BA Linguistics and Phonetics

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge and professional competencies, some of which informed by recent research/scholarship in the discipline;
- demonstrate broad competences in both core linguistics and linguistics within wider contexts;
- demonstrate specialised knowledge in one or two chosen sub-disciplines of linguistics;
- understand the relationship of theory and data, and the importance of a theory's explanatory power;
- demonstrate an understanding of the competitive nature of opposing theories, and to be able to assess the contribution of evidence to conflicting claims;
- show an awareness of both ethical and methodological issues involved in collecting and analysing linguistic data;
- present an argument supported by information collected from different sources and media, which has been synthesised into a coherent and cohesive whole, using appropriate acknowledgements and lists of sources;
- plan, design and execute a piece of independent research and enquiry with appropriate supervision;
- analyse data qualitatively and quantitatively (at a level depending on the chosen sub-disciplines of specialisation);
- show an awareness of the limitations of current knowledge, and the importance of scientific enquiry and well-supported argumentation in the extension of that knowledge.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- the transferable skills necessary to non-vocational graduate employment, or to further academic study and/or professional qualifications;
- the exercise of initiative and acceptance of personal responsibility for continued development;
- the ability to assess complex and unpredictable situations, and to make reasoned decisions;
- the communication of ideas, problems and solutions to a variety of audiences which shows an awareness of both the possibilities of different media, and the importance of purposes and audience to the design of communication.

Assessment

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 engage with a broad range of aspects of the discipline;
- drawing on a range of perspectives of an area of study;
- the ability to evaluate received opinion;
- work that shows evidence of independent thought, through engaging with scholarship and/or the application of current theory to novel data.