(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
Level 3
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
By the end of Level 3, students will:
1. be able to clearly demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge and professional competencies some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in the disciplines of English and Film Studies.
2. be able to deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within the disciplines of English and Film Studies.
3. be able to demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument
Skills Learning Outcomes
By the end of Level 3, students will:
1. be able to deploy a diverse range of appropriate methodologies in a rigorous manner
2. be able to engage in sophisticated analysis, alongside deep evaluative and lateral thinking
3. be able to carry out an extended piece of work or project, using a range of conceptual tool and methodologies
Competence Standards
1. Demonstrate understanding of key facts and ideas in Film Studies.
2. Identify, explain, and evaluate debates, concepts, and principles which are features of the study of Film Studies.
3. Design and demonstrate an independent and self-guided research project with the appropriate support when required.
If the chosen pathway includes an industrial placement –
4. Demonstrate ability to direct, monitor and evaluate their work, by seeking/accepting feedback, within a workplace context, using appropriate support as necessary.
5. Demonstrate an awareness of own strengths and development needs and the need for ongoing learning and proactive continuing professional development.
If the chosen pathway includes an international placement -
6. Collaborate effectively with other people in a new environment and successfully completes a period of work or study in another country.
7. Demonstrate self-awareness relating to personal and academic/professional development through successfully completing a period of work or study in another country.
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to English and Film Studies, e.g. being able to gather and critically evaluate information from a variety of paper, audio-visual and electronic sources and being able to use IT effectively both as a means of communication and as an aid to learning
- skills necessary for the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions
- skills necessary for the exercising of independent judgement, personal responsibility and 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 English and Film Studies;
- demonstrating the ability to construct an argument;
- demonstrating the ability to be critical of scholarly work.
- demonstrating a broad knowledge base within the two disciplines
- work that draws on a wide variety of material and is typically both evaluative and creative
- the ability to critically evaluate received opinion;
- demonstrating evidence of the ability to conduct independent, in-depth enquiry within the two disciplines
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