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Phenomenology and Existentialism

Over 50 years ago, Merleau-Ponty began his great work The Phenomenology of Perception with the words: %E2%80%98what is phenomenology?%E2%80%99 The aim of this module is to ask that question about the nature of what has become one of the most important philosophical movements in the last 100 years.

Creative writing: Myths and Legends

Greek myths, fairy tales, Bible stories and other legends form the basis of this approach to creative writing. We will look at recurring themes including creation, transformation, family scandals, heroes and monsters and the afterlife, and at classical and contemporary writers who have used myth as

Museums and Material Culture

UK museums are experiencing significant change. Historically evolving from private collections of curios and antiquities, the great Victorian museums zealously promoted popular education through their collections and free public exhibitions. Museums%E2%80%99 recent confident, public-funded era of

Marketing Strategy

Marketing managers aim to develop and implement marketing strategies that can create and sustain competitive advantage for the organisation in the marketplace, not just for today, but into the foreseeable future. This module provides you with theoretical and practical perspectives of marketing

Management of Innovation

Innovation is central to the business success of most companies and a means to develop a sustainable competitive advantage. Companies seeking to manage their innovation programmes face a dynamic set of issues, challenges and attitudes. This module aims to provide an integrative approach in managing

Plants: their Role in Sustaining Human Life

This module looks at how plants created the conditions for life on land and how plants evolved a central role in human civilisation.You explore the development of agriculture in the %E2%80%98Fertile Crescent%E2%80%99 and how plants have been traded all over the world. You discover the extraordinary

Introductory Physics 2

This calculus-based module will provide a firm foundation in physical concepts and principles, covering electricity and magnetism, light, geometric optics, interference, wave-particle duality, atomic and nuclear physics. Applications of physical concepts will be stressed, particularly those related

Introductory Biology 2

Biology is the study of life, which is forever fascinating in its complexity and variety. What underlies life? What explains the multitude of functionality and the delicate interplay of cells in complex multi-cellular organisms? This module covers topics including: genetics: chromosomal

Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry

The aim of the module is to give you an understanding of the basis of medicinal chemistry as exemplified by the synthesis, structure, activity relationships, mode of action and metabolism of some major therapeutic agents. At the end of the module you should understand the basis of the

Field Biology: Exploring Sussex Wildlife and Habitats

This module introduces you to the rich variety of wildlife in Sussex. We look at a range of habitats and learn how to survey the plants and animals that we find. We use maps and aerial photographs, plus surveys in the field to identify ancient woodland. We investigate fresh water ditches to see how

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Creative Archives

The course%E2%80%99s thematic content will focus on six issues: 1) film language and audiovisual thinking, 2) the film essay, 3) the ethnographic film, 4) photography and film, 5) working in multiplatform storytelling, 6) music video. These issues will be outlined and discussed in relation to the

Language Description and Linguistic Fieldwork

The summer school course in language description and linguistic fieldwork will give you a broad introduction to the practical and methodological aspects of fieldwork, and the art of language description. It will also provide insight in the structures of two unfamiliar languages. The course consists

Pidgin, Creoles and Mixed Languages

New languages that emerge out of contact is a fascinating area of linguistics. In this course, social, historical and structural aspects of three types of contact languages are dealt with: pidgins, creoles and mixed languages. The teachers of this course are both leading researchers in the field of

Innovation and future thinking - IED Barcelona

This course begins by asking the fundamental question: %E2%80%9CWhy think about the future?%E2%80%9D It will explore this through an overview of essential futuring skills%E2%80"horizon scanning and trends identification and analysis%E2%80"looking at weak signals, micro- and macro-trends%E2%80"and

Power, Media and Democracy

This course explores the relations between power, media and democracy. Students will learn- to reconstruct different theories that are helpful to understand the relations between power, media and democracy;- to reflect on central problems related to it, such as the tension between the ideal and the

Sustainable Business: Managing for tomorrow

Sustainable Business: Managing for tomorrow is one of nine intensive courses within the ISU WU Graduate program.Find out more at: http://www.wu.ac.at/io/isuwu Course leader Find out more at: http://www.wu.ac.at/io/isuwu Target group Application requirements for the Graduate ISU WU Program are

International Entrepreneurship-Enterprising Behavior

International Entrepreneurship-Enterprising Behavior is one of nine intensive courses within the ISU WU Graduate program.Find out more at: http://www.wu.ac.at/io/isuwu Course leader Find out more at: http://www.wu.ac.at/io/isuwu Target group Application requirements for the Graduate ISU WU Program

Love, Sex and Death: English Renaissance Tragedy

The Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in English history were periods of enormous religious and social upheaval. Written against this background of social unrest, the %E2%80%98Renaissance Tragedies%E2%80%99 are some of the most astonishing and memorable dramatic works ever written. In their