This module explores how language works and how it is put to work in professional contexts. It introduces a range of analytic frameworks in linguistics and...

Language at Work: Communication in Professional, Institutional and Cultural Contexts (CCME0100)

This module explores how language works and how it is put to work in professional contexts. It introduces a range of analytic frameworks in linguistics and discourse analysis, and teaches students how to apply them to written and verbal texts in different professional settings. In this way, students learn how linguistic and discourse analyses reveal underlying assumptions and attitudes, and shed light on what is going on in different situations and interactions. We consider language in different industries (e.g. business, law, healthcare, education, media), and different types of communication (e.g. advertising and branding, public messaging, small talk, online customer reviews, news reports etc.) to explore issues of context, identity, marketization and power in the workplace. 

This module is assessed with a 10-minute recorded presentation analysing a piece of professional communication, accompanied by a short annotated bibliography. Although there are no pre-requisites for the module, it will be most suitable for students with some experience of discourse analysis.

The two compulsory modules (Disciplines of Music Education, Part I and Part II) are founded on three strands in the study of music education: philosophy,...

Disciplines of Music Education - Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology: Part II (CCME0080)

The two compulsory modules (Disciplines of Music Education, Part I and Part II) are founded on three strands in the study of music education: philosophy, psychology and sociology. This module examines a wide range of music psychology and music social psychology research concerning how people make sense of music. It shows how their musical thinking is shaped by enculturation, maturation and experience; and how they develop specific musical knowledge, skills and understanding. It explores key features of musical development from pre-birth into adolescence and adulthood; and it also considers neurological and socio-psychological factors in development. It comprises historically-significant and cutting-edge approaches and theories in its field, also drawing on internationally-significant work in this arena by lecturers on the MA programme.