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2017 COHORT In Core Clinical Education, you will spend most of your time in the clinical environment, building upon the theoretical material learned in earlier years and applying it in a practical clinical context. To facilitate your learning, you will be attached to partnerships of consultants drawn from a wide range of clinical specialties. You will also continue to develop your clinical skills, using them with patients in a supervised environment on a day-to-day basis. Learning opportuniti...

MD255 (18/19)

The aim of this module is to equip the student with the skills required to identify and safely manage a range of clinical and non-clinical situations in order to optimise the clinical outcome. This module is concerned with developing and understanding of policies and frameworks supporting practice in challenging circumstances and how these optimise performance of the health care system to the benefit of patients.

MD940 (18/19)

This module focuses on the turbulent politics of the ‘long 1960s’ with the aim of introducing students to how radicals and rebels during those years saw small-scale distributed technologies as tools to reforge the public sphere, and to initiate a move away from the perceived authoritarian patterns operating within mass media societies. Students will be introduced to the interdisciplinary debates between sociologists, anthropologists, cybernetic theorists and computational scientists that fuel...

IM930 (18/19)

The module is aimed at introducing interdisciplinary perspectives on current challenges faced by cities and urban science, in order to develop a critical understanding of the role of digital technologies, big data and urban analytics for promoting sustainable urban development in “smart city” initiatives worldwide. This is achieved through a series of invited talks featuring both academic and professional experts, which is accompanied by a discursive seminar. For further information please co...

IM927 (18/19)

FOCUS OF THE MODULE This module is a collaboration between Linguistics and Theatre and Performance Studies that aims to look at how human communication works. The module will examine different modes of communication, that is different ways or mechanisms that human beings use to communicate in order build up a sophisticated picture of the way that language is used for communication and how it interacts with other ways of making meaning. Further information in the Module overview document below...

ET325 (18/19)

This 30 CATS second-year option module introduces students to major debates in the history of the Cold War in Africa, aiming to set these issues within their historical, social and cultural contexts over the period from 1945 to the 1990s. After the opening weeks set up the context of decoloniation and superpower rivalry in Africa, the rest of the course takes a roughly chronological apporoach to explore various case studies and thematic issues. We will look in depth at upheavals in Congo and ...

HI277 (18/19)

Today we are used to thinking of Germany as a peaceful, prosperous and stable democracy, at the heart of Europe politically and economically as well as geographically. But for much of its modern history the picture was very different. A comparative latecomer to statehood, in the 170 years of its existence as a nation-state Germany experienced a dramatic transformation from a maverick to a model state which took in war, dictatorship, occupation and division, as well as rapid industrial develop...

HI290 (18/19)

This module is intended to introduce students to the techniques and skills of textual analysis, and to develop their understanding and appreciation of cinema both past and present. It aims to introduce cinema through a range of critical lenses and frameworks, familiarising students with key formal strategies and critical concepts that are necessary for analysing films. It is designed to ensure that students are adept at examining the various visual, aural and narrative conventions by which th...

FI101 (18/19)

The uncompromising modernity of Kafka’s writing has fascinated generations of readers across the world. His fiction has added the word Kafkaesque to the English dictionary for the experience of an obscure and dislocating modernity. A vast body of criticism concerns the question of how to read a body of writing that upsets many of the reader’s conventional expectations about meaning-making. In this module we will analyse how Kafka employs realist, symbolist and allegorical frames of reference ...

GE214 (18/19)

Welcome to _Utopia: Text, Theory, Practice. _As the title of the module suggests, we will consider the concept of utopianism as it is enacted in creative texts (literature and film), in social and political thought, in theorisations of the utopian tradition, and in lived experiences and social practices. At its simplest, the concept of 'utopia' (a pun on _eutopia_, meaning good place, and _outopia_, meaning no place) can be understood as a response to one the most fundamental 'problems' that ...

IP206 (18/19)