BA Russian Civilisation and Thai Studies

Year 1

(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- Read and write all Thai consonants, vowels and diphthongs;
- Understand the system for identifying intonation;
- Pronounce Thai clearly and accurately;
- Communicate effectively, orally and in written form, using at least 1,000 Thai words;
- Read and write short sentences in Thai;
- Demonstrate a sound understanding of Thai grammar and syntax;
- Demonstrate basic receptive and productive language skills in a variety of contexts.

Additionally:
- Demonstrate a sound basic familiarity with Thai history, culture, society, geography and development;
- Demonstrate a sound familiarity with the basic concepts and information, and the practical, technical and intellectual approaches in at least two academic disciplines;
- Demonstrate an ability to evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to problem solving associated with these disciplines;
- Be able to interpret and evaluate the underlying concepts and principles of the discipline;
- Be able to present structured and coherent arguments;
- Be able to communicate the results of their work;
- Be able to engage in meaningful discussion with peers and tutors within a virtual learning environment;
- Appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners.

On completion of the year students should have provided evidence of:
- being able to present a structured and coherent simple argument;
- being familiar with the concepts of different disciplines and approaches as a means of understanding the societies of Russia and the Former Soviet Union;
- being able to demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of one or more aspects of the literatures, cultures, linguistic contexts, history, politics, geography, social and economic structures of the societies of Russia and the Former Soviet Union.

Transferable (key) skills

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

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- qualities and transferable skills related to the Russian and Slavonic Studies, valuable for employment, eg. be able to gather and process 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 exercising of personal responsibility;
- the ability to appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners.

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:
- 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 and end-of-semester examinations and essays in both Thai language and in students' disciplinary modules.

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year and will include:
- demonstrating the knowledge and application of standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to the area of study;
- work that covers a restricted area of the subject;
- demonstrating emerging abilities, skills and competencies.

Assessment methods include, where appropriate for each module:
- written examinations
- oral language examinations
- assessed language coursework
- assessed non-language coursework.