Taster Events
Our academic schools hold a range of taster events, student panels and alumni discussions throughout the year to give you a taste of the subjects we teach.
Humanities and Social Sciences
School of the Arts UG Taster Session - Modern Language and Cultures
Monday 23 June 2025, 5 - 6.15pm (BST)
Language and politics: the case of inclusive writing and Year Abroad
This session will consist of 2 parts:
a) First, we will explore the concept of inclusive language/writing- what does it exactly mean? What gender-inclusive terms are commonly used in English? How can these be translated into non-neutral languages such as for instance French, German and Spanish? What are the grammatical and sentence structure implications? We will also discuss the challenges and limitations of its usage.
b) Then, we will give an overview of the Year Abroad (YA), which is an integrated, compulsory part of all Modern Languages degree programmes. We will mention the types of placements we offer, the countries you can go to in your third year as well the benefits of doing a YA in terms of language learning, intercultural experience and personal growth.
School of the Arts UG Taster Session - English
Tuesday 24 June 2025, 5 - 6pm (BST)
What are the tools that we use to understand literature? If we think that literary texts have meaning, how do we find out what this meaning is? In this session we will explore what the term ‘theory’ might mean—is it something we ‘do’? Is it simply a mode of thinking? We will also explore why it is crucial to our lives as literary scholars, both inside and outside the classroom, because it makes us pay attention to the significance of race, class, and gender, and to ideas about ourselves and others (both conscious and unconscious) that we can find embedded in works of literature.
School of Arts Taster Session: Comparative Literature
Wednesday 25 June 2025, 5 - 6pm (BST)
Magic Carpet Ride: Exploring 1001 Nights
We’ve all heard of Aladdin, Jafar, and the genie in a bottle. But where do these stories really come from? How did they make their way from classical Persia to Disneyland Florida, and how have they changed along the way? What can they teach us not only about the literatures of the Middle East, but also the birth of the European novel and the idea of literature itself? In this seminar we’ll compare versions of the different stories from the 1001 Nights, discussing their incredible global travels and the ways they changed fiction forever. And at the end, we’ll even come up with a new one of our own...
This session will be hosted by Dr Hannah Scott Deuchar, Lecturer in Comparative Literature.
Science and Engineering
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