Module manager: Angela Hulme
Email: a.l.hulme@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: 1 Jun to 31 Jul View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module is an English language content-based pre-sessional designed to support students who either do not meet the English language requirements for their chosen post-graduate programme or who wish to gain a better understanding of the academic language and literacy practices in the fields of Social Science and Arts.
The aim of the Language for Social Science and Arts module is to help you work towards meeting the language requirements of your chosen academic programme. The module develops your linguistic and literacy skills which in turn enables you to improve your communicative ability in an academic context. The module aims to develop your awareness and understanding of the culture, context and discourse of academic study and ethical academic practices in your discipline. This increased awareness and understanding in turn aims to enhance your learning both during and beyond the module by contributing to your ongoing development as autonomous and reflective learners.
The lessons and tasks on this module will provide you with feedback and evidence to use in the following 6-week module of your programme, where you will have summative assessments.
1. Recognise and apply knowledge of English academic literacy, language and skills required in your future postgraduate programmes.
2. Demonstrate audience and discourse awareness, including an understanding of typical genres in the social science and arts discipline(s).
3. Display understanding of ethical academic practices; including the use of Generative AI.
4. Use English to communicate competently within your subject-specific field.
5. Employ effective strategies to approach your academic studies in English.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| seminars | 22 | 2 | 44 |
| Lecture | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Private study hours | 80 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 60 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 140 | ||
Progress will be monitored through:- Checking, and formative feedback of, students’ weekly performance on tasks such as short essays, presentations and seminar participation; checking, assessing and giving feedback on students’ progress with weekly written tasks and student reflection in class; informal observation by teachers on students’ use of language and level of engagement. Students will have the opportunity to attend at least one individual consultation with the class tutor.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Written assignment | 0 |
| Coursework | Spoken assignment | 0 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 0 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 26/06/2025
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