This module will offer students an overview of the media and creative industries in London. It showcases the teaching and research expertise of staff at Roehampton working across the areas of Journalism & News Media and Media & Culture. Divided into four blocks based around these areas it will introduce students to topics ranging from the BBC and London's newspaper industry, to London's art and culture scene and the Olympic park.

Incorporating a mixture of both class based sessions and visits, this module explores some of London's cultural arena and encourages students to draw on their own experience in order to make connections between what they see, know and read. This module also offers students the opportunity to gain some practical skills in the areas of Journalism & News Media and Media & Culture. Students will gain a familiarity with the capital city and encounter theories, concepts and practical skills that will prepare them for further study in Media and Arts based subjects.

This module aims to consolidate knowledge of financial services through a focus on topical issues of importance. These issues will vary from year to year and the majority of them will approach issues in an international and integrated manner.

Sessions on research methods will constitute a part of this module.

Students who successfully complete this module will be able to:
1. apply academic theories regarding financial markets, financial institutions and financial services within the contextualising disciplines of economics and law
2. demonstrate a capacity for working independently in terms of problem identification, interdisciplinary analysis and essay presentation.
3. develop a balanced assessment of the behaviour of firms, markets, consumers, regulators and governments in given issue areas.

The topics to be studied on this course include the enduringly intriguing Herakles/Hercules, Apollo, Athena/Minerva and Aphrodite/Venus. We will explore the role of these and other personages in some of the most important works of literature and art from Greece and Rome, including Ovid’s Metamorphoses. We will also consider their rich ‘afterlife’ in the postclassical world down to the present day.

Students will not just study at Roehampton, but will actually study features of its historic campus. In particular, we will explore the representation of a key story from the myth of Hercules in the Adam Room of Grove House, a building that exemplifies the neoclassical Georgina country villa. This ‘hands on’ approach to the study of mythology will be continued in offsite sessions at world-class galleries and museums in easy reach of the campus, such as the British Museum and the National Gallery.

London is one of Europe’s most exciting theatrical cities with a range of productions on offer at any given time. are introduced to the wide diversity of theatre in London from the major subsidised companies, through the commercial West End to smaller fringe venues and productions. Weekly visits to new or recent events in the capital are introduced with a critical context and are discussed the following week within seminar groups. As part of the seminars, students will explore a range of strategies for analysing dramatic texts in production and reading live performance.

Students will be introduced to a range of dramatic forms, conventions and aesthetics, which are employed on current London stages. Students will be encouraged to identify trends in productions and analyse the social and cultural contexts through which they are formed and constructed. Students will explore the relationship between contemporary theatre practices and specific periods of theatre history, i.e. the influence of earlier dramatic forms, conventions, contemporary stagings of classics, and contemporary responses and reworkings of the canonical texts/productions.

The module will focus on plays which are currently running in repertory in the London theatre, the actual content varies from one term to another. Students will have an opportunity to visit the latest productions of major subsidised companies such as the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and the Globe Theatre, new-writing theatres such as the Royal Court, through to smaller ‘fringe’ theatres and productions at alternative venues.