(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
On successful completion of Level 3, students will be able to:
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
1. Understand and apply advanced concepts and theories from 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.
On successful completion of Level 3, students will be able to:
Skills Learning Outcomes
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. identify and apply a wide range of concepts and principles which are features of the study of English and Comparative Literature. 2. effectively communicate key theories and appropriately contextualised ideas and arguments about literary analysis in a sustained piece of independent guided research. 3. employ to an advanced level standard methods for the close analysis of sources. 4. organise, monitor and evaluate their own work, reflecting on the advantages of different methods of enquiry and communication as professional skills.
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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