BA (Hons) English Language and International Communication Bachelor's degree at Westminster

This module will support you in developing an ability to synthesise your studies on your core and option modules throughout the first year. Teaching and learning takes place in small groups, combined with weekly meetings with your tutor. The content of the tutorials is partly tailored to the needs of the group, and partly used to develop a wider synoptic engagement with the degree as a whole (working towards the essay), study skills, and raising awareness of employability skills.

The module provides you with an introduction to the relevant theories of interpersonal and intercultural communication. By exploring these theories and linking them to practical everyday situations, you will have the opportunity to reflect on how these apply to your own communicative contexts. Focus will be placed on gaining practical strategies for enhancing your own competences as a communicator.

This module gives you the knowledge and skills necessary to start analysing and describing the English language systematically (according to grammar, morphology and phonology) and prepares you for future modules at Level 5. The module develops your theoretical awareness of spoken and written mediums, how they are structured, and how they can be used as linguistic data. It also gives you a thorough understanding of the concepts of style, register and genre, and introduces you to some of the main

This module investigates how language works in texts, and how texts produce their effects through examination of writers' lexical and grammatical choices. Students analyse how writers' linguistic choices indicate the attitudes of characters and narrators, and represent characters as powerful or passive. Students discover how analysing the language of literary texts differs from the approaches taken by literary scholars.

This module examines English around the world as an international, intra-national, native, second, and foreign language. It considers the distinctive features of these varieties and the social and cultural implications of English as a global language. British varieties of English may be referred to as examples in the introductory part of the module but are not the main content or part of the assessment.

This module introduces the study of contemporary and ancient material culture and examines its meaning in social, political and historical perspectives. You'll acquire skills of object analysis and visit London galleries and museums to apply them. You'll examine the social and cultural lives of objects, and how their meaning changes depending on their context and use, by assessing their production, the impact of trade, war and migration on their circulation, and their provenance and politics of

The module examines the relationship between representation and the production of meaning through the analysis of a wide range of contemporary socio-cultural topics, including gender, ethnicity and language, through different media. In this module students are encouraged to challenge and develop an understanding of the critical links between representation, meaning and identity in a global frame. The analysis focuses primarily on the representation of cultural difference and 'othering' in the pu

This core module is central to the English Language and International Communication degree, supporting you in the development of your ability to synthesise your studies on your core and option modules throughout the second year. Teaching and learning take place in small groups, with you meeting your tutor on a weekly basis. The content of the tutorials is partly tailored to the needs of the group, and partly used to develop a wider synoptic engagement with the degree as a whole (working towards

In this module you will examine how those in positions of power use language to create narratives, values and beliefs held by different groups of people in the world. You will explore how language found in the public space reflects values and conventions and how this can change across different societies. The module focuses on the role and purpose of different kinds of social insitutions and analyses the means through which they maintain their identity in the international public space and the l

This module examines the development of different aspects of language in the early years. Within the module, you will focus on the development of (1) phonological abilities (how children perceive and produce words), (2) syntactic abilities (how children combine words to form phrases and sentences), (3) lexical and semantic abilities (how children build their vocabulary and map words and meanings), and (4) morphological abilities (how children acquire inflections). It also discusses theories whic

The module gives you an overview of the history of the English language and focuses on specific lexical and syntactic variants present throughout the ages. It considers texts as discourses in order to demonstrate the varied history of English in all its historical forms through to the present day.

This module focuses on the role of the reader to the process of textual interpretation. You will be introduced to topics in cognitive poetics to examine the ways in which readers combine their real-world knowledge and their understanding of characters to create discourse worlds, and how they respond to cues in texts to build an understanding of text worlds.

The module provides you with the necessary tools to analyse spoken texts in terms of the phonological, lexical, morphosyntactic, and discourse features they display. Texts are analysed as products of discourse, that is, language that is situated in, and takes significance from, particular times and places, and is constructed with a particular purpose.

This module focuses on key cultural developments that have impacted the Arabic/Chinese/Francophone/Hispanic world (according to students' language of study) through the analysis of pertinent cultural artefacts. It considers the development of each cultural and linguistic area over time up to and including the present day. To do so, the module will identify and focus on cultural artefacts that include text, objects, and audiovisual media such as – but not exclusively – literature, film, individua

In this module students will further expand their knowledge of and expertise in functioning as communicators in an international environment. Students will analyse the use of language and culture in professional contexts from a range of perspectives including translational communication and working in a multilingual, multicultural environment. Students will apply current theories of discourse, interpersonal and intercultural communication to real world contexts and improve their own practical co

In this module students will expand their knowledge of and expertise in functioning as communicators in an international environment. Students will analyse the use of language and culture in professional contexts from a range of perspectives including working in a multilingual, multicultural environment. Students will apply current theories of discourse and interpersonal and intercultural communication to real world contexts and improve their own practical competencies as international communica

This year-long module offers you the opportunity to propose and execute a research project on a topic that reflects the learning outcomes of the English Language and Global Communications BA. You are supported in the development and application of research skills by supervision, lectures and seminars which provide guidance, information and discussion on the selection of topic and sources, use of evidence and methodologies, collection and analysis of data, writing up and presentation.

This module explores various forms of cultural and political representation from the Arabic/Chinese/Francophone/Hispanic worlds, according to your chosen language. In particular, it examines core themes and issues, such as identity, belonging, and social movements, that are pertinent to the culture of study, considering how local, national, and transnational landscapes have influenced these issues. The module will develop your knowledge of key concepts and theories relevant to the culture of stu

Across the globe, gender is a key principle of social organisation which defines the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion in both domestic and public life. Gender is fundamental to ideas about social order and power. Protest is a vital force for political and social change, particularly for changing conversations about gender. As such, this module considers the relationship between gender and protest. In particular, it considers the importance of protest in shaping both popular and theoretical

This is a work experience placement associated with employment with an appropriate employer that you as a graduate might eventually join, such as a small or large business, an arts organisation or a subject-based placement in a school. Assessment consists of a portfolio which you'll complete. You'll need to source your own placement.

Assessment: portfolio