The syllabus aims to:

1. develop the ability to use the spoken and written language, Caribbean Standard English (CSE), with precision, clarity and grammatical correctness;
2. develop the ability to use, understand and respond to spoken and written Caribbean Standard English;
3. develop the ability to use language effectively for communicating in a variety of contexts: social, academic and professional;
4. develop the ability to give effective articulation to experience (real or imagined);
5. promote in students a willingness and ability to inform themselves about, and to contribute reasoned opinions on social issues;
6. promote a lasting appreciation of the diversity of purposes for which language varieties are used;
7. promote an understanding and appreciation of the place and value of the varieties of English and of the dialects and creoles of the Caribbean and other regions in different social and cultural contexts;
8. develop a critical awareness of the language devices used to persuade;
9. develop an ability to respond to literature for pleasure, to recognise and respond to the writer’s craft, and to make sensitive appraisals of value judgments and other concepts expressed in literature;
10. develop knowledge of the various sources of information and a desire to use these for the student’s own enlightenment; while recognising the importance of acknowledging the contribution of such sources to their own ideas;
11. develop the capacity to assess the reliability of sources including those available on the Internet.

• Delivery Mode: Face-to-Face
• Registration fee: $3,000 JMD
• Course fee: $18,000 JMD per semester ($54,000 JMD per year)