This component is intended to allow Information Studies students (especially part-time students who wish to relate their work to practical external projects) to undertake individual study and/or research in specific areas not otherwise covered (or not covered in sufficient depth) by standard components.  Since each student undertaking this module is undertaking unique work, the specific content of each implementation of this module cannot be prescribed here but must be agreed, documented and approved by the co-ordinator (i.e. the relevant director for the programme under which the student is registered) before any student's registration for the module may be accepted.

PUBLIC HEALTH|GENOMICS|GENETIC TESTING|RISK STRATIFICATION|EPIGENETICS|BIG DATA|SEQUENCING

‘Genomics, Health and Society’ is a module which aims to introduce the basic concepts of genetics and genomics, their application in health care...

The recent migration and refugee ‘crises’ in Europe, most recently in the wake of the war in Ukraine, have demonstrated the continued relevance of...

Colour has long fascinated and frustrated scholars across many disciplines. This interdisciplinary module explores the agency, magical and philosophical...

Colour: Art, Empire, Modernity (HART0167)

Colour has long fascinated and frustrated scholars across many disciplines. This interdisciplinary module explores the agency, magical and philosophical notions of colour within the context of modernity. With a strong theoretical emphasis, we will explore the emergence of the observer, pathology and affective qualities of colour and the underpinning of colour as chromophilia or chromophobia. Writers with whom we will engage include Aristotle, Newton, Burke, Goethe, von Helmsholtz, Fechner, Tagore, Wittgenstein, Gandhi and women concerned with colour such as Lubaina Himid. The module takes a roughly ‘genealogical’ approach to the histories of colour from the later seventeenth century to c.1950 – so as to include the legacies of empire and the emergence of the postcolonial. How far do we attempt to decolonize colour? What forms of interface do we project, albeit often anachronistically or by analogy, on the racial and global definitions of colour?