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Through the traditional disciplines in the liberal, fine and performing arts, and the human and social sciences, the Humanities and Social Sciences Division provides coherence and unity to the entire curriculum, and assures depth and diversity in its own areas of study.

The mission of the Humanities and Arts School is to provide a liberal education to every student.

A liberal education is focused on giving students a broad education, which will lay a durable foundation for critical and independent thinking. The essential spirit of a liberal education guides all curricula and programs of the .

Such an education goes beyond imparting a body of facts. It helps students to examine and integrate creatively the perspectives of a variety of disciplines, to understand themselves as individuals and as part of history and of social groups.

The Division aims to create an environment in which each student can develop:

• An independent and critical mind
• An ability to write and speak with clarity and precision
• A capacity and desire for learning

We believe that our efforts to integrate a liberal component into the overall programme will greatly enhance and enrich the quality of the educational experience offered by GLOBAL to the students.

GLOBAL School of Humanities & Arts AIMS

GLOBAL’s School of Humanities & Arts faculty is a young, dynamic, highly competitive department committed to providing advanced level education and an educational experience that brings out the best in everyone.

The School of Humanities & Arts takes pride in delivering an up-to-date and socially relevant curriculum across all its subject areas, one that is informed by active research. Our aim is to provide an education in the humanities that has traditional breadth and depth, but that also recognises the contribution of our subject areas to cultural development, active citizenship, regional and local identities, and national and international economies.

We're constantly reviewing our programmes to offer new and challenging opportunities, with recent developments including courses in English Language and Theatre & Performing Arts.

Courses

Undergraduate Degree Opportunities

The School of Humanities & Arts offers a range of Single Honours degrees within the departments of English Language and Drama & Theatre Arts.

Humanity & Arts studies at GLOBAL

BACHELOR’S DEGREE

• BA (Hons) in English Language

Why Study English Language?

Language is fundamental to a huge range of human activities, whether you're sitting and thinking, interacting with others at a social event, reading a book, working out why an advert is funny - and the rest.

Studying English Language will enable you to reflect on what you already 'know' about language ( - more than you'd think), how you use it compared to other people, and language as an element in your wholly individual identity.

Beyond this:

At a critical level, you'll look at the manipulation of language in the newspapers and the media in general; At a historical level, you'll learn about what Old English was and how it's developed into an international language At a directly practical level, you'll learn about how individuals learn and teach; and about speech and communication disorders; And at an overall intellectual level, you'll develop sophisticated skills such as data handling and interpretation, and analysis.

Where does English Language fit with other disciplines?

Over the last fifty years, the ideas and approaches pioneered by Language Study have had a strong impact on most of the disciplines in Humanities, including Psychology, Education, Literature and Philosophy.

For instance, current research in language disorders draws on theories, which were originally put forward to account for communication difficulties in unimpaired adults. In Education, thinking about how children develop language (or languages) has altered the whole way in which we view learning and teaching. In Literature, discourse and conversational analysis are informing current approaches to investigating style in both spoken and written texts. Finally, the analysis of such basic components of thinking as individual words has informed a whole tradition in contemporary philosophy.

As part of you degree at GLOBAL, the study of English Language will help you see the connections between these subjects.