About the Courses
Top reasons to study with us
Enhance your language skills abroad – You'll have the option to spend a full academic year abroad in your third year, or shorter periods ranging from a few days to a full semester
Get career-ready – Our course strengthens your communication skills and gives you practice in transferring these to the world of work
Understand multiple forms of communication – You'll learn how to read between the lines and really understand how we're influenced by the messages around us – on TV, in advertising, and across other media
Multicultural focus – We use our students' different cultural experiences to discover what it means to be an intercultural communicator
Top reasons to study with us
Enhance your language skills abroad – You'll have the option to spend a full academic year abroad in your third year, or shorter periods ranging from a few days to a full semester
Get career-ready – Our course strengthens your communication skills and gives you practice in transferring these to the world of work
Understand multiple forms of communication – You'll learn how to read between the lines and really understand how we're influenced by the messages around us – on TV, in advertising, and across other media
Multicultural focus – We use our students' different cultural experiences to discover what it means to be an intercultural communicator
Modules
Subjects of study include:
Introduction to Academic Practice
Intercultural Communication
Imagining Global Society and Politics
Critical Thinking for Academic and Professional Development
Reading Identities
Living and working in Arabic speaking countries
There are no optional or elective modules offered at Level 3, as the focus is on the development of key academic skills through a broad understanding of social sciences and humanities.
Subjects of study include:
Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication
Introduction to the Study of Language and Culture
Objects and Meaning: The Social Life of Material Culture
The Arab World and the Word
World Varieties of English
Subjects of study include:
Difference and the Visual: Representation, Meaning and Identity
Expressions of Arabic Culture
Language in the Public Space
Multilingual e-Collaboration: Transposing Current Affairs
Understanding Culture: Arabic Studies in Focus
Professional experience or study abroad year
Between Years 2 and 3, you’ll have the opportunity to undertake a professional placement year in industry. Completing the placement year will lead to the final award Bachelor of Arts with Honours – Arabic and Global Communication with Professional Experience.
Alternatively, you can undertake a period of study abroad at one of Westminster’s partner institutions. Successful completion will lead to the final award Bachelor of Arts with Honours – Arabic and Global Communication with International Experience.
Subjects of study include:
Final Year Project
Identities on the Move: Arabic Studies in Focus
Mediation in International Contexts
Multilingualism in Society: Theory and Practice
Professionalising International Communication
Sex Strike: Gender and Protest
Themes in Contemporary Arabic Studies
Work Placement for Humanities