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Cum sa te pregatesti de examenele din sesiunea de iarna

Cum sa te pregatesti de examenele din sesiunea de iarna

Dupa o vacanta relaxanta de iarna, revenirea la facultate marcheaza iminenta unui cosmar studentesc: sesiunea de examene! Chiar daca inca iti mai zboara gandul la petrecerea de Revelion, este important sa te aduni si sa afli cum te poti pregati pentru examenele din perioada urmatoare. 1. Incepe din

Visual Legal Advocacy

Visual Legal Advocacy

Lawyers tell stories, usually other people's stories. Of course they are increasingly doing this on film. The digital space is filled with law-related non-fiction films that can be used in legal procedures. And more and more lawyers become film producers or even film makers themselves.To develop

Victorian Women's Writing

Victorian Women's Writing

The Victorian era was a time of intense social, political and ideological change, a time in which 'The Woman Question', the debate about the role of women in society, was a central, and much-contested, topic. There was an outpouring of writing by women, and many of these works became an integral

Tuscany and the Low Countries: Artistic Relations (1450-1650)

Tuscany and the Low Countries: Artistic Relations (1450-1650)

In fifteenth century Italy Netherlandish paintings became prized collector items among wealthy Italian bankers and merchants who went to the Low Countries for business. They were struck by the extraordinary degree of realism northern painting exhibited thanks to use of oil painting. The enduring

The Terrible Tudors

The Terrible Tudors

Field trip fee: England's Tudor dynasty transformed their realm from a remote island on the edge of the world into a major player in European politics and diplomacy. The events of the Tudors 118 years in power also changed the course of world history, creating a powerful Protestant state with

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in their Context

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in their Context

Field trip fee: In 1848 a group of young men in London decided that contemporary art was no longer interesting, bound up as it was with academic control and enforced by establishment figures. This group of painters (and writers) suggested that going back to the roots of art could provide new

The Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics

The Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics

Aesthetics, as a philosophical discipline, is concerned with not just aesthetic experience and judgement, but also questions concerned with the philosophy of art more generally. This course will tackle questions raised by aesthetics in this wide sense. We shall focus on two areas: firstly, the

The Comparative Sociology of Capitalism

The Comparative Sociology of Capitalism

Are contemporary processes of globalisation eroding the national distinctiveness of capitalist economies and their social institutions? Do national cultures still matter? Contemporary economic, social and political changes have highlighted the inadequacies of the late twentieth century threefold

The Cold War

The Cold War

Many of the certainties of post-World War II international relations are vanishing or altering beyond recognition. This course will introduce students to the institutions, issues, and ideas that have shaped international relations since the end of World War II. We start by looking at the world in