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Program Type: Arizona Abroad

Credit Type: Transfer Credit

Terms Available: Academic Year, Fall, Spring, Summer

GPA: 2.5

Class Eligibility: Sophomore, Junior, Senior

Program Open To: UA and Non-UA Students

Language of Instruction: English

Application Deadline: Spring 2021: November 1st (Regular), Summer 2021: April 2021 (exact date tbd)

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Below are some courses that are already approved for credit at UArizona. Please note that you can choose additional courses - in consultation with your academic advisor - on the partner website via the following link:

St. Mary's Course Catalog

Please keep in mind that 20 St. Mary's credits equal to 5 UA credits. You must satisfy the prerequisites where stated in order to be accepted on a course. Internships are also available! All students participating in an internship must acquire a Tier 4 Student Visa. INTERNSHIP OPTION SUSPENDED/NOT AVAILABLE FOR SPRING 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Summer Session Courses

Business

International Business and Finance

Course Description:
This course will explore some of the key issues and themes from both a business and finance perspective, including how multinational corporations leverage financial markets when seeking to exploit international business opportunities, the management challenges presented, and the relevance of these to financial and capital markets. Students will gain an understanding of the international business environment and its competitive and investment climate. Using frameworks and methodologies, students will also investigate the interaction between firm strategies, economic policies and the changing international environment. A wide range of topics such as financial derivatives, supply chains, and corporate governance will be discussed, as will be the challenges and strategies related to managing across cultures and countries.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

Communication

Communications and Marketing

Course Description:
The course aims to apply the principles of modern communications and marketing to managing how you and your company relate to the world, but drawing on a much wider range of ideas than is usual in conventional marketing and communications courses. After taking the course, students will understand the impact of new communications, marketing and digital developments on what can be achieved professionally and in business, from a wide range of perspectives. Students will examine how these new developments affect communications and marketing in a wide range of sectors, such as transport, retailing, packaged consumer goods, industrial engineering, financial services, media, telecommunication, electronics and other sectors.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

Leadership, Communication, and Innovation

Course Description:
This course aims to highlight the crucial role of self awareness, communication and various global skills for leadership. It will familiarise you with the assumptions and expectations that shape our understanding of and practice of leadership, providing an opportunity to develop your critical thinking, problem solving and reflective skills while working within a global context and team.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

Computer Science

Computational Modelling for All

Course Description:
This course is a study of the basic tools required to examine processes that occur in the real world and write code to simulate that occurrence. We will be using the processing programming environment to create visual models that provide us with a ‘laboratory’ where we can conduct experiments which would be impossible or too expensive to do in real life. We also learn how the basis of data analytics, and how to share data using standard popular notations and produce effective visualisations of data.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Course Description:
The course will be an exploration of the basic methodologies for the design of artificial agents in complex environments. The course will first start with classical AI approaches where these agents are goal-oriented and take decisions in a potentially unknown environment. Then it will move on to more sophisticated models allowing agents to have a representation of the other agents, their potential decisions and their goal, a representation about the representations of other agents, and so forth. This induces complex patterns of strategic reasoning, both in competitive and cooperative interactions, which need to be formally modelled and analysed. These agent-based systems are built upon three important methodologies: Logic, because of the focus on reasoning, Game-Theory, because of the focus on strategies, and Algorithms, because of the focus on artificial agents.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

Economics

Behavioural Economics

Course Description:
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the field of behavioural economics. The broad objective will be to insert more behavioural realism into economic theory and thus provide students with a better understanding of the important role that Behavioural Economics plays in explaining consumer and producer behaviour. By first ensuring an understanding of the traditional models of economics, the course will then aim to examine evidence that shows some departure from the assumptions made in the canonical economic model. We then aim to show how such departures can be formalized theoretically and how the resulting models find empirical confirmation.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

Game Theory and Competitive Strategy

Course Description:
As students will discover, game theory is an essential tool for understanding of a wide range real world phenomena. Among others, this course aims to answer three vital questions: What is game theory about? How do I apply game theory? Why is game theory right? Students should develop an appreciation for how the details of a game such as when players move and why they know can have a large impact on outcomes.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

International Development

Course Description:
This course aims to address some of the most important questions facing economists, politicians and society. Why do some people live in luxury, while others can barely afford to eat and have no access to clean water? Economics helps to answer these questions and this course will aim to build on the knowledge and economic theories that students already have and apply it to the issues surrounding economic growth and development. The course will enable students to develop their understanding of the problems faced by countries in the earliest stages of development and determine the way in which economics and policy can help such economies. The course will aim to draw on both microeconomic and macroeconomic theories and will encourage students to apply their knowledge of economics to real world issues, by analysing the literature and drawing on empirical studies. Through examining countries at different stages of development and understanding the obstacles they face, students will gain a broader understanding of the way in which economic policy can promote growth and development. They will also be encouraged to critically examine such interventions by domestic and international governments to determine the effectiveness of different policies.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

Introduction to Economics

Course Description:
The course will provide you with a sound knowledge of and an ability to apply the key principles of economics to every day events. Within this course, we will look at both microeconomics and macroeconomics: that is, the study of individuals, consumers and firms, as well as looking at the wider economy and concepts such as economic growth, unemployment and the financial crises. The course will begin by exploring the fundamental economic question. We live in a world with scarce resources, including oil, money, time, energy and goods and services. However, we have unlimited wants. Therefore, we consider how these scarce resources are allocated and in doing so, we will explore the importance of choice. The course will then develop many fundamental concepts, ideas and models that economists use to study all the questions that result from this fundamental economic problem.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

Money and Banking

Course Description:
This course aims to draw on recent financial events from across the world and provide students with a detailed understanding of the economic theory behind the way in which monetary policy can be designed and implemented. By focussing on the interactions between monetary policy, banking and financial markets, this course will give students the tools they need to understand and evaluate these links and apply their findings to real world applications in a variety of countries. Students taking this course will gain a greater awareness of the key elements of the financial system and the roles played by different financial assets. The course aims to give students greater awareness of the monetary transmission mechanism and how we can use modern empirical methods to understand it. There are important economic lessons to be learnt from the financial crisis and this course will aim to relate relevant economic theory and applications to recent events which have reverberated worldwide.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

Law, Undergraduate

International Economic Law

Course Description:
Once Europe finished bludgeoning itself in 1945, new trading rules were adopted to facilitate the rebuilding of the continent and to maintain control over rebelling colonies. If we add to this the decreasing cost of international transport and the accelerating speed of communication, it was inevitable that global economic activity would soar. And soar it has with the rate and breadth of global economic activity reaching over the past three generations alone levels unseen in all of human history. Unsurprisingly, these activities have altered the nature of the global economy and of the societies it connects, challenging the capacities of national governments to regulate economic activity within their domestic borders. The erosion of domestic authority is straining the supposed consensus on the value of economic globalisation, characterised by the rise of nationalistic, and usually ethno-chauvinist movements across the European continent. Despite these transformations, popular knowledge of the regulatory regime underpinning the global economy is sparse at best. This is largely due to the representation of international economic law (IEL) as a technical field preoccupied solely with GDPs, deficits, and exchange rates. Economic regulation, however, cannot be separated from social imperatives that exist beyond the mere exchange of goods and services. In this module, you will develop a deeper appreciation of the past, present, and future of international economic law and, in the process, acquire a greater understanding of the political capacities and opportunities shaped by international law for individuals and corporations, states and societies.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

Political Science

Politics and Globalisation

Course Description:
This course will introduce public policy and globalisation in such a way that it will enable participants to understand how to approach a wide range of important global political and economic policy problems and participate in public policy debates on the crucial issues facing the world. This course will apply economic principles to public policy and globalisation. Underlying the course will be the presentation of a set of approaches to economics that will enable participants to take part in debates about public policy and globalisation, including current issues such as Brexit, challenges to the world trading system, humanitarian questions and international regulation of areas such as finance. During the course, a series of current public policy and public finance issues will also be examined by practitioners.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

Psychology

Introduction to Psychology

Course Description:
Using traditional and interactive teaching methods, this course will address the fundamental questions of how humans develop and function. It will introduce you to the analytical and practical approaches that psychological, behavioural and neuroscientists use to investigate behaviour in both adults and children. It will look at the ways in which humans learn to interact with their environment and with each other. It will also cover the socio-emotional and cognitive mechanisms which people use to function in a social world. The course will also look at issues of childhood and development, including an exploration of such areas as cognition, socialization, and morality and pro/antisocial behaviour. The course will culminate with a focus on individual aspects of human behaviour, both via the classic vehicle of personality theory and the more recent exploration of human happiness.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

Statistics & Data Science

Data Science: Foundations of Data Analytics

Course Description:
Data Science is concerned with how to gain knowledge from the vast volumes of data generated daily in modern life, from social networks to scientific research and finance, and proposes sophisticated computing techniques for processing this deluge of information. This courses addresses fundamental aspects of Data Science, e.g. analytical models to represent and understand the data, efficient algorithms to manipulate and extract relevant knowledge. In particular, students study the design, development and analysis of software and hardware used to solve problems in a variety of business, scientific and social contexts. During this course, students will study techniques for how to go from raw data to a deeper understanding of the patterns and structures within the data, to support making predictions and decision making. Students would be expected to have some basic knowledge of linear algebra and calculus.
Partner Course Code:
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
3

Fall Semester Courses

Business

Behavioural Economics

Course Description:
Do people act in a rational manner? This module introduces students to some of the most fascinating human and behavioural insights accumulated by the marketing and communications industries. It combines behavioural psychology with economic analysis. Students will explore the contrast between what rational agents are supposed to do, according to standard economic theory, and how humans actually behave.
Partner Course Code:
COM5001
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ECON Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Digital Business

Course Description:
Digital business involves the mediation of transactions and processes through digital media, primarily, the Internet. In this module students will discover the challenges that digital media present to many businesses strategically. The module will investigate the benefits and limitations of digital business and commerce to organisations, consumers and the wider society. Students will also identify the strategic implications of new business forms and processes that are revolutionising traditional business models and accessing even greater information and data.
Partner Course Code:
MGT6029
UArizona Equivalent Course:
BNAD Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Entrepreneurship and Professionalism

Course Description:
On this module, students will gain the necessary knowledge and practical skills to enter the world of work (e.g. freelancing, self-employment and small business start-ups in the creative industries). This will include: the legal processes of setting up a small production company; preparing business plans and financial forecasts for investors; bidding for creative projects; resource management and developing entrepreneurial skills. By the end of the module, students will have gained valuable commercial awareness and experience in business management, both of which are vital for employability.
Partner Course Code:
COM5002
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENTR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Financing and Marketing the Small Business Venture

Course Description:
This module is designed for students who wish to develop their enterprise skills as a core module on the Enterprise degree, or for those in their final year of study who will be joining a small business enterprise and wish to gain applied knowledge. The module will have a strong practical focus with emphasis on ‘what and how’ to resource and market a small business venture on a ‘financial shoestring’.
Partner Course Code:
MGT6020
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENTR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

International Management

Course Description:
This module employs a comparative framework in analysing the key issues arising from international management. The module will equip students with a detailed appreciation of the socio-cultural backdrop to cross-border management as well as the importance of foreign direct investment in the world economy. The issues of management development and corporate decision-making will be highlighted within the context of international operations.
Partner Course Code:
MGT5018
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MGMT Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Organisational Behaviour

Course Description:
This module seeks to examine the nature of organisational behaviour from both an individual and corporate perspective and will provide students with a comprehensive appreciation of the importance of work psychology. The module will introduce students to the interdisciplinary nature of organisational behaviour as well as considering the interface of human psychology in the workplace.
Partner Course Code:
MGT4011
UArizona Equivalent Course:
BNAD Departmental Elective, Lower division; Tier 1 & 2 Individuals and Societies.
UArizona Units:
5

Principles of Entrepreneurship

Course Description:
This module is a core unit for Business Management and Enterprise it will examine the theory and practice of entrepreneurship from both an academic and practical perspective. The module seeks to introduce students to the key elements involved with the enterprise process, it will the nature and form of entrepreneurial ventures within the context of successful small business management. The module will develop a detailed awareness of the importance the SME sector as well as providing students with the key skills involving marketing and financial planning. Students will meet people who run SMEs and will be exposed to real life examples to enhance their learning opportunities.
Partner Course Code:
MGT5016
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MGMT Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Communication

Popular Culture and Business

Course Description:
This module explores the relationship between popular culture and the business world. It will examine the cultural industries that are responsible for producing, distributing and exhibiting media texts. Different conceptual approaches to popular culture are considered in order to critically evaluate media representations of business and commerce and how the business world shapes popular culture.
Partner Course Code:
COM5003
UArizona Equivalent Course:
COMM Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Principles and Practices of Communications

Course Description:
This module introduces students to the theory and practice of communications. It also aims to highlight the links between fundamental academic skills and communication practice more generally: skills that are critical to success at undergraduate level. e.g. listening, note taking, speaking in front of others, reading sometimes difficult literature, writing clearly, researching according to scholarly conventions, etc.
Partner Course Code:
COM4001
UArizona Equivalent Course:
COMM 101
UArizona Units:
5

The Media Industries

Course Description:
This module introduces students to the rapidly changing media industries – as well as case-studying particular industries in relation to the changing digital landscape. It considers the media in relation to the varying power of owners, producers, workers and audiences, through a look at the legal and regulative frameworks in which media is produced. This will involve consideration of the marketisation of public and national broadcasters; film censorship and classification; regulation of the press and phonehacking; controversies around privacy on social media; and other issues. We will also consider how an increasingly globalised, digitised and networked world has affected recent development of particular industries.
Partner Course Code:
COM4002
UArizona Equivalent Course:
COMM Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Education

Core Modern Foreign Languages 2

Course Description:
The module develops students' understanding of best practice in MFL teaching through practical examples in French and Spanish. It aims to demonstrate the cross-curricular potential of MFL as a tool for teaching and learning across the curriculum.
Partner Course Code:
PEQ5027
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Core PE 2

Course Description:
This module develops students' confidence, competence and commitment to teaching high quality PE lessons with enthusiasm. Specific focus is given to recognising and meeting individual needs and students are introduced to teaching gymnastics and dance activities.
Partner Course Code:
PEQ5026
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Core Science

Course Description:
This module improves students' ability to teach science effectively and how to ascertain progress of scientific skills and knowledge. The module consolidates students' understanding of planning whole science lessons and the needs of different groups of learners including SEND in the context of science.
Partner Course Code:
PEQ5025
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Inclusion, Valuing Learners as Individuals

Course Description:
The module focuses on inclusion. Students gain knowledge of equality and inclusion policies, whilst improving their knowledge and skills for curriculum planning, delivery and evaluation using differentiated strategies. The module includes input and discussion on dyslexia, autistic spectrum disorder, behavioural, emotional and social difficulties, bullying, English as an additional language and gifted and talented learners. The SEN Code of Practice, Closing the Gap and Safeguarding requirements and other key government guidance are also explored. This module is assessed by an exam in December.
Partner Course Code:
PEQ5029
UArizona Equivalent Course:
TLS Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

The Broader Curriculum: Expression

Course Description:
The module aims to develop confidence in teaching and learning of the expressive subjects of art, drama and music. It aims to demonstrate the potential of the expressive arts as a tool for creative learning and teaching across the curriculum. You experiment with a range of media, processes and techniques, with an opportunity to explore each subject discretely with a specialist tutor. The sessions are very practical and hands on. The sessions explore the approaches to SEND, behaviour management, resourcing and lesson planning that are unique to the practical aspects of the expressive arts.
Partner Course Code:
PEQ4045
UArizona Equivalent Course:
TLS Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

English

Creative Nonfiction

Course Description:
This module will enable students to engage in a variety of narrative strategies practiced in the most popular and lucrative area of publishing; creative non-fiction. The student will develop a practical understanding of how to approach the memoir, autobiography, creative journalism and the nonfiction novel and story with integrity and originality.
Partner Course Code:
CPW6004
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Eighteenth-Century London: Writing the Metropolis 1700-1830

Course Description:
The module aims to enable students to read a number of literary works within the context of the metropolis as it was during the period 1700-1830, and to encourage them to reflect on the synthesis between historical/geographical environments and the texts that arise from them and come to define them.
Partner Course Code:
ENG5032
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
5

Gothic Cultures 1750-1900

Course Description:
The module aims to introduce students to the invention and development of this major genre of modern literature, surveying the aesthetic and historical conditions of its development, roughly speaking, from Castle of Otranto to Dracula. The unique importance of Strawberry Hill House for literary and architectural manifestations of the Gothic is particularly exploited in order to offer the students a tangible context for some of the texts they are studying.
Partner Course Code:
ENG5025
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

London Theatre

Course Description:
The module will cover a range of the above topics each week, allow students opportunities to discuss specific productions and work with staff and the Learning Lecturers to develop their critical and analytical skills about the assessment of productions and their writing skills for reviewing purposes. Students will also be encouraged to visit particular theatre productions.
Partner Course Code:
ENG4026
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Lyrics and Poetry

Course Description:
The module aims to help students to develop skills in the use of rhythm, rhyme, metre, and the innovative application of language in relation to writing poetry and song lyrics. It aims to develop a practical knowledge of the creative process through various stages of analysis and drafting. The module will introduce students to the techniques involved in drafting song lyrics and poetry through a number of stages to completion. They will study the texts of contemporary and earlier writers in order to analyse writing techniques. The relationship of music and lyric will be studied. Students will experiment with rhythm, rhyme, metre, and language patterning and will explore a variety of genres. Some of the sessions will take the form of workshops for group discussion of students’ own work.
Partner Course Code:
CPW5004
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Practical Criticism

Course Description:
Students will be asked to engage with a diverse range of texts from various periods and literary and non-literary forms. At the start of the module, texts will be looked at ‘blind’, that is to say, without context, but as the module progresses, the impact of context will be increasingly problematized. A number of strategies will be employed to encourage students to engage with peers’ opinions and to work collaboratively towards the formation of intersubjective knowledge.
Partner Course Code:
ENG4005
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Writing Adaptations

Course Description:
The module’s aim is to offer students an examination of the relationships between texts in different creative media, and specifically to develop students’ critical and creative skills in considering the relationship between the printed word and film/television, with particular emphasis upon the techniques and processes of adaptation. Source material included for consideration in the module will include short stories, novels, comics/graphic novels, non-fiction and video/computer games. Adaptations from page-to-screen as well as from screen to-page (novelizations, tie-ins, spin-offs, etc.) will be examined.
Partner Course Code:
CPW5001
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Writing Poetry

Course Description:
The module aims to develop the students' range of skills in writing poetry and to increase their knowledge and understanding of contemporary poetry in its widest context. It aims to consider the whole creative process, from conception to completion, through various levels of analysis and drafting.
Partner Course Code:
CPW6011
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Writing the 'Renaissance'

Course Description:
This module will introduce students to the cultural history of early modern England, and to the major theoretical and historiographical approaches thereto. The module resituates Shakespearean drama in a broader cultural context.
Partner Course Code:
ENG5001
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Film & Television

Digital Cultures

Course Description:
"This module considers the role of digital and social media in 21st-century life. A focus throughout the module is on the ways in which these types of media have increasingly formed part of everyday life. ‘New’ media has been discussed by commentators in both utopian terms (the information superhighway, the global village) and dystopian ones (Gamergate, the surveillance state, ‘post-truth’ journalism). The module examines some ways of viewing digital media in terms of technological developments; the politics and economy of media; social media, participation and online communities; as well as the ‘remediation’ of previous media forms through digital platforms. It also engages students with the ethical and political issues involved in contemporary media production and consumption."
Partner Course Code:
SME4008
UArizona Equivalent Course:
FTV Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Film Style and Form

Course Description:
This module introduces students to film and television style. Beginning with a consideration of the variety of forms and approaches to the moving image, students will consider first of all the ‘micro’ elements of cinema such as mise en scène, cinematography, editing, sound, montage and special effects. Next, the ‘macro’ structures such as narrative and genre are explored, with a focus also on the identities of the producers, performers and audiences for screen industries. Students will engage with a range of examples from different eras and national screen industries. Case studies will identify how film and television styles synthesise the individual formal and narrative codes to produce distinctive authorial signatures.
Partner Course Code:
SME4007
UArizona Equivalent Course:
FTV Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

North American Cinema

Course Description:
This module explores the North American film industry and explores the history of Hollywood as a dominant mode of production together with subordinate modes of production. Students will consider the connection between production and aesthetics and style of the North American cinema (including alternative/independent film). The module aims to address the ways in which the North American/Hollywood film has represented and imagined America and other societies, together with the influence these films have had on the film industries of other countries. Particular focus will be placed on the relationship between Hollywood and North American independent cinema. Areas of study include the studio system and the Paramount decree; New Hollywood and independent cinema; key genres such as film noir, melodrama and action- adventure; classification and censorship; distribution, exhibition practices and film festivals (with an industry speaker); and African-American cinema.
Partner Course Code:
SME5020
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Elective credit, Upper division
UArizona Units:
5

Screen Theory and Criticism

Course Description:
The module covers a range of theoretical and critical methodologies within screen studies and encourages critical discussion of the debates which constitute the 'canon' of film and television theory. It includes key cultural frameworks for analysing moving image and provides knowledge of theoretical debates. At the same time it places the study of film and television programmes in the context of production and institutions of television and cinema, and includes a focus on independent and non-Anglophone productions. Theories such as postmodernism, post colonialism, embodied approaches to media and gender theory; and approaches such as media industries and film reviewing will be explored through workshops and guest speakers.
Partner Course Code:
SME5021
UArizona Equivalent Course:
FTV Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

The Paradox of Horror

Course Description:
On this module we will investigate ‘the paradox of horror’ - why audiences of horror cinema find films which are designed to shock, disgust and frighten so entertaining, enjoyable and appealing. In addressing this question, a range of theoretical approaches will be examined, including genre theory, psychoanalytic criticism, spectatorship, philosophy, social-psychology and ideology. We will consider horror both as a genre and as a product of social, historical and industrial forces, relating generic shifts to shifts in production and cultural context. We will explore the attractions of a range of horror films (including the slasher film, vampire cinema, and Body Horror) for different audiences, including teens, women, and ‘gore hounds’. Finally, we will address the political and cultural functions of horror, examining issues of censorship and the regulation of media industries. To this end, we will address issues arising from the debates surrounding the horror genre, specifically what roles horror films play in society and in individuals lives, and whether they are merely harmless entertainment or are likely to ‘deprave and corrupt’.
Partner Course Code:
SME6034
UArizona Equivalent Course:
FTV Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Health Promotion Science

Sports Biomechanics

Course Description:
This module aims to apply biomechanical theory to specific sporting examples. The module builds on the fundamental biomechanics introduced to students in previous study as well as adding some advanced principles. This module includes laboratory work.
Partner Course Code:
SPS5041
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

History

Australia: Great Southern Land

Course Description:
The module aims to survey the political, social and cultural history of Australia from its earliest known origins to the start of the 21st century. It opens with consideration of its Aboriginal peoples and the impact of British settlement in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The module then looks at the emergence of colonies and how they became states and the reasons for their Federation in 1901. It goes on to look at the country’s experience in two World Wars, Korea and Vietnam. The module surveys the emergence of a multiracial and multicultural society in the post-war era, looking at issues of gender, ‘elite’ and ‘popular’ cultures, leisure and sport. It concludes by considering the ongoing ‘reinvention’ of Australia as a post-imperial, Asia-Pacific nation in the period from the bicentenary of British settlement in 1988 to the start of the new millennium and the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Partner Course Code:
HST5015
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Doing History

Course Description:
This module helps students to think about the kind of work that historians do – why they write history in the ways that they do, why they ask particular types of questions, what assumptions they bring to their work, what historians think about other people’s ways of producing accounts about the past, and the role of historical knowledge in contemporary culture. We talk about the relationship between history and memory, and ask why it is that people believe they have a responsibility to remember the past – and why cultures collectively remember what they do. We consider the extent to which histories are objective, neutral, true accounts of past events. We think about the possible futures for history and how historians have experimented with – and broken – some of the rules of history writing.
Partner Course Code:
HST4008
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

History of Slavery

Course Description:
This module introduces students to histories of transatlantic slavery, from the period of around 1600 to the end of the 19th century. The module examines the development of systems of slavery around the Atlantic, the construction of race and difference in order to support slavery, and the experiences of enslaved peoples as they were involuntarily moved around the Atlantic. It pays specific attention to sources that tell these stories: students will read slave narratives, learn how to extract information from large online databases, and find and examine sources online and in archives.
Partner Course Code:
HST4009
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Imagining the Ottoman Empire

Course Description:
This module will use an examination of key historiographical debates in modern Ottoman history writing to explore both topics from Ottoman history, and ideas concerning the nature of history/the past, and narrations of the past. Such debates will include the “decline thesis”; the influence of nationalism on (re)constructions of the Ottoman past; the theory that Islamic states are traditionally despotic, static, and fundamentally and qualitatively different to European states; and the idea that the Ottomans were inward looking and obscurantist. Primary sources will be extensively used in the module and subjected to critical analysis. Moreover, the impact that audience, function and the wider context against which a text was produced and consumed has on the potential meanings will be examined: in terms of primary sources, secondary histories of the Ottoman Empire and the students’ and lecturer’s own interpretations.
Partner Course Code:
HST6016
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Popular Culture and History

Course Description:
This module will discuss both histories of popular culture and examples of popular cultural texts as histories. Using examples mainly drawn from film and pop music, the module will examine themes such as modernism (particularly modernist practices that are future oriented), activism (focused on immediate social and political concerns), historicism (consciously invoking a tradition), memory (directed towards commemoration and identity formation) and nostalgia (expressing a longing for things past). Specific examples used to illustrate and elaborate these themes might include: punk and post-punk music, French new wave film, Fela Kuti’s Nigerian Afro beat music, hip-hop, Hong Kong cinema, Algerian film, and contemporary pop culture’s ‘retro mania’.
Partner Course Code:
HST5017
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Race and Ethnicity in the US

Course Description:
This module will introduce you to the ways in which race and ethnicity have been defined in the US, and how these designations shaped political and social experiences from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. The module’s content brings together different ways of conceptualizing race and ethnicity, and examines specific details about how this shaped the politics, culture and society in the USA from the revolution until World War II. The module equips students with the necessary vocabulary and theoretical framework to understand how difference has been historically and culturally defined, and this will allow them to explore specific case studies in some depth. The module seeks to go beyond the ‘race binary’, and examines the way ideas about race and ethnicity contributed to political and social inequality structures, influenced public policy, mobilized protest and revolt, and shaped personal and group identity.
Partner Course Code:
HST5016
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Renaissance Kingship

Course Description:
This module explores the nature of kingship in early-modern Europe, focusing on England, France, Spain, the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. It will discuss comparatively, and through current historiography, contemporary theories of kingship and how it functioned in practice as the principal (but not exclusive) focus of social hierarchy and legal authority in European entities before the rise of the modern state.
Partner Course Code:
HST6017
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Journalism

Journalism 1 (News Writing)

Course Description:
This course is designed to teach you the core skills of journalistic practice and behaviour while broadening your social and political horizons. Students with a curiosity for the world beyond their own lives will be rewarded as we get to grips with current affairs and politics on the news agenda. You don't have to be interested in Journalism as a possible future career to benefit from this module. The core writing skills you will have the chance to develop - of concision, precision and fluency, and of the ability to assimilate and then express complex ideas in simple engaging language - are ones that can help in any number of possible work environments. The core mission of this module is to leave students with the skill to write a news story and news feature.
Partner Course Code:
CPW5012
UArizona Equivalent Course:
JOUR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Journalism 2 (Reviews and Features)

Course Description:
This module will introduce you to some of the most interesting forms of contemporary journalism - which also happen to be some of the forms of journalism that are most open and accessible to people entering the profession for the first time. It is easier to pitch a review or a feature - and to get established in these forms - than a news story. The module will introduce students to the issues and considerations involved in writing reviews, criticism and features, with the aim of developing your critical faculties and your ability to write critically and entertainingly on a range of subjects. Students will study readings drawn from a variety of both popular and scholarly critics and journalists and practice writing and workshopping your own pieces. Students will consider how blogging and podcasting interact with more traditional forms of journalism.
Partner Course Code:
CPW6013
UArizona Equivalent Course:
JOUR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Law, Undergraduate

Sources of Law

Course Description:
This module introduces students to the nature and roles of law in contemporary society and explores the relationship of law to other value systems. It also will introduce students to the primary and secondary sources of English law. In addition, the module will allow students to develop a number of foundation academic legal skills used in the study and practice of law.
Partner Course Code:
LAW4008
UArizona Equivalent Course:
LAW Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Management

Being a Marketing Manager

Course Description:
This module helps students learn and practice the management, interpersonal and technical skills required to be a successful marketing manager, further engage students with the employability services of the university, and prepare them for work placement. This module consists mainly of personal skills training, designed to prepare students for their placement and to improve their employability as marketing managers after graduation. Students will experience a wide range of opportunities to enhance their skills, ensure they make the most of their potential, gain the best possible placement, and give them an edge in the job market after graduation.
Partner Course Code:
MGT5029
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MGMT Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Introduction to Management Theory

Course Description:
This module introduces students to the broad functional disciplines that underpin the study of management and provides an integrative platform upon which to build on in later modules. This will be achieved by examining the discipline of management from both a theoretical and practical perspective. The course covers all areas of management including finance, marketing, information systems, organisational culture and international business. Students will be equipped with a sound understanding of the business and financial environment and the pertinent issues facing managers across the business functions. Moreover, the significance of ethics in Management and Business will be explored emphasising the changing nature of management and corporate governance.
Partner Course Code:
MGT4010
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MGMT Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Leadership in Organizations

Course Description:
Leadership is the subject of much academic research, debate and analysis. The module guides students through the major styles of leadership and examines the effectiveness of each. The module encourages students to identify successful business leaders and to understand how and why they have achieved success. The module includes sessions with current business leaders and encourages students to critically analyse current research.
Partner Course Code:
MGT5026
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MGMT Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Management of Organizational Change

Course Description:
The module develops student appreciation of the complex factors contributing to organisational change. It takes both a practical and theoretical approach to the issue of organisational change. It promotes evaluation of the implications of change, particularly in relation to individuals, groups, organisations and society, and provides students with the necessary analytical tools to define, plan and manage change situations.
Partner Course Code:
MGT6022
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MGMT Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Marketing

Contemporary Marketing Practice

Course Description:
This module seeks to introduce the principles and practice of contemporary marketing by exploring the dynamics of the marketing environment, buyer behaviour, product pricing and product promotion, as well as reviewing the role of marketing communication. Furthermore, the module will also provide students with an appreciation of the significance of research in market development and product innovation. Throughout this module, the ethical issues of marketing will be addressed in relation to corporate social responsibility and ethical consumerism.
Partner Course Code:
MGT4009
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MKTG Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Nutritional Sciences

Clinical Nutrition

Course Description:
This module aims to explore and apply the therapeutic role of diet in the management of disease. It also aims to illustrate the practical application of theoretical nutritional management.
Partner Course Code:
NUT6015
UArizona Equivalent Course:
NSC Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Introduction to Nutrition 1

Course Description:
This module aims to introduce the fundamental aspects of human nutrition. Roles, functions and metabolism of energy and nutrients together with sources and recommended intakes will be introduced together with the concept of a balanced diet.
Partner Course Code:
NUT4032
UArizona Equivalent Course:
NSC Departmental Elective, Lower division. Tier 1 or Tier 2 Natural Science.
UArizona Units:
5

Lifespan Nutrition

Course Description:
This module aims to develop the understanding of the role of nutrition from pre-conception to older adulthood. The role of diet in supporting health and well-being and preventing disease throughout these life stages will be explored together with nutrition related conditions and interventions associated with each of the life stages.
Partner Course Code:
NUT5035
UArizona Equivalent Course:
NSC Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Nutritional Assessment

Course Description:
This module covers understanding and calculation of energy and nutritional requirements within a variety of scenarios.
Partner Course Code:
NUT5032
UArizona Equivalent Course:
NSC Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Nutritional Biochemistry

Course Description:
This module aims to further develop the biochemical concepts that are introduced Introductory Physiology and Biochemistry. It also aims to provide students with a coherent overview of the integration of metabolic processes within the body.
Partner Course Code:
NUT5036
UArizona Equivalent Course:
NSC Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Professional Skills for Nutritionists

Course Description:
This module aims to introduce the students to the academic, professional and personal development skills required of nutrition practitioners and encourages the students to become reflective learners.
Partner Course Code:
NUT4043
UArizona Equivalent Course:
NSC Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Sports Nutrition

Course Description:
This module aims to provide students with a critical analysis of current theories relating diet and sporting performance.
Partner Course Code:
NUT6020
UArizona Equivalent Course:
NSC Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Physics

Atomic and Nuclear Physics

Course Description:
This module is divided into two sections: Atomic Physics and Nuclear Physics. The Atomic Physics part of the module introduces the more advanced concepts of quantum mechanics, model of hydrogen and helium atoms, and Zeeman effects. Emphasis on the application of these concepts to physical phenomena is given. The Nuclear Physics part of the module introduces the student to the study of the atomic nucleus and its components, radioactivity and particle detectors, and the fundamental interactions of the main elementary particles.
Partner Course Code:
APH5001
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PHYS Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Mathematical Methods 3 - Relativity

Course Description:
The module is divided into three sections: Mathematical Methods 3, Special relativity, and General relativity. The Mathematical Methods 3 part of the module introduces the quite advanced concepts of integral transforms, perturbation theory, complex analysis, and contour integration. Emphasis on the application of these mathematical tools to describe physical phenomena and the modelling and analysis of physical processes is given. The Special relativity part of the module introduces the student to Minkowski space, 4 Vector formalism, and relativistic kinematics and dynamics. The General relativity part of the module introduces students to the fundamental principles of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and the experimental tests of general relativity.
Partner Course Code:
APH6001
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Solid State Physics 2 - Low Temperature

Course Description:
The module is divided into two sections: Solid state theory and low temperature physics. In solid state physics, quantum theory, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, this module introduces the density of states and its relation to boundary conditions. We will develop the band theory of electrons in solid and describe the band structure of semiconductors. Additionally we will gain an understanding of the magnetic properties of materials and the dynamic effects associated with spin angular momentum of nuclei and electrons with particular reference to NMR and ESR. The second part of the module will be to gain an understanding of physics at very low temperatures including the phenomena of superfluidity and superconductivity.
Partner Course Code:
APH 6002
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PHYS Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Physiology

Psychology of Training

Course Description:
Within this module, students will explore the key concepts linked to the physiology of training. Students will learn to work together in small groups, collecting data over a number of weeks and they will then use this data to produce a laboratory report in the style of a peer reviewed article. Student will develop and understanding of the physiological responses to training and how these can be manipulated to enhance performance.
Partner Course Code:
SPS5011
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSIO Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Political Science

British Politics

Course Description:
This module is concerned with what might be called the political identity of Britain and British society. This module introduces students to the key institutions and mechanisms of British parliamentary democracy; broad trends in British politics from the post-war years to the present; changes in British politics and society over that period; and it considers what we might expect from the coming decade or so, in terms of challenges and developments. The module covers key theoretical frameworks, which students will be encouraged to apply to specific cases.
Partner Course Code:
POL4014
UArizona Equivalent Course:
POL Departmental Elective, Lower division. Tier 1 Individuals and Societies.
UArizona Units:
5

EU Politics and Policy

Course Description:
The EU plays a crucial role across a wide range of policy areas. However, as recent debates have shown, few people understand how the EU operates. This module will provide students with a comprehensive overview of the origins and development of the EU, its primary structures and its decision-making procedures. The module will start by examining the origins and development of the EU, considering the importance of key treaties, such as Maastricht and Lisbon. It will then explore the role of the various EU institutions – including the Commission, Council, Parliament and Court of Justice – in the policy-making process. It will analyse how the EU makes policy over a range of areas, and finally its relationships with other non-EU countries.
Partner Course Code:
POL5002
UArizona Equivalent Course:
POL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Introduction to Political Economy

Course Description:
Political economy examines the way in which societies manage and regulate economic processes within the state and the relationship between the government, individuals and markets. The module introduces students to the major concepts and traditions in political economy, and applies them to contemporary debates, national and international case studies, including some recent financial crises. It scrutinises the mechanisms of the market and how it reacts to government’s regulatory role at financial, monetary and fiscal levels.
Partner Course Code:
POL4013
UArizona Equivalent Course:
POL Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Theory, Practice and History of Diplomacy

Course Description:
Diplomacy is the way in which the representatives of states interact with one another. This module provides an outline of how diplomacy emerged. It shows how diplomacy can be traced back to the very earliest phases of human development, long before the emergence of modern states as we know them. It then outlines the development of diplomatic practice through the Medieval world, before looking at how diplomacy evolved in the modern era. It also explores the ways in which diplomacy is carried out in contemporary international affairs, and how diplomacy fits into the big picture of foreign policy. Students will analyse the roles of specific diplomatic institutions, such as foreign ministries and embassies. Finally, the rules that shape diplomatic practice are analysed, as well as the different types of diplomacy, including the increasingly important role of public diplomacy.
Partner Course Code:
POL5003
UArizona Equivalent Course:
POL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

What is Politics?

Course Description:
What makes a topic, theory or decision a political one? Who should care about political events, and about the academic study of politics? What methods or approaches are used to study politics? This module introduces students to key questions, theories and concepts in the study of politics at undergraduate level. Students will investigate a selection of central political concepts from a range of perspectives.
Partner Course Code:
POL4001
UArizona Equivalent Course:
POL Departmental Elective, Lower division. Tier 1 Individuals and Societies.
UArizona Units:
5

Psychology

Introduction to Social and Developmental Psychology

Course Description:
This module will introduce students to the foundations of social and developmental psychology. The module also aims to discuss the links between these two areas of psychology, highlighting the area of psychology often referred to as Developmental Social Psychology. This will help to demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of areas of psychology, which are often addressed separately, and in turn will explore the way historical and conceptual issues have shaped these approaches.
Partner Course Code:
PSY4013
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Introduction to Sport Psychology and Skill Acquisition

Course Description:
The module aims to introduce key theoretical and applied concepts in sport psychology and skill acquisition.
Partner Course Code:
SPS4021
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Psychology of Attention

Course Description:
This module aims to introduce students to the cognitive psychology of attention. The module will highlight every day observations of attention but by enlarge will concentrate on experimental evidence and the associated classical and contemporary theories of attention. Concepts of automatic, controlled and selective attention and visual search will be overviewed. In addition impairments and deficiencies related to attention, factors that affect attentional efficiency will be examined, as well as assessing if attention can be ‘trained’.
Partner Course Code:
PSY6040
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
5

Psychology of Education

Course Description:
The aim of this module is to introduce students to educational psychology and examine the links between theory, research and current professional practice. The module will concentrate on the practical applications of psychology within educational contexts in terms of work with individual children and young people, their teachers and carers. The module aims to develop the students understanding of assessment techniques, individual differences, pupil motivation, social disadvantage, behavioural problems and special educational needs from the perspective of the pupil, parents, teacher and psychologist.
Partner Course Code:
PSY6033
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
5

Psychopathology and Deviant Behaviour

Course Description:
This module will discuss the knowledge about psychopathology within the context of the broader realities of contemporary society. It will also discuss the facts and fiction with regard to the connection between psychopathology and deviant/criminal behaviour. Students will also gain better knowledge about identifying and classifying mental disorders, and an understanding of the influence that certain mental disorders may have on deviant behaviour.
Partner Course Code:
PSY 6028
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Qualitative Research Methods and Analysis

Course Description:
The aim of this module is to build on the foundation in research methods and statistics gained from previous study in Psychology. Students will be introduced to more complex experimental design and appropriate statistical techniques.
Partner Course Code:
PSY5010
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Research Methods and Statistics 1

Course Description:
The aim of this module is to introduce students to basic issues in psychological research. The nature of psychology as a science will be made clear through students beginning to practice as scientists themselves, gathering and evaluating evidence to test hypotheses.
Partner Course Code:
PSY4011
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

The Social Brain

Course Description:
This module introduces the theoretical approach in psychology known as social neuroscience. The aim of this course is to understand the social brain and, in particular, how social processes constrain individual minds. The course will address the notion of the self by studying our social interactions, in particular how we understand the intentions, emotions, and goals of others in order to survive in the modern world, rounded in neuropsychological literature and with an appreciation for the development of the field over the history of psychology. The course will necessarily have a focus on individual differences particularly focussing on personality theories.
Partner Course Code:
PSY5012
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Religious Studies

Biblical Interpretation

Course Description:
This course aims to familiarize you with essential features of biblical literature so that whether you are a believer or not, you will be able you will gain genuine insights into the text and be able to read it more thoughtfully. In particular, the course aims to increase your knowledge and understanding of the composition and content of the Old and New Testaments. This module will help you engage with a variety of intriguing and exciting biblical texts and aspects their historical, sociological and geographical background. It will promote an appreciation of the place of the Bible in the historical, religious and cultural developments of the past two thousand years.
Partner Course Code:
TRE4010
UArizona Equivalent Course:
RELI Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

God in Christ

Course Description:
This module will introduce the student to a variety of religious thought from around the world. It will begin with the Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It will then turn to the East and explore Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, before finally exploring Daoism and Confucianism. It will study both the practices and beliefs of each tradition. Each week it will examine either a preeminent thinker or a central concept within each tradition in particular detail. This module embeds study skills training into the learning of this module content
Partner Course Code:
TRE5010
UArizona Equivalent Course:
RELI Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Key Concepts in World Religions

Course Description:
This module will introduce the student to a variety of religious thought from around the world. It will begin with the Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It will then turn to the East and explore Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, before finally exploring Daoism and Confucianism. It will study both the practices and beliefs of each tradition. Each week it will examine either a preeminent thinker or a central concept within each tradition in particular detail.
Partner Course Code:
TRE4020
UArizona Equivalent Course:
RELI Departmental Elective, Lower division. Tier 1 Traditions & Cultures or Tier 2 Humanities.
UArizona Units:
5

Metaethics

Course Description:
This module will be an in-depth exploration of metaethics. We will begin by examining divine command theory and the Euthyphro dilemma. We will then examine naturalism as an alternative to divine command theory before examining Hume’s guillotine and Moore’s open question argument as criticisms of naturalism and supernaturalism (divine command theory). Finally, we will explore non-naturalism as an alternative to divine command theory and naturalism.
Partner Course Code:
TRE6030
UArizona Equivalent Course:
RELI Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Religion and Reason

Course Description:
Can we justify belief in the existence of God, the afterlife, or other related doctrines purely using reason and argumentation (as opposed to scripture and revelation)? Can we disprove the existence of God? Throughout history, philosophers and theologians have tried to justify their belief in theism, atheism, miracles, the afterlife and everything in between using highly sophisticated arguments. This field is known as philosophy of religion (when done by philosophers) or natural theology (when done by theologians). In this module, we will examine some of the most important arguments in this field. Students will understand the relationship between natural theology and revealed theology and have an overview of key arguments in natural theology. Students will learn how to construct, evaluate and critique philosophical arguments.
Partner Course Code:
TRE5020
UArizona Equivalent Course:
RELI Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Spring Semester Courses

Anthropology

Theological Anthropology

Course Description:
Theological anthropology seeks to understand the human being in light of theological claims, to explore the ramifications of this understanding for human life, and engage in constructive dialogue with other accounts of being human. The module is focused particularly on claims surrounding creation and creatureliness, redemption and salvation, and also death and ultimate destiny. Scriptural, doctrinal and historical sources for each of these foci are covered, and particular tensions in systematic theological understanding will be entered into. On this basis, critically constructive encounters with other approaches to understanding humanity will be undertaken, enabling students to discern how theological anthropology can or cannot inform the perpetual uncertainties of the human condition.
Partner Course Code:
TRE5012
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ANTH Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Art

Advanced Digital Imaging

Course Description:
The aim of this option module is to extend your understanding of current Digital Imaging practices. The pre-dominantly practical nature of this module means that emphasis will be placed on the development of individual art practices. The workshop programme will focus on developing your experience of a range of imaging processes and techniques using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. This is a final year module, and students should already have some experience with Photoshop.
Partner Course Code:
MAR6031
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ART Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Art and Power

Course Description:
In this module you will explore how and why art and architecture have been used by individuals, states and groups to justify their claims to authority. It explores the role that these art objects play in legitimising narratives. It focuses on how portraits, posters, performances, wall art, buildings, gardens and other artistic objects have promoted or contested the power of particular groups or individuals. It also considers the way in which art and architecture help to construct or imagine group identities. Lastly it will explore how art is used by various groups to challenge hegemonic discourse, colonial occupation and oppression, as well as dominant state institutions and elites.
Partner Course Code:
HST4013
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ART Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Communication

Sports Marketing Campaign

Course Description:
Consumers, especially sports fans now expect brands to communicate with them through multiple platforms in a way that is personalised and relevant. Digital marketing take place across the internet and social media, but also in emails, mobile phones, instant messaging, apps, games and video marketing. On this learn the fundamentals of sports marketing and will collaborate with industry professionals to design, develop and produce a digital sports marketing campaign for a specific client or audience.
Partner Course Code:
COM6009
UArizona Equivalent Course:
COMM Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Education

Developmental Disorders and Special Educational Needs

Course Description:
This module aims to introduce students to the field of developmental disorders and Special Educational Needs. Students will be provided with detailed insight into relevant psychological theories, methods and research. They will be expected to consider how studying developmental disorders and Special Educational Needs might help them consider both typical and atypical development and the resulting differing requirements within educational and other settings.
Partner Course Code:
ESS5006
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Education in Popular Culture

Course Description:
The module aims to offer students the opportunity to explore, analyse and critique how different aspects of education are represented in popular and mass culture through various modes of media, film or literature. Students will be introduced to representations of education in a range of formats, from different perspectives. The module expects students to critically engage with a range of representations, including pedagogy, teacher identities, education systems, teachers-pupil relationships and whole school/classroom contexts. Students are expected to engage critically and question how such representations might create or perpetuate myths about education practices, processes and expectations. There will be a consideration of how different representations do not necessarily match the reality of educational practices. Students are expected to critically examine different themes and ideas and locate these into a variety of contexts: social, cultural, historical, geographical, and political.
Partner Course Code:
ESS6005
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

International Perspectives in Education

Course Description:
This is a critical exploration of international education from a historical and policy perspective. The module will also analyse how global influences have affected education and education policy on a local, national, and international level and will look at case studies from a range of national contexts.
Partner Course Code:
ESS6004
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

The Broader Curriculum: Communication (Religious Education, History, and Information Technology)

Course Description:
The module aims to develop confidence in teaching and learning in the History, RE and ICT. It demonstrates the potential of these subjects as vehicles for learning and teaching across the curriculum. You discover how cross curricular learning between these subjects can provide a rich source for developing concepts, attitudes and skills, bringing relevance and authenticity to learning in these contexts. You develop your knowledge of new technologies in ICT as presentational, interactive and cross-curricular tools. You develop your subject knowledge in history and RE and learn how to plan, teach and assess these subjects. You explore the use of artefacts and primary and secondary sources as a rich source of teaching and learning.
Partner Course Code:
PEQ4043
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

The Nature, Purposes, and Politics of Education

Course Description:
This module introduces students to key critical debates in the field of education studies including the purpose of education, educational theory and prevailing policy directions in theory and practice.
Partner Course Code:
ESS4000
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Theories, Teaching, and Learning in Primary and Early Years Education

Course Description:
This module provides a comprehensive introduction to the theories behind teaching and learning in the primary and early years. It establishes the history of primary and early years education in the English context and gives a strong foundation of the theory and the approaches to primary and early years education. Students will show an understanding of how and why theories and historical influences behind primary and early years education appear within today’s classroom. Current policy is also addressed and analysed to see the contradictions and alignments with the theory.
Partner Course Code:
ESS4006
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

English

20th Century Literature

Course Description:
This module concentrates on the various foci and discrete schools of literature across the twentieth century in the wake of Modernism. Responding to such historical, ideological, and social crises as the end of empire, the “death” of God, and the increased sense of isolation and alienation, the literature of this period develops new strategies with which to communicate the human condition. A range of representative literary texts will be used to illustrate this. In addition – and to support our readings of these texts – the module will introduce students to a wide range of contemporary critical theories and approaches, such as Post-Modernism, Absurdism, and Magical Realism.
Partner Course Code:
ENG6022
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Contemporary Fiction

Course Description:
Classes revolve around five or six novels written in the past three decades, expands on the ‘Critical Theory’ module to pose questions about the politics and pleasures of reading. Recent texts considered have been: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes; Atonement by Ian McEwan; White Teeth by Zadie Smith; and All the Birds Singing, by Evie Wyld. We also often ask our resident authors Christie Watson and Jonathan Gibbs to come in and talk about their books.
Partner Course Code:
ENG4022
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

English Literature and its Background 1776-1832

Course Description:
This module will introduce students to the cultural practices and historical moment which have subsequently come to be called ‘romanticism’ and the ‘romantic’ period, as well as to a range of theoretical, critical, and historical perspectives thereon.
Partner Course Code:
ENG5002
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Gender and Identity in the Victorian Novel

Course Description:
On this course we begin by reading Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, a novel as challenging as its sister text Jane Eyre. In reading the five novels on the course we will consider the different methods of storytelling of writers like Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens and George Eliot, concentrating especially upon the different ways in which women are represented. The aim of the course is to consider how each writer engages with key Victorian issues such as marriage, the construction of the domestic sphere and the representation of class. We will also think about the fact that many of these writers were able to offer such debate whilst also feeding an eager Victorian public the melodrama they wanted to consume.
Partner Course Code:
ENG5024
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Introduction to Critical Theory

Course Description:
The module introduces critical theory and its application to the reading of literary texts. Beginning with classical descriptions of form and unity, the module traces the major developments in critical theory to the present day. Topics covered will include: colonialism / post-colonialism; feminism / post-feminism; formalism; liberal humanism; Marxism; modernism; narratology; new-historicism; post-modernism; psychoanalysis; structuralism / post- structuralism; queer theory. Theories will be introduced historically, with attention to the relationship between theory and cultural context designed to enable students to recognise the essentially ideological nature of theory. By extension, while the nature of the syllabus implies, to a certain extent, the division of theory into discrete schools of thought, the module, following recent interventions by the likes of Agnes Heller and Carlos Escudé, will also seek to examine the wider questions about authority, creativity and culture posed by the concept of theory. Theoretical praxis will be illustrated with reference to two novels, one from the nineteenth century and one from the twentieth.
Partner Course Code:
ENG4003
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Irish Literature 1870-1952

Course Description:
The content of the unit will be drawn from works by Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O’Casey, Kavanagh and Kate O’Brien; and will cover three major genres of literature: fiction, drama and poetry. The study of this body of literature will be contextualised historically and politically, and also in terms of the theoretical issues surrounding colonial and post-colonial literary nationalism. We will begin by considering the impact of nationalism on Irish literary production in the early part of the century. We shall look at mythology and national identity. Other themes include the role of language in shaping of identity and representation of gender across this period.
Partner Course Code:
ENG5031
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Literature and the Unconscious

Course Description:
The module introduces the students to psychoanalysis as a key literary theory allowing them to trace the roots of Freud’s work and its subsequent development through his introductory lectures, case studies and key early works. The subsequent development of psychoanalysis by literary critics and thinkers is then applied to a series of texts from different genres (prose, poetry). There is a further emphasis upon post-structuralism and psychoanalysis. The course also allows students to focus in detail on one or two key theoretical positions taken by Freud and Lacan, for example the essays concerning the concept of the uncanny.
Partner Course Code:
ENG6024
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Voices in Contemporary Fiction

Course Description:
Through the study of contemporary fiction this module will extend the range of reading and writing skills among students. The module will ask students to produce their own work by experimenting with contemporary narrative voices. The module will ask students to read challenging works of fiction by living authors and to develop fluent discussion of contemporary narrative craft. Works of fiction produced in the last decade will be considered in historical and cultural contexts. This course will help to establish the contemporary contexts by which the practice of students will be assessed at each stage in the course.
Partner Course Code:
CPW4005
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Writing Children's Fiction

Course Description:
The aim of this module is to provide students on the programme with a basic understanding of the range and scope of contemporary literature for children and young adults and an introduction to creating marketable work for these readers. The module will examine the nature of current work, in fiction and non-fiction, written for different age groups in established publishing categories. The goal is to focus student thinking on the needs and expectations of the readers they are specifically writing for, as well as the publishers who cater to those readers. Students will produce a short piece of children's writing as part of the unit.
Partner Course Code:
CPW6005
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Writing Genre Fiction

Course Description:
The module aims to combine the analytical and interpretive skills required to assess the creation of works within a particular genre of fiction with the creative skills involved in contributing to that genre. The module will consider both the aesthetic and commercial concerns and demands of writing within established genre categories and attempt to address questions of distinctions between 'popular' and 'literary' fiction.
Partner Course Code:
CPW5002
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ENGL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Family Studies & Human Development

Youth: Theory, Policy and Practice

Course Description:
An introduction to youth studies including a critical exploration of changing youth transitions and subcultures in the UK and across the globe. We explore how growing up is shaped by individual, structural and institutional factors. We also explore a range of contemporary issues such as child poverty, young people in conflict with the law and approaches to work with young people.
Partner Course Code:
ESS5010
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Film & Television

British Film and Television

Course Description:
This module will explore the key issues in analysing British film and television, as well as social changes that have transformed representations of Britishness in the media concerned. Starting from the middle of the twentieth century, the course will locate film and television texts in their historical, cultural and industrial context. A variety of approaches will be taken, including close attention to particular auteurs in film and television as well as a more general discussion of important film and television genres.
Partner Course Code:
FSM4009
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MAR Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Cult Media and Identity

Course Description:
Film and media's role in representing various identities will be applied to aspects such as costume, the body, and the consumption and reception of media texts, with a particular focus on film and television examples. A particular focus will be on the differing theoretical approaches to identity and the concept of ‘self’. In addition, a focus on participatory cultures, fandom and cult media will be highlighted.
Partner Course Code:
SME5023
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MAR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Digital Production

Course Description:
This module will introduce a range of concepts relating to the creation, production and editing of digital short films. Students taking this module will begin to explore filmmaking both as a technical endeavour, and as a creative discipline. Every step of the process of taking a script idea to the end result of a completed film will be discussed, performed and reflected upon within the lectures and workshops, and in the practical production and the development portfolio.
Partner Course Code:
FSM4001
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MAR Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Documentary and World Cinema

Course Description:
Beginning with documentary, non-fiction film will be explored in terms of its form and traditions, with case-studies of notable examples in this branch of filmmaking. The module will then consider world and transnational cinema as well as global media forms such as anime. Notions of film movements, authorship and national cinemas will be discussed and problematized.
Partner Course Code:
SME5024
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MAR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Fiction Drama Production

Course Description:
Students taking this module will work in a team to produce the short fiction drama film that classmates planned in MAR6007 Advanced Visual Production. Each team will work in conjunction with their writers and cast to develop, rehearse, shoot and edit a first draft of their film which will then be screened in front of peers and tutors.
Partner Course Code:
MAR6014
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MAR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Harry Potter

Course Description:
This module will draw upon the ideas and themes within the stories and use them as entry points into a wide range of debates and case studies. From Harry and Ron’s first hello, to Jason Isaac’s gothic performance as Lucius Malfoy, and beyond into gaming, merchandising and themed environments, this module will contextualize the world of Harry Potter as a modern media text.
Partner Course Code:
SME4011
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Media History

Course Description:
This module examines media products and institutions in light of technological and historical developments. By studying the origins of film and broadcasting industries, the module shows how cinema and visual culture have developed historically. This module focuses on key areas of media production and practice and how this might be understood commercially as well as culturally and politically. It also case studies significant mediated forms of popular entertainment and their historical and social context, such as Japanese cinema, and popular music. The module develops student understanding of public and private broadcasting, film standardisation, TV scheduling, press regulation, and the commercial imperatives of film and television production, distribution and exhibition.
Partner Course Code:
SME4010
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MAR Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Multimedia Production

Course Description:
This module will build upon ideas discussed at level 4 to further the students’ understanding of a range of concepts and practical skills relating to the creation, production and editing of a short media product. They will operationalise this enhanced comprehension of the necessary skill set required by key personnel within a production team. They will focus upon areas of pre-production, shooting, editing and finishing to deliver a media product in a timely and budget conscious manner.
Partner Course Code:
SME5025
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MAR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Screenwriting 1

Course Description:
This module will introduce students to the ideas and practices required in the development and writing of scripts for television. Through seminar discussions, practical writing workshops, screenings and critical evaluation of exemplar television programmes, students will first explore an existing piece of television and re-imagine it as a piece of fan fiction. Students will then develop an original idea by going through the process of script development (proposal/pitch, outlines/treatment), which will then culminate in the production of the opening pages of a teleplay.
Partner Course Code:
SME5026
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MAR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Food Studies

Food Choice and Control of Food Intake

Course Description:
This module aims to introduce the concept of food choice and identify the range of factors that affect food choice in the modern context. These range from physiological factors such as hunger and appetite to socio-cultural ones such as gender, cultural background and socioeconomic status. Contemporary sociological theories used to explain food choice will also be discussed. Additionally, behaviour change theories that are used to moderate food intake will be discussed.
Partner Course Code:
NUT5033
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Food Science

Course Description:
This module aims to explore the interaction of manufacturing, processing, storage, preparation and cooking on the composition, safety and sensory properties of foods.
Partner Course Code:
NUT4036
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Health Promotion Science

Biomechanics 1

Course Description:
An introductory module to the principles of biomechanics to provide students with an understanding of how humans move. Students should have taken an introductory-level anatomy module prior to taking this module. The module will involve theoretical principles and knowledge of laboratory techniques to assess biomechanical movement.
Partner Course Code:
SRE4015
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Biomechanics 2

Course Description:
This module will further develop students’ understanding of the biomechanical concepts that govern human motion.
Partner Course Code:
SRE5015
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

History

Liberating Histories

Course Description:
This module explores key questions about knowledge, truth, power and politics in relation to representations of the past. It looks at some of the main critiques of academic history practices. It looks critically at the epistemic assumptions used to justify conventional history’s claims to authority over the past. It also discusses how other forms of past-talk have been – and continue to be – used to challenge dominant discourses, practices and institutions in the present.
Partner Course Code:
HST6010
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Nations and Nationalism

Course Description:
Although we live in an age of globalisation, nation states and nationalist movements continue to shape our societies and our politics. This means that understanding nationalism is not only of historical importance, but vital to those considering careers in law, politics and government, journalism and the media, since it touches on anyone involved in advocacy, policy and media roles. Students on this module will examine the nature of nationalism, considering the extent to which it should be considered a ‘modern phenomenon’, the difference between ‘civic’ and ‘ethnic’ nationalism, and the relationship between nationalism and other ideologies. Historical case studies will then allow students to examine the political consequences of nationalist movements from the French Revolution to the present day, as well as the ways in which nationalism interacts with social class, gender, religion and the state. Although the focus will be primarily on Europe, some non European material will be considered, especially in relation to decolonisation and the end of empire.
Partner Course Code:
HST6024
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Public Histories

Course Description:
On this module you will look at some of the ways in which the relationship between public and orthodox academic histories has been characterised. It discusses the different ways that producers of histories and other forms of past-talk have conceptualised the ‘before now’. It assesses arguments for and against using the past as a way of engaging with contemporary social and political issues. It looks at the relationship between history and memory, and questions why people believe they have a responsibility to remember the past – and why cultures collectively remember what they do. In order to maintain coherence in the coverage of content, the module will always be organised around two case studies. Each case study will examine how academic and public histories are implicated in their particular set of concerns.
Partner Course Code:
HST5013
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Revolutions and Rebellions

Course Description:
In this module you will examine a series of world revolutions and major rebellions against political authority. The module’s content covers two principal fields – different ways of conceptualising revolutions and rebellion, and specific examples of revolutions and rebellions that have occurred across four continents. The module begins by examining ideas and ideologies of revolutions, providing students with a vocabulary and conceptual repertoire that they can use to discuss revolutionary activities throughout the remainder of the module. The specific examples of revolutions and rebellions that we cover are located in a period that runs from the mid-18th to the early 21st Centuries.
Partner Course Code:
HST4012
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

The Hundred Years' War

Course Description:
On this module you will explore the origins, course and results of an extended conflict between England and France in 14th and 15th centuries. The module aims to explore why the Hundred Years’ War was fought, how it was fought in the way it was, how it was historicised, and the main issues in the modern historiography of the conflict. It also introduces students to a range of contemporary accounts of the war and explores how these can be used in synthesis with current historiography of the conflict to understand its causes and effects.
Partner Course Code:
HST5018
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

The Mediterranean World

Course Description:
This module explores the significance of the Mediterranean as a site of social and commercial transaction, political interaction and conflict in the development of late medieval and Renaissance Europe.
Partner Course Code:
HST4011
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

The Sixties

Course Description:
This module will examine some of the main interconnected transnational developments of the 1960s. Across Europe, the United States and further afield, the sixties forced a reassessment of key relationships between people and their governments, between local interest groups, and even between men and women. The module assesses why the sixties were such a powerfully transformative period.
Partner Course Code:
HST5022
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Tudor Queenship

Course Description:
This module explores the nature of Queenship in Tudor England in its international context, in the context of contemporary patriarchal theory and practice through modern feminist historiography of Queenship. The module focuses on the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I who will be studied comparatively and thematically. The module examines gender and personality, patterns of government, legal authority, international relations and the political and cultural patronage of these two rulers. It also considers the public presentation of their female sovereignty.
Partner Course Code:
HST6020
UArizona Equivalent Course:
HIST Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Journalism

Magazine Design

Course Description:
This module will provide a background to the development of the contemporary magazine industry. We will investigate the role of the magazine in the digital age and examine why physical copies have continued to survive long after people had predicted they would disappear. Students will produce their own magazine product; previous experience in desktop publishing is desirable but not essential.
Partner Course Code:
CRM5002
UArizona Equivalent Course:
JOUR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Law, Undergraduate

Land Law

Course Description:
This module aims to provide a general understanding of land law in England and Wales through the examination of the legal principles governing land ownership & property rights. Students will develop an understanding of the complex terminology of the concepts underpinning land law and investigate the principles behind more detailed rules and provisions. Students will be able to identify fundamental features of estates and other interests in land and understand the rules, principles and formalities governing the acquisition and transfer of interests in land.
Partner Course Code:
LAW5026
UArizona Equivalent Course:
LAW Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Practical Legal Skills, Ethics and Responsibility

Course Description:
This module aims to help students develop a number of essential practical legal skills. These include interviewing and advising clients; writing and drafting; negotiation and advocacy. The module also aims to give students the opportunity to apply these skills in practical sessions. The module will also develop understanding of legal ethics as well as enabling students to identify ethical issues and achieve the outcomes required by the applicable professional conduct rules.
Partner Course Code:
LAW5003
UArizona Equivalent Course:
LAW Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Sharia Law

Course Description:
The aim of this module is to examine the fundamental principles of Islamic Law and to provide students with a detailed understanding of the fundamental doctrines of the Sharia. There will be an emphasis on aspects of Contract Law and specific attention will be given to contracts ‘in futuro’, riba’ and types of sales. In addition to this students will look at aspects of Criminal Law and aspects of Family Law.
Partner Course Code:
LAW6021
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Music

The Beatles and the Counterculture

Course Description:
This module considers the output and cultural significance of The Beatles in terms of historical context, lyrical analysis, iconography and their presence in other media (film, television and online) as a ‘transmedia’ phenomenon. Following a chronological order, the development of the group’s musical and visual styles, lyrical concerns and cultural contexts, will be tracked in relation to cultural studies methodologies. Close reading of the band’s lyrics (from boy band to psychedelic rock); and semiological analysis of the group’s visual styles (album artwork and fashions) will inform discussions of the band’s evolution. Contextual study of Britain in postcolonial and end of Empire; counterculture and psychedelia; and ‘British invasion’ contexts will situate the band in wider cultural currents.
Partner Course Code:
SME6010
UArizona Equivalent Course:
MUS Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Nutritional Sciences

Introduction to Nutrition 2

Course Description:
This module aims to further develop the fundamental aspects of human nutrition. Roles and functions of vitamins, minerals together with recommended intakes will be introduced together with the concept of a balanced diet. The focus of this module will be the micronutrients.
Partner Course Code:
NUT4033
UArizona Equivalent Course:
NSC Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Nutrition, Health and Disease

Course Description:
This module aims to explore the role of nutrition in the prevention and development of chronic diseases in adulthood.
Partner Course Code:
NUT5034
UArizona Equivalent Course:
NSC Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Weight Management

Course Description:
This module aims to explore the relationship between over nutrition, low levels of physical activity and chronic weight gain. In addition the module will consider the evidence behind various dietary modifications, behaviour change strategies, drugs and surgery in the management of overweight and obesity.
Partner Course Code:
NUT6052
UArizona Equivalent Course:
NSC Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Philosophy

Bioethics

Course Description:
Social changes and technological innovations from the late 1960s have given rise to a new area of study: bioethics. This sub discipline grew out of medical ethics, but has since expanded beyond the professional ethics of medical practitioners to tackle fundamental ethical questions relating to health and society. This module enables students to apply their knowledge of ethics to the fast-moving world of new developments in biology, especially genetics
Partner Course Code:
TRE5030
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Introduction to Ethics

Course Description:
The module will introduce students to ethics. They will be given an overview of the main value theories and normative ethical theories, both historical and modern. They will also be taught to think about the status itself of ethical claims and ethical language.
Partner Course Code:
TRE4030
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Medieval Islamic Thought

Course Description:
This module will introduce students to the rich history of Islamic medieval philosophy. The origins, beliefs and practices of Islam will be explored. However, the bulk of the course will focus on key Islamic thinkers, the debates and disagreements they had, and the views they held during the medieval period. Attention will also be drawn to the influence ancient Greek philosophy had on Islamic philosophy, as well as the influence Islamic philosophy had on European Christian philosophy.
Partner Course Code:
TRE5021
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PHIL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Physics

3D Manufacturing

Course Description:
This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the principles of 3D manufacturing including solid freeform and additive techniques (3D printing) and its applications in engineering (constructions and archaeology), biophysics (tissue engineering), and electronics (3D integrated circuit construction).
Partner Course Code:
APH6010
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Biomechanics and Medical Physics

Course Description:
This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental experimental aspects of Biomechanics, and radiation and imaging aspects of Medical Physics. The module will deepen students’ knowledge of how to apply classical mechanics to the study of the structure and function of biological systems, such as humans, and ability to process and analyse biomechanical data. Students will gain knowledge and understanding of the uses and effects of radiation in medical physics and of the fundamental principles of medical imaging.
Partner Course Code:
APH5007
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PHYS Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Environmental Physics and Nanotechnology

Course Description:
This module introduces students to the greenhouse effect and the factors contributing to it, to the Physics of global warming, to energy resources, and to the features of environmental monitoring with particular reference to remote sensing. It also provides an introduction to nanotechnology.
Partner Course Code:
APH4006
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PHYS Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Heat and Thermodynamics Matter and Materials

Course Description:
This module introduces students to the fundamentals of thermodynamics up to the second law and to the properties of aggregates of particles as gases, solids and liquids.
Partner Course Code:
APH4007
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PHYS Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Mathematical Methods 2 - Advanced Computing

Course Description:
This module introduces students to coordinate geometry, advanced vector calculus, matrix algebra, and advanced methods to solve differential equations. It also introduces the fundamental concepts of statistical mechanics and advanced programming using Octave.
Partner Course Code:
APH5006
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Medical Physics

Course Description:
This module aims to provide students with an understanding of medical Imaging, ultrasound and their use for diagnostics and for therapy. Radiology, radiation monitoring and dose. Nuclear medicine, NMR, measurement of bioelectricity and biomagnetism. SQUID measurements of brain activity, and magnetic delivery of drugs.
Partner Course Code:
APH6004
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PHYS Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Practical Physics 2

Course Description:
Students undertake a short course on data manipulation and signal conditioning and research methods and undertake (in pairs) a range of experiments.
Partner Course Code:
APH5008
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PHYS Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Solid State Physics 1

Course Description:
This module aims to establish a foundation in basic crystallography and to introduce the main features of the phonon and electron description of solids. It also introduces the main features of geometrical optics and interferometry, lasers and electro-optic devices.
Partner Course Code:
APH5003
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PHYS Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Space Physics

Course Description:
This module aims to provide students with an understanding of astrophysics and cosmology (nuclear reactions within stars, stellar evolution, black holes, dark matter and dark energy), satellites and probes (detectors, instruments, materials), and launch, payload and recovery of satellites.
Partner Course Code:
APH6009
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PHYS Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Physiology

Athlete Management 2

Course Description:
To further develop the student’s understanding of working with the athletic population as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Partner Course Code:
SRE6013
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Clinical Human Anatomy

Course Description:
This module will enable students to develop knowledge and understanding of neuromusculoskeletal anatomy of the upper limb, lower limb and trunk. The module will primarily be taught in face- to-face lectures and workshops, which will include the teaching and application of practical skills. This will be supported by online materials, use of interactive mobile “app”, and other guided learning approaches.
Partner Course Code:
SRE4011
UArizona Equivalent Course:
In progress.
UArizona Units:
5

Environmental Physiology

Course Description:
This module aims to give students an understanding of the effects of environmental factors on sport performance and to enable students to critically evaluate strategies to improve performance.
Partner Course Code:
SPS6012
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Introductory Physiology and Biochemistry

Course Description:
This module aims to provide students with knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of anatomy and physiology. The concept of physiological homeostasis in humans will be studied so students are confidently equipped with the scientific understanding to underpin further nutrition modules at Level 5.
Partner Course Code:
NUT4037
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSIO Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Muscle Physiology

Course Description:
The aim of the module is to understand detailed information of the structure and function of human skeletal muscle and its associated physiological processes. This includes developing an understanding of the molecular responses and adaptations to different forms of exercise. Students will begin to develop a greater understanding of skeletal muscle and its responses to exercise from an integrated and mechanistic viewpoint.
Partner Course Code:
STC5003
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSIO Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Physiology of Exercise

Course Description:
To develop students’ understanding and critical thinking in relation to the media, sport, culture and representation. In particular the module aims to familiarise students with methods of deconstructin and analysing representations of sport within the media from critical socio-cultural perspectives.
Partner Course Code:
SPS4011
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSIO Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Political Science

Comparative Politics

Course Description:
This module aims to highlight and analyse key differences between the political systems and institutions of a variety of regions and time periods. Students will gain insight into how and why the political landscape differs from one case to the next, and begin to apply this knowledge in understanding particular cases.
Partner Course Code:
POL4010
UArizona Equivalent Course:
POL Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Introduction to International Relations

Course Description:
International Relations is the academic discipline that tries to provide a theoretical and conceptual framework for understanding and analysing international politics. This module will familiarise students with the origins and evolution of the discipline and show how different schools of thought have emerged and how they can help us understand the nature of the international system.
Partner Course Code:
POL4012
UArizona Equivalent Course:
POL Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Political Ideologies

Course Description:
The module considers what political ideologies are, what function they serve to both societies and political science. It starts by assessing how ideology is an essentially contested term, and can have various scopes of study. The module then looks in some depth at the major political ideologies (e.g. liberalism, conservatism, socialism, anarchism, nationalism, populism, ecologism, feminism, religious fundamentalism) and assesses the relationship between theory and practice of ideologies, but also the relationship between ideologies, using a variety of historical and contemporary examples.
Partner Course Code:
POL5006
UArizona Equivalent Course:
POL Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Psychology

Everyday Psychology

Course Description:
This module introduces students to topics within psychology that they can directly apply to their own lives. The aim is to engage students and encourage them to begin considering the integrated and applied nature of psychological research using real life examples that will capture their interest. Students will be exposed to cross-paradigmatic approaches and be introduced to academic debate and controversy within the context of specific topics.
Partner Course Code:
PSY4015
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Introduction to Cognitive and Biological Psychology

Course Description:
This module aims to introduce students to the foundations of cognitive and biological psychology. The module also aims to discuss the links between these two areas of psychology, demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of areas of psychology and helping to strengthen student understanding of the field of psychology.
Partner Course Code:
PSY4014
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Perception

Course Description:
This module introduces students to the ways in which our perceptual systems can break down, through the study of neuropsychological deficits and perceptual illusions, and therefore to the way in which such effects inform our understanding of the normal human perceptual system.
Partner Course Code:
PSY6014
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Psychology of Education: Lifespan Development

Course Description:
The module will provide an insight into the broad spectrum of psychology, drawing upon a range of fields such as cognition, social and clinical psychology. At the same time it will aim to show why psychology is necessary in the context of education, and how the approach compares to that of other education sub-disciplines such as sociology or history. Students will be familiarised with three relevant key elements in psychology: theories, research and applications. This will be done by covering necessary background knowledge, some research methodologies, and development across the lifespan, culminating in relevant contemporary issues in education.
Partner Course Code:
ESS4007
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Quantitative Research Methods and Analysis

Course Description:
This module will introduce more complex quantitative designs and the associated statistical techniques (e.g. t-test and ANOVAs). The module conveys an appreciation of the philosophy and assumptions underpinning statistical procedures and familiarity with alternatives when those assumptions are not yet met (e.g. non parametric alternatives). Students will review literature to formulate research questions. They will then apply their research methods skills by designing and running their own studies in groups, whilst demonstrating cognisance or ethical considerations and procedures. Knowledge on appropriate sample and sample size selection is covered, as is the ability to analyse and interpret data. The module will build on the transferable skills of generating, summarising and interpreting patterns in complex data sets. (The pre-requisites for this module is a foundation module in research methods and statistics.)
Partner Course Code:
PSY5011
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY 230
UArizona Units:
5

Research Methods and Statistics 2

Course Description:
This module builds on the foundation of research methods introduced in PY401. The aim of this module is to expand students’ familiarity with basic research methods techniques. The nature of psychology as a science will be reinforced and explored as qualitative methods are introduced.
Partner Course Code:
PSY4012
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Social Psychology of Sport

Course Description:
The module aims to build on and further develop key theoretical concepts in sport psychology that were introduced at level one. In addition, a number of new concepts and theoretical approaches are discussed from social psychological processes within sport. Through the presentation of theory and contemporary research in lecture sessions, the module aims to develop students’ critical understanding of this area of study.
Partner Course Code:
SPS5021
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

The Developing Mind

Course Description:
The module is designed to develop students’ understanding of traditional cognitive psychology topics within a developmental perspective, from childhood to adulthood. The module addresses theories of development and learning, language development, reasoning and individual differences, in particular intelligence. It aims to expand on developmental and cognitive material introduced at level 4, while also showing the interdisciplinary nature of the areas. The provisional nature of knowledge will be examined in terms of an approach which emphasises the progression of the field historically.
Partner Course Code:
PSY5013
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Transferable Skills for Employment

Course Description:
This module is designed to encourage discussion, debate and further understanding regarding transferable graduate skills. The module will focus on encouraging the students to reflect on and develop the skills that are expected by employers. In addition, the student will be exploring a workplace sector of their choosing, allowing the student to investigate their potential career path in more depth. The module aims are closely aligned with the ten top skills related to graduated employment.
Partner Course Code:
PSY5015
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PSY Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Religious Studies

Fundamentals of Systematic Theology

Course Description:
The module introduces students to the central themes of Christian theology. It analyses each theme in its Scriptural foundations and doctrinal bases, before introducing an important contemporary discussions drawing on recent theology. This approach provides an overview of the history of each theme, as well as equipping students with the fundamental terminology of systematic theology and some awareness of its contemporary relevance. Students are also introduced to different modes of theological reasoning, enabling them to adopt and articulate their own positions on the matters studied. Students are encouraged to engage with ongoing theological debates, and begin to engage critically with the interlocutors studied.
Partner Course Code:
TRE4011
UArizona Equivalent Course:
RELI Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Religion and Politics

Course Description:
This module introduces students to some of the ways in which religion is used in politics and vice versa. This module will look at the contemporary historical, cultural and social contexts of such uses. This module will enable students to assess critically the way understandings of religion are used to support, justify, and challenge political ideologies.
Partner Course Code:
TRE6021
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

The Nature of Religion

Course Description:
The module offers a detailed exploration of the concept ‘religion’, and the various ways in which leading scholars, both classic and contemporary, have tried to define it. Students will thereby be introduced to a foundational, theoretical debate in the study of religion. The module will centre around reading, interpreting, discussing, and critiquing a number of primary texts from within the sociology and anthropology of religion. Authors will include some/all of the following: Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Peter Clarke, Steve Bruce, Irena Borowik, Linda Woodhead, Timothy Fitzgerald, and Christian Smith. The strengths and weaknesses of different ways of defining religion will, moreover, be considered in light of students’ developing knowledge of, and acquaintance with, diverse religious traditions.
Partner Course Code:
TRE4021
UArizona Equivalent Course:
RELI Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Theology and Culture

Course Description:
This module provides a grounding in different approaches to culture in different academic disciplines, focusing particularly on elements of culture with a direct bearing on theological concerns. Different theologies of culture are then studied closely. Students of this module thereby learn to make independent critical judgements regarding the interpretation of cultural expressions through the lens of theology, and the evaluation of different accounts of how culture and theology should interrelate.
Partner Course Code:
TRE6010
UArizona Equivalent Course:
RELI Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Sociology

Crime and the Media

Course Description:
This module is concerned with the intersection of crime and the media. It offers an interdisciplinary perspective on how different media represent crime and considers it cultural and political consequences. It addresses some of the most difficult and controversial issues facing society today (e.g. terrorism, drugs, youth crime, and child abuse).
Partner Course Code:
SCY5023
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Criminalising Social Problems

Course Description:
The main aim of this module is illustrate what is ‘social’ about social science and to demonstrate how certain social constructions become dominant when identifying and accounting for social problems. This will be done through a consideration of what are currently regarded as social problems in the UK, including use of drugs and alcohol, poverty, homelessness and mental disorder, but will also acknowledge how social problems change over time.
Partner Course Code:
CRY5021
UArizona Equivalent Course:
SOC Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Criminology New Perspectives

Course Description:
This module will enable students to advance their knowledge of specifically sociological criminology, the sociology of deviance and sociology of law by a critical examination from, feminist, anti-racist, gay/queer, green and anti-capitalist perspectives. Students will examine a range of approaches with tutor support.
Partner Course Code:
CRY6021
UArizona Equivalent Course:
SOC Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Sports Studies

Ergogenic Aids in Sport

Course Description:
This module will allow students to understand the underlying mechanisms of action for a range of legal and non-legal ergogenic supplements and drugs. The module will also introduce debate around legalising drugs, use of therapeutic exemption and low carbohydrate diets.
Partner Course Code:
SPS5013
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Upper division.
UArizona Units:
5

Field-Based Training Techniques

Course Description:
The module aims to develop understanding of the key mechanical principles, anatomical issues and considerations, which determine speed, agility and plyometric development in athletes. Students will extensively practice the techniques and study theoretical concepts of anatomy and mechanics which relate to the skills through the analysis of movement. Through this technical knowledge, this module aims to provide students with the coaching tools and critical understanding of key training principles and methods, which when applied appropriately, enhance speed, agility and plyometric ability in athletes.
Partner Course Code:
STC4002
UArizona Equivalent Course:
ELCR Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Sport, Culture and History

Course Description:
The aim of this module is develop student awareness and understanding of the socio- economic, cultural and political contexts in relation to sports management. In addition, the module aims to develop student awareness and capabilities to question and discuss relevant themes in relation to sport (including its historical development and how sport plays a significant role in culture, politics and society).
Partner Course Code:
SOM4001
UArizona Equivalent Course:
PE Departmental Elective, Lower division.
UArizona Units:
5

Location & Housing

Location

Experience outstanding museums and galleries, sophisticated fashion, and vibrant nightlife in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. Located just minutes from the famed Thames River and 30 minutes from the city center, UA London at St. Mary’s University lies in the convenient Twickenham neighborhood full of pubs, cafés, and shops. Enjoy world-class art and literature daily as you immerse yourself in the culture of the United Kingdom. Tell the Queen we said hello!

Housing

Students live on campus in De Marillac halls, sharing housing with local and other international students. The housing provides easy access to an array of nearby restaurants, cafes, and shops, as well as St. Mary's world-class sporting facilities. And the train station is only a five-minute walk!

Links of Interest

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Program Details: Summer

Summer Cost

  • $50 Study Abroad Application Fee
  • Mandatory Geo Blue International Health Insurance at a rate of $3 a day
  • 3 week program/3 credits (1 course). Summer tuition for 3 credits (estimated $1400)
  • Program fee $1,500
  • Housing ranges from $1000 -$1500  based on choice of residence hall.
  • Other estimated costs include but not limited to transportation (air & local), visa, meals, books and supplies
  • UA Study Abroad scholarships are available based on eligibility

Optional Paris Excursion

  • 4 day program, $650
  • Mandatory Geo Blue International Health Insurance at a rate of $3 a day
  • Round trip transportation included (Eurostar high-speed train and Paris metro card)
  • Accommodation included 
  • Some meals included
  • Tour guides and entrance fees included
  • Excursions include: Eiffel Tower, Musée d'Orsay, Louvre museum, Versailles, Sacré-Cœur, Notre Dame, Sainte Chapelle, and a dinner cruise on the Seine!

Links of interest - London summer school

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNIvwUr8afI&t=4s 

Summer Budget

Program Details: Semester

Note: INTERNSHIP OPTION SUSPENDED/NOT AVAILABLE FOR SPRING 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Semester Dates

  • Arrive: January 19
  • Depart: May 22

Semester Cost

  • $50 Study Abroad Application Fee
  • Mandatory Geo Blue International Health Insurance at a rate of $3 a day (approximately $360 a semester)
  • You pay UA Tuition & Fees to study abroad and receive all of the financial aid you use on main campus
  • Room and board costs £4,700 per semester at UA London, which includes 2 meals a day. (Currency Converter)
  • Other estimated costs include but not limited to transportation (air & local), visa, meals, books and supplies
  • UA Study Abroad scholarships are available based on eligibility

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