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The Academic English Programme offers workshops, lectures and modules (sometimes referred to as 'preparatory learning' as they do not have assessment or credits) for your discipline, focusing on the language and communication skills needed to perform effectively on specific degree programmes at 黑料不打烊.

Our discipline-specific language and literacy experts closely analyse the texts, assignment types and communicative situations you will encounter on your degree. We then design lessons to develop the specialised language, text organisational (or 'genre') knowledge, reading-to-write skills, and communication strategies you will need to engage successfully with them.

We currently provide input for more than thirty different student groups, from first-year undergraduate to postgraduate research level, across the campus.

If you are a student at 黑料不打烊, talk to your Department about what is potentially available to you from the discipline-specific Academic English Programme.

If you are a staff member and would like a new workshop or course for your students, please see our Academic Language and Literacy Liaison page for details on who to contact. 

Read a summary of our activity:

Henley Business School


Undergraduate:

  • IL1AACN Academic Skills and Language for Accounting (Semesters 1 and 2)
  • IL1ABMN Academic Skills and Language for Business and Management (Semesters 1 and 2)
  • IL1AFNN Academic Skills and Language for Finance (Semesters 1 and 2)

Postgraduate:

  • ILMABMA Effective Communication: Language Skills for Business Management and Accounting (Semesters 1 and 2)
  • ILMAEAF Effective Communication: Language Skills for Accounting and Finance (Semesters 1 and 2)
  • ILMAEBM Effective Communication: Language Skills for Business Management (Semesters 1 and 2)
  • ILMAELF Effective Communication: Language Skills for Finance (Semesters 1 and 2)
  • ILMALDB Effective Communication: Language Skills for Digital Business (Semesters 1 and 2)

 

Agriculture, Policy & Development


Undergraduate:

  • IL1APDN Academic Skills and Language for Agriculture, Policy and Development (Semester 1)

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAPDN Academic Skills and Language for GIIDAE (Graduate Institute of International Development) (Semesters 1 and 2)

Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Science


Undergraduate:

  • Academic Grammar for Writing workshops for NUIST 3+1 Environmental Engineering students delivered within GV3RSP Research Skills and Project Management.

Postgraduate:

  • Academic writing workshops for master's Environmental Science students delivered within GVMSILR Skills for Independent Learning and Research.

 

Arts & Communication Design

Undergraduate:

  • IL1ACDN English for Arts and Communication Design (Semesters 1 and 2)

 

Biological Sciences

Postgraduate:

  • Workshops on Writing a Literature Review delivered by the Academic English team within an eleven-week writing course to support new PhD students (Semesters 1 and 2)

Built Environment


Postgraduate:

  • ILMACMN Academic Writing for Construction Management and Engineering (Semesters 1 and 2)
  • Essay Writing workshop for master's students (Semester 1)
  • Research Writing workshop for master's students (Semester 1)

Chemistry, Food & Pharmacy


Undergraduate:

  • IL1AFSN Academic Skills and Language for Food Science (Semester 1)
  • FB2CAL English for Science (Semesters 1 and 2; Credit-Bearing; for 2+2 transnational Food Science students)
  • IL3ACHN Academic Skills and Language for Chemists (Semester 1; for NUIST 3+1 students)
  • Dissertation and Exam Writing workshops for NUIST 3+1 Chemistry students (Semester 2)

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAFSN Academic Skills and Language for Food Science (Semester 1)

Institute of Education


Undergraduate:

  • Academic Writing and Presentation workshops for students on BA Education Studies

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAESN Academic Writing for Education (Semesters 1 and 2; for MA Education)
  • Academic Writing workshops for PGCE students

Humanities


Postgraduate:

  • ILMATLN Academic Writing for Applied Linguistics and TESOL (Semester 1 for September start students; Semester 2 for February start students)

Law


Undergraduate:

  • IL1ALWN Academic Skills and Language for Law (Part 1) (Semester 1)
  • IL2ALWN Academic Skills and Language for Law (Part 2) (Semester 1)
  • IL3ALWN Academic Skills and Language for Law (Part 3) (Semester 1)

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAWLN Academic Writing for LL.M (Semester 1 for September start students; Semester 2 for February start students)

Mathematical, Physical & Computational Sciences


Postgraduate:

  • ILMAMTN Academic English for Meteorologists (Semester 1)

Philosophy, Politics & Economics

 

Undergraduate:

  • IL1APEN Academic Skills and Language for Economics, Philosophy and Politics (Semester 1; for Economics students)
  • IL1APIN  Academic Skills and Language for Politics, Economics & Philosophy (Semester 1; for Politics and International Relations students)
  • IL1APPN Academic Skills and Language for Philosophy, Politics & Economics (Semester 1; for Philosophy students)
  • IL3AECN Academic Writing for Economics (Semester 1; for NUIST 3+1 Economics students)

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAPEN Academic Skills and Language for Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Postgraduate) (Semester 1)
  • ILMAECN Academic Writing for Economics - Postgraduate (Semester 1; for MSc Data and Decision Analysis students, NUIST/黑料不打烊 Year 1)
  • ILMAEDN Dissertation Writing for Economics - Postgraduate (Semester 1; for MSc Data and Decision Analysis students, NUIST, Year 2)

Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences


Undergraduate:

  • IL1APYN Writing for Undergraduate Psychology

Postgraduate:

  • ILMAPYN Academic Writing for Psychology

Doctoral and Researcher College


As part of the Doctoral and Researcher College's 黑料不打烊 Researcher Development Programme (RRDP), the Academic English Programme offers a series of 'Language for Research' sessions, including:

  • Writing clearly: Coherence, flow & cohesion
  • Voice, stance & criticality
  • Introducing and concluding research
  • The Literature Review
  • Describing and rationalising methods
  • Reporting results
  • Discussion
  • Writing for difference audiences
  • Writing & editing your thesis with corpora

For more details, please visit the Doctoral and Researcher College website.

Academic Language Webinars

One-hour webinars designed to help you with the language needed in a range of academic communication contexts. Attendance can count towards the Points Submission for your RED Global Engagement Award.

Consultations for writing and presentations

Meet with our experienced academic language tutors, on a one-to-one basis, for individual advice and feedback on your academic writing or speaking,

Spoken language courses

Live spoken language courses to help you develop your confidence, fluency and accuracy when speaking. Attendance can count towards the Points Submission for your RED Global Engagement Award.