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WGHS Extension Lessons
2014-2015
Year 13 students are offered one lesson per week additional studies in order to augment and enhance their curriculum studies. The courses run in the Autumn and Spring Term and last for approximately 16 weeks. This document gives a preview of the courses on offer to enable you to make a choice as to which course you would like to attend.
Course Brochure
GUIDANCE FOR STUDENTS
Every department in the school will offer extension lessons. In many cases, these will give you an insight into relevant undergraduate study. However, you are not required to take extension lessons from a department you are already studying with. You can choose to study any course you wish. You may want to study a course that has content you think would be useful to you as part of your studies or you may want to study something entirely different. Some departments will offer research projects or even work that leads to an additional qualification. Most will offer lessons that touch on subjects or ideas that you have not yet encountered yet in your studies or not experienced in great depth. Extension lessons are not designed to directly help you improve your grades, but are instead an opportunity to broaden your outlook and to develop the desire and curiosity to extend your knowledge. Think carefully about your choice and talk about it with someone else if you can. It may not be possible to alter your choice once it has been made.
THE BROCHURE
The brochure gives a list of departments and a brief summary of the course. Each summary gives a bullet-point outline (in chronological order) of the topics taught in the course. Each course is expected to last for about sixteen lessons, starting in mid-September and finishing in mid-March. The time of the lesson may be specified (for example, Wednesday lunchtime) or it may be dependent on who signs up and when a free period that is convenient for all may be arranged. You should talk to the member of staff whose course you are interested in to find out more about the course and when it is likely to run before making your choice.
ONLINE LEARNING SEMINAR This is an alternative course of study and is open to a maximum of 10 students (to be determined by the member of staff responsible). Students conduct their own learning on a suggested course or one of their own (so long as it meets the criteria for study) and teach others as part of the seminar programme.
MAKING YOUR CHOICE Fill in the attached form, stating your first, second and third preference. Hand it in to the school office by the deadline specified. You will then be notified of what course you will be attending.
Biology
Staff: Dr J Korosi, Miss C Dollive
Time: TBC
Venue: Biology TBC
Course Content:
Physiology and genetics
Chromosomal abnormality
Early embryological development and foetal circulation
DNA replication
Protein Synthesis
Di-hybrid and tri-hybrid inheritance plus epistasis
Autosomal gene linkage and cross over values
The Human genome
Mouse models of human disease. Human Activities
Vanishing ecosystems
Chemistry
Staff: Mrs J Baldwin
Time: TBC
Venue: Chemistry TBC
Course Content:
Drugs and their impacts Transition metals and the Chemistry of Art Carbon and its allotropes
Classical Civilisation
Staff: Mr J Hargreaves
Time: TBC
Venue: Room 19
Course Content:
Democratic Athens: the example for all to follow?
Introduction to Greece – geography, religion, the Greek city state, migration & colonisation
The legacy of Athens – ancient and modern views
Athens vs the Persians: ‘300 and all that’
Athenian democracy – a very strange form of government!
Democracy and Athenian Imperialism
An inclusive society? women, education, the arts, slavery
The glory of Athens - Architecture & Festivals
Computing
Staff: Mr S Paget, Mr M Lassey
Time: Lunchtime TBC
Venue: Room ICT1
Course Content:
Interfaces
Natural language interface
Gesture based technology
Web usability & workflow Artificial Intelligence
The Turing Test
Expert systems Cryptography
The Caesar Shift
Random Substitution Ciphers
Frequency Analysis Algorithms
Solving a maze
Drama and Theatre Studies
Staff: Mr S Besford
Time: Tues P6 / Lunchtime
Venue: Drama Studio
Course Content:
Avant-Garde and 20th Century Theatre Movements
Symbolism
Psychodrama
Edward Craig and the rise of The Auteur
Bertolt Brecht
Theatre of Cruelty
Theatre of the Absurd
Naturalism and anti-naturalism
Meyerhold and Constructivism Monologue and Audition Technique
Classical monologues for women
Modern monologues for women
Audition technique: breathing, pace, intonation
Common audition questions
Character motivation
Action and the Actor
English Language
Staff: Dr L McNamara
Time: TBC
Venue: TBC
Course Content:
Political Correctness
Different linguistic features
Attitudes towards PC
Apocryphal nature of examples
Links between language and thought
Determinism/reflectionism
Jean Aitchison
Gender
Textual analysis Accent and Dialect
IPA
Social attitudes: Giles
Regional variation
Dialect levelling
Estuary English
Links to gender
Gender (2)
Textual analysis
English Literature
Staff: Dr F Dunlop
Time: TBC
Venue: En5
Course Content:
Hamlet in Context
Introduction to Hamlet
Old Hamlet and political crisis
Hamlet and Renaissance individualism
Ophelia and construction of gender
The Mouse-trap and court performance
Laertes and revenge conventions
Gertrude and the family drama
Horatio, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: friends and flatterers at the Renaissance court
Fortinbras and Renaissance futures
The reception of Hamlet: Romantic views of Hamlet
Modern Hamlet: twentieth and twenty-first century views Filling the Gaps: History of English Literature
Medieval literatures
Reanissance / Early Modern Literature
Modern / Post-Modern Literature
Food Technology
Staff: Mrs S Oldale
Time: TBC
Venue: Willows 2/3
Course Content:
British Nutrition Foundation - Healthy Eating and Nutrition Certificate
Introduction to healthy eating and drinking well
Energy and nutrients
Nutritional needs through life with an emphasis on the diet of young people
Diet and Health including sports nutrition
Special Diets including obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, osteoporosis
Understanding food labels
Applying healthy eating – cooking healthy meals and adapting recipes for specific dietary needs
Diet and public health promotion strategies
French
Staff: Mrs S Hotham
Time: TBC
Venue: Room 31
Course Content:
French Language
High level translation skills using different styles of text
An experience of Translating and Interpreting
Advanced Grammar
Reportage tasks
Summarising Skills
Explication de Textes (analysis of prose / poetry)
French Literature
Introduction to major movements and figures
Geography
Staff: Mr Hargreaves and Mrs Stothard
Time: Friday Lunchtime
Venue: Room 17 or 10
Course Content:
History and philosophy of Geography
New Geography
An Introduction to Human Geography
Current approaches and thinking in Human Geography.
Global cities and identity
Key Themes in Contemporary Human Geography
Border Walls: Security and the war on terror in the US, India and Israel
Current Issues in Human Geography
Volcanoes
Geo-environmental engineering
Clouds
German
Staff: Miss J Pick
Time: TBC
Venue: TBC
Course Content:
Further German Studies
German Grammar – A guide to undergraduate level knowledge
Bertolt Brecht – Poetry: Der kaukasische Kreidekreis and others
Franz Kafka: Die Verwandlung
Translation: Viennese Tourism
Introduction to Italian and Italian poetry
German Film: Das Leben der Anderen
Heinrich Böll: Die verlorene Ehre der Katarina Blum and The role of The Press
Translation: Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island
Bernard Schlink: Der Vorleser and film adaptation The Reader
German Grammar: use of the imperfect tense
Goethe: an introduction, using some key excerpts from “Faust”
Goethe: A discussion of 2 poems (English translation provided)
History
Staff: Mr A Shaw/Mrs C Scott
Time: Lunchtime TBC
Venue: Room 24/Room 21
Course Content:
Philosophy of History
The ‘history of History’
The nature of historical truth
The ‘Whig’ theory of History
The ideal ‘A’ level / undergraduate degree programme in History
Why study History? Historical Topics
Alfred the Great
King John
Medieval/Early Modern Queenship
Elizabeth I
The Glorious Revolution
The French Revolution
Nazi Germany
Modern Russia
Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern day
Mathematics
Staff: Mrs S L Taylor
Time: Tbc
Venue: Room 12
Course Content:
MATHEMATICS
The language of Mathematics
Proof
Coordinate Systems
Complex Numbers
Taylor Series
Vectors, Matrices and their applications.
Hyperbolic Functions
The Conic Sections
Modular Arithmetic
Group Theory
Music
Staff: Mr N Meredith
Time: Tbc
Venue: Willows 7
Course Content:
Opera and Drama
Monteverdi’s Orfeo
Italian and French reforms
Action and Musical Continuity
Mozartian magic
Verdi and Otello
Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde
Physical Education
Staff: Miss G Holder /Mrs E MacGregor
Time: TBC
Venue: Chem 4
Course Content:
OCR A Level PE Option B2: Biomechanics
Linear motion in physical activity
Force in physical activity
Fluid mechanics in physical activity
Stability and angular motion in physical activity
Critical evaluation of the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of performance in selected physical activities
Physics
Staff: Mr M Wilson
Time: TBC
Venue: TBC
Course Content:
Feynman Lectures
Mainly Mechanics, Radiation and Heat
Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter
Quantum Mechanics
Product Design
Staff: Mr B Carlin
Time: TBC
Venue: Design Studio/D&T Computer Room
Course Content:
Presentation Skills
Advanced 3D representation
Use of light and shade
Spirit markers
Pastels
Fine lining, line weighting, mounting and presenting CAD
Workplanes, features, extrusions and projections
Revolves and sweeps
Album features
Orthographic projections
Complex object creation and assembly Design History
Industrial revolution and design
Arts and Crafts
Art Nouveau
Modernism
Art Deco
Streamlining
Post-modernism Higher Level Manufacturing Skills
Psychology
Staff: Mrs K Edge
Time: TBC
Venue: Cliff One + Library/ICT Room
Course Content:
Further Psychology
Psychopathology- Serial Killers x4 lessons (Independent Research Topic to be carried out alternate weeks with presentation to conclude)
Psychological effects of physical illness
Psychopathology- Post natal depression
Psychopathology – Bi Polar
Sleep and Dreaming
Dyslexia
Autism
Anomalistic psychology – psychic mediumship
Religious Studies and Philosophy
Staff: Mrs L Zserdicky, Miss R Keegan-Phipps
Time: TBC
Venue: Rooms 8 & 9
Course Content:
Theology / Philosophy
Introduction to Philosophy
Applying Philosophy to life
What caused the Big Bang?
Christianity & Science
The God Delusion / Richard Dawkins
Morality & Religion
Ethics
Social Ethics
Ethical language
Feminist Ethics – liberal, radical & Christian
Virtue Ethics & Utilitarianism
Business Ethics
Environmental Ethics
Spanish
Staff: Mrs K Dale
Time: TBC
Venue: Room 27
Course Content:
Global Latin Culture
Portuguese taster lesson
Como Agua Para Chocolate – film and novel
Important figures in Spanish Film
The Chilean author Isabel Allende
Spain’s transition from dictatorship to democracy
Magic Realism in Latin American literature
The Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez
An introduction to Flamenco
Textiles
Staff: Mrs E Critch
Time: TBC
Venue: D&T Computer Room and or Design Studio
Course Content:
Compiling a portfolio for University Fashion Courses
Read through university requirements and understand the requirements and how they can be met through their work in lessons and extension projects
Examine different methods for portfolio presentation and why these methods suit different courses
Representation of fabrics through garment drawings
Investigate how trends are created and marketed through presentation boards
Basic pattern drafting
Critique by industry insider
Visit to fabric finishing company (subject to confirmation)
Online Learning Seminar Group (Max 10 students)
Staff: Mr S Besford
Time: Wednesdays P6
Venue: Drama Studio
Course Content:
Online Courses – Seminar programme – Suggested courses*
Oxford University – Critical Reasoning for Beginners
Oxford University – Bioethics: An Introduction
Oxford University – Big Questions for the Future
Yale University – Death
Yale University – Foundations of Modern Social Theory
Yale University – Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform *Student suggested programmes can be used as long as they meet the requirements of the seminar.
WGHS YEAR 13 EXTENSION LESSONS - APPLICATION FORM Please detach, fill in this form and return it to the school office by Friday 12th September. NAME: ____________________________________________________ FORM: ________________
NAME OF COURSE (DEPARTMENT or ONLINE
LEARNING SEMINAR)
FIRST PREFERENCE
SECOND PREFERENCE
THIRD PREFERENCE
Any enquiries, please address them to Learning Enrichment Co-ordinator – Mr S Besford