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