The UWI Mona Campus' Annual Departmental Reports 2022_2023

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DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY

Table 1: Number of Courses the DLLP offered in Semesters 1 and 2 and Summer School, 2022–23

Section

Undergraduate

Postgraduate

Summer School courses (& enrolment )

Semester 1 courses

Semester 2 courses

Semester 1 courses

Semester 2 courses

Language *Academic Literacies *Language Linguistics Philosophy

4 (~127 streams)

4 (~162 streams)

5 (193)

N/A

N/A

2

3

2 (42) 2 (29) 2 (26)

1

1

17 16 40

11

14

14 15 35

5

5

17

20

Total

11 (290)

and consumed a large amount of Coordinators’ time in attempting to address the situation. Thankfully, despite these challenges, students benefitted from the teaching/learning opportunities afforded them. Pass/Fail Results – Undergraduate Courses When 2022–23 results for each semester are disaggregated and undergraduate students who registered but did not attend classes are eliminated from the total count in courses, pass rates range from high 70s (except in an instance of 63%) to 100% as indicated in Table 2.

Table 2: Disaggregated Results for the DLLP for 2022–23

Section

Sem. 1, 2022–23

Sem. 2, 2022–23

Summer Schl, 2022–23

Academic Literacies (FOUN) courses English Language Writing and Speech (LANG) courses

over 86% to over 95% over 79% to 100% over 83% to 98%

over 98% to 100% over 79% to 100% over 92% to 100%

Linguistics courses Philosophy courses

over 85% to 100% over 63% to 100% 100% over 79% to 100% over 78% to 100% 100%

Staff-Student Liaison Meetings/Student Evaluations Students provided largely positive feedback on teaching in most courses during Staff-Student Liaison meetings in both semesters. Their few complaints concerned lecture slides that were not posted to OurVLE in very few courses and structure/ pace/workload/uncooperative group members in a few others. Staff in those meet- ings expressed that a) they enjoyed classes and would address students’ comments/ suggestions and b) some students did not attend classes/consultation sessions, did

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