The IMESS EAP writing course is for IMESS students whose first language is not English. It aims to develop the students’ academic writing literacies...

IMESS: Language Centre Module (LCEN0004)

The IMESS EAP writing course is for IMESS students whose first language is not English. It aims to develop the students’ academic writing literacies required for postgraduate study at UCL by focusing on textual features of academic writing commonly found in the humanities and social sciences.

The course will give the students a comparative overview of the legal protection of human rights in some of the leading jurisdictions in the world. From the...

The course will give the students a comparative overview of the legal protection of human rights in some of the leading jurisdictions in the world. From the USA and UK to Germany, India, South Africa, Brazil and France, students will also gain an understanding of influence on these jurisdictions of international human rights instruments. Students will be introduced to the main issues relating to the protection of human rights, including the role of the courts, the constitutional status of human rights provisions, and the ways in which first, second and third generation rights are protected. The course will enable students to apply the comparative method to the study of human rights law in a range of different jurisdictions, and to draw out core principles and lessons of general application from the material. This is not an international human rights course, although reference will be made to the ECHR and UN mechanisms as appropriate.

Between 1860 and 1925 Italy underwent profound transformations: the creation of the Italian state, and its difficult aftermath; industrialisation and...

Between 1860 and 1925 Italy underwent profound transformations: the creation of the Italian state, and its difficult aftermath; industrialisation and urbanisation; the spread of literacy, popular culture and the vote; the traumas of the First World War and the rise of Fascism. The module aims to examine Italian literature’s response to some of these changes by examining a variety of the most important works of the period, ranging from verismo and children’s literature, to modernism. 