"How to Be Creative" is a program designed to unlock and nurture your creative potential. Through a blend of theory, hands-on practice, and interactive workshops, you'll explore the principles of creativity, learn innovative problem-solving techniques, and discover how to apply creative thinking across various disciplines. This program will equip you with the tools and mindset to think outside the box.
- Manager/in: Atkinson Patrick
The amount of energy consumed by humans is
constantly increasing. As are the effects of this on our climate.
If we want our planet to remain habitable we need to meet our energy needs from
cleaner sources. Plenty of technological solutions already exist, but
could we solve the human problems of implementation and could we do it in
time? This course places the political and economic aspects of transition
within the context of a broader look at humanity’s relationship with energy and
analyses the human blocks and brakes on the implementation of environmentally
driven energy solutions. A large part of the course is given over to
methodology. How do we evaluate the economic and political feasibility of
these solutions? Can we make solutions to intermittency viable?
Will adverse human factors override good engineering? Assessment is principally
on an oral presentation and a short written dossier on the same subject.
- Manager/in: Airey John
How fiction mirrors truth and comparing thought-provoking examples from Black Mirror to real life. This module deals with the powerful influence that technology has on society, ethics and human behaviour today and in the near future. Using a series of videos and Black Mirror episodes, students will present a critical analysis of a Black Mirror episode and organise a meaningful debate. Teacher-led in the beginning, students will gradually take over, in a benign way of course, and lead their own interactive workshop, using the methods used at the beginning of the module. (Continuous assessment)
- Manager/in: Kehoe Bridget
The point of this course is mainly to get you to speak as part of an audience, respecting a certain ‘etiquette’ and getting involved in discussions revolving around questions that are of public interest. Concretely: in turns, two students will choose a topic (economic, social, political, etc.), choose a setting (radio show, UN conference, etc.), establish a list of roles for the debaters, provide a collection of articles about the subject and write an introductory statement that opens the debate. The rest of the class will have a week to decide their role, read the material and get prepared. On D-day, students will debate for approximately an hour, under the supervision of the organisers. In a second part, we’ll debrief the discussion and see what can be enhanced (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation) and perform other types of activities.
Continuous assessment: participation in the discussions, preparation & moderation of your debate, a listening comprehension exercise, a text study and an essay, all based on a theme we’ll have tackled during the final lesson.
- Manager/in: Touret Steve
In this class, we will have a look at some British social conflicts through movies. We will watch extracts of very different movies and you may be also asked to watch a couple before class so that we can comment on them from different perspectives. The movies will deal with issues such as social struggles, gender inequality or racism to name a few.
Continuous assessment: presentations of movies; reviews; oral comprehension of short sequences and videos; writing reviews; opinion pieces... Thursday only !
- Manager/in: Durbec Valérie