Cultural Perspectives

Cultural Perspectives courses are another unique aspect of the academic offer at Harris Westminster. In Year 12, alongside their 4 A level courses, students elect to study 2 further courses each term. These are 8 week courses which students attend for one lesson a week and they prove a rich and diverse intellectual and cultural seam. Cultural Perspectives courses encourage students to foster new skills and to explore new ideas, developing their ability to debate and argue; to form and communicate their own opinions; and to wrestle with thorny ethical issues to which there is no simple, widely accepted answer.

Students can choose from a huge variety of courses which offer them the opportunity to embrace learning opportunities beyond the narrow confines of the A level curriculum. These Cultural Perspectives courses provide them with an amazing array of knowledge and ideas both to inform their UCAS applications and to enliven any university interviews that they might be fortunate enough to be invited to. They are also interesting on their own terms and are often the intellectual and cultural highlights of many students’ weeks.

The following list is a selection of some of the remarkable courses that Harris Westminster students have been able to sign up to just this previous academic year:

The Moral Maze	Bright Brazil
Debating	Urban Gardening
Art That Shocked the World	State of Mind
Are you free?	Are music videos important?
Science and Sewing	The Man Box
Cornish History and Culture	Introduction to Crochet
Drawing to Learn	Excel Explorers
Polish up your Polish	Poisons of Agatha Christie
Introduction to Trading	Historyof Life on Earth
Food and the future	Mixed/ Other
Westminster Wanders	Painting with watercolour
Are you free?	How to invent Everything
Origami	Writing Fantasy Fiction
The Magic of Mexico	Why Economics is King
History of Jazz	A look into Set theory