Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly lectures.

Content: This module is intended for first-year members of language departments and for anyone...

Introduction to the Study of Language (CLAS0009)

This module will provide an intermediate experience of film documentary, building on the short film-making in the Year 1, Term 2 Making the Media module. This...

Documentary Film - Making the Media III (CCME0149)

This module will provide an intermediate experience of film documentary, building on the short film-making in the Year 1, Term 2 Making the Media module. This module will provide an introduction to the history of documentary film, kino-pravda and cine-verite and to contemporary theories and practices of documentary rhetoric and art in the age of Youtube and “fake news”. Students will research, script, shoot and edit their own short documentary film.

NOTE: this module belongs to:

PATHWAY 1: Critical Media with Film – an emphasis on theory, but with a throughline of practical work in film-making running through Years 2 and 3. This pathway will follow the theory modules and all the practice modules in film up to advanced level. 

PATHWAY 3: Media Practice – an emphasis on design in both Film and Games/VR/AR/XR, with options in critical theory to complement this. This pathway will follow all the practice modules in both film and games up to advanced level, along with selected theory modules.

This module examines a number of different perspectives on the economy of cities and regions as these apply to a number of salient trends and features of...

Economics of Cities and their Regions (BPLN0081)

This module examines a number of different perspectives on the economy of cities and regions as these apply to a number of salient trends and features of cities and urbanisation – urban form and structure, specialisation and diversity, agglomeration, suburbanisation, gentrification, the housing crisis, inequality, deindustrialisation and the rise of the creative economy etc.

The module is designed to produce an understanding of:
different perspectives on the economy of cities and regions;
key historical and contemporary developments in the economy of cities and regions;
basic empirical methods for describing the economy of cities and regions;
the relationship between planning, urban policy and urban economies; and
how the various trends and processes in the different subjects covered may vary internationally.