Get a deeply personalised education, designed for you – a change maker, founder, creator, leader.
At Regent’s, we educate for possibility in a rapidly changing world. We prepare you to be a creative thinker who can shape your chosen field to make a positive impact on people and planet.
We believe in learning by doing. Rather than a traditional lecture and seminar format, our live, on-campus teaching sessions let you engage in collaborative and experiential learning. In class, you draw on your experiences and perspectives. And you collaborate with others through discussions, debates, presentations, polls, and more.
Through the activities, you build curiosity, empathy, resilience, cooperation, focus, accountability, drive, and more. You also practice applying your new knowledge and skills to real-world situations in the form of role-plays, case studies, simulations, workshops, and projects.
Active learning allows you to take control of your learning journey and play your part in the creation of new knowledge.
Your learning journey
You'll expand your knowledge, skills, practice, and thinking with three building blocks:
- Subject Core
- Special Electives
- Industry & Entrepreneurship
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1. Subject Core
Gain a deep understanding of your field.
Learning from experts, you'll learn the fundamentals of your discipline – gaining deep expertise in your field and build the foundation to make you a great practitioner.
- Dive into the latest academic thinking, informed by in-house research
- Gain deep practical experience: hands-on workshops, site visits, and masterclasses
- Learn from academics with years of relevant industry experience.
2. Special Electives
Brand identity. Big data. AI, cybercrime, disruptive technologies. And more.
Go beyond your core discipline and get even more future-focused skills with your pick of Special Electives: a collection of modules available to every Regent's undergraduate student. All designed to be hyper-relevant to the world we live and work in – now and into the future.
- Not tied to a single discipline – gain broad thinking and a well-rounded skillset
- Consider your core from new angles – or add even more value to your personal brand with a secondary discipline or language
- Challenge your thinking in unexpected ways.
>> Explore all Special Electives at the tab above. Not all electives will be offered every term due to timetabling and other constraints.
3. Industry & Entrepreneurship
Take on challenges directly from the world of work.
Test your ideas, gain close industry connections, and take on real-world projects – all embedded into your course from day one. Work towards a final project, in which you’ll build and develop your unique idea – whether that’s a creative pursuit, an academic idea, or a new business you want to get off the ground.
Year 2
Languages and Special Electives
| Languages | |
|---|---|
| Language (Grades 1-6) – available Autumn and Spring |
Choose between Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish – all languages are offered from beginner to advanced level in every term. Languages provide you with tools to understand and imagine new worlds and communicate with others. Learning a language opens the door to cultures beyond your own and allows you to bridge the gap between communities and build connections for your life and your career. At Regent’s, you will learn languages differently. You will learn in a highly practical way, in order to develop skills for authentic communication. At Regent’s, you will receive individual attention in a supportive atmosphere and learn through collaboration and innovative teaching methodologies. Whether you want to start learning a new language, develop existing proficiency or prepare yourself to study abroad, these modules will help you develop a multilingual identity. |
| Advanced Language for Professionals (Grade 7) – available Autumn or Spring |
If you want to work in international or multilingual environments and you already have a higher intermediate level of Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian or Spanish, this module is for you. You will learn to apply your existing language skills to the workplace and acquire the practical and linguistic tools to connect, collaborate and communicate effectively in multicultural professional settings. Learning in small groups, you will gain knowledge of the countries where the language is spoken and of their work practices and will apply that knowledge to tasks that resemble those in the workplace. You will also develop job-specific linguistic and cross-cultural skills and explore contemporary forms of communication at professional levels. Immersed in a unique classroom environment that embodies Regent’s cosmopolitan character, you will experience individual attention in a supportive atmosphere, learn through innovative teaching methodologies and develop your multilingual professional identity. |
| Business English: Professional Writing – available Autumn or Spring |
Every professional journey will benefit from enhanced writing skills allowing you to express yourself and persuade others. Classes provide opportunities to create written texts (such as work emails, letters, proposals and reports) while developing understanding of writing as a process and how to adapt writing for diverse audiences and purposes. At the same time, you will also consider the impact of choices around tone, style, formality and other key language aspects. This module offers a memorable experience of professional writing, harnessing technology use (such as digital word lists, text analysers) and formative feedback, all within a supportive classroom atmosphere. As a result, you will be ready to apply what you learn to tasks on this module in your university course your career. |
| Business English/Advanced Business English – available Autumn or Spring |
For every prospective 21st century professional, higher-level business English skills are indispensable. Whether you study acting or psychology, business or fashion design, this module will develop business English knowledge (grammar and vocabulary) and skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) at upper-intermediate and advanced levels, to enhance your fluency, persuasiveness and effectiveness as a global communicator. Classes provide opportunities to engage in motivating linguistic challenges (such as discussions, presentations and reports). You will select and introduce business topics of interest and enjoy multiple opportunities for formative feedback, all within a small group, supportive classroom atmosphere. The sessions will encourage you to reflect throughout, helping to improve confidence through tasks designed to showcase the full range of business English skills required for success in your future career. |
| Advanced Spanish through Film (Grade 8) – available Autumn or Spring | Comics, films, social media posts...we live in a multimodal world where information is conveyed through combinations of visual, written, and spatial modes. If you already have a higher intermediate level of Spanish and wish to develop an ability to understand how images are created and ‘read’, this module is for you. Through close study of a range of films and television series produced in Latin America and Spain, you will enhance your understanding of the sociocultural reality of those countries. You will become familiar with the multimodal framework and apply it to the analysis of audio-visual texts. You will also acquire practical and linguistic tools to discuss and analyse in Spanish, and with a certain level of complexity, any audio-visual product. In addition to expanding on your existing linguistic skills, this module will help you develop new and highly valuable media literacies that can be easily transferred to your subject. |
| Special Electives | |
| Creativity and Imagination |
In this module, you will explore the nature of creativity by encountering, experiencing and reflecting on a variety of creative practices. Topics explored may include such concepts as originality, influence, imagination, genre, the senses, trends (how to spot and start them) and design thinking. Drawing on this, you will develop your own project, exploring the theme of a change you want to see in the world. Creativity is a defining human characteristic valued in many fields. It is also one of our most puzzling concepts. Can anyone be creative? Is creativity something you have or something you do? Where does inspiration come from? How can we enjoy and learn from our ‘mistakes’? You will also explore methods, processes and achievements of key creatives who changed the way we see the world. Examples will be drawn from across the realms of the arts, business, and wider society – both locally and globally. Your work will be developed through both peer and tutor coaching with an opportunity to exhibit your projects to the wider Regent’s community. For assessment, you will submit a visual and/or textual presentation reflecting upon your own creative project and journey. |
| Inspiring Your Audience | This module will teach you collaboration, empathy and insight, as well the skills of acting and voice projection. This course will help you connect with your emotions to effect authentic communication and evoke emotional responses. You will learn how to express yourself to an audience or screen, and the nuances involved in doing so. This module will be critical and reflective, and will help you connect with your emotions in a therapeutic and positive way. It is a culturally and socially versatile module that will encourage you to embrace cultures, cultural settings and beliefs. |
| Being Human | This module will equip you with the reflective skills you need to thrive in the contemporary socially mediated world. In this complex and ever-evolving environment, these human relationship skills have never been more important and will contribute to your life-long learning. In this module, you will develop an awareness of the “lens” through which you view the world. You will reflect on how you impact other people, and how they impact you. You will learn how to communicate more sensitively and understand more about how you are different from other people, and they from you. You will explore how to cope with change and uncertainty, and how to engage in self-care. You will practice listening, and ways of communicating openly, authentically and with empathy. Sessions will be experiential and problem-based, focusing as much on co-learning and improvement as success. You will learn collaboratively with your peers in the classroom through creative tasks and examples that are topical and relevant to you. |
| Future Cities Now |
Our cities are already busy reinventing themselves from the bottom up and, as they are the drivers of human ingenuity and social transformations, we need them now more than ever. For over 6000 years, cities have been pulling us in with promises of adventure, independence, diversity and new ideas. Today more than half of humanity lives in cities, and this number is expected to reach three-quarters by 2050. But how will our future superorganism-like cities serve as sustainable and thriving socio-economic habitats? This module provides a glimpse into the economic, political, cultural and technological forces reshaping our urban environments today. It reveals a positive trajectory for both people and planet; the enriching roles our local neighbourhoods play; the ways in which more flexible work patterns increase demand for urban experiences; the different ways in which our public spaces are opened up, rethought, and redesigned; and the exciting new forms of retail and food experiences heading our way. |
| Creating a Brand Identity | This module will help you to own, plan and manage your professional success through your personal brand – the authentic voice you want to take to market. It will inform your own personal strategy to get your voice, message or product noticed by investigating, telling stories and analysing case studies. You will develop an understanding of brand identity by using approaches derived from psychology, journalism and wider media studies. You will learn how to work with images, as well as basic video editing, web page creation and user experience design. You will also begin to produce assets such as biographies in various formats and lengths, and to develop your presentation skills, including tone of voice and body language. At the end of the module, you will have formed the basis of your brand identity, and you will be able to take away a set of personal brand assets. |
| Why We Post: Social Media and Us | This module brings your experiences of social media, voices and personal stories into the classroom. You will gain critical exposure to interactive and interdisciplinary thinking and practices surrounding social media. Learning social media will improve your cooperative learning skills, and will help you to communicate effectively and meaningfully. As this is a practical module, you will gain strategies and tools to critically understand social media and how it connects to industry – ultimately creating your own social and digital media content. |
| Financial Innovation and Technology |
This module will be of interest to those who are curious to explore fintech and new technologies that are disrupting the financial service industry. You will explore business models, products, applications, and user interfaces. You will gain an overview of artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain technology and open APIs. You will also understand the competitive landscape, and how start-ups, big finance and big tech companies interrelate. In this module, you will gain critical reasoning skills by reflecting on and understanding the lessons behind fintech companies, and by strategically analysing business and technology. |
| Photography Workshop | In this module you will advance your photographic and image making skills across a broad range of applications. The multi-disciplinary approach will nurture a comprehensive understanding of photographic and creative skills. This will help you to articulate your personal cohesive visual narrative and will help you make your work stand out. You will learn and refine new techniques, which you will then apply to a range of industry-applied briefs. As a result, you will expand your capabilities when realising your projects and enrich your portfolio with applied visual outcomes. |
| How to Think in a Post-Truth World | Learn to differentiate between correct and incorrect reasoning in a world that is often described as post-truth. You will be introduced to the study of reasoning, including the nature of arguments, deductive and inductive inference, validity, syllogisms and the identification of fallacies. The module will emphasise reasoning in natural language and arguments in practical contexts, while introducing you to formal and informal techniques of logical analysis. We will also examine various phenomena and arguments associated with a post-truth world, including the prevalence and structure of conspiracy theories, cultural and ethical relativism, and claims about the political and corporate capture of scientific understanding. You will be challenged to research your own choice of conspiracy theory or post-truth phenomenon and analyse its logical structure, discover its history and detect the stakeholders who are promoted or harmed by it. |
| Understanding Human Rights | This module provides a practical approach to understanding human rights in everyday life and in the professional environment. You will develop transferable problem-solving and enquiry skills, thus enhancing your knowledge of the protection of human rights. By using case law and the rich data it provides, you will analyse and evaluate violations and discrimination, and develop skills to synthesise, understand and communicate the knowledge you acquire. While you learn, you will apply pre-defined human rights principles to real case studies, and enhance your interpersonal, team-working and networking skills through practical, creative in-class work and debates. The complexity of the subject will be addressed through the study of diverse cultural, professional and political environments. Comparative analysis of international and national human rights protection systems will lead you to study practices of the European, African and inter-American human rights courts. |
| Literary London | This module will guide you through the complex, entertaining and diverse family of literature inspired by the city of London. The texts will serve as routes through which to explore the history of the city’s various districts, classes and communities. You will see how generations of authors have reinterpreted the British capital: from the social conflicts shown in Shakespeare’s plays, to the polluted industrial centre depicted by Dickens, to the multicultural hub celebrated by such authors as Selvon, Smith and Ali. The course explores the myriad of ways in which London has been imagined: as a den of vice, a triumph of civilisation and a theatre of dreams. As part of the process of contextualisation, material from domains such as history, sociology, the history of medicine and urban theory will be incorporated into your studies. |
| Behind the Lens: Introduction to Media Production | This module will help you to develop media literacy by exploring the basics of genre and narrative structure in drama. You will gain specialist production skills of camera, sound, lighting, directing, producing and editing, and learn to create narrative in drama. In this module, you will create a short drama and a short reportage piece, and apply your skills in order to understand and practice the roles therein. |
| Psychology of Emotions |
An emotion is defined as a complex reaction pattern that involves experiential, behavioural and physiological elements; it is a subjective and socially shared experience. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the ways in which people have expressed their emotions has changed as we have been forced to communicate virtually; the lack of contact with others and face-to-face experiences have impacted people, especially the youngest. Human emotions have increasingly been expressed digitally through video calls, social media and online messages, and people have become less used to facial expressions. This has impacted on the development of emotions in childhood and emotional awareness in adolescence and adulthood, as well as verbal and non-verbal communication in the family context, and working and educational environments. This module aims to introduce you to types of emotions, emotion development and theories, physiological changes, abnormal emotional processing, facial expressions and the use of emojis in virtual communication. |
| London as Fashion Capital | London is a fashion icon. This module aims to serve as an introduction to London as a key fashion capital within the global industry. You will be introduced to key developments in the history of the city that led to its prominence in the international spotlight. By exploring several diverse areas and locations, you will learn how unique London is in its fashion geography, varied consumer base and wider appeal – examining its hotspots and leading style tribes as part of your studies. You will explore the strong interrelationships between London’s fashion and culture, art, design and creative scenes. You will explore why the city is unparalleled in its position as home to not only the world’s most exciting and dynamic emerging talent, but also to some of the world’s leading industry players. This module makes full use of London as a resource, and therefore much of the activity takes place outside of the classroom. |
| Emerging Technologies: from Web3 to the Metaverse |
This module aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills to deal with the rapid growth and change of technology and show how new and emerging technologies can be applied to different industries and business contexts. This module will consider the emerging technology landscape by covering technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, blockchain, internet of things (IoT) and metaverse applications and immersive technologies (VR & AR). You will understand technological trends, identify the opportunities and challenges that new and emerging technologies may bring and identify use cases and industries that could face disruption from new and emerging technologies. The focus is not just introducing you to the emerging technologies but showing you how to examine the disruptions on various business models and functions, and how to identify opportunities for innovation. You will also examine the connections between technologies. |
| Digital Design with Adobe Creative Suite | This module explores the use of digital design and desktop publishing, using Adobe’s industry standard suite of Creative Cloud applications. From editing and synthesising photographic imagery in Adobe Photoshop or creating computer-aided designs in Adobe Illustrator, to creating complex rich-media materials for print and multimedia in Adobe InDesign, this module will teach hands-on skills, encourage critical design thinking, and help you understand the use of media in a digital world. You will also explore intellectual property rights, fair usage, team-working and entrepreneurship – areas that are also fundamental to digital creativity. |
| The Power of Language in Your Life |
Language, and the way we use it, is vital to our understanding. This module explores the power of language and how it is infused throughout key areas of our lives by examining topics as diverse as love, politics, technology, crime and film. You will gain awareness of the key role language plays in our daily activities, from decoding advertisements and slogans, to using Google Translate and Alexa’s interface, protecting mental health and resolving geopolitical crises. Working with a variety of materials, you will also be encouraged to think laterally and across disciplinary boundaries to explore and understand how to harness the power of language for your career and future. |
| Business Ethics | This module introduces you to fundamental ethical issues in modern business. You will gain the critical thinking and decision-making skills that are necessary to successfully lead in business – skills that are also demanded by employers and society. You will examine ethical theory frameworks, for example utilitarianism and rights-based theory, and apply them to a variety of case studies that involve a diverse array of stakeholders (for example, consumers, employees, government and civil society). You will also explore the concept of corporate social responsibility and evaluate the various roles that business can adopt in diverse international contexts. You will collaborate with other students to engage in organised debates that will acquaint you with multiple perspectives on key issues, such as corporate governance, employee rights, consumer protection and environmental preservation. You will improve your leadership ability to provide sophisticated, well-reasoned justifications for your decisions, your actions and your strategies. |
| Experiencing Theatre | Develop an enjoyment of theatre arts by going behind the scenes of theatre production. By understanding the mechanism of staging productions, from Shakespeare to musical theatre, you will start to appreciate the complexity of such collaborative projects, and begin to recognise the teamwork that realises them. Classroom activities will give you a taste of the discipline, intellectual demands and the craft and skills that shape a performance. You will learn the importance of collaborative contribution, critical thinking and innovation through digital technology in the arts. |
| Understanding the Global Art Market |
Develop your critical engagement with drivers of the art market by examining the changing role of the artist, collector, influencer and seller. In this module, you will become more creative, entrepreneurial, critical, reflective and well-informed about the field and future career paths, as well as skilled and fluent to work across disciplines. You will learn how brands benefit from collaborations with artists, such as luxury brand special editions, and how art can be used to amplify CSR activities. You will also learn about the topics of art fairs, individual and corporate collecting, commercial galleries, private art museums and auction houses. The module explores contemporary forms of patronage, and the crossovers between art and luxury goods, museums and boutiques. You will discuss the ethical complexities around sponsorship, and address the urgency of sustainability in designing exhibitions and fairs – in particular, against the rise of NFTs. Finally, you will enhance your appreciation of other cultures by exploring the ways in which works of art are marketed and consumed. |
Year 3
Languages and Special Electives
| Languages | |
|---|---|
| Language (Grades 1-6) – available Autumn and Spring |
Choose between Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish – all languages are offered from beginner to advanced level. Languages provide you with tools to understand and imagine new worlds and communicate with others. Learning a language opens the door to cultures beyond your own and allows you to bridge the gap between communities and build connections for your life and your career. At Regent’s, you will learn languages differently. You will learn in a highly practical way, in order to develop skills for authentic communication. At Regent’s, you will receive individual attention in a supportive atmosphere and learn through collaboration and innovative teaching methodologies. Whether you want to start learning a new language, develop existing proficiency or prepare yourself to study abroad, these modules will help you develop a multilingual identity. |
| Advanced Language for Professionals (Grade 7) – available Autumn or Spring |
If you want to work in international or multilingual environments and you already have a higher intermediate level of Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian or Spanish, this module is for you. You will learn to apply your existing language skills to the workplace and acquire the practical and linguistic tools to connect, collaborate and communicate effectively in multicultural professional settings. Learning in small groups, you will gain knowledge of the countries where the language is spoken and of their work practices and will apply that knowledge to tasks that resemble those in the workplace. You will also develop job-specific linguistic and cross-cultural skills and explore contemporary forms of communication at professional levels. Immersed in a unique classroom environment that embodies Regent’s cosmopolitan character, you will experience individual attention in a supportive atmosphere, learn through innovative teaching methodologies and develop your multilingual professional identity. |
| Business English: Professional Writing – available Autumn or Spring |
Every professional journey will benefit from enhanced writing skills allowing you to express yourself and persuade others. Classes provide opportunities to create written texts (such as work emails, letters, proposals and reports) while developing understanding of writing as a process and how to adapt writing for diverse audiences and purposes. At the same time, you will also consider the impact of choices around tone, style, formality and other key language aspects. This module offers a memorable experience of professional writing, harnessing technology use (such as digital word lists, text analysers) and formative feedback, all within a supportive classroom atmosphere. As a result, you will be ready to apply what you learn to tasks on this module in your university course your career. |
| Business English/Advanced Business English – available Autumn or Spring |
For every prospective 21st century professional, higher-level business English skills are indispensable. Whether you study acting or psychology, business or fashion design, this module will develop business English knowledge (grammar and vocabulary) and skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) at upper-intermediate and advanced levels, to enhance your fluency, persuasiveness and effectiveness as a global communicator. Classes provide opportunities to engage in motivating linguistic challenges (such as discussions, presentations and reports). You will select and introduce business topics of interest and enjoy multiple opportunities for formative feedback, all within a small group, supportive classroom atmosphere. The sessions will encourage you to reflect throughout, helping to improve confidence through tasks designed to showcase the full range of business English skills required for success in your future career. |
| Advanced Spanish through Film (Grade 8) – available Autumn or Spring | Comics, films, social media posts... we live in a multimodal world where information is conveyed through combinations of visual, written, and spatial modes. If you already have a higher intermediate level of Spanish and wish to develop an ability to understand how images are created and ‘read’, this module is for you. Through close study of a range of films and television series produced in Latin America and Spain, you will enhance your understanding of the sociocultural reality of those countries. You will become familiar with the multimodal framework and apply it to the analysis of audio-visual texts. You will also acquire practical and linguistic tools to discuss and analyse in Spanish, and with a certain level of complexity, any audio-visual product. In addition to expanding on your existing linguistic skills, this module will help you develop new and highly valuable media literacies that can be easily transferred to your subject. |
| Special Electives | |
| Creative Futures | In this module, you will create and curate an experiential group project that demonstrates the kinds of creative leadership demanded by the challenges of our future. The future is diverse and its challenges entangled – so, to enact change, we must collaborate, think critically and respond creatively. In this module, you will explore new ways of imagining, perceiving, and sensing your local environments, focusing on our global community as a great place for exploration and learning. You will discover your own role in leading change and learn how to creatively respond to challenges that matter to you. You will explore fresh solutions to complex problems and use your imagination and new ways of perceiving and sensing to expand and map the potential for change. You will explore how we work together, frame challenges, respect diverse perspectives, manage paradox and uncertainty, make collective sense of a chosen situation and create new stories to enact change. Your goal, at the end of the module, is to design a project with others that will enable an invited audience to see and explore a core issue of your own choosing in a new way. Your powers of creative thinking and problem solving will be pushed to imagine new possibilities that did not exist before. |
| Understanding Artificial Intelligence |
In this module you will investigate the impact of artificial intelligence in the digital ecosystem. AI is currently driving change across all industries and will have a significant impact in how we work, live and learn. More than automating processes, machines are on the cusp of leading processes and conducting higher-level tasks to unimaginable levels. This module will equip you with the tools and knowledge to understand and maximise the potential impact of AI. This will be an immersive and interactive experience where you will have the chance to explore the strategies behind AI and its implications for the development of complex technologies and new ways of living. You do not require previous coding knowledge, as this module is open to all students interested in engaging with a wide range of AI tools and techniques as well as discussions on the implication of AI in our current lives and future selves. |
| Professional Project Management | Whether introducing a new technology solution or setting up a creative venture, every project needs a leader who is able to keep people and tasks on track. In complex and changing times, collaboration across teams and organisations is more essential than ever. This module will provide the knowledge and tools to help you plan, manage and deliver projects in your personal, educational and professional life. Starting with an introduction to project management, you’ll learn about the project lifecycle, how to plan and scope a project, identify and mitigate risks, monitor project dependencies, and measure progress. You’ll gain an understanding of different project methodologies, from Waterfall to Agile, as well as understanding how to work with stakeholders to deliver results that work for everyone. |
| Essential Leadership Skills | In this module, you will consider the self in the context of wider systems and organisations. You will explore issues of wellness in the workplace and understand more about diversity and discrimination. You will consider leadership from an ethical perspective, learn about professional organisations as complex human ecosystems, and learn to work with listening and communication, power dynamics, teamwork and conflict negotiation. Sessions will be experiential and problem-based, focusing as much on co-learning and improvement as success. You will learn collaboratively with your peers live in the classroom through creative tasks and examples that are topical and of future relevance. This module will equip you with the higher-order cognitive, social and emotional skills you need to thrive in future work domains, in which demand for reflective forms of leadership, diversity intelligence, authentic communication, team-work and problem-solving skills has never been higher. |
| Introduction to Environmental Law | This module will introduce you to key concepts and issues surrounding the regulation of the business environment. These include government reactions to climate change and global warming. You will have an awareness of the laws on waste disposal in the energy and pharmaceutical sectors. Students will also become familiar with other soft laws regarding recycling and the protection of the environment. The module will review real-world case studies, and you will be sensitised to the impact of natural resource extraction, carbon emissions from production processes, effluence into the waters and noise pollution. The module also covers the regulation of land use, trespassing and nuisance. |
| Brand Me | In this module, you will develop your ability to influence, positioning yourself so you can reach your goals. You will critique and reflect on the differences between conventional and personal branding, identify your own unique promise of value and purpose, and develop your reflective skills so that your personal brand can remain authentic and relevant at all stages of your professional career journey. In practical terms, you will learn how to develop a content creation schedule and features list, to identify target audiences, and how to collaborate with other content creators and organisations. You will explore communications mediums such as live streaming and learn how to select appropriate platforms to match your goals. You will also gain awareness of some of the important legal, ethical and mental health implications of having a public profile. Importantly, you will also develop a strategic approach to monetising the content you produce. |
| How to Create a Social Enterprise |
In this module, you will study the ways in which people in the social economy, civil society and enterprises are innovating, adapting and using business strategies to address big global challenges – from income inequality and employee dissatisfaction to climate change. You will investigate the rising global phenomenon of social innovation: systems, organisations and processes that, according to the OECD, ‘aim to improve the welfare and wellbeing of individuals and communities’, through practices like microfinance, frontier technologies, urban farming and healthcare apps. In this module, you will also be able to access mentorship as you develop your own social initiative. |
| Influencer Marketing Masterclass |
With the ever-shrinking gap between our digital and offline worlds becoming ever more noticeable, you will need to have an awareness of the earning potential of online tools and social platforms. During this module you will be taught the technical and creative skills to produce engaging content using the technology readily available to all of us. You will gain insight into how to develop your ‘digital self’, and how to create more coherent and manageable online outputs for a variety of purposes. You will also explore the professional and commercial opportunities that come with engaging with the influencer economy and how social feeds can become monetised content. |
| The Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Revolution |
In this module you will explore the nature of borderless, blockchain-powered relations. From digital identities, online banking, gaming, digital arts and healthcare, blockchain supports users to manage their personal data in revolutionary ways. You will combine approaches to the use of blockchain technology and consider how it is implemented in real-world settings. Blockchain is the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and it has almost unlimited applications beyond finance. You will utilise cryptocurrencies and digital exchange within blockchain, explore and join existing projects, evaluate the impact of decentralisation of data and integrate varied perspectives on how emergent technologies are shaping the future and inspiring new types of social action. This module does not require previous financial analytical background or knowledge of coding. |
| The Art of Data Storytelling | We live in a world driven by data and there’s a high demand for leaders who can convert data into insights that lead to game-changing solutions. The conceptual age is hungry for people who can be creative, entrepreneurial and digitally agile. Contrary to popular belief, data storytelling is not simply data visualisation, analytics reporting, or a collection of statistics and illustrations sitting in a dashboard report. Data storytelling is the blend of two worlds, hard data and human communication, which reveal rich insights only when working together. It involves skilfully crafting a compelling narrative by exploring data and revealing deep insights. In this module, you will use industry-standard, user-friendly data analytics and visualisation tools in a creative exploration of the art and science of data storytelling and communication. |
| Cyber-psychology: Understanding Digital Behaviour |
This module will introduce you to the topic of cyberpsychology. This is an emerging, inter-disciplinary and naturally applied field that utilises scientific practices to examine human behaviours that result from interactions with digital technology and the internet. Built on the foundations of traditional psychology, cyberpsychology posits how the integration of, and interactions with, digital technologies in modern life impacts behaviour. In this module, you may cover topics such as: the online self, technology across the lifespan, computer-mediated communication, online group behaviour and communities, social media use, online consumer behaviour and marketing, health and technology, gaming behaviours and virtual reality, cybercrime and security, internet-mediated research, and misconceptions and debates in cyberpsychology. |
| Creative and Professional Writing Masterclass | Writing is a vital way of communicating and developing complex responses to problems and ideas – and creative writing helps writers cultivate imagination. This module focuses on developing writing practices that can be applied in a variety of professional settings. These tools can be used across disciplines and in any subject to help you communicate more powerfully. In this module, you will take on writing activities such as responding to prompts, environmental observation, developing sense imagery and using metaphor to gain insight. You will write, share your work and respond to others, therein cultivating your creativity, curiosity and voice, working kindly and collaboratively to respond to drafts and plan future work. You will gain confidence to explore new ideas and techniques, while gaining tools to take your writing further in the future. This is an opportunity to develop greater self-knowledge in expression, beginning in familiar territory and ending in an expanded sense of possibility. |
| How to deal with Uncertainty |
In this module, you will be introduced to theories and practical methods to predict futures, such as scenario planning, horizon scanning, foresight, trend analysis, and forecasts and backcasts. Futures studies is an interdisciplinary, systematic process for imagining possible outcomes and planning for the future. Using a pattern-based understanding of past and present, it looks for insights into social, cultural, technological, environmental, economic and political drivers. Gaining foresight is an important tool in many fields, including strategic thinking, urban planning, trend forecasting, economic predictions, fashion design and speculative fiction. It is a way to gain new perspectives for enhancing decision-making, and to identify how to act in the medium and long term. Ultimately, it aims to give us the tools to explore how people will live and work in the future, opening windows into the demands and needs of tomorrow. You will emerge with the skills to apply this way of thinking to your own discipline, and with the skills to read trends and identify potential innovations. |
| Global Conflict and the Arts | This module investigates the relationship between the arts and global conflict during the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together the study of art, literature and music created in response to conflict, you will examine the role the state plays in commissioning works on the theme of conflict, and how this affected the resulting works. You will explore the distinction between art and propaganda, and investigate the contrast between works that glorify war and those created in protest. In this module, you will also explore the relationship between the arts and atrocity and debate the ‘limits of representation’ (above all, in relation to the Holocaust and Hiroshima), issues of religion, race, gender and sexuality, and questions of cultural memory and the memorialisation process. Visits to appropriate cultural events will be organised. |
| Material Cultures and Sustainability | The module encourages you to learn about the future of materials and digital fabrication technologies and to consider this in relation to sustainability and your own discipline. The module focuses on material innovation, sustainability and circular economy, and asks students to research and actively explore a material or series of materials. A key part of your learning will take the form of hands-on testing as well as in-depth research into contemporary and cutting-edge material cultures. |
| Exploring Sleep and Dreaming |
This module covers the science, behaviour and philosophy of sleep and dreaming. Sleep is critical for all physical and psychological functions, yet is undervalued in society – people typically do not achieve sufficient sleep. In this module, you will understand and appreciate sleep and its functions, and you will be supported to make lifelong changes with a positive impact on their academic and cognitive performance and physical and mental health. You will learn about topics including the science of sleep across the lifespan, the philosophy of consciousness and sleep disorders. You will cover how to measure sleep, including using sleep trackers, and the impact of sleep on cognition, academic performance, and mental and physical health. |
| Understanding the Politics of Migration | This module provides an understanding of current refugee and migration situations by tracing historical and political developments at national and international level. Using a range of legal, policy and theoretical approaches, it will explore migration flows from both sending and receiving country contexts. We will ask questions about the causes and origins of migration and refugee flows, as well as provide some insight into the consequences of immigration for populations and politics of receiving countries. The module will explore issues of race and racism, integration, identity and belonging and gender. You will also study how new minorities are created, and diaspora and changing identities will be studied in a context of permanent social change. |
| Living Religions in London | This module will introduce you to a range of religious communities including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, by utilising London as a rich resource for religious studies. By focusing on the living traditions, we will deconstruct and challenge essentialist assumptions concerning the category ‘religion’. You will explore how religion affects continuity and change among diverse cultures and communities. By applying the basic concepts of comparative religious studies and experiential learning on a series of field trips, you will learn how to integrate perspectives from multiple sources, including history, philosophy, art and architecture. Social interaction with people of faith will yield a multi-faceted understanding of what religion means to people, fostering a greater appreciation for the many ways of living in this world other than our own. Through self-reflection, we will learn how our own belief systems interact with others’. |
| Decision-making Strategies Masterclass | Everyday decision making is composed of multiple predictions about the future over the short, medium and long-term. Whether you’re choosing a career or a place to live or designing a new product, your decisions are formed based on implicit judgements about the likely probabilities of certain events occurring. Unfortunately, humans are not as good as we think we are at making these judgements. In this module, you will learn and practice the analytical and statistical skills that will help improve this kind of decision making. Drawing on new developments in judgement enhancement, you will learn how to recognise common biases and habits that interfere with good predictions. We will also use online tools to determine whether you can be a ‘superforecaster’ – a person capable of making correct predictive judgements with a higher reliability than the general public or even subject area experts. |
| Podcasting Masterclass |
This module will help you understand the technical, business and creative skills used in producing audio. You will engage with project-based learning to produce audio-based artefacts that demonstrate your understanding of sound as a vehicle for creating narrative and sonic experiences for various audiences, platforms and formats. You will receive full technical training in how to record, edit and produce audio to a professional standard. In addition, you will engage with a variety of genres and styles of podcasts and critically examine case studies that will assist you to develop your media and digital literacy. |