University of Sussex

In this course, students explore how children acquire language and the factors influencing early language development. While language learning may seem effortless,  students examine various aspects of acquisition to understand this complex process. Topics include gestures and accents, vocabulary growth, the role of sleep, language learning in non-laboratory environments, and the impact of television and electronic devices. Students focus primarily on typical development but also consider insights from children with developmental disorders and learning differences.

This calculus-based course provides a firm foundation in physical concepts and principles, covering electricity and magnetism, light, geometric optics, interference, wave-particle duality, and atomic and nuclear physics. Applications of physical concepts are stressed, particularly those related to biological and medical phenomena as well as those forming the basis of much of modern technology. Students gain further insight into the physics taught by carrying out a series of laboratory experiments and learning how to analyze and interpret the data. This is an intensive module requiring good mathematical skills, including algebra and trigonometry and a knowledge of vectors and of differential and integral calculus.