This 30 CATS final-year Advanced Option module examines the history of southern Africa from the nineteenth century to the present, engaging with a range of approaches in history and the social sciences. The course is structured around four themes which are central to the history and historiography of the region: labour and migration; urbanization and urban life; family, kinship and domestic struggles; and political movements and protest. Structured around these four themes, seminars combine chronological and thematic coverage with analysis of the lives of individual men, women and children. We will examine social life, economic activity, culture and politics using secondary sources and a range of primary sources, including biography, memoir, novels, ethnography, government documents, and the reports of international and non-governmental organisations. Central to our analysis will be consideration of how key social categories and identities, including race, ethnicity, gender and age, have been constructed and challenged over time and how these factors have shaped the lives of southern Africa's people.

The module engages with classic and cutting-edge scholarship in southern African studies and provides students with the skills and opportunity to engage in independent research in the field of African history.

The aim of this module is to further extend and refine competence in modern Spanish. Emphasis is placed on the four key skills of reading, listening, speaking and writing and on the deepening of both grammatical understanding and the appropriate use of advanced linguistic structures, vocabulary, and register in spoken and written discourse. The course aims to reinforce your mastery of the language in a wide range of authentic situations. At the end of the course you will be able to understand discourse about concrete and abstract topics, to give presentations about different topics, to report on the results of your independent reading and research, and to state your point of view and support it with solid arguments. You will make use of authentic resources from around the Hispanic world, including films, books, articles, newspapers, television and radio. You will complete a range of self-study activities through our multimedia VLE (Moodle) and take part in our virtual language exchange with students in Latin America and Spain.

The aim of this module is to further extend and refine competence in modern Spanish. Emphasis is placed on the four key skills of reading, listening, speaking and writing and on the deepening of both grammatical understanding and the appropriate use of advanced linguistic structures, vocabulary, and register in spoken and written discourse. The course aims to reinforce your mastery of the language in a wide range of authentic situations. At the end of the course you will be able to understand discourse about concrete and abstract topics, to give presentations about different topics, to report on the results of your independent reading and research, and to state your point of view and support it with solid arguments. You will make use of authentic resources from around the Hispanic world, including films, books, articles, newspapers, television and radio. You will complete a range of self-study activities through our multimedia VLE (Moodle) and take part in our virtual language exchange with students in Latin America and Spain.

The aim of this module is to consolidate fluency in spoken and written Spanish, and to refine the skills of translation. Emphasis is placed on advanced translation, and oral and discursive expression using an appropriate range of advanced linguistic structures, vocabulary, and register. Classroom and self-study activities will involve translation exercises and analysis, oral project work, and advanced writing. Students will be expected to engage in autonomous learning activities and to devote time to researching and preparing drafts of work for class presentation. The assessment of students’ process is coherent with the curriculum of the program, which aims at developing students’ communicative and intercultural competences as well as their autonomous learning capacity.

The course will use authentic resources from around the Hispanic world, including films, books, articles, newspapers, television and radio. You will complete a range of self-study activities through our multimedia VLE (Moodle) and take part in our virtual language tutorials.

The aim of this module is to consolidate fluency in spoken and written Spanish, and to refine the skills of translation. Emphasis is placed on advanced translation, and oral and discursive expression using an appropriate range of advanced linguistic structures, vocabulary, and register. Classroom and self-study activities will involve translation exercises and analysis, oral project work, and advanced writing. Students will be expected to engage in autonomous learning activities and to devote time to researching and preparing drafts of work for class presentation. The assessment of students’ process is coherent with the curriculum of the program, which aims at developing students’ communicative and intercultural competences as well as their autonomous learning capacity.

The course will use authentic resources from around the Hispanic world, including films, books, articles, newspapers, television and radio. You will complete a range of self-study activities through our multimedia VLE (Moodle) and take part in our virtual language tutorials.

Why is memory such an important component of our view of the past today? In what ways is the Hispanic world driving and shaping global memory discourses rather than simply responding to them?

While Spanish audiences have long been fascinated with criminality, the nature of the criminal act depicted onscreen has undergone a series of dramatic transformations from the early Franco period to the present day. This course explores how the varied depictions of criminality in Spanish cinema have reflected broader changes in the cultural understanding of transgression, civil disorder and social control in Spain. It examines ‘deviance’ in its various guises and meanings, from violent crime, petty theft and delinquency, to police torture and domestic abuse, as a means of tracing a recent history of Spanish social change. In doing so, the course will study a number of important crime thrillers, police procedural films and delinquent films, as well as controversial films whose making itself has been considered deviant by the authorities.

Week-by-week at a glance

Week 1: Introduction to module

Week 2: Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1962)

Week 3: Deprisa, deprisa (Carlos Saura, 1980)

Week 4: La ley del deseo (Pedro Almodóvar, 1987)

Week 5: Amantes (Vicente Aranda, 1991)

Week 6: Reading Week

Week 7: Te doy mis ojos (Iciar Bollaín, 2003)

Week 8: Celda 211 (Daniel Monzón, 2009)

Week 9: La isla mínima (Alberto Rodríguez, 2014)

Week 10: Revision and essay writing

This course explores the relationship between cinema, mobility and the city through the close analysis of contemporary films from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay. In encouraging students to think geographically about film, we will consider how cinematic locations – urban, rural and mobile – enable filmmakers to address broader social and cultural issues, such as migration, neo-colonialism, transnationalism and social inequality.

 How is this course taught?

The course is taught through a combination of weekly lectures and seminars. The lectures will serve to contextualise the individual films, while the seminars will include close textual analysis. Students will be required to watch each of the seven films before lectures/seminars, as well as carry out background readings on both the films and their geographical contexts. References to the background readings will be available for each week on Moodle.

This course provides a detailed introduction to Spanish film from the 1950s until the present day. It explores the ways in which Spanish cinema has frequently explored, constructed and problematized Spanish nationhood across a diverse range of cinematic movements and genres. In studying the works of key directors such as Pedro Almodóvar, Alex de la Iglesia and Julio Medem, the course considers how Spanish film has responded to key moments, crises and contradictions in Spanish history. The course will consider the practices of both Spanish art cinema and popular cinema alike, and closely examine these trends within their sociohistorical, political and industrial contexts.

This module will explore mentoring and coaching as core practices underpinning professional development and learning - in schools and other educational settings. We will consider the role of leaders and managers, teachers and practitioners in developing the conditions and practices for mentoring and coaching. You will be invited to consider what the concepts mean, how they are enacted in different organisations and or settings and for what purposes and effects. 

The module will critically engage you with current mentoring and coaching theories and practice across professional boundaries. It will enhance your understanding of approaches to professional development which employ and make use of mentoring and coaching.

The central themes of mentoring and coaching will be examined by investigating:

➢ What does mentoring mean?

➢ What does coaching mean?

➢ What is the relationship between mentoring and coaching?

➢ What is the relationship between mentoring and coaching and assessment?

➢ How does mentoring and/or coaching shape current professional development practice in education? 

➢ What is a mentoring/coaching organisation?

➢ How does mentoring/coaching impact upon professional and/or personal effectiveness?

➢ How might mentoring and/or coaching feature in current teaching and learning practice? 

Investigation of these elements will draw on recent developments in research, theory, policy and practice. The course will give you opportunity to develop your understanding of coaching and mentoring and to consider and research aspects which are of interest and relevance to you. Sessions will provide opportunity for active study and assessment will allow for personal interests to be pursued.

Sessions for 2017-8 take place on Tuesdays 10am - 1pm in S1.141 during weeks 15 – 24

This is the home of the 16/17 Science of Music Course. The Sitebuilder web site is for the 15/16 course but you can still look at it.

Description

This module offers a completely different experience from other university courses. Whilst having the chance to investigate and reflect on your own aspirations and values, you will also complete 30 to 40 hours of volunteering in a local not-for-profit organisation or similar setting. During Autumn term 2016, you will be matched with a community-identified project, ready to start volunteering on your project when you begin the module at the beginning of 2017. This course will encourage you to reflect on and enhance your practical experience in a community-engaged setting. You will explore the links between academic study and community engagement within a framework of respect, reciprocity, relevance and reflection.

The module will combine theoretical understandings from your home discipline with new interdisciplinary perspectives and apply them to practical, real world problems in communities outside the university. We will investigate and reflect on what can be learned from engagement with communities and with community-identified problems, and you will test the relationship between theory and practice, reflecting collectively and individually on the emergent learning that results.

Structure

The module will consist of ten two-hour sessions, in addition to the community-based project. Some weeks, a guest lecturer will examine aspects of community engagement from the perspective of their particular discipline. With these perspectives in mind, you will work in the second half of each session with the module convenor to develop your learning in an interdisciplinary manner, including reflection on practical project experience. Other weeks will be workshop style throughout - in both cases consistent attendance is very important to the development of critically reflective responses to theory and practice for this module.

Change

Critical Understandings, Agency and Action

Course Contacts:  Naomi de la Tour & Sean Michael Morris

Ramphal R0.12, 5-7pm Tuesdays. 

**We will be meeting for the first session in week 1: Tuesday 1st October**

Change seeks to engage with theories and experiences of change and to enact change within our classroom together. For that reason, our online presence is primarily based on OneNote where we can all co-create the space together. This will also allow Sean to join in more actively from the USA. We will share a link to the OneNote here shortly. Please check back.

IATL student handbook
Please check the IATL student handbook for details of how to submit assessments etc.

Description

This module draws together concepts of habitability from across the university, looking at habitable conditions both on and off the Earth, and exploring how we find and understand habitable planets in the wider galaxy using modern telescopes. We will look at life at the extremes, considering extremophiles on Earth, and what they might tell us about life elsewhere, before approaching the sustainability and long term habitability of our own planet.

Alongside this exploration of the realities of habitability, we will turn to our own reactions to it. Popular culture is replete with the idea of the other, within our normal environment and outside of it. A sense of precariousness underpins literature and film, from Jules Verne to Ridley Scott’s The Martian. In cinema, the development of special effects is closely linked to the presentation of alien life and other worlds. Finally, in the growing context of talk about colonisation and off-world activity, we can turn to the ideas of politics: how should we organise a growing settlement on another planet, where small mistakes can rapidly lead to failure and death?"

Course Structure

The overall module will consist of weekly 2 hour sessions, comprising a lecture and a more interactive seminar/discussion. During the lecture we will introduce new concepts from differing departmental perspectives. The seminars will reinforce these concepts, while allowing us the opportunity to synthesise these concepts into a complete understanding of ‘Habitability in the Universe’. These seminars will consist of guided discussions and group activities, as relevant to each topic covered. Each week will be led by academics from the appropriate departments. Reading material for each session will be made available here a week beforehand.

Assessment 

Examination will take the form of an Essay/Report/Literature Review, due 19th March 2018, along with a 15 minute presentation given in the 10th session of the course (15th March 2018, 10:00-12:00). Part of the Week 5 session will be spent discussing possible essay and presentation topics.

Module Outline

Visualisations have become a fundamental currency for the exploration of data and the exchange of information. In this module we will explore this highly interdisciplinary subject from a wide variety of views - from cartography to statistics, to architecture and information design, and from science to the arts. Some of the labs and activities will involve coding and sketching activities, but there are no pre-requisites for this course. We encourage students from diverse backgrounds to bring their own perspective and skills to this exciting and interdisciplinary topic.

For further information please contact cim@warwick.ac.uk or go to https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/cross-disciplinary-postgraduate-modules/im921-visualisation/

Visualisations have become a fundamental currency for the exploration of data and the exchange of information. In this module we will explore this highly interdisciplinary subject from a wide variety of views - from cartography to statistics, to architecture and information design, and from science to the arts. Some of the labs and activities will involve coding and sketching activities, but there are no pre-requisites for this course. We encourage students from diverse backgrounds to bring their own perspective and skills to this exciting and interdisciplinary topic.

For further information please contact cim@warwick.ac.uk or go to https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/cross-disciplinary-postgraduate-modules/im921-visualisation/