- Course Code
- LN 1001
- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Dr M Garner
Pre-requisites
None
Overview
The course covers theories of communication, including the deconstruction of widespread misconceptions about language. It presents broad principles of language patterning and their embeddedness in cultural perspectives, illustrating the relationship between communicative interaction and the construction of the self and society. It demonstrates the contribution that an understanding of language and communication can make to a range of disciplines and focuses on selected contemporary social issues that are principally or partly communicative/linguistics in nature.
Structure
3 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (40%); 1 project (may be presented in one or more of a range of media) (40%); tutorial participation (20%).
Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).