(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)
On completion of Level Two, students should have provided evidence of being able to: -
- demonstrate a familiarity with the main concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features of English and Film Studies;
- use generic and subject specific intellectual qualities, i.e.
- present a structured and coherent argument
- have knowledge of critical terminology relevant to literature and film;
- have experience of English literature from a range of periods and places, including study of periods before 1900;
- being able to demonstrate an awareness of the variety of film genres and their workings;
- have an awareness of the importance of the cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written and read, and in which film is produced and consumed;
- develop and use critical skills;
- develop analytical skills and apply them to filmic and literary texts.
- effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms.
Students will have had the opportunity to practise as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility
decision making
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- demonstrating the knowledge and application of concepts, information and techniques relevant to the discipline;
- demonstrating the ability to construct an argument;
- demonstrating knowledge of two disciplines;
- demonstrating the ability to be critical of scholarly work.
- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of the discipline/profession to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
- demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.
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