The research produced at Newcastle is not only helping to find solutions to global challenges, it also has a huge impact on what we teach at undergraduate level. This is because, for the majority of our degrees, the staff doing the research are also the people who will be teaching you.
The University offers a wide range of modules suited to the degree programme the student selects.
Some examples of Undergraduate modules taught by academic Schools which relate to the theme of Social Renewal are:
Aims:
1. To introduce students to the key concepts and issues affecting social, economic and political change in society as a foundation for future study.
2. To challenge and encourage students to recognise the various perspectives found in society.
This module aims to introduce students to a range of key concepts and issues influencing social, economic and political change in society. It also introduces students to the pervading and new inequalities within society, both in the global north and south. This will act as the foundation for further study throughout the degree course and equip students with a knowledge base from which to analyse ongoing societal change.
Aims:
1. To familiarize students with current issues and controversies of relevance in human nutrition.
2. To understand how social and cultural factors are related to nutrition.
3. To provide students with an understanding and examination of recent research advances in nutrition and their application to human health.
4. To inform students of professional issues in nutrition.
5. To develop communication and study skills to enable independent learning at a HE level.
Students will engage with a range of current issues and controversies in human nutrition. The module will focus on deepening understanding of these issues and controversies through learning how to find, analyse and synthesise appropriate data and knowledge needed to critically examine these issues.
This module will enable students to develop a knowledge and understanding of key themes in contemporary social geography. Students will be study three key themes in contemporary social geography - social inequalities and social exclusion, cities and social reproduction, and identities and social action. They will be encouraged to make connections between theories and concepts in social geography and empirical research on the structuring of social relations across space and in place. Students will be encouraged to make critical evaluation of concepts, theories and methodologies in social geography.