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• Lifecourse Happy Families: A review paper of the relationship between Wellbeing and Parenthood
• Reviewing REDD+ and the VGGTs as Tropical Postcolonial Forest Governance Policies of the FAO
• Professional Live Performance Analysis: Scottish Ballet’s Coppélia
• Close reading of E.M Forster’s ‘Maurice’ (1971)
• A Call to Arms 呐喊
• ‘Roses flowering; and the garden full of lust’: Floral Imagery and Sapphic Desire in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction
• ‘Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence’ (Louis Althusser). Discuss how one or more of the texts we have read performs ideological work of the kind Althusser identifies.
• Impacts of Language Policy on Conflict: Comparing India and Sri Lanka
• The Riddles of Knowledge
• How does Elizabeth Cary treat love in The Tragedy of Mariam?
• L’insécurité alimentaire: les Français en ont ras le bol (éditorial)
• Photography: The Surrealist Ideal
• Republican Sublimity in John Milton’s ‘Second Defence of the English People’
• What was the significance of the Catholic Church in the governance of France during the period 1715-1789?
• How did one’s gender affect the lived experience of a dictatorship?: Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain
• Research Essay: ‘Should museums avoid controversy or not?’
• Faster than what? What are the impacts of capitalism on the everyday?
• Can Non-Intentional Moods Be Rational?
• Extending the ExM: Extended Emotional Dispositions
• What is the best account of how we gain moral knowledge? Defend your answer
• Agape Love and the Problem of Respect
• Faith and Second-Wave Feminism: How American Women Found Power in the Church
• Examine and explain The Use of Finance to Control International Relations.
• Dr. Daves and the Canon of Meritocracy
• How have histories of colonialism and empire, in the context of India, shaped literature and popular culture’s depiction of gender stereotypes?
• To what extent can we witness a crisis of Roman identity in civil war in Lucan’s Bellum Civile and Tacitus’ Histories?
• Opinion: Ukraine’s 2019 Language Law Stands for Protection, not Discrimination
• Understanding the St Eustace Reliquary What Spolia Reveals About Classical Reception in the Middle Ages
• Giotto’s The Stigmatisation of St Francis
• La Pierre Vivante et La Plume de la plume
• Slobodan Milošević’s Role in the Break-up of Yugoslavia
• What is Military Professionalism and argue whether or not it guarantees productive Civil-Military relations
• How significant is Berlin and Kay’s work on linguistic relativity and colour determinism?
• Between nostalgia and modernity: exploring place within Ivon Hitchens’ Winter Walk series (1948)
• Discuss the possibilities offered by Afropolitanism
• An Examination into the Aesthetic Potential of Disability Theatre using Kaite O’Reilly’s peeling
• What defines ‘religion’ as an anthropological field of study?
• Are the problems of moral and aesthetic testimony a unified problem?
• Roadside Picnic: Cold War Anxieties and Cultural Legacies
• A Late-Nineteenth-Century Carved Ivory Tusk from the Loango Coast
• Cutting Traditional Painting: Iconoclasm in Lucio Fontana and Madi’s Praxis and Theories
• Envisioning a Renewal of a Fractured Society in Vera Chytilová’s Daisies (Scene from shots 54:18 – 57:54)
• What do we mean when we say that transnational communities are double-rooted?
• With reference to one Victorian novel on the module, discuss the ways in which the author of the novel uses objects to convey character and the ways in which characters within the novel use objects to construct public personae and assert status and belonging. Discuss as well how reliable and successful these material constructions of identity are presented as being.
• Write a magazine review in a suitable 19th century mode (think Blackwood’s Magazine) of Waverley, the Confessions or Kidnapped, and then a scholarly essay that either disagrees with or substantiates the content of that review.
• Was there a women’s revolution in the 1790s in France?
• What defines ‘religion’ as an anthropological field of study?
• Ancient DNA as Historical Evidence
• Water Usage and the Disrupted Water Distribution System in Pompeii in the Aftermath of the 62 CE Earthquake
• Reflections on a Fordist Past and the Neoliberal Future
• Examine the ways in which visual/material practices have been mobilized in political expression using ethnographic examples.
• Uncovering an Archival Cage: Challenges Posed by Osei Bonsu’s Sasabonsam
• From Mine to Table: Willow Pattern China in Miss Cranston’s Glasgow Tea Rooms
• Object Research Essay: Analysis of the Efik ‘Decorated Brass Dish’, taken from the McManus Gallery collection, Dundee.
• Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza: The Wisdom to Obey
• Judith Leyster’s Critical Response to the Patriarchal Era of the ‘Golden Age’
• ‘If you could cast an audience, Port Talbot is the place to cast your audience’ Lucy Davies, Producer of The Passion. Between performance and spectating: identifying the potential for narrative construction with audience participation in Michael Sheen’s The Passion (April 2011).
• A comparison of Gothik and Gothic Revival styles as examples of the impact of medieval Gothic architecture on the architecture and visual arts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
• Eyes Glued to the Screen: Is Binge-watching the Future of Television?
• A Return to Villainous Roots? : The Revival of Witchcraft in Contemporary Art and Botanical Ecocriticism
• (Re)constructing Environments, People and Places, the LGBTQ+ experience in Glasgow
• Devotional Art as Socio-Economic Commodity: A Ciborium at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
• Filming the Revolution and its ability to reshape western narratives of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.
• The governance of forced migration is driven primarily by concern for the human rights of the displaced. Discuss
• Is the Governance of Forced Migration Driven Primarily by Concerns for the Human Rights of the Displaced?
• ‘I could be any thing or every thing’: Performance and the Boundaries of Social Propriety in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and Pride and Prejudice
• The 1960s Venezuelan Rearguard: Violating the Art-Object and its Audience
• The Economic Development of Medieval St Andrews: The Archaeological Evidence
• What were the key components of planting a Protestant polity in the reign of Edward VI?
• How Exceptional Is Arctic Regionalism?
• Discuss the relationship between the individual and the mass in Ralph’s Ellison’s Invisible Man
• “The Future is Coming, and You’re Not in It”: Top Gun: Maverick as a Reflection of Anxiety and a Reaffirmation of Dominance in An Age of American Hegemonic Decline
• Does the Canonization of Maximilian Kolbe in 1982 Demonstrate the Triumph of Catholic-Nationalism in Post-War Polish Holocaust Remembrance?
• What is military professionalism and argue whether or not it guarantees productive civil-military relations?
• Subverting Asian Femininity–Cinema materials and the “Maoist woman” of Cold War China
• Examine the ways in which visual or material practices have been mobilized in political expression using ethnographic examples
• Changing our Tune: Can music help tackle environmental challenges?
• The Representation of Disability in the Work of Tristan Corbière and Louisa Siefert
• Analysing the Impact of Biodiversity Loss on the Fast Fashion Industry through a Social-Ecological Lens: The Case of UNIQLO
• ‘Enhachyde with perle’: Pearl Imagery in Tudor Culture and Poetry
• Were Women Disadvantaged in Roman Society?
• Can God have decided not to create the number 2? Could God have made 2+2=5? If so, does this mean that mathematical objects and mathematical truths are metaphysically contingent? If not, does this impinge on the ‘sovereignty’ of God?
• Revolutionary representations: The imaginative possibilities of solitude in Wordsworth’s poetry and Godwin’s “Caleb Williams”
• Mercenary Mother’s Milk: A Critical Examination of the Wet Nurse vs. Maternal Breastfeeding in Nineteenth-Century French Visual Culture
• Why are certain acts of violence labelled as ‘terrorist’ whilst others are not?
• The Detrimental Realities of Cultural Tourism
• Comparing and contrasting Bayle’s and Locke’s theories on toleration: which theory works best to refute the case for intolerance?
• Hypocrisy at Heathrow?
• The Comfort Women Movement: Breaking the Silence on the Human Rights Issue of Wartime Sexual Violence Against Women
• Fluidity and Verifiability of Identities in Achilles Tatius’ and Heliodorus’ novels
• ‘A little microhistory goes a long way.’ Has too much historical energy been diverted in recent decades into the study of trivialities?
• The Significance of History and Memory in Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1990)
• Class and the Shift in ‘Love’ and Marriage in Interwar Britain
• Horace’s Liquid Voice
• Reproducing New Voices: An Experimentation within Blake and Moreton’s Poetry
• Protest, Visibility, and Representation: The Potentialities and Limitations of Social Activism.
• ‘The University isn’t even representative of its home country’ – Individual Report on Scottish Identity at the University of St Andrews
• In what ways did Middle Eastern nationalists challenge Western Imperial and post-imperial interests and ambitions in the modern Middle East?
• An ‘Unconventional Marriage’ – Folk Art and Expressions of National Identity in Central Europe, c. 1900
• “While I was suffering, the pleasant conversation and invaluable consolation certain friends provided gave me such relief that I am absolutely convinced they are the reason I did not die”: The remedial function of speech in the Decameron and L’Heptaméron.