Applied Research|Interdisciplinary Studies|Interdisciplinary Thinking|Research Writing|Transferable Skills

Interdisciplinary Research Final Year Dissertation Research Writing Creative Practice|Capstone

The Arts and Sciences dissertation is 30 credit module that students take in the final year of the core their degree. Students will decide on their topic which...

The Arts and Sciences dissertation is 30 credit module that students take in the final year of the core their degree. Students will decide on their topic which draws on any one or more of their current or previous pathway modules (including core modules) and find an appropriate supervisor. The dissertation may take the form of a short research project to be written up in the form of a dissertation of 8-10,000 words or a creative practice based dissertation with a shorter associated word count. The project should be interdisciplinary in order to pass the module satisfactorily and the highest marks will only be achievable for the best interdisciplinary projects.

Architectural History|Architecture|Human and Social Geography

The module introduces the idea that to understand cities we have to attend to the ways that they are produced through varied cultural experiences: experiences...

The module introduces the idea that to understand cities we have to attend to the ways that they are produced through varied cultural experiences: experiences of time, space, social identity, economics, technology, etc. Furthermore, it proposes that these different experiences can be explored in relation to certain kinds of architecture and urban space at different scales, ranging from particular city places or spatial typologies of building to specific sub-elements of buildings. You will be well equipped with the intellectual tools to analyse cities as both physical entities and cultural artefacts which provide the setting for manifold social experiences.

Methodologically, the module introduces some of the main architectural, cultural and critical theories relating to the experience of the city alongside literature from the multidisciplinary field of ‘urban studies’. The category of space is introduced as an important concept which mediates between different disciplines and thinkers who have considered the intersection of buildings, cities, cultural representations and people. You will be in a position to consider ways of applying these conceptual apparatuses to architecture and urban spaces, and also the ways in which architectural and urban history may be linked to subjects and intellectual debates outside of their own boundaries.