(F)+Open+Lecture+Scheme

=The Open Lecture Scheme=

====If you are interested in attending any of the lectures please contact: clglectures@gmail.com or phone Nigel Cole on 01524 381783 – who will liaise with the University to confirm requested places if available. Closing date for applications is 6th October 2017.====

Attenders are not permitted:

 * ===to ask questions===
 * ===interrupt the lecture===
 * ===receive written notes/handouts===

Attenders must:

 * ===give up their seat should the lecture theatre be full and fee paying students require a seat.===

===Venues and further details will be given out individually once attenders have been confirmed. There are only limited places offered by agreement with the University. No-one can just “turn up” without being accepted and confirmed.===

Courses Offered 2017-18 are as follows...

 * **__Course __** || **__1st Lecture __** || **__2nd Lecture __** || **__3rd Lecture __** || **__Duration __** ||
 * **LING 102 English Language**
 * **LING 102 English Language**

These lectures aim to introduce you to the English language – how to describe it, how it varies and how it functions in a variety of contexts. You will not only study the traditional linguistic areas of English (e.g. lexis, grammar, phonetics), but also areas that are often overlooked (e.g. letters, spellings) and areas that have more recently come to the fore, such as pragmatics or conversation analysis.

You will learn about linguistic frameworks in the analysis and explanation of variation in English, both present-day and, to a lesser extent, historical. . || Mon 2-3 pm || Thur 3-4 pm ||  || Weeks 1-25 ||
 * **SOCL101 Introduction to Sociology**
 * **SOCL101 Introduction to Sociology**

These lectures aim to introduce you to sociological issues, ideas, concepts, evidence and argument by examining some key aspects of living in the contemporary world.

You will be introduced to debates and issues related to various aspects of contemporary societies and encouraged to explore ideas and undertake analysis. In this respect, it is perhaps better to think of sociology as an interpretative scientific endeavour rather than producing definitive findings or laws, although it may do this too. || Mon 3-4 pm || Tues 1-2 pm ||  || Weeks 1-25 ||
 * **GWS101 Introduction to Gender and Womens Studies**
 * **GWS101 Introduction to Gender and Womens Studies**

Gender and Women's Studies considers the kinds of power that women and men have developed, the forms of organisations and institutions in which they participate and the ways in which women have resisted marginalisation.

You will be introduced to crucial categories of difference and forms of inequality such as race, gender, class, disability and sexuality and we will explore how gender identities are constructed. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mon 10-11 am || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tues 10-11 am ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Weeks 1-25 ||
 * **Phil100 Introduction to Philosophy**
 * **Phil100 Introduction to Philosophy**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">How should we live? Is there a God? Are we free to act as we wish if everything is determined by prior causes? Why should we obey the law? Can science discover all the facts that can be known?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> These are some of the many challenging questions you will engage with. We approach these questions through the history of Philosophy – studying figures such as Plato, Descartes, Kant and Nietzsche amongst others. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mon 4-5 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Wed 10-11 am ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Weeks 1-25 ||
 * **CREW103 Introduction to Creative Writing**
 * **CREW103 Introduction to Creative Writing**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These lectures aim to offer insight into issues such as plot construction, character development, and the use of poetic form. We also value the opportunity to expose you to writers talking about their practice. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Thurs 1-2 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Fri 1-2 pm ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Weeks 1-25 ||
 * **POLI 100 Understanding Politics and Governance**
 * **POLI 100 Understanding Politics and Governance**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These lectures aim to be accessible to those who have studied Politics before, but also to those who have not. They will provide an introduction and a foundation for future study.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You are introduced to the principles, practice and institutions of ‘liberal democracy’, the foundations of the liberal state, liberty and democracy, and examine their meaning, value and compatibility || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mon 3-4 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Thurs 11-12 am ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Weeks 1-24 ||
 * **EPR100 Ethics Philosophy and Religion**
 * **EPR100 Ethics Philosophy and Religion**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What is the meaning of life? What does it mean to be human? What do we owe to other people? How can we understand our relationship with the divine? What does it mean to talk about the divine or the infinite? Can we have decent and meaningful human relationships without the presence of something greater? Are these questions universal, or culturally specific? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> These lectures aim to offer you the knowledge and skills to approach fundamental questions about the meaning of life and the human condition with confidence and, crucially, to consider what is at stake in ethical reasoning with self-assurance and maturity.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The perspectives offered include the philosophical, theological, religious, western, Asian, the cross-cultural, ancient and modern. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mon 5-6 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tues11-12 am ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Weeks 1-24 ||
 * **RST100 World Religions**
 * **RST100 World Religions**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These lectures aim to provide an outline of the growth and development of the world’s major religious traditions, their primary characteristics, and subsequently consider some of the various forms they take in the contemporary world.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The lectures aim to reflect on four religious traditions – Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. They will set each religion in context and set out the varieties of its beliefs. Students will explore religious ethics and practice, and examine some of the contemporary issues facing these religions today. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Thurs 2-4 pm ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Weeks 1-24 ||
 * **Biol 134 Ethics and Biomedicine**
 * **Biol 134 Ethics and Biomedicine**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These lectures are suitable for those with a broad interest in the biochemical processes of life and how these are altered by disease. We have extensive links with local hospitals, both in research activities and in the teaching on our biomedical-based courses.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> These lectures are designed to provide you with a broad overview of subject disciplines and includes Molecules of Life, Biomedicine and Society, Organic Chemistry, and Anatomy and Tissue Structure. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mon 10-11 am || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tues 11-12 am ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Weeks 16-19 ||
 * **Law 103 R Law of Torts**
 * **Law 103 R Law of Torts**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These lectures introduce you to the law of torts, covering topics such as negligence, trespass, nuisance, Rylandsv Fletcher, breach of statutory duty, defamation and privacy. you will engage with theoretical perspectives and academic critique as well as the substantive law in order to gain an informed and critical overview of the subject. || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">To be confirmed ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Law 264 Lawyers and Society**
 * **Law 264 Lawyers and Society**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The legal profession and legal services are currently experiencing major changes as a result of commercialisation, inter and intra professional competition, globalisation, the culture of human rights, pressure to improve access to justice, the intensification of conflicts of interest, the impact of information technology, the changing character of legal work, and the growing number of lawyers who were long excluded - women and racial minorities.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> These lectures aim to provide a critical examination of the development, current state and likely future shape of the legal profession. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mon 2-3 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tues 5-6pm ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Weeks 1-10 ||
 * **Law 240 Family Law**
 * **Law 240 Family Law**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These lectures aim to introduce you to a collection of laws as they impact upon the family as a unit and upon the individuals within a familial group. They seek to inform you to develop a critical approach to the law in this area, and to take law as an object of study and examine how family relationships are understood in that context. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tues 9-10 am ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Weeks 1-10 ||
 * **Law 300 Health Care Law and Ethics**
 * **Law 300 Health Care Law and Ethics**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These lectures aim to introduce you to the underlying conceptual framework and basic principles of health care law. You may then utilise your understanding of these foundational issues through exploring specific and complex areas of health care law and practice, from a medico-legal and ethical perspective. The chosen areas will reflect current medical advances and the developing nature of medical and ethical practice. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mon 10-11 am ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Weeks 11-20 ||
 * **LEC 103 Environmental Processes and Systems**
 * **LEC 103 Environmental Processes and Systems**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These lectures aim to provide an introduction to environmental processes and their impacts at a range of spatial scales and in a variety of environments.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Key themes include the study of global climate and associated environmental change, Earth surface materials and the flows which produce distinctive and dynamic landscape forms, and the processes which influence the development of soils and associated ecosystems at the land surface. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Wed 12-1 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Fri 12-1 pm ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Weeks 1-19 ||
 * **LEC 172 Geological Processes**
 * **LEC 172 Geological Processes**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These lectures aim to convey why it is important for scientists, whatever their discipline, to have a basic understanding of geological processes.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Emphasis is placed on the dynamic way in which the Earth works. Geological processes explored include: formation of minerals, volcanism, metamorphism, sedimentation and deformation. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mon 9-10 am || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tues 11-12 am || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Fri 1-2 pm || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Weeks 6-9 ||