Module description

“There is a very dangerous thing in literature,” wrote one of Balzac’s critics in 1847, “and that is the excess of...

Realism: Looking Awry in Nineteenth-Century France (FREN0034)

Module Content and Indicative Topics 

The socially critical and intellectually progressivist literature called Enlightenment writing, and published under,...

Enlightenment and the Revolution: the 18th Century (FREN0013)

MARKET-LED DEVELOPMENT|M4P|SOCIAL ENTERPRISE|VALUE CHAINS|CSR|SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS

DEVP0012 explores the theoretical base and implications for development planning and practice of market- and civil society-led approaches to...

Society and Market: Private Agency for Development (DEVP0012)

History and its artefacts are continually mediated; they are interpreted and packaged for contemporary audiences by appointed experts who are themselves...

Translation for the Cultural and Heritage Sectors (CMII0162)

This multidisciplinary module forms part of the core of the REPS MA programme. It provides a sweeping historical survey of the development of race-thinking and...

Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (CMII0154)

This module consists of a series of lectures examining: the historical development of interpreting; the influence of technology on interpreting provision;...

The Historical and Social Context of Interpreting (CMII0108)

This module consists of a series of lectures examining: the historical development of interpreting; the influence of technology on interpreting provision; routes to professionalization of interpreters; conference interpreting provision, language status and institutions; community interpreting, interpreting as interaction and interpreting as a social practice; legislation, human rights and language politics; interpreting in the media, voice, in-vision and audio description. It aims to develop students' understanding of the different tensions and mechanism at play when interpreting is provided.

Biodiversity and Conservation|Climatology|Climate and Climate Change|Co-design|Ecology|Environmental Economics|Environmental Politics|Environmental Science|Global Prosperity|Political Ecology|Politics|Renewables or Renewable Energy|Sustainability