This module first explores some global contemporary shifts in education to critically discuss what kinds of strategies, policies and practices are likely to...

Towards Sustainable Learning Environments: Strategies and Tools (BREI0002)

This module first explores some global contemporary shifts in education to critically discuss what kinds of strategies, policies and practices are likely to develop in the future. Within this context, it will focus on sustainability; as a ‘grand challenge’ for society and education; as a key component of the curriculum, and as central to estate planning, design and management. It will investigate some tools for assessing and improving sustainability in buildings and estates; in learning and wellbeing across schools and universities (including education for sustainable living (ESL)); consider the implications for economic, social and environmental change; and generate strategies for more sustainable futures. Students will undertake a problem-based study in groups, to analyse and then report back on intended solutions.

SSEES - School of Slavonic and East European Studies

The aim of this module is to give students an advanced-level introduction to key concepts in political sociology with a particular stress on those relevant for...

The aim of this module is to give students an advanced-level introduction to key concepts in political sociology with a particular stress on those relevant for the study of communist and post-communist societies. It will examine theoretical debates about the relationship between state and society and between identity and power as well as the social context within which political actors operate and the extent to which they shape and are shaped by social structures such as gender, nationality, class, race and religion. Students on the course will study developments such as globalisation, technological advancement, migration, transnational exchange, identity formation, social change and social reproduction.

This course explores the literature as well as the cultural, historical, and socio-political contexts of the period ranging from 1830 (when Tennyson’s...