Team

You will work with a small but varied team of staff from across the Department of Applied Arts and Humanities, including the Programme Leader, Dr Kerry Myler, who is also a Senior Lecturer in English Literature; Dr Helen Cousins, who is Programme Leader for English; and Jai Mackenzie, who is Programme Leader for the Applied Writing programme.

Here are the dates and times during our welcome week when your teaching team will be expecting you on campus for welcome activity. Come to main reception and the welcome mentors will get you to the correct rooms:

• 20.09.23 5-6.30 DW112

Brief Summary

Full-time students will take two modules in Semester 1 and each will run online (2 hrs) on two weekday evenings. There will also be opportunities for on-campus sessions.

In ‘Introduction to the New Humanities’ you will encounter a range of new theoretical approaches to the Humanities, including new materialist, environmental, and digital methodologies. You will explore how these new ideas relate to your previous studies and draw on one another’s experiences and knowledge.

Your second module, ‘Humanities at Work’ considers the value of the Humanities as a subject for various sectors and industries. The module will help you to identify your aspirations and needs in terms of graduate employability and/or further study.

Later in the semester, you will work together on a project that explores the role of the Humanities in rapidly changing technological and social contexts.

Pre-Course Reading

Should you wish to do some reading ahead of the programme, we advise you start with the following texts:

Benneworth, P., Gulbrandsen, M. and Hazelkorn, E. (2016) The impact and future of arts and humanities research. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Newman Library, ebook]

Braidotti, R. and Gilroy, P. (eds) (2016) Conflicting humanities. London: Bloomsbury. [Newman library, hardcopy]

Crawford, P., Brown, B. J. and Charise, A. (eds) (2020) The routledge companion to health humanities. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge (Routledge companions to literature series). [Newman Library, ebook]

Wisker, G. (2008) The postgraduate research handbook : succeed with your ma, mphil, edd and phd. 2nd edn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave study guides). [Newman Library, hardcopy]

Planned Online Meetings

You can contact the Programme Leader, Kerry Myler, if you have any queries ahead of welcome week: k.myler@newman.ac.uk.