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History of Italian Cinema
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/it2012
Module code: IT2012 This module offers an introduction to the history of Italian cinema throughout the 20th century. You will explore the work of selected directors and key texts, and will learn to place them in their historical context.
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The Ancient World Beyond the Mediterranean
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ah1012
Module code: AH1012 Who were the neighbours of the Greeks and the Romans in antiquity? What contacts were there between these societies and the Greco-Roman world? How did Greeks and Romans think about these societies? This module will explore the ancient...
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Greek and Roman Art: Ancient and modern contexts
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ah3062
Module code: AH3062 In this module we will investigate past approaches to art from the Greek and Roman world and explore how our understandings of classical art have developed. We will pay particular attention to the physical and social contexts of this art (e.g.
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Advertising and Society
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ms7047
Module code: MS7047 You’ll be exploring all aspects involved with advertising and media, from its origins and social impact to how agencies function.
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Greek and Roman Art: Ancient and modern contexts
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ah3062
Module code: AH3062 In this module we will investigate past approaches to art from the Greek and Roman world and explore how our understandings of classical art have developed. We will pay particular attention to the physical and social contexts of this art (e.g.
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Twenty-First Century Global Fiction
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3200
Module code: EN3200 What characterises twenty-first century fiction? Does it have distinctive formal and thematic features? What does it tell us about the times we are living in? As Peter Boxall notes, the contemporary moment is ‘always difficult to bring into focus, and...
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38m super lightweight mirror chosen for ChineseFrench space mission
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/ps3-8m-super-lightweight-mirror-chosen-for-chinese-french-space-mission
The University has announced the signature of a contract to develop an innovative new type of X-ray mirror for a telescope to be flown on an orbiting observatory to be launched in 2021.
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Leicester diabetes management programme to get Africa roll out
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-diabetes-management-programme-to-get-africa-roll-out
A leading type 2 diabetes management programme which was developed by a team including researchers from our University is going global.
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Modern Monsters: Contemporary American Texts
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/am3039
Module code: AM3039 This module explores the experience of the ‘Other’: those who are treated as monsters because their gender, race, or sexuality do not conform to the accepted norms, whose bodies are 'different' or who challenge the ideals of the United States...
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Young Leicester artists raise money for charity through ‘Hopefulness’ exhibition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/aac-hopefulness
A new exhibition featuring the work of budding artists from Leicester College has opened at the Attenborough Arts Centre, the University of Leicester’s public arts programme. The Art and Design students were asked what ‘hope’ meant to them.