Department of, The University of West Indies, Mona




	Faculty of Humanities and Education

Courses Offered

English

Year 1

FD10A - English for Academic Purposes
This is a cross-disciplinary course, which is designed to provide a firm base for Communications Courses and for Courses in English for special purposes linked with specific disciplines.

ED20Y - Introduction to Computers in Education
In this course students will be able to acquire knowledge of computer, how the computer affects teaching and learning. It will
also enable them to use the computer as a tool for manipulation of text, numbers and graphics; creating presentations;
publishing; and information transfer.

L14A - Introduction to Language and Linguistics
This course examines human language and animal communication, natural and artificial language, oral and written language; prescriptive and descriptive grammars; the concepts of well-formedness and grammatically; the concepts of structure; language in its social context, lectures and different types of variation; language types versus language families, universal properties of language, language change; language and brain, language acquisition. This is a compulsory course for anyone doing a major or minor in Linguistics, as well as majors in French and Spanish.

ED21F – Language – Use Content of the Teaching of English
This course gives teachers an understanding of the varied purposes for which language is used. It gives teachers practice in the analysis and critical examination of language use in relation to perception[s], the intellect and the emotions of feelings.

UC010 - Fundamentals of Written English
A compulsory remedial course for those persons who failed the English Proficiency Test.

L14B - Introduction to Language Structure
Prerequisite: L14A
This course is an Introduction to Syntax, Morphology, Phonetics and Phonology.

ED21G - The Literature Content of English Teaching
To improve teachers’ acquaintance with an understanding of literary texts and materials suitable for use in schools. Improve teachers’ own grasp of the knowledge, skills and habits that need to be developed in the school curriculum in literature; to give teachers the capacity to read any literary material and to prepare themselves within reasonably short periods of time for teaching it.

Year 2

FD13A - Law, Governance, Economy and Society in the Caribbean
This is a multi-disciplinary course of the Faculty of Social Sciences. It will introduce students to some of the major institutions in Caribbean society. This exposure is to both the historical and contemporary aspects of Caribbean society, including Caribbean legal, political and economic systems. In addition, Caribbean culture and Caribbean social problems are discussed.

ED20X – Issues and Perspectives in Education
This course seeks to develop the students’ understanding of the interplay of forces, which affect teaching and learning and influence educational practice and policy. Students should thereby come to appreciate the critical and dynamic role they play as the educators of the citizens of tomorrow.

E10B - Introduction to Prose Fiction
This course focus on representative novels of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, the course provides an introduction to key issues in the study of prose fiction.

L21A - Language Acquisition
This course is about views on how language is acquired; directions of research into first and second language acquisition; issues in second language acquisition research; theories of second language learning; linguistic theory and language acquisition theory and research and neurolinguistic aspects of language acquisition.

L23A - The Sociology of Language
This course is about the typology of language and situation; typology of language functions, illustrative case studies; language attitude surveys.

E10A - Introduction to Poetry
This course is an introduction to methods and techniques of critical appreciation of poetry. The lectures will be complemented by assignments in critical analysis of a variety of poems from the prescribed text and elsewhere.

ED21C – Teaching of Literature
Prerequisite: ED21G and ED21E
To give teachers an understanding of the role of emotion, feeling and imagination in response to literature; to help teachers appreciate the use of language in literature; to determine and practice techniques and strategies for getting learners to read literature and respond appropriately to it.

Year 3

E25D - West Indian Novel
This course offers an introduction to the West Indian novel, by survey lectures and by detailed study of eight novels. Course readings and lectures are organized around comparative analysis of issues such as the emergence of West Indian fiction in the context of political and cultural nationalism; the West Indianization of the novel form; the relationship between language and literature; the politics of race and gender; the emergence of West Indian female writers; culture and identity; popular culture, desire, and the erotic; Diaspora, imagination and community. Throughout, we will pay close attention to the variety of styles and genres employed in West Indian fiction.

ED31J - Writing in Secondary School
To introduce participants to the nature of writing as a cognitive activity. To examine the categories and forms of writing required in the secondary school; explore the range of assessment instruments and strategies available to teachers, and the ways that these forms of assessment inform instruction.

ED31C – The Teaching of English Literature in the Secondary School
This course demonstrate an understanding of the approach to literature taken by CXC and the role literature plays in language teaching and learning; relate principles of literary theory relevant to the delivery of the CXC English B programme; identify and analyse levels of reader response for different genres of text used by the CXC level; select appropriate methodologies and strategies to foster adolescents’ understanding and insights in reading and responding to literature.

L23B - Sociolinguistics
Typology of language and situations; Typology of language functions; illustrative case studies; Language attitude surveys.

ED31F – Content and Pedagogy for CXC
To understand the linguistic and discourse demands of and philosophical approach to language taken by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC). To evaluate recent, local research findings on students’ linguistic performance at the upper level of the secondary school; identity and analyse levels of reader-response for different genres of texts used at the CXC level; relate principles of writing theory relevant to the delivery of the CXC English language programme; apply knowledge of language and literature content to developing a working CXC English language syllabus; design and evaluate learning activities suitable for adolescents sitting CXC English language; demonstrate understanding of the assessment procedures used by the CXC.

Year 4

E25C – West Indian Poetry
This course is an introduction to the range of West Indian poetry in English.

ED30Z – Investigating our Teaching
This course is designed to aid in the understanding of the role of the teacher as a learner, researcher, self evaluator and reflective practitioner. It provides an opportunity for students to apply their know-ledge of the teaching learning process in implementing an innovative teaching experiment to address a problem in their classrooms, to reflect critically on the experience and to write a report, which informs their future practice.

L24B - Structure of the English Language
A review of basic grammatical terminology; different approaches to the construction of a grammar of English [Traditional vs. Structuralist vs. Transformational Generative]; thematic variants of the kernel clause; clause/sentence type and analysis of English Sentence Structure.