MA Intermediate Plus: Russian (SEES0068)

This module aims to develop a range of language skills in Russian at upper intermediate level, primarily for the purposes of academic research and use in professional life. Students will gain fluency in reading research and media materials, and gain communication skills in speaking and understanding Russian in a working environment. By the end of the module students will be well equipped to read written materials for research purposes, but also to talk and write about their research interests/topic. Students will develop more general competence across a range of productive and receptive skills. Entry to the module will be determined by a compulsory written entry test, conducted during Induction Week.

LITERARY CULTURAL THEORY FORMALISM THOUGHT STRUCTURALISM SEMIOTICS POSTSTRUCTURALISM PHENOMENOLOGY H

The module introduces students to the main currents of literary and cultural theory in the 20th and 21st centuries: Russian formalism, Mikhail Bakhtin’s...

The module introduces students to the main currents of literary and cultural theory in the 20th and 21st centuries: Russian formalism, Mikhail Bakhtin’s thought, French and Czech structuralism, semiotics of the Tartu school, poststructuralism (Derrida, Foucault, the Yale School, New Historicism), phenomenology, hermeneutics and reader - response criticism, psychoanalysis, Marxist and post-Marxist approaches to literature and culture, and gender and postcolonial theories. The module relates these approaches to each other, showing how literary and cultural research may converge, and also relates them to the theories of social research.

This module will introduce students to the role and purpose of the police. It will cover a variety of issues that influence contemporary policing such as...

Policing: Theory and Evidence (SECU0054)

This module will introduce students to the role and purpose of the police. It will cover a variety of issues that influence contemporary policing such as tracing the development and role of the modern police, the fascinating topic of police culture. It will introduce various models of policing and how this frames police community relations and their obligations towards vulnerable populations. In this module we will discuss contentious issues such as police stop and search, as well as, police corruption and misconduct. We will examine the ways in which the police should be made more accountable. Additionally, the concept of plural policing in modern societies, with the co-existence of public and private policing and the distribution of responsibility and accountability will be discussed. The module will culminate in a discussion of the first principles of an evidence based approach to problem solving and its implications for contemporary policing.