BA (Hons) Deaf Studies and Linguistics with Foundation Year

Module: 3GK015

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

You will have the opportunity to study and understand contemporary social issues from different disciplinary perspectives. You will engage with current academic debates about a range of social issues and debate and discuss ideas about the social world that will challenge and extend your thinking. The module will provide an exciting basis for your future study of the Social Sciences.

Module: 3GK012

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module is designed to introduce you to university life. It will support you in exploring the university environment. It will also introduce you to the wide variety of academic skills needed to succeed at university and will support you in the development of these skills.

Module: 3GK013

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

In this module, you will work collaboratively with other students on a project that reflects an area of shared interest relating to the broad themes of Business, Law or the Social Sciences. You will have the opportunity to work as a small team to devise, design and plan a project relating to a topic of shared interest. In many aspects of life and work, teamwork and collaboration are the norm to solve real world-problems. This group-based project will allow you to develop a range of skills, including leadership skills, time-management, negotiation, communication, creativity, problem-solving and critical thinking skills. By investigating and responding to a complex question, challenge or problem, you and your group will acquire a deeper knowledge of your topic. The module will conclude with a conference, where your group’s project will be presented to the other groups in your class.

Module: 3GK014

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to Wolverhampton and the people who live there using concepts and insights from a variety of academic subjects, for example Social Policy, Sociology, History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law, and Politics, amongst others. You will explore a range of cultural and social issues.

Module: 4EN003

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The aims of this module are to provide a foundation in the basic knowledge of English grammar and lexis and skills for linguistic analysis which you will need to successfully engage in English Language study. You will be introduced to theories of words, grammar and meaning and you will analyse a wide range of texts, both traditional and web-based. You will learn how to search online language databases and manipulate text using linguistic software in order to analyse contemporary language use in genuine contexts. You will also be encouraged to appreciate how the skills you acquire can have practical applications in real-life situations, especially in the world of work. The skills learned and the activities undertaken on this module map onto the Wolverhampton University Enterprise and Employability Award. Successful completion of the assessment tasks makes you eligible for the Enterprise and Employability Silver Award.

Module: 4DF009

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module aims to give students with little or no knowledge an insight into Cultural issues which impact on deaf people's lives. This will follow on modules to further practical development of British Sign Language. Secondly, to develop confidence and skills to engage in a conversation on a range of familiar topics that are relevant to daily lives. Student will gain a knowledge of BSL, and grammatical features that will provide an essential platform for further study in this area.

Module: 4DF010

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This modules aims to explore socio-political, historical, technological issues and deaf identities, which impact on deaf people lives.

Module: 4LN001

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module aims to: give students an insight into the unique and fascinating nature of human language, introducing the basic concerns and concepts of applied linguistics.

Module: 4LN002

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module is the first in a suite of three related ‘Structural Linguistics’ modules taught at Levels 4, 5 and 6. In this module you will begin with an introduction to each of the three separate threads that form the focus of the modules: phonetics and phonology (the sounds of language), morphology (how words are formed from units of sound) and syntax (how words are combined to form phrases & sentences). You will then go on to explore the basic concepts of two of the threads in greater depth; syntax, and phonetics and phonology. In the phonetics & phonology strand, you will start by exploring how human speech sounds are made, how they can be identified, described and recorded according to their place and manner of articulation, and how they combine to form units of meaning as words, and parts of words. In the syntax strand, you will learn how words can be classified into lexical categories such as nouns, verbs etc. through their morphology (what they look like), and distribution (where they come in a phrase). You will also explore the relationship between these word categories, how they can be ordered to form types of phrases within a sentence, and the functions that each phrase performs. The module is practical in orientation. You will be given ample opportunity to apply the concepts you have learned to the analysis of data of English and will also be encouraged to draw on your experience of other languages.

Module: 4SL010

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will familiarise students with the complex relationship between the media and the manufacture of deviance resulting in social stigma. It focuses upon media representations of 'deviance', criminality and the construction of social stigma. The module provides students with an understanding of the role of the media in the creation of moral panics and examines the influence of these representations on popular opinion, social policies and legal decision-making.

Module: 5DF008

Credits: 20

Period: 3

Type: Core

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