Aim:

You will critically examine factors that inform and underpin planning for teaching and learning in the social sciences.

Outcomes:

You will:

- plan and...

Subject Studies - Social Science (CPAS0036)

Aim:

You will critically examine factors that inform and underpin planning for teaching and learning in the social sciences.

Outcomes:

You will:

- plan and teach a sequence of lessons at KS4 or KS5 in the social sciences;

- critically reflect on and evaluate your own practice as a social science teacher;

- understand the process of practitioner enquiry as a means to continually develop and examine your own classroom practice.

Machine Learning|Artificial Intelligence|Sustainable Development|Data Science

Aims:

To provide an understanding of the different SDGs and the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence to such application domains. To...

AI for Sustainable Development (COMP0173)

Module Content and Indicative Topics

With literary texts as the primary focus, this course looks at representations of shopping and consumer culture across...

Consumer Culture in Literature (CMII0172)

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly lectures. 

Content: The Hellenistic age spans from the death of Alexander in 323 BCE to 31 BCE....

Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics (CLAS0036)

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly lectures. 

Content: The Hellenistic age spans from the death of Alexander in 323 BCE to 31 BCE. This module offers an introduction to the philosophy of the three major Hellenistic schools: the Epicureans, Stoics and Sceptics. It will touch on issues of ethics, physics and epistemology and will involve engaging with writings of philosophers such as Epicurus, Chrysippus, Cicero, Lucretius and Seneca. Particular attention will be given to the way in which these thinkers developed and debated innovative conceptions of freedom, responsibility, happiness, the emotions and the possibility of knowledge.

Skills: Students will learn to engage with material from different authors, sometimes in the form of fragments. They will develop the ability to interpret and assess philosophical views that were developed during the Hellenistic era.

Preliminary reading: Sellars, John (2018). Hellenistic Philosophy. Oxford University Press.