This text-based module introduces students to the diverse ways in which art historians engage with and write about visual art and culture. Students will be...

This text-based module introduces students to the diverse ways in which art historians engage with and write about visual art and culture. Students will be asked to analyse a range of art historical methods as well as varied approaches to critical writing, with the goals of becoming familiar with recent methodologies that pertain to the visual image and developing ways of bringing critical issues to their research and written work. Topics addressed normally include: formalism, iconography and iconology, the social history of art, psychoanalytic approaches, semiotics, poststructuralism, issues of gender, sexuality and race, postcolonialism.

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY FIELD WORK|QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS

Available to Geography students only:

This intermediate level module offers undergraduate students the opportunity to conduct field and archival work in human...

This module examines the relation between the individual, society and the state by exploring the tradition of political thought, which has both individualistic...

Anarchism, Marxism and Beyond (ESPS0014)

This module examines the relation between the individual, society and the state by exploring the tradition of political thought, which has both individualistic and collectivist varieties, which regards the claims of authority with scepticism or hostility, and which pursues the aim of emancipation by achieving understanding of the real, but concealed determinants of power. Assessment is by one essay of the student's own devising. Available to: Final years and affiliates with advanced knowledge of history, history of thought, political theory or political philosophy. Prerequisites: At least one of ESPS0016 German Political & Social Thought, ESPS0025 War & Peace, ESPS0019 Republicanism, HIST2310 State, Sovereignty and Liberty, or similar modules

The particular focus of this module is literature in English that was composed in the later part of the Middle English period. One of its aims is to explore...