(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
By the end of Level 2, students will be able to:
1. Accurately explain a wider range of primary philosophical texts and demonstrate a more advanced critical response to interpretations of those texts
2. Provide detailed explanations of ideas and debates from a wider range of linguistic and philosophical areas of enquiry, concepts, theories and arguments
3. Apply more advanced skills to critically evaluate and identify different forms of linguistic and philosophical argument
4. Identify connections between different areas of philosophy
5. Coherently develop, articulate and defend your own view on philosophical texts, arguments and ideas through complex arguments
6. Describe the key components of specific approaches to the study of language, whilst demonstrating an understanding that these are open to debate
7. Carry out a detailed linguistic analysis of written and spoken data, demonstrating a familiarity with common formal, qualitative and quantitative methods of linguistic analysis, with appropriate guidance
8. Collect language data for a small, closely guided research project, addressing ethical and methodological issues, with appropriate guidance
9. Recognise and apply specific techniques for analysing language data, at least including phonetic transcription and syntactic annotation
Skills Learning Outcomes By the end of Level 2, students will be able to:
1. Express yourself in a clear, concise, focused and structured manner (Academic and Work Ready skill)
2. Search for, evaluate and use appropriate and relevant sources to strengthen the quality of academic work and independent research (Academic, Work Ready and Enterprise skill)
3. Identify when, why and how to appropriately acknowledge someone else’s work and ideas (Academic and Work Ready skill)
4. Collaborate with others and build positive relationships which then enables successful collective work (Work Ready and Enterprise skill)
Competence Standards
1. identify and apply key concepts of linguistics and philosophy
2. critically reflect on linguistic and philosophical ideas
3. reflect on progress and areas requiring further development
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme. These may include essays, exams, analysis tasks, group presentations, research proposals and research projects giving students opportunities to develop key skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, the ability to analyse authentic language data, synthesise information from multiple sources and evaluate current theoretical debates.
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