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participation in income generation was ultimately limited, members were quite successful with regard to Access, Alignment and traditional aspects of Agility.
ACCESS We made significant strides in our marketing and outreach efforts to increase the visibility of the Department in the public sphere and to attract new undergraduate students. We promoted our course offerings on social media platforms by creating new animated images and videos to increase engagement, started an E-newsletter circulated via Mona Messaging, participated in World Quality Week with a video featuring past students of our courses, and had past and current students and staff call current and potential students. Various staff members participated in recruitment visits to high schools and we also increased our efforts in establishing collaborations and partnerships during the reporting period. These initiatives were aimed at raising awareness about academic writing, linguistics and philosophy; fostering student engagement; and positioning the DLLP as a hub for intellectual development geared at making a positive societal impact. Our 2022–23 offerings We continued to ensure delivery of the following undergraduate courses and pro- grammes: • a B.A. and Minor in Philosophy; • five (5) Linguistics B.A. programmes (Linguistics; Language, Communication and Society; Linguistics and Language Education; Languages and Linguistics; and Caribbean Sign Language Interpreting), a Minor in Linguistics, and a Minor in Caribbean Sign Language Interpreting; • the Academic Literacies courses at the Mona and Western Jamaica Campuses and in affiliated Tertiary Level institutions in Jamaica, St. Kitts and St. Vincent and the Grenadines and a Minor in English Language Writing and Speech; and • electives in language, linguistics, philosophy. At the graduate level, we continued to offer: • Advanced Academic English Language Skills to students in the faculties of Social Sciences, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology, and Humanities and Education; • the M.A. English Language; • the M.A. in Africa and African Diaspora Studies; • the M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Philosophy; and • the Postgraduate Diploma, M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Linguistics.
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