Unit name | English of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and Law |
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Unit code | LANG00009 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | QCA-3 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Ms. Taylor |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
IELTS 6 overall with 5.5 in writing (minimum)or equivalent |
Co-requisites |
Academic Writing; Text Response; Academic Speaking |
School/department | Centre for Academic Language and Development |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This mandatory 20-credit unit for those students taking the International Foundation Programme with Arts and Humanities is one of a number of complementary units whose overall aims are to improve the language, academic literacy and subject knowledge required to succeed at university. This unit aims to develop language and academic literacies, but with a specific focus on understanding and operating in the discourse and ways of thinking in the disciplines of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and Law. It includes critical text and discourse analysis, structuring and organising ideas, argumentation and substantiation, reading for research, summarising and synthesising from sources, and participation in seminars and presentations.
At the end of this unit students will be able to:
Learning is facilitated in small group classroom sessions (12-16). Individual and group-based work is integrated as appropriate. In addition to textbook use, the course draws heavily on authentic academic texts. Use will be made of appropriate e-learning technologies.
Portfolio of written work (50%):
Essay (2000 words)(30%)
Viva (10%)
Presentation (10%)