(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
Level 3 (Year 5)
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of Level 3, you will be able to
You will be able to:
1. Use the Arabic and Chinese language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes
expressing yourself fluently and spontaneously, and identifying differences in sociolinguistic and pragmatic
conventions to adjust communication accordingly
2. Understand a wide range of complex and longer texts recognising implicit meaning, and produce clear, well-
structured written and oral texts on complex and specialised subjects. Recognise, analyse, and evaluate basic
and advanced communicative resources of the target languages: vocabulary, grammar, and script
3. Mediate between languages, demonstrating cultural and plurilinguistic competence, helping to maintain
positive interaction by interpreting different perspectives and managing ambiguity
4. Explain, interpret and discuss aspects of the history, culture, and society of the countries where the target
languages are spoken
5. Deploy a range of critical methodologies to analyse and interpret diverse cultural materials, media forms and
means of communication
6. Contribute to contemporary debates by drawing on historical, comparative and global perspectives
Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Produce an autonomous piece of extended research work (the Final-Year Project), responding to guidance
and feedback from a supervisor and working to a deadline
2. Apply effective oral and written communication skills to present a coherent, structured and sustained
argument to the public in a specialist area using terminology and concepts appropriate to the field(s) of study
3. Independently apply conventions of acknowledging and referencing source material
4. Actively seek, critically evaluate, and use creatively a range of sources of information and knowledge
5. Critically assess and construct sustained arguments supported by evidence and reasoning to challenge
received knowledge and propose new ideas
6. Critically reflect on, evaluate, and use creatively digital resources and tools to collect and communicate new
information and knowledge
7. Make connections across differing perspectives in order to explore ideas, identify problems and provide solutions
Competence Standards
1. Effectively exercise self-learning, with appropriate support where required
2. Communicate information in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences
3. Understand and communicate events and ideas in the target languages from everyday and specialised domains
4. Assess and evaluate the history, society, culture and societies of the countries where the target languages are used
5. Select, discuss, and appraise texts from the target cultures
6. Seek, evaluate, and use a range of sources of information and knowledge
7. Work on a large individual project to a deadline
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.
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- qualities and transferable skills related to the subject area(s) studied, valuable for employment, eg. be able to gather and analyse information from a variety of paper, audio-visual and electronic sources, be able to use IT effectively both as a means of communication and as an aid to learning;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- the ability to appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners.
You will be working towards the subject specific and skills learning outcomes by engaging with a variety of approaches to assessment, which will depend on the programme, language pathway, and modules that you take. At Level 3, assessment methods will typically include coursework in English (essays, commentaries) and the target language (short assignments collected in portfolios), oral presentations in English or the target language, exams in the target language that might include elements of English (for example, translation tasks), group projects, the production of podcasts and other digital artefacts. At Level 3, all students will work on one major independent research project.
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