Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 20 bi-weekly lectures.

Content: This module is an exploration of the history of emotions in the Greek and Roman...

Emotions in the Ancient World (CLAS0146)

The module introduces students to sociological perspectives on identities: how individuals and groups think about themselves, others and where they belong in...

The module introduces students to sociological perspectives on identities: how individuals and groups think about themselves, others and where they belong in the world. It encourages students to think sociologically about how identities are made through relations and processes, influenced by local and global influences, as well as their inherently political nature. The module uses the lens of identities to introduce students to contemporary sociological theories they will draw on throughout their three-year degree. Employing concepts from sociological work ranging from symbolic interactionalism and post-structuralism to intersectionality, it will exemplify how identities emerge through one of the most fundamental principles of sociology, the complex interactions of structure and agency.

This course develops students’ critical understandings of debates within cultural and historical geography and related disciplines in the social sciences...

Geography, Culture and Materiality (GEOG0059)

This course develops students’ critical understandings of debates within cultural and historical geography and related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The course will focus on the emergence of representational approaches within cultural and historical geography, outlining their proximity to cultural studies and social theory, before exploring a range of approaches to the materiality of culture, from consumption to ‘things’.
The intellectual trajectories covered are explored through a range of sites, locations, spatialities and empirical examples including, but not limited to: landscape, architecture and built space; racialization and spatiality; spaces of consumption, display and exhibition; regulated and policed spaces; artistic and creative spaces; spaces of practice, and so on. The module ends by considering the ‘rematerialization of cultural and historical geography’ offering students an accessible grasp of the theoretical staging grounds of debates at the forefront of the discipline.
The module aims to:

Develop students’ insights into the spatial politics of culture, society and history in the UK and elsewhere.
	Develop students’ knowledge, abilities and familiarity with contemporary developments in the field, whilst enabling them to grasp their relevance for engaging – and importantly intervening in – social, cultural and political debates of our time.
This module is suitable for students with previous experience of a range of disciplines across the arts, humanities and social sciences and does not require any previous knowledge of the topics described above.

Students taking this module will develop the following careers skills: Critical thinking; Communication: academic writing; Communication: verbal; Time management.