POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS

Blackboard platform, the BLE provides easyaccess to electronic versions of course materialsincluding reading lists, course outlines, lecturenotes, essential readings, and listening exercisesfor language students. There is also an onlinediscussion forum enabling students andlecturers to exchange ideas and continue in-classdiscussion, and many other tools. The BLE isaccessible from any computer with a networkconnection anywhere in the world, 24 hours aday, 365 days a year.The SOAS Learning and Teaching Unit (LTU) isleading a pioneering consortium of Bloomsburycolleges to collaborate further on the developmentof e-learning, and future developments willinclude the use of Wikis, Blogs and Podcastingto support learning and teaching at SOAS.LANGUAGE LABSDedicated language laboratories and two openaccess language resource rooms are availableto language students, and a recording studioprovides facilities for the production of audioand video tapes. Students and staff also haveaccess to satellite television offering about 30channels and the School has direct lines to theoverseas service of the BBC.GALLERIES AND MUSEUMSThe Brunei Gallery at SOAS, built in 1995 witha generous benefaction from HM The Sultan ofBrunei Darussalam, includes a gallery dedicatedto showing work from and relating to Africa,Asia and the Near and Middle East. It operatesas both a student resource and a public attraction,holding regular exhibitions that reflect the broadacademic interests of art and archaeologicalteaching at SOAS.The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Artwas founded in 1950 when Sir Percival David,Bt, presented to the University of London hisincomparable collection of Chinese ceramics,numbering approximately 1,700 pieces, andhis library of books dealing with Chinese artand culture. SOAS has managed this hugelyrich and unique resource, which students canaccess. The Foundation regularly holds lectures,exhibitions and other events relating to EastAsian art and archaeology.There are many other galleries and museumsnearby, including the British Museum.FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS AT THEBRUNEI GALLERY2007• From Soho Road to The Punjab: Documentingthe Contribution of Bhangra and its CulturalRelevance in Britain today• Exposed and Hungry: Life in Eastern CongoUNHCR and WFP presentation of an exhibitionof photographs by Susan Schulman• Objects of Instruction: Treasures of SOASLaunch exhibition of the permanent collectionof SOAS art and artefacts and the Foyle SpecialCollections Gallery• Picturing China 1870–1950: Photographs inBritish CollectionsBy 2006 large numbers of Britons are living andworking in China, and this exhibition will explorethe world of their Treaty Port predecessors.• Ethiopian Airlines in Perspective: Past Presentand Future2008• Secrets of the RiverExhibition by the Brunei Museum of artefactsfrom the Sungai Lima Mains archaeological site,dating from the 10th–13th Centuries A.D.• The Illustrated Book in China: Historical andContemporary Practice• Cairo 1975Photographic exhibition of old Cairo between theOctober War and Camp David• Retracing Henrich BarthBased on Barth’s ‘Travels and Discoveries in NorthAfrica and Central Africa in the Years 1849–1855’• Our Positive BodiesLife-size body map self portraits painted by HIVpositivewomen in Thailand, India, and Kenya• Images of Asian DancersBy British photographers 1960–PresentFor further information, please visitwww.soas.ac.uk/gallery21ACADEMIC RESOURCES