(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
On successful completion of Level 3, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of the productive limitations of knowledge in the fields of English and Comparative Literature, through a critical appreciation of the uncertainty and ambiguity of literary texts themselves.
2. Compare and contrast different literary theories and approaches to studying literary texts, including the benefits of intersectional approaches (e.g. through considering the relationships between concepts such as ecocriticism, gender and postcolonialism, etc).
3. Analyse and write critically at an advanced level about a range of literary texts, drawing on wide range of appropriate secondary sources.
4. Identify and research a subject of their own choice from the fields of English and Comparative Literature, including where appropriate the overlap between the two fields.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of Level 3, students will be able to:
1. Select, evaluate and critique different arguments and perspectives, drawing on a wide range of apposite secondary sources to support a piece of independent research.
2. Communicate critical thinking skills through presenting a sustained, sophisticated and coherent argument in written work, supported by the incisive analysis of apposite textual examples.
3. Apply their knowledge of different concepts and theories to a subject of their own choosing, and demonstrate the specificity of their own critical approach in a piece of independent research and writing.
4. Demonstrate increased reflective awareness of own skills, strengths and development needs, including a precise understanding of how these skills and strengths are transferable to employment and/or future study.
Competence Standards
1. Apply relevant theories and concepts to literary analysis, demonstrating an understanding of their significance and limitations.
2. Demonstrate understanding of key facts and ideas about the study of English and Comparative Literature.
3. Identify, explain, and evaluate debates, concepts, and principles which are features of the study of English and Comparative Literature.
4. Design and demonstrate an independent and self-guided research project with the appropriate support when required.
If the chosen pathway includes an industrial placement –
5. Demonstrate ability to direct, monitor and evaluate their work, by seeking/accepting feedback, within a workplace context, using appropriate support as necessary.
6. 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 -
7. Collaborate effectively with other people in a new environment and successfully completes a period of work or study in another country.
8. Demonstrate self-awareness relating to personal and academic/professional development through successfully completing a period of work or study in another country.
The Subject Specific and Skills Learning outcomes are all met through the final-year project, whether it is taken in English or in LCS. The option modules embed a variety of forms of assessments, including essays of different length, group projects, literature reviews, reflective logs, podcasts, portfolios and presentations. Forms of assessment differ across the option modules, with an emphasis on different types of coursework.
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