This unit enables students to extend their capacity to perform structural engineering analysis and design building on the basic concepts and fundamental principles of concrete materials and structural engineering analysis and design. The content of this unit covers concrete technology followed by analytical and design techniques for concrete cross-sections and members. The teaching emphasis in...

Why are certain texts regarded as classics within the English literary canon and how do we encounter them today? This unit considers the importance of tradition to the ways we value, understand and circulate popular and literary texts. Students who successfully complete this unit will have built knowledge of key critical frameworks through which texts can be read and contextualised, and developed...

This unit will introduce students to the chemistry, biochemistry, and toxicology of foods. Food constituents are described in terms of their occurrence, nutritional significance, and reactivity during processing. This includes an understanding of the chemical and functional properties of food components, chemical interactions in foods and chemical effects on nutritional quality and functional...

KZA212 Functional Biology of Animals is required in the Zoology major and provides a broad training in fundamental aspects of Zoology. With KPZ211, the unit forms an essential basis for specialist studies in Zoology at level 3 the advanced level. This unit focuses on developing students' understanding of functional anatomy and comparative animal physiology from an evolutionary perspective....

Innovation in Medicine Safety will help you identify and analyse medication-safety issues encountered in a variety of clinical settings.  You will initially learn and appraise existing issues and interventions that attempt to improve the Quality Use of Medicines or address medication-safety issues. You will then create your own service and communicate the concept verbally. From this, you will...

This unit introduces you to the world of ancient Rome through the study of ancient literary texts in translation. We learn how to analyse and interpret the perspectives of ancient writers who wrote across different literary genres and time periods in the Roman world. Mytho-historical narratives about the foundation of Rome provide a starting point for our exploration of how the Romans constructed...

This unit will explain the relationship between data, information and knowledge and introduce a number of different methods/tools for managing, storing, securing, modelling, visualizing and analyzing. This unit will provide and understanding of how data can be manipulated to meet the needs of users. Changing data into information can be accomplished with a range of tools, including XML, SQL,...

This unit provides students with an opportunity to make practical use of knowledge they have acquired from their completed Masters units, in combination with gaining new skills in undertaking research. This unit will allow students to work in small teams to undertake practical research tasks to investigate an organisational context from multiple perspectives: knowledge management; e-logistics,...

Nero: misunderstood emperor, malevolent tyrant, or a monster of the middle order? This unit explores the enigmatic and transgressive literature produced during the reign of Nero (AD 54-68): the writings of the philosopher and tragic poet Seneca, the anarchic Satyricon of Petronius, and the brooding Civil War of Lucan. It also examines the representations of Nero himself in the biography of...

This unit extends your knowledge and application of theoretical models and practice frameworks to understand, identify and respond to speech and fluency needs of individuals and/or communities. The unit adopts a case-based and lifespan focus, and you will develop skills related to the description, analysis and interpretation, evidence-based assessment, differential diagnosis, and application of...