Italian for Medicine Level 6: Medicine and Culture (LCMB0023)

LLM SPECIALISATION: BANKING AND THE LAW OF FINANCE

LLM Specialisation: Banking and the Law of Finance (LAWS0172)

This module explores modern and contemporary art and visual culture in terms of critical debates around racism and racialisation, migration and diaspora, and...

Advanced Undergraduate Course in History of Art (3) (HART0078)

This module explores modern and contemporary art and visual culture in terms of critical debates around racism and racialisation, migration and diaspora, and cross-cultural and cross-regional interactions. The module will focus on a wide range of visual and artistic practices, including those that reach beyond Anglo-European notions of the figurative and abstraction. There will also be opportunities to encounter new approaches to the study of race in art history and contemporary aesthetic practice.

This is a French option module available to Finalists and MA students. 

In the Renaissance, Europeans discovered a new world (America), rediscovered a...

Old Worlds, New Worlds: Humanism and Travel Writing (FREN0030)

This is a French option module available to Finalists and MA students. 

In the Renaissance, Europeans discovered a new world (America), rediscovered a semi-forgotten one (Ancient Greece and Rome), and, following the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), set to explore alternative worlds and societies by way of fiction. The purpose of this course on Renaissance travel writing will be to examine this threefold dialogue between old and new worlds, between ici et ailleurs, which lies at the core of Humanism.

We will examine the rhetorics common to both fictional and non-fictional French travel writing, aiming to understand the interactions between fiction and geographical knowledge in the Renaissance: To what extent was Renaissance fiction influenced by travel accounts and the new image of the world they offered? And how did fiction, in return, shape the travellers’ perception of the worlds they encountered? This course will also offer the opportunity to explore key notions of early modern literature and thought:  humanism; utopia; primitivism; cultural relativism; wonder; experience; curiosity.