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This is a non-credit-bearing, non-assessed module designed to introduce Liberal Arts education and its history. We explore key interdisciplinary academic skills, practices, and approaches.

On this module, we engage with key theories and contemporary questions around the issues of truth and misinformation from multiple perspectives, across a variety of disciplines and contexts.

This module explores foundational moments of social change within society from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Drawing on case studies and a range of methodologies, we examine movements that have reshaped our contemporary world.

This module will challenge your existing preconceptions and encourage you to develop critical thinking skills around the interdisciplinary issue of beauty through encounters with theoretical frameworks, detailed case studies, and focussed problems.

On this module, we explore qualitative approaches to researching people, cultures, and societies, and reflect on the theories and practices of being qualitative researchers.

By focusing on key skills, this module provides a valuable foundation for conducting ethical, effective, and engaging qualitative research throughout your undergraduate degree.

In our capacity as learners, researchers, and members of society, we are continually exposed to statistics and data which, while it can shed light on the nature of the world around us, also has the capacity to confound and mislead. As such, it is vital that we understand both how to interpret the data which surrounds us, and also understand how to use this data to our advantage.

On this Year 2 core module, we explore a key context of contemporary life: consumer capitalist culture.

Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches, we examine consumer cultures and societies, practices of consumption, and what it means to be a consumer.

On this final year module, you will design, develop, and produce an independent, interdisciplinary, research-based project.

Your work can be critical, creative, or community-based, and explore any interdisciplinary topic you wish.

People are emotional beings, but we often find it difficult to think and talk about feelings.

On this module, we bring emotions into the spotlight, as we use interdisciplinary approaches to explore understandings of emotion as a cultural, social, psychological, and political experience.

We consider what emotion means to individuals, communities, and societies, and examine how emotions feel, and, in turn, how we feel about emotions.

The Mediterranean is a space of dangers and wonders, riches and ruins. On this module, we use travel writing to explore the interdisciplinary interconnections of the Mediterranean as a key factor in the development of political systems, global exchange, major world religions, and social movements from pre-history to the modern day.

We’ll chart our own intellectual journeys across the islands, ports, histories, and experiences of the Mediterranean.

On this module, we seek to understand why and how revolutions have achieved such enduring success through the stage musical and what we can learn about revolution and representation. Looking beyond slick staging and catchy melodies, we consider both how subversive and conservative stage musical representations of revolution are.

Also available to Year 2 students.

Physical, spiritual, allegorical, and psychological journeys through the underworld present a wide variety of problems: how does a trip through hell and back change the person undertaking the journey? What forces shape the imaginary design of such underworlds and their often terrible punishments? What narratives about the self and society are intertwined in such underworlds? How do underworld narratives manifest in recovery narratives, our conceptions of organised crime, and experiences of incarceration?

This transdisciplinary module examines such problems (and more) across a wide variety of material.

Also available to Year 2 students.

This module examines how cultural anxieties about finding paradise shape moral and intellectual values, colonial ideologies, intercultural encounters, and built environments.

We consider the foundational tropes that underlie and generate such spaces from the biblical account of Eden to medieval and renaissance conceptions of the earthly paradise.

We examine how these ideas shape gendered visions of the earthly paradise and the horrors of Western colonialism. We consider the future of paradises, through an examination of problems concerning cloud consciousness, uploaded minds, and digital afterlives.

Also available to Year 2 students.

We are frequently confronted with the claim that A causes B, or the requirement to verify whether a relationship between A and B exists. While anecdotal accounts can help inform our opinion, it is dangerous to rely on one-off observations to verify more general relationships.

This is where quantitative approaches can help us untangle the relationships we observe around us, and help us answer question of whether these relationships hold in the wider population.

The skills acquired on this module will be invaluable for any student wishing to pursue research which involves large numbers of participants, or which involves the analysis of datasets from official sources.

Also available to Year 2 students.

How do we measure health and wellbeing?

How might our biological health be impacted by social events and situations?