(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
On completion of the year students should have provided evidence of being able to:
Research skills
- Produce an autonomous piece of extended research work (the Final-Year Project), responding to guidance and feedback from a supervisor
- Present a structured, sustained argument, and communicate using terminology and concepts appropriate to the field(s) of study
- Evaluate and critically synthesize aspects of recent enquiry in the field(s) of study
- Reflect on, and work in accordance with, the ethical considerations raised in the research process
Subject knowledge
- Show a broad understanding and cultural awareness of societies in which the target language is spoken
- Demonstrate depth of engagement with specific aspects of literatures and social and historical issues pertaining in the cultures in which the target language is spoken
- Make use of specialist knowledge to engage critically with current debates in the field(s) of study
- Demonstrate a coherent and detailed understanding of key terms and concepts associated with at least two broad areas of linguistic enquiry
- Critically evaluate specific approaches to the study of language, demonstrating an understanding of the role of empirical evidence in relevant debate
- Identify limitations of current knowledge, and formulate well-supported arguments regarding the extension of that knowledge
Language skills and intercultural awareness
- Communicate fluently and appropriately, maintaining high degree of grammatical accuracy, in the target language
- Demonstrate a consolidated and extended knowledge and understanding of complex structures and registers of the target language
- Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and an ability to see the world's societies and cultures from multiple perspectives
- Show advanced engagement with multiple genres to support effective work and functioning in another country
Analysis skills
- Plan and execute a thorough linguistic analysis of selected written and/or spoken data
- Demonstrate a thorough command of selected formal, qualitative and/or quantitative methods of linguistic analysis, and an ability to apply selected methods to unfamiliar data or theoretical issues
- Demonstrate an advanced command of discipline-specific analytic techniques
Competence Standards
1. Demonstrate effective use of the target language to analyse, appraise, and describe information, events, and ideas.
2. Demonstrate understanding of facts, ideas, theories and cultural/societal insights of the region(s) being studied.
3. Demonstrate comprehension to assigned materials and resources in and from the target language and culture.
4. Demonstrate understanding of key facts and ideas about the study of Linguistics.
5. Identify, explain, and evaluate debates, concepts, and principles which are features of the study of Linguistics.
6. Design and demonstrate an independent and self-guided research project with the appropriate support when required.
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- The transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the area(s) studied
- The exercise of initiative and personal responsibility
- The deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations
- The communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences
- The ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature
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 ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline/s
- Work that draws on a wide variety of material
- The ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion
- Evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline/s
- Work that is typically both evaluative and creative
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