Students at one of Britain's well-known universities will have an impact on their grades if they fail to adhere to gender-sensitive language norms, which could impact the words including "mankind" and "layman".
According to the Freedom of Information (FoI) request, undergraduate students enrolled in a religious activism course at the University's School of Social Science have been warned that failure to use gender-neutral language will impact their grades.
"Language is important and highly symbolic. I thus expect you to be aware of the powerful and symbolic nature of language and use gender-sensitive formulations.
Failure will impact your mark," the guidelines read.
It is thought to impact words like "mankind", "layman" and "sportsmanship", which should be replaced with humankind, layperson and fairness respectively.