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HUMSS Specialists
Building on the phenomonol success of the STEM Specialists project, that saw the the 2010/11 scheme nominated for a Times Higher Education Award, Keelelink extended the project to HUMSS subjects for 2011/12 academic year.
The HUMSS menu was developed by with Keele academics and students, and offers many sessions including workshops on Music, Citezenship, English & History. The sessions can be adapted to work across Key Stages, and can be delivered in school by our highly trained Keele Student Specialists
For more information please e mail keelelink@mac.keele.ac.uk.
To book an in school session please complete the Online Booking Form.
Citizenship
We are offering a Citizenship session that can be ran for KS3, 4 & 5
The interactive session shall focus on Capital Punishment, and whether the State ever has the right to kill.
Covering social responsibility & political literacy, the session tackles the controversial issue of Capital Punishment in the USA, China and Iran.
The session will look at real life cases of those on death row and those recently executed.
Is there any place for Capital Punishment in the 21st century?
Music
We are offering two sessions that can be adapted across Key Stages
The first session looks at how film music can affect the way we thing. Are we really in control of our minds? Are we merely all Pavlov's dog's, subconsciously reacting to the sound that we hear in film? The session, called, 'Film Music & Mind Control' will consist of an actual experiment on the participants to prove, or disprove whether our minds are really controlled by the media.
The second session looks into Popular Music, its influences and how we listen to music. The session, branded 'What are you Listening to?', looks into the shocking similarities of some music, are we simply buying the same record twice, but marketed and branded in a different way?
History
One of our two sessions for KS3, 4 & 5 looks into the Revolutionary nature of mankind. What makes a revolutionary? Jesus? Lenin? Ghandi? Marilyn Munroe? Were they really revolutionaries? The session will look into language, and the use of speech along with how the media have portrayed revolutionary figures.
The next session 'Who shot JFK?' assess all the evidence surrounding the assassination of JFK, and allows the participants to decide who really killed the President. Assessing evidence from Howard Hunt & footage from the day, the learners become detectives for the day
English
The first of two sessions looks at Flash Fiction. Can you really write a story in 6 words? And if so, how important is sub-context? The participants get the chance to write some of their own short stories. The session finishes with a brief discussion on Ernest Hemmingway and the importance of his work - including Flash Fiction
The second session looks at Novel to Film. Involving role play adaptation from Harry Potter & a discussion surrounding what film can do that the written word cannot. The conclusion will look at the piece from the Harry Potter film that they were asked to act out. Was it similar? What the director change?
