BA (Hons) Culture, Environment and Social Change Bachelor's degree at Westminster

This module is central to the course, supporting transition into university study, individual development, and course planning. You'll meet your Academic Tutor every week in a small group. The module brings together learning from across the course and introduces and develops academic skills. You'll work on questions and concepts in culture, environment, and social change, prepare coursework, and reflect on feedback received in other modules.

This module provides a foundational introduction to the key themes of the course. It explores how human societies and cultures are shaped by their environment and have, in turn, impacted progressively more and more upon the world you live in. It informs understanding of how those processes also shape wider social and cultural challenges. The module is taught in two parallel strands, each of which addresses the central topics of Land, People, and Culture across a variety of different scales. You

This module introduces the study of contemporary and ancient material culture and examines its meaning in social, political and historical perspectives. You'll acquire skills of object analysis and visit London galleries and museums to apply them. You'll examine the social and cultural lives of objects, and how their meaning changes depending on their context and use, by assessing their production, the impact of trade, war and migration on their circulation, and their provenance and politics of

Since the French Revolution protests have been among the key drivers of the course of modern history. Using a wide variety of case studies in different settings this module addresses: when and why do protests occur; who protests and for what reasons; the different ways in which protests are expressed, from anarchy to terrorism; how far the nature of protests has changed over time; why some protests succeed and others do not.

The module concerns the relationship between law and social media. It considers the social impact and effect that social media has on our everyday life and questions the extent to which law is capable to regulate it and protect its users. In doing so, it engages with broader social, economic, political and cultural aspects of social media and the effect you have on society at large. The module engages with relevant case studies and introduces the available regulatory frameworks and policy change

This module introduces students to institutions and governance at the local and global level. It begins with a focus on the nation-state as the foundational unit of political organisation. Students will explore and compare political systems and institutional arrangements across different states, including unitary and federal systems, and examine the evolving role of local and regional governance. Building on this foundation, the module then expands to consider governance across scales, from nati

This module provides an introduction to Intercultural Communication. It draws on theory from a range of disciplines to help you better understand the complexities of communicating with people from other cultures. You'll be helped, using intercultural theorists, to become more aware of how culture influences you and others, and to reflect on how it affects the ways you communicate and act. The module then aims to develop your ability to cope with these complexities.

Teaching and learning takes place in small groups, with you meeting your tutor on a regular basis. The content of the tutorials is partly tailored to the needs of the group, and partly used to develop a wider synoptic engagement with the degree as a whole (working towards the final year dissertation), nurturing research and study skills as well as skills relevant to the future workplace. In addition to the development of general and specialist study skills, the tutorials will focus on ethnograph

Building upon the work done at Level 4 on Land, People, Culture, this module provides you with an advanced understanding of environmental and social justice disputes and the cultural, theoretical, and disciplinary discourses through which you are mediated. The module is divided into two year-long strands: Histories and Cultures of Environmental and Social Justice, and Justice in Practice and Theory. The first strand identifies key sites of historic and contemporary environmental and social justi

This module begins from the position that issues of social, environmental, and resource equity cannot be separated from digital culture and the politics of big data. The module introduces you to the link between data and social and environmental issues through exploration of how data is gathered, analysed, presented, and stored. You'll acquire basic practical skills in these areas while also engaging with critical perspectives to develop a reflective understanding of how data can be used to info

This module examines both the impact of climate change on cultural expression, and of cultural texts on our attitudes towards the environment. To facilitate these two perspectives, the module intersperses weeks on contemporary climate fiction (cli-fi) with weeks on other, broader texts, from ancient to modern: theatre, visual art, music and cinema. The module will equip you with an ecocritical vocabulary and the facility and opportunity to employ that vocabulary across a range of media and forms

This module provides a broad and generic introduction to the legal protection of human rights offered at the national, regional (African, European, and Inter-American) and international levels. The module introduces you to the historical development of the legal protection of human rights along with introducing the legal frameworks for the protection of human rights in place at the national (UK), regional (African, European, and Inter-American) and international (UN) levels. For instance, the mo

In this module you will examine how those in positions of power use language to create narratives, values and beliefs held by different groups of people in the world. You will explore how language found in the public space reflects values and conventions and how this can change across different societies. The module focuses on the role and purpose of different kinds of social institutions and analyses the means through which they maintain their identity in the international public space and the

This module introduces you to the key debates and concepts that have been central to the formation of current understandings of memory