British Sign Language and Deaf Culture 1B (T5003)

15 credits, Level 4

Spring teaching

This second-stage module builds on foundational skills, enhancing your conversational abilities and deepening your understanding of deaf culture. You'll:

• hold conversations in everyday contexts
• learn to sign grammatically correct sentences
• create your own sentences about topics such as food, hobbies, and travel
• explore the lives of Deaf people in the UK and abroad
• develop study skills to access academic resources on Deaf people and related issues
• begin examining Deaf culture topics relevant to your discipline.

Classes include practice in producing and understanding signs, simulations, practical exercises, and conversations, focusing on themes, grammar and language skills. Activities are complemented by independent and group study, supported by Canvas and other technologies.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 46 hours of contact time and about 104 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.