The International Year One is an intensive one-year course that is equivalent to the first year of an undergraduate degree. This course aims to teach you the English language, study and research skills you need to succeed in your undergraduate degree, as well as your career once you graduate. You will study a combination of core and subject-specific modules designed to focus on the academic area most relevant to your chosen degree. We live – through text, speech, images and sound – in a world that is conditioned and structured by mass communication and its technologies. This module introduces and explores theories and techniques that can be used to interrupt and analyse mass communication in order to understand and – perhaps – challenge meanings and purposes that would otherwise not be examined. Critical readings of media tests and sources are encouraged in order to reconsider the structure and function of media, and the connection between audiences – us – to it.<br><br>Academic English Skills aims to provide you with thorough training in the language and related academic skills which will enable you to best achieve your academic potential at University. These skills include the processes of academic writing, effective and extensive reading strategies, effective participation in seminars and delivery of presentations, and listening to and recording information effectively from lectures. You will also develop the accuracy and range of written and spoken language required to use language effectively and appropriately, with clarity and confidence in an academic context.