{"id":428,"date":"2020-06-13T03:09:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T02:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/disciplines\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:11:15","slug":"disciplines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/programmes\/disciplines\/","title":{"rendered":"Disciplines"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<div class=\"container-fluid page-wrapper site-font\">\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h1 class=\"page-header\">Disciplines <\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block faculty-content-page\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n\t\t\t\tThe Department prides itself on being a hub of interdisciplinary study, but recognises that not everyone has an in-depth understanding of what each discipline studies.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/programmes\/disciplines\/linguistics\/\">Linguistics<\/a> studies language from a scientific perspective, collecting data from native and non-native speakers to discover patterns in how people talk, and challenging common narratives that there are ways of speaking that are somehow broken or less valuable than others.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/programmes\/disciplines\/literatures-in-english\/\">Literatures in English<\/a> looks&nbsp;\u2014 not only at the canon of British literature, but also at a broad range of literary work \u2014 whether poetry, theatre, or prose fiction, from across the English-speaking world, particularly in the West Indies and other postcolonial societies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/programmes\/disciplines\/modern-languages\/\">Modern Languages<\/a> does more than just teach grammar and vocabulary; it also teaches a nuanced cultural perspective of the societies&nbsp;and literatures of the places where those languages are spoken.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/programmes\/academic-literacies-programme\/\">Academic Literacies Programme<\/a> goes beyond remediation to teach valuable writing skills of value to students from all disciplines for their careers in and out of the university setting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tClick on each link above for greater detail about the studies and courses of each Discipline of the Department.\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disciplines The Department prides itself on being a hub of interdisciplinary study, but recognises that not everyone has an in-depth understanding of what each discipline studies. &nbsp; Linguistics studies language from a scientific perspective, collecting data from native and non-native speakers to discover patterns in how people talk, and challenging common narratives that there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":0,"parent":372,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Disciplines - Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature - The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill","description":"Disciplines The Department prides itself on being a hub of interdisciplinary study, but recognises that not everyone has an in-depth understanding of what each"},"iawp_total_views":66,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-428","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428\/revisions\/1455"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}