(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
On completion of Level Three, students should have provided evidence of being able to: -
- demonstrate a coherent and detailed command of the key concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features of English studies and Theatre Studies;
- demonstrate a skilled knowledge of generic and subject-specific qualities, i.e.,
- present a structured and coherent argument
- have detailed knowledge of critical terminology
- have a sound knowledge of the varieties of language and forms;
- have experience of a considerable amount of English literature from a range of literary periods and locations;
- have a critical and sophisticated command of the importance of the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written;
- analyse live theatre performances from an advanced critical perspective;
- have an advanced understanding of key issues in current professional theatre practice;
- have experience and understanding of current issues in the discipline of theatre studies;
- have command of the ways in which theatre theory and theatre practice may be interrelated and integrated;
- develop and deploy dynamically and self-consciously a range of critical skills;
- have an advanced knowledge of how to apply concepts of the structure and history of English to the analysis of texts;
- develop and deploy dynamically and self-consciously a range of critical skills;
- develop and deploy dynamically and self-consciously a range of analytical skills;
- demonstrate an advanced and critical knowledge of the social, political cultural contexts of English as a medium for literature;
- demonstrate a command of the English language via an engagement with literary materials;
- demonstrate experience of the practical exploration of significant matters via the medium of theatre, primarily through the creation of performance-based final year project.
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire key transferable skills as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- research-based training;
- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment at graduate level entry;
- 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:
- research-based learning;
- the knowledge and application of concepts, information and techniques relevant to the discipline;
- the ability to construct an argument;
- knowledge of English Literature, dramatic texts, 'performance texts' and theatre theory;
- the ability to work within a group towards performance-based presentations;
- the ability to be critical of scholarly work.
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