Professional and Community Education (PACE)
The Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) brings together the disciplines of several programmes from within Goldsmiths, including cultural and social studies, community and youth work, counselling and therapy, social work, and art psychotherapy. It consolidates Goldsmiths’ expertise in Continuing Professional Development and in education and training for the local community and beyond. By establishing PACE, Goldsmiths renewed its fundamental commitment to continuing and community education, and to lifelong learning.
| Undergraduate Year | Description |
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Year 1
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a course for which you do not need any previous experience |
| Year 2 |
assumes that you have had some experience in this area or have already followed a similar academic course
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| Year 3 |
assumes a specialist knowledge of the practical data or a willingness to engage in responsible individual study under tutorial guidance
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Art Psychotherapy
Year 3
AT50001A/100255A
Art Therapy Workshop
(4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
This course is structured to give you an opportunity to make and explore art in a group setting. It will enable you to challenge your ideas of self-expression through art. By the end of the course you will have increased your understanding of how art-making relates to the processes of an art therapy group. You will work with the links between the visual, the spoken and the written, and you will keep an art journal or visual diary. There will be at least one gallery visit. Towards the end of the course you will present a visual display, and produce a 1,000-word written account of your experience. In order for this course to run, there must be a minimum number of students.
AT53001A/100252A
The Practice and Experience of Art Therapy
(4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
This course introduces you to the practice of art therapy through seminars exploring the history of art therapy, case study presentations and discussion, and a visit to a relevant exhibition. There is some art-making in a group that will give you some experiential understanding of how art-making relates to the group processes, and how you can make links between the spoken and the visual and explore how these might be examined.
Cultural and Social Studies
Please note: you can choose to study any of the courses running in the Spring term in both the Spring and Summer terms, for two extra credits.
Year 1
CU51007A
Practical Journalism
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
Designed for people who want to write nonfiction news reports and articles for newspapers and magazines. You examine how to find ideas, interviewing techniques and personality profile writing, various feature writing styles, and leisure and entertainment reviews. You also look at how to approach editors to sell your work. It is a practical course and you are expected to produce articles. Feedback and comments based on group discussion is a feature of the course.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU51010A
Understanding Society
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
This course draws on the distinct approaches of both anthropology and sociology, and also focuses on the common ground between the two disciplines. You are introduced to the subjects’ key theorists and the historical development of both anthropology and sociology. Areas you study include: religion, health, sex and gender, family and kinship, language, class and caste, race, and culture and identity.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU51014A
People and Power: Introducing Politics
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
The underlying theme of this course is power. What is power? Who has power? How is power exercised? By examining these questions, with reference to contemporary political processes and institutions in the UK, you gain a critical introduction to the study of politics. The first part of the course looks at different conceptions of power, key political concepts and ideas such as the state, democracy and freedom, and different political ideologies. These concepts and ideas are then applied to contemporary political processes and institutions in the UK which include the constitution, elections, political parties, interest groups, the media, globalisation and the nation-state, the European Union and sovereignty, local politics, participation and exclusion.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU51015A
Writing Fiction (Beginners)
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
This course is suitable for beginners. After looking at ‘how to get started’, you cover the basic technical aspects of writing, exploring ways of releasing your imagination and what to do when inspiration fails. You have the support of the group throughout and the opportunity to share your work. The course is structured and practical, and by the end you can expect to have completed several short stories and perhaps to have embarked on a novel.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU51016A
Creative Writing (Beginners)
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
If you haven’t decided in which form you want to write, this course is for you. You consider short stories, novel writing, poetry, drama and writing for television. Each class offers the opportunity to read out your work and receive feedback. The tutor then discusses forms of writing, and there is a practical writing task. Information is given on finding an agent/publisher, marketing, and contract and copyright laws. You are expected to be supportive and practical in your criticism of others’ work. By the end of the course, you should have a clear idea of what writing form you want to pursue.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU51021A
Introduction to Film Studies
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
This course is designed as an accessible introduction to a broad range of methods for analysing and studying film. It is aimed at anyone with a keen interest in film, but with no previous knowledge of film studies as a field of study. It aims to stimulate critical thinking about the cinema as a popular medium of representation, as an art form and an entertainment industry. We will explore the history and development of cinema, applying concepts of film analysis to a wide range of films from different periods of cinema and from different parts of the world.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU51023A
Introduction to Contemporary Journalism
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
You cover all aspects of journalism with the aim of encouraging and assisting you to write confidently and to get published, if you wish. You explore ways of saying what you want to say clearly through reporting, interviewing and feature writing; emphasis is put on looking at potential markets for written work. Although the course concentrates on journalistic writing, we examine other aspects of media. You are encouraged to develop your own style through hands-on writing exercises, both creative and journalistic.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU51025A
Script and Screen
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
You focus on the writing of screen drama for cinema and TV, and participate in lectures, viewings and practical exercises. You consider visual narrative, creating premises, structure, characterisation and rewriting. You are asked to bring your own ideas in progress to classes for tutor comment or class reading, and you are encouraged to write directly for production.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
Year 2
CU52003A
The Making of Modernity: Late 19th and Early 20th-Century Concepts of the Modern
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; )
This interdisciplinary course critically examines some of the key frameworks through which ideas of the modern were formulated in turn of the century Europe. This involves study of philosophical egoism and ideas of ‘mass’ culture; contemporary sciences (the cultural impact of Freud, Bergson, Einstein and eugenics); and Marxist interventions (with particular reference to Lukács). You study cultural movements associated with Modernism, such as Decadence, Vorticism, and Futurism, with particular reference to such writers as Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Oscar Wilde.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU52004A
Body, Gender, Culture
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
This course is concerned with theorising the body and gender in an interdisciplinary way. Models discussed include: scientific understandings of the body; cultural understandings of the body; and the social construction of gender and sexuality. Specific areas considered may include: body beauty; cosmetic and other surgeries; age and ageing; illness, disability and eating disorders.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU52005A
International Relations
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
International relations is the study of how political, economic, security and cultural systems all interact on a global scale. You explore the evolution of international society by looking at the work of international institutions. You address the practical implications of familiar themes and concepts such as sovereignty, the balance of power, diplomacy, international law, security, nationalism and national interest. You examine the application of concepts such as dependency, neo-colonialism, foreign policy analysis, and trade relations in the 20th century, and consider live debates and practical case studies on topics such as diplomacy between states, regionalism, protectionism and globalisation.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU52006A
Writing the Self
(4 credits, Autumn)
Examining the writing of memoir and autobiography in the development of the literary voice, this course offers a forum through which personal experiences can be explored and shared and will demonstrate how converting these into language can transform both individual and collective experience.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU52007A
Writing for Performance
(4 credits, Autumn)
This module aims to develop your potential as a writer in the field of live performance. Classes are concerned with techniques and approaches to the organisation of material, and with developing your knowledge of new writing practice and furthering your original work. There are collaborative sessions with performance students to generate and experiment with dramatic material.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU52008A
Writing Culture
(4 credits, Autumn)
Exploring the craft of writing, the power of personal testimony and construction of selfhood and identity through language, this course reflects on the genres of life history and life story, autobiography and memoir and the literature of testimony which view the role of witnessing in our times as a key form of approaching and transforming reality.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU52017A
Writing Fiction (Advanced)
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
Prerequisite: previous writing experience.
You are encouraged to improve your work in progress and to develop your writing skills. The course combines sharing work for supportive, constructive feedback with dynamic in-class projects, including experiments with narrative techniques and ways of tempting the imagination to take creative leaps. You take part in formal technical sessions, and receive advice on marketing your work. By the end of the course, you can expect to have written several short stories and/or made significant progress on a novel. You become more confident in your voice, your style and direction as a writer. Apart from in-class projects, you determine what/when/how much you write.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU52018A
Film and Anthropology
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
You look at both anthropology through film, and film through anthropology. This course is intended to appeal to anyone interested in film, anthropology and/or communication studies, or in wider issues related to representation generally. It is in two parts. In the first part, theoretical issues related to representation are considered, concentrating on the use of visual imagery. The focus is on how imagery imparts knowledge and how this is perceived in different contexts. The question of power and resistance is a central theme. In the second part, the representation of witchcraft in film is taken as a case study.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
Year 3
CU53001A
Race and Representation in 'Popular' Culture
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
The roles of race and representation in the construction of identity in 'popular' culture are explored in this course. These roles are examined in an interdisciplinary manner, focusing on music, fashion, advertising and various types of mass media. The course takes a critical approach to the cultural politics of images of culture and identity, and how they influence our contemporary social identities.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU53002A
Space, Place and Identity: Diasporas in the Modern World
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
In this course you examine how boundaries between societies have become increasingly blurred over recent decades. You critically examine the recent wealth of new literature on how our notions of space have radically altered due to technology, migrations and the media. You chart the emergence of international capital and the migrations that followed in its wake, and the consequent new forms of cultural identity that have been born from the relocation of people in complex new social and political settings.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU53005A
Surrealism in the Cinema
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
Surrealism is one of the most important influences on the development of film, but study of this influence has had a very narrow focus, concentrating on the films made by the surrealists during the twenties. This course aims to open out debates around surrealism in the cinema, showing how they have mutually informed one another. It looks at the development of surrealism, noting the significant contributions made to film by surrealists in terms of film practices and theories. It considers the development of the film medium, and brings attention to later developments of surrealist theories and their importance for contemporary directors.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU53008A
Popular Culture in Practice
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
Examines the important area of cultural theory, which deals with popular culture, cultural value, and cultural identities. It explores issues of representation in relation to popular culture and helps you develop writing and research skills. The course looks at different theories of popular culture (for example, mass culture theory; culture industry, semiotics, popular culture and the carnivalesque; postmodernism) in the context of the popular novel, the musical and television culture.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU53009A
Writing Culture 2
(4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
Prerequisite: you must have successfully completed Writing Culture to take this course.
Building on the skills, techniques and methodologies explored in Writing Culture, you will have the opportunity to explore your ancestoral and cultural heritage and, as a result of your explorations, to develop a sustained piece of narrative prose.
[Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE) courses taught in the evening between 6pm and 9pm]
CU53010A
Writing the Self 2
(4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
Prerequisite: you must have successfully completed Writing the Self to take this course.
Building on the skills, techniques and methodologies acquired in Writing the Self, this course continues to explore the writing of memoir and autobiography and the development of the literary voice.
CU53020A
Egyptology
(4 credits, Autumn; 4 credits, Spring; 2 credits, Summer; )
A systematic study of ancient Egypt’s rich heritage, focusing on aspects of its culture, namely, its history, institutions, industries, inhabitants, language, religion, technical development and art. Explores how history is constructed through the analysis and interpretation of archaeology and cultural data. Examines ancient Egyptian institutions, languages and literature. Investigates ancient Egyptian culture through African, Near-Eastern and Mediterranean sources. Includes museum visits.
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