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

sbesford@wghsss.org.uk