Linguistics and Deaf Studies with Foundation Year

University Centre Telford

Bachelor's degree

In Telford

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Telford

  • Duration

    4 Years

The Deaf Studies and Linguistics integrated joint offers students the chance to explore a range of social and language related topics in a stimulating and multi-cultural environment. By means of high quality teaching and a flexible, responsive and vocationally relevant curriculum, students will learn to identify and understand the challenges faced by deaf people, and gain a detailed knowledge of how sign and spoken languages work.

Students will have opportunities to consider a variety of issues and perspectives surrounding working with deaf people. They will study current policies, laws, procedures and practices to develop professional strategies useful for their future working lives. They will also learn how meaning is created, not only through choices of signs and words and grammatical structures, but through wider social and cultural contextual factors.

The programme will develop a range of subject specific and transferable skills, including higher order conceptual and communication skills, enterprise, digital literacy and IT awareness, all of which are of immense value in graduate employment.The course fosters cooperative and independent work, as well as critical reflection.
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The foundation year of this course is designed to offer applicants who do not have the required qualifications, a programme which will equip them with a robust toolkit of academic, digital and personal skills required for successful study in higher education. It also provides an understanding of, and insight into, a range of disciplines that underpin their chosen programme of study. In the foundation year students will develop their ability to gain the most out of structured in-class study, and also to manage and evaluate their own independent learning. This wide range of transferable skills is of immense value in both undergraduate study and graduate employment

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Telford (Shropshire)
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Level 3 Southwater One, Southwater Sqare, Southwater Way, TF3 4JG

Start date

On request

About this course

By the end of your study you will be able to:

Develop the ability to process and analyse and evaluate concepts and theories related to deafness and deaf peoples’ lives within the legal, cultural and political contexts of disability
Effectively communicate in British Sign Language (BSL) to intermediate level, supported by theoretical knowledge of BSL and Sign Linguistics utilising live communicative strategies as well as digital communication facilities
Demonstrate the underlying values and principles relevant to the ideologies of inclusion, and reflect on the potential connections and discontinuities between aspects of subject knowledge and their application in social policies and concepts
Exhibit a knowledge and understanding of the forms and functions of language at the levels of phonology, lexis, syntax and text
Apply a range of linguistic and critical approaches to the analysis of language and synthesise a range of relevant empirical data
Work both co-operatively and independently whilst developing the expertise required to progress to related studies at postgraduate level, and the skills and knowledge necessary for successful employment.

2019 Entry

DD from A level
BTEC QCF Extended Diploma grade PPP, BTEC QCF Diploma grade MP
Pass Access to HE Diploma (Full Award)
If you've got other qualifications or relevant experience, please contact The Gateway for further advice before applying.
International entry requirements and application guidance can be found here

Other Requirements.
Students must have studied a minimum of two years post GCSE level. However, it is expected that some applicants will be mature students with work experience, who wish to further their career development

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Semester 1 Starters:

UNDERGRADUATE

Year 1 (Foundation)

3GK003 Academic Skills (20 Credits)

3GK005 Critical Thinking (20 Credits)

3GK007 Wolverhampton and its People (20 Credits)

3GK004 The World at Work: Careers and Personal Development (20 Credits)

3GK006 Extended Project (20 Credits)

3GK008 Culture and Nationality in Conflict (20 Credits)

Year 2

4LN001 Language in Use (20 Credits)

4DF010 Introduction to Deaf Studies (20 Credits)

4LN002 Language Patterns (20 Credits)

4DF009 Introduction to British Sign Language (20 Credits)

4GK006 Success in Higher Education or 4HU001 Myth or 4GK001 Raising Intercultural Awareness or 4PO005 Campaigning and Citizenship: Women in Britain and its Empire from 1800 to 1950 or 4WL002 Basic Language or 4WL003 Elementary Language (20 Credits)

4GK006 Success in Higher Education or 4HU002 Popular Culture or 4SL011 Volunteering in the Community or 4PO006 Contemporary Capitalism or 4WL002 Basic Language or 4WL003 Elementary Language (20 Credits)

Year 3

5DF007 Flourishing Deaf lives (20 Credits)

5LN001 Language and Society (20 Credits)

5LN004 Sounds and Structure (20 Credits)

5DF008 Educating Deaf children and young people (20 Credits)

5SL008 Volunteering in Action or 5WL001 Basic Language or 5WL002 Elementary Language or 5LN002 Research Methods for English Language, Linguistics and TESOL (20 Credits)

5WL001 Basic Language or 5WL002 Elementary Language or 5LN003 Pragmatics and Conversation (20 Credits)

Year 4

6DF009 Engaging with services (20 Credits)

6LN005 Language and the Mind or 6WL001 Intermediate/Advanced Language or 6LN001 Language Variation and Change or 6DF007 Level 6 BSL - Intermediate (20 Credits)

6LN005 Language and the Mind or 6WL001 Intermediate/Advanced Language or 6LN001 Language Variation and Change or 6DF007 Level 6 BSL - Intermediate (20 Credits)

6DF006 Welfare and campaigning or 6DF008 Deaf Art, Literature and Culture (20 Credits)

6LN002 Independent Study (Linguistics) or 6DF002 Deaf Studies Project or 6DF003 Business and Community Link in the Deaf Community or 6LN004 Morphology or 6WL001 Intermediate/Advanced Language (20 Credits)

6LN002 Independent Study (Linguistics) or 6DF002 Deaf Studies Project or 6DF003 Business and Community Link in the Deaf Community or 6LN004 Morphology or 6WL001 Intermediate/Advanced Language (20 Credits)

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