 

This innovative module explores the crucial role judges and courts play in the modern state, and it provides students with a unique opportunity to...

Judges, Courts and Judicial Decision-Making A (LAWS0118)

 

This innovative module explores the crucial role judges and courts play in the modern state, and it provides students with a unique opportunity to understand what it is like to be a judge, how judges make decisions, what skills they require and what pressures and controversies they face.

The foundation of the course is Judicial Studies: the empirical study of judicial decision-making, which incorporates law-related scholarship from other disciplines such as political science, psychology, economics and neuroscience. The module looks at the foundations of the empirical understanding of how and why judges make decisions. It covers the judicial role; how judges are selected; what skills are required to be a good judge; how representative the judiciary is; how judges are trained and develop their careers; and the future of judging in a digital world. It is an active participatory module, where students gain first-hand experience of judicial decision-making through a series of Hands-On Judicial Decision-Making Seminars including the opportunity to act as judges in different types of cases. Leading judges and experts share their knowledge with students through the course's Special Judicial Guest Seminars. And when it is possible to arrange, students have the opportunity to attend court proceedings

This module will provide an overview of war and conflict in Italian society from Italy’s entry into the First World War in 1915 until the...

Italy since 1915. The Short Twentieth Century (ITAL0012)

‘Physical and Mental Health, Stress, and Ageing’ is a module designed to increase your understanding of concepts and issues related to stress,...

Physical and Mental Health, Stress and Ageing (IEHC0017)

‘Physical and Mental Health, Stress, and Ageing’ is a module designed to increase your understanding of concepts and issues related to stress, health and illness. More specifically, you will cover topics such as the models of stress and psychobiology, sleep and health, psychoneuroimmunology, depression and physical illness, ageing, stress management techniques, the impact of illness on the family (to include children and caregiving), hospitalisation and stressful procedures, quality of life, and stress in medical settings.

By the end of this module, you should have developed an understanding of:


	concepts and issues related to stress, health, and illness
	
	
	how health psychologists can measure stress and limitations of approaches as such
	
	
	the psychophysiological response to acute and chronic stress in healthy and chronically ill populations
	
	
	factors that may promote or moderate the stress response (e.g. ageing, coping)
	
	
	critical evaluation of the theoretical framework of the cognitive behavioural approach to stress management
	
	
	qualitative research methods
	
This module is compulsory for all students enrolled on the MSc Health Psychology. Spaces are limited to 60.

Teaching will take place in the form of lectures over the course of 11 weeks in Term 2 of the academic year.