BA Cultural Studies and Thai Studies

Year 3

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the Joint Honours Degree programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge and professional competencies some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in the disciplines;
- deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within the disciplines;
- demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument;
- describe and comment on particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship;
- appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in the disciplines;
- make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources;
- conform to professional boundaries and norms where applicable.

In addition to the outcomes achieved in Year 1, on completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- demonstrate a broad understanding of the concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features in a range of aspects of the discipline;
- apply generic and subject specific intellectual qualities to standard situations outside the context in which they were originally studied;
- appreciate and employ the main methods of enquiry in the subject and critically evaluate the appropriateness of different methods of enquiry;
- use a range of techniques to initiate and undertake the analysis of data and information;
- adjust to professional and disciplinary boundaries;
- effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms.

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- Communicate fluently and effectively, both orally and in written form, in the Thai language;
- Read Thai language newspapers, book, documents and other written materials;
- Engage in conversations and discussions, in Thai, on a variety of topics;
- Demonstrate consolidated and extended knowledge and understanding of complex structures of the Thai language;
- Demonstrate complex receptive and productive language skills in a variety of contexts;
- Demonstrate a detailed and insightful awareness and understanding of Thai social, cultural, political and developmental situations, commensurate with the experience of having lived in Thailand during the year abroad and having further studied the Thai context during the 3rd year;
- Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of one or more cultures and societies, other than their own, that will normally have been significantly enhanced by a period of residence in Thailand.
- Effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of spoken and written forms;
- Exercise critical analytical abilities in respect of the disciplinary modules;
- Draw clear and close connections between linguistic competence and insightful understanding of the Thai and South East Asian contemporary contexts;
- Apply generic and subject specific intellectual qualities to standard situations outside the context in which they were originally studied.

Transferable (key) skills

The programme provides opportunities for students to practise and develop:
- the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the area(s) studied;
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- analytical and critical thinking;
- 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 further training of a professional or equivalent nature where appropriate.

Students will have had the opportunity to practise, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the subject area(s) studied;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- decision making.

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- Intermediate linguistic qualities and transferable skills relevant to employment and life more generally;
- An intermediate ability to draw connections between language, academic learning and context;
- Intermediate contextual awareness and consolidated skills of contextual immersion;
- Intermediate skills of deduction, argument and both oral and written presentation;
- Intermediate skills of information retrieval and synthesis;
- An intermediate ability to use information and computing technology effectively as a means of communication and as an aid to learning;
- Intermediate skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- Intermediate skills of time and organisational management.

Assessment

The achievement of the programme outcomes will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for each subject and will include:
- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the disciplines;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material associated with the disciplines;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- work that is both evaluative and analytical.

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of the discipline/profession to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
- demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- Regular written, oral and aural tests during the course of the year to ascertain students' level of progress with: the Thai script; the Thai intonation system; Thai reading and writing ability; Thai vocabulary development and use; Thai grammar and syntax; the Thai context;
- Continuous assessment, essays and end-of-semester examinations in both Thai language and in students' disciplinary modules.