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The (PG) Learning Curve aims to support students as they transition into postgraduate (taught) University life and as such includes both academic skills (researching, writing, referencing, etc) as well as life skills (time management, adaptability, resilience, career planning) in addition to the practical information they'll need to navigate their programme of study (University IT platforms, Student Wellbeing, etc)

The (PG) Learning Curve aims to support students as they transition into postgraduate (taught) University life and as such includes both academic skills (researching, writing, referencing, etc) as well as life skills (time management, adaptability, resilience, career planning) in addition to the practical information they'll need to navigate their programme of study (University IT platforms, Student Wellbeing, etc)

The (UG) Learning Curve aims to support first-year students as they transition into University life and as such includes both academic skills (researching, writing, referencing, etc) as well as life skills (time management, adaptability, resilience, career planning) in addition to the practical information they'll need to navigate their programme of study (University IT platforms, Student Wellbeing, etc).

The (UG) Learning Curve aims to support first-year students as they transition into University life and as such includes both academic skills (researching, writing, referencing, etc) as well as life skills (time management, adaptability, resilience, career planning) in addition to the practical information they'll need to navigate their programme of study (University IT platforms, Student Wellbeing, etc).

The (UG) Learning Curve aims to support first-year students as they transition into University life and as such includes both academic skills (researching, writing, referencing, etc) as well as life skills (time management, adaptability, resilience, career planning) in addition to the practical information they'll need to navigate their programme of study (University IT platforms, Student Wellbeing, etc).

This module focuses on the essay as a critical practice and a literary form. The essay is fundamental to literary criticism, and basic to assessment across your degree. But the essay is also a literary and popular-cultural genre in its own right: one that marks the invention of the individual and the compulsion to, as Virginia Woolf puts it, ‘write one’s self’.

During the course of this module, you will hone your skills as a literary essayist—a writer who produces and/or engages with literature as an art form. You will explore the eccentricities and paradoxes of essay-writing across history, through ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, from its origins in the sixteenth century to popular journalism, blogs, and multi-media essays in our own time. In so doing, you will look closely at essayists’ choices of writing style, rhetoric, evidence, argument, and aesthetics and refine these elements in your own writing.

This module focuses on the essay as a critical practice and a literary form. The essay is fundamental to literary criticism, and basic to assessment across your degree. But the essay is also a literary and popular-cultural genre in its own right: one that marks the invention of the individual and the compulsion to, as Virginia Woolf puts it, ‘write one’s self’.

During the course of this module, you will hone your skills as a literary essayist—a writer who produces and/or engages with literature as an art form. You will explore the eccentricities and paradoxes of essay-writing across history, through ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, from its origins in the sixteenth century to popular journalism, blogs, and multi-media essays in our own time. In so doing, you will look closely at essayists’ choices of writing style, rhetoric, evidence, argument, and aesthetics and refine these elements in your own writing.

This module focuses on the essay as a critical practice and a literary form. The essay is fundamental to literary criticism, and basic to assessment across your degree. But the essay is also a literary and popular-cultural genre in its own right: one that marks the invention of the individual and the compulsion to, as Virginia Woolf puts it, ‘write one’s self’.

During the course of this module, you will hone your skills as a literary essayist—a writer who produces and/or engages with literature as an art form. You will explore the eccentricities and paradoxes of essay-writing across history, through ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, from its origins in the sixteenth century to popular journalism, blogs, and multi-media essays in our own time. In so doing, you will look closely at essayists’ choices of writing style, rhetoric, evidence, argument, and aesthetics and refine these elements in your own writing.

This module sets out to introduce you to the advertising process from initial client briefing, through to the generation of ideas and concepts in response to that brief and concluding with the presentation of those solutions to the client in a manner that will simulate an ‘agency pitch’.

Weekly online study resources covering the key stages of this process will precede an intensive 4-day workshop comprising of a simulated client/agency roleplay activity that will engage you in a fully immersive learning environment that will enable you to experience the various aspects and challenges of the client/agency relationship.


During the workshop, you will work within small student groups, undertaking the role of an advertising agency.

In this role, you will learn how to interpret a client brief, develop it into a creative brief, generate creative ideas that are strategically sound, and present those ideas to the client.

The workshop will provide a ‘safe’ environment to experience the challenges of working with a client and producing creative work to a deadline, together with the responsibility and accountability, that accompanies your role as part of the advertising agency.

The module will prepare you to reflect on the workshop experience, together with the knowledge and understanding you have from gained from the learning activities overall and considerations that have been given to achieving advertising and branding solutions that are ethical and sustainable.

This module sets out to introduce you to the advertising process from initial client briefing, through to the generation of ideas and concepts in response to that brief and concluding with the presentation of those solutions to the client in a manner that will simulate an ‘agency pitch’.

Weekly online study resources covering the key stages of this process will precede an intensive 4-day workshop comprising of a simulated client/agency roleplay activity that will engage you in a fully immersive learning environment that will enable you to experience the various aspects and challenges of the client/agency relationship.


During the workshop, you will work within small student groups, undertaking the role of an advertising agency.

In this role, you will learn how to interpret a client brief, develop it into a creative brief, generate creative ideas that are strategically sound, and present those ideas to the client.

The workshop will provide a ‘safe’ environment to experience the challenges of working with a client and producing creative work to a deadline, together with the responsibility and accountability, that accompanies your role as part of the advertising agency.

The module will prepare you to reflect on the workshop experience, together with the knowledge and understanding you have from gained from the learning activities overall and considerations that have been given to achieving advertising and branding solutions that are ethical and sustainable.