英语与古典文明文学学士联合荣誉学士

课程模块Modules

• 年一Year one
• 年二Year two
• Year three

模块1 module

• 古代表演语境与受众ancient performance-contexts and audiences
• the workings of genres
• analysis of rhetoric and literary style
• representations of gender and sexuality
• 学习古典接受study of classical reception
• how to compare translations

25 modules

• What do we know (and not know) about the ancient world?
• How do ancient politics, society, culture and morality differ from our own?
• What evidence informs us about the ancient world? What are its limits and pitfalls?
• How far can we hope to know ‘how things really were’ in the ancient world?
• sculpture
• vase-painting
• coins
• mosaics
• 建筑与城市结构architecture and urban structures
• ancient literature, such as epic and drama
• historical texts
• 宗教语境religious contexts
• the material culture of the ancient world, such as statuary, paintings and sarcophagi
• close reading
• constructing an argument
• handling critical material
• introducing you to key critical questions about literary form, production and reception
• ancient Greek tragedy
• 中世纪英语戏剧medieval English drama
• Shakespeare and his contemporaries
• 修复阶段the Restoration stage
• 19th century naturalism
• political theatre of Brecht
• Kingship and authority
• Gender politics and marginalised voices
• Race and nation
• 战争与创伤War and trauma
• Class and power
• 数字职场传播digital workplace communication
• 语言与法学language and the law
• 健康传播health communication
• 企业传播corporate communication
• political communication and intercultural communication across continents
• Explore topics such as privacy, surveillance, power and representation
• Learn how modern technology can replicate historical biases and ignore contemporary struggles
• Gain the background and context to contemporary issues on data and society
• Question the limits we place on technology in our world
• Explore how the arts and humanities shape, direct and protect against the way data is used
• Develop your skills and apply them to case studies
• See how your work can highlight issues and solve problems
• Understand how data analysis allows us to create narratives that inspire and drive change
• Virtual reality renditions of historical photographs
• 沉浸式博物馆体验Immersive museum experiences
• Audio installations to share stories about migration and sustainability
• Interactive events to inspire young people about languages and cultures past and present
• The variety of human responses to sickness
• How ideas about illness are expressed across the world
• Drug resistant bacteria and mutations of viruses
• Examine Western culture’s way of defining the ‘environment’ and our relationship with nature
• Look at the diverse ways in which different cultures imagine nature
• Learn about debates around the Anthropocene, the era of humanity’s marked impact on the environment
• Examine the controversies and disputes that have emerged about our relationship with nature
• Causality
• 统计学Statistics
• Bias
• 内容分析Content analysis
• 语言Language
• discover coinciding developments in Roman literary and artistic culture
• consider the reception of ancient Rome in modern western culture
• Explore primary evidence from Greek literary and material culture
• Consider the relationship between ancient Greece and the modern world

31 modules

• oral and written presentation
• teamwork
• 批判思维与创意分析古代证据critical thinking and creative analysis of ancient evidence
• assessing the effectiveness of arguments and their basis in potentially incomplete evidence
• Created a museum exhibition
• Reconstructed an ancient artefact
• Designed a new public engagement strategy for a historic site
• Developed a board game
• Created a marketing campaign
• utopian literature (through Gulliver’s Travels)
• the developing novel (such as Moll Flanders and Pride and Prejudice)
• how irony works
• what is self-expression
• The way that language is used by people online to create communities
• How the mainstream media uses language to represent particular groups, such as immigrants or gay people
• The ways that language is used in particular contexts, such as the workplace
• How advertisers use language to persuade us that we need their products
• The relationship between language, gender and sexuality
• 如何语言can使用信号人士种族或族裔How language can be used to signal a person’s race or ethnicity
• How globalisation has increased bilingualism in the world
• How languages are learnt
• How students differ from each other in their mastery of languages
• How the psychology of the classroom environment impacts the effectiveness of learning
• How to motivate students and create good learner groups
• Literature can feel rich, or pacy, or suspenseful, or beautiful
• Texts can make you laugh, cry, feel afraid, excited, or nostalgic
• Fictional people like characters can be imagined
• We can get inside the thoughts, feelings, and hear the speech of characters, narrators and authors
• Imagined worlds are built, and how their atmosphere is brought to life
• You as a reader are manipulated or connect actively with literary worlds and people
• Konstantin Stanislavski
• Vsevolod Meyerhold
• Bertolt Brecht
• Antonin Artaud
• Jacques Lecoq
• Ensemble physical theatre makers such as DV8, Gecko & Frantic Assembly
• What makes a play worth watching?
• Why do audiences enjoy watching bad things happening?
• How are minority groups represented on the stage?
• How might the stage advance the cause of gender or sexual equality?
• What role does social class or nationality play in the workings of theatrical culture?
• consider their reception and afterlife
• focus on the textual and performance effects created
• place the texts alongside the work of relevant theorists and practitioners
• symposia
• drama and mime
• 修辞学rhetoric
• public displays of wealth and status
• or athletic and gladiatorial spectacles
• mythology and religion
• monumentality
• memory and topography
• 冲突与外交conflict and diplomacy
• the body and the senses
• 经济与技术economy and technology
• trade and colonisation
• Flavian personal poetry (Martial and Statius)
• The emperor Claudius (Suetonius and Tacitus)
• The Cupid and Psyche story from Apuleius’ novel Metamorphoses
• Ethnicity and Empire in Latin Epic (Virgil and Silius Italicus)
• The Power of Love (Ovid and Propertius)
• Tragedy (Euripides’ Antigone)
• Selections from Homer’s Iliad
• Longus’ novel Daphnis and Chloe
• Plutarch’s Life of Antony
• Paradoxography (a range of texts exploring the weird and marvellous)
• the physical environments of the first professional indoor and outdoor theatres
• the political and institutional contexts that shaped dramatic production
• an interrogation of the ‘post-consensus novel’
• an exploration of postcolonial texts which represent the transatlantic slave trade
• the cultural politics of late twentieth-century and twenty-first century Scottish literature
• formal analysis and literary innovations in Britain
• temporalities and the representation of time
• issues of gender, race and class
• histories of colonialism and slavery
• national traditions and politics of state
• 国家与城市the country and the city
• postmodernism
• 创意与文化产业creative and cultural industries
• 媒体media
• 市场营销marketing
• 遗产与博物馆heritage and museums
• 音乐产业the music industry
• 教育education
• charitable and third-sector organisations
• 传播communication
• presentation
• 组织organisation
• professionalism
• 时间管理技能time management skills
• Discuss how activism and advocacy can become part of academic work
• 艺术art
• 电影film
• 文学literature
• archive materials and documents
• 音乐与表演music and performance
• constitutional change
• the institution of slavery
• the status and role of women and the family
• 经济生命economic life
• 宗教religion

Arts Work Placement Module (Engaged Arts)

• 创意与文化产业creative and cultural industries
• 媒体media
• 市场营销marketing
• 遗产与博物馆heritage and museums
• 音乐产业the music industry
• 教育education
• charitable and third-sector organisations
• 传播communication
• presentation
• 组织organisation
• professionalism
• 时间管理技能time management skills

26 modules

• a journal-style article
• 学位论文a dissertation
• a substantial conference presentation
• a report on practical research activity such as digitisation
• poetry
• novels
• graphic novels
• films
• vocabulary
• grammar
• reading
• 写作writing
• speaking
• listening
• intercultural communicative skills
• Is there a language gene?
• What makes human language different from animal communication?
• What is the relationship between thought and language?
• Does everyone talk to themselves? What purpose does our inner voice serve?
• How do we learn language? And does cognition underpin our ability to learn language?
• What do language deficits tell us about language and the brain?
• How do we understand and produce speech, words, and sentences?
• What is the best way to teach children to read?
• How is sign language similar to/different from spoken language?
• gender and sexual identity construction in a range of interactive contexts
• sexist, misogynistic, homophobic and heteronormative representations in texts
• W.B. Yeats
• T.S. Eliot
• W. H. Auden
• Dylan Thomas
• Ted Hughes
• Sylvia Plath
• Wislawa Szymborska
• Tony Harrison
• Seamus Heaney
• Derek Mahon
• Adrienne Rich
• Geoffrey Hill
• Jo Shapcott
• Patience Agbabi
• Alice Oswald
• Flavian personal poetry (Martial and Statius)
• The emperor Claudius (Suetonius and Tacitus)
• The Cupid and Psyche story from Apuleius’ novel Metamorphoses
• Ethnicity and Empire in Latin Epic (Virgil and Silius Italicus)
• The Power of Love (Ovid and Propertius)
• Tragedy (Euripides’ Antigone)
• Selections from Homer’s Iliad
• Longus’ novel Daphnis and Chloe
• Plutarch’s Life of Antony
• Paradoxography (a range of texts exploring the weird and marvellous)
• improve reading fluency in your chosen language
• gain deeper insights and appreciation of the language and its literature
• the formation, nature and fall of palace states
• cultural interactions of the Minoans and Mycenaeans overseas
• the production, trade and consumption of various material goods
• 导论与发展管理与早期写作the introduction and development of administration and early writing
• archaeologies of cult and death
• the eruption of Thera/Santorini and its effect
• the rise of the Mycenaean culture
• social and economic structures as documented in Linear B tablets