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This module provides intensive instruction in six core domains of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. It expands substantially on concepts you were introduced to during ET118: Linguistics: Understanding Language. You will work from a wide-range of language data to develop your knowledge of findings, theories, and methodologies from these domains. You will build core disciplinary knowledge that is essential to any field of linguistic inquiry, and establish a necessary foundation for advanced linguistic research.
This module provides intensive instruction in six core domains of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. It expands substantially on concepts you were introduced to during ET118: Linguistics: Understanding Language. You will work from a wide-range of language data to develop your knowledge of findings, theories, and methodologies from these domains. You will build core disciplinary knowledge that is essential to any field of linguistic inquiry, and establish a necessary foundation for advanced linguistic research.
This module expands on concepts introduced during ET118: Linguistics: Understanding Language in order to provide core knowledge and skills for students in phonetics and phonology as essential fields of language study. It aims to:
- Familiarise students with the phonetic and phonological systems of the world’s languages.
- Introduce methodologies from a range of linguistic disciplines to document, study, and analyse language data.
- Engage students in linguistic analysis within a language and cross-linguistically, both synchronically and diachronically.
- Introduce research about and approaches to subfields of linguistics.
This module engages you in empirical studies of real-world speech communities. You will gather language data through a variety of methodologies, including collecting written surveys, conducting interviews, and datamining social media. You will deepen your knowledge about types of language change, motivations for it, and models to describe it. You will be challenged to create high-quality research outputs that advance knowledge, and hone qualitative and quantitative analytic skills that will be essential to your dissertation and other linguistic work.
This module engages you in empirical studies of real-world speech communities. You will describe regional and social dialects of English in Britain, and work in emerging approaches to dialectology in English as a lingua franca and “new” Englishes. You will gather language data through a variety of methodologies, including collecting written surveys, conducting face-to-face interviews, and datamining social media. You will deepen your knowledge about types of language change, motivations for it, and models to describe it. You will be challenged to create high-quality research outputs that advance knowledge, and hone qualitative and quantitative analytic skills that will be essential to your dissertation and other linguistic work.
With an emphasis on the development of students’ scientific skills, this module will focus on competences such as evidence based reasoning, the application of quantitative analysis to interpret chemical data and the evaluation of experimental design. Chemistry is an evidence based science discipline and there will be a strong experimental element to this module. In this progressive module students will also look at how Chemical applications can be used to solve societal problems. Students undertaking this module will develop the academic experience required for a range of undergraduate science programmes, including chemistry and chemical engineering.
This module offers an in-depth examination of Sustainable Development Goal 3 (“good health and well-being”) and the broader field of global health. The module will involve a blend of conceptual foundations, case study analysis, and work with real-life qualitative and quantitative data. Teaching and case studies will be interdisciplinary, drawing on medical as well as social science research.
This module offers an in-depth examination of Sustainable Development Goal 3 (“good health and well-being”) and the broader field of global health. The module will involve a blend of conceptual foundations, case study analysis, and work with real-life qualitative and quantitative data. Teaching and case studies will be interdisciplinary, drawing on medical as well as social science research.
Content Note
Please be advised that, while many historical subjects involve distressing themes, this module—focusing on the history of racial slavery—will frequently engage with material that is especially painful and violent in nature. Violence, in its many forms, is central to the history we will study.
We will approach this material with care, respect, and sensitivity toward the lives of the individuals and communities we examine. Please also be aware that some primary sources may contain profane or offensive language, and older historical writing may use outdated or harmful terminology. These terms will not be spoken aloud in our discussions.
Module Overview
Through the study of contemporary documents and nuanced scholarship, this module traces the development of racial slavery from the colonial U.S. through to the Civil War. Students will examine the social, cultural, religious, and economic strategies African Americans used to survive under slavery.
This is an intensive, source-based course that engages deeply with a focused set of historical problems. Students will gain hands-on experience working with a wide range of primary sources, developing key skills in historical analysis.
We will also situate U.S. slavery in a broader hemispheric context, considering connections such as the illicit slave trade with Latin America. The course explores slavery as a system deeply embedded in industrial capitalism, and examines both violent and non-violent forms of resistance.
Students will engage with diverse perspectives, including those of White enslavers and non-slaveholding poor Whites. Finally, we will follow the path by which debates between abolitionists and proslavery advocates ultimately fractured the nation and led to war.