LLM Specialisation: Competition Law (LAWS0175)

The emerging technologies and digital data are transforming the way the world is currently shaping its response, preparedness and anticipation of humanitarian...

Technology for Humanitarian Action (IRDR0024)

This module is intended as an introduction to formal logic, and to knowledge-based information technologies that use logic as an underlying theoretical...

Logic and Knowledge Representation (INST0072)

immune system|immune response|immune based therapies

Fundamental and Applied Immunology provides an overview of the human immune system in health and disease. The module will cover the anatomy and constituents of...

Fundamental and Applied Immunology (INIM0040)

Ethics|Information Governance|Management and Policy|Innovation and Enterprise|Politics|Sociology of Science and Technology|Technology|Technology Management

Science, technology and innovation are powerful shapers of social organisation. They have huge potential for both benefit and harm. With power should come...

Responsible Science and Innovation (HPSC0092)

Science, technology and innovation are powerful shapers of social organisation. They have huge potential for both benefit and harm. With power should come responsibility, but history is littered with cautionary tales to suggest that innovation is a form of ‘organised irresponsibility’. Are there ways to steer and improve technologies responsibly while they are still emerging? In this module, we examine technologies that are transforming our world, and we consider examples when established technologies were new. Case studies include: geoengineering, gene editing, AI and self-driving cars. We use ideas from ethics, sociology of science, philosophy of technology, and science policy studies.

The module will provide an introduction to linguistic concepts and topics which help us to understand the structure and use of the German language in...

Introduction to German Linguistics (GERM0007)

The module will provide an introduction to linguistic concepts and topics which help us to understand the structure and use of the German language in contemporary times. The fields studied in the module include: phonetics and phonology,; morphology and word-formation, syntax, lexical structure, lexical borrowing, and sociolinguistic variation. The first half of the module will focus on the language system, looking at how German consonants and vowels are produced and classified, spelling reforms, and the structure of German words, vocabulary and sentences. The second half of the module will look at the German language as a social phenomenon; specifically, its international, national and regional varieties, digital writing, youth language, urban varieties, and gender and language. Primary material will be taken from (online) newspapers, magazines, blogs, videos and social media where relevant. Students will be encouraged to find their own examples of linguistic phenomena from these sources.

This module is open to students with any level of German (beginner’s to advanced).

Reading suggestions:

Sally Johnson and Natalie Braber, Exploring the German Language. 2nd edition (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008)
	Patrick Stevenson, Kristine Horner, Nils Langer and Gertrud Reershemius, The German-Speaking World: A Practical Introduction to Sociolinguistic Issues. 2nd edition (London, Routledge)