Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this innovative module offers a broad-based exploration of creativity in learning/arts-based practice from a national and international perspective. Students will be invited to reflect upon their own conceptions of creativity and creative practice, interrogating specific historical, cultural and ideological factors which have shaped different approaches. In addition to conventional seminar discussions, sessions will include practical workshops, including the opportunity to specialise in one of the following areas of study: film-making; animation; game authoring; drama; creative writing. With an emphasis on playful inquiry, the module aims to help students develop a critical awareness of theories about creative practice, particularly across a range of media platforms, and consider associated pedagogies. For educators it offers ways to think about the creative practice of their students, but also to reflect upon their own creative work in arts-based practice. In the way this module integrates current research interests of the tutor team with interactive and inclusive pedagogical principals, it closely reflects the aims of UCL’s Connected Curriculum. 
 

Assessment: One summative assessment (consisting of either an oral presentation or a creative product, plus critical/reflective commentary). 

This course looks at the interaction of social change and politics in postwar Britain, integrating social and cultural history with political history. It will...

Social Change, New Social Movements, and Politics in Britain After 1945 (HIST0081)

This course looks at the interaction of social change and politics in postwar Britain, integrating social and cultural history with political history. It will introduce you to changing thinking about class, race, and gender among political parties in Britain, looking at political thought, political ideologies and political propaganda. You will examine the changing social and cultural bases of politics, and why “new social movements” like the Women’s Liberation Movement and Gay Liberation exploded onto the scene from the late 1960s onwards. You will also examine how class voting has declined since the 1950s, try to understand why this has happened and look at its implications. You will read work from political scientists and sociologists alongside historians’ work, and you will analyse primary sources as well as secondary literature.