or students who, although they may not have
completed an "A" level (or equivalent) have nevertheless maintained their language skills by an
extended stay in a Spanish-speaking country or by courses of study. The module further develops the
language for work and study skills of Spanish Language D.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops. ii) Self study including the use of the
audio laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%, ii) Reading comprehension 20%, iii) Oral skills:
meeting (simulation)/interview 30%, iv) Aural end test 30%.
CE4096
SPANISH LANGUAGE F
Single
Spring
10 credits
This is a post "A" Level module for students who intend to use Spanish for the purposes of work or
further study. In addition to developing these skills the student will develop a familiarity with current
affairs in the Spanish-speaking world via up-to-date broadcast and written materials.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including the use of the audio
laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities of LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%. ii) Reading comprehension 20%. iii) Oral skills:
meeting/interview 30%. iv) Aural end test 30%.
CE2221
SPANISH LANGUAGE G
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is designed for post "A" level students or equivalent or who have completed Spanish E
and F (modules CE4095 and CE4096). Students will further develop their language skills by
discussing and analysing the current affairs of Spanish speaking countries.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including use of the audio
laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%, ii) Written test 40%, iii) Oral assessment 20%
iv) Aural test 20%.
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CE2222
SPANISH LANGUAGE H
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is aimed at students who have a good working knowledge of Spanish, who wish to further
improve their knowledge of the language to a very high standard. The course will cover various
aspects of business, politics and society in the Spanish speaking world.
METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including use of the audio
laboratory and Computer Assisted Language Learning facilities at LEARN.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%, ii) Written test 40%, iii) Oral assessment 20%
iv) Aural test 20%.
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LEARN: Language
Modules (NonEuropean)
CE1001
CHINESE LANGUAGE I
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This course is aimed at students who have no previous knowledge of Chinese. The emphasis will be
on developing a basic knowledge of the key language skills - reading, writing, speaking and listening.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Language workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Written test 40%, ii) Oral continuous assessment 40%, iii) aural
class test 20%.
CE1002
CHINESE LANGUAGE II
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This course is aimed at students who have a basic knowledge of Chinese or who have completed
Chinese I (module CE1001). Students will learn to use a broader, but limited range of written, oral and
aural language skills for practical needs.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Language workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) end of class test 20%, ii) coursework 20%, iii) aural class test 20%,
iv) oral class participation (40%).
CE2000
CHINESE LANGUAGE III
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This course is aimed at students who have some knowledge of Chinese, or who have completed
Chinese II. Students will further improve their speaking, listening, writing and reading skills and at the
same time gain an insight into Chinese social and political life.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Language work-shops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20%, ii) Written class test 20%, iii) Oral continuous
assessment 40% iv) Aural test (20%).
CE1074
JAPANESE FOR BEGINNERS I
Single
Autumn
10 credits
An introductory course which will give students an impression of the outlook and day-to-day life of
modern Japan. No previous knowledge of the language is required.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two-hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Written class test (20%), ii) Coursework (20%), iii) Oral class
participation (40%), iv) Aural test (20%).
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CE1377
JAPANESE FOR BEGINNERS II
Single
Spring
10 credits
This course covers Hiragana to enable students to read Japanese. A wider range of grammatical
structures and expression will also be taught.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two-hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Written class test (20%), ii) Coursework (20%), iii) Oral class
participation (40%), iv) Aural test (20%).
CE2946
JAPANESE FOR IMPROVERS I
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course is aimed at students who have studied Japanese for 1 year part-time. Students will
improve their reading, writing and speaking skills as well as gaining a further insight into the traditions
and society of modern Japan.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two-hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) class test (40%) (ii) coursework (20%) iii) oral assessment (40%).
CE2947
JAPANESE FOR IMPROVERS II
Single
Spring
10 credits
In this follow on course from Japanese for Improvers I, students will learn to use a broader, but still
limited range of oral, aural and written language skills, sufficient for practical needs.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two-hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) class test (40%) (ii) coursework (20%) iii) oral assessment (40%).
CE2005
ARABIC LANGUAGE I
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This course is aimed at students who have no previous knowledge of Arabic. The emphasis will be on
developing a basic knowledge of the key language skills - reading, writing, speaking and listening.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Language workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Written test 40%, ii) Aural class test 20%, iv) Oral class participation
40%.
CE2006
ARABIC LANGUAGE II
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This course is aimed at students who have some knowledge of Arabic or who have completed
Arabic I. Students will further practice their speaking and listening skills as well as being introduced to
reading and writing skills.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Language workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) end of class test 20%, ii) coursework 20%, iii) aural class test 20%,
iv) oral class participation 40%.
CE2500
ARABIC LANGUAGE III
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This course is aimed at students who have a good knowledge of Arabic (equivalent to two years of
part-time study), who are interested in progressing further.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly two-hour workshops.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) end of class test 20%, ii) coursework 20%, iii) aural class test 20%,
iv) oral class participation 40%.
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LEARN: Law
CE1098
CONTRACT LAW
Single
Autumn or Spring
10 credits
This module examines the creation of legally binding agreements in English law, looking at topics such
as offer and acceptance, consideration, terms, misrepresentation, exemption clauses, breach of
contract, and remedies for breach of contract. It gives students an opportunity to make a critical
assessment of the law of contract and of the way in which it works in practice.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (22 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Class test and assignment demonstrating knowledge and
understanding of the subject.
CE1101
EUROPEAN LAW
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module provides students with a knowledge of the basic principles of European law and places
these in a social and economic context wherever possible. It should enable students to make a critical
assessment of the law of Europe and the way it works in practice. Relevant directives, regulations and
case law of the European Court of Justice will be examined. Where possible relevant comparative
material from the USA and other common law countries, as well as the theoretical framework of
European law and the justifications for the legal regulation of the areas involved, will be considered.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 1½-hour lectures, plus two 2½-hour Saturday schools (21½
contact hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1½-hour class test and written work of 1,000 words showing
knowledge and understanding of the subject.
CE1356
BUSINESS AND COMPANY LAW
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This course introduces students to the law relating to the formation of companies, personnel and
capital, as well as insolvency. An overview of the law of partnership will be included.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures and seminars (42 contact hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation, class test (open
book/multiple choice) and assignment.
CE1782
THE ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This course covers equity and the common law, the effect of European Community law on the English
legal system, judicial precedent, statutory interpretation, the jury system, solicitors and barristers,
tribunals, law centres and legal aid.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 1½-hour lectures and group work, plus two 3½ hour day school
(40 contact hours) or weekly 2-hour lectures and group work (40 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation, class test (open
book) and assignment.
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CE1784
CRIMINAL LAW
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This course comprises an examination of some aspects of the criminal law, including murder,
manslaughter, assault, theft, robbery, burglary, criminal damage, and sexual offences.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures and group work (42 contact hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation, class test (open
book) and assignment demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the subject.
CE2560
CYMRAEG Y GYFRAITH
Sengl
Hydref
10 credyd
Rhydd y modwl hwn gyfle i fyfyrwyr ymgyfarwyddo â therminoleg gyfreithiol arbenigol yn y Gymraeg
i’w cynorthwyo gyda’r sgiliau eiriolaeth, drafftio a chyfieithu sy’n hanfodol i dwrnai dwyieithog. Delia â
saith pwnc craidd Cymdeithas y Gyfraith yn ogystal â materion iaith mewn cyd-destun cyfreithiol.
Amcan y cwrs yw ceisio datblygu arbenigaeth myfyrwyr yn eu defnydd o derminoleg gyfreithiol
Gymraeg wrth ymgymryd â thasgau a sgiliau cyfreithiol.
DULLIAU DYSGU: Darlithiau a seminarau 2-awr yn wythnosol (20 awr).
DULLIAU ASESU: Prawf dosbarth a gwaith ysgrifenedig yn dangos gwybodaeth a dealltwriaeth o’r
pwnc.
CE2561
HANES CYFREITHIAU CYMRU
Sengl
Gwanwyn
10 credyd
Y mae hanes cyfraith Cymru wedi bod yn un cyfoethog ac amrywiol, gyda chyfraniadau o ffynonellau
Celtaidd, Rhufeinig, Cymreig brodorol, y Gororau a chyfraith gyffredin Lloegr. Cyflwyna’r modwl hwn
wybodaeth hanfodol ynglŷn â’r hanes hwn a’r ffynonellau priodol o’r cyfnod cynharaf hyd at yr amser
presennol.
DULLIAU DYSGU: Darlithiau a seminarau 2-awr yn wythnosol (20 awr).
DULLIAU ASESU: Profion dosbarth a gwaith ysgrifenedig.
CE2781
CIVIL LIBERTIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS I
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course examines the role of the law in preventing human rights abuses and provides an
evaluation of fundamental rights in the UK. Topics to be covered include the Human Rights Act of
1988, the European Convention on Human Rights, the right to life, freedom from torture and degrading
treatment, right to a fair trail, freedom of speech and expression, the right to privacy.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (22 contact hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Three 500-word problem questions, or two 500-word problem
questions plus a short presentation.
CE2784
CIVIL LIBERTIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS II
Single
Spring
10 credits
Building on the skills and knowledge gained in Civil Liberties and Human Rights I, the second module
continues the examination of the state of civil liberties and human rights in the UK, and looks at the
topic in its wider context. Topics to be covered include police powers, freedom of movement and the
right to protest, freedom from discrimination, religious freedom, warfare and crimes against humanity,
human rights protection in other jurisdictions, whether the UK should have a bill of rights.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 contact hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: A 1,500-word essay demonstrating knowledge and understanding of
the subject.
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CE2802
INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module provides an introduction to the study of criminology, incorporating theoretical and policy
issues, and is intended for students seeking to gain introductory knowledge of the subject. It
addresses constructions and representations of crime, including definitions of crime, crime statistics,
victimisation, self-report studies and media representations, and includes a review of explanations of
criminal behaviour - with sessions on theories of criminal behaviour, including historical and
contemporary perspectives. It also provides an introduction to the criminal justice process in England
and Wales, with attention to policing, the courts, prisons and the probation service.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 contact hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Written work of approximately 1,500 words demonstrating a thorough
understanding of the fundamental aspects of the subject and showing some ability at exploring routine
issues.
CE2962
IMMIGRATION LAW I
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This practical course concentrates on the role of immigration in contemporary British politics,
immigration policies within the European Union, and social policy and immigration.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (22 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation, class test, and
assignment demonstrating knowledge and understanding.
CE2965
IMMIGRATION LAW II
Single
Spring
10 credits
Focusing on immigration legislation both past and present, this practical course examines the legal
status of asylum seekers/refugees, detention, deportation and removal. In addition, it will investigate
various avenues of entry into the UK via marriage, education and work-permit schemes.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation, class test, and
assignment demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the subject.
CE3181
FAMILY AND MATRIMONIAL LAW
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A practical, informative and thought-provoking course focussing upon the law relating to divorce,
judicial separation, nullity, co-habitation, the Human Rights Act, domestic violence, the law relating to
children (residence, contract, abduction, adoption, child protection), this module involves the
consideration of case studies and examination of the law.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (22 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation, class test, and
assignment demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the subject.
CE3184
MEDIATION SKILLS
Single
Spring
10 credits
This practical course explores the process of mediation as a highly effective dispute resolution
procedure. Mediation is an excellent way of achieving a "Win/Win" outcome for all, with an overriding
emphasis upon looking to the future whilst simultaneously encouraging the release of negative
feelings. Through interactive role play and case studies, students should at the conclusion of the
course be better equipped to deal with conflict of all types, whether in the workplace or in domestic
situations. The module additionally concentrates upon the employment of negotiation and
compromise strategies in dealing with a variety of stressful and problematic scenarios.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation, class test, and
assignment demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the subject.
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CE3187
EMPLOYMENT LAW
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course considers the relationship between employer and employee, and the status of each.
Starting with contract of employment, payment and continuity, it covers rights, discrimination,
termination of contract, health and safety, trade unions, European law and its effect on employment
law in England and Wales, and the relevance of human rights legislation on employment law in
England and Wales.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (22 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation, class test, and
assignment demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the subject.
CE3239
MEDICINE AND THE LAW I
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module covers the basic principles of medical law, and examines the European dimension and
comparative material from other countries. It includes consideration of clinical negligence,
confidentiality and patients’ access to medical records, consent, abortion, surrogacy, euthanasia,
alternative therapies, and criminal law in relation to healthcare practitioners.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation, class test, and
assignment demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the subject.
CE3456
WOMEN AND SHARIAH LAW
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module covers the Islamic legal system and sources of legislation. The role of the Shariah in
Muslim society - both past and present - is analysed; this is done by examining the historical and
structural development of Quran and Sunna. The methodology of legal decision-making in Islam and
the four classical schools of fiqh and legal maxims are explored. The module includes a consideration
of the status of women in pre-Islamic Arabia; women in both religious and secular literature; female
role models in Islam; women and education in Islam; Islamic mysticism and female spirituality; female
sexuality and homosexuality; harem, veil and purdah; and female conversion to Islam.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Class test and assignment demonstrating knowledge and
understanding of the subject.
CE3593
PROPERTY LAW
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course introduces students to the rights and responsibilities attached to land: ownership,
occupation of land, transfer of land, and the rights of people over property owned by others.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 contact hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation and assignment
demonstrating knowledge and understanding of subject.
CE3614
CRIMINOLOGY: RESEARCH AND CRIME
Single
Spring
10 credits
This course seeks to give students an introduction to contemporary research into crime, deviance and
social control. Using a range of methods - from formal lectures to syndicate/tutorial work and, if
possible, a prison visit, students should gain knowledge of empirical studies, theoretical perspectives
and trends in the Criminal justice System.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures and group work in tutorial format, group
discussions (including presentations) and case-study work in groups.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation and assignment
demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the subject.
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CE3706
PUBLIC LAW I
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course provides students with an introduction to the main principles of Public Law, exploring the
laws which regulate the system of government in the United Kingdom. Students following the course
should become familiar with the key features of the constitution and the function of the main
institutions of government, including an outline of the electoral system. In addition, the course gives
students the opportunity to participate in group debate in relation to recent constitutional issues and
reforms, including the House of Lords and Royal Prerogative. Through a series of case law, students
explore the legal limitations on government and judicial review of administrative action.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation and assignment
demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the subject.
CE3709
PUBLIC LAW II
Single
Spring
10 credits
This course provides students with a detailed account of the laws which govern administrative action,
exploring the legal limitations on the government and public bodies, and allowing legal redress for
individuals. In addition, it provides students with the opportunity to participate in group debate in
relation to key administrative issues. Through a series of case law, students explore the legal
limitations on government and judicial review of administrative action.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation and assignment
demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the subject.
CE3712
EUROPEAN LAW II
Single
Spring
10 credits
This course follows on from European Law I, investigating the influence of Europe in the areas of
Company Law, Consumer Law, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law, Public Procurement,
Social Security, Transport Law and Workplace Health and Safety.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation, class test or
presentation and assignment demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the subject.
CE3715
SOCIAL SECURITY LAW AND POLICY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course examines the concept of poverty, its definition and its causes, and the relationship
between social security and poverty. In addition, it covers the financing of social security, its legal
framework and the types of benefit available (e.g. job seeker’s allowance, child tax credits, working tax
credits).
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation and assignment
demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the subject.
CE3718
LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF ELDER ABUSE
Single
Spring
10 credits
This course examines elder abuse in its many forms. It critically examines the legal protection afforded
older people who are victims of abuse in their own homes and in care settings. In addition, it considers
whether there is scope for extensions to and reforms of existing law and policy, and provides a
summary of the law on elder abuse in other countries.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation and assignment
demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the subject.
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CE3721
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: LAW AND POLICY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course offers the non-lawyer an overview of existing regulatory mechanisms for the protection of
the environment. It introduces students to the legal principles that govern the protection of the
environment, and examines the framework of national, European and international environmental laws
regulating matters such as land use, nature conservation, environmental assessment, the pollution of
water and air, and the disposal of waste on land. By the end of the course, students should be able to
identify the main instruments and policies used in addressing a range of environmental issues and be
familiar and comfortable with legal concepts, liabilities and terminology.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly lectures, consisting of teaching, discussion and interactive
exercises (presentations, role-play, problem-solving and academic debates) plus field trip.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation, completion of
reading tasks and interactive tasks, an in-class presentation, and an assignment demonstrating
knowledge and understanding of the subject.
CE3724
AN INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course concentrates on environmental issues, environmental legislation and environmental
management best practice. It includes global, regional and local issues. By the end of the course,
students should be able to apply the practical requirements of environmental legislation, plan an
environmental review and identify the key legislation affecting a chosen organisation.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly lectures with problem-solving activities plus a site visit.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment based on class participation, class test and
an assignment demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the subject.
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LEARN: Music
CE1422
JAZZ IMPROVISATION I
Single
Spring
10 credits
An introduction for musicians with little or no previous experience in jazz improvisation, this course will
provide the essential foundations, moving from the use of modal scales to the altered scale of bebop.
The traditional forms of jazz will be introduced, including blues, jazz standards and jazz-rock.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour workshops (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Theoretical tests and assessed performance.
CE1539
AN INTRODUCTION TO PLAYING JAZZ
Single
Autumn
This practical course concentrates on the basic principles of jazz-playing.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour workshops (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Theoretical tests and assessed performance.
CE1563
10 credits
FURTHER JAZZ SKILLS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course concentrates on jazz styles of the second half of the twentieth century, and includes work
on bebop, modal jazz and jazz-rock. Attention will focus on the cultivation of an effective ensemble:
rhythmic structure, comping, playing ensemble passages and improvisation.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour workshops (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Theoretical tests and assessed performance.
CE2522
THE MEANING OF MUSIC
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course examines questions and topics in the philosophy of music. These include whether music
is a language, whether it can represent things, its relation to the emotions, and the basis for our
aesthetic judgements about musical works. Where appropriate, lectures will be illustrated with music
on CD.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures/seminars (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Essays or other equivalent written assignments to a total of 1500
words demonstrating an understanding of core elements of the course material.
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CE2754
MUSIC EDUCATION
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This module examines the growth of classroom music, studying the main features of the development
of music education with particular emphasis on the changes since 1988. It analyses the main features
of the methodologies used in the classroom.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures and workshops (40 contact hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Class test and assignment.
CE3439
BLUES: A VEHICLE FOR JAZZ IMPROVISATION (II)
Single
Autumn
10 credits
The blues is a musical form with one hundred years of history. It was a key element in the
development of jazz and was a continuing presence in jazz music throughout the twentieth century.
This module considers later-20th-century blues forms, including modal blues, Europeanised blues and
Coltrane-influenced blues. Strategies will be developed for dealing with these structures in a musical
and idiomatic way.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour sessions comprising theoretical instruction and discussion,
and practical performance of idiomatic material (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Written class tests demonstrating knowledge and understanding of
the subject, and performance as part of a group.
CE3507
SINGING AND WIND-PLAYING: HEARING AND STRESS
Single
Spring
10 credits
A proper understanding of the biological principles that underlie performance can help practising
musicians to perfect their technique and achieve their musical goals in a way which is physically
sustainable in the long term. It should contribute also to their ability to communicate technical aspects
of performance to their pupils. An appreciation of the origin of physical problems that can arise should
make it easier to evolve strategies to avoid them, to recognise them at an early stage if they do
develop, and to communicate with health professionals when help is necessary. This module
considers the mechanics of breathing in singers and wind players, the structure and control of the
larynx, the origin and properties of the voice - and its problems, the structure of the embouchure and
playing-related problems in wind players. It covers also the normal function of the auditory system in
the context of music, the origin of hearing problems, particularly in a musical context, and the nature of
performance-related stress.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Class test and assignment demonstrating knowledge and
understanding of the subject.
CE3508
PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES OF INSTRUMENTAL
PERFORMANCE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A proper understanding of the biological principles that underlie performance can help practising
musicians to perfect their technique and achieve their musical goals in a way which is physically
sustainable in the long term. It should contribute also to their ability to communicate technical aspects
of performance to their pupils. An appreciation of the origin of physical problems that can arise should
make it easier to evolve strategies to avoid them, to recognise them at an early stage if they do
develop, and to communicate with health professionals when help is necessary. This module provides
an introduction to the structural elements of the body: it deals with matters such as posture, the
anatomy and control of the arm and hand and their playing-related problems, instrument ergonomics,
and learning and skill acquisition.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Class test and assignment demonstrating knowledge and
understanding of the subject.
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CE3727
CERDDORIAETH LEISIOL DWY GANRIF
Sengl
Hydref
10 credyd
Bwriedir y cwrs hwn ar gyfer myfyrwyr sydd yn hoff o wrando ar gerddoriaeth glasurol. Nid yw’r gallu i
ddarllen cerddoriaeth yn hanfodol ar ei gyfer. Trafodir campweithiau gan rai o gyfansoddwyr pwysig y
ddeunawfed ganrif a’r bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg, yn cynnwys Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven,
Schubert, Brahms a Wolf.
DULLIAU DYSGU: 10 darlith dwyawr (20 awr gyswllt).
DULLIAU ASESU: Prawf dosbarth a gwaith ysgrifenedig yn dangos gwybodaeth a dealltwriaeth o’r
gerddoriaeth a astudiwyd.
CE3730
JAZZ: DEALING WITH JAM SESSIONS (I)
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course is intended for students with elementary jazz skills who wish to move to the next level,
performing with pick-up bands in an informal jamming situation. Participants will learn by heart a
number of tunes commonly called in a jam session and will develop strategies for performance,
including areas such as communicating effectively with house musicians and presenting oneself on
stage.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour workshops (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment by means of class discussion, assessed
performance and written tests.
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Philosophy
CE2269
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PAIN
Single
Spring
10 credits
A course exploring the nature and causes of pain suffered by humans and other sentient creatures.
We address a range of relevant factors - physiological, medical, religious, psychological and social and consider their implications for our understanding both of the functions of pain, and how it might be
managed.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 10 two-hour lectures/seminars (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Essays or other equivalent written assignments to a total of 1500
words demonstrating an understanding of core elements of the course material.
CE2521
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN ETHICS
Single
Spring
10 credits
A course on ethical controversies, looking at a range of philosophical approaches, both historical and
contemporary - and at practices from euthanasia and surrogate motherhood to fox hunting and
pornography.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Ten two-hour lectures/seminars (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Essays or other equivalent written assignments to a total of 1500
words, demonstrating an understanding of core elements of the course material.
CE2522
THE MEANING OF MUSIC
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course examines questions and topics in the philosophy of music. These include whether music
is a language, whether it can represent things, its relation to the emotions, and the basis for our
aesthetic judgements about musical works. Where appropriate, lectures will be illustrated with music
on CD.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Weekly 2-hour lectures/seminars (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Essays or other equivalent written assignments to a total of 1500
words demonstrating an understanding of core elements of the course material.
CE3143
COMPARING PHILOSOPHIES OF RELIGION
Single
Spring
10 credits
In this course we examine Hindu, Buddhist and Chinese ethical systems. These will be compared and
contrasted with classical ethical beliefs, Christian ethics and more modern secular approaches. We
also evaluate East-West approaches to contemporary moral debates and dilemmas, including war,
animal welfare, capital punishment and abortion.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 10 two-hour lectures/seminars (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Essays or other equivalent written assignments to a total of 1500
words demonstrating an understanding of core elements of the course material.
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CE3170
EASTERN PHILOSOPHY AND POPULAR CULTURE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course explores and evaluates the philosophical content and background of Eastern ideas,
traditions and practices which have become popular in the West. Topics include Feng Shui, Zen, yoga,
Qi, I Ching, yin/yang, martial arts and Western Buddhism.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 10 two-hour lectures/seminars (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Essays or other equivalent written assignments to a total of 1500
words demonstrating an understanding of core elements of the course material.
CE3405
PHILOSOPHY OF CRIME
Single
Spring
10 credits
This course explores the nature, practice and perceptions of deviance and crime. We look at the
causes of crime - are they learned, innate, produced by society or chosen? What does crime tell us
about social mores? We examine victimisation, media representations of crime, theories of criminal
behaviour and the effect on society.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 10 two-hour lectures/seminars (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Essays or other equivalent written assignments to a total of 1500
words demonstrating an understanding of core elements of the course material.
CE3408
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES OF PUNISHMENT
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This course explores the history and development of concepts and theories of punishment,
investigating legal, ethical, religious and sociological issues, and its application in school, home and
prison. We will question the value, purpose and effect of punishment in the 21st century.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 10 two-hour lectures/seminars (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Essays or other equivalent written assignments to a total of 1500
words demonstrating an understanding of core elements of the course material.
CE3660
CURRENT ENCOUNTERS IN SCIENCE & THE ARTS
Single
Spring
10 credits
The Arts Catalyst and Wellcome Trust programmes are providing an increasing number of sciencearts-humanities interactions. This course will study role of creativity, paradigms, aesthetics, design and
materials in each of these fields, and examples of science-arts relationships in cosmology,
biosciences, architecture, installation art, textiles, craft, art, therapy, and science fiction.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 10 two-hour lectures/seminars (20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Essays or other equivalent written assignments to a total of 1500
words demonstrating an understanding of core elements of the course material.
PLEASE NOTE THAT SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS ALSO OFFERS MATHEMATICS MODULES.
THESE ARE DETAILED ON PAGE 79.
CE3677
PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
What is mathematics about? How do we know mathematics? In this introductory course we consider
metaphysical and epistemological problems in the history of mathematics and examine the
contributions of philosophers, mathematicians and logicians from ancient Greece to the present.
METHODS OF TEACHING: This course will be taught online. Course materials will be posted online.
There will be regular email contact with the tutor. (Online equivalent of 20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Essays or other equivalent written assignments to a total of 1500
words demonstrating an understanding of core elements of the course material.
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CE3680
EXPLORING EASTERN PHILOSOPHY: HINDU AND
BUDDHIST SYSTEMS
Single
Spring
10 credits
This course begins by introducing the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita, then exploring
the six systems of classical Hindu philosophy. We also consider heterodox Buddhist, Jain and
Materialist systems and go on to examine competing theories of knowledge, causation, God and the
nature of reality.
METHODS OF TEACHING: This course will be taught online. Course materials will be posted online.
There will be regular email contact with the tutor. (Online equivalent of 20 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Essays or other equivalent written assignments to a total of 1500
words demonstrating an understanding of core elements of the course material.
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Mathematics
Please note that LEARN also offers mathematics modules. These are detailed on page 77.
MA0001
BASIC MATHEMATICS I
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A module covering the basic manipulative skills in mathematics which are required by students
studying a scientific discipline.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 hours lectures and 11 hours tutorial.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (85%), Coursework (15%).
MA0002
BASIC MATHEMATICS II
Single
Spring
10 credits
A module covering the basic manipulative skills in mathematics, additional to those covered in Basic
Mathematics I, which are required by students studying a scientific discipline. Competence in the
techniques covered in Basic Mathematics I are a requirement for this module.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 hours lectures and 11 hours tutorial.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (85%), Coursework (15%).
MA0104
MODELLING
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module introduces the process of mathematical modelling and illustrates it with a range of
examples using difference equations and first-order differential equations.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 27 hours lectures and 5 hours tutorial.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (85%), Coursework (15%).
REQUISITES: A-Level Mathematics at least grade C.
MA0105
INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module provides an introduction to the basic ideas and methods of probability and the structure
by which they are formalised. It develops the concepts of random variables, expectation and variance
and introduces some fundamental probability distributions.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 27 hours lectures and 5 hours tutorial.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (85%), Coursework (15%).
REQUISITES: A-Level Mathematics at least grade C.
MA0111
ELEMENTARY NUMBER THEORY I
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module describes the basic properties of integers and of polynomials in a single variable, and
discusses the similarities and connections between them.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 27 hours lectures and 5 hours tutorial.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (85%), Coursework (15%).
REQUISITES: A-Level Mathematics at least grade C.
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MA0131
INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Single
Spring
10 credits
A lecture based module introducing Newtonian dynamics in a differential equation setting. This
module is essential for those intending to study classical applied mathematics at higher levels but
would provide the non-specialist with an enhanced understanding of differential equations.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours, tutorials 12 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Spring Examination 2 Hours (85%) and Coursework (15%).
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Module: MA0104.
MA0152
STATISTICAL INFERENCE I
Single
Spring
10 credits
To give an appreciation of the nature of sampling distributions. To give an introduction to the basis of
statistical hypothesis testing and calculation of confidence intervals from a non-technical viewpoint.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Formally organised time is as follows: 22 hours Lectures, 11 hours
Tutorials.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Spring Examination 2 Hours (85%) and Coursework (15%).
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Module: MA0105.
MA0201
CALCULUS OF MORE THAN ONE VARIABLE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A lecture based module which generalises the earlier work on the calculus of one variable. In
particular partial differentiation and multiple integrals are studied, along with the tangents and normals
to curves and surfaces in space. This course is essential for all further mathematical work.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 24 hours of lectures and 12 one hour example classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination 100%.(Autumn).
MA0202
METHODS OF MATRIX ALGEBRA
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A lecture based module, open to all students with a suitable grounding. It provides an introduction to
the manipulative parts of matrix algebra, and is essential for further work in all areas of mathematics.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours and tutorials 12 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination 100%.(Autumn).
MA0203
METHODS OF COMPLEX ANALYSIS
Single
Spring
10 credits
A lecture based module, providing an exposition of the basic methods of complex analysis which are
fundamental in mathematics and many of its applications. The important concepts of the contour
integral and the residue calculus are introduced along with their applications. This course is essential
for all mathematics students.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 24 hours of lectures and 12 one hour example classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination (Spring) 100%.
MA0204
MATHEMATICAL METHODS II
Single
Spring
10 credits
A lecture based module, which deals with fundamental mathematical methods which are essential to
all students of mathematics or statistics. In particular the theory of certain important series and
transforms is developed.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 24 hours of lectures and 12 hours of example classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination (Spring) 100%.
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MA0212
LINEAR ALGEBRA
Single
Spring
10 credits
A lecture based module, open to all students with suitable grounding. It provides a cover of the most
important parts of the theory of vector spaces, linear mappings and quadratic forms.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours and tutorials 12 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination (Spring) 100%.
MA0213
GROUPS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A lecture-based module open to all students with suitable grounding. It introduces the idea of group,
with many examples, as well as the concept of subgroup, homomorphism, quotient group and
symmetry group. The main result is LaGrange's Theorem.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours and tutorials 12 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination 100% (Autumn).
MA0216
ELEMENTARY NUMBER THEORY II
Single
Spring
10 credits
A lecture based module which continues the study of the elementary theory of numbers. In particular
congruencies and Diophatine equations are considered in more depth, and the theory of continued
fractions developed further. This course provides an excellent complement to other pure
mathematical studies and is a prerequisite for further work in Number Theory. It can also be taken
and enjoyed purely for its own sake.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 24 hours of lectures and 12 hours of example classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination (Spring) 100%.
MA0232
MODELLING WITH DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module provides an introduction to the modelling of continuous-time systems by differential
equations. A blend of theoretical study and computer simulation is used to study models from a
variety of disciplines.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 20 hours and laboratory and tutorial sessions 16 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination 75% (Autumn); Assessed coursework
25%.
MA0233
MECHANICS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module builds on the Level One module Introduction to Applied Mathematics and extends the
study of motion to systems with two degrees of freedom.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours and tutorials 12 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination 100% (Autumn).
MA0235
ELEMENTARY FLUID DYNAMICS
Single
Spring
10 credits
The module contains an introduction to the continuum model for inviscid fluid flow, and applications of
this model to flows in simple geometrical situations. A brief discussion of the deficiencies of the model
will be given.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours and tutorials 12 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination (Spring) 100%.
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MA0237
METHODS OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module provides some of the mathematical methods essential for further study in applying
mathematics to solving problems in science.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 hours lectures and 5 hours tutorial classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written University examination (Spring) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Module: MA0201
MA0261
OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This double module provides an introduction to a number of topics in Management
Science/Operational Research, viz. Queueing Theory, Simulation, Linear Programming and Network
Analysis. These topics are orientated towards applications of mathematics in real-life situations. This
module is a pre-requisite to certain third level modules in Operational Research.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 54 hours lecture/practical classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 3 hour written university examination (75%), assessed coursework
(25%).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisites MA0105 Introduction to Probability.
MA0262
FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This introductory double module in probability and mathematical statistics is intended for students with
at least one year of calculus and some working knowledge of probability theory. This module will
prepare students for modules with statistics and probability content in Year Three. A suitable
statistical package will be introduced in order to maintain a practical perspective of the end usage of
statistics.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 54 hours lecture/practical classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 3 hour written university examination (85%), assessed coursework
(15%).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisites: MA0152 Statistical Inference I.
MA0275
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS I
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module provides an introduction to numerical methods for obtaining approximate solutions to
mathematical problems. Applications for solution will be taken from all branches of mathematics.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 hours of lectures and 5 hours tutorial/practical classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written University examination 100% (Autumn).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Module: MA0173
MA0276
VISUAL BASIC PROGRAMMING FOR OR
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module assumes knowledge of the basic concepts of spreadsheets and how they can be used to
manipulate information. It then builds on this to cover the automation of tasks using macros and the
use of Visual Basic programming within Microsoft Excel, thus enabling the construction of customised,
user-friendly interfaces for a spreadsheet.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 27 hours lectures and practical classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 100% Coursework.
REQUISITES: Prerequisites: MA0106 Computing Skills.
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MA0316
TOPOLOGY
Single
Spring
A module covering basic set-theoretical topology and homotopy.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours and tutorials 6 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Spring) 100%.
MA0321
10 credits
CODING THEORY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A lecture-based module introducing the fundamentals of the mathematical theory of coding.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 hours lectures and 5 hours tutorials.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Spring) 100%.
MA0322
KNOTS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
An introduction to the striking new elementary methods developed mainly over the last 15 years to
understand links in three dimensional space through a variety of basic mathematical tools.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 hours of lectures and 5 hours tutorials.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Two hour written University examination 100% (Autumn).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Module: MA0212
MA0323
STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
An introduction to the new relationships discovered between algebraic methods in statistical
mechanics and the theory of knot variants.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 hours lectures and 5 hours tutorials.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written university examination.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor: MA0322 Knots.
MA0324
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A lecture-based module open to all students with a suitable grounding. It covers the fundamental
combinatorial ideas (functions, counting, permutations, binomial numbers etc.) and the elements of
graph theory (paths and cycles, trees, sorting and searching, etc.).
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 hours lectures and 5 hours tutorials.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written University examination (Autumn) 85%, coursework
15%.
MA0331
ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A course providing a mathematical introduction to Maxwell's equations. The underlying assumptions
will be considered, and applications will include electromagnetic waves and eddy current power
losses.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours and tutorials 6 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 85% Autumn Examination 2 Hours and 15% Coursework.
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MA0332
FLUID DYNAMICS
Single
Spring
A lecture based module which develops material introduced in Level Two courses.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours and tutorials 6 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Spring) 100%.
MA0333
10 credits
LINEAR SYSTEMS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A lecture based module covering the theory and application of linear dynamical systems. Problems in
linear control theory are used as motivation and illustration.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours and tutorials 6 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination 85% (Autumn), coursework 15%.
MA0335
VARIATIONAL METHODS
Single
Spring
10 credits
Variational methods as a means of solving some of the differential and integral equations arising in
applied mathematics. The course is suitable for undergraduates in physics.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours and tutorials 6 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 85% Spring Examination 2 Hours and 15% Coursework.
MA0355
MEDICAL STATISTICS
Single
Spring
10 credits
To provide an insight into some of the very many statistical problems that face clinical biochemists and
diagnostic companies alike.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours and tutorials 6 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination (Spring) 85%, coursework 15%.
MA0358
MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING
Single
Autumn
10 credits
Starting from the knowledge of the Simplex Method in linear programming, the "stepping-stone"
method in the transportation problems and network solution of critical path and shortest route
problems, the theory is extended to cover integer programming, parametric programming, post-optimal
problems and the solution of dynamic programming problems.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours and tutorials 6 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination (85%)(Autumn) and Coursework (15%).
MA0360
QUEUEING THEORY & STOCK CONTROL
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module builds on ideas presented in the Level 2 module Queuing Theory and Simulation
(MA0254), and in addition introduces students to simple deterministic and stochastic models in Stock
Control.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours and tutorials 6 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination (Spring) (85%) and Coursework (15%).
MA0361
STATISTICAL INFERENCE III
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A lecture based module designed to acquaint students with the basic principles of classical inference
at a mathematical level consistent with the rigour expected of a final year mathematics undergraduate.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours, and tutorials 6 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination (85%)(Autumn); Class Test (15%).
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MA0363
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module will acquaint students with the main principles and areas of application of experimental
design theory.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours, and tutorials 6 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 85% Spring Examination 2 Hours and 15% Coursework.
MA0367
TIME SERIES ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING
Single
Spring
10 credits
A lecture based module designed to acquaint students with the principles of fitting time series models
to data and with the use of such models in forecasting.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 hours Lectures and 5 hours tutorials.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Assessed Coursework (15%) and 2 hour written exam (spring) (85%).
REQUISITES: Prerequisites: MA0260 Elements of Probability and Statistics and MA0259 Regression
and Analysis of Variance.
MA0368
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module will introduce students to advanced multivariable regression techniques, errors in
variables techniques and robust regression techniques.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 hours, and tutorials 6 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination (Autumn) (85%), Class Test (15%).
MA0369
STOCHASTIC MODELS FOR INSURANCE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
The module builds on ideas from Probability Theory to study essentials of stochastic finance and
insurance.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 hours Lectures and 5 hours tutorials.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Assessed Coursework (15%) and 2 hour written exam (85%).
REQUISITES: Prerequisites: MA0260 Elements of Probability and Statistics.
MA0370
ELEMENTS OF FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS
Single
Spring
10 credits
The module builds upon ideas from Probability and Stochastic Processes. The module provides an
introduction to a number of topics in Finance. These topics are oriented towards applications of
stochastic models in real-life situations. This module is designed as an introduction to stochastic
modelling in Finance and is aimed at students who wish to gain a working knowledge of financial
engineering and risk-management.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 hours Lectures and 5 hours tutorials.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Assessed Coursework (15%) and 2 hour written exam (85%).
REQUISITES: Prerequisite Module: MA0262 - Foundations of Statistics
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Physics and
Astronomy
PX0101
THE STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF MATTER
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This is a single Autumn-term module. The student is introduced to basic concepts of the small-scale
(microscopic) properties of matter and the relationship with the large-scale (macroscopic) properties.
The basic building blocks of matter are introduced, and examples of types of bonding and material
structures are examined. Some concepts of heat and temperature are dealt with and related to
molecular motion. Applications are made to gases, liquids and solids.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 2 hours per week, Exercise Classes 1 hour per week and set
assignments.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Autumn) 90% and Test 10%.
PX0102
MOTION AND ENERGY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This is a single Autumn-term module. The student is introduced to basic concepts of measurement
and motion in the physical work, with emphasis on mechanical phenomena. Newton's laws of motion
are introduced and applied to a wide range of situations, including the motion planets, satellites and
fluids. Concepts relating to oscillatory motion are emphasised, and applied to the study of mechanical
oscillations, light and sound. The idea of energy and its many different forms is examined.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 1 hour per week, laboratory class 3 hours per week and set
assignments.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 hour examination (Autumn) 60%, Test 10% and Continuous
assessment 30%.
PX0103
MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is a regular series of example classes with special, structured worksheets which will
reinforce and develop the manipulative and analytic skills of students studying elementary
mathematics for science. Students will be required to make a reasonable attempt at least 80% of the
worksheets. The examination will be based on questions which are very similar to those worked
through in class. Areas to be covers: Algebra, powers, logarithms and exponentials; Differentiation;
Vectors and trigonometry; Integration, and further integration techniques; Simple first order differential
equations and their solution; Complex numbers; and Application of mathematics to physical problems.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 2 x 1 hour exercise classes per week.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 70% Autumn Examination 2 Hours and 30% Coursework.
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PX0201
FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN PHYSICS
Single
Spring
10 credits
This is a single Spring-term module. The student is introduced to basic concepts of atomic structure
and quantum theory. Simple ideas in special relativity are also introduced. Nuclear structure, the
nature of radioactivity, and nuclear energy are examined. There is also short consideration of subatomic particles, and the relation to the nature of the universe.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 2 hours per week, laboratory class 1 hour per week and set
assignments.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Spring) 90% and test 10%.
PX0202
ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM & LIGHT
Single
Spring
10 credits
This is single Spring-term module. The student is introduced to basic concepts of electric charge,
conductors and insulators and motion of charge. Application to modern superconductors and
semiconductors is discussed. Magnetism is examined and its relationship with electrical current and
changing electric fields emphasised light as electromagnetic waves is treated and extended to the rest
of the spectrum from X-rays to radio waves.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 1 hour per week, laboratory class 3 hours per week. Set
assignments.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 hour written examination (Spring) 60%; Continuous assessment of
laboratory work 30%; course tests 10%.
PX1110
COSMOS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A single module, lecture based and open to all, which provides (with minimum mathematics) an
account of the key concepts in cosmology, a description of the solar system, an introduction to the
properties of stars and galaxies, and a discussion of the history of astronomy and its influence on the
development of scientific thought.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 one hour lectures; 6 one hour problem classes; 6 three hour
homework assignments; background reading (6 x 3 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Two hour examination (Autumn) (80%); continuous assessment
(20%).
PX1111
COMPUTING ON THE NET
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A one-module course based on lectures and directed computing laboratory sessions providing an
introduction to the use of computers to analyse and process experimental data, to control experiments
and to make use of the network and software for solving mathematical problems and wordprocessing.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures: 11 x 1 hour, Computing Laboratory: 11 x 2 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment: 100% (including tests and projects).
PX1207
ASTROPHYSICAL CONCEPTS
Single
Spring
10 credits
A one-module, lecture-based course which provides an introduction to the concepts of astrophysics, in
particular those relating to cosmology, orbits and stars.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 22 x 1 hour. Problem classes 11 x 1 hour.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination 90% (Spring), coursework - continuous
assessment 10%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1110 and PX1116. Co-requisite Module: PX1216.
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PX2101
QUANTUM MECHANICS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A single module course based chiefly on lectures which provides an introduction to the description of
matter and radiation by wave mechanics, particularly through the Schrodinger equation.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 22 x 1 hour, exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Autumn) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1112, PX1116, PX1216 and PX1220. Co-requisite Module:
PX2104.
PX2104
THEORETICAL PHYSICS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This single module course based on lectures and examples classes provides the background for
theoretical physics including topics of integration, vector calculus, elementary matrices, and differential
equations as applied to physical problems.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 18 x 1 hour, exercise classes 4 x 1 hour.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 80% Exam [Examination Duration: 2hours]. 20% Coursework
(continual assessment 60/40)
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1116 and PX1216.
PX2107
ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module provides an introduction to analogue and digital electronics, and measurement
techniques such as phase sensitive detection.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 one hour lectures, demonstrations and exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Autumn) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1112, PX1117, PX1219 and PX1220.
PX2108
TOPICS IN PHYSICS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This is a one module course based on lectures and group case studies which aims to simulate interest
in areas of contemporary physics, to convey the excitement of work at the frontiers of physics and to
encourage students to develop skills in communicating physical concepts.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 6 x 1 hour, group work 12 hours, skill sessions 4 hours, written
report and oral presentation.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1.5 hour examination (Autumn) 50%; coursework 50%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1112, PX1214, PX1219 and PX1220.
PX2109
TOPICS IN ASTRONOMY
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This one module course based on lectures and group work aims to simulate interest in areas of
modern astronomy, to convey some of the excitement of working at the frontiers of the subject and to
encourage students to develop skill in communicating physical concepts.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 6 x 1 hr lectures, 12 x 1 hr Group Work, 4 x 1 hr Skill Sessions, Written
report and oral presentation.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1.5 hr examination (Autumn) (50%), Coursework (50%).
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1112, PX1214, PX1219 and PX1220.
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PX2114
PRACTICAL PHYSICS A
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A practical course which provides experience in performing experiments in physics, awareness of
experimental design and risk assessment and an appreciation of errors and their treatment.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Laboratory sessions 11 x 4 hour.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1112, PX1214, PX1219 and PX1220.
PX2116
COMPUTING IN PHYSICS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A one module course based on directed work in the computing laboratory which develops advanced
skills in computational physics.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 12 lectures and computing sessions.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework 50%, 2 hour written examination 50% (Autumn).
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Module: PX1111.
PX2203
THERMAL PHYSICS
Single
Spring
10 credits
A single module course which provides a grounding in the theory and application of thermodynamics,
including the first and second laws and the concept of entropy.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 24 x 1 hour. Exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Spring) 80%,coursework 20%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1112, PX1116 and PX1216.
PX2206
MECHANICS & SPECIAL RELATIVITY
Single
Spring
10 credits
A single module course based primarily on lectures which provides further skills in the use of classical
mechanics, an understanding of basic fluid mechanics and an introduction to the ideas of special
relativity.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lecture 18 x 1 hour, exercise classes 4 x 1 hour.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Spring) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1116, PX1214 and PX1216.
PX2214
PRACTICAL PHYSICS B
Single
Spring
10 credits
A practical course which provides experience in performing experiments in physics, awareness of
experimental design and risk assessment and an appreciation of errors and their treatment.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Laboratory sessions 11 x 4 hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Coursework 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1112, PX1214, PX1219 and PX1220.
PX2218
ACOUSTICS AND STUDIO TECHNIQUES
Single
Spring
10 credits
A one-module course based on lecture and studio sessions which establishes a basic knowledge of
acoustics and provides knowledge and experience of practical studio techniques.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 hours lectures, studio sessions and tutorials.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 hour examination (Spring) 50%; Coursework 50%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Module: PX1220. Also, requires basic musical knowledge. (Check with
MO).
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PX2220
PLANETARY SYSTEMS
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module provides a knowledge of the solar system, the structure of the sun, an understanding of
the formation of planetary systems and an introduction to star clusters.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 one hour lectures, exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Spring) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1110, PX1207 and PX2104.
PX2221
PHYSICS APPLIED
Single
Spring
10 credits
The aim is to develop proficiency in applying elementary physics to everyday physical problems in a
wide range of topics.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 x 1 hour exercise classes and 11 worksheets.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour written examination (Spring) (70%), Coursework (30%).
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Module: PX1111.
PX2223
PHYSICS OF SOLIDS AND SOFT MATTER
Single
Spring
10 credits
A single module course based primarily on lectures which provide an appreciation of crystal structure,
the behaviour of waves in periodic lattices and an introduction to the electronic properties. The
elementary properties of liquids, polymers and biomolecules are outlined descriptively.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 22 x 1 hours, Exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 90% Exam [Examination duration: 2 hours], 10% Coursework
(continual assessment from 100/0)
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1112, PX1116, PX1216 and PX2101.
PX2228
RADIATION IN MEDICINE
Single
Spring
10 credits
A one-module course based on lectures and which provides a physics base for understanding the
uses of radiography and radiotherapy in medicine and an appreciation of the techniques of radiation
protection and monitoring.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and demonstrations 22 x 1 hour.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Spring) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1112 and PX1218.
PX2322
OBSERVATIONAL TECHNIQUES IN ASTRONOMY
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
A double module course involving lectures, exercise classes and project-based practical work, which
provides a practical in-depth knowledge of the principles of telescopes, observational astronomy,
detector technology and spectroscopy at a variety of wavelengths.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures: 22x1 hour, Exercise classes: 4x1 hour, Project sessions: 6x4
hours.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Exam 40% and coursework 60% [Examination duration: 2 hours]
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1110 and PX1207.
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PX3104
THEORETICAL PHYSICS TECHNIQUES
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A one-module course based on lectures and exercises which develops techniques appropriate to
theoretical physics, including diagonalisation of matrices, group theory and solution of Laplaces'
equation.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 22 x 1 hour, exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Autumn) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Module: PX2104.
PX3105
OPTICS AND FOURIER TRANSFORMS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A single module course which provides an understanding of geometrical optics, a knowledge of
Fourier transforms and their application to optics, an understanding of interference, diffraction and
coherence and basic ideas of image processing.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 22 x 1 hr, exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Spring) 80%, coursework 20%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1220 and PX2104.
PX3109
SOLID STATE PHYSICS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A one-module, lecture-based course which develops an appreciation and understanding of diffraction
from crystals, the properties of real crystals, the electrical properties of metals, magnetism.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 22 x 1 hour, exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Autumn) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX2101 and PX2223.
PX3110
GALAXIES
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A one-module lecture-based course providing a working knowledge of galaxies and stellar dynamics
and an understanding of how the structure of our galaxy is determined experimentally.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 22 x 1 hour, exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Autumn) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1116, PX1207 and PX1216.
PX3121
APPLICATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module develops an understanding of advanced topics in Quantum Mechanics including first
order perturbation theory and the physical interpretation of quantum mechanics.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 x 1 hour lectures, exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Autumn) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Module: PX2101.
PX3136
Single
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION DETECTION
Autumn
10 credits
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 20 x 1 hr, Demonstrations 2 x 1 hr, Exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 80%. Examination (2 hours) and 20% Continual Assessment (new
module).
REQUISITES: Precursor Modules: PX1219 and PX2224.
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PX3206
STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Single
Spring
10 credits
A single module lecture based course providing an understanding of the basic concepts of statistical
mechanics and their relation to thermodynamics, and an ability to use statistical mechanics to solve
physical problems.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 22 x 1 hour, exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Spring) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Module: PX2203.
PX3211
ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
Single
Spring
10 credits
A one-module course for physicists based on lectures and exercises which develops skills in handling
complex variables and tensors and in understanding Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 22 x 1 hour, exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Exam 80%, coursework 20% [Examination Duration: 2 hours)
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Module: PX3104.
PX3212
STELLAR PHYSICS
Single
Spring
10 credits
A one-module course based on lectures which develops an understanding of the workings of an
equilibrium star, an understanding of energy transport and familiarity with the evolutionary stages of a
star.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 x 1 hour lectures, exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Spring) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1116, PX1207 and PX1216.
PX3214
SOUND SYNTHESIS
Single
Spring
10 credits
A one-module course based on lectures and practical work which provides a working knowledge of
analogue and digital techniques for sound generation and synthesis.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 22 hours of lectures, demonstrations and studio work.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment, including essay: 100%.
REQUISITES: Requires basic musical knowledge. (Check with MO).
PX3226
PHYSICS OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module provides an introduction to the physics of semiconductors as a basis for an understanding
of semiconductor devices. Key topics are band structures, semiconductor statistics, minority carriers,
the p-n junction and the physics and fabrication of semiconductor devices.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures: 22 x 1 hour, Exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 80% 2 hour written examination (Spring) 20% Continual Assessment
(from 100/0)
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX2223 and PX3109.
PX3233
LASER PHYSICS AND APPLICATIONS
Single
Spring
10 credits
A one module lecture based course which provides an introduction to the principles of lasers, their
operating characteristics and the applications within which they are used.
METHODS OF TEACHING: lectures: 18x1 hour, exercises, literature based research exercise.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Exam 805, Continuous Assessment 20% [Examination Duration 2
hours].
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PX3237
NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
Single
Spring
10 credits
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures: 22 x 1 hour, Exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour Written Examination (Spring) (100%).
REQUISITES: Pre-requisite Modules: PX2101 and PX2224.
PX3315
PHYSICS PROJECT
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
A supervised project which provides experience of research work in physics and develops the skills
needed for planning, organising and executing projects and for formulating and communicating results
and conclusions.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Supervised research project, instruction in and practice of communication
skills, lectures on research methods and safety issues.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment and reports 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-requisites: The prerequisites for any project will be specified by the year tutor in the
light of the project requirements.
PX3316
ASTROPHYSICS PROJECT
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
A supervised project which provides experience of research work in astrophysics and develops the
skills needed for planning, organising and executing projects and for formulating and communicating
results and conclusions.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Supervised project work based on astrophysics research literature, tuition
in communication.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment and reports 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-requisites: The prerequisites for any project will be specified by the year tutor in the
light of the project requirements.
PX3317
MEDICAL PHYSICS PROJECT
Dissertation/Project
Autumn and Spring
30 credits
A supervised project which provides experience of research work in medical physics and develops the
skills needed for planning, organising and executing projects and for formulating and communicating
results and conclusions.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Supervised project work.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment and reports 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-requisites: The prerequisites for any project will be specified by the year tutor in the
light of the project requirements.
PX4102
APPLICATIONS OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A one-module lecture-based course which develops proficiency in the application of statistical
mechanics to physical and astrophysical systems, and provides an understanding of information
theory.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 18 x 1 hour (some on video-link) and Exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Autumn) 80%, continuous assessment 20%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX3121 and PX3206.
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PX4106
THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM & STAR FORMATION
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A single module lecture based course which provides an appreciation of thermal balance in the
interstellar medium, the dynamics of the interstellar gas, radioactive transfer and interstellar clouds,
and the physics of star formation.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 20 x 1 hour lectures, exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Autumn) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX3110, PX3121, PX3206 and PX3212.
PX4114
ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module provides experience in the application of quantum mechanics to physical systems such
as many electron atoms and gives an understanding of field theories.
METHODS OF TEACHING: 20 x 1 hour lectures, exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Autumn) 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX2101 and PX2104.
PX4115
GENERAL RELATIVITY AND RELATIVISTIC
ASTROPHYSICS
Double
Autumn
20 credits
This module develops skills in the use of tensor calculus, an understanding of the physics of curved
space-time, applications in astrophysics, and familiarity with gravitational waves.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures: 44 x 1 hour, Exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 3 hour written examination (Autumn) (80%); Continuous Assessment
(20%).
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX3102, PX3104 and PX3211.
PX4117
COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A one module course for investigating different aspects of physics using computer programs.
Programming will be a minor part of the work: some knowledge of elementary programming skills will
be assumed.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Computer-based classes and lectures.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 100% Coursework.
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1116, PX1216 and PX2104 (PX2116 Computing in Physics
would also be an advantage).
PX4118
QUANTUM THEORY OF SOLIDS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A one module course based on lectures providing an understanding of advanced topics in solid state
physics such as collective behaviour, quasi-particles, optical interaction and the electron-phonon
interaction.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures: 20x1 hours, Exercises.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Exam 85%, Continuous Assessment 15% [Exam Duration: 2 hours]
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Module: PX3109.
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PX4119
LARGE MOLECULES AND LIFE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A single module which introduces students to concepts and models relating to macromolecules.
Students are taught about the physics of conventional polymers. This leads into student-centred
directed reading about the physics of biomolecules, focusing on the way that physical techniques have
elucidated their behaviour and role in living systems.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures: 10x1 hour, Project work.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Exam 70%; Continuous Assessment 30% [Exam Duration: 2 hours]
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Module: PX2223.
PX4120
NANOSTRUCTURE OPTOELECTRONICS
Single
Autumn
10 credits
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures 22 x 1 hr, exercises, case studies.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Examination (2 hours) 100%.
REQUISITES: Precursor Module: PX2223.
PX4215
HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS
Single
Spring
10 credits
A one module lecture course on the physical processes in high energy astrophysics. It includes an
overview of the nucleosynthetic origin of the chemical elements, supernovae, neutrino astrophysics,
cosmic rays, radiation mechanisms in high-energy sources and the basic physics of accretion discs.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Spring) (100%).
REQUISITES: Pre-cursor Modules: PX1207, PX2101 and PX2202.
PX4310
PROJECT
Dissertation/Project
Autumn and Spring
60 credits
METHODS OF TEACHING: Supervised project work, including structured week at Gregynog
Conference Centre.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous assessment, including written project report and oral
presentation: 100%.
REQUISITES: Pre-requisites: The pre-requisites for any project will be specified by the year tutor in
the light of the project requirements.
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Physiology
Any students wishing to undertake this module should contact the Module Leader
tel:20874096.
PL0005
THE WAY THE BODY WORKS
Single
Spring
10 credits
The broad principles of Physiology. The nervous system, its nature, structure and function. The
cardiovascular system and the roles of the heart, blood vessels and blood. Changes in disease.
Breathing and lung function. The digestion and absorption of food. Motherhood and the physiology of
the newborn child.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures (25 hours), tutorials (2x1 hour), guided study (10 hours).
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 80% 1.5 hour Exam Spring and 20% Coursework.
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Religious and
Theological
Studies
RT1108
RELIGION, CULTURE & SOCIETY I
Double
Autumn
20 credits
An introduction to two religions: Hinduism and Buddhism. The course will include the historical
development and key concepts, teachings and practices of each, and will consider themes such as
gender and sexuality, film and visual culture, literatures and religion, for example. A primary focus of
the course is to introduce the academic study of religion through the use of methodological
approaches and theoretical tools. This module is normally required as a foundation for the study of
particular traditions at levels 2 and 3.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (60%), coursework (40%).
RT1212
JAINISM
Double
Autumn
20 credits
This module provides an introduction to the history, doctrines, philosophy, ritual and worship, textual
sources, anthropology and art of Jainism, an ancient, and still flourishing Indian religion. Students will
be offered the opportunity to visit the Jain temple in Leicester.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 essays of 3,000 words each.
REQUISITES: Prerequisite: RT1108 - Religion, Culture and Society I
RT1214
THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This course will provide a critical overview of the ways in which accounts of the life of the Buddha have
been a resource for the fashioning of religious and political identities in South Asia and beyond. The
course will consider the primary source materials available for the study of the life of the Buddha and
different ways in which these materials have been interpreted by academics: as sources of historical
data, as evidence of the shaping ideals of the early Buddhist community and as narratives connected
to broader social, political and philosophical debates in South Asia and beyond. The course will
provide a broad examination of the conventions and functions of biography in relation to scriptural,
inscriptional, and visual evidence in the history of Buddhist traditions. In particular, it will look at the
ways in which the construction and re-construction of the life of the Buddha can give us clues
concerning changing patterns of historical, political and religious consciousness amongst Buddhists
both within, and beyond, South Asia.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (worth 75% of the final mark) and coursework
(25%).
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RT1334
RELIGION AND PERFORMANCE IN SOUTH ASIA
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This module offers an exciting opportunity to gain an in depth knowledge of a range of performance
traditions in ancient and modern South Asia and to explore their roles in the transmission and
adaptation of religious knowledge. Students will analyse a diverse range of media from Sanskrit
Drama (in translation) to modern televisual and cinematic re-workings of South Asian religious
materials. It will be taught mainly by seminar and workshop in which a broad variety of media analysis
techniques will be employed in order to gain a detailed understanding of the structure and function of a
range of South Asian performance genres that will include drama, puppetry, comic book, television
and film materials.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: A 3,000 word essay and a 1,000 word report based on a group
presentation.
RT2103
INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE
Double
Spring
20 credits
This course will introduce students to the literature of the Bible - the Hebrew Old Testament and the
Greek New Testament - and help them begin to assess its significance by developing the use of
critical tools. We shall ask what it means to study this literature at all and look at some of the
approaches, which characterised scholarly work on the Old Testament and the New Testament up to
the present. Students will be introduced to the main literary genres of both the Old Testament and the
New and be helped to feel familiar with the contents of all the canonical books.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (Spring).
RT2301
HISTORY AND RELIGION OF ANCIENT ISRAEL
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This module examines what can be known about the history and religion of ancient Israel and Judah,
principally from the time of the origins of an entity or entities which can be recognised as such to about
the time of the conquest of the Near East by Alexander the Great (late 4th century BC). It also
examines the ways in which the account of that history and religion in the ‘Old Testament’, otherwise
known as the ‘Hebrew Bible’, may be read and interpreted. In studying the history of this ancient
community or communities, the emphasis will be on those aspects of it which are most of interest for
the understanding of ‘Old Testament religion’.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (worth 75% of the final mark) and coursework
(worth 25%).
RT4103
THE STORY OF CHRISTIANITY
Double
Autumn
20 credits
This module will provide students with an introduction to traditional methods in historical Christian
theology and an historical overview of major movements in the history of the church. It will also
provide an introduction to the main themes in the history of Christian thought and the skills necessary
for students to be able to present a competently written and adequately structured and argued essay
that is accurate and apposite in its use of references and bibliography.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures, seminars and coursework.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (75%), 1 essay (25%).
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RT4201
A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE EARLY CHURCH
Double
Autumn and Spring
20 credits
This module offers a concise, yet in-depth, introduction to the history of the Early Church. It reflects on
historicalprinciple, studies the cultural and historical context in which Christianity emerged, looks at
early Christianity as an ancient religion, its rejection by contemporary culture and society, its inner
fragmentation, its attempts to create order and a way of life, find an ideology and align itself to the
ruling powers. The module concludes with an attempt to evaluate that process in the light of the lives
of some prominent members of the Early Church.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 2 hour examination (worth 75%of the final mark) and Coursework
(worth 25%).
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Welsh
The following English-medium modules are offered by the School.
A range of other modules are also available through the medium of Welsh. To follow these
students must satisfy the School on the standard of their written Welsh. Students wishing
further information should contact the School of Welsh (Phone: (029) 20874843 or e-mail:
cymraeg@caerdydd.ac.uk).
CY1092
INTRODUCTION TO WELSH 1
Single
Autumn
10 credits
This module is an introductory course for those with no previous knowledge of Welsh.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Workshops and practical classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 x 1.5 hour examination (25%); coursework (25%); oral test (25%);
aural test (25%).
CY1093
INTRODUCTION TO WELSH 2
Single
Spring
10 credits
This module is an introductory course which builds on the vocabulary and structures of Introduction to
Welsh 1.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Workshops and practical classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 x 1.5 hour examination (25%); coursework (25%); oral test (25%);
aural test (25%).
CY1731
WELSH FOLKLORE
Single
Autumn
10 credits
A module which introduces the patterns and processes associated with folk culture in Wales by
delineating and examining some of its various expressive modes. Distribution, function, revival and
identity will be discussed in relation to folk narrative, occupational customs, seasonal and calendar
customs, and rites of passage.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Lectures and seminars.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: An essay up to 2,000 words (100%).
CY1774
WELSH 1
Double
Autumn
20 credits
This module is for those with no previous knowledge of Welsh. It introduces basic vocabulary and
sentence structure in both the oral and written media.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Workshops and practical classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 x 1.5 hour examination (25%); coursework (25%); oral test (25%);
aural test (25%).
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CY1775
WELSH 2
Double
Spring
20 credits
This module builds on the vocabulary and structures introduced in Welsh 1 enabling you to
communicate more fully and in a wider range of contexts in both the oral and written media. The
standard attained is comparable to GCSE (second language) level.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Workshops and practical classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 x 1.5 hour examination (25%); coursework (25%); oral test (25%);
aural test (25%).
CY1776
WELSH 3
Double
Autumn
20 credits
If you already have a basic command of Welsh, or have passed Welsh as a second language at
GCSE level, you can continue your studies with this module. It builds on the vocabulary and structures
of Welsh 2.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Workshops and practical classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 x 1.5 hour examination (25%); coursework (25%); oral test (25%);
aural test (25%).
CY1777
WELSH 4
Double
Spring
20 credits
This module builds on the vocabulary and structures of Welsh 3 and attains a standard comparable to
AS (second language) level.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Workshops and practical classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 x 1.5 hour examination (25%); coursework (25%); oral test (25%);
aural test (25%).
CY1778
WELSH 5
Double
Autumn
20 credits
If you have already passed Welsh as a second language at AS level, or have a solid knowledge of
basic Welsh, you can continue your studies with this module. Welsh 5 builds on the vocabulary and
structures of Welsh 4.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Workshops and practical classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 x 1.5 hour examination (25%); coursework (25%); oral test (25%);
aural test (25%).
CY1779
WELSH 6
Double
Spring
20 credits
This module consolidates your knowledge of Welsh grammar and builds on Welsh 5 to develop your
sensitivity to sociolinguistic variants. The standard attained is comparable to A level. After completing
this module you should be able to follow the language and literature modules offered by the School to
students who have passed Welsh as a second language at A level.
METHODS OF TEACHING: Workshops and practical classes.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: 1 x 1.5 hour examination (25%); coursework (25%); oral test (25%);
aural test (25%).
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Appendix 1
PROVISIONAL CHOICE OF ADDITIONAL
MODULES FROM "NON-HOME" DEPARTMENT
Please use this form to make a note for yourself of the modules which interest you most. Filling in this
form does not commit you in any way to the choices you have indicated but it is intended to help you
to remember which modules you may wish to sign up for at enrolment. Your adviser of
Studies/Personal Tutor in your Home department will discuss your choices with you before you attend
the Module Fair.
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Name
Home Department
MODULES IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE:
(You are advised to select a number of modules as reserves in case you are not able to pursue your
preferred choice(s))
Module Code
Module Title
Semester(s)
102
Credits
INDEX
CARIBBEAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH ...... 27
CERDDORIAETH LEISIOL DWY GANRIF .... 75
CHARLES DICKENS ......................................... 23
CHARLOTTE BRONTË:
FICTIONS OF EMPIRE .................................. 23
CHINESE LANGUAGE I ................................... 65
CHINESE LANGUAGE II .................................. 65
CHINESE LANGUAGE III................................. 65
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ............................. 25
CIVIL LIBERTIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS I ... 68
CIVIL LIBERTIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS II . 68
CODING THEORY ............................................. 83
COINAGE AND CURRENCY IN BRITAIN, C.
200 BC-AD 1300 ............................................. 14
COMBINATORICS AND GRAPH THEORY ... 83
COMMUNICATING IN RELATIONSHIPS ...... 46
COMPARING PHILOSOPHIES OF RELIGION ...
......................................................................... 76
COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS .......................... 94
COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
......................................................................... 46
COMPUTING IN PHYSICS ............................... 89
COMPUTING ON THE NET.............................. 87
CONCISE HISTORY OF THE EARLY CHURCH,
A ...................................................................... 99
CONFLICT & COMMUNICATION .................. 48
CONQUEST AND CRISIS:
THE ROMAN REPUBLIC ................................ 7
CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL FICTION ... 25
CONTRACT LAW .............................................. 67
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN ETHICS .......... 76
COSMOS ............................................................. 87
CRIME AND DISORDER:
ENGLAND & WALES 1500-1750 ................. 38
CRIME FICTION ................................................ 20
CRIMINAL LAW ................................................ 68
CRIMINOLOGY:
RESEARCH AND CRIME ............................. 70
CRITICAL THEORY I ........................................ 19
CRITICAL THEORY II ...................................... 21
CRITICAL THEORY III ..................................... 24
CRUSADER KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM 10991025, THE ........................................................ 37
CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES IN
COMMUNICATION ....................................... 45
CULTURE, SOCIETY AND IDENTITY IN
WALES 1847-1914 ......................................... 39
CURRENT ENCOUNTERS IN SCIENCE & THE
ARTS ............................................................... 77
CYMRAEG Y GYFRAITH................................. 68
A
ACADEMIC WRITING IN ENGLISH 1 ............ 44
ACADEMIC WRITING IN ENGLISH 2 ............ 44
ACOUSTICS AND STUDIO TECHNIQUES .... 89
ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS ..... 92
ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS.......... 94
AEGEAN BRONZE AGE:
EMERGENCE TO COLLAPSE ...................... 14
AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITING 1900-1940 . 21
AMERICAN FICTION IN THE 1920S............... 22
ANCIENT EGYPT:
LANDSCAPE AND BELIEF .......................... 12
ANTURIAETHWYR, ARLOESWYR AC
YMFUDWYR .................................................. 53
APPLICATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
......................................................................... 91
APPLICATIONS OF STATISTICAL
MECHANICS .................................................. 93
ARABIC LANGUAGE I ..................................... 66
ARABIC LANGUAGE II .................................... 66
ARABIC LANGUAGE III .................................. 66
ARCHAEOLOGY OF ART AND VISUAL
CULTURE ....................................................... 15
ARCHAEOLOGY OF LATE ANTIQUITY, THE
......................................................................... 15
ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE GREEK & ROMAN
WORLD ........................................................... 11
ART & ARCHAEOLOGY OF CLASSICAL
GREECE .......................................................... 14
ART AND POWER IN ROME, 211 BC - AD138
......................................................................... 10
ART AND VISUAL CULTURE (HISTORY) .... 40
ASTROPHYSICAL CONCEPTS ........................ 87
ASTROPHYSICS PROJECT .............................. 93
B
BASIC MATHEMATICS I ................................. 79
BASIC MATHEMATICS II ................................ 79
BEFORE AND AFTER THE BLACK DEATH:
ENGLAND IN THE LONG FOURTEENTH
CENTURY ................................................... 32
BLUES:
A VEHICLE FOR JAZZ IMPROVISATION (II)
..................................................................... 74
BRITAIN AND THE INTEGRATION OF
EUROPE 1940-1975 ........................................ 38
BRITISH EXPANSION OVERSEAS, 1870-1945
......................................................................... 35
BRITISH PREHISTORY..................................... 11
BRITISH SOCIAL HISTORY, 1918 - 1951 ....... 40
BRITISH SOCIETY AND CULTURE ............... 29
BUSINESS AND COMPANY LAW .................. 67
D
DESCRIBING LANGUAGE .............................. 48
DOMINATION AND CONFLICT; WALES AND
THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH
IMPERIALISM 1066-1189 ............................. 54
DRAMA AND ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY ....... 9
C
CALCULUS OF MORE THAN ONE VARIABLE
......................................................................... 80
CANTERBURY TALES I, THE ......................... 18
103
DYNAMICS OF WITCHCRAFT, 1450-1750,
THE .................................................................. 36
G
GALAXIES ......................................................... 91
GENDER & SEXUALITY IN ENGLAND, 15001700 ................................................................. 54
GENDER & SEXUALITY IN GREECE AND
ROME ................................................................ 9
GENDER AND IMPERIALISM
INDIA 1829-1929 ............................................ 39
GENERAL RELATIVITY AND RELATIVISTIC
ASTROPHYSICS ............................................ 94
GERMAN CONSTITUTION/INSTITUTIONS .. 29
GERMAN IDEA OF HISTORY:
HISTORICAL THINKERS TO THE PRESENT,
THE.............................................................. 29
GERMAN LANGUAGE A ................................. 58
GERMAN LANGUAGE B ................................. 58
GERMAN LANGUAGE C ................................. 58
GERMAN LANGUAGE D ................................. 58
GERMAN LANGUAGE E .................................. 58
GERMAN LANGUAGE F .................................. 59
GERMAN LANGUAGE G ................................. 59
GERMAN LANGUAGE H ................................. 59
GERMANY'S NEW ORDER IN EUROPE 19331945 ................................................................. 38
GOTHIC FICTION:
THE ROMANTIC AGE .................................. 25
THE VICTORIANS ......................................... 26
GREAT DISCOVERIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY . 12
GREEK FOR BEGINNERS I .............................. 59
GREEK FOR BEGINNERS II ............................ 59
GREEK FOR IMPROVERS I ............................. 60
GREEK FOR IMPROVERS II ............................ 60
GREEK HISTORICAL TEXTS ............................ 8
GREEK VALUES ................................................. 6
GROUPS .............................................................. 81
E
EARLY ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND .............. 13
EARLY MODERN ENGLAND AND WALES
1500-1700 ........................................................ 31
EARLY ROME:
HISTORY AND LEGEND .............................. 10
EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY .... 26
EASTERN PHILOSOPHY AND POPULAR
CULTURE ....................................................... 77
ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM ....................... 83
ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM & LIGHT ......... 87
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
DETECTION ................................................... 91
ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION .. 88
ELEMENTARY FLUID DYNAMICS ................ 81
ELEMENTARY NUMBER THEORY I ............. 79
ELEMENTARY NUMBER THEORY II ............ 81
ELEMENTS OF FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS
......................................................................... 85
EMPLOYMENT LAW ........................................ 70
EMPLOYMENT LAW II .................................... 71
END OF ANTIQUITY, THE ................................. 6
ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM, THE .................... 67
ENVIRONMENTAL & ECONOMIC
ARCHAEOLOGY ........................................... 12
ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY ............ 15
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION:
LAW AND POLICY.................................. 52, 72
EUROPE EAST AND WEST 1945-1995............ 34
EUROPEAN HISTORY C.1900-1945 ................ 35
EUROPEAN LAW .............................................. 67
EVOLUTION OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION
& LANGUAGE, THE ...................................... 48
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN ............................... 85
EXPLORING EASTERN PHILOSOPHY:
HINDU AND BUDDHIST SYSTEMS ........... 78
H
HANES CYFREITHIAU CYMRU ..................... 68
HARDY ............................................................... 25
HEALTH COMMUNICATION .......................... 47
HELLENISTIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE .. 10
HERESY AND DISSENT, 1000-1450 ................ 31
HEROIC QUESTS AND MYTHIC WORLDS:
THEMES IN FOLKLORE AND
MYTHOLOGY ............................................ 55
HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS .................... 95
HISTORY AND RELIGION OF ANCIENT
ISRAEL ........................................................... 98
HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL THOUGHT
......................................................................... 14
HOME & AWAY:
WALES & THE WELSH 1914-1997 .............. 33
HUMAN ORIGINS, COMPLEXITY AND
CIVILISATION ............................................... 11
F
FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE, THE ............ 53
FAMILY AND MATRIMONIAL LAW ............. 69
FICTION OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT ....
......................................................................... 21
FLUID DYNAMICS............................................ 84
FORENSIC ARCHAEOLOGY ........................... 15
FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN PHYSICS ........ 87
FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS .................... 82
FRENCH LANGUAGE A ................................... 56
FRENCH LANGUAGE B ................................... 56
FRENCH LANGUAGE C ................................... 56
FRENCH LANGUAGE D ................................... 57
FRENCH LANGUAGE E ................................... 57
FRENCH LANGUAGE F.................................... 57
FRENCH LANGUAGE G ................................... 57
FRENCH LANGUAGE H ................................... 57
FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN LANGUAGE
TEACHING ..................................................... 45
FURTHER JAZZ SKILLS ................................... 73
I
IDENTITY AND GENDER IN GERMAN
CULTURE ....................................................... 28
ILLUSTRATED BOOK, THE ............................ 24
IMMIGRATION LAW I ..................................... 69
104
IMMIGRATION LAW II .................................... 69
INDIA AND THE RAJ, 1857-1947 ..................... 34
INDUSTRIALISATION IN BRITAIN 1750-1850
......................................................................... 34
INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THE
ENVIRONMENT ............................................ 51
INFORMATION PROCESSING ........................ 49
INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM & STAR
FORMATION, THE ........................................ 94
INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT GREEK
HISTORY .......................................................... 5
INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED
MATHEMATICS ............................................ 80
INTRODUCTION TO CHILDREN'S
LITERATURE, AN ......................................... 19
INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY ............ 69
INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL
ISSUES ............................................................ 51
INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT, AN ..................................... 72
INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN CULTURAL
STUDIES ......................................................... 28
INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL DRAMA .... 20
INTRODUCTION TO OLD ENGLISH .............. 18
INTRODUCTION TO OLD NORSE .................. 26
INTRODUCTION TO PLAYING JAZZ, AN ..... 73
INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY .............. 79
INTRODUCTION TO ROMAN HISTORY ......... 5
INTRODUCTION TO ROMANTIC POETRY... 20
INTRODUCTION TO ROMANTIC POETRY II ...
......................................................................... 22
INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE .................... 98
INTRODUCTION TO THE MUSEUM
ENVIRONMENT ............................................ 13
INTRODUCTION TO WELSH 1...................... 100
INTRODUCTION TO WELSH 2...................... 100
INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S POETRY ..... 22
IRISH LITERARY REVIVAL, THE .................. 26
IRON AGE BRITAIN ......................................... 13
ITALIAN LANGUAGE A .................................. 61
ITALIAN LANGUAGE B ................................... 61
ITALIAN LANGUAGE C ................................... 61
ITALIAN LANGUAGE D .................................. 62
ITALIAN LANGUAGE E ................................... 62
ITALIAN LANGUAGE F ................................... 62
JAZZ IMPROVISATION I ................................. 73
JULIAN THE APOSTATE ................................... 5
K
KEATS ................................................................ 26
KINGDOMS, CITIES AND HELLENIZATION . 6
KNOTS ................................................................ 83
L
LARGE MOLECULES AND LIFE .................... 95
LASER PHYSICS AND APPLICATIONS ......... 92
LATER BRONZE AGE BRITAIN ..................... 12
LATIN HISTORICAL TEXTS ............................. 8
LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF ELDER
ABUSE ............................................................ 71
LIFE OF THE BUDDHA, THE .......................... 97
LIFESPAN COMMUNICATION ....................... 45
LINEAR ALGEBRA ........................................... 81
LINEAR SYSTEMS ............................................ 84
LITERATURE INTO FILM ................................ 26
LOVE & DEATH IN RENAISSANCE
LITERATURE ................................................. 19
M
MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD, 17501970, THE ........................................................ 31
MATHEMATICAL METHODS II ..................... 80
MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE FOR PHYSICAL
SCIENCES....................................................... 86
MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING .............. 84
MEANING OF MUSIC, THE ....................... 73, 76
MECHANICS ...................................................... 81
MECHANICS & SPECIAL RELATIVITY ........ 89
MEDIA TEXTS ................................................... 46
MEDIATION SKILLS ........................................ 69
MEDICAL PHYSICS PROJECT ........................ 93
MEDICAL STATISTICS .................................... 84
MEDICINE AND THE LAW I ........................... 70
MEDIEVAL ARTHURIAN LITERATURE ....... 22
MEDIEVAL EUROPE ........................................ 30
METHODS OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS ..... 82
METHODS OF COMPLEX ANALYSIS ........... 80
METHODS OF MATRIX ALGEBRA ................ 80
MID VICTORIAN NOVEL 1854 – 1874, THE .. 19
MIDDLE AND LATER SAXON ENGLAND .... 13
MILITARY ORDERS, 1100-1320, THE ............ 36
MODELLING ...................................................... 79
MODELLING WITH DIFFERENTIAL
EQUATIONS ................................................... 81
MODERN JAPANESE SOCIETY ...................... 41
MODERN WALES ............................................. 30
MONGOLS AND EUROPE, THE ...................... 32
MOTION AND ENERGY ................................... 86
MUSIC EDUCATION......................................... 74
MYTH AND SAGA ............................................ 21
MYTH, LANGUAGE AND IDEOLOGY IN J.R.R.
TOLKIEN’S FICTION .................................... 50
J
JAINISM .............................................................. 97
JANE AUSTEN IN CONTEXT .......................... 21
JAPANESE FOR BEGINNERS I ........................ 65
JAPANESE FOR BEGINNERS II ...................... 66
JAPANESE FOR IMPROVERS I ....................... 66
JAPANESE FOR IMPROVERS II ...................... 66
JAPANESE HISTORY ........................................ 41
JAPANESE LANGUAGE 1A ............................. 41
JAPANESE LANGUAGE 1B ............................. 41
JAPANESE LANGUAGE 2A ............................. 42
JAPANESE LANGUAGE 2B ............................. 42
JAZZ:
DEALING WITH JAM SESSIONS (I) ........... 75
N
NANOSTRUCTURE OPTOELECTRONICS .... 95
105
NEOLITHIC EUROPE ........................................ 13
NINETEENTH-CENTURY CRIME FICTION .. 24
NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION ................ 46
NORMANS IN BRITAIN 1066-87, THE ........... 53
NORMANS IN EUROPE C.900-1150, THE ...... 32
NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS ............ 93
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS I ............................... 82
READING GREEK 1 ............................................ 7
READING GREEK 2 ............................................ 8
READING LATIN 1.............................................. 7
READING LATIN 2.............................................. 7
REBELLION, REFORM, REVOLUTION AND
REVERSAL:
THE SEARCH FOR A MODERN CHINA,
1800-2000 .................................................... 35
REGRESSION ANALYSIS ................................ 85
RELIGION AND PERFORMANCE IN SOUTH
ASIA ................................................................ 98
RELIGION, CULTURE & SOCIETY I .............. 97
RENAISSANCE DRAMA I ................................ 23
RENAISSANCE DRAMA II............................... 23
REVOLUTIONS AND DEMOCRACY;
COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL
APPROACHES................................................ 54
RISE OF THE WELSH GENTRY 1500-1760,
THE.................................................................. 33
ROMAN ARMY, THE ........................................ 10
ROME & CARTHAGE ......................................... 8
RUSSIAN FOR BEGINNERS I .......................... 60
RUSSIAN FOR BEGINNERS II ......................... 60
RUSSIAN FOR IMPROVERS I.......................... 61
RUSSIAN FOR IMPROVERS II ........................ 61
O
OBSERVATIONAL TECHNIQUES IN
ASTRONOMY ................................................ 90
OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE .......................... 21
OLD NORSE LITERATURE .............................. 19
OPERATIONAL RESEARCH ............................ 82
OPTICS AND FOURIER TRANSFORMS ......... 91
ORAL SKILLS IN ACADEMIC CONTEXT 1 .. 44
ORAL SKILLS IN ACADEMIC CONTEXT 2 .. 44
ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH GENTRY, THE .. 36
P
PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION .................. 47
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES OF
PUNISHMENT ................................................ 77
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PAIN 76
PHILOSOPHY OF CRIME ................................. 77
PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS ................. 77
PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES OF INSTRUMENTAL
PERFORMANCE ............................................ 74
PHYSICS APPLIED ............................................ 90
PHYSICS OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES .. 92
PHYSICS OF SOLIDS AND SOFT MATTER... 90
PHYSICS PROJECT ........................................... 93
PLACES AND NOVELS .................................... 27
PLANETARY SYSTEMS ................................... 90
POLITICS, RELIGION AND IDENTITY
WALES 1558-1660.......................................... 39
PORTUGUESE FOR BEGINNERS A ................ 60
PORTUGUESE FOR IMPROVERS B................ 60
POST ROMAN & MEDIEVAL BRITAIN ......... 11
POSTMODERN AMERICAN POETRY ............ 23
POST-ROMAN CELTIC BRITAIN .................... 14
POWER & POLITICS IN PRE-RAPHAELITE
ART.................................................................. 24
PRACTICAL PHYSICS A .................................. 89
PRACTICAL PHYSICS B .................................. 89
PROJECT ............................................................. 95
PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH, THE ........... 45
PROPERTY LAW ............................................... 70
PUBLIC LAW I ................................................... 71
PUBLIC LAW II .................................................. 71
S
SCIENCE AND ITS COMMUNICATION ......... 51
SELLING REBELLION; MUSIC, POLITICS
AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN BRITAIN
1977 - 1997 ...................................................... 54
SENSATION FICTION....................................... 27
SETTLER IDENTITY:
FICTIONS OF OZ/NZ ..................................... 25
SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES ......................... 18
SHAKESPEARE'S HISTORIES ......................... 22
SHAKESPEARE'S LATE PLAYS ...................... 24
SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES ....................... 19
SINGING AND WIND-PLAYING:
HEARING AND STRESS ............................... 74
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT ..... 20
SLAVES, SERFS & FREEDMEN ........................ 9
SLAVES, SERFS AND PEASANTS,500-1500 .. 37
SOCIAL SECURITY LAW AND POLICY ........ 71
SOCIALISM & NATIONALISM IN THE
CHINESE REVOLUTION 1921-1949 ............ 40
SOCIOLINGUISTICS ......................................... 47
SOLID STATE PHYSICS ................................... 91
SOUND SYNTHESIS ......................................... 92
SPANISH LANGUAGE A .................................. 62
SPANISH LANGUAGE B .................................. 62
SPANISH LANGUAGE C .................................. 63
SPANISH LANGUAGE D .................................. 63
SPANISH LANGUAGE E .................................. 63
SPANISH LANGUAGE F................................... 63
SPANISH LANGUAGE G .................................. 63
SPANISH LANGUAGE H .................................. 64
SPECIALISED LANGUAGE PROGRAMME ... 28
SPENSER'S ......................................................... 20
STATISTICAL INFERENCE I ........................... 80
Q
QUANTUM MECHANICS ................................. 88
QUANTUM THEORY OF SOLIDS ................... 94
QUEUEING THEORY & STOCK CONTROL .. 84
R
RADIATION IN MEDICINE .............................. 90
READING EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION
......................................................................... 20
106
STATISTICAL INFERENCE III......................... 84
STATISTICAL MECHANICS ...................... 83, 92
STELLAR PHYSICS ........................................... 92
STOCHASTIC MODELS FOR INSURANCE ... 85
STORY OF CHRISTIANITY, THE .................... 98
STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF MATTER,
THE .................................................................. 86
SURVEYING MODERN DRAMA..................... 26
V
VARIATIONAL METHODS .............................. 84
VICTORIAN NOVEL 1847-53, THE ................. 18
VIKINGS IN WALES, 850-1100, THE .............. 53
VIRGINIA WOOLF'S MODERNISM ................ 25
VISUAL BASIC PROGRAMMING FOR OR .... 82
VISUAL COMMUNICATION ........................... 47
W
T
W. H. AUDEN ..................................................... 24
WALES, IRELAND & THE VIKING WORLD . 33
WAY THE BODY WORKS, THE ...................... 96
WELSH 1 ........................................................... 100
WELSH 2 ........................................................... 101
WELSH 3 ........................................................... 101
WELSH 4 ........................................................... 101
WELSH 5 ........................................................... 101
WELSH 6 ........................................................... 101
WELSH EMIGRANTS AND THEIR
COMMUNITIES, 1600-1939 .......................... 54
WELSH FICTION IN ENGLISH ........................ 22
WELSH FOLKLORE ........................................ 100
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR 1035-1087 ....... 37
WOMEN AND SHARIAH LAW ........................ 70
WORDS & MEANING ....................................... 47
TEACHING LITERATURE THROUGH
LANGUAGE ................................................... 45
THEORETICAL PHYSICS ................................. 88
THEORETICAL PHYSICS TECHNIQUES ....... 91
THERMAL PHYSICS ......................................... 89
TIME SERIES ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING
......................................................................... 85
TOPICS IN ASTRONOMY ................................ 88
TOPICS IN PHYSICS ......................................... 88
TOPOLOGY ........................................................ 83
TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHILDREN'S
LITERATURE ................................................. 23
TWENTIETH-CENTURY WELSH POETRY IN
ENGLISH......................................................... 25
107