This introductory course provides first-year students with a selection of key skills and theories from across a number of disciplines (Film and Media, Geography, History, Sociology) that will allow them to engage with their further studies and their role in a globalised environment with confidence, intelligence and ambition.
This is an introductory course, complementing and extending BISC 100, focused on skills and approaches from a number of disciplines (Film and Media, Geography, History, and Sociology). Academic skills will be honed by centering on centrifugal forces of mobility, exchange and action. Processes such as warring, colonizing, trading, connecting and leading are highlighted.
In this course students will work collectively to investigate creative and activist responses to colonialism and its long aftermath. The course uses case studies from several locations and students will become confident in using cultural theory to analyze how colonialism permeates many aspects of these countries' lives.
NOTE Only offered at Bader College, UK.
LEARNING HOURS 117.2 (15.6L;15.6S;12G;8O;6Oc;60P).
Academic and professional collaboration is now increasingly taking place in a global environment. This course highlights the opportunities and challenges of global collaboration with the objective of teaching students key skills for successful collaborative work using inquiry-based group research projects.
NOTE BADR 300 will be delivered from Bader College, UK as a synchronous remote offering.
LEARNING HOURS 117 (12S;12G;9I;24O;60P).
An interdisciplinary introduction to the broad development of British life and culture, focusing on British national identity. The course usually combines British art history, history, literature, and geography.
NOTE Only offered at Bader College, UK.
An interdisciplinary introduction to the broad development of British life and culture, focusing on cultural and political conflicts in British society. The course usually combines British art history, history, literature, and geography.
NOTE Only offered at Bader College, UK.
This course will offer a unique opportunity to study a special topic in Modern European Studies. Topics will vary each term, and the course may not be offered every year.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
NOTE Only offered at Bader College, UK.