(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
1. Initiate, research, and complete an extended research project.
2. Critically evaluate primary sources related to a highly specialised area of history.
3. Evaluate critically and in sophisticated form of the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written.
4. Produce a structured and coherent argument demonstrating sophisticated knowledge of critical terminology.
Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Effectively communicate information, arguments, and analysis in a range of formats.
2. Apply effective learning strategies that demonstrate intellectual integrity, maturity, and self-direction.
3. Conduct structured research enquiries that consist of setting tasks, and locating, synthesising and analysing evidence.
4. Work independently, while engaging positively with supervision and guidance.
5. Critically navigate the challenges faced in interpreting complex, ambiguous, conflicting, and often incomplete materials and evidence.
Competence Standards
1. Effectively communicate key facts, ideas, and arguments about English and history to diverse audiences.
2. Critically assess different approaches to the study of English and history.
3. Critically interpret source material from a range of literary and historical contexts.
4. Construct arguments supported by historical and literary evidence, considering diverse perspectives where appropriate.
5. Design and produce an independent research project in English or history, with appropriate support where required.
6. Apply relevant digital tools, techniques and approaches to the study of English and history.
BA English and History uses a combination of different assessment methods to capture the range of ways that students learn on the programme. At Level 3 assessment types across our compulsory and optional modules typically include: a final year project (long essay, dissertation, or public history output), primary source analyses (‘gobbets’), literature reviews; presentations; essays; and online exams.
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