HEALTH AND WELLBEING|CITIES|DESIGN &amp; EVALUATION|SUSTAINABILITY|CLIMATE

Module summary

The module moves systematically through ideas, theories, research and the practice of health and well-being in the built environment working...

Health and Wellbeing in Cities: Theory and Practice (BENV0056)

Gender Studies|Latin American Studies|Politics|Public Policy

This module introduces students to the main debates on gender, politics, and public policy in Latin America, particularly since the Third Wave of...

Gender, Politics, and Public Policy in Latin America (AMER0042)

This module introduces students to the main debates on gender, politics, and public policy in Latin America, particularly since the Third Wave of democratisation. Specifically, it explores the ways in which gender scholars have contributed to (as well as challenged) conceptual, theoretical, and methodological frameworks from mainstream political science. Divided into two parts, the course emphasizes the ways in which gender is political and discusses the role of gender relations in representation and public policy in Latin America. Combining different in-class activities and assignments, the course also provides students with opportunities to reflect on the challenges of designing, promoting, and adopting policies to address gender inequalities. For the marked assessment, students are required to design a campaign to promote a gender-related public policy in a country in Latin America.

This lecture and seminar-based module offers an introduction to the archaeology of the Americas. It is organised around a consideration of key archaeological...

Key Topics in the Archaeology of the Americas A (ARCL0173)

This lecture and seminar-based module offers an introduction to the archaeology of the Americas. It is organised around a consideration of key archaeological topics within broad regions of North, Central and South America. The timeframe examined stretches from the initial peopling of the continent to the European colonial period. The module considers environmental influences, material culture, domestication and agriculture, social organisation, regional interaction, and human impact on the landscape to develop a continent-wide comparative perspective on pre-Columbian fisher-hunter-gatherers, pastoralist and farmer societies within non-state and state/imperial contexts. As befits a module on the Americas, we also critically explore the use of ethnohistorical and ethnographic evidence in researching colonial encounters and interpreting the pre-Columbian past.