Course descriptions
'Open' English language classes
How to Write a Great Essay
Work on your essay writing skills. This course teaches the language and structures used for description, discussion and evaluation, and also includes work on using sources and referencing skills, understanding essay titles, essay planning, and sentence and paragraph development.
How to Write a Great Report
Work on your report writing skills. This course teaches the language and structures used for description, discussion and evaluation. It also includes work on using sources and referencing skills, understanding titles, report planning, and sentence and paragraph development.
Advanced Grammar (1)
This course teaches you the grammar you need to write accurate essays; it covers: tenses for essay writing, articles and determiners, prepositions, syntax patterns, simple and compound sentence structure.
Advanced Grammar (2)
This course teaches you more advanced grammar to perfect your essay and report writing; it covers: modal verbs for hedging, complex sentence structure, more on determiners, inversion for emphasis, punctuation.
Communication Skills: Language Laboratory
Work with a teacher and use the language lab to improve your listening and your speaking/pronunciation - at your own speed.
Presentation and Seminar Skills
Work in a group to improve the delivery of your presentations, your ability to facilitate discussions, and your ability to handle questions.
Academic Reading and Critical Thinking
Learn how to find information in academic articles quickly and efficiently and how to critique them. Learn to use critical thinking when you read.
Critical Writing: Finding Your Voice!
This course will help you to write in a critical and analytical way. If your tutors tell you that your essay is 'too descriptive' or 'not analytical enough' then you need to attend this course.
How to avoid plagiarism: Using Sources
Work on how to use reading sources to support your opinions and conclusions - without plagiarising!
Improve your vocabulary and style
Enlarge your academic vocabulary and learn how to use academic style and register.
Listening & Speaking: Current Affairs
Listen to various authentic listening texts from radio and TV and then use them as the basis for discussion around a range of cultural and current topics.
Postgraduate Academic Writing Workshop
This workshop deals with all aspects of dissertation writing required at postgraduate level. Bring your work-in-progress and questions to the workshop.
'In Your Faculty' English language classes
The following courses are held in your faculty and are open to international students of your faculty only.
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA)
Writing for Art & Design
Writing skills for foundation or undergraduate level work.
Language for Success in Art & Design
Work on building your confidence and fluency in a friendly environment.
UG Dissertation Proposals
How to create a great dissertation proposal.
Postgraduate Academic Writing Workshop
We will focus on what you want to learn to enable you to write successfully at postgraduate level.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
Postgraduate Dissertation Writing Workshop
This course is for FASS postgraduates only. Work on all the skills you need to produce a successful dissertation.
FASS Music Students
For undergraduate and postgraduates music students only. This course helps you to develop your speaking and essay writing skills for music.
Faculty of Business and Law
Business: Dissertation Writing
For postgraduate Business students only. Develop all the writing skills you need to produce a successful business dissertation.
Law: Dissertation Writing
This course is for LLM and Diploma Postgraduate students only. Develop all the skills you need to produce a successful law dissertation.
Faculties of Science, Engineering and Computing
Postgraduate Computing: Academic Writing
This course will develop the English you need for your assignments: how to critically review research articles, grammar, vocabulary, referencing and paraphrasing.
Postgraduate Science: Academic Writing
This course will help you in: reviewing scientific literature, writing a literature review, writing a research proposal, writing a research paper, preparing an abstract, tables and figures, and presenting a research poster.
Postgraduate Engineering: Academic Writing
Get the best mark you can for your assignments. This course focuses on academic and technical English to improve the writing of your assignments.
Undergraduate Science, Computing and Engineering: Academic Writing
Technical and scientific English which will help you to write reports, essays as well as improve your grammar and vocabulary.
Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences (HSCS)
Social Work students
A special programme of classes - contact your department for details
Tutorial support
For other HSCS students.
