(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 theories, approaches and methods in sociology at an advanced level.
4. Synthesise and use research, theory and contemporary studies in sociology and adjacent fields.
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 history and sociology to diverse audiences.
2. Critically assess different approaches to the study of history and sociology.
3. Critically interpret source material from a range of historical and sociological contexts.
4. Construct arguments supported by historical and sociological evidence, considering diverse perspectives where appropriate.
5. Design and produce an independent research project in history or sociology, with appropriate support where required.
6. Apply relevant digital tools, techniques and approaches to the study of history and sociology.
BA History and Sociology 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, primary source analyses (‘gobbets’), literature reviews; presentations; essays; and online exams.
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