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This intermediate course within the 3D Visualisation disciplinary studio will help you explore 3D computer visualisations through the creation of a digital 3D environment. Building on the skills already acquired in the introductory course to create a 3D virtual asset in isolation, you will now create multiple assets before laying them out in a complete, fully realised virtual scene. To successfully complete this process, you will need to consider how assets engage and relate to each other and the space they inhabit. The creation of the virtual scene will be conceptually driven and supported by theoretical research. Engaging studio workshops will explore the full Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) workflow with a particular emphasis on CGI lighting, rendering techniques and clear art direction. This course will provide you with an increased ability to apply the knowledge and skills that are used in the field of computer modelling and Computer-Generated visualisation to the creation of your own 3D virtual worlds.

This advanced course within the 3D Visualisation disciplinary studio will provide you with the opportunity to immerse yourself in the field of computer modelling and computer-generated visualisation and refine your knowledge, methods and skills. Expanding in complexity and drawing on the skills already acquired in the preceding courses, you will design and create an experiential, explorable and 3D virtual world. Scholarly research will provide an informed foundation for the creation of a sophisticated, conceptually focussed virtual environment. Engaging studio workshops will explore the full computer-generated imagery workflow with a particular emphasis on how 3D assets engage and relate to each other in a realtime platform, low-poly modelling and a high level of art direction in the creation of your own virtual world.

A Critical Introduction to Art Psychotherapy I: Theories and Practice will offer a comprehensive and critical overview of the main theories and approaches that characterize the diverse field and practice of art psychotherapy, its historical roots, development and its present in view of the rapidly changing art therapy world of the 21st century. The module will be taught within a critical framework that will incorporate insights from feminist, cultural and gender theory. The module will be of interest to those who wish to learn about the profession and who may be interested in going on to train as art psychotherapists.

The module will develop an understanding of art psychotherapy through an immersive and reflexive experiential learning process. Students will participate in an experiential art therapy group, where learning is through doing in an ‘as if’ experience of the therapeutic process. This is to facilitate development of insight into the self and others; and the dynamic interaction between art making, communication and group processes within a boundaried frame. Awareness of working with differences related to race, culture, class and gender will be developed and explored.

In 1094 or 1095, Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos turned to Pope Urban II to ask his help in restoring to the Empire Asia Minor, taken by the Seljuk Turks. Following the Pope’s proclamation of the Holy War at the Council of Clairmont, a multitude of Europe’s Christians of diverse backgrounds set themselves on a journey towards Jerusalem, where, having taken the city in 1099, they established the Kingdom of Jerusalem (followed by some other neighboring “Crusader States”). The Crusaders’ presence in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean yielded a special socio-cultural milieu that was based upon their conflict with the Muslims, but also shaped by diverse and special forms of interaction. For the next 200 years, Christianity and Islam maintained dynamic relations, clashing across the Holy Land and Africa, but also transferring and adopting the assets of their institutes and cultures, and opening the medieval world to the more global connections and early-modern entanglements (Mongols, China, the New World, etc.). The idea of the Crusade in this period also extended to target Europe’s high medieval heresies, among which especially fierce reaction it generated towards dualist cathars/albigians in France, Milan’s pataria and Bosnian heretics, while ardent Teutonic Knights led their Crusades in the Baltic against the Slavic East. Moreover, Crusading survived the epopée, and was applied, shaped and modified 14th -18th c. by the Roman Popes and the rulers of the European Christian West, most notably against the Ottomans who took over the Byzantine East (1453) and ruled the Balkans until 1912, but also against all “others” who were seen as the enemies of the faith, such as the Protestants and the Bohemian Hussites, or the native populations of the New World. Crusading discourse can be found even in our modern times, hidden or more apparent in the pseudo-histories of the Nazi Ahnenerbe by which racism and the Holocaust were justified, Eisenhower’s idea of WWII as the Crusade, Kennedy’s campaign against communism, Bush’s anti-terrorist discourse after 9/11, or even consumerist agenda wrapped in the filmed adventures of Indiana Jones and the search for the lost Holy Grail.

Come and get a small insight into Estonian food culture! During this workshop, you will learn a little about the origin and nature of common Estonian dishes. During the hands-on workshop, you make and taste some easy-to-cook food and get tips on what products to choose from the market for a more authentic experience. The dishes are prepared from Estonian raw materials and give a brief overview of the dishes on the Estonians’ table. The workshop is led by home economics lecturers who have experience in conducting student practicums and introducing Estonian food culture to various target groups.

Recent presidential elections in the United States highlight gaping rifts in the society and politics of the contemporary United States. Decades of increasing inequality, globalisation and cultural conflict between religious conservatives, libertarians and what Americans call 'liberals' have left American politics and society more divided than it has been for half a century. At the same time, the United States remains the world's greatest power, exercising an enormous say in global governance, from economics to the environment. Focusing particularly on the peculiar 20th-century US histories of class, race, religion and global engagement, you will learn how the world's oldest liberal democracy has become such a vital and fraught force in the contemporary world.