(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
On completion of Level Three, students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- demonstrate critical knowledge and writing skills in one specialist genre, facilitated via the planning and production of a Creative Writing Project comprising a portfolio and critical reflection;
- demonstrate an awareness of different audiences and modes of dissemination for creative work, both professional and informal;
- demonstrate an independent and self-directed understanding of the relationship between their reading and their critical reflection on that reading, and their writing and their critical reflection on that writing;
- demonstrate a coherent and detailed command of the key concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which constitute English 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, including substantial study of texts before and after 1800;
- have a critical and sophisticated command of the importance of the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written both before and after 1800;
- 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 a critical knowledge of up to four particular and specific literary fields, facilitated through the choice and pursuit of research-led option modules.
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 and Creative Writing;
- the ability to be critical of scholarly work.
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