Language, Communication and Society The University of the West Indies

Overview

The Language, Communication and Society program offered by The University of the West Indies is designed to helps students gain the following abilities:

• Demonstrate an awareness of the general structure of linguistics as a discipline and an understanding the basic assumptions linguists make about language;

• Recognize the diversity of language systems and their fundamental similarities;

• Use the basic terminology of linguistic subfields, including phonetics, phonology, morphology syntax and semantics;

• Demonstrate an understanding of the sources from which information can be derived about language, the kinds of data on which linguistic theories are based, and how to evaluate information derived from various sources. 

• Engage in practical activities involving the collection and synthesis of language data. 

• Use linguistic analysis to investigate the organizing principles of language and solve basic phonetic, phonology, morphology and syntax problems;

• Express in expository essay form the insights they have developed about language and linguistics.

Careers

• Lecturer

• Advertising Agent

• Media Consultant or Media Practitioner

• Human Resource Development

• Negotiations

• Speech & Language Therapist

• Management at a Communications Centre