(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)
Level 2
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
On completion of Level 2, you will be able to:
1. recognise and apply the concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard
features in a range of aspects of Classical Civilisation and English.
2. discuss central contexts, texts and theories in central areas of the two disciplines.
3. reflect critically on the importance of the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is
written and read.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On completion of Level 2, you will be able to:
1. effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms, making use of appropriate
critical terminology.
2. apply generic and subject specific intellectual qualities to standard situations outside the context in which they
were originally studied.
3. identify and employ the main methods of enquiry in the subject and critically evaluate the appropriateness of
different methods of enquiry.
4. adjust to disciplinary boundaries.
Competence Standards
1. identify and apply concepts and principles which are features of the study of Classical Civilisation and English.
2. effectively communicate key facts and appropriately contextualised ideas and arguments about Classical
Civilisation and English literature.
3. direct, monitor and evaluate your own work and reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of different
methods of enquiry.
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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