Course overview In this course you learn to critique different ideologies about culture and evaluate news and other forms of public discourse. You’ll develop critical and analytical skills to dissect the ways language is used in politics, media, and communications. Whether you're interested in academic research or a career in communications fields like journalism, public relations, marketing or diplomacy, you'll gain the critical skills and theoretical rigour you need to understand how people use different linguistic strategies to communicate in and across different cultures. Course highlights At Birmingham, we consider discourse in social, political, historical and cultural contexts across different modes of communication. We examine ‘culture’ as something that’s created by the stories we tell ourselves about others.