Module List

3D Design

This module aims to enable students to understand both technically and artistically 3D computer graphics. Students will develop a creative approach to understanding CGI production and pipelines and understanding in 3D modelling, texturing, lighting and rendering.

3D Design

This module aims to enable students to understand both technically and artistically 3D computer graphics. Students will develop a creative approach to understanding CGI production and pipelines and understanding in 3D modelling, texturing, lighting and rendering.

Acting 1: Essential Skills

Explore and practice key acting processes in vocal and physical preparation, emotional truthfulness and the analysis of texts, including the techniques employed by Constantin Stanislavski and psychological realism.

Acting 2: Beyond Naturalism

This module builds on the performing skills introduced in Acting 1 and Ensemble, seeking to develop skills in diversity and flexibility of approach to text. We will focus on texts that reject naturalism and therefore challenge our ability to embody. For this, we will develop skills through training that is influenced by different acting techniques and practices such as Viewpoints, Improvisation, Laban’s Effort-Shape, Jerzy Grotowski, Ritual Poetic Drama, clowning, and Brecht.

Advanced Applied Quantitative Methods

This module will introduce methods suited to analysing complex political data as well as encouraging students to engage with and communicate the use of existing statistical data in the study of political science and in practical application in the political world.

Advanced Biomechanics of Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity

Students will gain extensive hands-on experience in using the four main types of biomechanical analysis techniques (video motion analysis, force platform, electromyography, and isokinetic dynamometry). Students will develop skills in data analysis and interpretation, and graphical presentation of data through experiments carried out in the laboratory.

Advanced Design Innovation

This module aims to introduce students to design methodologies that enable a broader understanding of, and creative response to, the contextual issues which will impact on society and their future professional careers.

Advanced Analogue Electronics and Photonics

This module aims to enable students to focus on photonic systems and electronic systems for sensors in general the use of real-world examples and hence to acquire knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of sensors and associated systems for, and the skills to evaluate, design and implement them.

Advanced Embedded Systems Design

The aims of this module are to: 1. provide a detailed knowledge of computing for embedded and control computer systems; 2. illustrate and develop an understanding of the various engineering, scientific and economic trade-offs necessary in the design of embedded systems; 3. understand the principles and the role of embedded systems in real world applications; 4. provide familiarity and experience with a range of architectural and programming techniques for embedded engineering systems and their evaluation; 5. understand the process of implementing algorithms on embedded systems.

Advanced Process Engineering

This module aims to deliver advanced knowledge and skills in process engineering design, advanced particulate process technologies and advanced reactor design. It will enable students to properly select various separation processes in diverse industrial applications and designs.

Advanced Vehicular Systems Technology

The aim of this module is to: 1. provide students with up-to-date knowledge in advanced vehicular technology; 2. develop knowledge and understanding of vehicular technologies with which enables inter- and intra- vehicle communications, and battery management.; 3. for students to be aware of relevant technical standards related to electric vehicle systems development.

American Independent Cinema

The independent sector has produced some of the most exciting and distinctive films to appear in the US in recent decades. But what exactly do we mean by ‘independent’, and what is the relationship between the indie scene and the commercial mainstream? This module looks closely at the industrial, formal and social-cultural-political dimensions of American independent cinema, from the work that verges on the avant-garde to the margins of Hollywood.

Ancient Greek Political Thought

The aim of this module is to explore two key texts in ancient Greek political thought: Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics. Students will gain an understanding of some of the main ideas, themes, images and tropes in the Western tradition of political theory and to contextualise them within two of the first key texts in that tradition. As well as developing writing and analytical skills within political thought, students will develop the skill of thinking politically.

Animal Behaviour

This module aims to examine how evolutionary theory, and an adaptationist perspective, can be used to help understand the behaviour of animals, to review theoretical perspectives and research findings in behavioural ecology, and to demonstrate how advances in behavioural ecology have depended on a combination of theoretical developments, controlled experiments and field studies.

Applied Corporate Branding

This module focuses on application of corporate branding theories to practice. In order to provide students with skills for critical evaluation of current cases and strategies of contemporary corporate brands.

Applied Media Aesthetics

This module aims to develop students’ understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of digital media and apply digital media aesthetics to a digital artefact. It will provide students practical experience in designing and producing short or small digital media projects.

Applied Sensors Instrumentation and Control

This module aims to enable students to focus on particular aspects of sensors, instrumentation and control through the use of real-world examples and hence to acquire knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of sensors and associated systems for monitoring and control, and the skills to evaluate, design and implement them.

Artificial Intelligence System Techniques

The aim of the module is: To understand the full range of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems techniques; To raise critical awareness of the issues affecting the performance of artificial intelligence systems; To develop the skills required to develop artificial intelligence applications; To gain hands-on experiences through learning, applying and implementing artificial intelligence systems to a given simulated system. The indicative content includes, Overview of artificial intelligence systems techniques, Intelligent Computation Techniques (Fuzzy Logic: Concepts, Membership functions, Inference methods and design; Neural Networks (NN): Representations, Topologies, Deep Learning techniques; Neuro-Fuzzy Systems (NF): Design, Topology, Training, Comparison to NN; Genetic Algorithms: Representations, Genetic operators, Selection schemes, Fitness & population evaluation, Constraint handling, Learning and evolution; Swarm Intelligence: Particle swarm, Ant Colony optimisation), Intelligent Data Processing Techniques, Applications (Wireless and computer networks, Bioinformatics, Medical imaging & visualisation, Pattern recognition & biometrics, Computer vision, Future trends).

Auditing and Assurance

Many of the previous modules, such as Management Accounting or Financial Accounting, focus on learning the rules, techniques needed to prepare and analyse financial information. Studying Auditing & Assurance is much more conceptual in nature, as you learn to evaluate the systems and processes that produce that information. By studying this module, you will understand how auditors assess risks associated with financial statements, gather evidence and report their findings. You will also learn about Fraud and Forensics Accounting and other interesting areas of the profession of Auditing. Successful completion of this module gives you exemptions from a number related papers of the professional bodies exams such as ACCA, AIA and ICAEW. You will learn: to apply the fundamental principles of ethics to professional behaviour, the auditors role in the Corporate Governance of business, how to evaluate information systems and assess the risk of error or fraud, how to gather sufficient, appropriate evidence to offer assurance on company statements.

Australia and The Modern World

The module focuses on Australia’s connections with the wider world from the European maritime voyages to the Pacific in the eighteenth century up to contemporary times. Major themes dealing with varied aspects of Australia’s role in the modern world have been selected for study.

Banking Law

This module will help you to understand legal issues which are associated with banking and credit markets. The law and regulations of banking include the laws setting the conditions for establishing banks, the legal framework for transactions between banks and their customers and the regulatory laws which control the banking activities and the credit market. Banking is essentially concerned with the borrowing and lending of money and this module investigates the legal environments within which the above activities take place.

Biochemical Engineering

The main aim of this module is to provide the students with knowledge and understanding of the grand challenges and key principles in energy, water and food sustainability. The students will be introduced to energy and economic policies as well as knowledge of technology aspects and skills needed to analyse energy systems. They will learn to use analytical methods to critically assess and compare energy systems with respect to sustainability issues.

Biomechanics of Human Movement

This module aims to allow students to gain proficiency in calculating and explaining common biomechanical measures that are used to assess human movement. Students will be introduced to biomechanical concepts and gain hands-on experience with measurement equipment and analysis techniques related to the assessment of human movement.

Bodies and Society

A module that explores the key issues and debates on bodies and society, especially those centred on the relationship between identity and representation of the body in society. 

Brand Management

The aim of this module is to provide students with knowledge and understanding of the process of brand management and the tactics and strategies involved in building successful brands.

Race Britain and Empire

In this module you will learn why, how, and in what historical contexts ideas of race shaped British society, culture, economy and politics between 1500 and 1970. The module examines the impact of Black and Indian migration on Britain during this period, and the experiences of immigrant settlers from the British Caribbean and India in Britain. You will also learn the relationship between ideas of race and empire, and investigates the role of race in representations of the British empire in Britain.

Business Ethics, Environmental Sustainability and Governance

The module aims to provide students with the opportunity to gain critical understanding of theories and contemporary approaches to business ethics, corporate social responsibility and governance in the age of globalisation, and the challenges of sustainable development and business responses to it.

Business Intelligence

Exploring the most significant technologies associated with business intelligence, big data and data analytics, with a particular emphasis on applications in the corporate sector. Developing knowledge and professional competency in the analysis, interpretation and management of corporate knowledge resources, and gaining proficiency in relevant tools.

Business Planning

Studying the development of the business plan. Examines different business models, their underlying strategies, and the decision-making process through a variety of case studies.

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

The aim of this module is to introduce the theory and applications of chemical-engineering thermodynamics including the fundamentals of phase equilibria, solution thermodynamics and chemical-reaction equilibria, various types of power generation systems and main thermodynamic cycles. The students will learn to interpret and apply theories in analysing equilibrium thermodynamic systems.

Children and the Law

In this module you will study the law relating to children and young people who need protection or support as well as further family-focused issues not dealt with in LX3058 – Family Law. You will cover inter alia, public law relating to child abuse, the duties of local authorities to children, the rights of children, decision making relating to medical treatment, as well as non‐biological parenthood in the context of assisted reproduction, adoption and special guardianship. You will also look at the law in relation to children and education.

Civil Engineering Toolbox & Surveying

To enable students to develop technical skills linked to civil engineering design and construction. * To introduce students to the principles and methods of collecting, processing and ethical use of spatial data (including surveying for gathering engineering information and transferring a design to a construction site) * To develop students’ skills in engineering drawing, including sketching techniques to create freehand sketches, along with application of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools in creating typical drawings and parametric models of engineering designs. * To enable students to develop practical skills through conducting surveying activities such as setting out, use of levels and theodolites and calculation procedures and applying GIS tools for modelling and analysis of geospatial data in design, construction, and maintenance of civil engineering infrastructure.

The Civil Justice System

Introducing theoretical and practical foundations of the English Legal System and legal decision making. This study block explores the institutional and procedural context in which private law rules are developed and applied.

Colonialism and Decolonization

You will learn the main themes and events that have characterised African history from about 1800 to the present, with a focus on the history of colonialism and decolonization in sub-Saharan Africa. You will also gain an understanding of the different ways in which Africans have shaped the history of the continent since 1800.

Comedy, the Media and Society

This module provides a serious critical consideration of the role of comedy in contemporary media and society. This role is explored in relation to comedy’s institutional, historical, social and textual conventions. The module also explores comedy as it exists in a broad range of texts and examines the role of comedy in the construction and transmission of social difference and issues of identity.

Company Law

This module explores the nature of the company, including the concepts of separate legal personality and limited liability. You will analyse the way companies operate and run and will focus on the features of both large companies whose shares are traded on the stock market as well as the features of family businesses and partnerships. You will also study internal relations between the participants in the company (shareholders and directors) and the relations between the company and external stakeholders who get affected by its activities.

Company Law and Regulation

This module aims to explore the nature and scope of the general legal system in the UK and its major laws related to business and companies, to provide a critical understanding of the legal framework within which companies operate, to investigate legal obligations and the effects of the law on key factors in relation to company formation, day-to-day administration and failure, and to develop knowledge and analytical skills on evaluation of issues related to obligation of companies and their directors.

Competition Law

In this module you will gain a thorough understanding of the main principles of competition law which falls within the larger subject of commercial law. As part of the study, EU competition law is used as a framework to understand the law, economics and policy of competition law. You will also cover UK competition law and important business phenomena such as anticompetitive agreements, abuse of market dominance and mergers between undertakings.

Complex Variable Methods and Applications

This module aims to develop the students' ability to manipulate expressions involving complex quantities and to develop their understanding of analytic functions with representations involving contour integrals and series, and to enable students to evaluate certain definite integrals using contour integration.

Computer Intensive Statistical Methods

This module aims to introduce the students to a range of computational intensive statistical methods, to further develop their skills in correct interpretation and clear reporting of results, and to enable the students to create algorithms for regression models (parametric regression and nonparametric regression) to cope with massive data.

Conceptual and Historical Issues

This module aims to provide an historical overview of the study of psychology as a science, and to provide conceptual integration across multiple perspectives in psychology.

Conflict and Diplomacy in the Modern Era

The aim of this module is to understand the outbreak, development and conclusion of armed conflict since 1815. This module focuses on the space between peace and conflict, emphasising themes such as great power competition, diplomacy, the peace movement, international law, empire, decolonisation, and more. In the process of developing an awareness of such issues, students will focus on historical documents that shed light on the practices and outcomes of diplomacy.

Consumer Law

If contract law is one of the most fundamental areas of law, consumer law is its younger brother. Consumer law addressing power imbalance between parties and has a strong cross‐border and transnational element. This module offers a unique practical outlook that will teach you not only the black letter law, but also how to think of consumer problems and resolve them in practice. Discussions in class will focus on contemporary developments as well as established rules and case law.

Corporate and Competitive Strategy

Corporate Investment

This module represents a core component of corporate finance and aims to give students a range of techniques to investigate firms’ investment decisions. The first approach is from the perspective of the capital budgeting decision, and the second is from the perspective of the theory of investment management in terms of the incorporation of risk and uncertainty into asset pricing.

Corporate Reporting

Corporate reporting plays a key role in an organisation’s communication with its various stakeholders. Following on from MG2112 (Principles and Practices of Financial Accounting) which introduces you to published financial statements and their theoretical underpinning, the aim of this module is to develop students’ knowledge and skills in preparing and analysing the financial statements of more complex organisations, according to International Accounting Standards. Additionally the module encourages you to reflect on the role of a company as a responsible corporate citizen and the social responsibility of organisations to report non-financial aspects of their performance. Successful completion of this module also gives you exemptions from a number related papers of the professional bodies’ exams, such as ACCA, AIA and ICAEW. You will learn: how to critically evaluate current issues in the development of corporate reporting for corporate social and environment sustainability, to prepare complex financial statements for groups of companies using International accounting standards, how to analyse and interpret real financial statements for different users.

Creative Industries, Fashion and Culture

Understand, analyse and research fashion, trends, creative industries, and cultural innovation, especially in context of power, bodies and identities. 

Creativity for Digital Media Design

This module aims to instil the student with a robust set of creative design skills, through creative thought, techniques, practices and disciplines and with the ability to communicate and present their design ideas to creative practitioners and non-specialised clients.

Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Innovation

This module aims to define creativity within the context of innovative and entrepreneurial firms. It seeks to analyse creativity at individual, group, organisational, urban and national levels, delineating its vital role in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship.

Criminal Law

Introducing students to English Criminal Law. To engage students in a critical evaluation of the definition and scope of serious criminal offences as well as a critical discussion of the underlying philosophies.

Critical Pedagogy and Learning in Physical Education and Sport

The aim of this module is to understand how learners' embodied experience can be supported through the construction of effective learning environments and the implementation of critical pedagogy in physical education and sport. The module explores the challenges, choices and constraints faced by teachers, coaches and learners in present and future learning environments. This is studied in relation to physical literacy, health and wellbeing, digital technology and physical culture in the context of learners embodied difference.

Cross-Cultural Psychology

This module aims to examine the ways that culture is defined and measured by cross-cultural psychologists, to explore the dominant theoretical paradigms in the field and contextualize cross-cultural psychology within other disciplines: sociology, anthropology, cultural psychology, evolutionary psychology, and to examine cultural variation in psychological phenomena such as cognition, emotion, motivation, the self-concept, relationships, and prosocial and antisocial behaviour.

Database and Customer Relationship Marketing

The module aims to increase awareness of the importance of customer care and the lifetime value of the customer.

Design for Internet of Things

The aim of the module is equip students with topics in digital communication systems and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. The indicative content includes, Coding and Compression, Modulation Schemes, Propagation and Channel Modelling, MIMO Systems, IoT Systems Architectures, IoT Physical Connectivity.

Design Practice and Minor Project

In this module, you'll Prioritisation of project elements to organise and manage the design process, time, data, IP management, design standards. You'll consider and select methodologies, processes and techniques for visual research, utilising proof of concept prototypes and 3D models to test proportions, scale, details, finish, ergonomic, usability and user opinions. You'll construct virtual modelling and simulation to represent the form, function, performance and communication of Design solutions. Order all aspects of the design innovation process, using sketching, modelling and making to develop creative, novel, innovative solutions that respond to briefs and specifications. Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills in communicating technical matters. Adopt a holistic and proportionate approach to the mitigation of security risks.

Design Practice and Minor Project

In this module, you'll Prioritisation of project elements to organise and manage the design process, time, data, IP management, design standards. You'll consider and select methodologies, processes and techniques for visual research, utilising proof of concept prototypes and 3D models to test proportions, scale, details, finish, ergonomic, usability and user opinions. You'll construct virtual modelling and simulation to represent the form, function, performance and communication of Design solutions. Order all aspects of the design innovation process, using sketching, modelling and making to develop creative, novel, innovative solutions that respond to briefs and specifications. Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills in communicating technical matters. Adopt a holistic and proportionate approach to the mitigation of security risks.

Developing Research Methods and Data Analysis Skills

The aim of this study block is to develop students’ understanding of the nature of different research models as well as their quantitative and qualitative research skills. Students will have the opportunity to formulate research questions and determine appropriate methods that are related to their final-year project.

Digital Graphic Design

This module aims to develop skills and supporting knowledge involved in planning, designing and creating digital graphic artefacts for various applications including, screen, web and to a lesser extent print.

Digital Marketing

The aim of this module is deliver knowledge of the key aspects and tools needed to perform a successful digital marketing strategy to meet their marketing goal and to develop an understanding of the major concerns facing marketers in the fast growing era of digital marketing. The module forms part of a coherent programme of study, and contributes by addressing fundamental aspects of digital marketing to the commercial sector from a business and management perspective.

Digital Media Portfolio

Digital Performance 1

This module will provide a creative and supportive environment for you to explore and practice basic physical and digital processes for the preparation and development of textual/multimedia or devised composition, and technical staging/mise en scène in theatre production, performance and installation art.

Digital Performance 2

This module will provide opportunities for you to develop artistic and technical skills that will be relevant to your own practice at an intermediary level. It will help develop and deepen your understanding of digital performance practice and principles through group based project activity exploring multimedia composition modes. You will also gain an understanding and use of digital technology and its impact on what constitutes a performance site combining different media.

Diversity Management in Organisations

This module provides insight into Diversity Management by examining how organizations plan, coordinate and implement a set of management strategies, policies, initiatives such as training and development activities that seek to accommodate diverse sets of social and individual backgrounds, interests, beliefs, values and ways of work in organizations.

Documentary: Image and Violence

This module will focus on understanding cinematic representations of violence in documentary films. It will invite students to develop a critical awareness of different types of violence in relation to warfare, develop insights into visual themes, narrative structures and techniques used in moving images’ engagement with violence and to examine the strategies used by filmmakers to visualise the traumatic effects of violence. Students will develop an understanding of cinematic and photographic representations of violence through case studies of the work of film makers such as Joshua Oppenheimer, Barbet Schroeder, and Ari Folman and the writings and texts of Susan Sontag and Judith Butler amongst others. The module will also look beyond the battlefield to initiatives in citizen filmmaking and to ask what the stories we tell about images of violence tell us about ourselves.

Economics

This module has been designed to be delivered in conjunction with Mathematics and Statistics Modules in order to present some of the fundamental aspects of Economy, Markets and their behaviour, Money, and Finance to students seeking to progress to one of the prescribed Economics and Finance or Information Systems and Mathematics undergraduate degrees at Brunel University.

Economics of Information

This module presents topics in the economics of information and related applications, with a particular focus on contract theory. It explores the impact of asymmetric information in markets and in bilateral economic relations/contracts. The theoretical concepts are discussed in the context of some salient real world applications.

Elements of Investment Mathematics

This module aims to introduce the mathematics of deterministic cash flow streams, to introduce students to the concepts of optimum allocation of financial resources under uncertainty, and to familiarise the students with the basic issues of financial planning and with the models that provide mathematical descriptions of these investment problems.

Emerging Low Carbon Technologies

This module ties closely with global environmental challenges and focuses on process intensification, which is a sustainable disruptive step change process at the core of modern Chemical and Biochemical Engineering thinking. The low carbon emerging technologies tackle and reduce capital, power and footprint through integration with advanced separation apparatus, manufacturing and thermodynamic cycles.

Empire, Imperialism and Hegemony

The aim of this module is to allow students to examine the different mechanisms by which dominant polities exercise power over other political entities.

Employability and Professional Development

The aim of this module is to continue to improve students’ professional development and employability through critical reflexive practice, personal responsibility and autonomy. Specifically, the module encourages the development of leadership and management skills that are valued in graduate-level employment contexts and enable students to produce strong applications for graduate-level jobs and/or courses of further study.

Employment Law

This module aims to acquaint students with the relevance and inter-relationship of the formal and voluntary sources of employment law. It will provide detailed knowledge of core concepts, rights and obligations relevant to individual employment law.

Employment Relations

This module reviews the scope, issues and development of systems of employee relations with primary focus on the UK sphere, referenced also by international influences and developments. Students will explore potential issues of conflict in employment relationship and the processes used to resolve these conflicts and manage the relationship.

Encryption and Data Compression

This module aims to familiarise students with techniques widely used in data encryption and compression, and to study mathematical and algorithmic issues and their implications for encryption and compression in practice.

Engineering Chemistry

This module aims to provide fundamental chemical science knowledge and deliver principles of scientific problem analysis and problem-solving skills through the integration of chemical concepts, materials processing, and analytical methodology

Entrepreneurship

Studying the nature of entrepreneurship and its importance in society. Analysis and understanding of the psychological and behavioural characteristics of the entrepreneur. Overview of the major theories in the field (psychological theory and cognitive theory) as well as the main approaches to entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship and Marketing in Business

This module aims to help students develop an appreciation of the key characteristics of Entrepreneurship and Business ventures and addresses the theoretical and practical issues of marketing communications in a global context.

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Ventures

This module provides an integrated and critical analysis of entrepreneurship and small business management related theories and frameworks underpinning the practice and policy of entrepreneurship and small business management. It will enable you to draw on evidence and contemporary research to explore entrepreneurial value creation and capture, and the imperatives of innovative new technologies on small business growth, as well as identify and evaluate the opportunities and distinctive challenges faced by entrepreneurs and their firms.

Environmental Law and Policy

This module aims to equip students with knowledge of rationales, core principles, instruments and rules of Environmental Law. Students will have a thorough understanding of the different approaches law might take to environmental protection.

Environmentally Sensitive Design

This module will introduce students to the key environmental issues, to Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and for students to be aware of its strengths and its weaknesses. It aims to permit the students to carry out a streamlined environmental review of a product in the earliest stages of the design process, to develop in depth knowledge of eco design, design for behaviour change and emotionally durable design, to develop in depth knowledge of functional business models, and to introduce to a range of different views on environmental issues.

Environmentally Sensitive Design

This module will introduce students to the key environmental issues, to Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and for students to be aware of its strengths and its weaknesses. It aims to permit the students to carry out a streamlined environmental review of a product in the earliest stages of the design process, to develop in depth knowledge of eco design, design for behaviour change and emotionally durable design, to develop in depth knowledge of functional business models, and to introduce to a range of different views on environmental issues.

Ethnicity, Identity and Culture

Learn about the range of key concepts, theories and controversies in the anthropology of ethnicity, culture, nationhood and identity. Drawing on case studies from within and beyond Britain, it will encourage you to consider how identities are created, deployed and contested.

Ethnography of a Selected Region

In this module you will grasp the interplay between ethnographic observations during fieldwork and theory building during the write up process. You will examine key cultural issues for the Mediterranean, Africa or South Asia, covering topics such as religion, nationalism, economics, and the interplay of politics and memory in the given area of study.

Explaining Politics: Quantitative Political Science in Practice

This modules aims to provide students with the skills to analyse political data and introduce methods for gathering and understanding data. Students will be encouraged to critically engage with the use of existing statistical data in political discourse and demonstrate the importance of quantitative analysis in domestic and international politics.

Family Law

This module aims to deal with the law relating to family relationships and also to examine some of the assumptions on which the law is based. It includes consideration of the way in which altering perceptions of the family and of roles within it are reflected in the law and in continuing pressure for legal change. The module is intended to provide students with a sound knowledge of the relevant law, the policies underlying it and the context within which they are formulated.

Fieldwork Encounters: Thinking Through Ethnography

In this module you will be introduced to issues concerning ethnographic fieldwork, drawing on the regional experience and expertise of departmental staff. Lecturers will reflect on ethnographic debates in their regions (currently Africa, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Europe and Britain).

Final Year Individual Project

* To give experience in planning and conducting a major civil engineering project. * To consider the wider implications of the research, including those related to health and safety, sustainability, equality, diversity and inclusion and also the environment and economy, align with SDG4 (Quality education) and SDG5 (Gender equality). * To exercise application of analytical, numerical and/or experimental methods in the analysis of a civil engineering problem. * To review the results, develop self-direction in finding solutions and draw conclusions. * To prepare a professional-standard technical report, with appropriate references and context provided, as well as critical analysis and conclusions. * To apply and improve transferable skills. * To give due consideration to research ethics.

Financial Accounting

Introducing you to bookkeeping, the accounting principles and regulations that guide financial accounting and reporting, and the preparation of financial statements.

Financial Accounting and Statement Analysis

This module aims to develop knowledge and skills in understanding and applying accounting standards and the theoretical framework in the preparation of financial statements of entities.

Financial Markets

This module aims to equip students with the basic concepts of financial markets, including market terminology and conventions, required for other modules of the programme, and to enable candidates to perform calculations to obtain solutions to basic portfolio optimisation problems using a range of models and techniques.

Financial Regulation

This module focuses on the key aspects of regulation of the financial markets. It investigates how and why governments and public authorities intervene in financial markets, and what the principles are that underpin the regulatory environment.

Financial Reporting

Preparation of financial statements for group entities and the use of analytical techniques to interpret financial statements.

Flood and coastal asset management

*To deepen student’s knowledge of flood and coastal defence assets and their management. * To enhance student’s ability to formulate development plans covering the whole lifecycle of flood and coastal infrastructure engineering projects. * Deepen student understanding of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular: SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Comm

Fluids Mechanics

The main aim of this module is to present the various forms of transport phenomena and their mechanisms (momentum, heat and mass transfer) and to apply knowledge to typical chemical engineering problems.

Forensic Psychology

This module provides a general introduction to theories and research in the field of forensic psychology. Students will explore the interaction between mental health disorders and crime.

Foundations of Economics

This module aims to provide students with a firm foundation in the principles of macroeconomics and microeconomics at the theoretical level, and to demonstrate the application of theory to current issues in macroeconomics and microeconomics.

Foundations of Interactive Digital Media Development

This module aims to introduce and develop understanding of concepts and methods in problem solving thinking and representation. Students will learn fundamental principles in software construction and foster the appreciation of programming skills using a high-level programming language.

Foundations of Psychology I: Learning and Social Psychology

This module illustrates, from a historical perspective, how science works in learning and social psychology

Foundations of Psychology III: Clinical Psychology

This module aims to provide the students with an understanding of applied psychology and the various psychopathologies that is currently deemed in need of intervention. It aims to offer students knowledge on what it is like to work as a psychologists in an applied setting and what are the various professions and routes to working with different client groups.

From Gibraltar to Suez: Britain’s Quest to Dominate the Mediterranean

This module explores the importance of the Mediterranean to Britain in geographic, strategic and economic perspectives, among others. It also examines and evaluates the evolving British approaches to engagement with the Mediterranean region over a long period of time. This module adopts the approach of multiple sub-disciplines: international, diplomatic, political and military history

Gender and Sexuality

This module will introduce students to different methods of analysing the representation of gender and sexuality, as well as investigate debates and issues that arise from the representation of gender and sexuality in film and television. Students will also examine a selection of film-making practices and genres influenced by feminist, lesbian and gay film theory.

Gender and Organisations

This module will introduce students to the issue of gender as a critical approach to the study of organizations. The module aims to provide students with a critical insight into the impact of gender on individuals' experience of the world of work. It seeks to introduce students to a number of gender perspectives, highlighting how each perspective conceptualises the issue of gender differently, presents a distinct account of gender inequality, and proposes different "solutions" to the "problem of gender" in organizations.

Gender Sexuality and Feminism

This module will introduce you to core ideas in feminism through key concepts of gender and sexuality to provide you with a better understandings of social structures, human cultures, economic inequalities and political relationships.

Genre Fiction

This module will investigate the concept of genre fiction in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and explore how genre shapes the production and reception of texts. You will understand the changing status of genre fiction and the new contexts that have emerged for its critical study.

Global Communication

Examine the ways in which the globalisation of communication has transformed social, political and economic relations as you consider contributing themes of economy, power, globalisation, nationalism, identity, digitalisation, culture and consumerism.

Globalisation, Trade and Investment

This module aims to foster an understanding of the drivers of globalisation, that is, world trade and investment and their impact on global economy. This to include, but not restricted to, international trade theories (classical and modern) and their relevance in modern day globalised world, international trade in goods and services, protectionism, balance of payments statistics of a nation and its various components, exchange rates and international capital markets.

Graduate and Transferable Skills

The aim of this module is to introduce a range of knowledge and skills expected within working environments. Students will develop their ability to engage in self-appraisal through a personal development plan to identify learning needs in the context of work settings.

Heat and Mass Transfer

This module introduces the basic concepts and governing laws of heat and mass transfer.

HRM in Context: Resourcing, Performance and Assessment

Understanding the framework of analysis for how organisations manage people. Focus on recruitment, selection process and assessment, onboarding, changing work roles and changes in employment practice.

Human Factors

Human Sexual Diversity

The overall goal of this module is for students to acquire a working knowledge of and appreciation for the scientific study of human sexuality. Students will learn to consider multiple explanatory perspectives on sexual and gendered diversity and will come to appreciate the difficulty and importance of discussing controversial sexual topics with sensitivity and respect. Topics of special interest in this course include varieties of sexual orientation, genderedness, intersexuality, transsexuality, paraphilias, and reproductive strategies.

Representation and Identity

This module will introduce students to some of the key theoretical debates within film and TV studies that deal with identities and their representation. Students will develop analytical skills in reading and evaluating films, television and other audio-visual digital forms, with a particular focus on the construction of identities in film and television. The module will provide a foundation for some of the cultural and political issues studied in greater depth at levels two and three.

Industrial Internet of Things and Cyber Security

The aim of the module is to introduce the key concepts of Industry 4.0 and the advances enabled by the Industrial Internet of Things. The students will gain a comprehensive understanding of Cybersecurity management relating to process industry, information integrity and validity, possible threats, attacks and appropriate response.

Innovation and Knowledge Management

This module is designed to give students an understanding of the role of knowledge assets as a key to corporate success and particularly in relation to innovation. It examines how organisations create, utilise and exploit knowledge in the globalising knowledge-based economy, and the wider social and economic factors affecting knowledge creation and transfer.

Innovation Toolbox

This module will focus on management principles of chemical engineering projects, with respect to the project's life-cycle, the parties involved, planning, estimating, team and people management, safety management, contract strategy, contractor selection and contract management.

Intellectual Property Law

This module aims to provide students with some knowledge about the theoretical rationales and policy arguments for the recognition and protection of intellectual property rights. The module seeks to explain the nature and scope of these rights, the procedures for the granting or recognition of the rights, and mechanisms for enforcement as well as defences against enforcement. Additionally, the module aims to explore intellectual property law within a wider social, economic and political context. This includes consideration of the impact of technological changes such as the development of computer software and genetic engineering.

Interaction and User Experience Design

This module aims to provide working knowledge of interaction design, user experience and user interface principles and approaches. To introduce students to various interaction design approaches including human-centred, participatory and co-design techniques.

Interaction and User Experience Design

This module aims to provide working knowledge of interaction design, user experience and user interface principles and approaches. To introduce students to various interaction design approaches including human-centred, participatory and co-design techniques.

International and Comparative Human Resource Management

Examining human resources strategy and practice for organisations operating across national boundaries, including the EU and its member states, the USA, Japan and South East Asia.

International Business

International Business in Emerging Markets

The module aims to enable students to appreciate the wide ranging issues associated with the development of transnational corporations (TNCs) operating in emerging markets both from the point of view of foreign based TNCs, indigenous firms and host country governments. It also aims to introduce students to core concepts, topics and methodological approaches relevant to the analysis of the operations of international business within emerging markets, and to develop the student’s skill of combining theoretical and macro-level analysis with detailed empirical analysis of international business in a series of industrial sectors across selected emerging market contexts.

International Business Strategy

This module provides students with knowledge of the economic and managerial underpinnings as well as managerial and business implications of global strategies. It discusses theories, concepts, and cutting-edge developments in the field of international business strategy and relates them to real world firm behavior.

International Business Strategy

This module aims to understand strategies and structures that multinational firms adopt and how they perform their key business operations to compete and succeed in the international business environment.

International Commercial Arbitration

International commercial arbitration is the primary form of dispute resolution used in cross‐border commercial transactions and is formally recognised by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the primary professional body within the field of arbitration, as equivalent to one of its own training modules. As a result, you can receive accreditation from the CIArb with exemption from that module. Creative Thinking Classes (CCT classes) provide the opportunity to test your knowledge through quizzes, polls, multiple choice exercises etc).

International Human Rights

You will be introduced to the idea and theories of human rights and look carefully into the structures, strengths and weaknesses of the international human rights systems, including the United Nations. Then, you will focus on important human rights, including the right to life, prohibition of discrimination, women’s rights and minority rights. Your studies will focus on legal dimensions, but you will also draw from international politics and sociological concepts. This module will include the possibility to take part in the Athens Refugee Project, volunteering to help refugees.

International Investment Law and Arbitration

The module will explore the legal, economic and political issues associated with foreign investment, covering both substantive international investment law and, specifically, its international investment arbitration dimension. You will study the legal and diplomatic strategies for states in emerging markets to compete for foreign capital; the role of foreign direct investment in the economic development of poor countries; and, significantly, the implementation of the international investment arbitration treaty regime.

International Law

The module introduces you to the international legal system that regulates inter‐State relations. You will examine shortcomings and challenges around each topic with the aim of recommending possible changes in order to enhance the efficacy and legitimacy of the International Legal System. You soon learn that all national laws, including Land Law to Contract, Tort, Criminal Law and Employment Law, are very much influenced and often inspired by International Law.

International Management

Examining the trends that impact international business. Focus on international management challenges in and the effects of globalisation on particular countries and regions. Analytical tools, techniques and models of negotiation, communication, and conflict resolution in international contexts. HR in international organisations.

International Marketing

This module addresses critical understanding and ability in assessing the effectiveness of international marketing theory and practice. It targets principles and issues that drive markets world-wide. Students will develop insight and investigative ability concerning issues facing a business that needs to research markets and develop and implement market strategies, techniques and methods across a range of international sectors.

International Marketing

Developing insight and investigative ability to conduct research in developing and implementing market strategies across international sectors.

International Relations

This module aims to acquaint students with the core concepts, processes, and issues of international relations. It examines the international society, international political economy in terms of classical and contemporary theories. The module additionally examines new issues in international relations.

International Strategic Innovation Management

This module aims to introduce students to a range of models, theoretical perspectives and interpretations of the management of technological innovation in national and international firms, and to develop understanding and critical thought on the above through an analysis of relevant contemporary substantive debates and issues in technology management such as international technology outsourcing and alliances.

Introduction to Accounting

The module introduces students to the essential concepts of accounting and financial management. As the foundation of all other accounting modules, you will study how financial information is prepared, communicated and used. You will develop skills in critically evaluating and appreciating the importance of the accounting and finance function within organisations particularly in connection with business decision making. Students will learn how to: prepare a set of essential financial statements for a business, prepare information for business planning - such as budgets, prepare information for decision making using techniques such as cost, volume, profit analysis and investment appraisal techniques.

Introduction to American Politics

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the institutions and processes of the modern American political system. It also seeks to relate these institutions and processes to the diversity and complexity of turn-of-the-century U.S. society. Students will be encouraged to develop an awareness of a range of methodologies and research skills relevant to the discipline of political science and the first steps will be taken toward an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the ideologies, techniques and socio-cultural assumptions of American politicians and voters.

Introduction to Anthropology: Themes

An introduction to the field of social anthropology through reviews of some classic problems and topics. You will gain basic knowledge of the variety of human cultures as you discover the types of argument employed and forms of evidence characteristic of social anthropology.

Introduction to Biomechanics

This module enables students to gain an understanding of the fundamental biomechanical principles underpinning human movement, and how measurement devices can be used to obtain key measures of movement. Students will be able to apply biomechanical principles at a basic level in sport, health and exercise scenarios, and appreciate the use and limitations of common biomechanical measurement devices.

Introduction to Business Law

This module aims to explore the nature and scope of the law applicable to the business environment so as to provide a critical understanding of the legal framework that underpins the creation and regulation of business relationships and activities. Students will learn how to: apply legal principles and statutory legislation, to common business scenarios, evaluate the extent to which legal developments impact on and/or promote the interests of business and individuals, such as the self-employed, employers, and employees, explain the impact of consumer protection laws on business.

Introduction to Management Enquiry

This module introduces students to fundamentals of business and management with the focus on a number of key concepts. This includes subjects such as understanding organisational planning with a focus on the foundations of decision, organisational structure and design and managing human resources, leadership, trust, and managing communication, information and operations.

Introduction to Motion Design

This module aims to introduce principles of motion design (2D and 3D) encompassing motion graphics animation. Students will learn to implement technical skills and basic 2D technical skills of motion graphics animation using Industry Standard motion graphics software.

Physical Activity, Health and Wellbeing

This modules aims to introduce theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches to promoting, delivering and measuring physical activity for health and wellbeing. The module supports students to identify and understand different contexts in which physical activity is delivered for health and wellbeing.

Introduction to Professional Practice in the Creative Industries

This module aims to develop a systemic understanding of the creative, technical and interpersonal skills relevant to the creative industries and how they relate to a professional code of conduct; and explore and develop practical knowledge of self-management strategies relevant to creative professionals, particularly with a view to future career planning and employability.

Introduction to Research Methods and Data Analysis

The aim of this study block is to enhance students’ existing study skills and introduce conventions of good academic practice. In addition, the content is designed to familiarise students with a range of quantitative and qualitative research skills.

Screenwriting

Screen Writing concentrates on the knowledge and skills that are needed to achieve at least competence in this area. It therefore aims to be a wholly practical course, which will prepare the student for the demands of this highly-competitive profession. It will make students aware of the current state of this industry and of what precisely is required in terms of craft and attitude to succeed.

Introduction to World Politics

This module will explain why we have war, peace and events in between in the international system. It will examine concepts such as power, the environment, race and gender through lenses provided by International Relations, Comparative Politics and Geopolitics. It will present the latest cutting-edge methods to understand world politics at the global and ultra-local levels. It will begin to provide the necessary tools to understand and analyse politics on the inter and intranational levels.

Issues and Controversies in Accounting

Having learnt various topics in accounting and business management so far, this module is your opportunity to put what you have learnt into action by researching any contemporaneous topic of your interest in the areas of accounting and business management. While this will give you an opportunity to investigate your chosen topic, the module is particularly designed to enable you to develop not only research-related skills (e.g. research question(s) formulation, hypothesis development, literature review, data collection, etc.), but also valuable industry-relevant skills including critical thinking, presentation, report writing and time management skills. Such skills are highly appreciated by employers and should enhance your employability prospects.

Issues and Controversies in International Business Studies

This core module helps students to conduct critical appraisals of issues and controversies involving International business studies involving contemporary organisations and of managerial and strategic responses to these challenges. It also provides focused support in appropriate research methods and in the effective communication of research findings in oral presentations, small group discussions and an extended written report.

Issues and Controversies in Management Project

This core module helps students to conduct critical appraisals of issues and controversies involving contemporary organisations and of managerial responses to these challenges. It also provides focused support in appropriate research methods and in the effective communication of research findings in oral presentations, small group discussions and an extended written report.

Issues and Controversies in Marketing Project

This core module helps students to conduct critical appraisals of issues and controversies in marketing involving contemporary organisations and of managerial and marketing responses to these challenges. It also provides focused support in appropriate research methods and in the effective communication of research findings in oral presentations, small group discussions and an extended written report.

Jurisprudence

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the wide spectrum of questions regarding the nature of law, its social and political functions, the relationship between law, morality and politics and the nature of legal reasoning. A further aim is to enable students to think critically and in depth about these issues and to be able to discuss in depth the arguments of the theorists studied in the course.

Key Ideas in Media

This module provides an introduction to the main theories, approaches and concepts in media studies. It will introduce you to the critical canon, as well as drawing on case studies to illustrate key topics in media and research. Key Ideas in Media will provide you with a firm conceptual and methodological foundation in communication and media studies focusing on themes of power, identity and culture.

Key Ideas in Sociology

Key themes in sociology are explored through theoretical and empirical analysis. You will do this by examining some of the most important ideas of leading sociologists and critically engage with their theories through empirical illustrations. 

Land Law

This module aims to provide the means and opportunity to acquire a critical understanding of the conceptual structures underpinning property law in their historical, economic and social contexts.

Law of the European Union

Equipping students with a knowledge of core legal principles defining the EU as a separate legal system. Offering methods and means to study the law of the EU, to explore the operation and functioning of the EU and its institutions with an aim to understand the impact of the EU and its policies on the national legal order.

Law, Science and Technology Studies

This module aims to provide students with a critical toolkit which will enable them to identify the limitations of science and the implications of new technologies in society, to deal with scientific uncertainty and with disagreements of experts. Students to examine the ethical and legal challenges new technologies raise, and uncover the hidden politics and the power relationships behind what appears to be neutral and universally valid.

Leading People and Managing Organisations

This module aims at enabling participants to understand the key issues and challenges relating to leadership and management of people in organisations. In addition, this module introduces key HRM and Organizational Behaviour concepts, theories and processes that contribute to business success.

Legal Skills and Method

This study block aims to introduce students to fundamental legal knowledge, skills and methods indispensable to successfully progressing through the programme (e.g. key building blocks of the English legal system, legal reasoning and legal argumentation, legal writing as well as research, analysis and interpretation of sources of law). The legal skills obtained in this study block will also be continuously applied by students in the other study blocks and all other modular blocks in the programme when students conduct legal research, make written and oral contributions in seminars, and take written exams.

Life Writing

This module aims to introduce, define and explore different forms of Life Writing eg Autobiography, Memoir, Personal essay, Narrative non-fiction, to investigate the intersections between fiction and non-fiction (and poetry), to experiment with writing in different forms of Life Writing using a range of literary techniques, and to engage with a range of Life Writing theory, particularly concerning the politics and ethics of writing lives.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

This module aims to provide students with a solid grounding in logistics and supply chain management principles and develop a critical understanding of relevant theoretical frameworks in the context of contemporary business practice.

Management Accounting - Decision Making

This module aims to provide a deeper appreciation of the theoretical and practical issues associated with selected management accounting techniques, some of which were introduced in the first year. You will develop your ability to apply these techniques in a decision-making context, teaching you skills which will also be used in MG2530 Management Accounting Planning and control. Students will learn: an appreciation of the use of accounting data and information in functions of management and the decision-making process, how to measure costs using a range of techniques in a variety of situations, how to use more advanced methods such as activity based costing, target and life cycle costing which will enable you to find out the cost of products and services in complex and competitive environments, to develop problem solving abilities and analytical skills in a range of common management accounting situations.

Managing Change and Creativity

Companies that want to successfully ride the wave of the knowledge economy must always consider ideas as the most precious commodity and employees who produce them as sought after resources. There is increased recognition that the competitive advantage of organisations depends heavily on their ability to capitalise on their employees’ ideas. The value of creativity as a means of enhancing communication, promoting organisational learning, as well as helping the development of new ideas, solutions and alternatives, is therefore of high importance. With constant change becoming the accepted norm, this module will also examine how organisations cope with the process and outcomes of change.

Managing Information with Technology

This module’s primary aim is to broaden students’ knowledge and skills in the use of IT and statistics in managing and analysing data for business to improve the quality of decision-making in a dynamic business environment.

Marketing Channels and Logistics

This module provides students with a solid theoretical grounding in the marketing channels and logistics principles. The marketing channels represent the “place” element of the marketing mix and enjoy a critical role towards a firm’s successful marketing strategy implementation.

Marketing Communications

Understanding process, theory, social impact and ethics of marketing communications.

Marketing Communications

This module aims to explore the concepts associated with marketing communications, to help students develop an appreciation of the key characteristics of the main tools of the communications mix, and to introduce elements of communication theory and to set it in the context of marketing communications.

Marketing Principles

Taking the basic marketing concepts and contrasting them with newer relational and service-based perspectives in a module that is designed to be motivational, creative, applied and relevant to today’s marketing practice.

Marketing Research

This module will develop knowledge of the entire marketing research process including research design, data collection, and analysis and reporting, allowing students to acquire understanding of the effective management of marketing research projects which will be developed through a comparative analysis of the respective merits of quantitative and qualitative research methods in marketing.

Mathematical Finance

This module aims to introduce the students to the main aspects of modern mathematical finance, in particular to the Black-Scholes-Merton theory of option pricing, the ideas of arbitrage pricing, replication and dynamic hedging. It aims to illustrate the necessary ideas from continuous time stochastic process theory by using discrete time models to, in particular, outline the concept of a lognormal random walk.

Mathematics of Deep Learning

The second of a sequence of blocks aimed at developing modelling skills. This module has a specific focus on how deep learning arises naturally from the mathematical description of an artificial neural network, along with an optimisation and learning step involving stochastic gradient and back propagation. In this block students will gain detailed understanding on how deep learning is formulated by application of these ideas from first principles through to the implementation of software to solve a problem in data science and artificial intelligence.

Media, Politics and Power in America

This module seeks to familiarise students with the contemporary issues agenda in American politics. It seeks to demonstrate the ways in which politicians and institutions adapt policy stances and organisational strategies to accommodate changes in the nature, content and direction of political debate.

Microeconomic Principles II

The objective of this module is to provide students with the essential analytical tools which are used in standard economic analysis. The aims of the module are to build on the foundations of Level 1 microeconomics and to develop analytical skills and to learn to use microeconomic tools for the analysis of economic problems which are expected to be seen in other courses of economics.

Mobile, Social Media and Cloud Services

Learning how new social media technologies are integrated with cloud-based services and mobile platforms in support of business functions.

Modern British Politics

This module aims to provide a foundation for the study of modern British politics, introducing students to the main institutions and current issues in British Politics.

Modernism

The purpose of this module is to study literature of the modernist period (roughly 1900-1945) with particular emphasis on those authors who attempted to break away from received norms of literary style and content. As well as providing an overview of the defining textual features of modernism, the module is concerned with the interrelation of text and context, offering a range of ways of conceiving of modernist literature as both of, and self-consciously ahead of, its historical moment.

Motion Graphics Design

this module aims to develop the students applied design skills and understanding of motion graphics in professional contexts deepening understanding of design theory as applied to motion graphics design and film title sequences.

Musical Theatre 1

This module will introduce Musical Theatre as a specific and unique form of theatrical practice for analysis, alongside particular aspects of its form, including narrative/musical structures, integration of music and dance, and concerns of genre.

New Venture Creation

This module addresses both the theoretical and practical issues of small business development. It provides conditions whereby you can test out business ideas and develop your skills and abilities by creating and running a real-life small business.

Numerical Methods for Differential Equations

This module aims to introduce numerical methods used to solve problems in financial mathematics, in particular option pricing, and implement them. Most examples treated will be taken from finance, but the module will be suitable for students mostly interested in advanced numerical methods, in particular finite differences algorithms used to approximate solutions of PDEs. The Matlab implementations of the algorithms will be an important part of the module.

Operations and Project Management

Developing an appreciation of the relation between operations, service, and project design choices, as well as performance imperatives including quality, time compression and flexibility.

Operations Management

The aims of this module are to introduce students to the core concepts underpinning effective operations management, in both manufacturing and service operations settings; to enhance students understanding of the contribution of the operations function to strategy and organisational performance, foster a critical appreciation of the key operational issues faced by operations managers; and to develop analytical skills which underpin sound operations management infrastructure decision making.

Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations

This module aims to introduce students to the mathematics of differential equations; techniques of analysing such equations, and methods of solving them, exactly or approximately.

Organisational Behaviour

The key functions of leadership and management and how they are differentiated.

Pedagogy and Policy in Physical Education and Sport

Students will be introduced to a range of issues relating to Physical Education teaching and coaching practice, including: the history and aims, pedagogical concepts, principles of inclusion and the relationship between policy, curriculum and practice. The module also introduces the theoretical concept of physical literacy through a range of practical contexts and explores how it underpins lifelong participation in physical activity.

Personal and Professional Development

The aim of this module is to introduce and prepare students for a range of knowledge, skills and understanding expected in working environments. The study block supports students in the development of their ability to evaluate the transferable skills acquired in their programme of study and their applicability to work settings.

Personality and Close Relationships

This module aims to provide a general introduction to the field of relationship science, to provide detailed coverage of interdependence theory (including, but not limited to, the exit-voice-loyalty-neglect typology and related research), to provide detailed coverage of attachment theory (including, but not limited to, attachment style typologies and related research), and to provide detailed coverage of interpersonal theory (including interpersonal circumplex models and related research).

Perspectives 1

A introduction to the critical and theoretical frameworks used to analyse drama, theatre, performance drama and how to apply these and along with research and study skills throughout the degree.

Perspectives 3: Battling with Ideas

This module aims to extend understanding of the history of ideas surrounding the arts from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present and to develop advanced skills in presenting an argument in verbal and written form.

Physical Activity, Health and Wellbeing in the Life Course

This module aims to develop students’ ability to examine and apply selected theories and concepts of physical activity for health and wellbeing in the life course. Students will also discover and understand the multidisciplinary nature of physical activity, health and wellbeing.

Physical Education, Pedagogy and the Learning Environment

The aim of this module is to enhance students’ knowledge and understanding of physical literacy by developing confidence and competence in a range of movement contexts. Effective learning environments and motivational climates are considered in relation to the development of lifelong participation in physical activity.

Physiological Limitations to Human Performance

The aim of this module is to provide sound knowledge of the physiological determinants of exercise performance, specifically focusing on the high-performance athlete. Students engage in detailed study of the physiological limitations to exercise and critically assess the influence of environmental extremes on exercise performance.

Physiology of Sport and Exercise

The aim of this module is to provide an overview of the body’s immediate response to, and recovery from, a single bout of exercise. Students will critically analyse and interpret experimental data. This will illustrate how the physiological systems of the body respond over time and adapt to the stress of repeated bouts of exercise, including how the body adjusts to environmental extremes (e.g. heat, cold and altitude).