*Note: Placement Tests for Arabic and English are held during the registration period to advise students on which appropriate language courses they are required to take.

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This course provides students with a lively and varied grounding in the disciplines of art history, literature, philosophy, classical studies, history.  It will help students to express themselves more clearly and to develop the skills of reading, analysis and interpretation they will need before they move on to more specialized courses at Level 2. .pdf details

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This course is about the history of English, structural differences between varieties of English in current use and the use of English in everyday speech and writing, and in a range of specific contexts from the workplace to literature..pdf details

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This course investigates the acquisition of English in monolingual and bilingual contexts, English in the education system as a first language or a foreign language, English in relation to new communications technology, and English as a global language. .pdf details

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This course is a literary study and analysis of the realist novel, romantic writings, as well as Shakespeare and the Canon.  It introduces students to a wide range of literary texts from the second half of the sixteenth century through the mid twentieth century, and also prepares them to study literature at a more advanced level. .pdf details

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The course focuses on the study of aspects of cultural change through which ‘English Literature’ has become “literature in English”, and includes sections on Modernism, Englishness, literature and ideology, language and gender and literature and history.  .pdf details

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This course provides a conceptual framework for understanding the nature of oral and written English, and the social, cultural, and political processes behind its use.  It also introduces research into language and literacy. .pdf details

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This course develops an understanding of how organizations work through the contributions of five key business functions – human resources, information, marketing, operations, accounting and finance – and how those are integrated.  Working with a selection of textbooks, you will look at the key practices of the ‘traditional’ business functions and the contributions they make to organizations, individually and collectively.  Case studies and specially written texts enable you to see the origins, rationale, limitations and strengths of business functions from the perspectives of various stakeholders.  You will develop skills in finding and organizing information, preparing simple presentations, and using basic software packages and computer conferencing.  The student will need a personal computer and access to the internet.   .pdf details

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This course is designed to develop an understanding and knowledge of strategic organizational issues and how organizations respond to change in their environments.  The course has three main teaching modules: decision-making, strategy and policy.  Students look at how organizations make strategic decisions and consider rationality and routines, decision methods and decision processes.  They analyze how organizations develop strategy, notions of core competence and strategic innovation.  A range of policy and environmental concepts and cases that demonstrate the impact of the macro-environment on organizations are studied.  Students are made aware of the boundaries of strategy in terms of relationships between strategies at the level of the firm, the industry, the nation, the region and globally.  Three groups of related business skills are developed: study and presentation skills, IT and numeracy skills, and computer conferencing for learning and debate.  Course tutors are expected to participate.  .pdf details