Programme overview
This degree in English Language focuses on developing highly employable bi-lingual individuals with marketable skills for potential employers. Apart from its vocational applications, it provides candidates with rigorous intellectual education, valuable in training them to analyze perceptively and critically, to reason effectively and express themselves clearly and rationally. Professions that require expertise in English Language include, but are not restricted to Translation, Journalism and the Media, Publishing, Human resources, Communications and Education.
Programme Objectives:
The general goals of the BA (Hons) in English Language have been to produce graduates with excellent communication skills in English language; and secondly, to ensure that those graduates are also able to describe, appreciate and analyze the language in the great variety of forms in which it occurs – spoken and written, formal and informal, in different contexts, genres and by different speakers. The first goal means improving proficiency to high levels; the second requires a thorough background in the subfields of theoretical linguistics.
Awards: (students must register for a particular award in order to qualify for that award)
- Diploma in Higher Education
- BA (Honours)
Mode of delivery: Full time and Part time
Programme Structure
Students who are registered for this programme, they are required to register on level 0 for 4 modules. This Level equips students with essential language skills for the challenges of level 1. Like other programmes offered in the college, students are required to pass 8 modules totalling 120 credits in each year (level). In the final year students must also register for the project (dissertation) accounts for 30 credits (equivalent to a double module). In total students must satisfactorily complete 420 credits (32 modules) with a combination of core and specialisation modules to be eligible for the award of the BA (Hons).
Please note that:
Programme structures may be subject to change and modules may be offered in any of the semesters in an academic year
Modules in Level 0
|
# |
Module name |
Credits |
|
1 |
English Language and Communication Skills |
15 |
|
2 |
English Language Study Skills |
15 |
|
3 |
Spoken and Written Arabic |
15 |
|
4 |
Reading and Vocabulary Building in English |
15 |
|
5 |
General Writing in English* |
15 |
|
|
Total credits |
60 |
*For those who have are not native speakers of Arabic
Modules in Level 1
|
# |
Module name |
Credits |
|
1 |
Introduction to Linguistics |
15 |
|
2 |
English Phonology and Phonetics |
15 |
|
3 |
English Grammar in Practice |
15 |
|
4 |
Intensive Academic Reading |
15 |
|
5 |
Principles of Translation |
15 |
|
6 |
Varieties of English |
15 |
|
7 |
Language and Society |
15 |
|
8 |
Academic Writing in English |
15 |
|
|
Total Credits |
120 |
Modules in Level 2
|
# |
Module name |
Credits |
|
1 |
Corpus-Based English Study |
15 |
|
2 |
History of the English Language |
15 |
|
3 |
English Syntax |
15 |
|
4 |
Critical Reading and Writing Skills in English |
15 |
|
5 |
Fiction in English |
15 |
|
6 |
Semantics and Pragmatics |
15 |
|
7 |
English Language and the Media |
15 |
|
8 |
English Research Methods |
15 |
|
|
Total Credits |
120 |
Modules in Level 3
|
# |
Module name |
Credits |
|
1 |
Project (Dissertation) |
30 |
|
2 |
Theories of Language Learning |
15 |
|
3 |
Spoken Discourse |
15 |
|
4 |
Poetry in English |
15 |
|
5 |
Written Discourse |
15 |
|
6 |
Second Language Acquisition |
15 |
| 7 |
Contemporary Drama in English |
15 |
|
|
Total Credits |
120 |
