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Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...social revolutions of the 1960s, impacted upon American rock musician Janis Joplin (1943-1970). You will investigate the extent to which the contemporary sexual revolution brought about greater gender equality for female popular musicians such as Janis Joplin, and consider whether it might be more accurate to view this as a superficial revolution which masked the reality...
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...work demonstrate sufficient skills to ‘read’ and ‘draw’ a wide range of diagrams, following given conventions, that help improve an understanding of a situation select diagrams suited to the needs of the situation being investigated and the purposes/preferences as the diagrammer...Systems diagramming: 1 How to use this course - This course is a learning resource....
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the UK government proposing to bring 1950s values to online pornography?

...works that contain consensual sex or more extreme fetish material involving adults. This sounds broad but the body’s list of unacceptable content includes material where adults role-play as non-adults, acts that could cause pain whether real or simulated, and strong verbal abuse, even if consensual. The most consternation comes from the fact that the BBFC’s decisions...
Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job
Society, Politics & Law

Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job

...social groups became associated with or excluded from such stories. It highlighted how landscapes could tell us about cultural values and how they served to create particular, selective understandings of ‘nature’. Then, since the late 1990s, many geographers have sought to suggest that something important has been lost in this keen focus on the ‘representational’...
Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative

...work is intrinsically linked to ongoing world events is both a privilege and a frustration. A privilege, because I am in the position to interpret and analyse the politics and international relations of my chosen area: Iran, and the Middle East more widely. A frustration, because the ongoing conflicts in the region are prone to sensationalised reporting and partisan media...
‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability
History & The Arts

‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability

...work concerning these emotions involves spelling out the precise nature of the conflict. Some argue that such emotions involve rational conflict, where subjects undergoing such emotions are endorsing two conflicting judgements, e.g. that flying is both safe and unsafe. By contrast, others argue that subjects are undergoing some other form of conflict, say endorsing a...
Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
History & The Arts

Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies

...working towards “eliminating sleep altogether”. Thus, not only does the ever-represented “sleep gone wrong” in the form of insomnia, sleepwalking or narcolepsy gain the status of an “unhealthy disorder,” but also sleep itself becomes an undesirable human activity. Secondly, regarding the generic emergence of sleep-science fiction, Greaney addresses the...
Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...work, still discussed and debated fifty years later. Snow’s thesis concerned the ‘gulf of mutual incomprehension ’ (Snow, 1965) between those who followed the sciences and those who saw the arts and humanities as their natural home. Each ‘sect’ saw their own disciplines as being superior in their contribution to humanity and believed that disciples of the other...