Available courses

ELSED322: Language & Gender

Gender and Language is a diverse and rapidly developing field, which has both academic and popular appeal. The ‘turn to language’ across the humanities and social sciences, and the impact of critical linguistics and discourse analysis, have contributed to a reframing of questions on gender and language. This course provides a broad overview of key issues and questions, and aims to do so in both theoretical and practical ways. It introduces key theoretical concepts and frameworks and illustrates and exemplifies the relationships between gender and language use, by looking at specific texts (spoken and written), situated in specific contexts. In addition, each module/topic contains questions and suggestions for further reading, to allow those new to the field to locate the issues discussed critically and in context.


Agri224: Technical Writing (for Agriculture)

This course equips students with the fundamental principles and techniques of effective technical writing. It emphasizes clear, concise, and persuasive communication in various technical documents relevant to the agricultural field. Students will develop skills in analyzing audience and purpose, conducting research, organizing information logically, and presenting data visually. The course also integrates essential English grammar concepts to enhance written communication accuracy and clarity.

GEC4: Purposive Communication

This course develops students' communicative competence and enhances their cultural and intercultural awareness through multimodal tasks. It provides them with opportunities for communicating effectively and appropriately to a multicultural audience in a local or global context. It equips students with tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and focuses on the power of language and the impact of images to emphasize the importance of conveying messages responsibly. The knowledge, skills, and insights that students gain from this course may be used in their other academic endeavors, their chosen disciplines, and their future careers as they compose and produce relevant oral, written, audio-visual and/or web-based output for various purposes.