Course List

This course aims to equip students with a general knowledge of the principles of law governing Caribbean Constitutions and Administrative Law fundamentals. The course therefore seeks to locate the subject within the West Indian polity, taking into account the social, historical and political evolution of Caribbean societies.

Assessments:

2 Assignments - 25%

Final Exam -75% (face-to-face)

Required Text:  Kelly, David; Holmes Ann & Hayward, Ruth: Business Law 5th Edition (2007)    

Abbott, Keith; Pendlebury, Norman; Wardman, Kevin: Business Law 8th Edition (2007)

Burgess, Andrew; Commonwealth Caribbean Company Law (2013)      

The aim of this course is to give students a basic understanding of the trust concept and of the principles of administration of trusts as developed in statute and case law. Trust law and practice is an extremely important area of the law, particularly in those jurisdictions which have developed a vibrant offshore financial services sector.

The course looks at the characteristics, developmental needs and interests of children and young adults and how these affect their response to literature.  It examines the different types and sources of multimedia material-fiction and non-fiction - and their evaluation, selection and use.  Indigenous resources for Caribbean children and young adults are stressed.  The value of literature for young people and current trends and issues in the field are also included.

An examination of the definition and concept of information literacy - its evolution and various components and how they relate to the school curriculum. The contents of the information skills curriculum for use in schools will be looked at and some of the various approaches used to impart these skills to young people.  Major theories regarding information-seeking behaviour will also be explored as well as strategies for cooperative lesson-planning and independent  research.

It examines human language and animal communication, natural and artificial language, oral and written language; prescriptive and descriptive grammars; the concepts of     well-formedness and grammatically; the concepts of structure; language in its social context, lectures and different types of variation; language types versus language families, universal properties of language, language change; language and brain, language acquisition.

This course is the prerequisite to LING2101 & LING2402.

This course is an Introduction to Syntax, Morphology, Phonetics and Phonology.

This course is about views on how language is acquired; directions of research into first and second language acquisition; issues in second language acquisition research; theories of second language learning; linguistic theory and language  acquisition theory and research and neurolinguistic aspects of language acquisition.

At the end of this course students should have a sound theoretical and methodological background into micro-sociolinguistics and should be able to apply this knowledge to the analysis of different social activities.

A review of basic grammatical terminology; different approaches to the construction of a grammar of English [Traditional vs. Structuralist vs. Transformational Generative]; thematic variants of the kernel clause; clause/sentence type and analysis of English Sentence Structure.