The information below should help you to get some idea of the range and pace of what you will study on AA100.
You will be sent a more detailed planner with your course materials. This will include full reference to any other study materials you might need to use in a given week. These include the Illustration Book, Audio CDs, DVD ROMs, DVD Videos, set books and the course website.
The assignment weeks have been left free of other work so you can concentrate on completing your assignment.
Note that in weeks 30-32 you will be able to choose four sections from the materials on The Seaside
| Study Week | Book | Chapter | Assignment |
| 1 | Course Companion | Preparatory Week | |
| 2 | Book 1: Reputations | Cleopatra | |
| 3 | Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus | ||
| 4 | Cézanne | ||
| 5 | Assignment Week | ||
| 6 | Fame and Faraday | Assignment 01 | |
| 7 | Stalin | ||
| 8 | The Diva | ||
| 9 | The Dalai Lama | ||
| 10 | Book 2: Tradition and Dissent | Plato on Tradition and Belief | |
| 11 | Reading Poetry: The Faber Book of Beasts | ||
| 12 | Assignment Week | ||
| 13 | Tradition and Dissent in English Christianity | Assignment 02 (Reflective Activity) Assignment 03 |
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| 14 | Pugin and the Revival of the Gothic Tradition | ||
| 15 | Ireland: The Invention of Tradition | ||
| 16 | Tradition and Dissent in Music: Dmitri Shostakovich | ||
| 17 | Assignment Week | Assignment 04 | |
| 18 | Book 3: Cultural Encounters | The Art of Benin: Changing Relations between Europe and Africa I | |
| 19 | The Art of Benin: Changing Relations between Europe and Africa II | ||
| 20 | Cultural Encounters and Cultural Exemptions | ||
| 21 | Assignment Week | ||
| 22 | Short Stories | Assignment 05 | |
| 23 | From Greece to the Middle East to Europe: the Transmission of Medical Knowledge | ||
| 24 | Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes | ||
| 25 | Assignment Week | ||
| 26 | Book 4: Place and Leisure | Leisure and the Purpose of Life | Assignment 06 |
| 27 | Sacred Space and Landscape | ||
| 28 | Leisure in the Roman Villa | ||
| 29 | Moving Forwards in Your Studies (online) | Assignment 07 (Reflective Activity) | |
| 30 31 32 |
The Seaside In weeks 30-32 you will choose four sections from the following materials: Victorian Seaside Music Painting the Seaside Dressing for the Beach Technology and the Seaside: Blackpool and Benidorm The Healthy Seaside 1960s and 70s ‘Beach’ Music Bhaji on the Beach |
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| 33 | Assignment Week | ECA |