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2425YSJFORYOU YSJ For You 24-25: Welcome to York St John University
Welcome to YSJ For You!
YSJ For You is an online module intended for all new and returning students.
It is designed to provide you with essential induction information and it is a great opportunity for you to become familiar with the range of professional services here to support you.
At YSJ there is a lot of support available to you, however the best possible way to support yourself before the start of term is to focus on preparation.
This module gives you a series of practical tools, tips and strategies to do just that, so you can start this new adventure with energy, enthusiasm and confidence. We strongly advise you to complete this module before you start your academic induction as it contains important information on all parts of life at YSJ.
- Enrolled students: 14761
DES4020M-2024-25-SEM1-A DES4020M | Context of Practice | 2024-25 SEM1
Module Code: DES4020M
Module Leader: Clare Nattress (c.nattress1@yorksj.ac.uk)
Senior Lecturer: John Temperton (j.temperton@yorksj.ac.uk)
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Briefing Date: 03/10/2024
Summative Submission Date
Presentation: 05/12/2024
Essay: 16/01/2025
Summative Feedback Date: 07/02/2025
Submission: Online
Submission Time: 12:00 Noon Deadline.
Welcome to Semester One!
Hello Design students. We are looking forward to meeting you all for our first class meeting on Thursday 3rd October at 9am in the Creative Centre Auditorium 002. You may notice seminar group sessions running from 10am on your timetable but please ignore these for the first week until you know which seminar groups you are in - the session you need to attend is from 14:00pm in the Creative Centre Auditorium 002. Please arrive 5 minutes early so you are ready for the lecture to begin.Each week we will meet as a group for an hour. During this time we will take the register, and give a 55-minute lecture. After that we will meet you in smaller subject-related groups for hour-long seminars scheduled throughout the day. These groups will be assigned before Week One so you will know which group you are in. They are also attached to this Moodle page.
Your Welcome Week activities will help you settle into your studies here at YSJ and there will be plenty of time for questions or concerns to be addressed. However, please feel free to email with any issues in the meantime.
Please be aware that everyone in the School of the Arts here at York St John is focused on giving you the most rewarding academic experience. Obviously, you will need to play your part and work hard in challenging circumstances. As creatives we can find a way to face new challenges in our world and start designing beyond them.
It's going to be a great semester and we're excited to get started!
See you soon!
John Temperton and Clare Nattress
Assessment (include expected word length for written work and duration for examinations) | |||
type | description | weighting | Exempt from anonymous marking? |
Presentation | Presentation (5 minute) | 20% | Y |
Written work | 1,500 word essay | 80% | N |
For modules with more than one summative assessment component (delete as applicable) | |||
In order to pass the module, students must achieve at least:
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- Enrolled students: 129
HIS4013M-2021-22-SEM2-A HIS4013M | Empires | 2021-22 SEM2 (Group A)
We live in a post-imperial world, where the legacies of the great empires still dominate the political and social landscape. Our relationship to the concept of imperialism has changed dramatically in recent years, and where once empires were praised and admired, now nations are becoming distinctly embarrassed or uneasy with their own imperial heritage. Yet they have shaped our own modern political landscapes, as well as those of the ancient, medieval and early modern periods.
In this module we draw upon Britain and Rome as examples of empires operating at different points in history. Whilst they may share ideas, they nonetheless operated in entirely different social, religious and political spheres. We shall consider their rise to power, their dominance over other polities, and their fall and defeat. We shall also reflect upon the imperial legacies offered by each, and how these were reworked and reimagined.
This module is designed to enable students to understand the experience of imperialism by comparing empires from diverse geographical and chronological contexts. It will allow for an understanding of the term ‘Empire’, and the importance of imperial powers throughout history. It will encourage comparative skills and source analysis.
- Enrolled students: 31
International Student Support_1 International Student Study Support Module copy 1
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I've just recently started with YSJ London Campus I've and one of my tasks is to create a module on Moodle to offer study support to the students.
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- Enrolled students: There are no students enrolled in this course.
LAL5003M-2021-22-SEM1-A LAL5003M | World Englishes | 2021-22 SEM1 (Group A)
Welcome to World Englishes!
This is your Moodle page for World Englishes. As you prepare for your second year at YSJU, please familiarise yourselves with the module aims and learning outcomes outlined below.
This module addresses the development, structure and use of international varieties of English (World Englishes), from the origins of the language in the British Isles to its current role as a global language; the effects of the spread of English on other languages, cultures and identities; and the implications of World Englishes for language policies and practices, both in the UK and abroad.
Upon successful completion of the module students will be able to: 1. Account for the current role of English as a global language. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the dimensions of variation among and within World Englishes. 3. Reflect critically on the impact of the spread of English on other languages, cultures and identities. 4. Identify and critically examine sociopolitical and educational issues that arise as a consequence of the development of World Englishes. 5. Demonstrate an awareness of the effects of World Englishes on UK educational, cultural, economic and foreign policies.
Module Lead: Dr Indu Vibha Meddegama
- Enrolled students: 40
LIT4005M-2023-24-SEM2-A LIT4005M | Theorizing Literature: Power and Identity | 2023-24 SEM2 (Group A)
This module takes as its premise that to understand the social value of literary texts, we need to engage with theoretical accounts of the different ways power can be accumulated, contested, and diffused across social groups. Building on bell hooks’ contention that to understand power we need to understand how systems are interconnected, the module takes an intersectional approach to discussions of power and identity.
We will be introducing you to a number of theoretical and critical ideas, concepts, and writers over the course of semester 2 in order to help you unpack and critique the ways that social, cultural, political, ideological, and physical power and identities are conveyed, complicated, interrogated and endorsed by a diverse range of authors. We will discuss the ways that power and identities are presented and contested in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and plays. We will examine theoretical ideas about gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, and national identity as well as the intersections between these categories.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
1. Critically reflect on using basic theories and concepts as a means of interpreting literary texts;
2. Communicate knowledge of the use of basic theories and concepts in relation to literary texts and criticism
3. Develop an accurate and reliable vocabulary appropriate to the study of literary theory, identity and power.
Module Director: Dr Jo Waugh
Email: j.waugh@yorksj.ac.uk
- Enrolled students: 65
LIT5004M-2023-24-SEM2-A LIT5004 | Literature at Work | 2023-24 SEM2
This module uses experiential learning, reflection and literary engagement to help you to clarify your own values and begin to consider potential ways in which you can build on these—and the transferable skills developed throughout your degree—in your life after study. It is particularly interest in exploring:
- The relationship between work and identity in literature, culture and a range of “career” contexts.
- The roles literary study might play when planning for and engaging in life after study; for example, how it can help you to clarify and articulate your values; how it might equip you with widely transferable skills such as analysis, synthesis, comprehension and expression across a broad range of registers.
- The function of critical reflection techniques in both literary engagement and continued professional development.
- The various and specific ways in which you are developing your YSJ Graduate Attributes across all aspects of your study.
- Enrolled students: 56
LIT6008M-2024-25-SEM1-A LIT6008M | Gothic Origins | 2024-25 SEM1
Module Description
This module builds on the historical foundations established in Levels 4 & 5 and focuses study on a particular ‘mode’ of literature. ‘The Gothic’, according to David Punter, ‘arises on the sites of vanished cultural territories’ (2000). The point of ‘vanishing’ conceals and reveals the origin of this ‘contested, maligned, and misunderstood’ (Carol M. Davison, 2009) mode of writing. One point of origin is, of course, the late eighteenth century; but the Gothic might also be ‘located’ in earlier literary examples and cultural productions. Throughout these various ‘kinds’ of Gothic, the vexed relationship between the mode and ‘good taste’ has produced both impassioned defences of the genre and scathing critiques.
Returning to the genesis of the Gothic genre across the early modern and long eighteenth century periods, this iteration of Gothic Origins will establish the intrinsic qualities and original parameters of early British Gothic, whilst also exploring the various ways in which it changed and adapted, incorporating and contaminating others genres as it slumbered relentlessly towards the twentieth century.
Module Learning Outcomes:
Analyze Gothic tropes and conventions in a range of texts.
Demonstrate awareness of appropriate critical research and scholarship relevant to the study of Gothic literature.
Synthesize connections between texts, cultural contexts, and critical concepts.
Programme Learning Outcomes (Level 6)
- Demonstrate a systemic understanding of English Literature, underpinned by a detailed awareness of historical and theoretical perspectives.
- Synthesise and apply relevant critical and theoretical perspectives to their own research practice.
- An ability to deploy an advanced conceptual understanding of the application of research skills an theoretical approach to English Literature.
- Work autonomously within a structured environment.
- Manage and reflect critically upon individual learning.
- Demonstrate transferable skills to an advanced level that prepares them for employment or further study.
- Design and undertake a piece of extended independent research that demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of a specific area of English Literature
Module Guidance
Click here to view the Module Document (this document summarizes module reading, assessment and our approach to module teaching).
Click here to watch the Module Information Video (this 5min video summarizes key module information)
Click here to listen to the Module Playlist (ideal for reading, study and seminar preparation)
Pre-Module Activity
Help us get to know you and better understand your interests by completing our brief pre-module activity:
Click here to share your response
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP TO GO BAR CONVENT TRIP
The trip will take place on Wednesday 15th November (Week 8). We will be leaving from York St John at 1.30pm and walking to the Convent, which is opposite Everyman cinema on Tadcaster Road.
The trip is optional but I hope you will join us. Sign-up will close on 31st October which is when we need to confirm final numbers and pay the convent. All costs are covered by YSJ. So please sign up ASAP!
- Enrolled students: 43
London Tutoring YSJ London Academic Tutoring
Purpose:
Academic Tutoring supports students to achieve their academic and personal aspirations. A purposeful personal relationship with their tutor enables students to become autonomous, confident, and engaged members of society. This ongoing and collaborative relationship connects students deeply to the YSJ family, supporting them through their course and beyond.
Academic Tutoring provision at York St John is founded on the following principles and norms:
Students are expected to:
- Be willing to openly discuss your own development and identify your strengths and weaknesses.
- Keep Academic Tutor appointments and inform tutors in good time if unable to attend.
- Comply with the University Attendance Monitoring Policy, and appreciate the consequences of non-attendance at teaching sessions
- Engage fully in preparatory activities and come to tutor meetings prepared.
- Support your peers in your tutorial groups, and engage fully in group tutorial meetings and activities
- Prepare a summary of your time in University In collaboration with your tutor as the basis of future references
Tutors are expected to:
- Keep confidential records of meetings which are shared with the student
- Contact students before they arrive at the University and where possible, meet with new students during Welcome Week
- Act as a primary point of contact and support for their students during their time at York St John University
- Respond within 2 working days to a request for a meeting, or any email communications
- Advise students on how to access specialist services
- Collaboratively prepare with the student a summary of their time in University as the basis of future references.
- Write references of a professional standard for further study, employment, and any other purpose you may require, within one week of receiving a reference request.
- Offer one hour of support to each tutee per year, with at least one individual meeting per semester, to review student learning and help students to formulate action plans for academic, personal, and professional development
- Enrolled students: 7
MBB7010M-2020-21-T12-LIN3 JANUARY 2022 Specialist MBA MBB7010M | Capstone Project | 2020-21 T12 (Group LIN3)
Please attach the following as appendix to your dissertation:
- Ethical Approval Form (as approved by YSJ)
- Participant Information Sheet & Consent Form
- Gatekeeper form (if applicable)
- One sample questionnaire used for your research
- One sample set of interview questions (for those learners who conducted interviews for data collection)
- Enrolled students: There are no students enrolled in this course.
MBB7010M-2022-23-T2-LIN05 MAY 2022 Intake Specialist MBA MBB7010M | Capstone Project | 2022-23 T2 (Group LIN05)
Please attach the following as appendix to your dissertation:
- Ethical Approval Form (as approved by YSJ)
- Participant Information Sheet & Consent Form
- Gatekeeper form (if applicable)
- One sample questionnaire used for your research
- One sample set of interview questions (for those learners who conducted interviews for data collection)
- Enrolled students: There are no students enrolled in this course.
PSY8106M-2022-23-SEM2-A PSY8106M | Psychological Interventions Over the Lifespan | 2022-23 SEM2 (Group A)
Welcome to the course!!
Please see the information below for some basic information about the module content and housekeeping.
Module Rationale and Aims
This module provides theoretical knowledge in counselling psychology and psychotherapy. It integrates knowledge of developmental psychology across the lifespan with key theoretical perspectives. The unit develops knowledge and skills in planning interventions for a number of specific developmental issues that are addressed as exemplars of each stage of the lifespan.
We are lucky to have a number of guest lecturers and YSJ staff taking sessions and talking about their specific areas of expertise working with individuals across the lifespan.
Specialist Lecturers include: Dr Emma Bradshaw, Dr Emily McGeown; and Dr Gemma Forshaw
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Week |
Date |
Topic |
Lecturer |
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1 |
8/2 |
Intro to module and theories of development |
Sophie |
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2 |
15/2 |
Cognitive and moral development |
Sophie |
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3 |
22/2 |
Assessment, diagnosis and formulation with CYP |
Sophie |
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4 |
1/3 |
Adolescence |
Sophie |
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5 |
8/3 |
Adolescence |
Sophie |
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6 |
15/3 |
Play Therapy |
Emily McGeowan GL |
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7 |
22/3 |
Interventions with Children |
Sophie |
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8 |
29/3 |
Early adulthood |
Stephanie |
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EASTER |
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9 |
26/4 |
Menopause / Midlife |
E. Bradshaw GL/ TBC |
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10 |
3/5 |
Difference, Diversity and Identity across the Lifespan |
Byron |
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11 |
10/5 |
Later adulthood |
Gemma Forshaw GL |
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12 |
17/5 |
Trauma |
Mark |
Please see the Moodle information for each week for more details.
Module Housekeeping
I've put some basic information about myself, as I am co-ordinating the module this Semester, as I should be the first port of call if you have any general queries about the module. Individual lecturers will also be happy to answer more specific questions about the content of their lecture, of course.
Module Coordinator/ Leader
Dr Sophie Brigstocke
Office Hours - Student Appointments
Student tutorial appointments are available ( on campus or TEAMS) on Wednesdays 1.30 to 2.30 or Tuesdays 12 -1pm.
Tutorial Booker: https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/DropinSlotCBTSkills@yorksj.ac.uk/bookings/
Where can you find me:
Room: Quad East E0007
Lectures/ Seminars
The Lecture/ Seminar will generally take place on Wednesday 9 -11 and 11.30 to 1.30 in DG/127 ( please check timetable for room changes as they do happen!!).
Please email me if you can't attend a lecture and book a tutorial if you would like some help catching up. Required reading will be indicated within the weekly moodle information for each session.
Summative Assessments
Assessment 1 (50% of module grade): Written Essay - Submission date Midday 31st March 2023
Assessment 2 (50% of module grade) Written 2 hour Exam - Exam Week End of Semester 2
- Enrolled students: 11
REL4017M-2024-25-SEM1-A REL4017M | Studying Religion | 2024-25 SEM1 (Group A)
Welcome to Studying Religion
Click on the boxes below for details of each week's topic, the required reading for the lecture and seminar and any further instructions you need to know. It is important that you look at this information each week.
Assessment information is under 'Assessment' - familiarise yourself with what is required and submission dates early on.
Reading List - there is a link to a comprehensive reading list under 'Learner Support'. Access this list using your usual YSJ username and password. Some materials are available online, but also included are further reading materials that can be found in the library. The reading list is organised according to the weekly topics and the required reading for each week is at the top of weekly list of resources. Other useful guidance and support is available under, and signposted from, 'Learner Support'.
- Enrolled students: 44
WeAreYSJ Becoming a Student at York St John
On this course, you will explore what York St John University is like and what learning at a university will involve.
You’ll develop practical skills that will enable you to become an effective learner at a university level.
You’ll discover how to use some of the key IT systems the university uses and how you can use these when studying online.
By the end of the course, you’ll have mastered some of the key skills and tools for learning that will help you get started.
- Enrolled students: 97
WeAreYSJ(editing) Becoming a student at York St John - Please edit content here for the module
On this course, you will explore what York St John University is like and what learning at a university will involve.
You’ll develop practical skills that will enable you to become an effective learner at a university level.
You’ll discover how to use some of the key IT systems the university uses and how you can use these when studying online.
By the end of the course, you’ll have mastered some of the key skills and tools for learning that will help you get started.
- Enrolled students: 2
YSJFORYOU202425 Welcome Week and Induction Course 2024-25
- Enrolled students: There are no students enrolled in this course.
YSJFORYOU24-25 Welcome Week and Induction Course 2023-24
- Enrolled students: There are no students enrolled in this course.