BA European Studies and French

Year 4

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

In addition to the outcomes achieved in Years 1 & 2, on completion of the year/programme students should have provided
evidence of being able to:
- understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge some of which will be informed by recent
research/scholarship in the discipline;
- deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within the discipline;
- 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 discipline;
-make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources;
- apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an extended piece of work or project;

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of:
- being able to communicate fluently and appropriately, maintaining a high degree of grammatical accuracy, in the target
language with native or other competent speakers;
- being able to demonstrate sophisticated receptive and productive language skills, and having had some practice in
mediation language skills, in a variety of contexts;
- having consolidated and extended knowledge and understanding of complex structures and registers of the French
language;
- being able to 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 France or a Francophone country;
- being able to demonstrate an ability critically to evaluate one or more aspects of the literatures, cultures, linguistic
contexts, history, politics, social and economic structures of the societies of the country or countries of the target language;
- being able effectively to communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of media, including undertaking
extended pieces of work or projects, making appropriate use of primary sources and showing an awareness of recent research and scholarship in the field.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the area(s) studied;
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- 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 appropriate further training.

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- the transferable skills necessary for employment related to the area(s) studied, valuable for employment, e.g. be able to
gather and critically evaluate information from a variety of paper, audio-visual and electronic sources, be able to use IT
effectively both as a means of communication and as an aid to learning;
- skills necessary for the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways;
- skills necessary for the exercise of initiative, personal responsibility and decision making.

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 apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline;
-work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- work that is typically both evaluative and creative.

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 a broad knowledge base;
- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material and is typically both evaluative and creative;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline.