BA (Hons) English Language and Linguistics with Foundation Bachelor's degree at Westminster

Critical thinking is fundamental to our ability to progress in an increasingly complex and changing world. It is an essential skill across a range of academic and practice-based disciplines. This module helps students understand the importance and function of critical thinking both at university and beyond.

This module introduces you to the concepts of history and memory. Using topical case studies, the module invites you to consider how the past is related to the present and how history and memory are constituted, challenged and constantly evolving.

This module introduces contemporary political questions in the global context. Current political issues such as statelessness, politics of underdevelopment, power and inequality, and climate change will be discussed and analysed.

This module provides a foundation in the theory and practice of intercultural communication, to help you better understand the complexities of communicating with people from other cultures.

This module introduces you to the key academic, professional, and personal skills essential for success at university. It encourages good practices in writing, presentation, and time management, while also fostering reflection to help you build confidence as you transition to higher education.

This module explores some of the issues and intersections of identity through written and spoken expressions. It will include aspects such as language and gender, writing auto/biography, forms of writing, cultural identity and linguistic identity, and reading and writing about 'others' in fiction and non-fiction.

This is a module where teaching and learning takes place in small groups, with you meeting your tutor on a weekly basis. The content of the tutorials will be tailored to the group but will be used to develop both academic study and research skills and small formative exercises working towards the final individual project report.

This module provides a core introduction to the field of Linguistics on this degree and focuses on language as a formal system, and language as behaviour. In terms of form, the module provides a foundation in the cross-linguistic structure of words (morphology), sentences (syntax), sounds (phonetics), and meaning (semantics), while considering different types of languages around the world (typology).

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.

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.

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.

This core module is central to the English Language and Linguistics, supporting you in the development of your ability to synthesise your studies on your core and option modules throughout your second year of study. Teaching and learning take place in small groups, with you meeting your tutor on a weekly basis.

This module examines the underlying similarities and differences between languages, within specific parameters. The focus is on phonetics and phonology, which describe and investigate the sound systems of language, as well as syntax, the study of sentence structure. The module is fundamentally cross-linguistic, examining data from multiple languages across various.