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School of Arts & Humanities
Graduate Teaching Scheme 2015/16
Modules available, subject to student numbers
CLASSICS department
Semester one:
 4AACAA1A Art & Archaeology of Greece & Rome*
 4AACAH1A Introduction to Ancient History (c. 1200 BC-AD 600)*
 4AACAL1A Greek & Latin Literature: An Introduction*
 4AACAP01 Introduction to Ancient Philosophy*
 4AACAT1A Working with Greek & Latin Literary Texts: An Introduction*
 4AACHB01 Receptions of the past
Semester two:
 4AACAA1B Art & Archaeology of Greece & Rome*
 4AACAH1B Introduction to Ancient History (c. 1200 BC-AD 600) *
 4AACAL1B Greek & Latin Literature: An Introduction*
 4AACAP01 Introduction to Ancient Philosophy*
 4AACAT1B Working with Greek & Latin Literary Texts: An Introduction*
* The above are all half of full-year modules which cover Greece in Semester one and Rome in
semester two (or, in the case of4AACAP01 Introduction to Ancient Philosophy, The Pre-Socratics
to Plato in semester one, and Aristotle to Post-Aristotelean Philosophy in semester two). However,
graduate tutors in Classics are normally recruited for one semester only, depending on their
specialism (i.e. Greece or Rome).
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE department:
Semester one:
 4ABA0001 What is Comparative Literature: Conceptions and Methods
 4ABA0002 The Writer in the Text
 5ABA0001 Literature of Empire
 5ABA0007 The Book in the Modern World
Semester two:
 4ABA0003 Comparative Literature: Theoretical Foundations
 4ABA0005 The Novel in Eighteenth Century Europe
 4ABA0007 Genres of World Literature
CULTURE, MEDIA & CREATIVE INDUSTRIES department:
Semester one:
 7AAICC31 Contested Culture
 7AAICC09 Inside Todays Museum
 7AAICC48 Transmedia Storytelling
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7AAIC12 Visual Culture
Semester two:
 7AAICC30 Research Approaches
 7AAICC10 Cultural Policy
 7AAICC19 Culture & the City
 7AAICC35 Digital Culture & Political Protest
ENGLISH department:
Semester one:
 4AAEA001 Introduction to Literary Theories
 4AAEA002 Writing London
 4AAEA004 Language in Time
Semester two:
 4AAE0205 Classical and Biblical of English Literature
 4AAE0209 Medieval Literary Culture
 4AAEA005 Early Modern Literary Culture
FILM STUDIES department:
Semester one:
 4AAQS100 Introduction to Film Studies: Forms
 4AAQS110 Research & Scholarship in Film Studies
 4AAQH116 Film History: 1980 to the present
 4AAQH121 Film History: 1945-1980
 5AAQT200 Film Theory
 5AAQS246 Italian Neo-Realism
 5AAQS247 Contemporary Spanish Cinema
 5AAQS266 Contemporary European cinema
 6AAQS315 Film and New Media
 6AAQS325 Film Noir
Semester two:
 4AAQS105 Introduction to Film Studies: Contexts
 4AAQH131 Film History: 1930-1945
 4AAQH126 Film History: 1895-1930
 5AAQS275 British National Cinema
 5AAQS235 French New Wave
 5AAQS255 Authorship and Creativity in the Cinema
 5AAQS260 Hollywood Cinema
 5AAQS270 Topics in World Cinema
 5AAQT222 Cinema and Spectatorship
 6AAQT320 Film Theory II
 6AAQS370 American Underground Cinema
 6AAQS380 Cinema and Social Formations
EUROPEAN & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES department:
To be confirmed.
FRENCH department:
To be confirmed.
GERMAN department:
To be confirmed.
HISTORY department:
Full year modules:
 4AAH1001 The Making of Britain 400-1400
 4AAH1002 European History 400-1500
 4AAH1003 Early Modern Britain 1500-1750
 4AAH1004 Power, Culture & Belief in Europe 1500-1800
 4AAH1007 The Worlds of the British Empire, c. 1700-1960
 4AAH1005 Politics & Society in Britain, 1780-1945
 4AAH1006 Europe from 1793 to 1991
 4AAH1007 The Worlds of the British Empire, c. 1700-1960
 4AAH1008 World History 1870s-2000s (NB new module for 2015-16)
 5AAH0001 History & Memory I / 5AAH0002 History & Memory II (NB
applicants should be available to teach both modules in this pair. These more
advanced modules are suitable for more experienced GTAs, and priority will be
given to those applicants, although new GTAs are welcome to apply.)
NB1 Graduate Teaching Assistants in the Department of History must be available to teach in
both semesters.
NB2 Opportunities in other modules may become available based on student demand. In your
application, please indicate your areas of research interest and/or past teaching experience if you
are interested in being considered for other opportunities should they become available.
LIBERAL ARTS department:
Semester one:
 4AAHLIB1 Lives of London
 5AAHLIB2 Space, Power and Agency
Semester two:
 4AAHLIB1 Lives of London
MUSIC department:
Semester one:
 4AAMS161-2 Issues and topics in Music
 Various modules: Composition
 Optional modules TBC
Semester two:
 4AAMS163-4: Issues and topics in Music
 Optional modules TBC
PHILOSOPHY department:
Semester one:
 4AANA001 Greek Philosophy I
 4AANA002 Ethics I
 4AANA003 Elementary Logic
 4AANB007 Epistemology I
 4SSPP110 Political and Economic Philosophy
 5AANA001 Greek Philosophy II: Plato
 5AANA009 Epistemology II
 5AANA014 Intermediate Logic
 5AANB006 Ethics II: Contemporary Ethical Philosophy
 5AANB007 Political Philosophy II: Theories of Justice
 5AANB012 Philosophy of Mind
 5AANB053 Philosophy of Physics I: Space and Time
 6AANA014 Hellenistic Philosophy
 6AANA018 Kant’s Epistemology & Metaphysics
 6AANA030 Set Theory
 6AANA034 Aesthetics
 6AANA044 Topics in Modern Philosophy
 6AANA046 Topics in Political Philosophy
 6AANA098 Scepticism
 6AANB023 Medieval Philosophy
 6AANB025 Philosophy of Religion
 6AANB039 Gender and Philosophy
Semester two:
 4AANA004 Metaphysics I
 4AANB005 Modern Philosophy I
 4AANB006 Political Philosophy I
 4AANB008 Methodology
 5AANA003 Modern Philosophy II: Locked and Berkeley
 5AANA005 Ethics II: History of Ethical Philosophy
 5AANA010 Metaphysics II
 5AANB002 Greek Philosophy II: Aristotle
 5AANB008 Political Philosophy II: History of Political Philosophy
 5AANB011 Philosophy of Logic & Language
 6AANA022 Philosophy of Mathematics
 6AANA026 Philosophy of Science
 6AANA032 19th Century Continental Philosophy
 6AANA038 Moral Normativity
 6AANB031 Modal Logic
Semester I and II:
 4AANA101 Introduction to Philosophy (for Elementary Logic)
 4AANA101 Introduction to Philosophy (for Metaphysics)
 4AANA101 Introduction to Philosophy (for Epistemology)
 4AANA101 Introduction to Philosophy (for Ethics)
 5AAN5000 Neuroscience and the Mind
SPANISH, PORTUGUESE & LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
To be confirmed.
THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES department:
Semester one:
 4AAT1001 Islam’s Beginnings
 4AAT1002 Introduction to the Sociology of Religion
 4AAT1006 The New Testament: Gospels and Letters
 4AAT1014 Systematic Theology: Nature and Method
 4AAT1301 Philosophical Texts in Historical Contexts
 4AAT1830 Introduction to Religion and Politics
 5AAT2003 Modern Islam I: History and Politics
 5AAT2020 Paul in Context
 5AAT2024 Martin Luther and the German Reformation
 5AAT2039 Ethics, Philosophy and Literature
 5AAT2830 Religion and Politics in International and Transnational Contexts
 5AAT2044 Religious Difference: Jewish Christian and Other Perspectives
 6AAT3602 Philosophy of Religious Life
 6AAT3801 Anthropological Approaches to Religious Innovation and Questions of
Being
Semester two:
 4AAT1005 Introduction to Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
 4AAT1009 Introduction to the Anthropology of Religion
 4AAT1021 Turning Points: An Introduction to the History of Christianity in
England 1500 to 1900
 4AAT1027 Elements of Ethics
 4AAT1501 Thinking About Evil
 4AAT1901 Introduction to Buddhism
 4AAT1951 Islam: Later Developments
 5AAT2014 Religion in Different Social and Geopolitical Contexts –
Anthropological Perspectives
 5AAT2042 Ritual in the Old Testament
 6AAT3402 Contemporary Theology and Philosophy
 6AAT3830 Religion, Politics and Global Media
 6AAT3851 New Religious Movements in Global Perspective
DIGITAL HUMANITIES department
New BA programme
Digital Foundations:
The ‘spine’ of the course bringing together Digital Humanities perspectives with those
drawn from Media and Cultural Studies. This module will introduce students to digital
culture establishing both the disruptive effects digital cultures have on pre-digital
institutions and the particular nature of ‘born digital’ cultures.
Theories of New Media:
The concepts covered in this module will include digital communication, networks,
cyberspace, virtual communities, the difference between online and offline, the questions of
hypertextuality, multimediality and interactivity.
Digital Politics: This module will introduce the main ways in which the rise of digital
cultures has disrupted existing political forms and structures.
Digital Economy and Audiences:
This module introduces and discusses the idea of specifically digital economic practices. It
explores ideas of social or peer production and will introduce the breakdown in the
consumer/producer divide which has resulted in such concepts as prosumer, playbor and
co-production.
History of Networked Technologies:
This module offers a history of the networked technologies, focussing on the internet. It
introduces in a broad and general way core technologies, such as packet-switching and the
domain name system.
Digital Methods: This module is the first in a theme on the digitisation of cultural and social
research methods. We will especially focus on networks and their cultural aspects, as these
are well-defined objects of enquiry and should correspond to predictable contexts for a new
generation of students.
Knowledge Representation:
This module introduces students to the principles of knowledge representation. Starting
with a discussion on key concepts such as the definition of knowledge, students will be
made aware of some of the issues of storage, transmission, and reception of knowledge both
in the pre- and post-digital world.