Search results: 332
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.
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.
|
Week 1 |
Introduction to the module How to analyse a film
|
|
Week 2 |
Amores perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000) |
|
Week 3 |
Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001) |
|
Week 4 |
Central do Brasil (Walter Salles, 1998) |
|
Week 5 |
Whisky (Pablo Stoll and Juan Pablo Rebella, 2004) |
|
Week 6 |
Reading Week |
|
Week 7 |
Elefante blanco (Pablo Trapero, 2012) |
|
Week 8 |
La antena (Esteban Sapir, 2007) |
|
Week 9 |
La mujer sin cabeza (Lucrecia Martel, 2008) |
|
Week 10 |
Essay writing and revision |
|
|
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.
|
Week 1 |
Introduction to module Introduction to Spanish film |
|
Week 2 |
¡Bienvenido Mr Marshall!(Luis GarcÃa Berlanga, 1953)*
|
|
Week 3 |
El espÃritu de la colmena (VÃctor Erice, 1973)
|
|
Week 4 |
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Pedro Almodóvar, 1988)
|
|
Week 5 |
Vacas (Julio Medem, 1992) Practice commentary in class |
|
Week 6 |
Reading Week |
|
Week 7 |
Los lunes al sol (Fernando de León, 2002)
|
|
Week 8 |
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
|
|
Week 9 |
Balada triste de trompeta (Alex de la Iglesia, 2010)
|
|
Week 10 |
Revision and essay writing |
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.
Module Outline
Aims
The overall aim of the module is to explain the purpose and value of humanitarian organizations and supply chains within the society. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between commercial and humanitarian operations by discussing the trade-offs in decision making through social and financial frames of reference. As a whole, this module sets out to provide a holistic strategic view of social enterprises through a comprehensive discussion of critical operational issues pertaining to performance, risk, strategy and sustainability.Learning Outcomes
- By the end of the
module, students should be able to:
- Develop
a comprehensive understanding of the operational functioning and value creation
mechanisms of social enterprises and not-for-profit supply chains
- Discuss
the similarities and differences between commercial and not for profit supply
chains by comparing and contrasting decision making from a social frame of
reference versus from a financial frame of reference.
- Analyse
and identify the performance measures for a social enterprise’s theory of
change components (inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts)
- Analyse a humanitarian organizations utilizing operational models and frameworks to explain their core operations and supply chain processes, analyse their relationship with stakeholders with associated risks, strategies and challenges
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/
Course description
The module aims to introduce the practical, analytic and intellectual questions related to the collection and analysis of qualitative data. It will alternate taught sessions on the principles, practicalities and issues of using a specific methods with examples and exercise on the practical use of the method. This will allow us to reflect upon theoretical issues relating to the practice of doing qualitative research.
A follow-on course to enable access to additional foundational python skills at the intermediate level.
This course space will be used to focus on the Moodle activity tools for collaboration, communication and interactivity. We will explore how these tools can support and promote asynchronous active learning. Come along for ideas, inspiration and also share examples of how Moodle is working for you.
This course gives some basic knowledge about what a SEM is, it's operating principles and capacities. After going through the content of the course, you need to pass the test before participating any hands-on training sessions.
This course is the RSE training course on the Introduction to the Linux Desktop
This module aims to provide you with in-depth study of a topical issue, Sustainability, using a multi-disciplinary PBL approach. Over the course of the year we will examine four key problems using a variety of disciplinary approaches, and acquire a detailed understand of current debates and theories. The problems are, broadly, as follows:
How do we define sustainability?
What do we mean by sustainability? Who has the right to define it? Are accepted definitions equitable? Which behaviours are sustainable? Which are not?
What is the role of individuals in achieving sustainability?
Given the contested nature of the term sustainability, how do we engage the general public? What impact can individuals have? How is sustainability represented in culture? What is the role of education in achieving sustainability?
Can business be sustainable?
How and why do we measure sustainability? How has globalisation impacted on sustainability efforts? How do firms introduce sustainability in supply chains? What is the link between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability? Are there alternatives to present economic models?
What are the challenges around population?
Is population a problem? How do we deal with migration? How can we make our cities sustainable?